Protecting Maddie
By BetterInTexas
Chapter 19:
Maddie POV
9 Years Later
God what a strange summer. I was currently sitting in the passenger seat as she was driving us to our first day of school after the summer break at Pinedale High School. We have been in Pinedale for two years, ever since I finished Junior High. I would be starting my Junior year of high school, which I was excited about. Two more years and I could run with my family instead of being carried by them. Mom says 6 years. Mom is wrong. My “sister” would be starting her third year of teaching English at my school. Our school was small. Only 300 students among all four grades. It worked for us.
But this summer. I mean damn. Not that it was bad. I mean it had its highlights, but damn.
First we started off with Mom, Peter, Aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper taking our yearly vacation to some overseas location close to a vampire coven. We always went where other vampires were. My vampire family would visit the coven while at least one of them, usually Aunt Alice stayed with me in a hotel room. Mom always went to visit the vampires. Peter wanted her to soak up as much power as she could. Peter believed in peace through superior firepower.
We had taken our trip to Egypt this year. Garrett and Char met us there. It was good to see them again. Mom, Peter and Uncle Jasper visited with some Egyptian coven while Aunt Alice and Char dragged me into every shopping center in Cairo at night. Mom came back two days into the trip and we spent the rest of the trip sightseeing. Mom and Peter wore robes with hoods that completely covered their heads and bodies. I kept asking them if they were expecting to be attacked by Sand People and calling Peter Obi Won Kenobi. He laughed the first dozen times. By the end he was probably getting tired of it. At night he and Mom took me to the Pyramids and the Sphinx. It was amazing to see the rising sun spreading rays over the pyramids.
Everything was good until I got a stomach bug. More like a stomach flu. I mean I was projectile vomiting. Peter says I must have drank the water but I didn’t drink the damn water! We cut our trip early and I had to fly back vomiting in the airplane bathroom while Mom kept trying to drown me with bottled water so I wouldn’t get dehydrated and keeping her cool hand on my forehead because I was running fever. She was panicking which meant Peter was panicking and Aunt Alice kept looking ahead to see if she could tell when I was going to puke next. Puking in an airplane bathroom sucks. We got home and I only had a few days after I recovered to spend riding Princess before I had to go to Forks to see Grandpa. He still thought we lived overseas, so I had to fly into another Airport and lie to him about the arrival time so he wouldn’t see us get off the plane and know I came from Wyoming and not Turkey. Mom had to make up another excuse not to come and it hurt her and Grandpa I think.
Mom refused to let me go anywhere out of town alone. And since makeup wouldn’t fool Grandpa except over the computer, Mom couldn’t be seen. So she hid and stalked me while Grandpa drove me to Forks from Port Angeles. Overprotective much?
I visited with him and the Webers and at night when I closed the door Mom was waiting for me. It was cool I guess but also kind of freaky. I mean I was 17. She really didn’t have to do this. She was way overprotective. Just because she was a danger magnet in High School doesn’t mean I am. Then again I do live in a family of vampires. And I still love cuddling up to Mom in bed.
Everything was cool at Grandpas for a while. We did a little fishing. Some cooking out. Usual stuff. His friend Billy Black came over and brought his son who was supposedly likein his thirties but looked like he was in his mid twenties. Dude was freaking big. He kept looking at me strangely like he was checking me out. I mean he was hot and all but uh, yeah. The guy was old. He finally kept staring and I met his eyes and shot him the finger when Grandpa wasn’t looking. He seemed disappointed about something. Creepy. He had some big friends with him too. He also kept sniffing the air like I stunk or something. I found out why, later that night.
Mom and I were chilling out on her old bed talking about boys I went to school with. Then she heard something outside. She turned to the window and looked toward the tree line. I was a little concerned since our Petey wasn’t with us. She jumped out the window and I ran to the window to see what the hell she was doing. Those same big dudes were walking out of the tree line.
Mom introduced herself and I recognized that Jake dude who had been in the house earlier. Asshole was growling at her.
Mom threw up her hands like she was trying to calm them down. I noticed there were 8 of them, 7 guys and 1 girl. They began walking towards her and I began to get very nervous. I mean I knew nothing could hurt her but what the hell were they doing here?
