**Disclaimer: Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer
But I would like to take characters like Misses and Big Joe Black as my own. **
Vanilla & Chocolate
Chapter 7: Edward
Alice is screaming and the van is coming directly at her and strangely all I can think off is that's she here, she came, I've found her she's mine. I hug her to my chest and stopped the van with my hands protecting my life, my destiny. Her arousal floods my senses and instinct takes over. PROTECT, PROTECT MY MATE!
A vampire interferes try to take my kill, I grabbed him pushed him to the road with one arm still around my mate. Humans all around me, blood filling my senses and a female vampire in front me trying to stop me, I can't seem to get past her because I need to keep my mate save. Her mind screamed at me and the order came through loud and clear: "EDWARD, take care of your mate, I'll take care of this filth, NOW Edward, your mate take care of her, the humans are looking, come on …"
In the blood haze I can see Tanya in front of me, Alice and Jasper at my side and my mate looking at me in fear?
"O, Bella baby, are you alright, are you hurt, honey can you hear me?" I ask her softly.
She sniffs the air and grabs me in a tight hug and whispers in my ear: "Vanilla and Chocolate, I've found you!"
'O my baby all my life I've been in hiding, but now that I've found you, I will take care of you and we will protect you, you are mine, my love' The monster purrs in her ear.
She shivers in my arms and I try to tell the monster that my mate needs comfort and something warmer now than our cold body but he doesn't want to let her go he thinks that we are all that she needs that we should just turn her then she will never be cold again. A valet idea my friend but she's still human and we need to keep her warm and to take her to Carlisle but the monster doesn't want to take her there he believes that Carlisle is a threat we'll take her to Rosalie she will be able to take care of her, she has before. It is settled then taking her to Rosalie but an annoying voice is interfering with our plans.
"Edward, control yourself the humans are looking, come on let us take her to Rosalie, Tanya will handle the rest, o here's Charlie, he needs to look at her, Edward come on where are you going, come Charlie needs to look at her." Alice signs she looks at me and smiles and her soft voice sang through the haze "You're back; we lost you there for a while."
I can see clearly now although the haze are still red on the side the humans everywhere and Charlie looking at me as if he wants to take my mate, but Tanya speaking softly to him so that the rest can't hear but us. "Charlie, Love please relax, she's alright, Edward will bring her now, Charlie trust me remember we talked about this?" Tanya looks at me and speaking in her mind tells me to bring Bella to her father.
How can this be so difficult? I want to take her to her father his worried and want to check to see if everything is ok, but the monster doesn't want to play along. He keeps on insisting that any male is a threat especially one that is not mated, right now and that only Rosalie will do now not even Tanya although he concretes that we cannot beat Tanya she's too powerful and a threat just in that knowledge as well!
Tanya bows her head on lowers her eyes speaking in her mind: "Edward, please let Charlie look at Bella, we mean her no harm, please, he's worried and doesn't understand yet, please let him look for himself."
The monster is strangely quiet in my mind and it's as if the haze is lifted the red edges smoothing out I walk towards Charlie and Tanya's head is still bowed slightly such a non-threatened way, so demurred, so strange. Charlie moves his hand but Tanya grabs it and slightly shakes her head, he huffs and suddenly this is not just strange but funny as well.
My mate whispers: "Daddy, I'm ok he saved me." She stretches her arms towards Charlie and for a split moment I didn't want to let her go but she looks at me and smiles leaning in my embrace again and whispers in my ear: "Yours forever."
She step down but put my hand on her back and leans into her father's embrace: "Daddy I'm fine, I'm ok."
Charlie looks me in the eye and croaks: "Thank you for saving my baby."
It's strange that life can flow by you like a stream and it influence everybody around you and none if it makes really sense or you just don't care, everybody has their own cross to bear and for a century this mundane life was just that there was no spice no salt just alive and even not that and in one instance everything changed. She is perfection an angel sends to save me not only from myself but also from this very existence of boredom! Just a child still but mine, no ours as the monster is part of me although I used to fight him, but he wants her, deep inside her, blood spilling into our mouth and red eyes looking at us! No more harm, no one will harm her again, they tried to take her from us, they will die all of them will die even if it means giving power to the queen of war and the monster roars!
