Chapter 1 - Save her
Melanie Watson parked her car on mater lane. Her face had been completely drained of its usual peachy colour, and her brown hair covered in her own sweat from running. Hurrying to take the car keys out of the lock, her impatience got the worse of her. Her trembling hands hit against the car several times before she gave up trying to get her car key and rushed to the front door of 22 Mater Lane. Her subconscious made her look up and down the road behind her, as she got more and more frightened. She took another look at the neighbourhood and whispered a small word as she stared at the doorknob that was the key to get into the house. The door magically opened itself, Melanie took another look at the shadowed houses and closed the door behind her.
"Mother?" She shouted as she walked down the hall of the house. She stared at family photo's that were stuck on the wall and smiled to herself. There was a baby picture of Melanie, she was not the usual bold baby type, she was born with a head full of hair with bright blue eyes. Her mother held her in her arms, as baby Melanie lay asleep as a new born.
Melanie felt a pain running down her body, another contraction. She let out a small cry as the pain seemed almost too much for her. She stared at her large growing bump as she felt her contractions get closer. She cried out for her mother once more as her petite body slid down the wall and onto the floor. Footsteps echoed through the house as Melanie cried louder. A woman as small as 4 foot 10 gasped as she watched the pregnant mother trembling on the floor, her hands grasped tight on her bump.
"Melanie dear, calm down" Her mother said in a calming manor. She helped her daughter off the floor and moved her onto a table that was in the middle of the foyer. The woman's mother named Eleanor removed everything that was placed on the table before helping her daughter on the table.
"Their coming to get her" Melanie cried out loud. Eleanor pulled Melanie's dressing gown up to her knees so she could get a better look at how the birth was going.
"Just breathe please Melanie, she's going to be safe I promise you, I've put a spell on this entire house so it'll be almost impossible for them to find us" Eleanor smiled as she tried her best to soothe her daughter. "I can see the head" She smiled as Melanie reached to hold her mother's hand.
Melanie's screams bounced around each room of the house awaking the house's empty presence. The birth was not the easiest of births. Eleanor whispered soft words to try to keep her daughter calm through the birth. Melanie's body was getting weaker and worn out. Her breathing started to slow down and her eyes started to close.
"Melanie open those eyes" Her mother yelled, "Just one more big push I promise" She shouted excitedly as she grabbed her grandchild and cut the umbilical cord, her eyes shined bright as she stared at the small baby in her arms.
"It's a girl" The newly grandmother smiled, she wrapped the child in a towel and stared at Melanie. Her facial expression turned sour as she saw her daughter lying unconscious on the table. "Sweetie please open your eyes" she unattached one arm to stroke the newly mothers wet face. As the baby girl cried louder in the grandmother's arms, Eleanor checked her daughter's wrist and could still make out the slight beat of her pulse.
Melanie opened her eyes and stared over at the baby that cried in her mother's arms, "Pass her to me" she whispered as she held her daughter in her arms. "Bella" she smiled, "I want to call her Bella" Melanie took one more glance at the beautiful baby in her arms and unclipped her necklace that was around her neck. The necklace which was a Aphrodite's symbol changed colour from black to yellow once it touched Bella's neck.
"You look beautiful" Melanie smiled and smiled at her daughter before closing putting her head back down on the pillow and closing her eyes.
"Melanie no" Eleanor screamed as she watched her daughter take her last breath. She knew it would be to late to bring her daughter back, she took the now asleep child in her arms and kissed her forehead.
Suddenly Eleanor heard car doors banging outside the house. She walked nearer to the door and saw groups of men running to her house. They all said spells in a unique language, one that Eleanor could understand very well, they spoke the language of the evil gods. They were trying to break the protection spell so they could get into the house and take Bella. However what the Watson family did not know was that Bella was to be the most powerful witch throughout the whole of existence. Eleanor stroked the child's face and the cries stopped as she rocked the baby.
"We've got to go now Bella, I promise you that your going to be safe, they won't get you my dear" Eleanor smiled once more and stared at men who's numbers were getting larger and gathering around the front of the house.
She walked back over to the dead mother who was lying on her table. She took the white blanket and placed it over Melanie's body to cover her.
"Goodbye Melanie" Eleanor cried as she held onto the baby tightly before both her and Bella disappeared into thin air. All that was left in the room was Melanie's body. Eleanor's protection spell had finally been destroyed and the groups of men blasted the door open sending it flying into the wall behind in. The man standing at the front noticed the blood stained cloth that covered an object, he lifted the blanket up and it revealed the passed away Melanie.
Eleanor appeared in a restaurant bathroom, luckily there was not a soul here so nobody would of noticed the strange witch appearing out of the blue. Eleanor carried the brown eyed baby in her arms and left the bathroom. The restaurant was very busy so it was quite hard for the old witch to see the person she was looking for. Finally, her eyes caught the pale blue eyed woman sitting at the table. She had brown wavy hair and a soft face. She was sitting with her husband, Charlie Swan and seemed to be enjoying the conversation.
"Excuse me" Eleanor repeated several times as she passed strangers, she finally arrived at the Swan table. "She's dead" She whispered as she looked at the woman sitting down.
"No" Renee gasped as she put her hand over her mouth while tears filled her eyes, "Is that her ba-"
"-Yes, she wanted to call her Bella" Eleanor smiled, trying to hide the pain of losing her daughter. "She needs to be safe Renee, their after her she can't be with our kind" Charlie moved up so that Eleanor could sit down.
"So you want me to take her?" Renee commented softly, "I don't have any kinds of baby things and I'll need to take time off work, gosh this is so sudden" Renee laughed as she grabbed her purse and put money on the table.
"Renee I'll pay, I suggest you go talk in private" Charlie replied as he noticed they were getting a lot of attention from the other guests. Renee nodded and left the restaurant with Eleanor following her.
"Bella needs you Renee, she needs to be in normal home, the dark ones won't suspect that she's with humans" Eleanor suggested.
"I'll take her" Renee smiled as Eleanor passed her the tiny child, "Your family have done so much for me, this isn't even enough to pay you back" She stroked Bella's already long brown baby hair and smiled to herself. "But I don't have anything to look after a baby Eleanor"
"Magic can make anything happen" Eleanor smiled as she clicked her fingers, "There I've just turned the gym into a nursery, I must go now, they could be tracking me down as we speak, goodbye my angels" Eleanor kissed both Renee's and Bella's forehead, before taking another look at Bella and disappearing.
Charlie Swan walked out of the restaurant as soon as she disappeared and looked at his wife. "So how long have we got this baby?" He asked, "And where's it going?"
"For the rest of our lives Charlie, she needs to be brought up by humans and to be kept away from magic, Eleanor already supplied us with a room" Renee smiled as she looked at the baby, "Isn't she just beautiful?"
"Are you crazy?" Charlie snapped, "Some old witch comes along and gets you to look after a baby, and now we've got to look after it for the rest of our lives? Maybe this is a trap, maybe the dark ones are going to find her and kill us"
"Charlie please calm down, this will all make sense to you one day, you just have to trust me in this" Renee replied, her voice weakening and soft.
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