Title: In Need of Rescue
Chapter 17: Mother

Bella's POV

I was slowly waking up as voices started to fill my head.

"Thanks for trusting me still. Sometimes I feel like you guys hate me for choosing not to fight back when all this happened."

"Whether you like it or not Carlisle, we will always see you as the leader of our family. Whatever you say goes." I knew that as Edward's voice.

"That's not always a good thing seeing as how I am a pacifist."

"Too late now. You saw no other route. We would have been killed."

There was silence and then a door closed. I still lay half asleep for some time before I started to stir.

"Good morning, sleepy head." Edward said to me as I opened my eyes.

I looked around. I was in Edward's arms. This place looked oddly familiar. It was dark, had bars. It then dawned on me.

I jumped at the sight, trying to run to the cage sides. I tripped over myself falling to the ground as I kept an eye on the cage. I started to crawl toward the cage, not bothering to get up.

I was about to scream out when I heard a whisper in my ear, "You can't say anything."

I nodded, close to tears at how close I was to my mom and yet so far. My family was right there.

Edward unlocked the door, motioning for me to stay where I was. He went up to a certain laying figure and put his hand on its shoulder. The figure sat up as he whispered something into its ear. Her head snapped toward me as she gasped. I noticed my mom running toward the cage, toward me.

She put her hand through the bars, putting both hands on my cheeks as if making sure I was real. Tears poured down both our cheeks at our reunion. We had to abide to the no talking rule but all we had to do was touch each other to know that we were still together in our hearts.

We sat for the last few hours, with our hands touching.

The bell rang, telling everyone to wake up. My mom's tears grew knowing that I was going to be forced to leave.

"You look beautiful. I love you so much." My mom said to me as Edward started to lift me up to my feet. It was time to leave.

"I love you too." I whispered. "I'm glad I got to see you again."

"Me too." She said as we walked away. My last view of her was her waving through the bars and the next vampire for his shift came in.

I couldn't help but smile, this was amazing. To see my mom again! I was thrilled.

We were leaving the farm now. I was going home, away from my family. Edward opened the front door then quickly turned back and closed it, not leaving yet. He noticed my curious face and said simply, "Protesters."

"What should we do?"

He gulped, "They are going to scream at us. They don't like the farms. Just don't look any of them in the eye. The police will be called out; hopefully it will be after we are gone. If not, just stay next to me at all cost." He said.

I nodded.

He took in a deep breath before guiding me out by the leash into the sun. I tried to keep my face to the ground as I walked right behind Edward. He held on tightly to the leash so there was less of a chance of us getting separated.

I could hear the screams as they jeered Edward; they knew he was a guard. Most of it was in vampiric. Once in a while they would scream, "How many humans did you kill today?"

He kept silent as he walked past them. I made the mistake of looking up and seeing the angry looks of several vampires. They were crowding us from all sides. I couldn't think of anything scarier than several red eyes staring down on me angrily. One of them jumped in front of us, making me stumble back.

"Eyo." Edward yelled in vampiric. That meant move. I knew that one.

"If you want to kill so many humans then why don't you just let us go back to killing humans ourselves?" the man yelled. He yelled it in human, for me to hear.

"I have told you before Kevin, we don't kill humans. This is a way to keep humans alive longer so that no one has to die."

"And in exchange you strip them of their humanity!" The man yelled. The crowd went into an uproar. My heart started racing, I couldn't take all this noise all around me. It was getting too much. I moved closer to Edward.

"Get out of my way." Edward yelled."Eyo."

The man yelled something in vampiric at Edward, making Edward drop the leash and grab the man by the shirt.

"Say it again, I dare you." Edward yelled.

I backed away from all this; I had to get out of this crowd. All instincts were saying that a huge group of vampires were dangerous.

I screamed when I felt a pair of arms wrap around me and pull me further into the crowd. I could hear Edward yelling even more. I couldn't get away from anyone as they all would say things before passing me to the next one. I heard things like "Pet" "Food" "Useless." They were doing this to get after Edward. They didn't realize that it was scarring me way too much. I could hear Edward somewhere in the crowd yelling at them. Telling them to stop and that they were scarring me. What were these people protesting? I was starting to think it wasn't to help humans like I had originally thought; perhaps it was to be able to kill them without the help of a farm.

As I was passed around, I felt rock hard arms hit my stomach and sides. It was an accident but it still hurt. I fell to the ground when I felt something hit me in the head. Finally there was the sound of the cops coming; the sirens filled the air as I lay on the ground.

Everyone started to run, some of them accidently stepping on me to get away. I coughed, tasting blood in my mouth. I then felt a hard body surround me as people were still running by.

After everything was done, Edward got up from on top of me, "Bella are you okay?"

I couldn't speak but I was able to nod. He quickly checked me over and then lifted me up, "Let's get you home." He said.

I didn't want him to let go of me as he put me in his car. "Just relax, we will be home before you know it." He said as he closed the door.

I fell asleep the whole way home.

I know it's short but I have had to restart and I have decided to add a few more chapters than I had originally planned. Told you guys that I would have one chapter out before Christmas! I'm true to my word. Now I must go clean my room and prepare for Christmas! (aka, clean my room so that my mom isn't disappointed when she comes sees me for Christmas and wrapping presents!) Hope you guys have a Merry Christmas and have all of your Christmas shopping done! It's a mad house now.

All I want for Christmas from you guys is a review! And perhaps a paperclip, you can never have enough paperclips!