Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable and lightness has a call that's hard to hear
- Indigo Girls ("Closer to Fine")
Bella was safe. Help had arrived in the knick of time like they do in the movies and all that Hollywood crap, but then again she WAS in freaking LA so go figure. Before she could process that thought much more the tiny brunette was impacted with an strong force that knocked the wind out of her.
"OhmygodBellaIwassoscaredIsawthatvisionofyouherewi ththisbackstbbingbitchandVictoria-", the tiny familiar voice rushed out. Bella gently nudged the figure so she could see their face and make sure she wasn't hallucinating again. Sure enough it actually was Alice who tackled her.
"Ok one, how did you know I'd be here? Two, why would you care as he said none of you actually would remember for long because I'm just a distraction after all. And three, did you say Victoria?!", by the time she finished she had been yelling and had begun to get some attention but didn't give a flying rat's ass. Alice looked at her sharply and observed her for a moment.
"So you -didn't- know Victoria was just outside this room ready to take you from The Beast with permission from crazy lady there?", she shook her head.
"No he was too busy calling me virgin, talking to her about when the damned ceremony could start and setting up this totally creepy room."
It was then Bella looked around her surroundings to see who all had come to the help because it seemed more then her Uncle had come for her. Sure enough Uncle Lindsey was casting with the help of some red-head on Cordelia now while she was swearing complete evil on the world. Puh-lease that's most over-used line in the entire universe! Emmet and Rose were in the corner looking at her shyly almost like they were unsure if it was not okay to come over yet. Jacob was with, wait JACOB was here?!
"Um Alice why is Jacob, Embry and Leah here…and who are the two people they are talking to right now? It looks like Leah is gonna mount that guy, same with Jacob but obviously for the girl.."
"Heh heh heh, funny you should mention that Bella see thing is I had a vision those three would find their imprints here and well only found two today", Bella just looked at her motioned for her to continue to keep explaining. Her bloody arms and hands were gripping Alice's form tightly so she couldn't squirm away. Well at least theoretically she knew Alice could if she truly wanted to.
"An imprinting is when a Quilette sees their soulmate for the first time- both of them feel it instantly. They can either be best friends or more, it's whatever they choose. Sometimes things get a tad tricky when they imprint, like today", Bella's eyes narrowed at that.
"What does THAT mean Alice? Is it Jake's?"
"No, I just saw the wrong imprint for Leah"
-30 minutes earlier, before they got there-
When the crap were the other bloodsuckers going to get here already?! They had been waiting here with Alice for a good three hours now and she was bouncing around mumbling about fighting strategies her husband taught her or something over off a good 10 feet away from them. Jacob was STILL a tad in denial we were all going to imprint or at all and that this was just Alice manipulating us into helping Bella. And I kind of think he might be right. If he imprinted it save us all from the annoying, lusty and whiney thoughts he has about Bella all the time but on the other hand it would be about some new chick who may not understand the whole 'turning into a wolf when angry' thing. Personally I hope between the three of us, Leah gets her's today. She deserves it the most after all that shit that went down with Sam. We all know we cannot control who we do it on but it still doesn't mean it wasn't fair for her to get crossed in the fire like that.
"And what about you Embs? Don't you care if you find yours today, not that I'm not loving your thoughts by the way", Leah asked quite dryly.
"Don't get me wrong if I find her today I will be freakin' ecstatic but if not oh well"
"Two minutes", Alice interrupted them suddenly popping up right in front of them.
"Till we fight or till reinforcements get here?", Jake asked with faux-Alpha, I guess. It kinda looked like the face he used when he made fun of Sam from time to time.
"Till reinforcements…and imprints"
Which collectively shut us all up again. Instantly we were all a bundle of nerves like we were waiting on our Prom dates or some shit. It was the slowest most agonizing two minutes when I heard voices from my left side.
"Are you sure this where Alice said to be Jazz?"
"For the millionth time YES Gunn and how the hell you convinced them to get Willow to heal and not heal like normal I will never know", they heard him sigh in aggravation.
"Like I said, I don't like it when there's a fight happening and I'm laying on my ass"
"I agree with Jasper on this, you should have stayed at the hotel Gunn", a new voice said with a snarky tone
"So you could have all the fun wannabe-slay?"
"I could still kick your butt"
"Or not a we still have to not only save Bella BUT fight that big demon AND a potentially 'possessed" Cordy so shut it with this crap you two", yet another new voice said that said they were just around the corner.
"She HAS to be possessed Buffy- that's the only explanation for her behavior right now"
"And was I possessed when I hit you two years ago when that shit with Faith went down here? nuh-uh."
