OK, so it's been a while since I last posted, and I'm really sorry about that. It's just that my story that I'm working on for deviantART was flooding my mind and I couldn't stop thinking about it until I typed everything up. Of course, after I was done that, this came to me a lot was a lot easier.

Disclaimer: Plot of Sisters...Can't Live Without Them belongs to me, along with Cynthia Whitlock and any other original characters that could possibly come up. Everything else belongs to Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight saga.


Ch. 10 Pains

Cindy`s POV

I stood there in front of Bella, watching while Edward faced off with Victoria. In the corner of my eye, I saw Jake and Seth fighting the other vampire who was putting up one hell of a fight.

"You know, this is a great day for me," Victoria's sickening voice spoke up as she jumped up from where she had been tossed. "I get to kill the whole lot of you, have an army that can help me control all of North America, and I finally get that little bitch," she added as she glanced at me.

"You're not getting anyone," Edward hissed before he lunged again. Victoria jumped out of the way and pushed him hard in the back, sending him flying into the woods before she climbed up a tall tree to jump down at me and Bella. I shoved Bella out of the way and dodged to the opposite side just in time. I quickly rolled back to my feet as Victoria did the same and tugged at the chains around my waist- maybe they hadn't lost their magic.

But before I could do anything with them, Victoria ran at me and grabbed my right arm, twisting it as she flung me into a nearby tree. I heard the bones snap in my forearm and my back connected hard with the tree trunk before the immense pain began flooding my thoughts. The screams that came out of me almost sounded inhuman.

"What's the matter little Cissy?" Victoria taunted as she crouched down in front of me. I tried to crawl away as best as I could, but she grabbed me by the hair and with a hard tug, flung me into another tree. The force of the throw caused the tree to shudder violently before it fell behind me. I screamed again at the pain that coursed through my body. 'Where the hell is Edward?' my mind kept yelling at me.

"You know, I would have thought you to have at least put up somewhat of a fight," Victoria spoke again since she wasn't getting any attention from me. "I mean, I've been after you for decades, pulling out my best tricks to bring you out from hiding, and nothing happened," she continued. She looked at me for a second before her hand snapped out and grabbed my leg, crushing the bones there as well.

"And yet now, I turn my attention to someone else and you just fall into my lap. And you don't even try to fight me! It's just so hilarious!"

"You want to know what else is hilarious?" I asked her, gritting m teeth through the pain. Her crimson eyes looked down at me like I were some gunk that she found on her shoe. "The fact that you want to avenge James. You wanna know why he wanted to chase me? Because he was looking for someone new. You were starting to bore him. He probably was glad that Edward turned him into ash. That way he wouldn't have had to put up with another day of hanging around you!"

I know it probably wasn't the smartest move to insult a vampire that was majorly pissed off, especially when practically half your body is immobile, but I had to. Otherwise Edward wouldn't have been able to use the distraction to come up behind her unnoticed.

He quickly grabbed her by the neck and yanked her back as she was about to lung at me and probably rip my head off my body. I closed my eyes as Bella scrambled to my side, her soothing words being drowned out by the shrieking sounds that were Victoria's demise. A soft and warm material touched my cheek and I opened my eyes to see Jacob's enormous wolf form hovering over me, the worry and anguish visible in his large eyes.

"It's OK Jake. Really," I forced pass my lips. I raised my uninjured arm and lightly stroked his muzzle. "I'll be fine. Just a little tossed."

"Are you alright?" Edward asked as he came jogging to us. By the look on his face, I could tell that he didn't think so, and I personally didn't think so either. Every muscle in my body was burning with white hot pain, the broken bones nearly poking out of the skin of my leg and arm.

Edward picked me up as gently as he possibly could, cradling my like a China doll. Jacob started growling.

"That's not the smartest idea, Jacob," Edward said. "You can't carry her now because she's too badly hurt. In your form, she'd be tossed around and make it worse. And we have to go now!"

"Please Jake," I whispered as I tried my hardest to fight off the darkness that was clouding my vision- a battle that I was losing. "Just do what he says. Please."

Jacob's POV

I had never felt as scared in my life as I did when Cindy passed out. Her small frame was covered in massive bruises that were quickly turning dark shades of purple and blue, her leg and arm hanging at odd angles.

"Jacob, could you bring Bella back to the clearing?" Edward asked me. I just nodded my head and got down low enough for her to hop on before dashing back to the clearing with Seth right behind me.

The sickeningly sweet smell of burning vampire flesh was so thick that my nose felt like it was being stuck into acid or something. Small piles were slowly burning away, destroying the remains of the army and sending large clouds of smoke to the sky. The rest of the Cullen family was standing by one, the biggest of them throwing the pieces into the fire. Jasper turned around when he heard us.

