Chapter four
So we travelled a bit more and poor Rose seems completely out of it. She feels useless because they know her ability is that of persuasion so they are keeping her partially sedated while we travel. I keep listening to their conversations and I believe Em and Jasper found a way to track us or know where we're going because Laurent keeps changing directions and highways. After an intense afternoon of him cussing and growling under his breath while looking at his text messages he decides to stop at an electronics store. He was in there for nearly an hour before coming out with a fair sized box. I got a glimpse of what it said and I realized that our fate may be sealed. The device is some type of scrambler to jam electronic transmissions. SHIT. My chip! The boys think I'm not aware of it but everyone underestimates the quiet little girl in the family. I'm very observant and I know mom had that thing inserted in me after the time they thought I was abducted. Well at least I know my brothers were smart enough to turn on the software and try to track me. It looks like I'm on my own now and will have to rescue both Rose and myself.
Laurent went on some sort of rant about knowing that one of us was bugged but since he couldn't cut us or damage us in any way he had to resort to jamming the frequency rather than disabling the chip. After another few hours of uncomfortable silence we pulled into a sleazy hotel and got a chance to shower. Unfortunately I had to put the same clothes back on but at least Rose and I can eat and try to relax.
"We are picking up three more people in the morning. You better behave and if you do I'll take Blondie off of the sedation. But don't get your hopes up, one of the people we are picking up is what we refer to as an antidote. He can render your powers null and void so it should make the rest of this trip fairly quiet." Laurent said with an evil grin.
After his little speech he picked through the food on our table making me no longer hungry and then walked out of the room leaving his phone behind. He must be flustered, that thing is normally attached to his hand at all times. "Rose, watch the door! I'm calling my brother." I whisper ordered at her.
"Tell him I love him and to hurry." She said as she scurried to the door.
I quickly dialed the number and after three rings he finally picked up. "Who is this? What do you want?"
"Now is that anyway to talk to your baby sister?" I cooed.
"Bean? Is that really you? Where are you? Is Rose with you? Have they hurt you? Did they – touch you?" Emmett rambled off while I heard growling coming from the background.
"Listen big brother I don't have much time. Laurent left his phone behind and I'm not so sure when he will be back. Yes it's me, we are in a little town on the northern border of West Virginia. Yes she's with me and she says to tell you she loves you. Besides the cruel attitude they haven't hurt me or touched me but Rose isn't fairing as well. They keep her sedated most of the time because of her power. I am making a break for it sometime tomorrow because he's meeting with three more and one has a power to render other powers useless. He said if we were good then he wouldn't sedate Rose so I should be able to escape with Rose. Be ready for me to call you again tomorrow evening. By the way they are taking us to the Volturi brothers after stopping in London to train us. I think you know what that means. For now we are safe because we are more valuable unharmed and untouched but once we cross the pond we're in trouble. Oh another thing I will try to work on my shield to cover the scrambler he bought today. Laurent knows that once of us is bugged. Didn't think I knew about the chip did you brother bear?"
"You are one smart little girl Baby Bean. We are on our way there. Try to make sure he doesn't know that you are shielding or he could hurt you big time. Tell Rose I love her too as does Jasper. Stay strong Bean, we'll get you home." Emmett replied.
"I love you, both. Be safe. Gotta go."
I erased the listing in Laurent's phone that I used it and settle back onto the bed and told Rose to try and get some rest herself.
"Do you really think we can make it home Bella?"
"Of course I do I'm a McCarty. We always get what we want."
"My brother is one lucky son of a bitch to be marrying you Belly Bean." Rose said using the nickname Em made up for me."
"As is my brother to have you." I replied before hugging her to my side as we lay down to sleep.
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Somewhere in the middle of the night I heard the door open and in walk two sets of footsteps. Instantly I'm on alert but I didn't want to scare Rose or let the persons know that I was aware.
