A/N – Okay, here's where lots of the twists begin, enjoy!
Chapter 9 – Papers and Parents
Tyler POV
He stepped into view, his face illuminating in front of me, okay, I'm dreaming, right? There is no way this could be, he stepped closer so he was barely inches from my face and he inhaled a deep breath then smiled.
"You smell good...son", He said, a hint of something in his voice, I couldn't quite place what it was.
I gulped.
"Dad?", I asked.
He nodded and smiled then turned and started pacing before me. He stopped to glare at me when he noticed I was looking at him like I'd seen a ghost, well I kind of have, right? My dad is dead...but then...
"I know, I know, how am I alive?", He spoke, I stared at him, astonished.
"Well..uhm...uh..yeah?", I stuttered my reply.
"Then the answer is...", He trailed off, deep in thought. "I'm not"
"Then you're a...", I began but stopped as he glared at me once more, his crimson eyes boring into my own scared, brown ones.
"a vampire? Yes.", He spoke calmly though he looked angry.
"Can I ask why you have my tied up?", I spoke carefully.
"Oh, that. Sorry about that son. You were meddling in things that need to be left alone, I had to stop you...", He sighed.
"What things was I meddling in exactly?", I asked.
My head began to thump very painfully, had he knocked me out by hitting me over the head? It felt like I'd been beaten with a pipe or something, it fucking hurts! He shook his head and remained silent, I stared at him as he paced back and forth, He was contemplating on whether or not to tell me what I was sure I probably didn't want to know.
"Are you gonna leave me tied here?", I continued to press my questions.
"No, of course not, I'm not going to kill you either, you're much too valuable", he replied.
"And why am I so valuable?", I asked another desperate question.
"You're probably going to find out anyways, just be patient, please", he said.
"Please, just let me down, my head is killing me", I spoke, pleading.
"I'm afraid I can't do that, not while your conscious", He spoke as if he'd just told me like he couldn't drive fast in his car while I was holding a cup of coffee, it was so menacing but at the same time had the simplicity of that example.
"Wait...What?", I spoke up, scared.
"I'm going on an errand and I'm afraid your gonna be unconscious, I'll loosen your restraints while you're out and then you can make your own way home, it'll be too late but you are free to go home, I'm leaving a bus ticket for you to get there", He said, smiling but I couldn't ignore the evil twinkle in his eyes.
He stepped forward and I closed my eyes, waiting for the painful thump I'd certainly feel at any second, he instead placed his mouth to my ear and whispered.
"I am sorry about what I have to do, you will hate me...", He spoke.
The next thing I felt was a painful bash to my head and I was in darkness once more...
Two Hours Later.I woke to find myself lying across the floor, the place was empty now, I hurriedly stood up, regretting it immediately when my head thumped painfully, I rushed to the other room and found the bus ticket he spoke about, it was lying on the small coffee table in a very well decorated living room, it was like heaven compared to the dump of a room I'd just been tied up in, I grabbed the ticket, accidentally brushing some papers onto the floor, I immediately bent down and gathered them in my hands, staring at them, all of them were labelled with the logo for Forks Hospital. I was holding birth records and the hospitals nursery visiting log. I hastily stuffed them into the bag lying on the table and carried it out, I was certainly gonna need something to read on the bus to Forks...
Bella POV
The sound of the water soothed me as I sat in the sand at the beach. I was alone, having ran immediately from the Black's home after Billy's news. I knew Jake had tried to follow me but Billy had convinced him to let me be alone for time to think, I was thankful for that but right now I would love to be wrapped in Jake's warm embrace. I sighed. I heard someone clear their throat and turned to see Jake had finally joined me.
"Mind If I sit?", He asked, gesturing to the spot next to me.
"Sure...", I spoke, my voice timid.
He threw down his shoes, he was barefoot. I turned to look out at the water again as he sat down next to me, his arm wrapping around my waist, I took a deep breath and melted into his side, enjoying the warmth I immediately felt.
"Do you wanna talk about it?", He asked.
I shook my head.
"Okay.", He simply replied.
