23: Run to the Hills
IT had caught the right trail, was following it again, swiftly passing into Indiana, Ohio followed минуты later. Yes, IT was getting closer to what master wanted-and this time nothing would stop IT.
Nothing.
Already the carriage had passed into West Virginia, Tristan and Jack were both tense as to what was waiting at home, though they hid it from Rosalie as well as they could. “Are Ты sure Ты don’t need to hunt?” Jack asked her for the billionth time.
She sighed but smiled. “I’m sure. The день I found Ты again we had hunted.” She made a face as she сказал(-а) we but forgot about it секунды later. She wasn’t going to let anything interrupt her bliss.
“Do Ты mind if we keep going through the night?” Jack asked Tristan shortly after two.
“No not at all.” They both nodded in unison, again thinking that whatever was coming they would want to get it out of the way-and fast. Rosalie seemed happy about this-of course, she was unaware of the battle that waited at home. Like a вулкан that had once stood dormant for so long, it was stirring and getting ready to erupt.
No, she thought of turning human again, then continuing her life with Jack. She smiled knowing that when she had to make the choice to go with Alice или stay with Jack…Well, really what was there to think about? She would always hold a place for the Cullens, always, but they didn’t give her what Jack did and now she felt whole.
Human again…Jack again…The possibilities of what was coming Далее seemed endless, like every opportunity was open to them. In a way, they were.
It was just before three when all hell broke loose again-and not for the last time. They were about mid-way across West Virginia when it happened-so fast, none of them had seen it. The three of them had been in the front of the carriage when something slammed it into much like a tackler in football and the carriage did several three sixties before it came to a halt. The guards instantly rushed to their sides, though they were scattered about. Tristan was furthest from the carriage, about a hundred yards away, Rosalie was about twenty yards away and Jack was the closest at half that. “What was that?” she asked, Jack instantly rushing to her side, protectively placing her behind him.
“Tristan?” he called anxiously. He saw him stand and wobble back towards them, making him breathe a sigh of relief.
“What was that?” Rosalie asked again, her eyes darting about the woodlands, so many places for anything to be hiding. Jack looked around too, every little movement was another phantom that sent him higher on edge. “Jack?”
He shook his head, by then the guards surrounded them, all three held serious looking weapons. Jack moved closer to Rosalie, his hand instinctively grabbing hers, locking in tightly, as tight as magnets on a fridge door. Their eyes meet for the faintest секунда before breaking away again, both scanned the area around them. The guards stood motionless, gripping their weapons, their eyes sweeping the land. Tristan stood motionless, murmuring softly.
Again the attack was so swift, so sudden, no one realized it had happened until it was over. The guard that stood in the front was nearly knocked over, a sudden gust that stirred the dirt around them, a body part that tripped Rosalie, sending her to the ground, Jack’s reflexes too slow to catch her. No sooner had her body hit the ground that it was being dragged across the ground at a speed that was nearly blinding. Jack shot after her, desperately pushing himself harder than he ever had.
“JACK!”
He tore faster, дерево branches scraped at his skin, hardly leaving a mark, his body swiftly dodging the trees, sidestepping the roots. He almost didn’t hear it-the sudden whoosh as others joined him. He easily counted three-though he could hear еще behind him…And in front of him too?
IT let out a loud snarl and suddenly stopped, Jack took the opportunity to get within in close range of Rosalie when IT took off again, prompting Jack to run faster, chasing with the others. He saw Michael and Luke, the third had shot ahead, a weapon of some sort in his hand. Jack grabbed a low-hanging branch and swung up, his sword out, cutting deep into IT. Again, IT snarled and slowed some, though IT never stopped. Neither did any of the pursers.
The one that was ahead with the weapon, Jack still couldn’t tell who, stopped and shot up into the trees. Jack raced on, Michael flanking him, Luke shooting ahead to get with whoever was ahead of them. The form that had голубь into the trees came crashing back down, driving their weapon into IT. IT screamed loudly, stopped, IT’s grip on Rosalie dropped. Jack sped ahead about fifty paces, scooping her in his arms, before he did a one-eighty and started back towards the carriage, running so fast, his grip on her tighter than ever. He could hear voices behind him but he paid them no attention, his feet racing ahead, taking them further from whatever wanted his Rose.
