Disclaimer: I own nothing Harry Potter related, Twilight related, or Lord of the Rings related. If I did I'd be rich and would buy us all vans that looked like the Mystery Machine.
Author's note: Sorry it took a couple of days I was busy with my family from Charleston and I've been making costumes for me and my friends to go see the Harry Potter movie premier night dressed as Deatheaters. I hope you like this... Enjoy. Please. And thank you all for your reviews and your consideration! You've all made me so happy and ya'll really touched me -sniffles- in the right way too! Love, Korky
Carlisle had forced Edward to drive the plane as he worked on Jacob making him stay in one body as he checked the bones and began bandaging his ribs. I stayed by his side the hole time clutching onto his hand when Carlisle took me to the side with a serious face, "I'm surprised how he survived Bella. Even for one such as he. We'll have to be careful moving him. For now I'm giving him as much morphine as I can though his body keeps burning it up." I nodded. Jacob already looked whoozy where he lay in a bed in the back. This plane had everything a vampire with a batman fascination could afford. Carlisle left us alone though I don't know how alone we could be on a plane where everyone, but Luna and Neville, had acute hearing.
"Bella," Jake muttered my name. I went to his side immediately touching his head and bringing his hand up to my face.
"What Jake?" I asked. "Do you need something? A glass of water? Carlisle to come back?"
"You never loved him in the past Bella," Jacob breathed opening his eyes a fraction. I didn't stop Jacob but listened to him. He needn't even tell me I had never loved Edward. As far as I was concerned I knew who I loved right now and wanted to be with. My past fantasies were gone. I was older now in many senses and knew what I wanted. Who I wanted was here beside me, though Jacob didn't know. Yet.
"It was always attraction. If he weren't so gorgeous would you have loved him? If he were normal, a human like I was when you met me do you think you would have loved him?" Jacob fell fast asleep with those words.
I stared down at Jacob, though I knew who I cared for now I still thought over his words. Jacob was right though. All I ever focused my life on when I was with Edward was his beauty. The fact that he was a vampire. It was all so mystical to me and that's all I remember thinking about. How can he be so beautiful? How can he be so smart? If he weren't a vampire he wouldn't be so smart. I started thinking about Edward with Mike or Jacob's personality and realized something. I had been so shallow and superficial in my earlier relationship. And then I thought of Jacob as a normal person. I would've still eventually fallen in love with him.
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The plane landed on the top of the hospital allowing for easy access to the medical supplies Carlisle would need. Its tires landed on the leaders of the spider war, because the young Jedi crick-grasshopper child had used the force to make sure the tires landed there, thus ending the war and giving a victory to the crickets and grasshoppers.
I carried Jacob, his sleeping beat up figure, I carried him. I didn't let Edward carry Jacob when he offered. I didn't want to let him go. I followed Carlisle, casting him an astonished glance as I noticed a Bat signal on the roof of the hospital, as we walked through the door the halls to a private room where I placed Jacob gently on a bed and walked out of the room to talk to the others. "I'll stay with him. I'll call you Carlisle if he needs anything. Until then I'd appreciate it if everyone left."
"Bella…" Carlisle was quiet for a moment before saying again, "You need to eat dinner." I gazed at Carlisle not realizing what he was saying until he said it again, "You need to eat dinner. You're hungry. And we're in a hospital so you should take the plane somewhere." Through everything I hadn't attacked Luna or Neville. I hadn't been hungry though now the mention of blood made my throat constrict and I felt a need for something I'd never tried. Funny how you put your needs away when someone you love is involved. "Seth will you watch him for me?" Seth nodded as I glanced over at Sam, "I believe you need to go talk to Emily. The rest of you can leave… I'd like to go hunting with Edward if its not too much to ask." Right now I didn't want to be anywhere near him but I had to see something for myself.
We took off in the plane and landed in a matter of 11 minutes exactly.
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Mike was forgotten and he soon left for his job after having watched Bella carry Jacob to safety and then leave with Edward for food. It seemed he didn't matter at all for the vampires to worry about him knowing their secret. Figures.
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Sam gathered his courage before getting out of the car. As Emily opened the door and was about ready to open up her mouth and unleash her mind Sam swooped in locking his lips on hers and bringing her close in his arms silencing Emily with the warmth of his lips. He kissed her for a while molding her to his body and making sure she was out of breath before he said with a quick kiss to her scarred face, "I want to marry you. Now." Emily merely nodded, her eyes flooding with tears, as she kissed him again.
