Disclaimer: I do not own the amazing characters or marvelous places from Stephanie Meyer's the Twilight Saga however I do own my characters and plot line of this story such as Zoe, Liam, their mom, and what other character you peoples don't recognize.

Chapter 15

"Zoe." Jake moaned loudly waking me up. Hell no. He isn't still moaning my name, is he? It's been the same for the past few nights. He would fall asleep and say my name repeatedly as I cried myself to sleep. It seemed almost like a ritual now.

"Zoe. Hey, Zoe. Wake up." The annoying ass said poking me in the butt with some pointy object. Five days of this crap…can't he just get better already?

"Go away." I groaned into my pillow but the poking ensued.

"I swear to God Jacob, if you don't stop poking my ass, I'm going to mess up your face so bad that your Dad wouldn't even recognize ya. Got it?" I said angrily sitting up on my elbows.

"Can you get me some juice?" He grinned ignoring my threat.

"You abused my poor little ass…for juice?" I glared looking up at him.

"But I'm thirsty...boy, don't you look pretty in the morning? The smudged eyeliner and mascara really brings out your eyes." He mused batting his eyelashes tauntingly.

"I'm going to kill you slowly and painfully Jake. I'm serious." I said beating him with my pillow.

"Okay, okay. Please just get me juice. After that you can beat me up and then go back to sleep." He pouted with big puppy dog eyes.

"Ugh, fine and FYI, I could look like a freaking drunken clown after a one-night stand with the bearded lady and I'd still be hotter than you." I said causing him to laugh as I got up from the floor and left the room. I decided that he could wait a minute while I brush my teeth and comb my hair but the scent of freshly made cinnamon buns filled my head, making me dizzy with hunger and excitement. I skipped the bathroom and quickly shuffled my tired feet to the kitchen, nearly falling over when I saw who was cooking.

"Good morning gorgeous." Embry said at the stove with a 'kiss the cook' apron wrapped around his torso.

"Good…morning?"I questioned.

"Well, isn't it?" He smiled.

"No. It's not. What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to keep you company while Jake gets his beauty sleep cause god knows he needs it."

"Mhm. Anywho, whatcha making me to eat?" I smiled taking a seat at the table.

"Who says I'm cooking for you?" He mused.

"Well, who else would you be slaving over a hot stove for?" I asked putting my hands on my hips.

"Good point. There are cinnamon buns in the oven and I'm currently making some…"

"PANCAKES!" I said happily jumping up and running over to him, accidentally bumping into the counter.

"Shit!" I gasped cringing. Embry immediately turned off the stove and scooped me up into his arms. He then carried me over to the couch and held me until the pain started to fade.

"Why do I always have to hurt myself?" I complained.

"You're just clumsy I guess."

"Thanks." I said rolling my eyes.

"Come on. You can't deny that you are. How many times have to been to the ER in the last year?"

"…A few times but that doesn't matter. I just have really bad luck that's all."

"Sure it is." He smiled.

"Hey Em?" I said looking up.

"Yeah?"

"Thanks." I said leaning up and kissing him on the cheek.

"No problem." He smiled back at me. We stared into each other's eyes for a little while. I saw myself in them. I saw a future better than the one I had inline for myself. I saw that I was actually happy and not completely miserable like I am now and before I knew it, I had my arms around his neck, my lips only inches away from his.

"I can make you happy. I can take all your pain away if you would let me." He breathed. I nodded and he brought his lips to mine. He kissed me, softly pressing his body against mine. His hand traced the contours of my back, stopping at my lower back while the other intertwined itself in my morning curls before running down my body to reach its partner. Our lips broke apart, only for his to gently kiss me from my cheek all the way to my neck, slightly biting down and sucking, probably leaving a mark. When he was down, he kissed the new bruise and then moved back up to my lips.

"Where's my juice?" Jake called teasingly from the other room, breaking us apart.

"What does he think you are? His slave?" Embry grumbled. I rolled my eyes and kissed his cheek as I got off of his lap and back to the kitchen area to grab his Majesty some damn juice. As I was pouring the liquid into a cup, I felt Embry's arm wrap around my waist.

"I have to go take care of him. That's why I'm even still here." I said as he started to kiss my neck.

