Title: Cut the Ropes

Author: LazyWerewolf

DISCLAIMER: See chapter 2 for complete disclaimer. I do not own.

A/N: stop pointing out my falwdles!¡ lol this, my friends, Is why I need a beta. But I have no idea how the beta process works, and it would take a bit longer to update. Schools out today too, so chapter for you. Next update will be on Saturday. Weekends only, remember? I'll write to get some stuff done, but no updates. I hope this chapter answers some questions. Also, Bella sees her first Child of the Moon. Not bitten yet, though. See you at teh bahtom.

HAHAHA! SINGLE LINE BREAKS, YOU CAN'T FOOL ME!

Justified

It's funny how karma leaves you alone, and then when you finally let your guard down, she turns around and vomits on you. Life is a bitch. Probably just for me though.

I stood there, with my mouth gaping wide, staring at the overgrown six foot five bear that was Emmett McCarty Cullen. He kept his stance with my shirt on his armpit until he decided to speak.

"Bella...? Are you alright?"

Normally, I would have cracked up laughing at the strangeness of the situation. Here was the monster of the Cullen family wearing only brown pants that had been rolled up to about mid-calf, wiping his pits with a shirt that had a little boy with an army hat on it. And here I was, leaning against the doorframe, wearing a ripped up blue dress and holding a pair of keys to a Harley-Davidson that once belonged to my deceased boyfriend. And the naked bear was asking me if I was alright? Kodak moment, anyone?

Emmett dropped the shirt and held his hands up. He loosened up and took a few steps backwards.

"Alright, so... I'm gonna go now..." He turned and grabbed the frame of the window.

"No! Wait!" I ran full blast at him and hugged him. He hesitantly wrapped his arms around me as well. Emotional breakdown in five...four...three...two...

I sobbed uncontrollably into his freezing shoulder.

"Emmett, the people, the cars, b-bike, boyfriend, and the w-wolves! They're out to get me!" I turned into a mess of tears, sobs and a dress as he patted my head and held me up.

"Ssh... It's... Okay?" It came out more like a question. "Wait, what was that about wolves?"

He leaned back, looking me in the eyes before staring off into another direction. I heard Charlie enter through the front door and start walking down the hallway below. Emmett contemplated what to do.

"Um,uh... Here!" I let out a squeal as he mounted me on his shoulder before opening the window.

"Emmett, what the fuck are you doing!" He stepped out the frame of the window, me in tow.

"Um... I don't know!" He then jumped off the side of the house, leaving the window wide open, and we caught some air before he landed on his feet and started running.

I screamed as loud as I possibly could. There was no way I was gonna be kidnapped by a vampire again. Emmett seemed to falter in his running speed as he tried to figure out how to get me to stop.

"BELLA STOP SCREAMING! STOP SCREAMING! STOP! NO SCREAMING!" I sure as hell wasn't about to listen and I started kicking my feet in an attempt to make contact with his face. He was running so fast that the edges of my dress were whipping him in the face. Go dress.

"NO!" My dress silenced him again and I still kept screaming. "STOP! NO! BAD! STOP! JUST STOP! STOP! STOP! STOP DAMNIT!"

The forest came to a halt and he reached inside his pocket for a pair of keys, which he quickly opened the door of the abandoned Cullen mansion with. I felt us zoom up two flights of stairs and he gently sat me down on a huge bean bag.

"Um, um, um... HIDE! QUICK!" Emmett pitched a blanket over me and blurred downstairs again. I was about to protest, but I heard the door open and slam loudly shut.

What the fuck! I tore the blanket off of me before I heard the door open again. I could identify the noises clearly. Two sets of footsteps and a very loud male voice screaming in terror. And now, a second, female voice yelling.

"EMMETT MCCARTY CULLEN! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE ENOUGH TO BRING BELLA HERE!" I could hear the words perfectly clearly through two floors.

The resonating boom of Emmett's voice began trying to reason with the loud, angry female voice. Emmett's voice got louder, and you could clearly hear the frustration in his words, though the words themselves were indistinguishable. More angry yelling from the female voice. A loud thud. Emmett's voice got louder and much more angry.

