Thank-you all so much for all of the reviews!! I fell so loved right now, and I am very sorry this chapter is extremely late!! I was really busy all day today and I just didn't have the time, but here it is!! As most of you can probably guess, this chapter is named after Rihanna's Disturbia. Enjoy :)
Chapter 10: Disturbia
Bella POV
"Jake?" This was not happening. How could Jake be the boss? Wait, that doesn't even make any sense.
"Yea, um, I'm the boss." Jake was the boss. The boss, the guy that coordinated the kidnapping of my daughter. He stood there looking so uncomfortable, serves him right, that bastard. How could he?!
"You're the boss? You bastard! You knew how much I love Maddy and yet you still had her kidnapped and then took her all the way to freaking Italy?!"
"Bells calm down. You don't understand." He has no right to call me 'Bells'. And what on fucking mother earth do I not understand?! He kidnapped my baby girl and he wants me to believe that it in some twisted way is okay?!
"You have no right to call me 'Bells'. Now please explain to me what I don't understand because the way I see it, you kidnapped my daughter and took her to Italy then had me threatened to come to Italy so I can be raped by James. Am I incorrect?"
"No, no, no! Well, yeah that's what I did but I have my reasons. Wait, James raped you?!"
"No, if not for Edward being here, he would have."
"James, I thought I told you that you could not touch her! Guards, please take him away."
"Jacob, what the fuck is going on?! I don't understand anything and why can't you just let Maddy, Edward, and me go home? Is this some sort-of sick game you're playing?! Newsflash, life isn't a game Jacob!" As soon as I mentioned Maddy, Edward, and me going home his eyes darkened. What is up with this guy?
"No! You can't go home! Ugh, you just don't understand."
"Then make me understand! Answer this question: why did you kidnap Maddy?"
"I had her kidnapped because you cannot be with Edward. You just can't. Ever since we talked in the park and you told me all about Edward I've hated him. He's bad news and I refuse for him to be Maddy's father. I will not allow it. There are plenty of other fish in the sea, Bella, don't pick him." He sounded exactly like Rose did, what the hell? He won't allow it?!
"You won't allow it? You're not my boss, Jacob. Everyone else in this blasted island may worship the ground you walk on but I certainly don't. Edward is very important to me and Maddy. That definitely is not a valid excuse to kidnap my child. Not that there ever would be one."
"Bella I'm only trying to protect you! Edward knocked you up and bailed so Maddy was left fatherless for four years! I love Maddy as if she was my own child and I refuse to let something like that happen. I love you, Bella. Not as in I love you love you but as in the you're-my-sister sort-of love. If I have any say then I'm not going to let Maddy lose a father." This makes no sense; he has no say in my life or Maddy's.
"Jacob as much as you are a friend to me, you have no say in Maddy's life or mine. Edward is her biological father and damn me to the furious pits of hell before I stand in the way of that relationship. Maddy has a birth right to see her father and if that's what she wants to do then you have no say whether she is allowed to or not. That right is all mine and I allow it. You also have no say whether I want Edward in our lives or not. So, if you please, let us off this convoluted island right this moment before I call the police and kindly explain everything that's happened." My patience was really limited right now and if Jake didn't let us off the island in peace I swear I'm going to attack him.
"You can't call the police. Bella, you still don't get it. Edward is untrustworthy! Listen to Leah's story and you'll believe me."
"Leah?!"
"Yea, my girlfriend, Leah. She knew Edward before you came along, if you hear her story then you'll see why I did all of this." Hear her story? Well I'll be damned if I want to get off this place and go home then I better listen to this crazy psycho.
"Alright, what?"
"I knew Edward since I was twelve." Just like all the other crazies, Leah somehow came out through the walls. I had to get off this island.
"When I was twelve I developed a little crush on him. Then, when we both turned 16, I took action upon my developed feelings. Well, to cut to the chase: we had sex and I got pregnant. What makes Edward untrustworthy is the fact that he made me abort the child, by force." Rosalie said the same exact story. So, it was Leah all along that broke us apart.
"That makes no sense, Edward would never do that! And if he did, why would he insist on staying with Maddy? You told Rose the same exact story and it's a lie! You broke our friendship so you could, what; get revenge on Edward for some weird reason? What the hell is your problem?!" Her eyes went wide when I caught her lie red-handed. Okay, this is so confusing.
"What?! Leah wouldn't lie to me or you! She's telling the truth! Edward is a dishonest bastard!" Jacob was seriously mental; no wonder he's on this island. Wait, he's acting mental and he's on this island. This island isn't open to tourists. This island is in very good condition from all the years it's been here. Could it be that some mental patients escaped? Could it be that this place is still used? No way. My heart beat starting going so fast I thought it would jump out of my chest.
"Jacob? How old are you?"
"10, duh!" He thought he was ten years old. Okay, calm down, Bella. Calm.
"What are you doing on this island?"
"Playing Mafia, I kidnapped your daughter and now you have to let me kill Edward before you can leave." This really was a game to him. But, what about all those times Jacob actually seemed like an adult? What about the things that just happened 10 minutes ago? What about the times he seemed normal?
