They spent the rest of the journey back to Embry's in silence. Finally, they reached his house and quietly climbed up through his window.

Jaq looked around at what was now a very familiar room. Familiar and comforting.

"Jaq."

She turned around to look at his beautiful face and the reality of what was happening tomorrow hit her. He could get hurt tomorrow, he could die…

"Jaq," He pulled her into a hug. "What's wrong?"

"I'm so scared." She whispered. "I'm scared about tomorrow. I could lose you, or one of the others."

"Hey," He smiled. "I'm not going anywhere."

"But this is our fault and if anything happened…"

"Nothing is going to happen, I promise."

"You don't know that."

"Jaq, love," He lifted her face to look up at his. "Nothing is going to happen. We'll all be fine, really."

"But…" She started but was cut off by his lips crushing against hers.

When they'd finally broken apart she'd forgotten what she'd been so worried about.

"Better?" Embry asked with a smile.

"Very much so thank you." Jaq frowned, remembering the reason for them being there in the first place. "Embry I'm pretty sure you're supposed to be sleeping by now."

"Aww Jaq."

"Bed."

"You're such a buzz-kill." He muttered as they got into their usual position on the bed – Embry's arms around Jaq and his head on her stomach.

"Goodnight Embry." She smiled.

"'Night Jaq."

After only a few seconds he began to lightly snore. Jaq stroked his black, short but shaggy hair absently. She felt vaguely jealous of him. He was able to sleep, to leave behind for a few hours the feeling of impending doom of the next day. She thought through all the faces of the new friends she'd made, the Cullens, Jacob's pack, Sam's pack… They could all so easily be hurt tomorrow.

Jaq swallowed and wished again that like Embry she could be asleep and oblivious to it all…

As it turned out Embry wasn't as oblivious as she thought he'd be. He woke three times during the night with nightmares that he denied. But soon after falling asleep again he talked, obviously in nightmares. Jaq resisted the urge to wake him and save him from them. He needed sleep – no matter how troubled it was.

Sorry for such a short chapter! I thought this scene would be longer...

Thanks to Lalita & Harry-Potter-Fan-Girl for new reviews nd stoof....

Haha we had a fire drill today... so funny... and some random guy smiled at me a sec ago (in the library) ... i think i may have glared at him... i'm in a bit of a bad mood... maybe i scared him away lmao... oop no there he is... -.-' ... maybe i should apologise lmao

Anyway, thnks, sorry this took so long to get up... It was a pretty hard scene to write.. See, jaq and embry technically have known each other for only about 3 weeks even though it doesnt seem like it... This was a difficult scene to write because it was the night before the fight and i wanted it to reflect that.. but i didn't want it to get hugley physical and for them to go all the way... I don't think they're at that stage yet lmao ...

Errr... yeah so hi to stonecoldheart27.... you rock and i miss you dude.... omg i saw another semi-decent hair guy today haha..... he was in the library.... just my type *wink* ... nahh kidding his face was like a troll lmao

Okay gonna go now ....

Loves ~

Pepperx