Progress Incomplete

By: xoxstorii-gurrlxox

Chapter 11

Recap:

Taylor Swan

Edward put me down on his couch, in his bedroom. I looked at him patiently. "What is it?"

Edward looked at me, "Taylor, I know I shouldn't be telling you this now, but I love you."

"You what?" I asked.

"I love you." He said. "You are my mate, as us vampires call it. And as my mate, you have to make a choice."

I nodded. "Either be one of you, or you leave forever right?"

"Eventually."

"It's only been like two weeks."

"I know. It's a very important question and you probably need time to think about it."

I smiled. "Yeah, give me a few days." Than he kissed me.


Taylor Swan

I pulled away from his mouth, gasping for air. "Sorry." He murmured into my hair.

I laughed, "It's okay. Edward, your eyes are black. Are you hungry?"

He turned his head away from me, "Yes, but not to worry, I am not going to feed on you."

I looked at him horrified. "Gees guy I wasn't even thinking that."

He coughed suddenly, "I know, sorry. It's just I still crave for your-"

"Bella" I gasped. I ran towards the door.

"Taylor?" Edward asked behind me, "What's wrong?"

"Its Bella." I replied over my shoulder, running towards the stairs.

"Jasper." Edward said, zooming passed me in a blur.

I reached the kitchen just in time to see someone go flying through the air. "Bella? Where are you?"

"Taylor." I heard Bella's quiet reply. I rushed to her voice, bending down towards her. She looked up at me with a terrified expression.

"What happened?" I asked, pulling her up on her feet.

"I... I am not exactly sure. I was sitting here, waiting for you guys to come back when all of a sudden I felt this need for blood." She shivered.

"What?" I asked completely confused. I looked around for Edward, but instead I seen five vampires all looking at us. "Carlisle."

He rushed over to us. "What happened?"

I shook my head, "I don't know. Edward and I were upstairs and than all of sudden I heard Bella screaming in my head, and than Edward said Jasper and went down the stairs really fast."

Carlisle looked over at Bella than back to me. "She's in shock, help me get her to the couch."

I nodded. "Okay."

"Great, more human smells." Rosalie hissed.

I turned to look at her. "You know, if you keep hissing like that you are going to turn into a snake."

Emmett laughed, and Rosalie glared at him. "Sorry."

"Go help your brother." Carlisle ordered.

"Okay." He took off outside and Rosalie followed behind him.

"Alice, get Bella some water please."

"Sure." Alice replied and hopped to the kitchen.

A few moments later she returned with a glass of water, handing it to Bella. Edward walked behind her.

"Edward, what happened?" Esme asked.

"I was talking to Taylor upstairs and than she said Bella's name and took off downstairs. I heard Jasper's thoughts, he wanted to have a taste of her. He thought she was a robber or something, I am not exactly sure."

Carlisle nodded. "It's getting late, I think you better take these girls home now."

Edward nodded. "Alright. Bella can you walk?"

She nodded and stood up. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just got a little spooked is all."

I laughed. "You were never the brave one, but you could always handle getting attacked."

"Attacked." Esme asked horrified.

"Yeah, she is very accident prone." I laughed. "If it wasn't for me and her calm nature she would have been dead years ago."

Bella stared at me. "Glad your so full of yourself."

I shook my head. "Let's go home."

"Yeah right." She handed her glass to Carlisle. "Thanks."

"Anytime. See you soon."

She nodded and followed me and Edward out the door. Edward drove us home, once we arrived I looked at Edward. "Visit me soon?" He nodded. I smiled and kissed him on the cheek, following Bella inside.

"Girls? Is that you?" Charlie called from the living room.

"No Charlie, we are bank robbers." I muttered.

"I am going to bed. Night." Bella said, heading for the stairs.

"Good night Bells." I said.

"Night. Taylor could you come in here please?" Charlie asked.

"Do I have to?"

"No, but I would like it if you did."

I sighed and walked into the living room, plopping myself on the arm chair. "What's up?"

"I'm sorry Taylor."

I looked at him, "For?"

He sighed, he really doesn't like talking about the deep stuff does he? "About not treating you like a daughter."

I stood up suddenly. "Okay, Charlie, it's fine. I know why you did it."

"It's not fine, Taylor!" His voice boomed. "Knowing I was wrong does not change the fact that I didn't treat you the way the should have and for that I am sorry."

I sighed. "Really Charlie, its okay."

He looked at me, his eyes glistening, like he wanted to cry. "If it is so fine, than why don't you ever call me dad?"

