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Previously...
I sat up forward and screamed. My nightmare flashed in front of my eyes, John's face, Mary's face the young baby Bella... Me.
"Bella!" Charlie ran into the room quickly and turned on the light.
"Bella, baby look at me," Charlie implored. I felt his hands on my cheeks trying to get me to look at him.
"Bella, baby look at me, open your eyes baby." I forced open my eyes to see a man staring back at me.
"Who are you?" I asked, his face suddenly grew distraught.
"Bella, baby it's daddy, Bella please remember." A tear dropped from his eyes and landed on my cheek.
"Where am I?" Tears fell from my cheeks as pain throbbed through my body. Another man appeared next to me, it was Charlie.
"Go John, she'll be safe with me." Charlie pulled John away from me and hugged him quickly.
"You protect her, protect my baby girl Charlie." John stepped back and kissed me once on the forehead before leaving without another word.
"Isabella, everything's going to be alright sweetie, you can rest now. You're safe."
My mind snapped back and my eyes focused on Charlie who was anxiously calling out to me.
"Come on baby, come back to me," Charlie pleaded to me with his eyes frenzied.
"Where's John... where's my father?" Charlie's eyes widened as I spoke.
And Now...
"You remember?" A tear ran down Charlie's face as he sat down next to me. I nodded, silently answering him.
"Where's my dad Charlie, where are my brothers?" I gasped slightly trying to regain my breath.
"They're on their way baby. They're coming to help us," Charlie seemed to choke on his tears as he brushed a lose curl behind my ear. I looked around and noticed that Jake was no longer sleeping next to me, and it was strange that Billy hadn't managed to wheel himself in yet...
"They're staying at Harry's," Charlie answered my unspoken question.
"You said they're coming to help us, help us with what exactly?" I wrapped my arms around my knees as I dragged them up to my chest. Every time my eye lids closed I could see several different faces and monsters that I couldn't put a name too, it was as though two minds were trying to fight for control from inside my head.
"I've salted all the doors and windows. We're safe baby; nothing can get us in here," Charlie spoke out while ignoring my question.
"Daddy, why do we need so much salt?" I looked up and saw my father staring down at me smiling as he handed me another bag of salt and I quickly placed it into our shopping cart. When he turned back to grab another bag, I quickly picked up the biggest possible bag of m&m's and placed them in the cart before he noticed.
"Well baby, it stops the monsters from getting through the door. We put some of this on your window and in front of your wardrobe, and no monsters will ever touch you," he stopped and looked down at the cart, and then smiled back up at me knowingly.
"Stops the monsters..." I barely whispered snapping back into reality.
"Charlie, what's after me?" He sat there staring out the window wearing that same blank face as before.
"Demons," he whispered back as his eyes finally met mine, but they were not his usual calm and loving eyes, they were filled with anxiety and worry.
"Yellow eyes?" I questioned as he nodded in confirmation.
"They're working for him. We've managed to keep you safe and hidden here for six years. But somehow they found us, I don't know how, but they did." Suddenly the bedroom window flew open and the line of salt started to blow away.
This is not good.
"Run Bella, living room, now." Charlie grabbed my arm and we ran for it. I followed Charlie into the kitchen where he pulled down the oven door and pulled out a rifle. I laughed slightly as I realised Billy never ever cooked anything in his oven, and this was the reason why.
"Bella, shoot anything that moves!" I nodded as he handed me the gun and pulled out another one from the broom closet. I aimed the barrel of the gun right towards the front door and flicked the safety off. As I steadied my breath I started to recognise certain feelings that I hadn't felt for so long. The temperature around me suddenly dropped and I could slowly see the iced air leaving my mouth. A shudder ripped down my spine as the wind outside seemed to calm suddenly, the natural sounds of the birds outside seemed to disappear into a deathly silence, and it was all too strange. Something was out there, something was coming for me.
I gripped my hands tighter around the barrel of the gun and stared down the small scope, not taking my eyes off the front door.
"Steady Bells," Charlie whispered next to me as he lifted his rifle up to his eye line. I took in a deep breath, trying to calm down the anxiety that was reaching boiling point.
