SCHOOL IS OUT! However, sadly, I still will not have a bunch of free time. I have volleyball on Monday's, Wednesday's, and Thursday's so… I might be able to update often if I have ideas of course! Onward gangstas!
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"Now about that message." Charlie continued, picking his way over the carcasses that were strewn about the room like toys in a nursery. The teeth crunched under his teeth, leaving a fine powder that was absorbed into the blood in the floor and stuck to the sides of his boots. My wings became restless and fluttered slightly: they sensed danger and were trying to carry me away from here.
Edward wrapped my narrow shoulders in his arm as he stared menacingly at my sorry excuse for a father who was spreading his arms as if he wanted me to run into his arms so we could embrace. I roared with such anger and hate at him that the walls shook and a tremble of fear passed over Charlie and he took a step back. I felt Edward's approval but I did not dare tear my eyes away from the despicable figure in front of us who was slowly advancing.
"And exactly what is this "message"?" I demanded, calling up all of my powers so they would be ready to lash out at any second if I gave the command. The air around us felt charged with energy as my phenomenal powers of the universe roiled and rumbled just under the layer of my diamond hard skin. Charlie froze in mid-step and batted the air around his head as if there was a buzzing bee flying around his head.
"You feel that father?" I asked mockingly, "That is about four hundred billion volts of electricity that are about to fry your ass. You know how much that is equivalent to? Four hundred lightning bolts. That is more than enough to make you explode but right now it is in the palm of my hand, awaiting my order to destroy you, and if you run it will find you. Now… the message." he quivered as I let a tiny amount of the bolt go and it playfully nipped him on the rear, singing his clothes. Had he been human he would have gotten a third degree burn.
"It is from Aro, he says it is time for you to go to him." Charlie still advanced, stepping warily; his teeth had gone back to their normal strong white. "He has been patient since the day you were born, agreeing to wait until the day you turned 15 until you 'belonged to him' as he says. It is amazing he has not gotten you yet but it is only a matter of time before he loses his temper and sends the entire guard over here to kidnap you. I've only ever tried to protect and help you but you pushed me away all the time!" Charlie cried.
"Well, I like what you've done with your hair? Are-are those piercings?" the sudden subject change startled me and I unconsciously reached up to touch the teased white blond mass. "Bella, I do love you, now why can't we just go back to your house and talk this over. I will explain everything that I can. I know you are living on your own, which I have absolutely no part in. I swear, I would never try to hurt you that way, Jacquelyn was mentally insane." he spoke with such sincerity that I nearly fell for it immediately.
"What about that day in the beginning of the year when you and James attacked Edward and I at my house and nearly killed my baby bear?" my angry voice softened when I mentioned my beloved bear cub. "How do you explain those heinous acts? I almost killed you? And what the fuck are you talking about 'are those piercings?' You saw them-- when-- you… and J-" my voice trailed off as all the pieces fell together in my mind.
"You weren't with James that day." it was not a question, but a fact. Something was extremely wrong. "You have never seen my bear cub have you?" I whispered, staring unblinking at him. That monster that I had just seen mere minutes ago may have simply been a window of the animal some vampires become as they feed. The human children were still slaughtered but it was not done by my father himself in his sane state of mind, but by a grotesque creature that probably came from his extended period of not feeding and morphed him into a nearly insatiable monster.
"No I was not, I haven't seen that James ever since you were changed, he ran off and I haven't heard of him since. He was always asking for your hand in marriage and I nearly had him sentenced to death because of his persistence. And a bear cub? You know how I felt about you keeping pets; you always broke out in hives whenever that dog was near you. I had to send it away before it got worse!" that shocked me; I had distinct memories of him cruelly slashing the throat of my beloved puppy.
"Sent him away? You slit his throat!" I shouted indignantly.
"What? No, I did not! That was a nightmare you had after he was gone! You woke up half the castle with your screams and it took nearly an hour for your nurse to calm you down enough for you to explain! I was only able to overhear you speaking to her because you would not let me in the room! We used to be extremely close and then after you turned ten you disliked me for reasons I did not understand! You would not even willingly be in the same room as me! " he looked depressed as his memories played in his head.
"Then why do I have so many memories of you beating me and constantly trying to put me down? They feel so real! Also, if you loved me so much why wouldn't you let me love Edward?" I had collapsed onto the blood-crusted floor, staining my snow-white legs and shorts red. Edward knelt down by my back with me, his arms still around my shoulders.
"He was British! He was one of our sworn enemies Bella! Do you honestly think I had something against him personally? If he had been French, you would have been wed to him the moment I had heard of him! Bella I really do not know where you get that I was such a horrible person. If you look into my mind and search through everything in my head you will find that I have never had a single thought of hatred towards you." my unneeded breath quickened as everything I thought I knew about my father was a lie.
"Well what was up with that little scene just a few minutes ago where you slaughtered all of the human children here? You seemed pretty hostile once we caught sight of each other?" I was trying to stall; I wasn't about to take the fact that my father loved me while I had spent my entire existence thinking he was a monster and that I would kill him the first chance I got.
