Chapter 2

Bella had been living with Pennywise for a few days now. She slept at night and her dreams became more heated and frequent. When she woke early in the mornings he would be there, usually in clown form which she assumed must be more comfortable for him as he used that more often. During the days she spent doing really nothing and it was driving her nuts. She'd never been one to just sit around. The first few days had been welcomed because she was tired as hell from all the running and drama her life had been the last few months but now she was going stir crazy so she ask Pennywise to start bring her the a paper to look over.

"What are you circling?" he ask as he came in to visit her. She was sitting on the bed, on her stomach with her feet in the air as she circled things in the newspaper.

"Jobs. I'm going nuts sitting around the house so I need at least a part time job. The money I have isn't going to last forever." She said and he huffed. He didn't like that but he knew she wasn't his prisoner and he couldn't force her to stay. He could but he didn't think that would go over well as she wasn't scared of him and she spoke her mind a lot.

She heard his huff and saw his frown but when he didn't say anything else or demand she stay safely tucked away in the house like Edward would have she smiled to herself. At least he wasn't controlling.

"So tell me more about your Vampires." He said laying by her on the bed and looking up at her, with his hands resting behind his head and one leg thrown over his knee.

"There not my Vampires. They left me remember." She said and he nodded but waited.

"Well, there were 7 of them. Edward my ex was the only single one in the family. They lived like humans and drank from animals. I know a few of them had drank human blood at one time but now they all drink from animals." She said and he rolled his eyes.

"Why?" he ask and she shrugged.

"They said it was because none of them ask for that life and they don't want to be monsters." She said and he scoffed in disgust and she smiled at his facial expressions.

"Anyways, I met them my first day at school after I moved in with my father. The 5 of them that played the 'children' of the family were all enrolled and going to high school. They captured my attention instantly. I'd never seen anything like them in my life. Everything about them drew me in. There look, smell, golden eyes. I was like a lamb drawn to the lion. Edward was in my Biology class and I had to sit next to him. He was so tense, eyes dark and he acted as if he hated me. I found out later it was because my blood sang to him like no other. When class was over he bolted and was gone for 2 weeks. While he was gone I went with some friends to the local beach and talked with Jake my friends that's a wolf, well he wasn't a wolf then yet but he told me some of the legends on their people and he mentioned the cold ones and it stuck with me. When Edward returned he saved me from being crushed by a van that was sliding towards me on the ice. He pushed the van away from me and I was stunned and I started questioning him. At first he denied it and tried to make me think I was crazy but he hung around me and started asking me questions. Then he saved me again from being gang raped one night and I confronted him about my thoughts of him being a Vampire. After that we started dating. Well if you could really call it that, he was the first boy to ever give me the time of day and I was a puzzle he wanted to solve since I was the only mind he couldn't read." She said and Pennywise frowned at that.

"He had the extra gift of mind reading. His siblings Alice and Jasper could see the future and manipulate emotions. He could barley kiss me but I feel really hard. The wolves later said they think I was manipulated by his scent which is why I shut down once he left me. I was going through withdrawals from it. Anyways, they brought me into their family even if some of them didn't like it. They had been worried the Volturi would find out they broke the rules and allowed a human to live that knew about them." She told him and he nodded.

"They took me to play Vampire baseball one night when Victoria, her mate James and another Vampire named Laurent came through and got a whiff of me and wanted to attack. James was a tracker and loved the hunt so Edward saw in his mind he wouldn't stop hunting me so they had Alice and Jasper run with me to Arizona while they tried to take out James but he was smarter then they thought and he found my old house in Arizona and called me from it. Made me think he had my mother so I ran to save her. It had been a lie. He beat me up and then bit me just before the Cullen's burst through the window and killed him. Edward never planned to turn me so Carlisle the father of the group the one that turned several of them told Edward he could save me by sucking the venom out. He did that leaving behind a scar." She said pulling her sleeve up and showing it to him. He took her hand into his large one and sniffed it. Her body tingled all over at his touch before he nodded.

"Smells like Vampire. But just right here." He said running his finger over the scar. Nodding she slowly took her arm back before continuing the story.

After that and after I healed from the attack things went back to normal and we continued to date. Then my 18th birthday rolled around and I begged them not to do anything for me but Alice through a party anyways. I cut my finger opening a present and Jasper, Alice's mate who has the most issues with their diet lost it and tried to attack. They held him back as Edward pushed me back but he shoved me so hard I flew across the room and cut my arm on a glass vase. Carlisle stitched me up and sent me home with pain killers. The next day Edward walked me into the woods and told me his family had already left and there not coming back. That he was leaving too and I wasn't coming with them. He said I wasn't good enough to be a Cullen and I was just a distraction and it was time they moved on as people were starting to notice they didn't age. Then he made me promise not to do anything dangerous with my life before he left me there. I laid on the ground for hours crying before someone found me and carried me back to my father." She said with a sigh and he now felt the absolute need to kill that fucker that hurt her and it was shocking to him to feel that for a human.

