The Guardian

Chapter Eight-Wakening

Edward P.o.v

Emmett had to literally drag me out of the car. I could see again, I could ever since Bella woke up. Emmett ran to the nearest tree, in the middle of the forest, and set me down. Not to softly I might say.

"Edward the sooner you feed, the sooner you will get to see Bella." This perked me up, though I didn't show it. I was never going to forgive them for this. Never. And that can be a long time when you have all the time in the world. Literally. I didn't even look at him as I stood up slowly, trying not to fall back down. My legs were still a little woozy, but I could take it.

"Edward..." I ran as fast as I could away from him. I knew he was going to say that he was sorry, but I wouldn't have forgiven him anyways. I jumped on the first deer that I go and drank it dry. Then another and another. As soon as I was done with, what I thought, was my fifth one, I was Emmett starring at me from behind.

"What?" I asked rudely as he blinked a couple of times. It wasn't like me to be this way.

"You... you know you just devoured 10 deer in under a minuet, right?" I. was. Shocked.

"I did what now?"

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No one has ever eaten more then two deer, or other animal, in one filling. And I had ten. Either I was really hungry or there is something wrong with me. God I just hope that it was the first one, at least that's what I was relaying on.

"Can we go now or are you going to keep me here against my will?" I asked him, disregarding the ten dead deer 'sleeping' in front of me.

'What was that?' Emmett asked me threw his thoughts. I made a funny face, but he was being completely serious. I looked around, searching for the reason that I wasn't sitting with my Bella right now. Whoa... that was random. Since when did I call her mine? She's not mine, she's Ace's. No wait she's no ones. She's not a piece of property to be owned. She's a human being.

I shook my head -earning a weird stare from Emmett- to clear those thoughts.

"Em, I don't hear anything." I said, he sniffed the air, his eyes widened, and he covered him mouth and backed towards me.

"What's wrong?" I asked quietly, trying not to disturb the air too much.

'There are humans coming!' He whispered into my mind. I glanced around briefly before sniffing the air. It smelled appetizing, but I wasn't hungry at the least bit. There were two in all, not enough to have a good reason to be this far into the woods. Both were males, too. That's a surprise; usually you would only find couples hiking in the woods together. To Emmett they would smell so good that he might not be able to resist.

My arm tightened around Emmett's forearm, holding him back just in case.

They smelled like a lot of different wild animals, the most dominant one was bear, though. But their blood smelled like rain and something that I couldn't describe. I pulled Emmett towards the edge of the forest.

"Come on Em, let's go." I said sternly, he nodded and rushed out of the forest at full speed. I looked back once more before running after him.

Ace P.o.v.

I heard voices that sounded very familiar, well only one did. I absolutely hated that voice, it was low and velvety. It was the voice of Edward Cullen. I held my arm out in front of Max, stopping him.

"Do you hear that?" I asked, turning my body to face where the two voices were coming from.

"What's what?" He asked looking around; I glared at him for a moment.

"Don't answer a question with a question." I knew that I was behaving like an ass, but I was pissed that Bella might be hanging around the Cullen kids. I wouldn't admit this out loud, but I was scared. I was scared that Bella would fall for that Cullen boy, and leave me in the dust.

"Sorry," Max apologized, bringing me back to reality. "Is that Edward?" He asked hearing that same voice that I had, it was coming from a small clearing a few yards to our left. We moved stealthily towards them.

"What's wrong?" Emmett, I think was his name, moved closer to Edward, covering his mouth like he had smelt something awful. We could see them now, threw a small opening in the brush that surrounded us. I almost gasped when I saw, at least, ten dead deer surrounding the Cullen boys. What are they? I thought to myself.

Edward grabbed his brother's arm and dragged him out of the forest.

"Come on, Em, let's go." He said sternly, Emmett nodded stiffly and rushed out of the forest too fast to be human, with Edward following after him.

"There's something not right about them, and I intend to figure it out." I voiced my thoughts out loud as I turned away from the scene to get what we had originally came to get. Ingredients to a numbing 'potion', you could call it.

Edward P.o.v.

We rushed back to the house as fast as we possibly could, with Emmett's driving (I was still a little woozy from the shot), and the whole time just wondering if the humans had seen anything that might mark as 'out of the ordinary'.

The minute the car rolled close enough to the house, I jumped out and ran to the front door. I was aiming for my bedroom, where I knew Bella would be residing, where she was waiting for my return, hopefully.

As I ran to my room I could hear Carlisle asking me if I had fed enough. I nodded to myself though I knew that he couldn't see it. I was still pretty pissed off at my family. They should have respected my decision to stay with Bella, she had woken up, and I would have gone hunting, just a little bit later.

I was almost certain that Emmett would tell them the minute they asked what happened.

"Bella..." I whispered her name, she was sleeping. I entered the room slowly, kneeling down beside the bed.

Now I knew why Ace loved her so much. She was helplessly beautiful, and has a charmingly sweet personality. The only problem was that she was abused. She doesn't deserve a father like that, hell; she doesn't deserve life like that. She's like a beautiful broken Angel. And I am her Guardian.

Edward Anthony Mason Cullen, the Guardian.

Bella P.o.v.

I. Was. Exhausted. I must have only slept for 3 hours, but I couldn't go back to sleep. There was someone beside me, stroking my hair softly, trying not to wake me. I groaned and the hand stopped, suddenly, and untangled for my hair.

"Edward..." I mumbled as I opened my eyes. Everything was blurry at first but then I could see his beautiful, flawless face.

"Bella..." He whispered back. "Are you feeling alright?" His voice was music to my ears. I wondered why Ace's voice didn't have that affect on me. Maybe I... no, I couldn't be, could I? I sat up as he sat on the bed next to me.

"Bella…" Edward dragged my name out as long as he could, waving his hand in front of my face, trying to being me back t reality. I took a hold of his hand and looked him straight in his golden eyes.

"Yes?" I asked, letting go of his hand. He smiled crookedly. I loved that smile, it always seemed to brighten things up.

"You spaced for a second there," He stated, and I couldn't help but smile at the look that he was giving. He looked so vulnerable, so innocent. But I knew better then to believe that. He was a vampire, as was the rest of his 'family'. I should be scared out of my mind right now, but I felt a strong sense of protection. I don't think that they would hurt even if they had too.

"Oh, sorry. And yes, I am feeling just fine." I answered, still smiling.

"Your sure? Do you need anything?" I almost sighed as he continued to question me. I shook my head to almost everything that he asked. He froze for a moment, his eyes glazing over for a split second before returning back to their normal state. I cocked my head to the side, consciously worrying about what he had 'heard' or 'saw'.

"What?" He asked looking really smug now. I gave him a small smug look, copying him, before I leaned back a little.

"What did you just 'see'?" I know I guessed that he had seen something, his eyes don't glaze over like that every time someone thinks about something.

"Oh, nothing." I could hear Alice giggling from down stairs as Edward leaned closer to me. My breathing turned into short, small, gasps. Edward's grin widened as he noticed the changes in me.

"How come when Ace gets that close, you don't do that?" He voiced the question that had formed in my head. I looked puzzled for a moment before recovering.

"I don't know, I'm probably used to him." I came up with the lamest excuse. And I could tell then he wasn't buying it. Edward leaned in even closer, his eyes sparkling from the small bit of sunlight coming threw the window curtain. My heart started to beat frantically. Why was he doing this to me? Does he like me? No, that's absurd. Edward Cullen, the most perfect boy in the universe, couldn't like me even if I was the last person on earth.