Bella's POV

'It will be as if I never existed,' those words rang in my ears over and over again.

Ever since Jacob had started ignoring me I've been exactly like I was before he came into my life. Like Charlie said I was like 'a zombie'. I was getting him worried- Charlie I mean. It's not like Jake even cared about me anymore- I could hear him talking to Billy when he thought I was sleeping. I didn't want him to mess up his relationship with Billy over nothing. I would be fine soon enough. Once everything was said and done I could be able to move on in my life. I hope.

I looked at what surrounded me. Dense forest and the occasional bug and bird that I always cringed away from. I was looking around for the meadow. Wait- no- his meadow. It should be right through the ivy blocking my way.

I pushed the offending leaves away and I saw nothing but more forest. I was lost.

Oh man, this is bad, I thought about what Charlie would do when he got home and I wasn't there. He would freak, he would ground me without knowing where I was in that moment, and then he would set up a searching party to come and look for me. Just like that last time.

My arms automatically wove themselves around my chest, feeling the whole that protruded as I thought of him. Of Edward.

I sank to the ground, rolling up in a little ball on my side and closed my eyes. I needed help.

I was like that for some time when I heard the first of what was happening. Snorting, like pigs but it was…more wild. This couldn't be happening to me. I didn't want to be eaten alive!

I looked up out of pure instinct and my eyes connected with fur. I traveled up, knowing it would lead to the animal's face when I saw its piercing black eyes. The fur was as dark as its eyes.

Before I could do anything, before I could think anything I flung myself back up and ran away. Going the opposite way in the forest then I came. I ran deeper into it. Smart right?

I looked back and I didn't see it anymore so instead of getting myself worked up about it I kept running, I had no idea where to but I knew I didn't want to face whatever that was. Everything was passing me at a fast rate so everything was blurred together. It was the fastest I've ever ran before. Except when I was running with him.

I clutched my chest again and fell face first and was surprised when I felt a pair of cold hands catch my fall. I looked up with a smile on my face thinking it was him but what I saw made my body shiver in fear. I was staring into a pair of blood red eyes that seemed to shine like a crimson pool of it.

As I felt my eyes focus more I saw who it was. I screamed by accident.

"Laurent?" I breathed, not sure if I should be happy or terrified when I saw him. The fear won over the happiness in the end when I saw him lick his lips. I tried a different approach. "Don't you… don't you remember me?" I asked him, trying to stall.

"Oh yes, I remember you alright Bella. How could I forget about the Cullen's pet? Where are they anyways, I went to drop by for a visit but they just weren't there. Have they really abandoned you?" That was a low punch and he knew it as he saw me huddle up in pain at the mention of their name. His hand found my neck and I knew I had to keep him talking if I wanted to live any longer. But what was the point, I would still die and did I really want to live?

I cracked a small smile full of pain. "I guess you could say that," I breathed wishing my voice was stronger then it was. His face nuzzled into the pressure point of my neck and inhaled deeply.

He sighed and talked. "You know it is really a shame. If we met again under different circumstances I think I would've let you live, Victoria wants to have the pleasure in killing you but you know…I was here hunting and you smell delicious." He said in a nonchalant kind of way. He cocked his head to the side. "You know, I'm actually doing you a favour, if you knew what Victoria had in store for you, you'd be begging me to kill you. And I assure you, it will be painless."

He exposed his fangs and just when he was about to kill me I heard a growl. A wild growl, and if I heard it then Laurent must have heard it too right? Then all a sudden it felt like I was flying. For about two seconds. I closed my eyes while I was whipped around then opened them again.

I was facing wolves. A whole pack of them and they were bigger then bears. I felt Laurent's hand at my neck and the other one was at my shoulders, holding me in place. He hissed at the wolves and fear struck me. Laurent was afraid of the wolves. Then I should be afraid of them too right?

I felt my eyes well up and I heard Laurent's threatening voice. "You move and I'll kill her."

I heard one of the wolves whine and I brought my eyes up along his reddish brown fur that looked a lot like auburn to his eyes. They connected instantly and I started shaking when I couldn't look away. His eyes showed his emotions but they were all too hard to read except one fear.

