All non OC's belong to Stephanie Meyer, the Twilight world belongs to her too.
I looked at Alexia I'm sure there was terror in my eyes too. "what do you mean die? And who is going to come after us?" I said confusion and terror mixed in my voice. Reilly stood up with Alexia in his arms and moved her out of the room. When he came back a few minutes later he pulled up a chair to where I sat tied up on the floor. He sat in the chair and looked at me sternly "You are not supposed to know our secret" he said slowly, he paused as if thinking of a way to say thinks more clearly, in a way I would understand and hopefully not ask any more questions. "The people Lex was talking about… Well they are like the vampire police. If a coven get too big or if another war starts, they stop it. They kill vampires that reveal the secret…" Reilly trailed off looking at me but not really, like he could see through me. "We don't have much time, It would be smart to just kill you off but that won't help Lex and me." Reilly started to nod his head, he looked like an idiot but I was not one to judge. "We have to go to the Cullen's for help….it's the only way to save Alexia" I was touched by his words 'concerned for his lover more than himself.' Something stirred in the other room and he, like lightning, ran to the source of the sound, knocking over the chair he had been sitting on, and was back. He looked at me and closed his eyes, a dark substance snaked its way around my eyes. Something lifted me up and carried me to what I assume was the car. The car rumbled to life, first in protest then it settled into a quiet hum. As we drove to god who knows where I sat in the trunk for a good hour before the car finally jerked to a halt. Something howled from outside the car, I rolled onto my back and started to kick the top of the trunk with my feet. I smiled to myself when it finally opened, I heard someone mumble something and then I was lifted out of the trunk. "Is she still breathing?" I heard someone say, I hoped they didn't think I was dead. The person that was holding me felt like they were running a fever. The black thing around my eyes began to dissolve and I was able to see more clearly. The person carrying me was a boy, a very large boy, with shaggy black hair and dark tan skin. He looked at me somewhat alarmed, "Jake, Sam she uh opened her eyes" he said as he kept looking at me. "Can you stand up?" he asked with a hint of concern in his voice. I couldn't find the words; they seemed to be caught in my chest. Since I was unable to express myself in words I just nodded, he set me down gently and now that I could see more that his shoulders and above. I realized that he wasn't wearing a shirt, the awkwardness continued as I reached my hand out to touch his cheek, he flinched but he let my hand brush past his face. 'It's burning hot' I thought, just then two slightly older guys walked up to us. 'They could pass for brothers' I thought, the two older guys looked at us quizzically. One looked like he might burst out laughing; the other looked worriedly from me to the boy. "Are you okay?" asked the worried looking boy, I nodded without looking at him. "My name is Sam Uley" He said pointing to himself, I looked at him and smiled. "This is Jacob Black and Eden Mason." He finished pointing once to the boy who was about to laugh, and then to the boy that had carried me out of the trunk. I nodded my hello "I'm Elena Thompson but call me Ellie" I said. I looked back to Eden "Thank you for helping me" I add, Jacob chuckled, but Sam looked intensely at me. "What did they want with you Ellie?" he asked, I assume he is speaking about Reilly and Alexia, 'it's best to play dumb' I decide and say "I don't know" I hope it looks convincing but I can't tell, Sam's face is so calmly composed it's unreadable. Sam nods and looks at Eden "Take her to Emily's house" Sam demands, Eden nodded "Come on" he mumbles. I silently follow him through the woods, the silence was uncomfortable, and when ever I tripped over something Eden would just stop, wait till I got up, then continued walking. I was beginning to get pissed off; I stopped walking and waited for him to realize I wasn't following him. He finally stopped a few steps ahead of me and turned, "we need to get you to Emily's house" he said flatly. I was getting madder "What did I do to you, to make you so cold towards me." I demanded he looked a bit taken aback. Eden quickly composed his face and glowered at me, "I'm like this to everyone." He said as he turned again to continue walking. I scuffed and followed silently fuming behind him.