Somewhere behind him, IT let out another earth-shattering snarl, followed by a string of gun shots, both prompting Jack to race faster. At long last the carriage, standing up-right again, came into view. Tristan was on the outside, waving to Jack. “Hurry!” He nodded and raced to him, two people following right behind him. From behind him, he could hear several voices, all male. The five piled inside, the carriage standing still. “Protect us, oh great ones, protect us from all that dares to harm us, protect us in our time of need, our darkest hour.” The voices were fading now, driving whatever was out there away from them. Slowly, Tristan’s spell could be felt in the carriage, surrounding it.
Not until he was certain he had control over his body did he look around. Tristan was in the front, Далее to him on the left was Luke, Michael was on his right. “What are Ты guys doing here?” he finally asked, looking from one to the other.
“We got a call-from Alice.” Michael stopped and looked at Rosalie but she had no reaction to this information. “She сказал(-а) she couldn’t see everything-just that something was coming for Rosalie. Something she couldn’t see but had no doubt that it was going to destroy her.”
Jack looked down at her, her face was expressionless, her eyes open, staring at nothing. “Rose” he сказал(-а) softly. “If Ты can hear me, squeeze my hand.” At first he felt nothing, a sudden wave of panic hitting, and then he felt her hand squeeze his gently. “You’re безопасно, сейф now. I promise nothing is going to happen to you.” He tore his eyes up to meet Michael. “Who else was out there?”
“John, Allen, David.”
Jack nodded, one hand Rosalie still held, the other running through her hair as he had done earlier. “I’d say thank Ты but it seems so mundane” he сказал(-а) softly, still looking at the immortal in his arms, as if the sun rose and set in her face.
“Despite my…Animosity towards her, she is still my sister. And I knew that if she was lost, then Ты would find a way to leave us too. And I don’t mean like Ты did the first time.” Jack looked down, his eyes on the floor of the carriage as opposed to Rosalie.
“Are they going to be ok?”
Luke nodded. “Yes. This was part of the plan-well, David wasn’t in it until the last second-but we would take who we could.”
“Plan?”
“After Alice called, John called a meeting with all of us. He didn’t want to take us all, but he didn’t have David so he knew he had no choice to take us all, leaving the rest of them in charge of Tommy and Nick.”
Jack scowled. “That was stupid.”
“We didn’t have a choice. We needed to protect her and well you. So, Michael and I followed you, John and Allen were in the opposite direction to lead it away from us so we could have a chance to escape. David came out of nowhere-that’s who Ты saw in the trees. Ты couldn’t see it but he just kept coming after well whatever that thing was, over and over he attacked it.”
“Was that the Оружие I heard?”
“No that was Allen and John. I have no idea why, we were shooting at a ghost.”
Jack shook his head. “I don’t know what it was but all I know is that for some reason it wants her.” He looked down at her, she was exactly the same, though the grip on his hand was tighter.
“We won’t let that happen.” Jack looked up and nodded then back down again. Luke pushed a hand through his disheveled blonde hair and sighed leaning back on the left bench. Michael sat on the right one, Jack on the couch, Rosalie in his arms.
The carriage started off, moving so steadily it seemed to float off the ground. Silence encircled the five of them, coming so close to losing any, potentially all of them had left them all shaken. Eventually, her eyes moved, a look of worry in them until they found Jack’s face, calmness replaced the fear. She smiled at him, gently sitting up, her head leaning Далее to his neck, taking deep breaths, holding on to him tightly. He embraced her as well, miming her actions. The other three turned their gaze away from the couple, not wanting to intrude on this gentle moment. He heard her open her mouth, the words out of it couldn’t have been any sweeter: “I Любовь you.”
He smiled and сказал(-а) just as quietly “I Любовь Ты too.”
Master had seen it all, from the attack on the carriage to Jack once again being the hero. Master was beyond mad at what had happened. Master could not believe that IT had been foiled by a band of small, incompetent vampires. And еще than that they had hurt IT!
Master gritted it’s teeth and turned away from the sight, too disgusted with everything in the world right then. Dr. кран shook his head yet kept silent. He could tell that master needed to be left alone then so he quietly left, awaiting IT’s return as IT would no doubt need his care again.
IT had caught the right trail, was following it again, swiftly passing into Indiana, Ohio followed минуты later. Yes, IT was getting closer to what master wanted-and this time nothing would stop IT.
Nothing.
Already the carriage had passed into West Virginia, Tristan and Jack were both tense as to what was waiting at home, though they hid it from Rosalie as well as they could. “Are Ты sure Ты don’t need to hunt?” Jack asked her for the billionth time.
She sighed but smiled. “I’m sure. The день I found Ты again we had hunted.” She made a face as she сказал(-а) we but forgot about it секунды later. She wasn’t going to let anything interrupt her bliss.
