--Bella--
The screaming didn't stop, and if I wasn't having a panic attack, I probably would of heard how the scream didn't sound like Edward at all.
"Bella will you just, OW, stop!" Alice said, clawing at my body. I growled at her loudly and kicked her in the face, sending her flying into a tree a few yards back.
I didn't waste any time as I ran towards the house. I was over half way there when Alice jumped on my back again.
"Listen to me! You can't go up there, he's fine! Edward is fine!" I didn't believe her. How could I when the screaming and yelling was still going on? Well, it was only a couple of seconds for humans, but I wasn't exactly thinking straight at the moment.
I managed to shake her of off me, sending her flying through the living room window, making a huge crashing sound. By this time, Alice must be in a lot of pain, even for a vampire. Jasper wouldn't be happy.
Alice got up from the floor, glaring at me, and jumped out the window, taking me around the house so we wouldn't be spotted. The screaming had gone down to whimpers upstairs, and someone was running down the stairs.
"That's the first smart thing you've done so far boy…" A rasping voice could be heard saying from upstairs. I stopped dead in my tracks. The sound of a knife falling on a wooden floor was heard through the house, and heavy footsteps running outside.
I shook Alice's hand off of me and ran around the house only to se Edward running down the street in nothing but his boxers. He ran into the woods, half yelling, half whispering my name.
I ran after him, a lot faster. "Edward! Edward, I'm here!" I whisper yelled too, trying to be quiet. Charlie was outside with his flashlight, looking for what came through the window only minutes ago. Alice ran after me, but I didn't care. I needed to see for myself if he was alright or not.
Edward spun around at the sound of my voice, and he sagged together with relief before hurrying towards me. I ran a little faster then possible, but I didn't care at the moment.
Edward threw his arms around me, squeezing me to his body tightly. If I were human, I probably would be suffocating. I pushed myself away from him slightly and looked up at his face, touching but not touching the wound on his cheek. It hadn't been ripped open, but it wasn't looking good ether. With human eye's, you probably couldn't see the start of the infection. But I could, and it concerned me.
"What happened?" I whispered quietly. Edward shook his head and grabbed my hand, motioning for Alice to come too with his head. We hurried into the woods, before Alice gave a sigh and climbed up a tree.
"Good idea." I muttered quietly, not knowing if I should be angry, sorry or even talking to Alice. I pushed it into the back of my mind, saving it for later.
"Bella hurry up, he knows too much anyway!" Alice hissed so quietly I almost didn't catch it. I stopped running and turned my head slightly, seeing the flashlight coming closer. Edward tugged on my hand, but I didn't even inch forwards in the slightest.
"Bella, we need to leave now! That guy is crazy and he's got a fucking gun." Edward hissed, giving my arm another tug.
Faster then he could see, I grabbed him around his hips and threw him over my shoulder, climbing up the tree quickly. When we were at the top, I sat him down by the trunk so he would have something to hold on to, and put my hand over his mouth.
If it wasn't for the crazy situation we were in now, I would of laughed my ass off at his expression. His eyes widened so much, and with his glasses on made them look like big green bug eyes. He looked from the ground to me and stared at the tree.
Realization hit him and he grabbed for the trunk with one hand and my waist with the other. I let my hand fall from his mouth and put a finger to my lips, signaling that he needed to be quiet.
Charlie was right underneath our tree now. He started with looking around himself, and I could smell the fear rolling off of him in waves.
"Charlie!" Henry yelled from the house. I could hear me perfectly, but to Edward and Charlie it was faint. Edward was shaking slightly, so I grabbed his hand and squeezed it in reassurance.
Finally, with one last look around the woods, he ran back to Edwards house.
We just sat there in complete silence for a while, just staring out at the woods.
"You can come down now." Alice said from the bottom of our tree. My head snapped in her direction, staring at her petite form. Edward stared at me in surprise, and I realized that he hadn't seen nor heard Alice.
I sighed and did the same thing I did earlier, grabbed him before he could even blink his pretty green eyes in surprise. We were at the bottom of the tree before he even had the chance to take a breath.
Edward staggered slightly, supporting himself against a tree and pushing his glasses up his nose. I didn't look at Alice and she didn't look at me, so we kind of just stared at the ground, not saying anything.
