Protecting Maddie
By BetterInTexas
Chapter 13:
Alice POV
I ran back as quickly as I could. I hated the idea of Char and I both leaving at the same time but we had to get fed so we could stay for the long haul. Besides Maddie had refused to come down from her room since her first talk with Bella. She was probably just relaxing and trying to unwind from the long couple of weeks she had. She is the sweetest kid in the world. She will be okay. She is tough. She just needs me to hold her tonight. I haven’t really spent much time alone with her lately and I missed the little angel. She really was a sweet kid. She has just been kind of traumatized lately. At least we didn’t lose Bella. It was so close. Another couple of minutes and she would have been dead. That would have destroyed Maddie. She would never have recovered.
I saw Char had caught up to me. She actually ate an Elk. She didn’t want to take a chance killing someone, even a drug dealer, and bringing suspicion on us.
We arrived at the house hoping for the best and somewhat expecting the worst. It was getting late. Time for Maddie’s bedtime. I would have to stay with her in bed tonight. No way she wasn’t having nightmares tonight. Poor kid.
We walked in the door and saw the four Cullens laughing in the living room. They looked up at us as we walked in, concern plastered on my face.
I dispensed with the pleasantries.
“Is she okay?”
“Oh my God Alice, she is great!” Rose replied.
Great?
“Yeah we had a great day!” Emmett replied.
“What did you do?” Char was looking at them like they were high.
“She hung out with Rose most of the afternoon in the garage. She said she wanted to impress Peter with her knowledge of cars so Rose showed her everything there is to know except how to rebuild an engine. And then she wanted to have a water gun war with me so I pulled down the water guns we kept in the garage and had a blast.” Emmett was smiling way too big. Maddie played with him? Maddie doesn’t play. Not with people she doesn’t know.
“I got her to eat dinner! I made her a grilled cheese sandwich and French fried potatoes. She pointed out to me that in Texas they just call them fries. But I think she liked them!” Esme laughed.
“Yeah she had so much fun with me that she asked if she could keep her water gun with her. She took it up to her bedroom with her.”
“Really?” Char asked. “This is Maddie we are talking about? 4 foot nuthin, 60 pounds long brown hair, brown eyes…”
“Yes.” Carlisle answered. “And she spoke to Bella tonight over the phone. She asked for privacy so we didn’t listen in. Bella was on the road but I think they had pulled over to hunt. Apparently Bella has been practicing with a cell phone and has gotten it down without breaking any numbers. Amazing! I’ve never heard of a newborn doing that so quickly.”
“Oh, okay.”
“And Alice I have to say, Bella has done a wonderful job in raising her in the Church.”
“Oh yeah… wait, what did you say Esme?”
“Church. You didn’t tell us she was so religious. She was so worried about her mother she asked Carlisle for a Bible. She took it with her to her room.”
Bella and Maddie have never walked into a church in their lives. I looked at Char who suspected something was up too.
“Well I better get ready for bed. I have to lay with her tonight. Bella usually sleeps with her. If you hear screaming don’t rush into the room. It makes her scream more. I can handle it.”
“Why would she scream? Why would Bella sleep with her?” Esme asked.
I sighed. This really wasn’t their business but I didn’t want them to come into her room.
“She was only 3 but a girl at her daycare overheard her parent’s talking about how Bella’s husband saved his squad by falling on a grenade and she told Maddie. She has had nightmares since then, bad ones. At first it was every night and Bella and I stayed up all hours of the night waiting for her to scream. Lately it is only once or twice a week. As long as Bella wakes up when she starts murmuring she can usually calm her down without waking her up and the nightmares go away. And with everything that has happened you can bet the nightmares are going to be in full force. But I know how to calm her down. So stay away if you hear her scream.”
“You’re just going to lay with her all night?” Emmett asked.
“Yep.” I told him walking up the stairs. Charlotte followed me. We walked into the room and saw the bathroom door closed. I could hear Maddie behind it. Was she taking a bath?
I knocked lightly on the door. She opened it holding a water gun. It looked full.
“Hi Aunt Alice. Eat good?”
