Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Complicated

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 05:

Matt POV

I was sitting in a living room surrounded by the “Wolf Pack” and the tribe’s elders and waiting. Waiting for my teammates to jump out of the closet and tell me I had been on some practical joke show ESPN puts on occasionally. Waiting for everyone to start laughing and letting me know they got one more shot at Bella and I before we left this goddamn place for good.

Problem was nobody was laughing. The disturbing thing was Bella wasn’t either.

“So that’s it?” I asked.

Sam seemed surprised by my bluntness.

“Yes I suppose that’s the whole story.”

“Okay, allow me a moment to recap. One vampires exist. They are super human evil cold beings who sparkle like fairies in the sunlight and drink blood. Two, there used to be a family of vampires here who drank animal blood and caused your tribe to turn into giant wolves. Three, this family moved back and the people in this room, minus the tribal elders, began turning into wolves again and hunt these vampires, the bad vampires, not the animal munching ones, and kill them. Four, should this family come back and cross into the reservation, you wolves would go to “War” with them even though they don’t hurt anybody and sparkle like fairies. Five, my girlfriend and I come down for a bonfire and see two wolves who do something called imprinting on the two of us. Something that is supposed to be rare but has happened to two of you already and happened at the same time to two people who are not even members of your tribe. Because of this imprint, you say that we are tied to these people, who have been stalking us these past few weeks. I get all this so far?”

“Yes, I would say that would be a fair recap of the events that have just unfolded.” Sam answered.

“So my girlfriend here and I are just supposed to break up and start going out with your two wolves because its destiny or your spirits say so? That about right?”

“Well…”

“Bella lets go. Any of your fuckers try to follow us I will shoot you.”

“You have a gun?” Quil asked.

“I’m from Texas. We all have guns. They are issued with your birth certificate. Let’s go Bella.”

“Tell him Bella.” The one named Jacob said. That stopped me.

“Tell me what?” I asked looking at Bella, who wasn’t looking at me right now.

“Tell him it’s all true Bella.”

“Leave her alone Black. I’m not kidding. I have had enough of you fuckers. Bella let’s go.”

Bella continued to sit.

“Bella?”

She looked up at me finally and I realized she had tears in her eyes.

“Baby its okay. We are going to leave these crazy people and go to Texas. Maybe we can transfer schools to somewhere far away from here.”

“It’s true.” She whispered.

“What did you say?” What the fuck was this.

“I said it’s true. I can’t vouch for the wolf part but the vampire part is true.” She said, a little louder this time and speaking more firmly. What the hell? Did she drink the water here when I wasn’t looking?

“Bella what are you talking about? Don’t buy into these idiots stories. They’re fucking with us. For some reason they have been fucking with us since we got to Forks.”

“I’m so sorry I dragged you into this. I never should have brought you here. I never should have come back.”

“Bella sweetie it’s okay. We are already packed. We can head straight to the airport.”

“The guy I dated in High School? The one I told you about? Edward? He was a vampire.”

Say what?

“Baby did these bastards slip something in your drink when I wasn’t looking?”

“Matt have you ever known me to be crazy or tell you fantastic stories?”

“No…” Quite the opposite actually. Bella is the most down to earth person I know.

“It’s true. Edward was a vampire. He was one of the animal eating vampires Sam was talking about.”

“Okay…” What the hell? I didn’t know what was going on. This was like an episode of the Twilight Zone. I had to get out of here.

“Bella, it is time for us to go. I am going to Texas. Right fucking now. I would suggest you get up and come with me darlin. But either way I am leaving.” And there wasn’t a chance in hell I was leaving without her. The psychos around us didn’t need to know that right now though.

“We can’t. I can’t anyway. It would hurt them, physically hurt them.” She said pointing to Leah and Paul who had been sitting there without saying a word this whole time. I turned to look at the Chief guy in the wheelchair.

“This isn’t our problem. Whatever it is you guys do running around in the forest pretending to be wolves. That’s your problem. Not ours.”

“You are wrapped up in this as well. It is meant to be.” Chief guy said. Old guy just sat there staring at me. Creepy bastard.

“Bella, let’s go.”

“Matt we have to work this out.”

“Don’t tell me you believe them!”

She said nothing.