"What happened to you Alice?" Edward asked, braking the silence. He was referring to the wild hair and ripped clothes of course, and all the dirt and pieces of glass stuck to her sweater.
"Your girlfriend beat me up, after I…confused her." Alice answered, looking at me through her lashes. Her eyes were light, indicating that she wasn't angry with me. I gave a small smile and a giggle.
"Oh shut up, you would of done the exact same thing in my position." I said lightly, pushing her shoulder playfully. Alice smiled, showing all her white perfect teeth.
"I know," And just like that, everything was forgiven. Alice threw her arms around me, knocking me to the ground. We giggled together, and I was happy about not fighting with her anymore. There had been too much of tension in the family for a while now.
"You beat her up?" Edward asked incredulously, staring at me with shocked eyes. I looked down at the forest floor guiltily, but couldn't hide my small smile.
"Kinda," I answered with a shrug.
"Lets go home. I'm sure you can borrow some of Jaspers clothes, and Carlisle can fix you up. And then you have to tell me what happened." I said the last part more seriously. I really needed to know what happened in there.
Edward nodded his head, still supporting himself against the tree, looking tired and confused.
"He's already seen our speed…" I said to Alice in a suggestive tone. She closed her eyes and frowned slightly.
"Rosalie is going to be pretty mad." Alice warned when she opened her eyes again. Edward was staring from me to her with a emotionless face. I couldn't tell what he was thinking, which kind of annoyed me.
"How mad?" I asked, ignoring him for now. We would talk later. And, the fact that he wasn't running away screaming was a really good sign.
"Christmas in 67 mad." Alice said with a winch. I sighed and rubbed my eyes, wondering if Vampires could get head aces.
"And if we walk?"
"Wedding party in 84 pissed. All directed at you, and I'm not excluding the stuff that'll be thrown, only this time at you." Alice said with a little shrug, looking slightly helpless.
"So what your saying is that no matter what I do tonight, she's goanna throw stuff at me and scream her lungs out?" I asked her, razing an eyebrow. Alice nodded her head once and started running home right away.
"I don't want to go home to your place if Rosalie is going to throw stuff at you…" Edward said hesitantly. I smiled sweetly at him, making his eyes glaze slightly.
"Don't worry about me. There is absolutely nothing she can do to hurt me." I said with a shrug. Edward didn't seem convinced, but he didn't say anything ether.
"Are you going to, to grab me again so that one minute were there and the next were some place else, or are we walking…" He asked me, staring at me in confusion.
"I'll carry you." I said, walking towards him at a human pace. He backed up a few steps, almost falling to the forest floor.
"I don't think your strong enough to carry me, I'm a lot taller then you and really, I can walk myself." He said hurriedly, holding his hands out in stop signs. I took one quick step, too quick for him to see, so I was right in front of his face, and wound my fingers through his, bringing them down so they were at our side.
"I just carried you up that tree Edward." I said, motioning to the tree he was standing besides. Edward shook his head in disbelief.
"Fine," I said, pulling my hands away from his and slinging him over my shoulder. He gave a surprised yelp as I moved one of my hands to his stomach, holding him over my head with one hand, and hardly using any of my strength at all.
"Ok, ok, ok! I believe you! Your really, really strong! I get it!" He yelled, gripping my arm. I laid him down on my shoulder again and started running towards my house. It didn't take long until we were at the edge of the forest facing my home.
Alice was standing in the garden with something in her hand and a really pissed of Jasper standing at her side. I put Edward down and started dragging him stumbling after me. Alice gave him a pair of pants, socks and shoes.
"Sorry, but there's no point in putting on a shirt just yet." She said with a small smile. Edward gave her one back and started to get dressed.
Jasper jumped without warning to attack me, but I managed to move away, the first time, before he had me pinned to the ground in the back yard.
"JASPER! Jasper, Stop it!" Alice yelled running towards us. Jasper growled loudly into my face, gripping my shoulders so tightly I was sure I was going to have marks from him later. I didn't try to defend myself, which made him more angry. He wanted to fight with me.
"Bella?" Edward yelled in a panicked voice. He was done dressing and had turned around to look for me. I hadn't realized how far Jasper had flung us back.
"Like you wouldn't have done the same thing." I hissed in his face, knowing that Alice had told him everything. His eyes widened slightly, but the sneer and the growling didn't stop.
