so here is the next chapter! i know i don't usaully post on Thursdays but i'm going to be busy this weekend and wont probably get on the computer. so sorry about that and i dont know when i'll post next but i'll let you know! If any of you were waiting for some Edward and Bella stuff, well this would be you chapter! i redid this chapter like 3 times to get it right! but big thanks to my Beta for helping me out! :)
disclaimer: i don't own twilight only any of the new characters.
Chapter 8 encounters
Edward's POV
Ever since that fight in the woods between Rose and Bella, we all vowed to be more careful around her. We knew now what we were dealing with. Bella was dangerous, and we couldn't take risks when we were around her. After we had gotten home that day, we had told Carlisle nearly everything. He was intrigued. . . as always, to see what kind of things Bella could do. Esme though, hadnt been to happy about the entire ordeal. She had even gone as far as giving Rosalie a lecture about how this family could have easily been hurt because of Rosalies carelessness.
After we'd all been dismissed by Carlisle, we began conjuring up ideas of all the things 'not human' about Bella.
Firstly, she could run at an inhuman speed, though she wasn't nearly as close to how fast we ran.
Secondly, she obviously didn't break easily. We'd witnessed that when Rosalie had thrown a punch at her. Bella had even gotten thrown into a tree, yet the tree was the one that had been injured in the end.
Third, her skin. We can prove know that her skin isn't just colder then a regular human's, and that it looks like ours but that it was as impenetrable as ours.
Fourthly, her eyes. They'd been brown. A beautiful deep brown that seemed to go on forever into her soul, but. . . then they had changed, into this fierce, almost scary ice blue. How odd, yet so. . . interesting.
And now lastly, there had to be more of them. No way was she the only living. . . creature of her kind. She'd spoken to them on the phone. . . others like her. I'd her it, we all heard it. They talked like best friends, like they were checking up on each other. It occurred to me then, why was she even in Forks if all of her kind had been located somewhere else? Why was she here?
"I'm going hunting." I said to no one in particular. I hunted last week and I didn't really need to go hunting but I just wanted to get out and do something.
I ran headlong into the trees behind out house. I relaxed and let the predator in me take control. It wasn't long before I picked up on a scent. A herd of dear were grazing calmly by the river. I spotted and older one. It had been wounded in a bear trap and was limping. From its thoughts I sensed it was in a lot of pain. I took the necessary option and decided to put it out of its misery. It didn't fight as it gently died in my grasp, its blood quenching my thirst.
When I was done, I wiped the blood from my lips and stood up. It was almost dark now, but I didn't want to go home. Sighing, I began to run. . . just for the feeling of it. I liked how the cold wind would blow past me. I'd ran around in circles, passing the forest line in Port Angeles. until I hit the treaty line. . . I kept up my speed. Just running.
I suddenly stopped mid stride, my nostrils flaring and my mind racing. I had past a familiar, yet sweet sent. I couldn't tell who it was, but I knew it. I let my legs carry me towards it until I had ran straight into something hard. . . and warm.
Bella's POV
I had only been here a month and I had already officially met a coven of vampires. What were the odds? One of them, oddly familiar, and one of them, already my enemy . . . Rosalie. Then Edward was in the middle of this mess. I hadn't really know my thoughts about him, I was always too busy to cover my own tracks that I never put any thought into him. So what was my excuse now? It doesn't seem like he wants to get rid of me, and he hasn't talked about me like I'm a rodent that's about to be experimented on or something. You're probably thinking, 'why doesn't she just read their minds?' I love all my powers and mind reading comes in handy but I don't like to listen to other people's privacy like that. So I'm doing it the old fashion way and wait to see what happens.
t this moment, I sat, by myself in my living room, doing nothing. It was times like these I really wished I could be home, the place I missed the most. I missed my friends, my family. . . the peacefulness. But mostly, never having to pretend that I was something I was never going to be. Human. One of my favorite things I love to do is fly. It seems like forever since I have let go of my wings. When I'm not using my wings there safely inside my skin. The only thing they leave behind is two long straight marked on my back. Since my 'fairy talent' is water, when people touch my marks it feels like snow, but as smooth as ice and as cold to. People who have the power of wind, theirs feels like calm and smooth and as delicate as the wind it self. Same goes for power of fire and earth. So whenever we are fighting one of the rules we learn is never let the attacker touch your back, he will immediately know your power and weaknesses that come with it.
I didn't dare expose my wings, even in the forest. As much as I wanted to I couldn't risk a hiker, hunter or worse, a Cullen seeing me with my wings.
I sighed and flipped through the TV channels coming up with nothing to do. I decided to go for a run. If I can't fly I can run.
I've been running for a while not really knowing were I was going. I felt a presence to my left and I slowly turned. I thought it was an animal so I ran after it and ran right into something cold and hard. I immediately knew it was a Cullen. Nothing else in the forest could be so hard and cold like stone. We both fell down from the impact. I looked to see who it was and it was Edward. I got up real fast. Too fast. There was a pain in my head and I fell again. Edward came to my side at inhuman speed, and propped my head up on to his lap. His face showed nothing but pure worry for me.
"Jesus Bella! I didn't see you in front of me." He breathed out. "I'm sorry! I didn't know you were there. What are you doing in the middle of the forest by yourself? I'll call Carlisle!"He said too fast. I almost didn't catch his ramblings.
