A./N. Sorry it's taken so long for me to update! I've been lazy, that's my only excuse. Well, on the bright side, I may not have school again until after New Year's! It's snowing like crazy where I live - which gives me plenty of time to write and update. Oh…and my cat decided to try to lay on my keyboard -_- She's lazier than I will ever be. Okay, I'm rambling…I'll stop typing now so you can get back to the story!
Disclaimer: Yes! I own Twilight and Beauty and the Beast!
Bella: Ahem! No you don't! Stephenie Meyer and the Disney movie creator people do!
Me: Stay out of this!
Edward: *growls from behind me*
Me: *screams like a banshee* Fine I don't own either! Happy?
Bella and Edward: Yes!
Edward's POV
I watched as Bella ran from the room with tears in her eyes. Not long after, a door upstairs slammed. Sighing, I asked, "Esme, will you go see if she's alright?"
Esme looked at me with wide eyes - as if she hadn't heard me ask something calmly before…or even ask for that matter. Normally I would command me servants to do my bidding. This Bella girl really has begun to change me.
Now…on to more important matters - like banning Tanya from this castle. A loud growl broke out from my throat as I turned to Tanya. The growl bounced off the walls and echoed throughout the castle.
Tanya's face had turned pale white as she realized her mistake. "Er…I'll just be going now," she said as she tried to run our of the room. But she was too slow.
I grabbed her by the arm and said to Carlisle, "I know she's your niece, but this has gone far enough! I refuse to have her live here if she is going to cause trouble like this! Now I've put up with this before, but making an innocent girl cry as such is unacceptable."
Carlisle had a contemplating look on his face. After a few moments of silence he answered, "Do what you must, but please don't kick her out of the castle. I'm the only family she has left!" he begged.
My violent thoughts shattered as he began to beg for his niece and I released my grip from her arm, "I will not ban you from this place, but if I hear of you disturbing the young girl upstairs again, your new scenery will be of the dungeon in the north tower."
With that I grabbed two plates of some of the breakfast and left the room. I made my way up the stairs and to Bella's room. I knocked lightly on the door. An almost inaudible "Come in" was heard from the other side,
Quietly, I walked into the room and saw Esme beside the girl's bed, stroking Bella's hair. She was asleep.
"I could hear you screaming from up here," she said in an amused voice.
I smiled sheepishly and handed her the breakfast. "Thank you dear," she smiled and we both started eating the food. When we finished I took our plates and set them outside the door where one of my other servants would take them.
Re-entering the room I saw Bella stirring. "No James, I won't marry you…" she mumbled.
She's a sleep-talker. I tried to stifle a laugh…but of course Esme saw me.
"Don't laugh at her, you used to talk in your sleep," she scolded me.
"Sorry," I said.
Oh yes, I used to sleep talk. It was rather embarrassing seeing as I was a "big boy" not a "little boy" of 8-years-old. I smiled at the memory as a sat in the floor next to the bed.
"She's a beautiful girl," Esme stated, looking down at the girl, "It's no wonder that this James character is trying to get her to marry him…I wonder why she refused him," she wondered.
All of a sudden, Bella jerked awake and sat up, breathing hard. She burst into tears only a moment later. Esme and I tried to console her, but she just cried harder. So, I picked her up - gently…stupid claws - and set her down on my lap. As I stroked her hair, she began to calm down.
Esme looked at me in awe and sat down beside us. "Bella dear, what's wrong?"
Bella looked at her with red teary eyes and said, "I saw my mom get killed again in my dream."
Esme and I looked at each other with wide eyes. Bella again burst into tears and hugged me as she cried.
Bella's POV
Dream:
"Mama! Papa! I'm back from riding!" I called. There was no answer.
"Mama? Papa?" I called, walking to their room.
I was about to walk in when someone grabbed me and tied my wrists and ankles together, then gagged me. When they finished with me, I was thrown into the room where I heard someone whimpering quietly. Looking to my right…I saw my mother and father in the same position as me. My mother was crying.
Mama, I tried to say, but I couldn't talk. I heard a voice outside the room say, "Is that all of them?" With a reply of "Yes."
The door opened to reveal the silhouettes of two large men.
"How many will this make?" one of them asked.
"Twenty-five sir," the other replied.
My eyes widened. These were the two killers everyone had been talking about! The ones that they said to make sure you locked your windows and doors…something that I didn't do before I went out riding…
"Kill the mother first," the first man said in a bored voice.
My mother sobbed harder as the man on the left picked her up. Something was in his hand…something silver. When he raised his hand, I saw that it was a knife.
I tried to look away, to close my eyes…but my body wouldn't respond. He lowered his hand and my mother's sobs and struggles ceased.
The man threw her back down beside me and my face was splattered with a warm substance. I started to cry when I saw her neck, the man had slit it open at the jugular. When he picked me up I froze in fear. I saw my father struggling to reach me.
When the man was about to do to me what he did to my mother, the door banged open and the police stepped in. I didn't hear what they said, or feel the impact of the man dropping me. I only saw my mother…dead…because of me.
End Dream
That's when I woke up crying. How I ended up in the lap of Edward with him and Esme trying to console. When I again remembered that it was my fault my mother was dead.
A./N. Yeah…sad chapter I know. Sorry it's kind of short. I'm having a slight moment of writers block…that's also why it took so long to update. Anyways! You know the drill! Review!
~Twilight Addict 3
