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Chapter Twelve- We'll Fly and We'll Fall and We'll Burn
"I won't stand in your way
Let your hatred grow
And she'll scream and she'll shout and she'll cry
And she had a name yes she had a name
And I won't hold you back
Let your anger rise
And we'll fly and we'll fall and we'll burn
No one will recall, no one will recall
This is the last time I'll abandon you
And this is
The last time I'll forget you
I wish I could"
-Muse- "Stockholm Syndrome"
Edward froze in place. He knew it was pointless and stupid, but he did it anyway. Trying to will himself to disappear wasn't working out so well for him.
"Um, will you look at the time, I have to go," he said before rushing away from the vampires. He heard Rosalie giggling behind him, but he ignored the obnoxious blond. He scowled, and then thanked his lucky stars she couldn't see him.
Before he could take another step, all three of them were suddenly in front of him. The effects of his painkiller from earlier had worn off rather quickly when he realized he was in the presence of three vampires, so his stomach started to hurt again. He became scared of the three bloodsuckers in front of him. He should have been scared of them a long time ago, his brain reminded him.
Without knowing what else to do, Edward dropped to the ground and started to plead with them. "Please don't hurt me or kill me! I'm in college, I want to be a physicist and my stomach is hurting again. I won't tell anyone you're here I just want to go to my dorm and go to sleep and cry and call my mommy!" He had his hands covering his head, praying that would save him somehow.
"We're not going to hurt you," Rosalie said softly. Her voice was really close to him, Edward realized. He lifted his face and found Rosalie only inches away from him.
She was too close to him for his liking. Before he could think he said, "Honey you're barking up the wrong tree. I only like the boys."
She laughed. "I kinda got that earlier when you said your boyfriend hit you. We just want to help you," she said.
"Why?"
"Because I've been where you are before," she answered.
"You've been surrounded by three vampires in a graveyard before?" he asked.
She shook her head, smiling. "No, I mean my husband beat me when I was human. Jasper here," she nodded to him, "saved me. What do you need us to do? Want me to kill him for you?"
Edward laughed, but stopped abruptly when he realized she was serious. Rosalie would actually go and kill him right now if he asked her to. He may hate Jacob right now, but he didn't want to be responsible for his death.
He quickly shook his head. "Um, no. I just want to go back to my dorm," he answered.
"Well, I don't think you're fit enough to drive since you're still acting a little loopy. Wanna give me your keys?" she asked, holding her hand out.
Edward hesitated, but then handed his keys over. Luke reached out and pulled Edward to his feet, keeping one hand on his arm to steady him, then they started towards Edward's car.
Rosalie got a good laugh when she saw he was driving a pink Mini Cooper. Edward climbed into the backseat, Luke following behind him. Jasper was in the passenger seat next to Rose, who was in the driver seat. After giving Rosalie directions to his campus, he settled into his seat and closed his eyes.
Jasper was fighting to control all the emotions coming from Edward. There was so much sorrow, hurt, anger, and grief rolling off of him that Jasper almost couldn't take it all. Rosalie and Luke tried to control their own emotions as much as possible so they wouldn't put Jasper through constant hell, but this young man didn't know Jasper was an empath.
Jasper was also trying to control his thirst around the boy. The smell of Edward's blood was intoxicating. His telepathy gave a little something extra in his scent. Rosalie seemed to take a liking to him, so the last thing Jasper wanted to do was drain the boy. Rosalie would stake him if he did.
He couldn't help but watch the boy from the corner of his eye. When he closed his eyes, he looked so peaceful. Being able to feel his emotions though, Jasper knew that Edward was anything but peaceful at the moment.
There was a sudden trickle of humor in Edward's emotions, and he suddenly burst out laughing. Edward opened his eyes and found Luke and Jasper staring at him, Rosalie also looking at him in the rearview mirror.
"Sorry," he said, smiling and shaking his head. "I just had the strangest image of punching a walrus in the face."
Rosalie looked over at Jasper and raised an eyebrow. Jasper shrugged in response. What a strange boy, Jasper thought. He continued watching Edward as he leaned his head against the window.
Jasper began sending him waves of calm so that he would relax just a little bit. Slowly, Edward fell asleep.
"We're here," Rosalie said softly. She and Jasper climbed out, Luke following. "Should I wake him up?" Rosalie asked.
"Might be best," Jasper replied.
Rosalie nodded and leaned in the backseat. She started to shake Edward and speak to him softly. He woke with a start and Rosalie walked with him into the building, leaving Luke and Jasper standing by Edward's car.
"You know Rose will ask to stay here a few more days now that she's met him," Luke said to Jasper, who nodded.
"Yes, I know. And you know I can't deny my child anything. We have until the eighteenth to be in Alaska, I think we can stay a few days if that's what Rosalie wants," Jasper replied.
Luke only nodded, smiling a little. The first time they'd been to Alaska was seven years ago. Now the trio had made it a tradition to go up there every year when the sun wouldn't rise for nearly two months.
Standing silently beside of Jasper, Luke thought of their first trip up there. His human girlfriend, Angela Burton had been attacked by two of her classmates. She'd been in the hospital when Luke saw her last. He'd gone to get some things for her and when he returned, she was gone. The scent of another vampire lingered in the air, so he knew she'd been kidnapped.
