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Bella's PoV:
Since the Cullen's got here, everyone seems so tense. They all seem ready to jump into action at a moment's notice. Not once did any ones' eyes stray from Alice. Edward seemed particularly focused on Alice; from the smug look on Kate's and Tanya's faces I'm not sure if I should feel sorry for him or not. I had thought about moving to go do something, whether it would be reading a book or watching T.V., but every time I move, even just to get more comfortable, Tanya tenses and holds me tighter against her.
Even though she seems calm and collected; I can tell that she's really nervous for what is about to happen. Knowing Victoria's gift doesn't make her any less dangerous. They all seem intent on just watching Alice, waiting for her to give the okay to go hunt down Victoria.
It's only been a couple hours since we started this waiting game; but I'm so ready for it to be over with. I'm sure if it wasn't for the fact that I'm curled up against Tanya right now; I would actually put more of an effort to leave. I'm so comfortable that I want to fall asleep; but every time I feel myself about to nod off, Tanya would move our positions. The movement is enough to keep me awake.
"Found her." Alice said; the glazed over look in her eye's now fading.
Everyone seemed to sit straight; or stand if they were standing, and waited for Alice and/or Edward to say where Victoria is.
"We don't know the exact location; but Tanya the mountain that you took Bella to, that's where she'll be soon." Edward said.
It took me a couple seconds to realize how Edward knew about that. I guess Tanya felt it was important to show Edward our date; hopefully Tanya didn't give him too much information; like about the bath we shared. I don't think I could get over the embarrassment of someone else besides Tanya seeing me.
"Okay; you guys follow us, we'll take you there. There others that won't be fighting right away; just tale us and when we get there, you guys can fan out." Tanya said as and the others started to leave.
Tanya stood, pulling me up with her, wrapped her arms around my waist and pulled me closer to her. She rested her forehead against mine as I wrapped my arms around her neck.
"We'll find her and then kill her." Tanya said with certainty.
"I know, and then you'll come back to me in once piece." I said with just as much certainty.
"With so many of us against her, there's no way one of us will get hurt." Tanya said.
"There's still a chance; just promise me you won't get hurt please." I practically begged her.
Tanya is right; with so many of them going against just one other vampire; this will probably be over quickly. Still, the thought of Tanya going out to hunt someone down and then fight with them to kill them, it makes me nervous. I don't want anyone to get hurt because of Victoria; but I can't help but to prefer everyone gets hurt over Tanya. It sounds mean I know, but what can I say I love Tanya more, a lot more, than the others.
"I promise." Tanya said.
Instead of Tanya pulling me into a kiss, I pulled her into one. I threaded my hands through her hair to behind her head to pull her as close as possible to me. The moment our lips touched, everything else around me seemed to fade. It was only me and Tanya. Tanya pulled my hips closer to hers and I felt a need start to rise in my lower stomach.
I had every intention of not stopping; but when I heard a loud 'that's hot' followed by a loud smack, both Tanya and I pulled away.
"Perhaps we will continue this when we don't have an audience?" Tanya asked with a smirk.
"Y-ya, I think we should." I stuttered, trying to get my breathing under control and my face back to a normal color.
Tanya gave me a quick kiss and left before I even had time to respond. I am now left with Carmen and Eleazar while we wait for the others to come back.
"If you would like Bella, while we wait we can go over what you would like to do to your old room; it will keep us busy while we wait." Carmen suggested.
I quickly agreed and the three of us started planning out what we want to do with the room.
Tanya's PoV:
I ran as fast as I could, leading everyone towards where I took Bella for our first date. I had really wanted to take her here again for another date, but my feelings for this place have changed now that I will fight Vitoria here. I don't want to take Bella on a romantic date where something this bad happened; that's not very romantic.
"This is place; it looked just like this." Alice said from behind me.
I stopped immediately at her words. I heard the others move to create a large circle around the general location. To make sure we covered as much space as possible, the ones that created to circle were only just in hearing range of those on either side of them. This would give us the best coverage of the area.
