Life line - Paul Lahote / OC.

Fatal twist.

Paul makes his way into the lounge. On entering he noticed that the lounge still had a tenseness to it as his pack members intently listened to the blonde girl, who he knew now was called Caryn.

"My friend and I, we're orphans. Both of us found as babies and brought to a children's home in Italy. We've been in and out of Foster care all our lives, but always came back to the orphanage. When we turned 18, we became too old for the system. So being best friends, we left together."

Caryn explained her background and how she and Max had ended up in Washington, Forks, where they were now. Paul listened intently finding himself oddly interested in the girls. Which wasn't normal for Paul, usually he wouldn't give a rats ass about these kinda things.

One would expect Paul to empathise, seeing as he came from a hard background himself, but instead the shifter's circumstances made him hard of heart. His mother dying when he was 4 years old, and his dad becoming a drunkard. Paul had to grow up and become a big boy.

"Next thing you know a mental serial killer is staring at us in the woods. I was so scared... he moved so fast and... when I saw her on the ground I, I didn't know what was happening." Caryn explained to the group of people who seems to offer asylum. It was clear to the pack that she hadn't seen any of the wolves or even had a clue that the man was a vampire and probably just thought that this was just a really bad situation.

"She's waking up." Came Emily's voice causing everyone to turn thier heads to look at her. Paul hadn't noticed that she had gone into the room after he had left. She was doing routine checks on thier visitor. Sam stood up from one of the lounge chairs and gave Jacob a aiming look, motioning for him to come along. The alpha of the pack then retreated to the back of the house with Jacob in tail.

Paul stood there deciding whether he wanted to follow them or not but some part of him had already made up it's mind and he found himself walking towards the spare room where the Brunette rested. Paul crossed his arms and leaned against the doorframe of the room whilst Emily, Sam and Jacob stood around the bed preparing themselves to greet the stranger.

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Paul POV

I watched the girl stir, Sam and Jake watching her face intently. Emily was anxious as usual, not really knowing what to do with herself. I was barely interested but could this damn girl just open her eyes. It's like she's been fvcking stirring for ages. I don't even know why I wanted her to open her eyes so badly. It's as if my wolf wanted to see them, fvck him.

Emily puts her hand on the girl's shoulder and just as she does the girl open her eyes. She jerks away and quickly sits up, taking in her surroundings. She seems to shudder when she doesn't recognize the people before her. Looks like she hasn't noticed me in the background, not that me standing one-side wasn't the whole point of not getting noticed.

She touches her neck then looks at her hand. Sam decides to move out of the way so that he wasn't blocking the door. Most probably trying to make the girl feel less threatened. Just as he moves her eyes fall onto my frame. She seems to scan me before moving her eyes up to meet mine. The whole time my eyes were waiting for hers to pierce them.

Her eyes were the softest shit I've ever seen. They were filled with tears just waiting to pour out, she was scared. Something inside me shifted. All I could see was her, all I could smell was her, all I could feel... was her. The wolf inside me was pulling towards this girl I didn't know. Suddenly I got this image in my head.

~ It was her, laying in the blood stained snow. I had her in my lap. I was.... crying? She was dying? In my arms? All I could feel was pain, as if I couldn't live without her. "Don't leave me. You can't leave me!" I yelled holding onto her body as she slowly slipped away. ~