I heard another wolf growl and my head snapped to the tallest one, the one I had run away from before. The black one. And then I heard a coughing bark that sounded a lot like laughter coming form a wolf that was smaller then most of them. I looked into its eyes and saw a swirling emotion only for me. Hate? This one had a grey coat and it stepped closer and then Laurent's voice was at my neck. I could feel his cold breath near my ear.

"Oh…so you don't care if I kill her?" He hissed and applied pressure to my neck. I knew that if I didn't die I would see red marks all along them. My air supply needed to be replaced and I tried to breathe in but I couldn't. He was choking me.

My hands pulled at the hand that was squeezing my neck and I heard the painful whine from the one wolf answered by the growl by the other. Again I heard that coughing bark for a split second and then I felt pain.

At first I could hear. I heard a loud whimper and growls, then I heard tearing. I cringed away from it and that made the pain flare up with a new vengeance. It felt like my left arm was burning.

The pain never went away but I heard voices shouting over everything that was going on.

"Oh my god! Dude is she gonna be okay? Sam's gonna give it to Leah!" It was Quil shouting frantically to someone.

I heard a low growl and then another voice. "Bella…Bella, honey wake up! Please, you have to wake up." The husky voice could only come from one person. Jake. He sounded like he was about to cry. I wanted to tell him I would be alright, that he didn't have to be scared but I couldn't. My voice didn't want to work.

I felt the black waves that whispered they would take me somewhere with no pain. I gave into them and then I heard and felt no more.

Jacob's POV

After Sam caught the scent of a bloodsucker in the Forks forest he howled for us to join him. It wasn't my first time hunting a leech but I couldn't help but feel a wave of terror when I let the wolf in me out as I raced to get to him. The forest was so close to Bella's house.

'Dude chill. She's probably not even out of the house. She hadn't been out except for school since…' Embury tried to calm me down but when his thoughts lead to me ignoring her, and then her acting just as she was when that leech left her I felt a tremor run down my body. Since we thought as one I heard his whispered 'Sorry man.'

I just started running faster. Trying to run away from it. Trying to forget and in a matter of seconds I was next to Sam and the pack.

'Jacob,' Sam thought.

'Yeah? What?' I was annoyed. Not at him but annoyed in general. The reason I couldn't tell Bella- or see her for that fact- was because of him. Even if I knew it was for her safety.

'I saw Bella,' his thoughts were strained and if I couldn't see his memories I would've thought he was just talking he saw her along the road or whatever but I knew different as his thoughts played out in my head. She was in the forest- where the bloodsucker is.

'What's she doing in here?' That was Jared. Sam didn't have an answer and when no one said anything Leah interrupted.

'What does it matter? She wanted to be one- well now she can be one with this one- inside of him that is!' she started to laugh in her wolf form and I growled a warning at her. She was pushing it. 'You know what? I don't get anyone even cares here, she isn't anything special.' She snorted and laughed again like she thought it was funny.

I attacked her. I had no idea why but I felt like I had to. I bit into the scruff of her neck, trying to get her to submit while snarling the whole time. She was taken by surprise. So was everyone else. 'Don't you ever say that! I love her! Unlike you, who loves you huh? I don't see anyone giving you special treatment!' I kept going on and on, trying to get her to take back the words when Sam more or less made me stop attacking her.

'Stop!' An order. I jumped off of her and she started laughing again. I pulled my lips up so she could see my teeth when I heard a scream. It was Bella!

I was about to hightail it to her, terrified beyond belief that something had happened to her. Like the leech had gotten her when Sam told me not to go anywhere. It was another order. I stood there looking at where I heard the scream, shaking.

'No one goes to her until I give you the command. When we get to her and the leech has her we wait until we can tell if it's a Cullen or if it goes to bite her. Then we attack it okay? After that- Jake and Quil go see if she got bit. We'll take everything from there. Let's go!'

I ran in front of everyone, trying to get to her before anything happened. When I got there I saw that the leech was about to bite her.

'Nooo!' I screamed in my head and everyone cringed as Sam growled, taking his spot in front of me. This was my worst nightmare. It couldn't be happening, it couldn't, it couldn't-

'Jacob! Focus!' Sam growled again and the leech seemed to have just noticed our presence.

