Lair, Lair (Male!Reader x Edward Cullen) COMPLETE

Chapter 23: James vs James

(Just a fwi, there might be a clone chapter of 23 because I started to work on it and I think it got corrupted and I can't delete the other chapter. So just ignore that if it's there. Here we are the second to last chapter. Just a fwi, don't get your Hope's up of James being a Vampire because that would completely derail all the rest of the books so.... he is gonna pull a Bella.)

James could scarcely talk after they got to Arizona. He used to live here back in the day... but he didn't really feel like talking. Both of his parents had gone missing now... he can't keep this up. Even for Edward... he felt alive like never before around him, but was loosing his family really worth it? Watching everyone he loves die from old age while he selfishly decided to spend eternity with ONE person? He couldn't do that... Bella was the selfish one, not him.

Soon they arrived at a hotel, James vague remembers that this particular hotel was pretty high class. He gets it his boyfriends family is rich...

Alice gave him the key card and told him to go wait up in the room while they made sure everything was unloaded. He went to the elevator and went to the third floor, looking around he finally found their room number and he went inside. After puking literal blood up, he still felt very tired and decided to take the Queen bed and leave the King for Alice and Jasper. He hugged up to a pillow under the blanket and thought of Edward... he'd been James's sleeping pillow for about a week now and he missed the strong and cooling body of Edward to help him fall asleep. He closed his eyes and thought about the smell of Vanilla and Candy that Edward had. Soon his thoughts became foggy and he fell asleep.

James found himself running through the woods at fast speeds. The delicious smell of the hunt spurred him on. He was close, He felt himself pass a tree and stopping. James realized he wasn't running through the woods, the Vampire that wanted to kill him was. James felt immediate dread when the Vampire James sniffed the tree and snapped, breaking it in half as he realized it was a fake trail. He turned back into the woods and ran back. James felt the hot taste and feel of glass once again as his view switched, this time, he saw Edward, Rosalie, and Emmett running with his stuff and all of them immediately stopped. Edward had a terrified look on his face while Rosalie and Emmett were full of dread.

"He realized it was a fake... we have to go to Alice now!"

Something clicked in James's mind and he found the ability to wake himself up, he jolted up to find Jasper holding a shaking Alice, she was having a vision. Jasper had her hand on a sheet of paper as she began to sketch. Jasper looked over and bit his mouth.

"James found out the trail was fake. According to Edward his trail is heading this way."
Alice started muttering and Jasper coughed a little.
"I see a room with mirrors... wood... James is there. He has Charlie there..."
James looked at the sketch and felt shock and dread as he saw the photo.

"I know that place. It's where Bella did ballet... highly convenient that he is there."

Alice kept muttering and then said something that fills his blood with ice.

"I can hear Charlie calling out for your mom James. I can hear her... Charlie is blindfolded and bloody... Victoria must have taken her anger out on him because he is in bad shape..."

James's eyes swelled up with tears at the thought of his nearly dead dad calling out for Mom in his last moments. Just the image of his father dying brought all the buried fears and emotions back to the surface. He had to leave the room and went into the bathroom to cry.

While he wept he felt a sharp pain and gritted his teeth as he felt his little amount of time draining even faster before his eyes. His eyes had already turned blood red in the mirror as opposed to the light blue he had.