Catharsis
By Mama4Dukes
Chapter 24:
Bella and Sam married quite young, during the summer prior to leaving for college. It was a huge wedding, planned by Ellen Uley, Alison Swan, and Renee Dwyer, and financed by Levi Uley-the likes of which had never been seen before in Forks or La Push. The couple had no idea who the majority of the guests were. Indeed, most of them were friends or business associates of his great-grandfather with the exception of the Seattle Mariner’s baseball team, who were Phil’s guests. The guest list also included the entirety of the Forks Police Department, the majority of residents of Forks and La Push, plus the friendly vampires from the battle, and the Denali Coven-who neither of them knew. That wasn’t quite true. Bella had met Laurent in passing once while he was a nomad.
As a wedding gift, Alison and Charlie turned over the keys to the house in which Sam had grown up in to them. Of course, on the day of the wedding, the house had been torn down completely because Uncle Billy and Uncle Harry had damaged the foundation when they phased into wolves and exploded through the front of the house instead of being polite wolves and leaving through the front door. They were using the deceased Edward Masen’s cash to finance the rebuild of course. Sam’s great-grandmother, with the advice of Esme Cullen through video chat, redesigned the entire home to her specifications. The result was a beautiful, modern home, which was functional yet relaxing, and plenty of space to raise any future children in. It also took three years to build, much to the consternation of the bride and groom, but they were delighted with the resulting product.
During college, they lived in the most beautiful, luxurious lakefront house in Seattle, which belonged to Levi and Ellen. Sam pushed himself and earned his bachelor’s degree in neurobiology in a mind-blowing three years. He decided to give business a try and earned his MBA afterwards, but realized that his true passion was definitely medicine so he attended medical school at the University of Washington. Sam was thankful for Jasper’s generous cash gift because it allowed Bella and him to truly pursue their academic dreams without worrying about how to fund it.
After nine years of higher education, and five years of residency, he became a full-fledged emergency room physician at Forks Hospital, taking Dr. Gerandy’s job. He also volunteered hours at the Tribal Clinic and helped his great-grandfather out at the bank from time to time. There was no sense in wasting a good MBA, after all.
Sam’s indecisiveness with his career choice was perfectly fine by Bella because she was taking her sweet ol’ time attending college. She graduated with a degree in anthropology and a minor in mythological studies. After graduation, she continued on until she earned both her master’s degree and PhD in archaeology.
Bella’s academic partner was, none other than, Paul Lahote. He had really pushed himself at Evergreen State College and ended up graduating with a degree in Native American and Indigenous Studies. He attended the University of Washington for his master’s degree and PhD with Bella. Apparently, they had a plan, which was fine with Rachel and Sam because it was better when things were planned rather than unplanned-or so they had thought at the time.
Bella and Paul became co-authors of a wildly popular supernatural fiction series while they were still earning their PhDs. Their books sold millions of copies and they were constantly at the top of the New York Times Bestseller list. People would literally camp out overnight to get first edition copies of their books.
Of course, writing came with the necessity of traveling frequently, which they did in a private jet provided by one Peter Whitlock. Together, the two buddies got into more scrapes in the name of author’s research. Sam recalled the time they had flown to Romania on a couples’ vacation. The four of them had to escape from a pack of werewolves, with their imprints riding wolf back because Bella and Paul decided that digging around a sacred werewolf shrine during a full moon was a brilliant idea. The resulting book, their first one, was titled ‘Escape From the Lupine Shrine.’
There was also the time the dynamic duo flew to Mexico to look for evidence of the Southern Vampire Wars. Needless to say, they found it. Peter and Jasper, together with their mates, rushed down to rescue them. They ended up eradicating all the warring factions using an idea that the writing duo had come up with, involving Jasper’s power as an empath. With the eradication of the evil vampires came the spoils of war. The coffers of the evil warlords were split four ways, which amounted to quite a substantial sum. The Lahotes, Whitlocks, and Uleys also now owned an entire village in Mexico. The families took turns vacationing there, and they often allowed some of their friends and pack brothers to stay there as well. The subsequent book was called, ‘The Empath Strikes Back.’
In between their travels, Bella and Paul were actually doting parents. Between the two couples, they had a son each with plans to have more as soon as their schedule became less hectic. With Sam and Rachel’s busy, professional careers, the writing duo undertook the majority of parenting responsibilities; except for the times they spent traveling for research. During those times, the grandparents and great-grandparents stepped into the role with gusto. Of course, the time apart was difficult for the two couples with the pull, but the knowledge that they would be together soon kept them from going over the deep end. And in Sam’s case, he knew that Paul would keep Bella safe no matter what mess they were in-and they were in a lot of messes-all in the name of fiction.
