FAGE 9: The Last Ride

Title: Fearless

Written for: TheDarkestFallingStar

Written By: abbmickey24

Rating: M

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Chapter 12 of 16

-F-

Two weeks after Bella's change …

"She's extraordinary, Carlisle." Marcus says as he comes to a stop beside the proud father.

"She always has been." Carlisle says, as they watch Bella use Emmett's back as a springboard to flip over backwards, missing Demetri's attempt to grab her.

She lands gracefully and sweeps her leg out, knocking Demetri to the ground. She immediately jumps, coming to rest with one knee on his chest with a laugh. Demetri only gives her a smile and a nod of his head before he pushes her off and motions for Felix to step up to take her on.

"You'd never know she was only two weeks old." Marcus says.

"No, you wouldn't." Carlisle agrees. "I think it helps that she has the boys willing to help her focus her control somewhere."

"Well, Felix and Demetri are always up for a fight." Marcus says with a smile.

The men stand silently for a moment, watching Bella lose to Felix thanks to being distracted by a butterfly.

When she moves on to fighting with Emmett, Marcus speaks again his voice low so it doesn't carry down to the courtyard below. "She has a mate."

Carlisle's head turns sharply to look at his long time friend. "Please, tell me it's someone here." he says, even though he already knows the answer.

Marcus shakes his head. "Unfortunately, no."

"I was afraid of that." Carlisle says with a sigh.

"Are you going to tell her?" Marcus asks.

"Do I have to?" Carlisle asks honestly before he explains. "It has to be the vampire that took her and I don't how that will work out, especially with everything added in."

"Yes, your four other children along with Demetri and Felix wanting to kill him and this Charlotte, and her only remembering her human life in pieces, and him not at all, does pose a problem." Marcus says. "If it helps though, you do have time to figure it out."

"What do you mean?" Carlisle asks.

"Right now, you know just like I do that her mind is so overloaded with all the new things she can do that there's no time to focus on the stuff that doesn't make sense, like the mating bond, or that takes time to hone, like her gift and her speed. Eventually her mind will settle though, it did for all of us, and she'll start to realize that something is missing. She won't know what it is and it will frustrate her to the point that you'll have no choice but to tell her. Which means, you have a year, give or take a few months." Marcus answers.

Carlisle nods absentmindedly as his thoughts turn to a time when he'll have to explain to Bella the things she can't remember, namely the parts that directly involved her change and the vampire that caused it.

He watches his daughter laugh and fight with her brothers and friends and can only shake his head. He isn't looking forward to explaining anything or the anger that could possibly come from it, but as it was his decision to keep it from her, he'd deal with it the best he could when the time came.

-F-

Four months after Bella's change …

"I can't kill you." Bella says out of the blue, causing both Jasper and Emmett to glance over and Demetri and Felix to stop what they were doing.

"I would hope not." Emmett says, chuckling.

"Not you," Bella says, with a grin. "You I could kill if I wanted to. Jasper on the other hand, even if I wanted to, I couldn't kill him. Dad either."

"What are you talking about, Bella?" Jasper asks, amusement in his voice.

Ever since her change, if she wasn't eating or fighting with them she was reading or scouring the internet to help her focus. That in turn provided random statements at odd times like the one she'd just made. While it was usually amusing, this time included, it was something she wouldn't be able to find on the internet.

"A vampire can't kill their sire." Bella says.

"Where did that come from?" Jasper asks.

Bella shrugs her shoulders before she says, "I don't know. It just sort of popped into my head. Is it not true?"

"I've never heard that." Jasper says, causing Bella to frown.

"Then why would I think of it?" she asks.

Jasper doesn't have an answer for her, but Demetri pipes up putting in his own thoughts.

"You could always test the theory." Demetri says.

"I'm not going to try and kill Jasper," Bella snaps through a growl, her newborn anger rising at the thought of hurting her brother.

"Why not?" Felix asks. "It's not like you'd actually kill him for real."

"There will be no attempt to kill Jasper." Aro says, silently ghosting up behind Bella and placing his hand on her shoulder. "What you said is true, sweetheart, and Demetri and Felix know this."

Bella eyes narrow and dilate, causing the two vampires in front of her to start backing up. They've learned over the last four months that when she gets that look that it's not good. Bella hops off the low wall she'd been sitting on and stalks slowly forward.

"You tried to get me to hurt my brother." she snarls.

"We're sorry, Bella. We were just trying to have a little fun." Felix says, trying to placate her. However, it does not good.

Bella closes the distance between them before they can so much as think to get out of her way. She takes both down with a close line to the throat, that has both Jasper and Emmett cheering; even Aro can be heard chuckling as he heads back into the castle. Felix and Demetri though aren't laughing as Bella's hands immediately grip the front of their shirts, and they find themselves being tossed threw the air like ragdolls.

Again, her newborn speed and strength are a detriment to them as her knee comes down hard on Demetri's stomach, pushing him into the ground at the same time she grabs Felix's leg and flings him behind her.

Jasper and Emmett give her a few seconds before they move forward to stop her from doing any real damage. However, just as they get their hands on her she stops and steps back on her own.

Jasper sends her a little bit of calmness just to help, but stops when she looks up and smiles before saying, "Thank you, but I'm fine."

