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A/N: Here's your next chapter guys...its short by comparison to what I usually write, it's a filler chapter (my attempt at suspense) not sure it came out very well...next chapter will make up for it. Thank you thank you thank you to all the reviews, it's amazing to sign on and find out how many people are enjoying my story. Oh ! And the poll grins mischievously I love the people that have voted, so interesting to see who you guys think is the stalker (he's in this chapter be warned!). Anyways enjoy this ! freeyourminddreamer :)

Night Owl

BPOV

"What the…?!" I heard Emmett swear as we were surrounded by darkness.

"Bella, Bella?!" Edward was frantically calling my name and I felt his arms encircle me, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." I laughed, "I'm not afraid of the dark."

"Turn the lights on!" Many people were yelling and screaming and I could feel the terror in the air, yet I felt so safe with Edward around me.

"Bella I want you to promise me you won't try to move, you have to stay here with me." Edward sounded desperate but I had no idea why.

I laughed again, "What's the big deal? I'm fine."

I swear he was rolling his eyes, "When are you ever fine?"

"Excuse me?! What is that supposed to mean buddy, you just met me!" I squirmed in his arms but they formed barriers around me. My mind was starting to comprehend the present situation. Edward was a stranger a complete and utter stranger.

"Don't move Bella."

"Let me go!"

"I can't do that."

"EMMETT!" I screamed and he covered my mouth.

"Isabella Marie Swan…I didn't want to tell you this here but I have known you your entire life." My breath caught in my throat and I bit hard on his hand, he barely flinched.

"MMM!" I squealed.

He cradled me, holding me close, "I'm your guardian angel Bella."

"Bella!" I heard Emmett roar, "Where are you?!"

"Bella!" Kate was yelling.

Edward released my mouth and for a moment I could see perfectly in the dark, his eyes were blazing as they stared through me.

"You must believe me, you must! All the unexplainable occurrences, all the dreams, everything!" He was begging with me, I could see it in his face.

For a moment I think I did believe him, for one split second I knew it to be true.

"Edward, I…I…" And his lips were against mine, crushing me.

"Come with me, I'll keep you safe." No, no! My mind was screaming not to follow the ghostly figure but to scream for Emmett. Did I have no self-protection left within me? My body was being torn in two, half begging to follow Edward and the other screaming for a way out, a safe way to my family.

He extended his hand and lightning flashed, crashing the chandelier.

Everything became slow motion, lighting created frozen pictures as the chandelier slowly made its way to the ground, landing with such force that the sound pierced the ears of everyone in the room and everything fell quiet. Glass flew from the impact and as my heart beat, light flashed, and people screamed. Thump, flash, towards Rosalie.

"Emmett!" Rosalie screamed, "My dress! It's stuck!"

"Come with me…" his voice was just a whisper, I could barely hear it.

Thump, flash, towards Kate.

"Nick!" Kate moaned.

"Kate?! Kate baby, where are you?" Nick was screaming.

Thump, flash, towards me.

Everything stilled as I tried to run. Just me, fallen on the ground and a piece of glass headed towards me. Thump, thump, thump…and it was gone. It was a picture, surreal, the flash showed Edward, hand out, stopping the glass that threatened to harm me. Thump, thump, thump…Edward wasn't human…

"Help…!" it wasn't just Rosalie and Kate anymore, people screaming and moaning for help. Everyone was yelling…I needed to do something. "I'm sorry, I have to help them."

Edward, he knew what I was thinking, I could see it in his face. "No, I can't let you do that." He reached for me and I turned and ran. I ran as fast as I could from the one thing I wanted the most…

"Isabella!" He yelled after me, he was faster than I was but I had to help them, they needed me. "It's not re…!" I couldn't hear him anymore and I dove into the pitch black of the crowd faster than anything I'd ever done before.

"I'm coming!" I screamed to no one in particular, but someone had to want me…someone had to need me…

As I hit the cold, hard floor realization sunk in. What the hell was I doing! I had run from the safety of Edward into the middle of a screaming crowd and now I was paralyzed on the ground! And yet a voice in my head asked me if I thought Edward was really the safe choice… I shunned the thought and instead tried to move but found myself limp, unable to move, unable to speak. I'm going to die; surely I'm going to die. The crowd was still moving, moving over me, heels piecing my thighs, the thunderstorm still raging.

