A/N: Greetings readers! Sorry for my long hiatus. I started school, taking 4 classes and my kids and blah blah you don't care! Anyway here's another chapter. Sorry it took so long. Btw I hate this chapter. It took me forever to write it and I wrote it like 3 different ways and it still doesn't feel right. But here it is none the less! Thank you for all the reviews and follows btw! It is much appreciated. Enjoy!

When Werewolves Attack

The energy began to swirl within me as I watched the grey wolf nip and gnash at Alcide's throat, trying desperately to rip it out with its long sharp teeth. The wolf was huge, larger than any wolf I had ever seen on television or in books. Surprisingly it seemed so familiar to me, the greyness and largeness of it making me feel a weird sense of deja vue. It took a moment before it hit me, and I realized where I knew this wolf from. It was the wolf that had jumped me at Dominic's mansion, James.

"Chase, run!" Alcide growled at me looking at me quickly.

I couldn't move. I couldn't just leave him either. He was doing a valiant job at keeping the wolf at bay, but I didn't feel right just wanting to run inside and hide. I went against his orders and jumped to my feet running to his aide even though I wasn't sure what good I was going to do. My body reacted before my mind came up with a plan, swinging my foot forward as hard as I could. I hit the wolf in the ribs, feeling some energy burst from the kick, sending the wolf flying off of Alcide. Alcide looked up at me with wide eyes before rolling to his feet and ripping his shirt off. What the… My eyes went wide at the sight of the sculpted muscular body he had been hiding beneath that shirt. No man, whether he was a wolf sometimes or not, should have been allowed to have such a fantastic body.

"Chase get in the house!" Alcide commanded, unbuckling his pants quickly. "Now!"

"I can't leave you out here-!"

"Chase look out!"

I felt a set of sharp teeth sink into my left ankle before I could watch for anything. A pain filled scream sprang from my lips as the wolf pulled hard, yanking my foot right out from under me, sending me face first to the ground. I hit the ground hard and tasted blood as my lip caught between my teeth. I only caught a glimpse of Alcide's panicked face before I was being drug quickly over my lawn, then the black top, and into the wooded area in front of my house.

"Alcide!" I screamed in a panic.

Green scenery whipped past me, forcing me turn my head and protect my face from twigs and tree roots jutting from the ground. I was still screaming, loudly, my hands reaching desperately to try and grab hold of something. I could feel the energy swell up inside of me as my heart pounded and my throat grew hoarse from screaming. I felt something hard brush my hand and I wrapped my fingers around it, forcing the wolf to stop as I anchored myself to the tree root. The wolf growled angrily in the background, sinking its teeth further into my leg as it attempted to yank me free from the root. I held strong, turning to my side and using my other foot to kick the wolf in the face as hard as I could. The wolf yipped in pain, releasing my leg and pawing its face. I attempted to jump to my feet, but my ankle gave sending me back to the ground. I resorted to crawling, on my hands and knees, as fast as I could trying to get back to my house.

"You are really starting to be more trouble to keep alive than you are worth," came a heavily southern accented voice from behind me.

I stopped, turning to see that the wolf had transformed into a man. He was fully nude and had dirt in his dirty blonde hair. His eyes were an ice blue and he had no qualms with the exposure of his sculpted body being exposed as he reached for me.

"No!" I screamed in panic.

That's when the energy burst out of me, uncontrolled and strong as ever. James went soaring away from me, hitting a tree with a sickening crunch before hitting the ground limp and unconscious. I hit the ground hard, the world spinning around me, feeling like I had spent the whole night drinking and had an extremely bad hangover. My head was pounding and I fought against the blurred vision and the weakness, but slowly everything went black.

"Chase! Chase!"

Someone was shaking me. And I wanted it to stop. It only made the pounding in my head worse. I groaned to show my shaker some signs of life in hopes that they would stop and opened my eyes blinking up at an extremely worried looking Alcide. He sighed heavily once he saw that I was awake, his warm hands still on my arms and his dark hair hanging in his face. He was still shirtless and his pants hung low on his hips, revealing the tops of his boxer briefs, his pants were still unbuttoned and unbuckled from earlier.

"Jesus Christ," he mumbled. "Are you alright?"

I groaned again. "No," I admitted lifting my arm to hold my head.