"ME? IRRESPONSIBLE? LOOK AT YOU! YOU BROUGHT ONE OF THOSE WOLVES FROM THE RESERVATION HERE! WHAT THE FUCK ROSE?" Wolves? From the reservation? Does that mean that there's more than three? Holy shit!

You could hear the loud tearing of fabric and a huge roar that shook the house. I was utterly terrified. But then, you could hear a large boom and a yelp, then Emmett's voice again.

"SHUT UP! NO ONE ASKED FOR YOUR OPINION!"

Emmett and Rosalie continued to argue until the wolf roared again. I didn't know who, but someone silenced it before I saw the door to the room I was in open.

Emmett stepped through the doorway, with a smile like nothing had happened.

"Hi, how was your day today?" I could have answered, but I was being picked up again and carried to the bottom floor, where there was a smaller wolf compared to the ones I saw at the dance, but still huge. The wolf was a dark grey color with spots on his back. It was clear that it was a him, because Rosalie was repeatedly kicking it in the crotch. I would have laughed if Rosalie hadn't sent me a death glare after Emmett sat me down.

"And what do you think YOU'RE doing here?" I wasn't about to answer. Thankfully Emmett answered for me.

"Chill, Rose. Bella's here because I brought her," He sighed, and looked pretty defeated. "I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking. But," He sent me a look before turning back to Rosalie. "I think we owe her an explanation."

Rosalie sighed, and sat down on a recliner away from the wolf. Emmett put his arm around my shoulder and sat down on a couch away from the wolf as well. The female vampire sighed, and began to speak.

"Okay...Where to start..." She seemed to be mock contemplating, and I took a deep breath and prepared myself for the first coherent response of the day.

"You could start on why you're here."

Rosalie started. "Okay. First off, when we left, Edward was being Edward and demanding no body to talk about, think about, or look for you. Esme was heartbroken; you were really almost her eighth child. Carlisle, however, agreed with Edward, and demanded that we leave. Jasper and Esme took his side, along with Edward. We ended up being stuck in Canada, far from any human contact. But then, Alice snapped.

"Alice had a vision overload. She saw you dying forty different ways, and she broke down and left the coven. She ran for six days straight, trying to come see you, but Edward kept stopping her, claiming that you wouldn't appreciate us coming back. Anyway, she settled on staying in Paraguay for a while, and we don't know where she is now. But before she left, she told us that the most recent vision that she had of you was that a vampire named Laurent—"

"—The same guy who was with James and Victoria," Emmett interrupted.

"Killed you at a boardwalk while you were out with her friends," Rosalie finished.

Oh my god. I had scraped by death, and made it out. I am some kind of lucky. Or stupid. Either one.

"Well, she didn't specify that you died, she just said that you disappeared from her visions. She was really heartbroken; you were her favorite almost sister," Rosalie sighed.

Emmett decided to finish off. "Anyway, we decided we were sick of living in Canada. Carlisle said that we couldn't do anything against Edward's will, so we decided to leave the coven. We wanted to take matters into our own hands. That was more than nine months ago. Alice hasn't contacted us in over half a year," He said. I can't believe it. Even after I left, I managed to split the coven.

Emmett continued. "We tried so many different ways to get your attention. We tried rearranging your clothes, leaving behind items with our scent. Rosalie emailed you an encrypted ad. If you would have decrypted it, you would have seen the hidden letters," He explained. That would explain the tampons. "We were about to try getting our scent on your worn clothing, but, you ruined the plan," He chuckled.

"So, the reason we're here is to save you from dying a horrible death. I packed your bags, and guess what? We're going to London," Rosalie spoke up.

Wait, what? "Wait, what?"

"London, you heard me," She repeated. No. NO, NO! I had just gotten over their leaving, my boyfriend explodes into a giant monster, I get kidnapped by a closet raping vampire, and now the two Cullens that paid least attention to me were expecting me to run off to go to a foreign country. FUCK NO.

"No," I growled. Fuck no.

"Excuse me? You don't have much of a choice. By leaving, Edward condemned you to death. The biggest coven of vampires on the face of the planet is after you, plus two extremely dangerous nomads. We have a plan, and you're gonna follow it," Rosalie approached me. Wait, hold it. What? Again?

