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So Kacey-Leigh A.K.A MissRainLover Thanks!

Previously:

Well... Bells, I don't wanna freak you out, but it involves the Volturi," Emmett said looking serious. I gasped. Paul tightened his hold on me and used his hand to turn my face towards him.
The wolves all went into protective mode when they saw my face. Sam, Jared and Paul were looking at me, obviously wanting to know who the hell the Volturi were. I didn't say anything for an entire minute.

Then I said the one thing that was running through my mind;
"Fucking motherfucking Fuck Fuck! I knew I should have let his ass get killed by the Volturi!"

CHAPTER TWENT-FOUR

Zombies? Seriously Dude, You're Killing Me

Paul

"What the fuck is a Volturi?" Jared demanded.

Quil put up his hand and started jumping around like a little school girl.

"Oh, I know, I know!" I gave him a disgusted look. I was pretty sure he didn't know shit, and I wanted Bella to tell me about the Volturi, and let me fix this shit. I didn't care what anyone had to say about this, when I got my hands-or paws-on that no good corpse he was gonna be even deader than he already was.

"Dude we aren't in school, put your goddamn hand down before I do it for you!" I spat out, I was extremely irritated.

"But I know the answer." He whined. The leech- erm I mean, Emmet and Jasper, looked at him with curiosity, I could see Bella wanted to know how, and what he knew too.

Sam rolled his eyes. "OK spit it out!"

"The Volturi are zombies!" He said with a shit eating grin on his face. We all stared at him with open mouths before everyone just started laughing their asses off, Sam was lying on the ground hitting it with his hand, Jared was right next to him on his knees supporting himself on Jasper's shoulder, who was sitting right next to him.

"See I told you I knew." He said, looking smug, Jake groaned and put his hand on his face, covering his eyes.

"Quil that wasn't real, it was just a video game. Dude, you're killing me here!"

Emmet eyed him with an evil gleam in his eyes. "A video game? Seems like I found someone new to annihilate!" He said rubbing his hands together like an old black and white movie villain. All he needed now was the mustache.

"Okay who votes for Quil to keep his mouth shut for the rest of the day? All say I!" Jared yelled.

"I." We all yelled.

I sighed "Alright then, let's get back to business. What is a Volturi and how do I kill it? And don't give me that zombie crap," I said eyeing Quil, who had just opened his mouth to comment, "because I'm not in a good mood right now!"

Jasper stepped forward with an amused look on his face, he turned and looked at me.

"The Volturi are the law. They are a coven of vampire's ruled by three very powerf-" Bella snorted.

"Old as dirt, is more like it." Bella said with a sneer. Jasper gave her a quick glance before he continued.

She sounded so cute when she snorted like that, it made me want to take her home and bury myself inside her-with a condom this time. Fuck...I can't believe I made love to her without any protection, twice. She is going to kill me, I can only hope she's on some kind of contraception, and was it wrong of me to wish she wasn't?

I couldn't figure out my own fucking state of mind, on one hand I didn't want her to get pregnant so soon, but on the other hand, the wolf in me was telling me to impregnate her and keep her that way. If she was pregnant she would be all ours and she would never be able to leave us. My wolf needed to learn a thing or two about the woman's rights movement, plus he was an asshole.

Jasper continued, "-Powerful vampires, that make sure our secret remains just that...secret. Every time someone breaks the rules by bringing too much attention to himself or our kind by killing too many people. They send one of the Volturi guard to terminate the problem."

I tightened my arms around Bella, I knew she was probably having trouble breathing, but I kinda hoped she didn't really mind, because, God I needed to hold her right now. The thought of anything happening to her made me want to throw up.

I knew I needed to control myself, because I needed to hear this. "What do these dirty old vampires have to do with Bella?" I asked, trying to remain calm.

Emmet guffawed, "Old as dirt dude not 'dirty old'."

"Yeah , yeah whatever," I huffed impatiently, "What do these dirty old corpses want with my Bella?" My Bella, God I loved the sound of that.

"Bella knows, Paul. About us. And they know that she knows. When she went to Italy, they gave her an ultimatum. But I don't think you'll like the choice she made." Jasper said very calmly.

I was really hugging her to my body like there was no tomorrow, I was trying to let his words sink in. Bella met these old and powerful vampires? When the hell did that happen, did they have a freaking meet and great?

"Wait! You actually met those dirty old vampires? When the hell did this happen and how? And what kind of choice did you make, why won't I like it?"

I saw Jake watch Bella with understanding, I didn't like it. I didn't like him watching my Bella, in fact I didn't like anyone watching her. I wanted to take her away from all this crap, I wanted her to safe, and I really wanted Jake to stop watching her because there was only so much of this I could take before I punched out his teeth.