I looked around and found that I was still in the wooded area near my house, lying on the dirt, and feeling like someone had thrown me at full speed into a brick wall after I binge drank for a week. My ankle was still throbbing with pain which didn't help any of my other symptoms at all. I had never felt this weak after using my power before, but I also hadn't felt that much escape me in a long time, and I was also injured already before using it. I was going to have to get Connor to remove the bond as soon as possible, before it wasn't a vampire or werewolf killing me, but the bond itself as a side effect of using my power.

"Where's James?" I asked quickly attempting to sit up and failing miserably.

Alcide sighed again. "He's dead."

I felt my face fall. "Dead?" I blinked. "What happened?"

"I was hoping you could tell me," Alcide huffed. "I got here and you were knocked out and he is dead over there."

I frowned and sat up on my elbows seeing the crumpled heap of James' dead body by the tree I had launched him at. He was lying on his back, his eyes open in a dead stare. My stomach sunk as I ignored the pounding in my head and sat up all the way. I hadn't seen a dead body since the night Cassandra had died, and that wasn't at my hand. Vampires turned to goop when they were killed but wolves apparently did not, their body and all the evidence still remained, human looking and all. I couldn't believe that I had killed someone, wolf or not, he was still human too, he wasn't already dead like vampires. I had taken someone's life.

"Oh my god, Alcide. I killed him!" I breathed looking at Alcide in disbelief.

He frowned looking at James and then to me. "Look let's get you back to your house alright."

"No, Alcide what am I going to do? I'm going to go to jail! I killed someone!" I said in a panic my eyes wide and watery as I looked up at him.

"Chase calm down!" Alcide said placing his hands on my shoulders, bending so that he was looking me directly in the eyes. I fell silent immediately. "I'm going to get you back into the house and then I am going to take care of this mess. No one will know about this besides you and I got it?"

"Alcide-," I started shaking my head.

"Come on," he cut me off as he picked me up from the ground, cradling me wedding style against his warm chest.

I remained silent as he walked quickly back to my house, where my front door was sitting wide open and there were groceries scattered on my walk way. Alcide walked carefully up the porch steps, pausing as he reached my open front door and sniffing the air. I assumed he smelt nothing because he proceeded into the house and set me on the couch. I hissed as my ankle made contact with the couch and looked down to see it was bleeding profusely.

"You got a first aid kit?" Alcide asked taking a look at my ankle.

"Yeah in the bathroom under the sink," I said motioning towards the hallway.

"I'm gonna grab it," he said straightening and rushing out of the living room.

I nodded looking down as he walked away. An uneasy feeling rose in my stomach. I should have felt better at least a little, but I didn't. I was out of danger now, but I felt guilty. Yes James had been trying to kill me, but a lot people seemed to be dying because of me; Charlotte, Dominic and Annabelle and werewolf, both who had died at my own hands. Yes, they all had been trying to kill me, but I didn't like having so much blood on my hands.

Alcide returned having found the first aid kit under the sink in the guest bathroom. He knelt at the foot of the couch, looking at my ankle that had a clear set of deep and bleeding teeth marks in it. He frowned at the wound as he opened the kit and pulled out gauze, placing it over the bite making me yelp in pain.

"Sorry," Alcide said looking apologetic. "It's deep, but you will live. He could have ripped it off."

"Well thank god he didn't, should I go to a hospital?"

"Yeah I'm thinking so," Alcide mumbled, eyes still on the wound, shaking his head. "I need to call Northman."

The mention of Eric made me realize sourly that he hadn't shown up to help even though I knew he could feel my pain and panic through the bond. I was slightly surprised, even though he hadn't shown up when Annabelle had come to kill me either. I wondered why he hadn't. Was it because Alcide was here? Was it because he had something more important to do? Stop it Chase, you don't want him in your life anymore and you don't want his help, so don't worry or think about him, I told myself.

"I'm gonna bandage this up for now and get you some Tylenol, then I am gonna clean this mess up," Alcide said snapping me out of my thoughts. "After I am done I will take you to the hospital. Think you can manage till then?"

I nodded. "Yeah, it doesn't hurt too much without my weight on it."

I remained quiet as Alcide hurriedly cleaned and bandaged my ankle. He found the Tylenol in the medicine cabinet and brought it to me along with a glass of water. My hands were shaking as I took it from him, thanking him in a soft whisper. He nodded and pulled his cellphone from his pocket as I took two Tylenol. He hit a single button and placed the phone to his ear. He paced for a moment, waiting for an answer, but gave a heavy sigh as I guessed they didn't.