"I believe that you shouldn't get attached to something because in the end, it always leaves you. Than you are alone again."

"You know that's not true. Bella has never left you."

"She will once she goes to college. You left me, and my mother left me!" Tears were forcing themselves out. "Everyone I ever cared about left me. Left me with nothing!"

"Are you talking about me or your mother?" Charlie suddenly asked.

I looked at him, a fresh batch of tears washing down my face. "You. Mom. I don't know!" I collapsed to the floor. "How could she leave me like that?" I whispered, looking up at Charlie, "How could you?"

Charlie took me into his arms, "No one knows why our loved ones leave us sweetie." He sighed. "I am sorry for what I have done to you. I know it wasn't easy for you. I can't make up for lost time, but I do want to start to be your father again."

We heard sniffling coming from the stairs, looking up we saw Bella smiling like a total fool. "Oh, dad, that was so beautiful." She cried, rushing over and joining in on our awkward hug.

"Were you there the whole time?" Charlie asked.

Bella nodded. "Yes, I needed to make sure you two wouldn't bite each others heads off." She smiled again. "I know this little session doesn't make you guys all lovey-dovey again."

I laughed, "Bella, we were never lovey-dovey."

"So not true. I found some old pictures in the attic the other day." Charlie looked horrified. "Don't worry, I didn't see any when you were a naked toddler."

I burst out laughing, pulling away from the hug, "Wouldn't that be a sight to see?"

Charlie turned red. "Not really, I was a chubby boy."

"Getting off of the naked subject, what kind of pictures did you find?" I asked curiously.

"Remember when we used to come here when we were younger? Before your mother died?" Bella asked, my heart stung at that painful memory.

I nodded. "Kind of. I was like four or something and Charlie was still married." I winked at him and he blushed again.

Bella nodded excitedly. "Yeah, anyway, I found pictures of you and dad. I mean like lots of pictures."

I looked at Charlie, "I thought you didn't like pictures?"

"I don't. But your mom wanted lots for her collection. After she passed away, she sent them all to me. I forgot about them, I was going to give them to you. There are some of you and your mom too."

I sighed, "Yeah, I'll look through them later." I got up. "I am going for a walk. Be back soon."

"Okay, be careful." Charlie warned.

I rolled my eyes, "Its Forks. Not a whole lot I can do." With that, I walked out the front door.

I opened my cell phone and looked through my contacts, finding the one I wanted I hit send text.

Edward, I need to talk. You up for it?

A few moments passed, and my phone started belting out the music for Never ending Dream.

Yeah, sure. Where?

Meet me in the woods outside my house. I hit send, and a few moments later Edward showed up in front me. I jumped back a couple inches,"Holy Christ, are you trying to give me a heart attack?"

Edward looked at me, and his smile faded a little. "Would it help?"

I smiled, "No, I don't think so."

He wrapped his cold stone arms around me, and I stiffened. "What's wrong?"

I shook my head, "Nothing. Lets go."

"Where to milady?"

"Can you take me to your meadow?" His eyes widened in shock. "Don't ask how I know, but can we?"

He nodded. "If we walk human pace we won't get there for a few hours."

"Who said we had to go human pace?" I smiled cockily.

He turned around. "Jump on." I grabbed his shoulders and jumped onto his back. As soon as I was holding on, we sped off deeper into the woods. "Scared yet?"

I held him tighter and whispered into his ear. "Should I be?"

He just laughed and ran faster. Our surroundings flew by us in a blur, in a matter of minutes we were standing in a very familiar meadow. I gasped when I realized why it looked so familiar. It was from my dream. Edward grabbed my hand and dragged me towards the middle of the meadow, letting go and sitting down he looked at me expectantly, waiting for me to talk.

When I didn't he patted the ground and smiled. "So what are we doing here?"

I sat down and looked around before I spoke. "I needed to talk."

"About what?"

"My mom." I replied quietly.

Edward smiled at me, "Talk away."

"Well, if you don't already know, she died. When I was 10. It seems so long ago, but I still remember everything about her so clearly." I sighed. "Before she died, she told me something, something I wasn't allowed to tell anyone."

"Than why are you telling me?"

I looked at him, "She told me that I should be careful because there are such things as monsters." Edward stiffened. "I was 10 years old, I didn't believe her. How I wanted to believe that you were real. Vampires I mean. The next day she went to work, and she didn't come home." I shuddered at the memory.


7 years ago...

