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11 years previous
Marcus POV
We have been in Arizona for three days tracking a vampire who is drawing too much attention to himself. Sick bastard. Hunting children is one thing what he is doing to them is worse than disgusting. He will be destroyed before he can claim another victim.
"Demetri, how close are we to the filth." I inquire from my tracker guardsmen.
"Not far now master." he closes his eyes and inhales deeply then adds. "We may want to hurry master I have a feeling he is hunting his next victim."
He takes off like a shot and I catch up to him quickly and we are racing over rooftops in order to prevent another child's demise.
Not a minute later be hear a child's voice shout. "Stop following me!" this is followed by a scream. "What in the world are you!"
That idiot revealed himself.
I growl and leap from the rooftop to the mouth of an alleyway. I see the filth in front of me hunched over and I begin walking slowly towards him from behind. Demetri and Felix work their way around so we can box him in.
I kick a can that is near my boot to call the beast's attention.
He turns to me eyes black as coal. "Leave vermin." he growls. "This is my prey!" he thunders.
"Help me." the child squeaks out before losing consciousness out of pure fear.
The nerve of this pest. I rise to my full height and glare at the cockroach of a vampire before me. "Do you know who I am?" I hiss low.
"No," the pest has the gall to laugh. "Should I? Because I really don't give a rats ass." the cocky shit laughs out and starts turning back to the unconscious child.
In a blink I have my hands around the sick bastards throat with him crushed against a wall while Demetri and Felix each hold down his arms. "Is that right?" I hiss in his ear. "You don't give a rats ass that you broke vampire law repeatedly and have the Volturi hunting you down?" I growl in his ear watching as his eyes bug out in recognition with what i just said.
"V-v-volturi!" he stammers out. Eyes bugging out he looks to Felix, then Demetri before looking directly at me and begins to struggle to get away.
I tighten my grip on his throat causing fissures to appear along his neck and lower face. "Yes, Volturi, and you will pay for your crimes." I didn't think it would be possible but his eyes got wider before i completely removed his head.
"Demetri, Felix dispose of this trash." I command as I put the head in a black bag at my waist.
"Yes Master Marcus" they both intone at the same time and then set to the task of dismembering and bagging the vampire to take back to Volterra for judgement.
I turn away from them and approach the unconscious child. She doesn't appear to be injured anywhere aside from some scratches on her hands and forearms. I pick the girl up and leave the alleyway contemplating what to do. I can leave her with the human authorities. I look at the girl's face and decide but leaving her with human authorities is out of the question. I need to find this child's home and hope that she wakes up and believes all of this was a nightmare.
Demetri appears at my side before i even call him. "Master, Felix is returning to headquarters with the dismembered vampire to report to masters Aro and Caius."
He glances at the girl in my arms. " What do we do with her? She is too young to be changed and killing her is against our own laws."
"I was thinking about taking her back to her home and tucking her in bed. The only thing wrong with that idea though is that we don't know what brought her out this late at night to begin with or even if she is expected at her home." I sigh because I am at a loss as what to do.
The little girl in my arms starts waking up. I hold my breath as her eyes open and prepare to set her on her own feet.
"It is alright little one you are safe now." I tell the girl with as calm a voice as I can manage.
She wriggles in my arms, wanting, down so I set her down on her feet and only let go after she has gained her footing.
"Thank you." She finally speaks. She looks around herself I suppose to figure out where she is.
"He won't be bothering you or anyone else." Demetri states while taking his place behind me.
Tears come to the little girl's eyes and she cries into her hands and collapses to her knees with a sob. I look to Demetri then back at the poor child in front of me. I don't know what caused me to do it but I get down on my own knees and gently take one of the girls hands in my own. I pull her up to stand and once on her feet she rushes against my chest and embraces me with what feels like all of the strength in her tiny body and sobs her heart out.
The paralyzing fear has left this small child and now she is in shock. I hold her until her sobs become soft hiccups and she can hopefully tell me where she lives so we can get her home.
"That man…" she begins with a hiccuping sob. "That man followed me." an intake air and slow breath then she continues. "I was on my way home from the ballet studio and the man was following me. I wanted to lose him before i went to my house." she begins to shake but continues after letting out a slow breath. "After he followed my third turn I started to run. I ran two blocks, turned down a street, and then dived behind a dumpster in that alley. I heard someone come into the alley and was hoping it was an adult who would help me but it wasn't it was him. I told him to stop following me and then he was right in my face." at this point she is crying again. "I fell over and screamed at him and then he was on top of me." she is starting to lose it again so I shush her and rub her back in soothing circles. She takes a deep breath and continues. "He told me I was gonna die there." she drops her head and places her forehead on my chest and tightens her little hands into my vest. "He touched me." My eyes widen at this and I stop rubbing her back.
We were too late?
I struggle to maintain a calm air for her as I ask where. She pulls back and with shaking hands she shows were her jeans were ripped at the hip and inner thigh.
"Before he was able to do anything else you came into the alley and I passed out." she whispers.
I let out a breath that i didn't realize I was holding because we did save her from what would have happened had we been even a minute later. Too close of a call. That beast will burn and I will keep his head locked in the dungeons for a century or two before I finally burn it piece by piece.
Demetri passes me the jacket he is wearing and I drape it across the girl's shoulders and wrap her up. "What is your name child?. I ask her quietly. And she answers just as quietly. "Isabella Swan."