"After that like I said I was a zombie. I ran on auto pilot and just stared off into space until one day Jake showed up and pulled me out of it. Then he ignored me for a few months and I found out it was because he shifted into a wolf that was created to kill Vampires. Then Victoria showed back up and you know the rest. I haven't seen or heard from the Cullen's since and they never once showed up to take care of the mess they left behind." She said and he nodded thinking over everything she said.

"I wanted to ask. Can you read my mind? Edward never could and Carlisle said he thought I had some kind of natural shield and if I was ever turned I'd probably have a gift of some kind for shielding." She said and he turned and looked at her.

"I haven't tried. Think of something and I'll tell you." He said and she nodded, closed her eyes and thought of something. She replayed the dream she had last night of them killing Edward and he chuckled which made her open her eyes.

"You have quite the imagination doll." He said and she blushed but chuckled.

"But yes I can read your mind. My abilities are far more advanced than humans could ever comprehend and your Ex had been human at one time so even his power will have restrictions. Your mind is harder to locate but since I'm right here by you it was easy." He told her and she nodded.

So you can't hide from me now. She heard in her mind and she glanced over at him in surprise and chuckled when he winked at her.

She ended up finding a part time job working a few hours a few days a week at the local book store in town. It wasn't much but it gave her something to do and left her plenty of time to spend with Pen and she was able to buy books at a big discount which was a plus since she loved to read.

Posters of missing children started appearing around the town and she knew it was because of Pennywise and she actually felt nothing when she saw them. It was what he had to do to survive and she wanted him to survive. It was weird through. The town didn't seem to really do much about the missing kids. Like they knew it was going to happen and there was nothing they could do about it, the cops just issued a curfew for 9pm but other than that nothing else was done. She had been right. This was a weird town.

Pen would sometimes show up at her work when he knew she'd be getting off and walk her back home and it made her wonder if he missed her. He never really showed many emotions but he seemed to like spending time with her. When he wasn't hunting or terrorizing local kids he spent it with her. She read to him from her favorite books or they talked about different things. He'd ask her question about things he wasn't too sure on and she'd ask him things here and there about his past. She didn't want to pry too much yet because he literally could eat her if he wanted to. She was just glad he didn't seem to have the desire to.

She however was starting to feel a different desire that ran along with her dreams. She had wondered if maybe he was manipulating her dreams but he didn't seem to know anything about them or at least he never let it on that he knew she was dreaming about him. She dreamed about him as his human form and his clown form and they were becoming more heated and more X rated every night. For a virgin she had a hell of an imagination.

She didn't know what it was about him that made her develop this attraction. He wasn't as beautiful as Edward or Jacob had been but neither of them had given a damn about her in the end. She must have developed an attraction to danger. She knew she had been tempting fate back when she was losing her mind and she would run towards danger to see Edward. It must have grown since then. There was something hot and sexy knowing his man, this creature could literally eat her but he hasn't. He could protect her from anything and he was so different, plus she'd never been the kind of girl that went for looks anyways.

She tried to hide her growing affection from him because hell she didn't even know if he was attracted to humans or to her. Liking her enough not to kill her doesn't mean he wanted her in any other way and that dark thought made her stomach clench uncomfortably.

She knew if anyone knew about this they'd think she was crazy but she really didn't give a shit what anyone thought. She had no desire to rekindle with her mother and her father was dead. Edward and Jake had hurt and abandoned her so she could care less what anyone else thought. She just didn't know what she would do if he had to sleep for 27 years. She'd be heartbroken not to have him around.

Once day on her day off after she'd been living there for a little over a week she was woken up by the sound of the front door slamming shut. Sitting up she listened for a moment and heard footsteps down stairs. Slipping into her shoes quietly she tip toed to the window and saw a bicycle lying on the ground out front.

"Shit, shit, shit." She whispered as she walked quietly praying she wouldn't trip she left her room and walked down the hall. She heard another door open and peeked over the railing of the stairs to see a black male going down into the basement with a bat in his hand and she knew he was after her Pen.

"Oh hell no." she said to herself as she ran down the stairs and slid into the dark stairs leading down to the cellar where she knew the well opening was that would lead to Pennywise. She also knew he was either out hunting or down there feeding.

Bending down she saw the black male looking over the well opening as he tossed the rope down. She walked slowly and quietly down the stairs before standing at the bottom.

She saw him lay the bat against the stone well as he secured the rope better. Tip toeing she grabbed the bat and swung just as he turned to look at her and hit him in the side of the head. He fell to the ground unconscious. She felt no remorse about this. She would do anything to protect Pennywise.

"Hey Pen, Pennywise. I need you, please." She yelled down into the well. Within moments he was crawling up the side of the well and poked his head out.

"Yes doll?" he ask amused with a little blood on his chin and she smiled down at him.

"We have a problem." She said moving back as he climbed the rest of the way out and crouched on top of the well and looked down at the black male that was slowly trying to come too again.

"Oh my. What happened here?' he ask her as he saw the bat in her hand.

