Inside the Cullen residents, Joseph Cullen, the old man in the wheel chair, sat in his study, like he usually did, as he stared at the photo of his Father and Uncle. He found the irony of the twists of his family's history and the effect it forever had on his and his children's lives.
His Grandfather Gaius Cullen raised his children to hunt and to survive in the harsh world they lived in, they were supposed to carry on the tradition in their time after they came of age themselves, but the twists was that a fresh prey turned one son against his Family.
He cursed his grandfather for accepting the Gypsy girl, who caused the fall of their family, from the Comescu Family in Romania all those years ago. He cursed his uncle for betraying his father, his best friend, and their family. But most of all he cursed his cousin, he cursed Silas, he blamed him, he hated him, for being the reason that he was confined to this wheel he was forever trapped in and for murdering his wife, something that forever scared and haunted Caleb to no end and left his little brother Steve motherless.
He receives a message on his phone from Maggie, a text said she had gotten Harris and that they both were going to the Cabin. Joseph sneered at the message. He had figured that Greaves and the FBI agent had not made it out of the woods yet, Greaves was a well known survivalist and hunter in Parker, but even he had his limits with what little he had. Joseph was confident that if they had one of his people in town would have alerted him of it, like they did when he was told of how Caleb was found by the police and had been put in a hospital with a bullet in his shoulder and chest.
The news hurt him, he cried out in pain, as if someone had stabbed him in the heart. He cried out in agony to the sky for hours, cursing James and his Grandfather for taking his brother and son from him. It went on for hours before it was finally enough. Now all he could do is sit and wait as the world turns around him and time goes by and all that he could do is wait, sit and wait as he always does, for when his daughter would return with more news.
Meanwhile at the Hunter's Cabin
Emily felt warm under the covers as she woke up at the crack of dawn next to James, she could hear some birds chirping outside of the Hunter's Cabin. Her back could feel James as he steered, beginning to awake himself. The day before her body felt terrible, now she could feel no pain, no misery and no despair, she felt completely relaxed as she was lying in the bed with the skin of her back touching against James's. Suddenly Emily could feel a hand touch one of her sides before turning around to face James.
"Morning." Emily said, facing James with a blissful smile on his face. James looks back her smiling and says "Morning Emily."
Suddenly they both heard a phone ringing in the cabin and Emily recognized it as the phone she was trying to use last night, but was unable to call any one with it, seeing as how she was only to get static on the other end. She began to fit on some of his clothes as she was moving quickly to the phone while James begins to get dressed himself as he sits on the side of the bed.
Emily picks up the phone from the wall as she comes to the room, just barely catching it as it was on its fourth and possibly final ring to alert about the call. "Hello?" She says, wondering who was calling the cabin. At first she thought that maybe it could possibly be Penelope Garcia, Aaron Hotchner, or J.J. calling her back, maybe trying to find out who the unknown number calling them was.
As Emily waited for a response from the other end of the call she could see from afar as James walks into the other room grabbing his jacket before sliding into it, he then proceeded to grab his 1911 and Sphinx and conceals the two, one in one of his socks covered by the pants legs and the other concealed by the back of his pants and covered by his jacket. Emily could not help but notice that there was something different about James since they woke up together.
James walks through the cabin, feeling well rested after the night before with Emily. He was still a little surprised by his actions, not that he regretted it. He took a trip to the nearby bath room, washing his face with some water. He could feel the water pouring down his face as it came down with gravity doing its work. He took a moment to look down into the sink as the water came into the drain. Everything appeared to be okay to him. That was until he looked at his reflection in the mirror.
The mirror showed a reflection of him that was bloodied and beaten with the scar on his face freshly open. The reflection was not ordinary though, it seemed to be moving while James remained still, and then it says in a scream "WAKE UP!"
An instant then seemed to go by for him as he woke from the hallucination and begins to think of what could be causing this and says to himself "The Belladonna, it's gotta be the Belladonna."
