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"Bella, I need to do this alone." Edward murmured to me in his honey sweet voice. He stood holding me in the middle of the living room of our cottage, then let me go and walked to the front door.
I blocked him of his path to the door. "Please, take me with you." I looked into his eyes, pleadingly.
"I can't take you with me." He explained in the same low voice as before.
"Why can't you take me with you?" I asked as I put my hands on his shoulders.
"I can't loose you, not again." He explained once more, removing my hands from his shoulders. He placed a pale hand on the door knob and turned it to the left. I placed my left hand on top of his causing him to stop the action.
"I can't loose you either." I whispered in his ear. How could he think I didn't want to loose him either by just waltzing out and fighting?
"Then don't stay for me, stay and protect our daughter." I remembered our Renesmee in the other room, peacefully asleep. Edward was a wonderful husband and father; he didn't want either of us getting hurt. Understanding his loving concern for our safety, I nodded hesitantly.
"You're right; I'll stay and protect her. But," I placed my right hand on his cheek, caressing it. "You be careful, alright?" I advised him delicately but seriously. He smiled and took me into his strong arms and whispered, "I promise." He kissed me and was gone in an instant.
I walked into Renesmee's room and sat in the rocking chair across from her bed, where she lay sweetly dreaming. How I loved the angle I watched before me. She has been through so much these past few months. An old friend of Edward's, Al Coda, has returned for his revenge on us. We never fully understood why he wanted revenge on any of us. Insanity was the solution to the confusing vampire named Al Coda.
I heard the front door slam, and eerie footsteps get closer to the room I was in. I closed the door and locked it, then took Renesmee into my arms and held her against my chest protectively.
There was a low rasp against the door.
"Who is there?" I spoke loud enough so the person would hear, but quiet enough not to wake my sleeping daughter.
"Al Coda." My eyes widened as I heard the familiar ear piercing squeal that got higher and higher pitch with every passing second. I thought on my feet and jumped out the open window, ran and jumped into a fairly tall tree in a fetal attempt to protect my daughter.
I heard the door being blown off its hinges and glass braking onto the floor. Then, I listened to Al Coda's raspy breathe as he searched the room for us. Al Coda is blind and has always been so. As he searched the room, he became angered that he didn't find us. I heard more glass break and Renesmee's dresser being knocked over.
After I heard Al Coda stop, I made a run for it.
As I ran I started to think about why he was here. Not knowing where I would end up, I just kept running for the sake of our lives. I heard his slow unnatural movements behind me; I swerved through the trees to try to confuse him. As I swerved I jumped into trees and back down again just to get him off of our trail; it seemed to be working.
I had reached Down Town Hillsboro. Renesmee was still sleeping as I walked into the Starbucks on the corner of Main Street. I sat down in one of the oversized dark cobalt blue chairs by the back entrance of the shop. As I dug out my cell phone Renesmee started to stir awake. I held the cell phone in my hand and waited for her to be fully awake.
"Mommy?" She asked in her chime like voice.
"Hey sleepy head, did you sleep well?" I asked as I removed a few strands of hair from her face.
"No, I had a nightmare."
"What was it about, sweetheart?" My brow furrowed. Renesmee had been having nightmares for the past week; therefore her sleeping had increased and lost its normal pattern.
"A man, coming to get you, and me; and Daddy wasn't there to help us." She explained softly as I wondered why her past nightmares were always pertaining to the situation at hand. She rested her head on my chest as I dialed Edward's number then pressing the phone to my ear.
"Who are you calling?" She asked me as she rubbed her left eye.
"I'm calling Daddy." I told her as I tried his number again. That was very odd of him; he usually answered on the first ring.
"Can I talk to Daddy?" She asked me excitedly.
"I can't get a hold of Daddy apparently. I'm sorry." I told her as I shoved the phone back into my jacket pocket.
"Awww, I miss Daddy." She told me as she placed her head back onto my chest.
"I do too sweetheart, I do too." I confessed as I stroked her hair. The Starbucks we were in began to get a little less busy. My mind was racing with the thought of Al Coda chasing after my daughter and me. I looked out the massive window and searched the trees and various shrubs across the street. I saw a dark cloaked figure in the distance closing the space between itself and the Starbucks; Al Coda had found us.
I held Renesmee in my arms and rose from my seat heading out the door.
"Where are we going, Mommy?" Renesmee asked wrapping her arms around my neck.
"Away from here." I replied as I looked around franticly for a sensible exit, a place to escape.
I crossed the street and kept walking forward, holding Renesmee close and protectively.
"Mommy a man is fallowing us; the man from my nightmare!" She squealed gripping to me tighter.
I looked back and gasped; she was right. Al Coda was closer than I thought, getting closer to us. I began to jog at a human pace to the Max Transit station across from the post office. I walked onto the plat form and waited for the next train to appear and take us away from Downtown Hillsboro, away from Al Coda.
