And here is the next chapter. The last one was just a filler. Something fun to keep me and you entertained. I know logically, Sam and Jared would have never let Emily and Kim go to the Cullens, but hey, it's my fanfic, and it was kind of funny just thinking about Sam singing like that. But here is a real chapter for you to enjoy. It's get's kinda deep, but oh well, we are starting to get some action.

~Amanda~

Chapter 17

Mary decided to go hang out at Emily and Sam's on Friday. She had been spending most of her time looking into the future to see if there was anything she needed to be ready for. She kept on seeing a blond vampire carrying a red shirt, but she didn't know what it meant.

"Mary, don't you think your working to hard?" Mary looked up at Emily who sat down across from her at the kitchen table. "You can't save everyone, honey, and you haven't been your perky self. Well, aside from last night."

Mary managed a small smile, but then sighed. "It's just I'm missing something. I keep seeing the same vampire, but I don't know what it means. The last time this happened, Bella jumped off the cliffs."

"But she's fine now, and you saved her a lot of trouble."

"She's right." Sam said. Mary didn't even know when he had came in. "We might not ask you to, but everyone is extremely grateful to you."

"But Seattle? I can save them. There is a newborn, or multiple newborns there, and they are killing people. But if I do that then the people I love will die."

Sam gave Emily a look. Emily in turn got up and walked down the hall towards the bedroom. Sam took Emily's seat. He sat there for a minute before he looked up.

In that moment, Mary could see the man Sam Uley actually was. For all his size, and commanding attitude, he was still a boy at heart. A boy who carried the world, or in his case the tribe on his shoulders.

"Mary, I know what I can do is different than you, but I think we have more in common than you think. You know my story?"

Mary nodded.

"When Jacob finally phased, I was all for giving up the Alpha spot. But even though I know he can handle it, I can't destroy him like that. I'm considered the chief of the Quileutes. Did you know that? I'm 19. Still a teenager. But the Elders. People who are easily twice my age, look to me to tell them what to do. I command a pack of hormonal boys to go out and put their lives on the line ever day, and they listen. If one of them would get hurt, I would have been the one, to have put him in danger. I understand what you are going through. But we have been given these gifts, or curses, and we need to do the best we can. I'm made to protect the humans from vampires. But if one of my tribe was in danger, I would give up any one from Seattle to save them. If that makes me a bad person, ok."

Sam put his hand over Mary's much smaller hand. She glanced up at him with tears in her eyes. She never really thought about how much this who think affected everyone.

"Mary, what you do, is amazing. You have saved lives. And when this is over with, you will have saved hundreds more. But you are only one person. You can't look for everything. Take some time for yourself, go have fun with Paul."

Mary nodded, and took out her cell phone. Dialing Paul's house. She knew he was supposed to be at home sleeping. But the only time they saw each other now a days was in school. He was always running patrol because Sam didn't trust the Cullens to their end of the bargain, and then there was that red head, and the blond that Mary was always seeing.

"Hello?" Paul's sleepy voice came over the other end making Mary smile.

"Hey, I..uh...seem to have some free time and wanted to see if you wanted to hang out?"

There was a moment of silence, when Mary feared he fell back asleep, before Paul cleared his throat and spoke a little more clearly into the phone.

"Yeah, uh..do you want to come over here or do you want me to come to you?"

"I'll come there. I think Sam is getting sick of me hanging in his house, and Bella is at my house right now with Jake."

Paul gave her his address, and she started to walk over. She was about halfway there when she was hit with a vision. One that had her puking on the side of the road and breaking into a full out run the rest of the way to Paul's She slammed open the door, making Paul jump a full foot in the air and look around wildly.

"Get to Jake's now! He's going to phase and Bella is right there. They are in the car in the garage."

Paul hesitated for only a second before running out the door. Mary heard a soft pop, then she sunk into the couch. She looked down at the hand that usually had Bella's ring on it, only to find it missing. She then realized that it hadn't been on her hand since she was at Sam's. She had the vision without any outside help. Did that mean her power was enhancing? Was this what had happened to Alice? Or did her visions enhance because she was changed?

