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Bella
I clutched at the necklace that lay beneath my shirt as heart wrenching sobs racked through my entire body. Tears streamed down my cheeks, I gasped for air due to the intensity of my sobs. My free hand placed over my stomach as I glanced at the white stick that lay abandoned on the bathroom floor. I drew my knees up to my chest, pitiful cries escaping my throat.
"Oh God Spike, what am I going to do? I miss you so much," I breathed out, I rested my forehead on my knees and continued sobbing as my heart ached in my chest.
A knock at the front door startled me, I quietened my sobs and tried to calm down, I wondered who could be at the door. I stood up on shaky legs, my appearance catching my eye in the mirror opposite, grimacing at the sight. My skin was paler than usual, my skin blotchy from crying, my eyes bloodshot and haunted. My dark hair lay in limp curls around my head.
I quickly blew my nose before washing my hands and splashing cool water over my cheeks and eyelids. I sighed, my sobs finally stopped before I rushed down the stairs as someone knocked again. I opened the front door slowly, peeking out before frowning in confusion.
There on my front door step stood Rosalie Hale and Jasper Whitlock, two of my closest friends since I moved here 4 months ago. They had concern etched on their perfect faces.
"Rose, Jasper, what are you doing here?" I asked.
"We were on our way home from a hunt when we heard you crying, Jay could feel how bad you felt so we came to check on you," She explained, looking worried.
I looked at them for a moment before nodding and letting them in, I needed to talk to someone and since they already told me their secret, I guess I could trust them with mine, I mean they had always been good to me. I closed the door behind them.
When I had moved to Forks around 4 months ago, their 'brother' Edward had taken a shine to me, he claimed I was the love of his life and wanted an eternity with me, I shot him down many a times but he never gave up. One day he got too much and Rosalie and Jasper had to step in, he told me that they were vampires called Cold Ones and that if I agreed to be with him, I could be with him forever and have a shit load of money.
I almost decked him one but they stepped in just in time. Rose had been so pissed that she almost ripped him apart right then and there but their other 'sister' Alice stepped in to protect him.
Their whole family was vampires, they were all a lot older than me, I got on well with everyone bar Alice and Edward who were always trying to coerce me into being with Edward. Rosalie and Jasper were soulmates, so were Carlisle and Esme, the parental figures. Peter and Char were also mates, they were Jasper's brother and sister-in-law, they didn't live with the Cullen's because they couldn't stand Edward and Alice, they lived almost next door to me. Emmett was single after being changed by Carlisle, apparently he reminded Esme of her human son so he changed her and Emmett couldn't be happier, he was such a man whore. Alice and Edward were also single but I had my suspicion the two of them were mates but they were too delusional to realise it.
It didn't bother me that they were vampires, I'd met another kind of species before, the kind that burn in the sun, not sparkle. There were good vamps and bad vamps, just like there are bad humans and good humans.
"Do you want to come upstairs, I need to talk to you about some things."
"Yeah, sure," Jasper replied.
As I led them up to my room, I decided to tell them everything, I needed someone to talk to, so I could figure things out, I couldn't keep things bottled up anymore. I chose to go to my room to tell them because a) I'd be comfy and b) It would be private from any eavesdroppers, like Alice and Edward thanks to my witch of a friend Willow, she'd made me up some silencing spells for my rooms. I was happy about having my own privacy. Once we got to my room I glanced at Rose and Jasper.
"Could one of you call Peter and Char to come over? I'd rather tell you all why I'm upset rather than repeating it," I asked, Jasper nodded before pulling out his phone and dialling.
I opened the bedroom window ready for them before going to the bathroom I shared with Charlie, I ran my hand down my face before slumping over the sink. I could do this; I could tell them my story without breaking down.
I picked up the object which was currently causing a mixture of emotion and placed it in my hoodie pocket, I took one last deep breath before going back to my bedroom, when I closed the door I saw that Peter and Char had arrived and were standing in front of my now closed window.
I went over to my bed and flopped on it, pushing myself back until my back was resting against my headboard and my legs tucked under me, the others stood around, looking rather out of place in my small bedroom.
