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I had a reviewer ask about the rating of this story. Sorry I forgot to put it earlier: it's because of language. The F word is used quite a bit on purpose and I was taught after using it three times it needs to be M. Also I have had cousins reported for things like this so I do not want to be reported and my account frozen.

On that note, my updating might be sporadic for a bit (I'm also trying to update Tainted Soul as well as the Soul Series Story but that's not the real reason), I sincerely hope that I will continue with consistent updates, but I'm becoming increasingly upset with Fanfiction. Some of my cousin's stories have been deleted for bullshit reasons on this site. One was said to have been deleted for script writing which it wasn't, not even remotely close. She writes like me, I help beta for her as well as my other cousin. It was just someone who didn't like what she was writing about and decided to report it with a bogus reason and of course Fanfiction doesn't check the story themselves and delete it if they get enough complaints, which is easy to do when all you have to do is keep report it yourself. It could be just one person constantly reporting. I think they should make you sign in to report so they know but whatever.

Sorry there's my little pissed off rant. Anyways…

Thank you so much for all the wonderful reviews! Simply amazing for me to get, they really brighten my day.

And for any new readers -I know I have a few who are new to the site in general- I'd like to list some terms that we take for granted in knowing, I remember being new and not having a single clue what they were.

Beta: Someone who checks over your story for errors as well as helping with plot and ideas. There are many different type of Betas.

Lemon: Basically a nice way of saying a graphic (varies levels) sex scene. (Also known as Citrus)

Lime: A light sex scene/heavy make out scene

Flames: Basically a mean review, somebody who reviews not to critique but to be well an ass mostly. 'You're story sucks, it's the worse' without any sort of help as to why they think that. Or the review my cousin got "You're just sick, the pairing isn't right, just disgusting. I hope you choke and die." Love that one.

OCs: stands for Original Characters.

OOC: means an Out of Character for an actual character of the story/movie/etc.

R&R: stands for Read and Review

AU: Alternate Universe

Any others there's a website http:// dictionary. lunaescence. ?cat=9 that has most of the slang. Just take out the spaces.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight just OC's and plot. I also do not own the song Gives you hell by All American Rejects

WARNING: Please read, this chapter is the main reason for the rating. Nikel goes off the handle on Edward and there will be some hard language. Very vulgar. I'll write the warning when it comes and you're free to skip it though since its rated M I'm sure most people are expecting it. Now you'll never see, what you've done to me

Chapter 13: Gives you hell

You can take back your memories they're no good to me
And here's all your lies,
You can look me in my eyes
With that sad sad look that you wear so well

Ten 'o clock Monday morning I stood in my room holding my truck keys in my hand. I couldn't even remember the last time I drove it, but since I was going over the Cullens I didn't have a ride with the Cruors and I didn't want to trap myself by letting a Cullen drive me. So I had to take my truck.

I headed down the steps to see Charlie walking back into the house scratching his head.

"What's wrong, Dad?"

"Nothing is exactly wrong. There's just a very nice new car sitting out in our driveway with keys sitting on our doorstep."

I took a deep breath, "It better not be the Turbo." I grumbled, stalking past him to open the door and look outside. Yep, it was the Turbo. How they managed to fix it up and drive over here overnight I will never know.

I turned back towards my dad, "Can I have the keys? It's the Cruors car."

Charlie snorted, handing them over as well as a piece of paper "I figured as much, there was a note attached to the door with your name on it. See you tonight."

He handed it over to me and went back into the house. I shut the front door and headed towards the vehicle. I sat inside and opened the note.

Bella,

Please don't be pissed, we only want you to race with us on the back track (And Zach's annoyingly adamant about it). I figured though you'd want a vehicle to take to the Cullens and I don't know if that old hunk of junk you call a truck will make it so take the Turbo. Come over afterwards and we'll continue to store it in our garage so nobody has to know and you can pretend we didn't give you a car.

Love,

Nikel

I rolled my eyes; he would get an earful later. For now, I needed to get over to the Cullens to spend time with Alice. I promised her after all. I started the Turbo up. It gently purred to life and I had to smirk. After driving around with the Aero, the Turbo should be no problem.

Carefully, I headed to the Cullens half afraid of touching the gas too hard; I'd be driving into the ditch in no time.

"Nice car." Rosalie commented as soon as I stepped out. Apparently now that I wasn't dating her 'brother' and wasn't going to become one of them she decided to be a bit nicer to me. That was sweet of her, but it took some getting used to.

"Thanks…Rosalie…you can check under the hood and everything if you want. Just leave them in the car when you're done." I told her throwing the keys at her; I didn't think anyone would be able rob the Cullens. She caught them, an excited glint in her eye.

