'When we are afraid,
We ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger.
But in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the dangers.'
- Mark Rutherford
Crimson & Cyan
Dangerous
"Isa… Isabe…" Jane stammered, between kisses.
"Don't call me Isabella." Bella breathed, looking up at Jane who was against the backseat. "I only get called Isabella when I'm in a crap load of trouble." Bella said while continuing to send pleasure through Jane's entire body. Jane moaned, extreme feelings boiling up all over her.
"Oh God, Bella!" Jane cried, grabbing at Bella's dark brown hair again. That was it. Jane had climaxed, and the moment was then gone. Bella curled up against the other nude body in the backseat, pressing their hot, sweaty bodies so close. Bella put her head into Jane's neck, resting like that for a moment. Jane held Bella close, afraid that the moment could just evaporate and be nothing but a meaningless, wet dream.
"See, I told you that if I went first I'd show you a mind blowing time later…" Bella said in a know-it-all fashion into the crook of Jane's neck.
"Uh-huh…" Jane panted, stroking Bella's skin tenderly.
"And?" Bella giggled, running a soft hand over Jane's slender stomach. "Is your mind blown?"
"Yes. Far, far away." Jane smiled, looking at the condensation on the car window. Bella playfully bit Jane's shoulder, causing her to look back down at her. "You're beautiful, Bella." Jane complimented, kissing Bella's forehead. Again, Bella buried her face into her shoulder, smiling contagiously. Bella wasn't too good with compliments, she found it really awkward to say 'thank you' after someone's told you how nice you look. So she always smiled, trying not to show how content she was. Bella moved away from Jane, only so the two of them could put some clothes on now that the condensation was wiping away. Bella curled right back up to Jane after she had put on her bra and underwear, still holding onto Jane loosely. Bella frowned suddenly, feeling Jane's skin suddenly become quite cold. She must have put the aircon on.
"Jane? Are you okay?" Bella asked, noting how stiff Jane had suddenly become. She looked up at her, concerned. "You don't seem…" Bella stopped, staring at Jane's face. She was pale. The area around her pupils were still blue, but around them were invaded by red. "Jane..?" Bella mumbled, becoming scared at the slightest. Her red kept pushed the blue. Pushing, and pushing. Until the blue was all gone. Jane's lips curled into a smile, showing her growing fangs.
"Hello there, Isabella. Did you miss me?" Came an odd voice that did not belong to Jane. It sounded much like a middle-aged man. It sounded like… Aro.
"Jane. Jane, stop that!" Bella stammered, creeping onto the other seat as quickly as possible. Jane's smile transformed into a painful expression, her eyes yet again becoming blue.
"Bella!" Jane squirmed in her real voice, her hands grasping tightly to the doorhandle, trying to contain herself, "Bella, get out of here! Aro must have poisoned m – " Jane stopped, shut her eyes tightly, and reopened them, showing only one to be red, and one to be blue. "I'm going to kill you, Bella!" Jane growled, in Aro's voice. "Bella, run!" Came Jane's voice. Bella could barely think, and grasped for the door handle. Jane let out a scream in Aro's voice, which soon became Jane's painful, high-pitched cry. Bella kicked the door open, and stumbled out into the cold alleyway. Her house was merely three minutes away, and she pounded her feet to the hard, cold concrete and just ran. Bella took one last look back at her orange pickup truck, wondering what was going on inside. Then, the backseat window shattered, and Jane began slithering out. Some of the shards of glass made Jane bleed, but she had no time to react. "Isabella…" Aro's voice sang. "Tell your family and friends to watch themselves…" Came a loud, laugh that was recognizable for miles. Bella looked away, and darted across the street. There was a loud beep, and Bella turned to see a car coming right for her. It screeched to a halt, and looked rather familiar. Jacob's head peeped out of the window.
"Bella? Why the hell are you running across the street half naked?" He squeaked, about to get out of the car. Bella looked at the approaching half naked Aro, or Jane, across the road with clenched fists. Bella grabbed the passenger seat door, and swung it open. She literally jumped inside, shaking in fear. She shut the door and pointed at the road she lived up at.
