Protecting Maddie
By BetterInTexas
Chapter 10:
Alice, Jasper and I were standing around a screaming Bella. Maddie was outside with Char trying to get in and be near her mother. She was not going to go easy. Garrett was keeping our new friend company in my workshop.
“What are we going to do? With Maddie? I mean should I just take her somewhere? If we fake Bella’s death then Charlie or Renee or Maddie’s other grandparents will want her and she would never stay. If we fake Maddie’s death it would kill those families. I don’t know what to do here.” Alice was freaking out. I have never seen Alice freaking out.
“What do you visions tell you the best course is Alice?”
“I don’t know! It’s not like I can just run this stuff in my head constantly. I can’t get a clear vision.”
“Okay calm down there little one.” I told her putting an arm around her.
“We need to know if this was it. If anybody else is going to be coming after Maddie. That will give us some sort of direction to go. As far as Bella’s death no one in her family needs to know anything. When Bella calms down after she wakes up she can call the families and tell them she got promoted to some overseas job or something. That should hold them off for a while until we can figure out something else.”
“So we need to go talk to the little bitch. Let’s go.”
I stomped off ready to get some answers. On the way out I heard Maddie screaming in Char’s arms. She was not happy about not being with Bella but hearing her Mom scream like she was and trying to tear her own skin off was probably not good for her sleep. Then again we may have passed the point of good sleep long ago. I needed to talk to her. Whether she was happy or not with me I was going to be her step father one day and I needed to literally step up. Maybe the pony I bought her will help. Kids like pony’s right? Hey kid, sorry I let a crazy vampire past me that nearly killed your mother forcing me to bite her and put her through three days of unimaginable pain to wake up as one of the undead. You want a pony?
Yep that should solve all our problems.
I walked in with Jasper behind me. I agreed to let him take the lead. As much as I wanted this bitch, the truth was, while I could hold my own with Jasper on fighting, nobody on earth was better at torture than him.
“Please I will tell you anything you want, just let me go.”
Well I guess she won’t be hard to crack.
Jasper must have been sending some serious fear her way. She was shaking in Garrett’s arms.
“You tried to kidnap and threatened to kill my niece and Goddaughter. You nearly killed a woman I consider my sister in every way. You really think you are walking out of here?”
“I can pay you. Name your price?” The bitch was really desperate.
“$225 billion.”
“Are you crazy? I don’t have that much.”
“No, but I do. So now that we know you can’t pay me why don’t we start talking about where you came from and what you were planning on doing?”
“What do you want to know?” She was still shaking. It may not even be Jasper now.
“What is your name?”
“Saffron.”
“What Coven do you belong too?”
“I don’t. I’m a nomad.”
“Bullshit.” I spoke up. “You are way to organized to be a nomad. Who do you work for?”
“I work for whoever pays!”
“Who is paying you this time?”
“I don’t know. They haven’t, look I planned to sell the girl to the highest bidder. Tomorrow the Volturi and the Romanians are going to call a number I provided them. There will be an auction. The highest bidder gets the child.”
“You auction off children?” Garrett asked still holding her from behind by her arms. Her arms that just cracked a bit under his grip.
“Yes.”
“Have you done this before?”
“Yes.”
“How many?” Jasper asked quietly.
“6 to the Volturi over the past twenty years, 2 to the Romanians. The Romanians don’t pay well enough usually.”
“Why do you sell children?” I asked.
“I have a gift. I can sense other’s powers. I can tell what humans will have powers and identify them. I can do the same to vampires.”
“Like Eleazar.” Jasper whispered.
“Yes. But I can sense from a distance. I don’t have to be in front of a person to do it. So imagine my surprise when I was strolling through San Antonio heading to Mexico to check and see if Maria had any interesting new vamps, I see the biggest power spike I have ever seen in my 500 years. I follow the spike and see them. A tiny woman and her tiny daughter sitting at a Mexican Food restaurant having dinner.
I followed them. I first thought that the power was emitting from the mother but was shocked to see it was coming off of both of them. Equally strong. The mother was mature. She could never be trained to follow. She would destroy anyone that tried to enslave her or her child. But if I could get the child, she would be a valuable commodity. A powerful weapon that could be trained to be loyal as a child cementing her loyalty as a vampire when older.”
“So you set up a bidding war between the two most powerful covens in the world?”