Emmett came out next, "I think you made her day." He laughed before running over to pick me up and swing me around, "And how is my favorite little human?"

"Slowly dying from the lack of air," I replied, teasingly. I was released immediately only to be swept into a hug by Alice.

"I'm so glad you came!"

"I told you I would."

Jasper rolled his eyes from the doorway, "She's been bouncing around exciting since it hit midnight."

I raised an eyebrow at Alice, "Really? Come on, Alice, I'm not that exciting."

"It's nice to see you here again, that's all." She linked arms with me and headed inside. I tensed as we walked through the door. My disastrous 18th birthday party was the last time I was inside here and it looked like no time had passed as all let alone six months. I didn't think I would ever be back in this house again, yet here I was.

I cringed when I noticed Edward was sitting at the piano playing my lullaby. Now that was just dirty. I also noticed Alice gave him a very dirty look for it. I didn't even want to know what she was thinking at him but it did get him to stop.

He walked over to us, "Bella, can I talk to you later?"

I gave him a drawl look, "I think we've been through this; we have nothing to talk about."

"Please, Bella." He pressed trying to smother me with his eyes.

I sighed, "I'll think about it, Edward."

I didn't want to promise him anything. I didn't even really want to talk to him. It would just open up wounds Nikel finally managed to stitch back up. I didn't need that right now. I took a few steps back from him and turned my gaze to Alice.

"So what are we going to do today?" Please don't say manicure, please don't say manicure; please don't say manicure.

"Oh I was thinking we'd talk for awhile, you can tell us more about the last six months." That didn't sound…well too terrible, "Of course, that will be while I give you a manicure and a pedicure."

Damn.

"Can't we do that without resorting to Barbie Bella?" I couldn't help but whine. She just smiled and began to drag me away. Stupid, overly strong Pixie. It wasn't long before I was comfortable in her room, feeling like nothing changed six months ago, getting my toes painted while she asked me a whole bunch of questions.

"So tell me more about Nikel?"

"He's egotistical. Sarcastic. He lives by his own rules, not one to be ruled by logic all the time. He's fun, living along side danger. He loves to race with his siblings and he doesn't believe is letting life pass you by."

"You know you get the cutest smile on your face when you think about him."

"He's seen me at my worst, after you guys left. When he first arrived with his family he made me so mad. He was so rude. Then everything changed and we became best friends, then more." I had to admit it was nice talking to someone -who wasn't related to Nikel- about said person. Allina was great but she didn't want to know certain things pertaining to her brother.

"So is he a good kisser?" Things like that.

I blushed a bright red, "Ugh, Alice."

She just laughed, moving on to do my finger nails, "Alright, alright. So tell me some of things you've done."

I bit my lip, "I didn't do anything until after the Cruor's came to town. Let's see I've been out to eat more times than I can count, Nikel took me ice skating and I ended up, of course, falling and had to go to the hospital. I've been to many street drags, just to watch, I've never participated. I've been snowmobiling; there are so many more things."

"Sounds like you've been living."

I looked at her with a smile, "Yeah, it's been great."

She smiled back at me. We continued on like that for an hour. After doing my nails we moved on to my hair like usual. Typical girl time. We flipped through fashion magazines and gossiped like old friends. I had to admit I was happy for it. I missed Alice. She suddenly glanced up grinning.

"Esme made cookies, they're almost done. I'll go grab them."

She quickly disappeared from the room. Rolling my eyes, I remembered just how generous the Cullens could be. I flipped close the magazine, sat up and waited for Alice. I should've have known Edward would take his chance.

"What are you doing in here?" I asked as he appeared in the room. Alice wouldn't do this to me. Edward must've just thought of it if Alice didn't see him. No doubt she could hear him though.

"I need to talk to you, Bella." He sat down on the bed and took my hands. I tried to pull them away, but he held them tight; not hurting me but enough where I couldn't leave.

"I told you Edward we have nothing to talk about." Please don't do this. I don't want to open these wounds.

"I still love you, Bella. I lied when I left to protect you—"

"You don't have to explain," I cut him off, "Alice told me yesterday. I understand your reasoning, Edward. I don't know what you want from me."

"Give me another chance, Bella."

"You broke my heart." I told him, "You shattered it; I never thought I would recover. I did though! Thanks to Nikel and the rest of the Cruor's, I'm still normal."

He pinched the bridge of his nose briefly before turning to me with tortured eyes, "I will never forgive myself for what I've done to you. You love me, Bella, I know you do. From the first time we met we've had something special."

"Yes, we did, but you ruined it. I don't love you anymore, Edward."

"Yes," He insisted, "you do. It's just misplaced."

