Katie's POV

André stood in the doorway, a dark outline against the night sky. He was carrying a limp body in his arms. He roughly threw it to one side of the hut and, muttering to himself, walked back out of the hut. Me and Emmett glanced at each other as his muttering faded into the night.

"No peace for us… They should leave us alone… Stupid mongrels…"

I gingerly made my way to the thing he had dumped inside before leaving, hoping it wasn't another dead body. As I got closer, I could see it's frame moving slightly. It was still breathing. I knelt next to it, and reached out to turn it over. My hands came into contact with burning hot skin, and I gasped, quickly rolling the person over.

It was Seth. I was relieved and even more scared at the same time. I pulled my hand away, finding it sticky. My eyes widened as I realized that he was covered in blood. There was a huge gash running diagonally across his face, and more blood was oozing out of the cut on his belly. His cut-off jeans were soaked, and one of his eyes was starting to swell shut.

My fingers groped along his wrist, searching frantically for a pulse. It was so faint I almost missed it. It was light and irregular, and I brushed the hair out of my eyes, leaving a bloody trail across my forehead.

One of his eyes cracked open slightly, and I moved closer to him. "Katie." He rasped. The edges of his mouth turned upward in a slight smile. "Just wanted to see you. One last time."

My eyes widened. "Seth? Seth!" I clutched his hand in both of mine. "Please, Seth!"

Emmett had been struggling toward us, and looked over my shoulder. "Dog." He stated calmly.

"Leech." Seth managed to choke out.

Emmett looked at Seth with a bemused expression on his face. "You do know you're going to survive."

Seth's open eye narrowed as he glared at Emmett. "You don't know that for sure."

Emmett blinked at him, with as much dignity possible for someone who was tied up with glowing light. "Your wounds are already healing. Your swollen eye should have been bruised first, but the swelling is going down."

Seth grumbled something under his breath, and Emmett answered "I am not. Well it's not my fault you got yourself beaten up."

"At least I'm not tied up with neon lights."

"Dog." Emmett growled menacingly

"Leech." Seth growled back. He cracked his other eyelid open slowly, and winced as he pulled himself upright. "What's that smell?"

"André's cousin." Emmett muttered darkly.

Seth shrugged and looked at me, an unbelievable tenderness in his eyes. "Katie… Are you okay?"

I nodded, glad he was okay. He tried to move towards me, but he gasped, his face going pale under his tan. I moved towards him instead, leaning my head on his shoulder. "You shouldn't move."

"No…" he talked slowly. "It hurts less every time."

Emmett looked at us. "Katie, you're getting blood in your hair."

We glared at him.

"Oh yeah." He ignored us. "And the door is wide open. I don't know if that means anything to you, but I'm gonna get out of here."

We watched as he stood up with difficulty, and hopped towards the door. I stood up and helped Seth to his feet, and he leaned on me as we made our way to the door. It felt good to be outside. Even though there was a window in the hut, the air stank of putrid flesh and vomit. Outside, with the wind in my hair and the smell of the forest around me, I was already starting to forget the hut.

Emmett hopped ahead of us as we made our way through the forest. A small rabbit hopped in front of him, and he somehow managed to trap it under his feet. There was a vicious crunch as the rabbit's neck snapped, and Emmett reached down with both hands to pick it up. Not being able to resist, Seth stepped ahead of me and kicked Emmett's butt. Emmett overbalanced and fell flat on his face. He rolled over slowly, eyeing Seth.

"I take it you're feeling better now."

Seth grinned at him. "Much."

Emmett picked up the rabbit and sank his teeth into it. Seth grimaced and looked away.

"Oh no…" Seth muttered. I turned around to see what he had been talking about, but he pushed me onto the floor, just as a rock flew where my head had been. I looked up to see Seth running towards 

André. Before André could react, Seth had punched him as hard as he could in the stomach. André flew backwards a couple of feet, and hit the floor with a grunt.

I heard a grunt of surprise from behind me, and turned to see Emmett rubbing his wrists, free of the purple glow that had kept them together. Seth was still fighting André, and though he had gotten hit a couple of times, he was doing well, even in human form.

"Run!" he shouted. Emmett jumped up with renewed energy after his little snack, and went to help Seth, but Seth turned him away. "Take Katie." He grunted. "Find the others."

For a moment I thought he was going to disagree, but he nodded and ran towards me. "Let's go." He muttered grimly as he scooped me up and ran away from where the demon and the werewolf were fighting.