“Yes.”
“You fucking bitch!” I couldn’t keep it in any longer.
“A girl has to make a living. Not all of us have a psychic wife who can tell us how to invest $5 and turn it into a billion.”
“You knew what Alice can do?” Jasper asked.
“I knew what you could all do. Why do you think I hired so many vampires? I guess I didn’t hire enough. Can we cut the shit here? What do I have to do to get out of this alive? Swear to never go after the girl again? Give you all blowjobs? What? I’m willing to negotiate here.”
“Does anyone else know about Maddie?” I asked.
“I didn’t tell anyone her name. I didn’t want them going after my commodity. But if I don’t make that call tomorrow they are going to eventually figure it out. I told them what she can do. What she will be able to do. It’s a matter of time before someone comes looking for her from both covens. They know I was in San Antonio.”
I looked at Jasper. He was thinking the same thing I was. Bella and Maddie’s life they were so proud of that they had built on their own was coming to an end.
“What can they do?”
“What?” I looked up at Garrett’s question. It never occurred to me to ask.
“If I tell you will you promise not to kill me?” The red head pleaded.
Jasper nodded his head.
“She is a time bomb. She is the most dangerous weapon in the vampire world. She could be unstoppable. You saved her mother didn’t you? You turned her? You will find out when she wakes up what she is capable of. It won’t take long.”
“What can she do?!” I was getting very impatient here.
So she told us. Holy shit.
Jasper looked at me with wonder on his face. Even Garrett seemed taken back.
“Both of them will be able to do that?”
“Yes. So you see why the Covens will want them? Either one will be unstoppable.”
I nodded at Jasper. I think we had the information we needed.
The three of us ripped her arms and legs off, leaving her torso on the floor leaking venom.
“What the fuck? You assholes said you wouldn’t kill me?”
“We won’t. But Bella is probably going to want to have a word with you when she wakes up. Should be in a couple days. Till then why don’t you hang out?” Jasper told her.
Garrett picked her up and wrapped a chain around her neck from the ceiling pulling her torso up off the ground and left her hanging. Jasper and I picked up her extremities and threw them in the wood burning furnace I had in the shop. She screamed as best she could seeing her body burned. At this point she would be begging for death rather than live like this. She could regenerate. In 50 years or so.
We walked in to see Maddie still struggling to get out of Char’s arms and run to her mother. Maddie looked up at me.
“Peter, please.”
Dammit. I nodded and Char let her go. She ran to me and I lifted her up. “We need to talk before we go in okay?”
“Okay as long as you promise to let me be with her.” Her tears were drying up.
“Your mom is turning into a vampire. You understand this right?”
She nodded her head while sniffing back some tears.
“The only way to become a vampire is to be bitten by a vampire. Then you go through three days of extreme pain. When she wakes up she is going to be very hungry. Hungry for blood. She is going to be a bit… crazy for a while. Me and Jasper will have to keep a close eye on her while she is calming down and learning to be a vampire. You can’t be with her during that time. She could hurt you on accident and you know she would rather die than hurt you, don’t you?”
“She would never hurt me Peter. You know that. I won’t leave her.”
“Maddie you have to. Just for a little while.”
“I can’t go to my grandparents. They will ask too many questions and never let me see her again. Then I would have to run away. I can’t do that Peter. I don’t want to do that.”
“You’re not sweetie. You are going with Aunt Alice to a safe place. The lady who was after you won’t be after you again. But we have to stay on the down low for a while with you. We are going to have to move.”
“It’s over isn’t it?”
“What’s over sweetie?”
“Our life here. Our apartment, our friends, at least my friends, cheerleading, school, it’s all over isn’t it.”
She wasn’t asking. That was what was so damn sad.
“I’m sorry sweetie.”
“I’m not. As long as I have her I am happy. I don’t care where we are.”
Alice’s words were ringing in my mind. She will never leave Bella.
“You have to go with Aunt Alice for a little while.”
“How long?”
“Maybe six months.”
“Six Months! No!”
“Please Maddie? You don’t want your mom to hurt do you? You know how bad she would feel if she accidentally hurt you?”
“Can I just go lay by her? I will lay on the floor next to the bed. I just want to be near her.”
“Okay Maddie.” She surprised me when she hugged me and then ran down the hall. I nodded to Char to follow her. Not that Bella would be up anytime soon but this was going to be rough.