Finally, after two and a half minutes the train appeared with an ear piercing scream from its horn. I boarded the train as many other humans did and watched as Al Coda came down the stairs trying to find me and my daughter again.
"Come on, come on." I whispered impatiently watching Al Coda's every move with worry for Renesmee. At last the train doors closed and we began our decent to Downtown Portland. I sighed and leaned back in my seat closing my eyes.
Our train ride was quite peaceful. Even though the ride is about an hour and a half long, we sat peacefully as the train carried us far away from Al Coda. Renesmee yawned and blinked sleepily. I smiled at her and laid her down on my chest as she drifted off to sleep. Inhaling deeply, I closed my eyes as well thinking of Edward. I stroked Renesmee's hair and hummed my lullaby as Edward did for me when I was human. I did this regularly to make her fall asleep and dream of pleasant things. It seemed to work quite effectively.
My eyes opened as the train came to an abrupt halt. The passengers clambered off the train onto the stop at Beaverton. A few new passengers came onto the train and didn't come near me and my daughter. The next half hour was very still, only a few people started a casual conversation about simple things like, the weather and the economy, and complained about how gas prices continued to rise and fall.
The train arrived in Downtown Portland at the Pioneer Courthouse Square Transit station. I lifted Renesmee effortlessly and carried her off the train. The train left the station as I walked across the square to sit on the brick ledge forming as a staircase up onto another street.
Before I sat down I dug out the cell phone again and dialed Edward's number. Sitting down on the hard brick ledge I placed Renesmee into my crossed legs and listed to the ringing drone on the other end of the line.
"Bella, are you alright?" Edward's voice sent relief through my entire body.
"Yes, but Al Coda, he's fallowing Renesmee and I." I explained what had happened at the cottage up to the point where I had called him from where I currently was sitting.
"Where are you now?" He asked, in a concerned tone of voice.
"Pioneer Courthouse Square." I replied looking to my left watching for Al Coda.
"Alright, I'm up in Canada right now, keep Renesmee and yourself safe in any way you have too. I'll be in Portland in less than five minutes."
"We love you." I told him.
I heard the smile in his voice as he spoke again. "I love you both more than anything in the world. I'll see you soon. Goodbye."
"Goodbye." I closed the phone and put it into my jacket pocket. Renesmee shivered in my lap, goose bumps rising on her arms. I took off my jacket and wrapped it around my sleeping daughter careful not to wake her from her sleep. I settled her down into my lap again and looked up for a split second. Then I stared out into the square a head of me, seeing the recognizable dark figure in the distance.
Al Coda had found us again.
He began to walk toward us rapidly. I picked up Renesmee and started to walk away from the square. I heard Al Coda's shallow foot steps behind us as I walked as fast as a normal human would.
"Mommy, where are we?" Renesmee asked waking up from her nap.
"We're not on the train dear, that's all I can tell you, ok? You have to trust Mommy, can you do that?" I asked her looking around and behind me. I took a left and walked down Hawthorne Street.
"Okay Mommy, I trust you." She replied. This was good, I had her trust.
"Honey, get onto my back and hang on tight." I insisted as I took a right down a different side of Hawthorne Street. I put my leather jacket on then slung Renesmee onto my back. She held on as tight as I told her to and didn't release her grip. I turned around to see Al Coda closer than I expected. I began to walk at a little faster pace than a normal human would.
After about three minutes of walking and turning down different streets; I turned around and saw that Al Coda was no where to be seen. The street I had turned down was empty and covered in orange and brown leaves, the trees making the illusion of a dome; the buildings seemed to be abandoned. I heard soft ghostly whips of air, and a soft noise that sounded like whispering. I turned in every direction I heard the noises come from.
"Bella," I jumped into the air and landed, my front facing the voice, fifteen feet away from…
Edward. I placed my hand over my chest and took Renesmee in my arms and held her close, running toward Edward. He ran to me and embraced us both in his strong arms. He kissed me then Renesmee's forehead.
"Are you alright, love?" He asked me as we walked back to the Pioneer Courthouse Square station and waited for the train. We sat down on a bench on the sidewalk next to the tracks.
"I'm alright, Renesmee's alright; I'm just so happy to see you!" I told him as I rested my head on his shoulder and his arm snaked around my waist.
"As I am to see and hold you, love." Edward whispered before kissing my forehead. I held Renesmee against me as we boarded the train to come home. Edward sat down and motioned for me to sit in his lap. He has always been so sweet in that sense. I smiled at him and took my place in his lap. Renesmee had fallen asleep within two minutes of the train ride home. I smiled to myself and kissed the top of her head. Edward wrapped his arms around us cradling us to his chest and kissed my temple.
The train carried us on hopefully taking us away from Al Coda forever.
Part 2*
We returned to Hillsboro about two hours after we boarded the second train. Edward and I entered our cottage with Renesmee against my chest.
"He blew the door off its hinges." I told Edward as I fallowed him into Renesmee's room to check the damage.