Tarnished Gosling

Chapter 1: Roaming dicks and Fuckwads.

Tonight has gone like every other night that we had at the club. I snub out my smoke and look at the stack of papers that are staring at me like a mocking troll begging for me to give it my attention. I do not want to deal with this shit. With me having to replace a good portion of my staff is really starting to get on my last nerve. Aro my idiot of a general manager has managed to not only offend but intimidated all of the fuckhot women that worked here at Volturi. Aro is a great general manager, a lot crass at times but he knows how to run a night club I will give him that. The problem is that he cannot keep his dick in his pants. He slept with all of the female bartenders and then just blows them off like yesterdays garbage. He truly is a pig in that regard. I just do not understand what women see in him. Sure he has long black hair and piercing eyes (from what I have been told anyway). He has a smile that can make you comfortable or make a shiver run down your spine like you are his prey and he is the hunter. I have seen a fare share of women just swoon when he flashes that smile and men cringe who are then willing to offer up their first born just to get off his shit list. Heidi came to me crying and basically hysterical. It took me several tries of soothing words and a half of bottle of Scotch (for me) to get her to calm down long enough to tell me what in the hell happened this time. After shooting my best calming smile and trying to dazzle her hysteria with my emerald green eyes, she finally made me aware that once again my douche of a GM had broken things off with her and insulted her "technique" in one foul swoop. Heidi, now finally calm looked at me with her red rimed swollen eyes and said with a firm tone.

"Edward, I quit!" Internally groaning and cursing the day Aro was born I tried to plead with Heidi.

"Heidi, please rethink this. Do not let him have the upper hand, show him that you will not stand for his lack of gentlemanly behavior and move on, show him that you do not care if he is with you or not and that you will not let him dictate your happiness nor your employment here at Volturi."

Heidi pondered what I had told her for what seemed like forever. I couldn't lose her she was the last bartender that I had at the moment that would never turn down an extra shift or stay over to do shit inventory when I didn't want to do it myself. Crap I think I can get her with a pay raise, yeah that will keep her.

"Heidi" I began clearing my throat and running my hands through my already fucking mess of hair.

"I really need you to stay on, how about if I offer you an additional 125.00 a week, plus you can take the rest of this week off paid?" looking at her expectantly.

"Edward", she sighed; dropping my head in defeat I knew that cocksucker just lost this club our best bartender ever! DAM HIS DICK! "I can't stay here, I really do not think I can handle looking at Aro every day and know that he will never feel for me that I feel for him, I just can't it is way too hard."

"Ok Heidi if that is what you truly want. Just remember that you will always have a spot here at Volturi and you are by far the best bartender that I have ever had. Will you do me one favor before you leave?"

"Of course Edward, anything." She simply stated.

"I really need you to train your replacement, now before you say no, when I hire someone, we can make sure that Aro is no where around while you train her ok?" Now with my hands back in my hair hoping against hope that she will not deny me this.

Heidi shook her head, obviously tossing the idea around in her mind. "It won't be without pay Heidi, the pay raise still stands "I quickly state, again hoping this will sway her decision.

With a wide smile on her face "ok Edward I will train her, BUT you have to be here during the training and NO ARO, AND Aro cannot fuck this one Edward."

I nod my head and then something hits me "this one?" What the hell does that mean?

"Heidi, what do you mean THIS ONE?"

"Edward, do you remember my cousin that I brought to the company party about 2 years back?"

How could I forget her, her big brown eyes that shined in the sun, her hair that I just wanted my hands to get lost in for days, years, oh hell forever? Those lips oh how I have wanted to feel her lips on mine for the past two years that I have secretly been lusting after Bella Swan, the most gorgeous woman that I have ever laid my eyes on. She was also the most unobtainable. Fuck. My. Life. "Yes, I think I remember her, brown hair, kind of quiet, been dating that douche Jacob Black?"

With tears brimming in her blue eyes and her lip trembling she spoke these words softly.

"Edward, I cannot give you too many details, but Jacob hurt her really bad, when she called me screaming for help, and hearing him smack the phone from her hand I felt so cold, and so scared for her. My legs couldn't move fast enough to get to her Edward. So much blood, oh my god so much blood."

I saw red, how can that mother fucker hurt the most beautiful angel in the whole wide world, my jaw clenched, my hands fisted, it took all my strength to listen to what Heidi was telling me. My beautiful angel was being beaten by a low down piece of shit.

"When I got there, I found her in a pool of her own blood barely breathing, god Edward SO MUCH BLOOD!" Heidi shrieked trying to take the ghastly images in her mind and make them go away. "I quickly dialed 911 and begged for them to get there before she died, I had no idea where Jake was and I really did not care if he saw me hovering over her. I found the deep gash on her arm and tried to stop the bleeding. I was telling her that I was there and that she would be ok, she started murmuring that it was all her fault that she should have known he would be mad. Edward she still won't tell me what made Jake so mad, and the cops still haven't found him. He took off that night after he found me over her. He smacked me against the wall."

"Is that why you called off work for three days?" I asked putting the pieces of the puzzle together. The blood in my body coursing like acid burning me from the inside, I had to protect my angel, I would make sure that scum sucking piece of shit never saw the light of day again.

Nodding her head yes; "I couldn't let you see the bruise on my check, knowing how mad you would get if the customers saw that one of team Volturi wasn't glamour perfect."

"HEIDI!" I yelled, wondering how this would help the situation. Making myself calm down for 2.5 seconds, I drop to my knees in front of my broken employee "Heidi, I wouldn't have been mad, you could have told me and I would have hunted that mother fucker down and beat him to bloody pulp for touching one of my girls. Do not ever be afraid to come and tell me anything do you understand? Just because I sign your paychecks doesn't mean that I do not care about who you are. Yes, you are a part of team Volturi and yes we have an image of perfection but never ever ever think that is going to come before who you are as a human being, or being one of my closest friends. " I quickly scoop up Heidi into a hug and hold her trembling body next to my chest, formulating a plan on how I can protect my Bella Swan, my angel, my sweet gosling. "My gosling?" when did she become "my" anything?

Taking a deep breath and stepping back Heidi then explained to me that Bella would be getting released from the hospital in a few days and that she was going to be in need of an apartment along with a full time job that paid for it. Step one completed, My gosling would move into the empty apartment that is right across the hall from me, I own the building and hadn't found anyone to move in yet, so it was hers, deposit free, I would also furnish it. Step two, not only would she have a job, it would pay for everything and more, my gosling will never want for anything. She will gain her strength, her independence and she will become mine. Smiling at my brilliant plan of action I look at Heidi who could tell that the wheels where cranking away in this mind of mine.

"Don't worry Heidi, I will make sure that she is taken care of. " Kissing the top of her head I tell Heidi about the apartment and how Bella can have it, no deposits and even at a reduced rent. Deciding that the tiny detail that I wanted Bella for myself did not need to be spoken. Also that she has been the one in my fantasies ever since the company party two years ago. Heidi also informs me of how proud Bella is, being that she is the daughter of a police chief and feeling absolutely humiliated by the fact she was in an abusive relationship with fuckwad Black she hated the thought of handouts. Heidi and I quickly agree that Bella is never told of our plans and that she can fill out an application and go through the entire process just like everyone else.

After hammering out the details of Heidi's compensation package due to Aro and his roaming dick, and the plans for Bella, I flipped off my office light, closed and locked my door and headed back to my apartment knowing that in a few short days I would have my angel, my gosling living right across the hall from me where I could protect and help heal her. For the first time in many years I left Volturi that night with a smile on my face.