I looked at Alice and Jasper.
“They can’t stay here. The Volturi and Romanians may be looking here. I don’t know if they can find them, without someone like the bitch in the shop but they can certainly smell human and vampire scents all over the place.”
“So what do we do Peter?” Alice asked me.
“We are going to have to pack up their stuff again. I need to contact my lawyers and buy property in Canada I guess under a new name. Move every year or so. Keep on the move. We will burn this house down after it is packed up. That may throw them off the track. And then we lay low until Maddie can get old enough to decide what she wants to do.”
“Ten years Peter?”
“Yes or longer. The rest of her human life if she wants. Or till she becomes a vampire if she wants that.”
“The Volturi will never stop coming after her. Not if she is gifted.”
“Between her and Bella I don’t think either will have any trouble with the Volturi. We just have to protect her now.”
“So what’s the plan?” Jasper asked.
“I need Jasper and Garrett if he is willing to stick around while she wakes up. We need to get her through her newborn period and get her control as quickly as possible. You and Char if she is willing have to hide with her. There is just one problem. What if the Volturi or Romanians track her down while she is with you two? You would be without help.”
I didn’t like the idea of my little girl going off with only Alice and Char to protect her.
“Well there is one place we could go to get added protection and stay quiet.”
“Where the… Oh hell no!”
“It wouldn’t be forever Peter!”
“When is the last time you even spoke to them?”
“It has been around 6 years. I spoke to Esme once. She told me we were always welcome back.”
“Bella was Edward’s singer. Maddie smells like Bella.”
“True, I will ask that Edward leave while we come and visit. We don’t exactly get along. After what Jasper did to him last time we saw him I’m sure it won’t be an issue.”
I sighed. It would give them added protection. But Bella will kill me.
“I don’t know Alice.”
“Peter we don’t have many choices. Where else are we going to go? I will be glad to take off and hide with her on my own but you are right. If I get tracked down somehow alone…”
“FUCK!… Jasper what do you think? You hate those fuckers as much as I do.”
“Edward is an ass. As long as he is away I don’t see a problem. Emmett and Rose would never let harm come to a child and you know Carlisle and Esme are good people.”
“And if Edward shows back up?”
“I don’t know Peter.”
“Alice how about this. Why don’t you go to ya’ll property in the Canadian wilderness? We can start looking for property near yours to build a home. Call Carlisle and ask if the four of them could come and leave Edward behind. Tell them it is life or death that he not know where they are or what they are doing. That way we can get Maddie used to the area. Get her some home schoolin stuff. Once Bella has control we will be there and they can leave.”
“One problem Peter. That would mean the Cullens would know where we are. If the Volturi ever gets ahold of them or they are summoned to Italy and Aro touches one of them, he will know where we live.” Jasper helpfully pointed out. He was always seeing the bigger picture.
“Fine, let’s leave the Cullens out of this.”
“No, I think we should take her there. Make sure Edward is not there. When Bella is ready we will call Alice, you will leave and then they won’t know where we are.”
“What if Edward shows up Jasper? We need to plan.” Alice asked.
“If Edward shows up Alice, you and Char will kill him and run with Maddie back to us.” Jasper said.
Alice stared in his eyes. “Consider it done.”
“Now who gets to tell Maddie she needs to pack up and leave while her mother is screaming in the bedroom?” I wanted to know. I really didn’t want it to be me.
“We both will Peter. C’mon.” Alice responded grabbing my hand and walking me down the hallway.
Alice POV
Char is in the backseat of the Mercedes holding Maddie who has finally stopped crying and trying to pull Char’s hair out of her head. We left twenty hours ago. We were nearly in Pennsylvania. I had called Esme and explained briefly that I had a child to protect who smelled a lot like Bella Swan and we were concerned that Edward may try to attack her. She informed us that Edward had not been with the family in years and they weren’t sure where he was but they would certainly ask him to stay away if he arrived. I thanked her and got the address. We were an hour away. Bella was going to wake up in a couple hours. I had a vision of her. She was going to be pissed when she woke up. Real pissed. And real hungry. And real horny. But mostly pissed. The things I saw her doing to the Saffron bitch… oh well, the bitch deserves it.
“Aunt Alice I need to go to the bathroom.”