I shut my eyes, and tried not to think about what could happen to Seth. I tried thinking about something else. Chocolate. But all I could think of was when I had found Seth eating my chocolate. Okay, I thought to myself, flowers. Pretty flowers. Yellow, and red and…purple…like the ones Seth knocked over at my house. This wasn't working. No matter what I tried to think of, Seth was always there. I had only known him for a couple of days and there was nothing that I couldn't associate with him.

I was so deep in thought, that I didn't notice when Emmett stopped. However, I did notice when he dropped me. I fell on my butt, and I opened my mouth to ask Emmett why he had done that. I shut my mouth when I saw the two huge wolves in front of me. I almost relaxed, but then I realized that I hadn't seen these wolves before. One was dark silver, and the other was a deep amber color. Emmett had stepped in front of me, snarling at them.

They morphed almost simultaneously, reaching for the cut-off jeans that had been strapped to them before. They were both tall, with the same black hair Seth had. They looked similar to Sam and the pack, so I figured they were part of the pack. The one that had morphed from the silver wolf was scowling at Emmett, and the other one was grinning at me.

"I'm guessing you're Katie?" the smiling one winked at me.

"Umm..Yeah. Who are you?"

He nudged the other one and said "He didn't even tell her about us!" he turned back to me and said "I'm Jared, and this is Paul."

"Are you part of the Pack?" I asked them.

Jared nodded cheerfully. "Yup. We were with Jacob up north, but he's still moody about Bella, so we decided to have a visit. We were on the way when we felt Seth's thoughts. He seemed to be a bit panicked, he didn't even realize we were there. He was thinking about you, you know."

"About me?"

Paul spoke for the first time. "You're not as interesting as I'd thought you would be."

Jared glanced at him disapprovingly. "Don't be mean." He looked at Emmett. "You'd be the bloodsucker then?" When Emmett only nodded, he continued. "No need to be so anti social. Where was Seth when you saw him last?" the question was directed at me, but I glanced up at Emmett.

"I wasn't really paying attention on the way here…" I started, but Emmett told them for me.

"It's mostly North. Keep going until you reach a big clearing, then follow the dirt trail. You should be able to follow my scent."

Jared smiled at us. "Thanks. If you two wait here, I've already talked to the others and they're on their way here."



Paul elbowed Jared in the ribs. "Let's go."

"Sorry about him." Jared apologized as Paul started to walk in the direction Emmett had told them to go. "He's been around Jake too long." He jogged after Paul, and was soon gone from our sight.

I stood up, wanting to do something instead of sitting here being useless. I looked at Emmett, who was pacing, and obviously thinking of doing the same thing.

"Can we go back?" I asked Emmett just as something rustled in the bushes near where I was standing. I was about to back away, when Carlisle stepped out of the bushes, followed by Sam, in wolf form. The others followed, and Rosalie ran to Emmett as she stepped out from behind a tree.

Carlisle looked at me and said "You stay here. We'll come back when we've got the demon under control."

I looked back at him and said "No."

Sam gave me a disapproving look, and the wolf I recognized as Leah came and stood next to me. Carlisle looked at us both and sighed. With a glance at Sam for confirmation, he said "Well I suppose you can come, just stay back when we get there."

Carlisle talked with Emmett for a moment, and Set off in the direction of the hut. When everyone was gone, Bella and Alice hung back. Alice reached slipped her belt off and handed it to me. There was a leather sheath attached to it, with a dagger resting inside it. "You might need it. I'd rather you didn't, but just in case."

Bella nodded, and we left the clearing, Alice carrying me on her back.

The trip to the place we had left Seth was nerve wrecking. Especially when we got there, and he wasn't there. The place was a mess. There were uprooted trees laying around, and I got an uneasy feeling when 

I saw the red smears on the ground. It had started to drizzle, and the red smears were being washed away slowly.

We decided to press on towards the hut where the demon had been hiding out. When we got there, the door was shut. They left me by the side of the clearing the hut was in, and walked to the door. I crouched behind a rock, watching as Jasper kicked down the door. They followed each other inside, and nothing happened.

The door slammed shut, and a purple glow surrounded the entire hut. I tried to run, to do something, but my legs seemed frozen in place. I looked down, expecting to see a purple glow around them, but there wasn't.

There was a deafening explosion, and I felt heat sear across my arms and face. I looked up to see the remains of the hut smoldering in the rain. There were pieces of burning wood scattered around the clearing, and it had started to rain harder. The bodies of my friends were hard to see, just dark smudges in the night. Then something caught my eye. Seth.

I don't know how I knew it was him, but I could feel it. My legs working again, I ran towards him. I was halfway across the clearing when André appeared in front of me. He barely looked like the André I used to know. His eyes were completely purple, and there was no trace of the kindness that used to be on his face. He was dressed in rags, and his pointed teeth showed in a horrible sneer.

