Chapter 13 Say What?!
Bella P.O.V.
I slipped into the darkness with Edward in my arms. I didn't know how long I was under, but I was slowly starting to recuperate. I felt that I could move my fingers and twitch my toes. But that was it. I heard a faint voice, but it was so distant I couldn't understand it. I tried moving my shield, but the darkness enveloped me again. Sometime after that, I felt my feeling come back. I twitched my toes and flicked my fingers. I felt a spasm run through my body. I felt my eye twitching every once in awhile. The screaming had subsided and I just heard a faint whisper now in the back of my brain. My brain finally clicked that I still had my shield on Edward. Edward, can you hear me?
Yes, now open your eyes love. I miss you. I felt my mouth twitch with a smile, but I was still so weak that I couldn't bring it to my eyes. I let my eyes flutter and then opened them. I was met by the most beautiful thing anyone could ever see. Edward. He was looking down at me and his face filled my line of sight. His eyes were still red, but they were burning with passion and love. I gathered all of the energy I could and I brought my face up to his and kissed him. He smiled against my lips. I fell back onto the couch and took in the rest of my surroundings. Esme and Emmett were sitting next to the couch with worried eyes and a wry smile playing at their lips. I smiled at them and theirs grew bigger. Emmett pulled my off the couch and into a carrying hug.
"Don't you ever do that to me again squirt." I smacked him playfully when he used the nickname I hated. Esme laughed and patted my shoulder.
"I'm glad you're okay." I didn't know why they were so worried. Edward should have been under just as long as me. Shouldn't he?
"I told you!" Alice said with a smug smile, and then ran over to give me a hug. I mustered the energy to extend my shield to my family. I looked around for the Cullen's but couldn't find them.
"Where is everyone?" I noticed that the Denali's and werewolves were not in there either.
"The werewolves are outside talking to the Denali's about what happened. Benjamin feels really guilty and the werewolves thought he deserved a good talking too. But that had to come after the rest of the Denali's had their say. He's getting a good scolding so you don't have too." Alice told me.
"Oh, where are the rest of the Cullen's?" I asked.
"They are in the kitchen eating. They hadn't eaten in awhile and Kate just got back with some food. In fact I don't even think they know you're awake." Emmett said.
"Hey guys, Bella is awake!" Alice said a little louder so they could hear. The noise rang in my head because it was so sensitive.
I heard scuffling and I remembered that Edward was a newborn and his family was human. He would never forgive himself if he drained them. I grabbed Edward's waist and pinned him to the couch, holding his shoulders with my other arm. "Um, Bella, as much as I kind of like this position," I looked to see that I was straddling him, "what are you doing?" Edward asked with an amused expression.
"You're a newborn; you would never forgive yourself if you killed one of your family." I stated obviously.
"Um I don't know if you have noticed Bella. But they have been in the same house as me for quite some time. I haven't even been tempted to attack them yet. Yes, they smell really good, but the fire in my throat is manageable. I got over it the second I felt it. No big deal," Edward waved it off like it was nothing.
"Okay?" It came out as more of a question than an understanding. "So, you're telling me you skipped your newborn years?" I asked.
"Yes, just like you and Esme," I heard a throat clear behind us and I looked to see Alice with an annoyed expression. "What?" Edward asked.
"I skipped my newborn years too. I saw a vision of me being in control, and I just took on that role. So ha!" Alice stuck out her tongue. Edward stuck his out back.
"Real mature," Rosalie said walking into the living room. I slid off of Edward's lap and sat beside him. He grabbed my hand and held it. Jasper walked in slowly after Rose, and Carlisle followed.
"It's good to see you two are back," Carlisle said. Jasper nodded his head in agreement and Rosalie just rolled her eyes.
"Will someone care to explain to me why you were freaking out when I woke up?" I remembered the worried expression they had worn when I opened my eyes.
"Bella, you were out for a whole day. Edward woke up about four hours ago. But you didn't even flinch when he pulled out from under you." Alice informed me. I gave a quizzical look.
