Lies For My Protection
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Thank you to ArabellaWhitlock for being my beta as always. Love you lady. Any mistakes are entirely my own. I do not own either Twilight or Supernatural.
"You touch a hair on his head and I swear that I will end you myself." I growled, furious and terrified in the same breath.
"Nice threats there Bella, but we both know that they're empty. Now I'm stood just outside your lovely little driveway here, having a nice chat with Dean. He's so handsome isn't he?" Eve purred down the phone, sending chills down my spine. "So to the point? I want you out here in twenty minutes. For every minute you're late I break something of Deans. And Bella? Just so you know that I am not joking." I heard a malicious giggle before a shout of pain that seared my soul.
"Dean!" I screamed down the phone more scared than I'd ever been.
"Twenty minutes Bella. And dear, do come alone. I see you with your rag tag bunch of hunters, then the next thing I break is his neck." With that the line went dead. I stood still for a second my mind working furiously.
"What is it?" Charlie asked me his eyes and voice turning hard. Instant hunter mode.
I pushed passed him to head down to the basement. "Eve has Dean. I have twenty minutes before she starts breaking his bones. I have to go alone or she snaps his neck." My voice was dead, cut off. Completely at odds to how I was feeling on the inside.
I was downstairs in seconds. Nineteen minutes left.
"Is that safe open yet?" I asked as I walked into the panic room.
"No, not yet." Ellen said hesitantly, obviously sensing that something was wrong.
"What's happened girl?" Bobby asked sounding worried.
I ignored him going to the second filing cabinet that I hadn't touched yet. The files had said that what I needed was in here. There was no luck in the first draw, just more documents. The Campbell's must have been the most organized hunters alive. And right now it was pissing me off, I didn't have time for this shit.
I could hear Charlie filling in the others behind me, before he addressed me again. "You can't think you're going Bella?" He sounded worried. When I didn't answer he tried again. "Eve will kill you, then she'll kill Dean anyway."
Second draw down I found what I was looking for.
"We have to get him back, we can't just leave Dean out there. He'd come for any of us!" Sam said sounding panicked.
"Bella?" Bobby's calm voice cut through everyone else's.
"You all need to get out of the basement." I said with steel to my voice.
"What?" Ellen this time. Eighteen minutes left.
I held up the C4 I had gotten from the filling cabinet along with the detonator. "I'm blowing the safe, I'm getting the Colt then I'm getting Dean back. And I'm ending Eve." I said before molding the C4 to the safe door.
"I'm coming." Sam declared.
"No you're not. She wants me only or she breaks Dean's neck." I finished with the explosives then started walking towards the steel door. I was mad, scared and desperate but there was no-way I was going to die before I got Dean back. "I suggest you all leave."
The hunters all followed me out of the basement with stunned and surprised looks.
"Bella, she'll kill you and then she'll kill Dean anyway." Charlie tried again as Ellen pushed the door shut behind us.
"You don't get it do you? If I don't go out there she'll kill Dean. Right now I don't really give a rats ass about anything else." I pushed the detonator hearing a small boom behind the steel door. Good, no structural damage had been done to the house. It was amazing what you could learn from months of hunting with the Winchesters.
I wrenched the door open and stomped towards the safe. Fourteen minutes.
The door had only just opened, falling next to my feet as I pulled it off the hinges that were clinging on.
The safe was orderly inside and I could see lots of trinkets, I was sure Dean would like to go through them when I got him back. I ignored the impending feeling of failure, desperation and hopelessness that was trying to drown me. Suppressing everything but my rage.
In the bottom of the safe were two old fashioned guns. I grabbed one making sure the safety was still on before checking it for ammo, it was empty. Luckily there were numerous bullets laying next to the other gun. I took a handful then loaded the Colt that I held. Five bullets, then I put a couple more of the bullets in my pocket. I turned to leave. Ten minutes.
"Bella wait!" Charlie shouted. I turned towards him and raised my eyebrows. I didn't have time for this. "We need a plan. You can't go out there half-cocked, you'll get yourself killed."
"You've got exactly two minutes, then I'm going, even if I have to fight you all to do it." Cold. That's how I sounded. But I couldn't bring myself to give a shit.
Seven minutes.
Dean. P. O. V.