“We are only an hour away Maddie, can you hold it?”
“What do you think? You can see the future. How do you see that working out?”
I guess I better find a place to pull over. There was a spot up the road. It looked somewhat clean. With enough toilet paper on the ring I suppose it could work. I walked in with her and saw that the bathroom was cleaner than expected. She stared at me.
“What?”
“I think I can go to the bathroom myself.”
“Sorry.”
I could forgive a little bitchiness I suppose. She has been through a lot. I walked over to the magazine section and started thumbing through US magazine. I can’t believe Kristen Stewart let that dork Robert Pattinson get her pregnant. She should have stayed with the guy she cheated on him with. And how desperate must he be to take her back after that? Self-respect much? I wonder who her next boyfriend will be. She can do much better than Cedric Diggory. I was brought out of my musings by Charlotte tapping my shoulder.
“Yes Charlotte?”
“Didn’t you tell me that Bella once escaped you and Jasper in an airport?”
I rolled my eyes. It wasn;t my favorite memory. “Yes Charlotte. Why would you bring that up now?”
“Because apparently escaping from you is an inherited trait. Want to guess who climbed out the bathroom window and is currently trying to catch a ride back to Texas as she walks down the road with her thumb up in the air?”
I froze.
“You got to be fucking kidding me.” I ran in the bathroom and saw the window open. Big enough for a little girl to escape out of. I ran back out to see Charlotte laughing outside.
“This isn’t funny. She could get hit by a car!”
“It is funny. There aren’t any cars coming for miles. I am listening. You should probably go get her before she trips on the side of the road in the dark.”
I ran at vampire speed and appeared in front of her damn near a quarter mile down the road.
She jumped back and stared at me. Then the little brat walked around me and kept going down the road.
“Maddie, where are you going?”
“Texas.” She muttered without stopping.
“Maddie we had this talk.”
“No, you and Peter had this talk and told me. I’m going to my mother. She would never hurt me and I don’t appreciate you insustuating that she would.”
“Do you mean insinuating?”
“That too.”
“Maddie please stop. What are you planning on doing? Hitchhiking to Texas?”
“I was thinking of getting to the town we passed twenty minutes ago and taking a bus if you must know.”
“With what money? Buses aren’t free you know.”
“I was thinking of using the $400 I borrowed from your purse when you weren’t looking.”
“You did what?”
“For a vampire you aren’t very observant.”
“Maddie don’t make me pick you up again and carry you screaming to the car.”
She turned towards me and glared.
“Maddie haven’t I always been there and loved you? You know I don’t like this but it is necessary. You need to give your mother some time to adjust. Just please trust me baby.”
Maddie took a deep breath and began walking back toward the store. I thought of lifting her up and carrying her but she would probably get angry. We reached the car where a smiling Charlotte had the back door open and Maddie climbed in.
“Maddie, give me back the $400 you took from my purse.”
“No.”
Alrighty then.
Alice called an hour ago. Apparently Maddie stole $400 from her and escaped a bathroom window and walked down the road trying to hitch hike to a bus station. Glad everything is under control there. Hope things are better here. She said Bella would be waking up soon. It should be any minute now. Her screams had stopped. Her hair had turned a darker shade of brown. It had gotten slightly longer and fuller. Her breast had gotten slightly large and her muscle tone was increasing subtly. Other than that there were no major changes. She was as beautiful as she had been. Her heart stopped. Her eyes opened.
Bella sat up. Jasper and Garrett were outside in case I needed any help. Handling a newborn is easy. Handling a newborn you don’t want to hurt is trickier.
“Bella?”
She looked me in the eyes. The connection I felt when we were human was nothing compared to what I felt now.
“Peter?”
“Yes Bella. Do you remember where you are? Do you understand what’s going on?”
Bella stood up. She was looking around with her new eyes for the first time. She walked over and kissed me. Thank God. I thought she was going to freak out when she woke up.
“Peter, I need something.”
“I know baby. We can go feed. I will teach you how. Jasper and Garrett are outside too. They are here to help.” I spoke to her in the softest voice I could conjure.
“Peter I love you.”
“I love you baby.”
She grabbed me by the neck suddenly. Damn she had a strong grip.
“So if you don’t want me to hurt you then you are going to tell me where my daughter is and where the whore is who tried to take her.”
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