Devil in a Sweet Kiss -Chapter II
Disclaimer: I don’t own Twilight or any of the characters, else I wouldn’t be writing fanfiction of it.
Story: What if there was a reason for Bella’s clumsiness? What if she’d been paralyzed her whole life, but had recently learned to move? And the reason why she could suddenly move was because…she was telekinetic. When she moves to Forks, her new doctor, Carlisle Cullen, just might be the first to discover her secret. And yet, there are several more things drawing them together -and some things that’ll try to draw them apart.
Set AU since the beginning of Twilight.
Spoilers: Maybe, if I can incorporate just right. I’ll warn you beforehand.
Warnings: ????
Pairings: Carlisle/Bella, slight Edward/Bella, Jasper/Alice, Emmett/Rosalie…
A/n: Skimmed over and lightly edited.
Devil in a Sweet Kiss
Chapter Two: The Less Traveled Road
Jacob was driving her to school. She was being driven to school. How embarrassing is that?
The whole reason Charlie had wanted her to meet Jacob and Billy again was because he was worried about her driving to school, when she had a lapse in control. She admitted that that would produce horrible results, considering she wasn’t sure if she would be able to protect herself in a car crash after her moment of weakness. But still…
“I’m sorry, Bella. I’m sure at least my company won’t be so bad,” Jacob joked weakly, and she smiled at him for his effort.
“Thanks, Jake. It’s cool. Don’t tell…anyone, okay? At least not around here.”
He nodded. “Everyone at the reservation already knows, but they won’t say anything. Charlie’s picking you up, right?”
“Yeah. I’m not looking forward to being picked up by the cruiser,” she grimaced.
“That’s too bad. Charlie was going to give you this truck, but…you know. I guess it’s still your truck. You just won’t be able to drive. Well, not for awhile…”
She laughed at his rambling at the end. “I suppose. Just drop me in the front, okay? I need to go to the front office.”
“You’ll be fine?”
“Yes, don’t worry,” she reassured him, and she was cheered even more by the adorable smile he gave her. It made her want to pinch his cheeks.
She hopped out of the truck, stumbling a little by the quickness and suddenness of her move. She gave another reassuring smile to Jacob, who looked alarmed, before heading inside. She headed straight to the office, meeting a maternal red-haired woman at the desk.
“H-hello,” Bella greeted nervously.
The red-haired woman looked up and smiled brightly, “Hello, dear. What can I do for you?”
“I’m Isabella Swan,” she announced.
The woman’s smile actually grew bigger before she shuffled around some papers and finally found what she was looking for. Handing Bella her schedule, a map she went over, and a slip for her teachers to sign, Bella thanked the woman and left. She went to first period English, meeting Mr. Mason and having him sign the slip, and then Bella immediately went to sit in the back. She met Eric Yorkie in that class. He, nicely enough, helped her go to her next class.
The rest of the morning passed by in a blur, with only her trigonometry teacher, Mr. Varner, making her stand up in front of the class and introduce herself. She also met Jessica Stanley in both Trig and Spanish. She was a nice enough girl, who liked to talk a lot. It suited Bella just fine, considering she didn’t like to.
Soon enough, it was lunch and she just walked in, wondering where she was going to sit. All of a sudden, hard marble arms wrapped around her and the cafeteria grew quiet. A minute later when the stone arms had removed themselves, she found herself gaping at a topaz-eyed boy with honey hair like her new doctor’s. He was absolutely gorgeous, with pale skin and perfect features. Bella took a quick glance around to see people staring at them, and some glancing at a pixie-like girl. Seeing the pixie girl just smiling brightly and bouncing in her seat, the others went back to staring at them in astonishment.
“You looked like you needed a hug,” the blond boy muttered before he’d quickly retreated to the table where the pixie girl was sitting at. She immediately pulled him into quiet conversation, though she was still animated, and everyone went back to their usual clamor. It was still tinged with glances at Bella or at the table where the mysterious blond and pixie sat at.
She felt herself be hooked onto by Jessica, who excitedly pulled her to her table.
“Wow, Bella! How do you know Jasper Hale?”
Bella’s mouth worked a few times before she settled on a shrug. “I don’t. That was the first time I’ve ever even seen him.”
Jessica gazed at her in awe. “The Cullens and Hales never mix with the rest of us.”