Once we reached Emily's house Eden explained to her what had happened to me in a hushed tone. Emily was a young girl, not as young as me, but she looked about mid twenties. She had a horrible scar one side of her face, like she was mauled by a bear or something. Eden seemed not to notice but it was hard for me not to glance at the scar every now and then. When Eden left, it was just me and Emily, in her large kitchen, "So uh do you need any help cooking?" I asked hoping I could feel a bit less useless around her. Emily looked at me and smiled 'her face would be so much more beautiful if it weren't for that scar.' I thought glumly, but I smiled back at her anyway. "Well, what can you make?" Emily asked as she checked a pot of stew and flipped some hamburgers. I thought for a moment "I uh can make pancakes." I said with a sheepish smile. Emily laughed; her laugh was happy and melodic, like wind chimes. "Well the boys haven't had pancakes in a while so okay." Emily said smiling. She helped me get what I needed and got me set up at one of her two stoves. Once Emily finished making her stew and the hamburgers were staying warm in the oven, she sat down at the kitchen table and watched me make pancakes. She watched me intently; before I noticed her staring I was flipping pancakes like a pro. When I started to miss, she would giggle and wave her hand dismissively as if to say 'don't worry the boys will eat them any way' I had successfully made about 50 pancakes when I finally sat down to rest. I looked up at Emily who stared distantly out the window. "So what's with those boys?" I asked, she quickly glanced at me out of the corner of her eye and smiled sadly. "You could call them a gang, but they are more than that; they are the protectors of this land." I stared at her blankly "Protectors?" I ask "protectors from what?" Emily quickly covered her mouth with her hand and whispered "uh oh, I've said too much." I cocked my head to the side and looked at her. "I'm sorry Ellie." She said apologetically, I nodded "no, it's fine. " I say smiling, That's when the door burst open, we both turned to look to see Sam, Jacob, Eden and a few other boys file into Emily's living room. Sadly only four out of the six boys fit in the room so three of them had to settle for watching TV. from the next room. One of them was Sam, who obediently walked over to Emily, who was now standing and smiling one of the biggest smiles I have ever seen. Sam's arms wrapped around Emily's waist as they stared lovingly into each others eyes, I couldn't help but stare enviously at the two, 'Emmett' I thought then blushed. Jacob's massive hand waved in front of my face, I blinked and stared blankly at him. He chuckled and said "come on, we're all hungry, and since Emily is trapped in Sam's death grip I'll help you get the food." He smiled and I nodded, hoping he couldn't see the huge blush on my face. When Jacob walked into the kitchen and saw the pancakes his jaw dropped and his eyes bugged out. "Pancakes!" He yelled and every one except Sam and Emily ran from the TV room to the kitchen. They all gasped when they saw the large plate of freshly made flapjacks. "Who made these?" Jacob asked Emily, Emily smiled and said "It was Ellie's idea" Every one looked at me with anticipation. "Uh" I said nervously "what?" they all cheered, except for Eden who just looked at me, shock written on every inch of his face, I happily glared back at him. Once every one had happily had their fill and were watching TV so intently I half excepted the screen to explode. Emily walked up to me smiling "well that was a big success" I said sitting down at the table and sighing. Emily giggled "I never thought Eden would take such an interest in you" she said, I looked at her "uh what?" I asked. Emily laughed again "he doesn't look at people, mostly at the ground" I rolled my eyes finding that somewhat obvious. I sighed again "So what's his problem with me any way?" I asked her frustratedly. I felt someone's eyes on my back and turned to look at whoever it was. 'Eden' I thought sourly, glaring back at him again, Eden sneered and looked away. Emily giggled again and shook her head "he's a good guy once you get to know him" she said smiling. Sam's head popped up from where he sat near the TV, "Hey, Ellie, this is Paul" he said pointing to a large muscular boy sitting on the couch next to Jacob. The boy named Paul raised his hand and waved, all without taking his eyes off the TV. Sam then pointed to another boy sitting in a chair further away from the screen but still equally as interested in it as the rest. "That's Jared" Jared waved, "and that's Seth." Sam finished as he pointed to a smaller boy sitting on the floor seeming the least bit interested in the TV program. Seth smiled at me and stood up; "Hi" he said "I'm Seth Clearwater, nice to meet you Ellie" I smiled politely 'he reminds me of a happy puppy' I thought. I smiled back at Seth as he sat down next to us at the table. Emily stood up "I should go clean up" she smiled at us and walked towards the table. I started to stand up but Emily turned around and said "no you have done enough for the day, stay with Seth for a while" I sat down. 'Damn now I can't get out of talking to him' I thought but smiled back at Seth any way. "So how long have you been hanging out with Jacob and Sam?" I asked, pathetically trying to start a conversation. Seth's smile widened "Well I have been with the pack for a few months now." he said happily. Suddenly Sam was standing by the door somewhat glaring at Seth, "Come Seth" he demanded. 'It's the same tone as when he told Eden to take me here' I thought surprised, I watched Seth stand up, looking scared, he followed Sam out the door and before I knew it Jacob was sitting in Seth's seat. Jacob smiled at me "don't mind Seth like he said, he has been with us for a short time" Jacob said. I nodded but not without glancing in the direction Seth and Sam had left in. Jacob was apparently looking at me, "Don't worry about Seth, Sam won't hurt him, Seth just said too much." Jacob said trying to reassure me, 'well it's not working' I thought.