“I will show you it is true. Everything we said.” Sam spoke up. This should be good.

“How’s that Sam? You gonna turn into a giant wolf in front of me?”

“Yes.” Okay this should be great. I gestured towards the door. “Lead the way big guy.” To my surprise Sam got up and walked outside, followed by Jarrod, Paul, Seth and Jacob.

Bella grabbed my hand finally and walked out with me. If nothing else this will make it easy to throw her over my shoulder and get her the hell out of here without being trapped in a living room. Bella and I followed them out. They walked about a hundred feet into the back yard bordering the forest.

“Stay where you are on the porch.” Sam said.

“No problem buddy.” Great they are taking off their clothes. Really? We’re gonna take it this far?

They all stood there and stared at us. Naked. Can you say awkward? I was about to turn and leave when it happened. They started shaking.

And suddenly I was faced with the biggest fucking monsters I had ever seen.

BPOV

Oh my God they were beautiful. I started walking towards them. I was drawn to Paul. He was silver. Leah was behind me and put a hand on my shoulder. I didn’t care. I shrugged her off. I heard Matt.

“B.. get away from the big fucking dogs. Come back to me sweetie.”

I couldn’t stop myself though. Most of the other wolves backed up. Paul didn’t move. I walked up to him and stared in his eyes.

“Paul?”

He shook his head up and down. Oh my God.

“Can I touch you?”

Again he shook his head. I placed a hand on his side and began stroking his flank. He was so soft. So beautiful. So… wrong. I had to snap out of this. I turned and saw Matt on the porch staring at me.

“Matt? Do you want to…”

“No, I’m good. Keep playing with your dog there.” He was not happy. I could see why. I walked back to him and stood looking at the ground.

“You coming?”

“Where?

“Out of here.”

“But it’s true. Don’t you believe?”

“I don’t know what to believe. I am willing to believe everything about the wolves and I guess if you say the sparkly vampires are real I believe you. But to say our lives are intertwined with these two…”He gestured at Leah and then pointed at Paul…”I say bullshit. I make my own destiny. I make my own fate. I thought that was with you. I still want it to be. So come with me and let’s get the hell away from here.”

I looked at Leah who had tears in her eyes. Matt was so pissed. I don’t know if it was the knowledge or the imprint or everything. I looked at Billy.

“And the imprints can be just friends right?”

Billy looked sad. “The imprint is what you need. And if these two have romantic feelings for you two it is pretty clear you two needed them for more than friends. Have you felt the same? In any way?”

I could feel myself turning red. I looked at the ground.

“Bella?” I heard Matt say my name questioningly.

“Matt don’t act like you haven’t been attracted to Leah. I’m sorry. I never should have brought you here. If we hadn’t come…”

“Leah and Paul would have never met their true loves and you two would never have had children. Or been perfectly happy with each other.” Billy spoke up. Matt turned.

“Fuck you bastard! Who the hell do you think you are to tell us what we have? What we will have?”

“It’s inevitable. You can’t fight fate.”

“Watch me. Bella, last time. Are you coming?”

“Matt we have to figure this out. If we leave we will physically hurt them.”

“And probably yourselves.” Billy added on. Please don’t leave me here Matt. I know I should go but I can’t make myself.

Matt walked over to the front of the house and I followed. He reached into the back and took out my two bags and placed them on the ground.

“What are you doing?”

“What we should have done 2 hours ago. Getting the hell out of here.”

I wanted to go, but I felt drawn to Paul. I knew he was listening back there. I could feel him. There was more going on to this. Why couldn’t Matt understand that? Why did I have to bring him here?

Matt looked at me one more time and got into the car and slammed the door. He rolled down his window. “When you come to your damn senses call me.”

I watched him peel off and he was gone. I could feel my heart breaking. Then I thought I was crying. Until I realized it was Leah crying. She was on the ground. Kim and Jake were consoling her. Paul walked up to me. So much damn hurt. He reached out with a smile and I slapped him in the face.

“What the hell Bella?”

“How dare you fucking smile? How dare you? You think you got what you want? I am here to figure a way out of this and that is all! Then I am going to find my boyfriend and hope he takes me back. Although I doubt it with all the shit he learned today. I’ll be lucky to ever see him again! And you? All you do is act like an arrogant jackass. I’m supposed to love you? To be your soulmate?”

