A/N: ok just a quick reminder we left off at the part where another vampire has crossed their paths. Not good. That's all I'm going to say muahhhhaaahhhaaa!! Ok ne way thank you for the reviews they mean a lot to me.
(BPOV)
"well, well, well what do we have here?" I faked surprise at the surprisingly sweet voice coming from this vampire. Yes, it was sweet but as I had found with Victoria just recently the sound of a vampire's voice could be very deceiving.
"well um…my name is Bella and this," I pointed to Jacob. "this is Jacob. What's your name?" her face turned up into a menacing smile.
"that isn't really any of your business now is it?" I only noticed she wasn't breathing when she took in a deep breath and her face pulled up into a disgusted expression.
"you know one of you really stinks." She said and immediately stopped breathing again, only not so noticeable this time.
"well no offense but you do too." Jacob added from behind me. "Maybe its just my imagination though" he amended when inconspicuously shoved my elbow in his ribs. I didn't do any damage but to myself. I tried to act as if it didn't hurt. But it did.
"I'm sure." She said coldly, eyeing him as if he were something to eat. Something to eat? If we weren't careful that could just be all we were something to eat.
She really was a beautiful, even for a vampire. Although I had defiantly seen better, like my darling Edward and, of course, breathtaking Rosalie. She had long black hair that almost reached her waist. Her skin in the lighting that was allowed by the moon had a certain doll like quality to it. It was almost like it was porcelain. Almost like she could shatter at any moment. But that was impossible, she was after all a vampire, and vampires didn't die except for one way. She was very young probably only about my age, maybe younger. But the most noticeable aspect about her was her obvious Mexican features. This girl was defiantly not originally from this part of the country. Even her accent gave her away. She was fluent in English but the way she pronounced certain words with more syllables than necessary gave it away. She was probably from Texas, or more likely Mexico.
"look I don't mean to be rude Leech, but um we were trying to be alone before you so rudely interrupted so would you mind leaving." I shoved my elbow into his ribs with more force for that certain slip of the tongue.
"leech?" she asked with sudden curiosity.
I spoke up quickly trying to be as convincing as possible. Please let this certain vamp not have any special powers! Please!
"its just a word for people who…intrude when not wanted or expected where we come from."
"and where exactly do you come from?" uh-oh! Truth or lie?
"we come from Washington, but we have…friends not far from here at all," I lowered my eyes to glare at her warningly. " but if we were to go missing they would know immediately and come to our rescue." She didn't seem impressed.
"and they would know that how?" she asked in a voice that to anyone with common sense would have turned and fled, but I had never been one to have a lot of common sense…or balance for that matter so running away was out of the question too.
"oh trust me they would. Wouldn't they Jake?" he stared at me dumbly.
"uh….oh yes they would." He finished when he had come out of his stupor. "yes Edward would be furious." He said darkly. I cringed at the hurt in his voice.
"right… but then again so would Alice, and jasper-"
"Jasper?" she fairly screamed. "how do you know Jasper?" Then it clicked in my head.
"Maria." I whispered. She heard me and took a step back seeming frightened.
It all made sense. She was a vampire, young, porcelain, and Mexican. Everything Jasper had told us about her months before when Victoria was still out to get me with her newborn army.
"you know her?" Jake asked shocked.
"I know about her." I replied and then turned back to her. "you knew Jasper, you created him. He helped you win all of those battles in Mexico. Then he left you."
"how do you know all of that. your only a human." She spat out her last sentence.
"I know Jasper very well." I said relieved that I had the upper card in this conversation. I was also relieved that I wasn't defenseless and that at least Jake was there beside me.
"Maria! Maria!" a strange man's voice called through the woods behind her. "Maria where are you?" she seemed unable to answer.
"over here." She said softly. Too soft for a humans ears, This had to be another vampire. One that I didn't have the upper card with. That didn't sit too well with me, my relief vanished and I was left feeling vulnerable and helpless again. After all Jake was only one werewolf, and although he had had training he could never take on two ferocious vampires at once. We were doomed. Again.
The man stepped out into the clearing and stopped in his tracks when he saw Jacob and I. then he realized we were only humans and loped casually to where Maria was standing wrapping an arm around her that she quickly shrugged off. The man scowled. Maria had other things on her mind right now. For instance Jasper.
"how do you know him?"
"I'm…engaged to his…brother." Well that was true enough. But she wouldn't know that. she had met Jasper before the other Cullen's had come into his life so many years ago.
"he has a brother?"
"something like that. they were adopted."
"wait you were engaged to his brother, how could he have a brother when he's 150 years old? Unless that brother was one of us."
"he is a vampire." I said calmly.
"I don't believe you!" she said, apparently I was trying her temper.
"why because I'm a human and he's a vampire?"
"yes of course. How
could he not kill you? "
"he fights it. Just like you are
right now, because you need me alive for answers,"
Then a thought crossed my mind, I had to get in touch with Edward.
I sneakily pulled my feet and crossed them Indian style then acted like I was folding my hands in my lap when I really grabbed the phone that was in my shoe and held it in my hands flipping it open and holding it up against my leg.
Marias face darkened. "and why would I need answers from you?"
"because I know about Jasper where he is and who he is with." She grimaced at the last part and something dawned on me. what if there had been other feelings that Maria had had for Jasper that he didn't know about. Could that be it? It was worth a shot.
I wasn't very good with cell phones but I knew that if you pressed the green button it would go straight to the recent call list. I pressed it twice so It would call him. Only when I thought he would have answered did I look down to see if he had picked up.