"I think that you took the majority of Edward's pain from him when you opened your shield to only him. He was able to see what you experienced and learned quickly how to stop the voices. You had to relive it though. I think that is why you were under for that amount of time. I am so glad that you finally opened your eyes." Esme squeezed my hands for emphasis. I smiled at her and looked back at Edward who had a goofy grin on his face.
"What?" I asked him with an eyebrow raised.
"Rosalie's thoughts," Rosalie's face lit up real quick with shock. Edward just laughed and I extended my shield to see what he was talking about.
You are DEAD Edward! DEAD! Do you hear me?! I am NOT jealous of you! So you can just shut it! I started laughing too. Her eyes went wide. ISABELLA MARIE SWAN get yourself out of my head RIGHT NOW! Rosalie screamed her thoughts at me.
"Okay okay. Geez, that actually hurt, you didn't have to yell." I informed her, holding my head in my hands for emphasis. "Although that was pretty funny," I started to laugh again and she threw a pillow at my head. I caught it of course with my quick reflexes. I threw the pillow back at her with just a little more force than necessary and she flipped off the backside of the chair and onto the floor. Everyone busted out laughing, even Emmett. Rosalie stood, red faced, and gave everyone a murderous glare before turning to me.
"YOU!" She yelled and ran at me. I ducked out of the way and she flew over the couch. This sent us into another wave of giggles.
"Rosalie… Babe… Stop… You're… Embarrassing… Yourself…" Emmett gasped between laughs. Rosalie stormed over to him and gave a 'humph' before walking upstairs. We all laughed at her exit but stopped when she yelled at us.
"IF YOU DON'T STOP LAUGHING YOU WILL GET PUNISHED! AND WHEN I SAY PUNISHED I MEAN YOU WILL BE SMART TO WATCH YOUR BACK FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS! I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!" She yelled before slamming the door. We immediately shut up. I thought Emmett was the master prankster, but Rosalie sure could compete with him. I had made a blonde joke and she put blue dye in my shampoo! Edward, Jasper, and Carlisle grew up with her. Emmett and Rose had a prank war for a month straight! Alice was unfortunately the end of a shopping trip with Rose gone wrong. I won't go into details on that. Let's just say that Alice was picked up by security for shop lifting and had to talk her way out of it. Alice hadn't seen it coming until right before the guard stopped her. Rose hasn't been able to get her back yet. And Esme just knows from our experiences.
I heard someone walking up the steps to the porch and I looked to see Tanya and Irina come in. "Hey guy-" Tanya stopped when she saw me. "BELLA! You're up!" I laughed when she sped over and hugged me. "Don't scare me like that again. I remembered when you blanked out those few minutes when we practiced with your ability the first time. But a whole day?" Tanya gave me a quizzical look and I just shook my head, as if to say another day. Irina came over and patted my on the back. Kate and Garrett came in and gasped when they saw me.
"So that's what all of the commotion has been about." Garrett mused as Kate squealed and ran over to me. I laughed and nodded my head. I smelt wolf and turned to see the wolf I saw when I had first came in with Edward, and a girl. The guy was very tall and muscular. He had on a ripped pair of jean shorts. His hair was cropped short. The girl had shoulder length hair that had tints of light brown that contrasted against the dark brown of her hair from the sun. She was beautiful for a human. Her eyes were a milky chocolate. She smiled at me but the other one shot her a rude look. She immediately looked to the floor. I noticed they were both very tense and their nostrils flared.
"Leeches, I would like to talk to the humans alone." The male said with authority to his tone. He seriously took his job too seriously if that was the leader.
"No," I said standing. Edward stood too, but I pushed him back down. "I am not leaving them here with you unstable dogs. If one of you were to get angry, then their blood will be on your hands." I warned.
"They are put in danger every second they spend near you!" The leader spat.
"Sam, calm down," the girl put a hand on his arm.
"Thanks Haley," Sam said and turned back to me. "Please, can we talk to them alone?" Sam asked again. I gave him a pure look of amusement.
