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Runaway, Love.

Prologue

Chapter Playlist

(suggested to listen while reading this chapter)

Runaway Love: Ludacris ft. Mary J. Blige

Believe: Suzie McNeil

All Good Things Come to an End: Nelly Furtado

Drive: Incubus

You Found Me: The Fray

Soul Meets Body: Death Cab for Cutie

Thanks for the Memories: Fallout Boy

LEGEND

Bold: Rosa (his-crooked-smile-1901)

Italics: Ashley

Both

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So here you are guys, the prologue…finally!

Yes, finally. I don't know what else to say… Ashley you?

Me neither. Let's get on with the show then. Enjoy guys!

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Renee's point of view

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"Run Renée! Do not fret for me, the only regrets I have were bringing you into this mess, take Bella and go!"

This couldn't be happening! Not to my Charlie!

The footfalls were getting louder, the unmistakable sound of bullets tainted the air with a noise too foul…it was unbelievable how I hadn't fainted right then and there, but I wouldn't leave his side, not now or ever.

The shouts were getting louder though, and my baby, my poor beautiful Bella; she was only a few months old! She could not die, she needed to find love like I did with Charlie, a man she could call home.

Pounding, this was really happening. Sobs clogged my throat, the house was shaking; Charlie grabbed my face.

"My sweet pea, I will see you again in Heaven, never forget I love you more the then the world…more then life," he kissed me then, and my mind wandered, as it always does…to the day we said 'I do.' He was my soul mate, my best friend; it was the tightening in my stomach that told me something was wrong…Bella.

I unwillingly pulled myself away from Charlie, his scent attached to me, his lips lingering. Our tears had entwined, and I knew this would be the last time I would see him.

"I love you," I told him, grabbing his hands, my shelter. He leaned down and whispered in my ear,

"Runaway, Love"

And I did.

I grabbed Bella, silent tears were running down her cheeks, her wide brown eyes large in her tiny face. Even as a child, she knew something was wrong…she couldn't even walk yet.

I latched onto her small woven basket and scampered away. The door broke open; you could hear the blood spilling. I needed to get far, they would find me too…I had too much vital information.

Death was an option though, without Charlie I had no one, I cared for no one. He would die, if I knew anything it was that, but I had to take care of Bella.

I looked down, her wee snow white, pale fingers reaching towards the house as I whisked her away. A coward I was, a worthless excuse of a wife.

I would give Bella away, someone I trust, then I would die…I wanted to join my Charlie in heaven, as soon as possible.

He would be dying at the moment, if not already dead, and soon they would be looking for me. I don't understand why those men wanted to kill us, they had no rights, they shouldn't even be aloud to step on our property, much less charge in and shed blood.

Leave the house Renee

You are a disgrace, marrying that, that half-man!

I warned you this would happen, you being exiled

You love a man who prays for elephants, an animal, just like him

Renee how could you? Now you must leave Britain, leave me

Oh my darling brother, Phil, forgive me.

Footsteps, pain in my back.

They had shot me…

Bella.

FLASHBACK

"Renee darling, I cannot do this anymore, pretending to be something I'm not!" he sat on the edge of his bed, his hands covering the face that never stopped smiling…till now.

I rubbed my very pregnant belly, I do hope it wouldn't stay as bi-

"Renee, you do not understand what I just discovered, it was disgusting! And I can't take it! I love you, but pretending to be something I'm not, I cannot do. I'm half Indian, sweet, I refuse to be forced with a gun in hand and shoot my brothers. I am half white, half brown. I cannot forget my roots!" he cupped my cheek.

The only thing that was different from him then and any other white man, were his beautiful foreign eyes. A wide expanse of melted cocoa, anyone could get lost in them, but his eyes could waste.

"Wouldn't you be exiled? For going against the British rule and refusing to be drafted?"

He nodded.

"Your right, I have to much information, working where I do, they would most likely think that I would go back to India and tell the Raja what I have found"

I hummed in response.

"We'll probably get sent to live in solitary confinement, but the danger does not stop, I held a high position in the government, almost everyone will feel betrayed, some of the more unrestrained ones would want to kill me."

Whatever he was saying, I would go along with it. I would follow him into hell if I had too, but that would never happen, he was too good for that…too pure.

The only remorse I had was brining Isaac or Isabella into this mess, my child would grow up with only the bees and the birds for friends.

However it didn't matter, he or she would have parent to love them. Charlie wished for a lad though, but I had a feeling it would be a girl. I was positive he won't mind, if anything he would spoil her till death. My mind kept wandering…the side effects of pregnancy.

"Renee?"

He looked at me, his beautiful eyes questioning, the crinkles around the edges deepened when I nodded, in smiles of course. I wouldn't care about anything as long as I was with Charlie…forever.

END FLASHBACK

A sliver of blue water peeked out from behind the ever greens, the bullet was hurting but the rest of me was numb.

I broke out of the forest, they had stopped following me, they wouldn't waste time running after a child. The brutes probably knew I had been shot, my cry must have given that off.

Oh my Bella, I had only a couple of minutes left.

I remembered Charlie's father, and how he told stories about Lord Ganesh, how there was a God that did listen to all of us - his devotees, so I closed me eyes as I sank down near the edge of the river, clutching my child to my chest.

I did the only thing I could…I prayed.

With a last attempt, I desperately tried to remember the mantra that would save my baby and uttered it slowly.

Ohm Triumbikum

Yaja Mahin Sukhandhim Pushtivardinam

It became harder to speak and remember the Sanskrit words as my tears got the best of me.

Uravaar Kamiv Vandinaan

Mrithiyo Mokshiya Maha Mritaap

As I opened my eyes, my daughter, my beautiful Bella, looked up at me with eyes of such understanding an hope that I could envision her as the angelic adult I knew she would become.

Lord Ganesh, I ask of you, please. Take my daughter to a safe place, a safe home and give her such a mother, that she will not remember me, this day.

Protect her and love her, please.

As I felt my last moments approaching, I shakily unclasped my necklace of Charlie and I and placed it around Bella's tender neck. Her tear-stained complexion spoke of hundreds of years of wisdom and understanding.

I kissed my daughter for the last time and placed her in her woven basket and then, in the river, thinking of Lord Ganesh and the protection of my baby.

With a sudden surge of energy, I whispered the words…

"I love you, my child. Runaway, Love."

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La Fin.

Kind of.

We are currently eating Chapman's Premium 1973 mocha almond fudge ice cream.

Yummyy….

The carton is almost done, actually.

Well, I hope you liked that, my little lovelies

The prologue not the ice cream

Until the next chapter….

Tana na na na na na na na na na na na na na na BATMAN! (I actually had to count the na na's)

Super man's way sexier.

Well, on that note, kiddos, see you later.

Alligator.

Rawr.