“Do Ты mind if we keep going through the night?” Jack asked Tristan shortly after two.
“No not at all.” They both nodded in unison, again thinking that whatever was coming they would want to get it out of the way-and fast. Rosalie seemed happy about this-of course, she was unaware of the battle that waited at home. Like a вулкан that had once stood dormant for so long, it was stirring and getting ready to erupt.
No, she thought of turning human again, then continuing her life with Jack. She smiled knowing that when she had to make the choice to go with Alice или stay with Jack…Well, really what was there to think about? She would always hold a place for the Cullens, always, but they didn’t give her what Jack did and now she felt whole.
Human again…Jack again…The possibilities of what was coming Далее seemed endless, like every opportunity was open to them. In a way, they were.
It was just before three when all hell broke loose again-and not for the last time. They were about mid-way across West Virginia when it happened-so fast, none of them had seen it. The three of them had been in the front of the carriage when something slammed it into much like a tackler in football and the carriage did several three sixties before it came to a halt. The guards instantly rushed to their sides, though they were scattered about. Tristan was furthest from the carriage, about a hundred yards away, Rosalie was about twenty yards away and Jack was the closest at half that. “What was that?” she asked, Jack instantly rushing to her side, protectively placing her behind him.
“Tristan?” he called anxiously. He saw him stand and wobble back towards them, making him breathe a sigh of relief.
“What was that?” Rosalie asked again, her eyes darting about the woodlands, so many places for anything to be hiding. Jack looked around too, every little movement was another phantom that sent him higher on edge. “Jack?”
He shook his head, by then the guards surrounded them, all three held serious looking weapons. Jack moved closer to Rosalie, his hand instinctively grabbing hers, locking in tightly, as tight as magnets on a fridge door. Their eyes meet for the faintest секунда before breaking away again, both scanned the area around them. The guards stood motionless, gripping their weapons, their eyes sweeping the land. Tristan stood motionless, murmuring softly.
Again the attack was so swift, so sudden, no one realized it had happened until it was over. The guard that stood in the front was nearly knocked over, a sudden gust that stirred the dirt around them, a body part that tripped Rosalie, sending her to the ground, Jack’s reflexes too slow to catch her. No sooner had her body hit the ground that it was being dragged across the ground at a speed that was nearly blinding. Jack shot after her, desperately pushing himself harder than he ever had.
“JACK!”
He tore faster, дерево branches scraped at his skin, hardly leaving a mark, his body swiftly dodging the trees, sidestepping the roots. He almost didn’t hear it-the sudden whoosh as others joined him. He easily counted three-though he could hear еще behind him…And in front of him too?
IT let out a loud snarl and suddenly stopped, Jack took the opportunity to get within in close range of Rosalie when IT took off again, prompting Jack to run faster, chasing with the others. He saw Michael and Luke, the third had shot ahead, a weapon of some sort in his hand. Jack grabbed a low-hanging branch and swung up, his sword out, cutting deep into IT. Again, IT snarled and slowed some, though IT never stopped. Neither did any of the pursers.
The one that was ahead with the weapon, Jack still couldn’t tell who, stopped and shot up into the trees. Jack raced on, Michael flanking him, Luke shooting ahead to get with whoever was ahead of them. The form that had голубь into the trees came crashing back down, driving their weapon into IT. IT screamed loudly, stopped, IT’s grip on Rosalie dropped. Jack sped ahead about fifty paces, scooping her in his arms, before he did a one-eighty and started back towards the carriage, running so fast, his grip on her tighter than ever. He could hear voices behind him but he paid them no attention, his feet racing ahead, taking them further from whatever wanted his Rose.
Somewhere behind him, IT let out another earth-shattering snarl, followed by a string of gun shots, both prompting Jack to race faster. At long last the carriage, standing up-right again, came into view. Tristan was on the outside, waving to Jack. “Hurry!” He nodded and raced to him, two people following right behind him. From behind him, he could hear several voices, all male. The five piled inside, the carriage standing still. “Protect us, oh great ones, protect us from all that dares to harm us, protect us in our time of need, our darkest hour.” The voices were fading now, driving whatever was out there away from them. Slowly, Tristan’s spell could be felt in the carriage, surrounding it.
Not until he was certain he had control over his body did he look around. Tristan was in the front, Далее to him on the left was Luke, Michael was on his right. “What are Ты guys doing here?” he finally asked, looking from one to the other.
