Take Me Home
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE TWILIGHT SERIES. ALL THE RIGHTS BELONG TO STEPHANIE MEYER. I ONLY OWN THE PLOT AND OC'S IN THIS STORY.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Paul's heart stopped. Everyone's hearts stopped.
"Help!" Came the cry once more. It was Claire's voice. They could see the girl down the other end of the beach jumping up and down waving her arms. The pack was off in seconds, the imprints following as fast as they could. Sam, Paul and Quil all led the way reaching the other end of the beach first. Quil went straight to his imprint.
"What happened? Are you hurt?" He asked Claire, she was dripping wet.
"Where's Tyler?" Sam asked, eyes looking all around but not seeing his son anywhere.
"Sky!" Paul yelled but got no response.
"Their over here. They fell," Claire said pointing towards the area where the rock pools ended, and the waves crashed with anger against the rocks. Claire grabbed Quil's arm and dragged him in the direction she was pointing. Paul and Sam were already moving in that direction. Their eyes darting all around looking for the missing children. They began yelling their names, as the scent of blood mixed with the ocean air.
"Dad!" Sam's mind flooded with relief as he heard his son's voice.
"Tyler! Tyler where are you!?" Sam yelled; he could still not see the boy.
"He's down here," Claire yelled. She had led Quil to one of the higher rocks and was pointing out in front of it where Tyler stood on a low-lying rock further down. The boy was being hit by hard waves, barely able to stay standing. He clung to his left arm, it looked broken, Sam could also see blood was all over his son's arms.
"Where's Sky!" Paul yelled at Claire as Sam rushed to his son's aid.
"She got swept away!" Tyler cried. "It's my fault, it's my fault." The boy sobbed as his father finally reached the rock he was stranded on. Sam picked up his son and retreated from the water's edge. Paul didn't hesitate, Claire pointed to a patch of water, and he dived.
It took his eyes a moment to adjust to the dark water but as soon as they did, he saw the pink of Sky's jacket. She wasn't moving, she was sinking into the dark water. She had run out of air.
Paul pulled himself through the water towards the girl's small, limp body. All he could hear was his heart beating, and all he could see was her. It felt like the whole ocean separated the two of them. It took Paul just a few seconds to reach her, but time had slowed down for him. It felt like hours before he had a grasp on her arm. As soon as he had her Paul was swimming towards the shore.
Jared was on the edge of the rocks looking for Paul and Sky. Other members of the pack looked back along the beach in case the current had moved them. Sam had rushed Tyler back to Emily and now they were headed to Forks hospital. Quil had also gotten Claire back to the beach and away from the crashing waves.
Jared didn't notice he was holding his own breath until he saw Paul finally break the surface of the waves with a gasp of air. Paul pushed Sky towards Jared, "Take her, take her," Paul yelled between breaths. Jared pulled the girl from the water and his heart stopped when he saw her eyes were shut and she wasn't breathing.
Paul pulled himself up onto the rocks, his mind, a mess of thoughts. He grabbed Sky from Jared's arms, putting her over his shoulder and patting her on the back, trying to get water off her chest, as he ran for the beach. Jared was by his side, and once on the beach, Embry, Kim, and Seth were also there.
"Oh my gosh," Kim gasped. "She's blue. She needs mouth to mouth resuscitation." They had all seen it in movies, but no one was trained. That didn't stop Paul though. What other options did he have? He had to try and save her or leave her to surely die if she wasn't dead already. He laid the girls limp body down on the sand and began to push up and down on her chest, he was worried he would break her. In front of him here, she looked so small, so delicate, her face blue, her eyes closed, her skin ice cold.
After several compressions Paul opened Sky's mouth and blow air into her mouth.
Kim was crying and Jared was hugging her tightly, the sound of sirens could faintly be heard in the distance.
Paul returned to chest compression and for the first time in his life he felt helpless. He repeated the process three more times leading to no results. He was sure she was gone; they all were. How could he have let this happen?
...
Sky didn't know how it happened. One minute she was listening to Tyler talk about all the things he had found in the rock pools over the years, and the next a wall of water was knocking her to the ground. She heard Claire yelling and saw Tyler running towards her. Then all she saw was water, and all she felt was cold. Another wave fell over her and pulled her off the rocks.
She couldn't move, her body was frozen, and the salt water stung her eyes. She could feel her body sinking, her lungs burning for air, and heard only her heartbeat. Time seemed to slow down to almost stop. There was a light above her, she knew that was the service, but all she could do was watch it get blurry and dark as she sunk deeper.
She didn't really know what was going to happen next. She was still too young to comprehend death, to understand the likely hood that this would be her final moments on earth. She wondered if super man would finally save her. That was her last thought before she fell unconscious.
The next thing she saw was a bright light, the eyes of the person who saved her, and then once more she returned to the cold darkness.
...
"How... doing..."
"Doctor... improving... How... Paul doing?"
"He blames... doesn't want... her."
Sky woke to the sound of voices, she felt tired and could only pick up bits and pieces of the conversation. She definitely wasn't in the water anymore. She was warm and cosey, on a soft bed in the middle of a white room.
"She's awake," a voice announced.
Faces appeared above her, Kim, Jared, and Sam.
"Hey Sky, how are you feeling?" Jared asked. Sky shrugged, her whole body hurt from the small movement, but it was bearable.
"You really scared us," Kim said with a tied smile.
"Where am I?" Sky asked, her voice was sounding horse. Her throat burnt with every word.
"You are in the hospital sweetie, you got into an accident at the beach," Jared said.
"She's awake?" All heads in the room turned to see officer Swan standing in the doorway with a duffle bag.
"Charlie, what are you doing here," Sam asked.
"Paul called me, explaining what happened at the beach. He thought it would be best if Sky didn't see him again. I've got her stuff, I'm going to take her to the station once she's released, and child services will take it from there," Charlie explained.
"Dam it Paul," Jared said under his breath. He had hoped his friend was coming around.
Author Notes:
Fun fact #1: There was never meant to be an accident at the beach, it was meant to be a fun day. LOL! I thought of the scream thing end of last chapter right before I posted it and then had to make all this chapter up to try and make it work with the story. How do u think I did?
Fun fact #2: Tyler's name was Taylor, but I spelt it wrong and only realised months latter it was wrong. Even when I write the name down, I still say Taylor and think about him with that name but don't want to go back and change it so to you he's Tyler but to me he is Taylor.
Fun fact #3: This story is made up of two different story ideas I had, one idea being Paul having to deal with a kid he didn't know about and the other being Quil's mystery sister coming back to La Push. So technically Addison isn't even meant to be in this story, she was meant to have her own story.
And for every three fun facts about the story there will be three true facts about me.
True fact #1: I show Poultry, and own over 400 chicks, ducks, pigeons, Quails and other birds.
True fact #2: I work a full-time job as a gas station manager (youngest manager they have ever had) and I run my one Hatchery.
True fact #3: I do most my writing at midnight when I have to be up by 5am to get to work on time. Lol who needs sleep?
Please let me know what you thought of this chapter.
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