"Tell me, Jacob, who are all these people? James, Leah, and the guards?"
"They're really my friends but for now they're my slaves. Except Leah, when I went off this island, she became my bestest friend! So, she's my best friend and girlfriend." Kidnapping Maddy, lying to Rose, threatening me, capturing Edward, this was all a game to them.
"Jake, tell me, when can I leave this island?"
"When I kill Edward, he's untrustworthy!" At the mere mention of killing Edward I cringed and Jacob smiled like an angel. Killing someone was amusing to him.
"Now, Bella, off to the dungeons!" Guards came and took me away but I was too far in a daze to care right now. I was scared shitless for Maddy, myself, and especially Edward. Would Jacob go as far as to actually murdering Edward before his sick game was over? Something in my gut told me that the answer to that question is yes.
The guards brought me to a prison cell similar to that of Maddy's but right across from me was Edward's cell.
"Bella? They took you too, look, I'm so sorry this is all happening. I never should have done any of the things I did and I didn't look after my own daughter properly and I'm so sorry. I know I've never really talked to you about the day that Maddy got-got taken away but I'm sorry. You've done so much and the first real family outing we have I let my daughter get kidnapped by some guy who wants to rape you! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry." Edward began sobbing, cowering into his sleeve for support while all I could do was watch him suffer. He still didn't get it and he still thought James was the so-called mastermind to this whole operation.
"Edward, you don't get it. I know you're sorry for what happened with Maddy but nothing that either of us did could have stopped that from happening. This whole thing was planned for a very long time. James isn't the boss of this operation, it's Jacob. Edward, what I'm trying to say is, they're-they're mental patients. Poveglia, the island we're on, was once used for mental patients. But legend says that the doctor killed the patients instead of trying to cure them, that is, until he killed himself by jumping off of a cliff. I asked Jacob some questions and he is a mental patient, Edward. He thinks he's 10 years old and playing Mafia with his friends. We can't leave until they kill you." The last part came out in a whisper/sob. I couldn't believe this was happening.
"Oh. Um, but I don't get how Jacob is mental? He was normal before and what about Leah? I definitely know she is not mental but what is she doing with these guys?"
"I guess Jacob could be having Alzheimer's disease and multiple personality disorder combined with some other mental disease while Leah thinks she can get something out of all this. Edward, why does she hate you?" We were both cleverly avoiding the topic of the reason to be able to get off this island and focusing on more important things. Not that his death is not important to me, I don't want him to die.
"Leah hates me because I wouldn't have sex with her but that shouldn't make her want to hang around—
He stopped talking, eyes going wide.
"I know why she's doing this." His deadpan voice made me really scared. What would prompt someone to hang around people who want to commit murder?
"Bella, I forgot a very important thing about her. When I broke up with her she was then put into a hospital for her addiction to sex and bipolar behavior. To say this in laymen's terms, Leah is just as mental as all the others." My eyes went just as wide as his. How could he forget something like this? Ugh, that's not what is important right now. Somehow, someway we need to get off this island full of mental people unharmed. Maddy is still with them and I don't even know where she is.
To try and get some of the frustration I had I banged my fists against the wall next to me when I heard and saw something crack.
"Bella, love, did you hurt yourself? Please, tell me nothing happened to you? Bella, why aren't you answering? Bella?!" The reason for my inability to answer Edward was because there was a passageway in front of me.
"Edward, as weird and totally Hollywood as this sounds, I found a passage way in this cell."
"You what?!"
"Shhh! There's a passage way here and I don't know where it leads." Million dollar question: should I take the passage? My emotions are at an all time high right now: Maddy is somewhere with mental people who want to commit homicide, Edward is the one they want to murder and he's locked in a cell, and I'm locked in a cell. What more can I lose?
"Bella, don't take it. Stay with me Bella. Stay. It could be dangerous, love, I don't know what I will do if something actually happens to you."
"Edward we're stuck on this island and Maddy is god knows where, this could possibly be our ticket free, I'm taking it." Not even bothering to listen to his response I went in. I know, I know it's dangerous and all that crap but my daughter is not with me but instead with mental people, a guy that I really care about is about to be murdered some point in time, and I could possibly have a way to stop this.
If god really loves me then this passage will lead me out of this castle where I can somehow get off this island and get the police—which I should have done a long time ago.
The passage way was really dark, musty, and plain old stinky but I continued on until I felt grass underneath my feet. I was free. I was out of the castle! Now, to find a way off this island.
Okay, things like this just didn't happen in real life. They just didn't! Currently, I'm hacking my way through thick forests and underbrush to somehow get to the island's shore. But I'm totally lost; a sense of direction was lost on me the minute I was born.
Then, it hit me. What I was doing finally hit me. I was on an island where people with serious diseases rested and I was trying to be the superhero you only see on TV. The cells once belonged to real people who might have been murdered themselves. The passage way belonged to a real person who could have escaped. All the legends were true, then. There really was a doctor who would kill his patients and they must have been trying to escape in order to save their lives. Those poor people, how horrible their lives were. Now, I was essentially doing the same exact thing: trying to escape for the life of the ones I love.
