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A/N: So I've gotten quite a few PM's from people telling me that I shouldn't allow one person to keep me from writing. I want everybody to know now that I've come too far in this story to stop now. I just needed to vent one good time and now I'm ready to continue.
Victoria's P.O.V.
I feel my jaw drop as I watch Bella make her rather dramatic exit that completely catching me off guard. This isn't the same Bella I remember from almost a year ago. She seems to have changed quite a bit at first glance.
"Since when does Bella make a dramatic exit like that?" I ask as I watch Bella walk away with I guess her mate following behind her. I'm honestly so confused right now I hardly know up from down.
"It's been awhile since you've last seen her Victoria many things about Bella have changed." Emmett says with a chuckle as he watches Bella leave.
"Victoria, before we talk I need to know that you aren't going to try and kill Bella. In the time that I've spent with her I've come to think of her as a little sister, and I can't allow any harm to come to her." Laurent says as I hear a round of growls from everybody. I look to Kate and see her giving me a pleading look that I can't resist.
"I promise no harm will come to Bella. That's not why I'm here." I say more to Kate than to Laurent. I don't know what I'm going to do now that I've finally found my mate. She'd probably fight for Bella which I would completely understand.
"I still don't think this is a good idea Laurent. What if she tries something?" His mate says as she keeps a close eye on me.
I hear Kate start to growl at her from beside me. I smile as I bring her hand up and kiss the back of it. "Please don't growl at her. She has every right not to trust me." Kate gives me a sad look as she stops growling.
"I don't know any of you besides what Victoria has told me, but I think you should at least hear her out. It took a lot to actually get her to come here, and I would hate for this to be a waste." Matthew says coming to my defense quickly.
"If Bella thinks I should hear her out then I think I should love. Please don't worry I'll be fine." Laurent says as he wraps his arms around his mate's waist and kisses the side of her head calming her down.
"I don't see how Bella could think this was a good idea, but I've learned not to question her judgment. So you should hurry up and get this talk over with." Rosalie says with a frown as she too glares at me causing Kate to start growling again.
"Victoria, maybe we should bring Kate and Irina along so they don't attack anybody." Laurent suggests and as I watch Kate continue to growl at Rosalie I can't help but agree. Kate seems to be in overprotective mode so she's willing and ready to attack anybody and everybody.
"That's probably a good idea. Besides I don't really want to be away from Kate right now." I say with a shy smile as she finally stops growling as she drops my hand and wraps her arm around my waist. She kisses my cheek gently before resting her head on my shoulder.
"I don't want to be away from you either." Kate whispers in my ear softly. I'm so happy I finally found my mate I just wish it was under better circumstances. I seemed to have gotten myself into quite a mess.
I kiss her forehead gently before I turn to address Matt. "Hey try and stay in one piece until I get back. I know how much you enjoy causing trouble and I don't want to come back to them having a bonfire." I say with a serious frown.
"I completely resent that statement! I never cause problems nor do I actively seek the it trouble. They just seem to always follow me around!" He says with a hand over his heart like I actually offended him.
"We both know that you're full of shit Matthew. Please try to be less you while I'm gone." I say as I gently remove Kate's arm from around my waist and lace our fingers together again. "Are you ready to go?" I ask Laurent and Irina. They both nod their heads silently. On that note Kate and I take off into the woods with Laurent and Irina following close behind us.
We continue running until before long we're standing in a clearing just staring at each other. I honestly never thought I would get this far so I'm not entirely sure what to say right now.
"We're out here and you're just going to stand there like a mute?" Irina says with a slight growl that causes Kate to move in front of me. She crouches down and starts growling at Irina who looks at her in shock.
"Kate, can you please stop growling at her? She's right I dragging all of you out here so I should at least say something. It's just that I never thought I would actually get this far and I'm not really sure what to say." I say softly as Kate looks back at me with sad eyes. Slowly she stands up and moves to stand beside me again.
"Well since you built a fucking newborn army to kill my oldest sister's mate I think you better figure it out!" Irina growls at me again. I quickly wrap my arm around Kate's waist before she has the chance to potentially attack Irina.
