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It's Short, I know, but that's because it's a cliffhanger-setting up chapter...So, again, the next one will be longer...

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I turned to look in midair, seeing the guys grinning and a look of horror on Max's face. But I'm flying. It's incredible. Freefall makes my heart flutter and I move into my dive within seconds.

I'm flying.

Seth's POV

The freefall doesn't last as long as I thought it would, so I still have my arms up when I plunge into the water. Within seconds, I'm powering back to the surface, my hip and my ankle hurting slightly, but by the time I'm on the surface, the pain's gone. I follow the current diagonally, and swim back to the shore where it's weakest, shaking myself dry and bounding back up to the top of the cliff. The whole knackering dive took twenty minutes to complete, Max was sitting, staring down into the water as I got back to the top of the cliff.

Embry had tried to do the same as me, take a running jump of a cliff - I'd told him to do it enough times, but this time, he'd listened. Jared was giggling as he pulled Embry's arm out straight and he howled in pain.

"Mate… it's just a dislocation!" Max pulled herself from her staring and looked at him, a small smile playing about her face. "Seth!" She yelped my name as soon as she saw me, throwing herself into my arms. "God, do you know how terrifying it is to sit and watch you go flying like that?"

"Max, it's perfectly safe-"

"I thought you were going to break something! I thought you weren't gonna come up from the-"

"Shh…" I kissed her gently on the lips and she collapsed against my chest. "It's alright, Max…"

Embry split us apart with a huge scream of pain again.

"Embry…" Max turned away from me, rushing to his side, looking at his face, screwed up in his horrific agony. She wrenched the leather strap she wore as a bracelet from her wrist and told him to bite down on it. "Now do it." She looked at Jared. I crouched down beside him and pushed at his shoulders, forcing him down into the dirt. "Don't let go." She frowned at Embry, who made a horrific squeaking noise as, with a crunch, Jared forced his shoulder back in.

"Fuck!" Embry repeated it over and over again, groaning and moaning as he rubbed his arm. "That hurt so much."

"Calm down. Just don't jump for a few days." Max was saying.

"I won't if you do." Embry teased.

"I'm serious, Embry."

"So am I." He returned.

"I'm not jumping."

"Then I'm having another go."

Max's POV

I would swear he is like my brother.

"Bloody hell, Embry," I chewed my lip for as long as I could, staring at him. "You're a prat."

"I'll not jump until it's healed, properly, not wolf-fixing, even, if you go."

"No." He went to get up, went to move, and I felt Seth growling beside me. "Fucking hell." I looked at him and shook my head. "Embry, you will hurt yourself."

"Live a little," Embry returned. "One of them will go with you. I don't ask for much," He smirked and I took a deep breath.

Seth was looking at me, shaking his head. I could feel his thoughts forcing themselves at me - do not do it, if you are scared, it's not worth it. You'll be alright. Embry is fine. He's just teasing you, don't worry…

But I didn't miss the grin when he turned away. He wanted me to do it too. In his heart of hearts, he knew all the antagonising was working, and I was getting mad… and I was going to do it.

"Right." Suddenly, I was so fuming that I didn't think of anything but landing in that water. I looked at Quil, my face set. "You're coming with me." and I turned to the bane of my existence, took his face between my index finger and thumb and nearly slapped him. "And you, Embry, you can be sure if this goes wrong, I will rip you limb. From. Limb." Seth growled beside me, obviously heartbroken that I hadn't chosen him to dive with me - but Quil hadn't dived yet, and Seth looked like his foot was hurting.

"Alright." Embry nodded. "Seth'll gladly help, I think." There was a moment of silence and I took a deep breath.

Embry's POV

She started stripping in front of us. It must have been the fury, the anger, because her body suddenly appeared, her pale, English, flawless skin, her perfectly shaped chest, her calmly rounded shoulders, her shaking head as she tugged the too-big shorts down.

Clad in a simple pair of blue girl-boxer-shorts and a matching bra, she looked daggers at me.

"I'll bloody kill you, you pillock." She said, and then turned to Quil. "You ready?" He nodded and winked at me. I nodded back. He knew what we were going to do.

"Point your toes, hands by your sides, and when you go in, fight for the surface and strike out diagonally across the current," Seth was saying to her, he pulled her close, she shuddered against his body - cold in her barely clothed state, and tiptoed to kiss him.

A minute later, she took Quil's hand, and pulled him far enough back for a decent run-up. She screamed as she arced into the air, Quil had let go of her hand, managed to stop himself before he had hit the end of the cliff. Her momentum had taken her over the edge alone, and she was screaming at the top of her lungs. I was on my feet.

"You were supposed to stop her!" I yelled, scrambling to my feet and watching her arms freewheel as she flew through the air, pinning them to her sides just in time.

"I'm going to fucking kill you!" Seth screamed, panic surging through his voice as he phased, control of his emotions completely gone. He dived at me snarling at my throat, cutting me, making my side bleed. It healed within seconds and I held up my hand.

"She's not surfaced!" Quil was yelling without anybody hearing him. I looked up and Seth froze, whimpering. He phased back and picked up the abandoned shorts, pulling them on.

"I have to help her." Seth went forward, but Quil threw his arm across his chest.

"She'll be alright." Quil was chanting under his breath. Seth looked at him. "I'm going down there."

"We can both go."

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