Chapter Fifteen

How Can I Protect Her, When She Willingly Goes Into Danger?

Collin

When I wake up it is to a cry of pain, my angel is hurt and if I could I would take on her pain as my own. I jump off the floor and stand at her crib, she smiles up at me and reaches toward me. I wish that the demon leech that did this to her wasn't dead so that I could kill him myself. Instead someone else risked her life for my Sammy, a half leech. She demanded that I see reason that I know that they mean only to be good. A part of me cannot help but think that she did it for her own reasons, to make me weak and compliant. No I have to be ever vigelent in protecting Sammy because she cannot protect herself.

She is so helpless so small that she can fit easily in my arms and when I hold her it feels as though she belongs there for all time. My baby imprint, my imprint my heart soul and body are hers to control and she holds a tighter hold on me with one finger then the rest of the pack do combined. I do this for her now not for me anymore, I want to make sure that she is safe and well protected I never want to see her hurt again.

I can see the pain in her eyes but also the love, I know that what we have is a bond beyond all others. I think forward to the years ahead and imagine our children running around the house, a dream that might not happen if I am not careful. My Sammy isn't much into self preservation and she actually plays with a leech, they have a bond that I am jelous of that I can't begin to understand and it drives me crazy.

"Are you hungry Sammy?" I ask her and she nods, I go at once to the kitchen and make formula, adding some pain medication to it. I go back and she is smiling at me, I want so badly to take her out of that cradle to hold her in my arms but the Leech Doctor told me that it was best if she stayed in the cradle until she healed. Yesterday the Leech kid came to play they were throwing a ball back and forth, I could do that! I could do anything for my Sammy. I lean over the cradle and she smiles up at me as I gently take down the bars.

"Cow'in." She says and I smile at the way she says my name, my Sammy mine and belonging to no one else. I would protect her from anything and everything if I could but the wolf is already strong in her and wolves run wild and free no matter how you can try to chain them to safety. I want her to be alive and unhurt forever. I want her to never again experience the pain she already has.

"I have your formula Sammy, let me see you try to move that leg." I say to her and she complies surprisingly she can move it, she gasps a little from the pain but I know from experience that she will be better by tomorrow. I gently feed her the milk and I smile as her eyes grow soft from the medication. They close and I can hear her snoring softly breathing in and out the breath filling her tiny body and going out of it again. I cannot help but stare at that simple show of life and as much as I hate it I am reminded once again that I owe the leeches a debt. I decide to call Carlisle and ask him if it would be alright to hold her in my arms if just for a moment.

Who was I now some servant to Leeches? She was my imprint and I could do what I wanted. I gently picked her up careful of the cast and smiled when she snuggled into me, her warmth her spirt her beauty all the things I loved in the world were in this one tiny sleeping body. I sat on the couch watching her sleep, a smile on her face until I heard a knock at the door, now that I was holding her I never wanted to let go again.

I answer the door and Leah stands holding Alex in her arms, he smiles at Sammy and I can't help the growl that escapes my throat. This leech wasn't going near my Sammy.

"Calm down Collin, he won't hurt her, anymore then Sammy would hurt him." Leah says to me in that gentle voice that she uses only around Alex. "If you shift now your going to hurt her." That stops me cold and I looked horrified down at Sammy. Her arms are wrapped around mine and she holds them like a security blanket. I kiss the too if her head and she smiles in her sleep. She is like a ray of sunshine to me, I need her as much as the plants need her to live. "I promise if anything happens to her I will be responsible, but think of it this way, Alex is my imprint. I feel the way for him that you do for Sammy, I can't stand when he is upset, as much as you can't. Don't you see that they are happier when they are together?"

"A leech did this, a leech hurt her." I replied I know I sounded a little unhinged but I didn't care.

Leah put a hand to my back. "A leech also saved her. Listen a few years ago if you said that leeches have some good in them I would have said you were crazy. Now I know however that they do. They are people like us just different, or at least the Cullens are."

"Your a fool Leah, your imprinting blinds you." I tell her and she glares at me.

"It is you who are the fool." She said to me.

"I can't let her go into danger, no matter how many people try to convince me that its safe. My instincts scream at me to kill the leech before it harms her, you see why I try to stay away, to keep Sammy away? Its because I am afraid that one day my instincts will take over. Stay away Leah, I don't want war between the two packs but he already bit her. He might of seriously harmed her."

"In his sleep Collin, he didn't mean to." Leah said I couldn't believe she was defending the leech pretender, he had almost killed my Sammy had gotten this close to doing so. As it was Sammy would never have the normal life I had wanted her to. Leah was beginning to shake now and I wasn't exactly calm.

"Leave us alone Leah, Alex can find another playmate, one that he doesn't eat!" I snarled.

"He can't not one with the bond Sammy and him share, I don't know why you can't see what is in front of your face. Don't think that I don't think that Alex is in danger every time he is in your company. I still however take him here because that is what makes him happy, and when he's happy I am. They love each other Collin, Alex thinks of her as his packmate, have you noticed how quiet he is? Its because he is sharing his thoughts with Sammy."

"I cannot let her do something that is dangerous. Please leave I don't want to hurt you but you are provoking me to. The leech visited the other day, had the gall to go to Sammy's home and check on them. He could have bitten her, pierced her perfect neck with his fangs. I could have lost her and I won't risk that, if I lost her I think I would go insane." I said to her and slowly Sammy opened a eye and reached up one of her hands and stroked my face.

"Ove Cow'in." She said to me. "Ove Awi'cs." She was telling me that she loved both me and Alex. She put her hand to her heart and then to mine. "Sw'ame." She said to me and I broke down int tears.

"Sammy, Sammy, Sammy." I cried and she started to cry as well upset that I was upset, I tried to stop but her tears intensified every emotion I was feeling and made it that much worse. I cradled her in my arms and she wrapped her arms around mine, she could barely talk and yet with the words she did speak she threw me off my axis and I got lost in her. She was so perfect so beautiful so mine as I was so hers. She was my Sammy my adventurous Sammy. My impetuous Sammy, my Sammy mine for all time as long as we both lived.

Leah and Alex left seeing me cry had accomplished what I had been trying to get them to do. I hated that I was so weak when it came to Sammy, I the strong Beta was reduced to nothing more than a quivering boy. I laid back on the couch and Sammy laid on my chest supporting herself with her arms she stared into my eyes, her little body racking with sobs as mine was. I held her and she gently touched my face with one hand putting one small finger in my mouth for a moment before taking it out. I smiled at her through my tear stained vison and she smiled back, suddenly her head was resting on my shoulder and her arms were wrapped around me. Her tiny arms only reached across my chest but I felt as though I was in a warm embrace. I put my own arms around her.

She was tired and soon fell asleep I watched her sleep forcing my eyes to keep open and succumbed to slumber.

Sammy

Warm, no pain love and affection. Safe, rumbling under me. His face sleeping, mouth open see teeth. I light inside love him. Tired sleep.

AN: Sammy develops at a slower rate then Alex and Amelia. Her thoughts are more simple at the moment. She does however have her own personality even at this age and she has a strong will. I think of Amelia as mentally older then both Alex and Amelia because she is a half vampire. She hasn't experianced the world but the thoughts and feelings of those around her age her as well. Anyway enough with my rant hope you enjoyed this chapter, I might post a few more like this. Next chapter will be Sam's prospective as this day isn't over yet. Wow that was strange, but I feel better leaving this as it is.