Taylor was rushing home from school, when she spotted police cars outside her house. She ran even faster. Thinking her mom was getting busted for drug possession again. A woman stopped her along the way.

"Best stay away dear. That woman always has the cops knocking at her door." She smiled and Taylor glared at her.

"That woman happens to be my mother." She continued running down the sidewalk, her heartbeat matched her feet pounding against the cement. She stopped in front of a tall man, she noticed his police uniform and she tugged onto his sleeve. "Sir, what's going on?"

The man looked down at her and smiled. "This is none of your concern, best run along home now."

"I can't go home." She muttered.

"Why not sweetheart? Are you lost?" The man bent down to get a better look.

"Because cops are surrounding my home, Sir." She replied, and the smile on the mans face disappeared.

"You are the child of the woman who lives here?" He asked and she nodded. "Little one, what is your name?"

"Taylor."

"Do you have somewhere you can stay?" I shook my head. "Come with me." He led her to another policeman, who looked like he was in charge. "Sir, we have a problem."

He turned around, his beard was sprinkled with gray. Spotting Taylor, his frown got deeper. "Who is she?"

"The daughter."

His eyebrows shot up in complete surprise. "Oh no. Miss Swan, I am Sheriff Lunge, would you like to go for a ride?"

Taylor shot him a glare. "Not until you tell me what's going on. Is my mom getting busted again?"

Sheriff Lunge sighed deeply. "I really hate to have to tell you this but your mom is in the hospital."

"Did she OD again Sheriff?" She asked impatiently.

"Take her to the hospital." The other officer nodded.

"Right away Sir." He took Taylor's hand. "Come on sweetheart."

At the hospital, the officer led her down a maze of hallways. Coming to a stop in the ICU, Taylor peeked into the window. Her mom laid there with tons of wires connected to everybody part, and blood being transfused into her system.

"Mommy!" Taylor screamed.

"Child, did you know your mom had cancer?"

She looked up at him. "What are you talking about? She doesn't have cancer."

Suddenly, a woman appeared behind them, with short light hair and a dark-haired child with her.

"You must be Ms. Swan."

"I am. And you are leaving." The officer nodded and walked down the way he came moments ago. "Taylor, sweetie."

Taylor turned around to see Renee and Bella standing behind her. "What are you doing here?"

"We are here for you, of course." Renee replied softly.

"What?"

"Your mom asked me to take you in when she was diagnosed with cancer Taylor."

"If she had cancer she wouldn't be in this condition!"

"Your right. She was attacked Taylor. We don't know by who."

"Attacked?" Taylor mumbled.

"Yes dear. She was bitten a lot. That's why there is blood pumping into her body. Say good bye to your mom and lets go home." Renee explained.

Taylor nodded and walked into her mother's room. "Bye mommy. I'll miss you so much." Tears were streaming down her face as she left the hospital with her sister and her sort of step mom.


"Was your mom bit by a vampire Taylor?" Edward asked minutes later.

"I don't know."

"If she was, you know she will still be alive."

I turned to look at him. Angry tears rolling down my cheeks. "You don't think I have thought about that since I met you guys?" I stood up. "If she was a vampire why hasn't she come to see me, or even left me a note?"

"There are not a lot of vampires like us Taylor." Edward explained. "Aside from us I only know of one other coven who has the animal diet."

I sank to the ground, "So than all hope is lost for me to ever see my mother again?"

"If she is alive, I will see to it personally that she is found."

I smiled, "Thank you Edward."

"Your welcome." He paused, thinking about something. "Hey, do you like baseball?"

I cocked an eyebrow. "Baseball?"

"Yeah, my family and I are going to play baseball tomorrow night. Do you play?"

"Play baseball with a bunch of vamps?" I laughed. "I feel sorry for whoever has me on their team."

Edward laughed with me. "You can be the umpire."

I nodded. "Sure, what's the worse that can happen?"

"Your with a bunch of vampires Taylor. A lot can happen." Edward said seriously.

I elbowed him in the ribs. "I'll try to be careful than." I stood up, once again. "It's getting late, I should get home."

Edward nodded, jumping to his feet. Grabbing my hands, he flung me onto his back and away we raced back to my house.

"Good night Edward. See you tomorrow." I smiled. "And thanks."

He kissed my cheek. "Good night. I will pick you up at 7." I nodded and walked into the house.


A/N: Talk about forever to update ehh? Well sorry for the delay, but with everything going on I barely have time to myself. Raising two kids is hard. Lol. Well you know what to do. Review.

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