"How much time Alice?" I asked, just loud enough for her to hear since I don't want Victoria to hear or see us before we can get her cornered.
There were a seconds of silence, I'm guessing Alice is checking her visions to be able to give me a better answer.
"Not too much longer; maybe ten minutes." Alice said.
"I think I should confront Victoria first; before you all make your appearance. She's expecting me to watch over Bella. She'll know even faster that something is up if she see's someone else." Edward said.
I had stopped in the clearing where I had made a picnic for Bella and the others were hidden amongst the trees. I really want to be the one to kill her; if I have to say that as loud as I can in my head and repeatedly I will to make sure Edward leaves her death to me. Bella is my mate; I get to ensure her safety; especially since Edward already failed.
"I understand Tanya; you get to behead her." Edward said.
I better. We both switched places, so that Edward was out in the open and I was now hidden. Now we just have to wait for Victoria to get here.
Just off to the side, in Jasper's general area, I could barely hear movement. Someone's coming this way, it better be Victoria. I saw Edward give a small nod of his to indicate that I was right in thinking it better Victoria, she's almost here.
No sooner did I think that, did I see a red head vampire run into the clearing. She stood at the opposite side from where Edward stood. It took all my will power that I could muster to not growl at her or even make a move in her direction to attack. We have to stick to the plan or her gift will make it too easy for her to get away.
"Did you think a change of location would keep her safe?" Victoria asked, sounding smug.
Just because I can't growl, doesn't mean Edward can't. He gave Victoria a warning growl, one of irritation. He held his position though; we need Victoria to stay just a little longer so that the others, that are farther away than I am, can get closer without Victoria hearing.
"No, I believe killing you would keep her safe." Edward growled at her.
Don't make threats Edward! If she feels threatened she will run and get away. Just another minute max and we can attack.
"Ha, I doubt a child like you could kill me." Victoria said.
It seems like she still thinks it's only Edward out here. Either Victoria is really stupid in thinking that or she knows Edward isn't alone and she banking on her gift to get her out of trouble. From the corner of my eye I can see Kate, which means we're all close enough to attack. Perfect.
"But someone like me would have no problems." I said as I walked into the clearing.
Victoria looked startled, but only for a second. Maybe her gift told her she wasn't alone but her senses couldn't sense anything?
"She has the urge to run, that she's in a dangerous position right now." Edward said, clearing things up for me.
So that's good. She doesn't there are more of us out here. She only knows that she's in danger; I can work with that.
"This is between me and the boy; you have no claim here." Victoria told me.
"I do have claim here; this is my land if you haven't noticed. But more importantly, the human you're after; she's mine. I don't like there being threats against my mate." I growled at Victoria.
Once again I seemed to have caught her off guard. Her eyes widened slightly at the information and she started to slowly back away. Her movement to escape pulled Kate out from her hiding spot.
"You won't be going anywhere today." Kate said; sounding serious for once in her life.
No one messes with our family and expects to get away with it. This vendetta she seems to have with Edward and Bella will end today with her death. I'll make sure of it.
"Look, all I want is revenge for my mate; that's all. Surely you can understand that?" Victoria said, trying to reason with us.
"I know you're not deaf because you're a vampire, so I know you heard Tanya when she said Bella is her mate. Life threats against mates aren't taken too kindly amongst our kind; as I'm sure you know." Kate said.
"She's trying to buy time so that she can think of a way to escape." Edward said.
That's all I needed to hear. I don't know how her gift works. Does she simply need time for her gift to give her an escape route? Or is she trying to come up with a way on her own because her gift has failed her? I don't know and I don't really care to find out.
I rushed forward as fast as I could and tackled Victoria head on. She may not have been able to dodge me, but she was able to brace for it. As soon as we collided, we immediately started wrestling; each of us trying to gain the upper hand. We each tried desperately to claw at each other, to try and leave the biggest mark on the other.