"Explain," I demanded. I am a person, not an animal. They can't just take me away to a different country and expect nothing to happen.

Emmett grabbed my hand and squeezed it gently. "Our plan was to have you do something similar to what you did when James was tracking you. You would claim to be going back home, sick of Forks, and we would make a fake death scene. Then we would fly to Europe and I would turn you, that is, assuming you would cooperate," He sent a look to Rosalie, who stood abruptly.

"What do you mean, ASSUMING? SHE HAS TO COOPERATE, OR ALL OF US DIE! INCLUDING THEM!" She sent a death glare to the...Wait... In the giant wolf's place was a very real, very naked Embry Call. The same boy who assaulted Jake the first day Sam and his pack gave us trouble.

I swallowed. "W...What are they?"

"THEY'RE FUCKING WEREWOLVES!" Rosalie grabbed the boy and threw him across the room. With a yelp, Embry crashed against the stone fireplace. He quickly recuperated, though, and sent Rosalie the fiercest death glare I had ever seen.

"You'll pay for that, bitch!" He started rumbling again; thrashing in his place, but Emmett grabbed him by the shoulders and locked him in place.

"Stop. Calm down, we need to talk, please," Emmett began pleading with the naked boy. "We need you to block Alic—" I guess being naked put them at the same level, even though Emmett was a pair of pants up rank.

"Calm down? CALM DOWN? YOU'RE THE ONES WHO KIDNAP ME AND EXPECT ME TO LISTEN TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? YOU'RE FUCKED UP!" Embry wasn't about to play diplomat with the vampires.

"Embry... What are you?" I scraped by a few words.

He looked at me with confused eyes. "Bella? You're with these bloodsuckers?" I shook my head.

"I got kidnapped too," I joked.

Emmett blurred up the stairs and got a pair of pants and a long, thick rope.

"I'm sorry, but this is gonna have to work, whether you like it or not," Emmett said with a sad tone.

I didn't see Rosalie come up behind me and snap a pressure point in my neck. I blacked out right as Emmett did the same to Embry.

~0o0~

It was dark. Very dark. And hot. Very hot. In fact, it was so hot and dark, had I not known better, I would have said I was locked in an oven. I would have guessed that I was tied to a stovetop too.

I shifted, rubbing my skin against my bonds. I still felt pretty drowsy, and I had no clue where I was. The look of the room lightened a bit when the clouds moved out of the moons way. I looked around to see a pair of small windows and moving forest behind them. I assumed that we were in a moving vehicle.

The uncomfortable heat pressed against my back shifted.

"Augh..." Embry groaned.

"Where are we?" I asked.

"How the fuck should I know?" He shifted against the ropes that tied us together. We both simultaneously leaned our heads back, leaning on each other's shoulders.

"Okay, I have a plan." He sounded confident.

"Shoot."

"I go wolf and we get out of here. Then we go back to Forks, I warn Sam and we all live happily ever after," Embry said.

That's a terrible plan. "Sounds good. Ready? Go," I said.

Embry's uncomfortable heat radiation grew ten-fold, and soon, I was awkwardly pressed to the roof of the car while a giant grey wolf was trying to kick his way out of the car. The wolf kicked the back door harder and harder, until he had managed to create a dent. He reared up, and sent one last kick toward the door.

Success, the door flew off the jamb and landed on the speeding road behind us. Embry barked, and I turned around and grabbed his fur. He ran straight out the back entrance, and soon we were flying backwards on the road. I looked back and saw the truck do a one-eighty and turn backwards toward us. Embry sped forward.

The speed we were going at was incredible. I had never ridden a horse bareback, let alone a werewolf, but there I was, holding on for dear life to the fur of a sixteen year old wolf as we were being chased by two vampires in an eighteen-wheeler. Embry sped forward, trying as hard as he could to lose the two vampires that were following along. He took a sharp turn into the forest, with me almost falling off.

I saw the eighteen-wheeler stop, and saw Rosalie and Emmett get out of the cabin. Emmett was wearing a somber expression, but Rosalie was wearing the most terrifying expression I had ever seen. Embry's death glare couldn't even compare. Speaking of which, said glare was beginning to run after us.

