Chapter 2
Bella cocked her head to the side.
"Alice?" Bella asked Damon in confusion. She ignored the ache in the pit of her stomach, and the closing of her throat. Bella knew she had to get over this irrational reaction to the Cullens she had developed. "How are we going to find her?"
Damon furrowed his brows in confusion. "You," he said, as if it was obvious.
Bella stared at him.
"The witch – I mean, Bonnie – said you could find her."
Bella raised an eyebrow. "Maybe there's been a mistake, Damon." She sighed, looking down. "Edward and I...broke up, a few months ago. I have no clue where they are."
Damon growled in frustration. Time was being wasted, time that he could be saving Elena.
"I don't have a choice. You're all I have," he snarled. "Look, you know more about them than anyone else. I need you to help me."
"I will help you," Bella said. "I just don't know how much of a help I'll be to you."
Damon then remembered something else Bonnie had said.
"Are you aware that you have 'powers'?" he asked her.
Bonnie had said Bella had powers even she wasn't aware of.
Bella stared at him as if he had three heads. "What the hell are you talking about?"
"Never mind, it's not important. We'll think about it later." Damon yanked her arm and towed her across the street into the woods and started running.
"Shit!" Bella yelled over the roar of the wind. "You could warn a girl before you did that, dude!"
Damon ignored her. He was focusing on finding a scent. He had to go to Bella's home, and he knew what she smelt like now, so he would find it easily. He knew he could have asked her, but...he was Damon, after all.
Bella had a very strong feeling of déjà vu. It seemed like just yesterday Edward was carrying Bella on his stone back from their meadow, thinking about kissing her while he ran.
Damon stopped in front of Bella's small home. He couldn't hear any heartbeats in the house, or any movement, so there was no one home. Did Bella even have anyone?
"How old are you?" Damon asked her as they walked up the porch steps to her house.
Bella grabbed the key under the eave and unlocked the door.
"Eighteen," she answered absentmindedly as she walked into her house.
Damon stood at the doorway.
Bella turned to stare at him.
"Why aren't you coming in?" she asked him.
"I can't come in unless you invite me in," he said.
She looked at him in interest, smirking as she folded her arms over her chest.
"Oh, so this is another one of those things that your kind of vampires do?" she asked with raised eyebrows.
Damon ground his teeth together. "Look, we don't have a lot of time. Just invite me in."
She glared at him. "Fine." She walked away. "Come on in," she called.
He sighed as he stepped over the threshold, smelling the air.
"I can smell vampire," he said. "That Edward guys scent is still fresh."
Bella lit up another cigarette. "What are we even doing here?"
"Clues," Damon said as he ran up to the room where Bella's scent was radiating from. He realized that this small yellow room must have been her room. He looked around for anything Edward might have left. Then, he smelt it. He ripped the floorboards from the floor and found pictures, plane tickets, and a CD.
"What the hell?" Bella screamed from the doorway. She ran over, yanking the things from his hands. "Where the fuck did you get all this?" she gasped, tears filling her eyes.
"Obviously under there," he said, rolling his eyes.
He snatched the photo from her hand. It was a picture of Bella standing next to a boy with reddish brown hair, extremely pale skin, and gold eyes.
"I'm guessing this is your Edward?" he asked, putting the picture in front of her face.
She nodded.
"Well that's a start," Damon mumbled. "I have his scent and what he looks like. Maybe it would be easier to trace him then."
"Where do we go now?"
Damon opened the plane tickets. They were to Jacksonville, Florida.
"Why would a vampire give you plane tickets to Florida? Out of all places. Wouldn't he burn up?"
Bella smiled. "Nope. The vampires I know glitter in the sunlight."
Damon stared at her. "That's the gayest thing I have ever heard."
Damon and Bella were at the Seattle airport now. They were going to use the tickets to try and find out if any of the workers knew where the Cullens had moved to.
Damon stood in front of a ticket desk, Bella standing to his right.
"Hello, Miss," Damon said politely.
The young woman looked up. She instantly felt attracted to him. His eyes were like blue flames, and his hair was almost black, hanging near his eyes. He was gorgeous.
"Uh, how can I help you?" she asked him, raising her chin.
"Could you check these tickets to see when they expire?" He handed her the tickets.
The woman scanned them then typed on her computer.
"Sir, these tickets have been canceled," the woman said.
Damon raised an eyebrow. "Can you tell me who canceled it?" he asked her.
She shook her head. "Sorry, sir. It's a confidentiality rule."
Damon brought his face closer to her's. His eyes penetrated into her's. The woman felt her mind go blank. Her pupils moved in and out. Damon was compelling her.
Bella watched in confusion as Damon glared at her and the woman stared at him blankly with her mouth agape.
"Now, can you tell me who canceled the tickets?" he asked again.
"Carlisle Cullen," the woman said robotically.
"Do you know where Carlisle is living now?" he asked.
"If I check our phones old calls, I can see the caller ID."
"Do that now," Damon ordered.
"Yes, sir." The woman walked away, into a doorway behind the desk.
Bella stared at him in awe.
"Um, how the hell did you do that?" Bella yelled, grinning.
"It's something my kind of vampires can do. It's called compelling someone. Basically you can order them around and treat them like puppets. It's really fun."
Bella pursed her lips and nodded. "Cool."
The woman came back out, holding a sheet of paper.
"The call was placed from a 719 area code," the woman said, holding out the piece of paper.
Damon snatched it and shoved it in his leather jacket's pocket.
"Thank you," he said, smiling.
Damon and Bella walked out of the airport, standing in front of the sliding doors.
"The area code was 719, right?" Bella said.
Damon nodded.
"I'll Google it from my iPod." Bella pulled out her iTouch and googled the area code 719. "It says it's one of Colorado's."
Damon's eyebrows scrunched together. "Why would sparkling vampires go to a place full of deserts?"
Bella shrugged. "Desolate."
"What cities?" Damon asked.
"A lot," Bella answered.
Damon sighed, rubbing his hand down his face in frustration.
"We're going to Colorado then."
Yeah, I'm not really familiar with all the airport workings, so I just tried making it as realistic as possible.
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