Chapter 23: rescued
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Bella felt her vision start to spot as she watched Demetri crawl away from her.
"Jesus… I need your help… please" gasp " protect .. my …baby."
And then she saw black.
…
Demetri crawled with all the energy he had. He hadn't fed, his legs were gone and so was his arm but he needed to do this. He had to get Bella the help she needed. especially with her baby. He noticed it the first week they were captured. Her scent didn't smell the same. It was sweeter than normal. More potent.
So potent, that he wanted to kill her. but something in him just couldn't do it. he remembered when he first met her. She had stood before his masters, strong and ready to defend herself against their accusations.
Instead, she was punished for the Cullen's actions.
Looking back on it, the Cullens should have been punished instead of Bella. They could never make up for the pain and suffering but right now, he could try to right his wrongs by getting her the help she needed.
His fingernails dung into the frozen cold ground as he pulled himself towards Jane. But even crawling was taking too much effort.
That's when he began to yell.
"JANE!" he screamed.
"JAAAAAAANE!" he yelled again.
He had never been so grateful for vampire hearing when he heard her call back.
"Demetri?! Hang on im coming!" he heard her yell back.
Demetri felt himself collapse in the snow as he began to laugh.
He thought he would have died a gruesome death and yet here he was. Still alive.
He could have cried in relief when he saw Jane's face coming into view. Two other people were behind her. a
"Jane…" he called out.
To his surprise, his coven mate looked shocked when she found him. She crouched down and touched him gently. Something he wasn't used to.
Demetri pushed her away.
"don't worry about me.. go get Bella! Hurry, she has broken ribs! And who knows what else! Go!"
Jane didn't move, but the other two people were running from where he once was.
"Jane, who are they?"
"they are allies of ours to help us defeat the Romanians. Oh, Demetri, you scared us all to death. And look at you! we are gonna have to figure out how to repair you. besides that Aro is going to want to read you. You've been exposed to the enemy for so long. You're an idiot you know that?" she told him as she picked him up.
Demetri groaned as pain wracked his body. His legs and arm were leaking venom and burned from being torn.
Leave it up to Jane to kick him while he is down.
"where's Bella?"
"our allies have the human under control. Why are you worried about it?"
Demetri hissed at jane.
"you know you can be mean sometimes. The girl was tortured by our coven, and forced to be away from her family. Then when she finally reunites with them, she's abducted again. I watched this poor girl get tortured and raped by our kind Jane. And even in her darkest moments, she was still kind to me and she gave me hope. I know you don't like humans but have a little bit of empathy for the girl."
Jane held her tongue and was silent.
…
Julian held back an angry roar, as he looked at his sister-in-law. She had transformed into a humanoid tiger. But even with her stripes, she was black and blue. Bit marks showing through her fur.
And if he listened close enough, he could hear the faint sound of more than one heartbeat.
Kaden gasped next to him.
"oh sister dear, we're going to get you out of here. Don't you worry."
With gentle hands, Julian picked her up and ran like a bat out of hell.
"Kaden! Call somebody, tell them we're going to need a doctor!"
"im on it!"
….
Aro looked out the window as he watched his guard and their allies work together.
Paul was amongst them, showing them how to set up different traps, and training them on how to use weapons.
Vampires using weapons. it was an oxymoron. They were the weapon but to have a new skill. It was refreshing to see.
He was going to turn to his brother to discuss some strategy but a howl ran through the air.
Immediately, Aro felt tension and panic, as the crowd made a pathway for someone to enter.
Aro watched as Paul dropped what he was doing and ran to the group. Aro ran out with his brothers, they could only look on in shock.
Demetri was being carried by Jane.
His eyes were black as night, with missing legs and a missing arm.
He then looked over to where Isabella was being cradled by Paul. Her body was no longer human.
"get Carlisle now!" he ordered someone.
…..
Paul cradled his wife gently to his chest. She was unconscious but alive.
She was alive. That's all he could focus on. it didn't matter that her body had transformed, or that her scent had changed.
She was here and alive but right now she needed a doctor.
"were is Dr. Cullen?!" he roared.
"he's on a plane now king paul."
"their no time! We can't wait for him!" Paul argued.
Before he could say anything else, Paul's stepmother walked through the crowd.
"paul? Let me help."
"you're a surgeon," Paul argued.
His stepmother rolled her eyes.
"im still a doctor Paul. Please let me help you mate."
Once again her opened his mouth to argue. He was so strung up that nothing made sense anymore. His wife smelled like death, and yet she smelled sweet. Her body was bruised and broken.
Instinctually he wanted to take her and run away.
"Paul?" someone called.
Paul looked up to see a tall man being carried. He had no arms and no legs.
It was Demetri.
With his free arm. Demetri handed him a note.
Paul snatched it away and read it.
His eyes widened as he looked from Demetri to his mate. He then turned to his stepmother.
"help her."