Katie gasped as her eyes opened. Emmett had woken her up. She had dragged Freddy out with her.
Emmett had taken a couple of surprised steps backward when Freddy had appeared.
Freddy paused for a second, when he realized where he was. Quickly, he let Katie's throat go, grabbed Katie's wrists, and pinned them in front of her. He put the knife on is pointer finger on the left side of Katie's neck, threateningly. Katie looked at Emmett, helplessly. Emmett was about to move closer, but Freddy stopped him.
"One more step, loverboy, and I kill her." Freddy said.
Emmett froze in the tracks, as did the rest of the Cullens.
Freddy laughed.
"She's my girlfriend now. I'll give her exactly what she needs, and you can't save her." Freddy said.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size!" Emmett growled.
"Are you offering? Or do I get to choose from the other tasty morsels in the room?" Freddy asked, eyeing Alice and Bella.
Jasper and Edward dropped into defensive positions in front of their girlfriends, and snarled.
Freddy laughed.
"I'd like to see you try someone who can actually defend thenselves." Emmett growled.
"Oh, you'll get your chance, after I'm finished with Katie." Freddy said.
"You don't touch a single hair on her head, or I'm going to rip you apart!" Emmett spat.
Freddy laughed louder. He put his mouth to her cheek and trailed his tongue down her face. Katie shut her eyes tightly, and screamed. That made him laugh even more.
Freddy trailed the blade down to Katie's chest. Freddy sliced a long, deep line across Katie's breast. Blood seeped onto the jersey's v-neck. Katie screamed again.
Katie saw Edward leave Bella, and tackled Jasper onto the floor.
"Get him out of here!" Carlisle told Edward.
Edward dragged Jasper out of the house. Alice, Bella, and Esme Followed.
Emmett to a step towards Katie. Freddy put the knife back to Katie's throat.
"You really want her dead, don't you? It's okay, I'll kill her, eventually. I just want to have some fun with her first." Freddy said.
"Over my dead body." Emmett growled.
"That can be arranged." Freddy told him.
"Or am I too old for you? I know how you like those young kids. What kind of pervert are you? They were kids dude." Emmett said in disgust.
The smile disappeared from Freddy's mouth.
"I would have gotten away with it, if this one hadn't gotten free. She won't get away this time." Freddy said, as he gave her another cut on her chest.
More blood spilled out. Emmett growled.
Katie screamed.
"Kill me! Kill me, instead of her!" Emmett said.
Freddy paused, sizing up Emmett.
"No! Emmett don't!" Katie yelled.
"If you can, I mean, I'm not as helpless like you like them, but, I think I can handle it." Emmett said.
Freddy thought about it.
"Emmett, get away from him! He's going to kill you!" Katie screamed.
Freddy laughed.
"I will and I'm looking foreward to it." Freddy said.
"Don't get your hopes up to high, you have to catch me first." Emmett said.
"You can't out run me." Freddy said.
"I won't be running, but you'll be wishing that you could run, when I get my hands on you." Emmett said.
"This should be fun." Freddy said.
He cut her chest one more time. Katie screamed.
"That's music to my ears." He said to her.
"What's wrong Kreuger? Are you scared of me? Guess what? You should be. I'm going to tear you to tiny little pieces." Emmett snarled.
"Take your best shot!" Freddy said.
"Let go of Katie first." Emmett said.
"No! Don't touch him!" Katie told Freddy.
"You're not in a position to be negotiating." Freddy told Katie.
"I'm going to slice him into tiny little pieces, then I'm coming for you." Freddy said.
Freddy threw Katie into the wall. She fell to the floor.
"Carlisle!" Emmett said.
"I've got her." Carlisle told him.
"Good, I'll be done in a minute." Emmett said.
Carlisle's hands were on Katie's shoulders, as she looked at Emmett and Freddy.
She held her hand up.
"Emmett! No!" Katie yelled.
"I'll take care of him, and you'll never have to be scared again." Emmett said.
"I'm going to kill you." Fredd said.
"Think again." Emmett said.
Freddy lunged, and slashed Emmett's chest. Freddy stood, as Emmett looked down.
Katie screamed.
Emmett looked at Freddy, and smiled.
"What the hell?" Freddy said confused.
"My turn. I'd run if I were you, but it doesn't matter, I'm oing to kill you either way." Emmett purred, smirking at Freddy.
Freddy took a step away, then tried slashing Emmett again.
"What?" Katie said, in confusion.
"Too late. It's my turn." Emmett said, as he grabbbed Freddy" gloved arm.
Emmett ripped Freddy's right arm off of his body, and threw it behind him.
Freddy screamed.
"It hurts doesn't it!" Emmett said, as he grabbed Freddy's left wrist.
Freddy's left arm was flung next to his right one. More screams from Freddy. Emmett put his right hand around Freddy's neck.
Katie scrambled to her feet, and stumbled over to Emmett.
"Wait." Katie told Emmett.
Emmett paused, his hand still around Freddy's throat.
"You're in my world now, bitch! I told you that you'd be ripped limb from limb. Finish it Emmett." Katie said.
