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"Bella, please don't do this."
"It's over, Edward, goodbye!"
The slam of the door causes me to bolt upright on the couch. I blink as I watch Bella turn from the door and run up the steps like hell was on her tail. What. The. Fuck? I glance at Charlie and we share a look, before we're both standing and jogging after her.
"Bella, what the fuck happened?" I demand, once we get upstairs and to the threshold of her bedroom door. I notice that she's packing. Why is she packing? I glance to the side.
"What are you doing?" Charlie demands.
"I have to get out of here." She confesses and I blink, because she has to – what?
"You have to get out of here?" I ask, completely stunned, like, what does that even mean?
"Did he hurt you?" Charlie asks and my body tenses with alert, because I hadn't even thought of that.
"No, no, we just got into a fight and I need to get out of here and clear my head. I'm going home." She says and again, I was completely dumbfounded. Did I somehow enter into a bad chick flick movie?
Bella closes the door in our face. Nice. "You can't go home your mom isn't even in Phoenix!" Charlie calls and there was no answer. This was seriously starting to piss me the fuck off.
Bella comes out, bag and jacket in hand, walking past us. Her face blank of any emotion, but her eyes held so much fear. Anxiety clawed at my stomach, what happened? Why did I leave? Oh god.
Charlie and I follow her. "Look, Bella, I know that I'm not that fun to be around, but we can all do more stuff together. I will try harder. You don't have to go." He says and my heart breaks at the shakiness in his voice.
I place a hand on his shoulder, desperately needing to give him comfort - and use my hand for something other than slapping her across the face. Her back was to us and she was frozen still. Then she turned, shoulders set and eyes determined. Determined for what? I found out.
"Like what, Dad? Sit around and watch baseball? Dinner at the diner, that's you, that's not me. And if I don't get out now, I'll be stuck here, just like mom." After that bitch bombshell, she was gone and my mouth was on the fucking ground. Charlie was staring blankly out the door. As if he was just shoved back into a painful memory. The ghosts swarming in her eyes held a pain that he didn't deserve.
"Charlie, don't worry, I'll get her back." I say, needing to reassure him. Shit like this wasn't going down. Not while I was here. He was nodding, opening and closing his mouth in complete helplessness. I honestly didn't think he'd even heard me.
"I have to call Renee." He chokes out, moving toward the kitchen, blindly. Tears sting my eyes as I watch him stumble.
"Dad, just sit down. Don't worry and don't wait up. I've got this. You keep calm. She's just upset, it's teenage hormones and fucking Cullen. I'll deal with it. Don't worry, promise me." I beg and he nods, smiling slightly at me.
"I promise." He murmurs, but he still seems far away. I nod once and then realize that I need to get the fuck on the road, so, I grab keys for show and walk out of the house. Once outside I toss the keys into the car, not bothering with it. I turn and bolt through the woods, taking off at full speed toward the Cullen house.
Once I arrive, I listen for noise, and find it. I follow it through the living room, down the back hall, and to a cracked door at the end of it. I push it open, revealing the garage.
"We'll run." Edward says. I'm sorry, they'll what?
"No Edward, James will anticipate you going with Bella, it's too risky." Carlisle says. I'm lost - yeah, I know, you're lost too, just wait. It gets so much better.
"Jasper and I will take her Edward, we'll protect her." Alice's voice promises. Jasper and her will – why the fuck is there a Jasper and her? My eyes narrow into furious slits.
"Can you keep your thoughts to yourself?" Edward clips, holding Bella tightly against him and Alice nods in reassurance. Oh joy. Good for fucking her. What the fuck is happening?! I feel the strange urge to stomp my foot like a five year old.
"Of course." Alice leads her over to a car and I lean against the doorframe, crossing my arms, still confused as to what they were all doing.
"Esme, Rosalie, these are Bella's. I need you to put them on to confuse the tracker." Edward says, he then proceeds to hand a jacket to Esme. When he holds it out to Rosalie, who doesn't look like she wanted to help, at all, she turns her nose away from him and scowls.
"Why? What is she to me?" She sneers and Emmett sighs, wincing at his mate. Edward looked contemplative for a moment and then seemed to figure out the answer.
"She's Raya's sister." Edward says and Rose's lips purse. Not a moment later, she jumps down and snatches the jacket out of his hands before slipping it on.
I smile slightly. Grateful, Rose. I was still leaning against the wall when Alice places a hand on Jasper's bicep and he looks up sharply. She drops her hand, well, now I don't have to rip it off. Alice shook her head, slowly.
"She's safe, Jasper." She whispers and he grunts. Were they talking about me? Because, yeah, I was safe. I just wasn't too sure if the people in the garage were.
"If anything happens to Bella, she'll never forgive me." Jasper says and I contemplate that. Well . . .
