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Chapter 13- Unwelcomed Guests
Rosalie awoke in an unfamiliar room. So what else was new?
This room in particular was small in size, cold in temperature, and smelled faintly of anesthetics.
"Where am I now?" Rosalie thought to herself, tired of constantly being unaware of her surroundings.
After wiping the sleep from her eyes with the back of her hand, Rosalie did a quick scan of the room.
There was a tray of untouched food to her right that didn't look too appealing. Behind the tray was an old, tattered couch with years of grime on it. There were quite a few windows in the room. Only one of them allowed the smallest amount of sunlight to stream into the small space. The rest of them were covered in white blinds so that she couldn't see what was on the other side of them.
She sighed in relief, finally noticing the small television screen attached to the ceiling above her. The silence around the room was starting to make her uncomfortable.
She fumbled around with the remote that was by her tray of food and managed to turn on the television. It was currently on a local news station. They were covering a story on series of recent vicious animal attacks around town. All the victims of these attacks were pronounced dead at the scene.
"Animal attacks? Yeah right" Rosalie thought aloud. She knew that these were no ordinary animal attacks.
Just then, the door to her room opened and shut quickly. Her head snapped up to the door where she saw a middle-aged woman dressed in blue scrubs. She had a very anxious look on her freckled face.
"Good morning, Isabella" the nurse glanced at the tray, " I see you haven't touched your breakfast".
"My name is Rosalie" Rosalie muttered, staring at the breakfast distastefully, "Can you tell me how I got here?"
The nurse gave her an uneasy look, "My apologies, Rosalie. I came in here to tell you that you have some visitors".
The nurse didn't answer her question but Rosalie was sure her visitors would, "Send them in".
The nurse stepped out of the room briefly and returned with Leah Clearwater and Jacob Black. They came over to sit on the couch by her bed. They waited for the nurse to leave the room before starting a conversation.
"How are you doing?" Jacob asked, breaking the silence.
"As fine as any person would be after waking up in a hospital with no recollection of what happened to them," Rosalie retorted.
Jacob shot Leah a nervous look before answering the irritable human, "You don't remember?"
"No, I don't remember! Somebody tell me how the hell I ended up here right now or I'll-"
"Lower your voice, damnit!" Leah barked out, "We're not allowed to be in here. If your doctor comes in and sees us, we'll be kicked out and then you won't get any answers".
Rosalie bit her lip to stop herself from snapping back at Leah. There was an uncomfortable silence between the three of them before Jacob filled it with his disheartening words.
"We didn't find the bracelet" he sighed.
Rosalie waited for him to continue. When he didn't continue, she frowned in confusion.
"We didn't find the bracelet…" Jacob repeated, " Which resulted in you being admitted to a mental hospital and Bella turning into a nomad vampire".
Rosalie looked at Jacob in disbelief, "Wait… it's over? We're stuck like this?" Rosalie said, her voice faltering.
"Sadly, yes" Jacob continued, "Those animals attacks that they're talking about on the news... the animal is Bella. She was starting to forget who she was. She couldn't cope with having her own thoughts and memories in her head as well as yours. She turned off all of her emotions. That's what you bloodsuckers call nomads, right?"
"Yes but why can I still remember who I am?" Rosalie wondered.
" I dunno, I guess human memories last longer than vampire ones. Once Bella turned everything off, you were able to tell everyone about the curse and what it did to guys. Everyone thought you were delusional," Jacob continued.
"No one believed me? Not even Emmett?" Rosalie asked in disbelief. In a world full of vampires and werewolves, a story about a cursed gem was unbelievable?
"I'm not sure but I do know that he stayed behind to find you and stop you from hurting innocent people. He's out looking for you as we speak. Alice and the rest of the bloodsuckers moved to Alaska. Charlie didn't want Edward anywhere near you so your whole clan decided to leave the state. Only Carlisle stayed behind so he could look after you," Jacob concluded.
"I… what… even when you guys told them what happened, they still didn't believe us? They just left us behind?" Rosalie paused, " You did try to tell them what happened, right?"
Leah cut in, "This is your problem, not ours. Were not getting our asses dragged into this mess as well".
"You selfish, unsympathetic, fuckers! You're not going to try and help us! After everything, how can you not take responsibility for what you did to us?" Rosalie yelled.
