Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight; only my original character Lucy
Kindly Edited by Mione Bolyen
NINE
Warning: Bella Bashing!
Edward had been quiet since his visit to 'sort stuff out'. Lucy had given him space knowing that it was not the right time to interrogate him, but she couldn't deny that she was worried about him. His was a presence that made her heart do funny things and exhibit signs of an emotions she read of and dreamed about but never experienced.
Lucy moved about the house that day with a determined thought filling her mind. She decided that she would visit the Quileute tribe today. She had long since been residing at the Cullen's residence and not paid proper tribute to the tribe. She had meant what she'd said, they had been the first shape-shifting tribe she'd created and they would always have a special place in her heart. They were some of the first memories she remembered upon opening up access to her previous life.
She'd created them as a last order before she left the first time, overburdened by a sense of dread at the curse she'd left behind, she hoped they would act as a counter to whatever monster she had let loose. She knew they had not let her down in anyway.
'What are you looking so happy about?', asked Emmett, as he walked in on Lucy eating breakfast.
'I'm going to visit the Quileute tribe today,' she said happily.
Emmett growled loudly sending Alice, Rosalie and Edward into the room.
'What's going on?', asked Alice.
'Lucy wants to go to the reservation,' growled Emmett.
'They're dangerous down there', protested Rosalie, 'we can't protect you, if you go there'.
'They mean well, but they are not in control all the time', said Edward, 'we couldn't bear it if you got hurt,' he added.
'I understand your worry, but I am still going and they will not hurt me,' said Lucy.
'Don't be stubborn,' snarled Edward.
'I'm not, but it's physically impossible for them to hurt me,' she said.
She was met with three pairs of confused eyes all burning bright with questions.
Lucy rolled her eyes kindly, 'Well I created them, so they're bound to me. They call me their light bearer,' she said softly.
'Were you ever going to tell us that?' asked Emmett.
'I thought I had told you,' she replied looking confused, 'but you know now, anyway'.
'Alice?' asked Edward.
'I can't see anything,' she replied moodily.
Lucy looked between the two in confusion.
'When a decision involving the wolves is made her visions disappear,' clarified Edward.
'Oh!' exclaimed Lucy, as she jumped forward and kissed Alice's forehead, 'Better?', she asked.
She waited for Alice to think of something, 'I can see!', she declared.
'You can see the wolves?' asked Emmett astonished.
'Yep, no disappearing visions for me,' she said triumphantly.
'So Alice, please enlighten Emmett and Edward so they don't' start tearing people apart. Can you see any danger coming to me from the wolves?' asked Lucy.
Alice thought on it a second, 'no. Lucy will be in no danger from the wolves,' she said.
'Fine,' said Edward softly, recognising that he was beat.
Emmett still glowered at Lucy, 'I'm only saying yes if you take your phone and text me every hour and phone one of us when you need picking up,' he said seriously.
'Ok Dad,' she replied happily.
THE QUILEUTE RESERVATION
Lucy got out of Alice's car and waved her goodbye before she headed towards the tribes houses. She was stopped no more than four seconds later by a masculine naked torso, looking down she quickly noticed he did have shorts on.
'Light bearer, you should have told us you were coming,' he said formally.
Lucy worried slightly, 'I am sorry, have I come at a bad time? I can go if you prefer,' she said quickly.
'You misunderstand me light bearer, I do not wish you to go. I would have liked a warning that you were coming only so we could have prepared a better welcome for you,' he said.
She smiled warmly, 'It is alright, I'm not really a fan of presentations,' she said.
He chuckled deeply, 'We met before, but I'll repeat the introductions. I'm Sam, I lead the current group of shape-shifters'.
'You should be proud Sam, they're all mighty wolves,' she said.
'Thank you light bearer, come and meet the others,' he said.
[BREAK]
Oh, it was going down if she thought she could take the tribe away from her as well!
THE CULLEN'S
'Stop fidgeting!' cried Rosalie.
'I can't help it, Lucy's down there all alone, what if something bad happens,' whined Emmett.
'You heard Alice and Lucy, the wolves won't hurt her,' replied Rosalie.
'What if something else happens and she gets hurt, who is going to tell her that everything is alright,' said Emmett.
Rosalie stared fondly at her husband, his level of commitment towards being a Father figure to Lucy was astounding.
'I don't see Edward getting as worried as you,' said Rosalie.
