Bpov
I stared out of the window a little while longer. I was sure there had been someone in my room, but no human could have gotten away in 3 seconds.
No human, but according to the stories a Cullen could, a Cold one could.
A vampire.
But if the Cullens were vampires and they hunted animals, why go into my room?
I walked back to my bed, my nightgown waving around my thighs. I left the window open . I didn't know why though. Did I want the intruder to come back? Yes and no. No, because if it wasn't a Cullen it could have been anyone. Yes, because if it was a Cullen I wanted to know everything about them. But who even said the story about the Cullens was true? I mean, it was a little bit farfetched, wasn't it? But I had seen them.
The way they moved, full of grace, all gorgeous and beautiful in their own way. But apart from all the nice stuff they also seemed very secret. Like something wasn't right about them. According to my dreams, thoughts, Edward's strange behaviour and their strange similarities even when they weren't blood related there indeed was something not right. Maybe you could call it a bit dark even. I tried to fall asleep again, but I just couldn't keep my mind from wondering to the Cullens.
I picked up my Ipod and put my playlist "Shooting Stars" on. I was in love with Airplanes from Hayley Williams, so I took that as title. I put on a boy who sung on the music of Airplanes but who made a whole different songtext. Travis Garland-Airplanes. (A/N He really is fantastic at version 3.0)
I listened to all different kind of songs, but I didn't really hear them. My mind was in a whole different place. Edward Cullen, what did you do to me? I hadn't spent a day without thinking about him since I met him. I couldn't believe just a bit more than a week had gone by. It felt like years to me. I looked at my alarm clock: 3.39 a.m. I tossed and turned, but I just couldn't fall asleep again. When I heard a beeping sound my hand slammed down on everything but the freakin" annoying tiny robot thingy that made the noise. Finally. I thought when I hit the "off" button. Eventually I fell back in a light slumber somewhere this night. I walked down the stairs in my pyjamas and fixed myself a bowl cereal. Charlie was still sleeping as he would wake up in half an hour. I always woke early so we wouldn't have to fight over our shared bathroom. After I was done I walked back up the stairs and took a quick shower, brushed my teeth and hair and then I went to my room to dress myself. I had my hair wrapped in a towel. Charlie was now downstairs eating breakfast. When I was dressed in dark blue tights, black ripped jeans and white t-shirt with brown Uggs I walked downstairs. I spent 10 minutes waiting there for Charlie finishing washing our bowls, brushing his hair and teeth and collecting some stuff for the station. He dropped me off at school and went to the station. After a uneventful day at school I started to walk my way back home.
Then I heard someone walking behind me. A man. He looked pretty tall and muscular, but his face showed that he wasn't using these ability's for the better. Stop thinking like that, Bella. You don't even know him. What if he just had a bad day? But still I fastened my pace. Now I started panicking as the man mimicked me. Okay, this wasn't just a guy who coincidentally had to walk the same way, at the same speed who looked like he was planning something very evil but who is actually just a teddy bear with a bad day? "Were you headed at little one? Maybe I can help you get there. I will know where to go." He said in a dark tone. Help me. I thought. He slowered his pace and I looked back to see what he was doing. Shit, he's talking on the phone. This can't be good. He's probably calling some of his friends.
Why did the big guy up there hate me so much?
When I looked back a few metres further I looked back again. He was gone. I walked for about three metres further, looking back every 5 seconds when I walked against something warm and big. It was a man not much different then the one that had been following me. But from the expression on his face he had the exact same intension…
I was getting scared now. What was going to happen to me?
God, why did I even ask that to myself?
I knew what was going to happen, but that didn't mean I wanted to know.
"And where do you think your going sweetheart? Thought you would get rid of us that easily?" His brown curly hair came from under the hood of his black jacket and I could see a hint of brown eyes too. In his pocket I could see the long and slender form of something flat. Something that looked very much like a pocket-knife…
How am I going to get out of here? I thought franticly. I kept looking around myself. But then I saw the man from before approaching us. No! I was way too small and too weak to fight one of them, leave alone two. Still I had to try. It was my only way out. Even if I hurt at least one of them for 5 seconds maybe it would distract them enough for me to run. I tried not to think about how that would end up. Then I felt a warm hand on my shoulder. I turned around to find the man who followed me first. He had blond hair and blue eyes. He was a slightly tanned man so he must have fled from another city to Forks. "Keep your paws off me." I told him stiffly and I shoved his hand away roughly. "You have some guts, little one…Maybe we should teach you to behave." And with that he hit me hard enough to make me hit my head hard against the pavement. The last thing I remembered being a blink of silver. Was it the knife? But before I could really think about that, because blackness overtook me.
Epov
The rest of the night nothing happened. When Bella was asleep we went to sit in the tree again. I knew better then to go back in now.
Still I had a satisfied feeling when I heard her mumble my name again.
When her alarm clock went off we went home to find the others.
When we came to the front porch I was being attacked by Rosalie.
She started to hit every part of me she could find.
"How could you? You can't actually choose to damn her! You yourself always say that you'd rather died, that we are monsters, then why palm her in?" she yelled between the punches.