The hallucination came back in a flash and it begins to taunt him "What's the matter Greaves, don't like mirrors?" James then looks to the nearby light switch and says before turning the lights in the room off "I guess I don't."
Finally Emily was able hear someone on the other end of the phone call, it was Garcia. "Hello, this is Penelope Garcia of the FBI."
"Garcia, thank god. Do you know how long I've been trying to get a hold of you?" Emily said, ecstatic to finally hear from a member of the team again, to hear the sound of her friend's voice.
"Emily? Oh my god, the teams been trying to find you for the past day. Where are you? What happened to you?" Garcia said, in a glad but frantic tone and Emily replies back at her "Garcia slow down. I was trying to call you, Hotchner and J.J. last night but no one would answer."
"We all heard your call, but no one was heard on the other side beside static so I traced the call." Garcia says.
James came back into view of Emily as he left the bathroom, still a little freaked out by the hallucination he had experienced earlier. Emily was not aware of this as she had not been there when it happened and he had no intention of telling her till later. Emily zoned out for a moment as she looked at James, almost oblivious to the conversation with Garcia.
"Hey Emily are you still there?" Garcia asks through the speaker of the phone and finally she replies after coming back to reality saying "Yes, I'm still here Garcia." Garcia on the other end of the call found her being distracted during a conversation and asks "Are you okay Emily?"
"Yeah, I'm fine Garcia." Emily says, trying to focus less on James and more on her conversation with Garcia. Garcia herself found the manner in the way she was talking to her out of character to be particularly interesting, she seemed to be relaxed, causing her to ask "What's that in your voice?"
"What is what in my voice?" Emily asks, mimicking words that Spencer used before when he was accused of having a crush on Ashley Seaver. Garcia could tell by the way she was acting that something was up and asks "Emily, did you ever catch up with Greaves after you disappeared?" Emily gulped down in her throat, knowing full well where this conversation was going and was trying to do her best to conceal it until she could prove James innocence "Yes, I've got him with me right now."
Emily could then practically hear the laughter from Garcia on the other end before she said "Where are you now?" Emily then says "On our way back to Parker."
Suddenly Garcia begins breaking out in laughter doing the whole Emily and James sitting in a tree rhythm as she teased her to no end with the vexation then Emily asks "Hey Garcia when you're done having your kicks could you do me a favor?" Then Garcia asks after she finally stops laughing "Sure Emily, what do you need?"
"I need you to tell The Team we're on our way back to the police station and I also you need to look up a family called the Cullen's and James Grandfather." Emily said; the seriousness coming from her tone mixed with the annoyance that could also be heard. Then Garcia says before hanging up "Alright, PG out lover-girl." Leaving Emily slightly annoyed and alone with James once again.
As James walked through the room in the cabin he took notice to the Winchester rifle he left on the floor last night when he and Emily first arrived. He then remembered as he stared at the rifle the horrid memory of the Cullen Family and how he used it to shoot Caleb, the thought of the hallucination in the mirror came back to him and he began to try to bury the memories in his mind, to push it away, but they would only resurface a few seconds later.
He took a notice to Emily hanging up the phone with a look of irritation and peace returned to his mind for a moment, and then he felt the memories of the hallucination returning and begins to think that maybe some fresh air would help him and says "Hey Emily, I'm going to head outside and get the truck ready."
"Okay James, I'll be out in a second." Emily says back, smiling at James.
James then left the cabin, not bothering to grab the rifle as he left. He had been hoping his mind would find some piece of the horrible memories, but the torment just continued for him as the nightmare he was forced to relive in his mind as it put him through the dretch of torture with guilt and horror. James had done plenty of awful things in his life that he was not proud of, he killed, he hurt people, but everything that was happening to him now was a whole new level of hell for him. He always believed that h is family was strange, and maybe not normal, but the Cullen Family was worse than any nightmare he could have ever imagined.
He could still hear the gunshots and see the looks the people he killed had in their eyes as he took their lives. The image and the fact that he knew he was related to the people that had been the ones killing and terrorizing the people in and around Parker for the past few weeks was the thing that seemed to relentlessly haunted him in permanent agony. He tried to block the sounds from his mind, covering his ears and closing his eyes shut, but the images and sounds came to haunt him all the same.