"Jasper Withlock you let her go NOW!" Alice yelled in her high soprano voice. I could feel his nails digging into my marble skin. I didn't scream in pain, even though that was what I felt like doing. I just stared calmly into his eyes. Of course, I knew that he could feel my pain, seeing the slight satisfaction in his eyes, and then the guilt. He released me with one last growl, sending some of the venom from his mouth spraying right into one of the wounds he'd just made with his nails.
I hissed in pain, grabbing my shoulder before I got up and off the ground. I jumped away from Jasper and Alice, saw that Edward was still running, amazed that all of that had only taken a couple of seconds. I removed my hand and saw the milky white venom drip out of both my shoulders, just like blood would drip from a human. It wasn't the first time I'd 'bled' venom, but it stung like a bitch every time. Especially with Jaspers venom in there too.
Jasper was staring at me with big guilty eyes. He reached one hand out to help me, but I pushed it out of the way and walked past him.
"Save it." I said in a monotone voice, not really caring at that moment. I tried sending out feelings of indifference, something I knew would only make him feel worse.
Edward stopped running when he saw me walking towards him.
"Are you okay Bella?" He asked concerned, staring down at me and looking at my shoulders with pained eyes. As if my pain was his pain. I smiled up at him, grabbing his hand and walking with him towards the house.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me. It wasn't something I didn't deserve." I told him softly, but loud enough for Alice and Jasper to hear. I didn't look back at them as I led Edward through the front door.
Carlisle came rushing forwards with his medical bag in hand.
"Come on, lets not waste any time on chit chat, those wounds don't look good." Carlisle said with a frown, motioning for us to walk to his office. I walked up the stairs with Edward in a hurry, making his tired frame stumble more then once.
Esme was sitting in Carlisle's office, reading. She looked up and gasped when she saw Edward's cheek. Her eyes were black, and I knew mine were too, but I also knew that I had better control over my blood lust then she did.
"Oh my…I, I'll go make you some tea Edward," she said, rushing out of the room.
"It was nice meeting you!" Edward called half heartedly after her. I led him over to the couch before I pulled out the table in one of the closets. It was big and sturdy, and I knew that Carlisle would want to examine him on it.
"Come and sit down." I sat, patting the table. Edward gave me my favorite crooked smile and hopped up, taking my hand in his. He tugged on my arm slightly so I was standing between his legs, staring up at him. Edward let go of my hand and touched my shoulder lightly. I flinched away from his warm touch, because it only made the stinging worse.
"Sorry," He whispered, bringing his fingers up in front of his eyes to look at, and I saw that he had some venom on his fingers, rubbing it between his thumb and index with concentrated curiosity.
"So this is your kinds blood…" He said with a thoughtful, low voice. I looked away from him, staring at the painting of the Voldturi and Carlisle. I wasn't going to lie to him, but that didn't mean I was going to answer him ether.
He gave a small gasp before he wiped the venom off on his pants quickly, staring at his finger in surprise.
"It burned…" He said in a slightly amazed voice. I gave him a small shrug as an explanation and a hesitant smile. I didn't know what to say.
"Does it hurt?" He asked, referring to my wounds.
"Not really. I'm a tough cookie." I said with a laugh, making him smile too, even though his eyes were filled with concern. He grabbed both of my hands in his large ones, rubbing the back with his thumbs.
"You know, if I was fast and strong enough, I would have defended you from Jasper. What he did was inexcusable…I'm sorry for not being able to protect you-" He started, staring down at our hands. I shook my head at him.
"Edward no, don't talk like that. Trust me, there was absolutely nothing you could of done out there. And I know that, okay? But you have to know that I can take care of myself just fine. If I wanted to fight with Jasper, I would of done it. But the fact is that I kind of deserved it for beating up Alice. He was just looking out for her. And you don't have to feel sorry about not being able to protect me, okay? I know that you cant, and I'm fine with it." I told him reassuringly. He frowned, not liking my logic at all.
"Still, it doesn't seem right…" He started. I rolled my eyes at him.
"Oh please, you only think it doesn't seem right because I don't have a dick and you do. Don't think about it, okay? I can handle myself just fine." I said sternly. He cracked a small smile at me, squeezing my hands. I could tell that he didn't agree with me, but he was going to leave it alone for now.
Carlisle walked into the room, clearing his throat as he did.
