Opening the door to the cottage, I stepped inside and looked around, listening. Lee wasn't here. Sighing I went inside and looked around. Seeing there was nothing to do I went outside again. Letting out another sigh I looked up. Clouds. Did I expect much more? No, not really. Setting off at a walk I looked around, wondering what to do with myself. I set off into the forest near the school, the leaves were sparkling as the rain had not dried off from last night. I let my vampire instincts take over me but not in the hunting manor. I could sense everything around me, see it, hear it, smell and taste it. I let out a breath and I smiled as I felt like myself again, not someone who I was acting as. All my senses were enhanced tenfold. I listened as I heard fast footsteps headed towards me. I turned around to see a human, fear in her eyes, I stopped the girl in her tracks. "What is wrong? You seem scared."
"There's a guy.. back there.. He's chasing me!" she looked back and began to run again but I held firm on her arm, "I'll stop him. Get as far away as you can from here." I told her firmly. I nodded at her to go before turning around and standing my ground. As the guy came closer, I could hear his breathing but no heartbeat, I could sense the pounding of his feet on the ground, they were too fast for an average human. This person.. was a vampire.
It didn't take long for me to see the figure coming towards me, his hair was dark and he had a grin on his face, his smile faded however when he caught sight of me. My eyes widened. "R..Ryan…" I whispered. The vampire skidded to a halt in front of me, his now red eyes looking deep into mine. "Hello Sky." He said coldly to me, "Ryan." I replied curtly. "What are you doing back here?"
"Hunting, what does it look like?"
"Oh yes, I'm sure Carlisle would love to have you hunting the humans around here." I replied, Ryan smiled at me, "Of course.. you won't tell him will you?" he asked using the seductive voice that normally made me melt inside. Strangely enough, this time, it didn't. I glared at him, "Yes, I'm going to tell him. I'm loyal and I don't lie to my companions unlike you." Ryan laughed at this, I noticed what looked like burns on one side of his face. He'd gotten into some sort of fight that was for sure.
"Oh come on, you're not still upset about that are you? Get over it already!" he chuckled, "I have." I replied, "That does not mean I'm not still angry. Love the face by the way" I slyly said to him, Ryan gritted his teeth at me, "Why thank you." I nodded and grinned, "But don't even think about hunting in these parts. I do plan to warn Carlisle about you. You can count on that." I said before turning around and leaping up into the trees and straight to the Cullen house. "He's back, Ryan is back. I don't know for how long but he was hunting a human. We need to keep an eye on him Carlisle." I told him, a serious look on my face. "You're not happy he is back?" Carlisle inquired a puzzled look on his face.
"To be honest, no, he's not back for me and he hurt me. I don't want him around to see him hurt more people." I replied, "If anything, he wants to kill me."
"He's part of the Volturi now. We shall indeed keep an eye on him." Carlisle nodded, "I'll have one of the boys tail him."
"Ryan will know if Edward or Jasper are around because of their abilities. You'd better send Emmett, plus he's the strongest of the three if Ryan decides to attack." I told him. Carlisle smiled, "Don't worry, everything will be fine."
After leaving the Cullen house I set off at a sprint in search for Lee. I needed to talk to him. Focusing my senses for other vampires, I looked around, I sensed the group coming back from school, but Lee wasn't amongst them. Gritting my teeth I carried on my run until I found him, stood at a cliff, his hair blowing gently in the breeze. I stopped and watched him, I had never seen him like this before, as my senses were enhanced, I could see his beauty, he was so handsome, I had never noticed before. Slowly I stepped towards him, he didn't look towards me just stared out to sea but he knew I was there, I wasn't trying to sneak up on him. "Ryan's back.." I told him,
"I know. Edward read your mind as you went by the car and rang me." He replied, still not looking at me. He said nothing in reply, just blinked. "Lee listen to me.. I'm not going back to him. It's you. Not him. You." He stepped next to him and put my hand on his arm. "Oh that's a shame! Such a terrible shame!" said a taunting voice from behind us. Spinning around I saw him stood in front of us. Ryan. He had a sly smile on his face.
"Ryan why are you here? Why can't you just go?"
"I came back because the Volturi sent me to check up on things. I wanted to have some fun though before I went back. So I followed you here and look who you found!" Ryan shrugged.
"Well you're not getting any entertainment from anyone except me." Lee growled, stepping in front of me in a protective stance. Ryan grinned before lowering his stance, "Oh yeah? It seems you want to fight with me.." he laughed a little before pinning Lee to the ground, his hand to his neck, Ryan's face scrunched as his hand closed tighter around his neck. Lee bared his teeth and he mustered a lot of his strength to push Ryan off of him. Ryan leapt at him again but Lee took his arm and swung him to the ground. Suddenly, Ryan grabbed Lee's leg, using his inhuman force threw Lee off the cliff. I screamed and watched Lee fall into the water. An involuntary snarl ripped from my throat, I clenched my fists as I heard Ryan, breathing heavily, get up from the ground, "No. Get back down on the ground." I said, anger shaking my voice, I heard a thump as he did as I said and he held himself fast on the ground. I hissed at him, "If you come back here again without Carlisle's permission, I swear to God I'll kill you. Get up and get away from here and go back to your own coven."
"You wouldn't kill me. You still love me! I can see it in your eyes!" he growled, unintentionally getting up.
"Perhaps i do, a little. But I'm willing to let that go, and move on, maybe you should do the same?" I replied, Ryan opened his mouth but could find no words to reply with. I smiled a little before I turned and leapt off the cliff down into the depths below, ignoring his yells, I searched for Lee. He was still alive. I took hold of his hand and swam us both to the surface before going to shore where I lay against his chest for some hours, I closed my eyes and held his hand tightly in mine.