"He can wait another minute." He said turning me around and leaning in to kiss me.

"Zoe!" Jake yelled just as Embry's lips brushed up against mine.

"Shut the hell up!" He yelled back angrily.

"Embry!" I scolded grabbing the cup and running off back to Jake's room.

"What the hell is Embry doing here and what took you so long?" His eyes narrowed.

"I don't know." I shrugged handing him his drink. He glowered at me as he drank it. Suddenly his eyes caught something and he started to choke, spraying orange juice everywhere.

"What…the hell…is that?" He questioned angrily pointing at my neck. I slapped my hand up, covering the newly formed bruise a little too late.

"Um…nothing. I burnt my neck with my straightener…I'm just going to go now…" I said backing out of the room. Jake maybe a little slow when it comes to some things, but he isn't blind. My hair is still in its messy state, not even a super- automatic-detangler had a prayer.

"H…" He started but I shut the door before he could finish. I stomped out to the living room and threw a mud covered sneaker at Embry's head. When it smashed into it head, he spun around and nearly dropped his plate.

"You jerk! You knew he was going to see it!" I yelled/whispered. He just laughed as he sat down and dug his knife and fork into the huge stack of pancakes.

"This isn't funny! He choked on his orange juice! Now I have to get him some more and bring it ba…" I said still fuming.

"Will you just come here?" He said opening his arms. I scrunched up my face in somewhat of a pout but stormed over to him and took a seat on his lap.

"Say 'ah'." He said opening his mouth wide.

"Only in your dreams perv." I glared.

"That's not what I meant." He said poking my side. Still pouting, I opened my mouth and he shoveled in the most delicious pancakes that I have ever tasted.

"Better now?" He said quirking an eyebrow.

"Pancakessss…" I moaned happily with my mouth still full.

"Thought so." He said before sticking some more on his fork to feed himself. As he raised the yumminess over my head to get it to his mouth, I jumped up and skillfully gobbled it up.

"Hey! You little cheat!" He whined as I giggled. There was a loud banging coming from Jake's room, ruining the mood once more.

"Ugh! I hate it when Jake's on his period. He's so moody…" I grumbled getting up and going to see what was wrong.

"What crawled up your…what the fuck do you think you are doing?" I screeched as I walked into him ripping his casts off.

"I'm going to kill him…" He growled under his breath continuing to tear away the gauze off his torso. Suddenly the blanket dropped, revealing his…ahem…assets causing my face to practically radiate with immense heat and redness.

"Whoa." I said covering my eyes.

"What's going…JACOB!" Embry said from behind me, shielding my eyes even more with his hands over mine.

"You...are dead." Was all that he said before Embry dragged me out of the room and slammed the door. He grabbed my hands and dragged me out of the house. Within seconds, Jacob was behind us, thankfully half clothed.

"Run, and keep running." Embry said to me seriously. I nodded and began to run but halted.

"You marked her? You know she's my imprint!" Jake yelled like he owned me.

"I know I do, but do you? You fucking kissed Bella and continue to fight for her even though she will still choose that leech over you. Do you see her here, taking care of you, wiping away your tears, cleaning you up, keeping you fed, basically keeping you alive after the damn war that she caused? No, you don't. Hell, you have the most wonderful, beautiful girl on the planet who was and always will be there for you. She loved you with her whole being, and yet, you treated her like trash. She is breaking Jacob, you are breaking her and I was just merely trying to piece her back together before it was too late. I'm sick and tired of watching tears fall from those beautiful eyes of her's just because you can't see the amazing gift that you have been blessed with. If I imprinted on her, I would treat her the way she should be treated, not tear her down until she feels like she she's nothing. And yeah, I kissed her, a couple of times actually and I don't regret it, not even for a minute." Embry retaliated, breathing just as heavily and shaking just as violently as Jacob.

"Do you want to know why I treated her like that? It's because I love her so much that she makes it impossible to even think about Bella. I have worked so hard to be where I am with her and then suddenly Zoe shows up out of nowhere, throwing that all to shit. The first thing that I thought when I saw Bella again was 'I wish you were Zoe' and it scared me so I pushed her away. Even when she admitted that she loved me, I felt nothing. Nothing at all." He finished softly.

