Bella's PoV
It had been three beautiful lovely months, tangled up in bed with Jasper Whitlock. Never in my life had I been kissed so deeply or had every possible desire granted. I knew he could read my emotions but it felt like in bed he could read my mind as well, like he knew exactly where I wanted him to touch me, how I wanted him to touch me and for how long. It was maddening. He also was relentless the moment we both felt okay with moving forward. I was ready before he was but when he finally worked up the courage to ask when he was ready to take the step forward, he didn't take baby steps like I thought he would, he lunged straight into full blown sex sessions that went for hours. I knew as a vampire I didn't tire, and I had seen Jasper bed two others but I hadn't realized how much he was still holding back, even from Maria. He had paced himself, taken breaks when needed but with me it was only one speed. He would rotate between pumping into me, fingering me or licking me out with no down time till I finally begged him to stop and slow down as my body couldn't take it any longer. He had just shrugged and captured my mouth in his for the next hour. He did slow down though and we had tried to do other things like check out the pool. Needless to say it didn't last long before one of us decided to tear the others clothes off.
Eventually after some time I decided to play with fire by making time to meet with my father as he was under the impression I had gone back south, having only come up to sit my exams. The plan was to graduate, go to college then pass out of their lives with my parents having happy memories of me. That left me just over a year to spend as much time as possible with him without him catching on. Then I got the call from my mother that her and Phil had broken up, giving Jasper the perfect excuse to buy her a plane ticket to join us. It was perfect, having both my parents in my life for my last human year with them. I wasn't sure how I was going to say goodbye and was soaking up every moment I could with them. This weekend we were going to get high again and try bowling at a local venue that was themed around the sixties. I was really excited for it as I no longer felt like their child. Renee never really treated me as one but my father had till recently. Now I felt more like an equal, an adult and it felt great to spend time with them not as parents and daughter but as friends.
I was currently racing for my life from an army of newborns and wondered for the millionth time how my day went from tumbling in bed with Jasper then preparing food for my father to now racing for my life. Why was there even an army of newborns in Forks to begin with and why were they after us? I kept running as fast as I could towards the reserve and that was where my questions were answered as a familiar red head shot out of the forest line to my left and tackled me to the ground in one smooth shot.
"Hello Bella" she smirked in my face while I struggled against her hands that had me pinned to the ground. I snarled at her and tried to kick her off but she had anticipated that and smoothly flipped out of the way while tearing my arms out of their sockets. I let loose a scream of agony, holy shit did that hurt, how the hell did Jasper have his limbs removed with barely an eye twitch. She shoved both arms under her arm then grabbed a fistful of hair and began dragging me away from the main road and into the forest line. I couldn't do anything except kick and scream but no one could hear me over the fighting that I could faintly hear. My scalp didn't hurt nearly as much as my agonizing torso where my arms had been torn from and one of my hands was casually slapping me in the face from under Victoria's arm as she ran. She didn't run far and I heard her exchange a few words with someone else who held a hatch open for us. I was hauled under the earth and then that was when I got a look at Victoria's accomplice, it was a lady with short blonde hair and blue eyes, she looked to be five feet tall, maybe smaller and had a Russian accent. She closed the hatch carefully behind us then followed us as Victoria continued to drag me by my hair.
It wasn't long before we got to the beach and the sun scorched my eyes after adjusting to the dark.
"Is this important to you?" asked Victoria as she kneeled in front of me for a moment and handled my necklace in her hands. I tried to shrug hoping she would forget about it if she thought I didn't care about it but she smiled reading me like a book before tearing it from my neck to toss to the floor of the cave. Then in one leap she pulled me by my hair through the air landing swiftly into the water before tossing my precious arms to the beach. I was already feeling drained of energy and had seen what happened to Jasper when Maria removed his limbs for a time. I was coming to realize just how strong he was and how well he hid his pain from me. If I didn't get those back to stop the venom, I wasn't going to be able to move soon. I remembered when he could hardly lift his face out of the mud but that had taken days, I could barely manage the energy to scream any more and I had only lost my limbs for a few minutes. How had Jasper managed to bed Maria on such low energy reserves?
Eventually Victoria stopped swimming and the other lady held me up by my hair so I could face her.
"What do you want Victoria?" I snarled.
"Tsk tsk you should be more polite to someone who could kill you within a blink of an eye" she taunted while stroking my face. I resisted the urge to bite her hand and swallowed my pride knowing she was right.
"What do you want Victoria? If you are looking for Edward, he is dead" I said in a politer voice.
"Who says I'm looking for any one. I was looking for you, to take you out here to the middle of the ocean, to remove your limbs and let you drop deep deep down never to see the light of day again. He took everything from me when he took James from me. I wanted to return the favor. Then I was going to track down the big one and take his pretty little bird" she smirked in my face, reminding me of a snake.
"You saw James die, who held his hands, who tore off his head. Yet you never stepped in to help, why? Alice was the one who tore his head off, why aren't you after her?" I asked.
"There was no point. I arrived just in time to see James' life come to an end and knew I couldn't stand up to those numbers on my own so I started building an army and that was when I crossed paths with Maria. We traded information and soon were approached by Alice and Edward who led us straight to you guys. That is how I knew Alice and Edward were dead, I was there watching from afar as she tore their heads off. She had entertained their demands for a time till she grew tired of the game. When she realized her Major was still alive, we made a deal, she would eventually hand you over to me and I would let her keep Jasper while I hunted down the other big vampire. She started to help me build an army, teaching me how to command them into obedience. She sent me north to build my numbers with a few commanders of hers and we stayed in contact till recently when I received a final email from her. All it said was 'The Volturi were here. So I stayed low till I was ready to strike knowing that the Volturi would be on the lookout for any new armies ready to take over Maria's camp. I had no interest in that though, all I wanted was to cause pain to the two who held my sweet angel as his head was torn from his body. So you will drown here for eternity and so will the blond bird when I tear her away from her mate. Your mates will live eternity in agonizing pain or they will go to the Volturi to beg for their deaths"
"You are dead Victoria, he will find you and cause you agonizing pain for what you have done and what you are about to do" I snarled using the last of my energy reserves.
"Only if he finds me, he might find you eventually but I don't think he will find me" she smiled sweetly.
Victoria then gave a nod to the lady holding me and she released my head into the water. I quickly started treading with my legs trying to keep my head above water.
"Have a nice life, Bella Swan" Victoria whispered in my ear before kissing my cheek and swiftly removing my legs from my body and tossing them in two different directions. I began to sink deep into the ocean and deep into silence. The last thing I heard was her cackle as she swam away with her friend. I could hardly keep my eyes open at this point as I sank deep into the ocean having no way to keep afloat. I was in agonizing pain but could no longer suck in air to scream. So I drifted, past whales, past sea life, deep down into darkness. Jasper would never find me down here, It was so dark, you couldn't smell my scent, the only thing that might give him a clue is the burning in my chest that I could feel from been so far from my mate, but even then, the ocean was huge and without smell, or hearing, it could take months. What would Charlie and Renee think when I didn't show up this weekend with Jasper? What if I was down here for years, I wanted more time with my family before disappearing, I didn't want to go this soon. I cried in despair and prayed that Jasper would find me somehow despite the odds, despite the darkness, despite the lack of scent and sound. I couldn't muster anything any more, everything hurt and I was exhausted so I closed my eyes against the darkness feeling my body begin to fade into nothing but pain. How long does it take for vampires to desiccate? I briefly wondered as my mind began to shut down.