My instincts were screaming at me to take Victoria down on my own. It's my mate that is in trouble that's being hunted; it's my job to kill the hunter. I want to be the one that disposes of this threat; I don't want anyone else to do so.
Logically though, I realize that if I take her on by myself and don't accept any help; chances are she'll get away. I doubt she would be able to get past the others; but there's still a chance. I have her occupied now; she needs to be dealt with now.
As soon as the though crosses my mind I hear Edward call out to Emmett, Jasper and Kate to help. I let my guard down, thinking this would now be an easy fight and Victoria was able to bite the base of my neck. The effect of her venom affecting me was almost was almost instant. I felt the paralysis spread throughout my body.
As my grip faded on her, allowing her to slip away, Edward replaced me. She quickly started struggling against him and I thought for a second that she would have gotten away, but Jasper, Emmett and Kate showed up and stopped her. She was caught.
"Quickly, before I can't; bring her here." I said.
I stumbled towards them; very intent on finishing this before I could no longer move.
"I don't think you'll be able to break the neck Tanya; not by yourself." Kate said.
I ignored her and gripped Victoria's head; she started shouting obscene things that only a desperate person on the verge of being killed would shout. I pulled as hard as I could, but I could only cause cracks to appear on her neck; I can't break it.
"Let Kate help Tanya; Bella's her sister, you both want to get rid of victoria." Emmett said.
I only nodded briefly and Kate quickly added her hands to Victoria's head and together we beheaded her.
"Here you go ma'am." Jasper said as he handed me a lighter.
We'll have to be careful about not lighting the whole forest on fire; but that's what the Cullen's can do. Irina and Kate need to get me back to Bella once this is over. I couldn't exactly tell them this, but thanks to Edwards' privacy invading gift, the message got to everyone. Emmett was already on the phone calling the others.
With a flick of my wrist, the lighter was lit and tossed it at Victoria's body and head. As soon as the fire touched her body, it was engulfed in flames. It seems like it was perfect timing because this is also the time that my legs gave out on me and Kate had to catch me.
Bella's PoV:
We were in the middle of going through one of the magazines Esme left here when Carmen and Eleazar both froze. They were clearly listening to something, something a little ways off.
"Victoria is dead Bella." Eleazar said.
The look they were both giving me though was one of concern. I thought the goal was to kill Victoria, so shouldn't we be happy right now? Unless… what aren't they telling me? Did something happen to Tanya? Did Victoria manage to get past everyone and kill her? I need to see Tanya.
I stood up quickly off the couch I was sitting on in between Eleazar and Carmen and started to make my way towards the front door. Before I could even take two steps Carmen was in front of me.
"Tanya will be fine. She was bitten by Victoria and the venom spread throughout her body." Carmen said.
"Is that bad?" I choked out.
I can feel myself slipping into a panic attack. Venom, can it kill? Just the word sounds bad. I know it can turn a human into a vampire; which is technically killing them. So can venom kill another vampire as well?
"No, it only paralyzes a vampire for a short period of time. I don't believe Tanya was injected with much venom. Kate and Irina are here with her." Eleazar said.
True to his words, I heard the door open and I made my way to it. I saw them climb the stairs, but I couldn't see Tanya. I followed as quickly as I could; only tripping once which Carmen was nice enough to catch me. I followed them to my room and saw Kate lay Tanya on the bed.
Tanya looks like a corpse. Her paleness, not moving, if I didn't know better I would have thought so. What my eyes are seeing and what my brain knows are contradicting each other though. I felt tears fall down my face as I made my way to Tanya.
"She'll be fine Bella; I give her an hour tops before she's back to normal." Irina said.
"She fought like a champ though; you should be proud and happy that this is the only injury she received. Victoria wasn't nearly skilled enough to go against Tanya." Kate said.
"We're going to go make sure the fire was properly put out. Then we will all go hunting; so we'll be gone for a few hours Tanya; use the time however you all want to." Irina said as they all filed out of the room. Once I heard the door click shut, I crawled into bed and cuddled next to Tanya.
