Chapter 9
Whispers of all sorts floated around Bella instantly. She won't open her eyes.
What is wrong with her?
Well, she's not bleeding. A manly voice "attempted" to whisper and the words came out louder than expected. Nor is she bleeding from the inside. Her "real" body is still with those nimrods. She needs to wake up.
Oh god, oh hell no. A boy pushes past all the crowding demons. It was not just a boy. He, too, like the little girl that knocked on Luna's door had transparent legs. Yet another ghost. His face was sharp and he looked like a teenage version of Jacob but with Bella's eyes and brown curls instead of Jacob's straight, spiky black hair. What have you done?
Who the hell is this boy? The loud man asked his comrade. "She" is not going to be happy about this. Is she?
The young man rushed to Bella's side instantly, not caring about the "men" behind him. The first words out of his mouth that he said to Bella shocked them all and confused them above all.
"Mommy…Please wake up." No answer. "Don't leave me…please." No answer. "Don't let them kill you off now."
Luna POV
"What the hell are you?" I ask the little girl who just looks at me with a huge smile.
"Shouldn't I ask you the same?" Her expression never changes. That's when I choose to study her features. She had said that her mommy will come for her. Who is her mother? It surely couldn't be Bella although the resemblance between the two of them is impeccable. She has Bella's face shape, Jacob's eyes, Bella's nose and lips, Jacob's hair color, but then she has Bella's soft curls that frame her face so well. It's Bella with a darker hair color. She stands up tall and strong like Jacob though but then her voice resembles Bella. Could it be Bella's child?
"My name is Luna. I'm Bella's niece." I can't believe I'm doing this but I'm sitting here, explaining myself to a ghostly girl. Shouldn't she be mourning over the loss of a doll or something? What brings her here? Frankly, not to my surprise, she did not care for my name or my relation to Bella. Her attention was more on Bella herself. She disregarded everything I said and stooped down next to Bella's body. I remind her, "She's dead."
"Fools," she says as she lays her head on Bella's chest where her heart should be. "She's dying slowly. The demon sent your mother, Lillian, as a mercernary, but I could be wrong, to take her whole soul and body to another place…where the demon resides. It's possible she's in his servants' chambers right now, still unconsciousness from the effect. The effect is very common. Really, this body you see before you is just a substitution of the real thing. Kind of like a voodoo doll but anything done to this body will not affect Bella in anyway. That is why it is great to fake deaths so you will be obliged to bury her, forget her, and then go look for Jacob and by the time you even find Jacob, the real Bella will be dead. Lillian concocted the dagger that was to be pierced through Bella's heart to make such a procedure occur so correctly and secure. No mistakes. She played the role perfectly. The only thing is that she is not doing this for the demon so at one point; we are going to need her so it is imperative that she should not be killed until after the demon is dead. We need all the help we can get."
Everything that she said flew out the window instantly. The only thing I did catch and registered in my brain was that one word "we". "What do you mean by 'we'?"
"I will fight with you. Unlike you, I know where my mother is." She walked out the door and I noticed she was dragging a stuffed bunny by its foot. It was fluffy and white. The foot she held onto was the only foot that was marked with a heart and had a elegant script scrawled over it. We follow her and I feel obliged to ask her.
"What's that on the rabbit's foot?"
She looks up at me. For once, she seems like just a child. Those huge eyes bore into mine. Then she shook her head, and went back to the mature child that had to be Bella's because that's how Bella was. She did not act the way she wanted to for the benefit of others. She acted like a grown up even when she wanted to act like a crazy teenager. And she was one and still acted like she was 50 going on 89. She finally answers me. "It's my name. My mother wrote it."
I furrow my brows. She did? "What's your name?"
"My father named me. He named me Hope. My name is Hope Black. I wasn't given a middle name so my mother just wrote hope on BunBun's foot."
I almost cracked up. "Bunbun?"
