Chapter 8: The start of something.

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The next time I opened my eyes I was.. thirsty.

I woke up on soft grass right below a trees shade.

I got up with a sore body and noticed my surroundings.

Everywhere I looked were trees and in front of me lay the remains of burnt wood. Probably burnt to keep me warm by my bodyguard.

I walked a little and stretched my very stiff body.

I heard water flowing nearby so I walked towards it.

Right before it came into view I saw a clearing and I hid behind a tree.

My heartbeat increased as he came into view.

He was on the phone and I heard him argue with the other person. "I told you to abort mission!"

And then there was silence.

What mission?

I looked up and he was standing right in front of me.

"You're up"

I screamed.

He placed his hand above my mouth and pushed me into the tree with a finger on his mouth signaling me to be quiet.

His body pressed up against mine.

Of course I didn't listen to that.

I kept struggling and screaming.

He let go of me and looked around with a panicked expression.

"What mission?" I shouted. "Where you behind all this?"

I could hear my voice echoing through the forest.

"Of course not! The mission I refused to go to so that I can protect you. They were doing it without me and I told them not to or they'll loose and that's exactly what happened!" he shouted back.

"Oh" was all I could say.

"Are you happy after screaming that much?" he gestured with his hands to look around.

And when I did, I felt as if I couldn't breathe.

We were surrounded by 10 humans, but I knew better that they were none other than the evilest forms of pixies.

"What are we going to do?" I whispered.

"You know, you should learn to trust people." He stated still looking at me.

"Sorry but I think I deserve to be snarky when it comes to trusting people"

"Fine! Don't trust them! But at least trust me!" and he lunged forward to attack the pixies that kept coming closer.

"Well too bad I don't." I said crossing my arms on my chest as if I was not in a battle field but a lounge back home.

How I missed home. I sighed.

"Look around yourself! I'm the only one you're relying on to get you to a safe place. You're relying on me to protect you. What's a little trust going to do to you?"

"Maybe you're right.." I said.

"I know I'm right." I could hear the smile in his voice.

I still don't trust him.

"I said maybe." I huffed.

I looked at him fighting gracefully, his movements were slower than I would've expected.

He looked dead beat.

Looking at him closely I noticed the huge bags under his eyes.

"How long have I been knocked out?"

"About two days"

"How far are we from my palace?"

"Pretty far"

"So you carried me around?"

"Yeah, since you know horses and animals don't really like me that much" I could hear him smirking.

"Have you slept at all? You look dead beat."

He remained quite. After a while he said softly "Someone had to look after you"

I didn't say anything after that.

Mainly because in all this talking I had taken the attack very lightly.

Edward's exhaustion was getting the best of him and worst of all someone jumped on me from the tree I was standing under.

Which made me gasp and fall face flat to the ground.

I struggled and soon I punched that pixie in the face with my bare hand not caring if I hurt myself.

I pushed her off of me and got up kicking her in the stomach.

I turned to run towards Edward.

I had been relying on him more than I wanted to admit.

Before I could reach him that pixie pulled my hair so hard that I was once again on the floor.

It punched me in the face too and damn it hurt.

I'm just human.

I felt the blood coming out of my lip.

It tried to punch me in the stomach but I grabbed its leg and pushed it away making it sway a little.

I had no weapon to kill this and I'm not strong enough to rip its head out.

"A little help here would be a superb thing right about now." I screamed as the pixie screamed its vicious snarl making sure I knew how pissed it was.

It's long, sharp and pointy teeth showing. It's small wings dirty and the hair spiraling everywhere.

I felt my body moving on its own accord as I started crawling away from this small yet scary creature. I had never seen an angry pixie and now that I had, I'm glad I hadn't seen it earlier.

It grabbed my neck and picked me up a foot from the ground.

I couldn't breath.

I struggled as much as I could.

Just as I could feel myself going into the blackness that invaded my vision the pixie was dismembered.

I dropped to the ground as white colored blood spilled everywhere including me and my dress. I looked up to see a very exhausted Edward. He fell to his knee with white and red blood all over him.

He grabbed me and did something completely unexpected.

He hugged me.

"Are you okay?" he said sounding so.. Fatigued.

"I'm fine, you?" he let me go.

"I'm fine." He got up with the help of a tree behind me and held his hand out for me.

I took it and said "You need to rest"

He led me to the lake.

