Chapter 9
Yeah yeah I know :( But I've suddenly become obsessed with anything people introduce me to. First Mass Effect, then Game of Thrones and now House M.D so I haven't been in much of a Twilighty mood lately, hope this chapter turns out okay! Sorry for the wait!
"You need to get your ass in gear and ask her out on a date eventually you know." Rosalie said as we were checking the engine of the Volvo.
"Shhh she'll hear you!"
"She's out hunting and you know it, you're paranoid."
"Yeah well she could be back by now." I muttered lamely.
"She left 2 minutes ago Bella."
I huffed and ignored her trying to avoid responding to what she said.
"What are you going to do about a date then?" I groaned in frustration.
"I don't know! I mean, vampire dating is different from humans isn't it, I can't take her out for a meal, or have a picnic in a field, that's pretty much all I can't think of."
"That's complete bull and you know it, you're just trying to think of excuses, you don't have to eat something on a date...well...maybe later on in the date..." She said coyly wiggling her eyebrows.
"Rosalie!" I said in mock dismay swatting her on the arm grinning like a fool.
"Look, just go to the cinema or take a walk along the beach, or both! Make sure you go to the beach in Forks though, I don't think playing with wolf puppies is her idea of fun. Have a run in the forest, she likes you in panther form."
"She does?" I asked happily, I haven't changed into my cat that much in front of her so I never really noticed.
"The run in the forest sounds fun, and it's something that both of us like to do. Maybe we could go on the beach after, you'll have to give me directions though, I only know the La Push one." I muttered mostly talking to myself starting to look forward to this date, asking her was my main worry.
"How am I going to make it seem like a date?"
"Hmm how about 'Hey Alice, want to come on a date with me?' Bella, you're making this more complicated then it has to be, it's pretty obvious how smitten with you she is even if she doesn't know you're her mate yet, hell I think even Emmett notices! There's no way she'll say no."
Well shit if Emmett notices it then I must be blind.
"Okay thanks Rosalie, I just have to pluck up my ever diminishing courage to even ask."
"Well hop to it because if not your butt will meet my foot."
"Don't make promises you can't keep baby."
She slapped me round the head for that one.
"Come on Bella give it your best shot!" Shouted Emmett as we were getting ready for another round of wrestling. We'd been training all day and Emmett usually liked to end it with a simple pinning match.
"I should be saying that to you Emmy, who is it who always wins again?"
"Not this time kitty cat."
"That's what you said the last 10 times."
He huffed and got into position while I did the same.
"You know the rules," said Alice who usually judged our little matches. "No scratching, no biting and no panthers." She added looking at me, I just gave her a big toothy smile.
"Emmett was the one boasting about wrestling a mountain lion, I thought he would like to show us his skills!" She simply shook her head with a grin and counted down.
"3, 2, 1, GO!"
We both ran forwards and hit into each other trying to push the other back or throw them to the side, as Emmett pushed with all his might some sort of tingling appeared in my brain. I'd had it a couple of times during these matches but this is the first time it's been so strong that I could recognise what it was slightly, it's the sort of feeling I get when I sense a gift.
This one isn't trying to get past my shields however, it's like it's so strong it radiates out and I've only even felt that with a couple of vamps with powerful physical gifts. I stared at him curiously as he pushed with all his might, is he holding back on me? Or does he really not know about the strength I can sense waiting to burst out of him?
"Come on Em, this is almost embarrassing! I'm not even trying!"
He growled and pushed a little harder, if he had flowing blood I know his face would be beet red with the strain. It's still not enough though.
"Aren't you meant to be the strong one of your coven? It's like wrestling with a little human girl, keep this up and Rosalie may realise that I'm a more worthy mate, maybe I can convince her to bat for my team, what do you think?" I said with a superior grin. The usually joking face Emmett always wore dropped when I mentioned his mate.
