After putting my traumatized niece back into the arms of my mother, I jetted out the door of the Cullen's at lightning speed, stripping along the way.

He was gone.

My mentor.

My role model.

My brother.

My best friend.

Gone.

And for what reason?

Just some random blood thirsty clan of vampires that targeted him as their prey!

My other form took over and I began to race myself, going as fast as my legs would take me to the nearest cliff. My mind and heart were racing at a thousand miles an hour at the events that just happened and I couldn't fully register them properly.

Jacob was the one I always ran to about everything basically from girls to cars and everything else.

Now where was I running to now? I don't even know. I just ran.

"Seth, hold on!"

That only made me run faster and farther.

"Seth, please wait!"

That cliff was looking better and better.

"Seth, stop!"

The screech was so powerful that it knocked my hind legs off their course and I slipped, and slid right into a tree. I got right back up and slammed into another tree as I desperately headed towards to cliff. My head throbbed.

"Seth, please stop!"

I ran even faster and tripped on my own tail.

Whoever was calling me caught up and reached out, bringing a warm presence to them self. I tried to jet but I yelled out in pain as my bare human feet were pricked by some twigs on the ground.

"Goddamnit!" I roared and kicked at the tree.

"Seth, please..." Her voice was pleading with me.

"Nessie, leave me alone right now." I growled and tried to break into my stride again. She caught my arm and before I could shake her off, she squeezed, blood stopped circulation and made my arm change color.

I cringed and she didn't let go. "Seth, please don't do what you were about to do."

"How do you know what-"

"My dad told me. Seth, killing yourself isn't gonna bring him back."

"Nothing will," I whispered and my face burned of tears that were waterfalling down my face. She wouldn't let go for anything cus she knew if she did, I'd run.

"Seth can you at least look at me?" She was begging.

Hesitantly turning to her, I frowned and still struggled to tear away. I wanted to just run and she wouldn't let me. This girl was crazy! She didn't know me. She's never known me. She doesn't feel a thing I feel! She'll never know! She's perfect and so was her life! She'd never understand the pain I felt right now because her kind was immortal and impossible to kill.

She read my face and deeply looked into my eyes, trying to feel what I felt. I eased my muscles and she began to pull me in as if I wanted a hug.

"No Nessie," I growled at her.

"Seth, just please c'mere."

"Nessie, stop it," I tried to pull away but she was a lot stronger than I was. "I'm serious. Get off of me."

"Seth, I'm not letting you go. Come here."

After a few seconds of giving up and trying to find peace on a night like this, her chocolate eyes begged for me to understand. She was trying to help. Before I let another tear burst from my eyes, she swooped my tall body in for a tight hug and not before long, my head was deep in the crook of her neck.

My cries and begging for him to return were hard to make out as they were muffled in her hair. Her soft hands rubbed my back like earlier that day when we had literally ran into each other.

Her tiny body was so slim in my arms as they wrapped around her stomach and my fingers snaked through her insanely soft hair. She was keeping me from hurting myself.

"Nessie, he's gone," I whispered into her neck and tasted my salty tears. She shuddered.

"You cant blame yourself for this."

"Nessie, he's gone," I repeated.

She rubbed my head and slightly brushed her lips against my ear, calming me. Her sweet scent made me feel better and the pain subsided, but the flame was still strong.

Leah's POV

My fingers were still laced around his.

After multiple pleas to scram, I had to beg Carlisle for a few extra minutes with him. He warned me it could get messy soon but I promised-but had no intention-to leave soon.

The rest of the pack had left to go who knows where. They all said they needed to be alone.

What shocked me and mostly everybody else is that Billy didnt shed a tear. He just stared at his dead son, passed a kiss to his cheek, prayed and asked Sue to take him home. The man was strong.

Jacob didn't deserve to die like this. He didn't deserve to be bitten to death by ravenous, vicious, undead beast that were just gonna do the same to some other young man somewhere else. He didn't deserve to die with what I said being the last thing on his mind.

He's at peace now. Nothing can harm him.

"You shouldn't of died this way," I told him as I caressed his thumb.

"You deserved to leave of old age as a happily married man with beautiful kids that you're proud to call yours. With your own auto shop business that your son is gonna take after when you retire. And a house with a patio, picket fence, tree house, pool and a dog named 'Skippy.'" I almost chuckled at the impossible reality.

"You deserve happiness and I'm beyond sorry that I couldn't give it to you. Watch over this family, okay?"

I squeezed his hand and sighed, the tears that were on my face dripping onto his chilly arm.

"I will always love you, Jacob Ephraim Black."

I leaned over and kissed his forehead, then took one last look at my dead fiance' before opening the door and finally leaving him in peace. After saying my quick prayer to my father to watch over him, I pushed the hospital door open to try to re-start my life.

Beep...beep...beep...beep.

My head slowly turned towards him for a second and it was just my imagination. The monitor was silent.

I made another attempt to leave but this time I was absolutely positive that I heard-

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Jacob's anguishing roar went off like an alarm as the heart monitor beeped out of control. I fell to the floor in shock, my mind racing as time zoomed passed me.

"Jacob?" I screamed over him.

"Lee-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" he wailed while his back and legs began to jerk around.

Wait, how the fuck was he even-

His voice hit its peak when he screeched at the top of his lungs. His veins were popping out on every section of his body and his stitches had popped out, his jaw bleeding. He squeaked in pain as he struggled to open his eyes to look at me.

"Jacob, I'm right here, okay?" I rushed to his side and grabbed his hand.

