Here's chapter 11, these are coming out fast aren't they? I think another long break might be on the cards soon :P
SugarishFreak (chapter 9) - Yep, finally found her =] Neither Embry or Paul found her first :P That was a surprise even to me! She'll be okay when she wakes up, she has Paul there!
SugarishFreak (chapter 10) - Glad you liked it! I was going to have it so Paul left, but I thought after having lost her, he's not going to let her go quite so easily. We'll have to see how he tells her, it's not going to be an easy thing to tell her!
SwedishFanFictionLover - Yey! I don't think I could have done a chapter where she's totally unconscious, I'd feel a bit mean, with everything I've already put Paul through and you guys of course! It's funny actually I was just having a chat with someone about whether they would be Saul or Pully haha Guess I know now! I think now, Paul's realised that it doesn't matter how much he fights this, Sully means everything to him now. I hope he's not too out of character, I just think that even loud and arrogant Paul can be soft with the girl he loves =]
Reader5Sam - Glad you're enjoying it!
Instead of phasing, Jake had ran into his garage to sped off in this motorbike. It didn't take long for him to reach the Cullens house; Jake pulled up to the door as a child that looked no older then ten ran up to him. The young girl flung herself onto Jake, hugging him tightly.
"Whoa, easy there Ness! You'd think I hadn't been to see you in.." Jake replied, hugging her back.
"Days? You haven't been here in a while Jake."
"Yea, that's actually what I need to speak to everyone about."
"They're all in the house; well, mom and dad went to hunt." Nessie dropped gracefully to the floor, and took Jake's hand leading him into the house. "But they'll be home soon."
Nessie lead Jake up to the living room where the rest of the family was. Alice and Carlisle smiled at Jake, whilst Emmett and Jasper continued their conversation, breifly nodding at him. Esme, walked over to Jake and Nessie, smiling brightly.
"Jacob! How are you?"
"Uh...fine...I.."
"What's wrong Fido?" Rosalie said as she walked down the stairs. She and Jake were okay now, but nothing would stop the Cullen's from making dog jokes at him, no matter how much Nessie and Esme asked them to stop.
"That's actually what I was to explain Blondie." Jake smiled. "Where's Bella and Edward?"
"They'll be home soon." Carlisle said calmly, "They just left, why don't you fill the rest of us in?"
Jake nodded and walked over to Nessie, sitting beside her. The Cullen family all sat on the sofas around the two, and Jake waited until they were all sat to begin.
"Right. Well, I guess I should start with the most surprising news. Paul imprinted."
"No shit?"
"Emmett!" Esme scolded him for using such language in front of Nessie.
"Paul? He's the big, loud one?" Nessie innocently asked.
"Yea, that's him." Jake replied. "The next thing is...is why I haven't been around lately. The imprint, she's called Sully. She's living with Embry and his mom. Things happened, Embry upset her and she ran second beach. She didn't turn up that night so we all went out looking for her; it took almost to morning but we eventually found her." Jake stopped, it was hard to talk about it. He could still feel Paul's pain from the search, the fear that we wouldn't find her and that it would be too late, and that was partly Jake's fault for thinking it; He never thought he'd feel guilty for making Paul feel bad. "Look, bottom line is she was stalked by a vamp."
"Is she okay?"
Jake nodded, that was one thing he did love about Esme. It didn't matter who it was, Esme always cared. "From what I know she's still asleep, she's got a few scratches but Paul isn't going to leave her. We lost the vamp in the storm."
"How can we help?" Carlisle offered.
"Well, you could keep a look out, if you don't mind. I don't know his name, but they said they'd get in touch with me as soon as they have more info." Jake gave Nessie a cuddle, "So you're stuck with me little lady."
"Before you go play with Nessie, Jake, do you have anything on the vampire?"
"The boys, Brady and Collin probably got the best look at him. Pale, gold hair...sorry...I don't know.."
"Well when you know more, let me know."
"You misunderstand me, young one. A lucky man he must be, and to use your sweet, young body...well, maybe I won't devour you all at once first." Gareth sneered and turned away from her.