"Bella? Is that you?"

"Yes! Help me!" I gasped as someone stepped on my stomach. Why me? Why me…

Arms roughly grabbed me and pulled me too close to a body I didn't recognize.

This didn't make sense, how could he be here too? "Get away from me! How the hell are you here too?!" None of the words came out as more than a whisper.

"Here, there, everywhere." His laugh was hoarse; he was forcing a voice that was unnatural to him, he must be afraid that I would recognize his normal voice.

"Who are you?"

He laughed again, "Shouldn't you be asking to be set free?"

"Would you let me if I asked?" Why was I so calm? No one was coming to save me this time…

"Shh," he pressed a finger to my lips, "Listen to the sounds of freedom."

"Bella!" I wasn't positive, but it sounded like Jasper.

"Jess! Jess watch out!" That one sounded like Mike.

"Edward, get out of here!" Edward? Edward was still here?

"Not without her!" It could've been anyone but in that moment I prayed, prayed that it was Edward and I didn't care that he was delusional, inhuman, and thought he was my guardian angel, I just needed some reason to hold on…someone to save me…

"Nick!"

"Tatia!"

"My friends, the crowd, why are you making me hear them?" I tilted my leg and tried to kick him but he was too strong, I couldn't even see his face!

"Because when I'm through with you, you'll never hear those sounds again." I gasped, I had to have seen this coming but nonetheless it frightened me.

"Why me?"

"Now that honey is a question, a question worth answering." Then he smacked me and threw me to the ground, letting me dangle by my hair. I tried to scream, but there was blood on my lips.

"Does it hurt baby?"

"Not…your…"

"Not my baby? Oh you'll be anything I want you to be, you hear me?" I tried to think clearly, tried to understand how no one was helping me but it was too simple, amongst all the chaos and screams how could I be heard?

EPOV

"No." I told her, I told her everything. I wasn't sure if she believed me, but I had her in my arms, and she wasn't leaving me anytime soon.

"I'm sorry, I have to help them." No, no you don't; I need you here with me.

"I can't let you do that." I reached for her, tried to hold onto her but she ran. What could a man do? I ran after her, screaming her name. Trying to tell her that she was at risk but she wouldn't listen.

"Ricardo!" I screamed and he was by my side as I ran.

"Find her." He ordered.

"What do you think I'm trying to do?" I nearly spat at him.

"There's only so much you can do. You'll freak her out."

"What do you expect me to do Ricardo? Stand by and watch? He's probably hurting her!"

"Sometimes we can't do everything by ourselves Edward."

"Get out of my way!" I couldn't believe this, after everything he had told me, after everything we'd been through; he was going to abandon me? Abandon Bella? Everyone was screaming as I pushed through the crowd, I had to find her, I had to!

"Bella!" That sounded like Jasper, but no one could locate her…not even me.

"Jess! Jess watch out!" And that one was Mike.

"Edward, get out of here!" Ricardo was furious now, "You're putting us at danger!" He hissed to me, "She'll be fine."

"Not without her!"

"Nick!"

"Tatia!"

"Because when I'm through with you, you'll never hear those sounds again."

"Edward, Edward did you hear that?" Ricardo was shaking me, "Go find her now!"

"I heard!" I yelled, "But where? And why the sudden change of heart?" Hold on Bella, I prayed, I'm coming for you honey.

Ricardo sighed and muttered something along the lines of not trusting a dark beat. He closed his eyes and tried to focus.

"Faster!" I pleaded with him, he was a true GA, he could figure out where she was!

"I'm trying Edward!"

"She's hurt!" I could feel her pain, someone was hurting her, I would tear their limbs apart when I reached them.

"There." He pointed in the direction of the stage and like a night owl I flew through the crowd, knocking people out of my way, he followed behind me but I was faster. And there she laid, my beautiful girl in pieces. It was so perfectly set up, she appeared to have merely fainted and been squashed by the people unknowingly stepping on her. I pulled her into my arms, so broken and just cradled her against my chest.

"My sweet, sweet Bella, what has he done to you?"

BPOV

I was against the floor just wishing for death. So many times I had seen death's door and begged to be let through and yet here I was, stuck in the frame, and wishing I could live.

