here's just a few questions that were asked. sorry if its a little confusing, but im trying to get the story across w/out being too text-bookish.
Edward4eva-ur review kinda confused me. bella's not turning into a halfer. and im not sure if anyone's going to die yet. but i do love jacob, so if he is hurt, it'll pain me alot.
xOilovexedwardxcullenOx-im not stephenie meyer, but my name does happen to b stephanie. mayb it runs in the name...
Spottedfeather-omg, i luv reading ur reviews, how u quote a bunch of the lines and review every chapter. thanks so much
--for anyone else that reviewed every chapter, thanks so much!! just i just noticed s.f's cuz he/she did them all back to back --really recently and thats how they show them, by when they reviewed--
twilightfan78-plz dont faint. i dont want to b sued. lol but thanks for being so enthusiastic!!
JayEmEf-im not sure what u mean by the last line, but for the talking thing, i tried to make it a little better here. the last line 'they've fought off tons of vampires before' was supposed to keep up the suspense, and that was bella. i fought w/ myself for a really long time, cuz i luv that line cuz it ties so easily into the sentence after it, but i didnt know how to make it clear that Bella was tlking. so that's y i tried to make it clear using 'they' cuz shes still not that experianced.
hope thats all for now! if not, review a question and ill answer it on the next chapter just cuz it really is gettin a little confusing. hope i dont get too confusing! if i do,just tell me and ill fix it...so heres the new chapter for all those ppl who read this all and didnt just skip below the line!!
Once again, the man shook his head. I was really starting to get annoyed by that.
"What this time?" He stepped forward, reaching out a hand cautiously. Something inside of me told me to step forward, that he wasn't going to hurt me. And he didn't. Only stroked the side of my jaw bone, looking me directly in the eyes all the time.
And then something happened that I couldn't control--he withered on the ground, clutching at his head sharply. But I didn't see that. No, I was too busy watching his life flash in front of my eyes, as if on a T.V.; a young boy being held by his mom; a boy as a toddler being tugged away from the dirt he was trying to eat; a preteen being rejected by a preppy girl; a sixteen year old, driving his first car; graduation day, and before I knew it--the day he was attacked. I couldn't block it out. Aro was coming at him from the front, with Jane coming from the left and Alec on the right.
"No, no, anything but that, please no. Aaaarrrrggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" I winced, closing my eyes against the grisly scene. But that only made it even more clear. And before I knew it, I was on the ground.
"Bella? Bella! What the hell happened to her!" It was Edward's voice. His cold hands touched my back, helping me sit up. I rested against his knee, panting in unneeded breaths. Everyone else was gathered around us, growls rumbling from each of my family members. Even Carlisle and Esme were vicious. I felt like I was in the middle of an earthquake.
"I-I'm okay. Just a bit surprising. I didn't like that." I grasped his arm and let him lift me onto my feet, one arm slithering around my waist to help me get steady.
"He wants to know if you're alright." I patted Jacob on the back, ruffling his hair slightly. I could feel his backbone through his fur coat, rough and disfigured against his usually silky body.
"I'm fine. Just don't want to do that again." He grumbled quietly, rubbing his nose against my waiting hand. He pulled away quickly, shoving his face into his shoulder.
"Oh, right, I smell. Sorry. Too used to it." A smile crept up on his face, his teeth showing through his black lips.
I almost forgot where we were. That was, until Gregorio stood up from in front of me. He was less than two feet in front of me, sucking in air slowly. If he was human, I knew he would be sweating a river.
"You can do that. I thought it was just a ploy, a fib like everything else they told me. You can rebound powers. No one can touch you. Wow." He backed away from me, cautiously going behind the twelve other halfers. They shuffled in front of him, appearing as if they were being forced to. Each one of them had the same dazed look I was getting used to.
"Yes she can. Now can we please get this started?" Emmett was bouncing up and down on his toes, looking anxious. He really wanted to get this done and go home. Even I was starting to get annoyed with sitting here and talking when I could be home, shopping for the upcoming wedding or cuddling against Edward's chest like we had done all the past year. The past wonderful, glorious year.
Before I could even blink, Emmett and Jasper were running past the row of chocolate-milk colored humans and plowed into him. But they were thrown off of him easily, and neither of the 'helpers' had moved. Both Emmett and Jasper were withering on the ground in agony.
"You do not hurt my family." Edward's arm tightened against my waist, but I threw it off easily and rushed past the twelve shocked teenagers and into his chest. I had snapped.
Jasper bounced up first, helping Emmett to his feet before joining me. But I didn't need any help. He was easier than anyone else I had hurt. And I hadn't hurt anyone too badly since I was changed. I don't even think I had hurt anyone as a human.
He was ripped apart easily, blood pouring out of his limbs. I didn't think he would bleed. How could something that horrible have a heart?
"Bella! Bella!" I turned and was immediately wrapped up in Edward's arms. I didn't realize I was dry sobbing. Hurting a living thing obviously wasn't my forte. I didn't bother glancing up. I could hear the cries of those halfers who had the nerve to fight back. The brave ones. Or the ones that wanted to die. Either way, they were. Jacob's body was the only one slow enough for me to see without really looking up. The others were just blurs against Edward's chest.
"Shhhhh. It's okay. He deserved it." He kissed the top of my head, leaving his lips there as he soothed me some more. But did he deserve it? Did he deserve to be killed because of something that wasn't decided for him? Did any of the vampires that got killed for being just that--a vampire? No one other than me had chosen this path of life, yet I wasn't the only one that was being hunted. Wasn't that just what the Volturi had done?
"Edward, maybe we should go." Esme's kind voice rang out from behind me. I could feel him nod, and Alice's hand on my back. And just hearing my family around me--mine, not just Edward's, not just Alice's, but mine, too--suddenly made everything feel better.
So, anyone like? i luvd the ending of it. especially the final line. took a while to come up w/ something that flowed easily, but i think this one went pretty well. any questions, just ask and ill email u or do an entire question chapter if there are a bunch. but i dont check my email, so might b a while if u wanna email me. well, u know the deal...6 more reviews till im at 300. i might post a new chapter then dependin on how good they r, but if not, it'll b up soon. promise!!
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