"I never meant for everything to get this out of hand. I just….I just got so tired of being lonely and it just….I'm sorry…." I whisper softly as I run my fingers through my hair in frustration.
"What do you mean you got lonely? Victoria what happened after I left?" Laurent asks in a calmer voice than his mate. I just still don't know what to say here.
"You left! That's what happened Laurent! You left me alone just like everybody else in my life did….I didn't know how to handle being alone again…." I cross my arms over my chest as I feel my eyes starting to water up.
"I couldn't just stand by and help you and James hunted down Bella!" Laurent yells in frustration which causes me to sign again. He doesn't even know the whole story.
"James wouldn't have even hunted Bella if Edward hadn't provoked him! While James death is partly his own fault it's also Edward's!" I growl coming to James' defense. I know at the end of the day James was still wrong, but I still think it's partly Edward's fault.
"Wait what do you mean Edward provoked James? What did he do exactly?" Laurent asks in confusion as I watch all the frustration leave his features.
"You remember when we saw Bella in the baseball field. You heard when Edward said that James was planning to kill Bella. He was lying. James wasn't going to do anything to Bella it was Alice that interested him. He remembered her from back when she was a human." I thought about trying to come up with a lie, but I decide to stick to the truth.
"If that's true then why did he go through so much trouble to track Bella down?!" Irina asks clearly in frustration clearly not understanding any of this. I watch as she take a few steps closer to me causing Kate to growl softly.
"Do any of you know who Edward choose to go with Bella to Phoenix?" I ask hoping that they'll understand so I don't have to explain every single thing.
"Didn't he choose Jasper and Alice….Wait was that his plan all along?" Irina's voice trailed off as everything started to click in her mind.
"Wait are you seriously saying that Edward put Bella in danger on purpose?" Kate asks from beside me with an adorable confused pout on her face. God I wish I could just kiss her right now, but sadly I have more important things to deal with.
"I don't know exactly what he was planning, but I know Bella being in danger and actually getting hurt was all Edward's fault. He somehow tracked down James before he left Forks and told him where to go and how to get Bella to himself. I don't know how or why, but that what James told me just in case he died." I sigh deeply as I still feel an intense sadness as I think about James. He was my only friend for centuries. It's weird having to live without him sometimes.
"How do you know that James wasn't just lying to you Victoria? He was never known for heim the most honest guy." Laurent asks me with uncertainty. I can see that he's strongly considering what I said as it being the truth.
"No disrespect to James, but Laurent you know as well as I that he never would have figured out how to use her mom against her in such as short amount of time. He was good but I don't think even he was that good." I hear a round of growls from everybody.
"Just when I didn't think it was possible to hate Edward anymore he finds a way to make my hatred grow." Irina growls fiercely as I watch her eye blacken dangerously.
"So because of that I confused my hatred for Edward as hatred for Bella. I now realize that I just really want to kill Edward." I growl softly.
"I'm sorry to tell you this love, but you're going to have to get in that very long line." Kate says softly as she gently kisses my shoulder. Dear god I knew finally finding my mate would be amazing, but this is better than I thought.
"Who would be at the top of this seemingly long list?" I ask in genuine curiosity. I honestly thought it would be the strawberry blonde that I saw follow Bella into the house before we took off.
"Bella," they all say in unison with knowing and I think proud smiles on their face. I honestly never thought Bella had it in her to hate anybody.
"Wait! You mean sweet Bella? The girl who doesn't look like she could even kill a fly without being racked with guilt wants to kill Edward?" I would have an easier time believing literally anything other than that.
"Oh a lot has changed about Bella since you last saw her. She's become quite the badass." Laurent says with a proud smile as he sports a far away look in his eyes.
"And just when I thought Bella couldn't possibly become any more interesting she manages to amaze me yet again." I whisper softly more to myself than to the others really.
"Victoria…." Laurent sighs as he takes on a more serious tone of voice. "I never would have left you alone if I had known. Why did you never try to contact me before now?" I watch as Laurent drops his arm from around his mates waist and moves closer to me.
"I didn't know how. James was the first person in my life who actually wanted to be around me. He was like the brother I never had and then he was taken from me….I never looked for you because I felt you were better off without me…." I shrug as I remember all the terrible things people used to say to me when I was growing up.