"No, whatever you have to say you can say in front of us. Besides we will find out what you say anyways. Mind readers," I pointed to Edward and then to myself.
"Fine, but you will not interrupt me. Understand?" Sam asked.
"Sure, just say what you have to say and leave." I said with a bored voice.
"Haley, you can say it," Sam answered a silent question. Her eyes caught with surprise that he knew what she was thinking.
"There have been a few deaths in Forks. Two to be exact, we were wanting to know if it was you who had drank them. Their blood was completely drained and their bodies were disposed of in the woods near the Rez." Haley asked us if we had killed the humans. My family all wore the same disbelief expression as mine.
"We do not drink from humans, only animals. Hint our eyes; but there are human drinkers in the area. May I ask who was it that was killed?" I asked out of curiosity.
"I knew that, but it was something we had to clarify. Mike Newton and Jessica Stanley were walking through the woods when two unfamiliar scents stopped them and left them there drained. That is what we gathered when we found their trail." She informed me. I noticed that Sam was getting anxious by how familiar she was with us. "Hey, Edward, I see you are doing better."
"Yeah Haley, just a few screaming voices in the head. No big deal," he mentioned again that he was okay, "So, you're a wolf now?" They must know each other I guessed.
"Yeah, who would have guessed?" They both laughed at an inside joke. That is when I remembered him saying he had talked to a girl about old Quileute legends. She had said that she didn't believe any of it; but here she was a part of the old legend.
"Ahem," Sam cleared his throat.
"Oh yeah, well, I'm to warn you humans to stay clear of the Swan's and their friends. They are vampires, as you know, and you are in 'grave danger'," she used air quotations.
"Don't take this as a joke either, we warned you." Sam added with a very serious tone.
"Chillax Sam, their pretty safe where they are. They all seem to love one of them. Creepy, but it's kind of romantic. A forbidden love, if you will. But Edward should know this, love bites." We all started to laugh.
"Seriously," Edward said under his breath. I noticed that Haley kept glancing outside to something and I saw a sandy wolf standing at the edge of the forest with its head cocked to the side. Seth. I pushed my shield out to see what was happening.
I can't believe Sam did that. It wasn't fair to Seth. He is going to be heart broken when he finds out. I hope it's for the best. I really love him, but he deserves someone who can continue the bloodline with. I can never be that. I was curious at this. Could she not carry children? With what I know, werewolves age very slowly if at all. They start to age when the stop changing into a wolf. So if that meant their bodies froze, she was just like me. I immediately felt for her. I wanted to comfort her, but we were sworn enemies. Maybe there was a way we could become friends? I saw Edward nod his head at me in understanding. He heard what she was thinking and I had my shield around him too so he knew what I was thinking. I got Sam in the shield to see what was going on.
Stupid bloodsuckers, they just have to ruin everyone's lives. I want to be home, holding my Emily. Playing with our little baby girl, Leah. I wonder if Haley is still upset by out arrangement? She doesn't understand that Seth is going to imprint one of these days, and when he does, she will be left heartbroken. Then we will have to live with her sadness every time she is in wolf form. Maybe she will be lucky and imprint on someone. But this is for the best; I don't want her heartbroken; especially after what happened with Jacob. That was awkward for weeks! I am not living through that again. Edward seemed just confused as I was. We were slightly listening to the discussion going on, but it was just Alice explaining about Victoria and Laurent. Everything they told them they already knew. So it was pointless. I then remembered what Alec and Jane had been saying.
"Alice, where are Laurent and Victoria heading?!" I asked my tone turning towards panic.
"Um," Alice's eyes glazed over, and I watched the vision with her.
"Did you get the tickets?" Victoria asked Laurent while they stood outside an airport in a rainy town. A license plate on a cab said Portland on it.
"Yes, we will be leaving in twenty minutes. Are you sure you want to do this? I mean Isabella and Esme," he was cut off by a fierce glare from Victoria.