Like now.
Sam should have known something was up when Paul invited the entire pack to a reunion in Italy, footed in entirety by him. Everyone accepted the invitation with the exception of Jared, who no longer associated with the pack. Even the older wolves, Billy, Harry, and Levi were happy to go. In the beginning, everything appeared normal. They toured all the major sites and they purchased souvenirs for their spouses and kids. Even today, everything seemed fine. They were in a town near Florence and were going to tour a castle, but then Bella suddenly made an appearance. She was supposed to be at a writer’s conference in Bon Temps, Louisiana.
But it got even weirder with the arrival of the Whitlocks.
“What the hell are you two up to?” Peter Whitlock asked. He was accompanied by Jasper, Alice, and his mate Charlotte.
“Why do you always assume we’re up to something?” Paul asked him, and then turned to Bella. “Do you have the dolls?”
“I do.”
“And are you packing?”
Before Bella could reply, Sam asked, “Packing? Why would she be packing? She just got here. She hasn’t even explained why she’s here yet.”
“It’s obvious she’s here because she loves you and missed you. You’re her wolf, after all.” Paul turned back to Bella and asked again, “Are you packing?”
“Oh, yeah. And I even tested it. A vampire tried to use me as a blood bag. These silver UV bullets are the way to go. The nomad went poof!”
“What?” Sam’s countenance turned to one of alarm. “What vampire? Where?”
“Oh, don’t worry. It wasn’t here. It happened while I was in Bon Temps. I got him.”
“Oh my God!” Alice suddenly had a vision. “Bella, you didn’t?”
“You can see that I did. Gee whiz! It’s what you wanted, isn’t it? I asked you twice.”
By now, Sam was desperate. “What? What did she do?”
Alice nodded her head. “It is, and it will work.”
“Of course it’s going to work. Bella and I researched this.”
“And I tested the theory.”
Bella dug out a bottle from her tote bag and opened it. The label on the bottle read, ‘Tru Blood.’
“What the hell are you drinking?” Jasper asked.
“Synthetic blood. It masks the scent of my blood so they can’t detect I’m human.”
“Is it good?”
“It’s okay. Here, you can have the rest of mine. It’s O-neg. It’s supposed to have all the nutritional properties vampires need.”
Jasper shrugged his shoulder and had a sip. “Hey, not bad! Where did you get this?” He downed the rest of the drink.
“Bon Temps. Paul and I are going there again next year.”
“We are?”
“Sure. They not only have vampires there. They have shapeshifters, werewolves, and faes. We’ve got to break into the fae realm!”
“Man! We’ve hit the mother lode!”
“Yep!” Bella looked at the big clock tower. “It’s time.”
“Wait a second! I thought we were here to stop them!” Jasper said.
“You are so damned naive. Since when have you been able to stop them or us?” Peter asked, winking at Alice. “Just follow my lead.” He turned to Bella. “Did you grab the kids?”
“I did. Esme and Rose should have brought them back to the campground by now.”
“Where are Carlisle and Emmett?”
“They’re waiting at the hotel for them.”
A beautiful female vampire wearing contacts came to greet them. “Welcome to the Castle of Saint Marcus. We are very glad you have come. We will begin our tour in the basement.”
Sam noticed that the Whitlocks had all fallen in behind them.
A human receptionist greeted them in Italian. They continued following the vampire.
The female vampire continued directing them. “This way, please. Keep up!”
They went through a corridor and the woman opened the double doors and bade them to enter. The Whitlocks suddenly moved to the front. The tour guide finally noticed them and was disturbed by their appearance.
“What are you doing here?” the tour guide asked Alice. “It’s fishing day.”
“Oh, I love to fish!” Billy stated. “Where can we do that? Is there a river that runs down the mountain? Are there rods and tackle we can borrow?”
“Heidi, where are our visitors? We’re famished.”
“Master, we have a problem. The menu I selected seems to have escaped.”
“Escaped? They’re children! How could they have escaped?” a voice called from within the room. “Jane, Alec-go and look for them. Bring them to us, and don’t hurt them. They’re our dinner, after all.”
Two pale, chalky, evil-looking, vampires, who looked twelve years old, appeared at the double doors.
“Now,” Bella whispered. She, along with Paul, pulled out guns and shot the childlike vampires, both of whom exploded from the inside out into tiny bits and pieces. At the same time, Charlotte put her fist through the head of the vampire named Heidi, shattering her.
