You're mine, I thought as I felt him inside me. He thrusted into me, slowly and firmly.

/This could have ended badly. It could have ended. I laid my head on her abdomen, clutching my fists hard.

/"Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper and Esme- continue to look for him. Look through all the islands and beyond. Alice-"

Music: The Tearjerker Returns by Gonzales

The Underground Chapter Ten

The wolves bounded back to La Push, each thinking over the situation, all heard via their telepathy. Sam wondered about these other vampires that apparently existed and worried for everyone's safety, the Rez, the pack, and all the humans he couldn't protect. With no one daring to think about disobeying Sam's orders of hurting the Cullens, there was no need for him to interject.

Back at the Rez, Sam called all the remaining elders and scheduled a meeting for that morning, giving the wolves time to rest and notify their mates before having to leave again for longer.

Jacob returned home in the middle of the night after many hours of hiking in the surrounding forest helping to search for Bella and had to be dragged out of bed by Billy to the meeting. Jacob had no idea where they were going until he saw the elders, Sam and his gang sitting in a circle. Before he would inwardly groan, but now he was seeing his old friends Embry Call and Quil Ateara amongst them for the first time since they distanced themselves from him and joined Sam's weird gang.

"Morning," Billy gruffed as he wheeled himself closer. "Jacob, this is an official tribe meeting concerning the disappearance of Bella Swan and that- boy, Edward Cullen." Jacob pushed away the thoughts that his childhood crush ran off with some guy as soon s she got here. It was like he didn't have a chance.

"You know the legend of the Cold Ones-"

"Dad, come on," Jacob growled.

"Listen to me Jacob, the legend isn't just a story. It's the truth, of something that happened many years ago-"

"Bella is missing and you wanna tell stories?! What is with this place? No wonder Rachel and Rebecca left the first chance they got-"

"Jacob!" Billy yelled.

"I don't want to listen to this or be part of it! I'm going back to Forks to actually do something to help find Bella-"

"Wolves do exist!"

"If you want to find her, you have to understand the truth," one of the elders gruffed.

"There's no such thing as vampires or werewolves!" Jacob screamed.

Suddenly there was an explosion of fur in front of him. He screamed and fell backwards, and looked up in fear at the horse-sized wolf in front of him.

"Paul! Fuck!" Embry screamed. He and Quil ran to Jacob's side to both protect him and hold him in place by his arms. Paul grumbled as if to say 'he wouldn't shut up' and 'was wasting time'. Billy looked away for a second before saying:

"Now do you see, Jacob?"

Meanwhile, Carlisle waited for Sam to arrive at the house.

Edward's POV

I stayed at her bedside, wiping away the sweat, holding her warm hand. I don't want her hands or her to ever lose this warmth. The image of that blood bank appeared in my head again. It's been such a long time since I had fed on human blood before Bella. I didn't want to depend it. I'll have to save animal blood as well. But...it wouldn't be terrible to have a blood bag every now and again...I think Bella was jealous at the idea of my feeding on another woman but she should be okay with this. Father may not be but at least it's not another human. I gritted my teeth as I felt the urge to apologize, to my father, god, whoever listened and was willing to forgive me. I've made my bed, I have to lie in it.

Bella's POV

My breathing changed as I slowly came to. I had to work at it a little. I slept the whole nght, so why am I tired? I felt cold fingers comb my hair.

"Bella?" I heard him call softly. Mmm, Edward... I fought against my body's fatigue to get my eyes open. I couldn't help but smile at seeing his face close to mine, at least I think I was physically smiling.

"Edward..."

"How are you feeling?" He asked with furrowed eyebrows.

"Tired," I blinked.

"You'll feel tired for a while. You lost 30% of your blood- I took %30 percent of your blood, and almost killed you." So that's why he looked worried. I searched for his hand and he caught it, and pressed it against his cheek.

"It's ok," He gripped my hand and shook his head, no longer looking at me. I knew he'd beat himself up about it.

"You don't understand. Now do you see why you can't feed me on your own?"

"Yes...I'm sorry, it's partly my fault." He opened his mouth but I stopped him with my thumb.

"I enjoyed all of it. It was amazing. Nothing bad happened so I want you to forget it."

"I won't let it happen ever again," He swore.

"I know," I said with a smile. "We'll make sure you're properly fed another way."

"I have a few ideas," He said.

"Admittedly I was a bit jealous imagining you biting another girl, even if it was a guy."

"I know," We chuckled.

"You're the only one for me, Bella Swan,"

"And you, me." He kissed my slowly on the lips then touched his forehead to mine.

"I love you," I felt tears well up in my eyes.

"I love you..."

Edward went back to work and came every four hours to pull me up against the headboard and spoon-feed me my meals. Then at night, he said he'd help me with a bath.

"N-no." He might have seen me naked but bathing was too much.

"I won't look, I promise." It has been two days...

"Okay." I nearly whispered.

He carried me into the dark bathroom alight with just warm candlelight. With my poor human eyes I could see the bubble bath he created with a thick layer of purple and red rose petals. That's why it smelled so nice. The steam of the extra warm water carried the scent into the air. I blushed hard and bit my lip. I almost hurt to be this exposed, this close to someone. He could break my heart.

He pulled my t-shirt and underwear off with his head turned, and carried me into the bath in his boxers. In it I couldn't feel his cold skin, that's why he made it hot. He was so considerate. I wasn't so shy anymore and it decreased to nothing as he wiped my skin with a washcloth. He was gentle, holding me so my shoulders were always above water. He'd never let me go.

To wet my hair, he held my head in the water, massaging it with his fingertips. He had me laying on him so he could lather shampoo into my hair, and did the same as before to rinse it.

"This is nice," I said as we floated there.

"Yeah, we should do this more often." I giggled at that.

"Time for bed for the human." He jumped out of the pool-like bath, water falling off us loudly, and covered me in a fluffy white towel that absorbed the scent of roses.

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