“Bella that’s not me. I mean it..is… but…”

“Then stop acting like a jackass! I have had it! Sam can you take me home?” I was so pissed and hurt and I couldn’t stand to listen to Leah cry anymore. I felt sorry for her and that pissed me off. It was heartbreaking and she was crying over MY boyfriend. How fucked up is this? I began walking towards my bags when I heard two loud howls. What is it now?

All the guys looked in the distance of the howls.

“Brady and Collin. Leeches.” Sam growled.

“Bella get inside and stay inside. Please I’m begging you.” Damn where has this Paul been hiding? I was so shocked by his tone I just shook my head yes. Then Leah jumped up.

“Matt. He’s in trouble. The leech is going after Matt. He almost has him.” She was gone, bursting out of her clothes and into the forest. The guys followed suit. Wow. Oh shit! Matt? I felt Emily’s arms around me. “Lets go inside Bella. I’ll make you some tea to calm your nerves.” I walked in to see, Sue, Billy and Old Quil sitting with sad faces. Billy looked up.

“I’m sorry child. This was supposed to be our curse. Not yours.” He said looking me in the eyes. I didn’t really know what to say to that so I sat down and waited. And hoped Matt was okay. And wondered if I would ever see him again, one way or another.

Matt POV

I can’t believe this shit. I can’t believe what had just happened. I can’t believe I left Bella! But I had to get out of there. No two ways about it. I was heading out of La Push and planned to hit the interstate and not stop until I hit Tacoma. I would stay at a teammate’s place and then catch a flight back to Texas. I saw a guy up ahead. He looked like he was hurt. He was lying on the road in front of his car, in the middle of the damn road.

I pulled up. I ran to the guy on the ground and was shocked to see he was dead. At least he looked dead. He looked dead as hell. He was pale and wasn’t breathing. I suppose that counts as dead. I ran to the car to look inside for a clue to what happened. My heart stopped.

In the front seat were a man and lady. The man was at the steering wheel and the lady was in the passenger seat. It looked like both their necks were turned at weird angles. The throats were ripped open but surprisingly there was very little blood. The guy on the ground’s throat was fine though. It took me a second to put two and two together. But I could feel it. I could feel the cold and I heard his feet shuffling. I slowly turned and saw him.

“Hello. Thanks for stopping by.”

This guy didn’t look so good. I mean he still looked dead. But his clothes were dirty and torn. His dark hair was shining whenever a beam of light hit it. His eyes had deep bruises under them. His red fucking eyes. What did Sam say about eye color? He reached out faster than I could see and I found myself lifted up over his head by my neck. He was lifting me, all 6’3 210 pounds of my big ass with one hand. Shit, shit, shit. I hate this fucking place!

“As you can see I have already eaten but when I heard your car coming I couldn’t resist taking a snack home with me. So if you will be a good boy and pass out we can go back to my place.” I kicked this hell out of him and my foot felt like it broke. Damn. Indestructible. Check. Super strong? Check. This was not good. I heard a growl off in the distance. He turned and looked.

“I guess the dogs have come to play. If you will excuse me for a moment.”

He slammed me on the pavement. I hit my head. Shit I was going to have brain damage before I ever got back to football practice.

I had enough sense to know when it was time to fight and time to run. This was a time to run. He had his back to me. He was looking at the trees.

Leah POV

/Where is the leech?/

/We are following the scent trail now Leah. He must have come in right after we made our pass./

/Dammit/

/Calm down Leah. We will get to him./

/Fuck you Paul. That’s my life out there, not yours./

I knew where he was. I guess the imprint was guiding me. I could feel him.

/Leah do not engage without backup! He will be okay/

Being faster, none of them would get there before me. And there was no way I wasn’t “engaging”.

I broke into the road and smelled the dead bodies and the leech. And I sensed my imprint. He just got thrown to the ground. The leech turned to me. I saw Matt struggling to get up. Please run Matt.

I jumped in the middle of the road. For some reason the leech wasn’t running.

“Well hello puppy. Come to play? I was wondering what it would take to get one of you alone.”