"Correction, if you guys hadn't been arguing, the switch wouldn't have happened!" Leah shot back, "Jacob didn't know any better! This is no longer his problem!"
Carlisle soundlessly glided into the room after hearing all of the commotion.
"What are you two doing here? Bella's not allowed and visitors at this time. Please see yourselves out," Carlisle demanded, his tone leaving no room for argument.
"Wait! You tell Carlisle right now what you did, Jacob! You tell him right now!" Rosalie shouted after the deceitful wolf.
"I'm sorry Bella… I'm sorry this happened to you" Jacob said, leaving the room in a hurry with Leah right behind him.
"You assholes!"
"That's enough now, Isabella" Carlisle warned her, "Now lay down and take some deep breaths".
"Carlisle, please listen to me, I'm not Bella! Jacob gave us this cursed gem and it made us switch bodies that night out on the porch. Remember the earthquake that no one else felt but us?" Rosalie desperately tried to explain.
"Okay, okay. Just lay back for me please," Carlisle asked again in a calm tone.
"You don't believe me?" Rosalie thought, "Why do you think I would suddenly turn into a nomad? Why would I leave Emmett to become a monster?" Rosalie asked.
Carlisle sighed, "Rosalie and Emmett were going through a rough time. Rosalie had to decide if Emmett were really worth putting up with the rest of the family. I guess she decided he wasn't".
"No, Carlisle. I would never leave Emmett. Never. It's really me… ask me anything!"
Carlisle sighed again and reluctantly asked, "Why were you turned?"
He knew this was a touchy subject but he and Rosalie were the only two people in the world who knew what happened to her that night.
Rosalie suddenly tensed up with pain from the memory. It was a horrible experience. When she went to answer the question, her mind went blank.
"Oh god" Rosalie thought, "I can't remember".
Rosalie racked her brain for the answer. All she came up with was memories of visiting Charlie during her summers, meeting Jacob and his twin sisters for the first time, building mud pies with Rachel and Rebecca, riding her first bike…
"You turned me," Rosalie answered, trying to block out Bella's childhood memories.
"That's not what I asked you. The question was… why were you turned?" Carlisle repeated.
"I- I- I don't remember" Rosalie stuttered, horrified as the realization suddenly slapped her in the face.
"Look, Bella. I'm going to do my best to get you out of this place but in order for me to help you, you have to cooperate with me. Now please lay down so I can give you your medication" Carlisle urged in a low, steady voice.
"No, Carlisle, really it's me! Our thoughts just get jumbled sometimes. That's why Bella turned hers off. She couldn't handle it anymore but I can. Please help us! We're running out of time!" Rosalie begged, losing her patience.
"This is all just your imagination sweetheart" Carlisle continued to talk to her in the low calming voice. It was freaking her out.
Rosalie tried to make a run for it but Carlisle caught her by the arm easily.
He then pulled out a thick needle from his white coat and jabbed it into Rosalie's arm, "Shhh… everything is going to be just fine".
Rosalie screamed and jolted awake inside of Bella's bedroom. Her face was covered in a thin sheet of sweat.
"Fuck no " Rosalie thought, "There is no way I'm letting that happen to me!"
Rosalie untangled herself from the itchy blanket and rummaged through the drawers of her bedside table. She came up empty. This seemed to have started a chain reaction.
She started taking apart other things around the room until it looked like Bella's bedroom had been flipped upside down.
There was still no sign of the bracelet. She didn't let that stop her though. She moved her destruction over to the bathroom and then to the living room and the kitchen.
Rosalie finally slumped down to the tiled floor of the kitchen in defeat. She buried her face in her hands and groaned. She hated feeling helpless. Was she supposed to just wait around for Bella and Jacob to come up with some sort of plan? They were just as hopeless as she was in this situation.
There were no nomads or newborns coming after them. The only threat was some cheap, pathetic charm bracelet. Her last days were ticking away and she was sitting down on the kitchen floor doing absolutely nothing. She was useless.
She really did not want to end up in one of those mental hospitals like she had in her dream. It was crazy to think that in a few days, her nightmare could become a reality. She could totally forget who she was and what she had become. She would lose her life and her family.
Emmett
Pain shot through her body as she thought of losing Emmett. She knew it would break his heart to see his wife turn into a nomad. She would have only two thoughts. It would be the overwhelming thirst for human blood and the need to quench it.