"Cynthia!" he yelled as he saw his sister's body hanging limply in Edward's arms. Everyone else turned around and saw her and the next thing I knew, they were all huddled around her. Bella jumped off my back and landed awkwardly before stumbling over to the crowd as Edward sat Cynthia down on the ground.

"What happened?" The fury that was in Jasper's voice was so deadly, but when I looked at his face, I saw the worry in his eyes just like it was in mine.

"Victoria- she attacked us," Bella whimpered as she gently stroked Cindy's hair from her face. "She said something about tracking Cynthia down or something. I don't know."

"The wounds are pretty bad, but I don't think there is any internal bleeding," the doctor said as he looked over the injuries.

'Jacob, what happened?' I heard Sam's voice in my head. I turned around to see the rest of the pack standing there.

'Is she OK?' Leah may not have gotten along with everyone, but she did get along with Cindy. It was kind of strange seeing as they were so different from each other, but they got along like sisters.

I was going to tell them to head back to the house when I saw one of the newborns that got away come in. His red eyes landed on Cindy's broken body, and I didn't need to put two and two together. I ran at him full speed and tried to take him out, but instead, he got his arms around me and squeezed.

I could feel every bone on the right side of my body being shattered into a thousand pieces. The others came to my rescue, stopping the vamp from completely breaking my bones. The pain was so bad that I hadn't noticed that I had phased back to my human form.

"Jacob!" I heard Bella yell as she got up from Cindy's side and ran over to me. It was so weird- a few months ago, I would have given anything for Bella to care about me like this, and now I was wishing for Cindy to be kneeling beside me.

The doctor came over and told me that the bones along the right side of my body were broken and thanks to my werewolf abilities, I was already healing with bones poking in every which way. He made a deal with the rest of the pack that he'd come to my house to take care of Cindy and me before the guys all helped carry me back home while Leah carried Cindy.

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Cindy's POV

The first thing that I noticed when I woke up was the pain in my arm and leg. It wasn't so much as an excruciating pain that would have woken me up, but the kind of pain from a tender bruising.

The next thing I noticed was that I was back in Jacob's house. The familiar smell of the house penetrated my nostrils and I breathed it in deeply. Looking around, I saw that I was in fact, in Jacob's room, laid out on a folding cot with an IV drop embedded in my left hand. 'That explains the pain,' I thought. I looked down at the rest of my body to see that I was dressed in large, black shorts and tank top with my injured limbs nestled safely in white plaster.

"You're up." My head snapped to the doorway where I saw Billy rolling into the room. "Good to see you again, sweetie," he grinned as he stopped beside me and took my uninjured hand in his.

"Hi Billy," I smiled, happy to see the kind old man. Over the past few weeks, Billy and I had grown even closer than before- probably because of the fact I was dating his only son- but I didn't mind. I still enjoyed his company. "How are you doing?"

"I think I should be asking you that. After all, I'm not the one with two broken limbs and bruises all over me," he answered, his voice laced with concern. I looked at him shocked; I never knew Billy practised in medicine. "The doctor vampire came and took care of you both."

"Wait a minute- Carlisle came by? Oh God that means Jasper knows! Oh man, he's probably having a fit about all of this! I- Hang on, Carlisle came on the Rez? I thought they weren't allowed. And what did you mean by 'both'?"

"I think he was talking about me," a voice said from my left and I turned my head to see Jacob's face weakly smiling back at me. I was about to smile when I saw the rest of his body. The entire right side was wrapped in white bandages, all the bronze skin the showed covered in sheen of sweat.

"Jacob! Oh God, are you ok?" I could feel the tears starting to form in my eyes. His once powerful frame looked so broken and frail that it was hard for me to not think of how much pain he was in.

"I'm fine Cindy. It doesn't hurt that much anymore," he tried to reassure me, but I still felt my stomach turning. I looked away to try and hide the tears and I noticed that Billy had left the room unnoticed.

"What happened?"

"A vampire got to me, but it doesn't matter now. I'm practically healed," Jacob answered. "Being a werewolf has its advantages and faults. My bones were already healing the second they broke. Carlisle had to reset them."

"Did it hurt?" "Not as much as seeing you hurt." I smiled weakly at the endearment in his voice before I tried to stifle a yawn. Jacob chuckled and I couldn't help from laughing either. I probably looked like a baby lion.

"You're tired. Try to get some sleep," Jacob suggested, and I felt myself falling back under the veil of exhaustion. "I love you Cindy."

"I love you too Jacob."

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