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Embry's POV
Why am I so sore? I feel like I'm paralyzed… Oh damn, my everything hurts. I breathed deeply slowly and forced myself to be calm. I opened my eyes looking up. No one was with me. I looked down at my body and remembered it. I tried to sit up by my arms were in too much pain. My back was screaming at me and my legs felt like both legs muscles were going through cramps constantly. I winced in pain trying to stay silent but it didn't work. Jasper appeared at my side.
"Good morning Embry…"
"Morning? Wait… wha?" I said drowsily.
"Perhaps I should say afternoon." Huh? My stomach growled and I realized how hungry I was.
"You slept for twenty three hours straight… figures the reason you'd wake up was you're too hungry." Jasper laughed. Alice entered the room with Ayden. He'd grown even more.
"Daddy?" I nodded.
"That's right Ayden, I'm your daddy Embry." Alice nodded to Ayden who finally released Alices pointer finger he was holding on to for protection. He jumped up on the bed and crawled gently up to me and hugged my head. I smiled I forced my right arm to obey me and wrapped it around my son. I heard the door open and looked over to see Leah at the door.
Ayden heard her come on. He jumped down from the bed and walked over to the door and in between Leah and the door. Leah closed the door behind her and gently walked over and sat on the bed next to me.
"Figures." She said
"Huh?"
"You would be so damn stubborn that you refused to start phasing like everyone else, no you had to go back to your fullest strength and height in one step." I laughed and winced in pain from my back and stomach.
"Serves you right… thought you were going to die." She said letting a touch of worry slip in to her voice.
"You sound like you're worried."
"Nah… I just told your mom I'd take care of you and I wouldn't be happy if I had to tell her that her stupid son went and killed himself by phasing." I smiled but even that hurt…
"Oh I'm sorry."
"You should be…"
"You know why I'm doing it right?"
"No I don't, you've fought enough, you're probably would win the 'wolf most likely to get his ass kicked in a fight' award… and you're the toughest SOB I know…"
"Hey, I like my mom." I defended.
"Momma's boy." She muttered under her breath.
"Why… why did you do it? We could have eased you back in to phasing… you wouldn't have been able to fight when the Volturi came but…"
"I have something worth dying for." I said plainly.
"And what's that?" I smiled weakly.
"That little boy that came in here before you… I'd gladly die if it meant he'd get the chance to live."
Leah's POV
"Why… why did you do it? We could have eased you back in to phasing… you wouldn't have been able to fight when the Volturi came but…"
"I have something worth dying for." He said. I felt my heart beating heavily.
"And what's that?" I said looking at him trying to smile, I tried not to act like it was as important as it was to me.
"That little boy that came in here before you… I'd gladly die if it meant he'd get the chance to live." My heart sank slightly. What did you expect? I put the thought out of my mind.
"Well get better soon… But don't rush it… you're still recovering." I said running my hand down his arm and turning and walking away. I can't do this, not again, it's too complicated, I just can't right now.
Sam's POV
"What do you mean you're going to become a werewolf again!" Emily yelled. I knew she wouldn't take it well.
"The Volturi are coming again. The pack needs me."
"Your family needs you, have you even thought about your daughter? What about your work at the store? Do you think the manager will keep you around if you skip out for God knows how long?"
"That is why I'm doing this, The Cullens gave us more than enough to live on, and why do you think I'm going? So I can protect my family."
"I want you here." Emily protested with tears in her eyes. I looked as a tear slid down her scarred face. I swallowed again in pain as I watched what I'd done to her. She supported me as a wolf but the truth was she was waiting for me to stop phasing and I was about to become that monster again. As much as I wanted to stay here and be happy I would never forgive myself for any wolf that died. It could have been me saving them. Those young wolves haven't even fought normal vampires, much less the Volturi Guard. It was what I felt in them… it was power… I could feel how much they dominated the world. And if I didn't stop them now… if I didn't help and they came to La Push we'd be defenseless I needed to help while I could.
Can I still phase? The truth was I wasn't sure. It'd been over a year since I stopped phasing, I was already graying a little, not to mention I'd really let myself go. I looked down at my developing gut. I'd tried to work out but after being able to jump through the air and lift hundreds of pounds everything I did now seemed kind of… pathetic. Great I can bench press two hundred again… too bad I won't get back to four hundred. In absolutely everything I can do I can only hope to be a shadow of what I once was… it was discouraging to say the least.
"If you love me you'll stay here with me…" Emily said breaking the silence. How contradictory. It's because I love her that I need to do this… I won't come back until my wife and daughter are safe. It's my responsibility. Here I was talking about phasing and I wasn't even sure if it was possible to phase still or if I'd grown too old.
"I'm sorry Emily, but it's because I love you that I must go."
"You're leaving me?" she said trying to put it some way it wasn't.
"It's not like that and you know it."
"No, you can't leave me I don't want you to…"
"I must… I must protect you, and our little girl."
"Leave it for the young ones." She answered.
"And if they die… and I stay here… and the tribe knows that I could have helped. I need to look their parents in the eye every day knowing I could have been the one who saved their son or daughters life." She stepped in front of the door. I may have become a human again, and shrunk, but I still stood well over her.
"Samuel Uley, if you leave us don't expect us to be waiting for you when you come back." The weight of her words hit me like a sack of hammers. I couldn't leave her, could I? I felt in my heart and knew I couldn't do this.
