Chapter 3

I screamed as my father lunged at Damon.

"Daddy! Stop! PLEASE!" I screeched. Uncle Jazz and Uncle Emmett immediately ripped Edward off of Damon. I scurried to his side,

"Are you okay?" I asked quickly.

"Oh don't worry, not even a scratch." Damon said loudly.

"Ness, can we talk?" Jake spat, he did not look happy. I nodded and followed a sulking Jacob out of the room. We were in the back yard.

"What the hell did he do to you in the clearing?" Jake screamed.

"He well... fed on me... then he kissed me." I said quietly.

"HE WHAT? DID YOU LET HIM! HE IS A MONSTER!" Jake yelled.

"Yes I let him, and he's not a monster! Gawd, you just don't understand!"

"Nessie, I completely understand. You feel like acting out. But it's not gonna happen again, right? Because you're mine, and I know you will listen to me."

"Woah! I am not yours!"

"Yes you are!"

"NO I AM NOT! YOU DON'T OWN ME! I TAKE CARE OF MYSELF!"

"THEN WHY DID YOU LET HIM FEED ON YOU?" Jake screamed, his voice teaming with anger. I turned to walk away, but he grabbed me. He forced his lips on mine. It hurt, a lot. He pushed my hips into his, and held onto my hair tightly. I pulled myself away for only a second to say,

"Jake, please stop!" I begged, then his lips were on mine. He pulled off,

"You are mine I do what I want." He laughed evilly. His hands were out of my hair and now grasped my wrists tightly, I felt salty tears well up. I pushed him off, and kneed him in the groin. He cried out, and did something I never expected he threw me across the small clearing that was our back yard. I crashed through two trees. I began to cry, my arm hurt like hell and my head was bleeding.

"Daddy help. Mommy..." I croaked as loud as I could. Daddy I need you! PLEASE! I AM HURT! HE HURT ME! I thought as loud as I could. I tried to get up, when I did I saw Jake heading towards me. Then a blur came he was against the house. I ran over to see Damon holding his neck.

"Okay, mutt! If the young lady says stop you stop! You hurt her! Are you stupid! SHE IS HALF HUMAN! She could die!" Damon screamed. His bashed Jacob's head into the house, between each bash he said, "You" Bash "Filthy" Bash "Mangy" Bash "Mutt". Then I could see Damon was going to kill him.

"Damon stop. Please." I croaked, my throat was dry. He turned to look at me, and dropped a bleeding Jacob. My family came out running, how had my father not heard me?

"Honey are you alright? How badly did he hurt you?" Damon asked inspecting my cuts and bruises. I started crying again. Carlisle approached us,

"Love, are you okay? Ohh, no. Let's go to my office, Damon do me a favor and carry the lady will you?" Carlisle asked, Damon nodded and picked me up. He walked past my family, my father glared at him, my Uncles still holding his arms. Damon set me in the arm chair in the office. Carlisle inspected the wounds, did some stitches and used some band aids and I was fine.

"Well, that is that! I'm going to grab some morphine, okay?" Carlisle said. I nodded, my whole body hurt, not intensely but enough to notice.

"Thanks for saving me." I said quietly. Damon looked at me with the cocky smirk I loved,

"Couldn't let him hurt you. Why the confused look?" Damon asked. I didn't want to say it, so I wrote it.

My father can read minds, I screamed for him in my mind, but he didn't come.

Do you think your father might have been tuning you out?

He never does, always keeping a close watch on my thoughts. Especially since you have been here.

Do you think he pretended not to hear you on purpose?

I just don't know.

Damon gave me a puzzled look, his eyes searched my face. He could see it plainly and clearly, I thought my father had let Jake hurt me.

"Well I am going to find out!" Damon said smiling, but not out of joy. I got up and followed after him, hoping he wouldn't attempt to hurt him. Damon silently glided down the stairs, I followed much less gracefully. My family was now in the living room, Jake on the couch his eyes red.

"So, Eddie why didn't you come outside?" Damon asked suspiciously.

"What do you mean?" Edward asked, his voice close to a growl.

"Well, Ness here said that she was mentally screaming for you, yet you didn't come."

"What are you talking about? Nessie did not scream for me." Edward replied, annoyance flashed over Damon's face, he was suddenly in front of my father, his eyes glaring into his,

"Tell me, did you hear Nessie's mental cries? Or were you tuning her out?" Damon said. Edward blinked then said,

"Of course I heard her. But for once I thought I should treat her like the adult she begs to be." Edward replied. I was shocked,

"Daddy? You let him hurt me?" I sobbed.

"Yes, I did." My father stated.