“Uh yes Maddie. What are you doing?”
“I was just taking a bath. Figured I would fill up this water gun so I could get Emmett first thing in the morning.”
“Maddie why is the Bible on the corner of the sink, wet?”
“Oh, uh, I was reading it in the bathtub and I accidentally dropped it in the water. It should be fine. Maybe you could use a hair dryer on it?”
“Maddie why were you reading a Bible? You have never been interested in religion before.” Something was up. I kept looking for a vision but nothing was there.
“Hey, never too late to start right?
“So what story did you read?”
“Excuse me?”
“What story in the Bible did you read?”
“Uh, the one about the animals and that guy with the long beard split the sea with the big stone tablets and they walked to a boat and all the animals got on while it rained. It was really… interesting.”
“Wow. You are practically a minister.”
“Yeah, hey are you going to sleep with me?”
“Yes Maddie.”
“Good. I need to get used to the way Mom will feel in bed anyway. Speaking of Mom I talked to her tonight.”
“Yes I heard. How is she?”
“She was okay, but she sounded funny when I told her you and Char left me alone with the Cullens. Like she was talking through her teeth or something.”
Oh shit.
“Maddie why did you tell her that? You were fine. I didn’t even think you were going to come out of your room.”
“Oh I was just telling her how much fun I had with the Cullens today. She was glad.”
“She was?”
“Yeah, she even said she couldn’t wait to see you again. She said to tell you that she was counting down the days until she saw you again.”
“I bet she is counting down the days.” I looked at Char and she had a grin on her face.
“Glad I don’t have a crazy newborn pissed at me.”
“You left her here too, you know.”
“Yeah but you are her best friend. YOU are the one she is going to tear to pieces.”
“Bella wouldn’t do that. She loves me.”
I hope she loved me.
BPOV
God this drive has been hell. Boredom hell. The phone rang. It was Maddie. I was tired of Peter listening in on our conversations like some goddamned prison warden.
“Pull over. I need to talk to her and I want to talk to her alone.”
Peter gave me a strange glance but did as he was told.
“Don’t follow me. I am going to hunt after this and I will be right back.”
“Bella.”
“Peter shut up. I have to answer this phone and I have to do it very gently.”
I pressed the call button on the touch screen phone. I was beginning to get used to the strength. I had been playing with Peter’s phone on the way up here. Playing angry birds is great for practicing dexterity.
“Hi baby.”
“Hey Mom! Are you okay?”
“Yes baby. It’s just a long drive.”
“Are you alone?” she whispered.
“I will be shortly. Hold on.”
I turned to Peter. “Maddie wants to talk to me in private. You leave me alone and keep your boys back and the blow job might just be back on the table. Maybe.”
“No one will bother you baby. Just hurry back.”
He pulled over and I took off running through the woods. About a mile away and I picked the phone back up.
“What’s wrong baby?”
“I’ve been having to be nice to the Cullens all day. Gag me already. How do you screw up a grilled cheese sandwich?”
“Why didn’t Alice cook for you?”
“Her and Charlotte decided to go hunting and leave me alone with the… Cullens.”
“Oh they did?”
“Yes. I have had to act nice all day. But Mom, it was worth it. I got what we needed.”
“What is that sweetie?”
She whispered so low I barely heard her. I wouldn’t have if I wasn’t a vampire.
“12765 F M 764, Warren, Pennsylvania.”
“That’s where you are?”
“Yes. Now come get me! I have holy water guns ready to fight our way out if I have to but I think I can gain some distance. Can’t you like smell my trail or something?”
“Baby you stay there. Do not leave the house.”
“But Mom, if you come here they will try to stop you.”
“Stay there Baby. Let me get to Canada and then I can take off. We will be there probably tomorrow night. Please baby?”
“Mommm…..”
“I know sweetie.”
“You know they will just try to separate us again. We need to hide.”
“Once I get you and they see I won’t hurt you, they will leave us alone. Peter will make sure of it.”
“Are you sure Mom?”
“Would I lie to you baby?”
“Only about the existence of vampires so far.”
