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Chapter 7 : Confusions & Misunderstandings
Eva's P.O.V (1922)
Where am I? There was nothing but a dark void around me. Left and right was nothingness. My hair floated around me as if submerged in water. Why am I here? I don't know. But it's cold. I felt something cold all around me... But at the same time there was simply nothing.
"Eva? Evangeline dear?Are you alright?" there was that voice. It has been calling me for a while now, it felt soft like silk but somehow a bit cold...It sounded concerned about something. "We will soon be at the city. The doctor there is the best around here..." Ah... There was the firm voice...It was a bit raspy and tired... It had kept telling me to "hold on" and "it will get better". Hold on to what? What will get better? What are they talking about?
Suddenly everything started moving. I was thrown around the empty space, sometimes I bounced in another direction and it hurt...Sometimes more, sometimes less. My hair got in my face... Ah, I hate this color... Why do I hate it? I don't know.
Then everything stopped. I wasn't moving anymore and it had gotten quiet. I felt as if something was pressing down on me. I feel so dizzy. I am scared. Where are the voices? The silky one and the firm one disappeared. I heard something creak but couldn't turn my head. I couldn't move at all. I heard someone... But I didn't understand.
It hurts. The pressure around me got lighter and then suddenly the darkness disappeared... The colors were very blurred. Huge blobs of red were everywhere. I hate the color. It reminds me of my hair. There were also browns and greens and then there was this glowing color of a whitish yellow. Suddenly I'm moved again. I heard the silky one and a firm one... But this one is not as deep and raspy, it's very smooth... The color turned into a grayish black and I was shifted again. The pressure was back but on different places now. I don't likes this. It's cold and dark. I felt myself moving, the air changed around me making me feel even colder.
"I'm so sorry, Honey..." I heard a voice say. I didn't know the voice. It was different from the silky one, it felt warmer but it sounded so sad...strained.. It reminded me of something, but I didn't know what. I don't like it, it makes me hurt. The voice said more things that I didn't recognize. Then I was moved again. The air around me was harsher this time. I feel sick.
The air stoped moving and the pressure disappeared. I was sitting on something soft and the grayish black changed into brown and green. I couldn't tell what the colors were, then I felt light pressure every now and then before it disappeared again. I looked to my side to see the glowing color move around. That was until it stoped right in front of me. The glowing color turned into a nice yellow color. I know this color. "Dad?" my voice sounded so strange...
Suddenly all the colored blobs seemed to turn sharp again, even those in my memory. All of a sudden I knew why I hated my hair color. All the red earlier was blood. The bodies I only recognized as blobs were my family. Everything that I saw earlier came back to the forefront of my mind. By the time I could focus back onto father, my vision was already getting blurry, this time by tears, I could feel myself shaking in fear.
In that moment, blue locked with gold. This man was not my father. I was alone with a stranger. My family was in a room full of red. "Mom!" I cried out hoarsely. "Eliza!" I tried again, surely they were in another room in this house... A room with red walls and floor. Somebody hugged me. The scent wasn't mothers flowery one... It was one that reminded me of milk and honey.
I knew my family would never come for me.
(Present)
"... Eva!" Somebody was calling me... "Eva, you need to stop!" It cried after me. It was farther away I noticed. I felt so dazed. Where am I? I took my surroundings in.
I was in a forest...and I was running. Why am I running? "Eva!" I recognized the voice, it belonged to Esme. She was telling me to stop. I wonder why? I tried to slow down. The black mist still clung to my sight and confused my mind. Then I heard it. Deep menacing growls from wolfs. I stopped. I looked down at my feet when I felt something move around them. I was standing in a stream... maybe a small river. The growling intensified and I looked up to to look into the eyes of a huge black wolf. The black mist continued to recede into the back of my mind, letting me think clearer with each second. Another wolfs jumped into the water where I was standing an started circling me.
I must have trespassed into their territory.
Jaspers P.O.V
1 hour and 37 minutes had passed since Eva and Esme had left. The atmosphere was tense, the Baker couple and Carlisle were obviously knowing what happened, but they were at least trying to defuse the situation with small talk. Even if their worry was apparent by the way they kept looking out of the window every few minutes. Alice tried to start up a conversation with Lucas...Tried was the keyword, he just shot down her 7th attempt at it. Alice snuggled into my side as she pouted. Lucas was sitting across from us, needless to say that he was completely on edge. He was annoyed and worried to no end, bordering into infuriated and panicking about our missing members.. or rather Eva I assumed.