"EMBRY GO FASTER!" I screamed, right as the vampires began to catch up. Embry's legs worked faster as we zoomed past the forest, sending us little by little away from the two vampires. We were going faster than vampire speed. Embry had just managed to escape their reach when we came upon a large clearing. The moon shone against the clouds as Embry-wolf and I made our way almost to the end of the clearing, when a flash of red blurred past my vision.

Embry suddenly did an involuntary flip as he tripped on some invisible branch and landed on his side while skidding down grass. I fell off of him, skidding a good meter or so away from him before coming face to face with someone's feet.

"Isabella, you should not have tried to run away from me, that day on the pier," Laurent said as he picked me up by the hair and examined me.

"No, you shouldn't have. We missed you very much Isabella. I see you got a new pet," Victoria kicked Embry in the ribs, causing him to fly backwards near me. We were surrounded by the two dangerous nomads Rosalie had mentioned earlier.

"I honestly couldn't help it. We smelt two different scents, one terrible reek, and... you, Isabella," Laurent looked me in the eyes and grabbed my chin, tilting my head side to side.

"It was such a surprise... We never expected to see you here in California, but here you are," Victoria said, stepping toward me and Laurent. California...We had been kidnapped two states away.

"Your scent is indescribable, Bella," Laurent pressed his nose into my hair. If I could scream, I would, but fear had the paralyzing effect on me. Just then, a sonic boom caused Victoria to fly over us and land on her feet behind us. Emmett and Rosalie had found us.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF HER YOU BASTARD!" Emmett's booming voice reached my ears after he let a fist fly into Laurent's face. Laurent's hands let me go, and I landed upon a soft mass of fur.

"Run, stupid human!" Rosalie screamed as she tried to bring Victoria down.

I obeyed. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me toward a split in the forest, where a small path was carved out by who knows what. My dress no longer tore up, mainly because I wasn't wearing it. I was actually wearing a fairly comfortable shirt and a pair of rolled up sweat pants and sneakers. Thank god for workout clothes.

I heard loud footsteps coming toward me, and I looked back to see Embry, fully recovered from his hit, running toward me in his normal body.

"Care for a ride?" He asked, right before exploding into his wolf form.

"Thanks," I responded as I grabbed his fur and mounted on.

You could still here sonic booms erupting from the clearing we left far behind. We both sped through the forest, going as fast as Embry's tired form could take us. Pretty soon, though, Embry tired out. He slowed down to a walk, and I examined my surroundings. Embry had taken us very far. We were on top of a mountain, very near the summit, overlooking a vast pine forest.

Embry's breathing grew heavy and labored, and he collapsed down, taking a seat in the puddle of water his heat had created. He rested, and turned to his normal self before he passed out.

The snow fell continuously for hours afterwards. I had curled up against Embry's form for heat, and was worried to hear that no sonic booms had reached my ears. I wondered what had happened to Rosalie and Emmett. Even if they had kidnapped us, they were still trying to help. All the snow that fell on top of either me or Embry melted immediately, and soon the water from said snow was making a puddle large enough to drink out of. I bent over the lake drank. I hadn't eaten in a day.

The forest's silence was broken by a loud howl. I turned around, closing my eyes and trying to express my opinion.

"Embry, you could have just...Embry?" Embry hadn't moved an inch from where he passed out. But a normal sized wolf couldn't have made a howl that big.

I stood up and looked around. Everything seemed in order. Nothing was particularly off, except for the large full moon that loomed over the entire forest. If you looked hard enough, you could see a plume of purple smoke in the distance. Someone had lost the battle, but the smoke gave no indication as to whom.

Once again, a loud howl broke the silence of the surrounding forest. I turned around to see that Embry had still not moved from his place. What could it be?

My natural curiosity led me to walk slowly around the edge of the mountain. I could probably see better if I reached the summit. The path, however, thinned to the point of being nothing but a ledge for your feet. I didn't want to risk it, but I did. I was already close to dying, why put it off?

I took a hold of a few rocks and scooted my feet toward the ledge. It didn't protest at my weight, even when I put all of my force into it. Seems safe enough, I thought. I kept moving along the ledge to reach the summit. I think maybe fifteen more minutes passed before my hands caught hold at another ledge, which seemed to be the tip of the mountain. I climbed up the steep rock face, to find that the summit had actually been chipped off.