"Northman its Alcide. Call me. Chase was attacked."

He flipped the phone shut and shoved it back in his pocket, looking down at me. "He didn't answer," he said stating the obvious.

"I see," I said softly.

"Are you alright?" he asked placing his hands on his hips.

I hesitated. I still felt guilty. I was still in pain and probably wouldn't be able to walk for at least a few days. I forced myself to nod. "I'm fine…but what are we going to do about James?" I asked.

"Don't worry about that I will take care of it," he answered waving my statement away and moving toward the door. "I'm gonna be outside. Holler if you need me alright?"

"Alcide?"

He paused turning back to me. "Yeah?"

"Thank you for…everything. You don't even know me and…you are going to…" I stopped short, shaking my head as Alcide looked at me with an arched eyebrow. "I'm not sure how I can repay you."

Alcide smiled weakly. "Don't worry about it Chase."

I watched him walk out of the door and sighed putting my head in my hands. I felt weird just sitting there while he cleaned up the mess on his own, but I couldn't even help if I wanted with a wounded ankle. All I could do was sink into the couch and wait.

Not even ten minutes had gone by when my house phone begin to ring. I was about to get up when my front door swung open and Alcide came through, holding the grocery bags with the food we had bought earlier in them. He must have been cleaning up the front lawn before handling James in whatever manner he was going too.

"Stay off that ankle," he ordered heading for my kitchen. I sank back into the couch with a frown and heard Alcide answer my phone. "Morgan Residence." He paused for a moment before beginning to speak in a harsh whisper. I leaned off the couch a little listening intently. Once he began talking I knew it was Eric. "It was a werewolf. I thought you said vampires were after her…She killed him...I'm taking care of it right now...She's fine. She got bit and it's pretty deep, but she will live. I'm going to take her to the hospital…No? Why the hell not? She needs medical attention…I don't know. There wasn't much interrogating done...He was alone and he tried to take her not kill her. He dragged her into the woods and by the time I got there she had taken him out… She's here….Hold on."

Alcide stepped out of the kitchen, phone in hand as he approached me. "It's Northman," he said simply.

I took the phone with a small smile. "Thank you."

"No problem," he said turning and heading towards the front door.

I watched him walk out the front door, closing it behind him before placing the phone to my ear. "Hello?"

"Chase, are you alright?" Eric actually sounded concerned.

"I got bit on the ankle and was dragged into the woods and I can't walk now, but sure I'm fine," I answered sarcastically.

"You killed him?"

"Not on purpose…"

"Did he say anything of meaning before his untimely demise?"

"Only that I was getting to be more trouble than I was worth."

"Nothing about where he planned to take you?"

"No."

"Did he look familiar to you at all?"

"Actually yes, it was the exact wolf that attacked me at Dominic's mansion," I said quickly. "I thought Pam killed all the wolves and vampires working for Dominic," I said thinking back to the night I almost died at Dominic's mansion. "James, the wolf, was there before you guys got there. He is the one who stopped me from escaping. How did he manage to escape Pam?"

Eric's voice darkened. "That is a good question, Chase, which I will be discussing with Pam later tonight."

I opened my mouth to speak when I heard Sookie's voice in the background of Eric's phone. "That's Chase? Let me talk to her!" she said hurriedly.

I frowned again. What the hell was Eric doing with Sookie? Is this why he hired Alcide to protect me? So that he could go and hang with Sookie while supernatural things tried to kill me? The green jealousy monster deep inside of me reared its ugly head again and my insides boiled with anger. I tried to force myself to suppress it. Eric wasn't mine anymore. To be honest he probably never was really mine. I didn't want a relationship with him. I didn't want anything to do with him, after this whole fiasco was over so why should I care if he is with Sookie?

I heard Eric's irritated unnecessary sigh and the sound of an exchange before Sookie spoke. "Chase are you alright? I heard Eric says you were attacked?" she questioned sounding concerned as well.

"I am fine," I answered through clenched teeth, trying to not let my anger and jealousy seep into my tone. "It was a werewolf, but I don't think he had anything to do with Bill. He was probably after me for Annabelle and I don't see how you or Bill fit into that."

"I don't either," Sookie replied sounding confused. "A wolf attacked me tonight too. I found out that Bill is in Jackson. That's where the wolves took him."

"A werewolf attacked you too? Are you alright?" I asked genuinely concerned.

