Bring Me to Life

By: KellyCRocker59

Chapter Seven: Ally

Where are you guys? Are any reviewers out there? I got four reviews this week on this chapter(this is the actual chapter six, not seven, as is listed on the index)! That was one of my favorite chapters to do, but I got such minimal response! Anyway, thanks are due to those who DID review: 1stepbehind29, sounds of music, and EclipseofMeHeart, and Samantha11. You OTHER people out there, who don't review: I don't bite! Feel free to give constructive criticism; I'll take it. Just don't knock down my self-esteem by not reviewing, please!

Anyway, this is a very informative chapter, so there isn't much action. However, the next chapter will easily make up for this!

I awoke to find a light smell of coffee coming from the kitchen. I sat up in the large bed that I knew to be Jacob's, my mind racing at the memories of last night. I couldn't stop seeing Marlina's eyes staring up into the sky, or the woman that had reached out to me in her last moments of life. What were those creatures? What was happening? I remembered the rage that had built up inside my head when they had looked at me, the crazed bloodlust in their eyes.

I stood and walked into the kitchen, Jacob standing by the stove with a large bowl beside him. He looked up at me and smiled. I smiled back, questioning his forgiveness. I walked around the counter to stand beside him.

"Are you okay?" He asked, hands working a spatula around several scrambled eggs.

"I...don't know." I answered truthfully.

He put his arm around my shoulder, and I leaned against him. He finished the eggs and put them in the bowl.

"I'm sorry for being so harsh before. You needed money; I just don't really remember what that feels like."

I looked up at him, and he leaned down, taking my lips in his. I slowly put my arms around his neck, and he put his hands on my waist, pulling me against him. His tongue slid into my mouth, roaming through it. Mine did the same to him, and when we finally parted, we were breathless.

"I love you, Jacob Black." I whispered.

"I love you, Isabella Swan." He said with a smirk, rubbing my cheek with his thumb.

He let go of me and took the bowl of eggs to the kitchen table, where two plates already sat. He put a large mound of eggs on his plate, sitting down. I just put a little on mine, sitting across from him. We ate in silence for a moment, and then he spoke.

"I was thinking; maybe we should go to the bookstore and look for some information on the creatures that we saw; it might help." He said.

I nodded, thinking back to when I had looked up information about Edward before I had known he was a vampire. It had actually been a little useful.

We headed to the bookstore right after breakfast, Jake showing me a wide assortment of trendy clothing that he had bought me. It was a little chilly in the late October day, so I pulled on a pair of American Eagle jeans along with a tan Hollister shirt, wrapping a fall-colored Abercrombie and Fitch wool scarf around my neck. Jake put on a pair of Hollister jeans and a red American Eagle tee-shirt; I couldn't help staring at his muscular chest that bulged against the shirt with a smile.

Jake pulled the door open for me, and we decided to split up; he was going to check the Internet and I was going to look in the Mythology section. I headed to the tall shelves that were labeled 'Mythology and more', a set of cushioned chairs sitting back against a wall. A man who looked to be in his late twenties sat there; he was muscular, though not as much so as Jake. However, he was extremely handsome, with hazel eyes and short brown hair that accented his tan, though not dark, skin. He held a thick book labeled 'Creatures of Destruction.'

I looked along the shelves, searching for a book that might talk about flying creatures or maybe man-eating birds. However, as I came closer to the middle of the section, the man began to talk.

"They come like a plague, their bodies both man and bird. They ensnare their prey by breaking into their minds, destroying any sort of common sense or self-defense that the person like have. They then tear apart the prey's bodies, searching for the creature's heart while the prey screams in terror, though not knowing what to do in their last moments of life.

"They then eat the heart, though there is no need. They live to hunt; they do not hunt to live."

I looked at the man in shock.

"What..."

"You are Isabella Swan, am I correct? You witnessed several attacks by harpies last night, did you not? You were almost killed, but the first time you defended yourself, while the other time your boyfriend, the young multi-millionaire Jacob Black saved you, am I right?" He asked, looking at me with knowing eyes, his face clean-shaven with eyebrows tilted up in questioning, though I figured that he knew the answer.

"How do you know that?" I asked.

"I...saw it in one of the harpy's minds. That's what they are called, you know; the creatures that attacked you."

I just looked at him in shock for a long while.

"Are you a..."

"No, I'm not a vampire. However, I am the closest thing a human can get to being one. Except for possibly you, Isabella."

I just looked at him, not knowing what to say. How did he know so much about me, or any of this?

"Who are you?" I asked.

He smiled, though it looked different then most people's. It was sort of like knowing a bunch of 'inside' jokes, yet he was about to tell me all of them.

"My name is Simon Bunch. Our minds are quite alike. Yours is private, and only accessible to you. Mine is...prodding. I have an undying yearning for endless knowledge. I went to college when I was ten, already having analyzed all of Shakespeare's works and writing more complex and morally moving stories myself. I had already put Bach to shame with my own compositions by age eleven, learning more in two years of Harvard than many learn in eight. By age 22, I had gotten my doctorate degree at Stanford, Brixton, Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard in Psychology and Behavioral Analysis, as well as Literature.

"I do to people's minds what rapists do to people's bodies. I have an endless amount of knowledge in every category. I found the most proficient way to lose weight and gain muscle at the same time without having to work out at all. I found a way to make my face as beautiful as possible without plastic surgery, as well as finding a way to have sex as much as I want without worry of contracting any sort of STD. I have more money then anyone can imagine. I hate those who think they are better than me, while they are quite inferior."

I just looked at him, hardly believing my ears. He was like a perfect human.

"I want to aid you, Bella. You are the first person I have ever met that isn't impossibly inferior to me. You would do wise to accept my aid." He said.

"What are you suggesting?" I asked.

"Meet me here in this very spot tomorrow. And bring your boyfriend." He said, getting up and walking off after placing the book back on the shelf.

However, just as I was getting ready to go look for Jacob, he spoke again.

"Oh, and Bella?"

I turned to him.

"Be careful tonight. The harpies are going to strike again."