"I'm sorry Bella, this has been fun but the lights will be on soon, the storm is finished. Another time perhaps…" He finally let me down and kissed my cheek, I'd never felt so disgusted in my life. And with that he hit me, or maybe it was his foot…and I drifted into the blackness I called home…

"Bella? Bella please wake up!"

"Mmm?" I could feel my eyelashes fluttering and there was sound in my throat.

"Emmett, don't get too close!"

"Nick hand me that!" I heard Kate snap, followed by a noise that sounded vaguely familiar to her hand against his arm.

I felt my chest move, a hurtful laugh occurring.

"Bells!" someone squeezed me too tight and a moan escaped my lips.

"Get off of her you retard!" Rose yelled and I opened my eyes. Everyone was there. Everyone except the one I wanted to see the most…

"I can't believe you fell at a time like that Bells!" Nick laughed.

"And getting stepped on, that's pretty trippy!" Emmett laughed.

"Trippy?" Rosalie smacked him again.

"Rosie baby!" he moaned, "Stop doing that! I won't say it again I promise!"

"Who told you that?" I snapped but sat up too quickly and felt the blood rush to my head.

"That guy, the vampire? He left you a note, told us everything that happened. But his dad showed up this old guy and his aunt was in the hospital or something? They left in a hurry." Kate explained sympathetically.

"Well, what happened? I kinda blacked out you know." I tried to laugh but my chest heaved and I felt the colour drain from my face.

"You were on stage and the thunderstorm knocked the power out. You fell, we were all looking for you but you got knocked out and stepped on like a zillion times." Vikki whimpered as James held her.

"That boy, he dragged Emmett to you. Did he hurt you Bella?" James asked, very randomly.

"God no! I ran away from him to try to get to you guys because everyone was screaming and then I fell and he was trying to get to me because everyone was stepping on me."

"Okay Bells, just no you can always talk to us…you know that right?" Laurent added.

"Of course, but I'd really like to get some rest, can we go to the hotel now?"

"If you're fine to walk." Nick said as Kate smacked him, "What?" he asked as she just rolled her eyes.

Something caught my eye, something shiny. "What's that?" I pointed to the shiny object just out of my glance.

Emmett burst into laugher, "Well you and that Edward guy won yourselves the competition! He told us to let you have that figurine thing and his letter is right next to it."

"Mmhm, that's great." I whispered as Jasper helped me up and set me on my feet.

Everyone was staring at me curiously so I stormed past them, grabbed the figurine and letter and walked towards the exit. Everyone ran to catch up with me and tried to act normal. It was much too forced and we ended up in an awkward silence. At least I wasn't the only injured one, many of the girls had torn dresses, Rosalie had a bruised arm and Kate was limping on her right leg. The limo dropped us off at the hotel and weary and worn, we silently trudged to our rooms.

"Bells?" Alice whispered, nearly unconscious.

"Yeah Alice?"

"Y'sure you're alright?"

I laughed and hugged her, "I'm fine, go get some sleep."

"Mmkay." She murmured and fell asleep as she hit the pillow.

Instead I chose to take that moment and read Edward's letter. Firstly I noted that the figuring was in the shape of an angel, almost too ironic for me…

Bella,

I know this must be weird for you but I ensure you it is weirder for me. My name is Edward Anthony Masen and I was born June 20, 1901. Sometimes, heaven makes mistakes; sometimes it's hard to fix them. Something happened to me, to my family, something I will tell you about one day when it is just you and I. I became a Guardian Angel, to pay a debt. I was assigned to you and well, at first I hated you but like I said, it's a story for another time. I've been with you Bella, all of your life. Every moment I have protected you from the night of Charlie and Phil…

I dropped the note. How the HELL did he know that?! Could Edward have been the one that…hit me?

…all the time, everyday, and I'm not leaving you. There is much to tell you, much to be explained. I will be in touch, fear not, I'm always with you.

Edward

I put the note back into the envelope and placed it with the figurine into my bag. Edward Anthony Masen was a delusional freak in need of desperate psychiatric help. Emmett was not leaving my side for the rest of the trip.

So, what did you think of my attempt at suspense? I have a little game for you lovely readers, review and I will send you the little exert of the Edward-Emmett conversation, I think it's funny but I have a twisted sense of humour. If you want it you have to review and I may just be nice and give you my favourite line of the next chapter (Blind Man's Tale). Review, go vote in the poll (if you haven't already!) and I'll see you soon...:)