Abductor's Torment
Chapter 13: A Trip to Town
Now, they had a whole month to spend in Mexico. Bella's grin grew as she looked over at the petite blonde.
It was almost like a vacation with a significant other. Bella licked her lips as her raging hormones began to surface.
Bang!
Jane silently watched as Bella continued to practice shooting cans and bottles that she had scrounged up. It had been over an hour since the girl had began target shooting and surprisingly Jane found herself still immersed in just watching the human.
"Still don't believe me?" Maria said as she leaned by the wall that Jane was skulking around. The warlord had initially assumed that Bella was Jane's mate and hadn't stopped hounding her about Bella since they met. Jane's initial response was to break a few limbs and douse her in phantom pain, but the blonde couldn't feel any malice in the words.
Bella also told her to play nice... Jane grin her teeth and was reminded how easy it was that she followed what the human wanted. And, in all fairness, Jane actually got along with the warlord, to the point where she was actually tolerating the incessant veiled teasing.
"No." It had only been a few days and the warlord had not eased up on explaining more about mates to Jane whenever the human wasn't in earshot.
The really crazy part in all this was that the Mexican vampire made sense.
Hungry vampires do not protect humans. It was one of the statements that Maria had given and rung true. Jane had never really cared which human she devoured most of the time as long as it wasn't a child. Jane just couldn't shake the instinct to protect the human, Bella, away, even when she was hungry and drained. She had told Maria that it was her mission, her directive, to protect the human and that was what overrode her desire to devour Bella.
Jane knew she was lying to herself, but just like her sense of direction, she was not yet ready to admit it.
I've seen how you look at her. Another day and another reason Maria brought up while Jane watched Bella quietly. Jane didn't really have an answer for that. She had later asserted to herself and to the warlord that it was part of the mission to keep her safe and out of trouble, but Maria had just laughed it off and reminded Jane that watching the girl sleep wasn't part of the mission.
Jane was confused.
She didn't know, but she knew.
She didn't understand, but at the same time she understood it.
She kept trying to lie to herself, but it wasn't working.
Maria had actually goaded her into action a few times. Small tiny touches towards Bella, getting too close to Bella and several other things that made Jane want to set her on fire.
Well, Jane did. She had tuned down her gift and hit the warlord with migraines every time she tried something like that, tried to touch Bella. Instead of being at the receiving end of a glare or fight from the warlord, all Maria gave her was a sly grin.
That sly grin that kept popping up every time Maria passed by the room she had loaned them where Bella was snuggled up to Jane. That sly grin that came up every time she would be caught staring at Bella and forget how much time passed.
"There's that look again." That sly grin.
It was like another Heidi. A Mexican Heidi? No doubt the two would probably get along, if not to just annoy her to death. Thankfully, Mexican Heidi didn't want to give her makeovers.
Jane sighed and didn't answer. She continued to watch as Bella was finishing up her target shooting. The girl was actually getting better. The ammunition she was using would also be deadly to vampires, as to why the Volturi had not thought of using them? She had no idea.
Bella had reloaded her pistol and hid it behind her where she had a gun holster as she began her trek towards Jane. The girl had a big smile and even Jane couldn't help the tiny smile that was starting to appear on her face when faced against that smile.
"Hey Jane! Maria!" Bella immediately attached herself to Jane's side and nodded towards Maria as if it were the most natural thing to ever do. Jane always had an inner war going, whether to push the girl away or to let her do as she pleases, but it seemed as if the instinct to push the girl away was losing almost all the time now.
Another grin came up on Maria's face, but Jane didn't even bother reacting this time. The warmth emanating from Bella was starting to fill her up and Jane was just content.
"Jane?" Bella was suddenly in front of her looking straight in her eyes. "I said I'll be ready to go right after I make a call." Jane made a face, but Bella just poked her nose. "You promised to come with me to the town. No excuses!" Bella quickly pecked Jane's cheek before the vampire could do anything and began to go to the other room after borrowing a phone that Maria had provided her.
