AN: Thank you reviewers! I needed the encouragement. There seems to be interest in an imprint story. I'll see what I can do.
Disclaimer: If I owned Twilight Saga, I would not be writing on Fanfiction for free.
After taking deep breaths to calm myself down, I set to work. I pulled the plug and flipped out of the tub. I took the large towel and began to viciously rub down my scales. It hurt, but it needed to be done. I could feel tears prickling the back of my eyes and heat building on the back of my neck. What would it mean for me if I was caught? What would humans do with a sea creature that they didn't believe in? I couldn't answer that question. I was terrified of the unknown. Would I be ostracized? I'd already been banished from the water. Where would I go from land? Could I hide in rivers and lakes? They couldn't compete with ocean in depth and hiding places.
My skin shimmered silkily before my eyes and I felt all of the tension lift from my shoulders as my legs took form. I had taken these legs for granted. It was clear how valuable legs were on dry land. There wasn't any way to escape on dry land without legs. I would get up with the Sun Goddess in the morning and thank her properly.
There was a knock on the door causing my head to whip around to see if they opened the door. "It's been fifteen minutes and Jake's here. My Mom's coming down the hall, can you come out please?"
"Could I dress first?"
"Oh, I guess. I thought you were getting dressed. I'll see you in just a minute." I carefully pulled on my wet clothes that I had splashed at some point during this misadventure. There was a hairbrush on the counter and I tried to quickly pull it through my hair. Unfortunately, I had too much hair and submitted to the realization that I needed to go back downstairs with knots in my hair. After quickly doing what I could, I grasped the door handle, took a calming breath and opened the door.
Then I shut the door. I wasn't ready. What were they going to talk to me about? Could I answer any of their questions? Would they expect me to betray my family's secrets? Could I betray my family's secrets? Did I owe them any answers?
I didn't like a single one of the answers to my questions. There was only one thing for it. Run! I opened the door and snuck to the room I had left my bag in. I pulled my back pack on and slid the squeaky window open. With a last look around the room to see if I had forgotten anything, I threw my leg out the window and carefully- Or not so carefully. I was ungracefully dangling out of the second storey window by one hand. Yet another undignified squeak escaped my throat. Would anyone hear me doing an exemplary impression of a dolphin out here?
My feet hit against the side of the house before I slipped into a free fall. I braced myself for impact that never came. I didn't want to open my eyes. The reason for this was worse than breaking a leg. I'd been caught both figuratively and literally.
I scrunched my eyes tightly wishing him away. I heard two male voices laughing. One I recognized as Embry.
"I'm sorry." I still didn't open my eyes. I didn't want to see his reaction. As though if I kept wishing hard enough, this would all go away.
"I'd rather you explain than apologize." The husky voice of the man holding me spoke. He sounded bitter and hurt. But it seemed to be a habitual issue and not something he personally felt for me. I chanced opening my eyes and look up into black tunnels of exhaustion. And then, those tunnels became further away. His black eyes seemed to shift like he had been spinning and was struggling to find his center of gravity again.
"Oh shit!" Embry whispered. Rescued from the man's eyes I looked to Embry who was cursing under his breath.
"What?" I asked. The man put me down. He was larger and more imposing than Embry.
"This can't happen now! I've lost Bella to that fucking leech, we just had a show down with the Volturi last week and I need a fucking break!" He stormed at Embry who seemed to agree with him on every point.
While they talked, I inched away. He was big and scary and shaking all over. I eyed the road. The angry man went off on a long diatribe about his life and blocked Embry's view of me. I took off running. I couldn't help that my feet flew in every which direction as I tried to balance on my new legs. It's harder than it looks. My heart was beating out of my chest and I wasn't sure if it was the running or the anxiety that made me feel like I was about to collapse into a blubbering mess.
An arm snagged around my waist, swept me around turning me back to the house. I screamed unfortunately at the wrong pitch and broke a couple of windows. "Ow! I think my ears are bleeding!" Embry exclaimed. I could see the angry man now calmed down and holding his ears in pain. "We needed to talk to you before. Now we need to have a talk." Was there a difference? I didn't particularly care. I saw a small trickle of blood running from the man's ear. So I screamed at the same window shattering pitch. Embry's hand snagged my mouth and people were coming outside to see what was happening. I was being carried away while they told people I was mentally unstable and that they would take care of me.
"Embry what is going on?" Tiffany rebuked him.
"Ow!" I bit him, causing him to yelp.