“Hell, yeah!” Paul cried. He turned to the pack. “Be ready to phase.” And then he kicked the double doors wide open, and entered what appeared to be a throne room filled with evil looking, red-eyed vampires wearing cloaks.
“Who are you? What have you done to Jane and Alec? And our fisherman-we need our fisherman!” A creepy vampire with long, stringy black hair bellowed from a gilded chair on the throne. There were two additional vampires on either side of him plus several guards surrounding all the exits.
“For the sake of political correctness, I would just like to point out that she was a fisherwoman, not a fisherman.” Charlotte pointed out. “You are supposedly rulers, after all. You need to change with the times.”
“Aro, Aro, Aro. You’ve been a very bad boy!” Bella chastised. “You’ve broken your own rules.” Paul and she had their guns drawn.
“You don’t have to answer to a…” He sniffed the air. “Whatever she is, you don’t have to answer her, Aro,” a blonde vampire to the side of him sneered. “We make the rules.”
“This is where you’re wrong. You don’t get to come into our world and take our children to satisfy your hunger. Children are not a gourmet meal, contrary to your opinion! They are our future. And I take particular offense to you kidnapping boy scouts-our son will be a cub scout as soon as we can get him potty trained.”
“He has to be in the first grade, Bells,” Quil pointed out.
“Correction. Our son will be a boy scout as soon as he’s in first grade. Quil here is the scoutmaster so he knows.”
“The fact is, you three have been hypocritical with the way you rule,” Paul said. “You cannot have a rule stating that children cannot be changed, yet use them as your food source. I can’t allow it, she won’t allow it, and the supernatural world won’t allow it.”
Aro chuckled, “Caius, they claim that the supernatural world won’t allow it. Perhaps we should give them a sample of exactly whom this world belongs to.”
“What an excellent idea? Felix, kill the woman.”
Suddenly, a big hulking vampire rushed towards Bella. Sam instinctually phased and the two started going at it. Peter came to assist, and the vampire named Felix was dispatched immediately.
Meanwhile, the other wolves had phased, and were toe to toe with the evil vampires. The Whitlocks assisted, too, while Bella was popped off vampires left and right with her special bullets.
“Enough!” Aro called. Everyone stopped fighting. “Who are you people? I demand to know!”
“I am Captain Peter Whitlock, and I’m here to tell you that your reign has officially ended. Major Jasper Whitlock is here, and he won’t put up with any more of your savage behavior. Feeding from innocent school children is inhumane!”
“Major Whitlock of the Southern Vampire Wars? The empath created by Maria? And how does he plan on destroying us when he can’t even destroy his own maker?”
Jasper finally stepped forward to speak. “Who said that Maria hasn’t been destroyed?” he scoffed. “You’ve been holed up here for centuries, only leaving once or twice a century, while leaving your spies stationed all over the world. Don’t you find it odd that you haven’t heard from your spies in Mexico in a while?”
“Demetri-go to Mexico and find Diego and Alejandra immediately!” Aro ordered.
“No need to make the effort, Demetri,” Jasper snickered. “Diego and Alejandra are no longer amongst the living.”
“This is insubordination! They were in our employ! You had no right to kill them!”
“Aro, it doesn’t matter what they’ve done. The Whitlocks have been consorting with werewolves-our natural enemy.”
“You are correct, Caius.” Aro turned to the guards with a sinister expression. “Destroy them, and the werewolves, too!”
With renewed purpose, the vampires turned to attack the wolves.
“Bella! Hurry up and get moving on those dolls.” Paul urged. “Crap!” He picked her up and threw her to Alice, who nimbly caught her. When the vampire called Demetri lunged at him, he deftly phased in mid-air and took him out with the help of Sam.
“ What the hell are you two mixed up in now?” Sam asked, as he tore apart the vampire.
“ We’re just doing what’s necessary!” Paul replied. “Behind you!”
Sam ripped apart a crazy female vampire.
In another part of the room, Alice kept Bella protected from any attacking vampires.
“Hurry, Bella,” Alice urged.
“I am hurrying. I just have to set this up properly. Oh, and I need a strand of their hair. They each have to give it to us themselves.”
“Are you kidding me?” Alice hollered.
“That’s what the witch told me! I didn’t make the rules.”
“Damn it! Sam, look after her.”
Alice somersaulted over everyone and arrived by Jasper’s side. “Did you hear her?”