Then they all turned into the biggest fucking wolves I had ever seen in my life. They approached Mom slowly. She must have sent a wave of fear towards them because they backed up quick as soon as they got near her.
Then she threw a fireball at the big black one in the middle, a little trick she picked upon one of our summer excursions a few years ago. He tried to avoid it but when he turned it hit his side and he instantly caught fire. He turned back to human quick and rolled on the ground. A couple of the others turned human too and tried to help him. He was smoking but didn’t seem too injured. His hair and it looked like his eyebrows, were gone. Mom was smirking at him so I guess she wasn’t in any trouble. Then they started running all over the place. I guess Mom made them blind. That was another trick she picked up when we visited the Amazon. She can put you in these beautiful visions. It’s like a Holo Deck from that dumb Star Trek show on Blu Ray that Peter makes me watch with him. Peter told me once that she can also place people in complete blackness. I didn’t know about that, but it looks like she was doing it now. The wolf I saw that Jacob guy turn into charged her and she reached out to a large lightpole, 20 yards away. It lifted out of the ground like magic and she sent it flying into his side. I love watching her play. I can’t wait until it’s my turn. Finally all the big dogs came to their senses and turned human. Mom walked up to them and had a brief conversation and they took off back into the trees. She hopped back through the window and tried to continue the conversation like that just didn’t happen.
I pressed and she told me that honestly she didn’t know what the hell they were but that Jacob Black always had a thing for her in High School when she and Dad were dating. She guessed he still couldn’t take no for an answer. We left the next day.
Like I said, weird summer. It was good to be back in school and see the idiots I hung out with. Mom had taught my English Class every single year I had been here. But at least I got her to promise not to look into my future. I needed a little privacy. Thank God she can’t read my mind. Course that didn’t stop Aunt Alice from looking into my future. She said she couldn’t help it. Bullshit.
“Mother fucker.”
I pulled myself out of my reminiscing to see what Mom was staring at. She never cursed in front of me unless it was bad.
She pulled into a parking lot and got out of the car without a word. She sniffed the air around a strange car I hadn’t seen before and dialed Aunt Alice.
I began to get out of the car and she waved me to sit back down. I did as I was told. If Mom was keeping me in the car something strange was going on. She looked very mad.
“What do you mean you didn’t see this coming? You need me to pick up the slack?”
Yep, Mom was mad.
“No, tell Peter to stay there. If I need to, I can blind them, rip them apart and burn them. But if Peter shows up he will overreact.”
Overreact? Didn’t she just threaten to…
“Maddie come to me and stay by my side.”
I hopped out of the car and ran to her side. Mom wasn’t usually like this. When she was, something was wrong and I did as I was told.
“What is it Mom?”
“Don’t call me Mom here unless you say it sarcastically. Sister remember? Now, do you remember the Cullens?” She had a furious look on her face. She needed to calm down. She did not look like Bella Whitlock, small town English teacher, she looked like Bella Whitlock, vampire bitch from Hell.
“Yeah, how can I forget that family?” I shivered. Freaks. Let’s play water guns Maddie. How about you shove that water gun up your as…
“They are here.”
Say what?
“What do you mean here?”
“They are here. Their stench is all over that car. I have to get you home.”
“No!”
Uh oh. Mom raised an eyebrow at me.
“I mean we shouldn’t let them stop our plans. We have a life here Mom. I don’t want to leave! At least until I graduate.” Not because of these assholes.
She took a deep breath.
“Fine, but you are not to be alone today. You are either with me or your friends at all times, okay? I will find out what this is all about after school.”
She grabbed my hand and started walking.
“Uh Mom. We probably shouldn’t hold hands. We are sisters after all.”
She finally smiled at me and let go of my hand. “Sorry baby. I’m just a little on edge right now.” She brushed a lock of hair away from my face and walked in slowly, making sure I stayed behind her the entire time.
As I walked in I saw my crew. Lori ran up to me. We were co captains of the cheerleading team last year but this year I decided against cheerleading. Between Jujitsu, the rodeo team and cheerleading, something had to give. Besides our football team sucked. It was getting hard to cheer for them and difficult not to just pray for them. Our Rodeo team however kicked serious ass.