'That's because he's up there playing piano…hey, why would he be worried?' asked Emmett.
Rosalie muttered something that sounded like, 'Idiot boys', before replying, 'Because he cares for her'.
'Like you and I care for her? Or in a way that I get to beat him up for?' growled Emmett.
'In a way that I'm not telling you,' replied Rosalie sweetly.
Emmett groaned.
'Look, let her have her time away from us, she'll be back soon anyway. Why don't you ask Esme to help you make her something to eat then she can have it as a surprise when she returns,' said Rosalie.
Emmett bounced up from the sofa, 'That's a great idea', he said.
Rosalie merely smiled at his retreating figure hoping he wouldn't get too carried away.
BACK AT THE RESERVATION
'You sure do make for some refreshing entertainment,' said Billy Black, as he laughed at the banter between the tribe and the light bearer.
'It has been a long time since I felt this happy again,' replied Lucy.
'You are different from our stories of you,' he said.
'It was, but a lifetime ago that I last met the tribe, it was my last act before I left. I intended on a different path for myself, but I got lost on this one. I have lived another life and it wasn't a good one. I do not know everything of my first life but I am slowly unlocking memories of it. I hope in time I will understand everything and realise what it is I must do,' she said.
'You carry a heavy burden on your shoulders,' said Billy wisely.
'If I could not handle it, the burden would not have been given,' she replied.
Billy nodded, 'You have given us a new lease of life and strength, we look forward to this next age'.
'I am glad you still look upon me favourably after all that has happened,' she said.
'We do not judge you, light bearer. One mistake doesn't cancel out a lifetime of good'.
She nodded, 'If you excuse me I would like to get some water'.
Billy had no problems with this and directed her towards his house which was nearest.
She exited his house several minutes later fully refreshed and walked directly into a punch in the face.
She reeled back in shock, her hand going protectively towards her nose which was now bleeding. Looking through dizzy eyes she saw her attacker.
'What are you doing here?' asked Lucy.
'You cannot take them from me, they were my friend's first!' screamed Bella.
'I haven't taken anything from you,' replied Lucy.
Bella lunged at her kicking and scratching so much, that Lucy had little time to retaliate.
'You bitch! Can't you leave anything for the rest of us?!' said Bella.
Lucy feebly tried to fight Bella off, but Bella was a lot stronger than she seemed and Lucy was out of practice – she had spent an awful amount of time in bed recently!
A growl sounded from her right and then another came from her left. The wolves were coming. Lucy tried to reach out to them, urging them to hurry.
The arrival of the wolves distracted Bella from her task and left Lucy crumpled on the floor – trying her best to protect herself.
'No don't hurt me! You don't understand this isn't what it looks like. She tried to attack me! Used her witchy voodoo, I was just retaliating! Come on guys, we've been friends forever, she's the bad one, not me,' begged Bella over and over again.
Lucy tried to block out the fighting, but was having little success, the longer she tried to block it out the more she remembered of her terrible time with the doctors.
[BREAK]
'Oh no!' cried Alice.
'What? What is it? What happened?' asked Jasper, suddenly appearing at her side.
'Lucy,' she moaned.
'Is she ok?' asked Edward, coming into the room.
'What did you say about Lucy,' boomed Emmett's angry voice.
'She'll be home soon, you must not be angry,' she said.
Edward tried to read her thoughts, but she was blocking him out most effectively.
[BREAK]
The Quileute tribe watched their light bearer gone with pain in their eyes. She didn't blame them for what happened and asked them not to feel guilty about it. The elders had gotten together to discuss what had happened and what they could put in place to make sure it wouldn't happen again. Everyone had been tested today by someone that they had once called a friend. It was a difficult situation to handle but their light bearer meant the most to them, if she was threatened of course they were going to retaliate against the one that caused the pain.
They were glad that they wouldn't see the Cullen's anger, but knew that their light bearer was more than capable of handling the situation herself. They had tried to patch her up, but she insisted that she wasn't in much pain and Carlisle would be able fix her up in a jiffy.
Lucy said goodbye to an upset Jacob quietly.
'Don't cry Jacob, it wasn't your fault,' said Lucy.
'We should have been more prepared,' he replied.
'No one can counter a force like Bella, her action are disjointed, they don't follow a pattern,' said Lucy.
'We are still very sorry,' said Jacob.
Lucy nodded, 'You are all still special to me and think this experience won't deter me from visiting' ,said Lucy, 'Now I should probably go before one of them breaks something,' she said smiling.
