Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Protecting Maddie

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 07:

BPOV

We had been at Peter’s for about four hours. It was getting dark. Twilight. The most dangerous time of the day for us because the vampires who were now and apparently always had been after my daughter were free to roam. Not that daylight seemed to stop them as evidenced by my destroyed living room.

I was standing on the back porch with Alice. Maddie was just inside watching TV on Peter’s giant flat screen mounted to the Living room wall. She had been very, very quiet since we left the apartment. I know I will be up with her tonight. She is going to have nightmares. Damn vampires. What the hell do they want with my girl? Why? I jumped when I heard a scream coming from a huge workshop in the backyard of Peter’s house. Twenty minutes ago Jasper walked in with the head and torso of a vampire from my apartment. The rest were burned. Peter followed Jasper in with what looked like an acetylene torch. We have heard screams every minute or so since then. I should be appalled. They were torturing that vampire. But that vampire wanted to take my little girl, so fuck him. I wished I could be in there with them. There were a few parts I wouldn’t mind burning off of him.

“Alice, do you still see me as a vampire one day?”

“I didn’t when I saw the vision of your attack. But since that has apparently been averted I haven’t really looked. Why?”

“You should probably turn me now.”

“What?!”

“Four came last time. Who knows how many would come the next time. I could help. If being a vampire will help me protect my daughter I will do it.” I would do anything.

“Bella you as a vampire would be the least helpful thing right now.”

“Why?”

“Number one you wouldn’t be able to be around Maddie. You would be a blood crazed newborn. There is no way you could get control in time to defend her if she even could stay around.”

“Jasper can teach me. Peter told me that he and Jasper used to train newborns for those wars they had a long time ago. He said Jasper was good at it. Turned them into fighters quickly.”

“Bella, Jasper can’t go back to that place anymore. He was a different person then.”

When she said that another scream pierced the air.

“It seems he isn’t having a problem with it now. He and Peter seem to remember exactly who they were. I don’t think Peter ever forgot.”

“Bella, they used torture to control newborns.”

“I can take it if it means protecting Maddie.”

” Neither of them would ever torture you. Peter wouldn’t be able to stand by and let Jasper do it anyway. And it would break Jasper if I even told him you were suggesting this. He loves you too Bella. We can handle this. I promise if they come again and they have the numbers, we will run. We won’t do anything stupid. I won’t risk the two of you.”

I took a deep breath. She was right. But I hate feeling helpless. I didn’t know what else to do. I looked into the glass door and saw Maddie with her arms wrapped around her knees. I almost wish she would say some sarcastic remark to Peter so I would know she was back to herself. I hoped she couldn’t hear the screams but this was as far away as I could stand to have her.

Jasper walked out taking pieces of the vampire to the fire and throwing him in with the remains of the rest. Peter stalked towards me, an intent look on his face.

“Alice, please watch Maddie. I need to talk to Bella alone.”

I was a little surprised at his tone. This must be bad if he wanted to talk to me alone. I had an idea I wouldn’t like to find out what he learned in that workshop.

Peter grabbed my hand and walked me inside past Maddie who jumped off the couch and was staring at the two of us.

“Maddie stay here. I need to speak to Peter. Alice will be here with you.”

“Where are you taking her, Peter?” Maddie asked taking a step towards us.

“Maddie, sit down and watch TV with Alice. I will have her back to you before you know it.” Peter replied without looking at her, continuing to pull me through to the back of the house. I hadn’t seen this part. It was really nice. I walked into a huge room behind Peter. Inside was an enormous king size poster bed.

“What are we… what did you find out?”

Peter turned towards me and his eyes were black. I don’t think he was hungry either. At least for blood.

“Bella we can talk about what I found out soon enough. Right now there are some things I need to take care of.”

I gulped. I hoped he didn’t hear it.

“Bella, I fought off 4 vampires today who wanted to hurt my Mate. Maybe you don’t believe in vampire mating but it’s real. I told you I wasn’t pushy. And I’m not. But I am a little jacked up right now and you are the only one who can calm me down. Do you understand?”

Parts of me understood immediately.

