"Victoria?!"
Damn her to hell. I wanted to kill her right then and there because of what she has put my Bella through.
"It's you." She mumbled with a slight shake to her voice.
"You know one another?" Billy asked.
"She's been tracking Bella and trying to kill her ever since…" I trailed off remembering the terrible event.
"You killed him!" she yelled.
I hissed at her knowing she was helpless now she was nearly a full human, she shut up immediately.
"Killed whom?" Billy asked, still juggling a few concoctions.
I can't believe this is happening. Victoria was nearly a human, I was standing in the middle of a room wanting to kill both the people in it and was confessing to killing another vampire. I shook my head in disgust.
"James." I said through gritted teeth. Although it wasn't me who killed him, I was speaking for Emmett and Jasper. Victoria and Billy said nothing else. Billy must've known Victoria's story already.
There was so much to ask and say to Victoria, but I thought if I opened my mouth to speak, her and Billy would be dead within seconds.
There was an awkward silence for a few long minutes, and then Billy broke it.
"You have 13 of venom left in your saliva Vic."
"Is that good?" she asked, staring down at the blanket that was still wrapped around her.
"Yes, it means that you're going through your last stages of change. From now onwards it will be much quicker and you will most probably be a human by Wednesday." He finished.
I lifted my arm to check the date on my watch. It was Sunday, so four days before she became a full human.
I drifted off into my thoughts.
"Why would Victoria do this to herself?" I pondered, "She was happy being a vampire, tracking humans…"
I tried to read her thoughts. I didn't get much, it was mostly unfinished sentences, most of the words were blocked out.
"James…Death…Human…Edward…Kill…That Isabella Swan…Billy…Human…Abduct…"
"What?" I said out aloud. She and Billy both looked up at me, but my eyes were focused on Victoria.
She knew instantly I had read her thoughts.
"Abduct? What in the world does that mean?" I asked myself.
Her eyes became saddened and I somewhat felt sorry for her.
Billy's eyebrows were raised, but he soon turned away and kept working.
I walked slowly up to her bed and crouched beside it. I checked to see if Billy was watching but his attention was still turned to measuring volumes of venom and saliva.
"Did Billy abduct you?" I asked in a voice more quiet than a whisper.
She didn't speak so I tried to read her thoughts again.
"Just leave me alone Cullen. What does it matter now? I am a human."She thought.
"But…How? Billy is in a wheelchair, and he managed to abduct a vampire?" I again whispered. I kept checking incase Billy was listening, but he was still focused on his work.
"I don't know. He shot me with something. I could smell him, but he was no where in sight. Suddenly something struck my back and I felt numb all over. I couldn't move for days. You're lucky he has given you a choice…" She trailed off into other painful thoughts. I didn't speak again.
So, Billy Black was a clever man, and somehow figured a way to abduct a vampire.
Was I falling into a trap?
I thought about it. Billy was giving me a choice to become human again. If I did I could be with Bella forever, and not have to worry.
"So Edward, are you interested in become a human again?" Billy asked after some time.
"Yes I am Billy, although I'd like to know some more about this before I agree to anything…" I paused to give Billy a chance to agree.
"Shoot." He said confidently.
Without hesitation I started asking questions that appeared in my mind.
"How long does the process take?"
"Around four months." He answered.
"Is it painful?"
"The first two weeks will be hectic."
That was going to be a problem. How could I two weeks in excruciating pain without Bella finding out what's going on? This was to be a surprise, and once the change was complete, if she hadn't noticed already, then I would tell her.
"Hmm." I mumbled, still thinking about Bella. It wasn't the pain I was worried about, It was how I was going o keep this from everyone.
"You will have to be away from them… Your family I mean." Billy added.
"Would I be staying here…? With her?" I asked.
Slight panic was running through me. I did not want to stay with Victoria under any circumstances.
"No, you will be staying here, but she will be gone when I start treating you."
So that meant that he was going to start on me in four days.
"Four days…" I mumbled on.
"Yes four days to get your story straight with the family, say you're leaving for two weeks or something believable. Then you will come here, and I will start your treatment. The treatment will be excruciating, but nothing you haven't experienced before." He informed me.
I turned to Victoria.
"So it's like becoming a vampire?" I asked. She shuddered and nodded her bright red head.
I closed my eyes. It was going to be so hard to leave Bella without telling her the truth.
She'll think I'm leaving her again. It was better this way though. This way she won't have to experience the pain of changing or loose her soul. I will go through it all again so we can be together for eternity. The thought was warming my heart already.
"So how does it actually work?" I asked Billy curiously.
He took a deep breath.
"I will inject you with a formula I created that has all the nutrients for a normal human in it. But they are intensified so much, it can produce new blood, providing that there are dried particles in your veins to produce your blood type and D.N.A again." He said proudly.
This was very impressive. In all my years of medical school had I not heard of anything so brilliant.
"Impressive." I stated.
It all sounded very reliable. Looking at Victoria, successful as well.
All I needed to do now was convince my family that I needed to go somewhere for two weeks without them finding out about it. Well nearly all of them.
Alice would be a problem that I would tackle when the time was right.
I had made my decision; I was going to become a human once again. My Bella would be so happy, and we can start a family together.
"I'll meet you here in four days then Billy." I said lifting my hand to shake his.
He took it and gave me a firm hand shake, he seemed awfully sincere.
"Goodbye Billy, Victoria." With that I left the shed and ran to the Volvo.
Emmett wasn't there, so I figured he had run home.
I hopped into the car and put Debussy on full bore. I made my way home thinking of every excuse I could use to get away.
This was a new beginning for Bella and I.
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