My arm was freaking killing from where that little bitch had broken it. With any luck it would be a clean break and I could get it fixed easily enough. Though I had a feeling more of my bones were gonna be busted up soon.
"Ten minutes Dean. Do you think she'll come?" Eve asked me conversationally, she was a hard ass bitch but my Bella was harder and a hell of a lot prettier thank god.
"I sure hope not." I muttered honestly. I knew Ellen still hadn't cracked the safe, meaning if B came out here she'd be killed, Eve couldn't use her anymore this was just revenge. I fought down panic at that thought. We were screwed and I couldn't see a way out. Either I died or B died. I didn't know how the hell I'd go on if Bella died saving my worthless ass. Though I was fairly sure that Charlie, Bobby and Ellen wouldn't let her risk herself. That was the only thing keeping me sane right now.
Even if she did come and somehow we managed to escape Eve there were still nine vamps, two ghouls, three shifters and a witch to deal with. Though I was pretty sure the witch and most of the vamps weren't here of their own free will.
"Oh don't say that Dean. I'm a woman – well I am right now anyway – of my word. The beautiful Bella comes and I'll let you go. Eventually. And if she doesn't? Well you saw what I did to her? That'll be child's play to what I'll do to you. And I really don't want to mess up that pretty face of yours."
The blood sucker that was holding me tightened his grip at that. What I wouldn't have given for a machete and some dead man's blood.
"You know I've been tortured in hell right? You're gonna have to come up with some pretty inventive stuff to scare me bitch." Like a few broken bones was going to make a difference if she killed Bella. Eve might as well be pulling out my heart.
"He's lying, he is scared. Scared for Bella." The vamp holding me spoke for the first time. He was the one who should be scared. If I somehow managed to get my way out of this one I was coming for him. I was going to sit and watch as the pretty boy rapist burnt. He growled at me and started crushing my arm. So he really could read minds. Good.
I started remembering things, Bella laughing with me, telling me she loved me, screaming my name, going down on me with a twinkle in her eyes, laying sated across my chest. Things that he could only fantasize about. Things that he wouldn't ever have with the person he thought that he was in love with. But if he'd been in love with her he'd never have been able to hurt her.
Edward growled again and I was fairly sure he was pulling my arm clean off as a sharp pain shot through my shoulder.
"Edward enough." Eve spoke sweetly with an edge to her voice that meant business. The vampire obeyed instantly. Totally whipped. "You can play once we have Bella." She then turned her attention back to me. "Four minutes Dean. What next? Your other arm, leg, a rib, your spine?"
"None of the above." I could feel fear pressing in on me but it wasn't my own, one of those supernatural creeps was doing some mumbo jumbo shit on me.
One of the vamps was looking at me with a guilty expression on his pained face. This must be one of the decent blood suckers that B spoke about. Wasn't entirely sure how I felt about that.
"She's coming. I can smell her." Edward said his posture becoming lighter. Dick.
"Dick." One of the other blood suckers growled. I looked, he was huge, the biggest guy I'd seen. Though not quiet as tall as Sammy. He might have been a blood sucker but I kind of liked him despite myself.
"Emmett we've spoken about this. Control yourself or I'll have to punish you and your mate. Again." Mommy was obviously big on discipline.
I saw a figure walk out of the house distantly. She might have been far way but I'd know that figure anywhere. It was B, she'd come. Real fear took over my body.
"Bella!" I screamed so loud that my throat burnt. "Bella, don't! Go back!"
Eve smiled at me, a huge smile that didn't bode well for me. "Really Dean? You think she might listen to you, turn back? Well then lets give your girlfriend some incentive then, shall we." One of her small but supernaturally strong hands pulled my hair so my face was staring up at the sky, fuck that hurt. Her other hand grabbed two fingers on my right hand her face smiling down at me as she snapped them.
"Ahh, fuck!" I couldn't help the small -but manly- scream of pain that escaped. "Son of a bitch!" I spat out.
"Dean!" I heard Bella shout out her voice scared and hurt. She sped up, doing exactly what Eve wanted her to.
"Bella! I'm so happy you decided to join us. Now I don't have to keep hurting your little boy toy here." Eve smiled letting go of my fingers. Son of a bitch that hurt.