And she proceeded to tell Bella all about Jasper and Rosalie Hale, and Edward, Emmett, and Alice Cullen. Even from the first glance of them, Bella had already deducted they were Dr. Carlisle’s family. Charlie was right that she would have no trouble picking them out. But it was nice knowing more information about them. She’d have to ask Dr. Carlisle about their move from Alaska. It would be interesting to know what Alaska was like.
Unfortunately, lunch ended soon. Bella bid them bye and headed to Biology II with another person she’d just met, Angela Weber. They were both shy, which helped because they understood each other more easily.
They split up once they entered the classroom, Angela having to go to her seat and Bella having to go talk to the teacher. Mr. Banner easily pointed her out to the only empty seat in the room, after giving her the class materials. And then she saw Edward Cullen.
She flinched, seeing him glaring at her with fierce coal eyes, almost snarling at the sight of her. She hesitantly went over to her seat next to him, flinching again when he moved his seat sharply farther from her. She watched in shock as throughout the whole class, he cringed away and turned his nose from her. His body was tensed and his hands had balled up into fists, never clenching or relaxing in the slightest.
Bella waited anxiously for the class to end to get away from his antagonistic stare. She was bewildered by his hostile greeting. She hadn’t even met him before then.
She wanted to run away as soon as the bell ran, but he beat her to it, shooting out of his seat jerkily. She refused to cry, not understanding his attitude. She even wondered if Dr. Carlisle had said something to his family.
“Hey! I’m Mike Newton,” a cute blond introduced himself.
She quickly composed herself. “Hi, I’m Bella.”
He grinned. “Are you headed to your next class?”
“Um, yeah. I have gym next.”
“That’s great! I have gym next too! Do you want to walk there together?”
Bella smiled unsurely, “Sure.”
He talked a lot on the way, reminding her a bit of Jessica. But he was very nice. He didn’t broach the subject of Edward Cullen, as she’d thought he would by the questioning glance he’d given her in the beginning and then the quick look at Edward’s retreating figure. Instead, he talked a lot about the school and the events coming up. He’d also informed her of the notable places in Forks.
Gym finished quickly without Bella having to dress, though Coach Clapp had found her a uniform already. Soon, she was on her way to the office again, and was surprised to find Edward Cullen in there arguing with the receptionist -about changing sixth-hour Biology to any time!
They’d never even met each other, and yet he was being a complete jerk and there was absolutely no reason for him to act this way towards her.
He’d abruptly stiffened and then glanced behind him at her. A small snarl almost formed before he told the receptionist never mind and left quickly, brushing passed Bella carefully.
She’d quickly handed the signed slip to the receptionist before running out.
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She was quiet when Charlie picked her up, steadfastly refusing to let her tears fall. Charlie looked at her in concern, but didn’t say anything. Bella was grateful for that.
“I’m a little late, so we can just head over to the hospital right now. That okay, Bells?” her father asked.
Bella gave him a faltering smile.
“I’m still working, so after you’re done just call me up at this number, okay?” Charlie handed her a piece a paper with a phone number scrawled on it.
“Sure, Dad. No problem,” she mumbled.
He dropped her off at the hospital, still glancing at her worriedly. She went inside, checked in, and waited for her turn to be called to the doctor. It wasn’t long until she met with Dr. Carlisle.
“Hey there, early bird,” he greeted her with a smile.
“Hi,” she said back timidly.
He looked at her confused. “Are you okay, Bella?”
“I’m fine, Dr. Cullen.”
He frowned, “I told you, Bella, just call me Carlisle. What’s wrong? Did I do something wrong?”
She shook her head. “No. It’s just…did you talk about me to your family or something?”
Dr. Carlisle looked surprised. “No, not really. Today was your first day at school, right? Did you meet my kids?”
“Yes. But…did I do something or did you say something? Because your son Edward doesn’t seem to like me very much. I don’t even know what I did.”
He frowned again. “I’ll talk to him. He was probably just in a bad mood. Don’t worry about it.”
She sighed, but nodded.
“Alright. Now let’s get started, shall we?”
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When Carlisle arrived home, he wasn’t sure if he was or wasn’t surprised to hear Edward banging on the piano. The others uncertainly meandered around, certainly avoiding the area around Edward.
“Edward, I’d like to speak to you now,” Carlisle spoke lowly, though he was sure everyone in the house could hear him. The racket Edward was making stopped. Soon enough, his first son stood before him.
“What’s wrong, Carlisle?” Edward asked him anxiously.
