There has been a tie when the voting closed for what the Cruor's are. I wasn't sure what to do about it at first but then it hit me. DUH! Hopefully when you read this chapter you will agree that my solution worked.
NEW VOTE:
When the Cullens return to Forks where should Bella run into them (More specifically Edward)?
1. At the Cruor's house, the Cullens go over there to meet their neighbors who don't live too far from their own and Bella is over there.
2. At school, Bella is hanging out with the Cruor's.
3. In Port Angeles while Bella and Nikel are out on a date.
4. Just happen to run into to each other at Bella work (No Cruor's there).
5. Have them meet the Cruor's first, not knowing they know Bella. Then show Bella with them later.
6. Different Idea?
mscullen1325: Yes they are "human". With whatever supernatural creature they turn out to be they can still reproduce. No worries about that. Unlike Vampires, who were humans that were turned into Vampires, whatever the Cruor's turn out to be they were born like that, like their parents were born like that so they can do anything a human can plus a little extra.
patch138: Oh good somebody else reads the Nina Bang series, I LOVE Sparkle, she's hysterical.
NotSoSlightlyCrazy: Yeah, nobody was really voting of humans so I decided to drop that. Originally they were supposed to be human's regardless but I just couldn't make a great story unless they could do some extra things.
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight just OC's.
Chapter 6: All I see is you.
Heaven's gates won't open up for me
With these broken wings I'm fallin'
And all I see is you
His smiled grew and he shook his head, "Well I would've spun you around and kissed you again, but I have terrible timing asking you while driving and all. You just wait until we get back to my house. I knew you'd say yes."
I laughed at him. What an egotistical friend I have. Oh wait, an egotistical boyfriend.
Nikel was true to his word, as soon as we arrived back at his house he had me out of the car and he was spinning me around. I was laughing until he put me down to kiss me properly. We barely got a decent kiss in before we were one again interrupted; this time by someone whistling and yelling out cat calls.
"Damn it, Zach, shut up!" Nikel snapped, pulling his mouth away from mine.
I groaned, "Will people ever stop interrupting us!"
They both started laughing and I blushed a deep, deep Red. I did not mean to say that out loud. Nikel leaned back down and kissed my forehead.
"I know Bell, but Zach can't help his timing sucks! Or that he's an idiot." He grabbed my hand and started leading me into the house, "Now we better get inside before Allina comes out here and drags both of us inside by our hair."
"She wouldn't do that to me." I replied, smiling innocently, "You, on the other hand, better hurry. We wouldn't want her to pull out your pretty little locks." I reached up and tugged lightly on his hair. He rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything.
Once we were all inside we headed up to Zach's room for a meeting of sorts. As soon as we were in the room I found out why I never stepped foot in here before. The walls were a swirl of blue, green and yellow. There were posters of half naked girls taking up one whole wall; I casually turned away from that wall. There were also posters of cars, bands and random colorful painting.
"Who painted your room?" I asked as soon as we were settled in. I sat between Nikel and Allina.
Zach laughed, "I did, do you like it? The room was originally blue so I dumped Yellow and Green everywhere splashing it around."
"It's…interesting."
Allina rolled her eyes, "Just say it sucks. The rest of us already did. Oh and Michael called I guess about five people got busted."
Nikel rolled his eyes, "We were almost busted, but the cop had some car trouble and we got away."
"Good, glad you didn't get caught. Bella would've been screwed." Gabriel mumbled, looking odd in the colorful room. I wasn't overly fond of the oldest sibling.
I couldn't help, but notice nobody looked surprised by the fact the cop had car trouble. I sighed, maybe I had spent too much time with the Cullens when they were around; I was getting paranoid. Still, though, something wasn't right.
"So I have an announcement," Nikel called out catching everybody's attention, "Bella has agreed to go out with me. So yeah…"
"You poor soul," Zach responded first, "You could do way better."
Everyone laughed at that. After about an hour of idle chatter we all went our separate ways to sleep. No matter what I had done in the past with Edward I decided it would be indecent to sleep in the same room as Nikel an hour after he asked me out, so I stayed in Allina's room.
