Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Wanted

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 16:

BPOV

The three of them were at the foot of my bed. I don’t know how they got in. They were smiling.

“What… what do you want? Why are you here?”

“You don’t really think this is going to happen do you? You think you survived the vampire world and now you are just going to get married and live happily ever after? Not you Swan. You are always going to be one of us.” James told me giving me his sadistic grin.

“You should have come with me Bella. You could have been my bitch for eternity. At least you would have had a purpose. Nobody would be hurt or in danger.”

“I have a purpose.”

“Do you? Vampire bait, right?” Laurent said sneering at me. “Getting others killed is the only purpose you serve.”

“I didn’t ask you to come after me. You did that.”

“You make people love you. You make them throw away their loyalties to others to protect you. It would be scary to see what you are capable of as a vampire.” James whispered in my ear.

“It would be scary what she would do if she gave that ass up to more than one person. Of course when you’re fucking the alpha the rest of the doggies come running right along with him don’t they Bella?” Victoria whispered in my other ear.

“Leave me alone.” I tried closing my eyes but I couldn’t. And they wouldn’t go away.

“How long until you drink again Bella? You think about it constantly, little one. It’s only a matter of time. Do you plan to let him down sooner or wait until you bare his children and then get drunk watching them? How long Bella? A day? A month? A year?”

“Stop it Laurent. Shut up! I don’t drink anymore!”

Victoria spoke up again. “I feel sorry for his children. They are going to be half white half Quileute. Half breeds. Not accepted fully by either culture. Of course that is standard for poor Embry. Not being accepted. Maybe he picked her on purpose. Carrying on the family tradition?”

“Don’t talk about him like that! Shut up and burn in hell! You are dead!”

“If we are dead Bella, then why are we here? Want me to snap your leg again to make you believe we are real? You can go to your beautiful wedding in a cast like you went to Prom. You were so beautiful that night Bella with your Prince Charming. All the girls were jealous of you Bella. How did that work out for you?”

“Please stop…”

Victoria grabbed my throat and threw me back against the pillow. I tried to move but she moved her hand to my breast and held me on the bed. James was on the other side stroking my cheek with his fingers. They were so cold. Like ice. I was shivering.

“What? Are you going to rape me? You think I’m scared of you? You are dead! You can’t rape me!”

Laurent was straddling my waist.

“Oh no Bella. We aren’t going to rape you. You are far better at harming yourself than we ever were. Now open wide.”

I saw what was in his hands. No, anything but that. NO….

I clenched my mouth shut but then Victoria pinched my nose. James pulled my jaw down. It hurt.

“Here you go Bella. Have a drink and it will all be better. Open up…”

He placed the bottle to my lips. I was struggling to move. The glass was on my lips. I could almost feel it. I wanted to give up so bad. I wanted it so bad I could almost taste it.

“NOOOOOO!” I screamed sitting up in bed. I was covered in sweat. I was in my room. My room. But I wasn’t alone. I turned my head and saw him sitting next to my bed.

“Calm yourself child. It was just a nightmare. Our demons have ways of harassing us but they can’t follow us into the real world.”

Old Quil.

I was crying. He sat on the edge of the bed and wrapped his arms around me.

“When will they go away Quil?”

“I don’t know child. Maybe never. But you are stronger than dreams.”

I laid back in bed. Quil sat with me for a few minutes and I heard him walk out. A few minutes later I heard him snoring. It was 4 AM. He always wakes up and sits by me when he hears me having dreams. I don’t have them every night. But the closer it seemed we got to the wedding, the more frequently they came. Sometimes it was Edward. Sometimes it was James, or Victoria by themselves. Sometimes the three come together.

I had no class or work today. I could go back to bed and sleep until noon. Charlie had to work this weekend so there would be no fishing. Instead I waited until I heard Old Quil snoring for 15 more minutes and quietly got dressed. I walked out and put my truck in neutral and felt it roll back until I was a safe enough distance from the house. I started my truck and pulled off. I knew of one all night store between Forks and La Push. Before I knew what I was doing, I found myself driving in front of it.

JPOV

“What do we do Jake? Should we wake up Embry?”

“No, I will follow her. You keep patrolling the routes. I won’t be far if you run across something.”

