So I am in such a good mood today that I am updating ALL MY STORIES!! Yes you read correctly! I have an update for A New Beginning, My Girl, and Restless Heart! I also needed something to keep me busy to pass the time before I go see New Moon tonight. For those of you who are going to see it too, have fun! And enjoy all the updates. I'm also not sure if I will be able to update tomorrow since I have a lot going on and I'm going to see New Moon again tomorrow lol.
I felt the fire dissipate from my chest and arms. They felt utterly cool. I wasn't sure if it was because my skin was on fire for so long, or because my mom couldn't get the venom out fast enough. My heart was still beating, so I knew I wasn't changed. My grandfathers words echoed in my head It's not changing her! It's killing her! Was she too late? Did it kill me?
"Bella, her blood is clean." I heard my dad's voice, but it sounded far away. Like he was talking from deep inside a tunnel.
I could feel her drop my arm and the rustling of clothes. I squinted through my eyelashes. My mom was panting in my dad's arms. Her face was crushed against his chest and her hands clutched his shirt in tight fists. "You did it, she'll be fine. You hear her heartbeat? It's back to normal. You were perfect." My dad was soothing her.
"Mom," I croaked and she gasped and pushed away from my dad.
"You're ok!" She leaned over me and pulled me into her arms.
"Well, I guess that blows me becoming a full vampire out the window." I snorted.
Jacob growled. Apparently he didn't like that idea very much. He turned to glare at my dad. Their faces inches apart.
"Don't worry about it. It wasn't going to happen anyway." My dad said and looked at me.
"Unbelievable," My grandpa said as he squatted down behind my mom. He placed his hands on her shoulders and squeezed. "For someone who has never bitten a human before, you did an amazing job. Even better than Edward when he sucked the venom from your veins."
"She's my daughter," My mom hissed. "I had no intensions or desire to taste her blood."
"You were bitten?" I asked and rubbed my arm. It wasn't on fire anymore, but it stung like a bee's sting.
My mom nodded and flipped her own wrist over. A crescent bite mark matched the one I now had on my wrist. That seemed to remind my dad and grandpa about the bite on her neck. They both stood over her to check out the new bite mark.
"It's going to scar." My dad sighed. "He broke the skin." He growled.
"I'm fine. It doesn't hurt anymore." My mom shrugged.
"Am I going to have a scar like that?" I pointed to my mom's scar on her wrist.
"Probably." My dad nodded.
Jacob growled again.
"Keep it up, Bella and you'll have as many scars as I do." Uncle Jasper snorted.
"Not likely," My dad snapped. "Angelo seemed to be their only key to sneaking past all of our powers, but he was destroyed." My dad reached out and patted Jacob's shoulder. "Good job on that."
Jacob stepped away from him and laid down next to me.
"I know you did it for her, but you killed their most valuable member. Well, besides Jane and Alec. They actually thought his power was going to be enough to get through all of us."
"What about Derek?" I asked.
"He has time before they can think of another plan to come after us to get to you. We killed some of their fighters today. They wont be back until they train others. They wont send the main members of the guard after us. Not while Bella is shielding us." My dad said confidently. Me must have read it in one of the other vampires' minds.
"Lets get you home and that bite cleaned out." My grandpa patted my dad's arm and he nodded.
I reached for my dad at the same time he reached for me. My mom surrendered me to him and I curled into his chest as we ran home. Leah and Quil were pacing in front of the house on all fours. They immediately looked at me then at my mom. They saw the whole thing through Jacob and the other wolves that were in the fight.
"What happened to you?!" Derek half shrieked.
My dad placed me on the couch and kissed my forehead before he went to get the first aid kit.
"I got bit," I sighed and held out my arm so he could see it.
"Why is it all silvery?" He took my arm in his hands and moved it so the light can hit the scar at a different angle.
"It is?" I knew the scar on my mom's wrist was not like any other scar I have ever seen. But I figured it was because she was a vampire. I took my arm back and looked at it closer.