“What do you need me to do? I’ll help you anyway I can.” I whispered. I had already started trembling. I guess whether I could ever have a lover again was about to be answered.

He reached for my face with both hands and gently pulled me to his lips. They tasted so good. To my surprise I felt his tongue trying to open my mouth and I let it. Feeling him inside my mouth sent me a rush I hadn’t had in a long time. I had almost forgot what it felt like to kiss someone. He dropped one hand from my face but continued exploring my mouth with his tongue. I felt his free hand tugging my shirt out of my jeans. His hand ran up my stomach to just under my breast. Oh God, this was so, so wrong…

How fingers were under my bra. His thumb and forefinger were pinching my very hard nipple. The touch and coolness had me so damn turned on. I realized I was rubbing myself against his leg. And he was letting me. I probably shouldn’t encourage him. He is going to… Oh God he tasted so good and his hand… He backed up and I was able to throw my hands up in time as he pulled my shirt form me and unsnapped my bra before I knew what happened. I watched him tear his shirt off his body. He pulled me by the waist into him and my breasts pressed against his chest. His smooth, cool, muscular chest. I attacked his mouth again. He let me. I felt him pressed against me. He was hard. And large. Oh shit. I wasn’t ready for that. I don’t mean emotionally. Emotionally I wasn’t thinking right now. Physically my body wanted something my subconscious mind was telling me I hadn’t had in a long time and may not be ready for. Then again I was so wet…

“Bella do you trust that I will never hurt you?” He whispered into my partially open mouth where his tongue had just been.

“Yes” I answered without hesitation. I didn’t know a lot of things right now. But I knew I trusted this man and I wanted him from the moment I laid eyes on him. I would feel guilty about this later. But not now. I felt him unbutton my jeans and I was using one foot to pull my boot off and then the other. He kneeled down, peeling my jeans off of me. I needed his body to cool my rapidly heating one and the loss of his upper body had me moaning. At least until I felt his tongue on my pussy. Oh my God… I left myself lifted by his arms and I was soon over his head with his face buried between my legs and his tongue inside me.

He lay me on his bed gently. I realized I was completely naked in front of him and it didn’t bother me in the least. His tongue found my clit. I screamed. I came so hard my body was shivering. I felt like I was having a convulsion. If that didn’t get me ready for what came next… and I knew what was coming next. I saw it when his face rose from between my legs and his eyes were still black. This may hurt a little…

He ran his tongue up my body, stopping to lick both my nipples. When he was eye level he looked into mine.

“You ready?” he whispered.

“Be gentle. Please? It has been a long time.”

“I will never hurt you. Tell me if you need me to slow down or stop.”

I nodded my head and felt the tip of him entering me. It was cool and the contrast between my body heat and his cock felt amazing. I was moaning. I couldn’t stop. God I hope Maddie…

He entered my all the way with a thrust and filled me up. I moaned biting my lip. It hurt a little, but felt so right. All thoughts of anything went away. He never moved too fast. He moved so slow, it was driving me crazy. I wrapped my legs around his back and pushed him harder. He caught onto the rhythm I wanted to kept me there. I felt his hands under my back raising me from the bed. I was wrapped around his waist sitting up with him. He never let me fall. He guided me up and down on his cock. His very large and smooth cock. He kept me there for I don’t know how long. Time ceased to have meaning.

He finally laid me on the bed on my back.

“I need to move a little faster now. I won’t hurt you but I want to cum and I want you to cum again as well. I’m going to pull you to the edge of the bed so I can stand and fuck you and play with your clit at the same time. You understand?”

I wanted to say yes but all that came out was a whimper. He had already taken me there 4 times. I didn’t know how much I had left in me.

He stood up and I tried to wrap my legs around him but I was too tired. He lifted my legs and let them rest on his shoulders. He found my clit so easily. First time and he had my body memorized. Oh my…

I felt him tense and waited for him to break me in two when he came. Something about the possibility heightened my senses and my orgasm hit me like a ton of breaks. I could feel him in me. He was shaking but he never hurt me. He was right. He couldn’t hurt me. He would never hurt me.

He let my legs down from his shoulders and I scooted back onto the bed. I felt him next to me wrapping his arms around me. I felt so hot. My body was covered in sweat. He was cooling me off quickly though.

