Chapter 21.
Edward Cullen
I hated using guns, but at this point, rings wouldn't help me worth shit. Emmet was somewhere close to me while dad and Jasper were settled below us on the ground. I hated being up on the raptures as well, like Emmet and I were planted here in this docking warehouse that we knew the Volturi's met every time they had taken someone down in the killing game. My father knew this was a risky job to take, not only would we be served assured retaliation by the rest of the Volturi family we weren't paid to kill tonight sometime in the distant or near future, but almost every killing family in Seattle who were on the payroll from the Volturi would come after us too. But we weren't the one's who wanted them dead. No, the Vladimir's-the largest killing family in the world who comfortably resided in Romania but worked in the U.S.-wanted them dead and there was 2.5 billion dollars in it for us. Pocket change for the Vladimir's.
We knew no one would be here for at least another fifteen minutes so I readjusted in my spot, my jeans allowing me to move easily down the thick metal rafters that were framed with heavy metal netting in front of my ace. I was lucky enough to have enough room in the tight area I was in to get a suitable sized hole for me to place the nozzle of my sniper rifle through. As I closed one eye and looked through the night vision target tracker I instantly thought of Bella and the day we spent downstairs in the shooting arena. She had practically been born to do stuff like this with her perfect aim and lethal shooting skills. Maybe she could join me sometime. What? Why would an angel like Bella ever want to be apart of this lifestyle? my subconscious screamed at me. It was right, I couldn't make Bella a killer like I was. I was already going to hell and I surely wasn't going to drag her there with me.
"Hey!" I heard Emmet's voice hiss at me through my earpiece and I looked to my right, catching his incredibly large shadow maneuvered in almost an identical position as my own a few yards away.
"What?" I growled so low I knew the ear piece would even have trouble catching it.
"Focus, bro. I know you miss Bells," he started in an empathetic tone. He knew when I was getting off track and even I knew I was in serious need of brain control right now.
"And I'm fucking worried as shit about Rose, but if we want to get home without a bullet in our head and money in our back pockets, you gotta focus." Emmet made sense. If I wanted to get back home to Bella ALIVE and make sure that Bella would be safe along with my sisters and my mother then I would have to put them all out of my mind at the moment and only focus on the fuckers that would be here any minute. I set my jaw and pushed all thoughts of Bella out of my mind.
"Got it." I ground out through grit teeth and settled the barrel of the gun onto my shoulder as steadily as I could. This was going to be an easy job but the retaliation was going to be the bitch we would have to put up with.
As I started to concentrate on lowering the volume of my anxious breaths I heard the large two story high tin garage doors open a fraction, letting in a few darkly shadowed silhouettes that were surely the guards of the Volturi.
Wait. Don't be too hasty, wait for dad's call and then shoot. Don't be an impatient motherfucker right now. I chanted to myself mentally. Jasper and dad were down below, hiding somewhere they knew the guards wouldn't look. We had practically been handed the keys to this place by the Vladimir's and it really wasn't hard to go unnoticed because the Volturi were a bunch of cocky fuckers. They knew no one dared to go against them in fear of severe retaliation but today they were bitterly wrong. I had told Bella we would need the money coming from this job and that it was a job that didn't even need to be mentioned but the truth was, this was the big one and 500 million dollars didn't even begin to scratch the surface of how much I had accumulated over the years but the more money I could get before retiring and living my life with Bella, the better.
"On my count." my father's voice called to me through my earpiece and I snapped out of my thought and focused into my night vision piece and got a great close up of Aro Volturi himself as he sat down at the large marble table with gaudy metal chairs before him.
"I got the head." I whispered into the earpiece, referring to Aro. I had the best and most reassured shot out of everyone and steadied my finger on the trigger.
"I've got the blonde." Emmet mumbled in reference to Caius Volturi. Jasper had Marcus Volturi and dad had all the guards and the rest of his gang of thugs.
They were talking about something, the Volutri's, or someone they had killed recently when my father's voice rang through my mind.
"NOW!" he hissed as I took the shot. Aro wasn't the only one to be killed and he certainly wasn't the only one who was dead in that instant. When we were told to do our job we all shot at the exact same time, allowing the retaliation of the guards no time to shoot back, but some how, Carlisle had missed someone apart of the guard, a couple of them actually.
"FUCK!" Emmet shouted a little too loudly, giving to guard who was still alive a chance to predict where we were. I couldn't take a direct shot as the silhouette moved but apparently my night vision lens shone off the moonlight, giving our target the perfect spot I didn't see the gun in the person hand but soon I heard the one thing a person in my business never wanted to here.
POP!
I was thrown back a little from the force of the bullet that punctured my right shoulder but I didn't hesitate to take the shot, ignoring the burning pain in my arm. The person who shot me was dead within seconds but another set of shots rang through the building as my father and Jasper shot down the last guard.
"Edward!" I heard Emmet's voice call to me from the ear piece. I could feel my entire shoulder becoming engulfed in warm liquid as my vision started to become spotty and I heard him shuffle over to my spot loudly. It didn't matter how much noise he made right now, everyone was dead.
