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Chapter Two: Blood and Bella
Edward's POV:
I can't believe I let her go, just like that! Everyone, but her, was trying to take down these giant grizzlies. So I lost a few minutes of control over her. I had thought that she was with us, helping us fight them down. She was thirsty; her new born instincts would have told her to join us in the hunt.
There was a familiar alluring smell drifting from the winds. The very smell made my senses click, and I'm sure it did the same to everyone else.
Blood.
Not just blood.
It was human blood.
My mind snapped, and my frozen heart sank. I could hear Alice having the same epiphany that I did as well:
"Blood and Bella!" her mind screamed. Alice had pulled on a horrified face. Bella's senses wouldn't have gone for the grizzlies. Of course not. She would be going for the kill!
I could hear a faint voice coming a few meters away from us. "Run, Davie. Run!" On the instant I darted from our original hunting spot and rushed towards Bella and her victim. It was easy rushing through the forest, trying to spot them out. Not only was Bella's scent strong, but so was the blood.
My useless cold heart started to beat irregularly. It's not supposed to be like that, was it beating out of fear? Or was it beating for the blood as well? I shuddered at the thought.
I knew I found Bella when her shimmering skin reflected off the moonlight, it gave her a radiant glow. The image of her beauty was shattered, as her mouth was spilling blood and her victim sat under her body. I held my breath, to resist the temptation of the sweet crimson liquid.
The victim's thoughts were screaming at me, it constantly ranted "Run, Davie. Get yourself safe. I'm distracting it from you, you should be safe." She was referring to the little boy, until her eyes shifted towards me. She imagined something along the lines of 'an angel' but all of my attention turned to Bella; she's never going to forgive herself for this.
"Oh my god, no. Bella!" I muttered under my breath. The victim's thought went silent, but her heart was still faintly beating.
I lurched forward and wrapped my arms around Bella's waist, I tugged her backwards and the bond between the two was broken. We both landed on our backs, but my next goal was to restrain her. She was still incredibly strong for a newborn; she kicked, scratched and lashed at me to get through. I knew I wouldn't have made it keeping her still if Emmett hadn't come and helped me pin her down.
I glanced over to the victim once more. She was looked to be around fifteen, if I was not wrong. She looked very pale, her freckles contrasted against her deathly white complexion. Her collar-length auburn hair was encrusted with dried blood at the tips. She lay very still and I could see that her slender figure was battered with minor cuts and healing bruises. The worst things were a gaping wound at her right arm. Surely Bella could not have done that! I think her wound was what allured everyone towards her. On her neck was some blood escaping and trickling down to the leaves beneath her. If I wasn't wrong; I could still hear a dying heartbeat coming from her.
Carlisle was at the victim's side instantly. So was Alice, but she seemed very uneasy about being near the blood. Carlisle lifted that burden from her when he instructed "Alice, get back home and grab my medical kit, or a first aid kit. Now." He was inspecting and observing the battered girl.
I was still restraining Bella along with Emmett, but she was beginning to calm down.
Jasper and Esme seemed to be uneasy as well, they both aren't used to the blood yet. Wait. She said something about a 'Davie'. There was another person around. They can't know the secret of vampires.
"Jasper. Esme." I called out. I then had their undivided attention. "There's a little boy running away from us. The victim called him 'Davie' and apparently he's seen our secret. Both of you. Track the boy and Jasper, calm him down and put him to sleep." They nodded once to acknowledge the order, and were gone.
"No, wait." I called out to them again "Keep the boy conscious if possible, maybe we can get some answers from him." Jasper nodded, and they ran off in the direction of the boy's scent.
I don't think the boy got that far, he was still close enough for me to be able to read his thoughts. He could have been just 100 meters from where we were standing.
Bella was still twisting around in my arms. I didn't need Emmett's help to restrain her, not because she was becoming physically weak but because she was relaxing. Bella seemed to almost purr as she sank her face into my chest. She became this giant, content, wild cat that was tossing around in my arms.
While I tried to calm her down a bit more, I studied everything else that was surrounding me.
Carlisle was shining a flash light into the girl's eye as he gently tugged down her eyelid. "The pupil's contracted. She's still alive." Carlisle thought to himself.
I sighed a breath of relief; at least Bella didn't technically kill someone. This would be some sort of reassurance when her conscious kicks in.