Carlisle was right behind me in an instant, eyes wide with wonder and confusion as he moved his quickest to pump morphine into his body.

"Car-Car-Carli-Carli-Carlisle, what's going on? What's happening? Why is h-h-h-h-he-" I stuttered and my tears blurred my eyes but my grip on his now heated hand not decreasing.

"I don't know. His body still has venom in it and it's burning his tissue. I'll have to try to drain it again. He'll need shots."

"But Carlisle-"

He squeezed my hand even harder and gasped for air as Carlisle pumped the morphine into him.

"Leah, don't leave me...!" he screamed out again, not letting up on my hand for a second. Carlisle was moving faster than lightning as he set Jacob up to a bunch of wires and machines.

"Leah?" the doctor shouted to me.

"Yes?" I whimpered, trying to figure out what the fuck was happening.

"Keep talking to him. From the looks of it, the sound of your voice is what is subsiding the pain right now," he instructed me as he tied down Jacob feet to the hospital bed to keep him stationary for Carlisle to do whatever he was about to do.

Shocked, I looked down at my fiance' and gently stroked his now sweaty face and hair. "Jacob, hey, Jake, look at me."

He was biting his bottom lip and blood from his jaw was staining the pillow his head lay on. In between every drop of blood was a milky, clear and fogged colored liquid that I assumed was vampire venom. I cringed and tried to look at that but at his face.

"Leah...it burns," he cried.

"I know, baby. It's almost over, I swear," I pleaded with him then turned to the doctor. "Carlisle, can't you just suck the venom out of him?"

"I can't risk injecting anymore venom into him. Half of his blood cells are already damaged."

"Then how is he still alive?"

"Leah, pleeeeeaseeeeee...It's so hot..." he moaned and tried to writhe around but he was restricted.

"Leah, talk to him! Distract him!" Carlisle ordered me.

"Jacob, I'm right here. Listen to me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I came home late. I'm sorry I didn't call. I'm sorry about what I said and I'm sorry that you have to go through this right now. Please, just-"

"Oh, God! FUCK, LEAH MAKE IT STOP!"

I made sure that I didn't see Jacob's eyes turned blood-shot red and roll to the back of his head. I made sure that I didn't see him twitch around and his flesh burn right off of his structured jaw, along with his arm. The bites were going right through him, burning his skin now. The toxic was eating away at his skin, muscle and bones like a piranha. He screeched out and his voice squeaked, his hand squeezing mine almost cracking every bone inside of it.

My tears were blocking my vision out from everything else. My sight may have been blurred but I knew things weren't right.

"Jacob, I know it burns but just please hold on, alright? Hold on for Billy, Seth, Rachel, Rebecca, Quil, Embry, Sue, Jared, Paul, Brady, Colin, Charlie, Bella, me...Baby Doll. Hold on for our baby, Jake. He's gonna need you more than anything and you can't be there for him if you're in a grave. I know it burns but keep fighting. Do not let yourself die...not this way."

He groaned and whatever happened next, I didn't catch because my eyes were shut tight.

"Leah, it's working. Keep going," Carlisle encouraged me and Jacob's groans and twitches decreased.

"Jacob, I need you. I love you more than my life and when I left-"

My voice croaked.

"I didn't mean to hurt you. So please don't...don't hurt me now. I now know how you felt when I left and I've learned my lesson. Don't make our family suffer. Come back to me..."

I kissed his forehead and his muscles relaxed as Carlisle finished draining him. His face went colorless for a second but returned slightly as the doctor injected another shot into him. Some sort of clear liquid was floating around in the needle.

"What'd you do? What is that?" I asked him and he reassured me with a simple yet strained smile.

"He's gonna be fine. I've drained all the venom and his skin should heal soon. This-what I'm putting in his system now-is a drug that's gonna help his blood cells multiply back to normal. His muscle tissue will return. It just needs time."

Doubtfully, I responded. "He doesn't look fine."

"He needs sleep so his skin can feel. His heart is stable for now but unless he gets some-"

"For now?" I interrupted.

"He just needs rest so that the drug can take effect. I promise to you Leah. He's okay now. See, look," he pointed to the heart monitor and surely enough his heart was beeping at a regular rate, signaling that he was okay.

Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep...

His chest was finally rising and falling at its usual regular pace and my grip on his hand tightened even more. His shut eyes flicked a little as he slept and I finally felt as if I could rest.

"He should be awake in a few hours.

"And then what happens?"

Carlisle ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "We'll have to see from there. Leah, the most we can do is wait."

I sighed in desperation. "Well can I at least stay here with him while he sleeps?"

Carlisle looked at my fiance's condition and nodded. "I don't see the trouble in that. But it's going to be a long wait."

I shrugged. "I don't care. I just wanna stay."

The doctor agreed as he checked his pulse and breathing before exiting the room.

As my hand was tucked safe inside of his, I felt the sudden need to climb into the hospital bed with him and make him feel like he was alone.

To avoid causing him anymore pain, I stayed in my spot and stood over him, watching as he slept.

Come back to the Cullen's. Jacob's gonna be ok.

From: Leah -3:42am

What r u talking about?

To : Leah -3:42am

Jacob's fine.

From: Leah -3:44am

We all saw him die.

To: Leah -3:45am

I'm right here holding his hand and he's fine. Get here quick with the pack, ok? Where's BD?

From: Leah -3:47am

She's in the other room with Sue and she is trying to calm her down.

To: Leah -3:47am

Could you bring her too? I need to see her.

From: Leah -3:47am