Before I could react or think of anything else, Edward leaned forward and kissed me. I remembered the days when that had left me breathless; where I actually fainted from his kisses. I remembered being unable to control myself and never wanting to stop. Now…there was nothing. When he pulled away there was a hopeful look on his face and I did the stupidest thing I could think of. I smacked him across the face. When I heard the crack I knew it didn't come from him. Pain shot up my hand as I jumped back.

I could feel the tears streaming down my face as I stared at him, "I hope you're happy. Just leave me alone, Edward."

I ran from the room then. I was surprised when nobody ran after me, trying to stop me from going. I suppose they all understood. I ran to the Turbo and jumped in. I tore out of the driveway for once being happy with the speed the Turbo could manage as I raced my way to the Cruor's. It was hard using only one hand and trying to work through the pain, but I managed.

When I got there, Nikel came out of the house a relieved smile on his face that quickly turned into shock and cold fury.

"What happened?" His voice was storm waiting to happen.

"I don't want to talk about it right now; I think my hand is broken. Is Jonathon home?"

"Yeah, surprisingly, he is for once. Come on, I'll take you to him." He managed to get out, his eyes still hard and assessing. As if he could find the answer just by watching me. To his credit, though, he didn't ask again, more worried about my hand it seemed.

"Hey, Jonathon, can you look at Bella's hand? She thinks it's broken." Nikel said as he knocked on Jonathon's study. Actually I was positive it was broken but I didn't tell him that.

Apparently, Jonathon agreed, because I had to go the hospital –the one thing I was hoping to avoid- to get a cast and some extra x-rays just in case. Turns out I broke the Metacarpals which are bones in the palm from how I slapped him as well as a carpal bone in the wrist. I would be in a cast for one to two months. Joyous.

Nikel was good and didn't ask any questions the entire time, though I knew they were burning in his mind. Instead, he held my hand quietly giving me support while the cast was fitted. Zach, who jumped in the car at the last minute, was the one fretting around freaking out over the whole thing. Drama Queen…err King.

"This is just terrible, how are you supposed to drive around with us with a broken hand? Somebody tell me!"

"Zach!" Jonathon snapped, apparently having enough, "Go wait outside, you're disturbing the other patients as well as us."

Pouting, he left the room as he was told. It was unnecessary really all Jonathon had left to do was telling everything I wasn't allowed to do anymore and to prescribe me some painkillers. After that, we were on our way. It was then I realized why Jonathon drove separate as Nikel took me to pick up my pills and Jonathon drove himself home.

Nobody, not even Zach, spoke until after we got the meds.

"So, what happened?" Nikel asked his voice cold, like was barely containing himself.

I sighed and reluctantly told him what happened. By the end of it Nikel was gripping the steering wheel so hard I thought he would break it –which seemed unlikely because Nikel would never harm his Mustang. Zach was hissing very cat-like in the back seat. I was getting nervous.

It wasn't until we passed the turn onto the Cruor's driveway I realized we weren't heading towards his house.

"Nikel, where are we going?"

"I'm just going to talk to him."

"Nikel, I don't think you're calm enough—"

"I'm just going to talk to him."

-Here's where the swearing kicks in. Go to the next bolded part if swearing offends you. At the end I'll write a summary of the discussion.-

We pulled up the front of the Cullens house and Nikel grabbed something from the backseat as he got out of the car. I scrambled out after him, careful of my hand, as Zach got out on his side. Nikel was holding a crowbar.

"What are you doing with that crowbar?"

"I'm just going to talk to him."

That's all he would say as he stopped a few feet from the front door. The Cullens had to know he was there…unless he was using his magic somehow. I wasn't sure how that would work.

"Hey, Edward Fucking Cullen, get out here!"

I rolled my eyes; just want to talk to him my ass. I tried to approach Nikel again when Zach wrapped his arms around my waist and easily pulled me back by the car.

"Bella, this is a supernatural thing as well as a boyfriend thing. Yell at him later, and now just let him do what he feels he has to do. He's defending your honor."

I turned slightly to look at Zach. My honor? Really? That just sounded way to cliché and weird for this day and age. I recognized though that Zach wasn't going to let me go and step in. Might as well enjoy the show as they say. I was seeing a whole different side of Nikel and I had to admit it scared me a bit.

It didn't take long until the whole family came outside, staring at Nikel like he was crazy for holding a crowbar as a weapon. I had to admit I thought so as well.

"I didn't ask for your whole family I just asked for Edward. What's wrong, too afraid to come out alone? You need your whole family here to protect your little ass."

Edward's eyes narrowed, "They came out on their own accord." He looked past Nikel and at me; his eyes zooming in on my cast. Glaring, I tucked it behind my back so he couldn't see it anymore.

