After fifteen minutes and no Emily, Paige loaded up the food on plates and set them on a tray and headed upstairs. When she walked into her bedroom she saw that Emily had crawled back into bed and was curled up with Paige's pillow. Paige set the tray of food down on the dresser and crawled in behind Emily.

"Babe?" Paige whispered as she pulled Emily into her. Paige let out a laugh when she heard Emily mumble into her pillow. "What was that?"

"I am dieing." Emily said as she turned and buried her face into Paige's neck, wiggling her body into the other girls.

"It is a hangover babe, your not dieing." Paige laughed as she rolled her body so she was on top of Emily, her lips going to the girls neck.

"Easy for you to say, your not the one that drank last night." Emily said.

"Hmmm, but I have had hangovers before. You just need to eat and drink some water. We can go for a run after that. Physical activity is good for one." Paige said as she smiled down at Emily, who still had her eyes closed. After a few minutes it seemed that Emily had fallen back to sleep, so Paige sat up and straddled the girls waist. Her hands came up and slipped under the girls shirt and slowly started raking up her skin to just below her breast.

"Who is being a teenage boy right now, trying to feel up their girlfriend while she is sleeping? Perv." Emily laughed out at Paige getting frisky with her.

"Are you objecting?" Paige asked as one hand moved to cup the girls breast, giving it a light squeeze. Her lips came back down to the girls neck, lightly biting the skin she came into contact with before latching on and working up to the girls ear. "Because I can stop, but it definitely smells like you don't want me to."

"This does count as physical activity." Emily said as she used all her strength to counter Paige and flip them so she was now on top and between the girls legs. "I want to take care of you." Emily said looking down at Paige.

"Anything you want." Paige said as she moved a hand to the girls neck and pulled her down so that their lips attached to each other. Emily slowly made her way down Paige's jaw to her neck. She continued to work down until the collar of Paige's shirt got in her way. She snaked her hands down to remove the girls shirt, but Paige caught hold of her hands and stilled her movements. When Emily looked up into the girls eyes she saw that they had changed color, becoming a darker brown than usual, almost as black as night. Emily didn't recognize the look on the girls face and was even more surprised when Paige flipped them over, landing on top of Emily on the floor, her hands pinned above her head. Paige's teeth were bared and inches from Emily's flesh, her nose smelling at the girls neck.

"Paige." Emily whined out in a whisper as the girls gripped tightened on her, her wrist beginning to hurt as Paige put pressure on her hold to make sure Emily was secure. Emily felt the girls hot breath on her neck as Paige opened her mouth and let out a low growl, one that made the hair on Emily's neck stand up. She had heard Paige growl before, a protective sound that she let out when she felt Emily was in danger, but never one like this. This sounded like an animal that was about to attack its prey. She felt teeth on her neck, and just before Paige could make full contact and bite down, Emily opened up her mouth and screamed at the girl. "Paige! Please stop, your hurting me."

As soon as Paige heard that she was hurting Emily she let go of the girl and scrambled backwards away from her. The tunnel vision that she had been seeing out of became clearer, her eyes returning to her normal brown shade. Her breathing was rapid and the only thing that could be heard in the room after the loud thud of her back hitting the dresser. After several minutes of the two girls staring at each other in horror, Emily made to move closer to Paige.

"No!" Paige yelled as she backed further into the dresser.

"Paige. Paige it is ok." Emily said as she put her hands up in front of her to show surrender to the girl and crawled closer to the girl.

"No, Em. Stay back. Stay away from me!" Paige screamed, tears running down her face, her eyes wide with fear. Emily couldn't hide the pain in her face, and this broke Paige down more. "I need you to call Spencer and have her come over now. And I need you to stay back." Emily did as the girl asked and ten minutes later she was standing outside the bedroom door explaining to Spencer and Toby what had just happened. The two exchanged a look and then looked back at the girl.

"It sounds like she was trying to mark you." Toby said. "But."

"But what?" Emily asked.

"No one has had to mark a mate for several hundred years. It is like an instinct thing." Spencer said slowly.

"What does this mean?" Emily asked looking between the two.

"Usually it only happens when two werewolves are going after the same mate." Toby said.

"But there is a catch." Spencer said after Toby's pause.

"What is it?" Emily asked.

"It means that there is another were close by that is as powerful as Paige, that wants you. Only strong werewolves will fight for mates. Only a powerful werewolf would try to steal anothers bond for its own." Spencer said. "And this kind of thing hasn't happened in a really long time."

"I have to go in there with her." Emily said stepping around the couple, only to be held back by Toby.

"She is very dangerous right now. If she would try to mark you, if she would mark you, it could kill you. It is the transfer of your blood, its a blood tie between the two. The only other time it happened between a human and a werewolf, the human died. The werewolves blood is too strong to run in your veins." Toby explained.

"We need to find this other were and stop it before Paige does something she can't control." Spencer said, looking at the bedroom door.

"And until then?" Emily asked.

"You need to be careful around her. She won't be able to control that feeling of needing to mark you Emily. It will take over her whenever the other were is around. It obviously isn't as strong of a need right now since you talked her out of it, but there is no telling what this could build into given time." Toby said.

"I can't not be with her. Not right now. She is so scared." Emily said sadly. "Wait, is this what the dream is about?"

"I think the dream is about her own insecurities, something that she needs to talk to you about. I think she is afraid of hurting you, of letting her instinct take over. This is her bodies way if fighting her resistance." Toby said. Emily slowly walked over to the bedroom door and opened it, looking around to see where the girl was, but only seeing the open bedroom window and Paige nowhere in sight.

"Guys! She is gone." Emily said as she pushed the door open further for Spencer and Toby to step inside. Toby ran to the window and jumped out, running in the direction that Paige had taken of in. Spencer turned to Emily and pulled her downstairs and into the yard.

"Call her back Emily." Spencer said as she stopped in the middle of the yard.

"I am trying." Emily said as she closed her eyes and concentrated on speaking to Paige. Several minutes passed when suddenly a white wolf appeared at the edge of the yard. "That is Paige's dad." Emily said. "She ran. Please find her." Emily said in the direction of Nick, the white wolf taking off into the woods as soon as Emily was done speaking.

"He will find her. He has to." Spencer said as she stepped closer to Emily and grabbed her hand. "In the meantime, I have to get you prepared."

"Prepared for what?" Emily said as she turned to look at Spencer.

"To fight her." Spencer said.