"Sit down guys, make yourselves comfy," I told them as I patted the bed next to me.
Char sat on my right, mirroring my position, Rose sat on my left but she crossed her legs. Peter and Jasper sat in front of me, looking at me expectantly, I gave them a timid smile before talking.
"Okay, so before I began I need to admit that there are some things that I haven't been exactly truthful about. You four are the people I trust most out of your family and since I was told your secret, I'll fill you in on mine, please don't hate me for not saying anything sooner, hopefully you'll understand why after you," I bit my lip as I watched them.
"It's okay Bells, I know you must have had your reasons, we won't think any differently of you," Peter said, putting extra emphasis on knowing, which was his gift, he just knew shit. The others nodded in agreement.
"Okay, so as a side note, there are another species of vampire out there, they burn in the sunlight, they're not hard or cold like you, crosses affect them and they can be staked, Hollywood was right on them," I said, taking in the note of the stunned faces of Rose and Char but Peter and Jasper didn't look too surprised.
"How come we've not heard of them?" Rosalie questioned.
"If you were as killable as them, would you advertise your species?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh, I didn't think of it like that," Rosalie said, she looked like she would be blushing if she could.
"I've actually met a few of them, so has Peter," Jasper interjected quietly.
"And you didn't think to tell us?" Char questioned.
"You were still adjusting to being out of the wars and being newly mated when we met our first and after that we never really thought of it," Peter replied while Jasper nodded.
"So how do you know so much about them Bells?" Rose asked.
"I was born to hunt them, I'm what is known as a slayer," I replied with a shrug. They looked at me seriously for a moment before busting out with laughter, I frowned in annoyance.
"You hunt vampires Bells? Please, you can't even fight," Jasper scoffed.
My lips thinned out as I began increasingly annoyed with my friends, I'm trying to tell them my story and they're laughing at me, suddenly my emotions went from annoyance and frustration to calm and peace, I blinked at Jasper. Damn mood swings were going to kill me before any vampire could.
"I'll call my sister over one day and then you can see my fighting skills Jay," I promised with a smirk.
"You have a sister?" Char screeched.
"I have two actually and two cousins in this very town," I replied.
"Who are your cousins?"
"Lauren Mallory and Angela Weber, they're moms are my mother's sisters," I replied, smiling at their stunned faces.
"Anyway I'll give you the same spiel I was given by my Watcher when I was 15 and activated the slayer gene, 'Into every generation there is a chosen one, one girl in all the world. She alone will wield the strength and skill to stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. She is the slayer.' I'm such a saddo to know that off by heart, my sister heard the same thing when she became the slayer." I repeated in a bored tone, rolling my eyes.
"You were 15 when this happened?" Char said worriedly. I nodded.
"So you've only been doing this for 3 years?" Rose question, I coughed and blushed.
"Sorry guys, I'm not 18, I'm actually 23," I admitted.
"Why would you lie about your age?" Jasper asked.
"I needed a cover, Charlie is actually my Uncle, his daughter Annabella lives in California with her mom Renee, I actually look a lot like her. I needed to escape and go into hiding," I explained, they nodded in acceptance, I let out a sigh of relief.
"Hey, you're the same age as me," Peter said with a grin, I smiled back.
"Hang on a moment, how are both your sister and you slayers at the same time? I thought you said only one girl could be a slayer at a time," Jasper stated in confusion.
"You caught that huh? Well as soon as a slayer a dies, another replaces her," I said with a sad smile, "My sister died, then I became a slayer, then when I died Kendra became a slayer and when she was murdered, Faith was awoken."
"You've died? How are you still here? You're not a vampire are you?" Rose asked worriedly.
"I've died twice, Buffy has died three times. We're still here due to our friend Willow, a kick ass witch with an awesome resurrection spell," I replied with a shrug.
"Shit," Peter breathed out, they nodded.
"Okay, on with my story, we're getting side tracked, I'm originally from LA but I was moved to Sunnydale with my older sister Buffy when I was 16, she was 17. My mom was Joyce Summers and my dad is Hank. Though he is never around, he thinks we're too much trouble, he likes an easy life.