Luke hadn't had a clue who the scent belonged to, so he tried to follow the scent himself. That had led him nowhere. He decided to follow Jasper and Rosalie to Alaska to ask for their help. He'd met up with them just outside of Memphis, Tennessee. They had all gone back to Alabama immediately and searched for Angela. They spent endless nights asking around for her.
They had spent a month looking for her when police announced they found her remains in a lake. Luke hadn't been able to sneak into the morgue to verify this himself, and he wasn't able to attend the funeral either since it was during the day. Angela had been buried though, so he could visit her grave and leave her flowers whenever he was in the Southern area.
Since losing Angela, Luke hadn't been interested in anyone else. He had truly loved her and he planned on telling her that he was a vampire. He had hoped she would become a vampire as well, when she was ready for he couldn't imagine living without her now that he'd met her.
Now, Luke lived in a nest with Rosalie and Jasper. They mainly lived in Manhattan, but every year at the beginning of October they would begin their trek across America to Alaska. They stopped in major cities to feed and spent their days in graveyards. They usually reached Alaska during the second week of December.
It was the beginning of November now, so they were behind schedule. They might make it to Alaska before Christmas, Luke thought. Although, now that they had met Edward, it could be later than that.
Rosalie finally emerged from the front doors of Edward's dorm and she made her way over to her two favorite boys.
"So, who's thirsty?" she asked with a smile.
Maria smiled, watching her new favorite child in action. Standing in the shadows, waiting for someone to cross her path, leaping from the darkness and taking the person to the ground. Their screams of terror were like a drug for Maria and her favorite child.
At least this one kills without a second thought, Maria thought bitterly. Her first favorite child was Jasper Whitlock, of course. He'd dropped down on her favorite list though, after he got upset after Maria ordered him to kill Lucy and Nettie.
How long ago was that? Maria asked herself. One hundred years or more? She missed Jasper, maybe she'd call him to her sometime. He'd like this one, she thought.
She turned her attention back, watching her favorite child drain the person unfortunate enough to pass by her tonight. She pulled back after taking the last drop, licking her lips clean as she stood. She began walking back to Maria.
Maria smirked as she caught her child's eye. "Do you feel better now, Baby?" she asked.
The girl called Baby nodded. Maria smiled and took the girl's hand. Maria knew she'd hit the jackpot when she found this one.
She actually hadn't found her on her own, though. Maria had been in Alabama when she caught Jasper's scent. In looking for him, she found this girl in a hospital bed. Maria knew by the girl's violet eyes that she was a psychic. It wasn't hard to get the girl to follow her, Maria took her back to her base and turned her into a vampire.
When the girl awoke, she couldn't remember anything about her human life. Maria failed to realize that the girl was in the hospital for being beaten and had minor head trauma. Her recent head trauma had affected her transformation though. Meaning she didn't remember anything about her human life. Maria had a wonderful time lying to her, even lying about her name.
Her real name was Angela Burton, but she didn't know that. She believed her name was Baby, because that's what Maria had told her. Baby believed that she'd been attacked one night after she'd gotten off work by her former classmates, Mike Newton and Bell Swan.
Maria had came along and saved her life. Maria told her she'd only barely restrained herself from going after Mike and Bella herself, but she thought that Baby might want her own revenge.
Baby was lethal, a true assassin, thanks to Maria's training. The only thing she was disappointed about was Baby's visions. Her main reasoning for turning Baby was because she wanted a psychic in her retinue. However, because of Baby's head trauma, she'd lost the ability to have visions. Maria had tested her several times, and was positive that Baby could no longer get visions.
Maria had kept Baby at her Houston base for a while during her training. Tonight, Baby finally would get her revenge on Mike Newton and Bella Swan.
Edward sighed as he shut the door to his dorm room. His classes for the day were over and he was exhausted. He could barely remember a word any of his professors had said. All he kept thinking about was Sunday night. He kept trying to write it off as a dream, but Edward knew it was real. He'd met vampires on Sunday and he hadn't been killed.
He flopped back on his bed, closing his eyes, reveling in the silence. He lived in a dorm, so silence was to be appreciated the rare times it occurred. Just as he thought that, someone down the hall screamed and just like that, there was a party.
Edward groaned and rolled onto his stomach. He didn't understand how some people could party on a Thursday night. After classes all day and more tomorrow, the last thing Edward wanted to do was be around a bunch of people who were drinking. Maybe that was just him, though.
He closed his eyes, trying to ignore the noise. There were three sharp raps on the door. He lifted his head, who could be knocking on the door?
He sat up on the bed and called, "Who is it?"
"It's Jacob, open up," came the voice from the other side of the door.
Anger bubbled up in Edward as soon as Jacob's baritone voice reached him. Edward bit down on his lip and reached out to Jacob's mind to see what he wanted, but got nothing.
"Why are you here?" he asked.
"We need to talk," Jacob replied.
"I think we did enough talking last night."
"Eddie, come on, open the door," Jacob pleaded.
"No," Edward said firmly. He jumped as Jacob's fist connected with the wooden door and rattled on its hinges. "Go away!" he yelled to his ex-boyfriend.
In the hall, Jacob raised his foot and slammed it hard into the door. The lock snapped and the wood around the doorknob started to splinter. He heard Edward gasp, either in surprise or fear, Jacob wasn't sure, and he smiled as he walked inside.
*hides behind rock* It's not my cliffy, I swear lol!
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