Ashes To Ashes-Chapter Seven: News
Jacob POV
I yawned and glanced around the house. I was bored and Nessie was asleep and stone cold statue Rosalie was still sitting on the couch. My cell phone rang and I pulled it from my pocket and looked at the screen. I saw it was Paul and I answered on the second ring. "Hello?"
"Jacob you need to get to the woods, in La Push not far from the cliffs."
"Okay why?" I heard someone yelling in the background and I could hear a couple trees breaking. "DAMMIT!" I heard Paul yell then heard wind move and soon I heard heavy breathing on the phone. "Paul?"
"He had to go help Sam." Leah's voice sounded tired, also it sounded upset. Why would she be upset? "Whats going on?"
"Jared...he's phased and is losing it." I heard her breathe in and I heard her crying some. "Leah what the hell is going on?"
"Kim's dead." I froze and gripped the phone. "WHAT?" I yelled and saw Rosalie jump up from the corner of my eye. "...Yeah. She had been missing for a couple days...we found her. Jared couldn't stay back and when he saw her...Jacob...usually things don't bother me but the look he had...the pain...it...you need to get here now. Sam can't force him to stop. I doubt you could. But you NEED to be here. Please hurry I have to go help the guys."
"No Leah wait. You guys have to let him get out the steam if you go near him he could ki-" I heard the click and a growl came from me and I yelled again. "DAMMIT!"
"Who's Kim?" Rosalie looked tensed and her eyes were wide. "Jared's imprint." I headed to the door, stuffing my cell phone into my pocket. "I gotta go Rosalie, tell Nessie sorry." I ran to my bike and got on it and sped to La Push.
Leah POV
Jared had phased only a couple minutes after he screamed. I felt tears go down my cheeks which was a new thing for me. I never cried before, hardly. After the whole Sam and Emily thing and after my dad died I had just swallowed all my emotions and did my best to put up the bitchy act. But this was heartbreaking. I had spoken with Kim alot. She was a nice girl and was actually a friend to me, she said she saw past my additude and thought it was funny that all the guys seemed to clear away from me. I saw Sam and Paul had phased and pinned him down. Jared was whining loudly and growling. The pain mixed with anger was horrible and it was depressing.
I went to Kim. Jared had laid her back down and jumped back before phasing. I knelt next to her body and my eyebrows went together. This made no sense. Kim had been healthy, there was no illnesses the last time I heard. I looked at her head to see if she could have fallen and hit it. I looked for any puncture wounds where a rock or something else could have gone through. But then I noticed something on her neck. I saw a black and blue bruise on the back of her neck in the shape of a hand print.
I looked to each side of her neck then froze. There was a bite mark. A vampire had killed her. I was shaking slightly and forced myself to stop. It wasn't from anger or even my wolf part. It was from trying to pull my emotions back in. A loud growl came from Jared when I touched Kim's neck. He looked at me and the thought of the phrase, 'if looks could kill' flashed through my mind. He didn't want me near her and I backed off. He seemed to calm down slowly and he looked as though he would stop. But then he just threw Paul and Sam into the trees and Embry who had been shocked had phased and had tried pinning him earlier, but Jared threw him into some trees and bit him hard in the side making him knock out.
Jared walked over to Kim and plopped down next to her. He licked her arm and nudged her with his nose. The sight was heart breaking. Paul and Sam were about to go to him but I got between them. "Stop." They both listened to me, seeing as though Jared had gotten past his first outbreak. Paul went behind some trees and came out in some pants. Sam stayed in his wolf form and I heard a screech of tires.
Jacob POV
I halted to a stop, turned the bike off then ran to where they were. Sure enough, trees were broken everywhere, Embry was off laying on his side, I could see he was slowly healing. Paul was now standing next to Leah, Sam in his wolf form and Jared laying beside...Kim. I walked forward slowly and saw Leah had indeed been crying, which was a rare sight I might add. I saw Jared was nudging Kim over and over and whining. I frowned deeply and was going to say something but I didn't know what. No words came to mind and no words came out of my mouth. Leah walked over to me, looking down. "It was a vampire." I shook my head and frowned deeper. Great, just what we needed, a rouge vampire running around killing residents of La Push, mostly our imprints.
I went over to Jared and leaned down. His head was now on Kim's stomach and he was shaking. "Jared...you need to move...calm down...phase back and we need to call her parent's." I went to pull Kim away from him but he leant his head up and snapped his teeth at me, growling. I backed up and put my hands in the air. It was clear he wanted no one near her body but him. His feelings were rolling off in waves, I could see how upset he was. Phasing and hearing his thoughts was going to be hell now. On everyone in my pack.
That is...if the pain didn't kill him. That meaning, he didn't kill himself. "Jared phase back and YOU can carry her back. We won't touch her." Jared didn't respond. He licked Kim's hand which rolled off her stomach which was next to his head and hit the ground with a light thump.
Jared POV
I forced myself up and walked to some trees out of view and forced myself to phase back. I made a sound of pain because it hurt. Everything hurt. I pulled some pants on and slowly, weakly walked back to Kim and picked her up. Her limp body went against mine and her head layed against my shoulder. I had heard Leah say, 'vampire' which meant it was okay to kill them.
Not that I wouldn't have killed them meaning a he or she even if they were human. I walked out of the woods, slowly and forcingly. Carrying the only thing that had ever meant anything more to me than anyone. I looked at Kim's closed eyes and willed them to open, willed this all to be a nightmare. But I knew better, this wasn't and now my life was going to be hell.