I was awoken as a slayer when Buffy had been stabbed by a vampire one night when she was patrolling with her slayer, she was taken to the hospital but she died for a minute before they could bring her back, it was horrific.
We moved because there was an accident when we were in LA, we were fighting a bunch of evil vampires in our school gym during a school event, one thing led to another and the gym was burnt down, they found out we were to blame so we were expelled."
"Wait you burnt down a school?" Peter asked with a huge grin on his face.
"It was just the gym," I replied defensively.
"Cool," he replied.
"Anyways, we tried explaining to our parents what had happened but Buffy was put into a mental hospital and when I tried backing her up, the same happened to me. We came up with a plan whilst in there that we would pretend we were normal, we needed to get out of the hospital and back to stop the evil of the world. Surprisingly it worked and we ended up getting out after 3 months.
My parents split up and my mom moved us to Sunnydale for a fresh start, she opened her own gallery there and became well known whilst my sister and I pretended to be normal girls at day and slayers at night, we couldn't risk going back to the hospital," I said with a shudder.
"How could your parents put you in there?" Rosalie exclaimed.
"If you were human, would you have believed your teenage daughters?" I questioned.
"Maybe not but I wouldn't send you to a mental hospital," Rosalie hissed out.
"Well my parents thought that was best, at first I felt betrayed by them but I got over it eventually, I forgive them," I replied with a shrug.
"So anyway, my sister and I started school at Sunnydale High. We made some friends called Willow, Xander and Jessie, there was a girl called Cordelia but she was a bit of a bitch at that time. Xander and Willow soon found out the truth about us, we were vampire slayers.
Jessie was kidnapped by a vampire and when we found out, it became apparent that he had been turned, Xander didn't want to kill him at first but when Jessie attacked him, Xander had been the one to stake him.
My sister started to date a guy called Angel," I began before I was interrupted by several snickers from Peter and Jasper.
"What kind of a name is Angel? He must have gotten ripped when he was a kid," Peter cried out through laughter, I shook my head at his words but held back a grin, I did the same thing when I first heard his name.
"It's short for Angelus, but even that's not his birth name, it's Liam really," I replied.
"The Angelus? You mean the one that lost his soul when he got his rocks off?" Jasper asked.
"How the hell do you know Angel?" I asked him with a raised eyebrow.
"Through stories, one of the vamps I had met wouldn't stop ranting about him, apparently he thought Angel was a 'bloody wanker', we traded quite a few stories," Jasper replied.
My whole body froze at his words, my eyes became wide as I realised that there was only one person I knew that regularly called him a bloody wanker. Angel had travelled with him for a few years, they had a love/hate relationship.
"Did he have blonde hair, a penchant for leather and black nail varnish, scar right above his left eyebrow?" I asked, almost desperately.
"Actually yeah he did, his name was.."
"Spike," I finished Jasper's sentence.
I closed my eyes, wrapping my arms around myself as his name brought memories crashing down on me, I could feel the sobs began to build in my chest but I didn't want another breakdown. Calm suddenly floated through me, wiping all traces of the sadness away, apart from the ache in my chest.
"Yeah, how did you know Bells? What was with those emotions?" Jasper asked.
"I knew him, pretty well in fact but he's a sore subject for me," I bit my lip as I answered. I needed to stay strong, I couldn't drown in my emotions anymore, it was slowly killing me.
"Why is he a sore subject? Was he an ex of yours? Do I need to kick his ass if he hurt you?" Peter fired off, I gave him a small smile.
"No you don't need to hurt him, no we're not exes Peter."
"Then why is he such a sore subject?"
"Because he's gone," I whimpered out pitifully.
"Gone? Gone where?" Jasper asked, confusion in his voice.
"I'm sorry Jay but he's died," I whispered the last words, I hated saying it, hated it to the bottom of my stomach but it was the truth and nothing I could do would bring him back, believe me I begged Willow for a week straight but there was nothing I could do.
"How? When?"
"He died 3 ½ months ago, he died saving the world, quite literally."
I slipped my eyes close as the memories came to the forefront of my mind, the last time I saw him. I brought my knees up to my chest and hugged them to me as I began retelling the story of his last day on Earth.
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