Chapter 14 - Protection But It Isn't For Me
Hey everyone, glad you liked the last chapter and I'm happy that I got some yes's for people thinking Bella was in trouble at the start of the last chapter.
So this chapter, you might not like what I've done but for something to happen this needed to be done, you'll understand hopefully when you read it.
So thanks for the reviews and here's the chapter :)
Their snarls were deafening, sending shivers down Bella's already quaking body, which was now situated behind Alice, her hands were balled up into fists against her vampires back. The nomad with the black dreadlocks was in a defensive crouch, while the red head had her arm around the blonde vampire's waist, with his arm draped loosely over her shoulders, both of them looking quite relaxed and the blonde was looking at Bella with slight amusement.
"What's the matter Isabella? Scratches giving you a bit of trouble?" He asked, smiling sadistically, Bella buried her head in between her girlfriend's shoulder blades, tears burning in her eyes. Alice let loose a animalistic growl but didn't move from her position in front of her human, she wanted nothing more than to launch herself forward and ripped this piece of scum into pieces but that would leave Bella exposed until one of her family took her place and there was the factor that her girlfriend had practically glued herself to Alice's back, so the pixie vampire had to settle to giving the blonde vampire a very deadly and menacing glare. The blonde's eyes widened slightly as he took in the sight of Alice in front of Bella before his taunting smirk and piercing black eyes were back in place.
"We mean no trouble. We'll go now." The one with the black dreadlocks said calmly, as he stood from his defensive crouch and started to make his way back towards the woods, his eyes never leaving the Cullen's, who were all still growling at the other two. "James. Victoria." He called, once he saw the other two weren't following him.
"See you soon Isabella." James said after a moment of staring hungrily at the still shaking Bella, Edward growled at James's horrifying thoughts, making to take a step towards the vampire but Jasper grabbed his arm and stopped him with a warning look. James and Victoria speed away from them without another word, leaving the Cullen's staring angrily at the spot where they had just been standing, even Carlisle and Esme looked like the vampires they truly were.
"They're gone." Edward said quietly, when he couldn't hear their thoughts anymore and only then did the Cullen family step out of their crouches and cease their growling, with Alice turning around immediately and gathering her girlfriend in her arms, making soothing noises to Bella who was now crying softly. "Shhh Bella it's going to be ok." Alice said softly to her girlfriend but it seemed the brunette was oblivious to her vampire's words.
Alice looked towards her family, her face twisted in pain as she wrapped her arms tighter around her trembling girlfriend. "Get her to the jeep Alice." Carlisle said calmly, making everyone spring into action. Alice swept Bella's feet from underneath her, carrying her bridal style towards Emmett's jeep, with Emmett, Edward and Jasper flanking her by her sides and behind her. Carlisle, Esme and Rosalie were running back to the house.
"Bella? Bella? Bella I promised I would protect you and that's exactly what I intend to do." Alice stated softly when they were in the jeep and moving along the woods towards the Cullen's house, with Bella in Alice's lap, refusing to move her head from its position in her pixie vampire's neck, Alice words once again seeming to not sink into Bella.
"What are we going to do?" Alice heard Emmett ask quietly, so Bella wouldn't hear. "He won't stop, he's a tracker, I saw inside his mind and he wants Bella badly, he never stopped looking for her but her little plane switch confused him, making him loose her but now that's he found her again...he's never going to stop until he gets her...and he's never failed before." Edward whispered the last part, so even the vampires had to strain to hear him, what he had seen in James's mind was twisted, what he wanted to do to Bella once he had her again, Edward couldn't even think of it for too long before it made him sick, James liked to play games, which is what he had been doing to Bella before she had got away.
Edward had collected a lot from James's mind and was intending on using it to his family's advantage to rip the sick psychopath into pieces and burn them. "He will not get her!" Alice hissed under her breath, all too aware that her girlfriend hadn't stopped shaking since James had left.
Without a thought one of Alice's hands slipped under the jacket Bella was wearing and her fingertips lightly started to stroke her humans scars, Alice breathed an unnecessary sigh of relief when she felt Bella's shaking slow and the muscles in her body relax ever so slightly. She sat back in the jeep, continuing to stroke Bella's stomach and her scars and she listened to her brothers, through ideas and thoughts around as they made their way home.
"Bella what are you doing?" Alice asked quietly from her place on her bed as she watched her girlfriend rush around the vampire's bedroom, picking up random bits of clothing off the floor, sometimes chucking some back down.