She was losing her mind. That would be obvious to anyone who walked into the Swan's household right now and looked at the state it was in. She didn't even bother with school anymore. She didn't have the strength to face any of the Cullen's. High school didn't matter to her anyways, and not because she'd been through it just about a hundred times. No, it didn't matter to her anymore because Charlie no longer wanted her to go. Not in this state anyways.
Both Bella's parents thought it would be a good idea if she finished up her senior year in Jacksonville because of everything that was going on. They were scared she would resume her zombie days.
Rosalie would definitely be of no help in a completely different state.
She managed to get Charlie to drop the subject but she still knew he felt strongly about the idea. That meant no crazy behavior.
Rosalie picked herself off from the floor and started putting everything back the way she found it. She still kept an eye out for the bracelet.
Maybe she missed it.
Rosalie just finished making the house look presentable again when she heard the rumble of a motorbike and then shortly after a series of obnoxious knocks on the front door. The person continued knocking until she opened the door.
"What" Rosalie growled when she swung open the front door, "Ugh, I should of known it was you".
"Hello to you too" Jacob greeted her. He looked her up and down noticeably before clearing his throat, "It stinks in here".
"Excuse me?" Rosalie asked, raising her perfect eyebrows and placing her hands on her hips defensively.
"I mean vampire stink" Jacob said as he pushed his way forcefully into the house, peering into rooms as he walked down the hall.
"Oh that," Rosalie continued, "My family has been stalking me recently. Well Edward has".
"Is that leech bothering you?" Jake asked, "I can take care of him for you".
"Oh please" Rosalie scoffed, "As if I would need your help. Haven't you done enough damage already?"
Jacob wandered off into the kitchen, completely ignoring Rosalie as he grabbed one of Charlie's game beers from the fridge. He sat down at the kitchen table, lifting his muddy boots onto the table.
"Hey mutt, get your dirty boots off of the table, I just cleaned it! Did you ask permission first before you went into the fridge? You're not even old enough to be consuming that" Rosalie nagged.
"Who are you, my mother? Can it blondie," Jacob said, before popping open his beer bottle, "Any luck finding that bracelet?"
"Don't you think I would have told you if I found the bracelet or not?" Rosalie snapped.
"Jeez, what the hell Rosalie? Is it your time of month or something?" Jacob laughed.
"Deep breaths Rosalie, you still need his help no matter how obnoxious he is" Rosalie told herself, " God Bella, you sure can pick 'em!"
"I'm just a little on edge. I had a dream about you which led me to believe that I can't trust you" Rosalie murmured.
"You were dreaming about me?" Jacob asked, a sly grin on his face.
Rosalie snorted, "You wish. It was actually a nightmare. You and Leah completely bailed on us. I was in a mental hospital and Bella was a nomad. It was bad, really fucking bad"
"Leah and I wouldn't bail on you guys. Okay, maybe Leah would, but I wouldn't. I got you guys into this mess and I'm going to try and get you out of it" Jacob promised.
"You better, and soon. Charlie wants to send me to Jacksonville" Rosalie informed him.
Jacob's eyes went wide with panic, "What? No! Why would he do that?"
"Why not? Bella put her dad through hell. He's had enough. It's not official but he wants me to consider going".
"No, I'm not gonna let that happen. That's the last thing we need right now. I'll talk to him. He knows how close Bella and I are. He wouldn't do that. Speaking of Bella, where is she?"
"I was about to ask you the same question. The last time I saw her was that night I came back from Edward's" Rosalie shuddered at the memory, " She's probably still laying low which means we have less eyes now".
"Not necessarily. The little pixie and her cowboy came to the reservation the other day to threaten me. She knows about the bracelet and that it's done something to you and Bella. If she's smart, she'll help us look for it without asking any more stupid questions" Jacob said, flaring up a tiny bit of hope inside of Rosalie.
Rosalie would kill for one of Alice's fortunes right now. She had always been jealous of her sister's powers, seeing as how she didn't have any of her own. Unless you considered beauty as a power… it did have some of its perks.
That was beside the point.
"If Alice can see where the bracelet is in a vision, then we can get out of this mess a whole lot faster," Rosalie said enthusiastically. Her smile faltered when she noticed Jacob's bummed expression.
"What?" She asked.
