Chapter Thirty Six: Goodbye Forks, Hello Sun!
A/N: OK, I did it again, and more readers who are late to the game have reviewed asking about the mistakes.... Well, someone found another...... "Raven" pointed out I killed Lauren twice...... So I think I can chalk her and Victoria up to I frickin hate them, and they needed to be killed twice! Maybe I will kill them again! But it was a goof up, I am just totally writing off the top of my head, having fun with this story, and judging by the reactions so are you all! So I will continue! Now back to Forks, but I owe Raven a place in my story for being first to find that mistake so let me know in a review what you want your characters name to be and watch for her. I got another request from another reader to put her character in but since she is just asking, and only reviewed once....... and it was anon........ She is not going to get what I gave alice and i-heart-twilight-forever (oh, and I also gave one of my sons a character too because I love him....) So back to my story before I went off on a tangent!
Charlie was a little disappointed with us cutting our visit short, but He agreed it was best. Before we leave I am going to visit the Pack. Sam has given me permission to come onto their land this once. I have someone special to meet. My Jacob has imprinted!
I was looking forward to meeting her. I worry, I left Jacob so abruptly, and he deserved better from me. He was there for me when Edward made his family leave me. I understand why he thought he had to, and still tell him he is an idiot from time to time for doing that, usually when Alice is around without Jasper, because then she can really get going and let him have it!
It was funny the first time I tried that little experiment, Alice got so angry she bit his hand! She jumped him, and he was fending her off and she bit him. It was so funny, I started laughing! I felt bad, that was when I learned that venom hurts us when we get bitten, but little Alice jumping on Edward and going beserk, that was just comical. Jasper showed up and got her calmed down, and her and I went off for our usual retail therapy. I got this little Gucci bag! It is awesome, it has little pockets inside for all my little things, and a matching cover for my cellphone! Rose about stole it from me! When she saw it she begged me to give it to her..... Maybe......
Well anyway I pulled up to Billy's house. I didn't miss that I was being shadowed the whole time by 10 great big wolves..... They were funny. I suppose they are right not to trust my kind, especially with their history, but they KNOW me, maybe I am scary monster Bell to them now, well, I will behave, and see if we can maybe stay friends? At least friendly.....
I got out of the car and Sam walked out of the woods wearing a pair of shorts. "Hello Bella, nice to see you again, you doing OK?"
I knew by the way he asked he didn't mean in general but was I going to go all blood thirsty and kill everyone he loved. "I fed before coming Sam, I am not the normal newborn, From all accounts my control rivals Carlisles, and he is a surgeon! So if he can work in an operating room countless times, and not lose control I can handle this, especially as close as I feel to you guys! You know even with the magnitude of this change I am still ME."
"Good to hear it Bells!" Jacob stepped out on the porch.
"JACOB!" I ran up onto the porch, at vampire speed and hugged him. Of course everyone was startled!
"OOPS! Sorry guys, I forget myself when I am comfortable, I was not going for him, just a hug..."
I looked eembarassed. Everyone chuckled. Several more wolves came out of the woods in shorts. Quil, Embry, and even Paul. Of course Paul had to make a remark.... "I was kinda hopin' you would, Jake needs a good beatin'"
Jacob reached behind him and pulled a beautiful woman out onto the porch "Bella, I would like you to meet Tatiana, my fiance."
He was positively glowing. I remembered how Sam looked around Emily, this was even stronger.
She clung to Jacob I could see her fear. "Hello Tatiana, I can see by your reaction that you know the story, I guess this is your first Vampire meeting? Well, if it makes you feel better I hope it is your last.... Well I mean I hope you don't meet many or those you do only feed from animals..... well full time animals, not part time animals like Jake here....." I was blowing it, trying to say something nice that would make her feel more at ease.
"Smooth Bella, real smooth!" Embry laughed.
"Well, you know what I mean! Well Tatiana, I am not thirsty right now, and you smell nice.... NO! I mean, is yes we are dangerous, and it is normal and correct that you are afraid, but I guess what I am trying to say, is Jake is like a brother to me, he is one of my best friends and was there for me when I was at my lowest, he saved me. Well actually literally, a bad Vampire named Laurent was gonna eat me and Jacob and the pack took him to a bonfire instead. So I would like the opportunity to get to know the woman he is going to spend the rest of his life with if you aren't too creped out by the body like stone, and cold as Ice?" I looked at her hopefully.
Tatiana looked up at Jacob relaxing slightly so she could look him in the face "She is hard as stone? You didn't tell me that part." She then looked at me. "Can I touch you?" Ah, so it was to be curiosity that won her over...... "Sure, I don't mind.... Jake?" I knew how possessive Jake was, and how protective. "You sure you're OK? I know you won't attack me, because I smell bad to you, but she is fully human...." I knew it bothered him to ask me that, to doubt me, his friend, but when it came to the object of his imprint, he just could not afford to risk anything.
"I Promise Jake, I have been breathing this whole time, and I am totally ok with her blood, besides, Paul would love to bite my head off if I do not behave." I turned and stuck my tongue out at Paul.
