A/N: I've posted my new story 'Paradise Song'. Its begging for feedback, do the honours? It'll explain why you may see some extra u's where you aren't used to seeing them.
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Chapter 11
James POV
I liked her legs.
They were long as the rivers that grace a worthy swell. They were smooth as the stone at the river's restless bed, a cream with youth and glow that rivalled a full moon.
So I cut them off.
It was not really that difficult.
The man had a strong fist. It was powerful as the thunder rolling unchallenged in the skies. It was dark and mighty and held the command of a thousand generals.
It offended me.
So I burnt it off.
Then... I killed him. I was going to shoot him, but I stabbed his neck because I did not like his voice amongst the others. Its resounding bass drowned the harmony of the other suffering bodies.
A few other things I liked and I hated. I gathered them together that day, eliminating and collecting parts as was necessary.
I revelled in their cries.
Wailing like a hundred thousand damned souls tossed into oblivion.
Music.
When I had heard the first shots outside I had just finished removing the hands of the girl that always bought a cupcake after school. The hands that held the cupcake like a precious gift, giving it care and want and expressing desire, before simply devouring it- eradicating.
I envied them. How effortlessly could she exterminate something that she loved? So thoroughly. The blood on the small hands reminded me of red and orange icing on the cupcake.
Those colours had made me think of what I really needed to do that night.
What I should have done that night.
It would probably have been finished if I had used her.
Either way, time had run out.
That was supposed to be the night that I would become invincible.
Untouchable.
The first shot was the pitch that began the cacophony of notes that disturbed my process.
I had to escape, and as escape became priority I had no choice but to leave it all behind. My parts, my tools- I couldn't carry them with me.
A hundred songs of regret whispered their unison in my subconscious that night.
Today was not very different.
I left behind a vital part of my plan.
I did not worry about my tools. I was fairly certain they would not take them ever again.
But I left behind Isabella Swan.
I needed her alive, and my messengers had almost killed her.
I had already dealt with the fools who had injected her four times- she was just a woman. How much of a threat could she have been to two men? Their useless arms were cut off and they were left to die.
I was sure that she would lead me to the ones that had been after me.
I needed her with me, and the same ones had come to take her.
But I knew how to deal with them.
They were fucking weak.
They were not as strong as I was. So I used that to my advantage. I figured the same method would work again. My tools were just where I left them, just as I left them. I would get her back and get what I wanted out f her, and maybe I would get rid of all the others too.
Either way, I would soon know exactly who Isabella Swan really was.
She fit all the criteria.
She had the resources.
She was able to distance herself from it all.
She was able to teach all the fuckers they'd sent in- teach them how to play like seasoned a submissive, to send messages, to hide in plain sight, whatever they needed to get in and out undetected, unsuspected, like atoms through my fine sifter.
And she was hiding right under my nose.
I went back out through the tunnel passage under the house. Just as I did before, I left a letter. They would return her.
Or they would suffer.
"You give in return all I need,
You leave me little question as to why.
You reap the crop of my own stolen seed,
You unearth a place for heads to lie."
Important A/N:
There you have it. Now you know what's in the envelope. And now you know what the inside of James' brain looks like.
The next two chapters are transitional- they lead us into ExB's relationship.
I hope to have chapter 12 up soon, and then chapter 13 one day after.
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