Chapter 6: Love and Pain

Nessie's POV

I couldn't make sense of anything that had happened in the last twenty four hours. Not even my half-vampire brain could wrap my brain around it all. My daughter, after so many years of searching, had finally been found. All of the tribe's missing kids had just suddenly turned up like nothing after seventeen very long and painful years. What I failed to understand though, what we all failed to understand, was why the Denalis didn't say anything. I am sure that they knew those were our missing kids and they didn't say anything.

When Jacob went after Tanya nobody did anything to stop him at first. He ripped her to shreds. I don't remember ever there being a time I saw my husband more angry than I did right there in that moment. When we realized he wasn't going to stop until he killed her we stepped him and by some miracle got him to stop fighting. I could almost feel the anger coming off of him in waves as he ran out of the house. His anger matched my own anger. I wanted to kill Tanya and the rest of the Denali clan for keeping this secret from us. But if we were going to get the answers we needed from them then we needed them alive.

Jacob didn't return until several hours later. No doubt that his anger kept him from successfully phasing back into a human. This was our daughter after all. Our daughter that had been kept secret from us. He loved his little girl to pieces and would do anything to have her back safe and sound with us.

We all stopped what we were doing when we heard several heartbeats approaching.

"Jacob found the other wolves and he's bringing them here," dad explained. "Only he's just realized that Carlie is missing and he's freaking out,"

"What? What do you mean she's missing dad?" I was trying to keep my voice calm but knew that I was failing.

"The others are saying that she was in a lot of pain and couldn't keep up. So she fell behind and he's going to go look for her,"

"I better to go with him. If she's in pain I can help," grandpa added.

Before anyone we could take another step we heard gunshots in the distance and a wolf yelping in pain. My heart stopped beating instantly.

"It must be poachers,"

"Poachers?!" I screamed hysterically.

Mom put her arm around me. Uncle Jasper also sent a wave of calm toward me and I relaxed a little bit.

"Don't worry she will be fine," mom tried the best she could to reassure me. "Nothing is going to happen to her,"

"But poachers, gunshots-"

"Jacob has already gone to her and so has Carlisle. You know that your grandfather is more than capable of taking care of her if she's injured,"

My mother was right. Although the idea of my daughter getting shot at still terrified me. She was my still my little girl and if anything happened to her-

I heard whining outside and that's when I remembered the rest of the wolves were here. I counted seven of them all together. One of the wolves, a gray male wolf, kept pacing back and forth nervously. Until he couldn't take it anymore and he took off running as well.

I wanted to go as well. To make see for myself that my daughter was okay. But I knew that I wouldn't be of any use if I did. I never studied medicine and there was no doctor better than my grandfather anyway.

The cellphone rang and it turned out to be my grandfather. He needed us to prep the doctor's room for surgery. Which only scared me even more. What happened for my daughter to need emergency surgery?!

Grandpa came back a few minutes later with my daughter in his arms.

"I gave her an injection to turn her human while she was unconscious," grandpa explained. Ten years ago my grandfather had invented a type of medicine for the wolf pack. One that would turn them human against their will. He only used it for medical emergencies that required them to be in their human state. Other than that he kept his invention locked away so it wouldn't fall into the wrong hands and be used as a weapon against the wolves.

I listened to my daughter's frantic pleas. "She was crying and saying some nonsense about "wanting to die rather than go through surgery again," which tore me up on the inside.

"She's been coming in and out of consciousness for the last few minutes. Keeps saying the same thing over and over," grandpa added.

"She had a traumatic experience when she was younger," my dad said as he read her mind. "She had appendicitis when she was little and woke up in the middle of surgery even though she'd been given the correct amount of anesthesia for a child her age, "

"Correct amount of anesthesia for a human," grandpa corrected as he hooked her up to an IV and administered anesthesia. "She'd been given the correct amount for a human child. Even before the wolf gene was activated she was always part vampire,"

I didn't know what to say.

"Don't worry Carlie you're not going to wake up this time. I promise," grandpa said to her just before the anesthesia took affect.

Jacob returned a few minutes after that with our grandchildren. He was human now but he was still shaking and full of anger.

"Those bastards wanted to kidnap our grandchildren and kill our daughter," he growled. He shook with anger.

I took the babies from him before he phased and accidentally hurt them.

"It's okay Jacob. They're okay,"

Its true. They were okay.

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