"Let me go!"
"Embry James Call, put that girl down this instance! I taught you better than kidnapping!" Tiffany began hitting Embry over the shoulder with her shoe.
"Ma! Stop! We just need to talk to her!" When he failed to release me, she headed for the phone.
"Miss Call, please don't do that. Don't you trust us at all?" The angry man pleaded with her in a soothing intonation. To my dismay, the tension released from her shoulders and she put the phone back.
"Traitor!" I hissed at her. Embry and the other man's amusement incited more anger. Just as I gasped to scream at them again a hand clamped over my mouth.
"Please don't do that, you have no idea how much that hurts." Embry pleaded with me. I watched Tiffany head upstairs, which absolutely amazed me. Her son was kidnapping me and she was walking away from the scene. I'd haunt her in the next life after they killed me and threw my body to the sharks.
"I wonder if she'd hurt vampire ears? How awesome would be if your imprint had a defence against vampires?" I stiffened at the word vampires. "Oh... We're kidding! Can we just talk to you a minute Eloi?"
"Don't call her that." Angry man insisted.
They sat me on the couch and now I was being held on Angry man's lap. I folded my arms and glared at them with my chin tucked down, refusing to look at them.
"Hey, I'm Jake." Angry man introduced himself finally. "Can you tell me why your voice isn't human?" I avoided looking at him. His chest was bare and hot and the Siren was telling me to lick it. I shifted uncomfortably, pressing my thighs together. Strangely, both men started sniffing the air.
Embry had a giant silly grin on his face. "I think she likes you Jake," he said watching my face.
"He's pretty." I admitted to Embry, then glared at Jake. "Still bad man! Let me go!" I was disheartened when this only served to amuse them further.
"You hear that Jake, you're a very bad man. Dude, she's sweet!"
"Knock it off Embry! We don't need to upset her more." He glared at his friend before turning his eyes on me. I felt my breath catch for a moment and my knots in my stomach. The Siren was about ready to straddle him and ride him to ecstasy. Tempting, but my rational mind was determined that that would get me into more hot water. "I'm taking you very seriously honey. Now, I don't know what your story is and I won't press you for it. But your English is limited, you've admitted that you don't know anyone around here, it doesn't look like you have much in the way of money and you could use a little help. Am I right?" He used the soothing tone that one would use with their child. I didn't like being viewed as a child, but I did like his undivided male attention.
I answered him with a subtle nod.
"I don't think we're going to find you any jobs right now to pay rent. You can stay with me. I promise we'll take care of you until you get on your feet. How does that sound?" He appealed to my common sense. He was beautiful and strong and confident and he wanted me to stay with him. After his angry outbursts; I didn't want to stay with him. He could blow up and kill me at any moment.
"You angry man. I'm not go with you Jake. If Embry not have me, I still leave." The mood in the room became sober.
"You're serious?" He asked with a hurt look on his face. I nodded slowly, scared of what he would do next. "It's official, fate hates me!" He set me down on the couch and stormed out of the house. My chest heart with his pain. I couldn't guess why. I didn't need him.
"Well... that didn't turn out as well as I hoped." Embry commented awkwardly.
"I leave bag here, go for walk on beach."
Despite his obvious reluctance, he shrugged.
It was twilight and the road was lacked street lights. The trees were demonic and I shuddered at their shadows. I could see despite the lack of light, but the shapes in this darkness were different from home. With the new smells and sounds, there wasn't any comfort for me in the dark. Scurrying to the beach, relief eased my fears and the temptation to run and dive into the water tugged on me. My voice floated over the water singing my heartache to the sea. My home was in sight and yet I couldn't go. Doomed to watch the waves calling my name with each tide.
My sorrow and anguish filled my song, rising and falling with the ocean. Hopelessness was my harmony and she tugged and pulled me down to the depths of my pain. I purged myself of despair feeling my pitch perfect notes sickly enough elating my vanity. It was small consolation in this depressing time. My song choked off and I broke down in tears. I wanted to jump in the water but I couldn't. I started kicking at the rocks on the beach dementedly.
Before I could hurt myself hot hands gripped me and a husky voice hushed me. "It's okay, I've got you. Nothings gonna happen to you honey. Let me take you back to Embry's." He continued to speak nonsense to me. None of it was true. Nothing was okay because I could never go to my home again. In a year, I might be able to return to the water. But the Mariana Trench could never be my home again. Electra, Salacia, my family were cut off. I wouldn't wake entwined in them ever again.
