Vengeance
Sequel to Payback.
A/N: so this is much later than I planned, but I got rather caught up in various things and forgot about it. Anyway, it's a work in progress now. I apologize for any plot errors.
Chapter 1
VPOV
I returned to Bella quickly, wishing I could explain everything to her. That I had seen the family who had hurt her, and that they were hurting. I wanted to tell her that one name had been weapon enough to make vampires with collective millennia in age want to cry.
I decided as I ran that I would explain it all to her. Just as soon as I had fed properly and made sure she had had something to eat.
Then, we had to make travel plans.
BPOV
I found that I could now barely remember anything about my human life. Victoria had encouraged me to forget the hurtful things, which according to her were quite few in number. There had been him, who had left me. My memories were no longer my own but hers, as she supplied information I had lost during or since the transformation.
That night when she returned, she seemed oddly flustered. I had never seen her confused or flustered.
We went out to hunt, and found a few people who satisfied our needs. Once we finished she looked at me almost assessingly, and I wondered why she looked like she was trying to calculate things in my head. Since she'd changed me she had been the one constant in my life, even as cities and towns blurred together with houses and apartments and fake names.
At home she sat me down, looking for all the world like a mother trying to decide how to break bad news to her child. Her crimson eyes bored into mine, and I got the impression she was trying to figure out my mental state. Eventually she started talking, and I found myself transfixed by her words.
I learned so much that night. How she had watched over me after the Cullens left. How she had felt sympathy for me, and anger at them leaving me so thoroughly unprotected.
She told me how the wolves were adequate-looking as though it pained her to admit it-and how she wanted to protect me herself.
I soon found out that she wanted revenge on the Cullens, and that when I was confronted with her I asked for immortality. She told me of the plan I had pieced together to pack my things and leave, and I wondered idly where my father was now. And Renee-did she know I'd vanished?
Finally she explained how she had tracked down the Cullens to Canada, and that she had, under a fake name, made acquaintances who had offered her a place to stay were she ever there again.
It occurred to me that as a human, this would've been a lot to take in. As a vampire, it registered quickly.
I found myself curious to see this family again, and to meet her new acquaintances.
VPOV
I watched Bella as she absorbed everything I had to say, and finally she got up and left the room. I had to admit I wasn't surprised at her reaction. Honestly, it would have startled me if she had sat quietly and asked questions.
I settled in with a novel for a few hours, and the front door closing alerted me to her return. When she appeared in the living room her eyes were a brighter red, but the expression in them was calmer and somehow peaceful.
She settled in on the couch, curling up with a novel of her own. I watched for a few minutes before getting the laptop and navigating to travel websites. It would be interesting to fly on human "planes", as I had done so only a couple of times. I had never seen the reason to fly when I could run the distance much quicker-and less conspicuously. A few minutes later, I was booking tickets to Canada, departing in six months.
The next step would be to gather the necessary supplies to make us look human until we arrived in Canada, and I pulled together enough contacts and cosmetics for the both of us.
The next few months passed quickly, with Bella occasionally asking a question about her human life or people she'd known. I answered as best I could. Most of her classmates would now be in college or working.
I didn't like to tell her that I hadn't returned to Forks since we had left.
Once we got to Canada I would have to keep an eye on Bella, make sure she didn't do anything that would risk exposing us. I was pleased to note that Bella was stronger now as a vampire. As a human, she'd become timid and sort of shy when she was with Edward.
To me, it had seemed that she needed him, and I didn't like it. It was why I was so angered when he left: it would have destroyed her if I hadn't stepped in.
As far as I was concerned, these were all good reasons to pay a little visit to the Cullens as soon as possible and show them what I had done.