"Purring." Maria said.
"Excuse me?" This vampire really wanted to get on Jane's nerves.
"You were purring when she pressed closer to you." Maria began to move away from where she was towards a table. "Vampires only purr when fully satisfied or when in the presence of their mate." The warlord had taken a small black purse from the table and tossed it over to Jane which she promptly caught.
"Enjoy your date." Maria then instantly sped out of the house with only a faint laugh heard echoing as she got further away from the house.
Stupid Mexican Heidi.
Bella sat alone in the room Maria had given to them while twirling the phone in her hand. It had been a couple of days since their stay here in Mexico, but it had already been a week since she had left Forks.
Come on.
The brunette had asked for a phone from Maria to be able to contact Charlie. Bella didn't really feel sorry or regretful for anything she had done, but she did feel a little bit guilty that she had just left Charlie with a tiny note stating not to find her.
The problem was is that the note was useless when the Shifter pack had probably told her father that she had been kidnapped.
Still, she didn't know what to say to Charlie.
Hey, Dad, I was kidnapped by a vampire and will probably be dead or a vampire by the end of the month. Well, shit. That one was definitely out.
Dad! I'm safe with my kidnapper! You don't have to worry! Bella facepalmed, that wasn't any better.
Dad, I know this is hard, but I'm in love with my kidnapper. Stockholm Syndrome!
Yep, Bella had nothing. No good explanation prepared and no excuses, it was almost the same feeling when she decided to let herself be abducted by Jane.
Fuck it.
Bella dialed Charlie's number.
Don't pick up. Bella would give it three rings, then she would drop it.
Ring. One.
"Swan here." FUCK!
"... Hey, dad."
"Bella?! Where the hell are you?! Are you okay?!"
"I'm fine, dad. Stop panicking." Bella tried to calm down her father, but it didn't seem to be working at all.
"Bella! You've been missing for a week! Tell me where you are!" She could hear the worry in his voice, but that was the reason why she called, to at least soothe it down.
"Dad, I just wanted to let you know that I'm okay, but I won't be coming back." Bella just felt it was better for her dad to have some closure at least. She didn't want to subject her dad to what Edward and the Cullens did by leaving with only talking to Edward and not the others.
"Bella. Just tell me where you are. Please, Bells." Charlie was now pleading and Bella wanted nothing more than to give in to the pleas, but she couldn't. Being locked within Forks would do nothing for her nor was it even possible to go back in the first place, not at the moment anyway. Dragging her dad into this would just kill him if the Volturi got wind of him having any knowledge about the supernatural.
"I love you, dad." Bella's voice hitched with emotion even if she had prepared herself to be more aloof about the whole thing. "Tell Renee that I love her too and that... I'm sorry." For everything.
"Bells-" Bella pressed the hang up button and shut off the cellphone. Tears burned in her eyes, but she knew it was the right thing to do. But, was it really the right thing to do? Wouldn't this give her dad more incentive to try and find her? Wouldn't this call mean that she was alive?
A tear dripped down and now she just wasn't sure if she should have just let her dad assume she was missing or dead.
Before Bella could do anything else, a hand was already on her shoulder. Bella swiveled her tear filled eyes and landed on Jane who had a frown on her face. She wasted no time and pulled the blonde vampire into an embrace, placing her head in the crook of Jane's neck. Bella dried her eyes on the vampire's shoulder and gave one last squeezing embrace before pulling back and darting out a tiny peck on Jane's lips before the vampire could react.
Bella could see that Jane was startled, but that was the extent of her reaction. Well, embracing and stealing pecks from the vampire throughout the few days they had already spent in Mexico would let the vampire start getting used to her touches.
Though, I'd love to get one from her sometime. Yep. Work in progress.
There wasn't much Bella could do for her past life, but she wanted to really get on with her new one, especially Jane.
