I don't own twilight. What I own is my character's behavior, personality, background, and plot of my story.
Author's Note at the end.
It takes Bella two seconds of staring at Edward's face to know that he will explode, and unless she drags him away, he will wake Cece up and she will meet him in his natural habitat. She wakes toward him, takes his hand and pulls him out of the doorway ignoring the familiarity of her arms with his. He tries to say something but she jerks her head towards Cece and that makes him follow her.
She keeps pulling him till they reach the emergency stairs and only then does she drop his hand. She doesn't at any point question her choice to keep holding his hand when he was obviously following her. She will once the voices in her head get too loud.
"What did I just hear Bella?" he questions whisper yelling. He is met with silence which triggers him to start pacing the very small space in the stairs. He runs his hand aggressively through his hair and starts to pull at it from the roots.
He almost expects Bella to step in and pull his hands away from his hair. That is what she always did when they were together. She would gently pull his hand away from his hair and talk slowly to him and calm him regardless of how aggressive or spiteful he looked or sounded. She was always willing to step in and help him climb down from his anger even when being nearby him wasn't in her best interest. She would then make him sit and put his head in her lap so she could massage his skull. She used to do that to prevent his headaches from coming. she doesn't do it now, and it would have felt like a punch in the gut, if he wasn't in enough pain.
In his anger and rage, he walks towards her till he is in her face and mutters, "tell me that what I heard was a mistake. Tell me that I am understanding things incorrectly," he continues.
When her reply is more silence he losses it and starts shaking her violently as he yells, "God damn it. Say something. Explain yourself. Tell me that I am wrong. Say that you didn't do it, that I am imagining things,"
Bella pushes him away then replies, "you aren't imagining things," in a clear steady voice. Edward blinks once. Twice. He fights the urge to do that for a third time. This can't be real. Bella would have never done that. Why would she do that?
He walks slowly towards her as he whispers slowly," what did you just say?" His voice sounds menacing as he pauses between every word he says.
"You aren't wrong," she repeats whispering because if it were to be any louder, her voice would shake. The words of a YouTube personality she watches frequently whispers in her mind abusers sniff fear the same way sharks sniff blood, and once they do, you are toast.
His eyes scream fire as he looks at her. She curses the fact that she took him to an isolated place instead of the corridor. She curses the fact that she left her bag with the pepper spray in Cece's room. She curses the fact that she didn't wait for Jacob to arrive and stand with her. Something bad is going to happen. She knows it. He is going to do something to her.
A thud echoes in the stairways as she gets slammed against the wall behind her.
She closes her eyes and counts to three as a voice whispers, "Did you think that you and lover boy could live happily ever after with my daughter?" She opens her eyes and finds his face less than an inch from hers.
He holds her shoulders and shoves her again into the wall as he yells, "answer me."
"Don't touch me," she whispers shakily and out of breath. He doesn't listen and puts more pressure into the hands holding her shoulders. He is going to leave his mark, not that it's anything new to her. Whether that registers in his thoughts or not is, of course, another thing altogether.
"I said don't touch me," she whispers this time her voice steadier and louder than the last time. Her eyes bore into his as she raises her hands and tries to shove his away from her shoulder. It doesn't work as his hands refuse to budge.
"I said do not touch me which means drop your fucking hands from my shoulders and step away," she states angrily this time. This time she is done. She is done being his punching bag. This time, she will not let him get away with the bullshit he likes to throw at her.
She slowly changes the position of one of her legs until it is between his and then she threatens, "if you don't drop my hands and step away I will make sure that Cece is the only daughter you will ever father in your life."
"You heard the lady. Step away," they both hear in the doorway of the stairs. Before any of them can blink, Edward had turned around and punched Marco in the face. A crack is heard in the air. He pulls his arm back to punch him again, but Marco is no longer taken by surprise. He is prepared.
Marco pins his hands behind his back and shoves him into the wall in front of him, "you're not so strong now are you?" Jacob says rhetorically.
"Leave me alone," Edward gasps out which prompts Marco to start laughing loudly.
"I think I won't," he pauses for a second then continues, "I won't. That will teach you what happens when you play with someone your size."
After a full minute of Edward shoved into the wall, Bella decides to intervene, "Marco enough." Automatically, Marco steps away from him.
"Go home and don't drive because we both know what could happen if you do. In a couple of hours, I will come to your place and talk." she takes Marco's hand and turns to leave the stairways.
At the doorway, she pauses and turns around to say, "or you know what, do the driving maybe you will kill yourself and I won't have to ever deal with your sorry ass."
Hey lovely people,
First of all, I would like to apologize for my long break from updating. One day after I updated the last chapter, my dad passed away. As you can imagine it has been a difficult time for me and my family, so I decided when it happened that I don't want to deal with the added pressure of updating my stories, and take a break from updating.
As you know this story is not exactly a romantic comedy. It is not a light-hearted one, so I have been finding it somewhat hard because I don't want the story to feed into my mental state, and nor have my mental state feed into the story. That said, I have figured a way to balance thing, hence the update. I can't promise to update as frequently as I used to, but I promise you at least one chapter a week.
Second of all, I wanna thank everyone that has been reviewing this story, we have reached over 200 reviews which is crazy. You have no idea what this means to me. Those reviews have been like a light in the end of the tunnel for me as of lately. To celebrate that, I am doing a Q&A over the next couple of chapters. As long as it doesn't spoil the story for you, I am going to answer your question, so leave them for me in a review.
Since one of you commented on Marco/Jacob and their connection, I will explain here what you guys can deduce from the story so far. Jacob was an exchange high school student in Italy. Marco's parents were his host family. they became friends and went backpacking together in Europe. Both of them disappeared and later on Jacob resurfaced with the identity of Marco as a cover. now he is working for the FBI and alongside Bella is going after Eleazar.
I hope this cleared up any confusion you have concerning Jacob and Marco.
Until my next update,
Stay safe.