“We got a call-from Alice.” Michael stopped and looked at Rosalie but she had no reaction to this information. “She сказал(-а) she couldn’t see everything-just that something was coming for Rosalie. Something she couldn’t see but had no doubt that it was going to destroy her.”
Jack looked down at her, her face was expressionless, her eyes open, staring at nothing. “Rose” he сказал(-а) softly. “If Ты can hear me, squeeze my hand.” At first he felt nothing, a sudden wave of panic hitting, and then he felt her hand squeeze his gently. “You’re безопасно, сейф now. I promise nothing is going to happen to you.” He tore his eyes up to meet Michael. “Who else was out there?”
“John, Allen, David.”
Jack nodded, one hand Rosalie still held, the other running through her hair as he had done earlier. “I’d say thank Ты but it seems so mundane” he сказал(-а) softly, still looking at the immortal in his arms, as if the sun rose and set in her face.
“Despite my…Animosity towards her, she is still my sister. And I knew that if she was lost, then Ты would find a way to leave us too. And I don’t mean like Ты did the first time.” Jack looked down, his eyes on the floor of the carriage as opposed to Rosalie.
“Are they going to be ok?”
Luke nodded. “Yes. This was part of the plan-well, David wasn’t in it until the last second-but we would take who we could.”
“Plan?”
“After Alice called, John called a meeting with all of us. He didn’t want to take us all, but he didn’t have David so he knew he had no choice to take us all, leaving the rest of them in charge of Tommy and Nick.”
Jack scowled. “That was stupid.”
“We didn’t have a choice. We needed to protect her and well you. So, Michael and I followed you, John and Allen were in the opposite direction to lead it away from us so we could have a chance to escape. David came out of nowhere-that’s who Ты saw in the trees. Ты couldn’t see it but he just kept coming after well whatever that thing was, over and over he attacked it.”
“Was that the Оружие I heard?”
“No that was Allen and John. I have no idea why, we were shooting at a ghost.”
Jack shook his head. “I don’t know what it was but all I know is that for some reason it wants her.” He looked down at her, she was exactly the same, though the grip on his hand was tighter.
“We won’t let that happen.” Jack looked up and nodded then back down again. Luke pushed a hand through his disheveled blonde hair and sighed leaning back on the left bench. Michael sat on the right one, Jack on the couch, Rosalie in his arms.
The carriage started off, moving so steadily it seemed to float off the ground. Silence encircled the five of them, coming so close to losing any, potentially all of them had left them all shaken. Eventually, her eyes moved, a look of worry in them until they found Jack’s face, calmness replaced the fear. She smiled at him, gently sitting up, her head leaning Далее to his neck, taking deep breaths, holding on to him tightly. He embraced her as well, miming her actions. The other three turned their gaze away from the couple, not wanting to intrude on this gentle moment. He heard her open her mouth, the words out of it couldn’t have been any sweeter: “I Любовь you.”
He smiled and сказал(-а) just as quietly “I Любовь Ты too.”
Master had seen it all, from the attack on the carriage to Jack once again being the hero. Master was beyond mad at what had happened. Master could not believe that IT had been foiled by a band of small, incompetent vampires. And еще than that they had hurt IT!
Master gritted it’s teeth and turned away from the sight, too disgusted with everything in the world right then. Dr. кран shook his head yet kept silent. He could tell that master needed to be left alone then so he quietly left, awaiting IT’s return as IT would no doubt need his care again.
1 being the best 10 the worst
These Книги are great for summer Чтение I can honestly say that anyone that reads them will want to read them again.
10. Deacula by Bram Stoker
9. The Hobbit by Tolken
8. I'm the king of the замок by Susan Hill
7. 1984 by George Orwell
6. The secret diary of Adrian моль by Sue Townsend
5. Pride and prejudice by Jane Austine
4. Jane Eyre by шарлотка, шарлотта Bronte
3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
2. The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon
1 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
These Книги are great for summer Чтение I can honestly say that anyone that reads them will want to read them again.
10. Deacula by Bram Stoker
9. The Hobbit by Tolken
8. I'm the king of the замок by Susan Hill
7. 1984 by George Orwell
6. The secret diary of Adrian моль by Sue Townsend
5. Pride and prejudice by Jane Austine
4. Jane Eyre by шарлотка, шарлотта Bronte
3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
2. The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon
1 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Remembering is just an invention of the mind,
So Ты need not try to remember something,
Ты remember it automatically.
Which is the best thing that Ты could have.