“Oh my God Maddie! You would not believe the new students in school! They are like from New York or something. One guy is really hot. He has the most gorgeous hair.”
“He isn’t hot. Looks like a fucking pussy to me.” Bryan walked up. I frowned at him.
“I don’t like that word, Bryan.” I scolded him.
“Sorry ma’am.”
Hmm, he’s gotten better with his manners. 6 foot 2, beautiful blue eyes, hot build. I may have to give him a shot this year.
“He’s right, though, the guy looks like a total pu… pansy?” Todd said walking up.
“Shut up guys. You’re just jealous.” Lori replied.
“Let’s all calm down. I’m sure they are nice… people. That being said we should all avoid them.”
Three faces were now looking at me like I grew a second head. I really am usually welcoming of new students. Not that we get many.
“I mean… come on guys, we have our group already. We don’t need more. Let them make friends with the other students. We stay away.”
“But what if we…” Todd began with a smile.
“You are not hurting them, Todd.” Lori told him glaring. Great, my best friend is already crushing on Edward Cullen.
“I would never… Now if they had an accident…”
“Don’t worry about it, Todd. Let’s start the year on a good note.” Besides causing vampires to have accidents could damage his health.
“Hey speaking of a good note, Maddie, your sister is looking as hot as ever. When you gonna hook me up?”
I shivered.
“That’s just wrong Todd. You know she is married.”
I turned the ring on my right index finger. When Mom and Peter got married 6 years ago, I was her maid of honor. Peter placed the ring on her finger and then walked up to me and placed a beautiful silver ring encrusted with diamonds on my finger. I cried. This ring and the locket with my Dad’s picture on it were the only jewelry I ever wore and neither ever came off. When I got nervous, I played with my ring. And I was definitely nervous right now. Mom was standing in the hallway with that far off look she gets when she is reading minds or seeing the future.
She was right. The Cullens being here was wrong. This place didn’t fit their lifestyle. Something bad was coming. I doubted it was something as simple as my family burning their family and we all watch a movie afterward and have a good laugh.
We walked into the Cafeteria, as we usually did in the morning, talking and catching up on our summers. I reveled them all with my Egyptian adventures my sister and brother in law took me on. Lori went to Disney World. Todd and Bryan went on the junior rodeo circuit. Amanda joined us. She had spent the entire summer with her grandparents in Idaho and wasn’t happy about it. Brett had stayed home all summer and fished. We had to listen to five minutes of his stories about the trout he caught and what fly he used. Five minutes to go before the bell rang. I hadn’t seen Mom, but I knew she was around. Then I heard it.
“Oh damn girls, there they are.” Lori gasped.
We all turned to look. Walking through the cafeteria, were the three Cullen kids. I remembered the bimbo and the big idiot but I never got a clear view of the other one the last time we saw them. They sat down and I saw his face. He was staring at me.
My God…
He did look like a fucking pussy.
Mom dated this? Wait until I see her later tonight. I am going to make so much fun of her. This was too good. I mean here she is married to Mr. Rough and tumble cowboy and she dated this? He looked like one of those guys you would see in a poster in a hair salon. Looking intently at the camera with his perfect haircut.
“I think he is staring at me.” Amanda giggled.
“No, he is staring at Maddie. Now they all are.” Bryan commented, with a note of jealousy in his voice that I caught. He was so cute.
I turned back away from my friends to see the Cullen’s were definitely staring at me. The big idiot smiled. The bimbo sneered and the… I’m not going to call him that, I really do hate that word. I’ll think of a good name for him.
“Don’t those assholes know it’s rude to stare?” Todd asked.
“I guess I will let them know.”
I shot the finger at the table. Most of the cafeteria saw me and started laughing. Welcome to Pinedale you fucking assholes.
I whispered low enough that only a vampire would hear.
“My Mom is going to fucking burn you all.”
BPOV
I can’t believe this. I just got a text from Alice telling me Peter and Jasper were looking for the Cullen home. Shouldn’t be hard. Not a lot of million dollar mansions in this area. I texted her back telling her to let them know not to speak to them without me there.