I followed Bella’s truck it wasn’t too hard. She had done this before. I knew where she was going.

She pulled into the parking spot of the 24 hour convenience store and sat in her truck. I had discussed this with Embry before and he said it was best for us to just watch. We knew the guy inside would sell anything, to any girl no matter what time it was. If we stopped her it would be as if we were her jailers. She had to break out of this jail herself. The last two times she had done this, she had done exactly what she was supposed to. By herself. Not even knowing we were around. Embry said to protect but do not interfere. No matter what. These were her demons to beat. I agreed with him. We had begun hanging out more lately and he had told me his concerns about her. He really did love her more than I ever would be able to. I could have tried but I would have been all wrong for her. I never would have handled things as well as he did. Bella didn’t know but he had been going to Al Anon meetings for family members of alcoholics. I have to say in his spot I think I would hound her 24/7 to make sure she doesn’t drink.

And I would be wrong.

After an hour of sitting in the parking lot, I saw Kay pull up. Looks like Bella won another round.

BPOV

I heard her open the passenger side and get in my truck.

“So you called me. You know we could have done this at my house.”

“Yeah… I’m sorry Kay.”

“For what?”

“I did this again.”

“You haven’t done anything except what I told you to do. Before you drink call me. That’s what I am here for. You get tempted you call your sponsor. I’m your sponsor. Now why are we here?”

“You know why I am here. I want to drink.”

“No you don’t. If you wanted to drink you would have been in there already and sitting in some abandoned path in the forest getting toasted right now. Instead you called me. That means you don’t want to drink.”

“I have been sitting here for 45 minutes nearly going in a dozen times. If I do it’s over.”

“It’s never over.”

“What if I slip? He won’t want me, will he? Our children are going to be half breeds. The tribe will never accept them. That’s going to hurt him. You know? I mean, what if Edward comes back and tries to hurt him? What if the fucking Alaskan vampires try something? What if they come after my kids one day?”

“You done yet?”

“I don’t know. Let me think some more.”

“You think too damn much.”

“How did you get here so quickly? I just called you like 10 minutes ago.”

“Old Quil called and told me you had a bad nightmare. He said he was about to go to sleep so you may be leaving in twenty minutes. We both figured where you would go. I figured I would just get a head start and wait for you to call me from a couple blocks away instead of a couple miles.”

I had to laugh at that. So much for being sneaky.

“And if I didn’t call you?”

“I don’t know. I haven’t really given it any thought because I knew you were going to call.”

“How did you know that? I didn’t decide until a few seconds before I called you.”

“If you say so honey. Tell me what happened tonight.”

“I had that same dream. Only this time all three of them were there. And they told me I wasn’t good enough basically and then Laurent put a bottle of bourbon to my lips and…”

“And you woke up screaming?”

“Yep.”

“And you needed to drink so you came here.”

“Yes.”

“If you wanted to drink so badly why did you wake up screaming when the bottle hit your lips?”

“Because I…”

“And why didn’t you just go into the store?”

“I…” didn’t know.

“These vampires in your mind are just your demons coming out Bella. They are you. They are your doubts and fears. And it sounds like you are afraid of drinking. So that’s how I knew you would call me. You were here to fight your demons. You tested yourself by coming here and holding out.”

“NO! I wanted to drink. I want to go in there…”

“Then go. I won’t stop you. I won’t tell Embry. I won’t drag you off to the wild. Go. I’ll sit with you while you drink or I will leave you alone. Your choice.”

“Stop! Don’t do that to me Kay! Don’t tempt me!”

“Bella. I didn’t drive you over here and place you in front of temptation. You did that yourself. You came here to tell yourself that the demons weren’t right. That you are good enough.”

“Then why did I call you?” I asked smiling a little.

“Because even the strongest need help sometimes. And the strongest aren’t afraid to ask for help. This is the third time we have done this and I will do it for you every single night if we need too. This can be our regular thing. Although your husband might get upset that his wife is hanging out with his mom in parking lots at 5:30 AM instead of in bed with him.”

“So I guess since it’s pretty obvious that I won’t be going in the store, we should probably go home?”

“Yes. Or I could buy you breakfast at the diner and then we can go to the 7 AM breakfast meeting in Forks.”

“I’ve never been to that one.”

