Hey guys, I'm back with a new story. I should have done this at the start of the first chapter but forgot. So, hi welcome, I believe this is my first het story. I hope you enjoy it and will stay for the full ride.
Bella awoke the next morning due to the sun poking through the cover of leaves that she had sheltered beneath. That was always a first, sunshine in Forks. She felt a glimmer of disapppointment as the realisation that no saviour had come as of yet. She would just have to keep waiting. No she couldn't just be a sitting duck. Despite the hunger still twisting in her guts she'd have to walk on, at least to try and find some water, even if she couldn't find her way out quite yet.
With a sigh she stood up, brushing forest debris from her person, before finally looking up. To come face to face with a small woman with burning ruby eyes. A scream rose through her throat, but fear stopped her from letting it out. She backed away from the dirty blonde in front of her. There wasn't much room for escape though, her back hitting a tree. The vampire before her didn't move?
"Who sent you? Was it Victoria? Was it the Cullens? Did they decide to off me because of their laws but their veggie hearts couldn't handle doing it themselves?" Still the vampire girl didn't move closer, she just put her hands up as if to calm a frightened animal.
"I'm not here to hurt you. You shouldn't even know what we are. Me and my mate only hunt criminals. We were just going to help you out the forest." And despite the ruby in the woman's eyes there was also truth. Enough truth for Bella to let her guard down. There was no doubt in trying to run anyway. If the vampire truly wanted to hurt her there would be no escape. She knew that.
"Is this town just a vampire hot spot? Are you just passing through or what? And did you mention a second vampire?" And though she had accepted the precariousness of her fate, the wariness was not totally eradicated. It would have been stupid not being wary. She knew how much danger a vampire could pose.
"We were sort of passing through, in that we came for a short visit with an old friend. And yes my mate is about somewhere but I sent him out to the town to go pick up some food and liquid for you so you didn't go and die on us." Still the vampire had that calming tone that was obviously meant to placate. And despite Bella knowing it could just be a false sense of security she felt herself responding the the calm tone and strong southern twang.
Seeing that the human was responding the vampire lead the human to a clearing in the forest, guiding her to a fallen tree who's trunk acted as a seat. The vampire took a seat on the floor, in an effort to intimidate the girl they had come to rescue.
"I thought now they'd left I'd be free of your lot. I'm Bella, and you are?" Bella gave up on her fear, it was just expending energy that she could not spare.
"I'm Charlotte. My mate who should be returning soon is called Peter. Once you have some very energy back in you I would be very interested in finding out just how you know what we are." And she was. She'd just come to visit the Major. She hadn't expected to rescue some waif of a girl and for that girl to know what they were.
They sat in silence for a good five minutes. Bella merely didn't have the energy left to talk and Charlotte respected that, or at least seem to realise it. She merely sat at the girl's feet watching her to make sure that she did not become ill or she faced any other threat.
Finally though there was a very faint russle of trees, a crinkle of a plastic bag before a male vampire was revealed. He was tall, and very broad, with eyes as red as his mate's and hair that was blonde with streaks of brunette through it, giving it a dark look. Charlotte looked up immediately, smelling the scent of her mate seconds before she saw him, her eyes lighting up and jumping up at her natural speed.
She help back a laugh at Peter's widening eyes as she kissed him on the cheek and took the plastic bag full of produce from him. His voice was urgent as he spoke to his love at the natural speed and volume for his species.
"What are you playing at Char? This is a rescue mission not a revealing mission." This time she did laugh as she made her way over to an exhausted Bella, pulling out the bottle of water first, pulling the lid off and holding it out to the girl who accepted it with a grateful smile. Once the girl had taken the bottle Charlotte turned back round to her mate.
"This one is going to prove interesting. She already knows what we are." Now that definitely got Peter's attention.
"Maybe we were meant to meet the girl for some reason. It might explain why my senses were so adament that we go at specifically this point." Charlotte cocked her head to the side. She was very familiar with her mate's power, knowing that there was usually some higher message to the little notes the voices left her mate. This would make sense as well, the voices kept delaying him until a very specific time, only then would the power's that be that resided in Peter's head and ruled their lives, let them go. She could now only wonder what made this human so important.
Now that Peter was back though, she pulled him down to her perch on the floor, his arm almost automatically snaking around her waist, and her head resting on her shoulder. They watched as the human first downed the water, guzzling it in deep gulps, looking healthier by the second, as her body was re-hydrated. It was with a mix of fascination and disgust with which they watched her tuck into her food. Fascination at how she bit into the food, a look of rapt delight as she munched quickly through the produce. But also disgust at the scent that permeated from the sandwich. A chicken tikka. Whatever that was.
When she was finished with the food she put the rubbish in the plastic bag before smiling and pulling a little box out of the bag. Again she flashed a grateful smile at the vampire's sat before her as she took two of the paracetamol with what remaining water she had. Almost instantly she felt relief from the headache with which she had dealt since the prior day.
Once she was settled again she turned back to her two new companions, finally ready to face their questions.