“Ouch. Okay I deserved that. But c’mon Maddie…”
“I know Mom. It’s okay. I love you. So you think not tomorrow but the next morning you will come? I will make sure I am outside. Wait, what if Aunt Alice sees you?”
“Oh I hope she does. I can’t wait to see her. I am counting down the days.”
“Okay. Love you Mommy.”
“Love you too Sweetie.”
Alice. That bitch. I’m really going to kill her. Esme cooked for my daughter? Esme cooked for my daughter?
I’m not sure what happened in the next few minutes. I was standing in a field with tree stumps all around, the trees laying on the ground. Peter was behind me as was Jasper.
“Bella, calm down!” Peter said from somewhere. Then I realized he had me locked in his arms from behind.
“No. I need my girl. If you want me to learn to control this stuff I need my girl. She is the only thing that can calm me down.”
“Bella you could attack…” I heard Jasper say. Unfortunately he was within striking distance when he said it. I kicked Peter off me and I hit him in his jaw and watched kinda shocked when he flew back into a tree trunk on the ground. Before I knew what happened Peter and Garrett were pulling me off of him.
“Don’t you ever say I would hurt her! Has it occurred to you that her blood may be no more tempting than mine was for Peter’s? She is my daughter!”
Jasper stood up and I shrugged off Peter and Garrett ready to defend myself.
“Bella, why don’t we go hunt? Please? We can all go. Garrett is with the trucks. Let’s get you fed okay?” Jasper said in his goddamn calm voice.
I nodded my head. I was hungry. I smelt a wolf pack not too far away. I needed to feed quite a bit before I got my baby. I wouldn’t take chances with her.
Peter POV
This bitch is crazy. I mean she is a newborn but she is crazy for a newborn. Maybe not crazy, but she is different. Most newborns early days revolve around blood and sex. She is relying on sex and somewhat on blood even though she really hasn’t been obsessed over that. No her early days are a holdover from her human life. Her obsession is with her daughter.
“Bella we probably need to talk.”
“About what Peter?”
“Maddie.”
“What about her? How you should be helping me get to her and instead you are acting like a jailer, Mate?”
“Goddamn it Bella would you give it a rest? You know that girl is safe. Alice would never let anything happen to her. You also know there is a chance you could hurt her! If not because you like her blood just because of your strength. You need to learn to control this shit and stop worrying your baby girl might have a few months without you. I swear to God you two have dependence issues like I have never seen.”
“Peter, do you really love me? If I wasn’t your Mate would you love me? Or is this just some kind of mating call bullshit you feel for me?”
“I love you Bella.”
“Why?”
“What do you mean?”
“Why do you love me? We haven’t known each other that long.”
“Why do you love me? You never said it until you became a vampire.”
“I fell in love with you when you took on 24 vampires to protect my baby. I couldn’t tell you right away because I was kind of busy for the next three days.”
“Good point. I fell in love with you…”
“Don’t say the moment you saw me. That was lust, not love.”
“I wasn’t gonna say that. I guess I fell in love with you watching you sleep with your daughter and seeing you holding her when she was crying. When I realized how strong you are to have done all that yourself, to build the life you two had. I fell in love watching you live your life, no matter how short a time I saw it.”
“Then you understand my connection to my daughter. You know I would burn myself before I could hurt her. And you know I will never be able to concentrate on anything fully if she isn’t with me.”
“Bella why don’t you try? I mean seriously, maybe this time could be good. We could work on you. You could work on you. We could work on us?”
“You mean you can have to yourself without Maddie around.”
“I didn’t say that, Goddammit. Don’t be putting words in my mouth. You are a fucking newborn. You have things you need to learn before you can be safe around her. I love her too you know. I don’t want either of you hurt. What are you going to do if you get there and realize you can’t be around her right now? You gonna explain that you can’t stay cause Mommy is tempted to eat her? What would that do to the both of you?”
Fuck, I wish she would just chill.
“Listen Bella, you aren’t in your right mind right now. So I have to tell you that there is no way I am letting you near that girl until I feel you are perfectly safe to be around her.”
“You’re not going to let me?” she asked raising an eyebrow.