"With pleasure." Emmett put his hands on Freddy's face. Emmett snapped Freddy's neck, and ripped his head off of the shoulders. The body crumbled to the floor. Emmett let the head fall from his hands.
Katie sobbed as she fell to her knees. Emmett cautiously knelt down next to her.
Without warning, Katie lunged at Emm, wrapping her arms around his neck, hugging him. Emmett slowly wrapped his arms around her.
"Wat the hell was that? Don't ever do that again!" She slapped his shoulder as she pulled away from him.
She kissed him suddenly. After a minute, she pulled away, and looked at him.
"Are you okay?"" She asked, putting her fingers through the tears, and touching his cold skin.
"I'm fine, I told you I would be. I'm worried about you...Are you okay?" Emmett asked.
"I'll survive. I'ts really over, isn't it?" Katie asked.
"Yes, the nihtmare is finally over." Emmett told her, wrappping his arms around her again.
"Emmett, I need to clean her cuts. Why don't you take care of the body. Burn the remains." Carlisle said.
Emmett nodded, then looked at Katie.
"Go with Carlisle. Get cleaned up." Emmett told her.
She nodded.
He helped her to her feet. He walked her over to Carlisle.
"I'll be up as soon as I'm done." Emmett told her.
"Hurry back." She said.
He gave her a quick kiss, then headed over to the body.
Carlisle took her up to his office. She sat down on the couch. He brought his doctor's bag over, and sat down next to her.
"I need you to take your shirt off, so I can clean your cuts." Carlisle told her.
She nodded. She winced in pain as she pulled the shirt over her head. She let the jersey fall to the floor.
He began cleaning up the blood from the cuts.
"You did well." Carlisle said.
"Thanks." She said.
He worked in silence for a minute.
"I'm surprised though." Carlisle said after a moment.
"About what?" She asked.
"Well, you saw wwhat Emmett did, but you haven't asked for an explanation." Carlisle said, looking at her.
"You told me that I didn't know everything about your family, but it would be all explained to me once everyting was finished. I have my own theories, but I'm going to see what Emmett tells me before I make my own assumptions. I want to see if I had any correct." She told him.
He finally got the bleeding to stop. He put gauze on the cleaned cuts, and taped it to her skin.
"Do you want anything for the pain now?" Carlisle asked.
She shook her head.
"Not yet, I'd like to talk to Emmett with a clear head first." She told him.
He nodded.
He grabed the bloody jersey from te floor, and the bloody pieces of gauze, and headed over to the fire place. He threw everything in, and lit it all on fire.
There was a knoc k on the door, it was Alice, carrying a new shirt for her.
"At least you didn't ruin the shirt that I had given you." Alice said, with a smile.
Katie couldn't help, but to smile also. Alice sat down next to Katie, and handed her the shirt.
"Thanks." Katie said.
Katie pulled the shirt over her head.
"He'll be back soon, then you can sleep peacefully." Alice said.
Katie smiled.
"Thank GOD!" Katie said.
"He's back." Alice whispered to Katie.
Katie sighed as she stood.
"Careful." Alice said.
Katie nodded, as she walked out of the office. She waited at the top of the stairs for him.
When he made it to her, he wrapped her in another hug. She sighed happily.
"Let's go talk." She told him.
He put his arm around her shoulders. He steered her to his room. He walked her over to the ed. He pulled the blankets down, and turned to her.
"Get in." He told her.
She looked at him. She folded her arms in front of her.
"We're still going to talk." She said.
"Of course, anything that you want, just lay down first." Emmett said.
She finally crawled into the bbed. He got in after her. She laid her head on his shoulder, and he covered them up.
Neither spoke for a while.
"Okay, so talk." She finally said.
He sighed, but didn't speak.
She sat up, turned to him, got to her knees, and put her hands on his chest.
"I think that I've figured it out, but I want to hear it from you." She told him.
Another sigh.
She put a hand on his cheek, and gave him an engouraging smile. His eyes looked tortured.
"Emmett, if I was scared, I wouldn't have come in here with you by myself. I trust you. Completely." Katie said.
He gave her a small smile.
"If you know, then why do you need me to say it?" Emmett asked.
"Who knows, I might be wrong." Katie said.
"Tell me what you know." He said.
She smiled.
"Fine. First of all, you are as cold as ice, you are ffaster than a normal person, I haven't seen any of you eat anything, everyone looked like they were being tortured when I got cut, and bled, Jasper was fighting tooth and nail to get to me, and no one has slept since I've been here." Katie said.
"And?" Emmett asked.
She sighed. She laid back on his shoulder.
"I've seen the movies, and read books. I know that you're different, that your family is different." Katie said.
"Say it." Emmett said.
She sighed.
"Vampire. But you won't hurt me. You didn't let Jasper get to me, and you didn't hurt me when I got cut." She said.
"It took every ounce of my strength not to." He said.
"You have control. I'm not scared." She said, as she yawned.
He gave a small laugh.
"Get some sleep. We will talked about this when you've finally gotten some sleep." He told her, as he kissed the top of her head.
Katie sighed as her eyes slid shut. She was asleep almost at once.
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