"You wouldn't dare..." He threatened and I was very surprised to see that he meant it, I guess something in my voice made it seem like I wasn't joking this time. I just kept my grin on my face.
"It's not the first time it's happened, and I'd love to get my hands on her hot, wet cun-" Before I could finish my vulgar sentence he let loose the loudest roar I've even heard a vampire make. I felt a sudden gush of power that was almost overwhelming, like his power has been waiting to come out for quite some time, it made me feel slightly light-headed.
Before I even knew what was happening I was flying through the air, I twisted my body quickly and landed on all fours before Emmett's fist connected with my face. I haven't felt pain like that in a while from a vampire and my cheek split open from the impact, I stumbled back and dodged his next couple of swings before getting kicked harshly in the stomach.
These were no longer his wild swings that he threw when he was trying to put all his strength behind them, these were suddenly precise and hard to anticipate, it was exactly what I wanted him to do. I just hope he doesn't kill me before I can explain it to him. I felt a few ribs break with the next blow and my skull almost imploded with the next before he got interrupted.
"EMMETT STOP!" I heard someone shout and the barrage of pain stopped as he was dragged away by Edward and Jasper, Rosalie and Carlisle went to help when it was obvious they were having some trouble with his newfound strength.
"Bella! Bella are you okay? Holy shit talk to me," I looked down to see Alice fussing over me, I gave her a big grin when she brought her eyes to my face.
"I guess I just found Emmett's superpower!" I hunched over in pain when I felt my cracked skull start to repair itself.
"Fuck!"
"What's wrong?!" Alice sounded like she was going to have a breakdown.
"Head is repairing." I ground out.
"DAMMIT EMMETT WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Alice suddenly screamed at her brother, likely not knowing what else to do in this situation. Emmett seemed to have calmed down somewhat.
"She was baiting me! Talking about Rose in that way..."
"That's what she wanted Emmett! She's trying to train us and you getting angry too easily and cocky is one of the things you're working on! It gives you absolutely NO excuse to harm her in this way. LOOK AT HER!" She shouted the next part, pointing at my hunched over form. I looked up to see Emmett staring at me with regret and guilt in his eyes.
"Bella I'm...I'm so sorry-"
"Emmett don't worry about it. You did exactly what I wanted you do to." I ground out through my gritted teeth.
"You wanted to end up a bloody pulp?!" Alice exclaimed and I chuckled.
"When you put it that way, no. Emmett, did you notice anything change about you when you got angry?"
"Umm...It was all a blur...The world did seem like it slowed down quite a lot, and my muscles felt like they suddenly grew twice the size..." I nodded at this.
"When we started wrestling I felt some sort of power coming off you, and it wasn't my shield picking up on anything mentally harmful. I have felt this a few times in my lifetime and they've turned out to be extremely powerful physical gifts, one was telekinesis, the other could control the elements, you have intense strength and speed such as you showed just then.
I thought about how most vampires used their gifts when they were angry or in fight situations so I taunted you, I guess I now know talking about stealing Rosalie away is a big no-no area."
"But isn't Emmett always angry in a fight?" Alice asked.
"Not really," Emmett answered himself. "They're always just another challenge, another punk to beat up. No one's ever talked about my Rosie in that way though, not even jokingly, my anger then just sort of exploded, like I had no control." I nodded.
"It's well know vampires are over protective of their mates, I used that to bait him."
"You know, I've even felt some sort of power in Emmett whenever we sparred, I always just thought it was him holding back on us." Mused Jasper quietly. Emmett suddenly grinned as he realised something.
"I'm a super vamp! Rosie you're married to the strongest vampire in the world, how do you feel?" He asked in a reporters voice putting his closed fist in front of her mouth like he was holding a microphone.
"Extremely turned on." She said very seriously.
"Welp you heard it here first folks, now if you'll excuse me..." He rushed the sentence out and picked up his mate before dashing into the forest.
"How are you feeling?" Alice asked as we listened to some music in her room.