"Don't look at her, Bastard. You have no fucking right to look at her anymore. I always knew you fucking vampires were dicks, but you lowered the standard dramatically. Why is it, ever since I've known Bella, your stupid ass has done nothing but cause her pain? First it was because you're apparently a PMS bitch and left her, which by the way must have been the most retarded thing I've ever heard. And now it was because you magically decided to show your sparkly ass face back up here. Her hand is fucking broken, because you had the audacity to think you could fucking kiss her when she already has a god damn boyfriend."

I don't think I've ever heard the f word used so many times in one little speech let alone the other words. I never heard Nikel swear so much. Zach behind though thought it was funny, I could tell by the way he was shaking with laughter.

Nikel didn't give Edward time to speak, he marched over towards him. I raised an eyebrow confused when none of the Cullens moved to help him. Maybe they didn't understand how much of a threat a Cosmic Troublemaker could be. Actually I didn't even know.

I didn't see Nikel swing his arm and I didn't think any of the Cullens saw it either, because the next thing any of us knew Edward was flung a few feet away after being hit by Nikel's crowbar. Nikel smirked as he approached the fallen Edward.

"What? Did you honestly think I was so stupid that I would hit your stupid ass with just a crowbar. Fuck, you would've dented my favorite tool. No, I added a little oomph of magic to that. That was a warning shot. If you ever hurt Bella again, hell, if you even touch her again I'll use this crowbar to break your neck then pry a couple of limbs off just to watch them grow back slowly. You have no idea what you just became an enemy of, cocksucker…oops I mean blood sucker. Why don't you be a Necrophilia and fuck your own species, dead guy. Leave Bella alone."

He turned his back on Edward intending to leave. Edward managed to get up and jump at Nikel. Nikel didn't even turn around as Edward stopped in mid-jump and was slammed into the ground. Nikel glanced over his shoulder, "I hate wasting my power on those unworthy. Try that again and I'll make it real uncomfortable." He turned to look at the rest of the Cullens, "I suggest you control your coven, Carlisle, I'd hate for you to leave this town missing one."

-Okay that little scene is over with. It wasn't as bad as I originally anticipated.-

With that Zach tugged me into the car while Nikel went around the other side and got in. I thought everything was done, but once again I was mistaken. Zach shut the door, leaving himself outside and turned to the fallen Edward who was still being held down by Nikel's magic. I knew he wouldn't be held that much longer, Nikel was starting to breathe heavy from the effort.

Zach ran towards Edward and leapt. He jumped into the air as a man but came down as a huge White Tiger. Nikel took off and from the side mirror I watched as Zach scraped his claws down Edward's back before taking off into the woods.

I glanced at Nikel.

"He'll meet us at the house." He answered my unspoken question. I continued to stare. He finally let out a sigh and his shoulder's sagged.

"I'm sorry, Bella. What did you want me to do? Your hand is broken!"

"I should've known not to slap him."

"You were acting out of instinct. He should've known not to kiss you."

"I believe you made that perfectly clear."

"What do you want me to stay, Bella? I'm not perfect, I have a temper and it tends to come out when people mess with the ones I care about."

I thought about it for a while. We pulled up to his house and I turned to him with a small smile, "I know you're not perfect, Mr. Egotistical."

He laughed and kissed my forehead, "I love you, too."

Allina and Sam walked out then, "Dad filled us in." Sam said, looking at my hand, "I don't even want to know what you did to Cullen."

"No, you do not."

Allina looked at the car then us, "I thought Zach was with you."

Nikel shrugged, "He went kitty on us. Cullen's just lucky, Zach decided not to eat him."

"What?" I gasped.

Nikel snorted, "Shifter's like Zach and the family can eat Vampires instead of burning them. It's about the same thing. They just have to make sure they eat the head and heart."

"Ew…"

"I know right, anyways, Zach decided to run home. He should've beaten us unless he went out running around like an idiot."

We all gave him the same look that said 'Zach is an idiot.' We all shrugged it off, he'd show up when he had his fill of whatever he was doing.

It wasn't until a few hours past that we started getting worried. Zach wasn't that stupid. Allina, Sam and Gabriel took off on one trail while Nikel, Jamie and I took another. Loretta stayed home in case he showed up.

We made our way up the trails, ten minutes must've passed until I saw a white blob laying in the middle of the trail just up ahead.

"Zach!!" I screamed, trying to run to him.

"Don't worry," Nikel hissed, holding me back, "If he's in his animal form he's not dead. Jamie stay by Bella, you're stronger than a normal human. I'll go first and make sure we're in the clear. Call Allina."

I could see a few feet away from Zach's cat form, was a body. The rogue vampires have struck.

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For those who decided to skip the cursing scene basically Nikel ripped Edward a new one, smacked him with a magically induced crowbar, and threatened him bodily harm if he touched Bella again. That's pretty much it.