Bella. I have to get home to Bella. My mind screamed at me. I needed to get back to her. I told her I would be back, I promised her!
"Ed!" Emmet said as I rolled over onto my back, dropping my rifle beside me and tried to focus on my brother's now fuzzy face that was twisted in worry and terror from what I could tell. "Stay with me, bro!" Emmet yelled smacking me slightly. I was trying to keep my eyes open as long as I possibly could.
"Bella…" I groaned out in agony. The burning in my shoulder was killing me and I could still feel the warm liquid spill all over me at an alarming rate. It hit an artery! Fuck!
"That's right, Ed. You gotta get back to Bells. Stay awake." Emmet said, lifting me up with a heavy grunt and flinging me over his shoulder.
"What's going on up there?" my father hissed in a cold tone through the ear piece.
"Edward's been shot." Emmet growled angrily through the earpiece as he walked down the stairway we had come up with me slung over his shoulder, probably dripping blood all down his back.
"SHIT! Get him down here, now!" my father ordered in an anxious tone. I couldn't keep my eyes open much longer as Emmet set me down on the cold concrete floor splattered with blood.
I could hear my father's footsteps rush to my aid and as his angered and worried expression looked over my shoulder and the moonlight lit up I could finally see a blurred version of my wounds extent. My whole right side was soaked in blood, no wonder I was getting drowsier and drowsier by the second.
"Hold this." my father handed something to jasper and didn't hesitate to push his fingers around the bullet wound in a harsh matter.
"AGHHHH!" I screamed out in sheer agony. Carlisle didn't yield at my screams of pain but just sighed and spoke in a monotone voice.
"It skimmed a minor vein but didn't do anything really bad, but he definitely needs a transfusion. Let's get back home. NOW!" Carlisle hissed at Jasper and Emmet. Carlisle had graduated form medical school and could have been the world's greatest doctor in my opinion if my grandfather hadn't been killed a few years after my father's graduation, leaving him basically soul responsibility of the entire establishment. My father could have turned down the responsibility but he knew the consequences of that. It wouldn't be anything like what would be coming after what we had just done here, but there were people that worked for my grandfather. People who had families just like my father's. People who had mouths to feed and people who needed the income that was provided by the business of killing.
Emmet didn't hesitate to lift me over his shoulder again and lead me back to the car that was strategically placed behind the shed and large dumpsters outside.
"I gotta get home…back to…Bella…" I panted out as the world was becoming darker to me. Emmet laid me in the back after tearing off my jacket and wrapping it around my wound, trying to cease the bleeding.
"We'll be home soon, Ed. You'll see her soon. Just stay awake." Emmet pleaded as Jasper sped out of the hiding spot we had achieved.
"Em," I rasped out and gripped his sleeve tightly because he sat next to me.
"Yeah Edward?" Emmet asked and stared down at me with anxious eyes moving frantically over my body and face, trying to see if I was in pain. I was but this was important and I needed to tell him before I passed out.
"Dad, you too." I said a little louder over the loud roar of the speeding car. I couldn't distract jasper from his position at the moment and it kind of didn't relate to him at the moment.
"What?" My father said looking over the passengers seat to stare at me calmly, his eyes that mirrored the color of mine, showing he was actually not so calm.
"If I don't make it-"
"Edward don't be stupid, the bullet didn't hit an artery and-"
"Dad I wouldn't be bleeding this bad if it just skimmed a vein! It had to have hit SOMETHING!" I growled at my father. I wasn't stupid. His face turned back into shame and Emmet stared at my father in a worried and panicked manner. Carlisle gulped back what looked like tears and blinked at me before trying to reassure me. I cut him off.
"If I don't make it," I said closing my eyes for a moment, fearing never seeing Bella again, but I gulped back the pain and kept going. "If I don't make it, tell Bella I love her and wire her every cent in my account alright. Make sure she has whatever she likes and enough watchful eyes around her all the time…and tell her…" I said feeling tears of both pain and agony start to fall from my face as my father's face twisted and pain and Emmet just gawked at me, obviously surprised that I could keep my self so coherent. I must admit it was taking everything I had left to stay so awake at the moment but I had to.
"Tell Bella, that I want her to be happy. Tell her she deserves that, she deserves to be happy. And I know I already said it…but tell her I love her…and she was the only thing that brought me back to life." I rasped out through hot, thick tears. Everyone was silent as I stared up at the roof of the car, thinking of Bella's beautiful face. Those dark brown orbs filled with joy as she laughed, the light splash of freckles that covered her nose and cheeks and her hair that flowed everywhere when she laughed. I loved her so much…
"I will, son." Carlisle croaked out and placed a gentle yet firm hand over my own that rested over my chest. I looked up to stare into his eyes and saw it was the truth. He was my father but this one gesture proved that for once in my life, he was proud of me and loved me even for all my flaws and resistance for this lifestyle. He loved me no matter what.
"Yeah, bro. I promise too." Emmet said from beside me. I nodded at him in gratitude and felt something start to consume me, pain maybe…but mainly it was unwelcome darkness as I drifted off with visions of the only woman I would ever love as much as I did floating through my mind.
Goodbye, Bella. I love you…
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