The good times that we had...
It is placed in a portion of your mind.
The bad times that we had...
It is placed in the other part of your mind.
Ты try to forget all of the bad things that happened,
But it is not possible.
It is stuck in you.
The bad things are painted in ink on your heart.
The good things, Ты try to remember.
And they stay.
They never go.
Never leave you.
Remembering is just an invention of the mind.
And, well...I guess I'm happy for that.
So I can remember every friend I've had,
Every boyfriend,
And all the good times.
Every memory will never leave my heart.
They will never be forsaken.
Never.
So Ты need not try to remember something,
Ты remember it automatically.
Which is the best thing that Ты could have.
The good times that we had...
It is placed in a portion of your mind.
The bad times that we had...
It is placed in the other part of your mind.
Ты try to forget all of the bad things that happened,
But it is not possible.
It is stuck in you.
The bad things are painted in ink on your heart.
The good things, Ты try to remember.
And they stay.
They never go.
Never leave you.
Remembering is just an invention of the mind.
And, well...I guess I'm happy for that.
So I can remember every friend I've had,
Every boyfriend,
And all the good times.
Every memory will never leave my heart.
They will never be forsaken.
Never.
*Poem I wrote for a class project on the holocaust.
DON'T COPY*
Different in ways they couldn't control
Killed for reasons we do not know
Ranging from ages young to old
The innocent people were taken from homes
Soulless people did not care
That the Jewish were in despair
Concentration camps ending their screams
Breaking apart their families
Not once did they do anything wrong
They opened their mouths and sang a sad song
Years went by and еще pain came
Until on one very special day
As one we all saved
The survivors of the Holocaust
DON'T COPY*
Different in ways they couldn't control
Killed for reasons we do not know
Ranging from ages young to old
The innocent people were taken from homes
Soulless people did not care
That the Jewish were in despair
Concentration camps ending their screams
Breaking apart their families
Not once did they do anything wrong
They opened their mouths and sang a sad song
Years went by and еще pain came
Until on one very special day
As one we all saved
The survivors of the Holocaust
Me and Those
Ever noticed that in this life
Everyone wants Ты to do something,
или be something
That sometimes Ты don’t want to be?
They are those!
Ты know them!
Ты probably have those in your house.
They are those who expect Ты to take a path,
Even though,
Sometimes,
Ты don’t want to take.
They are those who expect Ты to be great,
Even though,
Sometimes,
Ты prefer to be small and humble.
But do Ты think,
For the slightest second,
That they care about that?
They don’t!
They are your parents,
Your grandparents,
Your Uncles and aunts,
That since Ты were born,
Came up with a path for Ты in life.
But know this,
And say it to yourself:
They are those, they matter,
But me is I,
And I’m the main character.
Sitting right where Ты are
Ты have no claim on me
I know my own path
I am my own guide
Ты are nothing to me
No matter how Ты try
What do Ты care?
If I'm not doing it right
I'm not following you
I know my own path
I am my own guide
Ты don't know me
No matter how Ты try
Why are Ты here?
Ты know I don't want you
I told Ты to leave me
I am my own path
I know my own guide
Ты can't mold me
No matter how Ты try
Why do I feel compelled to write angsty poetry? I swear I'm not even that angsty. LOL Oh well, I hope someone out there enjoys it.
A whisper in the cavern that goes unheard,
and a glimmer in the sky that stays unnoticed,
like the start of a brand new life, at the peak
of a mountain never scaled, lies in wait.
It can't be moved by any cosmic mover,
so no passing wind или fog will douse it.
Only your eyes can scratch out the image
или accept it, the light at the edge of your eyes.
Will Ты take hold of the key you're offered?
Stop Пение of freedom; seek it instead?
To become a companion of the new
takes an ever expanding, soaring gaze.
But even by taking one step forward,
by placing one hand onto the mountain,
as the wind tugs gently at your back,
Ты will realize the cage has already been broken.
and a glimmer in the sky that stays unnoticed,
like the start of a brand new life, at the peak
of a mountain never scaled, lies in wait.
It can't be moved by any cosmic mover,
so no passing wind или fog will douse it.
Only your eyes can scratch out the image
или accept it, the light at the edge of your eyes.
Will Ты take hold of the key you're offered?
Stop Пение of freedom; seek it instead?
To become a companion of the new
takes an ever expanding, soaring gaze.
But even by taking one step forward,
by placing one hand onto the mountain,
as the wind tugs gently at your back,
Ты will realize the cage has already been broken.