"That's no excuse and you know it. You were still terrible to her but I'm willing to fight for her even if you aren't."

"You really think that she is going to choose you over me?" Jake screamed.

"Shut up you big idiots! I can't believe you…I…Ugh!" I said angrily stomping away from them.

"Zo, wait." Jake started but Embry held out his arm, stopping him.

"Keep…you hands…off of me." He growled. I spun around and my eyes grew wide. Embry was thrown far into the woods, crashing into the trees. Jake's eyes flashed gold and his jaw clenched tightly.

"ZOE!" Embry screeched from the woods but it was too late. Jacob's body morphed into a huge, russet wolf only a few yards away from where I was standing. Holy sweet mamba jamba…I was right.

He growled and snarled and tried to look all mean but he was hurting and I could tell that he was. I took a step forward. Before I could get too close, another wolf charged out of the forest and crashed into Jake. This wolf was silver from what I could tell but also smaller than him…hell no...him too?

"EMBRY!" I screeched as they wrestled, biting and scratching each other, causing their fur to fly everywhere.

"STOP! JUST STOP!" I screeched again but they continued to fight. I tried throwing rocks, pieces of wood, anything around me to get their attention but nothing worked. There was a sudden yelp and one of the wolves stepped away. There lied a silver wolf with grey spots on his back.

"No!" I yelled running over to Embry's side, stroking his soft blood ridden fur gently. He whimpered to my touch.

"Oh god." I gasped when I saw the deep gashes in his side. Anger replaced the shock and now coursed through my veins as I saw his blood stain my hands. This time I had enough. I stood back up and glared at Jacob, not scared of what he could do to me.

"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR BEST FRIEND, YOUR BROTHER?" His big brown eyes widened as he fully registered what he had done. He tried to come closer to see the damage that he inflicted.

"No. You get away from him you…you MONSTER! I don't ever want to see your face again. Do you hear me? I hate you!" I cried. Jacob whimpered but I ignored it. He then tried to move closer but I took a step back. Enough is enough.

"Go." I growled. His eyes were filled with such hurt and pain but he did as he was told and disappeared into the forest.

"What the hell is going on here?" Sam yelled from the edge of the woods.

"Jake found out that Embry kissed me and they got into a big fight and now Embry…oh Embry…" I cried kneeling down and burying my face into his fur. Sam ran over and placed a hand by his wound.

"He needs to phase back." He said but Embry just whimpered as if he was saying that he couldn't.

"Please, please, try. I'm begging you." I sobbed.

I lied next to him for hours, stroking his face even when he fell asleep, praying that he would eventually phase but nothing happened.

"You need to go inside Zoe. It's late and it's freezing out here." Emily urged trying to move me but I shook her off.

"It's all my fault E. I'm so sorry." I said turning over and sobbing into my arm. Suddenly, the fur beneath my fingers disappeared and was replaced with tepid skin. When I lifted my head, I was looking into Embry's pained eyes.

"I told you that I wouldn't watch you cry anymore." He said quietly. I caressed his cheek and kissed him tenderly. We just laid there for hours, not moving until the early morning sun woke us.

"Hey sleepyhead." Embry said kissing my forehead as my face scrunched against the bright sun.

"I think a worm crawled into my shirt." I said wiggling around making him smile.

"That's one lucky worm."

"Shut it dog-breath."

"You like it." He said pulling me into a kiss.

"Embry, we have a situation." Sam called from the door.

"Yeah boss?" I said not breaking his gaze from mine.

"Jacob's gone." My heart stopped.

"W-What do you mean 'Jacob's gone'?" I asked standing up from the cool ground and rushing over to him with Embry, thankfully wrapped in a blanket.

"It seems that you really took a toll on him. We tried to get him to come back or at least tell us what was wrong but he didn't respond. Finally Leah got to him and he tried to mask it by pretending that he was upset over Bella turning but his thoughts quickly changed to you. He ran all the way to Canada with no intention of stopping."

"I only meant for him to take a breather, not leave the freaking country!" I said flailing my arms in the air.

"It's going to be okay. He'll come back. There's no way that he would be able to leave you for more than a week without hurting both you and him." Embry said petting my head.

"No its not! We have to go after him!" I said, unsure why.