"There she is, didn't I tell you how perfect she is. Aro is going to have a blast with her. Too bad we can't sample the goods though. He wants to break her in personally." Said the voice I knew to be Laurent.
"What about the other? Can we sample the blond?"
"We could but it would severely bring down the payment we are to get for her."
"What if we kept her virginity intact and just played with her for a bit?"
"I guess we could probably keep the price up a bit as long as she isn't marked."
Oh hell no, they are not touching Rose. Now I'm severely pissed off. Come on shield, I know you can work for me now. I concentrate as best as possible and I feel the air around me change but in the dark I'm not sure if it is intact until I hear the other one complain about hitting some sort of wall. YES! That would be me assholes.
"Don't you dare touch her!" I shouted effectively startling them and waking Rose. "Rose, get up I need you to wake up now."
"B Bella, what's going on?" Rose stuttered.
I grabbed her hand and drug her to my side of the bed and shoved her behind me. "We're getting out of here right now Rose." I said as I felt the shield pulse and I thought about sending Laurent and the stranger flying out of my way.
The moment I did they went soaring and Laurent went through the window and the stranger hit the wall. Laurent was knocked out cold and the stranger was trying to regain his senses. I drug Rose out the door and started to run for the stairs when I almost ran into Amun holding the wrists of two girls. One was partially sedated and the other seemed to be in her own little world.
"Where do you think you are going? It's a long way back to Texas on foot. You can't trust any men that you meet because they will just keep you for themselves. Why don't you just go back into the room and no one will get hurt. You'll like your new life in Italy I promise." Amun said.
Now I'm really pissed off I ran at Amun with Rose in tow and concentrated my shield on only him. It hit him with such force that he flew backwards 20 feet and hit the concrete stairwell and was knocked out cold.
"Rose help the girl that's drugged and I got the other one. We don't have much time." I yelled.
By this time people were coming out of their rooms and asking us what was happening. I thought of the only thing that made sense and yelled 'FIRE'. People scattered and blocked the stranger's path from us and I just kept yelling to Rose to keep running. We made it two blocks down and I saw a gas station and I drug all three of them to the phone on the wall outside. I lucked out and found change in the coin return and called my brother again.
"Em, I don't have time to talk. We're on the run and as soon as I get some distance between us and the men I'll call again. I just needed you to know that I had to up my departure time. Laurent brought in a stranger in the middle of the night and was about to break the no touching rule with Rose. Love you."
I turned around to watch a man get out of his SUV and he had actually left it running. He had just finished pumping gas and walked into the convenient store for some sort of snack. Perfect, there's our transportation.
"Rose, see that SUV? It's ours, take the girls and get in the backseat. I'm driving."
We ran to the vehicle and thankfully the girls got in without a problem and I jumped into the driver's seat and peeled out of the station. I vaguely heard the owner come running out the door screaming obscenities at me but I could give a shit we were free and on the road. Now I just have to find another phone to call Em and tell him where we are at. I took a peak into the backseat and Rose was crying. The strawberry blond was still staring out at nothing and the curly haired blond was starting to focus on her surroundings and quickly held Rose and shushed her while stroking her hair.
"My name's Bella and you're holding Rosalie. Who are you?" I asked as calmly as I could.
"I'm Kate and that's my sister Tanya. We owe you our lives. He did vile things to my sister as punishment for me trying to use my power on him. I'm afraid she will never snap out of her current state."
"How long has she been that way?"
"A week."
"What's your power?"
"I can create an electric current across my entire body, packs quite a punch on just half volume." Kate said with a smirk.
"Fascinating, I'm a mental and physical shield but I'm still developing the physical one I've noticed it works best if I'm really pissed off."
"Is that what sent that guy flying down the stairwell?"
"Yup."
"Cool. So where are we headed?" Kate asked.
"Texas."
"Never been there, spent most my life in Alaska. Is it true what they say about Texas?"
"What's that?"
"That everything is bigger in Texas!" Kate replied.
"Oh you have no idea." I smirked back.