A/N: Okay, I have written this chapter three times now! First, I forgot to save it and lost 2,000+ words worth of a chapter! The second and third time, the document was lost!! Where it went I'll never know. So, not being able to remember what the fuck I wrote the first three times this chapter will now be a filler chapter (basically it's bullshitting through a bunch of shit) so I can get to the part I have been wanting to get to for some time! ENJOY!
Also, I am now in college and still looking for a job. Not to mention my mother and I are moving out of our house and into an apartment in another town. I'm going to be 2x as busy as I normally am so please don't get mad if there is maybe a month or so pause between updates. I will try to not make it a month because ya'll are so impatient!
Thanks to my betas for going over this!
Chapter 12 3rd Person POV (because I'm too lazy to actually decide who to write…)
After the blood-chips had been baked, Bella handed bags full of the chips out to her family and the Cullen's. She sat beside Jasper and Alice, watching all the Cullen's—even Edward—to see their reactions. Cautiously Jasper and Alice took the first bite of the first human food they had in years. Everyone's attention was on them, making them feel like they were in the Zoo.
"Well, what do you think?" Kat asked after they had swallowed the first chip. Her only answer was her parents shoving their hands in the bags again, pulling out a handful of chips, and stuffing their faces. "Told you it was that good," she snickered.
The rest of the Cullen's also started eating the chips after they saw that Jasper and Alice loved them. Moans of enjoyment arose from them and they all quickly finished their large bags in seconds. After they were finished they looked at Bella with large grins on their beautiful, stony faces.
"Wonderful invention, Bella," Carlisle complemented.
"Thank you," she beamed with a slight blush.
"Yes! She still blushes!" Emmett exclaimed clapping happily.
"Emmett, tell me, how were you changed?" Kat enquired. Jasper shot her a glare, silently warning her to be nice.
"A bear attacked me," Emmett shrugged.
"Did it – by any chance – take a few hard swipes at your head?" she barked in laughter.
"Kathrin!" Jasper, Alice, Gwen and Gavin shouted disapprovingly.
"Oddly enough, I wonder the same thing," Rose snickered. Emmett playfully pouted, making the families laugh.
"You'll have to excuse Kathrin, Emmett," said Gwen. "The filter between her brain and her mouth falters sometimes."
"That filter never did work properly," Jasper agreed nodding.
"I'm sitting right here!" Kat growled frustrated.
"Very good! Now where is Bella sitting?" Tobie sniggered.
"Ha-bloody-ha," she snarled at her.
"Anna? Anna sweetheart what is it?" Brian called to his wife interrupting his sisters' bickering.
"What do you see baby?" Jasper called to Alice when he saw that she was staring into space as well. "Edward, what are they seeing?"
"Three vampires," Edward said, concentrating on Alice. "I can't see into the Anna's mind, all I can see are three vampires surrounding the house. I'm not getting any audio."
"Three vampires?" Brian growled. He darted over in front of Edward, anger and fear rolling off of him. "What are they wearing? Eye color, height, appearance?"
"Red, our height, dark clothes," Edward listed off. "Who are these men?"
The memory of running into three vampires that fit the description of the vampires Edward saw in Alice's vision flashed in Brian's mind. The vampires were hissing and growling at the James family; demanding they hand Bella over to them—or else. Edward growled and picked Brian up by the collar of his shirt, holding him a foot above the ground.
"Who are they and what do they want?" He demanded.
"They're minions for a vampire you know," Brian growled back. "Remember, Victoria?" Gasps sounded throughout the room from the Cullen family. The Cullen's were shocked because they had left Bella to keep her safe from the vampire.
Kat shot up from beside her parents and grabbed Bella, running her to the safe room. The safe room was a room that not even vampires could break through. It was well stocked with food, water, and clothes for Bella in case she was in a life threatening situation. The room could withstand even a bombing.
Before Bella realized it, she was sitting on a large king sized bed in the middle of the safe room with a frantic looking Gwen and Kat running around checking to make sure everything was still in order just on the off chance Bella would have to stay there awhile.
"Will you two calm down?" Bella huffed from her spot the bed.
"No!" They practically yelled at her.