"Thank you so much Peter and Charlotte. I don't think I would have lasted much longer without the water and the food was definitely wonderful. How did you know to get paracetamol?" The newcomer shrugged with an almost evil smirk, that was still somehow angry.
"Asked the nice lady in the shop what was beat for some simple aches and pains." His voice was deep with an even stronger southern lilt to it than his mate's. Bella nodded in response, it made sense, much less likely than it just being a lucky lady.
"So how did you find out about us, Little Lady?" Peter wasn't the most patient of people at the best of times, and knowing from his mate that the little waif before him knew what they were had his curiosity going mad. Her response was definnitely one he hadn't been expecting.
"I dated one." He hadn't been expecting it because by all logic, the vampire should either be here making a claim to her as a human pet, or she should be dead because he was done with his fun. This defied all logic.
"And why are you in this big bad forest and without your vampire." He was not prepared for the sadness that overtook her features, her big brown eyes going flat and dead, with just the hint of a tear in her eye. Whatever pain it was, was obviously fresh.
"One of his family members tried to take a munch out of me on my birthday. Things were weird for a week or so, with me and his whole family and then yesterday asked me to go for a walk with him. Into this big bad forest. Told me that the rest of his family had left and that neither him or any of his family had cared for me in all the time they had been here." During her explanation a few of her tears had spilled over and Charlotte had left her mate's side to wrap a comforting arm around the girl's shoulder. She leant into the offered cool body, the feeling both familiar and different, but definitely comforting as the woman shh'd her gently.
Her mate was not as sympathetic. He let out a snort as he shook his head. "I can't believe you dated Doucheward Cullen." Charlotte was just about to chastise her outspoken mate before she was beaten to the punch by an amused laugh from the girl beside her.
"Well I know it was a bad idea now. I was starting to resent him, he was so controlling. He didn't want me to see my friends, tried to separate me from my dad, would only allow me free access with certain members of his family. But his family, they accepted me, I thought they cared about me, and it's their leaving that's truly hurt." This time peter had nothing derisive to say. He wasn't totally heartless.
"Which one tried to take the munch?" Bella quickly realised that these two vampires also knew the Cullens, and was obviously not very fond of Edward. She wasn't sure about their feelings on any others of them yet.
"Jasper..." She was going to comment something more but she was swiftly interrupted by Peter.
"Bullshit. You need to tell us everything that heppened that day, because there is no way that the fucking Major who can be starving hungry, placed in a pit of bleeding humans and still resist and then try and bite one human with only 7 people's bloodlust. You can't even call it 7, more like 6 because that unnatural doctor doesn't feel enough bloodlust to class it at that." A touch of the old fear seeped back into Bella at the vehemance in the male vampire's voice. She pressed back slightly into Charlotte.
"Back off Pete, let her talk." And just as suddenly Peter was back to the nice calm guy that he had appeared before.
"Alice insisted on having a party for me, they were all around, mostly happy. I say mostly because Rosalie was never happy where I was concerned. Alice gave me the last gift. I'm a pretty clumsy human, so of course I had to go and cut my finger on the wrapping paper. Paper cut equals blood. Eyes went black. Edward pulled me closer, Jasper took a step forwards, glaring at me. Then Edward pushed me back into glass. Glass shatters and I bleed. Jasper leaps, Carlisle and Emmett try and restrain him. Edward stands directly in front of me, so I can't see what's going on in his mind." There was silence as the two vampires tried to figure out what had gone on.
"The Major can feel the other's bloodlust annd Edward was always directly in front of you or behind you. It may be that Jasper was going for Edward rather than you. Or he had something against you and was trying to use the situation to off you as if it was an accident. Though if that was the case they wouldn't have left you here, and alive." Bella had never particularly being that close to Jasper. She'd never got the chance. He was one that Edward would never let her access to. Stating he had the least control on his bloodlust. So what this vampire was saying was viable. Especially as he seemed to know Jasper personally.
"Saying that's true. It doesn't matter now. Their gone, and I assume you're not going to just let me home to my dad so I can live my life as if vampires never existed?" Charlotte squeezed Bella sympathetically. She was fond of the human already and was sure with time they could become good friends. This time it was her who took over the conversation from Peter.
"I'm 'fraid not Little Lady. By the sounds of what you said when you first met me you already have a vampire on your back so you have two options. We can kill you, we would do it quickly and as painlessly as possible. Or, we'd much rather, we can take you back to Texas with you, being as the Major's clearly not still in town. We can change you, and offer you protection against this threat." To Bella the offer was simple. She didn't want to die, not just because of bad luck. And maybe she would lose all semblance of the life she had known but that couldn't stop her from building a new one.
"I'll come to Texas with you. If you mostly drain me, and shred my clothes, it'll look like an animal got to me. Of course that will mean blood loss, so you'll have to travel with a changing me if that's viable." The two mates looked at each other, clearly conversing over Bella's head, before eventially they came to a decision.
"As long as we go by the outskirts we'll be perfectly fine, Little Lady."
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