"I hadn't fed in over three weeks and part of my power well, more of a curse, changes me into that thing whenever I don't feed." so I was right, it was uncontrollable, "It causes me to have a taste for not only gallons of human blood but also flesh! And, be honest with me, when you catch wind of another vampire while hunting do you greet them with hugs and kisses?" I shook my head, dumbfounded and my mouth agape.
"I think I'll search your mind now." I whispered. Charlie nodded his head gravely and knelt on the ground as I slowly rose from the floor, keeping my eyes trained onto my father's still stone figure, unfurling my back vertebrae by vertebrae. I slunk over with Edward following me closely behind, mirroring my every move with a protective grace of his own.
My left hand ghosted around Charlie's forehead as I opened his mind to my own, digging deep into the lobe that held every sight, smell, sound, and thought that he had ever experienced. I saw flashes of my birth, nurses soothing my deathly pale mother, then my crying red infant self, and finally my father sobbing over my mother's motionless corpse with me wailing in the background, being held by a somber looking nurse.
The scene was followed by my father sobbing and groveling at the feet of a haughty looking Aro who was flanked by Jane and Felix. Aro was holding a long scroll of parchment in front of himself, which was signed by my mother, Renee Swan. "I never heard anything about this!" my father cried. "Your wife told me that your daughter would be mine once she was born, she has great potential." Aro answered back coldly. "But she is just a baby!" Charlie shouted. "Then we will return on her fifteenth birthday, she will be mine." then the three cloaked figures turned and exited the room, leaving my sobbing father alone in the dark.
The next one was of me about three or four holding hands with my laughing father, hundreds of pompous looking adults who smiled down at me as I skipped around the ballroom, the band playing. I was covered with chocolate and, instead of red faced and angry, my father was carefully leading us over to a table with cutlery. He picked up a spoon and then scraped a glob off my cheek, licking the cream off the smooth shining silver spoon. My small self giggled madly as he made a show of savoring the taste.
More video like memories flew by of me slowly aging and my father doting on me, spending all of his spare time playing with me, and buying me the finest wooden and metal toys there was to offer. Then there was a memory, buried so far that I had to dig for it, which was a clear sign of memory tampering which meant someone did not want Charlie to remember this.
There was Aro and a female vampire with wild red hair and me, staring dazed up at the woman who smiled sadly down at me. I looked nine or ten and my father was struggling next to the door being restrained by an angry looking Felix who glared at Aro and the red-haired woman. Aro spoke quietly to the woman, which made her jaw drop, and she tried to run away but Aro grabbed her arm roughly and backhanded her cruelly across the cheek, leaving the skin drooping off her face.
My younger self looked confused as to why anyone would want to hurt such a pretty woman, but I kept quiet, I was afraid the same thing would happen to my own small face. He whispered again to her and she nodded solemnly, defeated. She knelt down to my height, her cheek already back to it's previously smooth texture, and caressed my chin then waved her hand in front of my face, weaving patterns in the air. Moments later, I was sitting alone on the floor with my eyes glassy and my upper body wobbling slightly which made me reach up to my forehead as I grimaced in pain and shook back and forth.
Aro and the woman disappeared, along with Felix, and within seconds Charlie was kneeling by my side, rubbing my shoulder, "What did they do to you? Honey? Bella?!" my younger self shoved him away and ran to the door, shouting for him to leave me alone. Charlie looked astounded as he balanced himself on one foot; the other bent at the knee and pressed to his chest.
I sifted to a strong memory of Charlie looking down from a window at a sixteen-year-old Edward and a recently turned fourteen year old me walking, hand in hand, out of the thick forest that surrounded the castle. I felt the overwhelming joy Charlie felt as he witnessed his daughter interact with a boy, which she had refused to do ever since she had become of acceptable age to marry. It was not until I had introduced Edward that the overwhelming joy turned into disappointment and sadness.
I skipped over to the last Christmas I had as a human, roughly four months after my fourteenth birthday but still several months before my life, as I knew it, would be irrevocably changed. I was storming out of a room with a shocked Charlie in the background, dozens of unwrapped presents surrounding a decorated pine tree and a Yule log burning in the fireplace.
I knew that after the door slammed shut and Charlie had no idea what I did for the next few hours I was going to run to the snow covered meadow Edward and I shared as our own where Edward would present me with Chase. Later I would come back to the castle with the puppy in my arms and Charlie would demand to know where I got the dog. "I found him in the woods, and I'm going to keep him!" After that, I had stormed up to my room with my whimpering puppy squealing in my ear.
I pulled out of Charlie's mind after watching myself sprint up the grand staircase through Charlie's eyes, feeling the astonishment, pain, and hurt that I caused all because that red-haired woman did something to make me hate my own father. "Who was that lady?" I asked Charlie once his mind was closed off to me again. I stood up and Charlie followed, noticing how his eyes lingered over Edward who was hovering over me protectively.
