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AN- I'm sorry this took so long and is shorter than the rest of my chapters but tomorrows one is already to go I just need to spell and grammar check it. Bella meets a certain vampire this chapter! Wahoo.
With Bella.
Bella needed air. By being in what felt like vamp central and having a hit put on her by a church, Bella's brain was... fucked. Bella felt like her anxiety to be around so many vampires was justified. For one she had apparently amazing smelling blood that was the equivalent of a three course meal in vampire standards. Two, sometimes she just couldn't keep her mouth shut and when one wrong word could get her eaten, it put Bella on her toes.
Bella crept past a sleeping Sookie on the sofa. Turning the door handle slowly in hopes of it creaking less Bella found it didn't make a sound at all. That's right, I'm in a most properly hundreds of thousands dollar hotel. They likely have a whole job where someone just checks door handles. Bella pushed the door open and slipped outside.
The hallway was alight with soft yellow lighting. Bella walked slowly through the hallway with no direction in mind. Walking helped her think. Sookie, Bill and Eric were all heading to Godric's nest tonight. Whatever a nest is. Bella had been black listed on the rescue mission. The church knew what she looked like and there was no chance of her getting in there incognito. Sookie had put her foot down even wanting Bella not to leave the building as Sookie thought the church would send someone else. That had pissed Bella off.
She had face off against a deranged nomadic cold one; she refused to call them vampires any more. Been attacked by some Bull creature. She grew up with parents like Charlie and Renee. She had been thrown through a glass table in a room of hungry blood drinkers. Bella had also dealt with a very handsy best friend who didn't understand the word no and slapped an angry werewolf in the face.
She wasn't made of glass. She was stronger than a lot of vampires out there, To be put in a room and told she couldn't leave because people; people she counted closest to her and should know her better than anyone should, thought she was weak hurt her deeper than Bella thought possible.
Bella zoned back in and found she was at the front desk. A statuesque blonde beauty stood behind it. Bella strolled up "Hi. If a Sookie Stackhouse comes here asking for an Isabella swan can you let her know I've just popped out to star bucks?" The blond woman, whose name tag read AMY, carried on clicking away at a keyboard. Amy spared Bella a quick glance and nodded still obnoxiously typing away. I hope she heard me. Bella opened the think glass door and was hit with the sweltering Texan day heat.
Bella was in a simple light peach camisole, light jeans and some jewelled light pink sandals. She loved her leather boots but her favourite was going barefoot. However she couldn't saunter down a busy, big city street barefoot so she would use second best. The street was piled with happy faces. There were a lot of blondes. It was just one more thing that made Bella feel like an outsider.
Bella thought she never really fitted into anywhere she had been. Arizona she was too pale. Forks she was the shiny new toy but like with every other new toy the novelty wore off fast. God damn it she didn't even fit in with most of her family. Let's not even get started on the whole Cullen mess. While people dreamed of money and success, Bella just wanted to belong. Was that too much to ask for?
Bella had ordered a sweet tea in honour of the place she was in and sat down on a local park bench. She had the sweet tea firmly clutched in-between her hands. Leaning forward she rested her elbows on her knees and watched the blades of grass dance in the light breeze.
A hand tapped on her shoulder. Jumping Bella scrabbled to re catch her Styrofoam cup. "I'm sorry miss. Could you help me unload some crates from my car?" The man was middle aged and already had a five o'clock shadow. Bella placed her cup on the bench and brushed off her jeans. "Sure, lead the way."
The man smiled and started walking to the car park. Bella followed a few steps behind him. They walked past a cluster of cars and carried on to the shadowed side of the car park. Bella's gut started to sink. She may have spent most of her time in small towns like Bon Temps and Forks however she wasn't stupid. Following an unknown male into shady car parks was a big No! No!
Run Bella! Jaspers voice was back in her head. Stopping in her tracks Bella Tried to creep backwards, the man spun around and lunged. Bella tried to dodge but he managed to grab her arm. "Get in the fucking car Bitch!" Spittle came flying from his mouth. Bella yanked her arm hard which had the guy stumbling forward just as she let her free fist fly. It hit his cheek and he fell to the floor on his hands and knees, cradling his face. Bella took off.
She stumbled a few times but stubbornly stayed on her two feet and kept on running. She could faintly hear him coming for her over the pounding of her heartbeat in her ears. Bella swerved into the trees surrounding the park. Only know realising what a stupid move it had been. She felt like the ditzy airhead in a horror movie who always hides in the closet or under the bed. She should have ran into a crown not a secluded wooded area.
Bella begged for her legs to move faster. The man was gaining speed and coming closer. He must have been the follow up to the limo driver. She didn't think the fellowship had big enough balls to make a move in broad daylight. She judged wrong.
"If you come back know, I won't have to hurt you!" Hurt me? Doesn't he class killing as being hurt? Well they're not getting me without a fight. Bella dived behind a tree and picked up a rock. Hugging it to her chest. When she heard him right behind her tree she took action. Jumping out from behind the tree Bella swung. The rock hit him hard in the shoulder and he let out a cry of pain. Before Bella could run again he had back handed her in the face. Bella was hoping to hit him in the head with the rock but she didn't take into account the height difference.
The power of the strike knocked Bella off her feet. Her head hit a rock with a sickening crunch. The world swam before her eyes and she couldn't breath. She felt an arm wrap around her waist and jolted her upwards. The world became even more unfocused and she wanted to throw up. "I warned you" was the last thing she heard before the darkness took her.
With Sookie, Bill and Eric.