"I love you Emily, and I will do anything for you… but this isn't for you, this is selfishness. And I can't stay her because I love you enough to protect you… Goodbye Emily." I moved her gently and stepped past her outside.
"I won't be waiting for you Sam Uley! I won't!" she yelled as I walked in to the forest, tears forming in my eyes. I took a couple more steps then started in to a run, trying to phase… at first I felt nothing. Maybe it was gone… maybe I left for no reason…. Then I felt it… just a feint feeling. You're hallucinating. I pressed harder forcing myself trying to reach in and grab whatever it was that I used to have to become a werewolf. Then I felt something again… I was sure of it. I stopped and yelled at the top of my lungs, my yell turned in to a howl as I felt a familiar heat burning up my spine. And then I heard it.
"Sam? Holy shit it's you!"
"Seth… hello."
"Holy crap, Sams back… He's gonna put da team on his back!"
"Hello Brady."
"Sam… you… don't look so well." Paul said looking me over. Then I noticed it. My fur was grey… I was thin and ragged.
"We need to get you some food." I nodded wolfily.
"Welcome back Sam."
Tanya's POV
Trying to break Mike in was going worse than I hoped. He didn't seem to show any control and he was a better fighter when he angry… It almost seemed like he was more in control of his fighting when he was mad… which was all the time. Jasper had made his way up to us in the deep forests of Minnesota to calm him down.
It was like he was a completely different person… He didn't want to fight… and when we did he seemed timid… almost afraid of fighting. I didn't recognize him at first then I figured it out… It was really him. He might come off as a tough guy, might look like a tough guy, and might fight like a tough guy… but I realized he really fears who he'd become… what he can do… and dying. I told him he's already dead and he needs to fight with everything he had… he came at me and I easily defeated him. It was pathetic.
It wasn't the same guy who literally dragged me down to the ground by the hair and beat me with a feral anger. That didn't bug me nearly as much as this timid side. What if the timid side showed up during the Volturi fight and not the monster who kept up with Edward and blew a hole straight through Xavier. He was still a newborn and unfortunately that left him to his faults, in his fight against Edward he was very focused on Edward, on his goal, on beating Edward himself. He didn't have a goal, he didn't force himself to focus. His punches weren't precise anymore, he went for the obvious attacks. All the things that would get him killed, and I somehow had to fix his faults in under a month. I watched at Garrett tried to fix Mikes new born tendencies.
"My turn." I called. Fine… nothing else is getting to him I'll play dirty.
He charged at me and I slid to the side striking straight for his throat. I connected and he slowed just momentarily. It was all the opening I needed. I stabbed with both my fingers in to his eyes. He pulled away throwing a weak kick that was off target. He was trying to recover his vision but I wasn't going to give him the time. I pressed my advance and kicked as hard as I could between his legs. Fell to his knees almost immediately. I snapped a spinning round kick to the side of his head, it moved to the side then back to facing me before I could even put my foot down. He came up to one knee and before I could move out of the way his arms wrapped around my waist he was running hard tackling me through tree after tree. Eventually I wrapped my arm around his head putting him in a headlock, before I could connect to my other hand he caught my wrist and spun out of the head lock in something that slightly resembled a swing dance move. He pulled me back to him with his arm up and he clotheslined me. I jumped back up as fast as I could and I immediately felt his cold hand tightening around my throat. I jumped and drop kicked him as hard as I could forcing him to let go. I felt a hand on my shoulder pulling me back.
"My turn to play with your boy toy." I watched Mike growl at the reference his fingers clinched in to fists.
"Aren't you worried, you're not as good of a fighter as I am." I told her.
"Yeah… but I can taze his ass." Kate responded with a smile.
Embry's POV
I used my muscled arms to grab at the sides of the medical bed lifting my lower body. I pushed and pulled. My upper body was regaining strength. I pulled my legs up forcing them to cooperate even though it hurt. I pulled and pushed my legs up until I was vertical. I started doing vertical pushups. I pulled myself back down to the side of the bed dropping my legs on to the ground. My muscles ached but that wasn't the pain that I was focused on. It felt like there was a burning running all through my body. I forced my body to stand and the pain flourished on my feet then up my legs. I gritted as every step hurt. I forced myself to be calm. I took each step feeling the dull pain burning through my body doubled with the aches of my growing muscles. I took the steps outside gingerly and made my way off the deck. I removed my shirt, then my pants and forced myself in to phasing.
Just like the last time pain rippled through my body I wanted to scream but didn't. I came down on my paws and then fell laying on my side. Even with the pain I could feel a difference. The pain was slowly resonating away. Like the beating of my heart it resonates then fades, then pumps again, each time the pain fading away just a hair farther. I smiled and closed my eyes, I'd wait… until the pain was gone, then I could fight again… It'd leave. What if the pain doesn't? Then I'll fight through it, as long as I have something worth living for, I have something worth dying for.
And that's all folks… I finished this chapter only a couple days after the I finished the previous chapter, and now that I'm finished with it I have 2 chapters ready to post. You might ask me "Fireproof, why aren't you posting them when you finish them" and I'll say "simply because I know many people are reading this and not reviewing, I got 1 review for the last chapter I posted so I'll wait a bit longer… I'm sorry if that offends you but I'm putting hours in to writing I think the least you can do is take five minutes to say that you enjoy/dislike it and why. Thanks for all the support on this journey through my stories… they are FAR from over. Thanks for all the reviews over the years. Remember knucks, reviews, rolls of twenty dollar bills, high fives. Take care, spike your hair