Lucy waved Jacob off then entered the house.
Lucy thought in hindsight about how bad she looked, her nose was bruised and there was a little bit of dried blood around it, she knew she had new bruises on ribs and scratches all over.
'What. Happened!' said Edward deathly calm.
Emmett didn't seem to have the ability to speak yet.
The others were just gathered around with mixed expressions of concern and anger.
'It wasn't the wolves,' she said.
'Then who was it,' growled Emmett, finally recovering his voice.
'Bella,' mumbled Lucy.
'What did you say?' asked Edward.
'It was Bella' said Lucy.
'Please explain before my son's explode' said Carlisle, as he appeared with his doctor's bag ready to treat her wounds.
'My time with the tribe was amazing, I have a connection with them that spans centuries. It was an amazing experience to reconnect with them again. I left them briefly to fetch a glass of water. Billy directed me towards his house, because it was the closest. When I left the house my face connected with a fist. She started to attack me without warning, shouting about how I had stolen everything from her and had brainwashed everyone against her. Her shouts bought the wolves, they don't stand for their light bearer to be hurt. They were most upset but I told them it was not their fault, they cannot be blamed for the actions of others, though I expect they are currently working out a way to make their reservation safer for me,' she said.
'You shouldn't have gone,' said Edward.
'I had every right to go!' cried Lucy.
'But you got hurt!' he replied with anguish.
'I'm sorry,' said Lucy with tears.
'Hush child, they aren't angry at you, but you scared them. You mean a lot to us now and we don't like to see you hurt,' said Carlisle.
Lucy sniffed as Carlisle treated her cuts.
'Do you have any other injuries?' he asked.
Lucy guiltily lifted up her top to reveal the bruises forming below.
This time it was hard not to hear the growls that came from the family at the reveal of those bruises.
'I'm sorry,' she whispered.
'I told you she was bad news for the family but you didn't listen,' said Rosalie, thinking of Bella.
'Rosalie,' warned Carlisle.
Carlisle finished tending to Lucy.
'I know you're all angry, but would it be too much to ask you all to forget it?' she asked.
Looking at the angry faces before her she realised that it WAS too much to ask.
Kindly Edited by Mione Bolyen
NINE
Warning: Bella Bashing!
Edward had been quiet since his visit to 'sort stuff out'. Lucy had given him space knowing that it was not the right time to interrogate him, but she couldn't deny that she was worried about him. His was a presence that made her heart do funny things and exhibit signs of an emotions she read of and dreamed about but never experienced.
Lucy moved about the house that day with a determined thought filling her mind. She decided that she would visit the Quileute tribe today. She had long since been residing at the Cullen's residence and not paid proper tribute to the tribe. She had meant what she'd said, they had been the first shape-shifting tribe she'd created and they would always have a special place in her heart. They were some of the first memories she remembered upon opening up access to her previous life.
She'd created them as a last order before she left the first time, overburdened by a sense of dread at the curse she'd left behind, she hoped they would act as a counter to whatever monster she had let loose. She knew they had not let her down in anyway.
'What are you looking so happy about?', asked Emmett, as he walked in on Lucy eating breakfast.
'I'm going to visit the Quileute tribe today,' she said happily.
Emmett growled loudly sending Alice, Rosalie and Edward into the room.
'What's going on?', asked Alice.
'Lucy wants to go to the reservation,' growled Emmett.
'They're dangerous down there', protested Rosalie, 'we can't protect you, if you go there'.
'They mean well, but they are not in control all the time', said Edward, 'we couldn't bear it if you got hurt,' he added.
'I understand your worry, but I am still going and they will not hurt me,' said Lucy.
'Don't be stubborn,' snarled Edward.
'I'm not, but it's physically impossible for them to hurt me,' she said.
She was met with three pairs of confused eyes all burning bright with questions.
Lucy rolled her eyes kindly, 'Well I created them, so they're bound to me. They call me their light bearer,' she said softly.
'Were you ever going to tell us that?' asked Emmett.
'I thought I had told you,' she replied looking confused, 'but you know now, anyway'.
'Alice?' asked Edward.
'I can't see anything,' she replied moodily.
Lucy looked between the two in confusion.
'When a decision involving the wolves is made her visions disappear,' clarified Edward.
'Oh!' exclaimed Lucy, as she jumped forward and kissed Alice's forehead, 'Better?', she asked.