I turn towards the van and the Jaws of Life has not yet frees the man, he was bleeding heavily and the fear is rolling in waves of him. I stroll towards him suggesting help to the guys, the pixie screaming in my mind makes me wonder and I whisper to her: "How can someone so small be so annoying?" The tickling laugh is heard and most every human turns towards her and at that moment in harmony of perfect timing I lean towards the filth of life his heartbeat increases 5 times his fear is like a drug cursing through my veins that is if I had any. Chuckling I whisper to him: "Any last wishes?" His heartbeat increases even more and he was short of breath now pleading with his eyes for what, the monster does not care!
"Please I can help you, please let me help you?" He begs and the monster smiles and in slow motion he's neck snaps while the Jaws of Life tries to cut him out.
"Edward she's ok. Are you coming or staying here?" Rosalie's mind interrupts the monster's musing.
"Coming" I whisper and took one look at the man that almost took my angel his heartbeat no longer erratic and for that matter never again beating!
Rosalie looks at me and smirks "She'll be ok, Edward, you did what any normal instinctual vampire would have done for his mate. I'm so proud of you, Emmett is going to enjoy this, and you know that, welcome in joining the club brother!"
This is a strange woman, her mind closed to me a heavenly scent surrounding me with brown chocolate eyes she's beautiful. "Mine" I whisper in her ear. 'Ours' the monster purrs.
Telling her what we are were not as difficult as I anticipated it would be, her mind is sharp and although she's fascinated with me, it's I who feel fascinated with her, that she can look at me at us and still see the man. She thought I was Spiderman or perhaps Batman but in reality I'm no hero but for her, for her I'll be a hero. I will be the best mate I can be she's so innocent asking what my favorite color is when the only color will be the chocolate creamy pools that looks at me as if I'm the wonderful one. When asking her what her color is that traitorous heartbeat went in overdrive and she answered Topaz but why such a reaction we do not understand. I will have to ask the Pixie about it but her mind is annoying nowadays singing "I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world, I'm fantastic …." 'She does that to annoy us' the monster puts in his two sent.
Signing as if he knows more than I do, that Pixie is up to something and even Jasper is translating the Latin dictionary in Swazi!
It's quite fascinating this human he's mate and she wouldn't have fallen asleep if she didn't feel safe, humans are peculiar like that they are fear driven and sleeping with a blood thirsty vampire in a green meadow with lavender and strawberries arousal filling the air will not easily happen.
Carlisle thinks it's the link although she's human she can still feel our bond not as strong as I of course but still it's there like an itching when she's away from me it gets worse but the moment she's in my arms again she's not as fidgeting. I know Tanya has explained some of the basics to her, being a succubus have definitely some inside knowledge Kate likes to call it. 'Poor Charlie' the monster chuckles. Yes she was stressing about that a thousand year old succubus worrying what her mate would not understand!
'She's dangerous and not yet mated!' the monster states. Which is true but Tanya will not harm my mate I know that for a fact and she didn't take our kill I try to sooth the monster. Big Joe Black sends him to kill my mate because The Hunter couldn't do his job as he should have? 'We will kill them all!' the monster roars inside me.
"Edward!" She moans and wakes looking through sleepy eyes right at me and on quoi that perfect blush graces my soul if I had one.
"Sorry, I aa fell asleep." She stutters so beautifully.
"Dreaming of me Beautiful Bella?" I purr in her ear and if possible she blushes more.
The monster is doing a happy dance now he just wants to take her but she's so sweet mumbling about vampires and excellent hearing.
"Don't be self-conscious," I whisper. "If I could dream at all, it would be about you, and I'm not ashamed of it."
She smiles at me and her whole face lights up and in awe she stares at me as the sun has come through the clouds and the diamond sparkles of my inhuman skin blinds her showing her the truth as I am not human as she is, I'm a monster.
A warm hand touches me and an angel's voice tells me: "You're beautiful!"
AN: What do you think? I tried to keep Edward almost in character with the monster thing but in the end he accepts that they are one. I did borrow one quote from Eclipse and one from Twilight.
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