Suddenly, something behind me moved and turned around at lighting speed to find the crazy old man that brought me to this island. What was he doing here? Was he, was he another patient? When he saw me looking he smiled a kind smile and made the universal sign of be quiet. Okay, okay, this was getting weirder by the second.
The old guy took my hand and led me through the forest and to the shore of the island. He was helping me.
"What you doing?"
"I'm trying to escape, you see, the people on this island are mental patients and they're trying to kill my boyfriend! I don't know what's wrong with them but they think they're playing Mafia and I don't know how to stop them so I want to get the police and-and get help!" I was literally screeching at this point; saying the things that were happening out loud just made it all more real and all the more terrifying.
"I know who they are, they were my patients." This guy was the doctor.
"You're their doctor?! But, you killed almost all of your patients and then you killed yourself!" How is any of this even possible?! It just doesn't make any sense.
"Yes, I'm the doctor. But you must listen to me; I brought you onto this island fully knowing your intentions of saving your daughter. My patients have run a muck; they all want me dead and have created elaborate ways of escaping and trying to capture me. They don't understand that I'm not the Edward they have captured. My name is Edward Angelicon. Jacob has told you that they are playing Mafia and will not rest until they have killed Edward, well, I'm the Edward they want to kill and in order to save your boyfriend and daughter that is exactly what I am willing to do." He was going to allow himself to be killed by his own patients for me.
"What? I don't understand any of this. What about the legends? What will happen to your patients? I can't just let you die for me."
"My patients will not be able to get off this island once I'm dead. I have blocked every which way of getting off this island except this boat right here. Now all you have to do is make sure Jacob releases your boyfriend and daughter then run. And of course you can let me die for you! I am old and you are so, so young especially your daughter. The legends are some snippets of the truth. In all honesty I made my patients the way they are now; I was trying to help humanity and try to understand the human brain. Most of the people I experimented on ended up dead, thus the legends. After they died the others went even crazier wondering if I will kill them, they felt hopeless until Jacob became their leader. I ran away when I saw their uprising but I'm here now to correct my mistakes." How could he be calmly discussing his death?! This man was a saint!
"Wow, that is really noble of you but I don't think I will be able to live with myself if you died for my family's selfish needs."
"Bella, listen to me. I'm already half dead or I'm going to die soon; I'm not afraid of death. You, however, have a very long time to go before you have to think about death. Please, let me do this. Let me do this one good deed as my last thing to do before I die, let me try and repent myself to God for all the people I have killed. Please."
"There they are! Take them, Guards!" Jacob's guards came and took us back to the castle, all the while I was thinking about what was to come. This man that I don't even know was going to die for me.
We were led into an elaborate throne room where Jacob went and sat on the throne, beside him stood Leah and on the other side were a very terrified Maddy and Edward.
"What on earth were you trying to do with this man, Isabella?" Jacob seemed even more menacing than he ever has before.
"Nothing, I-I just found him in the woods."
"I see, but last time I checked you were in a cell. Out of nowhere we find you on the shore, possibly escaping?! I thought you loved your daughter. Maybe we can kill her too.
"NO! You can't! I do love her, I do! I wasn't trying to escape!"
"You weren't? Then what, pray tell, were you doing on the shore of this island?" Maybe reaching his inner person will help me out of this.
"I heard the doctor was coming for me next, I had to get away. I had to leave." I said that in my most innocent/terrified shitless for my life voice and he believed it.
"All of this chaos leads back to the doctor! We shall take care of that."
It all happened so quickly. Jacob gave the orders and Edward, the old man, was killed instantly. Dead before my eyes. As the doctor had said before he, um, passed, I grabbed Edward and Maddy and we all ran for the boat while the patients started celebrating the doctor's death.
I took them to the boat and we fled. Away from all this chaos. Away from Jacob and Leah and James. Away from this island of horror.
"Bella, that was, I mean, wow." Edward was speechless while Maddy was hugging the life out of me, crying her eyes out.
"Bella, I love you." That was out of nowhere. I guess having all of this happen made Edward realize that life is too short and we need to cherish what we have while we have it, well I was going to do the same.
"Edward, I love you too." He smiled his famous crooked smile, which I haven't seen for ages, and hugged Maddy and I while at the same time leaning down to me and pressing his lips to mine in a gentle but sweet kiss.
And then I woke up to find myself in the hospital. Lying next to me was Maddy, but she looked like she was only born. Edward was missing, as if he was never there. Then I realized. It was all a dream.
Wow, that was intense and very shocking! I'm planning on ending it here because this just seems like a proper ending, besides if I continued the story then pretty much everything that happened in chapter 2 will happen again and that's just boring. If you guys really want me to continue please review and yell at me to continue writing. =]] Also, in this chapter I do mention mental patients quite a lot and I do not by any means intend to offend anyone who has mental retardation themselves or anyone who knows someone with that sort of disease. This is purely fiction writing and I made the people in my story mean, mean people; this is not my opinion of people with diseases like that, so no offense intended. Hope you enjoyed it =]
