Chapter 23
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Bellapov
"Let me go Emmett!"
"No not until you understand why you can't just go busting right upon Rose's coven."
"Why the fuck not! She sent someone after our children! She's tried to kill me and threatened to kill Charlie. I'm ending this now!"
"Stop!" He slams me back again.
I fling him back and start to take off again. Jasper smashes into me and tosses me Emmett's way.
"Listen to what Emmett has to say Bella he knows what he's talking about."
Emmett stares into my eyes.
"You're a newborn Bella and you've not even been properly trained yet."
"This is ridiculous you all want to stand here and pep talk me while her coven's probably getting away as we speak."
"GOD DAMN IT BELLA STOP THAT!" He grabs my arm again.
"Don't you talk to me that way!"
He closes his eyes and shakes his head.
"You think I don't want to go in there and rip every one of their fucking heads off? We have to be logical Bella we have to be patient and see what they are capable of how many there are and if this is a trap in itself. I don't want you going straight on a head and getting yourself killed."
"You, yourself said I'm stronger than any of you."
"Stronger doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing."
"This is absurd!" I yank out of his hold.
Jasper pens me against the tree in a choke hold.
"Break out of this and I'll let you go on." Jasper hisses as his hands clasp tighter.
"This right here." He takes his free hand and forces my head to the side.
"If I used my full force right then you'd be dead! Well come on now break out!"
I hiss out and fling my arms out his hands move for a split second and he has me in the pen again.
"You've just died twice!"
"Enough Jasper let her down."
I rub my neck shaking my head.
"Look baby we're going to end this coven once and for all but together and we're going to take all precautions first which means you're sticking by me and not leaving my side understood?"
I felt like a whiny child I wanted to act rebellious towards Emmett but then I did understand what he and Jasper were trying to get across. I could feel the blood coursing through me and I knew it was the newborn rage inside that and seeing that bitch yanking my child from his crib. I lower my head ashamed as I look to them both.
Emmett sighs and pulls me into his chest.
"I'm sorry Bells I love you that's why I'm trying so hard to get this across."
"I know I'm sorry."
He kisses the top of my head.
"Just follow our lead and remember at all cost you remain by my side."
I nod and I follow him up a tree as we continue to stalk the vampire whose arms I took. After a few more hours the vampire comes to a stop. Jasper looks to us a cross the ways and motions towards Emmett. "He sees 2 in the trees and 3 below." I look to him wondering how he knew that just by Jasper's sign alone I'd not a clue what the hell? Emmett winks.
"You'll learn."
My eyes close for a moment and I turn to see Rose. Emmett presses against me in the tree. He leans into my ear whispering. "Together…" I swallow back as he kisses my lips and we look back over. Rose immediately looks around to the trees.
"You lead them here you fool!"
"And that'd be our cue." Emmett says taking my hand as we leap a few more trees over.
Emmett grabs one of the vampires by the hair out of the tree we're in.
"Didn't I tell you if I saw you back here I end you personally?"
The vampire nods wide eyed. Emmett sighs and snaps her neck. He lifts her up then purposely tosses her at Rose's feet.
She looks to the body then back up to us. Emmett grins and waves. Rose locks on to me with her jaw dropped.
"You've got to be kidding…" She mutters as more of her coven comes out.
"She's added more." I say looking to Emmett he nods but jumps down taking me with him.
"Long time no see Rose. How goes the coven and you know losing your mind and all."
Emmett says and keeps a firm hold on me while Rose and I stare each other down. Vampires come out of the area surrounding us.
"Come on monkey man. Join us it could be like how it used to be. You and I… forever. I know you still love me Emmett I can see it."
His grip on me gets tighter as she appears in front of him and cups his chin looking to him.
"No one has to know. We could end her now and we could be together again and if you wanted we could go get your children. You know how I always wanted children. You could have everything you always wanted. I know you don't truly love her. You love me."
Emmett shakes his head and his eyes close. She leans over to kiss him and automatically my hand clasp around her throat. I slam her down into the soil of the woods and punch her hard as I can in the face. Her pretty face cracks a little and she looks to Emmett in shock.
"Emmett!" She screams and he shrugs then leans over while I have her down.
He moves a strand of hair from her face and smiles.
"I do love you."
The newborn in me wanted to lash out uncontrollably at his words. I was in utter disbelief he'd even say that. But the Bella Swan in me knew Emmett McCarty better than anyone.
"I love you enough to let her kill you, because if I do it I'll take everything but your head burn the rest of your body to ashes then make you eat then before I toss your head after!"
"GRRRRR!" Rose growls out.
"KILL THEM BOTH OF THEM!"
I continue to hold her down as Emmett and I look to one another and the circle of vampires closes in on us.
Carlisle jumps down.
"STOP!" He holds out a hand.
"Do you really all wish to die for this woman's cause? You were all already victims and still you continue to play victim to my daughter."
Carlisle gently wraps an arm around mine and lifts me off Rose. He looks me in the eyes and pats my back.
