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The Heart's Desire

A/N: This story is written as a collaboration by both oXx Bellisma Italiana xXo (my new pen name) and DeathsQueen26. We hope that you enjoy the story and look forward to reading your reviews. If you have any questions or comments, post them in my reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note! – Bellisma

Chapter 8
(Bella's POV)

The world around me continued to spin as I flashed in and out of reality and consciousness. I could hear different voice's around me as they spoke anxiously before I drifted back into my dream-like state of what seemed like an alternate reality...

"Bella? Bella!" Uncle Aro's voice drifted into the library as he spotted me surrounded by stacks and stacks of books as I waited anxiously for my daddy to come back from one of his many trips to serve justice with Jane, Alec, Felix and Demetri. "What are you doing in here, il mio piccolo?(Italian for 'my little one') It is awfully late for you to be in here and out of bed, no?"

I must have been five months, looking like a human four year old as I peaked out at him from behind my large book and looked up into my Uncle's kind red eyes. "I'm sorry, Uncle. It's just that Daddy wasn't here to read me my story, so I came in here to read one to myself." I admitted sheepishly.

A smile tugged slightly at the edges of his lips and he peered at the title of the book. "No fairy tales tonight, mia cara?" (my dear) He asked somewhat intrigued.

I shook my head. "No." I admitted as I looked back down at the pages and ran my fingertips over one of the rare pictures that looked to have been drawn by a rather skilled hand of a man and a woman holding hands and staring into each other's eyes as if nothing else in the world existed. There was a bite mark on each of their necks as they stood together in a fancy ensemble.

"You are a rather remarkable young lady, aren't you?" My Uncle observed. "You seem to crave knowledge the same way that your mother did as she grew up." I smiled as I thought about my Mother before Uncle Aro continued. "So, you're reading the vampire book about Mating, I see?" He observed over-looking the book in my hands.

"Yes, Uncle."I smiled up at him before looking back down at the couple in the picture. "It intrigues me. It reminds me of the knights in my fairy tale books when they find their soul mates. I hope that when I find mine, I will have what these two have here in this book and all of my fairy tale books."

Uncle Aro wrapped an arm around my shoulders and pressed a kiss to my temple. "You will, cara (Dear). You will..."

The next time I regained a slight version of awareness, I heard what sounded like a rumbling purr of a giant cat. It was definitely soothing and only served to calm me as the world once again slipped through my grasp...

(The Major's POV)

"Major, you need to feed. You can't do this to yourself. Isabella wouldn't want that." My Captain spoke to me, making sure not to step foot into Isabella's room, knowing that if any one male or even female that tried to would have to feel my wrath.

Snapped my head in his direction and growled. "I'll feed when my mate wakes up and is healed." I sneered at him.

"But Sir," My Captain protested pleadingly. "We don't know when she will wake or even if -"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence, Captain!" I roared at him, my onyx eyes piercing his and rattling him down to his soul. "She will wake up and she will be fine!" I refused to believe that my mate won't be okay and that she will be anything but fine. We still had a lot to work out and I could feel Jasper as he resigned inside of us, brooding in despair and guilt as he blamed himself for her being in this position and leaving the castle in the first place.

The Captain bowed his head, bearing his neck in submission as he showed his respect and I could feel the resignation adding to his emotions or worry, fear and defeat. "Yes, sir." He relented. "My apologies, Major." He said as he slowly backed away from the doorway.

I turned back to my mate as she slept in her bed. It has been over a week since we destroyed James and rescued my Isabella from his captivity and I haven't fed since a few days before she had been abducted.

As soon as we encountered James and my injured mate, I pushed my way out from inside of Jasper and took over our body. He needed me to take charge of the situation right now and make sure that everything would be alright with our mate.

I held her limp body against mine and continued to purr into her ear as I attempted to calm her body enough to help replenish it. All of the blood that continued to be delivered for us, I fed to her so that her body could rebuild it's strength, hence the reason I was not allowing myself to feed. She needed every drop. She had been starved, exhausted beyond belief and injured in that place and it was my job as her mate to protect her and heal her until she is able to do so for herself again, regardless of the fact that I would still be doing these things to a much lesser extent afterward.

