"The next one just across the city, in Elliot Bay."
She spoke quietly and didn't meet his eyes again, as she clutched a piece of paper in a fist, he heard it crinkle and crumple as her face twisted at some inward thought that he could not read.
It seemed an unspoken agreement that she would continue on her bike, whilst he followed in the Volvo, neither wanted to imagine being wrapped around the other in the present climate.
However as they travelled in a blur of expensive vehicle they came to the first of what proved to be many obstacles.
Rush Hour.
As the evening was drawing in thousands of angry office workers in large flashy cars were fighting for space on the freeways, meaning that the Volvo - small as it was - was unable to move even an eighth a speed as the smooth motor bike, Bella stopped her bike, leaving the roaring thing alive whilst she lent just slightly towards the Volvo's window, it swept down with a whir, and unveiled the eyes of gold that stared at her,
"How adverse are you to ditching the car?" She murmured,
"Give me three minutes, meet you on that curb." The car reversed from sight, and Edward vaguely wondered if she planned to drive away but did not hear the blurring growl of the engine retreating. He ran at his speed - a part of his mind wondering if Bella could beat him - and was back in less than two.
"Well then, Mr Cullen, this is where it gets awkward." She blushed and motioned towards the bike, he tried to hide his smile - failing - as he swung a leg over the side and clasped his arms around her waist - her heart sped and her face reddened, her face twisting into a smile she tried to hide as well, failing just as pointlessly.
In seconds they were away, the bike growling underneath them as they dodged cars with the grace of a vampire, if not for perfect vision they would have been as blurry to the pair as they to everyone else.
As Edward was preoccupied with trying to stop feeling her warmth spread through his icy frame the bike squealed to a stop, jarring and loud,
"It'll take an hour to get through all this." She remarked - mostly to herself, the loss of time present in her mind as she remarked that she had lost almost five of her precious twenty four.
Better jump. You're running out of time.
The message on the screen mocked her and she restrained herself from crushing it.
"Edward, I'm going to need you to hang onto me because if I fall of it's going to hurt."
"What are -" He was cut of as she yanked the black leather belt from her coat and looped it around her wrist and his, securing the both to the handle bar of the motor bike,
She reversed the bike as she cut across the road side ways, from the direction on the bike they could both see the container yard the road around fifty metres below, the dirty reds, blue and greens wet and glistening as a few solitary workers remained there.
"Bella I don't care how immortal you are this will kill you." Edward tried to say as she revved the bike,
"Have you forgotten that the general point of this little scavenger hunt is to do just that?" she enunciated with a twisted little laugh that showed her nerves.
She twisted their clasped hands and the bike shot forward, barreling towards the edge of the freeway and then hurtling into free falling space, the bike moaned pitifully as it ran out of road and they fell in the slightly falling rain, the hunk of metal, the vampire and the immortal all plummeting down.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO SEATTLE OR EVEN AMERICA. I HAVE WIKiPEDIA KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PLACES AND STUFF SO PLEASE DON'T MOAN IF I GET IT WRONG. In my head they are almost in a Bond film where the freeway is kind of just raised and the container yard is far far below. I KNOW THAT THIS PROBABLY DOES NOT EXSIST IN SEATTLE. BUT ONCE AGAIN - I HAVE NO IDEA BECAUSE I HAVE RESEARCHED ALL I CAN BUT WIKIPEDIA IS INCONCLUSIVE TO SAY THE LEAST.
AND PLEASE GIVE ME AN X-MAS REVIEW because i'm starting to get the idea that no one is actually enjoying this story anymore.
GOOOOOO OOOOON,, ill give you a cyber cookie ;)
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