Later that night I was walking outside with Sam, he wanted to show me something important. Sam and I were walking in the forest; of course I was tripping and falling a lot so it was hard for me to keep up. Once we reached a clearing Sam turned to me, "stay here Ellie" he said sternly, all I could do was nod. Sam walked into the woods surrounding the clearing and disappeared, I was beginning to feel very uncomfortable when I heard growling coming from the forest. I turned around and there in the shadow of the forest was a large animal. My body shook from fear, "wo-wolf!" I screamed in fear. The wolf jumped out of the forest so I could see it clearly, this wolf was bigger than any of the ones I've seen in books or TV shows. On all fours it was almost as tall as Emmett's jeep; it had grey fur and black eyes. There was a noise coming from the forest again, this time a bit further away. Another wolf appeared; this one had red-brown fur and was just as big as the first one, if not bigger. Both of the wolves looked sad, but they kept walking closer. I screamed again and the red-brown wolf flinched, a much smaller darker grey wolf walked out of the woods, he looked just as upset as the red-brown wolf. As the wolves advanced I walked backwards, there was more movement and two more wolves walked out from behind me. "I uh I won't taste good don't kill me!" I screamed as looked franticly for a way out of the clearing. I saw a space where I might be able to escape, I glanced around quickly and then I ran back into the woods. I could hear some thing behind me 'it's those monsters' I thought franticly as I pushed branches away from my path. I kept running away but it felt like one of those dreams where you try to run away but you can't run away fast enough. I closed my eyes and just ran; it was to dark to see anything around me so I just ran. I kept hearing bushes move and the pounding or feet besides my own. "No leave me alone!" I screamed, "Ugh" something stopped me; I felt someone's arms around my shoulders. "No" I screamed again 'it's all over, I'm done for!' I thought frantically. "Would you stop screaming!" someone yelled at me, "huh?" I opened my eyes and looked up. "Eden?" I said, I looked down and saw his arms wrapped around me. "Oh" I blushed and stepped away from him; Eden dropped his hands to his side and looked at me. "What are you yelling about?" Eden demanded, 'those wolves' I thought, I looked around frantically. "Well?" he demanded, I looked at him pleadingly, "there were huge wolves, they were following me, trying to eat me!" I said pointing in the direction I ran from and waving my arms like a complete idiot. Eden's face darkened and he turned around, "come one Ellie, the road isn't far from here. I'll take you back to Emily's house." Eden said coldly, I shook my head "No I want to go home!" I yelled. Eden turned to look at me, "well I can't help you there so it's either stay out here in the dark, alone, in the woods. Or come back to Emily's house with me!" he yelled back.
