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A/N: so I don't know what's been going on with this website but if y'all commented or PM'd me it never showed up. My story stats and profile stats has shown that none of you have read the last chapter. It's strange.
Bella's P.O.V.
I feel my heart clench as I continue to run away from my home. Everything has just become too much and I just need to get away from it all. My own mother said she never wanted me.
I run deeper and deeper into the forest. I lost track of where I was a long time ago, and right now I don't care. I just need to get away from everybody and everything. I feel my heart clench as I finally trip over a fallen branch and almost collide with the ground.
"Bella please be careful." Tanya whispers sadly as she releases me and Before I know it I take off running deeper into the woods.
Im glad Tanya is out here with me, but at the same time I wish I was here alone. I run for a few more minutes before it finally hurts too much to breath and I collide with a solid object hard. It takes me a while to realize that it's Tanya. She wraps her arms around me and slowly slides to the ground. She quickly pulls me into her lap as I finally let my emotions take over. I grab fist fulls of her shirt as I sob into her shoulder.
All those years of my life that I wasted on a mother who never wanted me. I sacrificed my childhood so she could go out and have her adventures or whatever the hell she wanted to do. I had to leave my father the only true parent I ever had just so she could get back at him! I don't even know who that woman at my house was! She certainly wasn't Renee. I can't believe that.
"Angel please say something...anything...I'm worried about you." Tanya says as she starts rocking back and forth as she runs her fingers through my hair.
"My mom never wanted me...and my father lied to me." I feel so...lost within myself. I'm starting to doubt everything I thought I knew about my family and myself really.
"I'm sure Charlie had a good reason as to why he never told you." Tanya says trying to defend Charlie to me.
"Don't defend him! He allowed my mother to take me away! He knew the hell I had to go through everyday with that woman because she forced me to be an adult at fucking 6! How can you defend any of that?!" I shout letting my emotions get the best of me. Right now I don't want her to defend either of them because then she'll make me be reasonable when I just want to be upset right now.
"You're right. I'm sorry I tried to defend him. You know I'll always be on your side no matter what." Tanya says as she pulls me closer and rests her head on my shoulder.
"All of this is too much to deal with. I just want to go home." I sigh as I wrap my arms around Tanya's neck and rest my head on top of hers.
"Would you like for me to take you back home? I'm sure Charlie would love to talk to you and see that you're okay." I couldn't fight back the dark chuckle that formed in my chest. I don't feel like that house is my home anymore. I have been lied to countless times there and I no longer feel like it's a safe haven like a true home should be.
"I meant your house love. Charlie...that house...they're no longer my home. I no longer feel safe there, but with you and the rest of the family I feel like you are my home." I smile softly as I remember how Tanya came into my life like a whirlwind. Ever since that day she has done nothing but be by my side no matter what happened. She means everything to me in ways Edward never could.
"You know that you're more than welcome to stay with me angel." Tanya says with a faint smile as she leans up to kiss my forehead.
"Can we go now? I really just want to take a shower and go to bed. I honestly just don't want to deal with anything today." I'm so emotionally drained and I just want to sleep.
"Of course angel." Tanya quickly slides one arm around my waist and the other underneath my legs. Before I even realize she's standing up we're racing towards her house as fast as she can go.
I close my eyes and try to relax and Tanya races to our home. I smile as I feel a warm burn in my chest as I think about Tanya being my home, her family being my family. I'm quickly pulled out of my little trip away from reality when we reach the front door and I hear yelling coming from inside.
"We don't have to go in if you don't want too." Tanya says as she slowly puts me down and wraps both of her arms around my waist.
"The last couple of hours have already been shit. What else could possibly go wrong?" I say with a bitter sarcastic tone as I turn the knob and walk inside. The sight that greets me is all of the Cullen's except for Alice and Emmett crouched ready to fight. I turn to see Kate, Irina, Eleazar, and Laurent all standing like a wall waiting for them to attack. Everybody else is just standing around looking at the impending fight.
"What in the hell is going on here?" Tanya shouts using her Coven Leader voice that would be really sexy, but right now I'm trying to figure out what Edward and Carlisle are doing.
Carlisle slowly standings up straight and turns to address Tanya as Coven Leader. "We're here to retrieve Bella. While Emmett and Rosalie were out hunting earlier they spotted Victoria along the border of Canada building an army of newborns." You know when people say what else could go wrong it's not an actually challenge!
"Okay so Victoria is trying to kill me we all knew it was going to happen eventually. What does that have anything to do with you Carlisle? Also I'm not going any damn where with any of you." I say with venom hoping it hurts them.
"Bella please we're just trying to protect you." Esme says as she too straightens and starts taking steps towards me. I in turn step back closer to Tanya.
"I don't need your protection. What I need right now is my family which isn't you!" I feel the anger taking over again. They have only managed to make my day worse and all I wanted was to spend time with my family and take a shower.
"Bella love please don't be like this. We just want to protect you from Victoria. It's my fault she's after you in the first place." Edward says as he stays in his crouched position glaring at my family. That fact alone pissed me off to no end.
"Oh you want to protect me now from Victoria, but when you left you also wanted to protect me. Do you have a hero's complex or something? I didn't need your protection then and I sure as hell don't want it now. So I need all the Cullen's who know I don't want anything to do with right now to stand the fuck up and get the hell out." I grasp Tanya's hands that are wrapped around my waist hard as I try to fight back my anger.
"Bella we can tell that you're probably under a lot of stress, but you have no right to kick us out. This isn't your house." Carlisle says as he crosses his arms and stands next to Esme with an almost smug smile that I want to wipe off his face.