She waited for Alice to think of something, 'I can see!', she declared.
'You can see the wolves?' asked Emmett astonished.
'Yep, no disappearing visions for me,' she said triumphantly.
'So Alice, please enlighten Emmett and Edward so they don't' start tearing people apart. Can you see any danger coming to me from the wolves?' asked Lucy.
Alice thought on it a second, 'no. Lucy will be in no danger from the wolves,' she said.
'Fine,' said Edward softly, recognising that he was beat.
Emmett still glowered at Lucy, 'I'm only saying yes if you take your phone and text me every hour and phone one of us when you need picking up,' he said seriously.
'Ok Dad,' she replied happily.
THE QUILEUTE RESERVATION
Lucy got out of Alice's car and waved her goodbye before she headed towards the tribes houses. She was stopped no more than four seconds later by a masculine naked torso, looking down she quickly noticed he did have shorts on.
'Light bearer, you should have told us you were coming,' he said formally.
Lucy worried slightly, 'I am sorry, have I come at a bad time? I can go if you prefer,' she said quickly.
'You misunderstand me light bearer, I do not wish you to go. I would have liked a warning that you were coming only so we could have prepared a better welcome for you,' he said.
She smiled warmly, 'It is alright, I'm not really a fan of presentations,' she said.
He chuckled deeply, 'We met before, but I'll repeat the introductions. I'm Sam, I lead the current group of shape-shifters'.
'You should be proud Sam, they're all mighty wolves,' she said.
'Thank you light bearer, come and meet the others,' he said.
[BREAK]
Oh, it was going down if she thought she could take the tribe away from her as well!
THE CULLEN'S
'Stop fidgeting!' cried Rosalie.
'I can't help it, Lucy's down there all alone, what if something bad happens,' whined Emmett.
'You heard Alice and Lucy, the wolves won't hurt her,' replied Rosalie.
'What if something else happens and she gets hurt, who is going to tell her that everything is alright,' said Emmett.
Rosalie stared fondly at her husband, his level of commitment towards being a Father figure to Lucy was astounding.
'I don't see Edward getting as worried as you,' said Rosalie.
'That's because he's up there playing piano…hey, why would he be worried?' asked Emmett.
Rosalie muttered something that sounded like, 'Idiot boys', before replying, 'Because he cares for her'.
'Like you and I care for her? Or in a way that I get to beat him up for?' growled Emmett.
'In a way that I'm not telling you,' replied Rosalie sweetly.
Emmett groaned.
'Look, let her have her time away from us, she'll be back soon anyway. Why don't you ask Esme to help you make her something to eat then she can have it as a surprise when she returns,' said Rosalie.
Emmett bounced up from the sofa, 'That's a great idea', he said.
Rosalie merely smiled at his retreating figure hoping he wouldn't get too carried away.
BACK AT THE RESERVATION
'You sure do make for some refreshing entertainment,' said Billy Black, as he laughed at the banter between the tribe and the light bearer.
'It has been a long time since I felt this happy again,' replied Lucy.
'You are different from our stories of you,' he said.
'It was, but a lifetime ago that I last met the tribe, it was my last act before I left. I intended on a different path for myself, but I got lost on this one. I have lived another life and it wasn't a good one. I do not know everything of my first life but I am slowly unlocking memories of it. I hope in time I will understand everything and realise what it is I must do,' she said.
'You carry a heavy burden on your shoulders,' said Billy wisely.
'If I could not handle it, the burden would not have been given,' she replied.
Billy nodded, 'You have given us a new lease of life and strength, we look forward to this next age'.
'I am glad you still look upon me favourably after all that has happened,' she said.
'We do not judge you, light bearer. One mistake doesn't cancel out a lifetime of good'.
She nodded, 'If you excuse me I would like to get some water'.
Billy had no problems with this and directed her towards his house which was nearest.
She exited his house several minutes later fully refreshed and walked directly into a punch in the face.
She reeled back in shock, her hand going protectively towards her nose which was now bleeding. Looking through dizzy eyes she saw her attacker.
'What are you doing here?' asked Lucy.
'You cannot take them from me, they were my friend's first!' screamed Bella.
'I haven't taken anything from you,' replied Lucy.
Bella lunged at her kicking and scratching so much, that Lucy had little time to retaliate.
'You bitch! Can't you leave anything for the rest of us?!' said Bella.