"You ok? You look lost in thought?" She heard a voice. She whirled around to see Paul standing in the doorway in a different pair of shorts and go figure, no shirt. Mary nodded her head then looked at him quizzically.

Paul sighed and sat down next to her. "I pulled Jake out of the car just before he phased. Apparently, Bella told him she was going to be turned into a vampire soon. Jake, well...he didn't take it that well."

"Well yeah, I mean, if someone was going to change me, what would you do?" Mary had to jump on Paul's lap, because the instant the words were out of her mouth, he started shaking. Paul wrapped his arms around her almost to the point of being painful, before burying his head in her hair. He started calming down soon after, but they sat there for a moment.

"You ok now?" Mary asked him. He nodded and twisted so he could lay back on the couch and she layed down on his chest just staring at him. His hair was starting to get a little shaggy, but it looked good. His eyes were black, but they didn't look evil or anything, they looked just intense. You could tell he was a very passionate person. His face was angular, and his nose was narrow. She realized, she didn't really know that much about him.

"Tell me about your life." She asked softly. He frowned, before looking up at the ceiling.

"My mother died when I was young. Around the age of 3 or 4. I don't really remember her that much. What I do remember, was that she was my father's life. When she died, my dad kinda lost his will to live. He was there, but he might as well not have been. He started drinking, a different girl every week, that kind of thing. I was home alone a lot growing up. It was ok, cause the Quileute take care of their own. Everyone looks out for one another. Jared's parents looked in a lot. But it's not the same, you know?"

Mary nodded. She did know. She started tracing circles on his chest while he composed himself to continue.

"By the time I hit my teen years, I had become an outcast. I was just pissed at life in general. Jared was there a lot for me, but I just hated everyone. My dad took off when I was 14 and never came back. This is a small town, and kids can be malicious when they want to be. I started to get in fights a lot. I thoughts if people feared me, they wouldn't be talking about me. Then Jared disappeared for a week. When he came back, he wouldn't even look at me. It was the same shit with my mom and dad all over again. I never felt anger like I had at that time. It was like everything I had been bottling up over the years just came out. That was when I first phased."

"So your dad took off when you were 14? Where did you live?" Mary asked.

"I stayed here. I was able to pick up some odd jobs here and there, enough to get me food. I was old enough that I wouldn't kill myself or burn the house down so the Elders just let me be. Now that I am a wolf, I get a compensation check every month since I have school and patrol. What about you? You said, you don't get along with your dad, how bad was it?"

Mary sat up so she was on his lap, and wrapped her arms around her knees. "At first it wasn't that bad. My dad would just lock me in my room. He had this fear that I was evil. But by the time I was 5, and I showed no sign of stopping, he started taking me to church. He thought I was possessed. The dunked me in a pool of holy water, and thought that would help. Of course it didn't. I think he never really loved me. He just kept me out of obligation. I rarely talked to him. He would leave money on the table when I needed new clothes, and kept the house stocked with food, but he was never there. I was never hit, but I stayed locked in my room most of the time. By the time I was 13, I realized that I should keep my visions to myself. It didn't fool him though. As soon as I froze upon touching something, I was thrown in my room again."

Mary took a deep breath, and put a hand on Paul's chest to keep him calm. "The week before I left to come here, I over heard him talking with my Aunts. They were trying to talk him into committing me. They told him about my Great Aunt Alice. The same Alice that is Alice Cullen. They told him about how they had her committed, because she was insane. I think it was then, that I knew I had to get away. I knew that I couldn't stay there anymore."

Paul wrapped his arms around her and just held her. They layed on the couch caught up in their thoughts. They knew that their lives were not the best. But they also knew that once this whole war was over, they would have the rest of their lives to make up for it. And any children they had would be the most loved kids ever.