So... ANOTHER CHAPTER IS FINALLY HERE! And I hope you all have a happy Samhain. I'm into The House of Night books, and Halloween is said with the ancient version, Samhain. Also, I'm really ill at the moment, hopefully I'll get better soon. Should help me finish the story if I'm off school, right? ;)
Now, the serious part. I said that I might put this story on hold if I didn't get reviews. 11 people visited the chapter with the authors note. I got 8 reviews, four of which don't count really, *cough* 12fanpire21 *cough* as they were all by the same person! You might have reviewed five times, but really? It did make me laugh though, and was the big reason why I decided to continue this story. Also, a lot want Rachel to meet Seth soon, I'll see if they characters are willing to hurry up and meet in this chapter...
Dedications: luvsbooks412, nightworldlover101, and of course, the lovely 12fanpire21. Now she can't stalk me with pitchforks and torches!
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, the book's words or their characters. I do own Rachel though, for she is my own character.
Chapter 9
It had been a few days now since we had talked to Charlie and told him of Bella's 'illness'. But now, I had a feeling, call it intuition, that something big was coming. And I wasn't sure if it was a good thing, or a bad thing.
We were all downstairs, even Alice, who had decided to come down for some reason neither me nor Edward could figure out as she was blocking us. I think at one point I heard her mumble about 'blank futures' or something or other...
Of course, then I got sucked into a vision, of what seemed like the past, somehow I knew the difference...
Vision of the past
Charlie was sitting in his house, when the bell rang. He got up to go to the door with a big grin on his face. When he wrenched the door open, a man in a wheelchair. I instinctively recognised him as being a man called Billy. "Hey Billy! The game is almost on, come on in!" Charlie said. He came inside and stayed in his chair.
After the game had finished, and they had won, Charlie started to talk to Billy. "Bella got home a few days ago," he started, nonchalantly. "Oh? How is she?" Billy said back. "She's ill. She has this really rare disease from South America, no visitors allowed." "Oh. Well. I'm sorry about that," Billy said flatly. "Well, I'd better be going, I think Jacob just turned up to bring me home." "Okay, well, see you another time, Billy." "Sure Charlie. I hope Bella gets better soon." After Charlie said thanks and let him out, Billy muttered, "Oh, the council will love this. Seems Bella's a vampire."
End of vision
Shit. Shit, shit, shit. Seems the wolf pack knows. I looked alarmed over to Edward, but he was too busy looking like a burning man to notice anything. Look, I know Bella was well into her pregnancy, about 20-25 weeks, and I know she was covered in bruises, but she will be fine, I've seen it! When will they trust my visions, they are incredibly accurate...
We then all heard the roar of a motorbike. It got all eight of us vampires to freeze in place, with Bella wondering why we had suddenly stopped moving. Before she could ask, I muttered quietly to her, telling her that someone had come on their motorcycle here. Specifically not telling her who it was, in case we could get rid of him. But, fate decided that it wouldn't happen.
The motorbike cut out. I could already smell him. "Ugh, something smells," I muttered. "They all smiled and muttered in agreement. His heart was beating, but I didn't feel any bloodlust towards him. He paused. His thoughts were horrible. He took a gulp of air and started towards the door. Carlisle got there before him though. "Hello, Jacob. How are you?" He took a deep breath. His thoughts weren't all too nice... How can he think about killing someone as good as Carlisle? "I heard Bella made it back alive," Jacob said in a subdued voice. "Er, Jacob, it's not really the best time. Could we do this later?" Carlisle's emotions gave him away as uncomfortable. Well, who wouldn't? Even I was really uncomfortable. But Jacob's thoughts shocked me. Death match? What the hell is he talking about? Bella then spoke up, her voice cracked and rough. Reminder, get her a glass of water. Rosalie told her that we'll get rid of him, that he shouldn't see her. "Why not? Are we keeping secrets from Jacob, too? What's the point?" There was a pause. "Come in, please, Jacob," she croaked more loudly. "Excuse me," Jacob said in a hard voice.
When Jacob came into the room he was standing close to the wall, instinct so that he could face everyone. But when his eyes settled on Edward, I swear his eyes almost bugged out of his head. He then looked over to Bella. I had a quick vision that Bella was about to throw up. I quickly told Rose to get the basin. It got there just in time for Bella to throw up in it. I swear Jacob looked sick at it. When she could raise her head, Bella smiled weakly at him and whispered to him, "Sorry about that." Edward moaned and slumped against Bella's legs. He didn't seem to be aware he was moving closer till Rosalie hissed at him. "Rose, don't. It's fine," Bella whispered. Rosalie moved out the way while I stayed by Bella's head. Rosalie was tensed to spring. From her fantasies it seemed like a good thing. "Bella, what's wrong? Are you alright?" Jacob whispered. "I'm so glad you came to see me today, Jacob." "Edward moaned again into the blanket, his thoughts giving him away to me, "She speaks like she knows she's going to die..." Jeesh, so melodramatic... "What is it, Bella?" He wrapped his hands around her fingers, warming her up like none of us can.