"I never said I was going to change her!" I roared and then I threw her off me and slammed her into the wall.
Emmet had come out now and he looked very angry. But before he could lung at me Alice stood between us glaring at him.
"Don't you ever dare and try hurt Rose again!" he spat at me.
"Everybody inside," Esmé too had come outside now. She spoke in a very low tone which she only used when we were fighting. When she saw Emmet was stupid enough to try and complain she added a low "Now!" to it and disappeared into the house holding open the door for us.
When we all sat around the dining table we only used for family meetings, Esmé spoke up.
"What was going on out there, Edward?" Her angry tone had weakened a bit, but it still lingered in her voice.
"I came home and Rosalie started hitting me. She thinks I'm going to change Bella."
By the mentioning of Bella everybody realized I indeed smelled a bit like her.
"Edward, what did you do?"
"I just kept guard at the Swan residence as certain someone," I looked straight at Rosalie "Decided that threatening my mate seemed the perfect idea to get all her attention back and send her jealousy away." I smirked at her as I finished my sentence.
I knew there would be hell to pay for what I'd just said.
"Edward!" Carlisle called out in a scolding tone. Rosalie looked like she wanted to throw the whole dining table at my head.
"It sounds a bit like you don't care about the fact that Rosalie wanted to threaten Bella and Charlie Swan, Carlisle," Carlisle was already opening his mouth to say something but I cut him off and went on in the same deathly tone as before "Which brings me to my question to all of you. Do you want me to leave Isabella Swan alone? I will respect your choices. If you chose for me to leave her be, I will, under the condition Rosalie will do the same thing."
The whole table seemed to be shocked for a moment except Alice and me of course.
I decided I wanted to take a look in her thoughts to see how this was going to end.
Nice try, Edward- Alice
Great, she's blocking me. I tried to read her face but she had put on an emotionless mask.
Nobody spoke up, and I was afraid to look into their thoughts.
Someone will have to take the initiative…
"Carlisle, what is your answer?" I asked in a small voice.
"Bella is your mate. You've been unhappy for a long time now. You deserve her and she deserves you. I say she should stay, but she'll have to know the truth then." I nodded. Little did he know, she probably already knew the truth.
I looked at Esmé.
"You will have to make up for the fighting, but I'm with Carlisle of course. I want to meet my new daughter soon. As a punishment you will have to watch some food channels with me."
She tried desperately to sound severe, but I could hear her happiness seeping through.
Before I could even look at her Alice already jumped of her seat to come and hug me.
"Yes of course!" she squealed in delight.
I had to laugh a bit at that. It calmed my nerves a bit that three people had said yes, but I wasn't there yet.
I knew Rosalie would be against me, so it would be a mystery what Emmet would say.
I looked at Jasper. He seemed thoughtful.
"Jasper?" I asked panicked. I so hoped he would say yes.
"Believe me when I say I'm happy for you, Edward. I really am. And I don't want to separate you from Bella, but my control… I don't want to end up killing your mate."
"You won't hurt her Jazzy." Alice skipped over to Jasper's side and kissed him on his cheek.
"Thank you for giving me a new sister!"
"Is that a yes?" I asked uncertain.
He sent a wave of calm in my direction and smiled reassuringly. He nodded.
"Anythin' to make my little Alice happy. And of course I'm glad you found your Alice too."
"And of course I'm happy she's anything but an Alice. I wouldn't want a second pixie." I joked and while Alice stuck out her tongue at me childishly.
I looked at Rosalie.
"Don't expect me to be happy for you. You are right. You are a monster." With that said she stood up and walked upstairs. A few seconds later we could hear the smashing of some vases and what sounded like a chair.
I looked at the last person. I knew I didn't matter what he had to say as four, five if you counted me in had already said yes to Bella. Yet, I found it important to listen to Emmet"s opinion.
"What is your opinion on this Emmet?" I asked. Everybody seemed to be interested in what he had to say. Something that rarely occurred. Even Rosalie stopped smashing her room into tiny pieces to listen to her husband. Emmet started moving around in his chair nervously.
"Well I'm happy for you and all. And I would like to have a little sister that will grow up, change every second of the day, move forward. But I don't want to make Rose unhappy. Still, I say yes to Bella. Rose will hopefully forgive me someday," he said looking up at the ceiling as we heard the smashing had started again "Because she is my wife and mate, but you are my brother also. I've seen you through these past decades and it would be cruel to let you suffer longer. You really need her. When I see you now, you glow. Like you're alive. Like we do, when we look at our mates. So I say yes."
We were all speechless for a moment.
In his whole second life he had never said anything so deep and as smart as he had now. Matter of fact, he never said anything smart.
"Thank you, all of you."
"If there was anything I could do for you, Emmet, I would. But she hates me sort of, so I think you will be better of without me trying to help." I tried to lighten the mood. I heard a few chuckles around the table.
Esmé had stood up to work in the garden and Carlisle was preparing for an early shift.
"Nah, she doesn't hate you. Even though her thoughts may not be the nicest about you, she doesn't. But I know you understand her, and I know that in time she'll learn to understand you and maybe accept it even. But for now, yeah, you're coming close to hate." We laughed a little while longer.
