The Life of Emery Paige

Emery Paige

Carlisle and I agreed that Hadyn and I would remain at Emily's house on the reservation the night before and during the battle. We are human so it was safer for us to be on the reservation where two wolves would stand guard. Unfortunately, we were told to not leave the house but I was going crazy, my sister was hiding up on a mountain and the pack and the Cullens were fighting newborn vampires. I said "Em do you think I'd get in trouble if I sat on the porch?" she said, "I think you should be fine as long as you don't go too far from the door." I nodded and put her in her stroller and paced right in front of the porch stairs which also soothed her to sleep, which was a win for me. I heard a noise so I left her in front of the stairs and took a few steps away from her and froze, a vampire stood in front of me staring at me with his purple eyes I shouted "Emily!" and was immediately attacked. 

The bite was so painful, it felt like fire was streaming through my veins. I did manage to see a wolf attack the vampire, and Emily had Hadyn which made me feel better about dying. Emily came to kneel by me and put pressure on the wound I said "Emily... Bella... gets..." She got my drift and said, "You're not dying, Bella doesn't need to take care of her because you will." Kim said, "Emily she was bitten, she is dying." Emily was crying "No! Isn't that how vampires are made? You're not dying, not on me, or Hadyn." I kept zoning in and out and trying my hardest not to scream. I thought birth was painful but it's a piece of cake compared to this hell.

(Sam's POV)

We killed them all, well almost. Leah attacked one and Jake went to help her and he got crushed, Dr. Vamp was looking at him when the pixie one came running over and quickly said "One of you needs to get home now!" Dr. Vamp said, "Alice, what did you see?" Alice said "It wasn't good, Emery was outside pushing Hadyn in the stroller but she was literally next to the door. She heard a noise and went to look and it was a newborn, she called for someone named Emily, but she was bitten. The vision went out after that, which either means a wolf got there or she's..." Bella started to cry "No, no, no, no." I said "Jared run." and Jared took off back to the house, the rest of us carried Jake. I said, "Bella, I'll text you as soon as we can find her." Bella nodded and the vampires led her away, but all of them were clearly upset. 

We dropped Jake off at his house and Billy said "Sam, where are you going?" I said, "I have to check on Emery." Billy said "Why? What happened?" I sighed "I don't know, the future seeing vampire said she saw something about a newborn vampire had gotten to Emery here on the Rez." Billy said, "Take Sue." I wasn't sure what I was going to see when we arrived at my house but I definitely never thought of this. Emery was laying in a pile of blood on the grass, her eyes were closed, and she was very still. Emily was crying and holding a towel to Emery's neck though it didn't seem to be helping. Hadyn was screaming, Jared and Kim were trying to console the screaming baby but didn't know what they were doing. I immediately texted Bella ~She was bitten~ -Sam U.

I said, "Uh Sue, any idea what we should do?" Sue said, "When was the last time Hadyn ate?" Kim said, "An hour ago." Sue said, "And changed?" Kim said, "Right before this." Sue said "Great, she's not hungry and doesn't need to be changed which means she just gets to cry for now as we have more important matters put her back in the stroller." the two did as told then she said, "Sam, I assume Dr. Cullen is coming to check on Jake?" I nodded so she said "Great bring your truck around. Jared and Kim get as many blankets and towels as you can so we can make the truck bed comfortable. Then we're gonna lay her in the bed of the truck and drive it to Billy's, Dr. Cullen is gonna want to take her back to their house. 

She clearly wasn't drained of blood. Collin said, "He was quick, we tried to get to him as fast as we could but could only catch him once he was distracted." Sue said "After he bit her?" they nodded and you could tell on their face they felt guilty as hell. Brady said, "She is dying isn't she?" Sue said "She is, but since the vampire didn't drain her it means she is in transition. Whether she wanted it or not she is going to be a vampire." Emily heartbroken said, "She wanted more kids." Sue said, "That's not gonna happen now, and I know you guys don't want to hear this but at least she was bitten because now after she learns control she can finish raising her baby rather than her being without her." 

(Carlisle's POV)

Billy said Sam was bringing Emery and Hadyn, so I was working on Jacob until she got here. I finished up and stepped outside, I shook Billy's hand and said "I'll be back in the morning to set up a morphine drip, I gave him some but his body temperature will burn it off by then. He's asking for you." Bella said "I'll see him in a minute, I need to know my sister is ok." a black truck stopped on the grass, and Sam, Jared, and Sue got out. Sue had Hadyn's car seat. I said, "Where's Emery?" Bella directed Sue to put Hadyn in my Mercedes. Billy said "Sam..." Sam didn't say anything he simply opened his tailgate so we walked over and Bella immediately said "No, no, no, no." and climbed up in the truck to grab her sister's hand. Sam said "Collin and Brady didn't get to her in time. She seems to still be breathing and we tried to stop the blood flow." I said "Bloodflow? He didn't drain her?" Collin said, "We got to them before he could finish her off, but he was so fast... we couldn't get there first." 

Bella took the towel off her sister's neck and gasped "So she's ok then?" I said "Ok? Not even slightly. Will she survive? Maybe." Bella said "Maybe? What do you mean maybe? She is in transition isn't she?" I said "Yes, she is in transition but that doesn't actually mean she'll survive it. Bella, I don't think you're actually gathering what vampire transition is. Vampire venom is changing every liquid in her veins, now naturally your body fights that. If her body fights it off too much it'll kill her permanently. The transition takes about 3 days I need to get her to the house and give her some morphine, hopefully, it'll help her with the pain she is in." a girl said "Pain?" I said, "The venom burns it's essentially like being burned alive from the inside." 

I picked her up and sat her in the passenger seat since Hadyn was in the backseat and sped to the house. Once at the house I laid her on the bed and left the room to get the morphine ready while Alice and Esme cleaned her up and changed her. I went back to the room and gave her the shot, Esme said "Did she even say how she felt about being a vampire?" I said, "No, she quickly changed the topic so Bella stopped asking her." Alice grimaced "I have never had a vision of her being a vampire until today. I don't think it was in her plans, at least not while Hadyn was still a baby." Esme said, "I know that scar made her self-conscious so that'll at least be good for her." I said, "The venom won't fix that, it's too much damage so even if she wakes up, it'll be there." Alice said, "Will we have any good news for her?" 

Esme said, "Well Hadyn wasn't hurt, that's gotta be something." Alice said, "Well good news for us is I know she survives, I just don't know how she'll handle it." Jason came in with Hadyn who was sleeping and said "What does that even mean? If you know she survives then you've seen her future." Alice said, "I can't see her future, it's all black, but I know she survives because she's in Bella's future, she's at Bella's wedding." I said, "So you can't see her future but you can see futures with her in them?" Alice said "Confusing right?" I said "No, not exactly. You've always had a little trouble seeing her future, what if that connects to a gift? And it's only more prominent now that she is in transition?" 

Esme said, "I want to know how she is gonna go from the smell of blood making her sick and faint to living off it." I said "All we can do is wait and take care of Hadyn for her. Which means we're gonna need formula." Esme said "I'll go shopping." and disappeared. I sighed and looked down at my beautiful girl, she was a little too still for my liking but I hope the morphine helped a little bit. It took Emery longer than anyone I'd ever seen, five days she lay unmoving. The only reason we all had a little hope was that her heart kept beating. Bella sat outside the door barely moving, the rest of us took care of Hadyn in her absence. I had just laid her in her crib for a nap when suddenly Emery's heart finally quit beating.