“Let’s talk in my study.”
He led a nervous Edward there and began the talk as soon as they had sat down.
“Edward, why were you acting hostile towards Bella Swan today?” he got right to the point.
Edward grimaced. “I didn’t mean to. You don’t understand, Carlisle. It was like her blood sang to me. I smelled her and I almost lost control in class. She was…intoxicating.”
Carlisle almost matched Edward’s grimace, but held it in. If only Edward knew…she had called out to Carlisle in the same way.
“Still, you have better control than that, Edward. As it was, I get the feeling she thought you were out to murder her.” Which really wasn’t that far out from the truth, if you think about it.
“I think I have to go away for awhile. To compose myself. It’ll be a week at the most,” Edward told him reluctantly.
“Very well. But when you get back, I want you to apologize to her.”
“I was planning on it,” Edward gave him a sheepish smile.
Carlisle shook his head, but smiled back.
Strange. If Bella Swan was Edward’s singer, then why did she call out to him in the same way?
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“That was kind of you, Jasper,” Alice teased.
Her husband would’ve blushed if he could. “I couldn’t help it. There was like this constant ache underneath all of her surface emotions, like a subtle pain she hid from everyone. I just reacted.”
Alice giggled. “Still, I thought it was very sweet. I wanted to go over too, but I think that would’ve overwhelmed her. Well, her and the entire school.”
“I can’t believe you asked earlier if she smelled as good as you smelled her from our table,” he grumbled.
She shrugged, “Well, she smelled really good. You heard Edward just now. I was just wondering if the smell was stronger when you hugged her. I wanna hug her now.”
Jasper lightly laughed. “We can invite her over to our table tomorrow.”
Alice squealed. “Really? That’d be great! Oh, I just can’t wait until tomorrow now.”
“I still wonder why she’s hurting so much, though.”
Alice immediately stopped laughing, making Jasper turn to her in concern.
“What’s wrong, love?”
She didn’t immediately answer him, so he continued. “Your visions…? Did they tell you why?”
He could feel her sadness and he wanted to make it go away.
“Yes. But it’s her secret to tell,” Alice murmured. “I will tell you that more pain is going to come to her. I just recently had a vision. Two of them. Carlisle was supposed to get together with Bella.”
Jasper’s widened. “Are you serious?”
Alice sighed, “Yes. But then I had another that contradicted it. That Bella would get together with Edward. I saw two possible futures for Bella.” Jasper was about to interrupt her. “It means that she wasn’t chosen yet. But because the vision with Carlisle came first, it is the most likely.”
“And with Edward going away and Carlisle spending time with Bella every day…” Jasper concluded, “It would definitely seem more likely.”
“I want Carlisle to be happy…except I want Edward to be happy too. Except, as I saw into Edward’s future with her, I saw him causing her more pain than happiness. With her future with Carlisle, I only saw them getting together. I couldn’t search any more into it.”
“The road less traveled…is the unknown future,” he murmured.
“It is also a problem because Edward already seems a little bit infatuated with Bella. Her smell is what set him off. It’s worse because Bella is both Edward and Carlisle’s la tua cantante.”
“Both of them?!”
Alice nodded grimly. “It was only Carlisle’s perfect control that kept him composed enough to deal with her.”
“We’ll just have to keep an eye on things, then,” Jasper assured.
“I hope we can.”
Started 12/6/08 -Completed 12/20/08
Omake!
“Jasper! That was great!” Alice grinned.
Rosalie rolled her eyes. “Did you really have to go hug that human?”
Jasper knew that if he could, he would be turning red at that moment. “I couldn’t help it. Her emotions were so strong.”
Alice abruptly pulled him closer, and ignored the other three at the table.
“Did she smell as good up close as she does from here?” she began her interrogation.
Jasper grunted an affirmation.
“Oh, come on, Jazzy!”
He sighed in exasperation, “Yes. She smells even better.”
Alice’s grin grew bigger, “Jasper, you smell a little like her! Ohh, come closer!”
She yanked him a little closer, sniffing at him lightly. Jasper twitched and the other three held in their laughter.
“Jazzy, I want to go over to her now! Maybe her smell will rub off on me too! And then I can go around smelling her scent all day. Even better, maybe I can make her wear my clothes and then when I wear it, I can smell her!”
They couldn’t help themselves. They started laughing
Started 12/20/08 -Completed 12/20/08