Sully took the chance, stumbling to her feet and ran. She ran as fast as she could, but in the back of her mind, she wondered if she should even bother. He'd been following her for hours and was still following her, maybe it would be easier if she just stopped. Maybe...no. No. She wasn't going to just give up! No way.
Live, laugh, love.
She was going to run, she was going to live. She promised her mother she would not just give up when things got hard, and by hell, she intended to keep that promise. She was going to make it through this. Sully ran and ran before she grew tired again, she hid behind a large. Breathing heavily, she did think about looking around the tree and as she turned her blonde head, Sully stopped. A cold hand wrapped around her neck pulled her up, slamming her against the tree. Sully gasped as Gareth stroked her cheek with two of his cold fingers.
"You didn't really think you could hide, did you?"
"Piss...off..."
"There's you flame little one, how long until I can put it out?"
Sully glared at him, and swung her legs, kicking him as hard as she could. It hurt a lot more then when she had hit Embry. Dear lord! What were they feeding the boys round here? Were they eating bricks? Gareth smiled baring teeth, and tightened his grip on her neck.
"Now, now. Play nice little flame."
By now it was getting dark and thunder had echoed throughout the woods, but it was the loud howl that stopped Gareth. It startled him so much, he dropped Sully. Sully touched her neck gingerly and whilst taking in his shock, crawled past him. She ran again, she ran and she ran and she pushed herself to exhaustion as she heard the waves crash, she must be near the cliffs by now and as she stumbled through the trees, there it was the cliffs. It was too stormy to cliff dive, but she might be able to use it to her advantage...maybe. She was so tired and she fell into the clearing. Turning, so she face Gareth who simply walked into the clearing, like keeping up with her was easy. Gareth stalked closer to her, she was his prey and he was the predator. And Sully realised that no matter how much she fought this, the end was inevitable. The skies were grey and in a second everything was wet; Sully was soaked to the bone, and through the lashing rain she watched as Gareth came closer. Sully back up, until her hand came to the edge of the cliff. This was it.
"Such a shame...such a..."
"Then there was a growl. He stopped and this...thing jumped out of the woods." Sully explained, "It kind of...looked like a wolf, but it was so big Paul. I guess it could have been a bear. It...scared me and I forgot I was on the edge so I moved back and fell, after I just remember waking up here."
"It's alright, you're safe now."
"Yea...still...if there's wolves or bears roaming about though..."
"Don't worry; there's Quilette legends that say some of the tribe were spirit warriors and the could change into wolves you know?"
"Yea?"
"Yea. They would protect their family, the tribe, their friends."
"So someone in the tribe is...a spirit warrior?" Sully said, slightly amused. "They changed into a massive wolf? And chased Gareth away? Is that what you're saying?"
"Could be."
"Well if you find out who, let me know?"
"Why?"
"So I can send them some flowers as a thank you!" She laughed.
"Very funny." Paul smiled, "How are you feeling?"
"No different to the last time you asked." Sully smiled, she wasn't sure whether it was that Paul asked every few minutes if she was okay or his smile that got that reaction from her. "Oh, why are you in my bed?"
"You said you were cold."
"Before that, when I woke up."
"Embry and Jake called us all up when they realised you were missing, we went out to look for you. You fell onto an outcropping off the cliff and I got you off it."
"So you're my knight in shining armour?"
"You could say that."
"And flowers won't do?"
"Not my thing."
"Shall I give you my favour then?" Sully watched as he stared down at her curiously. Then she put one small hand on his cheek, turning his head gently to her. Sully placed a small, light kiss on his cheek, so close to his lips. "How does that do you, O'great knight?"
"Perfect." Paul got up off her bed, "I'm just gunna grab a drink okay?"
"So why were you still here when I woke?"
"I wanted to make sure you were okay." Paul said before he slipped out the door, he lowered his voice as he caught Embry standing there. "Don't you know it's rude to eavesdrop?"
"Sorry Paul."
"How much did you hear?"
"All of it."
"Then get on the phone to Sam."
I was going to write another little bit at the end about Jake relaying the information onto the Cullens but it's getting kinda late so we'll have to wait, I may not actually put it in or it might kick next chapter off. So you know a bit more about what happened to poor Sully, and more Pully fluff! Yey!
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