Just as I was about give up on the front door, it suddenly blew open and a woman stumbled through the door while clutching onto the frame.
"Help me please, someone's chasing me," she choked out as a small amount of blood splattered out from her mouth. Her long blonde hair was sticking to her forehead, as my eyes wondered over her I noticed the several cuts over her arms and legs, the bruise that dominated her right cheek, something was definitely out there. I went to step forwards to help her when Charlie's hand flashed out in front of me blocking me from taking one step closer.
"She's a demon," he snarled at her.
When I turned back to face her I noticed that her eyes went pure black. I pulled back the bolt to my rifle and without hesitation I shot her dead in the chest. She fell back into the wall from the impact, but quickly got back up.
"Charlie!" I screamed as she walked forwards again. I pulled the bolt back again and shot at her once more as she stumbled backwards, but not far enough. I stepped back once for every step she got closer to me, I snapped the empty magazine out and quickly placed a new one in. When she was all but a few meters in front of me, she suddenly stopped. She tried to step forward again, but it was as though she was stuck to the floor. Her eyes flew down to the ground and widened at what she saw.
My eyes slowly tore away from her and slowly lowered towards the floor, which was when I noticed the line of white paint peeking out from the corner of the rug.
"Come on baby, it won't be that bad I promise." Dean was kneeling down in front of me with both hands clutching onto mine. I was sitting backwards on a chair with only a small towel covering my chest. There was a big man standing behind me with a tattoo gun ready to brand my skin.
"There's gotta be another way," I whined as a tear fell from my eyes. I was barely eight years old and my brothers were making me get a tattoo for crying out loud.
"I'm sorry baby, but this is the only way to stop a demon from possessing you." I finally nodded to Dean and he looked up towards the man.
"Alright Bobby she's ready"
"Trapped bitch!" I grinned as she tried to fight her way out from inside of her new prison. She looked down and ripped back the carpet and as soon as her eyes recognised the devils trap she screamed.
"Who sent you!" Charlie yelled at the demon who had finally seemed calmed down. She turned to face him and just laughed in his face. It wasn't one of those demonic evil laughs, but more of a mocking laugh, she was mocking him.
"Tell me now!" Charlie picked up a small book from the coffee table and handed it to me. I looked down and noticed the Latin writing on the front cover, it was a book of exorcisms.
"This is going to hurt bitch" I laughed as I started to read out the lines from the first page.
Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, et secta diabolica,
I got half way through and stopped as her screams erupted throughout the house.
"Wanna talk now?" Charlie threw holy water in her direction and she screamed out in pain.
"Never," she spat out quickly. Charlie looked back at me and nodded, quickly picking up from where I left off.
Ergo draco maledicte et sectio
"No wait-wait-wait," she screamed out. Charlie and I both stared at her waiting for her to explain.
"It's yellow eyes. He's wants her." She turned to face me, actually glared more like it.
"What does he want with me?" She looked at Charlie and smiled.
"You've never told her, have you?" Charlie threw some more water on her and silenced her rants.
"Bella, continue reading." I looked back at him confused. I wanted to know what she knew about me.
"Charlie..." I pleaded but he cut me off quickly.
"Who else knows she's here?" Charlie yelled out ignoring me.
"Everyone," the women smirked at me. I looked down at the book and noticed two lines left before the exorcism was complete. Charlie nodded and I finished off the final lines.
Ergo draco maledicte et legio secta diabolica
Ut Ecclésiam tuam secúra tibi fácias servire libertáte, te rogámus, audi nos.
As soon as I read the final word the demon started to spit up black smoke, her screams echoed around the house as the smoke filtered out from each of the windows and the doors. As soon as the smoke disappeared from the room Charlie sprung forwards just in time to catch the girl from falling to the ground.
"Bella, grab some warm water and towels," Charlie yelled out to while lowering the girl to the floor. I rushed out of the room and ran towards the bathroom and grabbed the empty trash can along the way, as I flung open the medicine cabinet I started grabbing anything my hands could get hold of and threw them in the basket. I could hear a faint cry from the living room as I slammed the mirror shut and ran back towards the girl. As I knelt down beside her my hands seemed to seep into the carpet slightly, as I lifted my hand I noticed that it was stained with blood.