"Drive, drive, drive, drive!" Bella ordered, putting his car in gear. Jacob was frightened by Bella's fear and stepped hard on the pedal.
"What's wrong?" Jacob quickly asked as the sped up the road. Bella looked over her shoulder, seeing Jane disappear into the nearby trees.
"Jane. We were in the pickup truck, when her skin suddenly became freezing and her eyes became red! She was saying something about Aro poisoning her, then one eyes went blue!"
"Of course!" Jacob slammed the steering wheel in anger. "Why didn't we see this coming! Aro is always prepared for anything! He could be almost completely in Jane's mind, we have to get him out before… Well…" Jacob looked grimly at the road, with his jaw tight.
"What? 'Before' 'well' what?" Bella urged, as they neared her house. Jacob didn't reply and began turning into her driveway where the Cullens were already waited.
"Jacob!" Edward said the second his door opened. Bella opened hers, and stepped out after him. "We heard a… uhh…"
"Whoa! Bella? Why are you naked?" Emmett raised an eyebrow, looking at Jasper, who was blinking in shock.
"Mind your own business." Bella spat. Emmett nodded cheekily, folding his arms.
"I was with Alec, but he's hooked up with some girl at lunch and they've gone to have a walk by the beach." Jacob said. The beaches in Forks weren't very nice. They were dark, and quite miserable. But, Alec's nice behavior would soon make it all better.
"Guys!" Alec ran up to them, completely out of breath. "I got the girl's number, by the way, Jacob." Alec said to him, showing a small piece of paper her held in between his fingers. "I heard a scream, and it sounded like Volturi. Any idea what's going on?" He asked, while Jacob took off his jacket and handed it to Bella. She murmured a shy thanks, finally coming to realize how stupid she looked standing half naked in front of all her friends.
"It was Jane." Said Bella, "Aro poisoned her, and she tried to kill me."
"We should have seen this coming!" Emmett yelled, pounding a fist into Jacob's car. Jacob gaped at him, then at the dent he made. Emmett lifted up the hood of Jacob's car, and pushed the dent back out. When he slammed the hood down, he apologized softly, quite like a young boy would do.
"How come everyone seems to say that they saw this coming? And how come I didn't?" Bella mumbled to Alice, who shrugged. "Anyways, Jake, what were you saying in the car about the 'before' and the 'well'?" Bella asked again. Jacob was already agitated, and could barely answer Bella in the nice way he always did.
"Before there isn't a Jane Volturi." He ended bitterly. Bella's lips parted, as if she was going to say something, but no words escaped her lips. Bella looked up at the forest, seeing a flock of far away birds fly out of a tree and a distant yell. She had a four-worded sentence in her mind: 'Where are you Jane?'
"We have to find her!" Alec screamed, grabbing hold of a nearby chair and tossing it at a wall. Alice ran to his side, and wrapped her comforting arms around the shaking teen. "Please!" Alec pleaded, crying to Alice's shoulder as he accepted her hug. Since Alec was no longer a vampire, he could not pick up scents like everyone else could, and therefore was unable to track down his sister any longer.
"I don't think we'll find her, unfortunately." Said Edward, looking down bitterly at the cold floor. His hands were in his pockets, and he leaned against the wall with his gold eyes locked on the marble floor of the Cullen household. "She'll be the one finding us. Well, Aro will find us, not her." He gulped, remembering the things they did do him before they took his life away. Aro was a big fan of revenge, and something rather vengeful was bound to go down if Aro ever found them.
"We have to look for her!" Bella blurted out, wanting to say that for ages. Edward shook his head, looking at his father who sat in deep thought next to his wife.
"Bella has a point." Said Emmett, stroking his chin. Rosaline stood at her doorway, looking dissatisfied. She had apparently been hiding away from everyone recently, and enjoyed her moments of isolation. "I say we look for her, who's in?" Emmett put his hand up, searching around the room. Jacob, Bella and Jasper raised their hands. "That's four! Alright, let's do this!"