Tyler POV
I had arrived just in time for the bus, Taking my seat and placing the bag on the seat next to me, I immediately rummaged through it and looked at the birth records, three babies were born that day in Forks, my father had listed the names a piece of paper:
September 13, 1987
Isabella Marie Swan
Born 6:47am
Tyler James Watts
Born 7:03am
Daniel Joseph Swan
Born 7:25am
Died 9:37am
At that moment, I felt so much sympathy for the Swans, Charlie's son had only lived for two hours and Bella had never had the chance to meet him. It was very tragic. I thought it was a stillbirth. The next thing I noticed shocked me most of all, I know my father was a doctor but the amount of visits he was logged in for on the visitor log was unbelievable. His last visit was marked as 9:34am. Just three minutes later Daniel had died. I rummaged around in the bag again and pulled out a small notepad, I glanced at it, it was a journal! My father's journal.
"This should be good...", I muttered under my breath.
An old woman sitting across the bus looked at me, obviously picking up on my comment, she glanced at me like I'd just thrown horse manure at her. Bitch!
"Can I help you?", I asked her.
She huffed and turned to face the window again. I looked out the window, it was raining and we passed a sign saying that we were just one mile from Forks now, wow time had flown! I moved my attention back to the journal, looking over the scribble my father called his handwriting as it spread across page after page. One entry read the day after I was born. Marked as Sept. 14, 1987. I glanced down at what was written, talking my way through it in my head, I didn't need that nosy old bitch listening to me ramble on saying what was written.
Sept. 14, 1987.
Last night I did something terrible, I visited the nursery, It was painful, It goes against everything that I am, I'm a doctor, I'm supposed to help people, not cause them pain, but will they really feel pain, They won't be finding out? We can leave, I'm sure Caroline will leave with me, she just has too...I carried on reading, my eyes rolling over each word, until it hit something that made my heart stop
"No fucking way!", I accidentally said too loud, most people turned to look at me. "Sorry." I ground out.
I needed to carry on reading, I flipped the page.
Sept 15, 1987.
I read on further, He described being in the nursery, watching over the two surviving newborns from September 13th, He seemed to have messier handwriting when it came to writing about Bella. It dawned on me what had been written on the entry the day before, It hit me like running into a wall, the things he'd been rambling on about before back at that apartment, I had to get to Forks faster!
I handed in my resignation, Caroline is being released today, She doesn't know what I've done, I've already found a new job though, working in Chicago's best Hospital. She'll never know what I've done, Not until I'm dead at least.
Alice POV
It pained me to see Edward's suffering, he really loved Bella and at one point I know she loved him so much it would be killing her to be away from him now but she had made her choice, she'd chosen Jacob, the mutt. I shuddered. Jasper looked up to me and knelt before me.
"Alice, are you alright?", He asked me, concerned.
"I'm fine...", I lied, I knew what was happening, vision time, uh oh! "Really..."
I jumped up about of my seat and rushed to the other room as the vision took me, my eyes widened as I realised, he was here in Forks, the vampire that was after Bella. The vision took me, I heard a smash and suddenly everyone was standing around me, the vision creating a heavy mist over my eyes.
Bella was returning home, Charlie's cruiser was missing from the driveway, She was alone as she climbed out of her truck, walking up the porch steps, a troubled expression on her face, clearly she'd recently had bad news, she unlocked the front door locking it behind her, entering the living room she turned the light on and was met with the man sitting on the couch."Alice? What is it? what did you see?", Edward's voice coaxed me out of the vision.
"Hello Bella", He spoke.
"Oh My God, Who are you? How did you get in?", She asked, startled, her eyes wide.
"I think you've been expecting me...", He spoke again
The phone rang and they both dove for it, he grabbed her before she could reach and the last thing I saw was Bella being slammed against the wall.
"I...I...", I couldn't even formulate a sentence, we were going to be too late, I knew that.
"Alice?", Jaspers voice rang from beside me, a calming wave blew over the room.
"I saw Bella, the ma- vampire was in her house", I spoke.
It didn't take more than half a second before Edward shot out of the door, Emmett, Rosalie, Esme and Carlisle following, I heard the door slam shut and I turned to rest my head on Jasper's shoulder, his arms encircling my waist.
"They're gonna be too late", I stated.
"Ssh, they'll save her, don't worry", Jasper soothed me.
I certainly hope so, This man didn't look like he was one to mess around, He was a typical nomad vampire, his eyes a deep shade of red, and from the vision I could just tell that he was thirsty.
