In honor of Zombie Jesus Easter, I give you chapter 6! Enjoy

~~~OUTBREAK~~~

The next morning I woke up to the sound of Charlie laughing.

I hadn't heard him laugh in so long that I couldn't help but smile. I didn't bother making my bed or brushing my teeth as I raced down stairs. I had missed his smile so much and I wanted so badly to catch a glimpse of it.

During the night, I thought about what he said and about Edward. I felt like such a bad daughter for not believing him and even worse for some of things I had said.

I was a little ashamed of myself that it took seeing Edward and the things he could do to prove to me what Charlie said was true.

Knowing I had a big apology to give and my excitement over his laugh, I was almost in tears as I ran down the stairs toward the noise.

"Jesus!" I jumped back three steps as my eyes landed on Edward sitting next to Charlie. His laughter completely forgotten as I groaned. "I didn't know we were expecting company so early." I glared at Edward from my perch, before swallowing down my heart that had lodged itself in my throat.

Of course he would be here. After yesterday he'd want to torment me, and Charlie had already gotten the next two days of school excused so I had no real escape.

"I figured it'd be good for you to have some company while I'm at work all day." Charlie took a sip of his coffee, his eyes glued to the morning news.

"How nice of you." I offered Edward a tight lipped smile before trying to pull my shorts further down my thighs and walked down the stairs.

"Be nice, Bells. It'll be good for the both of you and maybe even fun."

I bit my tongue wanting so bad to make him throw Edward out but I owed him this, and if he trusted Edward here I wasn't going to doubt him again.

"Nice pajamas," Edward snorted and my skin heated red, knowing he was looking at my bare legs.

I'd been sleeping in one of Charlie's old Forks Police T shirts and yoga shorts for years. Never once had anyone been here when I woke up besides Charlie. And in all that time I had never been so self conscious about myself.

Now all I could think about, was if there was drool on my face and was my hair sticking up. I felt like I was completely naked in front of him, like this was some bad dream and he could see my hello kitty panties and black bra.

Edward choked just as my bare feet hit the wooden floors and my eyes widened.

Fuck my life so hard.

I sent my father a glare as I tried to hold my head high and walk past them into the kitchen.

If I could just make it to the coffee pot and drink it down, maybe, just maybe I could deal with Edward today. If nothing else, I could make a fresh pot and try and scald him with it if he pissed me off too bad.

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I spent twenty minutes in the kitchen, my eyes staring at the clock and three cups of coffee in my system as I tried to relax enough to go back into the living room.

When Charlie left for work with a thank you whispered in my ear and a kiss on top of my head, my anxiety went up.

It wasn't that I was afraid of Edward, not really. I knew he wouldn't hurt me. Something about yesterday showed me that. Maybe it was the way he talked to me, or the fact he didn't let me die, whatever it was, I just knew.

Him showing up today confirmed it.

There was something about him that made my heart race.

"It's lonely in there all by myself." My coffee cup dropped from my hand.

"You should be more careful." Edward smiled up at me, coffee cup in hand, as he knelt on the floor.

"How the..." I blinked down at the cup and back up at his muddy brown eyes. He was so close to me, too close.

"Breathe, Bella." His smile was mischievous as he grabbed my hand and wrapped my fingers around the mug. "Vampire, remember?"

"Stop doing that. I just... I just got used to the idea vampires exist, the speed thing is unsettling." I shook my head as I made my way into the living room, trying to shake the daze he was putting me in.

"It's one of the many perks of being a vampire."

I was just sitting on the couch as Edward sat down beside me quickly. "What?"

"That cloudy feeling in your mind? My looks were meant to draw you in, deliver you into submission. Everything about me is inviting to you. My looks, my voice, everything is meant to lure you." He offered a charming smile as his fingers danced over the skin of my palm.

"Great." I rolled my eyes, and snatched my hand away from his grip. I knew he was going to use that against me, he was having too much fun not to.

"I won't. At least not all the time. It is fun though, especially now that you know."

"Stop answering my thoughts." It was unnerving as hell.

He shrugged and started channel surfing. I took the opportunity to rush upstairs, run a brush through my hair and put on some pants. I was becoming a little more comfortable with Edward, but I still firmly believed he was just as pervy as any other teenage boy I'd been around in high school.

When I was finished I decided to fix myself breakfast, which brought Edward into the kitchen complaining about the smell of frying bacon. That's when he began his game of murder me by twenty questions.

"Do you always eat such foul smelling foods?" He wrinkled his nose as he opened the window over the sink.

"Do you always ask so many questions?"

"You're the first human I've had much interaction with besides Charlie that I didn't drain."

I wasn't sure if that was a joke or not, but it still sent chills down my spine. Vampire's killed people, I wasn't stupid enough to think differently. Charlie said that they only drank animal's blood, but that didn't mean they always had, or that others out there like them held that kind of diet.

"Has anyone ever told you how charming you are?" I was trying to change the subject, but the thought of him killing someone to survive wasn't going anywhere.

"This ego wasn't built all by itself, Bella." His smile was dazzling and I had to force myself to look away. "You can ask, you know."

I thought about his offer as I deliberately chewed on a piece of bacon, when an idea hit me.

"Hell no. Nope. Don't even think about it." Edward was shaking his head as a wide grin broke out across my face.

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"I don't like this game, Bella. I just want that stated for the record." He had already tried over and over to talk me out of it. There were things about me that he was curious about, human things. I was anxious to learn about him too, but after yesterday I wanted payback, and so I formed a game.