“Great! You can meet new people. I can’t stand most of them that go there but you might like them.”

“I don’t know…”

“Bella? We are going to a meeting. Now, that is settled. What do you want? Pancakes or an egg white omelet?”

“I suppose the egg white omelet. I’m not training today. It’s a rest day on my schedule.”

“When is your next Tri?”

“Two weeks after the wedding.”

“Good. You will need some stress relief after this is over. God knows I will. Alice Cullen calls me ten times a day! And she shipped a laptop with a video camera to my house the other day so we could Skype invitation designs in real time. Old Quil came over and saw it and threw a fit. He was convinced that she had some magical vampire power that made her appear on my computer and that she had broken the treaty. I told her she and Esme could help me with this. Help me. Now I feel like I am on one of those A&E reality shows with the Bridezilla wedding coordinator. Between the Cullens, Charlie, who still doesn’t trust the Cullens, Old Quil and Leah and the imprints it’s going to be a miracle if this wedding comes about with no bloodshed. Or whatever it is vampires shed. The location of the wedding at the Cullens has the Elders up in arms. Embry offered to lift the treaty for a day and have it in La Push and Old Quil about came out of his old skin. That’s not a big deal. I think the Cullens place is beautiful.”

“Quil hasn’t mentioned it to me.”

“Of course not. You can do no wrong. He lets me hear it though.”

“He is still going to marry us right?”

“Bella nothing could stop him. Even if he has to go into the Cullen Compound wearing a garlic necklace and carrying a walking stick that doubles as a wooden stake. Besides Carlisle is having a large tent top erected so even if it rains everyone can stay outside for the wedding and reception. That way the Pack doesn’t feel edgy smelling vampires indoors.

“Well that’s good I guess.”

“It wouldn’t kill the bride to get involved a little either.”

Oh yeah, that.

“I’m an emotionally traumatized recovering alcoholic. I can’t possibly handle the stress of having to plan a wedding. That’s what Alice is for. You understand.”

“Bullshit. We have wedding cake tasting in Seattle next week. Alice and Esme and Rosalie are coming. Which means Leah is coming because she doesn’t completely trust them. Actually she thinks Esme wants me out of the way so she can have you to herself. But they can’t taste anything. That means it is me and you and Leah. And Leah eats everything to damn fast to taste. That leaves you and me deciding on cakes. And you will be there.”

“Yes ma’am.” Why the hell did I call her again?

JPOV

“How did patrol go son?”

“Fine.”

“No leeches.”

“Nope.”

“What about the scent you found not long ago?”

“Haven’t smelled it since then.” Actually we have twice. But we all decided that we really didn’t need to give out every little detail of our activities to the Elders. Embry actually said they could fucking turn into wolves and patrol for themselves if they didn’t like the way we did things.

“Have you seen Bella lately?”

Oh shit. Not this again.

“Seen her around. It’s a small reservation as you know.”

“It’s not too late son.”

“What are you talking about? She is imprinted to Embry. It’s a done deal. And even I can see they belong together.”

“She belongs to the Alpha.”

“Yeah. That’s what I said. She belongs to the Alpha. Your oldest son. The one you thought would be kept a secret forever. The one you ignored. The one who was my best friend that you never thought about telling the truth too. Not even after Mom died. I know who the Alpha is.”

“It’s easy for you to judge me. You weren’t there. I had a choice to make and I chose your mother.”

“You cheated on my mother!” Damn if it wasn’t too early to get this pissed off. “That was the choice you made.”

“Son I am going to tell you a little story. See if you can shut up long enough to listen. A year after Bella left with Renee she came back for a summer with Charlie. He took her to first beach and she was making sand castles while he fished from the shore. Harry, Old Quil and I were walking down the beach and saw them. We walked up and talked to Charlie while Bella was on the ground playing in the wet sand. She was covered in it. While Charlie was talking to us we could see her behind him washing her hair with her pretend shampoo that was actually wet beach sand. It was hard to hold in our laughter. Harry finally gave in and Charlie turned and said a few curse words. We figured he would spend the rest of the night getting mud out of Bella’s hair.”

“Beautiful story Dad.”