"No, I need to feed and take a shower and we need to get out of here soon. They're right to attack us, we're on their land without their permission. This could raise land on both our lands."

"Both out lands?" I said confused.

He stopped walking. "I mean I live in a kingdom too don't I? I have my own coven." He started walking again.

Things like these, mysterious things that surrounded his aura, where what kept me at bay and warned me not to trust him.

At the lake he took his shirt off and soaked it in the lake water.

He cleaned it up and I couldn't help but stare at his perfectly toned body full of fresh bite marks especially on his back.

I lightly traced one and he flinched.

"I'm sorry" I said.

"Not a problem" he smiled back.

He dapped the clean shirt on my face, I didn't realize it at first but I knew he was cleaning the dried blood off of my lip.

I flinched a little when it stung.

"I'm sorry" he said simply.

"Not your fault, I should've paid attention."

See, I shouldn't rely on him as much as I should. My gut screamed it in my face.

He slowly got up and I kept staring at his chest.

"You know, staring is rude." He stated and I blushed. "Now, if you don't mind, you need to give a man some privacy"

I blushed even more as I realized he meant that he wanted to take a shower.

I turned around and before I could take another step away from the lake he grabbed my hand.

"Keep turned around, you don't need to leave… " I blushed a million shades of red.

I mean he'd be nude behind me.

"I mean it's not safe in the forest" he said.

I nodded.

After a minute I heard a splash and I knew he was in.

I looked to my right and saw all his cloths lying on a big rock getting dried up.

I went behind the rock took his shirt and wore that.

I took my fluffy white floral dress to the lake and started washing the white blood as well as the dirt off of it.

The bodice was hard to wash but I did it.

When I turned around I nearly fell down as I saw Edward standing behind me in nothing but jeans.

"Shit! You scared me."

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean too… shirt stealer." He added with a smirk. I noticed the bite marks had started to fade away.

"I didn't think you'd mind" I mumbled as I pulled his black shirt down to cover myself up. It wasn't considered proper but I was glad Edward was a proper gentleman considering that his eyes never wavered anywhere other than my face.

"Alright, I'll get you something to eat, you must be starved. I need to feed too."

"Now that you mentioned it" my stomach grumbled. "I am starved."

"Get your shower Elizabeth" he said my full name for the first time.

It gave me butterflies at how perfectly it rolled off his tounge.

I looked at him in the eye and smiled while nodding.

Before he turned around I grabbed his arm and pulled him back and said "Thank you Edward."

"For what?"

"Everything."

I said and turned around and walked towards the lake.

I looked back to make sure he was gone.

He was surely gone.

I unbuttoned his shirt and left it on the shore as I slipped into the cold lake water.

After 10 minutes I got out feeling refreshed.

I looked around. Edward was still no where to be seen.

I walked to the rock and pulled my half dried dress back on. It was a square necked dress with straps and knee high. Not the perfect dress to run away in a forest.

I looked at my feet which were shoe-less.

I put Edward's shirt back on the rock and noticed his coat that I hadn't thought he had worn before.

I wanted to check its pockets but decided against it.

I had to trust him. He just saved my life.

He soon came into view with a little blood on his lip and berries in his hand.

He handed me the berries and I ate them all.

"I know they aren't that filling but that's all I could find miles away."

He took his shirt, put it on and got his coat on too.

"You have blood on your lips" I whispered.

He licked it away with his tongue.

I wouldn't say that it wasn't disturbing but I had always known vampires had to drink blood just like we had to eat to survive. I couldn't hold that against them. They didn't have a choice. They had to survive.

He put his hand in his pocket.

"Before I forget put these on. I grabbed them in a rush"

He took out my sneakers and gave them to me.

See. Now isn't that fishy?

Or maybe his brain works in all places at once especially in a crises?

Yeah, maybe that's it.

Vampires are supposed to be like that right?

So I followed him, I was so engrossed in my own thoughts that I bumped into him.

"Why did you stop wal…" my sentence was left hanging in the air when I looked up. There was a whole army of pixies.

I was scared so I grabbed onto Edwards arm as hard as I could.

He looked down at me and placed his other hand on my hand on his arm to soothe me.

Well, it wasn't working.

We were not going to survive this if they decided to attack.

Haven't slept, shutting down, haven't re checked and goodnight. =)

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