A/N: - References to Sex Slaves and sexual abuse, which doesn't take place (Strong language throughout) Bella talks to herself in this story, just a side effect of the burning, mostly in her own head. It's in bold showing it's a verbal thought.
Welcome to Paradise! Yeah right! More like Hell! It could be wonderful here if I had my way. I can wait, cause time's something I've got plenty of.
Paradise Lodge
You know that feeling, the one that tells you this is not normal? Even when you don't know what normal is, you know this just ain't it! Well, that's how she feels as she comes too, She has not a clue what was going on or where she was, hell she didn't even know what year it was far less what day.
'Dear God almighty, what the hell is happening? I'm on fire, Why won't someone help me? Is it too much to ask, just a little assistance for the girl on fire, namely me? Me! Who am I? What in blue blazes happened to me? Think, damn it! I'm... Shit!, I don't know, why don't I remember anything?
This can't be happening to me, well obviously it is, but why? Okay, what do I know? I'm a girl, how do I know that? How the hell would I know, all I really know for sure is that it's god damned hot in here. Okay, concentrate, so yeah I'm a girl who's on fire and it's starting to really piss me off!
Wow, is that my heart, It's gonna blow! Wait, I can feel my fingers and toes, they seem to be alright, I can wiggle them and no fire there, it seems to be all in my chest now, fine I can handle that, I think, legs and arms are back to normal as well.'
Bella was so busy talking to herself and trying to control the excruciating and out of control fire, that she almost missed a voice close to her saying,
"Soon, my new and may I say stunning, sex slave, soon it will all be over and you will be all mine!"
'You what now? Sex Slave, I don't think so buddy! I might not know who I am but I know I'm nobody's whore!'
He just keeps right on talking, so she tried to settle down as best as she could and listen real closely,
"Your step-papa sure was not lying, you are quite a looker! I like brunettes, nice slim brunettes",
'Brunette? Okay, I can work with that, feels long too, nice. Did he say slim? Hope he didn't mean skinny! I don't want to be skinny!'
He was stroking her upper thigh as he said this, his heavy French accent was doing nothing for her, well apart from making Bella feel sick to her stomach and she can't contain the shudder of revulsion she felt running through her.
"So when you wake up my little slut, you will do everything I say! You will be a little bit wild to start with, what with the bloodlust and everything, but I have gotten you a nice human to drink, so that will help! Fuck, I cannot wait to have your sexy slim body, I am going to fuck every orifice and you will take it because I own you now 'Ma petite salope' "
He continues on in what she was sure he thinks is a sexy growl, but his voice is so whiny and high pitched, damn, it sounds more like a dog with its nuts caught in a blender and Bella was absolutely raging mad now,
'Who the hell does he think he is? Owns me! Nobody owns me but me!'
She fumed internally for a few minutes, then it dawns on her,
'Wait a cotton pickin' moment! What did he mean bloodlust? A human to eat, shit no way!
She tried to relax again and listen to the sounds all around her, hearing another heartbeat off to her right-hand side, but it is slow compared to her own as if it were asleep or unconscious, that was probably it, he would have knocked whoever it was out.
'So what do I know now? Right, some crazy French asshole thinks he's going to stick his dick in me and live! Ha-ha, Not this side of hell matey!'
Bella was really not liking that idea, but at this exact moment, she had no idea how she could stop him.
'So what eats humans? Cannibals! Nah, I don't feel like Hannibal Lector',
Bella sniggered to herself and trying to concentrate but it was not easy, her mind kept wandering all over the shop.
'Hold the bus! he said drink, drink the blood of a human! There's only one thing I know of that drinks blood and it's ...! Well, slap my ass and call me Mary. Vampire! Shit, I'm a Vampire! How the hell did that happen?'
She obviously didn't remember anything, but he said something about her step-dad!
'Did he sell me to this wanker?'
Alright Bella needed answers now, so:
'Plan A, Wake, drink the human get answers from the asshole, eh nope, not happening!