"She's also listening in. Hey, Rae!" Emmett exclaims waving wildly at me. Their eyes move quickly. Is it freak out time, yet? I was going with yes. Cool, let's freak out.
"Tell me the world is ending." I say to Bella and she blinks. I walk down the steps, my eyes still narrowed, but this time, my fury was directed at her.
"What are you doing here?" She asks and I still, and glance to the side. Was she fucking serious? She wants to know what I'm doing. Fine, I'll tell her what I'm doing.
"You treat me like shit for this guy. You decide that your human life is nothing without him. You want to be a part of this family, to hell with your real one, then you come in and you say you two had an 'argument' and you need to clear your head. You're a bitch to Charlie, you basically throw your relationship with him to the wind, which is already pretty rocky, sister. And now, I see all of you preparing for a goddamned wild goose chase. Now, tell me the fucking world is fucking ending." I snarl and Bella swallows, audibly. She knew I was pissed, good.
"Nomads." Edward says immediately and I glare at him. Then I growl, because he did not need to be speaking at the moment.
"Shut up." I clip and he does immediately, smart little boy.
"We don't have time for this." Carlisle says and I scoff. He didn't need to be speaking, either. I would decipher exactly what we had time for, not him. I didn't follow him. He needed to get this.
"Shut up." I hiss, baring my teeth and he blinks, I look back at Bella.
"Some vampire wants my blood and apparently he's some big bad tracker dude, so we need to run." She explains, quickly.
I squint. Did they understand that logic? Did they seriously understand that motherfucking logic?
"Okay." I blink, trying desperately to give them the benefit of the doubt, when all I wanted to do was smack the crap out of all of them.
"So, some psychopathic vampire gets you on his radar, and you all think, let's throw her father under the bus, deceive her sister, and run." I scratch the side of my head, staring at Bella in shock.
"Wow, and here I thought age was supposed to make you smarter, not dumber." I grumble, rubbing my face. I tried to think. Why did I leave? I was blaming my mother and my stupid ass emotions on that. I thought. I thought. I grinned when a plan hit me. It was risky. It was explosive and it could very well get me killed, but I did not care.
"Okay, okay. He wants your blood, wonderful. I can work with this. Come here, Bella." I say, crooking my finger at her. Her eyes turn hesitant. She should be. I was not longer keeping the pretty human façade up, I was full blown keeper now and they were about to find out, just what that meant. You guys remember how vampires aren't attracted to my blood? No, well, you're about to find out.
"Why?" She asks slowly.
"Because if you don't. I'm going to kill your vampire lover." I say sweetly and I was serious. She got that. She moved toward me.
When she got within a few inches of me, I let the monster loose. Allowed the bloodlust to flood my body. Four parallel veins of flowing blood travels to my eyes on either side of my face, turning my cornea a bright red and making my iris's glow a brilliant gold as I watched through Bella's vision. Bella gasps and before she could get away from me, I grab her by the biceps, yank her upward causing her head to fly back and her neck to expose. Then, I sink my teeth into the flesh at the pulse of her neck.
When Edward moves, because obviously he can't just wait patiently, I place out energetic waves of magic that slam him into a wall. Bella squirms, in my grip, choking on the sensations as I continue to drink. When I knew that I needed to stop, I did, and Bella, being Bella, passes out.
I drop her and she lands with a thump. "Dramatic, much?" I mumble. I hadn't taken enough to cause that reaction.
"You know, the next time you guys decide to go all – hero on me. Could you at least make sure there isn't a smarter fucking option?" I demand. Edward snarled in my wave grip, I blinked at him. I was seriously going to end up killing this motherfucker.
"She isn't dead, you idiot, shut up. Jesus Christ." I grumble and lick the blood from my lips. Did he honestly think I would kill my sister? I'm offended.
"Smell me." I say and Edward continues to try and get to me. Seriously, someone needed to get this guy a rabies shot.
"Rose, what do I smell like?" I ask and she inhales close to me. She frowns and blinks.
"Bella. You smell like Bella." She answers and I nod. Yep. I take on the smell of the blood I drink. It fades over the time in-between feeds, so usually my blood is very faint. Still human, just not yummy. A vampire could mistake this for an illness.
"Great. I'm your dummy, now, we're going to lead this psycho out of town and by we, I mean me and all of you are going to stay here and make sure that she drinks a lot of juice. I'll be back later." I smile and turn to leave, but Emmett appears in front of me, effectively blocking my exit.
"You're not going alone." He growls and if I didn't love him. I would have killed him. I smile tightly and pat his cheek.
"I'm in such a pissed off mood, Emmett." I inform him, sweetly and he glances to the side before standing up straighter, obviously realizing that I wasn't fucking around.
"And did you know that when I'm in a pissed off mood, my psycho bitch comes out? She's crazy. Batshit senile." I grin through all of that and he takes a healthy step back. Smart man.