Bella, who had been pretty quiet up to this point turned to look at me.

"When I went to Italy, I left to save Edwards life." She rolled her eyes. "He thought I off'd myself by jumping off a cliff, so he decided he had no reason to live anymore." Jacob snorted.

"Yeah dude, I know. He's always been a bit of a drama queen." Emmet said, rolling his eyes.

Quil snickered "Drama queen, how fitting."

She took a deep breath before she continued. "He went to the Volturi to ask them to kill him, but they said no. They liked Edward's mind-reading ability too much to just kill him like that, so they asked him to join them. He declined and decided he needed to do something to provoke them, to make sure they had no other choice but to end his life. He decided to show his sparkly ass to a shitload of people, giving the Volturi no other choice but to do what he wanted. I saved his ass of course, which I kinda regret right now."

I sighed and rubbed my head. This shit was giving me a fucking migraine. All I wanted to do, was go home and have a sex marathon with Bella, I wanted to lose myself in her touch, and most importantly, I wanted to lose myself inside of her.

'Well, I guess that's not gonna happen' I thought with regret, not anytime soon anyway. I brought my attention back to Bella.

"Before he could actually be seen by anyone, I got to him and convinced him that I was alive and that he was kind of an idiot. We tried to get out of there but we were detained by three members of the Volturi guard, and me, Alice and Edward were brought before the three brothers." She turned around to look at me, I had a feeling I wasn't gonna like hearing this. She gently cupped his face. "Baby, just remember I'm here. You're holding me in your arms, and I'm safe." She whispered while giving me a soft kiss.

"They voted to kill me-"

"WHAT?" I yelled. I started shaking. My wolf was telling me to phase and eliminate all possible threats to our mate. He wanted to go on a vampire killing spree, and I wanted to let him. They wanted to kill our mate, 'protect' was the word my wolf was growling 'protect what is ours'.

"Paul, let go of Bella. You need to phase and you can't do it while holding her. You wouldn't want to hurt her, right?" Sam said softly.

Emmet froze and I could see Jasper's mind working out the variables. He was trying to think of a way to get past me to Bella without me actually getting hurt. I could actually see the panic in his eyes, he was a real military man that one, I could see him come up with-and reject several strategy's.

"Dude let go of my baby sister." Emmet said very calmly. "If you don't, you'll end up hurting her."

Bella looked up at me, and I could see no panic on her face. She trusted me not to hurt her -trusted me completely- so I did the only thing I wanted to do more than anything; I kissed her. I soon forgot about phasing and death. All I could see was her.

I broke our kiss and looked into her eyes. "I'm right here." She whispered. "I'm not going anywhere, not ever."

I nodded and gritted my teeth. "Okay there are too many interruptions, I want to hear the story without anyone saying a thing." I gave her a tight smile. "Even me."

She took a deep breath and continued. "They decided to kill me because that was the law. If anyone finds out about vampires they need to be turned or killed, and since Edward wasn't planning on changing me anytime soon, they thought the best option was to just kill me. And I think he was kinda hungry." She added with a shrug.

"So obviously they didn't because you're still here." Quil said, while giving her a thoughtful look.

"No they didn't, Alice convinced them I would become a vampire. She saw it in one of her visions, so they let me live on the condition that I had to be turned within the year, if not, they would not only kill me, but they would kill the Cullen's too."

I let her go and stumbled back, she turned around to face me. I didn't know what to say, or think for that matter. Her wanting to fuck a bloodsucker was bad enough, but now she was saying she actually wanted to be one. Was that what she was saying?

"You...you want...you want to be like...like them?" I asked her while pointing at her brothers.

"I wanted too...I don't anymore."

I started shaking, "You were going to be a leech? Why would you want to become one of them? W-was...it because they made you, because otherwise they would kill you?" I asked almost hopeful. Please say yes, please say yes...

"No.

My stomach plummeted. She wanted to be like...like him. She loved him enough to become a bloodsucker, did she still love him?

I wanted to annihilate him from the face of this earth. She must have loved him so much, to give everything up to be with him, her friends her family, the opportunity to have children, the sun...her life. Did she love me like that, or was I just second best? Did she choose me just because I imprinted on her? If it wasn't for the imprint would she still want to be with him?

I looked at Bella and saw that she was watching me intently. "What are you thinking?" She asked almost pleadingly.

I couldn't tell her of my insecurities, could I?

"Nothing..." I replied with a soft voice.

I wouldn't tell her, because if I did, maybe she'd want to go back to him, even though she couldn't, not anymore, not after I marked her as mine. My wolf rejoiced in that thought 'She couldn't leave us even if she wanted to' he thought, satisfied. 'She's ours'.

I was not that optimistic. I wanted her with to be me because she wanted to be, I didn't want her to stay with me because she had too.

