1This chapter didn't take too long and I really like it. I'm also kinda bias Not a lot of people wanted to read Jacobs POV which kinda surprised me and kinda didn't. (Shrug)
I don't own familiar charaters.
"Hello Bella."
Bella.
His red eyes focussed on mine. James.
My knees locked in terror as he took a slow measured step toward me. I fell back to the bed I had just stood up from.
"Wha...what do y-you want?" I cursed my unsteady voice for betraying me.
His chuckle sounded out. I glanced towards the door. Judging from the growls and loud crashing; no one was coming to my rescue and I wasn't escaping that way.
The poor human. I had no hope of escaping at all.
My family. They were in danger, fighting for their lives, because of me. If any of them got hurt . . . would I even be around to know if they were safe. How would I know if Edward was safe. A fearful tear escaped down my cheek.
James moved right into my face and took a deep pull of my scent. I scrambled back from his sudden closeness.
"You smell," a low grumble escaped his throat as he crawled up the bed with one arm either side of my legs, "amazing. Nearly as good as you did 10years ago." A smile spread across his features. He brushed his nose along the crook of my neck. I whimpered when his long hair brushed my shoulder.
"Better even, you've aged well. Your bouquet has ripened."
"I'm not wine." I spat and caught the other edge of the bed. I pulled myself out from under his intimate posture. When I turned back around, after finding my feet, he was sitting against the backboard with his legs draped the length of my comforter.
He cocked his head to the side, like a hawk watching his prey.
"But you are going to make for a fine drink just the same."
"BELLA." Edwards bellow shook the house.
"It seems time has gotten the best of us," the vampire sighed regretfully as he got off the bed, "we shall have to do this elsewhere."
I backed up against my dresser causing a few things to fall and shatter.
"Now, now Bella." James waved a disapproving finger at me. "We can do this the easy way..."he held out his hand and looked to my balcony door, "...where we leave without incident or the hard way." He looked pointedly at the door behind which was all the commotion.
I took his outstretched hand without hesitation and he threw me over his shoulder. We were off through the woods before I could even blink.
"And the game begins."
Edward.
They were only untrained newborns but their sheer strength in numbers had the battle lasting longer then it should have.
"Get ALL the pieces!" I yelled, taking the stairs five at a time to Bella's room. I pushed open the door not knowing exactly what I might find.
Everything on her dresser was toppled over. Her journal lay open on the bottom of the bed. Her bedding was reeked of him. James.
The curtain billowed where the door was ajar on the balcony. She was long gone.
Six pairs of footsteps filed into line outside the door. Alice took a tentative step into the room.
"Where did he take her?" I sneered. When she didn't say anything, I turned on her. "WHERE?"
"I don't know." She conceded barely above a whisper.
How? "How is that even possible?"
Alice looked up at me angry and hurt. "He knows how it works. He knows how my gift works!" She fell to her knees and collapsed face first into the floor, sobbing uncontrollably. Jasper tried to calm the room but he was having trouble with his own worry. "It's not your fault." He rubbed soothing circles on her back.
"No one knows how it works," Rosalie started perplexed, "Not even the Volturi."
No one except for... Esme watched our broken family, unsure of how to help fix it.
"Except who?" I asked. Everyone looked back at me confused save for Esme who was gripped to Carlisle's arm. All their clothes were ripped and torn. Designer labels weren't made for battle.
"It couldn't be." She said.
"Who?" I asked harshly.
"The Denali's."
Alice gasped. Esme continued, "We cut all ties when Bella joined us. There's no way..."
"Except that Laurent was acquainted with them." Alice finished lamely.
"WHAT?!?" I roared.
I'm sorry Edward. "I saw him there. He was just passing through and y-you said he disbanded from James and Victoria. I didn't think anything of it because I never saw him again."
I thought back to our conversation with the wolves. The alpha said they took one out.
"I'll make the call." Carlisle left with Esme following closely behind. One of their children was missing and they would do all they could to get her back.
