Sup y'all! Another chapter. I finished writing this book on my laptop, excluding the last chapter. I'll probably post a few chapters then tonight. (as many as I can before my battery dies) Review!

I close my eyes and inhale. Deeply. Werewolves is the most prominent smell, along with their own individual scents, but only Embry's is notable. Kim's perfume isn't too potent, but I can still smell it clearly from my spot on the hardwood floor by Dani's head. We'd put a few towels under her head so she drools blood onto the old towels and not onto Emily's couch. The stench of her blood and her breath almost make me flinch with every rattling and congested breath she releases. She sounds so terrible.

"Is she supposed to be like this?" Jake whispers. "I mean she sounds awful."

I nod unable to stop worrying. I haven't felt the ability to pull myself from my twin's side to disinfect my bandage, and being a serious stickler for cleanliness, I can't seem to fathom the idea of healing it before I disinfect it properly.

All the same I'm prioritizing my sister over both of them.

"I know in my mind she shouldn't, but that this is common among cases like her." I whisper back, as if my voice would wake her. "I hate this." I whimper. I flop back against the couch, pulling my knees up and resting my arms on them. They're spaced apart, so my 'bandaged' hand is eyelevel for picking at the woven white fibers. Now stained red with my blood. But I can't bring myself to look at it. Not to mention it already hurts like a mother.

"God this is agony." Jacob groans.

I nod resting my head against the couch, Dani's limp fingers brushing my hair. I almost thought she was awake and touching me, but I realized I just rested my head against her hands.

"You chose the wrong girl, Jake." I whisper quietly. "Our job does not come with a money back guarantee."

"Please don't remind me." Jacob begs. "Please."

I sigh wondering how the imprint is going to change things now. Dani will want to be around him, because I've seen how double-sided imprints are. And with her being down for the count for a few weeks, I don't even want to know how close her and Jake will get.

Guess Paul and I will at least have that in common. The very thought makes me flinch. Dani isn't as 'meek' as I am. Outside of a fight, she's the bold one. She makes all the brash decisions. She lives life on the edge and has no problem cutting lose and having fun. I'm the opposite, liking to stay in, watch TV, maybe shoot some hoops in the backyard, cook a little bit, bake something maybe, but I definitely don't want to live on the edge. In a fight however, Dani avoids confrontation, and I embrace it. I love the thrill, the adrenaline, and Dani cowers from it.

So I have no doubt in my mind she will definitely, willingly, fall head-first, into the imprint, and head over boots for Jacob. Not a doubt in my mind.

I know my twin, and I know that one of the things she's always wanted the most was to find 'love' and to not be lonely forever. And now, here she's going to have it, she'll have her love. In Jacob. I can predict that she'll stop using her elements, and let them go dormant, go to college, and settle down. But that isn't definite either.

But if she doesn't, then I know how much harder her job is going to be. Every time she gets remotely injured, Jacob is going to have a coronary and she'll have an aneurism trying to calm him down. It'll be harder and harder to leave his arms to go out and fight, and it'll be harder and harder for him to let her go.

One day she'll embrace the need for constant attention and contact and give it up. I feel like that's the only way she'll ever find peace, is to give up this life all together.

Which is unfortunate because now that we're notorious, it'll be impossible to go quietly.

And the vampire war! How hard is it going to be to convince Jacob to let my sister fight in that!?

I don't even want to think about this right now.

I check the air again and catch the potent scent of leech.

I wrinkle my nose as my eyes water with the strength of the scent.

Carlisle enters the house thirty seconds later. He greets me without any words, just a warm smile and a sympathetic glance at Dani.

"I hoped that if I ever did see you both, it would not be a direct result of my idiotic cousins."

"Tift's mate Katherine." I whisper.

Carlisle glances at me. "I'm so sorry, Kensi."

I shrug. "I plan on ashing his ass the first chance I get for this."

"Hop in line sister." Jacob growls.

"You first." I sneer back.

"Katherine got her ribs, six through ten. Punctured lung, treated her for a Traumatic Pneumothorax as a result of pressure inside of the thoracic cavity as well as blood in her lungs."

"Your battlefield medicine never fails to surprise me." Carlisle notes. "I'm impressed."

I shrug.

"You going to med school?" Carlisle asks.

"If I go to any kind of school, it's surely to be a cop or something." I answer.

Carlisle nods. "Of course." He raises his golden irises to mine. "I'd suggest you have someone clean that wound for you while I'm in here. Preferably a wolf, they're less likely to be injured when you try to take me out for healing your sister."

There's a teasing tone in his voice but I don't smile.

"Come on." Embry says lowering his hand. I take it in my good one and he easily lifts me up off the ground.

"Using this stuff here Carlisle?" He asks holding up a hand full of supplies.

Carlisle shakes his head. "Nope."

I follow Embry down the hallway to a bathroom.

"I can do it really." I inform him.

Embry cracks a smile. "My mom worked with Carlisle. She was a doctor in the pediatric ward. First aid was drilled into me from my toddler years."

"Touché." I mutter with a soft laugh.

I slip up onto Emily's bathroom counter in one swift and deft move, breathing in the clean and fresh scent of her bathroom. Slightly woodsy and smelling like lilacs. And Embry.

Stupid brain.

Embry holds his hand out and I sigh. "I get the feeling that no matter how much I try to assure you people that I'll be fine, it's just a little scratch that bled like hell, you're going to treat it's like a flesh eating disease?"

Embry's full lips twitch into a smile. Kissable… Shut up.