As the week progressed, I spent more and more time with the Cruor's if that was even possible. Nikel and I went on a few more dates and I actually had to introduce him to my father as my boyfriend. That was embarrassing, but to Dad's credit he took it really well. Nikel, on the other hand, found a healthy respect for cops and what it meant to date ones daughter. They know how to shoot a gun…enough said.
It was now Valentine's Day and I was being prepared by Allina and surprisingly Loretta for my date with Nikel. Loretta was painting my toenails while 'Lina did my hair. I had a flashback of Alice doing the same thing and it was sort of uncomfortable until Allina told me she was actually planning on going to school for cosmetology then I figured I was helping her prepare for school. Loretta was just at that age where it was fun to paint nails and who was I to deny her that. Plus she scared me; Zach came to school yesterday with puke green hair, because he made a mean comment to his little sister. She was such a troublemaker.
There was pounding on Allina's door before Nikel's voice drifted through, "Are you almost ready? I would like to take Bella out this Valentine's Day; you know not waiting until next years!"
"Whine, whine, whine that's all you do. Don't worry I still have to get myself ready for my date with Sam, so she's pretty much done." She added one more curl to my hair and sent me off. I felt bad taking up her time she could be using on herself, but she had insisted.
"Wow…" Nikel breathed as soon as he saw me. I laughed, doing a little twirl for him. I was wearing a long blue dress and what I have now dubbed evil heels. A klutz should never wear high heel shoes, it was just asking for trouble.
"You don't look too bad yourself." I teased though I was being honest. He was wearing a black tux and looked spectacular in it. Man, he cleaned up good. He laughed when I told him that.
He led me to the Mustang so we could head out. He never drove the Aero except to race and their three motorcycles wouldn't do any good in this weather so we stuck with the good old Mustang.
Our first stop was at a quaint little café in a small town near Forks. It was one of those mom and pop restaurants, but had amazing food.
"So where is Sam taking Allina?" I asked, taking a bit of my fettuccini.
"Dancing…I didn't think you'd enjoy clubbing as much as Allina does."
"Hmm…not really. Good choice, so where are we heading to next?"
"You think there is a part two. Damn you're demanding." He joked, "Well while I decided dancing was out, watching you fall on your ass while ice skating was still fair game."
"Jerk," I rolled my eyes. The whole family thought it was hysterical how much I fell. It wasn't my fault I seemed to hang out with very balanced people. Well the Cruor's weren't exactly mental balanced but whatever.
Soon, I found myself standing on slippery ice with sharp blades strapped to my feet; a clumsy person's nightmare. Thankfully, Nikel was next to me holding my arm as he glided across the ice. I didn't look nearly so gracefully, wobbling a bit behind as he pulled me along. He laughed as I held my one free arm out in front of me as if that would keep me balanced. I must've looked ridiculous.
"Come on Bella, try to enjoy yourself. You'll fall down if you keep thinking about falling down."
"I'm more scared of falling through the ice not on it. Notice how we're the only ones out here. There has to be a reason for that." I replied, causing him to roll his eyes.
"We do this all the time in Minnesota. I know Washington doesn't usually get this cold, but seriously it's a freaky year as it is and the ice is frozen solid. Plus Forks just defies all normal weather patterns."
I had to chuckle at his reasoning. I started to trust myself the longer we were out there and soon enough I was skating alongside Nikel looking nowhere near as confident as he did. He was literally doing circles around me. Finally, he skated off only he stopped and just stared at me from almost half way across the pond. Of course after about a minute I started to blush.
"What?"
He tilted his head as if confused, "I don't get you. I've only known you a month, but I feel like I could tell you anything and you would just accept me for who I am. Like you're the one person we could trust with everything. My family adores you; you managed to worm your way into their hearts in such a short period, you managed to worm your way into my heart. What are you? How do you do that?"
Frowning, I skated around a bit, trying to understand his words. There was something in them that just didn't sound right. I finally stopped kitty-corner to him. I just met his eyes when I heard a strange crack. I watched as Nikel paled and took a step towards me. Of course he was too far away. Before I could comprehend what that was I was falling….right through the ice. I felt a pain in the back of my head as I scraped it on a jagged piece of ice behind me. Then I was under freezing cold water.