Jacob took a swig of his beer, "I was trying to be the better man for her but then I fucked everything up. I really thought switching bodies with Cullen was a good idea. I didn't think anyone would get hurt or that anyone would find out. When you guys left Forks, I saw a different side of Bella. Not the zombie one you guys left her in, but a reckless, sexy, loving side of her. It was real and she showed it to me. Only me. She told me things that she could never tell Edward. She told me she loved me and that she wanted me. We were going to run away together. Then tinkerbelle decided to show up with news that Edward was trying to kill himself. God, I wish he had" Jacob rambled.
"You don't mean that, Jacob. Bella was only that way because she missed Edward. She wasn't thinking straight. She only said those things to you because she knew they were what you wanted to hear. She was using you" Rosalie confessed on Bella's behalf, feeling slightly sympathetic for the troubled wolf boy. She managed to push away the feeling.
"No! Shut up!" Jacob slammed his fist down onto the table, "You're lying!"
"I have memories of those days. They're not my memories but I can still see them. She loves you Jacob but not in the way you want her to. Not the way she loves Edward" Rosalie explained.
Jacob suddenly sprung out of his chair towards Rosalie. He trapped her between his body and the kitchen counter. The back of her legs dug painfully into the granite.
"They're not your memories to experience. You're twisting them around. She loves me," Jacob snarled in her face, "I can feel it".
Jacob was close. So close that she could feel his hot breath wafting against her face and could smell the beer on his breath.
He was sort of beautiful. His skin was a flawless russet brown. His eyes boring into hers were a darker, radiant brown. His jet-black hair made his features more striking. Then she got to his body.
"Oh dear god his body" she thought.
It was thick, toned, and muscular. His scent was the perfect mixture of axe cologne and sweat… it was quite heavenly. His body was quivering as he towered over her. She was scared… but not because she thought he would hurt her.
He grabbed her hand forcefully and placed it on his chest, directly over his heart. He then placed his large hand over her breast where her heart would be located.
"We are the exact same species. You wouldn't have to change, suffer, or die for me. You would be safe, loved, and cherished with me," Jacob promised, feeling Rosalie's nipple pebble through her thin tank top underneath his palm. He squeezed it in response.
Rosalie gasped, "Jacob… please, don't".
"Bella" he whispered, leaning down to her ear.
Rosalie titled her head to the side, giving him access. He whispered something in his native language in her ear and then licked the outer shell lightly with his tongue.
"Stay with me forever" He translated, pulling back to look into her eyes.
Jacob then fisted his fingers into Rosalie's tousled brown hair and then smashed his lips to hers. They both moaned at the sensation. His body was naturally a warmer temperature than hers. Her lips felt like they were on fire, sending a pleasant burning sensation throughout the rest of her body.
His tongue found his way into her mouth as they made out. His fingers dragged down through her hair, over her breasts, and then rested on her hips. He then pulled her even closer to his body while simultaneously pushing her further into the counter.
After a few long minutes, he pulled back and released her from his hold. Rosalie's eyes had fluttered closed at some point and when she opened them, reality came crashing down on her. Hard.
She pushed Jacob away from her and swung her fist towards his face. He caught it in time before it made contact with his eye.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing!" Rosalie yelled, turning away from him in embarrassment. Her cheeks burned a bright red colour.
That did not just happen. She did not just make out with Jacob Black, the most irritating child on the planet!
He didn't seem like much of a child when his tongue was halfway down your throat
Fucking Bella! It was so hard not to get mad at this chick. Why did she have to be involved with so many unappealing guys? Where the fuck was she anyways and why did she leave Rosalie to deal with her boy problems?
Jacob was breathing hard. He then made a gagging noise as the realization suddenly hit him, " That did not just happen. That did not just fucking happen!"
"Why did you kiss me?" Rosalie asked in between gargles at the sink.
"It's not my fault you fucking smell, taste, sound, and look exactly like Bella. I was too close to you, it was hard to resist you" Jacob suddenly thought of something, "You didn't fight me until after the kiss. Which means you wanted it just as much as I did".
"Gross, as if. I'd rather make out with a dog," Rosalie said, although it was completely true. She didn't fight him. She wanted him to touch her.
"Well this just proves that Bella's body knows what it wants, even if her mind doesn't just yet," Jacob said.
"You're a pig Jacob Black! Wake the fuck up! Bella does not want you! If you want her affection, forcing yourself on her is not going to help. It's going to be Edward and it always will be Edward" Rosalie yelled in disgust.