"I'm so sorry Victoria. If I had known I never would have left you or I would have asked you to come with me!" I smile faintly as Laurent again tries to be the good guy in this strange situation.
"You and I both know that I wouldn't have left James. He was the first person to care about me and I was blindly loyal to him even though I never agreed with his twisted games. He made me feel less lonely and I was willing to do anything to keep that feeling away." Kate wraps her other arm around me and pulls me tight against her chest.
"I wish things could have been different Victoria. I never meant to make you feel lonely all over again. I just….I wish you would have said something before all of this happened." I shrug sadly as I feel Kate gently kiss my shoulder again.
"I didn't know how. I was afraid it would make me seem weak, and that's almost as bad as being lonely." I watch as Laurent nods silently as he understands my reasoning.
"Victoria, as long as I'm around you'll never be lonely again." Kate whispers into my ear softly as I rest my head against her shoulder.
"I still don't trust you Victoria, but since you are my sister's mate I think you should stay with us for the time being. We still have a lot of questions that need to be answer. Also we need to figure out what to do with that army you built to kill Bella. Plus you need to get Bella's approval before you can stay for sure." I nod silently as I decide to clarify something.
"Ummm actually I never built the army to kill Bella per say. I was angry and I was lonely as having all of them around made me feel better. Then I heard the Cullen's came back to Forks and I just kind of lost my way. Again I'm sorry," I mumble as I run my fingers through my hair trying to clear skies me of my jumbled thoughts.
"Let's not think about all of that right now. What's important is the fact that you're here now and you aren't trying to kill Bella. The rest we can figure out." Laurent says softly with a reassuring smile.
"But wait wasn't the strawberry blonde with Bella the coven leader? Don't I need her approval as well?" I ask as the rest of them share knowing smiles.
"Let's be honest here Bella is the unofficial coven leader because she has Tanya completely wrapped around her finger. Plus you should be more worried about Bella because anything Tanya could possibly do to you would be considered child's play compared to Bella." Kate says with a somewhat proud smile. I'm not entirely sure how I should feel about this.
"Let's be honest with ourselves here Kate. Tanya isn't the only one who Bella has wrapped around her finger. Somehow she got all of us to fall for her and now we're stuck." Irina says with a surprisingly happy smile.
"Umm now I'm not really sure if I want to stay with all of you. From what you all have just shared I'm feeling slightly terrified of Bella, and she also possess the art of making vampires fall for her. That is just another reason to be afraid of her." I mumble as I pull my arms over my chest tighter.
"Bella is a very understanding person. If you tell her what you told us then I know without a doubt she will welcome you with open arms." Laurent says with a reassuring smile that does little to calm my nerves.
"And if that doesn't work then I'll just play the whole you're my mate card." Kate says with a happy smile that actually makes me smile even though I'm a nervous wreck on the inside.
"Thank you," I whisper softly as she as rest her head against mine gently. "I'm still worried that Bella is going to hate me." I sigh as I look up into the sky.
"Well there's a small chance that she might, but I think she'll forgive you. Bella seems to be in a very lonely place right now so maybe you can use that as a point of origin and hopefully take it from there." Irina says softly. I'm honestly surprised that she being helpful.
"Thank you. I will try to keep that in mind." I mumble as my thoughts drift off to how badly my conversation with Bella could go. "Maybe we should head back now. I don't want the other to think I did something bad to all of you." I sigh as I try to shake off some of my thoughts.
"Maybe you did something to these two, but you wouldn't do anything to me. Besides you're the youngest one here so good luck with that." Kate says with a cheeky smile as she as moves back and laces our fingers together again.
"You're not all that much older than me." I mumble as I slowly start walking back towards the house. I just want to get this conversation with Bella over with before my nerves get the best of me. We all take off running back towards the house with the others laughing at my expense.
A/N 2: So I've almost eaten myself into a food coma, and I thought I would finish this chapter while it was one my mind. By the way: HAPPY THANKSGIVING! BEST HOLIDAY EVER! Anyway y'all know the usual. Let me know what you think.