“Jake we couldn’t say anything. She was having so much fun. Even Charlie had to smile when she offered to wash his hair. After they left Quil kept staring at her as Charlie carried her off. He had a strange look on his face. I asked him what was wrong. He told me that the little girl was going to be the Alpha’s Mate. At the time there was no Pack and none of us thought there ever would be again. It was a strange thing to say. We asked him about it but he didn’t answer. Quil didn’t even seem to know what he meant. It was like he came out of a daze and went on like he had never said anything. But you see son, Bella is the Alpha’s Mate. Not Embry’s. Being Alpha is your birthright. Not his. If he wasn’t Alpha then Bella wouldn’t be his imprint.”

“If that’s the case why wasn’t she Sam’s imprint?”

“Because Sam was never meant to be Alpha.”

“Apparently neither was I based on what you just said.”

“You could challenge him.”

“Excuse me?”

“You could challenge Embry. You share the same blood. You could challenge him for Alpha. If you beat him who is to say Bella wouldn’t be yours?”

“Wow. So you think if I fight Embry and seriously injure him or kill him and become Alpha, Bella might be mine?”

“It is a possibility. Sarah was full blooded Quileute. He is only a half blood, even though he is older by a few months. You could take it from him. I’m almost certain of it.”

“Except for one problem, Dad. I can’t fight Embry.”

“Why the hell not?”

“Because while being associated with you makes it difficult, I am trying to hold on to whatever honor I have left. He is my Alpha. And I fight for him and for this tribe. You can go fuck yourself. I’m glad Mom isn’t around to see what a sorry son of a bitch you have become. Or maybe you have always been like this and were really good at hiding it. Now I would suggest you don’t bring this up anymore unless you want Rachel and Rebecca to know what you did. Maybe some rumors of who Embry’s father really is might pop up in La Push. Wouldn’t that make for some gossip? The Chief of the tribe let his son grow up under his nose and did nothing? Let his son grow up without any financial support or even recognition. Let his mother raise him on her own. Yeah the old ladies at the Tribal Center would love to talk about that.”

I saw him pale. Good. I used to want to be like my dad in every way. Now I watch what he does and try to do the opposite. That’s a tough pill to swallow. I always idolized him and now I had no idol. I guess it was time to be my own man.

“By the way, I am moving in with Paul at the end of this month. He wants a roommate to help with the bills and since we have opposite patrol schedules we won’t be in each other’s way much.”

“What are you talking about? Who is going to help me around here?”

“That’s your problem. Call Rachel or Rebecca. Or hey, I know, maybe call Embry. I bet he would love to push your chair around. Just be careful what he pushes it off of.”

Edward POV

“Fuck yes. Right there. Oh yes. Don’t ever stop!”

Stopping was exactly what I was in the mood to do. I forced myself to cum and felt her shiver underneath me. She was smaller than Bella. Nowhere near as beautiful. Cold and evil. Blonde. But she was what I had.

I stood up and stared at her lying naked on my bed. She was smiling. Even when she was smiling she appeared to be thinking of hurting someone.

“Come back Edward. I want more.”

“No.”

“Now Edward.”

“I’m not in the mood any longer. When I am ready I will let you know.”

I didn’t have to be a mind reader to know she wasn’t happy. I suppose she could go find Felix, or Demetri or one of her past conquests but they tend to avoid her. I believe they were relieved when she took a liking to me. I know they were.

“Fine. Bring her to me. I’m hungry.”

I turned and looked at the young lady currently tied up naked in the corner. Slender. Pale. Long brown hair. Deep brown eyes. Jane knows how to pick them.

“You get her.”

“Edward, if you don’t get her I am going to be annoyed. And if I get annoyed I am probably going to spend a few hours torturing her. Let’s give her some pleasure and let her go Edward. I brought her for the both of us.”

Pleasure? The poor thing was scared to death. But Jane wasn’t going to leave here alive. Jane has a fetish about watching her victims watch her get fucked before she eats them.

“Fine Jane.” I walked over to her and her eyes got large. She didn’t speak English. Seeing me naked walking towards her probably gave her an idea that she was going to be raped. I was about to reach out to her when she began screaming in pain and convulsing. I turned to look at Jane. She smiled.

“Oops.”

Jane stopped torturing the poor girl who was now laying helpless on the ground. I carried her to the bed and placed her next to Jane. She was coming around and her eyes were getting wide again. She was in terror. I suppose I should make this quicker for her as a kindness.