"Yes, luckily Eric was here. He knew they would come looking for me again. He killed one on my rug, but that's not really the point. I know where Bill is and I am going to find him!" she said determinedly.

"You are going to Jackson? Alone?" I said my voice laced with disapproval.

"No, I was hoping…" she paused sounding hesitant. "Well I was hoping that you would come with me, Chase. I could really use an extra set of ears and eyes out there."

I was shaking my head before I had even thought about it. Who knew what kind of trouble she was going to get herself into by going there to look for Bill. She was going to go and question a bunch of werewolves on her own? Alcide had already told me how secretive werewolves were and just asking questions could get herself killed. I didn't want her to go alone, it was like casting a death sentence on her, but was I willing to risk my life for Bill? But on the other hand if I was still in some kind of danger at least I would be in the last place the wolves and/or vampires would be expecting me to be. There was the fact that I would be missing work again, but with my payment from Eric I could definitely afford it and I would just have to talk to Sam and make sure he understood, which knowing Sam he most likely would. He seemed to have a soft spot for Sookie and I.

"When do we leave?"

"Oh, Chase you will come?" she said sounding excited.

"Yes, Sookie I don't want you getting yourself killed," I said with a sigh. "Plus it may do me some good to get out of Bon Temps."

"Chase, you have no idea what this means to me," she said sincerely. "I plan to leave tomorrow afternoon. We can be in Jackson by nightfall."

"I'll be ready," I replied.

"Great! I will call you in the morning. Here's Eric."

There was another scuffle and light chatter in the background before Eric's voice sounded. "Apparently you have a death wish as well," he said sarcastically.

I frowned. "Sookie can't go to Jackson alone."

"We will discuss it when I get there," Eric replied flatly.

The line went dead before I could respond and I frowned at the phone, hanging it up and setting it on the coffee table. I heard the creak of my front door opening and found Alcide walking through. He shut the door behind himself and let out a heavy sigh.

"James is taken care of," he said coming to join me on the couch, careful to avoid my ankle.

"I don't think I want to know what you did or are going to do with him," I said honestly, looking down. I was still feeling guilty about his death.

"Look Chase, don't beat yourself up over it," Alcide said walking towards me. He sat on the edge of the coffee table in front of me, making it groan in protest. "It was self-defense."

I sighed looping my hair behind my ears. "Alcide, I feel…terrible. This isn't what I wanted. I don't want people or werewolves or even vampires dying because of me. I don't want any blood on my hands."

Alcide's face softened and he scooted closer to me, the table groaning again. His hand reached out and rested on my leg, sending a tidal wave of heat rushing through. I kept my lips together to keep any noise from escaping as my attraction to him flared at contact. He leaned forward looking me deeply in the eye.

"He was going to kill you, Chase. You did what you had to do. Stop worrying your pretty little head about it."

"Alcide," I started with a sigh.

"No," he said firmly shaking his head. "There will be no more discussion about it, Ms. Morgan."

He smiled weakly at me and I felt my lips moving into the formation of a smile. He was so kind and sweet and he made me feel like a giddy school girl. He was like Eric in some ways, but he was so different at the same time, so much more human, even though he was a werewolf. He wasn't cold, he wasn't cruel, and as far as I knew he hadn't lied to me yet. He barely knew me, yet I could tell he cared. He was almost unbelievable, too good to be true.

I decided to change the subject. "I guess you don't have to be stuck with me anymore," I said with a small smile.

Alcide huffed, leaning back and removing his hand as a small smile spread across his lips. "I don't mind being stuck with you Chase, it's not that bad," he answered making me blush. "Besides I will be stuck with you for another day or two. I still haven't finished the porch."

"Oh that's right," I said. "Well I'm leaving tomorrow."

Alcide frowned. "Where you going?"

"Jackson, with my friend Sookie," I answered sitting up more. "She has a vampire boyfriend and he went missing. She thinks some werewolves kidnapped him and she wants to go alone and I just know she will get herself into trouble or worse killed and she needs someone there to help. Plus I need a vacation away from Bon Temps and if there are vampires or werewolves coming here to look for me then it may be a good idea for me to not be here."

Alcide looked flabbergasted, his mouth hanging open slightly. "Do you and your friend have some sort of death wish?" he asked incredulously.

I blinked, taken aback and almost offended. "No I-."