Sookie was frantic. Bella had been missing for a good three hours. After asking the clerk at the front of the hotel if she had seen Bella, she was told she had gone to star bucks and then completely ignored. Sookie waited for Bella to come back in their room. An hour had gone by and Sookie had gone to the coffee shop to see if she could see Bella. No such luck. Sookie had rushed back to the hotel. The sun had set by then and Sookie explained what had happened to Bill and Eric. Bill managed to track her scent to scuffle marks in some mud and a Bloodied rock. Her blood.
Now all three were arguing back at hotel Camille. Bill was blaming Eric for not sending Bella home and dragging her here in the first place. Sookie just wanted to go and find Bella right then and there. Having had enough Eric stood up and slammed his fists onto the table making the oak splinter and crack. "ENOUGH! Bella will be fine. She's a fighter; she would of mad a brilliant shield maiden. We need to find Godric! The sooner we do the quicker we find Bella! No one could track Bella faster and better then he could."
Sookie scoffed and folded her arms around herself. "How? He's never even met her!" Eric smiled and walked over to Sookie. He had so much to teach the littlest blonde. "Give him something of hers to smell and I promise you she would be found within the hour. Now get ready, were meeting Isobel and Stan in an hour." Eric strolled through the door of Bills and Sookies room with a smile. The tiny firecracker will be fine.
With Bella.
Bella came too with a flutter and a groan. She was in a ... Office? Bella went to move but found she was tied to the chair with thick, scratchy rope. The door whined as it opened behind her but she couldn't crane her neck far enough to glimpse the door or who had opened it. The clicking of the shoes on the wooden floor sounded expensive. A man made it into her line of vision.
Steve Newlin. It's that vampire hating upstart! He gave her a smile that sent chills down her spine. "Hello Isabella. I've heard a lot about you." Bella wanted to spit in his face. Or cut that ridiculous hair off. "Fuck off! You're the one who wanted me dead!" Newlin sighed and sat down in the cushioned chair behind the desk. The chair dwarfed him.
"Yes. However you are a child of god like the rest of us. So I thought I would give you a chance to redeem your ... ways." Bella couldn't believe what she was hearing. Redeem her ways? Did he hear himself? "I I've said this before? But ... FUCK. YOU."
Newlin shook his head and leant forwards resting his elbows on the table. "The angels told me you wouldn't want redemption. They said you were doomed and I needed to smite you in god's stead." He sounded like he was talking to himself. Bella was confused. Angels? He was bloody delusional!
"Angels?" Newlin nodded enthusiastically. "Just like gods great weapon the sun shows us Satan spawns; Vampires, burn. Gods sun shows us his first sons." Dread crashed over Bella like a tidal wave. She swore her heart stopped beating. She prayed she was wrong. The dream was right so far. She now knew what the rest meant. She needed confirmation though. Picking up her courage she asked. "How?"
Newlin face became brighter. She would give anything to punch him right know. "The sun shows them for what they are. They glow. They spackle magnificently. Like a million diamonds bound together by god's will."
Bella's heart did stop this time. She was right. Newlin, the fellowship was puppets. A cold one or even cold ones were behind this. The Volturi? No. They wouldn't lower themselves to manipulating humans and if they knew she knew of them, they would just kill her. They wouldn't out themselves to a church, they refused to when vampires came out of the coffins. Then who? What did they want with a sheriff? Why her? Why want her dead before she even stepped foot in this church? Questions danced around her mind picking up tempo. She had no answers, she knew too little at the moment. Newlin interrupted her thoughts.
"But it's too late now. You're too far gone. Gabe, lock her up with our other... guest. He must be hungry by now." A balding man who was stocky unchained her and dragged her kicking and screaming to what she thought must have been the basement.
He stopped at the door and pulled out a set of keys, then proceeded to drag her by her hair down the stairs. Bella's head was pounding from being knocked out and she couldn't concentrate hard enough to use her powers. She was so vulnerable right now and from what she could gather, she was going to be locked in with a starving vampire. A cage was opened and she was shoved in. She fell to her knees. The basement door slammed shut. She was locked in. It took a moment for her eyes to adjust to the lighting change.
The walls were bare and had cracks here and there. The floor was bare concrete, so cold Bella could feel it seeping through her jeans. Something was glinting in the miniscule light coming from under the basement door. Bella crawled slowly over and saw it was a chunky chain. A silver chain. That was not what had her worried though. It was the body that was literally draped in silver that had her heart squeezing painfully.
What right did someone have to treat someone else like such an animal? Bella scuttled across as fast as she could with all the bruises and aches she had acquired today. Bella went to place her hand on the vampire but found nowhere where she could put it without pushing the silver into the wounds. Bella gently cupped the vampires face. She couldn't see well but from what she could see the vampire was male and EXTREMLEY handsome. Bella mentally shook herself, now was not the time. She had bigger fish to fry, she couldn't get all hormonal.
The vamps nose twitched. He inhaled deeply and then his eyes shot open. They were the eyes from her dream. They were just as they were apart from one thing. A foggy red was creeping over his eyes from the tear duct she could still see his iris's though and they were still filled with that ancient wisdom and ... Need? Right he most likely wants me to remove the chains!
Bella removed the chains like she would a band aid. Fast. Once they were off she went to sit back. The vamp dived and tackled her to the cold floor. He was on top of her chest to chest holding her face. Before she could scream his face was right in front of hers. His fangs practically shining despite the lack of light.
A weird grumbling sound came from his chest that sounded suspiciously like purring. He lent in and rubbed his face up her neck and across her face, resembling very much a feline. All of a sudden Bella felt his fangs pierce her neck where her birthmark was.
AN - As I said I'm so sorry it's short. The one tomorrow is normal length. THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the favs and follows and reviews; I read every single one. They mean an awful lot and help me know that people are interested in this. Hope you liked the chapter, same time tomorrow guys!
