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A Cinderella of Sorts
Jackson's POV
"That stupid little bitch!" I scream at the top of my lungs.
Elaine is standing across the room from me, keeping her distance while I rage. Ever since we kidnapped the girl she has been distant. Can't say that I mind, she has always been a bit clingy.
"We can't kill her, so what are we going to do to get the Phoenix?" Elaine asks me.
"I don't know," I growl at her.
I have recently discovered that because of the Phoenix's healing powers I can't kill Kim. In order to extract the Phoenix from her body she must be on the very threshold of death, and I can't do that if she keeps healing after I hurt her. I decide to take a walk to think about my predicament.
"I will be outside," I tell Elaine, striding past her and outside of the abandoned hospital we are holding Kim prisoner in.
Elaine and I had stumbled upon the place on our way into the state. You can't see it from the road. The only reason we saw it was because we were looking for a place to stay. It's falling apart on the outside. There had been a fire which had devoured most of the hospital. Apparently, nobody thought it was worth saving, so they just left it here. I had found an operating room down in the basement of the hospital, which was well preserved and only needed a little cleaning to look the way it was before the fire. I had just come into the state when I had caught Kim's scent. She smelt different to me than other humans do, and so I wanted to kill her, naturally. But then I found out she was the holder of the Phoenix, a power most vampires think is a legend. So I prepared for her torture and the extraction of the phoenix, only to find out that all my efforts were in vain. I growl and kick a soccer ball sized boulder, smashing it into a tree and shattering it into little pieces.
"Jackson, baby, something is happening to Kim," Elaine yells out to me.
I run back to the hospital and to Kim's room at vampire speed. I step into the room and find Kim convulsing violently, a dull turquoise glow emitting from her body in waves.
"What's happening to her?" Elaine asks from behind me.
"I think she is having a seizure of some kind," I tell her, "Come help me hold her down a little."
I walk over to her and hold her arms down at her sides. Elaine stands at her feet and lightly presses them down, keeping them in place. Before I became a vampire I was a doctor. I had been leaving work late when a vampire turned me. I don't regret it, in fact, I am glad I was changed. Even as a child I had hated the thought of growing older.
Kim stopped convulsing after two minutes and I let go of her. Elaine followed suit. I pressed down on a pressure point, right above her collarbone, and she immediately relaxed. Being a doctor had given me very useful knowledge about the human body. No degree in medicine could tell me what had just happened to Kim a moment ago, though.
"Did you see the glow?" Elaine asks.
I nod my head once in her direction, still lost in thought.
"Maybe we should research it. To, you know, find out what it was," she continues.
I am shocked that I didn't think of that. The vampire world records anything and everything, though sometimes the writings themselves can be a bit vague at times.
"Good idea," I tell her, "I'm going to start now. I want you to watch her while I am gone."
She nods and I leave the room and heading outside to go visit a friend who had all kinds of vampire history records and could probably help me. I don't have to go far for he lives here in Forks with his family. I head into the woods on foot and run at vamp speed to his house on the outskirts of the town. The house comes into sight after a few minutes. I run up the steps and knock on the door. I haven't seen him in years, and I wonder if he is going to be happy to see me. The door opens in less than a second and I see the familiar face of my old colleague.
"Hey Carlisle,"
Jared POV
"I don't know, Jared. I don't think asking the Cullens for help and putting ourselves in their debt is a good idea," Sam tells, me shaking his head.
I am sitting on the small leather couch at Emily's house, surrounded by the rest of the pack as I propose my idea.
"But Sam, this is my soul mate we are talking about. She is my life and if I don't save her what is the point of living? If this were Emily what would you do?" I ask him desperately.
He sighs deeply and looks over to the kitchen where we can all see Emily preparing snacks for us. I can see the familiar look of adoration in his eyes and can see he is caving.
"I may not like the Cullens, but I do think they might be able to help us find Kim," I hear Embry pipe up in my favor.
"I agree," Seth, one of the younger wolves, interjects.
Sam looks back over at me and I can see he has made a decision.
"Alright we will all go over there in an about a half hour, the sooner the better. Go prepare yourselves and meet me back here and we will phase and then approach their house cautiously. If they deny our request for help, we leave immediately. Understood?" he says laying the conditions down.
