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To Hurt To Heal
(Jacob's POV)
Chapter Six
I couldn't believe what I was looking at and by the look and confusion on Bella's face she was going through the same emotions. My mind slipped back to the day she informed my cousin she was pregnant, it was actually the day before we had found her in the woods with that guy, we never did get his name, he went running out of there, trying to dress as he ran.
My cousin had come over to visit without her and I was surprised, he never came without her, when asked he had told me she had a doctor's appointment and she would be meeting him here. We were playing a video game when she walked in.
He looked over at her and patted the seat next to him. "Everything went well at the doctors?" He asked her.
"I am in great health." She had replied. "It's just that…" then she hesitated."
He became concerned. "It's just that what?"
"I don't know how you'll take this." She answered nervously. "But I'm pregnant."
He had looked at her in shock. "Preg …you're pregnant?" She nodded. "Are you sure?" He asked.
She took out some papers that looked as though it came from the doctors, which confirmed it. He broke out of his shock and picked her up, smiling widely and held her to him. "Were going to have a baby." He said in awe." Then turning to me. "You hear that Jake, I'm going to be a daddy."
I congratulated him, and we all celebrated that day. He was so happy and I was happy for him, they ended spending the night, but the next day his world came crashing down.
Now as I stand here, I wish my cousin had insisted in finding out just how far along she was because when she told my cousin about it, she said she was seven weeks along and that was a little over two months ago, though I always thought she seemed too big to be just over four months pregnant, Billy assured me that not all women carry babies the same, some can go a whole six months without showing while some started showing right away.
Now from what I see pooling at her feet, I'd say her water just broke and this lying girl is over nine months pregnant and ready to give birth, well, that answers a few questions, unless the baby was early, it wasn't Jared's or Monty's, she and Monty was together about five months when she told him about the pregnancy, at least I think.
My eyes finally went up to her stomach, what the hell? The front of her shirt was soaking wet, she was quickly removing it but stopped suddenly when she heard Bella gasp, but it was too late, we all saw her lie for what it was. She had on some kind of skin colored contraption, I guess it was something like this actresses wore if they needed to be pregnant for a show. I wondered what she would have done when it came time for her to give birth, steal someone else's baby and call it her own. I wouldn't put it by her, there doesn't seem to be any length she won't go to, to get what she wants.
I was about to demand what the hell she thought she was playing at, when something ran from across the room and grabbed her hair and a fist punching her in the face. Bella
"You lying conniving bitch!" Bella was screaming as she punched her. I was so shocked; it was a minute before I moved.
I grabbed Bella. "Calm down baby." I soothed, holding her back to my chest as she wriggled and struggled to get back and hit Liza again.
"No, get off me Jake; she deserves to have her ass whipped!" She screamed still struggling.
"I know babe, you're right and she will get everything that's coming to her." I picked her up and walked to the den, sat on the couch with her in my lap. Sam and the others followed behind us. I looked up to tell the guys to get her out of here and we'll deal with her once I had Bella calmed down, I wasn't worried about Liza, but wasn't going to allow Bella, my mate getting hurt ever again, physical or otherwise over that two bit piece of woman.
But when I did I was informed that she wasn't in the kitchen anymore. "Where did she go?" I asked no one in particular.
"She left when you were trying to calm Bella down?" Jared replied
"Why didn't anyone stop her?"
"Why should we?" Paul replied. "She caused enough shit, let her ass go."
"We were more concerned about Bella." Sam added. "She won't get far; we'll find her, she …."
Just then we heard a loud noise in the distance, like something big, a car banging into a tree, just then Quil and Embry came running into the house.
"I think Liza had an accident." Embry said as he rushed in.
They stopped in their tracks and looked around. "What's going on?" Quil asked.
"We'll tell you later." I replied. "Could you two stay here with Bella, we'll go check it out." Then I held her face in my hands. "Are you okay babe?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She replied on a breath.
I kissed her lips softly. "Stay here, I'll be back as soon as I can." Then squeezed her to me, stood and sat her back on the sofa. I brushed her cheeks softly then left with Paul, Jared, and Sam following behind.
When we got to the woods and was about to phase, Sam stopped me. "You know what happened back there don't you?"
I looked at him confused. "You mean with Liza?" I answered. "I was there, I saw."
"No, I mean with you. Didn't you feel it?" He insisted
Then my mind cleared, I knew what he was talking about, I felt it but wasn't sure, no wonder they followed my orders without question. "I'm now Alpha." I replied simply
He nodded. "You took back the power without realizing it and frankly I'm glad you did, it's your birth right."