"They broke the rule, now they will pay," she said with a menacing smile. Laurent sighed and picked his props up to carry onto the plane. They reached a gate that said Boarding for Albany, New York.
"What's in Albany?" Edward asked when the vision stopped.
"Nothing, they are taking another plane to Italy." Alice said and all heads snapped up at the mention of Italy.
"What is in Italy?" Haley asked curiously wondering why it held such significance to us.
"The Volturi. That is what is in Italy. They are basically the royalty of vampires. They enforce the laws. Our basic one law is that we cannot reveal ourselves to humans. The consequence is death by fire. The guard is very powerful and full of vampires full of gifts like mine, Edward's, Kate's, and Benjamin's." I said. "The ancients: Aro, who can see every thought or memory you have with just a touch of the skin; Caius, who is very strategic; and Markus, who can sense the relationships of family or mates. Their guard consists of gifts like severing a bond or building one, tracking, a force shield, paralyzing with a glance, the list goes on. Only a few do not have powers, but those should not be underestimated. They have extreme fighting skills that have wiped out many covens at a time."
"So what does that mean? Is that where they are going?" Sam asked.
"Yes, to tell the Volturi that we have broken the rule. Aro will be very upset that we killed the twins. But he has grown tired of her evil ways." Alice informed us as she had the vision. "But I can't see his decision about whether to attack us or not. He seems quite fond of you Bella and relishes the thought of hurting you or your loved ones. He is going to have a hard time making that decision."
"So what do we do?" Sam voiced his question.
"We wait until he makes the decision. When he finds one, we will go from his plans then." Alice said.
"I call Demetri and Felix!" Emmett voiced, raising his hand.
"EMMETT!" I slapped him in the back of the head. "This is not funny and there will be no calling who we would kill if it came down to it. I don't want to think about you ripping them apart or the other way around. They are actually not that bad of guys. Demetri that is; Felix was kind of scary at first." I mentioned.
"EXACTLY, no one scares my little sister and gets away with it!" Emmett howled and patted my head. I just sat back against Edward's chest. He wrapped an arm around me and I felt at home.
"I call Chelsea!" Alice whooped before running upstairs.
"Fine, you can have her. As long as I get Heidi!" I hollered up to her even though she would have heard me if I had said it in a normal voice.
"I call-" Edward started to say something.
"NO! You don't call anyone!" I scolded him.
"Fine, I was just going to say I call kissing you." Edward whispered against my ear, so low I was the only one who heard it.
"ALICE! BELLA! ESME! I NEED YOU GUYS NOW!" Rosalie yelled from upstairs. We immediately ran to her. Alice was there first because she had been upstairs.
"What's wrong?" I asked, noticing she had a box of tampons in her hand.
"I skipped my period. I was supposed to start about a week ago. But it hasn't started yet. Why won't it start?" Rosalie whispered with a panicked voice.
"Rosalie, have you had any sexual intercourse lately?" Esme asked with a motherly tone.
"Um, yeah," Rose said so low that if we hadn't been vampires we wouldn't had heard.
"Wait, you cheated on Emmett?!" I asked quietly so Emmett couldn't hear.
"What?! No! I would never cheat on him!" Rosalie harshly whispered.
"You mean to tell us that Emmett has had sex with you?" I was furious.
"Yes," Rose looked down at the tampons again.
"That can't be possible though. Vampires can't make babies." Alice started to calm down at the thought.
"Vampire women can't have children because we can't change to allow a baby to grow inside of us. But a vampire man's sperm maybe could have survived?"
A/N OMG! Rosalie is prego? What the crap? I was NOT expecting that as the author. Geez. Well review and tell me what you guys think. Tell me your predictions for the next chapter. I love hearing those. Either way click the little light green review button just down there! Peace and Reeses!
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This chapter lyrics excerpt:
Don't even talk about the consequence
Cause right now you're the only thing making any sense to me
And I don't give a damn what they say, what they think, think
Cause you're the only one who's on my mind
I'll never ever let you leave me
I'll try to stop time for ever, never wanna hear you say goodbye, bye, bye