Malfoy and Leah gagged from the roof comically before he shouted, "Go get a room." Leah leaned into Malfoy resting her cheek against his shoulder. Content and happy. Malfoy felt like someone in the world was liike him and understood him for once. she was like him and that was okay. No one would be able to stand him if they weren't like him. "When you ready to meet my family?" He smiled as he looked at Leah with a quirked smile.
"When hell freezes over," she replied.
"You know I have the ability to make Forks freeze over," he hissed into her ear as Leah chuckled and snuggled closer to Malfoy.
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Aro hugged Luna while Neville drew a lightning scar on his head with a sharpie and pretended to be Harry Potter for a moment. "I'm sorry Luna. I'm so sorry," he breathed hugging onto Luna comfortingly. She didn't even shirk away from his cold skin.
"Its okay. Really Aro… we had just begun to like each other. It shouldn't hurt so much but it does… but I know Marcus is still with me. And who knows maybe I'll meet someone as odd as him," she smiles.
"You probably won't but its nice to hope," replied Aro patting Luna on the shoulder. "Listen if you're ever in Italy… again and you want to talk… well you know where I live though I understand if you don't ever want to go there again."
"Luna's eyes watered with tears as she threw her arms around Aro one last time, "Thank you Aro," she sniffed kissing him lightly on the cheek. Aro touched his face gingerly as she threw him one last tearful smile and followed Neville out of the hospital. Voldemort cackled behind Aro, "You had a moment!"
"Shut up you twit!"
"Itssss Mister Twit to you," snickered Voldemort.
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He did hunt like a lion. He had told me once that he'd never wanted me anywhere near him when he fed. And now as I watched I could see why. It would've been dangerous. I decided to chase after a female mountain lion, "Bella I think she's too much for you," Edward replied watching my eyes zone in on the lion. I tackled it in 5.78979087 miliseconds and drank its blood. The blood was delicious but even though I needed it I didn't feel as if I needed it desperately when I pulled away from my meal. My red dress was in shreds, I looked like someone in an Amityville Horror movie as I stood up to look at Edward who just glared as he paced towards me, "That could've been really dangerous Bella. You should stick to smaller things." I wasn't vulnerable anymore though. I was stronger than he was. So it was Edward. Edward who had always made me seem fragile when I wasn't. Edward who'd planted the self doubt in my head. All I'd ever heard with him was Bella you can't…
"Edward," I breathed. "Don't follow me back to see Jacob."
"Why?"
"I need to speak with him personally."
"Bella I don't think you can handle being in that house with werewolves and Billy. He is human after all."
"Edward I can handle it," I hissed. "I'm not Jasper."
"No you're worse, you're a newborn."
"Edward look at yourself," I growled flashing images of the past and the present through my head. His worry as I kissed him, his hovering over me and his family, his worry when I hugged Carlisle who'd been trained for years, Edward telling my friends that I couldn't hang with them because I was going on a date with him, Edward taking no part in the group discussions at the lunch table but rather only including me in private conversations, Edward making our lives so private that we never ever went out with a group of friends…
Edward took a step back from me, hurt on his face and the words of an apology ready to come out of his mouth when I held up my hand to stop him.
"Edward… I'm not meant for you. You waited a hundred years for me… and who knows what would've happened but rather than wait and see you left. I hope you don't have to wait another 100 years for your real love… I'm sorry Edward but I love him," I laugh a bit, "it took me so long to figure out but I love him." Edward stepped forward and reached out touching my shoulder. I shook him off. Jacob had always had faith in me, in my stupid website, in my decision to be friends with him, in finding out that he was a wolf.
"I'm sorry Bella."
"Good bye Edward," I breathed and before Edward could reach out and grab me once more I ran. The wind blowing through my hair as I ran with only one image in my mind. Jacob.
Edward took the plane back to the hospital needing to talk to his family and tell them my decision but first I had to beat him and tell Jacob my decision.
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Neville sat outside of the store waiting for Luna who was making her purchases. He was tired of trying to be like Harry. Neville pulled the glasses out of his pocket and broke them in half. He was just going to be Neville now. He leaned forward and smelled the flower bushes around the store in his little bench. Jessica stomped out of the store at that moment tired of trying to be like Bella. Look where it had gotten Bella all this time. Stalked. Choosing between 2 guys. Kidnapped. Jessica tore off her wig and threw it to the ground jumping up and down on it while Neville stared. Finally she caught herself and stared back at Neville.