Carlisle and Alice were now working on the poor girl. Carlisle was searching desperately through his bag as Alice shone the flashlight onto the wound. The damage looked very serious; she must have lost too much blood from it. There was dry blood surrounding the flesh, it must have stopped bleeding for a while. But how can she simply survive with a bleeding wound and have a vampire steal the very remains of what was left of her blood!?
The little boy's thoughts clicked into my mind.
"No, no, no!" This boy is exhausted, but yet he still continues to run. "I'm scared. Iva, where are you!" Tears are streaming down his eyes, nearly blinding him and making him unable to run any faster. "What's that thing going to do to you, Ivana?! Should I go back now?"
His decision was interrupted, his thoughts shifted to ones of fear. He looks up and stares into the face of Esme. The boys' thoughts went blank, probably from the shock.
"Come on, Davie." I heard Esme coo from a few hundred meters away.
"How does she know my name?" He asked in awe, Esme's motherly figure managed to coax him a bit closer to her. He seemed fine about approaching her, until he thought "Wait, she knows my name. She knows mom! No!" He then broke free of his safety bond between him and Esme and started running away from her.
I could hear little footsteps approaching us "Aw, the poor little boy. He seems so terrified. I better not surprise him with vampire strength." That was true; Esme could have easily held the little boy in her arms.
The little boy appeared from the dark woods and back into the moon-lit circle. He stared in shock as he watched the girl lying lifeless. "No… She can't be dead!" He stood there and stared for a brief second on the verge of tears, and then his glance switched to Bella and me.
"She k-killed Iva!!" The little boy's eyes were on Bella, who was now still in my arms.
He turned on his heel and ran to the girl, making his way past Alice and Carlisle. Carlisle was in the process of stitching up the wound on her arm, until Davie appeared right next to him.
"Ivana!" The little boy cried, the tears were finally spilling. "Please don't die." He tried to hug the lifeless body and sobbed into her chest. "Please, don't leave me with mom again!"
Esme was back, she heard his broken heartbroken cries and felt sympathy for little Davie. "Aw, the poor boy." She thought asshe felt a pang of sadness flow through her.
"Come on, Davie." She broke the silence that was filled with his sobs. "Let the doctor finish his job. Ivana will be okay." She tried to reassure the crying infant. Esme tore the little boy from the girl's body and cuddled him into her arms.
Jasper was by their side. He stroked the boy's hair in attempt to also comfort him; it worked as the little boy's eyes started to close.
"Edward, do we really have to keep him conscious?" Jasper questioned.
"He's been through a lot already from the sounds of it." Esme supported his idea; of course Esme would think whatever was best for the infant, seeing that she was practically the mother of this coven.
"No, it's okay." I answered, they were right: This boy has been through a lot recently. "Give him a dreamless sleep, Jasper."
As Jasper stroked the child's forehead for the last time, Davie was asleep. Cradled in Esme's arms. She seemed like she was ready to protect the sleeping boy from any surprise attacks.
Okay, so that was one problem that was taken care of. Bella was still resting in my arms; thank goodness her conscious hasn't kicked in yet. I don't think we would be able to handle a guilt-filled newborn and a dying human girl just yet. I think it's best that she remains this calm.
"Jasper." I caught his attention "Could you please set Bella to sleep? I don't think we can handle her guilt and a dying human at the same time just yet." He nodded in agreement, and before I knew it Bella was sleeping against my chest.
None of us were breathing except for Carlisle; we were all resisting the temptation of the blood.
"So what's going to happen now?" I asked Carlisle, he had finished disinfecting and stitching up the wound on the girls' arm. He was just cleaning up the blood that was escaping from her neck.
"Well Ivana, as the boy calls her, is going to change." He wrinkled his brow in frustration; he held two fingers against the bite mark on Ivana's neck. "It's cold" He thought to himself. "Apparently Bella's venom had penetrated into Ivana's blood stream. It's too late to revoke the poison, but if we do manage detoxify her; she would surely die of blood loss."
"We're going to have another newborn!" Alice gasped. I couldn't tell if it was out of mock or shock.
"It seems to be so, Alice." Carlisle muttered under his breath.
I stand up and carry Bella bridal style; she was still very light so it was easy for me to do so. "We should go." I announced.
This is going to be another long week.