"Actually Carlisle that's where you would be wrong." Carmen says as she steps from behind Eleazar and comes to stand in front of the wall. "The sole purpose of building this house was for Bella to have a safe place to come to after all of you abandoned her. She has as much right to kick you out of this house as any of us." Why can't my mom be as awesome as Carmen? She literally goes out of her way to make me feel as though I am home and a part of the family.
"I'm not going anywhere without Bella! It is my job to protect her from Victoria!" Before I can even stop myself I'm having another out of body experience and I see my arm out in front of me and Edward suspended in midair clutching his throat.
"Now Edward I've had a really long day, and I am not in the mood for your petty bullshit. So you are going to kindly walk out of here with your family and leave mine alone. I don't need or want your help. Let Victoria come for me all I can say to her is good luck. As you can see I'm not the weak girl you left behind all those months ago." I say all of this as I stay rooted to the same spot wrapped in Tanya's loving embrace.
"Isabella release him right now before you kill him!" Carlisle shouts at me which does nothing but anger me further. I quickly shoot out my other hand and have Carlisle suspended clutching his throat as well.
"You, Carlisle, have no right to tell me what to do. As you can see you have lost all authority over me. Also don't call me Isabella." I say as I start to close my hands and watch them struggle even more.
"Bella sweetheart I can see that the talk with your parents didn't go as well as you had hoped, but please I need you to release them. The others will make sure they make it back to their house." Carmen says as she slowly approaches me with her hands up to show that she means no harm. I would never hurt Carmen she's the closest thing to a mother I have right now.
"Promise?" I ask softly as I feel my anger slowly slip away from me and I start to slowly lower my arms putting Edward and Carlisle back down.
"I promise that the second you set them down the others will escort all of them out of here." Carmen says as she comes to a stop in front of me with her hands still raised.
I nod as I release both of them and break free from Tanya's grip to launch myself into Carmen's arms instead. I wrap my arms tightly around her neck and I try and fight back tears. God I'm so tired of crying today.
"You bitch! How dare you embarrass me like that…." Edward quickly starts to advance towards me, and just as quickly Tanya and Eleazar are standing in front of my with the rest of the family flanking them on both sides.
"You would do wise to never finish that sentence you stupid child." Tanya growls at Edward as she takes a step closer.
"Tanya please calm down. He was going to do anything, and he would never hurt Bella. Edward still loves Bella very much." Carlisle says as he again comes to Edward's defense.
"Control your son Carlisle before I do. He has no right to talk to my daughter in such a manner." Eleazar says as he too takes a step closer to match Tanya.
"I warned all of you that barging in like this would do nothing but make matters worse." Alice says as she remains leaning against the wall with her arms crossed staying completely out of this.
"Why do none of you ever listen to us? Believe it or not we know more than you think, and we sure as hell know Bella better than all of you do!" Emmett says as he walks over to the unoccupied couch and takes a seat.
"Bella's right she isn't the same girl some of us were forced to leave all those months ago. She's perfectly capable of protecting herself as she has managed to prove time and time again. If she needs our help she knows where to find all of us. The Denali's are capable of protecting her as well probably better than we could. All of them have way more experience and are stronger than all of us anyway." Alice says as she doesn't move from her spot but sends the rest of her family a hateful glare.
"We are her family and we just want to prove that we are here for her. Us leaving was a mistake that we all wish we could take back." Esme whispers as she looks at the floor.
"We all gave up that right the second we packed up and left her." Emmett says as I look over Carmen's shoulder and see that his eyes are starting to mist over.
I sigh deeply as I realize I'm going to have to be the bigger person again. "As harsh as it sounds Emmett is right. You aren't my family anymore because family doesn't just up and leave somebody because another member says so. The only ones who thought I was important enough to keep around will forever be my family and are more than welcome to stay here, but as for the rest of you leave please. It has been a long emotional day and all of you fighting isn't make me feel any better." I sigh as I pull away from Carmen's embrace and turn to address the Cullen's. I push past Tanya and Eleazar and stand at the front of the family.
"We're here trying to prove that we love you like family, yet you cast us aside as though we're nothing simply because of the Denali's? How is that fair?" Carlisle says as he glares at me and the Denali's.
"They have been here when none of you were. All of them have gone out of their way to make me feel like I'm family to them. Oh my god they build a house just so I could have a home away from home! You as Coven Leader allowed Edward to cast me aside first, and let's be honest here if Edward hadn't found out the Denali's were here none of you would be back except maybe Alice and Emmett since they were the only ones who truly loved me!" I feel my anger getting the best of me again.
"That's not true! We were planning to come back before Edward mentioned anything." I don't have to be a mind reader to know that he's lying through his teeth.
"You're lying and I know you're lying because even your wife is looking at you in disbelief." I sigh as I shake my head. I start walking to the staircase as I deliver my parting words. "It has been a long day filled with lies that you just keep adding too. Take your family and get out of my home before I allow the others to do what they've been waiting to do since all of you arrived." I ascend the stairs not even bothering to look back to make sure they leave.
Today has quite possibly been the worst day of my life. I found out I'm an archangel whatever the hell that really even means. My own mother never wanted me, but took me away from my father just to get back at him for forcing her to give birth to me. Then to add insult to injury last night when I was pouring my heart out to him he knew what I was and what was going on the whole time. He had plenty of opportunities to make my life easier, but not once did he speak up. And then to top of this beautiful cake of fuck my life Victoria is back and building an army just to kill me!
I honestly don't even know how to begin to deal with all of this. I just feel so physically and emotionally drained. I just want to take a shower and hopefully relax with my family. Maybe they can help me take my mind off of things for a while.
A/N 2: So as you can see we're building up to the climax of this beautiful story which means we're also building up to the end. The Volturi might be in the sequel, but they also might not. Will the wolves? What do you think will happen in the sequel? Send me ideas if you have them, and if I like them they might appear in the sequel. Wouldn't that be totally awesome?!