She winced, I could clearly see that she didn't believe me when I said there was nothing on my mind.

"Oh for the love of God!" Jasper cried.

"He's feeling unworthy, insecure, and scared. In essence his heart is breaking because the idiot thinks you're going to leave him. Just tell him how you feel and get this over with, He is an idiot for not realising how you feel about him and you know I cant stand to be surrounded by stupidity, it might be contagious."

That fucking asshole, telling her about my private feelings like that. I made a mental note to get back at him for that one.

"Is he right, is that what you're feeling? Because if it is, my brother is right; you are an idiot. Why would you think I would ever leave you, have I not shown you how I feel about you?" She asked with tears in her eyes.

"But what if I hadn't imprinted on you, you would still have been with him. The imprint is the only reason you feel this way." I really didn't want to talk about this, especially not now, with her brothers and mine watching us in yet another episode of 'The Werewolf And The Leech Lover'.

"So you know that you imprinted on her? For sure I mean?" Emmet asked looking happy.

How that leech could look happy at a time like this was beyond me, but then again, we were providing entertainment.

"Yes!" I hissed "Isn't that obvious? The only reason she's with me is because of it!"

"Uhm, actually, I don't think you're right about that one. I think she fell in love with you without the imprint." Jasper offered.

Sam who looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here decided to participate in this conversation. "How so?" He asked

"I've been keeping an eye on her for a while now, ever since I've been receiving mixed signals when she talked about wolf boy over there," He said, nodding his head in my direction. "When I first started feeling how she felt about him, I wasn't sure he really imprinted. I figured it was just a lust thing, but after I thought about it and talked to Carlyle, I'm pretty sure I know what's been going on."

"So, what's been going on then?" I asked.

"Well if you want to know in detail, you're gonna have to talk to Carlisle about it, but we think something went wrong with the imprint."

"But-" Jared started, but Sam silenced him with a gesture. "Just let him explain, otherwise we'll be stuck out here all day." He sighed. I could tell he was getting a bit irritated by all the half ass-ed explanations that were flying around, I couldn't blame him. I wanted to know what the hell was going on too.

"Bella is special. Some vampires have certain gifts, like me being able to manipulate ones emotions, Alice sees the future, and Edward reads minds. My gift, and Alice's gift works on Bella because we effect her physical body. Edwards gift however doesn't work on her because it effect her mind. Edward can't read her mind, we think she has some kind of mental block preventing him. And we think that's what went wrong with the imprint."

He looked at me, "You say you cant remember a specific imprinting moment, correct?"

I nodded. "Yeah, I never really liked her on account of hanging with you guys and Fuckward, so we always fought, and then one day, us fighting changed. Instead of being annoyed about it, our fighting turned me on."

Bella gave me a look that promised she would turn me on later, and I for one couldn't fucking wait.

"Yes, we think that's when you imprinted. Usually you look in to her eyes and you imprint, but with Bella that didn't happen because her mental block shielded her from it as if it was some kind of attack. Instead of effecting her entire being, it only affected her body, hence the lust you suddenly felt for each other."

Jared cleared his throat. "So let me get this straight, instead of falling madly in love they fell madly in lust?"

Emmet chuckled "Pretty much." He turned to Bella "That's probably why you needed to get laid so badly Bells, you were in some kind of heat."

Bella groaned "Emmet, no spilling secrets, remember?"

"So all of their fights, were actually just for-play?" Quil asked wiggling his eyebrows.

"Yep." Emmet nodded.

I was deep in thought. That meant...what exactly? Bella was in lust with me...not love, at least not from the beginning. But she loved me now...so...what did this mean exactly?

She fell in love without the imprint...she fell in love without the imprint...she fell in love without the fucking imprint!

I snapped my head up to look at my Bella. She was truly mine, by her own choice not because of the imprint. I walked over to her slowly and stopped when I reached her. She was eying me carefully, trying to figure out my mood. I smiled at her and wrapped her in my arms. "You love me!"

She laughed. "Of course I do you dork, did you just figure it out?"

I gave her a goofy grin, "You love me." I sighed before I kissed her. "Dude!" Quil yelled. "The man card police is totally revoking your membership!"

"Shut up Quill!" Jared and Sam said in union.

I broke our kiss and gave Bell a smoldering look promising her wicked things to come. I turned back to her brothers. "Okay, Volturi, Edward, and Alice..spill!

Hey guys,

Sorry for the long wait, I was having major trouble with this chapter until I decided to write it from Paul's POV.

I hope you liked it, let me know, I'm dying to find out what you think.

On another note, I've started a new Paul Bella Story.

Its called 'Somthing Wicked This Way Comes.'

Check it out and let me know what you think.

xxx Hanane xxx