I sat myself down on the flat rock face. The mountain was huge! I mean, sure, Embry had run most of the way, but still, I had climbed my fair share as well. I looked around at the full moon. I had never seen the moon this large. It took up a large amount of the sky, and looked invariably huge tonight. The purple plume of smoke seemed to dissipate slowly before it was completely gone.

One of the two pairs was going to come looking for me. And I sincerely hoped it wasn't Laurent and friend.

Yet another howl broke the silence of the night. What the hell? What type of wolf howls that much? I turned in the direction of the howl. It turns out, that the type of wolf that howled that much really didn't look like a wolf at all. I could see it on the other mountain far from the summit where I sat.

It was extremely large. It was also extremely loud. It tilted its head back and howled once again, picking up its right leg while doing so. The large wolf thing's arms were longer than its back legs. And yes, arms. It very clearly had hands. What the fuck is that thing? Suddenly it turned and faced me. I'm sure I was very visible, seeing as how I was the only moving thing for miles, and on top of that I was shaped like a human. The wolf being, however, took interest in my presence. It scurried off the rock face and jumped on a pine tree, which shook under its weight. The wolf jumped on top of another tree, which swayed and nearly hit the next. It repeated its movements until it was at the mountain I was on. It had taken an interest to me, clearly.

The wolf suddenly jumped and sunk his claws into the rock face. My breath hitched. It was steadily climbing in my direction. Only one thing occurred to me at that moment. Embry was still on a ledge passed out. In other words, help was still on a ledge passed out.

"Embry!" The werewolf didn't hear me. However, wolf number two did. Its head turned toward me and it menacingly growled.

"Embry!" I tried again. The yell echoed around the rock face. Embry didn't stir.

"EMBRY!" Now the wolf thing was roaring and climbing as fast as it could toward me. However, something hard grabbed me from behind and carried me off.

I started screaming, but the mystery person turned around and glared at me. I was staring Rosalie in the eyes.

"Shut up! Do you want it to hear us?" She whisper yelled.

I shook my head, and she took me in her arms and carried me down the rock face. I could vaguely see Emmett's large body carrying a collapsed Embry off the mountain ledge. The wolf thing was on the summit, in the exact place where I was once sitting, had Rosalie not saved me. It sniffed around, and then picked its snout up and released yet another howl.

Rosalie had carried me a safe couple of mountains away from the mutant wolf when Emmett caught up and set Embry down. We were in the middle of a huge plateau on a mountain, with Embry laying on the floor. I sat down to try and shake him awake.

"Kid's out cold."

"Em, was that what I thought it was?" Rosalie actually held some fear in her voice.

"I'm afraid it was." Emmett looked troubled.

A huge groan escaped from the tan boy's lips. He slowly got up and looked around.

"Augh...What happened?"

"You passed out," I said.

"Where are we?" Embry was extremely flustered.

Rosalie decided to step in. "It doesn't matter where you are. What matters is that Bella now has a werewolf after her." My head spun.

Embry protested. "I'm not that bad!"

"Not you, dumbass," She explained. "You're not an actual werewolf. You just shapeshift into a wolf. There's a huge difference."

"Have you seen me? I can turn into a fucking wolf. I would call that werewolf," He said.

"No, you're a shapeshifter. Real werewolves aren't born with it, they get bitten," Emmett elaborated.

"It doesn't matter!" I yelled. "What happened to Victoria and Laurent?"

Rosalie bent down to examine Embry. "We were able to get Victoria, but Laurent escaped while we were burning her."

"So he's still out there, right?"

"I'm afraid so."

"So...About the werewolf... You said it was after me?" I trailed off.

"Yeah. It caught your scent and now it'll be looking for you. You can't run away from those things. If we had reason to go to London, now we have to leave the country. The only thing that stops that kind of monster is water. Large bodies of water. And that's only because they can't swim," Emmett explained.

"I have a question," Embry asked from where he was laying.

"Shoot, wolf boy."

"Why London?" Rosalie was tying Embry's ribcage up in gauze, due to the broken ribs.