I growled at him and began stalking closer. I had to get between him and Matt. Luckily for me he charged. I guess he was expecting me to attack but every instinct I had told me to get to Matt. I jumped over him and planted myself in front of Matt.

“Come now. I thought you would try to take a swipe. Why are you protecting my snack?”

I growled. If any mouth was going anywhere near him it would be mine. He charged again. I couldn’t let him get this close to Matt. I went straight at him. He swung and hit me but my paw connected with his head. We both slid back from each other. I knew the other guys were right behind me. He was facing me and when he heard the others he turned. Bad mistake fucker. I jumped him and bit into his shoulder. I had been going for his neck. He turned and I held on. I bit deep and he screamed. I thought I had him when the others burst from the forest onto the road. But he grabbed the top of my head and slammed me over his shoulders into the ground. I’m not going to lie. That shit hurt. I guess when he did that Sam and Jake jumped him. I got up and started moving to my Matt. He was lying on the ground watching. I lay over him to protect him. I think my side was cut. Something was bleeding and it wasn’t him. Not that I could see. I lay on top of him and almost collapsed. He wouldn’t be able to take my weight. I phased to human. I collapsed but I could feel his warm body underneath me. That was all that mattered.

Matt POV

That was so fucking cool. I wonder who the wolf was that saved my ass. I don’t remember seeing him in the clearing. The wolf started moving towards me while I watched the other two tear the, fuck it, I will admit it, vampire to pieces. The wolf was over me and I couldn’t see. But then I looked. It was her. It was Leah. Holy shit. She was beautiful. I mean this wolf was beautiful. I now realize what Bella was looking at. Why she couldn’t take her eyes off Paul. Suddenly a very naked and a very warm Leah was laying on top of me. She was bleeding and looked like she had passed out.

A naked Sam came walking up and reached to pick her up.

“No.”

“Matt she needs to heal.”

“I will drive her back. Don’t touch her.” I didn’t know what was going on but nobody was touching her.

Sam nodded and I squeezed out from under her and picked her up in my arms. I laid her on the pavement and took off my shirt. Nobody was going to see her. I wrapped it around her and carried her to my car. It looks like I was going back to Sam’s.

Bella POV

I saw them come back into the backyard at the same time I heard Matt’s car pull into the drive. I looked at Paul and saw he was fine. I ran around hoping to God that Matt was okay. I saw him get out of the car and walk to the passenger side. He pulled out Leah. Leah wrapped in his shirt. One of them had apparently been bleeding. I could smell the blood. Matt looked at me and walked past into the house. I heard Emily tell him to take Leah upstairs. Paul came around and looked at me.

“You okay?”

“I don’t know.”

“Want to talk about it?”

“You mean really talk or I talk and you stand there and point out what a slut I am?”

“You’re not a slut Bella. Don’t ever say that.”

I let out a deep breath. “Let me check on Matt and then we can talk.”

He nodded and I walked upstairs. It was getting dark. Charlie would be wondering where I was.

I saw him by Leah’s bed.

“She got hurt protecting me.”

“I figured. You okay?”

He laughed a little. But there was no humor in it. “I think I got another concussion and my foot is probably broke a little. Other than that, I’m right as rain.”

“What about Leah?”

“Sam says she will be fine. Needs a little time to heal. That’s all. This is some crazy shit huh?”

I laughed. “Yeah you could say that.”

“So what now?” He asked looking up at me.

“I don’t know. You want to go back to Charlie’s?”

“No. I don’t want to leave her while she is hurt. But you understand that don’t you? If it was Paul hurt I wouldn’t be able to drag you away would I?”

“No I guess you wouldn’t.”

“Thanks for being honest.”

“Matt I love you.”

“I love you too.”

“Let’s just take our time and figure this out okay? Please don’t run though.”

“For you Bella. For you.”

“Don’t lie to yourself Matt. It’s for her too.”

He didn’t say anything but looked back at her. My heart broke a little more. But why was my heart being pulled downstairs? Oh yeah. Fucking imprinting.

“I’m going to call Charlie and let him know we are staying the night with Sam. Then I will be back here to sit with you.”

He sighed. “Fine. Bring Paul too. I guess we all have some things to talk about.”

One question kept running through my mind. Why did I have to come back? But I think I knew the answer. And it had something to do with the asshole waiting for me downstairs.