A/N This is a collaboration with Becky Young. Becky writes all of the female pov and I write the male. This is our first try at fan fiction so please be gentle.
We do not own Twilight Stephanie Myers does. We do not own Edward or Bella just this story.
I hope that you all enjoy and have fun reading what our minds have joined together. Brandi
Tarnished Gosling
Chapter 4 - Forgotten Pasts and Delicious Memories
BPOV
It had been one week. One God forsaken week since I was admitted to
the hospital. The nightmares still plague me. Everything he did,
everything he said, his smell, the feeling of his hands against my skin
haunts me, sickening me to my very core.
** Darkness - the only thing shielding me from everything happening
around me. My mind trying to protect itself, shifting me in and out of
consciousness, pleading with my body - my heart not to give up not to
let him win. I know I'm about to die. I feel it in every fiber of my
being, in every thump of my battered heart, in every excruciating
breath my lungs try to capture. I'm vaguely aware of him lying on top
of me, possessing me as he always does. Taking what he believes is
rightly his.
His heavy pants against the shell of my ear as he harshly thrusts into
me over and over again. I want to scream out, do something to make him
stop. My hand instinctively curls into a fist..and in a last desperate
plea for survival I connect with his temple causing him to falter
slightly.
I'm startled awake bolting upright in the bed as my left arm wraps
instinctually around my torso protecting my battered ribs. My
breathing begins to slow as I become aware of my surroundings. I'm
safe, still in the protecting confines of my hospital room. I lean
back against the pillows gently running my hand in circles across my
abdomen. "It's just you and me now little one. I won't let anything
ever happen to you." Jake succeeded in his torture of me but he
underestimated the strength of the life inside me. Now I have
something to live for. Someone to fight for. Someone that no one, not
even Jake can ever take from me. The only thing I have left...my child.
"You'll fucking pay for that you stupid whore." He spat.
I try to hit him again unsuccessfully as he grabs my wrist pinning it
above my head. "What's the matter Isa-bella? Doesn't it feel good?"
I close my eyes in an attempt to ward off the tears that are about to
burst forth. "That's right Bella, close your eyes. Maybe behind those
eye lids your dream man is there to save you. Is he there Bella?
Whispering sweet nothings into your ear, telling you all the things you
want to hear?"
"STOP IT JAKE! JUST STOP!" I scream out.
He laughs bitterly slowing his movements. "Aww come on Bella. I know
what you dream about. I know all the thoughts running through your
mind you disgusting bitch. How long has it been now? Hm? Two years?
Two years that you think about and pine over someone who's not here,
who will never be here. You're pathetic! He doesn't even remember
your name. I've spent the last two years awake at night listening to
you call his name in your sleep. Dreaming of him. Wishing it was him
touching you, kissing you. Wishing it was HIM here with you instead of
ME. You owe me you little slut!" He rams into me again as I fight
against him. I jerk my hands in a futile attempt to free myself from
his grasp. This only serves to anger him more. His other hand wraps
around my throat in a vice-like grip slowly draining the life from me
as darkness once again consumes me.**
I jump at the sound of a soft tapping on the hospital door. "Come in."
"Good morning sunshine!"
"You're awfully chipper this morning dear cousin." I say dryly
"Yes well why wouldn't I be? My favorite cousin is getting released
from the hospital tomorrow. You're doing so well and getting stronger
every day as is our little bundle of joy." She coo's as she pats my
tummy.
"Heidi, have you forgotten that I now have no place to live and no job
and it's highly likely that once I do leave here Jake will hunt me down
and try to finish what he started?"
"Jake is on the lamb Bella. He ran after he hit me. My guess is, he
would have done to me exactly what he did to you except he didn't account
for my trusty pepper spray and the fact that I had 911 on speed dial.
I don't think he'll come back Bella there are far too many people
looking for his sorry ass, it would be a suicide mission for him to
return."
"As much as I want to believe that Heidi, I don't put anything past
Jake. You know what he's like. When he sets his mind to something he
follows through one way or another. I know that someday - maybe not
today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not even next year..but one day..he'll
come for me."
"Well we have to insure that you're hard to find and protected which, I
just so happen to be able to offer you dear Bella."
"What are you talking about?"
"I have a place that you can stay as long as you want, a safe place
where you won't have to worry about anyone least of all Jake finding
you. Also, I have a job opportunity as well." She beams.
"Uh um I can't afford to pay rent anywhere right now Heidi. No job
remember? I have to work in order to find money to save for a new
place and given my current circumstances it looks like I'm going to be
laid up for a little while and won't be able to work for at least a few
weeks after I leave here."
"Not a problem, it's already been taken care of oh ye of little faith!"
"How can you promise me something like that? Do you have a trust fund
somewhere that dear old gramps left you and if so why was I not
included in that?"
"No Bella" She laughs heartily. "But I do happen to know someone with
plenty of money and an extra apartment that's not in use..Who by the
way, when I explained your situation was all too happy to help you out."
"Great, that's all I need. Someone I don't even know knowing that I
got the shit beat out of me by my low life boyfriend and am now
homeless jobless and knocked up. Thanks for that Heidi." I spat.
"Oh you know him Bella. Would you like to meet him? Maybe that will
jog your memory."
"Him who? And why do you sound so damn cryptic?"
She holds up one finger to silence me and walks to the door. I hear
the sound of muffled voices but cannot make out anything being said. A
few moments later, Heidi re-enters the room followed closely behind
by...HOLY. MOTHER. OF. SWEET. BABY. JESUS. It can't be. Oh dear
lord kill me now, put me out of my misery because I know I am surely
dreaming at this very moment. Those deep emerald pools of sex, want ,
longing and need. The one's that have tortured my every thought and
dream since the moment I first laid eyes on them. Every desire, every
fantasy, every dream has been of this man and those eyes and has
consumed me body and soul for the last two years of my life leaving me
aching with desire and hollow with doubt that it would never be.
"Bella, you remember my boss Edward Cullen?"
