Fire and Ice; The Secret Saga: Book One, "Enchantment"
Chapter Seven, "Search and Change"
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Argent POV
I was pacing like crazy, and Rosalie made comment that she could actually see me making a rut on the floor.
Finally I'd had enough, "Edward, I'm going on ahead with Sam. Well find the studio, and buy time for the rest of you to show up."
Edward nodded as Sam, and I jogged out of the airport. Once outside we ran as fast as we could without drawing attention. I found Bella's distinct smell mingled with Katarina's. It was faint... but it was enough.
Katarina's POV
"I tricked you both into coming here, sorry, I felt it more appropriately to get you this way instead of involving unnecessary people." After he said that he forcefully shoved us both back into pillars, causing the pillars mirrors to break.
James went over to Bella going on and on about his past and everything, when I was thinking of a strategy to get away, to get both Bella and I out of here.
I was so focused on that in fact that I never noticed James coming towards me with his video camera in his hand, "you want your lover to avenge you?"
"NO!" I yelled. As an answer to my response me broke my leg with his hand as well as my arm, the pain quickly came and I screamed. Louder than I would have ever thought possible.
After more beating, throwing me against things, breaking joints or skin, I had lost consciousness, and the last thing I felt was something really, REALLY sharp enter my neck one side of my neck at a time and slowly the pain came, "HELP!" what was happening to me?
Argent POV
As we got closer I heard the scream, I smelled the blood, and I saw red. I didn't care who as watching anymore, I ran at my human form's top gear. As I ran a car pulled up next to me. The passenger window rolled down, and Alice nodded to me.
"What's happening," I demanded.
Alice swallowed, "…They've been bit, but we still have time!"
The car screeched to a stop in front of the studio, but I simply leapt over it. Edward was out of the car, and at my side at an instant.
I crashed through the front door, leaving a splintered mess in my wake. I was the first to see him. James was taking Bella's hand away from his mouth as my eyes found Katarina on the floor, blood weeping from her neck.
I lunged, and remembered no more.
Edward POV
I was stunned for maybe the slightest fraction of a second when Argent lunged for James. When I saw Bella on the ground I was even less of a second behind him. His clothes ripped to shreds while he changed, and a snarl ripped from my throat.
James took a crouch, and slammed a hand into Argent's chest. We heard an audible crack of bone, but the both of us were too overtaken by rage to care.
I shot a claw shaped hand towards his face which he narrowly dodged. He tried to kick me in the chest, but I caught his leg. Argent clamped his jaws around one of James's shoulders. James grunted as we pulled in opposite directions, holding him suspended just in time for Emmet to slam his fists into his midriff. There was the satisfying sound of stone snapping, and James screaming as we broke him in half.
A jet black wolf, Sam, assisted Argent with ripping apart James's top half while we broke apart his bottom half joint by joint. Once we were done Jasper took a lighter out of his pocket, and set the chest on fire. We piled the pieces into the fire, and the smell of incense filled the room.
A whimper caught my attention as I saw Argent pad over to Katarina, and sniff her. I was abruptly distracted by Bella's pained moans.
Argent POV
I was afraid when I came out of my Black Out. I could hear her heart beating, but her blood smelled wrong. Carlisle looked over them both.
"Alice is right, they've been bitten. Bella will be fine if Edward quickly sucks the venom out, but Katarina..."
I felt my hair rise as he takes her head in her hands, but I forced myself to stay still. Carlisle inspected her wound, his face grim.
"…I'm sorry Argent..."
I felt a growl rising in my chest.
"Carlisle," Edward warned him.
The doctor took a step back as he told me, "I'm afraid it's too late. The venom has entered an artery that carried it to her heart already... She's turning."
Katarina's POV
All I could feel was mind numbing pain. The acid pain seared threw my muscles, veins, arteries, bones, everything. I swore that I must be burning alive. At this moment, all I could feel was myself, being pushed downwards, like there was a force upon me that I couldn't shake. God please help me!
