Chapter 14

She sprayed him, and used his momentary surprise to bolt from the room inside the fence and make a slipping, stumbling dash for the door. She got as far as the heavy oak door before he grabbed her hair and yanked her back. Pain exploded inside her head and battled with the fear that ripped her breath from her lungs.

"Stupid bitch. Did you really think pepper spray would do you any good?"

He gave her a furious shake, his burnt eyes healing themselves as they locked eyes. Blackish green met chocolate brown and Bella thought that maybe, just maybe it was a good thing she told she loved both her parents earlier on the phone.

"You'll pay for this"

His mouth attacked her throat again and Bella felt as if someone hit her with a knife there. The smell of rust and salt hit her harder and she sagged a little on him.

"Let her go."

Everything in Bella went calm and still. What was Edward doing here? Blinking rapidly she saw over the vampire's shoulder Edward. Her sparkly copper haired vampire was there in all his glory looking royally pissed off... but his eyes were all wrong... since when did Edward get blue eyes. She pouted and she swayed in green-eyes hold Edward faded away transforming into Damon.

She frowned. The pain still raged all over her. The terror closed her throat. The fury in Damon's eyes forced her to wake up a bit as green-eyes smirked coldly.

Keeping a tight grip on her hair, Stefan turned them around turning to face his brother with Bella in front of him like a shield. Like a carrot. Like a whip.

"Hello brother"

He sounded so young, Bella thought wildly. Young and excited and sinister and so deadly. Was this the same Stefan Damon told her about? His brother that fought with him over the two women? A vague image jolted in Bella's clogged mind. The two women in the brothers' love life were brunettes. Maybe she should dye her hair blond.

"You came here for me Stefan. Let her go"

"Why should I? You never let Elena go"

Stefan spat. Stefan pulled Bella even closer and keeping one eye on Damon lowered his head to lick at the blood still seeping from her neck.

"I think I'll have her. Once I'm finished with you, of course."

Damon looked into Bella's eyes and saw not only fear, but also a steady, dead resolution even though she wasn't calm. Damned if he wasn't proud of her. He could taste her terror staining the air, but instead of weeping and wailing, she was doing all she could to hold herself together. And judging by the reddened skin around Stefan's eyes, she'd done some damage, as well.

He had given up on pretense when he gotten jealous of her afternoon with friends and followed her home. He told himself it was because he wanted to get the few spare blood bags he had left there but he couldn't even lie to himself.

Once he got near the house though, only 2 blocks after her, he smelt her blood in the air. He ran faster than he knew vampires could run and he saw his brother corner her on the door. Blood seeping on her neck and staining Stefan's lips.

He'd felt a fury he hadn't experienced in a century or more. He loved his brother, he truly did but seeing them like that he understood something Stefan had urged him to see since day one of their stay in mystic falls. You don't mess with your brother's girl. He would gladly end his brother before Bella was hurt any further.

"This wasn't necessary, you could have called"

Damon said, walking slowly closer.

"Sure it was."

Michael backed up until his back was by the door dragging Bella with him.

"Do you know it's like to sleep with your girlfriend and have her moan your brother's name? Nothing would have happened if you hadn't come home"

Stefan shouted pulling harder on Bella's hair with word.

"I do know Stefan she did with me too. Why do you think I left?"

Damon pointed out as his eyes got all veiny in anger. Bella's eyes widened. They were arguing over their mutual girlfriends while hurting her? Their governess should have gotten fired!

"You're laying Damon"

Stefan said easily.

"Prove it"

One fist clenched at his side, Damon kept his gaze locked with Stefan's excluding Bella for the moment.

"If you want Elena, she's yours Stefan. Now if you don't know how to keep a woman satisfied I can give you pointers"

Damon smirked.

"Go to hell"

Stefan spat angry

"Been there. Wasn't impressed. Being near you is worse than hell"

When he was close enough, Damon moved in a blur of speed. Lifting his brother up in the air he tossed him straight to a bush of yellow flowers ruining them. Stefan made a move to get up and the two fought in a whirlwind looking like the Tasmanian devil ruining Bella's garden and fence.

The dizzy girl fumbled to unlock the heavy oak door and once she did, she reached for the orange and black basket ball Noah had left at her house last year. Putting two fingers in her mouth and leaning against the wall for support she gave Charlie's "I'm a cop and you're not" whistle.

Both vampire brothers stopped dead.

"When Noah and Mitch fight they do it at the park. Fight it out there and leave my garden alone"

She shouted and threw the ball at them. Amazingly it didn't go breaking the neighbor's car but it landed square in Damon's jealousy filled stomach.

"Who are Mitch and Noah?"

Stefan asked from underneath Damon who shrugged as Bella closed the door behind her and dropped bonelessly to the floor until her eyes focused again.