Eleven
AN Okay, I've kinda been in a blah-like mood lately and I'm working my best to get out of it… not like that really has anything to do with this, so I'll just continue on to the Author's Note. Lol. Okay, so, Smile for Life, Emberseve, Faerie of Murtagh, The Uncoordinated One, Starlitlovers, TheTwihard (though this was an anonymous reviewer… love you anyways! Lol), Jbthatsme33, x-Stephanie-x, LeytonTilEnd, Rachieloveszanessa, and EdwardandBellabelongtogether are totally and completely amazing to the end! You guys are wicked! (Lol, you should see this is word, it's one red flag after another. XD)
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Chapter Eleven
"Bella, are you okay?" Esme asked as she and Carlisle suddenly appeared right next to me. I nodded. "Oh dear, you're blue! You're going to get hypothermia!" She exclaimed as she slid off her jacket and managed to get it on me in less than a second.
Immediately I felt warmer, but I was still cold. I looked around the clearing to find Edward, Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie, and Alice surrounding the vampire. The clearing was filled with growls and snarls from each and every one of them.
"You don't really think you can beat me, do you? I've killed numerous other vampires, you're all weak. I can surely kill you. All of you!" The vampire shouted. Something in Alice snapped as she jumped at him.
"Alice, no!" Jasper shouted as Alice was suddenly flying through the air, limbs flailing just before she crashed into a tree, causing it to fall in the direction she had hit it in.
"ALICE!" I screamed as I began to run towards her. Esme and Carlisle fastened themselves to my arms, forcing me to stay put.
"She's okay, dearie." Esme soothed. Our arms were nearly touching from how close we were. Tears continued their race down my face as Alice stood up. She smiled weakly at us, and then jumped back into the fight.
The clearing sounded much like a nightmare with all the growling and snarling and it looked like one, too. There was an... I gulped. There was an arm not too far away from the fight--but whose was it?
I felt vomit rising in my throat and I knew my face had to be a dark shade of green.
"I can still defeat you!" The vampire shouted. "You don't have the numbers! You will never have the numbers on your side!" His shrill shriek pierced the air through the rain.
Edward turned back to look at Carlisle, Esme, and I. His topaz eyes were full of rage and... sorrow? His eyebrows creased at an angle I had only seen once before--and that one time had been at a ballet studio in Phoenix, Arizona. They slanted dramatically downwards away from his nose while they usually just sat there atop his eyes.
He nodded once, then twice, and then a blood stained face appeared just over his shoulder.
"No!" I screamed in vain as the vampire's teeth clamped down on Edward's shoulder. My Edward, my angel, howled in pain. I jerked my arms this way and that, trying to get away from Esme's and Carlisle's grasp on me. "Let go of me!" I cried, trying ferociously to get to Edward. "Let me go!" But they held tight to me.
"He'll be alright Bella, he'll be--" Edward's shrieks of pain became more profound as the vampire behind him jerked his head down, tearing away skin with it.
"No!" I sobbed, I could feel the pain in my shoulder that I knew Edward must have felt. "Please," I tried again, weakly pushing and pulling away from them. "Let me go. Let me go to Edward." Carlisle looked at me gravely.
"Bella, that's what he wants, not Edward, but... the other vampire. Come, Bella, we're going home, the others will meet us there." Carlisle stated with a doctors confidence. Again, I resisted--but Esme and Carlisle were vampires and proved to be stronger than me.
Carlisle dropped my hand as Esme began running at a safe human speed--for my clumsiness, I figured. But still, I tried to resist. I ended up tripping over a root jutting out of the ground, scraping my elbows and knees as I skidded to a stop on the gritty mud.
Carlisle was still in the clearing, helping the others. They looked small from the distance we had achieved. They looked like toys. But they suddenly grew larger. And larger. And larger. One of them stood out from the rest.
A black blur that appeared to have only one arm.
He was approaching us at a vast speed, faster than I had ever seen Edward--or any of the Cullen's for that matter--run. In fact, it almost looked like he was flying.
I screamed like Bloody Mary when he was hardly ten feet away from me. This was it. This was the end, I would die right in front of the people I had grown to love. I would be murdered right before their very eyes.
I began to wonder what it would be like--death. Would I go on to live another life? Or would I just become nothing but a decaying corpse that lays six feet under the ground soon to become crawling with maggots and worms? I cringed at the thought of it.
But Edward... I would never see him again. If I died, I'd die alone. I had to die alone, could I possibly convince Edward to leave Forks? No. He wouldn't leave, if I died, he'd kill this pathetic excuse for a man and... and then what? What would Edward do after that?
The vampire was right before me now, lowering his head down to my neck. Everything seemed to happen in slow motion. The rain continued to pour in buckets, but it slowed, like gravity had decreased its pull on it or something. I had been counting my heart beat, only to find that it was slowing, too. One, two, three, four. One, two three... four. One... two... three... four. One. Two. Three. Four.
"Game over, kid." The vampire hissed in my ear. His breath was cold on my neck and made me shiver. "I win, Isabella Swan, I always win, running never does any good. Now how about I take a taste of your blood, it smells very enticing." I squeezed my eyes shut tight, hoping for a quick death.
Goodbye Edward, goodbye Charlie, and Renee and Phil, goodbye Forks and all of my friends. I'll miss you.
Fight, Bella! My mind screamed at me, but it was no use. Running didn't do any good, so neither would fighting. I was weak, I was pathetic. What could I possibly do to save my life? It was probably better that I'd soon be out of the picture, anyways. The Cullen's would be much safer without me, Charlie and all of Forks would be safer.
Goodbye.
I listened to the rain, as I felt a droplet fall on my eyelid and roll down to the corner of my lips. I was soaked by the rain through and through and if this vampire didn't kill me, hypothermia would.
I waited for my death to come, but I felt nothing other than the rain above me and the mud beneath me. I opened my eyes to find Edward racing towards me. The other vampire was... gone.
In an instant Edward was kneeling next to me, just where the other vampire had been. He lifted me up from the mud and into his lap where he cradled me. "It's over, Bella. The other vampire's gone. You don't have to worry anymore." He leaned down to kiss my mud-caked hair.
"Are you okay?" I couldn't take my eyes off of his shoulder, but through the rain I could see no damage. Edward looked down at his shoulder and nodded grimly.
"I'm okay, it's a scar, already." I nodded and through my arms around his neck, not wanting to ever let go.
"I love you, Edward Cullen." I stated quietly as he stood up, not setting me down.
"And I love you, Isabella Marie Swan, my angel." I smiled, he beat me, again. I craned my neck so my lips would meet his and we kissed. Edward ran his fingers through my hair as we kissed. After what seemed to be the perfect forever, Edward pulled away.
"What do you say we go over to my place and get you warmed up? And then we'll go fix your place." Edward added. I cringed as I remember. Charlie's house had been completely trashed, he would freak if he saw it in its current state.
I nodded and muttered one more time, "I love you." And then drifted into unconscious.
AN Alright, I guess it's time to tell you that… the next chapter is the epilogue, sadly it's true. :( Deadline for the contest is Friday and I hope to have the epilogue up tomorrow or Thursday. Toodles! Review!! (Critique please? I might have time to go back and rewrite needed areas before the deadline!)