He had.
Maybe I had some luck after all.
"so Maria, what are you going to do with us. Kill us or let us take you to Jasper? He actually might be pleased to see you after a century."
She shrugged. "it would be nice to see him. He did leave in rather of a hurry. But then again why would I do that when I could find him anyway and just kill the two of you?"
I gulped. This HAD to work! There was no other way.
"because if you killed me and he knew you did it, he would never want to see you again. He might possibly even kill you." It came out more confidently than I had expected so I was proud of myself. For a moment at least, this wasn't going as I had planned it too. Well, at least I had a backup plan. Jacob.
"he would kill me?" she said in disbelief then threw her head back and laughed. "you actually think he could kill me? hah, as if! Jasper was always weak."
"if he was so weak how did he pull together a army of twenty-two in record time for you, and only lose four. Hmmm?" boy I was getting cocky now, not such a good idea.
"I don't mean that way," She snapped, the evil grin wiped from her face immediately. "I mean if you were around him he could never resist. He could never resist when blood like yours was around," she finished.
"so what are you going to do? take us here? Miles from civilization,"
"yea aren't we like close to Albuquerque? It should be about 30 miles from here," Jacob asked. He must have noticed the phone pressed close to my leg.
"something like that," she said towards Jacob. "southward,"
I couldn't believe my luck. She had practically told Edward exactly where I was!
"so your not going to kill us?"
"no I'm going kill you, but that one," she said pointing an accusing finger at Jacob, "that one will live. You stink too much human," she told him.
"glad to know." He beamed at her. She frowned darkly, it was a warning. "who's your friend?" Jacob asked innocently buying more time.
"Matthew," he supplied for himself.
"how old are you?"
"20," he answered.
"no I mean in vampire years,"
"oh, I'm 48."
"interesting,"
"and you?" my, he wasn't shy. or as evil as Maria.
"nineteen, although I might not be for much longer if Maria has anything to say about it. Do you have any powers?"
"nope, although ive heard of some pretty strange ones."
"me too," I said thoughtfully.
There was a moment of silence. I quietly shut the phone and prayed to god Edward hurried.
"well this has been lots of fun, but Bella and I have to be going," he said pulling us up.
"oh I don't think so," she said with a grin on her face. "I think you should stay."
"nope I don't think so," he said. "Run Bella!" and he took off in a random direction; I did all I could to keep up. He started stripping clothes as he ran throwing them back at me. then he disappeared in the bushes and with a roar phased. He came back with his shoes and boxers in his mouth. Maria just stood there with a dumb expression on her face. He nodded to me and I ran and threw myself on his back, and we took off.
I didn't look back to see if Maria was behind us, not that it mattered, she would never have been able to keep up with Jacob. Speed wise yes but the trees in the area were grown so close together that she would never have been able to navigate as effortlessly and superbly as Jacob could.
We ran, And ran, And ran. I don't know how long we ran through those woods circling the place where we had left Maria. She hadn't followed us, she was probably too dumbfounded by her first encounter with a werewolf. She obviously wasn't close enough for Jacob to smell her or he wouldn't be circling that certain area. He also obviously wasn't going to give up his wolf form either seeing as he wouldn't morph back no matter what.
"Jake?" he turned his head towards me.
"is she still around?" he nodded slowly telling me no, then turned back to face forward scanning the area again for something that he had told me wasn't there.
He tensed abruptly beside me. I shot up instantly alert. There was a rustling in the brush to my left. I jumped over to Jacobs other side taking refuge in his shaggy fur as if it could protect me from what ever was there.
Two figures stepped out into the clearing we had made for ourselves. I couldn't believe it.
I ran straight to his arms. "Edward!" he wrapped his arms around me.
"Alice!" I left him and ran to Alice throwing myself at her too. "I missed you two so much!"
Edward dragged me back to him and tucked me under his arm protectively.
"Jacob," he said addressing him. "I don't know what to do about you," he confessed. "on one hand I want to kill you for taking her in the first place and then putting her in danger of vampires, on the other I have undying gratitude for saving her from said vampires."
Jacob nodded telling Edward something in his mind.
"yes I see now how you avoided telling me about that certain part of your excuse to take her, but regardless I still want to kill you for it. You had better be glad she cares about you enough to grieve over your death no matter how much she may hate you at the moment, and trust me she has hated you for this little adventure at one point or another so don't try to delude yourself into thinking she was a willing participant in her kidnapping or she would never have escaped, which a very stupid decision on her part, and gone off with strangers and also snuck the phone so she could call me later."
Jacob hung his head and nodded once more. Then he turned to me with those heartrending eyes that spoke to me. I ran to him and threw my arms around his neck burying my face in his fur.
"its ok," I said softly, "I forgive you."
"he says he's very sorry." Jacob turned and growled at Edward. "ok, ok what he really said was 'im so sorry for everything I have put you through. I swear I'll never put you through that again.'."
Jacob nodded at me.
"its ok, really. Jake?" he looked at me curiously. "did you really imprint on me?"
His eyes saddened again and I almost took it back, but I was too curious to actually do it.
He shook his head up and down in such small movements I barely caught it. I looked at Edward who confirmed it.
Then I broke down crying.
A/N: ok well… I really don't know what to say about this chapter. Although I hope you liked it. Kinda cliffy I just didn't know how to end this chapter. Sorry. Im also sorry its so short compared to my other chapters. Mucho love from me!!
CINDLE
