Chapter 9 - Truth
"Mom?" I whispered. She smiled, "Bells, I told you I would see you again." Just then I saw the gleam of her ruby eyes.
BPOV
This could not be real. I just stood there staring at her.
"Now Isabella aren't you going to introduce me" she stated. I gulped, I had I fight the urge to kill her. Something about her made my blood boil and I wanted to hurt her.
"This is God like creature is my Edward. This" I put my arm around Esme "Is my mother Esme and my father Carlisle." I told her not even taking a glance in her direction. "And the little pixie girl is my sister and best friend Alice and the guy next to her is her Jasper and my brother. Then the big guy is my brother Emmett and the supermodel next to him is Rosalie my sister and his mate" I paused "this is my family. Guys this is Renee my human mother who isn't dead and certainly not human anymore" I stated. Everyone seemed to be as surprised as me but of course Emmett was the one to speak.
"Bella said you died from Cancer" he stated. She laughed! She fucking Laughed!
"I could not very well tell her the truth could I. I pretended for a while but I figure it was time to let go. I never would have guess she would still find her way to vampires" Renee explained.
I dove into her mind, trying to see if she spoke truth but what I saw I would never have believed other wise.
I crouched down and growled at her and lunged. I caught her by surprise and pinned her down, I was a newborn so I was stronger she had no chance. I felt someone coming behind me. I growled, "If you value your limbs you will stay where you are!"
"Bella what are you doing?" Edward asked.
"Killing her! That is what I am going to do. Edward she…I can't believe you mother" I yelled "Emmett! Jasper! Take her and hold her DO NOT for any reason let her go understand?" They nodded, I let them take her. She was still smiling that bitch.
"Now Bella what is the meaning for all this?" Carlisle asked. I knew I needed to answer him but I couldn't all I wanted to do was kill that bitch. Edward came and put his arms around me pulling me closer to him. He kissed my forehead, "Bella love what did you see?" he asked me. I was taken back, "You can't see into her mind?" I asked.
He shook his head, "no."
Huh? "I saw….she…." I paused I would not cry "She planned it. She planned everything. Her death, sending me to forks, the Volturi, all of it. She is the one who told Jane about me" I confessed. I heard Alice and Edward let out a deafening growl. "She did what!" they said together.
We all looked to Renee, the women who was once my mother. "Mom what should I do?" I asked Esme. But it was Renee who answered. "Bella, let me go and everything will be fine" she sang. I growled, "I was not talking to you" I walked over to Esme "Mom, what should I do?"
Esme beamed, "Sweetie you know what you should do you. You have known all along" she told me. At once she said that I realized I did know. Renee may have given birth to me but she was one of them. And I knew where I stood with them, they would kill me. I do not like the idea of killing my once mother but any other option puts the Volturi knowing about me before I planned and that just is not acceptable. Edward will not want to go along with this as I am sure neither will Carlisle knowing it will hurt me. If there was any other way I would take it.
Just then Alice had a vision of something I did not expect. Myself and Edward crowned, Alice at my side, Jasper at his and the rest of the family before us along with Renee. And the oddest part was she had golden eyes.
Once The vision was over I locked eyes with Alice.
Are you sure that will come to pass? I asked her in her mind.
Yes, if you choose it then it will. She will stay with us. She may not see it yet but she does still love you, her humanity is just buried deep. She answered me in her mind.
I nodded, this was a better idea. I looked to Edward to see if he saw it. His eyes told me everything I needed to know, I could see he was fighting the urge to take me in his arms and kiss me after seeing how happy we where. Edward kiss me already I told him in his head. He ran to me twirled me around and kiss me passionately before putting me down. When Edward kisses me its like electricity running through my body, sending tingles everywhere. It almost made me forget what was going on, almost. Once I collected my brain I turned to look at my once mother.
"You betrayed me. You sold out your only daughter to the Vampire who want her dead and yet you came here. Why?" I asked her "And remember you only get one chance to answer me" I added on at the end. She didn't answer right away and honestly that was a smart move. If she would have answered me right off the bat I may have overreacted.
It took her a lot longer to answer me than any of us thought possible for a vampire. "We aren't getting any younger here" Emmett groaned. I couldn't help but laugh. "We aren't getting any older either Emmett" Alice joked. That just made me laugh harder, but when I heard a familiar laugh I stopped and glared. "You don't have the right to laugh. You still have explaining to do. Out with it" I demanded.
She sighed, "Bella nothing I tell you will make you understand. I thought in the being what I was doing was the right thing. I didn't want to die. I thought I could watch over you from a distance" she paused, I could see she was thinking about the beginning of her new life " but when I woke up all I could think about was my thirst. It never let up, even now its horrible. I didn't care what happened to you. So when I heard about the legend I just told Jane what I knew hoping to up my status with the guard; which it did. I never meant to hurt you" she confessed.
"Why did you come here?" I asked her.
"Jane sent me here. I was to get rid of the threat" she paused, gauging my reaction no doubt "but when I saw you, everything came flooding back to me. I remembered being you mother, loving you, caring for you. And the I felt the regret, the hate, the guilt. I will never forgive myself for what I have done to you" she told me truthfully.
I wanted to be mad at her. I wanted to hate her, what she did was beyond wrong. And yet standing here in front of her I couldn't. I went up to her and took her from the boys, holding her to me. "I love you Renee. You may have screwed up but I still love you. You can't be my mother but you can be my friend" I told her honestly. She smiled "I will take that over hatred any day" she replied. Then something occurred to me, she couldn't keep killing humans.
"Renee if you are going to one of us then you need to make a choice" I began to tell her when she stopped me. "Isabella I would do anything to be around you again. Even giving up the human blood" she told me.
Maybe things could work out. Maybe Alice's vision would come true.
Maybe.