Vaguely I felt a hand grab my shoulder and then the next thing I knew I was on the bank, in the snow, with Nikel kneeling next to me.
"Oh shit Bella. I'm so sorry. I can't believe this happened." I felt his hands move over me, probably checking for injuries, I winced when he touched the back of my head, "Shit! We need to get you to my dad."
My eyes sight was going dark, as I gazed up at Nikel's worried face. We were about a over half hour away from any hospital, this was not looking good. Funny I should be panicking, but I wasn't. Maybe I was too frozen or in shock or something. Just before my vision faded and I lost consciousness, I saw Nikel pick me up bride style and then…somehow we were outside Forks hospital. I passed out.
As I floated in the darkness Nikel's words came back to me:
'I feel like I could tell you anything and you would just accept me for who I am. Like you're the one person we could trust with everything.'
We could trust you with everything. What did that mean? That I would accept him for who he was? Those words floated around and around in my head. I didn't know how long I was unconscious but I felt absolutely terrible as I started waking up. My head throbbed as I finally managed to open my eyes. Nikel's stepfather was at the foot of my bed reading my charts.
He was a nice man, with short Brown hair and the same Blue eyes Gabriel had. He was in his mid-forties with some of the Brown hair going gray. He was a nice man and most of patients loved him. Too bad he didn't realize he needed to spend more time with his own kids. No wonder his first wife Lana divorced his, he was never around.
He smiled when he saw I was awake, "How are you feeling, Bella?"
"Like my head was stomped on. How did I get here?"
"Yes, it would feel like that. You managed to smack your head pretty good on the ice as you went down. We had to give you some stitches. Luckily, you got here in time and will suffer no lasting effects. You're not hypothermic but we'd like to keep you overnight just to be sure."
I couldn't help but notice he didn't answer my second question. I felt like I was dealing with the Cullens all over again.
"Can I see Nikel?" I asked, quietly.
Dr. Cruor nodded before setting down my chart and leaving. After a few moments Nikel appeared looking relieved as he sat down on my bed next to me. He seemed to be looking me over for more injuring and I felt I needed to break the silence.
"So I think the hospital just needs to get me my own room. I'm here enough." That got a laugh out of him. He leaned down and gingerly kissed my forehead. I could tell the pain medication was kicking in because I was starting to feel very light.
"I'm glad your okay and I'm so sorry."
"We're supposed to do reckless things," I murmured.
He snorted, "Yeah but that wasn't supposed to be reckless. That was supposed to be an enjoyable evening out. Then again anything with you involved seems to be able to turn reckless pretty quick."
Of course, he couldn't help but get a shot in there somewhere, "What time is it?"
"Nine, you were unconscious for an hour. They wouldn't let me up to your room until you woke up so after Jonathon stitched you up I was stuck in the waiting room of a half hour while you laid asleep up here. I was so worried; I wanted to see you for myself to make sure you were okay."
"I've been in this room for a half hour?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"How long was Jonathon stitching me up and checking me over?"
Nikel pulled back a bit and gave me a confused look, "About twenty minutes, why?"
I looked him straight in the eye, "Nikel, how did I get here? One minute we were at the pond and the next we were outside the hospital. How?"
Nikel looked away from me, "You must've passed out for a bit, we took the Mustang."
"Don't lie to me!" His head twirled to look at me, "We were over a half hour away from Forks. Even if you drove like a madman there is no way it only took you ten minutes to get here in the Mustang. You said so yourself, I was out for an hour, I've been in this room for a half hour and Jonathon was looking me over for twenty minutes. Are you going to tell me the truth?"
He sighed, "I'll be back."
He left the room without another word and I sat there staring at the door confused. I wasn't expecting that reaction. An excuse, denial maybe now that, I had expected, he just left. Despite the pain medication they gave me I felt wide awake. After a couple of minutes Nikel came back. He squared his shoulders and he looked at me as if he was ready to go to war.
It was when our eyes met that I saw the emotion he was trying to keep hidden. There was a look of terror in his eyes as if he was afraid to I was going to hurt him. His eyes screamed 'don't hurt me.' He didn't come sit by me instead he stood against the wall.