"Okay, lets look at that infection in your cheek before we move on to your back shall we?" He said with a bright smile, putting the medical bag down on his desk. I moved away from Edward standing beside him instead. Carlisle came over and poked and prodded at his wound and then cleaned it up.
"Ok, I'm going to have to sew it together, Edward. But, unfortunately, I don't have any sedatives with me from the hospital. So we can ether go down there and finish up-"
"No, no, its fine. I don't need sedatives, just, no hospitals." Edward said quickly. Carlisle stared at him for a moment before nodding and turning around, making everything ready to do the stitching.
"Is it going to leave a scar?" I asked hesitantly.
"Not a visible one, no. But if you look for it, you will be able to see it, bearly. I'm sorry, Edward, but that's the best I can do." Carlisle said, sending him an apologetic look.
"That's okay." Edward said quietly.
"You do realize that I probably have to stitch up your whole back too, right? You sure you don't want to do this at the hospital?" Carlisle asked, turning around with the needle in hand. Edward nodded his head and grabbed my hand, but didn't say anything.
"Okay, try to keep still." Carlisle instructed as he started with the stitching. Edward didn't winch once through the whole thing, and it pained me to think that the reason for that was probably because he was so used to the pain.
"There, now we need to do your back and we're done." Carlisle said with a reassuring smile.
After half an hour with stitching, he was done and a hell of a lot more sleepy then before he came.
"Come on Edward, you can use my bed tonight." I said, pulling him off the table. He nodded with half closed eyelids.
"Thank you, Carlisle. This really, really means a lot to me, and I will find a way to make it up to you again, someday." Edward said sincerely, his speech slightly slurred by drowsiness. Carlisle smiled warmly back at him.
"The only thing you can do for me now is go to bed." Edward nodded, and I tugged on his hand before I stopped dead in my tracks. I couldn't take him to my room. My room was full of plants and trees and my carped was made out of grass. It would be too weird, even with everything he'd seen today. I wasn't ready for him to see my power yet.
"Uh, Carlisle, could you, um, show Edward the, uh, kitchen downstairs, I just need to, erm, fix, something in my room real quick." I said, emphasizing the word fix. Understanding filled his eyes and he nodded quickly.
"Ah, yes. Esme has some herbal tea that would be good for your wound. Helps the mouth to stay clean, you know?" He said, acting all smooth. But I could hear the undertone of nervousness in his voice. I walked over to him and pretended to give him a big hug, while I produced some tea leafs that I stuffed into his back pocked.
"Thank you, Daddy!" I said with sarcastic enthusiasm. "Just add some hot water and sugar," I whispered, too quickly for Edward to hear.
"Your welcome, sweetie." He said, patting my head before leading a slightly confused Edward out of the room. I ran Vampire speed up to my own room, and flung the door open.
Sitting in the middle of my bed was Rosalie. I groaned but tried to ignore her as I sat down on the floor, putting my palms on the grass and trying to concentrate on making it all disappear into my hands. I never understood how I could just suck up tree after tree, all the plants, fruits and other stuff into my hands. I mean, were did it all go? Not that it mattered.
"Rosalie, I don't have time for you today so if you could leave me alone for now that would be great, thanks, you know where my door is, don't be afraid to use it, okay?" I said, still keeping my eyes closed.
"Bella, I really want to kick your ass right now, so if you could just stop killing all your plants for now would be great, thanks, you know how to stop so don't hesitate to do so, okay?" She answered me sarcastically, not missing a beat. I opened one eye and looked at her, still sitting on my bed. I could hear Carlisle and Edward making their way up the stairs, talking about some book.
"Touché." I said, and closed my eye again.
I still had some plants that I needed to make disappear, so I continued to ignore her and concentrated even more on making it all just go away.
"So, Alice told us what happened at his house and how you went all crazy on her and beat her up. I saw Jasper taking care of that, though. Does your shoulder hurt, Isabella?" Rosalie mocked me, trying to get my concentration off. I continued ignoring her, focusing on the last part of my room. Edward and Carlisle were soon going to be here, and I hadn't realized just how empty my room was without the plants. I only had a bed, and that was it. No pictures, CD's no nothing.
Rosalie was about to open her mouth again, so I shot my hand out towards her, shooting a long thick vine that wound itself around her mouth twice. Her eyes widened in surprise and then anger. She tried to rip it off, but it was too strong and she knew it.