Plan B, Wake, hold my breath and run, again nope, won't find anything out doing that.
Plan C, Wake, attack asshole when he's getting the human and get answers, yeah!
Plan C it is then. How will I know when I'm awake? Wait a minute! It's kinda quiet, shit my heart's stopped! I feel strong, throats tingling but not too bad, hearing intense, sense of smell off the charts, wonder what my eyesight will be like?'
She was pondering all of this as her captor spoke once again.
"Ah, open your eyes my sexy little bitch, let me see your beautiful red eyes!" he says and Bella didn't move, he slaps her face and still she didn't move, She heard him stand and he kicked her in the side, she didn't flinch, It wasn't actually that sore,
'Good to know'.
He grunts then and turns away toward the body of a youngish man, Bella had opened her eyes slowly, seeing that they are alone except for the unconscious guy. Quick as lightening she's up and behind him before he'd moved two feet. Not knowing how she knew how to do it, but she grabbed his arms and ripped them out their sockets. He screamed and she kicked out his knees and he's down.
"Who's the bitch now asshole?" She shouted.
'Whoa was that my voice? it's like music, no tinkling, like bells, nice'.
Bella bent down and ripped off his legs as well, she didn't want him trying to run away just yet.
"Shut up dickhead, stop being such a baby!" she yelled at him, as she sits him up against a tree,
'Fuck me he's got the longest dreads I've ever seen'.
Taking an unneeded breath, she glances around, sees a 4x4 nearby, so pats him down gingerly for the keys,
'Hell, I don't want him getting the wrong idea!'
Nudging the human guy with her foot, he groans loudly and then the prick rolled over,
"Wake up stupid!" she shouted,
he jumped onto his hands and knees, blinking and stares at her. Throwing him the truck keys, she said with a little bit of a growl,
"Run!"
Bella turned back to the French guy now, he was leaking fluids everywhere,
'Gross!'
"Okay, asswipe start talking! I want to know everything!" she demanded of her disassembled French captor, he just sneered at her,
'well I think that is what he's aiming for, who knows!'
So Bella stalked forward intent on tearing his dreads off one by one slowly and setting fire to them, till she see out the corner of her eye one of his arms moving as if trying to get back to him,
'Yuck, that's just plain creepy!'
She kicked it out of the way and the clear liquid running out of the torn end splashed into the fire he had going and Bella smiled, as it spit and hissed and purple smoke rises up.
'So fire destroys vampires, does it? New tactic'
Picking up his arm and ripping off the pinkie, she dropped it into the fire.
"Feel like talking now fucker?" she enquired smiling and batting her eyes at him. He is more stubborn than she thought he would be and is soon down to three fingers before he starts singing like a canary. But that's because Bella said she'd rip his dick off and burn it next and amazingly he believes her.
'I ain't touching that shit! Ooh, I wonder if it'll try to crawl back to him too? Like a giant worm, yucky poo!'
He'd started talking again while she deliberated on that last fact.
"My partner and I buy human girls and train them to be sex slaves and we sell them on, foreign investors will pay high prices for pale skinned girls," he tells her.
"Then how in god's name did I become a vampire?" she demanded.
"You fought back; your step-dad said you were weak and pathetic, so you would do what you were told. But you ran and I lost it and bit your arm and James will kill me when he finds out!" he whined,
"Who are you?" Bella enquired,
"Laurent," he tells her quietly.
"Okay Laurent, I have little or no memory of who I was so you're going to fill in the gaps for me and I might just give you back your limbs" she lied convincingly to him.
So he starts to regale her with her sad little life, turns out Bella's step-dad is a talkative drunk. Well her real dad, Charlie and his new wife, Sue and her mother, Renee all died in a car crash on Bella's eighteenth birthday, two years ago leaving her step-dad in charge of everything.
Her dad and step-mum had owned and run a hotel called 'Paradise Lodge' and it would have been hers on her twenty-first birthday unless she died and then it would be Phil's. Phil was apparently her step-dad and a conniving greedy bastard too boot! He was in debt up to his eyeballs and had sold Bella, to pay it all off, also getting the hotel into the bargain.
