JPOV
THREE YEARS AGO
"Did he…" I trail off not being able to finish my question in fear of the answer.
"She denies that he raped her," Dr. Chen tells me. "However, he was able to… touch her." My eyes slip closed on their own accord as my anger boils up inside my chest with my fists clenching at my sides. "I'm not sure of everything Detective," she turns to face me just as my head snaps back up at her words, "but I am sure that whatever you did to help prepare her for something like what happened today… it helped."
I scoff but am cut short by something in the doctor's eyes.
"My sister didn't have someone like you… her attacker came back and she was helpless to stop it. Police didn't listen to her, brushed her off as some drunken girl instead of a victim. The bastard had taken her I.D the night he first attacked her and had heard somehow she tried to report so he went back to finish her off." The tears that threaten to overcome Dr. Chen, spill over when she pulls out a necklace hiding under her shirt. "Now I carry my sister around every single day and let her help me guide those like her. She's the reason I became a doctor. Because even if police don't listen, we'll always have the medical evidence."
"I'm so sorry," I whisper.
"I wish my sister had you… but that woman in there is something special," she smiles sadly. "She's going to need some healing time of course, but she did great. She came out on top."
"She was a fighter before she met me," I inform her. "I just made her stronger."
"Yes, well she's going to be out for a while as I had to sedate her to be able to patch up her injuries. I need to go do my rounds so I'll be back in a few."
I nod my understanding and let my legs take me to my girl who is sleeping curled up in a ball. As I pull up the chair to her bed, I can't help but get a sense of déjà vu of the last hospital stay we had together. Shaking that thought out of my head, I sit down in the chair and grab onto her left hand that has made it over the edge of the bed and bring it up to my mouth.
Silently I begin to make my apologies to her for not being able to protect her better. For not being able to see Demetri sneaking past Peter and I in the haste of the gunfire and fighting. I apologize for not being able to stop him in time of finding her and for him being able to touch her. I apologize for anything and everything I can think of and some that I can't. By the time I'm done I don't even realize that I am all out crying.
A hand tangling in my hair startles me as I quickly wipe my face and look up to see glazed over brown eyes looking at me sleepily. "Don't cry for me," Bella murmurs. "I'm okay. You're okay too. But promise me something?"
I sniffle and clear my throat. "Anything, darlin," I croak out.
"Don't ever shove me in a closet alone again."
I can't help the strangled laugh the erupts from me as I stand up to hug her close to my chest. "Never again. Promise."
"Good. Now get up here and sleep with me," she demands as she tries to tug me into the hospital bed.
"Darlin, I don't want to hurt you- "
"Shut up Jasper and cuddle me damn it," she interrupts instantly.
"Yes, ma'am."
I crawl carefully into the small bed with Bella, covering the both of us up and making sure to not put any weight or pressure on her in any way.
"Jasper?" Bella says groggily.
"What is it, darlin?" I kiss the top of her head.
Her breathing evens out once more before she can say anything else, so I relax and allow myself to breathe in her scent before drifting off to sleep myself.
BPOV
Two weeks after Forks Washington break in
"Yes, I understand," Jasper says through the phone to whoever he's talking to.
I've basically shoved myself in the corner in a ball in hopes he might forget about me. Of course, it's no such luck as when he hangs up the phone and tosses it with an aggravated sigh before walking over to my hiding place in the corner of the bedroom. Jasper sits down, leaning against the bed and stretches his legs out before holding his arms out to me.
"Come here, darlin," he tells me softly.
I fling myself into his arms instantly, my legs curling up to my chest as his arms wrap around me securely. My body shakes uncontrollably in his arms, my nerves being shot through the roof since being out of the hospital.
"Let me in, darlin," he pleads with me. "I need to know."
"How?" I cry, my hands tangling in his shirt.
Jasper sighs heavily, stroking my hair to comfort me and rocks us. "Just start from when I left you."
"Please don't make me," I beg him.
"Look at me," he replies. I do. "My boss is going to make someone else come out and talk to you if you don't talk to me. You don't want that and I sure as hell don't either," he rests his forehead against mine. "Please just… try."
I close my eyes and try to let the words come naturally to me. Naturally I feel like I'm stumbling through everything.
My breathing is loud, even to my ears as I am trying to slow my breathing down, but it seems next to impossible. Loud footsteps are what I hear just before I hear Demetri call out my name. Taunting me. Antagonizing me. The door is suddenly thrown open to the cubby I've been shoved into and I react as best as I can.
"You fucking bitch!" He shouts angrily as I make a run for it only to be grabbed by the ankle and tripped.
I yelp in surprise and quickly kick my legs, trying to twist my body before he can get on top of me. With the luck I have however, I fail miserably and my body is harshly pinned by his heavy body. My mind takes me back to that night they broke in, instead of the memory though, this is real, and his hands are really groping me.
"No!" I cry out as I struggle against him.
"Oh yes," he hisses in my ear as his tongue shoots out to lick my face making me instantly more nauseous. "Eddie was fantastic when he fought against me too. Can you feel how turned on I am?" His lower half grinds against my ass roughly.
I fight down my panic. "No, but maybe that's why you have to force yourself on others- "
I'm cut off with Demetri banging my head to the floor, spots blurring my vision and effectively stilling any fight in my body momentarily. I feel his hand going into my shorts and panties, but I still haven't regained my mobility to fight against him still.
