Part 2

"Clark, you really think you can end the newborn problem by yourself?" asked Carlisle, after leaving him with his thoughts for a while. Clark took his head out of his hands, still conflicted about the girl upstairs, but knowing that the bigger problem needed to be solved.

"What do you think?" He replied, bitterness in his words, would they just help him already.

"You have shown us that you are faster and stronger than any of us but we don't know how many newborns there will be, could you be overpowered? Is it possible to hurt you any other way? I won't let you just storm in there blind" said Carlisle, showing genuine concern for Clarks welfare.

"I'm stronger than any of you, I'm faster than any of you, I can hear a car beep in the next state, I can shoot heat of extreme temperatures from my eyes and it would appear that you vampires cannot pierce my flesh" explained Clark "I think I'll be fine."

And with that Clark had had enough. It was still dark and he possessed abilities far stronger than these vampires, he had set out to stop the killings and now he knew the culprits. Time to end this. The vampires stared at his empty chair in disbelief.

Clark was back in Seattle in no time. He stopped in the same place he'd found the girl and headed in the direction the newborn had ran. He focused on any conversation that stood out as he tried to follow the newborns trail.

"…the newborns are getting restless, we should attack soon. The Cullen's have no idea what's going on it will be easy" said a male voice, annoyed and restless.

"Calm yourself!" commanded a woman "What of the newborn who was attacked the other night? Thrown from his kill by a human? I shall not fail when so close…" Clark smiled to himself; he knew it wouldn't take too long. He homed in on the voices and he was off again.

He stopped outside an old, abandoned warehouse. The building had seen better years, practically all the windows at the top were broken, the doors were wonky, wooden slats were loose all over the building. The fact that it was still standing was surprising.

Clark focused his hearing on the building again, dozens of tiny conversations bombarded his ears. There were a lot of vampires then. How should he go about this? Carlisle had said they were practically invulnerable. Damn he shouldn't have been so impatient, he could have asked for a weakness. Clark ran through all he had heard about vampires and how to kill them, a wooden stake through the heart? Decapitation? Fire? He could manage two of those, it would have to do.

Clark burnt the building to the ground. With extreme focus he blasted the warehouse from left to right making his heat vision as hot as he could manage. He could hear the inhuman screams from inside as the fire burned through the rotten wood and into the creatures themselves.

Several of the creature burst through the walls, shrieking and on fire. Clark quickly ripped off their heads and flung them back in the fire. They were animals that needed to be put down, like rabid dogs.

Clark didn't allow himself to think past that because he knew if he did he wouldn't be able to finish. They weren't human he told himself, just monsters, monsters who killed indiscriminately. He heard a crash from the back of the warehouse. Two vampires had broken out relatively unharmed, untouched by the fire. Clark quickly grabbed the male vampire, dismembered him and through him into the fire then he was onto the woman.

"Wait!" she screamed "You don't understand! I've worked so hard for so long!" she charged Clark, her red hair wild an unkempt she looked more like an animal than any other. Clark let her tackle him to the ground then as with all the other vampires he ripped her head of and threw her into the fire. He quickly X-rayed the building, nothing moved inside, there were only corpses.

Clark just stared for a moment. He'd never gone so far out of his way to destroy before. He'd always been a protector first and foremost, only detroying things either by accident or when necessary. He turned his back on the burning warehouse and headed back to Forks. The heat, the shrieks and the destruction crystal clear in his mind.

He walked back into the Cullen household and slumped down in the chair he'd not left long ago, the Cullen family had waited for him, he could feel the nervous tension filling the room. "It's done" he said, a kind of depsondancy to his voice "They were in a warehouse not far from were I saved the girl, I burned it to the ground, I burned all of them, I…" Clarks voice trailed off. They all looked at him in disbelief, Carlisle raised his hand to the others to stop the flood of questions.

"Emmett your probably the closest to Clarks size, would you grab him some clean clothes please" Clark hearing Carlisles's request looked at himself, his clothes were ruined. Shredded by vampires, scorhced by fire and he hadn't felt a thing.

"Don't worry about clothes I brought some spares, there back at my motel. Hold on a sec" Clark wizzed to the motel grabbed his rucksack and went back to forks in matter of seconds. Once again the vampires were shocked into silence.