"Eve I told you what would happen if you laid one finger on Dean!" Bella's voice was hard, holding a steel to it I'd never heard from her before. Despite the fact that we were shortly gonna die bloody I couldn't help but appreciate how hot she looked when she was pissed.
"And I said, we both know you can't kill me." Bella was within grabbing range now, she took one more step and I knew they'd have her.
"Things change. And I keep my promises." Bella pulled a gun out and pointed it at Eve. Eve gave a little chuckle before B's face twisted in rage and she fired.
Eve looked shocked as the bullet hit between her eyes, bulls eye. She then crumpled to the floor. Dead.
It was a second before anything happened, everyone was stunned. I couldn't believe it, the girl that hadn't known a chamber from a trigger nine months ago, that had tripped over her own feet while walking, that same girl just killed the mother of all evil things. Literally. One of our biggest threats and my girl had put her down like a common shifter.
"D!" Bella was the first to react rushing towards me as if she hadn't seen me in years. I'm not one for soppy shit normally but it kind of warmed a guys heart, having a beautiful and deadly girl watching his back. And ass cause I had a fine one.
"I will snap his neck." Came a voice from behind me as stone cold hands landed on my shoulders, one of which had been pulled out of place. I was not gonna catch a break today was I?
"Edward, don't do this. You're not this person. You were influenced by Eve but she's gone now. You can go back to who you were. The man that Carlisle raised." Bella sounded like she was pleading, her voice really upset.
"What the man who you chose this hunter over? I could have given you everything Bella, money, immortality, youthfulness." Edward snarled, his fingers gripping my shoulders tighter. "Instead you chose him. What can he possibly give you that I cant? He has no money, he lies and cheats just to get by, he doesn't even have a home."
"He is my home Edward. He guides me, listens to me and he lets me fall. I never gave a crap about any of the stuff you said and you know it. He's everything you could never be." Well that was sweet, perhaps I could enjoy it once the douche bag stopped crushing my collar bones.
"And once he's gone I can do those things for you. Be those things for you. We can be together again. Forever." Well that didn't sound creepy at all.
"Son." One of the vamps whispered his voice holding sadness.
"Carlisle don't you see. This is the right way. The only way." Edward sounded deranged.
"I'm sorry." Bella said her voice holding remorse but she wasn't looking at me or the guy trying to kill me. She was looking at the good glitter balls stood to the side of us.
One of them, the motherly looking one gave a sob and hid her face but the blonde haired dude gave a tight nod.
Bella didn't move but a gunshot rang out and I was released. I dropped to the floor looking behind me to see Sammy welding the other Colt. Dude sure had good timing and good aim thankfully.
Bobby came out then from behind some trees closely followed by Ellen and Charlie. They must have gone out of the back of the house and circled around. Good plan.
All of the remaining supernatural creatures lifted their hands in surrender.
"Dean!" Bella shouted at the same Sammy did. They both rushed to my side and were looking me over, helping me up from the ground.
"How bad?" Sammy asked as Bella's eyes swept over me, tears threatening to shed.
"Broken arm, dislocated shoulder, two broken fingers. All on my right side so dude, be careful." I said not looking from Bella, so many emotions were running through me but one of them was terror. She could so easily have been taken from me. It all could have gone to hell. "What were you thinking?" My voice came out harder than I meant it to.
"I was thinking of saving your hide." Bella replied with raised eyebrows the tears now gone to be replaced by anger. "And you're welcome by the way."
"I am not worth you losing your life for Bella! That shit happens again then you stay safe, you hear?"
"Uh huh. Yeah okay. That's gonna happen." Bella rolled her eyes at me. "Hey Ellen? Can you get the Impala? Deans going to need a trip to the hospital."
"Sure thing sugar." Ellen said trusting the guys to watch her back as she went to pick up my car that had been scratched to hell by the vamps that had come to collect me. More repair work I needed to do on my baby.
"Are you okay?" Sammy asked worriedly.
I gave him a half smile still scared and angry and pissed at myself. "Dude I'm fine."
"What do we do with these then?" Bobby asked holding a machete in one hand and a gun in the other. Man I was glad that Bobby was on our side.