"And by 'you people' you mean me right?"

I smile and shrug. "It just needs wrapped up, and then I and then I can heal it using ocean water."

Embry pauses. "That sounds counterproductive."

I raise my eyebrows. "That's a lot of letters."

He smiles. "The pack gives me hell for it, don't worry. Can't help it I'm actually literate and they aren't."

I laugh. Why is talking to him so easy? Why is he so nice?

"Do you do this kind of thing a lot?" He asks unwrapping my hand. His movements are careful and slow, deliberate and cautious, as if he doesn't want to accidentally hurt me. But he can't.

"What? Killing vampires?"

Embry nods to my hand. "The live bait scenario."

I smile. "Growing up, Paul, Dani and I were obsessed with this book character-"

"Paul doesn't know how to read." Embry dismisses.

"He used to. Dumbfuck forgot probably. Can I continue?"

Embry blushes before nodding. I can hear the quick pace of heartbeat thundering in my ears as his fingers deftly pull the gauze away from my hand and drops it onto the sink.

"Anyways, this character and his partner were always getting into trouble. They were always able to get out of trouble however, with a trick they call Bangkok. Of course they got the name from the location, and Dani and I plagiarized it from the book, but one of them would drop the world Bangkok and both of them knew they were playing a cat and mouse scenario. Where one of them would use themselves as live bait."

"So…" Embry trails off. "You do this often enough to have codenames for it?"

I nod. "Sure do. Whenever there are people involved and both of us are there, one of us becomes live bait and the other gets the people out. In the book, the characters used themselves as live bait while the other one got the people in the danger zone out. So Dani and I do the same."

Embry looks me in the eyes for a few seconds. "Your sister is going to give Jake a run for his money."

I wince. "I was thinking about that. God this is going to be so awful for both of them. Worst part is, it's too early to tell where her priorities are going to fall."

Embry nods agreeing. "I thought Jacob was going to have an aneurism watching you perform that-"

Dani's scream rips through the air causing me to shiver, and worry to surge through me. From the living room to the bathroom through a series of walls, I can hear her bones cracking.

Embry's hand rests on my arm, and I hate that it actually calms me down a little. I despise it actually. Confliction. Boys are Dani's department not mine. And I can sure as hell add this to the list of firsts. Never before in my life have I just sat here and let some practical stranger tape my hand.

It isn't just some strange boy, it's Embry!

Shut up brain.

"Dani's going to be alright." Embry assures.

"I know that." I admit. "I just… I can't stand to see her like this. At all. It isn't her. She… that and she's my sister. She gets cut I feel the pain."

Embry nods. "Kind of how it is with the guys. When phased at least."

I nod understanding that.

There's another crack and Dani unleashes another scream. "Oh God." I hiss. "I should've convinced her to wait for me. She should've called sooner. I should've made her check in with me…"

Embry shakes his head. "Dani saved three imprints, if she wasn't there… that's Emily, Rachel, and Kim. The three married or almost married imprints, one of which already has kids, another that's pregnant. If Dani wasn't there… they would've died." Embry keeps his voice low so the other wolves couldn't hear him admit that. I'm sure that would've been too much to handle.

I look to the side. "I should've been there." I mutter.

"The vampire shouldn't have made it past Paul and Jared either." Embry says. "She probably came through the water."

I shiver shaking my head. "Dani's been hurt before, but nothing as serious as this. It's just little lacerations that are easily healed with a little salt water."

Embry raises his eyebrows at me in a silent question as he drags his thumb gently over the scratch.

"Dani and I heal quickly anyways. This is going to heal on its own in a few days as opposed to two weeks that it should take."

Embry nods staring into my sapphire orbs. His eyes seem dangerous, so deep and dark, and yet so caring and warm I'm afraid to get lost in those chocolatey eyes.

"However damage to organs, the skin, muscles, anything like that can be healed within seconds using some kind of natural body of water. Whether it be salt water from the ocean, or a lake or river. The bigger the stronger the power." I explain.

"So it sounds like we should head to the beach after we get it cleaned up."

I nod.

"I could heal it here, but it's just the effort of separating out the water molecules from the air to heal myself and that is such a painful painstaking task that it's a last resort. And the sink doesn't provide enough water power to heal. An underground pool would, but a sink doesn't."

"But bones can't heal like that?" Embry asks.

I shake my head. "The outermost layer replaces itself immediately, but in cases like this one, Dani's… it replaces itself incorrectly." I admit. "And then has to be reset like here, and it fixes itself in five minutes. But it takes two weeks minimum of bedrest or very limited movement before the bones are okay enough to move around."

"A lot of broken bones then huh?" There's some unidentifiable notes in his voice that makes me nervous.

"Yep." I mutter quietly. Embry disinfects it hydrogen peroxide and a cotton ball. I can't help but notice the amount of care and caution he applies. How gentle his left hand is holding mine as his right one works on it. I note how skillfully his fingers work, making small micro-movements. He's so gentle.

"You don't need to wrap it." I mutter not feeling like wasting my breath on a losing argument.

"I believe you, after you lit Katherine on fire right before my eyes and I watched you fire burn her, but let's just say… I'm a little leery."

I shrug, knowing he's got a good point. And I don't know how long it's going to be before I can get to the ocean anyways.

I let him carefully wrap up my hand. I'm not sure why he hesitated on 'leery'. Seems like he's just keen to hold my hand.

It's tempting to open my mind to his thoughts that would be transmitted through touch but I don't dare. Not going to invade his privacy like that. Dani's the one who can't control it. I am.