Soon, I was screaming for my life, I felt bad for anyone who would be hearing this scream, if any one could hear it at all. I cried internally to myself. I had left Argent! I was horrible. I let myself get killed, when he loved me more than anything in this entire world.
Again, time passed, it seemed like months that I was in this searing torture, and soon finally, I could hear the things around me. And the main thing that I hear was a heart, and a scent I knew all to well. It was Argent, he was pacing around from what it sounded like. Soon, I felt him take my burning hand in his, as he rubbed the back of my hand, "Please, anyone stop the pain this is causing her." He cried, I wanted to cry, and soon I was able to speak.
Threw clenched teeth I shrieked, "I am so sorry Argent!"
Argent POV
It was killing me to watch this. My first love was becoming the thing I hated most, and it was torturing up both. I wanted o rip James apart again for forcing this on us.
I gripped her hand, and almost wept at the fading warmth. I took her in my arms, holding her close.
All her screaming had scarred the Cullens for another reason entirely. They didn't want to risk this exposing them all to the world, and so they had made arrangements to get up back to Washington. Namely a van with tinted windows.
A scream tore from her teeth, and it cut me deeply to know there was nothing I could do.
Katarina's POV
I couldn't contain my screams, but I tried as we got in a van and drove home, I was able to keep my mouth shut, groaning when I needed to, but I was silent all the way home. When we got there, I remember seeing them put me in a room, alone with Argent. I had hurt him, and now, now I was becoming something that he hated. I couldn't handle the guilt I felt.
As the pain went on, it got worse and worse, causing me to writhe and shout in pain, causing tears to drop from his eyes. "I am so sorry." I cried again. He took my hand and placed it on his cheek, kissing the palm of my hand, and then, I couldn't move. All the pain ceased, but all the fire went to the center of my body, my heart. My heart beat erratically, as I was silent now.
I could hear Argent, yelling my name, worry coating his tone. And my heart went faster and faster, never seeming to slow down.
Argent POV
Her heart was taking off a mile a second, and some sick feeling in my gut told me it was almost over. Tears poured from my eyes, and I was actually crying as she died in my arms.
"I love you Katrina."
Her heart sped faster, faster, and even faster...and then it was still...absolutely still.
She was hard, and her cold skin made me think steam should be coming from here we touched. Her rigid form was still as a corpse...
Then she opened those blood-red eyes for the first time.
Katarina's POV
I opened my eyes to see everything so clearly, I could hear all the way out to the high way and I could taste the air. I looked around and standing right above me was Argent, and I gasped, he was so beautiful, and he smelled so wonderful, his scent was enhanced to me, and I smiled at home, trying to hide the fact that my throat was parched. "I love you to Argent." just then, I noticed my voice was off, clearer, and so beautiful, like the beautiful sound of a good-natured mermaids song.
"Kat, I am so glad you are ok now, and you are so beautiful." he said, didn't I look the same?
"So I look the same?" I asked confused.
"Sort of, and oh so beautiful." he said as he pulled me into a careful hug.
Argent POV
Edward had told me that she would be unstable for the first few months of being a Vampire. I had been ready to accept my death if she had attacked me. All I felt was relief when she gave me that same dazzling smile from before.
Sam, and the other wolves weren't so happy with this, like anyone could change it, but they wouldn't come after her. A Wolf would never destroy the person a brother Wolf Imprinted on, it would emotionally destroy the entire pack having to be in my head if they did.
My careful hug grew tighter as I realized she wasn't the same breakable Kat I knew once upon a time. She was stronger than me now, and way more durable.
I inhaled, and her scent didn't burn like a Vampire's should. It was still her same floral scent, but intensified like a potent perfume. Her cold skin was unfamiliar to me, but I knew I could get used to it.
After all, we had all the time in the world.
Katarina's POV
I wanted to cry in happiness as Argent held close, but I couldn't, so instead I hugged him close to me as well.
"Argent, I am so sorry, I honestly wouldn't blame you if you wanted to leave me for being so stupid, but I am sorry for this, I truly am. He shook his head while a sad smile.
"It's ok, I get to still spend my life with you, that's all that matters." He reassured me.
To Be Continued! :)...
