Love Makes Blind

[Listen to this song]

Paul started getting up to follow Elia.
“No, I’ll go.” Matteo said.
Paul was about to argue with him and tell him he was a fucking shape-shifter when Leah placed and arm on his shoulder and held him down.
“Don’t you dare hurt her!” Paul said menacingly to him.
“Hey, we are not the monsters.” Michael said as Matteo walked away.
“I know exactly what you are.” Paul said and narrowed his eyes at them.
“Paul! Calm down.” Leah told him sternly.

Paul was furious – at himself. Why hadn’t he noticed before, because now that he knew, he could smell that their scent was a little different from normal humans, but none of them looked overly muscled – except Matteo – like the pack did. Paul wanted to run after Elia and fly her home right now, but he was to angry and upset to be close to her; he felt like phasing. He hadn’t even know other pack’s existed, he thought his pack was the only one, but when he thought about it its only reasonable that there are others, vampires are everywhere, not that he had smelled anyone in Parghelia.

Paul started shaking when he thought of the ‘Large coven of creatures’, it had to be the Volturi’s. He remembered very clearly the encounter with them one year ago because of that vampire hybrid Jacob imprinted on. Disgusting, he thought.

“Get away from me Matteo!” Elia said when Matteo walked ahead of her and stopped.
“You don’t have to be afraid of me.” He said calmly and stared down at her but was surprised to see how angry she looked.
“Don’t flatter yourself, I’m not afraid.” She said sarcastically and tried to get past him. Matteo put a hand on Elia shoulder to stop her. “Get your hands of me.” She glared at him.

“Why? So you can run away from your problems like you always do? When did you become such a coward Elia?” Matteo asked seriously.
“You have no right to judge me!” Elia screamed at him and pushed his hand of. “You weren’t there Matt, would it have been so hard to come and meet me? You are supposed to be my best friend, but you didn’t even call! I tried to fucking kill myself and you didn’t bother to care about me!”

“But I do care. I love you. You are the one I connected with.” He begged and took a step closer to her.
Elia slapped him as hard as she could across his face. “Don’t you dare stand there and lie to my face Matteo! Paul imprinted on me; connected with me or whatever the hell you want to call it.”
Matteo’s eyes turned black with anger. “What happened to you Elia?”
“I hate you.” She said and turned to walk back to Paul; she needed him to explain what was happening.

Paul was on his feet the second he saw Matteo start shaking. He was shaking himself as he ran quickly towards them. Paul saw Elia stop in confusion when she saw him.

Elia shouldn’t have stopped; because she stopped just in reach of Matteo as he phased and flung his massive paw towards her. She let out an ear splitting sound before she crashed to the ground.
Fury took over all Paul’s control and he charged at the white wolf that had hurt his imprint and phased mid air. Paul could hear the silent shock of Sam, Jared and Jacob’s thoughts as they read his mind.

Leah ran ahead of Darin towards where Elia lay withering in pain in the now red sand. Her bikini top had been ripped, and the two long open wounds over her right ribcage were evident to whoever laid eyes on her.
“Oh no.” Darin knelt beside his little sister.
“Darin.” Leah said. “Get her to safety; I’ll try to calm down Paul.” Leah would have made an excellent alpha.
“Be careful.” Darin said and lifted Elia carefully up in his arms. He stared at Leah for a second as she approached the two fighting wolves, one gray and one white as snow. It was a terrifying scene but Darin was more concerned about Elia, she was bleeding a lot and unconscious.

“Aren’t you going to do something?” Darin asked in a harsh tone as he placed Elia down at the blankets and the so called ‘Chosen ones’ only stood there unmoving. “For god’s sake, you are supposed to protect humans, not hurt your friends!” Darin was getting angry.
Luca snapped out of it. “Michael, go get them a change of clothes; Gina, Cara go call an ambulance and Sienna help Darin. The rest of you come and help me stop Matteo.”
“I’ll stay with Elia.” Angelo said and knelt beside Darin and tried to stop the bleed.

’Paul, what is going on?’ Sam asked, he was out patrolling and a little surprised the mind connection reached all the way till Italy.
’I have to kill him. He hurt Elia.’ Paul said and tried to reach Matteo’s neck.
’Sam, did you know other pack existed? Jacob asked.
Paul tuned them out and tried to think of a way to kill the white wolf.

“Paul you have to calm down!” Leah tried to get his attention; he only ignored her attempts.
Leah turned her head when she heard someone approach – she was getting a little worried that someone would come and see the two fighting wolves – and saw Luca walk towards them with three other white wolves at his side. Where all the Italian wolves white?
“Come on Paul! Elia needs you, the ambulance is coming soon and you have to go with her.” Leah tried again.

“You can’t get his attention when he is in that state of mind.” Luca stopped beside her and the wolves that had been on his sides continued to walk forwards and tried to get in between the two fighting ones.
“Shut up, I know what I’m doing. Paul!” Leah yelled. “Phase back, you can kill him later.”
Luca stared at her in amazement; she had to be a wolf herself, he had never heard of female wolves before, all the other packs they had met were just males.

’Stop right now, Paul.’Sam used his alpha command and Paul froze. He was lucky that the wolves that had interfered stopped Matteo. ’Phase back and do as Leah tells you. ‘ Sam said.
Paul phased back just as Michael came with some trousers. He pulled them on quickly and glared daggers at Matteo who had also phased back.
“I’m not done with you.” Paul walked away quickly in anger and over to Elia’s unmoving form; his anger turned into fear for his imprint once he saw how badly she was hurt.

Matteo looked over at the people gathered around Elia. “What have I done?” He asked and was about to walk over when Luca grabbed his arm and held him back.
“I don’t think you should go over there, Matt.” He said.
“But- but I have to apologize to her.” Matteo was almost crying when he realizing what he had done. It had been an idiotic move to lie to her; but he couldn’t just give up. “I killed her.”
“She’s still alive.” Leonardo said, but empathized on the ‘still’. He was worried it would change into a ‘not’.

“When is the ambulance coming?” Darin asked Gina in a rushed voice as he kept a firm pressure on Elia’s wounds.
“Five minutes.” She answered and fought to hold back her tears. “Is she going to be okay?”
“Of course she will.” Angelo said but regretted it when Elia stopped breathing.
“What’s happening?” Paul asked in despair. “Why isn’t she breathing? Elia!”
“Her lung collapsed.” Darin said with a desperate voice. He had one year of medicine studies behind him, he knew this was serious.

“Will she make it?” Cara asked the question no one wanted to ask.
“I don’t know.” Darin whispered.