"Lied..." My eyes snapped up to the girl as she coughed up blood. I moved closer and clutched onto her hand as Charlie tried to stop the bleeding.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." I picked up one of the clean clothes and held it over one of her many open wounds and light pressed down on it. Her eyes connected with mine as her hand gripped tightly onto mine and a small weak smile appeared on her face.
"Thank-you," she coughed again.
"Three years, she's been in me." Her hand gripped mine tighter as she looked me in the eyes
"Thank you," she whispered.
"Thank you," I whispered back and stroked the hair back from her face. She screamed out as Charlie removed one of the bullets from her stomach.
"What's your name?" I asked while gripping onto her hand trying to distract her from what Charlie was currently doing.
"Shelby, Shelby Myers." She spoke out as a small tear ran down the side of her face.
"Thank you Shelby," Charlie spoke out looking down at her.
"She lied..." Shelby winced as her voice began to get lower and weaker.
"About what, what did she lie about, Shelby?" Charlie prodded her as her eyes slowly began do droop.
"No one else knows... your safe... for now..." Her voice droned out, as her hand grew limp in mine. A sob broke from my lips as Charlie closed her eye lids. I placed the back of my hand against my lips trying to force back the tears that threatened to overflow. A hunter never cries.
It's been hours since the demon attacked, an hour since I shot that stupid rifle, an hour since Shelby Myers was killed, and it had been the longest hour of my life. Charlie had called the station and called in the bear attack on the girl and that she was found in the middle of the forest. I was sitting in Jake's bedroom with the blanket wrapped around my shoulders, Charlie had tried to get me to sleep but my eyes wouldn't close. I was too scared to see her face haunt my dreams.
Two knocks at the door alerted me to Charlie standing there with his arms crossed over his chest.
"How you doing kiddo?" Charlie spoke as he stepped forwards and sat on the edge of the bed. I barely shrugged as he patted my knee.
"This isn't your fault Bells, you know that right?" I just stayed silent. Parts of my memories were flashing before my eyes, some telling me that I just killed an innocent girl and the others telling me to suck it up and move on.
"Bella, the shells that you used were filled with rock salt, they were destroyed as soon as they hit the demon. The ones I pulled out from Shelby were iron bullets baby they weren't fired by you." Charlie reached over and pried one of my hands that was gripping on tightly to the small blanket and held it in his.
"They weren't?" Barely a whisper came out of my mouth, as small smile of relief finally appeared on my face.
"No baby." He sat forwards and wrapped his arms around me and pulled me into his side.
"If anything, we've helped that poor girl, she had been controlled for three years, imagine what she would have seen." I nodded into his shoulder knowing exactly what she could have seen; she would have faced those same monsters that haunted my dreams for the past six years.
"So, what do we do now?" For the first time in my entire life I saw Charlie clueless. We both sat there contemplating the next move, stay or leave, basic fight or flight instincts were surrounding us and it was the toughest decision to try and make.
Several times I noticed Charlie open and close his mouth preparing to say something, anything. As I sat there I conjured up the memories of my father, of my brothers and I knew exactly what they would say if they were here.
"We stay." I spoke with one hundred percent certainty. Charlie's eyes snapped to mine quickly ready to respond but I quickly cut in.
"We're both going to go back home and we're going to live our lives, now that I know what's going on, I know what to look out for. I know how to protect myself, Charlie, and you know how to protect yourself. We will be fine." Charlie stared back me in shock.
"Bella..."
"No Charlie, we will be fine. Please let's just wait for my father to get here and then we can sort things out alright?"
He finally gave in and nodded. "Fine, but you're staying at home." He stood up and crossed his arms over his chest, fatherly Charlie was starting to take over.
"Charlie, I'll be fine in school, no demons are going to attack me in a crowded place. In fact it would be safer for me to be in public than by myself at home. I have my devils trap tattoo on my shoulder, I'll carry my blade in my boot and I'll even make sure I have a bottle of holy water and salt for lunch," I laughed slightly as Charlie rolled his eyes at me.