"You two have lost your minds," Bella grumbled. Kat left to inform the Cullen's about what was going on while Gwen went to grab some books for Bella to read. Bella had a feeling that no matter how much she protested, or how many tantrums she threw, her family was not going to let her out until the threat was gone. "There goes our concert on Saturday," Bella thought gloomily.
Guess who's POV…
I stood by the big bay window watching as a squirrel attempted to bury a pile of acorns. Stupid little beast—it could hide them in the trunk of the tree it was digging under and save the trouble.
A newborn came running into the room and stopped in front of me, holding out an envelope. When I took it, he ran off without me having to order him to. Smart. The newborns learnt months ago not to talk to me unless I ordered them to.
Inside were photos of one Bella Swan and her new "family". This time, the little bitch will not get away. Edward Cullen will regret the day he killed my mate.
As for the little bitches' "family", they will be no problem once my new weapon gets here.
3rd POV
"What's going on?" Alice asked frantically. She couldn't see anything in any of their futures after her last vision, and it was scaring her. Were their wolves nearby? Were they working with Victoria?
"Victoria, as in the same Victoria whose mate we killed?" Emmett growled.
"Wait, you killed a mated vampire?" Tobie screeched angrily. "What the hell were you thinking?"
"You're mated yourselves! What would you do if your mate was killed?" Anna screamed.
"I'd kill the bastard that dared to harm my Rose," Emmett growled back; all signs of his usual carefree demeanor gone.
"Did you not think about what his mate would do in revenge?" Owen asked. His playful demeanor was also gone and replaced with an entirely different one; one that screamed seriousness and anger—like Emmett.
"We tried to catch her and kill her, but she kept eluding our attempts," Carlisle answered calmly. He knew he needed to keep a level head or else a fight would break out between his children and the other coven children.
"Yes, we have noticed that. She is fast and nearly impossible to catch," Gavin agreed. "It is like she has some type of ability to know when danger is near her."
"Where's Bella?" Jasper asked, before anyone could answer, Kat came back into the room.
"She's fine. She is in the safe room," she answered her father.
"Safe room?" Edward asked. He didn't like the fact that he couldn't see Bella while Victoria was on the loose with an army of vampires working for her.
"It's a room we built in the basement for Bella," Brian said. "It can withstand tornados, tsunamis, fires, and vampire attacks. The entire house can burn down and the safe room will still be standing."
"You can't be sure of that," Rosalie scoffed.
"Actually, we can," Tobie said grinning looking over at her sisters who also wore matching grins.
"Do we want to know?" Esme asked timidly.
"The children had a little too much fun experimenting," Gwen said throwing glares at her children. The girls whistled a nonsense song, trying to look innocent.
"The innocent look does not work on you, children," Gavin laughed.
"Can we get back to business here?" Edward growled. "There is a psychopath coming after Bella and you all are talking about looking innocent!"
"Edward, son, calm down," Carlisle said soothingly. "Gavin, how do you know Victoria and her minions?"
"Three years ago, three vampires went to a small concert Bella, Anna, and I were putting on in Seattle," Brian began. "During the first song, I caught sight of them. They were looking at Bella with hatred and hunger. I let Anna know what I was planning to get Bella out of there as soon as the show was over; she subtly agreed."
"After the show we rushed Bells out to the car, but the three nomads were standing in front of it," Anna continued. "They said that if we didn't hand her over, we would regret it. We refused, and ever since they have been coming after us in groups of 3."
"When we joined the James', the groups became larger. We have not had a visit from them in over eight months," Brian finished.
"How do you know they work for Victoria?" Alice asked.
"Because they told us she sent them," Brian said as though he were stating the obvious.
"How are we going to get rid of Victoria and her army?" Jasper inquired. He was already going through battle strategies and ways to protect Bella.
"She will be sending three of them for a warning first," Tobie said. "She always does. Then they will come back and attack."
"How long do we have until they arrive?" Jasper asked, now picturing ways to kill Victoria as well as the battle strategies.
"Tomorrow," Ianto answered for them. He was staring into space, his eyes glazed over. "And they aren't coming with a warning this time."