"Besides, I just fed, my magic is heightened. I'll be back." I chirp and bounce out of the room. Of course, it wouldn't be that easy. Jasper joins me outside. My anger spiked.
"You're not going alone." He says and I ignore him.
"Don't hate me, Rae." He adds and I spin around to face him. Hate him? Hell no. Fucking pissed off at him? Hell yeah.
"My father broke!" I yell and he blinks.
"My father has always been there for me. He might not have been there for Bella, but he tried and he loves her. Bella had no right to speak to him the way she did. I understand your point of view. I get it. I understand what Carlisle and Edward were thinking, Jasper, but I don't give a shit. I'm me. I'm your secret fucking weapon and you all underestimated me. You always underestimate me, because you think you're on the top of the food chain. You have no idea how fucking wrong you really are." I snap, because he didn't. None of them did.
I turn to face the woods and carefully open my mind and center to allow waves of energy to seep from me. It slides in an invisible cloak before expanding the entire town. I search for vampire movement until I feel two unknowns on the outskirts of town. When I realize that Jasper is going to follow me no matter what, I swallow my anger and turn to him. Figuring that I could actually use his help.
"Jasper, run me to the town line." I say, wrapping an arm around his neck. Without a word, he lifts me up and I twist my hair up in a bun and pull on my hood.
"You need to call me Bella, understand?" I ask and he nods once. I was ruining us. I needed not to think about that at the moment, though.
"Go." I mumble. He does.
•••
We arrive and Jasper gently sets me down. "Uh, Bella, where to now?" He asked and I rolled my eyes, but I could feel them. They were watching us. Sick creeps.
"W-where's Edward?" I stutter, making my voice soft and hesitant.
"He's meeting us. Listen, I got you." He reassures, resting a hand on my shoulder and I sniff.
"What if – what if I never s-see him a-again?" I shake, allowing the tears to drench my voice. I could see the respect shining in his eyes. He was impressed.
"You will, I'm going to keep you safe for now." He says, dropping his hand. He lifts me up again and that's when I feel the wind shift. My blood heats and my magic sizzles to an extent that excites me. I glanced over his shoulder to see a tall woman with large curly red hair. My hair was better than hers. Ha. I rolled my eyes at my own musings. I am so immature.
Jasper froze and I immediately glanced in front of us. Was the man seriously shirtless? God, what was he? Rambo? I frown. I wasn't amused. Jasper set me down and shoved me behind him as he back up. The two closed in and I was seriously questioning if I should examine my nails or not. Because this shit was kind of boring. They were staring at us like creepers.
Finally realizing that, yes, I had to do something. I allowed myself to access a pretty powerful ability that I knew would leave a fucking trace, but I was still in need of the element of surprise. So, I opened my mind, as if pulling invisible strings against the cells, before sliding carefully into Jasper's mind.
"Take the girl."
I whisper into his head. It most likely would have felt as though, he himself, had thought it and it confused him for a moment. Then, with shock registering in his gaze, he got it and he did just that. Lunging at full speed and taking the redhead to the ground before immediately rolling away in a bundle of snarling growls and blurring limbs. Leaving Rambo and I alone.
My eyes widen in fear, just in case he can see and I stumble back for a better effect. A grin, so callous and evil, spread across his face and I nearly scoff. I was so going to kill this motherfucker.
He grabbed my biceps and I cry out, in show, he yanks me up. I have to stop my grin of excitement as my head is thrown back and my hood drops, releasing my hair. He blinks for a moment, taking in my emerald green eyes, not brown. Then my red hair, not brown and my tanned skin, not pale. Tall body, not petite.
"I think this is the point where I say – gotcha, fucker." I slam my head forward, and the hard edge of my skull collides against his nose with enough force to throw him through the air. I grin and remove my sweatshirt, leaving me in a t-shirt. Much better. Did you see that? That was me - being a badass.
I hear him growl, as he stands up. Immediately, lunging at me. I move with a speed he would never be able to comprehend and end up behind him. It stupefies him for a moment, before he turns to face me. "Fucking. Bitch." he growls and I laugh. Wagging my finger at him.
"That's not very nice." I coo, before lunging at him with my full speed and strength, adding a burst of energy, and effectively taking him across the ground, the road came up from the force of our collision. Cement and pavement exploded on either side of us. I catch my balance and stand, moving with ease as I throw him with a large burst of static electricity that cackles through the air.
I wasn't as powerful as I will be when I come of age. So, I could feel my magic dimming. I need to speed this up, fast. His body takes down a tree when he hits.
I glance over to see Jasper working on removing the girl's head. His gaze ever so often being drawn back to me. Unfortunately, he took my attention for far too long, giving Rambo enough to time move. I hadn't even seen him before I was flying through the air. Fuck.