"Go back to Emmett hun."
I look to him confused. Emmett has the same look I do at the moment but he wraps his arm around my waist.
"Come here Rose." Carlisle says demandingly yet in a fatherly love sort of a manner.
"Come here child."
Rose rises from the ground and walks up to Carlisle. I feel on edge but Emmett holds me back. Carlisle opens his arms and takes Rose into him and holds her.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for never giving the choice…" He rocks her a bit then kisses the top of her head.
My hand goes to my mouth as I see the blackness in his eyes and I know what he's about to do. Even at this I can't help but to gasp out as Carlisle puts his hand to her neck and snaps it in half. I immediately bury my face into Emmett's shoulder. Yes I wanted her dead. But never did I imagine at the hands of Carlisle. I turn back around to see him gently lay her amongst the ground as he goes to his knees.
The rest of her coven start to attack Carlisle. But something I can't explain happens as I look to Carlisle. The vampires fly back and Emmett looks to me in utter shock. "Did you do that?!" Jasper comes out from nowhere like a bat out of hell and Alice leaps down from another tree. Emmett nods giving me the go ahead. I grab the first vampire coming towards me and fling her down and another comes at me and Emmett tosses them at Jasper who takes their head. Alice catches the head and tosses it into a campfire. I snap the ones neck I'm on and move on to another. I make note of a few running away and I think of my children and Esme I didn't want to take any chances so I dash out I grab two of them and toss them towards Alice and take off after the other three that are further ahead.
I leap into the trees hoping to catch them faster I jump down crashing into one of them. I've my knee in their sternum crushing them. I feel a set of arms go around my shoulders and neck I maneuver my body to kick up out of the hold and shove the vampire back. The other I'd on the ground jumps up as well and their both coming for me and I feel presence behind me and I reach back and grab them by the collar and toss them at the other two. The beautiful trio smile realizing they've me outnumbered and what they want. Knowing I'm fucked I still concentrate and think on how to get out of this.
I can't think of anything but dashing towards them full speed and flinging out both my arms hoping to knock them down by surprise but only one goes down the other two appear behind me and I get smacked in the back and my face hits the ground. They grab the back of my hair and slam me down hard again I gasp out feeling as though my face took a truck to it. I growl out and roll over trying to kick my feet up but the other kicks me in and my body is thrown into a tree that's uprooted as I go down. All three are up now coming at me yet again but something happens. Yet still I can't explain I holler out and put out my hand. The three of them fly back and just as Emmett's running over towards me. His jaw drops and he looks to me.
"How the hell are you doing that Bells baby?"
I shrug alarmed myself. Emmett turns as they rise again and he grabs the nearest one and tosses them my way I leap on them taking their throat out with my fingers. He nods approvingly as he snaps the neck of another. We both grab the arms of the other that's trying to run and spilt her in half.
I return to see the entire coven's been taken care of but my hand goes to my dead heart as I see Carlisle pick up Rose's remains but he looks completely broken. I cover my face as the emotions come tumbling down. I see Jasper and Alice put a hand upon Carlisle's shoulder as he tosses her in. I can't bear to watch his face any longer and I begin to walk away. Emmett puts an arm around me but I yank away from him and take off.
I just wanted to run at that point run from that look on Carlisle's face. I ran as fast as I could not even knowing what to do or where to go I just had so much inside me screaming. I couldn't help but to partially blame myself for what he had to do. It should have been Emmett or I not him!
"NO!" I scream out punching at a tree it uproots and I throw it.
I fall to my knees as the vision doesn't stop. My nails dig into the earth beneath me and I feel a set of hands.
"Go away Emmett."
"Bella…" I turn and jump.
"I'm so sorry…" I say as if pleading for forgiveness as if I was the one that personally ended her.
He shakes his head.
"You should know Bella I'd been planning to do this all along. I knew I had no choice. I made a promise to you and Emmett."
I lower my head knowing if I was still human I'd be bawling uncontrollably.
"No more blaming yourself. Doing that even after she's gone only let's her continue to win therefore making what I just did irrelevant. She didn't want this life anyway Bella."
"But how are you not going to hate me or resent me Carlisle!"
He smiles warmly and opens an arm wrapping it around me.
"I could never hate or resent you Bella. I wish you could see what the rest of us see. You're so full of love that even though part of you is glad Rose is gone it broke your heart to see me be the one ending it. I'm sorry I didn't realize how it would affect you. I just didn't want you or Emmett having to make that decision. Rose was my responsibility. I created her and raised her so to speak. She was never up to you or Emmett to control."
Carlisle stops and wraps his arms around me.
"I can see why my son loves you."
"I do love you."
I rise up from Carlisle's chest and turn to the smiling vampire god before me. My grin can't be stopped as he's crouched up in a tree and winks at me. Carlisle looks to him and nods.
"Go Bella and don't you worry for another minute on this I mean it. I will be ok we all will. It's just one of those things. I'll see you both back at the house."