Since You Been Gone: Chapter 17: Reunion With The Past
Story Title: Since You Been Gone
Genre: Twilight - Angst/Romance
Rating: MA/NC-17
Details: AH, OOC, Lemons
Summary: Victoria is on the look for revenge. She had lost her true love. Edward has to protect the city of Seattle and the ones he loves: Bella, Nessie and his family. Could he save them from Victoria's revenge?..
A/N: Hello my dearest readers! Well, I hope all of you are doing just fine. Sorry, but last night we had some difficulties to update the story, but he we are now. Thanks to my amazing Beta Nyvia for her lovely work!! I’ll shut up now... Go read!!
Disclaimer: Yeah, you already know that these characters are not mine.
Chapter 17: Meeting With The Past
I had finished my shift at the penitentiary, when I decided to get something to eat and then go home to watch a movie. Shit… a movie night again, alone. Me, myself and I. I walked around the parking lot heading in the direction of my red Audi TT.
“How much James loved this car,” I thought running my hand through the back passenger door to the front one. I was absorbed deep in my thoughts when I heard my phone ringing inside my purse. Putting the huge Coach purse on the top of the trunk of the car I finally found my phone. I need to get a smaller purse!
“Hi,” I answered without even looking to the screen first, as I always did. A precautionary thing I got from James, he always watched the screen before answering.
A thick and strong voice at the other side of the line left me breathless and shaky.
“Victoria…” I heard the male voice saying. I was petrified and scared.
“Who are you?” I instinctively asked back, not wanting to confirm his name.
“I'm Jacob Black; why, now you don’t remember an old friend?” he answered back, I was sure he was a bit stunned by my question.
“Sure… ummm… how can I do for you Jacob?” that was the only thing my brain manage to mutter.
A few seconds later, I heard a sarcastic laugh. Definitely, that was Jacob Black… he haven’t change at all.
“I’m not the one who needs help. In fact, you are who needs me,” he said. I laughed loud. I was getting nervous and anxious as more minutes passed by in this conversation.
“Oh, really? And what makes you think that I may need your help?” I said my voice full of irony and pain. He made me remember all the good and anguish things from my past life, the life I was fighting so hard to forget. I turned on my car and speed out of the parking lot, screeching the tires.
On the other side of the phone I heard a sigh of annoyance, a silence in which I thought that Jacob had hung the line. That scared me even more. But then he talked to me once again.
“You want to take away Edward Cullen for what he did to James, right? Just like me, so… I think that’s why you may need my help,” he answered after a distressing and long silence. I closed my hand and clenched it to my chest and had to instantly stop the car to avoid a crash. I tried to regain my anger and pain in control, to keep going with this conversation, at afflictive at is was.
“Jacob, I'm not playing games anymore and that theme in my life is already forgotten, so please I beg you...” but Jacob immediately interrupted what I was saying.
“Look Victoria…” he started to talk but I interrupted him.
“Please, this is just too painful for me Jake…” I started sobbing, my tears flowing through my cheeks like waterfalls; I just couldn’t control it anymore.
“I know Vic but you have to listen to me very carefully. All I can tell you in this phone call is that I'm going to Seattle in two days, so I hope to meet you there if you’re staying in the same address,” he said.
“Yes,” I answer in a barely audible whisper.
The next thing I heard was Jacob Black’s voice.
“Well, until then Victoria,” he said and the line cuts.
That call perturbed me that much that I didn’t stop to buy anything to eat, I wasn’t hungry anymore. Instead, started that feeling of bottomless pit once again, a hole that filled the center of my chest and cut me in half. All my deepest fears, the one that I had tried to hide under the carpet of my new and honest life, resurfaced again and came biting me on the back. There was that huge pain that leaved me without my heart and good feelings. I was just an empty shell.
There was a long time since I heard from Jacob Black, more than I had figured. Two long years… He was one of the few trustful and loyal colleagues who worked for James.
I still remember that dreadful day; I relive it every day just like a movie in my head. The pain of losing James, I always knew that things were going difficult with our business and I was prepared for everything, but for James death? I wasn’t prepared for that. I knew that our life style was dangerous, but I felt loved, and I knew he loved me back. And when you love… you do it blindly, and you always have the hope that everything wrong will get better in time. So many times he told me that he would quit the business, but he never did, and I never pushed him to do it neither. He will always have had that malign shadow on his back, but I wanted him; I wanted to stay forever at his side.
When Jacob found me in the woods a few miles from the house the day after the raid, I was completely numb and broken. I was still shacking, trembling, out of my mind and really scared. Jasper and him took me to a hotel. The next day I called my job to excuse myself and let them know that I have a huge family emergency and that I needed to travel outside the country. They agreed. In that period of time, we were able to bury James because some of his friends at the morgue took a corpse and replace the names on the paperwork and we could get his body; and I found a new house to live since I couldn’t move back to the one we had. And even if I can move there, I didn’t want to. The life of my beloved James was taken there. When I was checking our accounts around the world, I noticed that James had left most of his money for me in case something happened to him. I was stunned! I bet he already suspected that he was going to die at some point, and he thought in my well being.