(Peter's POV)

"I can't!" I screamed out into the room, my voice echoing and bouncing off the walls as I persistently told the vampires in the room the same thing over and over.

"Well, if you cannot get him to leave from that room so that we can check on my niece, once again, we will just have to dismember him until we can get her checked out." Caius insisted with a sneer.

I practically face palmed when he said this as my mate spoke exactly what I was thinking. "Are you a fuckin' idiot or are you just pretending to be?" She quipped as Caius leaned back, looking as if he had just been slapped. "First off, the Major is unbeatable and the only reason that he didn't kill every one of us in that room the first time that Carlisle checked on Bella was because he allowed himself to be held back."

Felix snorted. "You call that him allowing us to hold him back?" When he saw that no one was reacting, his eyes widened. "Holy shit! I felt like a human as a fuckin' bull bucked and thrusted in my arms and I wasn't even the only one holding him!"

"Hell yeah! The Jazz-man's a badass! Especially in his Major Mode!" Emmett grinned.

Emmett and Felix, along with Diego – the three strongest vampire's here - all held on to him as Carlisle rushed in with Marcus to look over Isabella and assess her injuries when we had first brought her back from James's captivity. Let's just say that it wasn't a pretty scene and they want to do it again without the Major's consent?

I sighed in exasperation. "The point is that if you can even manage to get him dismembered with whoever is stupid enough to attempt to try to help you – and believe me, you will need plenty of help, the second his body is put back together will mean death for those who participated and overrode his position as not only Bella's mate, but the crowned Prince of the West and future King. His beast will emerge and the only one who can calm him enough to bring Jasper – or even the Major – back to the surface is Isabella, herself, and she is incapacitated at the moment."

Demetri pursed his lips. "I don't relish the thought of this, but what if Jane or Alec used their gifts on the Major until we are able to get Isabella checked?"

"Yes!" Didyme pleaded. "I need to know how my daughter is fairing and when she should wake!"

"Can't the little pixie-pire, over there, see her future to tell us that without having to risk our lives to do so?" Makenna motioned over across the room to where Alice was frantically searching through her visions.

Edward glared at Makenna as he massaged Alice's shoulders in a calming manner. "It doesn't work like that! At least, not with Isabella."

"And the Major can repel Jane's gift right back on to her. He is probably the only vampire alive who can do so – besides Isabella – but it is because he can mimic the pain she sends out." Carlisle interjected.

Aro remained quiet throughout the conversation, having seen first hand what the Major was capable of when he had touched his hand and seen his memories. Smart man.

"But what about Alec?" Didyme cried as Marcus rubbed soothing circles over his mate's back and placed a chaste kiss on her temple.

"Don't look at me!" Alec rose his hands in surrender. "I refuse to be the only one who has to face his wrath after my gift wears off without Isabella awake to help!"

"Yeah, y'all are fools if you are going to try any attempts without the Major's consent." I agreed, refusing do to anything against my sire in such a way that prevents him from doing what he, as her mate, was instinctively able to do.

"But he seems to be getting worse as time goes on, his beast is coming out little by little as more time passes and she doesn't wake up. Not to mention the fact that he isn't feeding isn't helping one bit." Esme looked worriedly around the room as she clutched her mate's arm.

"I say that we give it a little more time. I'm sure that we can come up with something somehow if she doesn't wake up sooner rather than later." Rosalie suggested calmly from her seat on the couch.

Everyone exchanged an uneasy glance before slowly nodding their agreement.

"Alright," Aro, the High King, agreed. "But we cannot wait too much longer."

"Not only that, but our guests!" Suplicia reminded everyone. "I would rather not, but we will have to begin the festivities if she doesn't wake by the end of the week."

Everyone nodded once again in agreement, even though it was with reluctance.

Please, let her wake up before all of Hell breaks loose!

A/N: So, what did everyone think?! Will Bella wake up or will the Major's demon end up appearing? Will they come up with a way to get Bella checked out? Will the Major relent and feed? Review!

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