"You promised you wouldn't get hurt Tanya; you broke your promise." I told her.
Even though she can't answer me, she can still hear me. I can't help but still be worried though. What if she doesn't get better; what if something goes wrong? What if it was worse? I don't know what I would have done if I lost Tanya. Just thinking about losing her makes me feel worse than when I had actually lost Edward.
I was stopped mid-thought as I felt strong, cold arms wrap around me. I turned my head, since I was using Tanya's chest as a pillow again, and saw two golden eyes looking back at me. I felt a sudden wave of relief hit me and my face broke out into a giant grin.
I pulled myself up Tanya and kissed her as hard as I could. Once again taking the initiative, I traced Tanya's bottom lip with my tongue, asking permission to enter. She giggled slightly, but opened her mouth none the less. My tongue was quick to enter her mouth and meet with Tanya's tongue. The battle of dominance started and as quick as it started, I quickly lost. Not that I mind of course, I'm just as happy to be kissing Tanya.
As is customary, when I couldn't hold my breath any longer, Tanya ended the kiss. She placed a few more kisses around my face as I gathered my breath.
"Well, hello to you to." Tanya said with a smirk once my breathing was back to normal.
"Don't ever do that again." I told Tanya, trying my best to sound as serious as possible.
"Don't do what kiss? I'm afraid I can't agree to that; I'll force my kisses on you if I must." Tanya said; her smirk still in place.
I simply rolled my eyes at her answer. Of course Tanya would take the opportunity to tease me.
"Don't get hurt again; I don't like it." I told her, her eyes instantly growing softer and her smirk fell off her face.
"Trust me, I didn't like it either. I didn't want to get hurt; I tried not to. It wasn't anything serious and I'm already completely back to normal." Tanya said.
"I know, but I was worried. I couldn't help but think about all that what if's." I told her.
"I'm sorry; but you don't have to worry anymore." Tanya said.
I smiled at her, there's no way I could drag out my anger at her, and laid my head back down on her chest. She had one hand around my waist and the other went to stroke through my hair as we laid in silence. It stayed this way for a few minutes until Tanya spoke up.
"You know, we have the house to ourselves for a few hours still." Tanya said, her voice sounding just slightly deeper.
"I know, I was there when we were told." I told her.
"I'm sure, if needed, Alice would see we would want more time alone and we could have the rest of today to ourselves here and possible well into the evening." Tanya said.
I looked back up at her and silently asked her what she wanted.
"I have you alone in our bed; I just fought to keep you safe and you just waited for me to get all healed up. What do you think I want?" Tanya asked.
I felt blood rush to my face at her question. That wasn't the only reason to cause my blush though; I find that what she's offering isn't necessarily something I want to decline. I've only known for maybe a month or so, not that long at all; and yet I'm already willing to have sex with her. A few years ago, I never would have thought I would be in this situation.
"I've done this before." I said, my voice sounding slightly huskier.
I saw Tanya's eyes grow blacker at my words.
"By the time we're done, you'll be an expert." Tanya said.
Without waiting for a response she flipped us over so that she was now straddling me on the bed.
"You have nothing to worry about Bella; I would never do anything to hurt you or anything you don't want to do. I promise, you'll enjoy this." Tanya said with the biggest smirk I've seen on her yet.
A/N: I was really tempted to not end it here; but I find that I have to. The main reason being that I'm not confident enough yet to write the next scene and I'm running out of time to write tonight; hopefully tomorrow it will be up.
Also, I hate writing fighting scenes, so as you can tell, I wrote hopefully at least the bare basics and left it at that.
I know these last few chapters have picked up the pace of the story; but it's only because like I said in the beginning; I like the beginning of stories, of the person fighting to get their other half. After that's done, I usually just stop reading the story lol. So I wanted to get this part done and start on the Kate/Bella one I'll be doing next. So ya; I'm thinking about two more chapters for this; in case anyone cares.