-1You wouldn't have thought Dr Bandara knew what all the people in the room really where the way he strolled in. I could feel Edward clutching at my side squeezing so hard he was almost breaking my skin. I shifted slightly and his grip loosened but he still didn't stop staring at Dr Bandara.
Alice was the quickest to recover, probably because she had known he was there longer than everyone else, and quickly skidded round the table to shake the mans hand.
"Hello welcome to the Cullen household." Smiled Alice warmly, "You must be Dr Bandara we were just discussing your letter."
She motioned to the ripped bit of paper in Emmett hand, who had just picked it up before the unexpected guest. I could see Rosalie clawing at his arm trying to get Emmett to snap out of his trance.
"Yes, sorry I turned up without telling you I was coming but normally if I give vampires too much time to prepare for my arrival I tend to find they have disappeared. Funny that!" Bandara drooled moving further into the room and taking the seat opposite Carlisle who looked angry as Emmett and Edward.
Come to thing of it as I looked from one male vampire to the next, they seemed all to have the same look of complete loathing. I was surprised that they hadn't pounced yet.
"Ah it seems we have already hit my first snag when conversing vampires." he chuckled stretching out his legs under the desk and reaching into his pocket. "Ladies I am afraid I have had quite a bad effect on your mates. It won't last but give them a couple of minutes to get used to the feeling but please do not startle them. If they have difficulty overcoming their instincts then with your permission I could give them a little thing I have invented."
"What….why…why are they so angry?" cried Esme, staring at her husband. "normally he is so good. I mean he can resist blood why not this?"
"He can resist blood? Really? I would like to see that?" Grinned Dr Bandara sitting up very straight and peering intently at Carlisle.
"But you still haven't explained why you have no affect on Esme, Alice and Rosalie." I cried with a little too much passion because just that second Edward had dug his fingernails into my hip, puncturing the skin.
Instantly the whole room shifted.
Carlisle head snapped from staring at Dr Bandara to Edward's hand around my waist. Emmett lunged forward towards where me and Edward stood and as I looked up at Edward I could see his whole eye had turned completely black.
Rosalie grabbed Emmett and pulled him off the table where he was scrabbling against Dr Bandara who seemed to have move just as quickly as his opponent.
"Get him out of here" Bandara cried staring wildly around the room. "Everyone out now!"
There was a flurry of movement and then suddenly it was just Bandara, Edward, Carlisle and me left in the room.
Carlisle it seemed had finally come out of his trance and was helping Bandara with some sort of syringe filled with a silvery liquid. They managed to turn Edward round, although his eyes stayed staring at me the whole time.
Unblinking.
Edward shuddered as the liquid was plunged into his skin. He collapsed into Carlisle arms breathing heavily, as his eyes returned to an amber yellow.
"Well that was close" Said Bandara, pulling me up from the floor where I had dropped when Edward let go.
My sides ached and when I lifted my t-shirt to inspect my tender sides I found dark purple marks and one red line, just the size of a fingernail…a fingernail of superhuman strength.
Edward refused to meet my gaze.