I felt myself being carried away from the salty air before sleep overcame me.
I was burning. I had the same vampire's head in one hand and is body in the other and I was shoving them into the volcano. My hands were burning in the heat. But when I pulled them away, instead of healing like they were supposed to, they continued to burn white hot. The burn spread up my arms and continued through my entire body.
Hot and heavy. I woke up with a burning hot man wrapped around me. He was going to roast me alive. I struggle against his weight. I couldn't lift him but eventually manage to roll him away from me. This didn't accomplish anything as he rolled back to me and possessively wrapped a leg around me. His enthusiastic manhood pressed against my hip bone.
The Siren didn't give me a chance to think. She wasted not time taking the hot male specimen in her bed. She rolled him onto his back, straddled him and rocked her pelvis against his hard penis. She felt a pull to him and she was more than happy to accommodate the impulse. He moaned appreciatively and brought up his hands around my waist. My mouth probed his and soon we had a battle for domination. The Siren didn't like how insistently he battled for domination. She took his wrists and pressed them down into the bed and my hips rocked down harder on his bulge. I felt his body shiver before my body was flipped onto the bed and was in a supine position with him centered between my legs. I pushed against him. This position was much too vulnerable for us.
"I will not submit!" I hissed into his ear and slipped out from under him. I stood by the door and he lay on the side of the bed looking stunned.
"That felt fucking great!" He sighed lying back in the bed.
"You like it?" I asked sweetly.
"Uh huh." He answered like a winsome toddler.
I stepped closer to the bed and slowly bent over him. I took a long breath at his neck breathing in his delicious scent. I could almost bite him.
"Good." I purred leaning in to kiss him. As soon as his tongue tried to dominate again I viciously bit down. "Because you won't kiss for long time." The metallic taste of his blood on my lips greeted me victoriously.
I heard a pained moan. "Uew kithed mwee." Jake pointed out.
I opened the bedroom door and pointed outside while staring at him. I almost felt bad when I saw the look on his face. But honestly, he didn't own me. I was free to mate with whoever I chose. He had no claim on me and my instincts didn't like him acting as though he did.
He sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed before begrudgingly leaving.
"Wirthwit." He muttered.
I knew I couldn't sleep after all of that and proceeded to masturbate alone in bed remembering his happy groans. He had felt amazing between my thighs. I could still feel him hot under me and his blood on my lips long after he left.
In the morning, Embry had a difficult time making eye contact with me. He had an impish grin on his face that I felt sure was at my expense.
"How did you sleep?"
"Well."
"You didn't need Jake to give you a hand getting off to sleep in the end huh?" He asked watching my face but quickly looking away when I looked up.
"He came to my bed, but I handled myself." I answered looking him in the eye.
His mouth dropped open as though I had something shocking.
"Breakfast?" I asked, deciding to change the subject.
He took an immense amount of time to respond. His brain seemed to be working very hard to figure out a puzzle.
"Errrr... yeah... cereal?" He offered. I looked down and saw that he had a bowl with food inside that matched the food on the cover on the box. I looked around and saw that other food containers had pictures of food on the outside. It made sense. Until I saw him opening a bag and pouring into a dish on the ground and a cat running up.
"Not healthy." I commented. He didn't answer but looked between me and the cat confused. "Bag of cat. Cannibal not healthy." His entire body rocked with laughter.
My face brightened in embarrassment. Finally, when he managed to stop laughing, he asked me: "Where on earth are you from? See the label on the bag says Cat food. It's food for cats." His voice softened seeing my distress. I couldn't read the label. Books don't hold up well in the ocean. None of us can read. We didn't need to. At least, not until now.
"I look for work today. Will you help me please?" It seemed like a safer line of conversation than wherever he was leading.
"Nova..." No, he was going to keep pressing the matter.
"I'm not hungry. I'll be back for lunch okay?" I made a line for the hallway. He nodded inquisitively. I left determining that I would need to learn that later. It was just one more burden for me right now and I needed more time before I was ready to tackle it.
One step out of the front door and rain began pouring down. I turned around and walked straight back into the house. Time to adjust priorities. I walked back into the kitchen.
"Hey, rain coming down hard. Maybe I'm hungrier than I thought." He smiled brightly as though relieved and we I tasted Honey Oats for the first time. Sweet, wet, creamy and crunchy. I was definitely a fan.
Another AN: How was it? Please let me know what you think. I see a lot of readers. Help me out here.