“Yeah, I did. How the hell are we going to manage that?” Jasper drove his fist right through one of the guard’s heads and ripped off the head of another.
“Compel them, Jasper! You’re an empath! Scare them into giving it to you!” Bella yelled. “Do to them, what you did to the warlords!”
Sam rushed to Bella’s side to keep her protected. He returned to human form and stood in front of her.
“I swear to God, Bella. You’d better have a really good explanation for this BS! One minute I was on a nice vacation and…”
“Get down!” Bella yelled as she shot a creepy looking vampire, who tried to get to Sam. The vampire exploded like the others.
“I don’t even want to know what’s in those bullets.” He looked into Bella’s eyes. “As I was saying, one minute, I was on a nice vacation and the next minute, you show up and chaos ensues. Now what are those dolls?”
“Oh, just something I had a witch make for me for the sake of world peace.”
Jasper, meanwhile, donned a sinister expression and got the three Volturi kings quaking in their boots. Sam even felt a little frightened.
“And how, may I ask, did you even find a witch?”
“Sam, honey, this is not the time for a lecture.”
“It is!” he griped, as he ripped a vampire’s head off with his bare hands in anger.
“That was really sexy,” his wife commented.
“Oh, yeah?” Sam blushed. He always liked it when his wife called him sexy. He gave her a quick kiss on the lips, completely forgetting about the fact that he had been in the process of lecturing his naughty wife.
“We’ve got them!” Alice rushed to Bella’s side carrying three strands of hair. “What do I do with them?”
“Put them on the corresponding dolls,” Bella instructed. Sam noticed that the dolls resembled the three rulers.
Alice did as she was told.
“Now, I need you to spit some of your venom onto the dolls.”
“Really, Bella? Do I have to spit? Spitting is so unladylike. Can’t I collect my venom in a cup and…”
Bella pointed her vampire killing gun at her friend. “Spit or die, Alice!”
“Okay, okay. You don’t have to be so mean about it. I’m spitting!”
Once Alice was done, she asked Sam for some of his blood.
“For real?”
“Yes, for real. Just slice yourself with this scalpel, and drop some of your blood onto the dolls.”
“Any second now, Bella!” Peter called as he karate chopped a vampire in half.
“Fine!” Sam ripped open the sterilized package, sliced his forearm, and watched as his blood mingled with Alice’s venom. It was fascinating to him how the combined mixture sizzled.
Bella then took the same scalpel and, without warning, sliced her hand. When her blood mingled with Sam’s blood and Alice’s venom, she dropped a match onto the dolls and set them on fire.
In an instant, the three Volturi rulers began screaming in agony. The vampire guard stopped fighting and watched as their rulers began melting. Peter took advantage of the situation, and decapitated the heads of the remaining evil vampires before he suddenly stopped in his tracks and buckled onto the floor. Alice let out an ear-piercing scream and fainted into Jasper’s arms, who dropped to the floor while holding her. Billy caught Charlotte as she collapsed, and laid her gingerly onto the floor next to Peter.
The wolves returned to their human forms, some were clearly injured.
Sam tried to go and help Alice, but Bella cried, “No! You need to leave her as she is! She’ll be okay. Help the wolves.”
He nodded and rushed to assist Harry, who had broken his arm.
“Leah, I need your help!” Even though she had retired from nursing, she was still medically competent and could assist.
She rushed to his side, completely in the nude. Bella took off one of her layers and tossed it to her. Leah, gratefully, put it on.
Sam’s wife also pulled out his medical bag from her bag.
“I’m not even going to ask why you have that,” he commented.
“A doctor should always be prepared. You should be grateful I have it.”
He shook his head in exasperation, and turned to his patient. “I need to set it before it begins to heal. This is going to hurt”
He worked quickly, then made his way to the others. Most were just bruised. Embry had an open gash on his forehead, which needed to be stitched, and a few had fractured ribs. While Sam and Leah were working, Bella and Paul were throwing the bodies of the decapitated vampires into an incinerator, which they located through a doorway behind the throne room.
“Are the two of you going to tell us why we were involved in a vampire war in the middle of our Italian vacation?” Levi asked.
“You’ll find out soon enough,” Paul replied. “Bella, throw me that hand over there.”
“Sure thing. She picked it up and tossed it to him as if it were a newspaper.”
They seemed very experienced at this sort of thing.
“Hang on!” Paul called. “I heard something jingle when you picked that torso up.”
“You’re not stealing off of corpses, are you?”