I shot another one out that wound itself around her waist, trapping her arms to her hourglass figure. I pulled my other hand out and shot a vain at the door, opened it, before the same one lifted her up and threw her out. It closed the door and gave me a high five.
"Rosalie, what happened to you?" I could hear Carlisle ask her, and I panicked just a little more. What was I going to say about my bare room?
"Bella! Bella dear, could you come out here into the hallway please?" Carlisle asked sweetly, and I could almost hear Edward falling asleep on his feet by the rhythm of his heart.
I opened my door and walked into the hallway, ignoring my furious sister, I grabbed Edwards hand and led him over to my bed. He took of his shoes and fell asleep before he even got the blanket over himself. I smiled at the sight of him before pulling the blanked up to his chin.
"Bella?" I rolled my eyes as I turned around, walking into the hallway. I looked at the vain around her middle and it disappeared. I could make it out in the air as it flowed into my fingers and palm. It was a progress on my power I managed to do for about a hundred years ago or so, give or take.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Carlisle asked me pointedly when I just stared at the wall.
"What? The one around her mouth? I think it looks good on her, and I kinda like the silence." I said with a shrug, winching slightly as the wounds in my shoulders moved. I'd almost forgotten about them completely.
Rosalie gave a muffled scream and charged at me with her arms in a choking grip. I ducked out of the way for the second time that day. How many family members were going to try to kill me on one day?
"Alright, alright." I said with a huff before I stared at it and made it disappear.
"You. Are. Dead." Rosalie whispered viciously at me, pointing one shaking finger in my face.
"Why thank you for pointing out the obvious Rosie." I said sarcastically. The next thing I felt was a sharp pain in my cheek, and it took me a second to realize that she'd slapped me. It wasn't the first time, and it probably wouldn't be the last.
"Girls, that's enough. Rosalie, go to Emmett or something. Bella, your coming with me." Carlisle said sternly.
"This isn't over." Rosalie said as she walked past me, bumping her shoulder hard into mine, making me hiss in a cat like way.
"Come on," Carlisle said, ignoring what just happened as he led the way back to his office. Once there he started cleaning up the stuff he'd used on Edward before he patted the table for me to sit on. I didn't question him, but hopped up on the table.
He started cleaning my wounds and making sure that everything was okay.
"Its better to let the breath." He said, turning away from me.
"I know." I said quietly.
"I'm not going to tell you what to do or anything, I just want you to be careful and-" He started but I cut him off.
"Carlisle, I think your forgetting the fact that I'm not much younger then you are. I have my experiences and I know what to do and not to do." I said sternly. He nodded his head and stared at me for a long moment.
"Do you love him?" He asked me suddenly, and I stared at him in surprise. I knew that I did, but I hoped it wasn't so obvious.
"Yes." I answered finally. He nodded his head but didn't say anything for a while. I looked at my wounds. They had already started to heal.
"Are you going to change him?" Carlisle asked me after a while.
"I don't know. He doesn't know that I love him, and he does have a chance at life. I just- I don't know, okay?" I said, frustrated. How the hell was I suppose to know the answer to that? Of course I'd fantasized about changing him and him being my mate, but it wasn't exactly up to me to make that choice.
"Just asking…" Carlisle said with a thoughtful look on his face. I know Vampires couldn't be tired, but mentally, I was beat.
"You know what, I'm going to bed. I don't want to talk to anybody else tonight. I just want to lay down and relax for a while." I said, feeling my anger building up and knowing it wasn't a good thing.
"So everybody, just lay off my case for the rest of the night, please!" I said loudly so the rest of them would hear. I didn't get an answer, but I knew that everybody heard.
I walked out of his study and up to my bedroom without meeting anybody. I slipped under the covers with Edward and snuggled up to him like I'd done at the hospital and in his bed only hours earlier that very same night.
One thing was sure. I was not going to school tomorrow.
MY LAPTOP DIED! That's why I haven't been able to write anything, and I'm really, really sorry about that. I'll try to be better! I promise.
I'm surprised that so many of you wanted Oliver to be Dead. Not once in there did I write that he was a bad guy, so it was surprising. But, you'll just have to wait and see if i'm putting him in the story or not ;)
Review you lovely readers! I hope you weren't disappointed with the chapter.