He was freaking out at this point; it was pretty funny to be honest. He started taking his phone out of his pocket, but I took it away from him and got up, even though I didn't want to move from this position. I started speaking between giggles.
"Edward. . . Calm down! . . . I'm okay. . . see!" I waved a hand out in front of me, the giggles still taking control. He onced me over and sighed.
He looked at me up and down. To anybody else it would look like he was checking me out. I almost blushed at the thought of Edward looking at me that way.
"You seem to be ok. Are you sure you don't want me to call Carlisle?"
"Who's Carlisle?" I asked confused.
"He's our adopted father, but he's also a doctor." Damn, didn't the luck just follow me? There were more in his coven then I thought.
"No, I'm fine." I ran my fingers through my tousled hair. "So um, what. . . what are you doing here?" I asked shyly.
His brows furrowed together and he looked at me with suspicion and curiosity now. I took a step back and he did the same with one step forward.
"I could ask you the same." his eyes narrowed the slightest.
"I asked first." I said stubbornly.
"Me and my brothers wanted to hunt some animals and have fun. I wanted to explore for a while then I ran into you. Your turn."
I knew he was lying, well on some details. By the bright gold of his eyes he just finished hunting his 'meal'. And he probably thought I was an animal or something. And if he was with his brothers and we got in a fight I knew I wouldn't win against 3 of them.
I'm hiking." I said curtly. "You know, exercise. " I added lamely.
"Not on a trail?" he raised one eyebrow.
"Nope, they bore me."
"Alone?"
"Yes alone, why do you care anyways?"
He didn't say anything he just grinned at me. I wish I could wipe that grin off his face.
"How about we take a walk?" that question caught me off guard. He had to be joking.
"What about your brothers?" I said raising an eyebrow.
He chuckled "They'll be ok without me."
I sighed and walked next to him.
"I never knew you liked being out doors." He said after a couple of minutes of walking.
"There's lots of thing you don't know about me." i pointed out.
"True, but most people try to stay out of the woods. Their dangerous." He looked at me while saying that last part.
"True, but most people try to stay out of the woods. Their dangerous." He looked at me while saying that last part.
I cracked.
I couldn't take it anymore with keeping all these secrets.
"Cut the act, Edward. I know you're a vampire! And I know that you know that I'm not human! And all you guys care about is how to get rid of me!"
I think all the stress and troubles that I had kept inside me were coming out, and I couldn't stop talking. But it felt good to get everything off my chest, even though this would probably cause a bunch of controversy in the future. But the good thing is I didn't expose myself to him.
"Whoa. Calm down. Who said we were trying to get rid of you?" He asked in a hurry. His eyes were soft, but his mouth pressed into a hard line. He moved closer to me, waiting for my answer.
"It's pretty clear that all of you want to get rid of me. The constant staring, and that fight with Rosalie" I shook her head. "That wasn't an accident, Edward. None of you didn't even try and break the fight."
A couple of minutes went by in silent, I was debating to see if I should read his mind if he was going to fight me or take me to his family but before I had the chance Edward took a deep breath and spoke.
"I'm truly sorry Bella that we made you think that, but the fight between Rosalie and you was all her. She just doesn't like you; well she doesn't like a lot of people. That's just the way she is, and we didn't react because we were all too shocked to think clearly of the situation, we didn't see this coming. We just want to figure you out Bella."
I couldn't trust a coven of vampires that I barley knew with my secret. All my life, all creatures have told me was to never trust a vampire, especially when they a coven with that many numbers and abilities.
"I'm sorry, Edward but I can't trust you or your family with my secret. All you need to know is that I'm not going to hurt your coven or the citizens of forks."
I turned around to leave when Edward caught my arm and spun me around again.
"I'm not done with you. I have 3 questions, that's all then you can go back to whatever you were doing before you got in my way." He had a crooked smile that made me want to melt.
"Ok?" it sounded more like a question, he chuckled.
"How do you know we're vampires?"
I was hoping that he wouldn't ask this question.
"How do you know about werewolves? My kind knows about other mythical creatures too."
"You know about werewolves?" I laughed. "Next. I don't have all day, you know."
"Ok, ok this is weird for me to know that you know about all of this. You seem too normal and innocent to know about any of this. Am I aloud to say to my family that you know we're vampires?"
"If you want, doesn't make a difference to me. And if you think I'm normal and innocent then you clearly don't know nothing about me."
"Well how about we fix that."
"How?"
"We can be friends. I want to learn more about you Bella and I'm tired of staying away from you."
That answer caught me off guard and I stood there thinking, did he really say that we should be friends? I had to answer him, but did I want to be friends with a vampire? If he ever found out about me then that would ruin everything.
"Yeah, we can try. But I'm not going anywhere near your family." I would have to be extra careful but for some reason he made me feel like nothing could go wrong, like I wasn't a fairy and he wasn't a vampire. It was just Bella and Edward and I liked it.
He smiled and said, "Do you need any help getting home?" he had that worry in his features again.
"No, I'm ok." The look in his eyes said otherwise. "Really, don't worry about me. I know were I'm going." He smiled. "Ok I trust you. I'll see you at school." He spun on his heel, taking off, headlong into the trees.
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