“No, we’re looking for clues. You really make a poor detective, Brady. I don’t even know why Charlie hired you.”
Suddenly the main doors opened and the human, Italian receptionist walked in, carrying a note.
She looked dismayed that there were no bodies on the throne, and then she noticed the naked wolfpack and smiled. “Ooh la la. Sì Sì” She slipped her dress off and held her arms open as if to say, ‘Come to me.’
Everyone stared at her with their mouths hanging open. Bella was pretty sure that Uncle Billy was drooling.
“You know. Sometimes it sucks to be imprinted,” Jake noted as he stared at the Italian girl’s ample bosom.
“Do all Italian women shave their nether-regions?” Billy asked.
“Brady, can you angle me a little to the left so I can get a better look at what Billy is talking about?” Harry requested. “Brady? Brady?”
“I think I just imprinted,” he whispered.
“On her or her hoo-ha?” Harry questioned.
“On her, I think. I mean she comes with the hoo-ha, doesn’t she? Either way is fine by me.”
Paul approached the girl and spoke to her in perfect Italian.
“Since when can you speak Italian?” Sam asked.
“I can do lots of stuff, and so can Bella. We just don’t tell Rachel and you everything we do because you guys get so uptight. Anyway, her name is Gianna. She wants to know who wants to do her first.” Paul started chuckling. “Apparently, she thinks we’re having an orgy.
Brady smiled and raised his hand like an eager schoolboy.
Gianna smiled, motioned him towards her, took his hand, and disappeared out the door with him.
“God damn! That girl has one fine body.” Billy sighed.
“She might have a nice body, but that is one skanky girl!” Leah chimed in.
“You’re not kidding, but Leah, she left her dress behind. You can throw it on,” Bella pointed out.
“I am not putting skanky girl’s dress on!”
“Well, it’s either hers or the tour guide’s. Which one do you want? I’m about to incinerate the tour guide.”
“I’ll take skanky girl’s dress. At least she’s human and smells nice.”
“I thought you’d say that.”
“Bella, where are my clothes?” Paul asked.
“In my tote bag. Just grab it.”
“Wait a second! How come you have his clothes in your bag?” Sam asked, completely appalled.
“She always has a spare outfit for me, you goddamned idiot. I’m her writing partner! Gee whiz! It would be nice if you could use some common sense once in a while.”
“I know, right?” Bella shook her head at her husband in disbelief.
“How in hell do you put up with them?” Embry asked his brother. “They don’t make any sense at all, and they constantly get into scrapes.”
“I know. Rachel says they drive her nuts, but they rake in the dough so she puts up with their weirdness.”
“You know, Jacob. It would help if you’d bring some of the dead vampires over here so we could burn them instead of gossiping about Paul and me.”
“I’m coming, I’m coming.”
While they were cremating the bodies, Quil’s countenance changed to one of stunned amazement. “Uh, Bella?”
“What is it?”
“Call me crazy, but I think Peter’s heart is beating.”
“It’s working,” Bella muttered. “Sam, bring your medical bag and do your doctor stuff!”
He rushed over to his side and checked for his pulse first. “Holy shit. He’s got a pulse.” He blew out a breath and started mumbling to himself. “Stay calm, Sam. Stay calm. Don’t freak out. You’re a wolf. You’re good with weird.” He put his stethoscope on and listened to Peter’s heart. “Yep, his heart is beating. He’s been clinically dead for how long? Over a hundred years? And now he has a pulse, heartbeat, and his breathing is approaching normal.” He turned to Bella and Paul. “What the hell did the two of you do?”
“We were researching our next book. Gee whiz! You ask us this whenever our research proves to be fruitful.”
“Well, I don’t particularly like your form of research.”
“Yeah, yeah. Tell us something we haven’t heard before.”
“But they’re human, or at least approaching it.”
“That was the point, duh!” Paul turned to Bella. “We should raid the castle.”
“And we should get these guys some clothes before Brady’s imprint jumps their bones, too.”
Colin and Seth looked particularly excited at that prospect.
“True, although some of them look like they could use it.”
“Okay, look after the Whitlocks. Paul and I will be right back,” Bella ordered, leaving a stunned group of naked wolves trying to figure out what the hell just happened.
Paul returned a few minutes later with clean clothes for everyone, and blankets and pillows for the four Whitlocks.
“Uh, where did you get these clothes?” Quil asked as he unfolded a robe.
“Upstairs in the private chambers.”
“Are you saying we’re wearing clothes that belonged to the dead leeches?”