"We'll deal with that later; right now let's see what's going on." I told him.
We went behind separate trees and phased. As soon as I phased, the rest of the packs mind connected with mine and we took off running. There was a thick scent of leech in the air, when we were almost to the border, we saw Liza's car, it looked as though she swerved to miss something but ran into a tree, the smell of leech was stronger here, damn I didn't want the girl to lose her life, she has done some awful things but she didn't deserve death for it. I wanted ger to live with her mistakes, somewhere far from us and maybe one day she'll learn from them.
We ran around to the driver's side, the door was ripped off and there was Liza, stretched half in and half out the car, looking as though she was drained of blood. I wish I could say the smell was from one of the Cullens, but it wasn't, it didn't smell like any of the vampires that was with them either, this is someone new.
What the hell!? Jared
This was done by a vampire whose smell I don't recognize. Sam
I agree, maybe this is what they wanted to talk about earlier. Jacob
What are we going to do about this? Jared
I say we go over there and rip them apart, ask no questions. Paul
We can't do that, but we will go have a talk with them maybe they have some answers. Jacob
I have to agree. Sam
So what do you want us to do? Jared
Jared, run back to the rez, get Seth and Quill to take Bella to Sam's house, have them watch over them, and then you and Embry meet us at the Cullens. Jake
After that Jared left and we took off running to the Cullens, it seemed they were expecting us, Alice, Jasper and Edward, with Rosalie and Emmet, was waiting for us by the clearing. After telling the others what I was going to do, I went behind a tree and phased, then came out and stood in front of them Paul and Sam behind me.
"We heard the accident and smelt blood, so I guess someone have met our unwanted guest?" Edward sneered.
Before I could reply I felt as though there was someone watching us
From the tree tops. I shook it off as my imagination.
"You're telling me you have no idea, at all who this vampire could be?" I growled at him.
"That's what we wanted to talk to you about earlier." He sneered at us. "But I guess you had other things to."
"You bet we did," I growled. "Your sister here was trying to take Bella against her will."
"I was doing it for her own good. I wanted to protect her from these strange vampires that have shown up out of nowhere." Alice's voice sounded as dead and cold as they actually were.
"Oh, so kidnapping her to protect her without asking what she wanted was good for her?" unbelievable "Bringing her in the fold of the same group of vampires who is the reason she almost died, her world destroyed? Don't you think it would have made more sense to ask her what she wanted to do or where she wanted to go?"
"We knew what her answer would be but we believe we are better suited to protecting her from our kind than you are." Edward answered
"You disregarded her for what you wanted, but that's okay, she hates you now more than ever." I said grinning happily at him.
"Do you want to talk about these new vampires or not." He sounded ruffled, this was new for the cold, demanding, stuck up Edward Cullen.
"So you do know who they are?"
"I do have an idea." He replied. Then seem to slip deep into thought.
"Well, are you going to tell us or do we have to guess."
"I believe they were sent by the volturri." He replied
"I have no idea what you're talking about. Who are they?" Is he really going to make me drag the information out of him?
"They're a group of vampires that live in shadows of Italy; they're the oldest of our kind, the originals, so to speak. They live as true vampires, taking their meal fresh from the source. They govern the laws we are supposed to live by, well, there is one main law they uphold without question."
I felt chills and a sense of doom run up my back as he spoke. "Which law is that?" I asked dreading the answer.
"No human can find out about us, though they do have humans in their employ at times, they're disposed of, to be more precise, become their meal
When there is no more use for them. That's how they're able to keep their secrets all these centuries." He explains, my bad feeling is getting worse.
"Are you saying they're here?" He is got to be kidding me.
"No, they have never left Italy since they've settled there. They would send their foot soldiers to do their bidding. I think that's what caused the accident tonight."
"But what reason would they have to send any of their foot soldiers her?" I was so deep in thought, I didn't realize Sam had phased back and dressed until he asked this question.
"That's my fault I'm afraid." He answered Sam's question
"What did you do?" I growled at him, more growls came from my pack, they were getting angry too.
"You do remember when I went to Italy over a year ago."
"Oh yes, I remember. With you gone Bella became herself again and couldn't remember half of what happened when she used to be in your company, but I suspect it was the charm you used to engineer her affection for you, since we already dealt with that I won't dwell on it now." I then turned to Alice. "I remember you trying to convince her to go to Italy with you to save your brother's life, but we guessed it was much more than you were saying." I turned back to Edward. "So tell us."