"Leave the ones with the freaky gold eyes. They don't hurt humans and I don't think they wanted to do any of what they were doing." I said surprising myself. Bella and Charlie spoke at the same time as me; "leave the Cullen's." They both said. Huh.
"I'm really sorry about Edward." Bella addressed said vamps.
"We understand." The blonde one said, his voice upset. Guess he was the daddy vamp then.
"I'd have done it myself if you'd have let me Bella. He wasn't being controlled by that bitch. Wicked shot by the way. Who would of thought our little Bella would have grown into such a badass." The huge guy, vamp, whatever said with a shit-eating grin.
"Thanks Emmett." Bella smiled back.
"I'm sorry Bella, I kept us away from her as long as I could." A little one said. She was tiny, would've probably fit in Sammy's pocket. For a blood sucker she looked kind of cute and non threatening, not that any of us would ever fall for that trap.
"Oh Alice!" Bella said before throwing herself into the tiny vampires arms. "I'm sorry. You've helped us so much. I missed you." So Bella and this one were like BFF's or something. At least B had someone else to speak to about all the shit. Even if she was a vampire.
"Hey come on now. You're ruining the silk." Alice said while patting Bella on the shoulder. B gave a weak chuckle before moving away and coming to stand by me.
"I'm a doctor Dean. And if you would like me to I will gladly take care of your arm for you." The blonde guy said to me, his voice still deeply pained but his eyes kind.
I shared a look with Sam then Bobby. Apparently we were trusting the things we hunted now. That hadn't worked out so well for Sammy before but if B could vouch for them and daddy vamp actually worked as a doctor then I guess I could make an exception. This once. Plus my right side was hurting like a bitch and I really wanted some decent pain medication. The kind that made everything seem shiny.
"Ellen's got a bag back at the house." Charlie said with a shrug.
"You guys go ahead I've got a bonfire to light up." Bobby nodded to the body parts of the creatures that he and Charlie had been steadily killing their way through. For some reason none of them were putting up a fight. I thought it may have something do with the vampire that looked as though he was in pain. Maybe he should be having some of those painkillers with me. Or some tequila.
"I'll go take out the wards so these guys can come in." Sam said while shaking his head, missing the small smile daddy vamp gave at his words. "Never thought I'd be doing that again." He said, his voice doing that emotional thing again. Guess he wasn't as over the whole freeing Lucifer thing as I thought he was. Well good.
"Sure thing." Bella said before looking back at me. "I was so scared I was going to lose you Dean. I'm so sorry you went through that because of me." She nodded at my arm her voice barely a whisper.
"Just another day in paradise B. And you know I'd go to hell and back for you. Literally. Just, do me a favor and don't stick your neck out for me like that again okay? I'm not worth it." My voice was also low, didn't want anyone to hear me have a chick flick moment after all.
We started walking back towards the house slowly a herd of vampires following us. I knew they were good and all that but I still didn't feel right having six blood suckers at my back while I was unarmed. Or at all.
"Don't say that Dean. You are worth it! Without you… Look, I don't just want you, I need you. I love you and I don't want to be without you. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat, no matter what you say. And you'd do it for me as well. We're even. So change the record." Bella finished her voice holding a no nonsense tone.
"Yeah. You're right." I huffed out knowing I wasn't going to win this argument. I still didn't think I was worth it but I was through trying to change B's mind about that one. I wanted her, I didn't want to push her away.
"Say that again?" Bella lifted her eyebrows at me a smirk making it's way to her beautiful face.
"Shut up." I sighed trying not to smile myself. "So Ellen finally managed to crack the safe then?" I changed the subject.
"Nope." Bella looked guilty.
"Well this is going to be good." I smirked.
"I blew the door off the safe." Bella admitted shocking me slightly. That I hadn't expected.
"You blew the door off?"
"Yup. Boom." I heard a giggle at that from behind us.
"I've created a monster." I joked, still surprised and not just a little turned on.
"Can it. You love me and my acts of vandalism." Bella ribbed me right back. I was one lucky son of a bitch that was for sure.
I hope everyone liked that chapter. I'm still trying to work through my writers block for the next chapter reviews always help though. And if you're looking for something good to read in the mean time may I recommend Warmth on my soul, it's fantastic, I read it in less than a week! Check it out.
Until next time Tametiger xx