"You're mothers looked the same way when she was human. It dulled down quite a bit after she was changed because her skin color changed." My dad informed Derek and I. He sat next to me on the couch and placed my arm across his lap. I watched him clean it out from the leftover venom from either Angelo, or from my mom. That must have been the stinging because it was gone now. He wrapped gauze around my wrist. When he was done he lifted my arm and kissed the bandage. "All better." He smiled and patted my knee. His face went from relaxed to pained as he walked away from me. I knew I wasn't supposed to see that. "Carlisle," He whispered and flitted up the stairs. Carlisle followed close behind him along with my mom, Jacob, and Esme. The others stayed outside to make sure no one else was coming after me or Derek.
"You ok?" Alyssa asked as she sat down next to me.
I nodded and looked down at my bandaged wrist.
"Was it scary? You like disappeared! One minute we were running and the next… you were gone. I just heard your screams, but they sounded so far away."
"Vampires can move fast." I whispered.
"Emmett like appeared just as fast as you disappeared and took me back here. He ran away, I'm guessing to help find you. I was so scared. I didn't want you to get hurt. Then the big wolf-dog-horse-on-steroids things outside--"
"Werewolves," I chuckled.
Derek nodded and pointed at me. "Yes those things--were going nuts! They were growling and pacing and howling and snapping at the air--I swear they looked like they were chasing after flies of something."
Alyssa, Claire and I glared at Derek with blank looks.
"They don't eat flies!" Claire snapped.
"Yeah, they were just on edge because they could see the fight in the minds of the other wolves." Alyssa added.
Derek shuddered.
"What do you think their talking about up there?" Alyssa asked after we were silent for a little while.
"Me," I sighed. "The venom was killing me instead of changing me."
"Like the werewolves?" Claire leaned around Derek to look at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Yeah, I asked Quil out of curiosity one day and he said that vampire venom is poisonous to them. Maybe it's the same for you." She shrugged and leaned back against the couch.
"Wow, I never knew that." I pondered over that until my family slowly walked back down the stairs.
"Claire is right," my dad said to me. He placed his hands on my knees and knelt in front of me. "The venom doesn't take to your system very well. It will kill you rather than change you. You're already half vampire, so it obviously doesn't work the way we always thought it would."
"So I can never be fully changed?"
My mom walked behind the couch and wrapped her arms around my shoulders and kissed the back of my head. "I wouldn't have changed you anyway. I couldn't put you through that kind of…" My mom trailed off and I noticed my dad looking at Derek. I figured she was too. They didn't want to scare him in case we had no choice but to change him.
"How did you know I wanted it to be you?" I turned so I could see my mom. She raised her eyebrows and looked over my head to my dad.
I spun back around to glare at him. "You said you wouldn't say anything to her!"
"We were talking about it one night when you were still little." He shrugged.
"It doesn't matter." My mom reached around and cupped my chin and turned my head to look back at her.
"I love you just the way you are. Being half human and half vampire is what makes you so special. It makes you literally part of me and part of your father."
"I agree," Jacob said as he walked through the front door. "The human parts are what I love the most about you. They were all things I wasn't willing to let go when Bella told me she was going to become one of them." My dad moved aside and let Jacob take his place in front of me. "It hurt too much to have to say goodbye to her big brown eyes," Jacob looked into my eyes and smiled. "The way I could say anything and watch the blood rush to her cheeks. Exactly like when I do this," he leaned over me and kissed me. I looked down at my hands and could feel my face turn bright red. "But most of all I was going to miss the sound of her heart beating. Although your heartbeat sounds better. I love you just the way you are. You don't need to change."
"Wow, Jake." I whispered. I didn't realize it until now that all the things he did love about my mom was actually passed on to me. It all actually made sense now.
"What happened to the whole; I was first attracted to you by your smile, or your good looks, or even the size or shape of a butt…"
"Derek!" My mom and dad snapped. Derek cringed into Alyssa's side to try and get away from them.
"I'm sorry, but it's true! Those are all things I notice in a girl before I notice the color of her eyes, the way her cheeks flush, or the sound of her heart. That's just… just… weird."
"You need to go home." Jacob mumbled.