"I'm sorry…. Um… I was having…"
"Identity issues," finished Neville with a small smirk on his face knowing where she'd been. "Its not a problem. I've been there done that. Don't be ashamed." After a moment Neville smiled warmly for once feeling in his element, in his Neville-ness. "Want to sit down and talk about it?" Jessica nodded briefly and sat beside him as Neville pulled off some flowers.
"Just someone I've looked up to for so long I've realized how normal she is."
"I know what that's like… Just so you know you look lovely in your own hair." Neville's comment made Jessica blush as he handed her a sprig of flowers.
"I like your eyes," she said back and Neville's smile grew wider. "Want to… want to go on a date?"
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Luna browsed through the sports store looking for a net for snargle hunting. She was depressed. Crushed really. She'd just found a romance and then lost it in a matter of moments. I'm sorry Marcus, she thought to herself looking up as if she were saying a prayer to him and knew he watched her from Heaven, I'm sorry. I miss you even though all we had were a few moments together. I promise though I'll stop being unhappy if you show me someone who looks worse off than me.
That's when Luna noticed the young man behind the cash register ringing up items. His eyes revealed how hopeless he felt. How broken his heart was. Every time a customer came or left him he sighed heavily as his fingers slowly picked at the buttons on the register as if his whole mood effected every action he took.
Well a deal is a deal Marcey, she thought to her guardian angel.
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Mike felt so hopeless at his past attempts. Maybe it was time to move on. He bagged her items and then suddenly a beautiful bright blond haired girl was searching his hair running her fingers through it screaming, "Snargles! Snargles are in your hair." Luna finally breathed a sigh and stepped back patting his head with a smirk. "I think they're gone now." She smiled back at Mike as he stared at her, pale snowy skin, bright bauble blue eyes, and long white hair. His mood suddenly lifted at being attacked by such a pretty girl.
"Hi… I'm um… Mike Newton."
"I'm Luna Lovegood," she smiled. "Do you want me to look for snorkles in your store and make sure there aren't any?"
"What're snorkles?"
"I'll catch one and show you," she said.
"Do you want to go out for lunch when I get off work? You can tell me about snorkels."
"Sure," she smiled.
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"Jacob," I breathed sitting beside him on his hospital bed and reaching out to touch his face. He stirred from his sleep and opened up his eyes.
"Bella."
"Listen Jake. I'm going to say this fast but I need to get it out in the open," I turned towards the windows waiting for my cheeks to flare up though I knew they would enver do that again as my mouth sped off, "I really care about you. I've never felt so scared in my life for someone more than I felt for you when I was taken. All I could worry about was everyone but you were always at the surface of my mind, you always came first. And then when I died all I could think of was you. That I wasn't going to see you again. That we wouldn't goof off, post naughty pictures on the web, and then when I was dead… I thought I would be gone for sure. But even when I had died and forgotten everything and everyone I couldn't stop thinking that I forgot something. Something, no someone really important in my life. I felt a pull back to the earth like I wasn't supposed to go to Heaven that there was someone I was forgetting. And then I heard your voice," I breathed turning around to look Jacob full in the face for the first time. "Out of the darkness it came, your voice. And it was like a box had been unlocked. All my memories of you came flooding back and I realized… I realized that you were more important than death itself, that I loved you. And I didn't want to leave you even in death. So I left Heaven for you…"
"It took you death to figure out," he chuckled quietly. I smiled back at him.
"No I always had a feeling but I realized before then when I took the chance and asked Caius to bite me… I'm sorry it took so long." Jacob reached out and touched my hand.
"Bella I imprinted…" His voice trailed off as my smile immediately fell from my face and all the hope and good feelings I'd had left my body as a mustered up with a small voice, "What?… oh. Whose the lucky girl?"
"You," he grinned. My eyes widened and I threw my arms around him planting kisses all over his face as he laughed. "I told you that you were meant for me Bells. It only took a vampire bite to prove it to you," he chuckled. "Do I stink?"
"You always stunk," I laughed smelling his neck and relishing that I didn't cringe, that he still smelled the same to me as he inhaled my hair that was rubbing up against his nose. "I guess you really are meant for me if our pheromones let us not be repelled by each other."
"I really made you freak didn't I?"
"Yes you have to make it up to me," I growled. Jacob suddenly moved and I found him on top of me cradling my face in his hands. "Jacob," I whispered, "you're hurt."
"I heal fast," he grinned kissing my forehead.
"But what if someone comes in to check on us?"
"Let them," he growled coming down on my lips and silencing me with the heat from his lips as passion moved from both of us. His arms wrapped tightly around me, not too strong for me but strong enough that he didn't wince in pain at my grip as my fingers snaked around his neck and we melted into each other.