"The new pack of Weres in Jackson are no joke, Chase. They will rape you, kill you, or whatever the hell else they want just for the fun of it," he said his mood changing to serious. "If you and your friend go sniffing around asking questions they aren't going to talk, you wouldn't even make it out alive."

My face fell a little. "There's no stopping Sookie and I'm not going to let her go alone."

Alcide growled in frustration, a deep rumble emitting from his chest. Deep down I was beginning to like that he did that. "Then I am going with you," he said rising to his feet.

"Alcide, you don't have to babysit me anymore," I said with a frown.

"I am not going to let you go into my town, and try to question a pack of werewolves that I know are dangerous without some kind of protection," he countered. "You are going to need an in."

"Alcide, really, you don't have too-."

"Chase, I'm coming and that's that. Besides I live there. You can't tell me not to come," he cut in again in a finalling tone.

I rolled my eyes. Now I not only have a vampire bossing me around, but a werewolf too. But Alcide was right, I didn't think these wolves were just going to willingly hand Bill over and if something happened, it would be nice to have Alcide there to protect us. And he could let us stay at his place.

"Okay Alcide, you are coming, but not as my bodyguard, but as a friend," I said firmly. "And as my friend you should offer Sookie and I a place to stay."

Alcide huffed again. "My apartment is kinda small and empty, but you are more than welcome to stay there."

"Well thank you."

A knock on the door cut off his response and Alcide jumped to his feet, eyes darkening as they focused on the door. "It's Northman," he said seeming to relax after a moment.

How the hell does he do that? I thought watching him walk to the door and open it. Eric stood leering on my porch, blue eyes finding me immediately and a small frown crossing his face. My heart raced a little as usual from taking in the sight of him and I realized bitterly that I would have to invite him inside. I still wasn't sure what he was here for, but I couldn't very well get up and talk to him outside.

"Good evening lover," Eric drawled in his velvet voice, his eyes never leaving mine. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed Alcide frown. "Are you going to invite me in?"

I frowned. "Eric, will you please come in?"

Eric smiled triumphantly and stepped through my front door, matching Alcide's height and walking toward me. He grew even smugger if possible while Alcide shut the door behind him and crossed his arms, irritation clear and present on his face. Eric was either oblivious, which I doubted, or didn't care. I frowned as I noticed a large blood stain in the middle of Eric's shirt and a small hole.

"Eric, what the hell happened to you?" I asked.

"It was a rough night," he answered absently kneeling beside the couch, inspecting the bite on my leg with a frown. After a moment he turned disapproving eyes on Alcide. "I hired you to protect her wolf, if I would have known that you were going to do such a poor job I would have hired someone else," he sneered.

Alcide's face fell. "I protected her Northman, which is more than you can say. You weren't even here."

Oh here we go, I thought with eye roll.

"I hired you to be here in my absence wolf. Clearly you don't understand the concept," Eric continued icily, not missing a beat.

Alcide opened his mouth to reply, but I cut in. "Okay that's enough," I said holding up my hands. "I am in no mood to hear you two bicker, so just cut it out. Alcide protected me Eric and kept me alive. He did a fine job and did everything you asked of him."

"I wouldn't say allowing you to be bitten was doing a 'fine job'," Eric countered still glaring at Alcide.

"Eric!" I snapped seeing Alcide straighten and tense. "Stop it!"

"If she's so important to you then you should have been here yourself," Alcide snapped stepping toward us.

In a vampire second Eric was in Alcide's face, fangs bared. Alcide didn't back down, he swelled, looking bigger suddenly, the iris of his eyes changing from brown to yellow as he let out a deep rumbling growl from his chest.

"Don't presume to know what is of importance to me wolf," Eric seethed past his fangs. "If she was of no importance to me then you would not be here. She is mine and I protect what belongs to me. The fact that you allowed her to get hurt only means that I should have found a better candidate to guard her in my absence."

"Eric! Alcide!" I snapped before Alcide could make a response. He had swelled even more if possible and I was sure that soon a werewolf and a vampire would be destroying my living room if I did not stop them.

Neither of them moved for a long moment, both of them glaring into each other's eyes, neither willing to back down. I rolled my eyes and sighed heavily. This was getting old real fast. I slid towards the end of the couch and gripped the arm of the couch, attempting to push myself up to my feet. My ankle burned in protest, but I ignored the pain and rose to my feet with a hiss. I snatched the remote off of my coffee table and chucked it at both of them, making them both duck to avoid being hit. Both men turned in surprise looking at me with frowns.