“Well, I’m not, but you are. You see, I’ve been in these situations more than I care to acknowledge so now I make sure Bella carries a spare of everything for me for those ‘just in case’ moments.” Paul turned to Sam. “How are the Whitlocks doing?”
“Their vitals are approaching normal. Their body temperature is still a bit low. Where is my imprint?”
“Oh, she’s cracking open the safe. You might hear a loud boom.”
“Isn’t that illegal?” Sam asked, just as he heard something explode upstairs.
“It’s ours now. Supernatural law. We killed them, we get the booty-all of us do. We figured, we can split it between Colin, Seth, and the imprinted couples, especially now that Brady has got himself the slutty girl.”
“I don’t have an imprint,” Seth lamented sadly.
“Oh, you’ll get one. Bella and I already know who she is.”
“How the hell do you know who Seth’s imprint is?” Harry asked.
“We know people, who know shit.”
“Will I ever get an imprint?” Colin questioned.
“How the hell should I know? We don’t know everything. Did you open the safe?” Paul asked Bella when she came walking back into the room wearing a diamond-studded tiara.
“I did, but there was only jewelry and crap in there. I did find this nifty thing.” She pointed to her tiara. “It’s super cool. I like how it keeps my hair out of the way. I’m keeping it.”
“It suits you, buddy.” Paul nodded his head approvingly.
“Thanks. Anyway, I found their bank statements in a file cabinet, and the key to their safety deposit box.” She narrowed her eyes at Levi Uley. “Apparently, they use the same bank in Port Townsend that we do.”
Levi turned to her with an unaffected expression. “Really? How interesting? Well, then, allocating their assets should be a fairly simple task, especially since you have connections at the bank.” He chuckled at his great-granddaughter-in-law. “It should be a routine transfer.”
Their attention was diverted when they heard rapid, uneven breathing coming from Peter. Sam quickly went to his side to check on him.
“Did you two find bathtubs upstairs?”
“Yeah, they had several. Really clean, too. They don’t shirk on the housecleaning at all.”
“And what about a kitchen. I need clean water.”
“Oh, yeah, they have a fully stocked kitchen. Uh, the fridge has some food in it, probably for Gianna, and a ton of bagged blood.”
“Hmm… what about bottled water?”
“I think there might have been one of those five gallon bubblers.”
“Perfect. I need all hands on deck with the exception of Harry. Your arm is still healing. We need to start the bathtubs so we can bring their body temperatures back to normal. We need to undress them and get them into the tub.”
Everyone assisted in the endeavor. The Whitlocks were beloved by the pack. Bella led Sam to the kitchen. As soon as they got there, he pulled her into his arms and kissed her. “You scared the shit out of me, babe. Why do you do this to me? And don’t say research.”
“Because it’s fun.” She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him tenderly. “I like the adventure. Besides, it was necessary. The fate of La Push rested on destroying the Volturi. They found out about the existence of the pack through a nomad named Alistair because one of the Denalis, Laurent-to be exact, casually mentioned it to him. He reported what he’d discovered to the Volturi, and they were making plans to investigate.”
“How did you find out?”
“Through the Vampire Authority in Bon Temps, Louisiana. I’ve got connections there.”
“Vampire Authority? I’m not ready to hear this, but when you go there next year, I’m coming with you. I have to keep you safe, after all. You’re my imprint.” He kissed her on the lips and nuzzled her mark. “When we get back to the hotel, get ready for a long, long night.”
With a wink and a smile, she replied, “I love when we have long nights.”
After bathing the Whitlocks, their body temperatures normalized quickly. They placed them on beds they had found and simply waited. Jasper was the first to open his eyes. He clutched his throat and made a choking sound.
“Easy, buddy,” Sam soothed.
“A… Ali…”
“Alice is fine. She’s right here next to you. I’m going to give you some electrolyte solution I just mixed now, okay?”
The Major nodded his head. Sam put a cup to his lips and had Jasper drink. “What happened?”
“I don’t quite know, but I think you’re human again. I’ll have to conduct blood tests and whatnot to be sure.”
“Human?” Jasper checked his arms out. “My scars are gone.”
“I noticed that.”
“How did I become human?”
“You’ll have to ask…”
“Let me guess, Bella and Paul.”
“Yeah, those two, and I’m assuming Peter and your wife knew.”
“They’re always up to something, aren’t they?”
“Sam! We need you. Peter is waking up,” Embry bellowed.
“I’ll be right back. Stay in bed. Doctor’s orders.”