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The group stopped on the second floor to glance out the window. It was sunny so they would have to wait inside. Alice saw a vision that would solve all of her family's problems. Edward's worry, her need for a bigger closet, her ability to stay friends with Bella without causing pain to her family, and her annoyance with Rosalie. "Hey Rose. I found your bathing suit at Bella's and I got it," she smiled pulling out the bathing suit from her pocket and shielding her mind from Edward's.
"You want it Rose. Go get it," Alice shouted throwing the bikini out the window.
Rosalie chased after the bikini that fell out of the hospital window, Edward following after her hoping to stop her in time, both jumping into the sunlight blinding half of the town. Aro looked at Voldemort and said bluntly, "What they just did is a punishable thing." Edward looked up along with Rose, "Surely you wouldn't do it," Edward hissed wide eyed as people took pictures.
Rose smirked, "He doesn't have his muscles anymore." Aro growled at the two, "Yes I do! Voldemort!"
"Avada Kedavra!"
And to make sure the whole town of Forks forgot that there was such a thing as vampires as well as the deaths of Rosalie and Edward Aro called the Men in Black who came in 4 minutes to erase everyone's memories. Yes Aro could've called them and not killed Edward and Rosalie but Aro had a grudge against Edward for all the wrongs he'd done to Bella and he also wanted to eliminate the competition for Bella's website. No Rosalie, no more competition. In a course of 7 minutes Emmett lamented Rosalie's death… until he noticed a cute little vampire with long black hair and went off to hit on her and pursue the single life.
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The Great Snark Snark raised its wings high in the air and flew off with its young away from the hospital after watching after the group. The Great Snark Snark's work was done here. And now it had more to fight. Wherever a child is in need, a loved one being missed, a villain with a speech impediment torturing kittens, the Great Snark Snark would be there. It flew off ready to defeat global warming now and take on Tom Hank's hair-do.
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1 month later to the day…
A high piercing scream was heard throughout the simple apartment where Bella and Jacob lived. Jacob came running sliding along the carpet to stand and see me hovering in the bathroom. I turned to look at him with a face that said 'If I could cry I would.'
"What Bella? Did you hurt yourself?" Jacob looked around for the culprit that had to have caused my fright. "Honey its going to be okay…" his voice trailed off as I held up seven pregnancy test in one hand, all of them positive with the exception of one that said in bold blue letters YOU'RE KNOCKED UP.
"Bella! Really?" Jacob stared at me in pure amazement as he rushed towards me throwing me in his arms and swinging me around raining kisses all over my face as I squealed in joy. I shrieked still not able to believe that it was still possible. That I was pregnant. "You know what this means?" Jacob grinned looking down at my engagment ring on my hand.
"What?"
"We've got to get married soon or Charlie will skin me alive."
"Oh I've got to call Alice," I smiled though in that instant the door knocked down with Alice and Jasper standing there beaming radiant with happiness for us.
"Time to celebrate," she cried. "I've already called Carlisle and the family!"
"I wanted to celebrate in my own way," huffed Jacob, "you could've at least given us five minutes to relish in the joy of parenthood."
"What so you could do what you did to get her pregnant," laughed Jasper suddenly picking up on Jacob's moods. He flushed under Jasper's gaze.
"I hope the baby will come out safe," I replied looking down at my stomach that Jacob was suddenly kissing tenderly. He glanced up into my eyes, his so joyful, so full of love for me. How did I get so lucky?
"Babies," replied Jasper, "listen closely." There were three heartbeats in the room, Jacob's and two others that came from me. Twins! And there we were in each others arms, each face filled with joy.
I know how I got so lucky. I made it that way. I burrowed my face in Jacob's neck feeling the warmth radiate off of him as he held me close kissing my forehead with the most intimate tenderness. He lifted up my chin with his knuckles to look into my eyes with a grin while his other hand remained on top of my stomach as if protecting what lay beneath already with his large tan hands, "They'll be okay Bella. I promise you."
…………Peace reigned throughout the lands of the crickets and grasshoppers as the new crick-grass species was formed. It had been 4 months meaning 12 generations since the war and it was still a tale to be told among the grass that hid the families. And lo and behold though the tell had been spun something had been forgotten with but the exception of the rings of the crickets and grasshoppers that he been forged to empower them in rulling their people as soon as the war had ended. The fury of the spider prince. When the plane had landed he had been exiled to the dark shadows of the park.
There in the shadows of the park the spider prince had poured out his hatred and malice into a ring… one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
To be continued?…