She looked around the room till her eyes rested on me and Rose. "Help me up?" Rose glared at Jacob, wishing she could rip his throat out, "no one will notice if he goes missing..." She pulled her lips back over her teeth, and I could hear the faint rumbles of a grumble starting. I decided to intervene before it got too far. "Please, Rose." She made a 'WTF?' face at me, but straightened up anyways and moved over to me, feelings of trust floating towards me, along with her thoughts. "No, don't get up." "I'm answering your question," she snapped. Yup, not down and out yet is our Bells! So we both got an arm around her waist, under her shoulders, and helped her up. Edward just sagged forward into the couch, and the blanket fell to Bella's feet. His eyes grew wide, his mind spinning. He couldn't look away from her swollen belly. And then he grasped it. He looked at her face, I mean really looked at it. Seeing all her bones protruding, her skin taught against it.
"Because it was a monster. Just like its father. I always knew he would kill her." Mine and Edward's heads snapped up as we heard his thoughts. I growled at him at the same time Edward snarled, "Outside, Jacob." I didn't realise Jacob was so tall. When he stood up he towered over Edward. "Let's do this," Jacob agreed. Emmett and Jasper came over to Edward, Emmett seriously hoping for a fight (man is he nuts...). "No," Bella gasped. She stumbled forwards to clutch at Edward, me and Rose moving with her, keeping her balanced. "I just need to talk to him, Bella," Edward said in a low voice, stroking her hair, "don't strain yourself. Please rest. We'll both be back in just a few minutes. She stared at him and then at me. I nodded, assuring her they would be safe. Me and Rosalie helped Bella back onto the couch. "Behave and then come back," Bella insisted.
We were all waiting for them to come back. Of course, I could hear every word whether I wanted to or not, seeing as I didn't know how to turn off my abilities yet, and I wouldn't tell anyone else as it was a private conversation between the two of them. (A/N. If you want the convo between Edward and Jacob, read the book. I'm too lazy to write the whole thing out at 9 o clock at night...)
When they came back, everyone looked confused at them, but Jacob's emotions gave him away as feeling nauseous. Bella followed Jacob with his eyes, turning a greyish pale from stress, so I sent her a wave of calm to take the stress away. "We're going to let Jacob and Bella speak privately," Edward said. "Over my pile of ashes," Rosalie hissed. I hissed too. I might trust him a little, but not enough just yet to let him speak to her on his own. Just minutes ago he wanted to kill us all along with Bella! "Bella, Jacob wants to talk to you. Are you afraid to be alone with him?" Edward said. She looked over to Jacob, looking confused, then over to me and Rose. "Rose, it's fine. Jake's not going to hurt us. Go with Edward." "It might be a trick," I warned. "I don't see how." "Carlisle and I will always be in your sight, Rachel," Edward said. The emotionless voice was cracking, showing the anger through it. "We're the ones she's afraid of." "No," Bella whispered, starting to cry. "No, Edward. I'm not..." Edward smiled and shook his head. "I didn't mean it that way, Bella. I'm fine. Don't worry about me." I wish she'd stop feeling so guilty; she was such a martyr... "Everyone, please," Edward said, motioning towards the door. Silently everyone went out the door. I made it to the door, then hesitated and turned around. Rosalie was halfway across the floor, hesitating like me. "Rose, Rachel, I want you to go," Bella said quietly. Rose glared at Edward, and I gestured for him to go first. He disappeared and Rose left next him after giving Jacob a warning glower. Bella and Jacob looked at me. I gave a sad smile, and said, "I trust you don't hurt her Jacob, I really do." I then turned and walked out the room.
I got outside and skipped over to Rosalie, who was currently being held back by Emmett, as she was having a go at Edward. "How can you let him be with Bella on their own? What if he hurt her? How can you do this!" she screeched. I sent a very strong wave of calm at Rose, which made her slump into Emmett's arms. I came forwards and kneeled in front of her. "Rose, it's fine, he won't do anything, and I've seen it. I'm keeping a close eye on them." She just nodded, her thoughts telling me she was just worried for Bella and the baby.
When I heard Jacob leave I went inside to Bella. It had been an interesting morning. Throughout the next couple of hours everything was good, I was helping Rosalie tend to Bella, shouting at Edward when he thought of trying something. But then, the words entered mine and Edward's mind at the same time. "Edward? Edward, you there? Okay, now I feel kinda stupid." "You sound stupid too." Those two people's thoughts, one I did not know but sounded familiar, the other being Jacob, and sounded warning bells in my head."Hey, Edward. If you can hear me – circle the wagons, bloodsucker. You've got a problem." "We've got a problem," the mystery person amended. Everyone was looking at us wondering what had us so antsy. "Edward, Emmett, Jasper, go outside and wait for them. We'll stay inside and look after Bella," I ordered. They nodded and disappeared. Oh, how I wish Carlisle and Esme were here! If they hadn't gone hunting, they would know what to do.
We all listened in to the conversation, I translating Jacob, and who I knew to be Seth's thoughts. "I'm going to go outside, make sure everything's okay. Rose, stay with Bella." She nodded while I walked out.
But, as soon as I stepped outside, the familiar shudder came though me as I gained the ability to phase into a wolf, and I looked into the eyes of the sandy coloured wolf...
And felt my world stop, leaving only him at the centre of it.
Well? What do you think? She finally met Seth! Yay! Did you think she would imprint on him? Review!
Rachel xxx