"And I thought you guys were fast!" exclaimed Bella, staring open mouthed at Clark.

"You guys have a bathroom?" asked Clark.

"We do" replied Carlisle "I'll show it to you and then leave you to get cleaned up, we can talk after" Carlisle guided Clark to the bathroom and then left him in peace. Clark closed the door, stripped out of the ruined clothes an got in the shower, he turned the heat up too full and just stood as the burning hot water washed away all the dirt.

When he got out he regarded himself in the mirror, putting a face to his internal conflict. I did the right thing, didn't I? It had to be done, those creatures would have carried on killing, they weren't human. He could still hear the shrieks as the vampires burned, he could still see their almost human faces. He didn't like to destroy but as he gazed in the mirror trying to condone what he did he realised that a protector must sometimes destroy to protect.

He had done it before, not quite so purposefull but it had happened, how many meteor freaks had ended up dead? How many buildings had he broken into? How many people had he hurt to protect the ones he loved?

He had been protecting innocent people, he had done the right thing. Clark walked out of the bathroom, clean, refreshed and a little more at ease with what he'd done if not totally comfortable with it.

As Clark walked out the Cullens were all seated at the table again, waiting for the details of his destruction. He sat down in the chair rather heavily and without anyone asking recounted his story from when he'd sped off back to Seattle. "…Two vampires burst out the back trying to escape, one male, one female I got rid of the male without hesitation but the red head said something…"

"Victoria!" exclaimed everyone at the table, it was Clarks turn to be shocked but before he could ask Edward explained.

"Victoria is an old enemy, she was trying to get to Bella to avenge her former lover, we have been keeping an eye out, tracking her, stopping her from getting too close for almost a year. It is a relief to know its finally over" Edward spoke calmly but the atmosphere in the whole room had changed since they'd heard Victoria was gone. Everyone was smiling and keeping their joy barely concealed "Thank you Clark it seems you have solved two of our biggest problems with realtive ease."

"I didn't do it just for you but your welcome" replied Clark " I need some air" he added getting up an heading to the porch, the joy was to much for Clark. He may have felt better about his relentless destruction but joy was going too far.

Clark welcomed the cold air as he walked out into the night. Clark gazed at the forest surrounding the Cullens home, finding it quite fitting to the home of Vampires, all dark browns and deep greens, like it was taken straight out of a vampire story. Except the Vampires here didn't eat people and seemed kinder than some humans he'd met, it was rather confusing.

"Hey" came Bellas voice from behind him, hesitant and quiet, he turned to face her "Umm.. I just wanted to say thank you myself, no one gets hurt this way, you really are quite amazing, anyway I'll umm leave you to it."

Clark watched her go back in the house, he couldn't be mad at her for being happy, her family was safe because of him but the destruction was still clear in his mind and it still made him feel uncomfortable. Clark went back in the house, he should be happy too, the vampires in seattle wouldn't hurt anyone else.

"Hey you guys got anywhere I can crash? I'm pretty tired" asked Clark, they all looked at him and started laughing.

"The vampires don't sleep" explained Bella "But you can crash on the couch back at mine" the laughter subsided and Bella grabbed her bag an car keys "We better be off then, should have been back a while ago, Charlie's gonna be pissed." Bella said goodbye to Edward privately and then headed out the door.

"Clark, I hope you stay for a few days, if you can, I know you've dealt with the new born problem but we'd like to become better aquainted" Carlisle said, ever the polite vampire.

"Sure, I'll give my mom a ring in the morning" replied Clark "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite" Clark added his tone a lot lighter and he left to the laughter of vampires.

Clark saw Bella's truck and smiled as he clambered into the passenger seat. The old beat up truck reminded him of home. "What you smilin about?" asked Bella as she started the engine, it revved for a while but finally caught and they were on their way to Bella's.

"Your truck reminds me of home" Clark replied, his thoughts on the farm in Smallville, Kansas.

"At least someone else likes it!" Bella replied, smiling fiercly, the rest of the journey was quiet and as soon as they got in Clark slumped on the couch and was out like a light.