Jacob's body was shaking more noticeably now, "I don't know why, but I can't stop thinking about her. Do you think I want to love Bella? Do you think I like the constant rejection?"
Jacob lost his train of thought when the vampire stink from earlier made its way to his nostrils, "Man, it really does stink in here".
"I told you before," Rosalie said, " It's just my family checking up on Bella".
Edward hasn't stopped coming to the house since that night she broke up with him officially. She never actually saw his face but she could always feel him nearby. Whenever she would look out the window, she would see a flash of his silver Volvo when it drove by.
"No, this is something else. I know you Cullen's have this sickly sweet smell that burns my nostrils but this one is different. It's sour and repulsive. Someone's been in your house. Stay here, I'm going to go check it out".
There was an abrupt swerving sound followed by a loud revving of an engine outside of the house. Both Rosalie and Jacob ran out onto the front steps to see what all the commotion was about.
They found Edward sitting in the front of his silver Volvo. His eyes were pitch black and his lips were pulled back over his teeth in a snarl.
Edward flew out of his car at vampire speed and had Jacob up against the side of the house by his neck in a matter of seconds.
"If you ever put your grubby paws on Bella against her will again!" Edward roared, his hold tightening on Jacob's neck.
Jacob bit down into Edward's arm, piercing the marble skin with his incisors. Edward hissed and pulled back from him, dropping down into a crouch position.
"I didn't touch her against her will. She wanted everything I was giving her. She was practically begging me to get in her pants" Jacob growled, a smug smile on his face.
Edward lunged for him again and threw him down hard into the grass.
"Stop this!" Rosalie screamed, wishing she could do something. Although it wasn't smart to get in the middle of a fight between a vampire and a werewolf.
"What, you're not going to phase into a puppy?" Edward taunted Jacob.
"Fuck you, leech" Jacob spat, throwing him off of his body and jabbing at his stomach with his fist.
"She's mine, Jacob. Just leave us alone," Edward said, returning a punch to his gut.
"Last time I checked, " Jacob grunted, " It was my name she was moaning".
Edward threw Jacob a good five feet into the air, caught him before he landed, and slammed him down into the ground. That was the position Charlie found them in when he pulled up into the driveway. They had failed to hear the police sirens wailing down the quiet street as they fought.
"Hey! Break it up!" Charlie hollered, yanking Edward off of Jacob, "You got the whole neighborhood watching you two fight like wild animals".
Jacob was rolling on the floor in pain. He exaggerated the groans and grunts to make it look like Edward had hurt him a lot more than he actually had.
"Get off of my property right now, Cullen! I never want to see you in this neighborhood ever again!" Charlie yelled. Never had the citizens of Forks seen their Chief look so angry, "You're lucky I don't charge you for trespassing and causing a disturbance".
"Chief Swan, I-" Edward tried to tell him his side of the story but Charlie shot him a look that made him stop mid sentence. If he ever wanted to see Bella again, he had to make the smart decision and walk away.
Edward shot Rosalie a pained look over his shoulder before quickly getting into his Volvo and driving away way over the speed limit.
"In case it wasn't obvious, you're going to Jacksonville to live with you mother. End of discussion!" Charlie said to Rosalie, bending down to help Jacob off of the ground.
The two supernatural beings had drawn a lot of negative attention to not only themselves but also to the chief and his daughter.
Charlie helped Jacob into the house until Jacob said that he could walk all right on his own. Charlie went straight to the telephone to inform Billy of the fight between his son and the Cullen boy with a death wish.
The sound of a window shutting resounded upstairs. Rosalie hadn't opened it at all that day. She quickly ran up the stairs to Bella's bedroom, tripping as she went. Jacob was hot on her heels.
Rosalie ran into her room and gasped, staring wide-eyed at the floor.
Jacob quickly rounded the corner and was hit in the face with that same sour smell from earlier.
Jacob suppressed a gag and covered his nose with the end of his shirt. He stood in front of Rosalie protectively and looked down to where she was seconds before.
There was a note on the floor written in an elegant script. Blood replaced the black ink.
I have what you want. The question is, will you give me what I want?
TBC
Who is this mystery person? What do they have that belongs to them and what do they want in return? I don't know when the next update will be but the more reviews I get, the faster it will arrive.
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