"What the hell are you doing, Chase?" Alcide said stepping past Eric toward me. "I told you to stay off that ankle."

"And I told the both of you to stop it!" I yelled.

The pain in my ankle became too much to bear and it gave out, sending me falling to the ground with a heavy thud. I hissed in pain, cursing loudly as my back and butt met hard carpeted floor. Alcide moved to help me, but Eric rushed past him in vampire speed, reaching me first and lifting me into his arms. I was on the couch in the blink of an eye, lying across it with Eric sitting beside me on the edge. His fangs unsheathed with a click and he bit into his wrist quickly making blood gush against his lips. His free hand gripped the back of my neck, yanking me forward as he forced his wrist against my mouth.

"Hey!" Alcide shouted, stepping forward.

"She is injured and needs my blood to heal before her wounds get infected," Eric said quickly making Alcide halt.

Eric's blood filled my mouth quickly as I tensed in surprise. I swallowed hard to avoid choking and tried to push him away, making him grip my neck tightly and press his wrist against my mouth harder. My options were to drink or choke, and I didn't want to die choking on vampire blood. He knew I wouldn't want his blood, but of course none of that mattered to Eric. Unwanted electricity shot through me and set my taste buds afire, followed by a blaze of heat, the only welcome feeling was the pain dwindling from my ankle, before it disappeared completely. Eric finally released me allowing me a chance to catch my breath. I wiped blood from my wrist as Eric watched his wrist heal over.

"I was just fine without your blood," I said irritably.

"If you intend to foolishly follow Sookie to Jackson I will not have you doing it on an injured ankle that will inhibit your walking and the ability to run in case you are in any danger, which you most likely will be," Eric said matter-of-factly.

"You don't have to worry about that," Alcide said straightening as he looked down at Eric. "I'm going with them and I plan to keep her safe."

"Given the fact that you have only been with her for 24 hours and she has already been injured forgive me for not trusting you to that, wolf," Eric frowned.

Alcide's joints popped as his fist clenched and his eyes flamed. "Okay!" I said loudly putting my hands up and rising to my feet, this time without pain. I felt brand new after drinking Eric's blood. My skin and taste buds were still tingling. "That's enough Eric. If you are done shoving your blood down my throat and antagonizing Alcide then I think it's best if you leave."

Eric said nothing as he rose to his feet and straightened his coat, blue eyes on Alcide. The tension in the room was so thick it was nearly suffocating me. I walked to the door and opened it clearing my throat and calling Eric's attention to his exit. He strolled toward me casually, his eyes not leaving Alcide until he reached me, coming to a stop and looming over me. I did my best to ignore the wave of heat that rushed through me, but couldn't stop the breathless feeling that washed over me. His hand was on my cheek next, his body stepping toward me forcing me backward until I was pressed into my open front door as I tried to escape him. I opened my mouth to say something, anything, that resembled the words stop or don't, but I couldn't speak.

His head bent and his mouth was on mine, passionate and strong. I tensed in surprise as his hand found my hair, tugging and forcing my head back, his tongue going into my mouth, assaulting me with his taste once more. I couldn't lie and say that I didn't miss this, his kiss, the feel of his lips on mine, the taste of him in my mouth, but I also knew he was just showing off in front of Alcide. I put my hands on his chest, pushing against him hard, forcing his mouth away from mine with a wet pop. I looked to Alcide quickly and judging from the utter look of disapproval on his face and his set jaw I could see that maybe the kiss had gotten under his skin.

Eric straightened his jacket again and looked over his shoulder at Alcide. "It is a good thing you are accompanying them, perhaps you will do a better time at protecting her this time around," he commented. "Return her and Sookie to Bon Temps unharmed and not only will I release your father from his debt, but you'll be compensated."

"I don't want your money Northman," Alcide retorted. "I am going with Chase to keep her alive because I consider her a friend."

Eric's face was blank. "How sentimental," he replied sarcastically. He turned his attention back to me and his expression turned serious. "Be careful, Lover," he said softly. "I will not be near with my blood to heal you if something were to happen."

He didn't give me a chance to answer before he was gone, rushing off to wherever he was going in vampire speed. I shut the door behind him and turned to Alcide who still looked tense. I didn't really know what to say, or how to apologize for Eric. I didn't think he wanted to hear my apologies anyway.

"Well," I said with a heavy sigh and forced smile. "Guess I should get packing huh?"