"Alright Bells, but you make sure you have my number and Billy's number on speed dial ok."
I nodded again smiling in victory.
"Already done," I sat up on my knees and threw my arms around his neck.
"Ok then, well we better clean up this mess and get you ready for school" As soon as I walked out into Billy's living room I groaned, there was blood all over the rug where Shelby had passed away.
Looks like we're buying them a new rug.
"How much do Billy and Jake know?" I stepped forwards to help Charlie lift the blooded rug off the ground.
"Not everything, but enough to know there's more out there than what's in our backyard. Billy especially, started to ask more questions when I drew this on the ground and in every room of his house," Charlie winked at me while gesturing to the white painted devils trap on the wooden floor.
"Yeah, well, I think anyone would get suspicious," he laughed as he nodded towards the other end of the rug. I slowly lifted up one of the rolled up ends and helped Charlie carry it outside.
"So we gonna bury it or set it on fire?"
Charlie laughed at my question and nudged his head towards the back of the house, that's where I saw two shovels leaning against the back wall.
"Looks like it's time to get dirty." I groaned out as we dropped the rug on the ground.
~~***!***~~
"Got your blade?" Charlie was acting like a father who was sending his daughter off to her first day off high school and making sure she had her lunch and her pencil case, but in my case it was weapons and protection gear.
"Yes Charlie."
"And your water?" he asked again.
"Yep, freshly holy-ied" I held up my drink bottle and placed it straight into my backpack.
"And your salt?" I lifted up the small bag of salt that was disguised in a small purse looking satchel.
"Charlie, quit worrying, I'll be fine, honestly. It's been two days since the attack and I have most of my memories back and I know how to kick some demon butt despite your opinion." I swung my bag onto my back and held onto the strap tightly.
"Oh Bells, you know I don't mean it in that way. I know you're a fire cracker, but Bells, I still worry about you. I love you Bella, like you were my very own daughter. I don't know what would happen if I were to lose you."
I stared back at him and felt my heart drop, I was being a total bitch to him.
"Charlie, you're not going to lose me. I'm not going anywhere."
He finally smiled and hugged me once more before letting me go.
As I walked to school I couldn't help but feel a sense of relief, I finally knew who I was. I knew who my family was, not that I never counted Charlie as part of my family but now I knew who my father was, who my mother was and who my brothers were. But most importantly I knew that my brothers weren't these yellow eyed demons that were after me.
As I walked up the parking lot I noticed several eyes snap to mine, Jessica and Angela were talking with the rest of the group before they noticed me. Angela sprinted towards me and wrapped her arms around my waist.
"Where have you been Isabella, we tried calling your house but no one answered and then Eric's dad said that Charlie wasn't in town either. I'm so glad you're okay," she pulled back to look at me before she gasped.
"What happened to your head?" I remember what my head looked like this morning. My very dominant gash was now all but a small scab. It was pretty much healed, give it a day or two which surprised me really, normally it would take weeks before healing, but then again it probably wasn't very deep, just bloody.
"Fell off my bike, but I'm fine now."
She smiled as she passed me over to Jessica who hugged me quickly.
"Where were you, the dance is like around the corner and you still haven't gotten a date."
I rolled my eyes at her, hadn't we already talked about this before?
"Jess, I told you I'm not going to the dance, please just drop it." I stepped out of her arms and walked back to the group. Mike and Eric both said their hello's and well Lauren just snobbed me off as usual. I glanced over my shoulder and noticed the entire Cullen family staring back at me.
My blade suddenly became very heavy in my right boot.
The bell rang and I slowly walked with Angela to first period English. The first half of the day was fine, easy nothing really to report. But lunch time was slowly getting closer and closer and I don't know if I was ready to face them again, I know they're not the yellowed eyed demon but their eyes... could I really handle seeing them again?
Well it was now or never, I took a deep breath as I followed Angela and Jessica into the cafeteria. As soon as the doors closed behind me I noticed the entire Cullen family sitting in the far table of the room, their eyes all calmly staring at me. Angela was standing ahead of me in the line and was talking about something, but all I could concentrate on was the Cullens.
