Ch. 38 So Screwed

Ok think, Iris. You've just gotten your life back in order kind of, and you're not going down like this. Think think think...maybe if I can appeal to McDouche's male sensibility...

"Matt, I've missed you. I can't believe you didn't call me after that drive home. I hung out with the Cullens trying to make you jealous, but you didn't even seem to care..." I saved your life, jackass! You better fall for this! "Didn't you miss me even a little bit?" I exaggerated a frown as I continued to hear the sound of rock crumbling about a mile or so from where we were.

"What?" He looked incredulous.

"Well, I mean, I don't know how Bella treated you after I left, but I always thought you were pretty...hot." Gross. Ew. Trash. It's all trash. I looked down in feigned embarrassment. This act probably didn't translate well anyway because I was glued in this one position...

"I...uh..." he looked to Laurent and back at me.

"She's lying! The Volturi are coming, and she just wants out! Kill her!" Laurent whined like the bitch ass he was as he backed up. You've gotta fight, man. Why are you so scared of McDouche anyway? Kill me yourself. What's up with him? I mean, not that I'm ready to die, but seriously...what the hell?

"No, no, no...Get me out of here, and I'll show you just how much I have missed you..." I smiled at him. Come on, McDouche! "I'm very good friends with the leader of the Volturi. You let me handle them...so I can handle...you." I giggled a little bit for emphasis. Barf. It would be a miracle if I got out of this.

"Well..." McDouche almost smiled, and looked like he would blush if he could. Gah, he's really just a kid—a douchey kid, but a kid none the less—who ran into the wrong vampire...Maybe the Cullens could reform him after this, if I could actually get us out that is...I heard the crashing of rocks getting louder.

"Please, Matty. Don't let him separate us just because he's sour about his friends! His friends tried to kill you too, you know. I saved you back when I was Bella. I would never let you die." I was only partially lying. I did save him, and I wouldn't have let another human die back then...ironic now, I know, with all the blood I had shed...ugh...shut up, brain! I don't want to face my own sense of morality right now...

"Matt, she's manipulating you! Stick to the plan. We kill her, and you kill me. It's the only way to end this! All she does is kills. You saw what she just did with the Cullens." Laurent was looking kind of desperate and angry. Aww poor psycho vampire might not get to avenge his mates who didn't give a shit about him...

"It was you? I woke up in the hospital and thought I had lost my mind when I was talking about vampires and no one believed me...You saved me?" Matt was warming up to me for sure.

"Yes, I did, and Laurent didn't even care about you. He ran off to go see his girlfriend up north. I was there for you!" My voice sounded a little bit more frantic than I meant it to, but I could hear the Volturi getting even closer yet.

McDouche turned on Laurent who looked to be concentrating very hard on me. I moved my thumb a little. Oh, Laurent isn't strong enough. Hah! I could get out of this soon, but would it be soon enough? We need to distract him more. The crumbling sounded like it was only a hundred yards out now. I could see the light starting to peek through in my mind as I continued to fight to drift.

Laurent was holding the sides of his head and staring intently at me as he backed against the opposite wall, McDouche approaching him in a crouch. "No! Don't come for me. She's lying to you! I changed you! I saved you from that awful human existence! I showed you your way in this life!" He was screaming.

"I didn't have a horrible human existence! I didn't want to be like you. You just wanted to feed on me and leave me!"

"Get him, Matty! I can make this nightmare he started into a dream for you..." Was that too much? I egged him on as his back was to me and winked at Laurent who continued to glare at me. He looked like he would be sweating if he could. Apparently he couldn't hold me off and kill me at the same time. He brought McDouche along to help finish me off. Pfft.

Matt lunged and Laurent darted to his right. As he did so, I gained mobility of my whole arm, and the light grew from a pinpoint to a quarter sized opening. Yes!

"Perfect, Matty. Show him who's the boss! He sucks ass just like your dad did!" I waited to see if I had struck a chord. I had just thrown that one out there blindly as a motivator. I just assumed he must have daddy issues from the way he behaved. He seemed to be over compensating for something. I know that's how I would have been probably if I hadn't gone to therapy for years.

Matt lunged again, this time making contact, and hooked Laurent around his waist, pulling him to the ground. I could now move my entire upper body as Laurent lost focus. Ok ok ok...almost!

"He wants you dead too, Matty. He knows the Volturi won't protect you. He wants to keep us apart, so you'll die as miserable as he is!" I kind of felt bad about how much I was working this...My manipulation might give this kid a complex...should I tone it down a bit? No, get out first, and clean up later. Right.

The crumbling was ten feet away. They were coming from just left of where Laurent and Matt were fighting. Shit shit shit.

Matt took a chunk out of Laurent's neck, and he hollered in pain. Laurent clawed back at him, but Matt dodged him. His newborn strength was working in his favor as he held the older vampire down. If I were still human, I wouldn't have been able to keep up with how quickly they were moving as they attacked and defended themselves. Matt still had the upper hand, though.

"Take his head off!" I yelled as the rock started to crumble from the wall behind them. I could move every part of myself except my feet which felt cemented in place. The light was so bright and close now in my mind, but I was still just too far away to reach for it.

Matt suddenly took Laurent by the shoulders, and plunged his teeth into Laurent's neck, but he wasn't fast enough. Felix burst through the wall at that exact moment, grabbed Matt from behind and took off his head as Jane tossed a lit match where his body landed. This was not their first time...

"Matt!" I screeched. Oh God. I could only stare in shock for a second before I realized that I needed to move, but Laurent must have been refocused just as Jane came through the opening, just behind Felix. I was trapped again, and the light shut off to me immediately. Holy fucking shit.

"What do we have here?" Jane asked. I couldn't take my eyes off of Matt. His body was still twitching in the flames like it was trying to find its way back to his head which Felix picked up and tossed toward the fire.

Jane and Felix looked to me, pressed against the wall and then focused on Laurent. They must have heard everything happening before they broke through the cave walls.

"Please, don't harm me. I can stop her, control her. She can't move as long as I'm here!" What? I thought you were ready to die, bitch ass! Now you're all concerned about saving yourself?!

"You're such a coward!" I yelled furiously. Shit this is so bad. Before, I didn't care. I wanted to die, but now that I knew Edward only wanted me, I had let myself hope. Laurent was crushing all of my dreams with this ridiculous vendetta against me. James and Victoria didn't even care for him. He was probably just another one of their games, a form of entertainment. Shit shit shit!

Jane's power hit me like a Mack truck, and I couldn't help the scream that escaped as I writhed on the floor. She would pay for this if I could ever get out. The pain stopped suddenly. She looked at me with hate in her eyes.

"Hmm." Jane responded as she calmly looked back and forth between Laurent and I. "Aro will be very happy to see you again, Iris. He's been very concerned about you. I don't think he's very happy about what you did either..." she was smiling. I think Jane would be the happiest of all to see me dead. Fuck. She looked to Laurent who stood with his hands outstretched lamely like he wasn't sure how to react. Then she looked back to her partner. "Come, Felix. Let's go tell Master what we've found. Something tells me he will find this very interesting." She smiled even wider. Super fuck.

Felix snorted and snatched me up roughly and threw me over his shoulder, and then shoved Laurent's shoulder in a "you have no choice but to come with us" type way. I couldn't find it in me to scream anymore. There was no point. I couldn't fight, couldn't run, and couldn't drift. I was trapped, and I was screwed. Please run, Edward. Don't come for me. Please.

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