"Completely healed, it's just the healing part which is a killer especially when it's bone that needs to repair."
"I can't believe Emmett or anyone really didn't find out about his gift beforehand, vampires usually know they have one right after they're transformed."
"Some gifts are harder to find then others I suppose, having a vision was a pretty clear sign of yours but I didn't find out I could shield powers until I was 100 and it took me another 5 to be able to sense when powers are trying to be used against me."
"100? Why'd it take you so long?"
"Well I never knew mental powers weren't affecting me, I never really gave the vampires who had these powers much chance to tell me they were trying before I killed them. It was only when a particularly slippery vamp got so frustrated he asked why I wasn't getting paralyzed that I stopped and questioned him, apparently his gift stopped nerve responses reaching the brain. That was when I properly started to even consider my gift and work on it.
Anyway, I guess because Emmett was already pretty strong for a vampire he never even considered the possibility there could be anymore strength."
"I didn't know you could sense physical gifts too?"
"Only when they are as strong as Emmett's is, it's a different sort of tingle I feel when a mental gift is being used against me and a lot fainter. It's difficult to explain if you can't feel it yourself.
Take Jasper and Bedward for example, both of them have a gift of liking the sausage, Jasper is very quiet and manly yet there is a slight campness about him, whereas Eddie flounts around in the sun in all his vampirey sparkling glory singing the Sound of Music whilst scattering petals. Eddie's the mental powers, Jasper's the strong physical one."
Alice burst out laughing and clutched her stomach, snorting a few times as she tried to get her laughter under control.
"What? I thought that was a pretty good explanation!"
"No, no it wasn't, I got it the first time. You just wanted to say once again how very, very gay Edward is." Alice chuckled once she got over the fits wiping away an invisible tear.
"Well he is! Next he'll be wanting a fake tan and will wax his body hairless."
"Already done that last one bitcheeesssssssss." I heard from downstairs making me choke on the beer I had a sip of.
"You've waxed your whole body?! But you'll look like some pre-pubescent boy!" I shouted back.
"And you look like a 40 year old hillbilly man with that white wifebeater on but you don't hear me complaining! All you need is the food stains down it, but the way you stuff your gob it probably won't take long."
I gasped and raced down the stairs chasing him round the house shouting that he'll be the next wife I'll beat.
When I returned back to Alice's room everything settled down as night rolled around, I was curled up on the bed listening to Alanis Morissette and Alice softly singing along whilst she read a magazine. I felt totally at peace and I didn't realise I was purring until Alice stopped and chuckled.
"You're just a cute little kitten really aren't you?"
"Huh?" I asked sleepily.
"You, purring while napping."
"I can't help it." I whined. "It's a cat thing, I purr when I'm relaxed, even in human form."
"Exactly, cute!" She repeated.
"I'm not cute." I grumbled. "Hey Alice..." I suddenly started.
"Yeah?"
"Do you wanna maybe..." I hesitated slightly and my heartbeat skyrocketed, holy shit I'm over 300 years old and I'm about to ask my first girl on a date, it's natural to be nervous! "Maybe...go onadate with...me?"
She looked at me slightly wide eyed for a moment and stayed silent making me panic and thinking of backpedalling and shouting "JOKES!" or something lame like that but I knew that would just make it worse. Thankfully she put me out of my misery once she recovered from her shock.
"Oh, I'd, um I'd like that." She said with a shy smile making me break out in a full out smile. My mate is going on a date with me! She wants to be more than friends! I would have done a little jiggle.
"Great! Well how about tomorrow after school? We'll go out on the bike." She nodded in agreement with the plan.
"It's a date." She quietly replied making me grin widely before curling back up on the bed and purring a lot more loudly.
Short chapter but hopefully it gets me slightly back into the swing of things.
Please review if you liked it, and if you didn't, please review also, I read them all and take in any advise you give.
Becky.