I want it to end.

“Hey, don’t think like that. Things will get better, I promise. Now, let’s get you some sugar before I do anything else. Looking at you, I’m guessing you’re a chunky monkey girl?” He added his own slightly crooked smile to his statement; his smile was infectious, as I could feel the corners of my lips tug upwards. “Well, we really have no chance because that’s all the canteen had.” His chuckle grew louder and I felt my smile grow. “Ah, there’s the smile Charlie bragged about for all those years.” I felt my cheeks flood red and I took a bite of the delicious doughnut in front of me; I wasn’t feeling hungry, but my stomach disagreed so I ate. Plus I didn’t want to offend Sam, seeing as he had put so much effort into this … for me … I felt the heat coming off of my cheeks as I began to blush more. “And there’s the blush he mentioned that would make a definite appearance.” I hadn’t even noticed that he had already cleaned and prepared my wound for stitching. Only now I realised this did I realise he had began to stitch my hand wound and tend my bruises.

“Tell me about Cain … the truth …” I chocked, barely above a whisper.

“Bella, I …”

“Please, I want to know; I need to deserve to know!”

“Cain has been taken in for emergency surgery; they need to remove the bullet.  Judging from the size of the wound, it has caused a lot of damage, but it makes no sense.”

“Why not?”

“It’s not just the wound that’s killing him, its poison.” Poison?!  Could that bastard just not be happy with ruining my life by killing the one’s I love, but to make them suffer is just barbaric!

“ … Are you telling me that he injected poison into the wound?”

“Venom, to be precise.”

“VENOM?!” I screamed, struggling to get to my feet. Oh god, Cain was living me destiny. I’m on my way, Cain.

“Bella, breathe. It could be like the venom in snakes and insects, but we’re running every test we can think of, but the truth is, we just don’t know what we’re dealing with. They need to put him on life support. His lungs, his heart, I …”