I tried to focus on my first class. I could see Maddie was okay through her friend’s minds. Dammit she just shot the finger at them. Way to keep a low profile Maddie. Not that it mattered. I knew in my heart they came for her. I didn’t know why but I would find out before I turned them to dust.
The bell rang and my first class walked through the door. I hadn’t even checked the roll to see who was going to be here. I knew my beautiful daughter didn’t have my class until after lunch.
A quick glance showed me that I had… all three of the bastards.
I looked up and there they were.
/She is still so beautiful. Breathtaking./
/Why the hell is Bella so mad at us anyway? What did we ever do?/
/God she is such a bitch. I still owe her from the last time I saw her./
/I wonder if Maddie ever sees her naked? God she is so hot. I wonder if she wears thongs. Or any underwear at all. I would love to… /
Okay, time to turn that off. Wish I could pick up on only specific thoughts but it was not to be. As long as they were here they weren’t around Maddie. And I would get my answers later.
I began going over the class syllabus and then sharing some thoughts on the symbolism in Hamlet, which we would be reading first…
“Ms. Swan?” Rosalie.
“My name is actually Mrs. Whitlock. You must be confused.” I pretended to look at the roster. “Ms. Hale.”
“I was wondering if you actually knew anything about the material you are teaching. What community college did you go to? Because your thoughts about Hamlet seem juvenile.”
The rest of the class was quiet. I looked at her desk. They were old style school desks, typical of what you would find in small rural schools. The legs were made of solid iron.
Peter says I should never use my powers unless it is absolutely necessary.
This is absolutely necessary.
I quickly glanced at the legs of her desk and watched them shear off. All four came off at once, dropping the desk to the ground and Ms. Hale rolling out of it on her ass.
“Oh my! Ms. Hale are you okay?”
I walked over, acting concerned.
“Oh no. This desk must be so old. The legs all came off at the same time. What are the odds? Are you okay?”
“What the fuck did you do?” she asked with a look of surprise.
“Oh, that’s not good Ms. Hale. We don’t allow cursing in our school. Plus that’s one of the first things we learn not to allow in the education classes we take at community colleges. I’m afraid you are going to have to see the principle. Now.”
I walked back to the front of the room not bothering to turn around as I heard her stomp out. When I reached the front I began my discussion again. Edward and Emmett had their mouths open.
Childish? You bet.
But so worth it.
“So class, does anyone else have any questions or can we continue?”
It wasn’t hard to find. I could have tracked their scents but a quick stop at the feed store gave me the information I needed about the location of the new million dollar house that had been built in our absence this summer.
Jasper stayed at the feed store to pick up our weekly order. The horse farm was going well. We raised horses and donated them to ranches around the nation that catered to orphans and kids with cancer. It was a good deal. I made absolutely no money but I didn’t need it either. Our little coven was doing quite well in the financial department. Plus Maddie enjoyed the hell of it. She worked her little ass of at it too when she wasn’t training for barrel racing with Princess or learning to kick ass and take names in her Jujitsu classes.
I know Bella told me to wait for her. But there they were. Inside. Doing whatever the hell it is they do.
Bella will understand.
I ran to the front door and kicked it in. Walking in, I saw Carlisle and Esme sitting in the living room.
“Hello Peter. We expected all of you.”
“Won’t take all of us to do what needs to be done. I figure I’m enough.”
“Peter, we did not come to start trouble. We have no ill will with you or your coven.”
“That’s funny because I got a fuck load of it for you. Enough for both of us.”
“We need help Peter. You and Alice asked us once for help and we took Alice and Maddie in.”
“And then you sent Edward after Bella and my daughter.”
“Your daughter?”
“Yeah, my daughter.”
“Be that as it may, Edward was only trying to help.”
“We have worked our ass off to give Maddie a good life before she is turned, Carlisle. Why are you fucking that up?”
“We need help, Peter. We helped your family once. We need help now. Would you let me explain before you tear us to pieces?”
I took a deep breath. Bella needs to be here. She is the reasonable one.
“I will be back with Bella at 6 PM. We can talk then. If this isn’t good, you can kiss your ass goodbye.”
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