I watched him whip Bella around like she was a rag doll and stop her so he had a hand on her throat and one on her shoulder.

"You move and I'll kill her." He hissed at us. I saw her eyes well with tears.

'Serves her right!' Leah spat mentally at her. Wishing she could hear her.

I ignored Leah, I'd get her after for everything but kept my eyes locked on Bella. I whined and felt like I had to go and help her.

I watched as her eyes came up to mine and I felt it. I looked into her eyes, unable to take them away from her. All the strings that seemed to hold me to the earth seemed to be cut away and all of a sudden she was holding all the strings. I felt love, strength, and fear all at one time for her.

Sam growled and the connection was broken just like that. Her head whipped over to him as he thought, 'Damn it Jake! You just had to imprint on her right now!'

Leah tried to laugh so that Bella would know she didn't care what happened to her. She was inviting the vamp to do the honours in her head. I felt like I was bout to rip her into pieces when the leech directed my attention to him again.

"Oh…so you care if I kill her?" He hissed and I had no idea what he was getting at. Until Bella tried to get his hand off her neck. I got it then.

'Sam he's trying to kill her! We have to do something!' her eyes started to roll back and I took a step forward and I whined. It felt like I was going to die if I didn't get to her. Sam growled a warning at me, I couldn't move then. His command not to go any further was full of alpha command.

'Jake…I know it's hard to watch this but if he's a Cullen then we can't attack him. You don't want to start a war do you?' I was about to answer him when Leah did. My heart felt like it was about to break when I found out what she was going to do.

'You know what? I don't care about her or the Cullen's!' Then she pounced onto the bloodsucker and MY Bella before Sam could tell her not to.

I watched her fly from the impact a few feet away and without realizing it I had phased back to human form. I slipped on my shorts as quick as I could and ran over to her. Not knowing if I should lift her or not. Then I heard Quil.

"Oh my god! Dude, is she gonna be okay? Sam's gonna give it to Leah!" He bent down next to me.

I growled at the mention of Leah's name. I shook my head to get out of it. Bella needed me now!

I didn't shake her just in case I hurt her so I started to talk to her. Trying to get her to wake up. "Bella…Bella, honey you have to wake up! Please wake up!" I plead with her. I saw her fingers twitch but it stopped just as fast as it had started. With all this suspense I felt like I was going to die. Instead though, not expecting it, I started to cry.

I put my hands over my face and I just cried. Until Sam came over.

"Jacob, check her for any other injuries then bring her to your house. We'll follow you there." He said and then he was gone. It was just me and Quil. Then what he said registered with me. 'Any other injuries?' what injuries did she have?

I wipe my face quickly and saw it then. The mark from Leah's claws ran down her arm. Like Emily- just not as bad. I thought. But bad enough. It made me see red and everything started to shake underneath me. Then I heard my best friend's voice.

"Whoa Jake tone it down! You have to help Bella right now!" I heard Quil's voice beside me. I forgot he was there. I felt like I had to get her away from him. Like he might hurt her. I had the urge to take a swipe at him to get him to go away but this was Quil. He wouldn't do anything to Bella. And he was right. I had to calm down and get myself together so I could help her.

I felt her ribs to check if any were broken. It didn't feel like anything was broken. The only wound she had was the scratch marks from Leah. It looked like she got mauled by a bear. I lifted her up, wincing when she whimpered. I felt Quil's hand on my shoulder, reminding me to take her to my house. I looked over at where she was laying. There was a huge pool of her blood there and her arm was still bleeding, not giving any indication of stopping.

I rested my head on top of her hair for a second, breathing in her scent. Then just like that I was off. Towards my house and where a doctor would be if I knew Sam.

She whimpered again and I held her closer to me, fighting the rage that was built inside of me. When we got to my house I sat on the couch with her on my lap, brushing her hair out of her face waiting until Sam came. I hoped it would be soon. The blood was still pouring out of arm because of me.

I hadn't stopped Leah in time. Now she was hurt. Now my imprint was hurt.

Well, how'd you like. Please review and tell me what you thought. I should have another chapter posted before Friday! Firefox Shai

P.S: I would like to know if you liked in more in Jacobs POV or Bella's or if you liked both. I'm still going to do both but I think I might do one more then the other. Thanks!