After Eden's outburst I decided to follow him back to the road where we got into his truck, it was dead silent as he drove me back to Emily's house. It began to rain as we neared her house, when Eden stopped the car near the front of the house I got out with out a word. As my sneakers sloshed through the mud I muttered to myself, on the verge of yelling at Eden again. 'What was wrong with him!' I thought enraged; I stomped up the front steps of Emily and Sam's house, where it was safe from the rain. Eden walked up behind me and shook the rain off of his hair; I glared at him as the droplets of water hit me. "Ugh didn't your mother ever teach you how to use a towel you mutt!" I said angrily. Eden glared at me and growled "never call me that!" he turned to me and grabbed my wrists. I recoiled "you smell like one too" Eden's body began to shake uncontrollably, his voice held hatred in every word he spoke "you don't know what I and every one else here has had to deal with" his voice was cold and rigged. Eden's body still shook when I snapped "yeah well if that's the case I'll go home!" I said trying to get my hands free, his grip tightened and he sneered. "You think you can just go back to those bloodsuckers!" he hissed, I stared blankly at his dirty sweaty face. "How did you know?" I asked my voice cracked, Eden's intense glare intensified "you reek of their smell, and you probably sleep with one of them too" he jeered and I glared at him "who are you to judge me? You're nothing but some mangy dog for all know" I spat back. His grip tightened almost to the point where my wrists felt numb and about to break. "Eden leave her alone!" I heard some one's voice yell 'if I were able to turn around…' I thought coldly. I tried again to wiggle my wrists free from Eden, and like before, it failed and I could almost feel the bones in my wrist's break. "Come on Eden you have more self control then this and you know it!" the voice yelled again I looked up at Eden "Let go of me!" I hissed, that's when someone ran up behind him and hit Eden on the head with a large tree branch, Eden instantly fell to the ground and for a split second I thought I saw hair growing on his face, and his nose become longer. I blinked and he looked normal again, Paul and Jared carried Eden off of the porch and threw him into the back of Paul's pick up truck. Jacob and Seth ran up to where I stood, speechless to what happened. Jacob looked angry, Seth looked worried, Jacob was ready to yell at me but Seth beat him to it. "Were you insane!" he yelled "Eden could have killed you!" I looked at him 'was Seth yelling at me?' I couldn't process any thing all I could say was "my wrists" Jacob looked surprised and Seth looked like he might cry. That's when Emily ran out of the door to my side, she started yelling at the two boys but I wasn't listening to anything they said. They carted me into Emily's car and drove me to the local hospital, during the drive as I sat between Jacob and Sam I finally found the words I wanted to say. "How did Eden know about the Cullen's?" I looked up questioningly at Jacob and Sam who stared at me speechlessly. Sam finally spoke "Eden knocked you out when he grabbed you, we were all there, he never said something like that" I didn't want to accept that answer but it seemed true so I quietly closed my eyes a drifted off to sleep.
I woke up in a hospital bed, reaching over to my side I expected someone to be there. When my hand ran up and down the bed spread finding nothing or no one I sat up abruptly "Emmett?" I said wondering where he was. "Emmett this isn't funny, where are you?" I said panic in my voice, some one walked up to my bed side. I ignored them and continued looking for Emmett, whoever was standing there retrained me from falling off the bed. "No, I need to find Emmett, I need to tell him, I need to tell Emmett" I said deliriously, "come on Ellie he's not here" said a husky voice. I wouldn't accept that "no Emmett's always there, no matter what" I said stubbornly, the voice got more urgent "Ellie, Emmett Cullen isn't here, he never was" the voice spat Emmett's last name. Some how when the voice said "he never was" I started to remember what had happened over the past few days, no, the past month or so. I sat very still in the hospital bed and looked up at the person who had brought me to this horrible realization, it was Jacob and Seth wasn't standing far from the bed ether. My upper lip quivered and I started to cry 'Emmett' the thought of the name made me fall apart. I needed to tell him I was sorry for saying those things to him, I needed to tell him that I loved him. I felt like a toddler crying over a lost toy, but I missed Emmett to much to care. Every one in the room looked at me, some with disgust and others with sympathy. Emily walked over to me and placed her hand on my shoulder "Ellie you have to understand something" she said kindly but with some regret in her voice. "What is it?" I asked sniffling; she sighed and looked over at Sam who was sitting in a chair at the other end of the room. He got up his expression was cold "you've been sleeping for two days Ellie" he said slowly, my eyes widened 'had I been asleep for this long?' I thought some what alarmed. "While you were asleep, you kept talking about that Cullen" Sam seemed as if he was trying not to loose his cool while talking about Emmett. "What I told you about Eden, about what he said being a dream, well it wasn't" I blinked, I could say anything but I recalled the incident. I looked my wrists and sure enough they were bandaged, I looked back up at him and I knew that this was more about Emmett and his family than my injuries. "When we found you in the trunk of that car, well we didn't know you were there at first" Sam had regret in his voice, he didn't want to tell me this, but he had to. "We were chasing those vampires that had taken you from where ever you were from" now I understood. I moved to the side of the bed and laughed dryly "so you were only helping me to get to them" I said accusingly, Sam, Jacob and every one else in the room looked taken aback. Jacob spoke up "no that's not it at all we were only trying to keep you from them, we would never try to get closer to those things" he said angrily. Sam placed his hand in front of Jacob's chest in an attempt to keep him from running at me. "Like Jacob said, we were trying to protect you from your friends" Sam said the word friends like it was acid in his mouth. As much as I hated to say it I had to "what you thought they might try to drink my blood" Sam's chest rose as he took a deep breath "starting to lose your cool huh?" I said coldly. Sam's eyes closed and Emily took my hand "come on we should leave and go find you some clothes to wear out" I stood up and followed her out.
