Well, here we are at chapter 46. I'm gonna have to post fairly quickly from here on out, since things will be happening and I hate it when people are left hanging. Anyway, this is a short chapter, but good. Hope you like.
Seth POV
I sprinted through the woods, dodging trees and bushes with little notice to anything around me. I had no idea where I was going, but I knew I was headed in the right direction. I could feel it.
Alice said she was hurt. I didn't care if it was Leah or Kira, it didn't matter. I needed to be there.
It didn't take long to find the clearing Alice saw in her vision. Standing in the middle was Ryan. He held a gun in his hands, pointing it at the person in front of him. The person was Leah. She was naked, kneeling beside the still form of Kira in her tiger shape. She seemed to be holding a blanket against Kira's chest, tears streaming down Leah's face. The blanket was soaking through with blood.
I howled, charging at Ryan. He tried to take a shot at me, but I dodged it, colliding hard with him. At that moment, my human mind shut off...
Leah POV
I pressed as hard as I could on the wound over Kira's chest, not caring that I was naked and crying in front of a raving lunatic.
Ryan had meant to shoot me, but Kira had gotten in the way. Since she was taller as a tiger than I was as a wolf, she took the shot in the chest, rather than the head.
Ryan was laughing.
"Well, isn't this a nice little bonus." He pointed the gun at me again. "Your turn."
Before he could pull the trigger, a howl caused him to turn away. Seth charged him at a full run, dodging the shot Ryan took at him. The impact knocked Ryan off his feet. He tried to crab walk backwards away from Seth, but he had no hope of escape. Seth grabbed him by the shoulder with his powerful jaws and drug him out of sight through the trees.
I cried harder, looking down at Kira. The hole in her chest was large enough to fit my hand in. She was still breathing, but barely. There was so much blood. It soaked the ground below us, coating my knees.
I looked up when I heard others approaching me. It was Jasper and Edward, followed closely by Carlisle and Emmett. Sam and Jake were there too, both in wolf form. Carlisle rushed to Kira's side and started to work on her. Sam had turned back to human and pulled my away from Kira's body.
"What happened?" He asked, softly.
"Ryan tried to kill me. He said I was an abomination and... that all of us needed to die. Kira...she...knocked me out of the way..." I was barely able to talk between the sobs. "Seth drug him off that way." I pointed in the direction, not that there wasn't an obvious trail of broken foliage to mark the path.
Jake, Emmett and Edward left to follow Seth. Jasper took off a long coat he was wearing, handing it to me. I took it without complaint, Sam helping me into it. I stood back and watch, helplessly.
Jasper POV
I knelt next to my daughter's still feline form, gently stroking her head.
"I need her to shift back to human." Carlisle said to me. He was calm and focused, but I could feel the panic in his emotions.
I looked down at Kira and focused my emotions on her. I spoke to her with my emotions, as well as my voice, praying she'd understand. "Kira, you need to turn back to human for Carlisle to help you. Please, darlin." I pleaded.
Moments later, her form shrank back into her smaller human body. Her chest was almost destroyed. I could see her heart through the hole, doing its best to beat. I sobbed, looking away, but looking back almost as quickly. I needed to see this. I needed to be strong for Kira.
"Carlisle, she's not healing." I said quietly.
Carlisle nodded. "She's lost too much blood. She's not healing fast enough." He gave her a shot of something from his bag, then wrapped the blanket Leah had used to try and stop the bleeding back around her chest as tightly as possible. He lifted her into his arms, pressing her chest as firmly to his as he could. "We need to get her back to the house as fast as we can. The room I had set up for Bella when she was pregnant is still in the old house. Everything I need is still there."
I sprinted ahead, with Carlisle close behind.
The entire time I kept chanting in my head, hang on Kira, hang on.
To Be Continued...