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Writer's Notes: There is a small trigger this chapter. I will place the trigger right before like the previous chapter. As always, I appreciate you guys so much!
Damon and Mason stood in the parlor. They moved Bella to a room upstairs to keep her comfortable. Renee sat by her bedside, just hoping that she would come out of this stage. It had been two days now.
"Have you tried doing your… dream walking thing?" Mason asked.
Damon sighed. "I have and it doesn't work. She's got some sort of… shield. She's stuck in there and I don't know… maybe you should go up and try reaching her."
Mason looked up at Stefan as he walked in. Stefan was about the same height as Damon, his brunette hair held some reddish undertones and his eyes were green like spring. "Hey, you go try. You're around the same age… physically speaking."
Stefan raised a brow. "Damon is stronger than me. He drinks human blood. I don't. I can't do his mind walk thing."
"That's not what I meant." Mason said. "Maybe she'll respond to someone her age is all I was saying. You've talked to her at school right?"
"Like two words. She isn't much of a talker." Stefan said and looked at his brother. He hadn't seen his brother this worried before. "What's wrong with you? What does she matter to you? You typically don't get this worked up over some girl."
"She's not just a girl Stefan." Damon sighed and swirled the bourbon he had in his glass. He should just tell them now and get it over with. "Bella is my daughter." He just said it.
Mason's mouth dropped open in shock and Stefan's did too. That wasn't what they thought he would say. "That's impossible." Mason finally found his voice to speak.
Damon nodded. "Should be impossible, but it's not. Renee didn't tell me when she moved to Forks. Bella was bit by a cold one repeatedly it looks like, which is why she's broken. I couldn't figure it out at first when I met her last week. I finally got a good look at her face two days ago, and then she sunk into this catatonic state. I asked too many questions I think."
Stefan finally recovered from learning that Bella was his niece. "I'll go try." He said and disappeared from the parlor and walked up the stairs to the room Bella was in. Renee looked up at him when he walked in. "Um. I'm going to try talking to her. Maybe I can… reach her." He said, Renee nodded and let go of Bella's hand. Stefan sat on the bed and looked at her face. He cleared his throat. "Bella…."
Trigger Warning!!!!
Edward's hands roamed her body, feeling every part of her. She would never get used to the pain he caused her, but this was love, so it was okay. He told her that he loved her and that was good enough for her. She was whatever he wanted her to be, so she lay there and took everything. She bled for him and wept for him, whatever he commanded her to do, she did. He was careful not to leave marks that were visible and she was thankful for that.
"Turn over." Edward grunted and Bella did as he asked. She lay on her stomach, turning her head away from the mattress so she could breathe. He looped something around her neck and pulled, cutting off her air supply. He never did it too hard to where it left marks on her throat. When she felt like she was going to pass out he would release her. She felt his hands play with her bare ass, and she closed her eyes and waited. This part was the most painful. He discovered he liked to bite her and inject her with venom on her back while he fucked her. He would suck the venom out with her blood and make her feel high and that was what she waited for. She needed that feeling now. She felt his cock bite into her from behind and he pushed hard, ripping into her before his teeth sunk into her back. She bit her lip to keep quiet since they were in his house in his room. He pounded as he fed on her, relieving her from the hot searing venom in her veins.
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Stefan shook his head. "It's not working. Maybe she will respond to pain." He said and looked up at Damon and Mason as they stood there waiting for something to happen.
Damon closed his eyes. "She's been bit repeatedly by a cold one, her body would be desensitized to pain by now."
Renee was crying again. "How did I not see this?"
Mason put a hand on his sister's shoulder and squeezed gently. "Try something. I think Stefan is right. Pain is the only thing that will pull her out of this."
Damon looked at his daughter. She was so lost and broken. He blew out a breath. "Okay. I'll do it." He said and sat on the bed. He lifted her hand in his and looked down at it. The most painful thing was the break. That was the level of pain she needed. He closed his eyes and then he snapped her wrist.
Bella howled in pain as she shot forward on the bed at the sudden pain that shot into her hand and arm.
Mason and Stefan were there to keep her on the bed, helping her lay back down.
"There you are." Mason said, brushing the hair out of Bella's face.
Bella was crying, looking around confused. "W-w-what?"
Damon felt tears prick his own eyes, but he bit into his wrist and brought blood and put his wrist to her mouth.
Bella was confused as the blood dripped into her mouth. She felt the pain subsiding in her wrist and the pleasant taste in her mouth made her feel better in general.
Damon pulled his wrist away from her mouth and then patted her hand gently. "You're back with us."
Bella looked around the room. She didn't know where she was at. The room was larger than her room at the Lockwood estate. Her blue eyes danced around and studied the worried faces looking back at her. One of those faces was her mom. "Mom?"
"Oh honey. You were in a catatonic state again. We couldn't get you to respond." Renee sniffed and caressed Bella's face.
Bella blinked and looked at Damon. He had fed her his blood. "What are you?"
Damon swallowed. "I'm a vampire. I… um…" he felt himself choking up a little.
"He had to break your wrist to get you to come back. He healed you with his blood." Mason explained for Damon. "You're okay now."
Bella shifted in the bed, sitting up more. "I want to go home. I um. I can't…"
"Sweetheart, you need to talk to us. You can't keep doing this to yourself. Edward hurt you, didn't he?" Renee coaxed.
Bella felt herself tear up. "No. He loves me; he didn't mean to… He can't control himself sometimes. I'm just fragile, human. I- "
"Bella, you are not the one at fault." Damon said, his voice softening. "Bella, honey, the bruises, the scars. That isn't love." Damon rubbed her hand in his. Bella hadn't pulled her hand away from him yet.
Bella shook her head. "He told me he loved me… but he-he-he left me in the woods. Why… why would he do that?"
"Sweetheart, I don't know." Damon said gently. "But he doesn't love you. Love isn't hurting a person repeatedly like that."
Renee wiped the tears from her face, her hand shaky. "Charlie didn't love me. He was hurting me and remember what you said?"
Bella nodded. She told her mom that it was okay to leave Charlie because she saw how unhappy her mom was. "That was different. Mom, he'll come back, and I can… I can be better." She nodded, her mind racing.
"He's not coming back. I won't let him hurt you." Renee said. "Not again. Bella, please listen to me. These scars." Renee pulled her shirt off her shoulder. "These are scars from a villain. He is a cold vampire. He lacks control because he can't ever have it. They are dangerous. He manipulated you into thinking that you loved him. So, he could break you."
Bella shook her head and shrugged her shoulder away from her mom. "He said he loved me…"
Damon reached up and wiped the tears off Bella's face. "I know. He said so many things to you but it's time to move past that. You're scaring your mother… and me. I want you to be healthy and happy, this isn't healthy Bella."
Bella looked at Damon, really looked at him now. His blue eyes met her own and she felt some sort of connection there. She felt like she was staring back at a mirror, seeing his eyes. "Who are you…"she murmured.
Renee swallowed and looked at Damon and nodded.
"I'm… your biological father Bella." Damon said softly. "I didn't know until you both came back to Mystic Falls. If I knew then… then I wouldn't be a stranger."
Bella was confused. What did all this mean? How could a vampire be her father? Was he turned into a vampire after she was conceived? Her head hurt now with the confusion. What was going on? Why was she feeling scared now. Scared that Edward would come back? Was Damon right? Was her mom right? Was Edward the villain in this story?