"You're ours now." He growled. "You were meant to be with us."

I felt a vague tugging in my mind, and I walked towards him, as if I was hypnotized. My hand strayed to the dagger hanging at my waist, and he noticed. "You would hurt us now. But you're ours."

I continued to stagger towards him, vaguely thinking that there was something I'd forgotten. I could see Seth behind him, his face contorted in pain, even though it didn't look like he was wounded. I was close enough to smell the demon's rancid breath, and he took the dagger from my belt and tucked it into the waistband of his pants at the back.



"You're…ours…now…" he whispered, and I suddenly remembered what I was trying to think of.

"No." I stated with difficulty. "Not yours…"

"Yes. " With every word he said, it became harder to think of Seth.

"Y…Yours…" with that single word, Seth screamed. It was a terrible sound that shook my bones.

"You…are…ours…" He pulled me roughly closer to him by the shoulders, and kissed me hard.

At that moment, every thought, every memory I had ever had of Seth flashed into my mind. The first time he had held me, when he had saved me from the box in the attic, when he had kissed me, laughing with him in the doorway of his house, covered in mud.

With a great effort I grasped the handle of the dagger that was in his pants, and drove it through the demon's back. He was the demon. He wasn't André anymore, because André would never act like this. The knife slipped off something hard, jarring my entire arm. The demon's purple eyes rolled back into its head, and he fell backwards.

I stepped over the body and ran towards Seth. He was laying on the grass, soaked by the rain. When he saw me he stood up and hugged me so tightly I thought I was going to break.

"Don't leave me." He said. "Ever."

I hugged him back, just as hard, and promised that I wouldn't.

Behind us, the vampires and werewolves were picking themselves up and trying to clear their heads.

I turned to see if they were okay, and was met with the sight of Jared in human form, looking slightly worse for wear, but thoroughly happy. He grinned at me. "Looks like you got into a fight with a pissed off blender."

Embry walked up behind him. "And you definitely didn't win."

"Oh ha-ha." I laughed sarcastically. I imagined I must have looked terrible. Seth's blood was still on me from before, and the rain was making it into rivers of red running down my face and arms. I ran a hand through my soaking wet hair. I was covered in mud, my clothes were ripped. Well I still looked better than Seth.

I glanced at him. I lied. He still looked better than me. His wet hair was plastered to his head, and he looked like one of those models in the magazines. Except for the blood part. That wasn't in most magazines.

Seth took my hand and started to walk out of the clearing. "Let's get out of here." He whispered in my ear."

The rain had lightened to a drizzle, and we walked in silence, enjoying each other's company. He scooped me up into his arms, and climbed a bunch of boulders that were blocking our path. "Close your eyes." He whispered, and I did.

I felt him jump off the rocks, and he set me down. "Now open them."

I opened my eyes to see the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. We were standing on the grassy banks of a huge lake, and there were beautiful flowers all around the grass. The drizzle was making small circles on the lake, and the sun had started to rise. The lake was covered in the pink-ish reflections of the sun. Dragonflies buzzed across the water, and birds had started to sing.

I sat down, and pulled Seth down next to me. I leaned against his shoulder, and looked out at the lake.

A small water snake slid across the lake, its head was like a periscope, turning to see its surroundings. "Seth! Look, a snake!"

He smiled and nodded. "Isn't it pretty?"

"Is it poisonous?"

He chuckled to himself. "No, it's venomous."

"Same thing."

"No."

"Oh really?" I asked.

"It's very different. If it bites you, and you get sick, then it's venomous. If you bite it, and you get sick, then it's poisonous."

I rolled my eyes at him. "Come with me." I said as I stood up. We walked to the water's edge, looking out over the lake. I looked at him out of the corners of my eyes, and pointed at a nonexistent thing on the other side of the lake. "Look!"

He leaned forwards to get a better look at whatever wasn't there. I took a step back and pushed him into the water. He overbalanced, reached back, and pulled me in with him.

We hit the water with an icy splash, laughing, and floated in the water next to each other, thinking.

"Seth?"

"Mhmm?"

"…Nothing…"

There was a brief silence.

"Katie?"

"Mhmm?"

"I love you."

I almost drowned.

He picked me up, and looked at me.

"I…I love you too."

He grinned at me. "You still owe me dinner."

I smiled at him. "Wanna go out tonight?"

"Only if your mom wont tazer me for it."

And so I lay there in the lake, next to the person that I had almost lost.

Looking at him, through the rain.

a/n- that's It…12 freaking pages… you can expect an epilogue soon tho.. just 4 tashie...