Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Besotted

By Mama4Dukes

Chapter 07:

At the same time in Forks, Washington…

“Caius, why are you wearing sunglasses? It’s dark out.”

“I don’t want to wear contacts.”

“You’re sticking out like a sore thumb.”

“And you’re not? You’re wearing high heels in the middle of a forest, Alice!”

“I can’t help it. I’m height challenged.”

“Height challenged? Just say that you’re short, the truth is always better. And just to let you know, wearing heels when you’re short works like a beacon. It’s like you’re announcing to the world that you’re short and sensitive about it when you shouldn’t be. You should be proud of who you are instead of having a complex about your shortcomings.”

Alice opened her mouth to say something to him, and then closed it. She stood there, thinking and pondering his words; realizing that he was absolutely correct. She didn’t even need her visions to realize this. “Thank you, Caius. I think I’ll take your advice.”

“Good. Now when are we going to find Isabella Swan?”

“Why?”

“Because it looked like she needed help.”

“She popped off three zombies with three clean shots from a pistol. The girl clearly had everything under control,” Jasper reminded him.

“Yes, well, next time she might miss and I’ll be there to protect her.” The truth was, Caius had been unable to get Isabella Swan off of his mind since he saw her on TV. There was something about her; something entrancing; something that made him want to protect her. This was the first time in his three thousand years that he felt protective about someone. What was it that made this girl so special? He wanted answers. In order to get them, he needed to find her first. He scanned the group of friendly vampires in front of him. He was glad to be out and about for once instead of holed up within the cold, stonewalls of the castle. He was glad that Chelsea was dead and could no longer do Aro’s bidding and bond unwilling souls together. He detested Athenadora; that had been Chelsea’s doing. Aro wanted her bonded to Caius because Sulpicia wanted a best friend. Ridiculous. He thought it ghastly unfair that Aro had been one of the few vampires in the castle who had been with his true mate the entire time. He felt horrible for Marcus who’d simply wanted to die after his beloved Didyme was murdered-at the hands of Aro no less. Yes, the vampire world was a safer place without Aro Volturi, but what now? Reality was slowly creeping upon Caius that he was the lone king left, and he simply couldn’t abandon his post like a spoiled child just because it was a position he never asked for.

“That’s the spirit.” Peter Whitlock winked at him.

Caius was about to ask him what he meant by that statement, but was interrupted by screams coming from beyond the forest followed by gunshots. The group of vampires started heading towards the chaos. Zombies were swarming a residential street and several of the residents had taken to shooting them.

“No, don’t shoot. Please! He’s my son!” a woman pleaded. The zombie who was her son suddenly bit into her head and started devouring her brain. Other zombies joined in and started feeding off of various parts of her body.

“That’s disgusting! At least we only drink their blood.”

“Caius, what do you intend to do about Carlisle Cullen and this Joham guy?” Jasper asked.

“Obviously, they’ll have to be executed, but right now, I believe we have to deal with the zombies because it’s our responsibility to eliminate them since Carlisle Cullen and Joham Lobishomen are of our world.”

“That actually sounded regal and respectable, Caius,” Demetri noted.

“Well, yes, I do have my moments. I was one third of the ruling Volturi party, you know.”

“I know that Caius, but you and I have always been a little closer.”

“That sounds sentimental, Dem.”

“I can be sentimental and so can you.”

“Sound the fucking violins, why don’t you? Soon the two of you will be watching chick flicks and crying over spilt milk together.” Jasper shook his head.

Thwack! Alice gave him a swift slap across his face. “Be polite, Jasper! I happen to think Caius and Demetri are being sensitive.”

“So do I!” Charlotte declared. Surrounding her, all the female vampires did fist pumps and glared at Jasper.

“I can’t help you here, man,” Peter whispered to him. “You’re gonna have to dig yourself out of your own grave.”

“You know, Jasper, just because you have the sensitivity of a toenail doesn’t mean that all men are like you. Caius and Demetri are obviously sensitive like my Emmy Bear.”

“Emmett-call him Emmett! Cut out this stupid Emmy Bear bullshit, Rose. And by the way, your Emmy Bear is only sensitive when he wants to get laid!”

“Like you, Jazzy?” Alice asked.

Meanwhile, Caius and Demetri were watching the proceedings with amused expressions on their faces.

It was the first time someone else was being chastised for being insensitive and they were enjoying every minute of it.

Their attention was diverted when several successive gunshots were fired. “Shit! That one hit me!” Garrett fingered a bullet hole on his shirt. He broke into a smile and joked to Kate, “Honey, I took a bullet for you.”

She rolled her eyes. “You’re a damned vampire. Bullets don’t affect you at all.”

“I liked this shirt though, you picked it for me.”

“Oh my God! What the hell is with all this sappiness tonight?” Jasper shook his head. “Yeow! That hurt, Kate!” He jumped away from Kate Denali’s shocking touch.

“You deserved it for that comment, you insensitive jerk!”

“I thought Jane was evil, but damn, I forgot about Kate’s gift,” Caius murmured. “Shouldn’t we be helping the humans?”

“Yeah, we should,” Peter agreed, “but we have to do it the human way unless we can somehow draw the zombies out here.”

“Gifts don’t work on zombies. That’s how the castle became inundated with them; Aro ordered the guards to use their gifts and they didn’t work on them. In the end, he ordered everyone to drain the zombies.”

“I say we just lob their heads off with blunt objects like Esme did on TV; unless someone owns a gun.”

“And just where are we supposed to get blunt objects at this time of night?” Alice asked.

“I know.” Emmett nodded his head and grinned. “Come with me.”

They followed Emmett to Forks High School where he led them to the shed by the baseball field. He shredded the padlock between his fingers and opened the doors to reveal about fifty baseball bats used by the high school baseball team. They quickly grabbed a few bats each and took off on their mission to destroy the zombies.