There was a chorus of 'agreed'' and 'alright'' from the pack members. I am smiling widely when I thank him as well. I stand up bidding everybody goodbye as I leave. I drive back to my house and grab a couple pairs of shorts, just in case I phase and rip the ones I have on. I write on a sticky note to my dad that I am going to be out late and not to wait up for me. I am back at Emily's house in twenty minutes, and I'm ten minutes early. Emily smiles at me sympathetically, knowing I am wound up about Kim's kidnapping. She sets a plate of banana muffins down on the table and motions her head from me to it, indicating I should eat some. I shrug and eat two of them, while waiting for everyone to come over. In the next ten minutes everybody has arrived and is ready. We head out over to the woods behind Emily's house and phase. It takes us twenty minutes to reach the Cullens' place. When we get there we all wait in the woods as Sam trots closer to the house in wolf form, calling to the mind reader Cullen. The leech, Edward I think, comes out a few minutes later. He approaches us slowly as if to show he isn't going to hurt us. He is tall, lanky and has hair in the most unusual shade of red. I whine impatiently, he is taking too long. As he reads my thoughts he speeds up and reaches Sam in less than a second. Sam is telling him the whole story in his mind and the leech is staying silent, listening.
"Of course, we can help you," Edward tells us, "Please, come inside, so we can talk. We know a bit of stuff that you don't."
Sam chuffs softly and turns around running back to stand in front of us.
'Phase back' he orders.
We all comply and pull on some clothes after we are human again.
"Right this way," Edward says turning around and running back into the house.
We all look at each other and then follow him. When I get inside I see that the other vamps in this family are here as well.
This should be fun, I think sarcastically.
Jackson POV
"Jackson? Is that really you?" Carlisle asks me.
"It has been ages, hasn't it?" I agree.
Carlisle smiles at me and nods, opening the front door wider, indicating I should come in.
"You have met the family," he says nodding his head to the rest of his coven sitting around the family room.
I nod politely; I had met the family a couple years ago in Alaska.
"I'm sorry I really don't have time for pleasantries. I'm in a rush. I need your help with something," I tell him.
"Absolutely, let's go in my office," He says, leading me upstairs.
I follow and I am in his office in less than a second.
"So, what do you know about the Phoenix?" I ask him nonchalantly trying to put off that I am not as desperate as I am.
"The legend of the Phoenix, as in 'the power to control fire'?" Carlisle asks me.
"Yeah that one," I reply.
"Not much, but I have a couple books on it somewhere I'm sure. It's quite an interesting legend." He tells me.
"Do you think I can borrow whatever you have on it?" I ask. "I am doing a little research," I tell him.
I'm not exactly lying. I am just doing research, but he doesn't know why.
"Sure," Carlisle says with a puzzled frown, turning around to retrieve the books from his personal library.
I waited and he came back in less than three minutes with a few thick books.
"Here, this is everything I have that has any mention of the Phoenix. Just make sure you return them when you're done. They are really old and they are also original copies."
"I will," I tell him, already on my way downstairs. I pass all of them on my way out.
Before I make it to the door my eyes meet that of the red-head mind reader. He is looking at me suspiciously. I smile and make sure to think normal thoughts as pass him and run out into the woods. He didn't look like he bought it though. I make it a dozen yards or so when I catch the stink of mutt coming in a few miles away, heading towards the house.
Oh, ick. The Cullens now keep the company of mongrels, I think disgusted, wait a minute why are the dogs going to the Cullens' house?
And then it clicks: they are going to ask the Cullens for help in finding Kim. The Cullens are smart enough to figure it out too.
Damn, I might need to move her, I think, annoyed.
I decide not to dwell on that and continue on back to my place, going a bit faster so the pack won't run into me on their way in. I arrive back at the abandoned hospital and find Elaine is waiting for me outside with a freaked out look on her face. The feeling that something is wrong is almost tangible. I sprint at vamp speed up the steps, dropping my books in her arms and I don't even bother to ask what is wrong. I simply order her to put those in my office and I go right past her and head to Kim's room. Before I even open the door I see a strange green glow slipping through the side cracks on the gliding door. I frown and slide the door open, a rush of brilliant green light washes over me. What I see makes me gasp. Kim is glowing and it appears she has burned off her rope restraints and is levitating above the operating table. Her eyes are closed so I am sure she is doing it subconsciously. I close the door in Elaine's face and walk over to Kim's levitating body. I place my hands on her shoulders and try to push her down. The second my cold hard hands touch her shoulders, a spark instantaneously travels to my hands.
"Aah!" I hiss in pain at the burn and let go of her.
After a few more minutes she slowly descends and finally she thumps onto the table, no longer glowing. I let out a breath I had no idea I had been holding, and turn around and exit the room.
"Tie her down before she wakes up. Use steel cables, this time," I order Elaine as I pass her on my way to the room I have converted into an office.
I close the door behind me and plop down at my desk, exasperated.
I need to work very fast.
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