"Because London is in Europe. Europe is the one place Carlisle and Edward don't want to go," Emmett said.

I was very curious. "What? Why?"

Rosalie sighed, and kept talking while wrapping Embry up. "They don't want to go to the Volturi. The Volturi have an issue with Edward for falling in love with a human. And also..." She trailed off and looked at me, as though expecting a reaction. "We think that's where Alice is going next."

Now that's a decent reason. "Alice? Why?"

Emmett sighed. "We don't know. She's been going everywhere. One month we might get a call from her from China, the next day maybe she flew to Australia. For whatever reason, she hasn't hit London yet, so, we just guessed that maybe..." He seemed hurt. Losing his sister did a number on him.

"Maybe she'd want to go to the one place the Cullens never touched..." Even Rosalie seemed down.

"Anyway, we have to go. We're near a town with a hotel. We'll drop you two off, you can get a room while we go hunt." Emmett smiled, quickly regaining his happy composure.

"Have you forgotten one small detail? I HAVE NO PANTS," Embry yelled.

"We'll worry about that when we get there," Rosalie said. She quickly picked Embry up and started running. Emmett offered me his hand.

"M'Lady," I remember being in a situation similar to this.

"Just...Just go," I said. His face dropped a bit as he picked me up bridal style.

I curled into his granite chest. Everything that happened, it all happened within forty-eight hours. My life had changed, starting with Jacob's wolf-splosion. My life was slowly picking up a year after all of the Cullens left, and then all this happens. Karma really was a bitch. I guess she's justified, though.

Not five minutes later, the orange hue of streetlights reached my eyes. I saw Rosalie blur into a house, and quickly dress Embry. She then sped over, Embry in tow, to us.

"Here's some money. Go get a room," She shoved Embry forward. Emmett set me down and gave me a parting hug before waving with a smile and blurring off with Rosalie.

I examined my surroundings. Pub, tavern, bar, inn... Inn! I held Embry's hand and walked through the streets. He stood near me, trying to ward the eyes of men away from me. One guy even walked near me with a pedo-smile, but Embry held me closer before yelling, "Fuck off," to said man.

We got to the inn. Getting a key was pretty easy, because the front desk had no visitors. The man, oddly enough, was decent, and didn't ask too many questions. Embry and I made our way to the room that we got. 101, 102, 103, 104, 107... Wait, what?

"Where's one-oh-six?" I asked.

"Just use the door to one-oh-seven." I did, but the door wouldn't budge. Then, I saw a storage closet labeled with 106.

"Embry, could you go down and tell him that this key is to a storage closet?" I handed him the pair of keys and he nodded. Embry ran down the hallway and down the stairs, not bothered at all by his broken ribs.

I was alone. The moon was still shining up in the sky, bigger than I had ever seen it before. I leaned against the railing and stared off. Embry was changing keys, and Rosalie and Emmett were out hunting. That left me alone. But a pair of cold hands grabbed my shoulders and leaned me back.

"Beautiful night, isn't it, Isabella?"

I turned around to see Laurent grabbing my shoulders.

"Oh, Isabella...We have so much to discuss..."

Nother A/N: WARNING! BIGGEST SPOILER EVARRRR!Bella gets turned were next chapter. I know. Cliffies are my thing. Saturday or Friday scratch that Wednesday will be when I post the next chapter. Being snowed in for five days sucks. And best part is that my water pipes broke, so I haven't taken a shower in 2 days XS eeeeeeeewww ikr. It seems to me that even though I say not to post reviews that say "Awesome update soon" People keep doing it. Please. Don't do that. I don't care if you're gonna troll, or post awesome reviews like Ash XD but don't put those crap reviews on here. Go spam someone else.

Song for today is Politik by Coldplay. Fic for today is Eternity by 51readaholic15. Have fun you guys. I live in the South (Where being gay is like asking for hell) and none of us have snow tires, chains or even snow plows or anything, so pretty much everything is closed until the weather gets better. Is it snowing where you guys live? Leave me a comment :D I will accept crap reviews if you guys post if it's snowing where you live, and why or why not it bothers you. I think I'm gonna make this a thing. I dunno yet.

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