"I woke from my nap to the front door slamming open. There's a bike lying on the ground in front of the house. Then I came down and saw him about to climb into the well. He obviously knows about you. He had this with him." Bella told him holding up the very old looking bat. Pennywise tilted his head to the side and narrowed his eyes before he vanished and came back with the bike in his hands. It was an old style bike look to have been made years ago.

"The loser club." Pennywise hissed as he tossed the bike on the ground.

"Who?" she ask and he growled at the man on the ground.

"The last time I was awake was the late 80's and I ate a small child named Georgie as my first meal. His brother and there group of friends who called themselves the loser club bested me several months later. They came down together faced there fear and injured me putting me back to sleep. It appears one of the members was trying to see if the missing people was my doing." Pennywise told her and she nodded.

"Well that shit's not going to happen. We should kill him and be done with it and if the others come looking for them I'll knock them out too." Bella said and Pennywise walked over towards her and ran a gloved finger down her cheek.

She had come to mean so much to him. He had been trying this last week or so to process these foreign feelings she brought out in him and he was now convinced it was because she was meant to be his.

"Thank you doll." He told her and she nodded as she took a deep shaky breath.

"Are you going to kill him?" she ask grabbing his hand that was on her cheek and pressing her face into it more. He made her feel so alive, so dangerous.

"Oh you better believe I am." He growled and she nodded.

"Can I watch? I've never seen you feed." She said and he tilted his head to the side.

"I'm not sure you want to do that. It's not a pleasant thing to witness." He told her and she bit her lip and looked up at him with those fucking chocolate eyes.

"Please." She ask and he sighed why can't he say no to her.

"Alright but you stay where I tell you to stay till it's over. I don't want you getting hurt by mistake." He said and she nodded with a brilliant smile. Rolling his eyes he bent down and picked up Mike he remember was his name and tossed him over his shoulder before picking Bella up and letting her wrap her arms and legs around him, which may not have been the best idea because now he felt warmth in places he never had before. Jumping back on top of the well he smirked down at her.

"Hang on tight doll." He told her before jumping back down into the dark hole. She gasp as she clung to his neck harder as they fell before he landed gently at the bottom and walked them towards his lair never letting her down.

"Wow. That really gets the adrenaline going." She chuckled and he giggled with her as he followed the familiar path. When they walked into the large area he finally let her slide down to her feet as she looked around. Nothing had changed, all but a half eaten body lying on the ground. Pennywise brought the male over and sat him roughly on the floor before waving her over. She went to his side without thought. Picking her up by the waist he walked over towards his still open crate and sat her back down. Far away from danger.

"Sit here. Don't move unless I tell you too." He said and she nodded before dropping down and sitting cross legged on the crate. He gave a nod as well before turning and walking back over towards the man. Bella looked around where she sat and saw the signs on the side read 'Pennywise the Dancing Clown' and she gave a quiet chuckle as she turned and watched Pennywise slap the man in the face a few times to get him to wake up.

"Wakey, Wakey, Mikey." Pennywise giggled and Bella chuckled as she watched. She felt like she was about to see something really freighting and she got excited thinking about it. He must have felt her emotions because he turned his head towards her and gave her a wink just as Mike was blinking his eyes open. When he saw Pennywise, alive and well smiling at him showing off a row of teeth he gasp in shock and tried to scramble away.

"No." he man gasp.

Bella saw Pennywise take a deep breath and sigh.

"Oh how I love the smell of fear." He said as he crawled towards the male trying to get away from him. When Mike turned to get up to try and run he stopped at the sight of Bella sitting on the crate watching and Bella gave a small wave with a smile.

"What the. Who?" Mike said and tensed as he felt the warm breath of the clown at his back, drool dripping down and hitting his neck.

"Beautiful isn't she." Pennywise whispered softly to the black male that was clearly agreeing with him with this thoughts even in his fear and Pennywise felt that rage emotion again that he felt when the men were looking at Bella in the store and he knew what it was now. Possessiveness.

"And she's mine." Pennywise hissed and Mike gasp in shock. Bella blushed when she heard what was said but had a pleased smile on her lips.

"She's also the one that knocked your stupid ass out. What made you even think you had the balls to come back here and alone this time?" Pennywise ask when Mike turned back around and started to crawl backwards but a now clawed hand on his leg digging in and dragging him back and away from Bella stopped that shit.

"I saw the missing posters and I knew. It's too early but I still knew and I had to see. The Loser club will stop you, again." He stuttered.

"Well get a good look boy it's the last thing you'll ever see and they can certainly try. I'm not alone this time." Pennywise said and Mike screamed as his mouth opened wide. Bella watched as he ate. It was a strange thing to see and even with the blood gushing everywhere she still couldn't tear her eyes away. It was like a train wreck you just had to keep watching. She had never liked the smell or sight of blood but that must have gone away because she felt no dizziness as she watched and it didn't take him long to devour the body before his mouth settled back to normal and he walked over towards the water falling from the pipes and washed the blood from his face and mouth before turning and looking back at Bella and he was relieved to not see fear in her eyes and only saw that smile she always presented him with. She was the only human he never wanted to fear him.