Okay, it is now 1:30 in the morning and here is the next chapter. It's all done from Sam's POV, hope yall don't mind. If I have mistakes, I'm sorry! I just really wanted to get this out there for all those wonderful reviewer whom I told it would be out by yesterday... sorrys again.

Hope ya enjoy...!
(BTW - Stephenie owns it all 'cept my ideas! :P)


[Sam POV]

I sat next to her for hours. Soon I started getting worried that she was in a coma. She wasn't moving at all to my touch. I grabbed her hand in one of my large paws and started rubbing my thumb along her knuckles hoping to give her some kind of reassurance. I don't know how long I sat there like that, but I started to feel my eyelids getting heavy and soon found myself asleep on her arm.

When I opened my eyes again, the sun was shining through her window making some of the sun rays land on her beautiful face. A few of the unusual sun rays had landed in her hair making the red highlights bright. Never in my wildest imagination, could I have thought my Bella would get anymore beautiful. Somehow, someway I would make Bella see that we were made for each other.

But, before anything else happens between us, I would have to tell my girlfriend, Leah, what is going on. I knew she was going to be beyond pissed about it. She always thought that I would make her my wife and to be honest, I thought I would too. That was before becoming a wolf and before I imprinted on the young woman lying in front of me.

Bella brought me out of my thoughts when she started shaking and grasping the sheets. Soon she started crying out before she started screaming 'his' name. I crawled up into the bed, gathering her in my arms. As soon as she felt my touch, she instantly calmed her body. Immediately, she curled her body into mine, breathing in my scent. Before long, Charlie started making his way up the stairs probably to see if everything was alright. His heavy footfalls made their way to the front of the door where he stood for a couple moments almost like he was preparing himself. I heard the door knob turn slowly, trying to move her body away from mine so he wouldn't get the wrong idea, yet she held on to me so tightly I was starting to think she might hurt herself. Before I could remove myself from her arms, Charlie was in the room glaring my way.

"What's going on here Sam?" he asked with a frown placed underneath his mustache.

"Sir, I was only trying to comfort her when she started screaming and now she won't really let go. She has quite the grip." I tried proving to him by lifting one of her arms only to have it be pulled back and secured tightly around my broad chest.

He kept staring for a couple more seconds before he started speaking again. "How's she doing? Any change yet?" He came closer to her bed before sitting next to us.

"Other than the nightmare like movements, nope. I'm really starting to get worried Sir. I keep wondering what he did to make this way." I lovingly stroked her arm, the same one that I just moved. I almost forgot Charlie was sitting next to us until he cleared his throat obviously knowing the look I gave her.

"The doc said that she could have placed herself in a coma to help things out. You know, like emotional and stuff. I just hope she comes out of it soon. Renee, her mom, is starting to get really upset about this whole deal and is starting to think about coming up. I honestly don't think I could handle her around here," he said chuckling slightly. He looked off over my shoulder remembering something he looked back my way and resumed talking. "So Sam, I thought you had a job. What's your boss think about you taking today off." He sounded like he was judging me slightly.

"Oh, well, I've been saving my vacation time up for something and we both thought that this was the perfect time for me to use it. No offense to you Sir, but until Bella tells me to leave, I'll be right here next to her." He looked at me and then back at Bella deciding some inner decision. Finally, he looked over at me and nodded before heading back towards the bedroom door.

"You do need to leave sometime Sam. You'll start smelling soon. Let me know when you decide to and I'll sit up here with her." With that he strode out the door leaving it wide open. I didn't say anything since I probably wouldn't want our daughter alone in her room with a half naked man.

Our daughter. I smiled at the thought of Bella being round with our baby inside her. I started thinking about what she would look like. She would hopefully be petite like her mother. Have those beautiful, bright brown eyes you could get lost in. She would probably have my bronze skin and jet black thick hair since it does run in the blood line. Maybe she would inherit waves in her hair like her mother has.

I started running my fingers through her long mane knowing that I was suppose to be patrolling tonight. At least I'll feel a little bit better knowing that she was going to have Charlie up here with her if I asked him to, which was an automatic given. Then again, I could probably ask one of the other guys to see if they could do it. If all else fails, I could always make them. I really didn't like ordering them to do something against their will.

