Hey Readers!
Hello... anybody... ooookay well here goes nothing. This is just a short clip from a story I'm beginning a prolog of sorts. I'm planning on writing this regardless, but I'm not sure if it's worth posting.
This is actually the scene that got the ball rolling on this story. This is in BPOV but I'm thinking the story is going to be primarily EPOV, though that might change at some point. I hope you enjoy it.
I stood facing the love of my life Edward and his father Carlisle. The family was standing facing the wall length windows watching the city burn. Below us cops were racing around trying to stop the madness as a mob mentality ruled and civilians ripped the city to shreds. I stared at them all looking in wonder at the amazing people I was surrounded by. My love looked at me briefly before returning his gaze to the show below. I could feel his look like a physical touch scorching through my body, I could feel his love and lust mingling in that one heated glance. His father stood as a granite statue, his eyes never wavering from the scene playing out below us. He was a hard man, and I knew he had never approved of his son's attraction to me. I also knew he thought that his son would eventually get tired of me, and then I would be nothing more than a liability to the family. I knew all of this and I should have feared this man, knowing that he planned to kill me when that day came, but I had seen what this man would do for his family. I had seen the love in his eyes when he looked at his children gathered around his wife during the families frequent nights together. I respected this man, and I would always be grateful to him because through him I was given the most important person in my life. Even knowing he would like to see me dead didn't change that.
My body registered the danger before my mind could process what was happening. The others in the room were oblivious as they stood facing the windows. I was the only one facing the back of the room. Even still I only caught the movement out of the corner of my eye. I saw the gun come up pointing at Carlisle's back, I saw the man's face contort in twisted glee as he envisioned his success. I reacted without thought. I dived forward letting out a strangled yell.
The sound of the gun shot echoed crashingly through the room. I felt Carlisle's arms wrap around me as my knees fell out from under me. It's funny I didn't even feel any pain as the bullet ripped through me. I heard voices shouting coming to me from a distance like I was under water. I felt my back press against the ground as Carlisle lowered me hastily to the floor carefully supporting my useless body. I knew I should be in agony but I felt detached, completely separate from the scene I was embroiled in. My eyes spun wildly as I looked for Edward fear cutting through me when I couldn't find him. I needed him with me. Suddenly, his face was before me tears coursing down his cheeks dripping onto my face. I tried to reach him to wipe the tears away, he hated to show weakness I was the only one who should see his tears, but my arm was far to heavy and I could barely lift it off the blood soaked ground. He reached for my hand desperately wrapping his long beautiful fingers around my own icy pale hand. He was saying something to me that my ears couldn't hear his eyes were begging me desperately. He turned away and shouted something at his father his anguish written in his features. I hadn't notice till then but his father was leaning over me his hands pressed firmly against the bloody hole that the bullet had ripped through me. His face was pale as he shouted orders to someone in the back of the room. His eyes met mine for one brief second as he looked back down at me and I saw what I had been striving for since I had fallen in love with his son.
I saw trust, respect, and admiration radiating in his eyes, and I saw fear in his eyes as I slipped farther away from them into that strange empty void that threatened to eat me whole. It was strange that this intimidating man that could face any form of threat coolly had fear in his eyes as he saw how futile their efforts were, as he saw that I was dying. It was almost laughable when I thought back on everything that had happened, all the things said between this man and myself. It was a truly saddening thing for me as I realized I had finally earned the approval and affection of the man who should have one day been my father-in-law, but I had earned it to late.
I turned my eyes back to my Edward, imprinting his image in my mind, I forced a small smile for him as my eye sight faded. I held onto that last sight of his face as I gasped for breath feeling my heart beat erratically pumping my precious blood out of my body through the gaping hole in my chest. And then I fell away into the all consuming darkness that came slinking up with grasping fingers dragging me down into oblivion.
So that's my start! If you liked it let me know. I'm going to try to have an update coming out soon. Let me know if you think this is worth posting or let me know if you think I could improve it somehow I love constructive critisism.
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