I was incredibly irritated by Sam's 'righteousness', I walked behind Emily with my head down considering my options. 'I could run away, but they are huge dogs so maybe that's not a good idea' I sighed in frustration. Emily had a nurse lead us down to the basement of the hospital, where all the good will clothes were. I glanced at the clothes, not really paying attention. I picked out a commutable looking pair of guy's jeans and a big T-shirt. Emily smiled and said "that will do just fine, let's go back" I nodded slowly and followed her back up to the room. Every one was out side of the room, looking angry. I walked into the room ignoring the cold stares at my back. There was a box on the table near the bed, I ran to look at what was inside. After opening the box and finding flowers I opened the card. It read:
Dear Ellie,
Um I really hope your okay; we wanted to tell you that we will get you out of there as soon as we can. Don't worry Babe!
Love,
Emmett
There was no return address on the box so I threw it out. The Pack already knew who it was from, they made that clear. Emily walked in and said that the pack walked home "they said that the card itself smells worse then you did when they found you!" I laughed 'good' I though 'serves them right!'
In the car ride home it was silent; there really wasn't any thing to talk about. Except, "hey Emily, um I don't mean this to offend you but. How did you get those scars on your face?" I asked silently. It was hard to tell if she had heard me or not, she just nodded her head and stared off into the road. "I was with Sam" she said suddenly, "he had lost control and attacked me, it was an accident but he still hasn't forgiven himself for it" she said sadly. I didn't pry any more, it was clearly something forbidden to speak about.
When we got to the house there was another car in the drive way, it was clearly some one that Emily knew because she was smiling when she walked through the door. "Maxxie where are you?" Emily said happily, I on the other hand walked through the front door and sat on the couch. "Over here!" says a girls voice, I'm guessing she is outside. I hear them laughing and talking when Emily calls to me. I get up and walk to the back of the house. "Jacob is that you?" I asked, there was Emily, I could see her, but then there was someone that looked a lot like Jacob. Emily laughs and shakes her head, "that isn't Jake Ellie, that's his sister Maxxie" I take another look and sure enough it was a girl I saw. I smiled apologetically "sorry Maxxie" I said embarrassed, she laughed and when I went to walk closer to the two she backed away and cursed under her breath. All I heard were "…..smells….bloodsucker" I stiffened and said "so you're one of them" I glared at her coldly. She smirked "and what if I am? You going to get your bloodsucker boyfriend over here to tear me up?" I didn't say any thing, I was too afraid.
'Damn werewolves!' I thought after Maxxie had left. Emily had tried to calm us down but it didn't work well, Maxxie's clothes are in shreds in Emily's backyard. Emily and I sat in her kitchen now, silently she mixed something that looked like stew, I couldn't really tell. I was in a sour mood and I'm sure she knew that. Sam walked in and walked up to Emily, I'm sure he knew how uncomfortable she was feeling. I didn't need to be a fleabag to see that. So I stood up and walked out of the house.
Walking blindly through the forest near Emily and Sam's house released some pent up anger. I was stomping through the woods when I heard some one behind me. "It better not be you mangy mutts, because if you get any where near me I'm going to call animal control!" I yell into the darkness. "Your going to wish it was those mangy mutts sooner or later" said a woman's voice, its cool like ice and life less. "I wouldn't mind ripping one of them to shreds Jane; maybe we should let her squirm a bit." Said another voice, this one has dry humor. I turned around looking for where the voices were coming from. When in a flash I was standing with my head to the side and a cold hand gripping both my arms back. I screamed and the woods around us growled. The pack emerged as if they were hunting a deer. "They've come to play" said the second voice happily. I heard a twig snap and then a wolf cry out. Jacob launched himself at the vampire and it hissed at him as he fell to the ground where it once stood. A sleek black wolf was tackled by the strange vampire and as it growled and snapped for her to get off she just laughed. Her hair was as sleek as the wolfs fur and as she opened her mouth, she screamed.
Not much more of this from the old days. But damn was I obsessed with this.
