Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Besotted

By Mama4Dukes

Chapter 09:

“Something is going down at the other end of this street,” Peter noted as he lobbed off another zombie head.

“That’s where Bella lives, or used to, when she was human,” Jasper pointed out.

“Well, she’s home now, ain’t she?” Peter grinned at him.

“She is and Esme’s with her. I can feel Esme’s essence,” Demetri informed them.

“Alright, we’ll handle this side of the block, you handle the other side,” Eleazar stated.

Caius, Demetri, the Whitlocks, and the McCartys rushed towards the Swan residence. When they arrived, Charlie was trying to reason with someone.

“Listen to me, Karen. He’s no longer human. Mike is dead.”

“This is still my Michael. I won’t let you kill him.”

A man next to her pointed an assault rifle at Bella. “Your kid dies if you put a bullet through mine. You’ve already done killed his wife.”

“That was me.” Bella informed him. She had a satisfied smirk on her face. Caius imagined that the guy’s wife must have been a bitch.

Suddenly, a blond, male zombie reached for the woman named Karen and sunk his teeth into her heart.

“Mikey, no! No, no! That’s your Mommy! Karen? Karen, honey?” the man called, but it was too late. She was dead.

Charlie Swan nodded at Bella. They fired a bullet each and took out the zombie and his mother. The father saw red; he turned his rifle onto the Swan residence and sprayed bullets onto it.

“Daddy!” Bella cried as her father went down. Caius, for some reason, rushed straight to her. He broke the neck of the man who shot Charlie Swan, then went to Bella’s injured father, sunk his teeth into his neck and injected his venom into him.

“Come on, we have to get inside,” Peter urged. Caius picked up Charlie and carried him into the house while Demetri helped a shaken Bella inside.

It was chaos in the house. Two humans were bleeding from bullet wounds. “Do something! Change him!” Jacob Black ordered. “I can’t live without my dad. Change him! Bella? Please?”

“I… I don’t know how,” she whimpered, “but I’ll try.”

“Change my mother, too. Please, Bella?” Seth begged.

Bella moved towards the two bleeding humans. A warm hand reached out for her shoulder, one that sent frissons through her body. “Stay,” he ordered in a velvety voice. “Demetri and Peter will change them. You’re not calm enough. Stay.”

She turned towards the calming voice and stared into the eyes of Caius Volturi who was staring at her with a shocked expression.

“Holy vampire imprinting,” Leah commented.

“Is that what this is?” Bella asked.

“Looks like it to me. Holy wow.”

Caius reached out and stroked Bella’s cheek.

“Oh, you’re done for, man.” Peter shook his head. “You’re falling head over heels already and you haven’t even claimed her. No more porn for you, unless she happens to like porn like my Char.”

Caius didn’t answer him. He stared at his mate completely besotted, unable to filter in any other information. It didn’t matter that the world around him was falling apart; he knew that his world was in front of him and nothing was going to change that ever.

“Thank you for changing my father,” she whispered.

He nodded, unable to utter one word in front of his breathtaking mate.

Two screams, one male and one female, shattered their tranquil moment. Billy and Sue had begun their transformations and were screaming in sheer agony from the burning pain.

“Why isn’t my father screaming?” Bella asked.

“Bella, you didn’t scream either. You were very calm through your entire change,” Esme noted. “It must be a family trait.”

“I need medical supplies,” Rose interrupted. “We need to remove any bullets inside of their bodies before their skin hardens.

“My mother is a nurse. She has a medical bag upstairs.”

“Would you get it for me, please.”

“Of course.” Leah rushed upstairs and brought down a black bag filled with supplies. “Wait, are you qualified?” she questioned as Rose opened the bag.

“She’s been to medical school twice and nursing school twice. She’s more than qualified,” Esme assured. Leah nodded, satisfied with the answer.

Rose removed a bullet from Sue’s abdomen. She quickly sutured the opening and moved onto Billy Black who had taken a bullet in his neck and one in his chest. With deft hands, she quickly removed the bullets and stitched him up. Then she stood up and announced. “Now we wait.”

“Wait? What about my father?” Bella asked.

“He’s fine, Bella. He doesn’t even have a bullet wound. He was just knocked out by the force of the bullets, he was wearing a bulletproof vest.”

“Oh, you mean he didn’t need to be changed?”

“He did need to be changed,” Jake replied. “He wouldn’t have been able to live without Sue or my dad. It all worked out well.”

“Ah… alrighty then.”

“Blondie, thank you.”

“You’re welcome, you smelly dog.”

“Right back at ‘ya.”

“Now, what are we going to do? Where are we going to take them?” Bella looked up at Peter. “Who are you?”

“Peter Whitlock, at your service.”

“Whitlock? Are you related to Jasper?”

“By venom-yes, by blood-no. Clearly, I’m the better looking one.”

“Oh, you are. You have nicer hair than he does and I like your smile.”

“ Bella! Don’t make me regret changing you!” Jasper yelled from outside.

“ Hey, Little Bear is part me, too, bonehead!” Emmett argued. “Um, we can use some help out here!”

“Right, we should probably help.” Caius turned to Jacob, Leah, and Seth. “You three stay in here. It would help if you could clean up all of the blood. They need to be dressed in cool, lightweight clothing. The change is hotter than the burning embers of hell. Not that I’ve been to hell. Right, um, I’ll just head outside and take out some more zombies.” He took Bella’s hand. “You’re coming with me.”

“No, I don’t do decapitations. I prefer bullets-less mess, you know.”

“I’ll stay with her. I’m pretty handy with a rifle myself,” Peter said. “Don’t worry, she’ll be safe.”

“Not on your life, you pervert. I’ll stay with her!” Emmett lumbered into the room. “She’s my sister.”

“I’ll be fine. Trust me,” Bella said. “I can shoot, I swear.”

“Yeah, we noticed on freaking live TV!” Emmett grabbed a rifle from the floor and cocked it. “Let’s do this.

“Hey, throw me a rifle too,” Jasper said, walking into the house. “I’ve got an idea. Garrett! We need you!” A minute later, Garrett appeared in front of them.

“What’s going on Jasper?”

“We’re going to take these zombies once and for all.” He threw a rifle to him. “From what I can see, there are five of us who can handle rifles. We’re going to get into a V-formation, march along the street, and take them out.”

“Um, what about ammo, Jasper? Do we have enough?” Bella asked.

“You’ve got enough. Dad cleaned out the station-all the ammo is here.” Seth pointed to a stockpile at the corner of the house.

“Good, you wolves keep the house safe. Esme, maybe you should help them.”

“Jasper, I’m not helpless. I can help eradicate the zombies.”

“I’ll go with her.” Demetri placed his hand on her elbow.

“ Ding! Ding! Ding! Round 2 of Vampire Imprinting,” Leah announced when she witnessed the pair of them smiling at each other with stars in their eyes. She shook her head. “And I thought we wolves were sappy when we met our mates.”

“Hey, what in hell is going on? We need help out there!” Heidi stormed into the room angrily. She caught sight of Demetri staring dreamy eyed at Esme and of Caius who was unable to take his eyes off of Bella. “Well, now, aren’t we the besotted ones? I knew your words would come back to bite you one day.”

“Enough! We need to get out there and take care of business because I, for one, am getting sick and tired of this zombie crap!”

The group of vampires filed outside to finally eradicate all of the zombies-at least the ones in Forks.