Knowing my decision, I gently kissed my beautiful angel on her forehead and started peeling myself away from her. I didn't notice until now that there was a pull to her that my heart had. I took a couple steps away from her bed and the hurt feeling got stronger. I didn't know how I was going to survive tonight. I gave one last look at her before I quietly closed the door.

Charlie was sitting in his ugly brown recliner watching some baseball game on ESPN. That man was almost always watching one of those games. The closer I came to him, the more I noticed that this was the game that was played when Bella came up missing.

"Miss that one?" I asked suddenly making him jump and turn to me.

"Yeah, thought I would watch while I was off work. What's up?" He cocked his head my direction making it known that I had his attention while still watching the game.

"I have some …things that I forgot need to be done tonight. Is it okay if I leave tonight like you said earlier?" He looked at me like I had a different head.

"Of course… I thought you wanted to stay next to her the whole time? Oh never mind, yeah go do whatever ya gotta do." He stood up from his chair grabbing a couple fishing magazines on his way to the kitchen. I followed him in since it was on my way too. He poured himself some water and started towards the stairs. "Call me if you need me alright. Here," he went back over to the kitchen to some drawers and pulled out a key. "This opens the front and back door. Use if you have to. I don't want you to wait outside till I get up."

"Thanks Charlie. Can I go up real fast and say goodbye?" He motioned me up the stairs and I took off running slowing down only to open her door without causing too much noise. "Goodbye my Angel. I'll be back as soon as I can," I kissed her forehead and then reached down to grab her hand. "I'll be near just in case anything happens." I kissed her knuckles and breathed in her scent one last time before I headed back out the door.

When I got about half a mile into the forest and quickly stripped my shorts off and tried them to my lower leg. Thinking about what that leech did to her made me phase instantly. Still shaking somewhat I took off at a dead run hoping I could run off any pent up anger. I ended up at the reservation in about five minutes. My cabin wasn't too far in so I stayed phased praying that no one was around to see the massive black wolf.

I heard a single heartbeat deep within the cabin which only meant that Leah was in fact home. I took a big breath before phasing and redressing myself. I needed to get this over with and fast. But first, I had to get anything breakable out of the room considering she'll probably be throwing anything she can get her hands on.

As soon as I opened the door, I was taken back by the smell. She had some kind of candle lit somewhere on the first floor that smelt almost exactly like Bella. I was so shocked I didn't see or hear Leah come up from beside me before she smacked me in the arm with a book.

"Where were you last night?" - I was right, she was pissed.

"I told you, the boys and I went looking for the missing girl. Nothing more, nothing less." I started around her heading for the kitchen for some grubbage. She stopped in the doorway staring at me, waiting for me to say something else. When she finally decided that I wasn't planning on explaining anything, she stormed off to the living room.

After warming up some leftovers and grabbing a tall glass of water, I headed towards the living room where she was waiting. I tried not to acknowledge her as I sat down fumbling with the remote for the TV and satellite.

"You're different. What happened to you last night? I waited for you and even saw the rest of the pack but, you were nowhere to be seen. Tell me Sam, what happened?" Her icy cold stared bore into the side of my head as I kept eating.

Suddenly, I felt what I thought was a pillow thrown at my head. I saw a rather thick book landing next to my bare foot and then it clicked – she actually threw something at me. Not once since we've been together had I ever hit her or caused her any pain especially after what happened with her cousin, Emily. Yet, here she was throwing shit at me, trying to hurt me!

I had to take a couple of deep breathes trying to will the shaking down so I didn't actually phase right next to her. I turned my glare towards her and took notice of the flinch she tried to hide. Good, I scared her.

"What the fuck happened Samuel?"

"I found her. She was so broken Leah," flashes of the night before passed through my mind of her curled up on the ground. "Then, I detected something different about her. She glowed to me Lee! I think the imprinting is real and that I imprinted on her." I had to turn my face to hide my sadness. I frankly didn't want to hurt her but there was no other way.

I started taking another bite of my food when she started screaming at me.