"We can't." Alice said quickly, putting a hand to Jasper's chest. Jasper very slowly, and agitatedly, pulled his hand back down by his side.
"So you just want to wait until Aro drags Jane through total excruciation, destroys her entirely, and lives himself through her killing everyone and anyone?" Emmett snarled, pouting his lips slightly. Alice stuttered for words, dumbstruck. Emmett nodded flamboyantly, "I thought you didn't."
"But, still, it's too dangerous!" Esme warned, holding onto Carlisle's arm. Carlisle looked up at Bella, Jasper, Jacob and Emmett who now stood together like a group. He eyes them up and down, then looked eye to eye with Emmett.
"Emmett has a point, sweetheart. Me, Jasper, Edward, Jacob and him should go out for a few minutes tonight just to see where Jane is." Carlisle mumbled. Bella gaped at him, while Edward pushed himself off the wall with a sigh. "Actually, no, Emmett should stay here." Carlisle ended. Edward smirked, walking past him.
"What?" Emmett groaned, banging a fist down on the table.
"We need someone extra at the house." Carlisle explained, kissing his wife's cheek before standing up calmly.
"And me? Why can't I go?" Bella pressed, grabbing him as he walked past her.
"It's too dangerous, Bella. We can't risk you getting hurt again, Charlie is bound to freak out or something. I'm sorry." Carlisle patting her shoulder, and joined Edward with Jasper and Jacob. "Let's go, guys." Carlisle announced, opening the front door. They all stepped outside, instantly becoming alert. As the door shut, Emmett and Bella cursed under their breath.
"Language…" Alice warned, dancing her way up the stairs. Rosaline called Esme over to the balcony, where she would show her the plants she had been growing since her 'isolation'. As the sliding glass door shut, Emmett let out a depressed sigh.
"Well this sucks." Emmett half laughed, leaning on the kitchen counter. Bella nodded, taking a seat at a very fashionable dinner table. Where, the Cullens surely never ate at. Seeing as they don't eat like this, and go hunting in the woods. They waited, and walked, for nearly two hours. They even went to watch TV, and mess around on the piano. It was all good fun, then the front door slammed shut.
"Alright," Carlisle started, removing his gloves and placing them on the dinner table. Emmett and Bella found their way back into the kitchen, where Alice, Esme, and Rosaline were already waiting patiently. "We've roughly located where Alice is and we're planning to go check up on her again tomorrow morning, when there's more light in the woods. It seems that Jane is still mentally fighting Aro, so I reckon giving it a little more time wouldn't hurt. Well, it would hurt Jane, but it won't hurt us." He ended, wrapping an arm around Esme's waist lovingly. She placed a hand over his still chest, and put her head into his neck. Carlisle eyed all the sad faces in the room, especially Bella's. "And, I believe we all want to stay alive, am I right?" Carlisle asked, everyone agreed. Bella and Alec merely acknowledged it, and nodded subtly. "Humans," He smiled playfully, "I think it's time you both went to 'sleep'. We've got two single beds brought in, and they're in Edward's room… Goodnight." Carlisle gestured down the dark hallway. Alec looked around, unsure where that was, but Bella took his arm and showed him the way.
"My eyes want to close… Why?" Alec asked Bella as she opened Edward's bedroom door. He yawned, "God, what was that?" He asked, sleepily alert.
"You're tired, it means you've got to rest." Bella explained.
"Oh…" He mouthed as she lead him to a single bed. He lay down flat on it, hugging his arms. Bella rolled her eyes at Alec, and pulled the bed sheets over him.
"Just close your eyes, try not to think about the bad things in life, get comfortable, have happy thoughts and relax." Bella said teasingly, ruffling his hair. He smiled, scooching around in the bed slightly.
"This is nice… I like this." Alec hugged the duvet, smiling childishly.
"I do that all the time, now, go to sleep Alec." Bella mumbled, walking to the otherside of the room where her bed was. She turned off the light on her way there, and threw herself onto the bed. She was exhausted. Slowly but surely, Bella drifted into an uneasy sleep.
A/N: Reviews are much appreciated!