Jacob POV
It had been too long since Bella had left to go home, I was getting way too anxious, I picked up the phone and punched in her number, the tone rang but continued for a few minutes before I gave up, frustrated, slamming the phone back down, this wasn't like Bella. Something must be wrong.
"Hey son, can you...", My dad's voice called after me as I rushed past him.
"Not right now Dad!", I spoke through gritted teeth as I rushed into the woods and phased, running to Bella.I pulled into the driveway and shut off the engine, leaning my head against the steering wheel and sighing, How could this be happening? Wasn't my life complicated enough?
Bella POV
"Come on Bella, pull yourself together...", I tried to encourage myself.
Pushing the door open I climbed out and trudged my way up to the driveway and opened the front door, stepping into the dark house and closing the door, I entered the living room and flicked on the light, coming face to face with a man sitting before me, He stood.
"Hello Bella", He spoke.
"Oh My God, Who are you? How did you get in?", I asked, startled, my eyes widening.
"I think you've been expecting me...", He spoke again
It dawned on me who this was, he had come for me, as Alice had seen. The phone interrupted my thoughts, I glanced to him and then to the phone, making a break for it, he beat me there, grabbing me and throwing me against the wall, the last thing I saw before I blacked out was the front door bursting open and several shadows entering, I heard Jacob's frantic voice calling out my name before I slipped into unconsciousness.
I woke up not long after, it had to have only been about ten minutes, I felt hands tightening their grasp over my arms, opening my eyes fully I was met by the Cullen's (minus Alice and Jasper), Jake, Quil, Embry and Sam all crouched into fighting stances, The man grasping my arms shook me and laughed.
"Glad to see you're awake Bella", He spoke a little too loudly in my ear.
I risked a glance at Jake, his eyes showed all his emotions - anger mixed with worry, he was clearly fighting the urge to lunge forward and rip this man in half.
"Who are you?", I asked, craning my head to try and look at his face.
His hand came up and grabbed my chin, forcing it to face forward.
"Oh how terribly rude of me, I didn't mention my name, did I?", He asked sarcastically. That earned a few growls from the others in the room.
"Now, Now, no growling, you wouldn't want me to break her neck now would you?", He snarled at everyone else, particularly the pack members.
"Don't you dare fucking hurt her!", Jake spat, gritting his teeth.
"Oh yes, you're the lover boy I'm guessing...", He spoke coldly.
"Are you going to tell us your name or not you dick?", Quil spoke up.
"Oh yes, allow me to introduce myself, I'm Richard Watts, Doctor Richard Watts", He spoke, emphasising the word doctor.
Holy cow this was Tyler's father, his dead father! Wait...his vampire father!"Why are you here?", Edward spoke suddenly.
"For Bella of course, I'm here to escort her to the Volturi", He said. I gulped.
"Why?", Carlisle asked.
"Its either her or my son...", He said, muttering a "crap!" under his breath, he obviously didn't mean to let that slip.
"Why would the Volturi want Tyler?", I asked, I had a feeling this linked to what Billy told me before.
"Because...", He began.
The door flew open and everyone moved apart and turned to face the door, there stood a panting Tyler, his clothes dirty and slightly torn, he stared at his father, throwing daggers through his eyes.
"Oh My God, Tyler!", Quil spoke up. "You're alive, man!" He moved forward but Tyler lifted his hand up to stop him
"Do you wanna explain why vampires would want me, or should I?", He spoke.
Everyone's eyes followed his to look at his father who shook his head and smiled.
"I have no idea what you're talking about", He snarled.
"All of this explains it.", Tyler spat back. "The birth records, your journal!"
I have to say I didn't see where this was going, everyone looked at Richard as he shook me and spoke carefully.
"This can wait, now Bella, what exactly do you know about my family?", He asked.
"Just the fact that you were my mom's doctor and that you told my parents my brother was stillborn when he infact lived for at least two hours!", I glared at him as he pushed me against the wall, his back to everyone else.
"There's so much more than that...", Tyler said.
Everyone glanced to him as he threw the bag he was holding onto the floor, its contents scattering across the floor.
"Let's start with your journal entry on September 13th, shall we?", He said coldly.
"Don't you dare!", Richard snarled
He let go of me and rushed at Tyler but Emmett and Edward were faster, they grabbed him and held him tightly, shoving him to the wall.