"You said that it was just a myth! What the fuck am I suppose to do now? Just let you go?!"

Me, being the idiot I am, nodded in response to her question. She ran past me and up the stairs. Things were breaking and drawers were being slammed shut. At this point, I really hoped she was hurting since she was basically destroying the house I built by hand.

When I started hearing things being thrown into the walls, I decided enough was enough. Climbing the stairs two and a time, I was up them in seconds. She was in our, no, my room throwing anything and everything she could get a hold of. I had to stop her before she hurt herself and also before she put anymore holes in my walls. As it was, I was probably going to be spending a couple weeks redoing all my hard work.

I took hold of her shoulders, pushing her as gently as I could back against the wall. Her breathing was labored and her eyes were full of unshed tears. I couldn't help but to feel guilty knowing that I was the one that did this to her.

I had to lower my head so I could look into her eyes and then I started, "You have no idea how miserable I feel about this. I didn't want to end it this way but I have no other choice Lee."

She immediately got frantic, almost begging, "I can be whatever you need me to be baby! Just tell me and I'll do it. I can't loose you Sam – we were meant to be together."

Shaking my head, "Lee Lee, you can't be her. As much as you want to be, you will never be Bella. I'll always love you Lee, I just am not in love with you anymore. I'm sorry."

She latched on to my forearms begging me to change my mind. I've never seen her like this. She was/has always been strong, why not now?

Suddenly she got pissed, probably knowing who I had fallen for. I kept her shoulders pressed squarely against the wall while she pushed and pulled trying to get out of my grasp.

"Her?" She screamed, "Why her?! What's so different about her Sam? You're going to throw all of this," she waved her arms motioning between us, "away just for her!"

She gave one last final push against me and I let her free. She stood back staring into my dark brown eyes as I looked into hers bright blue ones knowing that she was trying to read me like she always did in the past. Quickly, she moved past and started gathering her things. She grabbed a duffle from my closet and proceeded to pull her things out of the dresser. When she was finished, she stormed into the bathroom stuffing her personal items into a smaller purse-like bag. She came back into the bedroom, brushing past me, knocking into my shoulder.

Leah paused in the doorway, glaring at me like I was supposed to stop her and beg her to stay. The only thing I could think of doing was sit on the completely destroyed bed and watch her leave.

Realizing that I was planning on doing anything soon, she shrieked out in anger and in frustration then stormed through the hallway and down the stairs. I was going to be really surprised if they still stood when she finally left. I heard the door slam shut in her wake. One thing about Leah, she loved to make an entrance and leaving with a bang.

After a quick hot shower, I looked around at all the damage that woman caused. It looked that I did in fact of a good two or three weeks of hard work ahead of me. How could one person do that much destruction?

Changing into a pair of a cutoff shorts; I locked the cabin and headed into the woods. Once deep inside, I phased instantly completely forgetting about the shorts. That only meant that I had just planned another shopping trip – great.

When I was done chewing myself out about the shorts issue, I headed straight towards Bella's house. Paul was patrolling until I was done and I'm pretty sure he had some stuff to take care of. Last I heard from the Elders, he was failing two of his major courses. I need him this summer and it would be so much easier if he wasn't in summer school.

'I'm not failing them anymore, Boss' – Paul

'How many times to I have to tell you not to call me that?'

'Alright, alright. How'd Leah take the news?' – Paul

I showed him what happened from memory and felt him cringe though the connection.

'Yeah, you're telling me… I had to be there first hand. She's strong though. Give her a couple weeks… or months and she'll be just fine. How's everything over there?'

'Fine… someone stopped by that I'm pretty sure you won't be too happy about.' – Paul

'Who?' I went through some of his memories from today and saw none other than Jacob Black stopping by. Lucky for me though, Charlie didn't let him in.

Within minutes I was standing next to Paul watching the house. There were no new smells and no new noises so I settled myself and waited for night. I sent Paul away after a few hours, praying that he was going to be doing his homework. When night fell, I curl up in ball underneath her window only to be battling sleep listening to her calm breathing.

'Goodnight my Bella.'


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--Stormy