"I'll answer every question you ask. In return you have to chose at least one of these items to eat." I raised a challenging brow at him, waiting for him to take a bet he couldn't refuse.

There was a burning curiosity in his eyes when he looked me in the eyes, at least I hoped that's what that was. I knew he'd take this, it was too tempting not to.

"You know I'll have to throw all this up later."

"Yep." My grin was impossibly wide as my feet kicked in excitement under the table. He told me he could consume food, but not digest it. His family did it for show sometimes, but they always had to throw it back up later.

It only made this that much more rewarding for me.

"Is it painful?" I asked trying not to sound so giddy.

"I hate you."

"What'll it be?" I started to pick up the food as he closed his eyes. When he grabbed my hand, stopping me it made my knees weak.

"Fine. Any question?"

"Any question." I nodded which set him off into question after question about me.

We started small and simple. For a cracker, he learned my favorite color was red.

I told him I loved horror movies, but nothing with dolls, for a sugar cube.

I had two boyfriends, Tyler and Jacob Black, but Jacob left me for Embry a year ago. For that he ate a giant marshmallow.

"Are you a virgin?" I choked and he laughed.

"Are you?" I countered.

"I'll answer your question for answering mine." I thought about it for a minute. It was a good trade, even though I was enjoying the disgusted faces he made every time he swallowed something.

"A shot for a shot." I offered, wondering if I should even be drinking.

His answer was a lazy smile as he grabbed two shot glasses and Charlie's Jim Beam.

"On the count of three?" I was cringing at the thought, but maybe it wouldn't be so bad if we both said it at the same time.

"One... two... three." We both counted and I closed my eyes.

"No."

"No."

"Oh my god." I choked out as I gulped down the shot. My throat burned and I tried so hard not to laugh. I was so damn relieved and I didn't even know why. "Next question." I tried not to blush, knowing besides Tyler and myself, Edward was the only person to know that.

He eyed me for a moment, as if he was about to push the subject, before looking over the food and leaving me to myself.

"Your mom?"

I slid him a poptart. It was blueberry and stale. I hated them, but didn't have the heart to throw the last pack out, so this way I still got to enjoy them. While he munched on the sugary goodness, I explained that she was never in my life for more than a weekend and a child support check. She left when I was a baby for a career in journalism and met Phil, her baseball playing husband. I told him how Charlie asked me when I turned fourteen if I wanted to live with her for awhile.

I didn't.

I liked my home, and I had friends and Charlie. That was all I cared about then and even now. I worried about her, sure, but I always wondered if she worried about me, and that made the decision for me.

We stayed quiet for awhile after that and he finished both the pop tarts without a word. It wasn't hard talking about Renee. I just wished I would have had a mom in my life sometimes. Charlie made up for it almost always, and it made me kick myself for doubting him about the vampires.

"It would have been hard for anyone to take, Bella." Edward's fingertips brushed mine making me jump and wipe the tears away from my face I hadn't realized had fallen.

I stared down at our fingers, none of them touched but I could feel the energy from his closeness. It was fire and ice and electricity that made my heart race and ache for him to touch them.

When I felt his fingers hovering over mine, barely a centimeter in the air, dancing just over my own, I tried to swallow down the fear of what was happening.

Maybe this was his gift, it made me want his touch, to crave it. I could feel my muscles tightening at the thought and the butterflies in my stomach trying to beat out the racing of my heart. It was all just too much. it was like feeling a spark begin to build around our hands, around us and I was too damn scared of it.

Of him.

"Shit." I cleared my throat and pulled my hand away from his and started to gather everything on the table. "This zombie, stuff. Is it really happening?"

"Bella." I knew he was trying to get me to talk about what just happened, but I couldn't.

Please please please, don't apologize. I thought at him, hoping he wouldn't, as I put away the last of the food.

Maybe it was the booze hitting me, but I needed some air.

I didn't bother hiding the cigarette as Edward followed me outside.

"Those will kill you." He laughed, taking a seat on the step beside me.

"Didn't you hear? Zombie's are coming. I think one cigarette will be okay." I had this one pack for almost a year. They were saved for phone calls with Renee. She always seemed to work me up into a ball of stress and Mike was gullible enough to sneak me a pack from his family's store.

"Alice's visions aren't always accurate, you know."

"Oh?" I was still gonna smoke it.

He laughed, shaking his head. "They're made based off decisions. Dead people can't make decisions."

"Says the dead vampire." I interrupted, eyeing him.

"Har har. What I mean is, she's getting the visions because doctors are making mistakes. They aren't contacting the right people when someone reanimates."

"That's such a dark word." Reanimate. It didn't even sound right in my head and it left a bad taste in my mouth.

"She's keeping track of as many hospitals close to Washington as she can. That's how she knows it'll hit here so soon."

"Don't you think it's kind of morbid knowing you're gonna die like this and when?" I would hate to see that kind of thing day in and day out.

It seemed like a shitty gift.

"She never said anything about dying." Edward laughed nervously as he looked out at the woods behind the house.

"It's inevitable though isn't it?" I didn't like this conversation at all. I didn't mean for it to take this turn and now I was regretting it. Talking about dying, knowing I could be dead in a few days, it made me sick to my stomach.

"It doesn't have to be. That's why Carlisle's here." Edward was a little bit closer and my breathing was a little faster.

I had no idea what the hell was happening to me.

"So why are you here?" He looked over at me, sincerity shining bright in his darkening eyes.

"I'm not sure yet." He looked away just as something else flickered, but he was too fast for me to catch it.

