Dreams... (A Twilight Fanfic)

Chapter 14

Previously from Chapter twelve:

Then another yawn exited her body and I told her that she should get some rest. “We can talk about this matter another time love.”

“And we surely will, Edward.” She told me, already speaking with semi closed eyes and all. I knew she meant business with this specific conversation. We both lied down and as she fell quickly asleep.

Now, I had another worry that I did not think of until my love had brought it up. I pondered the question she asked, what other option was there. I think a few hours went by when I noticed that Bella was moving too much to be asleep, but she was asleep and I knew then that she was dreaming. She began screaming at the top of her lungs and louder than last time…

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I sat up in a frenzy trying to hold her still; I rested on my knees in front her and gently placing my hands over hers. “Bella-Bella please wake, tell me what’s wrong?” I tried to get her awake, worried of what caused her pain. Nothing but shaken screams came from her; while shallow breaths strained their way in-between, she was pleading with someone not to hurt a...man?

Was she referring to me? I wondered, but why would someone be hurting me? Tears began to slither their way down her red cheeks. Bella was pleading for mercy. Trying to soothe her to let her know I was here, I gently placed one hand on the side of her face, wanting to know what had caused this outburst of emotions, but yet nothing.

The shady light from the small lamp in the room echoed the taunting of a late night horror film. I wrapped her in the afghan that lay beside her, knowing that humans took comfort in feeling safe and warm. When Bella screamed, “Please take me and let them go! I will come with you.” Disturbed by what I heard my immediate response was, “No! Do not go with them Bella!” I had been consumed also by Bella’s nightmare just as she had been. I felt utterly useless in keeping my Bella safe; the one place that I could not help her appeared to be the very place of where they find her completely alone. The walls of this small bedroom felt as though they were closing in on me now.

Why couldn’t I help her-what was I supposed to do? She couldn’t hear me; I couldn’t stop this vivid nightmare. Bella slowly started to tremble, with eyes wide open but yet glossed over as if she was looking through me. What could put my love through this state?

I calmly rested both of my hands on hers, again pleading as I looked down, trying to find a solution to this, when I felt a change in the atmosphere – somehow, the air thickened. I lifted my head in a manner which was too fast for her to comprehend. Checking to make sure she was alright and then I felt nothing but pain of what was happening to her and having no control over it. I watched Bella’s face as she was being tormented by her own nightmares in such a way that I could believe nothing but that it was real. And then I felt my body becoming solid again, like at the houses.

Watching her so closely I then knew that this was my love doing this to me. I was powerless now in every way, my voice did not bring her out of it, and my touch did nothing to help. I have only one other time in my whole existence human and vampire that I have felt so wretched and I can now add this as well.

I became unimaginably distraught then Alice was ringing my phone over and over. I knew she would have seen my outcome with this, whether I was with Bella or not. I thought I almost felt a pain coarse right through me and at that same moment Bella began to look white around the edges of her pupils in rage speaking the words…

“You will not hurt them-I will not let you.”

In a way that I never thought my love could react – and immediately I felt somehow a stronger pressure within my solid state.