"Seriously, dude. Think about it. You don't just walk up to a girl and say 'Oh, sorry I'm not interested in you, you're heart doesn't beat the right way.'" Derek paused as he laughed.
"You're getting on my last nerve." Jacob said through gritted teeth.
"Jacob, will you please take Renesmee and the others upstairs. She should lie down for a little while." My mom asked him and he nodded. Jacob slipped his arms under me and held me against his chest.
"I'm fine," I insisted. I did feel a little light headed, but I wasn't sure if it was from the bite and loss of blood, or Jacob's kiss in front of my family.
"Try again." Jacob said softly. "You're going to lay down for a little while."
"Will you stay with me?"
"Of cour--"
"Jacob, I need you back down here." My dad said quickly. "Bella just asked you to put her up there."
Jacob turned to glare at him. He opened his mouth and I knew what he wanted to say was not going to be nice.
Stop it! He is pretty shaken up by what happened. Both my mom and I were bitten. Give him some slack. Jacob looked at me quickly and stared into my eyes. He sighed and continued walking up the stairs. "Thank you," I said out loud and tightened my grip around his neck. I lifted myself up to kiss him and could hear giggling coming from the three behind me. They were easily ignored.
Jacob laid me down on my old bed, finally breaking the kiss. He picked up my bandaged arm and trailed kisses from my shoulder to the bandage. "I'm so sorry I wasn't able to stop him." Jacob whispered after the last kiss.
"You did stop him, you stopped him from hurting anyone else, or hurting me more than he did. You killed him, Jake."
Jacob shook his head and I heard him ground his teeth. "You shouldn't have been anywhere near him." Jacob groaned and I could feel his arms start to shake.
"Calm down," I whispered. I coughed Alyssa and Claire both reach for Derek's arm and they backed towards the door. They knew what the tremors meant.
"Calm down? You're telling me to calm down when a vampire sunk his teeth into you?! I will not calm down." He snapped.
I leaned away from him. His whole body was shaking.
"Jacob," Both Seth and Quil said quickly. They rushed into the room and pulled Claire and Alyssa into the hall. They both still had a hold on Derek so he was forced to follow them.
"Jake, control your temper. Everything is fine now. You killed him." Quil reminded him.
"He got to her!" Jacob turned his anger on his pack.
"He's gone, you killed him. He's not coming back for her. Calm down." Quil took a step towards us.
My dad appeared in the room flanked by my uncles. They must have heard the commotion from downstairs.
"You have innocent people around you. You need to control yourself. I know it was Renesmee that got hurt, but she's perfectly fine. Understand that. I'm hurting too, Jacob. Both my wife and child were injured. But they're both fine now. Look at her," My dad pointed to me. "She's terrified of you right now. Is that what you want?"
I didn't know what my face was showing, but he was right about me being terrified. I've seen Jacob mad before, I've seen him even more than mad, but this was even beyond furious. His rage brought back all the anger Luke had bottled up inside him and it scared me to see Jacob that mad.
Jacob shifted quickly on the bed to lean closer to me. His hands shot up to touch my face, but the anger in his eyes made me whimper and cringe away from him.
I could hear many gasps in the room at my motion. I suddenly felt horrible for doing it. This was Jacob, he would never hurt me like that.
"Oh, baby," Jacob whispered and his face was immediately pained. "I'm so sorry, I'm not going to hurt you. Please understand that." Jacob dropped his arms immediately and looked down at the blankets on the bed.
I already knew he wouldn't hurt me. He was just angry that he let Angelo between us. I could understand where his anger was coming from. "I'm ok," I assured him and wrapped my arms around his neck.
"Are you sure?" My dad asked. I didn't notice when he moved closer to the bed.
I nodded.
"Jacob, please." My dad motioned for them to go down stairs.
"I'll be back to check on you." Jacob said softly and kissed my forehead and the tip of my nose.
My dad touched my face lightly and turned to follow Jacob out the door. Quil and Seth let the others back in the room. They kissed both Alyssa and Claire and left quickly to catch up with the others.