"Go on Tyler", Edward spoke.
I saw Tyler tense at Edward speaking to him, he shook it off and held the diary in front of himself.
"Sept. 14, 1987.
Last night I did something terrible, I visited the nursery, It was painful, It goes against everything that I am, I'm a doctor, I'm supposed to help people, not cause them pain, but will they really feel pain, They won't be finding out? We can leave, I'm sure Caroline will leave with me, she just has too...""Want me to go on...dad?", He forced a smile.
Jake had walked over to me by then and wrapped his arm around me, he glanced at me, clearly confused, just as I'm sure everyone else was.
"Oh what the hell, everyone should know, right? Though you don't what that", Tyler winked at his father and read on.
"I'm a terrible person, Last night when the Swan's children were delivered, I moved them to a room to have them checked out, they hadn't been alive more than an hour, I gathered my own son and placed him in the cot beside the twins that Renee had just delivered.I swallowed and felt Jake's arm tighten around me, I wasn't sure I wanted to hear this.
I knew from the moment he was born that something was terribly wrong with Tyler, he was pale, too pale and after I had examined him I knew what I had to do, I couldn't lose my son, I couldn't let Caroline go through this, the Swans would still have Bella, right? I'm an awful person for even thinking this..."
"I visited the Nursery an hour after examining the kids, Tyler had worsened, I could see it, his breathing was shallow but I had refused to let any nurses in to care for him, they couldn't know if I was going to do this, I moved quickly, switching the names and wristbands, Its awful I know but now Tyler Watts was Daniel Swan and Daniel Swan was Tyler Watts.Tears filled my eyes as everyone looked on, completely shocked as Tyler breathed in deeply, throwing the journal at his father viciously.
Three minutes later Tyler (now Daniel) was dead. Now the Swans would suffer and I felt nothing, I only cared that I still had a baby to take home."
"You switched me at birth, took me away from my family", He began.
Jake's arm tightened further on me but I looked up to see Tyler looking at me, our eyes found each other and right then I just knew it was true, he looked so much like me, with Charlie's strong jaw, the same eyes and hair as me, This was my brother, the brother that had never died, my parents had grieved over a son they had "lost" when all along he was out there, in Chicago living with a monster and a poor unsuspecting woman who now lived in La Push. Life is funny something, funny, but a real bitch.
"How could you?", I spoke finally, the tears streaming down my face, I looked at this vampire who was now snarling at everyone. "How could you do that to my family, to your wife?"
Everything happened so fast, one moment he was being held down by Emmett and Edward and the next moment he was pushing through everyone and racing out the door, the Cullen's following him. The pack members stood around in silence, unsure of what to say, I saw Sam nod and felt Jake tense but he nodded back and soon Sam, Quil and Embry left the house, closing the door behind them, Tyler sat on the floor, hunched over, staring at the papers scattered across the floor, I looked at Jake.
"He's your family Bella, I know its a shock but he needs you", He smiled weakly and let go of me before speaking again, "I'll be in the kitchen"
He left the room and the next thing I heard was the fridge opening and the clattering on the counters of various food ingredients being laid out, leave it to Jake to eat at a time like this. I moved over to Tyler and hugged him. He looked up at me.
"I can't believe...", He began but stopped, looking at me like I was about to shut him up.
"I know, you're my brother", I smiled, actually smiled! Tears rolled down our cheeks and we embraced each other.
We moved into the living room and sat at the couch while Jake brought in some sandwiches, we barely ate but Jake had at least five, polishing off the remains of the one I managed to eat half of, we cleared away the papers from the hallway and heard the cruiser pull into the driveway.
"Charlie's home", Jake stated.
"Here we go, the moment everything changes", I said. Tyler glanced at me, worried.
"Don't worry man, you're gaining a great father!", Jake smiled and patted Tyler's back.
The door opened and I heard Charlie shuffling around, taking off his coat, he turned to see us sitting on the couch, noticing that I had been crying.
"Hey Bells, are you okay?", He asked.
"Yeah dad, there's something I...we need to tell you", I replied, smiling slightly.
He nodded and came to sit down, I moved over and sat on the coffee table in front of him, taking his hands in mine, he glanced over to Tyler and Jake who quickly looked down, the room was silent.