One part of my mind was screaming for me to run, to call Charlie and get the hell out of here as fast as I could. But that was the old me, while the new me that forgot the old me well the me that was with Charlie. But the old me, the hunter me, told me to stay, the hunter me told me to grow up and act like a hunter and not some pretty little school girl. Ok that was a mouth full!
I sat down at the table with my lemonade and my bag of un-eaten m&m's, my stomach felt like it was doing an entire gym routine inside.
"So Izzy, wanna go out tonight?" I looked over my shoulder and noticed Tyler sit down in the spare seat next to me.
"It's Isabella to you, and no I'm busy." Tyler seemed to enjoy asking me out every week, he was even one of the guys who took pleasure in me tackling him to the ground, he'd constantly try to sneak up behind me, and well now he better watch out because I've got a hell of a lot more fire power.
"Oh, don't be like that sugar, I could show you a real good time." He placed his hand on top of mine trying to be romantic or something I think, but instead of impressing me he rather repulsed me.
"Tyler, I said no." I snapped my hand back and grabbed my lunch and stood up from the table.
"Awe, Izzy don't be like that, where you going?" Everyone seemed to notice us now; Ange sent me a worried glance while everyone else seemed to be quite amused by the situation.
"Away from you," I snapped back as I walked out of the cafeteria. God everything was getting to me today, all I wanted was a normal day at school.
I sat outside on one of the wooden tables and pulled out my iPod. It made sense now why I was so in love with Metallica and Linkin' Park and all other old school artist, and that was thanks to Dean.
"Now, Bella, if you're going to be on the road with the awesome-est brother in the whole world, then you gotta know your music." Dean looked back from the driver seat while Sam was laughing from the passenger side.
"Dean come on, seriously with our job line you teach her about music? And put your seat belt on Bella." I groaned and sat back in my seat and snapped my belt on.
"Happy now, Daaaaad," I mocked him.
"Bella, safety first and we all know that dad would say the same." Sam turned around to talk to me before turning back.
"Yeah to me maybe," I whispered under my breath. Dad always was overprotective about me, way more than he was about Sam and Dean, if you could ever imagine that.
"What was that?" Sam asked knowingly, I shook my head and noticed Dean looking at me through the rear view mirror with a smug smile on his face. I crossed my arms over my chest and poked my tongue out at him.
"Anyway what were you saying about music, Dean?" I quickly changed the subject.
Suddenly I felt a presence behind me; I grabbed hold of my dagger from my boot and held onto the handle tightly. I turned to face whoever, or whatever it was and quickly relaxed.
"Jesus Swan, watch were you point that thing."
"Jake! What the hell!" I sighed and placed the knife back in my boot as he walked over to me and sat on the table.
"Charlie sent you didn't he?"
Jake looked up at me and shrugged his shoulders.
"Sorry Swan, but he bribed me," he laughed.
"Yeah, and with what exactly?" I snapped.
"New parts for my bike and yours as well," he answered as I rolled my eyes. Of course Jake would give into anything to do with mechanics.
"Well, I'm fine so you can go now." I snapped and put my ear pieces back in. Jake quickly pulled on the cords and ripped them out of my ears.
"HEY!" I screamed as he took the iPod out of my hands.
"Listen Swanny, don't be angry with me okay. We're just making sure that you're okay. So please don't shoot the messenger, or well in your case exorcise them," he mocked me while bumping my shoulder.
"Yeah, well if I could send your sorry ass to hell then I would," I joked back forgiving him.
"Yeah whatever Swan, we both know that you love me."
I flinched slightly when he said those words.
"Sure sure Jakey." I avoided answering back as the bell rang; signally that play time was over. But now it was time to not only face the annoyance of the student body but the mystery Cullens.
"Well that's my cue; tell Charlie that he is in big trouble when I get home."
Jake laughed as he hugged me quickly before walking towards his bike that was hidden behind a tree. I walked back into the school and went by my locker to pick up my biology books; it was time to face the music.
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