"Sorry about that." Bella could see the small tilt of Jane's head and a tiny frown that not even Jane knew was appearing on her own face. "The tears, not the kiss, I mean." And, just like that, the tiny frown was back into a straight line.
She doesn't know it yet, but she likes it. Maria did say to have patience. Well, Bella didn't have much of that, but whatever, she'd do this her own way. It did seem to be slowly working. Further than Edward and she got in months. He probably had a closer relationship to that chair he kept watching her sleep from.
"Ready to go out?" Bella asked and could see a real frown appear on the blonde's face. Hating humans in general was probably not a thing that Jane would change her stance on, but that was fine.
I doubt I'll stay human for that long anyway.
Another kiss.
Jane would admit that the first and second one came as a surprise and that she wasn't able to dodge them because she wasn't prepared...
..., but the third, fourth, fifth and the rest?
She was prepared for them...
..., but she didn't dodge them.
After the first and second kiss, Jane had prepared herself to dodge the random kisses with her vampiric speed, but even when she was in the process of dodging one, it just felt like her body stopped itself from moving. Her body just let itself relax and accept the kiss and soon Jane realized that her mind and her body had both just started to accept those sweet, luscious-
"Jane?"
"What?" Jane was broken out of her thoughts and remembered they were in the busy streets of Monterrey, the Capital of Neuvo Leon. It took them over an hour to get to the city by car all the way from Maria's desert house. She was actually surprised that her thoughts drowned out the incessant noise coming from all the meat bags flapping their mouths.
"I'm hungry, but I don't speak Spanish!" Jane looked to towards the girl with an 'are you serious' look.
"I don't speak Spanish either." Jane spoke old English and German because of her parents along with Latin and a few other languages, but she'd never really gotten to this part of the world. The last and only time she had been here was to do the clean up for the Warlord, but even then, she didn't really speak to anyone.
"But, I want a taco and some quesadillas!" Bella whined. Jane's lips pursed and couldn't help but remember how annoying having a human around was. Maria had some delivery service that brought food from out of nowhere, but now they were left to fend for themselves.
Why did Jane have to follow this girl around to this noisy place again?
Right. She could now feel her own body tensing up whenever the human wasn't close to her. She still wanted to deny the claims Maria was making, but it seemed more and more plausible by the day.
Jane looked over at the girl that ran towards a food stand and she could feel the urge to follower her, to touch her, to hide her away and keep her away from the dangers of the world.
Protect. Jane could feel the protective instincts well up inside of her. Oh, how she just wanted to massacre everyone in the surrounding area so that there would be no threats to the girl, to Bella. The instincts were delayed, Maria did make a good point that the girl was still human, the instincts took longer to appear, but it did make sense though. Jane had not actually gotten that rough with Bella even when they first met, well, aside from her trying to flood her with pain.
There was just something about the girl that made her so lovely, so lovely that Jane couldn't pin point it.
"Taco! Si! Si! Taco! More che-, I mean, er-, mucho queso?"
...
Jane groaned. This was the girl she was supposed to spend eternity with?
Alec, save me!
Jane - Daughter of an Anglo-Saxon woman (Old English) and Frankish Soldier (Old German) ? That's what Google gave me so I could give her a few languages to know.
AN: Sorry for the delay of the chapter, just wasn't in the mood much this past week. I did promise to update once every two weeks at least~ Sorry for the lack of content in this chapter. Hopefully, I won't be feeling too brain dead this coming week.
No extra scenes for this chapter too. I'm giving Tanya's Head a break, gotta fish her out soon.
Some readers have messaged me about the Once Upon a Time story and a sequel or extra chapters for Concurrent Existences. I can say that I have a chapter or two for the former and one for the latter, but I won't be able to update them if I just post them now, so I'll probably wait until this current story is closer to the end to have more prep time. I'm just too slow of a writer~ :(
Thank you for all the feedback and suggestions! Please do leave a review if you have time! (Actually beat my other story's followers!)
Update: 07/16/17 Taking forever to clean this up with the amount of time I have.