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𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫

𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫

I felt like death waiting for Sue to finish running my tests at the small res clinic. I'd visited Bella this morning and once again she ignored my presence while she focused on the outside world. 

I went to the Forks clinic afterwards and had them check my infection again, the antibiotics hadn't worked. The doctor said I should immediately start IV antibiotics and wanted to admit me to the hospital, but I refused and decided to talk with Sue instead.

She was upset at me for hiding the infection for so long, but didn't scold me more than a sigh and a shake of the head.

"Well, it's not good," Sue sighed as she came to sit in front of me, "the tests are inconclusive. I sent a sample off to get more testing at the doctors orders, but I don't think they'll find anything. This infection is supernatural."

I nodded slowly, my heart rate increasing as I processed the information. "Okay, so what can we do?"

Sue gave me a heavy look that told me everything I needed to know. There wasn't anything to be done. "You could try and get something of Emmett's that might slow things down," Sue suggested, "but I'm afraid nothing will fix this unless he somehow came back and healed your mate bond."

It felt like my world was tilting on its axis. Sure, I had thought I was dying and had thought through the possibility more than once, but having confirmation? It was like a punch to the gut and suddenly I couldn't breathe correctly and my eyes began to burn.

I didn't want to cry, but I couldn't help it. I was seventeen. I still had so much to look forward to. Finishing college, getting married, having kids. I'd dreamed of traveling and seeing the world. I wanted to do so much, but I was quickly running out of time.

And it was all his fault.

Like a dam breaking, I crumbled in on myself, a sob breaking free as tears poured over and ran down my face in hot streaks.

Sue was quick to react, wrapping me in her arms. 

I didn't want to die, not yet. 

I was going to fight until the very end, and that meant sucking it up and going to the one place I swore I would never go again. I had to go to the Cullen's house and find something to keep me going. But I wasn't about to go alone.