She raised an eyebrow. "Yes, his name is Mr. Bunbun. Is there a problem with that?"
"Who came up with that name? Was it Jacob as well?"
"Yes, why?"
I should probably stop tormenting this poor girl. "Do you know where to go?"
"Yes," She says. "I can smell my father from miles away. He's easier to track down than my mother. We should look for him first."
"But you said that if we look for him first, Bella will already be dead."
"The demon can't do anything now. It's too early. He was expecting you guys to be crying all day to give him some time to kill my father. They are fighting right now. I can smell blood. My father is losing a lot of blood right now so we should hurry."
"Is he a goner?" Seth asks her. Hope just looks at him. "I mean, do you think he'll be alive when we get there?"
"Of course. He's my father. I know he'll get through. He can't die. No."
She sounded more like if she was comforting herself than us or if she knew that he wouldn't. She's not a fortune teller. I can see that now. She's intelligent, I'll give her that, but she's still just a child. She has the appearance of a ten year old. There's only so much she can do and there's only so much pain she can take.
"Let's hope."
Bella POV
I open my eyes to red walls and a bunch of male faces surrounding me. I turn to the left to see one face that looks like Jacob…but it's Jacob. Jacob doesn't have eyes that are similar to mine or hair like mine. His smile broadened…kind of like the way Jacob's did…exactly like Jacob's did actually…when he saw that I was awake.
"Morning sunshine," He smiled.
"Get that boy away from her," the man who was the loudest out all of them commanded. He had gotten wanted apparently, I was awake. The man pointed his finger at the young teenage boy who looks are 14 or 15 maybe and then the rest of his men cracked their knuckles and got closer to the boy. They grabbed his arms, surprised at the fact they could hold him, and began to drag him away. Disturbed, I sat up and that's when I noticed his feet. He had none…his legs were faded out. He's…he's…a ghost. He screamed out and I turned in his direction. He struggled…oh how he struggled. They tried to keep him quiet but he bit their fingers and got a sentence out or two…they were meant for me.
"Bella!" He screamed. "Bella! You must get out of here immediately! Go look for Jacob! Go look for my father! I am your son, Bella! I am Faith Black, son of Isabella Swan and Jacob Black. I am your son!"
Then they had him out the door before he could say anything else. I didn't want him to say anything else. I am shocked…numb…as my hand reaches for my stomach. I'm not even close to even giving birth to my very first child. And I have a son that is a ghost. What the hell is going on here?
The men crowded around me. "Do you know why you are here Bella?"
"No…."
They all look at each other. "Perfect. Lillian has done her job correctly then."
"Glad you all agree," Lillian walks in with a huge grin on her face. "Hello, sister." She waves a vile of poison in front of me.
"Why are you doing this?"
"Why not?"
"We are blood. I did not know you hated me and I don't know why you would hate me."
"I did not want to be stuck in the afterlife so I can watch my family go on without me. I want to live. You can do that, normally. I'm here, yes, but I'll never be the Lillian I once was. That's why Greg has left. He knows I'm in the area. And he knows I have this vile of poison."
"What kind of poison is that?"
"Wolf's vein. You've already had two doses of it. One more and it will kill you finally and your offspring in that stomach of yours…you can kiss him or her good bye."
"How…?"
"How?" Lillian chuckles as she takes a seat next to me with a huge smirk planted on her face. "My dear sister, do you know anything? Wolf's vein is a deadly poison that can kill werewolves. There has been no werewolf in history that has withstand it and that's why its call Wolf's vein…goes straight to the vein and then hits the hurt. Boom! Dead within five to ten seconds. Now, obviously the baby in your stomach is Jacob's child. Jacob is a werewolf, therefore the child in there is, too, a werewolf or is one of the lucky ones and it's skipped his generation so it's human. But, since the affects have been harming you as well, it's obvious that it's neither. It's a half werewolf and half human. We have not had that kind of combination in hundreds of years, especially in this area."