Lucy feebly tried to fight Bella off, but Bella was a lot stronger than she seemed and Lucy was out of practice – she had spent an awful amount of time in bed recently!
A growl sounded from her right and then another came from her left. The wolves were coming. Lucy tried to reach out to them, urging them to hurry.
The arrival of the wolves distracted Bella from her task and left Lucy crumpled on the floor – trying her best to protect herself.
'No don't hurt me! You don't understand this isn't what it looks like. She tried to attack me! Used her witchy voodoo, I was just retaliating! Come on guys, we've been friends forever, she's the bad one, not me,' begged Bella over and over again.
Lucy tried to block out the fighting, but was having little success, the longer she tried to block it out the more she remembered of her terrible time with the doctors.
[BREAK]
'Oh no!' cried Alice.
'What? What is it? What happened?' asked Jasper, suddenly appearing at her side.
'Lucy,' she moaned.
'Is she ok?' asked Edward, coming into the room.
'What did you say about Lucy,' boomed Emmett's angry voice.
'She'll be home soon, you must not be angry,' she said.
Edward tried to read her thoughts, but she was blocking him out most effectively.
[BREAK]
The Quileute tribe watched their light bearer gone with pain in their eyes. She didn't blame them for what happened and asked them not to feel guilty about it. The elders had gotten together to discuss what had happened and what they could put in place to make sure it wouldn't happen again. Everyone had been tested today by someone that they had once called a friend. It was a difficult situation to handle but their light bearer meant the most to them, if she was threatened of course they were going to retaliate against the one that caused the pain.
They were glad that they wouldn't see the Cullen's anger, but knew that their light bearer was more than capable of handling the situation herself. They had tried to patch her up, but she insisted that she wasn't in much pain and Carlisle would be able fix her up in a jiffy.
Lucy said goodbye to an upset Jacob quietly.
'Don't cry Jacob, it wasn't your fault,' said Lucy.
'We should have been more prepared,' he replied.
'No one can counter a force like Bella, her action are disjointed, they don't follow a pattern,' said Lucy.
'We are still very sorry,' said Jacob.
Lucy nodded, 'You are all still special to me and think this experience won't deter me from visiting' ,said Lucy, 'Now I should probably go before one of them breaks something,' she said smiling.
Lucy waved Jacob off then entered the house.
Lucy thought in hindsight about how bad she looked, her nose was bruised and there was a little bit of dried blood around it, she knew she had new bruises on ribs and scratches all over.
'What. Happened!' said Edward deathly calm.
Emmett didn't seem to have the ability to speak yet.
The others were just gathered around with mixed expressions of concern and anger.
'It wasn't the wolves,' she said.
'Then who was it,' growled Emmett, finally recovering his voice.
'Bella,' mumbled Lucy.
'What did you say?' asked Edward.
'It was Bella' said Lucy.
'Please explain before my son's explode' said Carlisle, as he appeared with his doctor's bag ready to treat her wounds.
'My time with the tribe was amazing, I have a connection with them that spans centuries. It was an amazing experience to reconnect with them again. I left them briefly to fetch a glass of water. Billy directed me towards his house, because it was the closest. When I left the house my face connected with a fist. She started to attack me without warning, shouting about how I had stolen everything from her and had brainwashed everyone against her. Her shouts bought the wolves, they don't stand for their light bearer to be hurt. They were most upset but I told them it was not their fault, they cannot be blamed for the actions of others, though I expect they are currently working out a way to make their reservation safer for me,' she said.
'You shouldn't have gone,' said Edward.
'I had every right to go!' cried Lucy.
'But you got hurt!' he replied with anguish.
'I'm sorry,' said Lucy with tears.
'Hush child, they aren't angry at you, but you scared them. You mean a lot to us now and we don't like to see you hurt,' said Carlisle.
Lucy sniffed as Carlisle treated her cuts.
'Do you have any other injuries?' he asked.
Lucy guiltily lifted up her top to reveal the bruises forming below.
This time it was hard not to hear the growls that came from the family at the reveal of those bruises.
'I'm sorry,' she whispered.
'I told you she was bad news for the family but you didn't listen,' said Rosalie, thinking of Bella.
'Rosalie,' warned Carlisle.
Carlisle finished tending to Lucy.
'I know you're all angry, but would it be too much to ask you all to forget it?' she asked.
Looking at the angry faces before her she realised that it WAS too much to ask.