As soon I found my new house, Jacob left. He didn’t tell anyone where he was going, but I guessed that he was going somewhere far. I didn’t know what Jasper and Rosalie were doing and I honestly didn’t care either. Jacob told me that I could go with him but I refused. I wanted to stay near James, even if he was buried six feet underground. Later, I knew that Jacob managed to flee to London.
In those two years my life haven’t been easy. I wasn’t happy. I lived in a trance, like a fucking machine. I was submerged in my job at the prison. There I felt alive. I became harsh and frivolous. Most of the inmates were scared of me. Hell even some of my coworkers were like that too.
My life without James was miserable. I even attempted suicide in a few occasions. I still don’t know how I didn’t succeeded in those attempts.
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After that call I knew that it was going to be a very long night; I didn’t even saw the clock moving. It appeared like it stopped at the same time when… I sighed. I couldn’t think about that anymore. I tried to get some sleep but it was impossible. I stayed awake all night, looking outside my window… feeling like a lion trapped on a cage.
Next morning I called my job and said that I was feeling sick, that I need some days off. Since I started working there the only time I asked for days off was when James died. After that I was never late or absent. Instead, I filled myself with every missing shift and overtime they gave me.
Today was the second day of the call that Jacob did to me. I was biting down my nails and my fingers were sore. I was looking at the front door, expecting Jacob. He arrived to my house around 11 pm. I jumped on my feet and ran to the door.
“Jacob... wow, it’s been a long time. You look different…” I told him.
He even looked taller than the last time I saw him, his black long hair was gone. He looked just like a man, not a bit like that boyish guy I met several years before.
“Same Victoria… you look gorgeous” he said giving me a tight hug. My emotions were flowing and my eyes were full of tears now.
“Thank you Jake” I gave a step back and wiped my tears with the back of my hand.
“Sorry I’m such a dork… please come in, have a seat” I said opening my door so he can get inside. He just looked around.
“How are you?” I asked him, trying to ease the strange feelings we both had.
“I’m doing great Victoria… how about you?”
“Fine” I simply told and then sighed.
“I guess progressing each day, you know…” I moved my hand signaling the sofa, so he could sit on it. I sat next to him. He remained silent a few more minutes.
“I’m glad you’re doing fine Victoria. But I think it was my duty to find you because I have something to say” his smile disappeared immediately from his handsome face.
“Talk, I’m listening…” I told him, looking for the bravest Victoria inside of me.
“James asked me to tell you that...” I couldn’t hear that, I just couldn’t so I interrupted him.
“Jake… please... don’t tell me anything… please, you don’t know how hard was for me to accepted his death” I felt the imminent flowing of tears that filled my eyes. In an instance, all remained silent around me, but he insisted.
“I promised him before he died that… I would give you his message” he said, his face tensed again. I knew that for him this was as hard to say as for me was hard to hear it.
“You don’t know how much I suffered his death Jacob. I felt like my heart was ripped from my chest. I even preferred to die. But I know you promised James to deliver his message… Then go on, I’m listening…” I said burying my face in my hands.
“He said that he always was going to be with you, and that he loves you dearly. Also he left more money for you… Here…” he said giving me an envelope with my name on it. It was James handwriting. I started to cry uncontrollably, I can’t hold it no more. The pain was just too unbearable to restrain.
Jacob knelt in front of me, his dark eyes full of hatred.
“Let’s revenge his death Victoria, we owe James that” he said deeply affected in the avalanche of emotions sweeping from both of us. I have never imagined this scene, Jacob Black, seated in my living room, talking about James and vengeance. It was surreal.
“But Jake… I don’t know if I have the strength to…”
“Did you forgot how Edward Cullen killed James? Cullen hunted him like a fucking animal only to murder him. We need to do it!” Jacob voice was filled with venom.
I couldn't say anything, then he continued.
“Edward Cullen is the only one responsible for your misfortune, for all your suffering and sorrow… You lost your lover, I lost a friend…”
Jake’s words cut deep into my soul. All the pain inside of me was suddenly evolving into a mass of hatred, into a fist of anger. I looked at Jake’s eyes, and I was sure about how to act.
I thought for a moment but I had finally made my decision. They had to pay, all of them. Edward Cullen was going to pay for all my suffering and the emptiness of my soul.
“I want my revenge Jacob. I need to make sure that Edward Cullen and his fucking family pays for what he did to James. He would regret the day he crossed our path” I told him.
“I’m going to call Rosalie and Jasper, I already spoke to them yesterday. They are just waiting for my call to come here. We are all at your side Vic, we are going to make him suffer the worst pain imaginable on his fucking life” Jacob said and I nodded.
It was definitely decided… I didn’t have to think about it anymore. I was going to revenge James death. I wasn’t happy because of them, so they didn’t deserve to be happy either. All they deserved was to suffer even more than me…
We would take care of the Cullen’s and then we will get our sweet vengeance.
Soon we were joined by Jasper and Rosalie and I already had developed in my mind the plan that was going to destroy Edward Cullen’s family forever.
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