"You know for someone who has all the time in the world, your bedroom is quite messy." Bella muttered her reply, the first words she had spoken since the baseball game, not looking in her vampires direction as she did so, which hurt Alice a little but she understood Bella was feeling terrified. "That doesn't answer my question." Alice said softly but didn't move towards Bella, who was now shoving her clothes into the duffle bag she had brought with her to the Cullen's house for the week.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Bella answered hotly, her mind was jumbled with thoughts but the ones that were coming through her head loud and clear were, her nightmare was back and she had to run if she wanted to survive.
"Bella look at me." Alice said but all her human did was shove her clothes into her duffle bag faster. The raven haired vampire could see the light sheen of sweat on her brunettes forehead, she could see Bella was still shaking and could hear her heartbeat was racing, the blood pumping in her veins at a phenomenal rate, luckily Alice was too preoccupied with wanting to kill James and protect Bella, that the burn in the back of her throat was a dull throb, not the white fire hot poker she was use to.
"Bella? Bella? Bella look at me!" Alice commanded, using her speed so she was in front of her girlfriend in less than a second, grabbing her human's wrists gently in her cold hands. As Bella felt her hands stop moving, she looked up and met Alice's piercing, warm golden gaze.
"What are you doing?" The pixie vampire asked once again, she wasn't stupid; she knew exactly what Bella was doing but wanted her to admit it. The brunette didn't break her gaze with the psychic goddess in front of her, pure unaltered terror shining in her usually warm, and emotion filled eyes as she replied, "Running."
"Bella, I'm going to protect you, we're going to find him and I promise you he'll get what he deserves but you can't run, not again, it won't work, you're safer here...with me." Alice spoke gently, as if she was talking to a child because at that moment, to her Bella was extremely fragile, more so than usual. "N...no...he's here...I have to run...get away...he's gunna get me if I stay here, I don't want you or your family getting hurt because of me...I have to go." Bella managed to say, her eyes now darting around every inch of Alice's room, expecting him to jump out at any moment.
"Bella listen to me, there are seven of us and three of them, none of them will get to you, we can easily deal with them, none are going to even lay a finger on us, it'll be that easy, especially with Emmett, Edward and Jasper." Alice explained calmly but Bella just shook her head at her girlfriend's words.
"No...I'm...I'm not going to take that chance...I have to leave." Bella replied, trying to free her wrists from Alice's grasp but it was pointless. "Why are you being like this? You know we can protect you, I can protect you. Why are you so insistent on running away!" Alice asked, she knew Bella was terrified but that didn't explain why she didn't want them to deal with this, to help her.
"BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!" Bella suddenly shouted, before her eyes went wide with shock at what she had just said.
"You...you...what?" Alice spluttered, that was the first time Bella had said that, she had never given any indication that she was going to say it either, so many different emotions were running through Alice at the moment, she was sure if she was human she would of passed out by now.
Bella felt like she was backed into a corner, she didn't know where that had come from.
'Of course you do,' A little voice in her mind said, 'Ever since you and Alice got together, this feeling has been intensifying and since your emotional guard was down, I gave you a little push, it may of not of been a very good time but this was the only chance I was going to get, now don't make me force you to say it again, worry about everything else in a minute, for now focus on this.' The voice said before falling silent, leaving Bella with her racing thoughts.
After a minute of silence and with painful difficulty, Bella pushed all her worries and fears about everything else aside and focused on this. She was going to say the words she had promised herself she would never say again.
Taking a deep, shaky breath, Bella spoke, "I...I lo...I love you and I don't want you in any danger...I couldn't live if something happened to you." She whispered the last part as she closed her eyes and rested her forehead on her vampires.
Alice took a moment to bask in the brilliant feeling that was in her chest before she slowly wrapped her arms around her girlfriend and pulled her closer, kicking the duffle bag aside in the process. "I love you...but then you already knew that." Alice said, allowing a small smile to flash across her lips even though Bella couldn't see it.
Two tears slid down the brunettes cheeks, this was emotion overload, it was too much, first her nightmare comes back and now this, she couldn't take anymore.
"Ali..." Bella said quietly before trailing off, "Yeah Bella?" Alice asked looking into her girlfriends now opened eyes. "Kiss me." Bella stated softly, her voice taking on an innocent, child like tone that Alice had never heard from her before.
The vampire pixie looked a little hesitant, "Bella we should get downstairs, and they're making a plan..." Alice started to say but was cut off by Bella lips on hers.
Both girls forgot everything that was happening, everything around them and lost themselves in the kiss.
Alice lifted her human up by the backs of her thighs with Bella immediately wrapping her long legs around her girlfriend's petite waist. The vampire walked them back towards her bed and deposited Bella onto her back smoothly before gently crawling on top of her, she felt Bella's arms snake down her arms to her hips, wrapping her fingers around the hem of Alice's shirt and giving a tug.