"Don't you two ever… get tired of each other?" he asked incredulously instead of immediately answering the question. I had a feeling that he did not know who she was or he was trying to keep her identity a secret from me so that I would not hunt her down and quite possibly destroy and/or torture her for information as to what she did to my memories. Or he could have just realized the unexplainable relationship between Edward and me.
"Tired? Sir, me getting tired of Bella is like a human getting tired of breathing. It is impossible and utterly ridiculous to think of such a scenario." Edward answered Charlie's hesitant question. I had to admit that that was exactly how I felt about us; I would always feel like it was the beginning of us all the time, like we still had so much to learn about one another.
"That's how it used to be with Renee and me before her… Anyway, the woman? What lady do you speak of?" Charlie asked sincerely, no amount of faked innocence coloring his voice. I sighed; I really needed to remember that when I am looking through memories of someone else that they are not watching them with me. I lifted my arm from around Edward's waist and curled my finger in towards my palm, conjuring up the image of the wild, but kind looking woman with the fiery red hair that swirled around her head like flames.
"Victoria." he breathed, recognizing the face with ease. "She was the 'witch' of the kingdom but I didn't know much about her. There is always a memory in my mind that always floats to my subconscious but I can never seem to grasp it and I think this woman plays a part in it." I unfurled my fingers and called up the memory he was talking about and Charlie went still for a while as he watched the scene I had witnessed, minutes ago.
"I see." he said calmly once his eyes became their usual burgundy red as opposed to the glassy cherry they had been when he was watching the memory that had been so messily buried in his brain. "Would it be too much to ask for a hug, Bella? Now that you understand?" he whispered, spreading his arms wide, "You too Edward?" hand in hand, like the first time Charlie saw us, we walked over to my father and he enveloped both of us in his strong pale arms.
"I'm sorry daddy." I whispered, "I love you."
"I love you too princess, you have always been my little girl."
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THE END! (forever)
Haha, just kidding! That was not even three thousand! So ya'll get more. Besides there is still a few more chapters I think. I know that last part with the hugs and the 'I love you's' was REALLY cheesy and gooey but… Bella JUST found out the man she thought was a bad guy was actually good and she just lost her 'family' and found out the woman she had thought of as a mother was really a cold heartless bitch-skank… so she needed all the love she could get. Although I'm sure she got a lot from Edward the other night… Haha, onward!
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"So what are you going to do about Aro and Caius since he wants you too?" Charlie asked once we were sitting in my living room. After finally reuniting in a sense with my father, I had set to work on destroying every piece of evidence that the entire lunchroom of Forks High had been accidentally massacred by my father.
There were still around one hundred students that had been in class, blissfully unaware that their friends and fellow classmates were being slaughtered and it wasn't until the cafeteria was burned to its foundation and the sprinklers went off that anyone discovered half of the school was dead. I was just so painfully relieved that all of my friends had second lunch. Although, Jeremy and several others also had second lunch with us but I think that they were in the cafeteria, screwing around and were caught in the bloodbath. Oh well.
School had been let out early so everyone minus Angela, Ben, Eric, and Saera came over to my house so that Edward, Charlie, and I could explain to them everything that had went down that afternoon. Those that couldn't come because of frantic parents could be filled in later if they wished.
"We are not sure yet, but we were thinking somewhere along the lines of overthrowing them and installing ourselves as rightful rulers of the vampire world." Edward said calmly and completely seriously. I was the only one who saw the laughter dancing in his eyes and the slight upturn of his perfectly pale and full lips. I nudged Edward playfully in the side and we both laughed quietly as the five around us actually believed Edward's words.
"That sounds like a good plan." Charlie muttered, scratching his chin and staring blankly at the coffee table in front of him. I slapped my forehead right as Edward shook his head sadly and both of us collapsed into a musical laughter, stunning the ears that were unaccustomed to the fluent sound that was more pleasant than that which they would hear from their own kind.
"What happened?" Charlie asked, perplexed by our sudden laughter. The four humans kept quiet, listening to our banter, amused as us immortals spoke so calmly of dominating the vampire world.
"Dad, we're not serious. Well we were about overthrowing those tyrants. It is seriously about time those jerks found out just how powerful Isabella Marie Swan Cullen can be." I spoke proudly, with a small amount of menace surrounding the promise I had just made to myself and the entire vampire community.
"Excuse me, did you say Cullen?" Charlie asked, his red eyes widening.
"Dad… Edward and I are getting married." Did I really just tell him that? The look on my father's face told me yes, yes I did.
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DAYYYUMM!!! I have not updated for so long and I am super sorry for that. Can you believe that Michael Jackson is DEAD! And the sad thing is… he died on my sister's birthday. Sorry to you MJ lovers out there but I just laughed when I heard the news. I don't have anything against him, I love his music, but it was just the fact that it was on my sis's birthday. PLEASE times one TRILLION review?!! I'd LOVE to get to 230 at least. Thanks! Bye!