Tatiana laughed and stepped forward. I held out my arm and she squeezed it, then she rapped her knuckles on it. "Wow, it is hard, but soft at the same time? Weird....."
We spent most of the afternoon talking. Jake and the boys mostly ate, while Tatiana and I cooked and washed dishes. Of course the award for the funniest thing ever said went to Tatiana when after I had washed a sink full of dishes in about 2 seconds at vampire speed. "Life is so unfair, you get super speed, and I have to clean up after these wolves and I get nothing!" Everyone laughed. Jacob said "Hey! You get ME!" She snapped her head around "Like I said......" She then took a page from my book and stuck her tongue out at him, but ran into his arms and kissed him.
Tatiana was so very curious about what it was to be a vampire. I gave her all the gory details. She was shocked when I told her how very very painful it was. How the pain of the change was just horrific, like the worst burn imagine how much it hurts when you burn your hand on a hot pan, or a curling iron, then imagine that all over your body, from the inside out, and the outside in. Screaming and begging for death does not even begin to cover it. I told her about the thirst, and how very dangerous we were, and even good vampires like me were not to be trusted, our hunger was so powerful.
I told her how I was Edwards "Singer" how my blood called to him, yet he resisted. "I just do not know if I am that strong, I would not like to be tested like that, and that is what having Vampires on your land could do, expose one of us to something we cannot resist. I hope you like me, that you grow to like me and be my friend, but do not mistake me for what all of my kind are, or think because I can be trusted now, that I can always be trusted. I think I can, but the part of me that loves you all so very much for what you did for me, is afraid to risk too much. Does that make sense?"
It was Tatiana who got it first I think, the others were too programed to hate, but she got the point I was trying to make. "Yeah, you mean you are the sweet Bella you have always been but now it is almost like you are an addict. While you are in recovery you are cool, and trustworthy, but we should always treat you like you are in recovery, if we forget your problem and stop being careful, we make it easier for your to relapse."
Jacob walked up to her and put his arm around her and kissed the top of her head "Beautiful, and smart too see Bella! I know how to pick em don't I?"
I laughed "Like you had any choice......." Then changing the subject "Well, it is getting late, you all sleep, I don't so I am going to take off now, but I wanted to let you know Jake and Tatiana, I hope I get to come to your wedding? And I am not supposed to know yet, but Edward gave me a tropical Island..... So we are going there next, and I want to offer it to you guys vampire free for your honeymoon? Once I know the details I will get them to you. And thanks Sam for letting me come for a visit, and remember what I said, I don't think you would forget, but keep me honest alright?"
Sam walked up and shook my hand "You can count on it Bella."
I left and drove back to our house in forks. I walked in and there was Edward. "I wanted it to be a surprise, but Alice ruined it.... But I still get to enjoy seeing your face the first time you see it!"
He handed me the papers giving me an Island! Isle Bella! Like Isle Esme it was too small to show up on big maps but navigational charts would forever be printed with Isle Bella in that part of the world! I was so excited I jumped him right there in the living room! Everyone was there, except Carlisle. "Where is Carlisle?" I asked looking around. "The hospital found out he was in for a visit and they called him and asked if he would come in and do a surgery. One of the little Webber boys was in an accident his bicycle tire fell off and he skidded into a curb. He was wearing a helmet but he still broke his neck. Angela was there watching him and got him to the hospital right away she used a surfboard as a back board, and had a neck brace from her grandma that she put on him carefully. She is going to college this fall to become an EMT, so she has already begun studdying. And it may have saved her brothers life.
Carlisle is board certified for spinal cord surgeries so they called him since time is of the essence. He is in surgery now working on that poor boy.
We sat up all night waiting to hear the outcome. Carlisle came home around dawn. "How is he Carlisle?" I asked.
"He is a very lucky young man. The 6th vertebrae from the top fractured, but the part that broke off went out and not in. I pinned it back in place and his spinal cord is undamaged. There will be some swelling and numbness but he will make a full recovery. Of course I could not tell his family that with my vampire sight I saw his individual nerve endings and they were all fine, but I gave them as positive of a prognosis as I could. Your friend Angela is quite something. She saved that boy from being a quadriplegic or worse. She kept him still or that bone fragment could have severed his cord."
I was happy to hear that good news. I decided to go hunting. I ran out the back door to the woods. Edward had already gone with the rest of the family. I needed to go since we were going to my island today, and I knew it would be weeks after we got there before I thought about feeding again....
I was deep in the woods when I scented a hiker. I was curious who would be way out here, and when I got close I recognized her! I was Lauren from School! I stepped out on the path in front of her. "OH! Bella! You startled me! You always were such a freak!" I figured why not? So I ate her! Then Victoria Jumped out, so I killed her, then I called Charlie and told him all about me being a Vampire, since he didn't know, then,....... I ….... A/N: I couldn't help it. Forget this last paragraph, having a laugh at my own expense.......
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