The raven haired psychic complied straight away and sat up, while lifting her arms above her head, giving Bella permission to take her shirt off, which the young brunette did, her hands chucking the piece of clothing to the floor haphazardly before her hands made their way into Alice's short spiky locks.
In the back of her mind, Alice was aware of her family discussing whether or not one of them should go up and get them but Alice didn't care at the moment, all she wanted to do was continue to kiss Bella, to touch Bella and hold her all night long.
They had tonight at least; Edward had told the rest of them that Laurent, the one with the dreadlocks, didn't want anything to do with this and had left and now James and Victoria were searching the town, trying to find a way to get to Bella.
Bella slid her hands down from Alice's hair, down her now bare shoulders and then her bare back coming to rest on her hips, just above the waistline of the vampire's pants. In a surprisingly bold move, Bella's hands moved until they were resting on her girlfriend's button and zipper to her pants. "Bella I don't think now's the best time..." Alice started to say as she broke their kiss but was once again cut off by the brunette's lips. "Don't...stop...please." Bella managed to gasp out between breaths and kisses, considering the situation she was in, Bella didn't know where this courage was coming from.
"You don't want this." Alice stated quietly, Bella wasn't thinking straight; she didn't want to do this now. "Alice, I've never been more sure of anything in my life, I'm not freaking out because of him, he's not in my mind as long as you are, I want this...I want you...I love you and I want to show you how much I love you." Bella said her working the button on her vampire's pants before undoing the zipper slowly, praying that Alice wasn't going to stop her.
Truth be told, Bella was absolutely nervous, she was a virgin and had no experience in anything, she didn't want to be bad but she wasn't going to stop, she meant what she had said, she wanted to show Alice how much she loved her.
Alice's mind was shouting at her to stop this, that not only was this not the right time but it was also too dangerous for Bella and yet her hormones and heart were saying it was ok and to go for it.
So Alice did just that.
Downstairs the rest of the Cullen family were sat around the dining table, having long ago decided to leave the two girls alone and give them some time together, now they were discussing what to do and how they were going to go about keeping Bella safe until they had dealt with James.
"We should have killed him when we had the chance!" Emmett stated angrily, he had said he was going to keep Bella safe but he had let that sick bastard walk away without even trying to stop him. "We weren't prepared properly, we could have been hurt and there is no telling what they are like at fighting." Jasper replied in his military tone, the one that usually had Edward weak at the knees and thinking inappropriate things but this was too serious to even be thinking about that.
"I say we go out right now and hunt that piece of shit down and then rip him limb from limb really slowly, if his girlfriend wants to try and help him, let her try." Emmett said, flexing the muscles on his arms, his face dark but when Rose laid a hand on his forearm, he gave her a goofy, love filled grin. "We can't go running around half-cocked; we need a plan, one to either lure James to us or one to trap him somewhere with nowhere to go." Edward said, his mind whirling with the thoughts of his family, he was trying to block out the thoughts coming from Alice upstairs, he didn't need to know what they were doing, without being scarred for life but the thoughts downstairs were running through different ideas of how to capture James.
"How about we take Bella away?" Rosalie asked out loud, the plan quickly forming in her mind, with Edward seeing and nodding his head in agreement. "I'll put on some of Bella's clothes and we can lead James on a wild goose chase, while Jasper and Esme take Bella away until we have dealt with this." Rosalie continued confidently.
"Why not Alice be the one who goes with Bella?" Emmett asked his wife but it was Edward who answered, "James saw the way Alice protected Bella, he knows they're together and knows that Alice won't be anywhere Bella is not. If Alice comes with us, it will help us lead James away, giving Esme and Jazz enough time to get Bella away, hopefully James won't figure it out." Carlisle sat quietly in his seat as he thought everything before turning to his love and asking, "Are you okay with this?"
Esme flashed her husband a loving smile, "If this helps keeps Bella safe then I am okay with it but you must all promise to be careful, I don't like the fact that I won't be here to help you but I do think it is a good idea." The motherly vampire answered, grabbing Carlisle's hand and giving it a reassuring squeeze.
"We will go with Rose's idea; tomorrow morning we will put it into action." Carlisle said with an authoritive tone, "Are you going to be ok with looking after Bella?" Edward asked his mate as everyone left the table; Jasper gave his lover a small uncertain smile, "I'll be okay, and I think the question is, how we are going to convince Alice to stay, while we take Bella away?" The ex-army soldier asked, to which all Edward could do was shrug.
Well that's the end of the chapter.
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