I frowned. I didn't understand their connection. Was Eva his mate? Was that the reason why she wasn't around? Carlisle did after all tell us that he met her again after an unfortunate event. Maybe she or they had attacked humans or maybe something involving the Volturi? I couldn't figure it out and it gave me a headache. And she reacted so... I didn't even know how to describe it. The closest thing to a description I got would be a void. I haven't met a single person who could feel nothing. As I tried to figure her feelings out, it was as if I was falling into a hole, loosing all senses around me. By the time I could focus back on my surroundings she and Esme were already gone. I was about to follow, but Edward stopped me. Good thing he left to drive Bella home, or else we would be at each others throats again. He seemed to be angry at me because of something again, which resulted in an attitude humans would compare to someone on his period. Seriously, as soon as Bella was involved he seemed to see everyone as his bloody enemy. No pun intended.
I am aware that I almost attacked her once but it was him who lost control and ended up injuring her by pushing her across the room. After he punched me into his piano, Emmett and Carlisle had me already under control. I was feeling bad enough as it was, didn't need him to rub his hatred into me, thank you very much. If nothing else, I never truly believed that Edward accepted me into the family. He was always vocal about his dislike whenever I would remember things from my time in the army.
I was so focused on my anger and the continuous dispute with Edward that I almost missed the door opening and Esme speaking. "You need to go and change immediately or else you are going to-" she started but was interrupted by a laughing Eva. " I won't get sick, Vampire remember?" Esme grumbled for a moment before she came up with a come back "You are dripping all over my floor?" At this both started laughing loudly and the door was closed. There was a light breeze that carried Esme's scent of warm milk and honey into the room, the next thing I had expected was that it would be Eva's scent of ripe cherries and wild peppermint that would accompany it, not the overwhelming stench of wet dog.
Several growls erupted from all around in the house, everyone flashed to the entrance of the living room just as Esme and Eva reached it too. "What happened?" Carlisle asked worriedly eyeing Esme and Eva up and down. My eyes too were already roaming over them. Esme looked fine, though her hair looked a bit wild and her shoes were pretty dirty but still unharmed. My eyes snapped to Eva, whose eyes were now back to a dark gold instead of black. Also she was completely drenched, the crown of her hair was the only thing one could barely call dry. She smiled sheepishly at us before answering "We might had a small run in with your neighbors." I would have left this statement in peace if I hadn't noticed how she tried to hide her right arm slightly behind her back. I grabbed her arm and pulled it towards me before I had registered the thought. She stumbled in my direction, not expecting me to do this too. She stared at me with wide eyes as I looked over her arm. The black sleeve of her coat was almost completely torn off, leaving only some shreds of cloth hanging. A few strips of dark green appeared from under the coat and hung around her shoulder. Her arm itself looked normal to the untrained eye. But if my eyes could recognize one thing it were battle wounds, her arm had healed only recently. I growled at the thought of a mutt attacking her.
"Jazz?" I heard Alice speak from next to me. She tugged at my arm to let Eva go. I looked back at Eva. Her surprised expression was quickly changing into one of anger. She tugged her arm free and cradled it to her chest, looking defensive. "We had a small misunderstanding, I came too close to the border and they didn't recognize me fast enough. Nothing happened." she said determinedly as she looked at everyone. "Alright." Carlisle simply answered with a nod. Alright? It wasn't alright at all! She was attacked by a mutt and he wasn't doing anything against it? She was his only actual blood relative for lords sake! I was about tell them my opinion on this when I felt Alice's grip on my arm again. I looked back at her and she only shook her head.
Then it hit me. I had behaved completely unacceptable in front of my mate and possibly Eva's mate. I put my arm around Alice's waist and pulled her to my side before I looked at Lucas. He was glaring at me and then looked back at Eva. I might had messed up big time now, I tapped into Alice's emotions but didn't find any anger or hatred. She was feeling content, with a small hint of sadness. I was confused, had she already forgiven me? She smiled up at me in that moment and gave me a small peck on the cheek.
"Let's go get you some new clothes!" she chirped from my side as she grabbed Eva's and surprisingly Rosalie's hand before dragging them upstairs. Carlisle and Esme only chuckled, before Esme linked arms with the shy Clara and led her upstairs too. This left Emmett, Carlisle, Adam, Lucas and me standing in the doorway. We stood there contemplating what to do when Emmett spoke in his booming voice "Ever tried to take down a bear, shrimp?" he grinned down at Lucas. "Bring it on!" He only challenged with a matching grin, before we left to hunt.
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