~~~OUTBREAK~~~

We spent the next two days together.

On the second day, Carlisle followed Edward and removed my cast. I thanked him over and over and even offered to bake him muffins, making them both laugh.

I had a feeling Edward hadn't said anything to Carlisle about eating. I wasn't sure he ever would.

When Carlisle left several thank you's later, Edward followed me outside once again, not saying a word when I lit a cigarette and watched the woods.

He told me he'd went to highschool in almost every state, and how Carlisle had promised his mother just before she died that he would save her son.

I learned it took him fifteen years to gain enough control to hold a cup without breaking it. Carlisle had made him sit the last year and learn to thread a needle over and over before he was ever allowed in public places.

He talked about his brothers and sisters and how they had all despised one another in the beginning. There were too many newborns, as he called them, in one place at one time. I learned he's closest to Alice, but Emmett is secretly his favorite. Jasper had the hardest time adjusting to their life, but he's family and it wouldn't matter if he slaughtered a village, he'd still have a place with them.

Always.

It scared me hearing him talk like that, but I was happy for his honesty and I think he was grateful for me not judging them. And I didn't, not really. I mean I couldn't nod in understanding about slaughtering a village, but I could understand forgiveness.

His only mention of Esme was just how much she meant to him. I was taken aback by the loyalty and love in his eyes when he talked about them.

When I asked about Rosalie, he rolled his eyes and said that was a story for another day.

I told him that I enjoyed reading, but preferred movies. That I was addicted to coffee and loved my truck, but secretly wanted something that drove over fifty on the highway.

By the end of the day, nothing had changed between us. I still felt like he was burning me with every touch, and my heart still tried to escape my body when he got too close. The only difference really, was that I didn't see him as just a charming asshole anymore.

I mean he really was still an asshole. He proved that when he tried to make my coffee for me and used salt instead of sugar. A lot of salt.

By the end of the night everything was just as it had been between us though. He even stayed for dinner, earning a questioning look from Charlie when I ordered Edward his very own double everything pizza.

He ate every last piece with an angry glare and drank a hot cream soda when I offered to help wash it down.

Charlie walked Edward out around midnight and only laughed when we both heard Edward heaving in the bushes outside.

When I finally cut my light off for the night, all I could think about was Edward and how much I hated that I missed him. It had only been a few hours since he was here, but it was nice. I'd never had many friends over, and even less that I could stand being around lately.

Edward was different.

I laughed at myself as I watched the clouds pass over the moon outside my window. I may have been prey to a vampire, but I was more than that when it came to Edward.

I was screwed.

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