"I wonder if your ass is as good as your husbands is- oh," he stops to laugh, "sorry, I mean was. Did Eddie ever tell you about his wild side? After all it is what got him and you in this mess?" I scream out in pain as his fingers intrude my backside roughly all the while other fingers somehow make their way to the front of me to press against my clit.
"No, no, no," My body finally cooperates with me, I swing my arm back and connect my elbow to his face.
The pain I feel as his hand retracts from my nether regions don't go unnoticed, however, the need to get away is much more important than expressing such pain. As Demetri is disoriented, I drag myself out from under him before bringing my legs up to my chest and right back out forcefully to kick him as hard as I can to knock him off balance.
"Don't tell me you don't want to know," Demetri grunts when he hits the floor making me pause. "Come on, Mrs. Cullen," he smirks. "Don't you want to know what got him on my cock? God he was so fucking tight when we started, the only reason he wanted to stop was because of you."
"Shut up!" I kick him in his gut not even realizing that I had stood up from the floor. "He- he wouldn't- "
"Oh, but he did!" Demetri stands up to tower over me, slowly backing me up to the wall, caressing my face. "You see, I had gone simply to set up a business transaction seven months before everything happened…" he smiles as I lose all fight and allow his touch as I listen. "You should've seen how aroused I made him and I didn't even have to touch him. I invited him out for lunch to… discuss how I wanted our dealings to transpire, of course he was reluctant to go at first, I did see his wedding ring after all and his photos on the desk. He loved you, but he lusted for me." Demetri has started kissing my face and pulls out a knife from somewhere I don't see to slice open my bra almost all the way making me whimper. I'm in the same boat as last time. "Aro's daughter helped me out on a couple of occasions when he was too nervous to be with me," he smirks. "Did you like those photos? The first night I got to have him in my hotel room he told you he was- "
"On a short business trip," I finish for him, tears flowing down my face as I remember that he had missed one of my photography showings. It also happened to be the very first one which made it that much more disappointing to me, but I understood. At least, that is what I had told him.
"Yes, dear Bella. He was in my bed letting me eat his ass and suck his cock until he saw stars," he continues as he begins to fondle my exposed breast that I've been paying little attention to. His breathing is becoming more and more heavy as he tells his story and I become more and more detached as he continues, not caring what he does to me anymore. "Every late-night encounter and trip he had, we were making love and making more and more money. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way he fucked up the money part," he chuckles. "Aro wasn't too happy and made me punish him, do you remember?"
I nod in confirmation, a sob getting stuck in my throat as I remember the day he had gotten home with a black eye and busted lip claiming he got jumped on the way to his hotel. He told me he made a report but said that nothing would come of it as he hadn't gotten a good look at the guy, that he had only stolen cash from his wallet and left everything else. I believed him like the fool I was- am.
"I felt so bad for having to do that to my lover," Demetri sighs as his tongue flicks out to taste my neck all the while I have a voice inside my head that sounds awfully familiar. "Afterwards when he fixed his mistake, I fixed my own and made sweet slow love to him all night long. I took him in every position and swallowed his seed until he begged me for mine. Only when I knew I was forgiven did I allow him to please me by fucking and eating my own ass and cock. I'm sure you remember how talented his hot mouth was," he groans biting my breast roughly making me cry out.
"You must fight, Isabella! Fight like I couldn't! "The voice inside my head tells me to do.
What's the use in fighting when I have nothing left to fight for?
"Eddie used to cry out for me," Demetri says almost sadly, almost as if he isn't the reason Edward isn't dead. "Anyways. He wanted to break things off with me when he started to see the toll it was taking on you," he sighs disappointedly. "I wasn't done with his sweet ass though- not to mention Aro couldn't trust that he wouldn't go blabbing to the police about our money laundering, especially after his one little mess up. I didn't like it one bit- I promise you, but orders are orders and we had to make sure he wouldn't talk. That night, Edward let me in to your guy's house to talk not realizing that I had my guys with me. We took him into his office where he begged and pleaded with me…"
"Fight, Isabella! You need to live or else my death means nothing," The voice who I now recognize as Edward shouts at me.
"Why all the torture? Why make us… why?" I sob. I know I should listen to the inner voice, but I need to know these answers and he's not alive to provide them to me.
"Well, the torture was purely for the men's shits and giggles," he smiles as he flicks his tongue out across my heaving chest, my tears splattering down to hit his face. "I might have come up with the clever idea of making him fuck you in front of us though," his breathing hitches as a hand begins to slip down my body. "Taking you from him was so fucking hot, but watching as you guys professed your love for one another all the while having made love to me two weeks prior… icing on the fucking cake, Bella. Now to have you one last time," suddenly my shorts are torn from my body making me gasp, "this takes the cake I'd say."
"Fight, Isabella! Now, or you will die and leave Jasper all alone. You still have Jasper to live for, love. Even if you don't have me, you still have Jasper," Edward's voice continues to say.
Jasper! I gasp and raise my knee to connect to his groin.
A/N: I must end here and finish with her memory in the upcoming chapter my lovelies. Do let me know how it's going! Until next time!
-bellacullen166
