A/N: This was a challenge given to me by Aunt Bell so this is dedicated to her and her weird mind for wanting this :P
Pairing: Nahuel/Bella
Summary: Bella finds herself in South America, near the Amazon to be exact. She finds more than what she expected when she has to run for her safety, finding out about vampires was one thing, werewolves for another, but what happens when she finds out about Half Breeds and finds Nahuel... Will he help her or will he leave her? Ra:M
Disclaimer: I do not own anything twilight related.
Previously,
The same electric spark jolts through me, warming me to the very core and as I looked into his warm teak eyes the sun shone down on us, illuminating us in its warmth. His body glowed what seemed from the inside, my breath hitched, he looked beautiful.
But this right now, I knew right then that my life has changed and that the future doesn't look so dreary and lonesome anymore.
Nahuel POV
As I stared at the human woman in front of me, looking at me with such emotion that if it was anyone else it could and would make a grown man weep. Her eyes were two shades lighter as she saw me in the sunlight, my skin illuminating ever so slightly, that was one good side to the whole half human, half vampire thing.
Whereas my aunt shone like a diamond in the sunlight, casting billions of beautiful rainbows and colours that a human eye couldn't see, whereas I illuminated from within. It made travelling in daylight a little bit easier, I couldn't stay in the daylight really perse but short bursts I can. I always felt like I didn't belong, I wasn't a vampire and I wasn't a human.
But the way Bella looked at me now, with such awe and a emotion I couldn't quite decipher, well that didn't matter anymore, I would be the man that she needs me to be right now, a man who could overcome obstacles and things so trivial as that didn't matter.
Shaking my head I smile at her, the electric jolts that warmed my very core continued to jolt through me.
"Tell me Bella, what is your home like?" I ask her, breaking the trance.
"As in my house or the town I live in?" she asks me with a raised brow.
I smile embarrassed and look down "Your town"
"Can we sit?" she asks me, letting my hand go, somewhat reluctant. I nod and follow her back to the log I had found her sitting on.
"My home town is much like where we are now" she tells me with a sad fond smile as she gestures to the forest. "I come from a small town in America, Forks, Washington. It rains constantly, every day of the week, of the year. It's a dreary town, small, but its home. The ocean was not far from where I lived, only an hour's drive." her eyes are unfocused as she paints me a picture of her home.
"I loved the ocean, I loved sitting on the beach, my toes buried in the sand as the waves crashed softly on the shore. The sea sprayed the mist, bringing the scent of salt that mixed in with oncoming rain. There was always people laughing on the beach, a bonfire or two, the drift wood casting beautiful colours and warmth" she sighs out with a soft smile, but a sense of longing clung to her.
"It sounds wonderful" I tell her honestly, I had been to the ocean once in my long life. Huilen and I always stuck to the forests and small towns close to our home.
"It truly is, I would love to return there one day, but I know it would never be able to happen" she tells sadly.
"Why ever not, we could, we could sometime in the future, return to America, I would love to see your home" I tell her, struggling with the words. I have never left South America.
"It wouldn't be possible Nahuel" my name coming from her lips sent a shiver of pleasure down my spine, shocking me.
"Why ever not?" I was confused, if returning home meant so much to her, I would give her the chance to return home to see those she missed.
"Because, the La Push Pack, the shape shifters... The ones who hurt me so, they are the ones who protect their land. If I was to be changed and if I wasn't you and Huilen wouldn't be allowed to cross the line without being killed" I felt my body go rigged at what she had just told me, what I just heard.
"You wish to be a... a vampire?" I ask slowly, in return her body stiffened and her hand was yanked from mine.
"If I wish... Nahuel, if we are mates, then when the time comes, I will need to be changed. Unlike you I am not immortal, I am human." she finishes off standing.
"I understand Bella, but I see vampirism a curse" I tell her, she turns and looks down at me with sad eyes.
"You see it as a curse; I see it as a gift. Sure there are downfalls, like sunlight, the thirst, watching everyone you love die. But in all honesty, I don't fit in the Human world; I was always comfortable with the supernatural, with vampires." I shook my head, I heard her but there was so much more to it than that.
"What are your parents like?" I ask her changing the subject after a long silence, I didn't want to dig myself into a deeper hole, and the subject of her change will have to happen on another date. A brilliant smile graces her face as she ungracefully plonks back on the log, straddling it so she could face me. I copied her actions, feeling somewhat normal and human, this was a pose I have seen many do but never done.
"My mom and dad divorced when I was little, I grew up with my mother in Phoenix, Arizona. When I grew older I took on the house hold things, getting a job at 12 to pay for bills and make sure she is fed, she was such a scatter brain and free spirit to the point she wasn't really a mother, I love her don't get me wrong, but I needed and wanted a mother. The only reason I stayed with her because I knew if I left that she would starve, forget bills and god knows what else, the woman would lose her own head if it wasn't connected to her shoulders." She chuckles.
"Then she met Phil, my stepdad and I didn't need to look after her anymore, he was a nice man, about 6 years older than me but still nice. I left them to their honeymoon stage to live with my father, knowing she was going to be okay with him." she finishes off with a giggle, her eyes twinkling.
"My Dad is amazing, a loving father that any girl could ask for, he and I were alike, and even though I cooked and did the house chores, I didn't have to do everything. He was shy, didn't like to show much emotion, but I knew he loved me every day with simple gestures and little things, he use to leave me a note every morning with a smiley face and 'Love Dad' before he left for work. He loved to fish, and boy did he fish, I swear I have made every fish recipe known to man" she laughs out, her head thrown back as she relaxes.
"He married a pack mother Sue, I was happen then with Jake, but not long after I found myself left alone and broken once more. Sue and Charlie were on their honeymoon and had to come back home early when Leah my step sister found me on the beach. Her and Seth were the only ones I ever spoke to after that about the pack business, they helped me stand on my feet again and soon I found myself here" she tells me.
"Your family sounds amazing; all I can remember of my mother was her soothing voice as she sang to me while I was in her womb." I finish off with a grimace as the image of my mother's mangled body and agonised face flashed in my hand, warm hands grasping mine jolted me from my memory.
Giving Bella a kind sad smile, I stood, holding my hand out for her to take. The forest was getting dark and Huilen and I had to hunt.
"Let's head back, it's getting dark and both my aunt and I need to hunt." I tell her my thoughts, her brows pull down into a frown, but she nods grasping my hand in hers as we walk towards the cabin.
How she got this far out wads beyond me, but I was telling the truth about how hard it was to find her, she had made a circle and sat smack dab in the middle, something a vampire does on their land. If she's doing this now, unintentionally, what will she be like when changed?
A/N: well here you go :) another chapter! How are you all enjoying it so far?
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