"He needs some time to deal with things. If he's gone for too long, we'll do something about it. Until then, we'll just have to sit tight and wait." Sam said.

"This wouldn't have happened if you could have kept your tongue in your mouth." Leah scoffed.

"Shut the hell up Leah. You have no idea what you are even talking about." I said.

"Oh yes I do. While all of you other slackers were sleeping or doing whatever the hell you were doing, wasting time, I was running patrol with Jake. All I'm going to say is that I sort of miss his head being filled with Bella because all it's been about was 'Zoe this' and 'Zoe that' ever since he laid his big ol' googly eyes on you that night. Visions of you and him fighting, visions of you two kissing, basically, it was like a sad romantic drama that never had an ending." She said back.

"He did feel the same …" I whispered looking down.

"More then you could ever imagine. The fact that you were so mad at him because he kissed Bella and yet, by the looks of it, someone else has been kissing you just amazes me." She said cruelly walking away.

"Stop it Leah." Sam ordered.

"No. She's right. I'm a hypocrite." I said sadly.

"No she's not. Don't believe her. She's just still bitter about the Sam and Emily thing." Embry said.

"Oh shut up Embry. We all know what you got out of it. You couldn't care less that he's gone. Now you could have little Miss Sunshine to yourself."

"It doesn't matter who's right now. Jake's gone and sitting here fighting over it isn't going to change anything." Quil said. That's it. I'm going to go get him. I ran inside, grabbed my keys and attempted to unlock my car.

"You can't be driving right now." Embry said reaching for the keys.

"You knew, didn't you?" I asked accusingly. His lungs emptied and his head dropped.

"Yes."

"And you didn't tell me? Instead you just let me crumble into nothing just so you could get me to kiss you? You're just as bad as him, maybe even worse." I said climbing into my car and skidding out of the driveway.

I drove for hours, to where? I have no idea. I started out on my regular route home but I took a turn and I guess I followed my instincts. I turned on the radio but not even music could drown out the silence and the heartache. (Dancing With Tears in My Eyes- Kesha)

Here we go, welcome to my funeral
Without you I don't even have a pulse
All alone it's dark and cold
With every move I die

Here I go, this is my confessional
A lost cause, nobody can save my soul
I am so delusional
With every move I die

I have destroyed our love, it's gone
Payback is sick, it's all my fault

I'm dancing with tears in my eyes
Just fighting to get through the night
I'm losing it
With every move I die

I'm fading, I'm broken inside
I've wasted the love of my life
I'm losing it
With every move I die

When did I become such a hypocrite?
Double life, lies that you caught me in
Trust me I'm paying for it
With every move I die

On the floor I'm just a zombie
Who I am is not who I wanna be
I'm such a tragedy
With every move I die

I have destroyed our love, it's gone
Payback is sick, it's all my fault

I'm dancing with tears in my eyes
Just fighting to get through the night
I'm losing it
With every move I die

I'm fading, I'm broken inside
I've wasted the love of my life
I'm losing it
With every move I die

This is it and now you're really gone this time
Never once thought I'd be in pieces left behind

I'm dancing with tears in my eyes
Just fighting to get through the night
I'm losing it
With every move I die

I'm fading, I'm broken inside
I've wasted the love of my life
I'm losing it
With every move I die

I didn't know why, but I still drove, then suddenly my phone started to buzz. I reluctantly picked up and didn't even get to say hello.

"Come home Zoe. You aren't going to find him." Embry said from the other line.

"I don't care."

"Please just come home. I understand that you hate me but I want you to be safe."

"Whatever."

"Zo?"

"What?" I asked annoyed.

"I really do care about you, I always did. I have no I idea why I kept it from you and I probably never will but I'm truly sorry."

"Sure, sure." I said hanging up. I dialed a new number and hoped that she would pick up.

"Zo? Where the hell are you?" Xena said from the other line.

"I don't know but I'm coming home tonight."

"What do you mean you don't know? What's going on?" She asked worryingly.

"Nothing. I'll see you soon." I hung up and turned my car around. It turns out that it only took about two hours to return to my home in Seattle but pulling into my driveway far from La Push and its problems didn't spare me the pain and anguish. Instead, it would be the beginning of the longest two months of my life.