“You take her neck. I want her femoral artery.” She said smiling at me.

I felt her delicate skin under my teeth and watched Jane’s mouth travel between her legs. She was so scared. It was time to end this. I bit down and felt heaven rushing into my mouth.

The poor thing let out a few moans and then was silent. I heard her hear beat for the last time. So fragile. I looked down and saw Jane’s face rise up, smeared in blood.

“Tasty. I want more.”

“I don’t think there are any more humans in the cupboards dear.”

“I want more of you Edward. We can push her to the side. You can stare into her dead brown eyes while you fuck me.”

I was barely listening to Jane. I had become used to her quirks in the time I have been here. She actually was very good at sex, if somewhat unsurprisingly cold.

“I wonder what her name was.” I said to myself more than Jane.

“Oh I didn’t tell you? She is from Rome. A true Italian. Her name was Isabella. I picked her up especially for you lover. Now don’t you wish you would have played with her a little more?”

I stared at her hair. So similar. I wonder what Bella is doing now. I traced her skin. Her temperature was cooling rapidly with no blood in her body. So soft. I remember how Bella’s hair used to smell in our meadow when she was wrapped in my arms and the wind would blow through it. This girl had lovely breasts. It would have broken my heart to see her dead. Except she wasn’t Isabella. No my Bella.

“I can find you another one to spend time with if you like. We can kill the next one slower. Draw it out. We are vampires. They are humans. They are the same to us as a ball of yarn is to a cat. I can bring you the real thing if you promise to drink her…”

“NO!”

My head exploded in fire. And then as suddenly as it came, it went.

“Sorry Lover. I don’t react well to being yelled at. Especially since I am giving you a gift. If you don’t want it that’s fine. But do you want another like her?”

Did I? It would be nice to spend some time in the presence of someone who looked like Bella. To taste her skin, to savor her blood…

“Yes. We can go to Rome tomorrow night.”

“Excellent Edward. We will make a vampire out of you yet.”

My human heart is gone. I may as well give in to the demon in my soul.

EPOV

God what a night. We have chased that damn scent all over the place. The wedding was in a month and I sure as hell didn’t want a damn vampire running around. At least that vampire. The Cullens were coming back to open the house and prepare for the wedding next week. Maybe they can help us identify the scents.

“Mom?” You home?”

I didn’t see her car outside but sometime Bella borrows it if her truck isn’t running right.

I walked into my room and stopped in my tracks.

“She’s on a date.”

“Oh really? With who?”

“You care right now?”

“Not really.”

Bella was standing in my room in a pair of high heeled black boots running to the middle of her thigh. She had a whip in her hand. And was wearing nothing else. Her hair was pinned up on her head showing off her neck. The neck I planned to ask her if I could bite on our wedding night.

“I need you to answer one question Embry Call.”

“Anything.”

“Do want to whip? Or be whipped?”

Now this was new. And I liked it.

“Can I have both?”

“Eventually. But tonight you have to pick.”

I walked up to her and watched her pink nipples stiffen in anticipation.

“What if I hurt you?”

“You can’t hurt me. I trust you.”

I pressed her up against the wall. She was only a few inches shorter than I was in the boots.

“In that case Bella, turn around.”

She turned around and pressed herself to the wall. The boots made her ass press against me. I grabbed the whip out of her hand. It was a play whip, looking at it. Nothing I could hurt her with. I flicked it a few times on her ass and saw that she jumped a little but it made no marks on her. The only marks I wanted on my mate were the ones I put there with my own teeth. She had asked me what I thought of tattoos and piercings once. I told her I couldn’t imagine the thought of someone marring the perfection of her skin. I wrapped a hand around her and held her breast. I twisted her nipple in between my index finger and thumb. She gasped and pressed against me more urgently.

“Bella?”

“Yes baby?”

“Have you been a bad girl?”

I felt her smile but couldn’t see it because her face was against the wall.

“Oh Alpha. You have no idea how bad a girl I have been.”

“What did you do that was so bad baby girl?”

I missed you so bad today I touched myself.” She whispered shyly.

“Tell me all about it and we will discuss your punishment.”

Guess it was time for a little discipline.