“Thank you.” He whispered.

I had to laugh. I forgot I was doing him a favor. Yeah right.

“You feel better now?” I smiled at him and kissed his cheek.

“I’m never letting you go.”

“You have to Peter. Maddie is probably not happy with us right now.” I lay my head on his chest and he started running his fingers through my hair.

“Alice took Maddie out the minute I took you back. She was pissed until Alice told her she was going to show Maddie how fast vampires run. They are still out with Jasper playing.”

“I need to get dressed. They will be in soon and I need to cook Maddie some dinner with all those groceries we bought on the way up here. Thank you for that Peter. I really needed it. I thought vampires can’t have sex with humans?”

He smirked. “Who told you that? Edward Cullen? That little virgin probably shouldn’t. But I told you my control is excellent.”

“So is your skill. Get a lot of practice?” It was none of my business. It really wasn’t my business. But I wanted to know.

“Nope, but a perfect vampire memory and watching a lot of porn means I don’t forget what to do.”

“How long has it been?”

“Too long. I guess I’ve been waiting on you. And I meant it. I know what I said earlier that I wouldn’t push you into a relationship and I’m not, but I am never leaving you. I can’t now. I couldn’t from the moment I laid eyes on you.”

“Okay.” I whispered. What else is there to say to that? I didn’t know how I felt about it. I knew he was my mate. It was true. No way a man or vampire should have known what I needed or wanted as instinctually as he did. I stood up to get my clothes and damn near fell down. My legs were shaking. Peter helped steady me. I looked at his body, for the first time seeing him entirely naked. He was so gorgeous. He was perfect. Oh my God what have I done? I can’t do this. I can’t get addicted to a vampire again. I… but I wanted to so badly. I could lose myself in him. But then who would take care of Maddie? I needed to think. But first I needed my daughter. I needed to feed her. I dressed carefully while Peter lay on his side on the bed and watched me. Suddenly looking at his perfect form I felt very self-conscience.

“Don’t do that.”

“Do what?” I asked.

“Be embarrassed around me. I love your body. It belongs to me.”

Oh damn. “Uh, okay. Oh, uh did you learn anything from your, uh conversation with that… uh.

“Let’s talk about it after Maddie goes to sleep.”

I nodded walked a bit unsteady on my feet to the living room. Alice was walking in with Maddie.

“Mom! You wouldn’t believe how fast Aunt Alice ran with me. The trees were like whoa, and zoom and she took me to the tops in the woods and we jumped from the tops of trees. I held on to her neck and we climbed a cliff and saw a mountain goat and Aunt Alice chased it down and I got to pet it. You know how we are always seeing those on the cliffs and I told you I wanted to touch one but we could never get to where they were cause they are so high? She got one Mom! It was awesome!”

I smiled at Alice. She knew what Maddie needed. Same as I did. A distraction. But was what I just did with Peter a distraction? I don’t know. It felt like more than a distraction. I mean he said he needed to calm down. I mean, we both needed that, and that was all… Oh damn. I wouldn’t be able to stop thinking about that for a long time, if ever. It was so good. Why were my emotions all over the place?

“What did you do while we were out Mommy? Did you and Peter have a good talk?”

That did it. My daughter asking about a man I just had sex with. She didn’t know, did she? With her it’s never easy to know. But I couldn’t take it. I felt the tears running down my cheeks and sobs forming in my throat. I ran from the room out the front door. I heard Peter coming out of the bedroom and Jasper stopping him. “She needs to have some time. Leave her be.” I heard him say to I guess Peter. Time? How much damn time am I ever going to need?

I ran into the dark, not having any destination in mind. I just needed… I don’t know.

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I just had the most mind blowing sex of my existence. It happened to quick. I should have waited. But I was so jacked up from the battle earlier I felt this overwhelming need to take my mate. It took everything in me not to turn her when she was wiggling under me. I thought she was happy. She was happy. But she walked out of this bedroom and reality hit I guess. Damn!

“Peter, go hunt. You want me to come with you? I can show you the finer points of draining deer.” I heard Jasper say.