It was like a whole new circle in the levels of his hell.
Then as quickly and suddenly as it began it all just stopped. The area around the cabin dead quiet as it was supposed to be. His hands fell down from his eyes as his eyes looked around him, once again at peace, but he still wondered if this was a temporary for him or permanent, he still wondered how things were going to be with him and Emily and with the possibility of this being permanent, he could not bear the thought of it.
James walks around the cabin, still expecting the traumatic memories and hallucination to come back to him, as he reaches the other end of the cabin he finds a small garage where the Toyota truck was still sitting motionlessly in place as he left it months before. James pops open the hood of the truck, checking to make sure all the parts were still in place and in working order.
As James was doing this Emily herself starts to walk out of the cabin, having already retrieved her gun, and she notices how he was checking the mechanics under the hood of the truck and asks as she begins to walk over to him "Need some help there hansom?"
James looks over to Emily, stopping from checking the engine and smiles seeing her and replies "Yeah, thanks Emily. Can you get in the driver seat and start it up, as soon as I know everything's in working order we can get out of here."
"Sure thing James." Emily says, getting into the driver seat after he hands her the keys. She inserts the key and turns it before hearing the engine purr aloud. Satisfied with the state of the mechanics of the engine and says as he slams the hood closed "Okay, we're good to go Emily."
"Well look here Harris, a fed and deserter playing house." James suddenly heard. He turns around with Emily joining him in shock as they both saw Maggie Cullen with a second unknown man with her. James immediate reaction was to reach and pull out his 1911 or his Sphinx handgun and to empty the clip into Maggie and her friend. It was an instinct that took every fiber of his being to suppress and ignore, believing that even though she came from the lowest form of life out there, he could at the very least try to be a better person than she would ever be.
"Now what's the matter cousin? You don't look that happy to see me." Maggie said, after enduring a few slow minutes of silence from her cousin. James only response to her appearance and voice being an angry glare and scowl that quickly accompanied it. He had no idea what to say, he hated the Cullen's family, he may have just met them, but everything they do, everything they are he hates and loathes to no end. They were everything negative in humanity that James despised and strived to be nothing like in his life. Emily could see it all in his face, and with her own knowledge of how he thinks and feels on certain things.
Finally after a good long while James finally found the words he wanted to say to her.
"Hello there Cullen. How's that Uncle Lee of yours doing, not still having a massive headache I hope? I imagine people like him are not that talkative with that kind of condition." James said, wanting nothing more than to get her angry and out of focus. Then Maggie says "Normally me and Harris here would be filling you and your girlfriend with bullet holes right now, but Dad says he wants you brought back alive."
James then pretends to be looking behind them to go with the bluff he had planned to get out of this and says "You know, for a cannibal of hunters that have been doing this since the civil war ended, I would have thought you would know better than to walk up to a FBI safe house."
Maggie did not appear to believe this but her weapon was still lowered and her companion seemed to slightly believe him and the smoke and mirror that was blowing in his face. Then he decides to test his ability to fool people for the first time in a good long while "Hey, Agent Mulder, Agent Scully time to come out and play with some target practice."
The man named Harris then turned around, expecting to see agents attacking them, James figured he must have been a little convincing as Maggie appeared to be partially distracted, turning to see what her friend was possibly looking at. Then James pulls out his Sphinx and fires a shot into Maggie's leg, causing her to run for cover as Emily fires some shots of her own. Then Harris turns to face James and before he had time to aim his weapon James fired two rounds into his chest, killing him within a matter of seconds.
James then rushes for the truck as Emily starts it up and as soon as he was in and the door was closed he peeled out with James says "Go Emily, Go. Drive."
Author's note: Okay, here's another chapter for my story, hope you like it. If you have any personnel thoughts or comment for anything said or done in my story or one of the chapters please review, I'm hoping this one will continue to do well.