He and Jasper started to play games on the flat screen. Carlisle had waved us all goodbye and gave Esmé a peck on her cheek as he sped away in his black Mercedes. Alice and I had settled on the cough talking about how we were going to handle with a human in our house. Then Alice's eyes glazed over. I watched in her mind as the vision played.
FES had just ringed its bell and Bella was walking alone to her house. She seemed the only one walking in the street when a man suddenly ducked up a few metres behind her.
"Were you headed at little one? Maybe I can help you get there. I will know where to go." The blond, tall man said Bella.
Bella ignored him and fastened her pace. The man copied her when he suddenly slowered and called someone.
Bella looked back as to look were the man had been and then kept walking, looking back every few seconds.
Then she walked into another man. You couldn't see him very clearly, but his brown hair came from under his hood and you could see he had dark eyes as well. He also was tall like the other one. "And where do you think your going sweetheart? Thought you would get rid of us that easily?"
He spoke just as darkly as the other one.
Bella kept looking for a way out, but she got locked in when the blond one caught up with them. He put his hand on her shoulder.
"Keep your paws off me." She shoved his hand from her shoulder in a disgusted way. "You have some guts, little one…Maybe we should teach you to behave." With that he hit her to the ground. When her head hit the pavement she was unconscious.
I couldn't watch any further.
"When?" I growled when Alice was back with us.
"In 10 minutes" Alice said.
Jasper had come to us when he sensed my anger.
"What's going on?"
I explained the whole situation quickly to him and Emmet.
I grabbed my car keys when I started doubting.
"Alice, am I going to be in time to save her?"
"Yes, but go now. I'll call Carlisle to come home and talk to Rose. Now, go!"
With that I had my car started within the next 8 seconds and sped out of the garage.
I had seen where to go in Alice's vision. I sped up the main road in Forks and took the second street on my left, and went right. God, it takes so much longer this way. What if I don't make it? No! I am going to make in time. I'm not going to let them hurt my Bella.
After three minutes I saw them. He hit Bella and she fell to the ground. Her head collided with the pavement. I hissed. The men then noticed me speeding toward them. They looked shocked at first, but then they saw my appearance. It's just a boy. The blond was so wrong…This boy was about 3,5 times older then he was. "I can take him." Said the blond one. The other one nodded while he made his way to Bella. The blond one took a gun from his jacket and aimed it at me. Yeah, like no one ever tried that on me. I thought amused. I stepped out of the car. "Leave her alone and you'll get to live." I growled.
"What are you going to do then?" Asked the one near Bella. He got his knife from his pocket. I hissed. The man looked shocked for a moment. I could see in his mind that my eyes were changing into the darkest of black and I started to tremble. He soon recovered though. "He put his knife near Bella's cheek. "Well? I'm waiting for an answer." He lowered his knife a few inches. That's when I lost it. I grabbed the man with the gun by his collar and threw him into the other. Unfortunately the knife came into his back. They were both unconscious and I ran over to the still unconscious Bella. I could smell blood from the men, but I would never drink of any of them. I hid them in a deserted alleyway. I would make sure Alice and Carlisle found them. I then went to pick up Bella. She was lucky that she hadn't bled.
I picked her up and lay her in on my backseat.
I put the seatbelts around her body as carefully as I could and then I slowly made my way home.
Carlisle and Alice were already waiting on the front porch for me.
I picked her up gently and walked past them, into the living room and lay her on the chough.
"Carlisle?" I questioned him.
He knew what I wanted him to do.
He bent over her small form and asked if anything different had happened apart from what Alice had told him in the vision.
"No, but he did hit her pretty hard, and I could also hear a loud thud when she hit her head on the pavement."
I was getting nervous now. How much had these men damaged her?
After two minutes Carlisle spoke up again.
"Well, there will be a bruise on the right side of her face, and she might have a concussion. But apart from that she'll be just fine."
I still looked worried.
"You did well, but what did you do to the men who attacked her?"
"I left them in an alleyway. Could you take care of them?"
I wanted to stay with Bella.
"I will. Alice, come with me, you need to show me the way. Esmé, could you make something to eat for Bella? And after that please call Charlie. He needs to know what happened to his daughter."
"Of course." Esmé was always so loving.
The way she looked at Bella showed that she was very concerned about her youngest daughter.
Alice and Carlisle were out of the house for a minute when I realized it was very quiet.
"Did Rosalie, Emmet and Jasper go for a hunt?" I asked.
"Yes, Rosalie had to calm down, and Jasper didn't want to kill his little sister." She left Emmet out, because it was obvious that wherever Rose went, he went.
I started stroking Bella's face and hair when she started opening her eyes.
"Hey." I said smiling. "You got us pretty concerned. Are you alright?" I wanted to make up for the impression I had made on her last time.
"Edward," she tried to sit up, but I pushed her back.
"Stay there, Bella. Esmé is making you some food. She will call your dad. You are save here."
"I know. You saved me." She said bluntly looking me straight in the eye.
She felt the connection, I knew it…
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