"We need a plan." Alice picked herself up off the floor looking determined. "And fast."
Bella.
My eyes flew open to be greeted by an unfamiliar pseudo contemporary hotel room. The clock in front of me flashed 6:17 P.M.. I closed my eyes against the unfamiliar surroundings.
"Pretending to be asleep or dead," he whispered harshly from the darkness, "a common defence mechanism against predators for more cowardice prey. Usually bugs and rodents."
It seemed as if his voice came from everywhere in the small room. I sat up straight as there was no use in pretending. He jumped from the darkness and landed lithely in front of me.
"I'm going to let your little psychic friend know where we are and then we can begin." James smiled mischievously. Traffic noise from outside filtered in through the window.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"We have gone a very long way to go not very far at all."
"That's not cryptic at all." I replied, my tone coloured heavily with sarcasm.
He chuckled. "See, you do know how to play." He pressed his palms together and touched them to his forehead as if deep in concentration. "I got it," he clapped loudly causing me to jump, "how about... 'back where it all began'."
A cackle came from the door to the suite as James moves to exit the room. The red head grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him hard against her. "Baby?" she whined expectant. I had to look away as they kissed each other vulgarly, leaving nothing to the imagination.
"Watch her." I looked back to see him pointing an accusatory finger in my direction. "Oh," he added as an after thought, "and play nice."
"Always."
The door clicked shut behind him.
"You must be Victoria," I studied my finger nails for dirt as she paced around the room. Her red eyes were looking everywhere but at me.
"My reputation proceeds me." She smiled.
"Yah. Rose and Alice said I would know it was you if you dressed like a.-"
My head snapped to the side so hard, I instantly regretted my actions. I did learn she had a temper and didn't seem to like me much though.
The tenderness spread from my cheek to my jaw, I tested it gingerly and winced. There would be an angry bruise, if I lived that long.
"Listen you little bitch. I have heard nothing but 'Bella' this and 'Bella' that for nearly a decade and you know what?" Her face was an inch from mine. "I'm sick of it."
Victoria's bright red painted lips moved close to my throat. I prepared myself for the inevitable when instead I felt her tongue glide up the length of my throat. I made a disgusted sound as she pulled away. She slid the offensive tongue across her teeth and then licked her lips.
"I should snap your neck now and be rid of you."
"What are you doing?" James yelled having reentered the room with out us noticing.
"I... I was–"
"You were what?" he threw his arms up in the air.
"Nothing."
"It didn't look like nothing."
They were screaming back and forth presenting me with the opportunity to escape. Both of their rages echoed off the walls as they nearly forgot the very thing they were arguing over. I passed through the front door, undetected and made for the elevator at breakneck speed.
I can't believe that worked.
Edward.
"Seattle. You're sure?"
"Yes." Alice sighed, positive in her assessment. We had been in the car a while. I followed my instinct east at first but James must have doubled back. I could push the car and make it to Seattle in an hour. I pulled on the emergency break to execute a perfect 180 without breaking speed.
"He's at a hotel just off Union. He's going to stage a fight with Victoria and let Bella escape, then start a game of cat and mouse."
"Union Street. But that's..."
Alice's face went blank with the final parts of her vision. A very familiar alley loomed in our future. "Isn't that?"
"Yea, that's the one." I pushed the car past its limits.
They're going to heard her to the same place where she lost her parents. Alice thought disgusted.
"I really hate this guy."
We raced toward the stage of his greatest game and my worst nightmare.
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SOOOO I've never had a beta before and my two big stories are almost done so I was thinking about starting a new one. The first chapter is written and really sad but it will get less sad.
Bella is a single mom, at 23, whose husband died 4 year earlier. He would never find out about the daughter that came 6 months after his death... or would he?
It's a little overdone too but you guys like my 'Bella grew up with the Cullens' story. If you are interested in being my first ever beta or have a recommendation PM or review please. I'm so excited about the new story and really sad this one is winding down. 2-3 left.
:( TISH