“Yeah. I’m not going to let you. You must have forgotten you aren’t the first newborn I have trained.”
That oughta shut…
“Oh, so you plan torture me? Can you do it on your own or does Jasper need to give you orders?”
Okay, that was below the belt.
“I would never torture you or harm you in anyway. You know this. So stop being a bitch.”
“Oh I’m a bitch now is that it? Does it drive you crazy that you have a Mate who isn’t afraid of the bad ass vampire Peter Whitlock?”
“No, it doesn’t drive me crazy. But yes, you are acting like a bitch and I’m not going to put up with it.”
“And what do you think you are going to do about it? Spank me? You gonna put me over your knee and pull down my panties and spank me till I beg you to stop and wiggle my ass for you, Peter?”
Okay, now I am confused. And I have a hard on. Is she being a bitch or is she offering to let me spank her? Cause that would be really cool. I mean really, really cool.
“Uh, I’m confused…”
“Yeah so am I.” she sighed. I got to remember her emotions are all over the place. Thank God she doesn’t know Maddie’s exact location. I don’t think anything could stop her from going after her daughter short of Jasper and I holding her down 24/7… hey there…
“Uh what are you doing?”
“What does it look like I’m doing?”
“It looks like you are taking your clothes off.”
“See there is more to you than just pretty looks. You’re smart too. That’s hot.”
“Bella as much as I would love to…”
Oh shit she just unbuckled my jeans. Yep, there I am.
She crawled on me and guided my cock into her. Shit she was tight. I mean she was tight and delicate as a human. Now she was tight and not so delicate. Meaning I could fuck her as hard as I wanted to. I had been enjoying that over the past 48 hours. But I was driving.
“Baby…”
“Shut up and kiss me Peter. You can drive and fuck at the same time. You’re a vampire.”
This turned into a fun drive all of a sudden.
Maddie POV
I can’t believe I have to stay here another day. I woke up last night screaming. Aunt Alice felt so good lying next to me. But she wasn’t Mom. It wasn’t the coolness that bothered me. It was Mom. I needed her here.
The nightmare last night was different. I felt that red headed vampire’s hands on me. But after she hit my Mom I swear I could feel her teeth on my neck when she bit down. I woke up screaming. Thankfully Aunt Alice doesn’t sleep as I have recently found out. Her cool hands stopped the sweating and the shaking I had going on. But I never could get back to sleep, I closed my eyes and relaxed in Aunt Alice’s arms but I couldn’t get comfortable. And now I was very irritable. I was not a happy camper as Mommy would say.
I guess Aunt Alice went downstairs to make me breakfast or something. I heard the big idiot outside my door in the hall way talking to the bimbo. Maybe this would be a good time to try my new secret weapon.
I grabbed my gun and opened the door quickly. I rolled on the floor coming up on my belly just like I saw on the Military Channel. Dad would be proud. My aim was true. Luckily the big idiot and the bimbo were just standing there staring.
I got them both in the face with the super soaker. They stood there. Wet now. Just staring at me. They should be burning or something right?
“Uh, good morning ya’ll. How do you feel?”
“Fine Maddie, how are you?” Bimbo asked.
Shoot! Holy water doesn’t work any better than stakes.
I stood up and straightened my t shirt. One more time, just to make sure.
Yep, got her full stream in the face. She is still standing there just staring. No smoke at all.
I sighed deeply and started walking back to my room.
“Uh Maddie, do you want to play water guns this morning?” the big idiot asked.
“Not much point in it now. I think I will be staying in today. Please ask Aunt Alice to come up when you see her. I need some books or something to read.”
“You want to come to the garage with me Maddie? I need to dry my hair first but…”
“Nah, I learned everything I needed to learn about cars yesterday. Seems pretty simple. Have a nice day and all.”
I walked into the room and closed the door, throwing the dang super soaker on the ground and kicking it. Holy Water. Maybe if I actually read some words out of that Bible instead of placing it in the tub? Nah, it won’t work.
Mom’s coming for me tomorrow morning. I just have to borrow a car and get far enough away that she can smell me and come get me. Then we are so gone.
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