"Okay Laurent, what's my name?" she raised an eyebrow and waited,
"Isabella Swan-Dwyer" he mumbles,
"What's the douchebags' name?" she growled,
"Phil Dwyer," he said and Bella spit into the fire, it flared up again with the same purple smoke.
'I'm just Bella Swan from now on'
"Alright Laurent, almost done I need a quick rundown on Vampires! You know the do's and don'ts of being the best vampire I can be?"
She laughed at her own joke and he looked at her as if she was mad. So now he tells her everything he knows and stresses that they're meant to keep the secret above all. Then he informs her that she's the weirdest newborn he's ever met since she was so controlled. Bella apparently had no bloodlust, as all she should be doing is killing humans, drinking them dry and screwing anything that moved.
'Shame, he seems so disappointed in me!'
He explains to her, he's her sire and they would have a strong bond connecting them because of this,
'Sorry I'm just not feeling it, let me tell you',
he then said James would be back in three days and that he's a tracker, so he'll be able to find her anywhere if she ran.
"Although!" He mentions, "You don't appear to have a scent!"
'I hope that is good, as I have plans and they don't include either you Laurent or James',
So these two need to be out of her way, plus she was sickened by their little side business, they have going on. Quickly Bella ripped him to shreds and burnt all the bits, amazing herself with how fast she could move. Well when James comes calling he'll be next, but for now it's time to sort out Phil, he's going to wish he'd never met her mother when she was done with him.
Bella really wished she could remember them, her parents and Sue, but it was a gaping hole in her head, there are flashes of places and pictures of toys and stuff but no people, just a feeling of having been loved, she thought that was the emotion, it was a kind of warm and fuzzy sensation.
So now she needed to find this 'Paradise Lodge', Bella wondered if it was that obvious and it's in or around a place called 'Paradise',
'Damn I should have asked Laurent before I killed him! Ah well as the French say, 'c'est la vie'!'
This is how her day had started and now here she was trying to decide what to do about the tickle in her throat which was becoming a little more persistent and Bella needed to solve this problem sooner rather than later,
'What does a vampire eat if not humans?'
That's when she heard it, the thud of a heart nearby, a strong heart but not human Bella knew that somehow. Deciding to investigate and after searching for a few seconds she saw a mountain lion high in a tree, it was actually watching her,
'Not very bright then, large predators'.
It doesn't take Bella long to take it down and break its neck, now all she had to do was bite, she supposed. The blood was good, warm and satisfying, the fur not so much.
'So less tearing and just bite next time, okay I can do that.Now, what do I do with the body?'
It wouldn't do to burn it, that would take too long, can't just leave it in case someone finds it, as there's no blood. So she lifts a huge rock, dug a shallow grave and put it in, at least the insects would get a good meal from it.
Now to find Phil and watch him, till she made a plan, he has to have a routine and once she knew it, she could get inside and find out more about herself! As Bella headed down the mountain, after leaving Laurent's campsite, from which she had removed as much evidence as she possibly could.
'Still not sure how I knew to do that? Another piece of the puzzle that is Bella Swan I suppose'.
She tested herself by jumping and running and having well, fun. She really was strong and fast and having, at last, lost her balance issues; they are not going to be missed by Bella that's for sure.
'How do I know something's, but not proper memories, that's not fair?'
Realising she would also be going to need new clothes, these were torn and bloodstained, she looked like something from a horror movie. So she hugged the shadows as she reached a little town called,
'Well, would you credit it, Paradise!'
Bella had run through a patch of sunlight on her way down the mountain, let me tell you, she goddamn sparkled,
'Shit! I'm like a flipping disco ball'
How the hell is that gonna scare someone, it's maybe not so bad for her, as she's a woman but, some big hairy assed male vampire sparkling when he attacks you,
'Now that's just funny'.
Ma petite salope - my little slut (French)
c'est la vie! - such is life! (French)