"When I was there Bella's scent was still on me from the last hug I gave her. They demanded to know about it, about her, I tried to lie, but they have ways of getting the truth, they accused me of allowing a human to find out about us and I had to do what they demanded or destroyed."
"What exactly did they want you to do?" Sam asked
"They gave me two choices, either I destroy her or make her one of us. They gave me a year to do what they ordered, or they'll destroy my whole family."
"That will happen over my dead body!" I said angrily, very angry.
I looked at them one at a time, wishing I could destroy them and to hell with the treaty. When I looked at Rosalie and Emmet I caught them glancing at each other, then at jasper who glanced back at them. I never thought cool collected vampires could be nervous and jittery but that's how they seemed.
What is really going on around here? Just then I felt that same feeling of being watched, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. The feeling came from high up, so I looked up toward the trees and still didn't see anything. The strange thing is, the feeling weren't of danger or something with malicious intent. It felt protective, of someone watching over us. I looked around to see if anyone else was feeling the same thing when I caught Rosalie and Emmet, looking in the same area the feeling of being watched came from, but dropped their eyes when they noticed me watching them. Well, that's interesting.
"Of course not." Edward replies to my earlier outburst. "But if they have sent their foot soldiers here, we'll need your help to get rid of them."
"Why would we help you especially after what you put Bella through?"
"Because if they manage to get through us and even if they don't, they will start feeding on any human they come into contact with and it won't be long before they discover La Push. When their done your home and Forks will be painted in blood."
"Fine, we'll meet back here tomorrow night to discuss this further. Tonight we have an accident to take care of and people to notify."
"Until then." He said before they all left.
After they were gone I turned to my pack. "We're going to keep watch closer to home tonight, Paul, Jared and Embry, I would like for you three to take first watch, stay mainly at the edges of the woods close to Sam's."
When they left I turned to Sam. "If you don't mind Sam, I think we all should stay at your house tonight."
"I don't mind at all. I was going to suggest it myself."
I was about to ask him to get Billy and bring him over when I remembered about Bella's dad coming to my house for dinner. "Sam, could you go to my house and get Billy and Charlie?"
"Sure no problem, well one problem, Billy will understand without me saying anything about why I'll be taking them to my house, but what do I tell Charlie?"
"just tell him you and Leah wanted to make a welcome home dinner for Bella, we'll just have to find a way to keep him there all night, tomorrow we'll work out a schedule to keep watch at his house."
He was about to leave but hesitated. "I know what you're going to do. Do you need a hand?"
"No, I got it; I'm just going to make sure no unsuspecting lost hiker walks into that."
"Okay, we'll come and check on you if you're gone too long." Then he turned and started running back to La Push.
I stood there alone after everyone left and looked around then began running to the accident site. When I got there, there was something off and not just the stronger smell of vampire, I was puzzled for a second then it hit. Liza's body wasn't here.
I searched all around and under the car but she wasn't there. Did the vampire who caused this crash came back for her body? I hope this vampire wasn't some mixed up breed that not just drank blood. Yeah, that's a sickening thought.
I can't do anything about that right now, I'll tell my pack about it and we'll figure it out later, right down I had a deep urge to check on Bella, hold her and assure myself that she's okay.
I began running without phasing towards home, just as I hit the edge of the woods, I heard a tinkling laugh, and about fifteen feet away from me stood a very pale female figure, grinning at me. It can't be, I thought as I gave chase, but lost her around a curve close to the cliffs. Where the heck did she disappear to? I didn't wonder for long I ran full speed back to the rez, where everyone had gathered, outside and in. I didn't stop to speak, I ran straight into the house, moving people out of my way, someone tried to speak to me, but I ignored them.
"Where is she?" I asked, looking around frantically. "Where is Bella?"
"Calm down Jake, she is in the guest room, she was upset so I told her to go in there and take a break." Someone, I think Leah said
I walked quickly to the room, going in and closing the door behind me.
"Jake?" She called, it sounded as if she was crying.
"Yeah it's me Bella." She threw herself at me
"I was so worried, everyone else came back, but I didn't see you. I love you so, so much, I can't loose you again."
"I'm here now Bella, everything will be fine, I'll always come back to you, always and I love you more than you know." I said as I rubbed her back.
She nodded against my chest. I walked us over to the bed and got in, laying her back against my chest, her head under my chin. I breathed in her scent and let it calm me. I told her everything will be fine and I will make sure it is, that she never feels any pain again, emotional or physical, but what I saw in the woods on the way here gave me pause.
If I wasn't mistaken, that pale figure was Liza.