“No. I’m going to wait for her.”

“Peter, you really need to hunt and she needs time.”

“She’s alone.”

“Alice will see and hear if anything comes near her. She will be alright.”

“Will she Jasper?”

“Yeah. It’s just a lot to work through.” He smiled at me. Maybe it would be alright.

“What the hell did you do to my mother?”

“Maddie language!” Alice reprimanded her.

“No. You come into this house and grab my mother and Aunt Alice pulls me outside and when I walk back into this house she runs out crying. What did you DO?”

“Maddie…”

“I want to know Alice. I will go after her unless somebody tells me what the hell is going on. And don’t talk about my language! Do you know what I have seen in the past two days? There were body parts in our living room Aunt Alice. Body parts! And you are worried about me saying a word I hear you and Mom say constantly. Body parts Aunt Alice! I am living with him now because vampires destroyed our home, and he made my mother cry! Forgive me if I’m a little worried considering all the body parts in my home were pulled off by him.”

“Maddie I didn’t hurt her.”

“Oh really Peter? Who did? Cause you were the only one in here. Jasper was outside with us. So who hurt her Peter?”

“I would never hurt your mother! Would you give a damn rest already! Damn she is a big girl. She doesn’t need a 7 year old mother!”

Don’t lose your temper with the 7 year old Peter. I looked at Jasper. He looked at Maddie. Maddie’s eyes got heavy. Alice picked her up and walked her over to the couch. I saw her curl up into Alice.

“Thank you Jasper.” He nodded.

“Let’s go eat. I hear two large deer not 200 hundred yards from here. They will work.”

A few minutes later I was picking fur out of my teeth. It wasn’t bad. I mean it wasn’t human blood but you could live off it. And if it made a difference to Bella I would do it.

“So what are we going to do about this lady?”

“I don’t know Peter. It makes no sense. A female vamp who hires new vampires for jobs. She doesn’t make them. She hires them. And then sends them after Maddie with instructions not to kill her but to bring her back with them and kill everyone else. I’ve never heard anything like it.”

“And to not even let her vampires see her clearly. Very strange. She wants to remain anonymous, even to those working with her. At least we know it is a woman.”

“Lot of good it does us.” Jasper mumbled.

“So we play defense and hope she slips up.” I hated the idea but what else could we do?

“Unless we can come up with a better idea that’s exactly what we are going to have to do. Peter, that vampire had no idea who might be working with her. He knew she hired teams. Him and his frat brothers were only one team. We don’t know how many vampires we may face next time. We are good but if the number gets over thirty, that’s stretching it for us to fight and protect at the same time. We may need to call backup.”

“You mean Garrett and Charlotte?”

“Yep. I don’t trust anybody else.”

“What about your old vegie family?”

‘Garrett and Char are the only ones I trust, Peter. You okay with having them around Bella and Maddie?”

I thought about this for a second and nodded my head. I didn’t trust the Cullens either. Or maybe I didn’t like them. Hard to tell the difference but it’s one and the same to me.

“Yeah I trust them. Make the call. I need to go check on Bella. See how she is doing.”

Before Jasper could protest I ran off. I found her sitting against a tree with her butt on the ground and her head in her hands. It sounded like she had stopped crying.

“I would say I’m sorry but I’m not.”

She lightly laughed.

“That’s the problem. I’m not sorry either.”

“He has been gone nearly 5 years Bella. You don’t have to not live because he isn’t here.”

“What did you say?” She was instantly pissed. Good I was tired of skirting this subject.

“You heard me. You two loved each other. You had a beautiful daughter. And he died. Not you. He died. You are still living. At least you can live. I can love you and you know damn well you could love me if you would let yourself. You aren’t dead Bella! You think he would want you to not live? He loved you! If it was me in his spot I would damn sure want you to live.”

“You don’t know anything, Peter Whitlock. You didn’t know him. Don’t you dare say what he would or would not have wanted me to do.”

“Fine Bella. I’m in love with you. When you decide to stop being a scared little girl who is frightened of having a life outside her daughter’s you come talk to me. I’ll be the guy who will be protecting you and your daughter for the rest of your life with everything I have. You know where to find me.”