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The streets are empty as I walk towards the police station, my breathing shallow and my feet numb. As I get close enough to see into the station I stop dead in my tracks. I feel the blood rush out of my body and I sway back and forth.
He is already there.
I back up slowly, not taking my eyes off of his back. Once I feel the darkness surrounding me, I turn and run back into the woods. But my body can´t take it anymore. After running for 2 hours in my frail condition, it is shutting down.
NO! I will not fail! Tears run down my face as my running slows to a limping walk. He knew. He knew where I would go. A shiver runs down my spine. He knew I would go north. With that I crumble to my knees, letting the sobs I have held back since last year free.
A branch snaps to my left. My head snaps up at the sound. He has found me so fast! I try to stand, but my legs scream out in protest. Crawling as fast as I can, I go deeper into the woods. I hear nothing following but I know something is there.
All of a sudden I´m rolling down a hill and soon collide with a tree. There is a sickening crack and fresh pain seeps into my ribs and left hand. I hear something come down the hill after me and I try to move, but it only brings on more pain.
I lay there, waiting for him to come and take me back so he can beat me. The sound of bones cracking and popping fills the air.
"It´s alright" A woman?! "I´m not going to hurt you." Her voice is warm yet rough and I feel her kneel down to me. She touches my arm gently but I shrink away. What if he hired her to get me? I can´t let her take me back to him! I try to crawl away again, but a stabbing pain in my lungs stop me.
"Please" I manage to croak. It has been such a long time since I´ve last spoken. "Please, I won´t do it again." She tries to hush me, but now that I have found my voice, it won´t stop. "Please! I have learned my lesson! I won´t run away again, I promise!" Fresh tears pour down my face, stinging the scratches on my face.
"I am here to help you," she says softly. "Trust me, I only want to help." She lays her hand on my arm and this time I don´t resist. "Where does it hurt?" She asks me, brushing my hair out of my face gingerly.
"Every where," I whisper, but she seems to hear me. She looks up and into the forest. As she stands up, her eyes still focused on something else, I let out a soft cry.
"Please," She looks down at me, anxiety and hate in her eyes. "Don´t leave me." She smiles weakly and squats next to me, cupping my check in her hand.
"Don´t worry. I´ll bring you to safety." I lean into her hand. It is so warm that the warmth travels throughout my entire body, lulling me into a long needed sleep.
Before I lose consciousness, I see two huge wolves come up to the woman and nudge her gently. She tells them something in a language I have never heard before and they trot away.
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I wake up to the sound of shuffling feet and whispers.
"What did he say happened?" A deep husky voice asks, anger lining his voice. I tense up at the voice, it sounds like his voice.
"We´ll talk about it later, I think she´s awake." A familiar female voice answers firmly. I search my memory of the voice and it hits me. She was sent to find me! I open my eyes to find myself in a hospital-like room, but I know better to think this is a hospital.
The woman is standing next to me, and reaches down to pat my hand. "How are you feeling?" She asks gently as if I would be pained if she talked any louder. I look around the room for him, unaware of what she is saying. There is a man sitting in a chair by the foot of my bed. So it wasn´t his voice I heard. He looks up as if he felt my gaze upon him. His warm brown eyes fill with worry as he stands up.
Thoughts run wildly through my head about what he could do to me if I wasn´t careful. First off, it looks like he works out every hour of the day. Secondly, he has to be at least a foot taller than me. And thirdly, he is extremely handsome which means that he would probably get away with any crime. It is statistically known that good-looking criminals get lesser punishments than average criminals.
"Darling?" The woman says to me, pulling me out of my thoughts. "Did you hear me?" I look at her confused. "My name is Leah Clearwater and this is Jacob Black. We´re the ones that saved you."
"I only remember you." I state flatly. They exchange a glance that I cannot understand before she answers me.
"You were unconscious when Jake came along." She tells me while pouring a glass of water. "Here, you must be thirsty."
I go to take the glass, but at spotting my hand in a cast I quickly stop, my hand hovering in the air.
"You´re probably wondering what happened." Leah says breaking the silence. She brings the cup to my lips and I drink as if I had never had water in my entire life.
"Your feet are damaged badly from all that running, but they will heal in time." She fills another cup. "Your wrist, index and middle fingers are broken and you have 3 broken ribs. All from the tumble down the hill." I´m already on the third cup when the question pops into my mind.
"Where am I?" I ask rather bluntly.
"Forks, Washington." Jacob says suddenly, causing me to jump. How is that possible? I was all the way up near Port Angeles! "We had a car near by, that's how we got back to Forks."
Suspicion rises in my mind. "Would you mind telling me how in the world you found my in the first place?" Sure, I´m grateful that they found me and not him, but it is a bit strange that they found me and so fast.
There is another mysterious glance between them before Leah tells me. "We were camping when we heard you crying. I went to see what was wrong and you ran away so I followed."
But why-"Why didn´t you say something before I ran away? I might not be so badly off if you had just said something first!" There is defiantly something weird about these two. "And what about the two wolves that came up to you?" This seems to throw Leah off. She stumbles a couple of times before Jacob steps in for her.
He looked down at me as if he was going to trying to make me believe whatever he had to say. "You were in a lot of pain and slipping in and out of consciousness. There were no wolves." I cringe at the coldness at his last sentence. Maybe I was going crazy. Their eyes did look too human.
There is a light knock at the door and in came a handsome young man with blonde hair and topaz eyes. He looks at me smiling and then to Leah.
"Now that she is awake, I´ll have to do some routine check ups." Jacob leaves instantly, but when Leah starts to I grab her hand pleading her with my eyes not to leave me with a man. She seems to understand for she slips her hand into mine and stays right beside me.
"Hello, I´m Dr. Carlisle Cullen," he puts his hand out for me to shake, but I cower into Leah. My prey senses are on full blast and I know that this 'Doctor' is the predator. He may look and act nice, but that is how I got into this mess in the first place. Trust no one.
He quickly puts his hand into his pocket and pulls out a pen. "I´m going to have to ask you a few questions, is that alright?" His voice has softened but my alarms are still going off.
"It's alright," Leah whispers in my ear. "He won´t hurt you." My alarms stop and I lean onto the pillows, still not letting go of Leah´s hand.
"Ok then." He flashes me a dashing smile, causing me to blush. "First off, the most important question. What is your name?"
Shit. How do I answer this? My parents think I´m dead, my abuser is out there looking for me, and I haven´t heard my name said out loud in such a long time that I´m not even sure if it´s really my name.
"Caroline." My voice cracks as I finally say my name for the first time in two years. "My name is Caroline."
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I know that it isn´t that long, but its late and I have school to go to tomorrow. I promise the next chapter will be longer!
And it was Jacob in the room, not Embry! Teehee! Embry should be in the next chapter though.
Yes, I´m bringing the Cullens into the story. I kind of had to! I didn´t want her to be in a real hospital and well.. Everything will be cleared up in the next chapter. I promise!
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