Within the next hour, the rest of the Whitlocks awakened to their new states. Charlotte lamented that her breast size had decreased dramatically.
“I don’t get it. I liked having big boobs.”
“You? What am I supposed to do? I loved burying my face in your titties,” Peter complained, and turned to Sam “Can you do those saline titties up for her, doc?”
“No, I’m an emergency room physician and family practitioner, not a plastic surgeon. Besides, those saline implants can burst and cause all sorts of health problems. She’s better off staying natural.”
Peter sighed staring at Bella’s bosom. “You’re so lucky, man.”
Sam’s cell phone rang before he could reply. “We have to go to the hotel. Carlisle needs my help with everyone. He says he can’t do it on his own. Whatever you did to change Peter, did you do it to everyone else?”
“Well, yeah, we had to change Carlisle, Esme, Emmett, and Rose as well.”
“I’m just saying that I’d be dead with a heart attack if I had your wife,” Jake stated.
They went straight to the hotel, leaving Brady to simultaneously guard the castle and resume his sex fest. Upon arrival, Sam sent the Whitlocks and most of the wolves to bed, but continued to care for everyone else with Bella and Paul’s help. He figured, they were the ones who caused this, so they needed to put in some sweat equity.
Sam was now in Carlisle’s room, taking his temperature.
“Your body temperature is still low,” he informed him. “You’re also severely dehydrated. Damn it. I wish I had a saline drip.”
“Look in the silver suitcase. I brought medical supplies with me when Alice gave me the heads up of what was to happen to us. It’s amazing how difficult it is to diagnose yourself.”
“Get in bed, Carlisle. I’ll start a drip on you, and then I’ll check on Esme.”
“You might want to give us some Vitamin K drops like you would with newborns. I’m sure we all have a deficiency.”
“Yes, there’s a lot I’m going to have to look into. This is all new to me.”
“You know, I remember when you were just a teen who was insanely curious about medicine. I thought you were an incredibly bright young man back then. Now, look at you. Our roles have reversed and I’m the patient.”
“Well, I had an excellent supervising physician during my residency.”
“True, you did learn from the best.” Carlisle winked at Sam, and then said, “Thank you, Samuel, for everything.”
Over the next week, Sam cared for all of the newly reborn humans while Bella and Paul made daily trips to the castle, along with Levi to collect their booty. Everyone else continued touring Italy. At the end of the week, they all flew back to Sekiu Airport on Peter’s private jet-wolves, humans, and skanky imprint.
The Cullens, McCartys, and Whitlocks decided to settle in Forks so Sam could monitor their health. What Sam wasn’t expecting was for the Denalis to buy a house and reside in Forks. They, too, had all turned human and needed help with assimilation.
With the influx of vampires turned humans in the community, the elders held a pack meeting, demanding an explanation from Bella and Paul.
“Actually, we can’t tell you because it would give away the plot to our next book. You’ll have to wait for its release like everyone else,” Bella replied.
“Why do you two cause so much trouble?”
“Trouble? We did La Push a favor by saving it. As far as we’re concerned, you guys should be on your knees, thanking us profusely.”
“Thanking you? You nearly got us killed.”
“Honestly, we made you rich beyond your wildest dreams. You had to earn some of it yourselves. We did the hard part, all you had to do was fight off a couple of vampires. Gee whiz!”
Levi gritted his teeth and sighed. “How about if you give us a brief synopsis of what happened?”
“Quil, we need you to write up a secrecy contract because we don’t need any leaks about the book prior to the release date,” Paul ordered.
“Now?”
“Yeah, just use the standard one we always use, but change the names on it.”
“Fine. Give me a few minutes. I’ll be right back.”
After Quil returned and the contract was signed, Bella and Paul gave an explanation of what had transpired.
“So, it all began when Bella received a phone call from a guy named Eric Northman in Bon Temps, Louisiana. They were having trouble with a new creature who was draining humans and leaving them for dead. In the US, there are three communities, which house a large population of supernaturals: Bon Temps, Louisiana-extending out to the greater Shreveport area; Mystic Falls, Virginia; and Forks and La Push, Washington”
“How did the two of you find that out?”
“Dad, they’re going to say research so why do you even bother asking?” Rachel noted.
“It’s true. We learned this while we were earning our master’s degrees. Anyway, Eric Northman called Bella asking for help, so she drove down there because she was in Louisiana anyway.”
“Wait a second! Did this all happen when I was at the medical conference at the LSU Medical Center in Shreveport?”
“It did. I had to go down there anyway because I wanted to check out the vampire killing UV bullets. Lucky you had a conference there.”
