Srry i put this off for so long, but...THANKS TO ALL MY REVIEWERS!! ESPECIALLY READER13 AND .READING !!! they were the ones who were reviewing for each chapter before!!

disclaimer: i don't own twilight. psh. as if.

Chapter 7

EPOV

The stinking rats had to use such underhanded tactics, didn't they? Yes, they did. Instead of fighting like the men that they were, they had to surround me, and start slicing at me in order for me to scream, and to draw someone out of Governor Swan's house.

They couldn't break down the door, so they tortured me, knowing that the Governor's family had a daughter that (the last time they checked) wasn't engaged or married yet. The pirates knew that Bella and Renee had good morals, and were gentle and kind as anything. So they grabbed the closest person they could find, and started torturing them, listening for sounds that meant someone was unlocking the door.

I just happened to be the closest person, and, little did they know, Bella's fiancé.

NO! I couldn't scream, I wouldn't let Bella know that they were hurting me. I wouldn't let them use me to draw her out. They would just grab her and- I stopped thinking that thought. I really didn't want to know.

Grabbing my own sword, the nearest pirate used it to nearly slice my arm off. I groaned quietly. The pain was deafening. It blocked out everything. All that existed in the world was me and the pain. No. I wasn't going to make a sound.

Blurrily, I felt myself bite my lip in order to stop screaming. The white hot pain of nearly having my arm cut off wasn't going to be held in for much longer. I couldn't scream, though. I wouldn't. The pain of losing Bella would be so much more than just an arm. I'm fine. I can handle this. Blood slowly dripped in a line down my chin as my shirt slowly soaked in the red liquid that we call blood.

Then a pirate did something I wasn't prepared for. I thought that all they would do was slash at me with my own sword, trying to get me to make a sound. Instead, I got kicked. In my soft spot. How underhanded can you get?

I was so surprised that I didn't hold it in. I screamed. I'm pretty sure he broke something, though I wasn't going to check anytime soon.

Looking back, if I had been more prepared, and if I had been braver, less immune to pain, I wouldn't have lost Bella. But that's not what Fate wanted, even though I would spend countless sleepless nights raging at myself, wondering how I could have been so idiotically stupid to scream out when my slightest moan would have brought Bella outside and into the pirate's clutches.

SO STUPID! I mentally rebuked myself. Still, there was a tiny hope that she hadn't heard me scream….and that hope was quickly drowned by my angel opening the door, looking positively threatening with the ornamental rapier decorating their wall in her hand.

She looked cute to me, but most likely threatening to the pirates, who quickly scattered, muttering about surprise. I nearly sighed with relief. They were gone. Wait.

If they were gone, why would they- "NO!! BELLA!! GET BACK IN THE HOUSE! GOO!!!" they meant to surprise her and grab her. I couldn't let them do that.

Shaking her beautiful head wordlessly, Bella dropped the rapier, and fell to her knees beside my bloodied, slashed body.

Picking my head up gently, she wordlessly asked me what happened with her eyes. I could tell that she was horrified at the sight of me, lying there, unable to move, and bloodied with a rather large gash on my right upper arm.

"Go back….please Bella! PLEASE!! They're hiding....they'll get you….BELLA! GO BACK IN!!!" I was sobbing by now. Why couldn't she understand? The pirates were lurking around behind her, ready to grab her. Why was this world so cruel?

I was losing blood fast. I could tell that I wouldn't be conscious for much longer, and yet Bella refused to go back in to the safety of Governor Swan's home.

The pirates came up behind her.

There were about seven of them, and even though Renee and Governor Swan's butler were both outside trying to use pots and pans to knock them out, they weren't getting anywhere. Tears silently poured down my face as Bella continued to be stubborn. She wouldn't move an inch. I was touched that she loved me so, but I was more worried about her safety right now.

I watched in horror as they pried her from me. NO! This wasn't supposed to happen!! What happened to Fairy tales?? What about happily ever after? I would never see Bella again. Oh, my dear sweet angel….please, somebody! Don't let her be taken away from me!

"NO!" She screeched. "Edward!! NO! Let GO of me, you blubbering fools!! EDWARD!!" Sobbing now. I was heartbroken. There was virtually nothing I could do.

She was crying too, poor girl. All this was too much for her. All I had wanted was a life with this beautiful angel. What was wrong with that? Why couldn't we have a wonderful life together??

I was weak. I knew it, and I hated myself for it. If only I was stronger…..

She was pried out of my arms, screaming and kicking and all I could do was watch and tell the pirates to back away weakly. I was nearly drifting in a pool of my own blood by now, my arm hanging onto my body by a mere muscle, and yet I stood up.

Soaked through with my blood, and unbalanced, I threw myself at one of the pirates. He was laughing at their pretty catch, and I was so disgusted that I threw myself at him.

He abruptly let go of Bella, surprise flitting across his face before I grabbed a random pot that Renee had dropped and smashed it into his head with my good arm.

That was it for me. The last thing I remember feeling was pain: not physical but emotional. My heart was torn out and thrown to the dogs for supper. Bella was kidnapped, and taken away. If I knew pirates, I knew that they would never willingly let someone as beautiful as her escape their clutches.

The last thing I saw before everything turned into an ocean of black pain around me was the pirates tying and gagging Bella, who was on her knees next to Renee and their butler and pleading with them to get up, tears dripping from her face onto the dirty cobblestone street. No, wait scratch that. The last thing that I saw was Bella looking over at me from her position next to her mother and butler with hopelessness and worry creasing that forehead that I so loved. Then I lost it.

But not before whispering, so low that I doubted Bella heard me: "I'll come after you Bella. Stay safe and ……wait for me…." Then I lost it.

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AN: WAHHHH!!!! DON'T KILL ME!!! Yes, I know that that was absolutely horrid of me, but THAT'S THE WAY THAT IT WAS MEANT TO BE!! Haha, srry ppls. I didn't mean to copy Pendragon or anything..yeah

It was the only thing that would have worked, tho I do admit that I could have made it less bloody. I'M SORRY I'M SORRY!! AHHHH!!!

Just hang on until the next chapter, okies?? Somebody new is coming in, and the next chapter's also the pirate's celebration party after the huuuuuge raid.

GO JAKE SPARROW!! (and no, I did not spell that wrong. Yes, I'm aware that I'm a dork.)

yes the end was cheesy. and yes we do have a new updating plan!!! . it's this: every thursday, at least one chapter for two stories!!!