He gives her a wink and squeezes her shoulder, sending her a dose of happiness to show her how proud he is that she was able to gain control on her own. However, his mind is going 90 miles an hour. He's realized that there is only one place she could have possibly heard the information she did, and he doesn't like it. If he had his way, she'd never know about Peter, but Carlisle had told him and the family what Marcus had said much to all of their displeasure. Jasper had honestly thought they'd have more time though, but if she was starting to remember things he'd told her, then that meant it was only a matter of time before she had to be told about him, and that just pissed him off. She deserved better than an asshole for a mate. Yeah, he'd saved her from Charlotte, at least a little, but that didn't automatically forgive the other things he'd done. If he hadn't taken her, she would have never come across Charlotte to begin with.

"Dude," Emmett hisses, kicking Jasper in the leg to gain his attention. "Reign that shit in."

Jasper's eyes focus first on Emmett, straining to hold onto a snarling and spitting Bella before they move to Demetri and Felix, both who have taken up fighting stances in front of Bella just in case she manages to break free. As he tightens his own grip on Bella's arm, he thinks of the moment he met Alice, letting the memories of that day calm him down.

As he feels himself relax, he pumps as much of that same feeling into Bella as he can. It takes a little while before he feels her body start to uncoil. When she stops snarling, Emmett loosens his hold slowly until he's sure she won't run off. She's still a little tense, and her eyes are more black than red when she finally looks up at him, but she doesn't move so he let's go completely.

Jasper immediately replaces Emmett's hold with his own, turning her and pulling her into a tight hug as he whispers, "I'm sorry."

He smiles slightly when her arms come up to wrap around his waist, returning the hug, but he still feels bad about sending her into that uncontrollable anger; since it's the one thing she hates the most about being a newborn. They've done what they could to try to help her gain control of it, and while she'd just proved she could get a hold of it if she felt it creeping up and could work through it; it was a whole other story if it came on her suddenly like it did because of his gift. Thankfully, those times were few and far between in these last four months, but even so they still left her feeling like a failure.

"Stop, please," Jasper whispers, squeezing her tighter when the familiar emotion flows into him. "This was my fault, not yours."

She nods against his chest and he can tell she's trying to pull it back, but it takes him sending her his love and encouragement to make it fully go away.

When his emotions are all he can feel, he steps back and cups her cheek with his hand, running a thumb under one still too black eye.

"Let's get you something to eat," he says. "It will make you feel better."

Bella nods, offering him a small smile before taking his hand and letting him lead her to the underground tunnel and out into the forest.

-F-

Nine months after Bella's change …

Bella roams the hallways of the castle alone, counting the large stones that make up the walls. No one has approached her since she got here, but it doesn't bother her, especially with how she's been feeling. Over the last week, she'd grown increasingly more bored with everything. Just last week she'd been fine with rereading the books she had, finding new things on the internet, sparring with her brothers and Demetri and Felix, but now it just seemed so mundane. It frustrates her completely because she doesn't know why. She can't explain it when asked or to herself after hours of thinking on it.

She knows her family is worried about it, can see it written on their faces or feel it from Jasper when it gets so bad he slips. They'd spent the last two days trying to get her excited about something, but it had done no good. In an attempt to make them feel better she'd tried to pretend this morning, but it had been such a chore to appear happy and content that she'd ended up snapping at Alice and Emmett. Snapping at her mom had been the finally straw though, and feeling bad, she'd left the house they were staying in and came here where she could find a spot to be alone.

Bella continues to walk around the castle for another hour before she decides to go back home. She's no closer to figuring out why she's feeling like she does, but she doesn't want her family to worry anymore than they already are.

-F-

Ten months after Bella's change …

Carlisle sits in his study, his eyes staring at nothing as he goes over the last month. Bella had grown increasingly restless and he now knows that the time has come to tell her the truth. He'd tried to deny that what she was going through was what Marcus had told him about, but after this last week, when she'd started snapping at all of them if they so much as even looked at their mates, he knew he couldn't deny it any longer. He'd also spoken to Jasper and learned that the reason she was lashing out was because she was feeling envious, jealous, and confused. Now, he just had to figure out what to say and when to say it.

He knew she was going to be upset, they'd lied to her from the beginning, but that was something they were going to have to live with.

Carlisle starts to go over the different ways he can bring it up, but his attention is soon drawn to the door of his study as a quiet knock sounds throughout the room.

"Come in," he calls, already knowing who is on the other side.

He smiles and stands as Bella pushes the door open and sticks her head into the room.

"Am I bothering you?" she asks.

"Of course not, sweetheart." he says, motioning her to come in further. "What can I do for you?"

Bella waits to speak until she's standing in front of his desk, then looking him in the eyes she says the last thing he expects, "I want to go home."

All movement in the house stops as everyone turns their attention to Carlisle and Bella, their minds immediately starting to wonder what is about to happen.

"You are home, sweetheart," Carlisle tries, but Bella is shaking her head before he finishes.

"No," she says. "This isn't my home. I don't know how I know, as I can't remember the house in Alaska, but that's where I'm supposed to be I want to go back to there."

Carlisle opens his mouth to respond, but Bella doesn't even let him speak this time. "Please, dad, let me go home."

That's all it takes for him to agree, and with a nod he says, "Okay. We can go home."

The bright smile that appears on her face, and the excitement in her voice as she says, "Thank you, I'm going to go pack," should make him as happy as he just made her, but it doesn't. All it does is make him worry, and wonder what is going to happen even more.

-F-

YAY, they're going home.