Interrupting us, the man who dragged out Faith Black came back and said that the job was done. "He died proudly m'am." He told me as if to comfort me. Then, he threw me a necklace. It was a locket. A huge locket that was wooden instead of gold…Jacob made this. I could tell he did, I can tell his handiwork from far away. He made one two years ago to give to his son, daughter, or someone he truly loved but his goal was his children. He wants to be remembered. "He told me to give you that. And that it would mean a lot to you and him if you have it. I will come back soon, Lillian." Lillian said he could leave and she continued immediately.
"I mean, haven't you felt the effects work on you as well? By carrying this baby, you are dying a little every day. The baby is dying a little every day. It is trying to be strong for the both of you and you are doing the same but face it, you are both going to die so what's the point?" She flashed the poison once again. "I will kill you soon enough. I'll give you an hour to yourself before it is done. Consider it tough love, eh?" She gets up. "I do love you Bella. You are my sister. That is why I am being merciful and killing you myself. Remember that." Then she left.
I sat there, unmoving. Her words replayed themselves in my head like a song…but a song I don't want to hear and just throw the radio that's playing it out the window so it will break and I won't have to hear it again.
"By carrying this baby, you are dying a little every day. The baby is dying a little every day. It is trying to be strong for the both of you and you are doing the same but face it, you are both going to die so what's the point?" That's what she said.
YOU ARE BOTH GOING TO DIE SO WHAT'S THE POINT? I almost began to cry but I resisted. I look back at the locket in my hand and noticed that the word Faith was carved into it...it's Faith's forever but he's given it to me. I open it carefully to see the picture inserted in it. I could see his face clearly (although it is a younger Faith at about the age of 10 or so), my face clearly, and then Jacob and his huge smile. Faith looks so much like Jacob it's ridiculous. And then I saw a blurb next to Faith. He had his arms around someone who's face was blurred and body as well. Maybe it's a smudge. Paint of something? Then…the picture begins to show itself, revealing who it is that was blurred before.
I drop the locket.
Impossible.
*** I thought I'd give you guys a treat here. Over 2,000 words of Jacob, Bella, and Nefis mixed together madness. It is all beginning to change. I think we're getting closer to the Climax you guys! Just saying you know. Lol. Is anyone confused about the whole wolfs vein thing? Well if you are (this is for you rkoviper aka my paigey who loves her sister so much 3) , Chapter 4 was an important chapter. Old right? Luna found wolfs vein and that was around the time when Bella told Jacob "oh I'm pregnant hunny!" but then gave him the bad news that she's been getting chills and stuff. And they went to Esme, a doctor and all you know, and she told them there is some kind unwanted liquid, she suspects venom from when James bit her (Edward took it out all right? I mean, if he didn't…Bella would be all vampire wouldn't she?), so what could have been wrong with her? Lillian gave you a huge hint here in her horrid speech. Yes, Lillian is a total crazy lady. Another hint (aren't I so generous?): Any of you guys "confuzzled" about the whole "I'm her daughter", "I'm her son" thing? There's ONE baby right? Well…think of the possibilities of having children. Bella is around 19 weeks right now and she's already having issues? (Poor Bells.) Well…who do you think she is really going to give birth to? Faith or Hope? Or is there another possibility? And why do you think Faith knows where Bella is and can sense her while Hope cant? Why can't Faith sense his father like Hope can? Is there a connection to them…or a chain that has been broken? And why they ghosts? Aren't ghosts fragments of what used to be…? Doesn't Faith and Hope seem… like they are both missing something? Hmmm.. What lovely hints Nefis gives today. She's too generous. She knows. I'm probably confusing to many people out there huh? Well, that's what I'm here for! Love you all. REVIEW! I love reviews and I love hearing your thoughts and feedback. You know you guys are the reason I go on writing. ~ With all the love in the world, Nefis. ***