“I knew there was something fishy. Since when do you want to attend a medical conference?”
Bella wagged her eyebrows at her husband who chuckled at her. He loved how mischievous she was.
“So, Bella met with this Eric guy who turned out to be a vampire, in the traditional sense. He had found out about us because we’ve made a name for ourselves with being pretty dead on accurate with our research. Judging by the description and actions, she quickly deduced that he was a vampire like the Cullens used to be: the kind that can stay up all day as long as they don’t go out and expose themselves. Traditional vampires have to sleep during the day because even the slightest exposure to sunlight will kill them.”
“Interesting. I thought there was only one kind of vampire.”
“We did, too, in the beginning, but there are at least three different varieties in the United States alone. They all started out as traditional vampires, but evolved due to spells being cast on them by witches. The supernatural world is complex. It’ll always involve a bit of magic. Billy, you yourself said that the Quileutes have always had magic in our blood. It’s true. From the oldest of times, we’ve been magical creatures. Anyway, in the case of the Quileutes, our magic transformed us into wolves for the good of the tribe. Sadly, in most cases, magic is used for more nefarious purposes.”
“Paul is right. In Egypt, we met an ancient vampire named Amun. He was changed sometime before 3500 BC.”
“BC as in before Christ.”
“Yep. Anyway, Amun told us a story about how his maker was greedy and power hungry. He didn’t like to go underground during the day so he contacted a powerful sorceress, who cast a spell on them so they would be able to go out during the day. Unfortunately, the spell failed because now the vampires were up all day, their skin was hard like marble, and they were still unable to go out during the day because now they sparkled like Leah wearing body glitter when she wants to get it on with Embry.”
Leah threw a pillow at her for that comment. Bella grinned at her friend and they both started laughing.
“Anyway, the spell failed miserably. Amun’s master became angry and drained the sorceress. This left them with absolutely no recourse until now. After meeting with Eric and the Vampire Authority, they showed me photos of the vampire on security cam. I sent them to Carlisle, who got back to me and told me that it was a nomad named Alistair. The Vampire Authority asked me to help capture him. I said that I would, in exchange for the name of their most powerful resident witch.”
Bella paused and took a sip of water. “The following day, I went to meet with the witch. Through my conversations with the Cullens, the Denalis, the McCartys, and the Whitlocks, I knew that the one thing that they all wanted was for their cursed lives as vampires to end. They wanted more than anything to be human, to have children, to eat food, breathe air, and sit in the sun. I explained all of this to her and told her of how humane these vampires were. She was extremely sympathetic of their plight. She asked me to return after one full moon cycle and she’d have a solution for me. Needless to say, I returned.
“In the meantime, on the same day, I kept my promise and tracked down Alistair. It was easy to do. I got his phone number from Carlisle and called him. I asked him to meet me at a diner in Bon Temps. I had Eric and a really, hot werewolf named Alcide as my guard. I questioned him about his actions, and he readily admitted to feeding from some of the locals. While questioning him, I found out he had recently been to Volterra and they were making preparations to decimate La Push because Alistair had told them about us. He apparently found out from Laurent Denali, who inadvertently blabbed about the pack when speaking of their mutual acquaintance with the Cullens.”
“And then what happened?”
“Eric and Alcide tried to take him into custody, but he managed to escape. He found me by my rental car and tried to eat me, but I shot him with one of those silver UV Bullets and he exploded into bits and pieces. I returned to the hotel room, called Paul and we came up with a plan. I also got back in touch with the witch and told her about how the Volturi were coming for us. She said she would assist us with eradicating them because she sensed that if we didn’t, an evil curse would spread over all supernaturals.”
Paul took over the conversation at this point. “It goes without saying the witch was able to successfully reverse the spell cast by the sorceress. Anyway, we invited you all to Volterra because the witch told us there had to be a concerted effort from the pack to eradicate the evil. Bella slipped down to Bon Temps to pick up the dolls from the witch, and buy more of those nifty silver UV bullets. And that’s about all we’re willing to say about it.”
There was knocking on the door just then. Emmett was standing on the doorstep clutching his mouth. “I have a toothache,” he whined to Sam. “Can you pull it?”
Sam turned to Rachel. “You’re up. This is out of my hands.”
“Have you even gone over oral hygiene with them?”
“Nope, that’s your job.”
“Alright, come on, Em. Let’s get you checked out. You probably need a root canal.” She smiled and wagged a finger at Bella and Paul. “The things I do for the two of you.”
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