"I don't know what to say."
"What are you?" I figured I'd get straight to the point and make it easier on him, "What are you? And how did we get here so quickly?"
He blinked startled, "What?"
"This past month I've been noticing just something's about you and your family. Nobody looked surprised when the cop had car trouble. It was as if they expected it. Your parents are the most passive people I've ever met when it comes to their children. There just always has been something off about your family. I'm just kind of use to it, I guess."
He let out a deep breath, "Please let me explain before you judge me or say anything." He waited until I nodded, "You were bleeding and I knew I didn't have time to drive you here, so I teleported. It takes a lot of energy and I'm not supposed to do it unless it's an emergency. This was an emergency.
"I'm not human. I wasn't born human; I wasn't turn into what I am now. I was born this. I am a Cosmic Troublemaker. Both my parents were Cosmic Troublemakers and so is Allina. We raise hell where ever we are. Some of us specialize in a certain area others don't. My mom use to do sexual situations you know getting into people's love life and such. She stopped when she married Jonathon though, personal choice. Allina seems to be following our mother's footsteps though not to her extent. I, on the other hand, like general chaos. People's cars breaking down, random falling, houses collapsing, you know fun things. I'm not responsible for your issues though that's just plain you."
He gave me a weak smile, "Anyways my dad was killed by another Cosmic not by a car. It's just what we tell humans to make it easier. Very few things can kill us, actually. Age can't even kill us if we don't want it to. We usually don't age unless we mate with something not immortal. We usually stop aging around twenty five. I'm actually eighteen though; I didn't lie about my age. Mom, on the other hand, is around two hundred." He bit his lip, "Sorry, um, after my dad died Mom met Jonathon and fell in love. Since Jonathon isn't immortal she decided to age and die with him when that time comes.
"Jonathon's not human either. He's a Shifter and so are his kids. They're mortal like humans and don't start turning until thirteen or fourteen. Jamie hasn't turned yet but they think he will any time now."
"Turn?"
"They're Shifters, they can turn into animals. What they turn into depends on their soul. Their animal reflects on their soul, I guess. I don't know too much about it. Jonathon turns into a Hawk. Gabriel turns into a Bear, any kind, he's strong and independent. Zach turns into a feline, once again any kind. He gets many more options than Gabriel but it's because of his mischievous yet sometimes gentle nature he gets feline. Sam turns into a canine. Not sure how Zach and Sam get along so well but they do. Anyways Sam can turn into any canine except for a wolf. That's only reserved for werewolves, don't ask. Jamie like I said is a shifter that hasn't changed yet."
"And that just leaves Loretta. She's half Cosmic Troublemaker and half Shifter. Nobody knows exactly what she's going to end up being but she's already showing her Troublemaker side. It'll be interesting."
I closed my eyes as his explanation wound down, "Bella?" I heard his whisper, almost fearfully. I never heard that tone on him and after tonight I never wanted to hear it again.
"I'm just a human. I'm feeling very insignificant right now."
I opened my eyes when he started to laugh. I stared at him as he almost got hysterical over my comment.
When he finally stopped he shook his head at me, "I expected you to laugh at me, call me crazy, throw me out, I don't know. I didn't expect such acceptance."
"Who am I to judge, I've hung out with Vampires before."
I was surprised when he scowled, "I don't like Vampires, can't always trust them. They think they're so much better than most supernatural creatures and they don't have to listen to anyone else. Stupid Volturi, we Cosmic Troublemakers make them look like children when it comes to power."
"That's hard to believe."
Nikel came and sat on my bed again and hesitantly took my hand, "Do you see me as a monster? Since I'm not nor have I ever been human, do you see me as different? Something you don't want."
I smiled and squeezed his hand, "I don't see a monster, or anything else terrible. All I see is you."
So now you know who (what) tied. I hope that works for everyone. I'll go more into what a Cosmic Troublemaker is as the story goes it's easier to show than explain. Enjoy. Don't forget to review! Don't forget to do the new vote. They'll either meet the Cullen's next chapter or Chapter 8!