Chapter Twenty Four: They're Back!

"Sophie, what's wrong, how do they know you?" his arms were wrapped around me, and we were back in his car after he had taken me away from the hotel ballroom rapidly.

"Nothing," I managed to choke out, after breathing hard for a while. I was having a panic attack, and it wasn't pretty.

"That's a lie and you know it. How do they know you?" Seth asked again. "Whoa, are you okay?" he suddenly exclaims, because I stop breathing.

"Breathe! Breathe! Here, let me get you something," he fumbles around his car until he gets a brown paper bag, which he hands to me and I inhale and exhale rapidly until I can breathe like a normal person again.

"They know me from Peter. I didn't tell you the whole story..." as I explained that they had been waiting to see if they were going to turn me or not... and how the answer was probably not. As I explained all of this as gently as I could Seth's jaw kept getting tighter and tighter until I was afraid that it was going to snap off.

"Why didn't you tell me? I, we, could have helped you. We would have kept you safe. We wondered who we were on the trail for, but we never thought that it could happen to one of the imprints..." all of a sudden Seth hits the wheel of the car so hard that it brakes. "Damn it!" I had never seen him so much as cuss, and soon all of this seemed to be too much.

"I'm sorry. I didn't want you to worry. I didn't even want you to know. I didn't think they would come back, ever. I'm so, so sorry."

"No, I am. I shouldn't have gotten so angry." When he moved his hand I noticed that he left a dent on the steering wheel. Shit.

But he had every reason to get angry. I lied. I lied big time. If Seth had ever lied to me like that I don't know what I could have done. Seth suddenly started speeding. "Where are we going?" I just had to ask.

"We're going over to the Cullen's. We have to tell your new information to Jacob. He'll know what to do with it." I couldn't believe it. This must have been a bigger deal than I had thought. Okay, scratch that. This was a huge freaking deal.

"I'm scared," I squeaked out after about ten minutes of silence.

Seth looked over at me, and for the first time since I had told him that the Volturi were coming after me I saw softness in his eyes. "I won't let them get to you. I won't." I had a feeling that he wasn't talking to me anymore. I reached over and squeezed his hand, and then leaned my head back against the seat.

Who knew that prom could be such a horrible experience? I mean, I wasn't expecting it to be all that much fun, but I was hoping that it would turn out a little bit better than it did. It wasn't supposed to turn out like this. I mean, sure sometimes people broke up on prom night, but hopefully we wouldn't.

Hopefully.

With this thought in my mind I said, "What do you think is going to happen now?"

"Nothing, as of yet. But we will find them, and we will kill them. End of story."
"But you can't kill them!" Just thinking of Seth in close proximity with one of them made me want to gag. Something like that couldn't happen, not just because of me.

"Oh yeah, we can. We can and we will."

"I won't let you!"

"How are you planning to stop us? Are you going to use your super human abilities. Jacob will agree that killing them will be the right thing to do." It was alarming to me how we could get into arguments like this, but all the same I didn't want to be the one to have to stop it.

"Have you fought them before?"

"Well... we didn't really fight. But all the same this time we will. And they're is nothing that you can do to stop us." There wasn't. I couldn't possibly physically stop them, they would all laugh and then push me out of the way.

"Why don't you just not try to? Maybe they'll just leave me alone," I turned in my seat so that I was facing him.

"I doubt that, Sophie. I mean, they singled you out at your high school prom. Don't tell me that they do that for everyone. I would have thought that they might have forgotten about you by now, I mean, from they way Edward talked that probably should have been the case."

"Nope, I was too important, I know too many secrets."

"Well, they aren't taking you away from me. Ever."

"We've established that." Why was I being so bitchy? I bit my lip, we shouldn't be arguing like this.

"What's your problem?" Seth asked me.

"What's my problem, what's my fucking problem? I'm not the one who is being all... weird!"

"I want to protect you. I love you, you know that," all it took was Seth's broken whisper and I was back to being myself again.

"I'm sorry, we shouldn't be arguing like this."

"No, we're being ridiculous. We shouldn't be acting like this, but the sad thing is that we are. It's just after everything I can't stand to lose you."

"I know." Suddenly a huge house loomed in front of us. It really was a beautiful house, but I was suddenly afraid of what was inside.

"So..." Seth said to clear the tension. "Are you going to tell Jake, or am I?"

A/N: Okay, I am super sorry for the shortness of this chapter, and the crappy quality, but you guys really need an update, and this was all I had for this chapter. I was going to make it way longer, but I figured y'all had waited long enough and deserved this one. The next one will be longer, I promise.

I'm not even going to ask for reviews, because this chapter is really suckish.

I'm sorry.

Love,

Dicey