There was no rebuttal as they had rounded the corner. I looked over the crowd and didn't feel the change the Sam and the others described to me. But from the look on Jake's and Leah's faces, they certainly had. Thank god. I looked at who they stared at and it seemed their imprints were looking at them with equal interest. Jake's was carrying a vicious sword and a stake on her belt. She had the same coloring as us, very interesting. However the man Leah looked seemed quite a bit older. He was carrying a flame thrower on his back and was African-American, I'd guess he was about 30. Sam and the rest of the pack was going to freak, at least Jake's was near his age.
"Ok-so we're supposed to go save the bloody Princess, slay the sodding dragon not eye-shag each other before that otherwise world goes to shit kids", I look to see some pale guy with a long leather trench coat, bleach blonde hair. My instincts tell me vampire but they look different from the Cullen's, weird.
"I hate to agree with Spike but he's right."
"Oh this was supposed to happened, they just imprinted is all so just give them a minute to know each other. By the way where's the red-head?", Alice pipped up.
"Oh here I am" and random said from the back of the group. I looked at her, she looked at me warily. Yeah, nothing. We both looked back at Alice who was already in mid-vision.
"So this is a normal thing for your wife Jazz?", a tiny blonde with a nifty looking axe that glowed red inquired.
"Yea Buffy, she can see multiple outcomes for all of us. Like Lorne does when somebody sings or Cordelia when the PTB sends her a vision when it's put as important enough for y'all to fix what have you"
"Oh Embry I'm so sorry", she had such a sad face. Oh god, that's not good.
"It seems she hasn't been found by the remaining Watcher's so she doesn't know she a slayer-to-be. She WAS in Sunnydale, at the high school with Buffy's sister but moved after her parents got killed by an uber-vamp. She is now in Istanbul, but very safe", she let out a long sigh. You could almost feel her disappointment.
By now the four had gotten off to the side and had started talking to one another to explain what had just happen.
"I'm Jacob by the way, what's your name?", he asked the girl with sword still rather close to her chest he noticed with a gulp.
"Kennedy, so you wanna explain why I looked at you I felt like it was suddenly all Disney moment there. Were not going to start sing are we because Buffy and them said that's really bad and I will totally kill your ass". Holy crap, not envying Jake right now.
"Okay one- not evil, I came to help save my best friend WITH you guys. Two- my people have this gene where when we met that special person we know who they are instantly. You can take it slowly, be friends and whatnot; and stay that way if that's one of them wants. But if they want more then of course that's what the gene IS designed for. Just know I will help watch your back in this fight". Ok she was lowering the sword, that was a good sign…right?
"I will only say this once Jake-ass. Until I say otherwise we are ONLY friends, you gotta earn your right into my pants. I won't be banging anybody else if that helps but same goes for you" and with that she stomped off. He sighed and just walked back over to Alice who just patted him on the shoulder. I looked over to Leah. The were still just looking at each other, hell EVERYBODY was looking at them by now.
"TALK ALREADY SO WE CAN GET THIS THE FUCK OVER WITH!"
"Thank you for your subtly Faith, they really needed your help with this conversation", well that wasn't dripping with sarcasm what so ever.
"Not everyone can a smooth love-life like yours B"; and with that there was a resounding smack across her head with a mumbled "I was just screwing around damn B".
"I'd be Gunn by the way. Well Charles Gunn but call me Gunn please…sounding totally old damn", the other teenage girls were already giggling.
"Well if your old then I'm like illegal. But actually I'm Leah and totally legal". OH MY GOD SHE WINKED AT HIM! They are totally going to be in bed by the end of the day at this rate.
"OK enough of that- we should seriously get going as we still, as Spike so well put it, have to save the Princess", the same brunette guy with poofy hair said. His hair kind of reminded me of Bella's ex, they would totally get along talking about their hair for hours on end.
"OoO fight-time now, sweet!", the Faith chick said while high-fiving Buffy.
"I call dibs on entrance ass-whipes, my niece I get to make the dramatic entrance"
"You JUST got here though Lindsey- that's not fair dude. But you make a good point. We will all kick ass while you be over-dramatic, also you and Willow should do magic to bind Cordy."
"Wow- you people are so easy to sneak up on. I could eaten you all by now but just watching you all blather on and on has been a treat. Do you know how annoying it has been to just sit on the other side of a door waiting for the okay to finish up a torture so you can complete your revenge?", they all whipped their heads to the new voice. It was the red-head vampire: Victoria!
Ok- yes I cliff-hangered y'all. But only because after being gone for MONTHS I get one REVIEW, you kidding me? So please all I'm asking is 5 reviews for this (and my birthday as it actually is {today I'm now 26!}, I was eating one of those mini-ice cream cakes while writing this so uh yeah). Also welcome new readers! I know there have been quite a bit of you since I went on my quite un-expected hiatus! But thank you for reading (all of you really!) and please leave a review in the lovely box below. It would totally make my day :)
~Vixen519
