a little scene for @i-can-make-you-monet bc they asked!
“I’m surprised that they left you here all alone,” A voice drawled, breaking Bella out of her daydream and she froze, the familiar inhuman cadence causing something inside her to throb angrily. “With how the angst ridden one seemed to be so enamored with you, I would have assumed they’d take you with them once they decided to skip town.”
Arms wrapped tightly around her middle as if it were the only thing that was holding her together, Bella lifted her head and stared.
There standing a few paces away was Laurent, catlike and curious, skin gleaming and gaze-
Dont think, dont think, dont think.
“Your eyes.” She breathed, staring up at beautiful face framed by long locs of hair and an an air of danger. “They’re uh, different.”
Laurent smiled, looking amused and Bella wanted to kick herself but settled for scrambling up off the ground so she wasn’t staring at the immortal like a buffoon. If she could meet Rosalie without embarrassing herself then surely she could do this.
“They are.” He nodded, graciously. “Though I can assure you, it hasn’t been the ah, easiest transition.”
The strangled laugh she let out was a testament to her frayed nerves as of late and she was thankful when the grating sound went ignored. Small mercies.
Focusing outward, Bella watched him for a moment, feeling so close to that indescribable feeling Edward and his family managed to invoke without fail everytime she had been around them and she ached.
“You shouldnt be speaking to him.” The mirage of her lost love muttered and Bella twitched. “Its not safe.”
“So what are you doing here?” She asked, a forbidden sort of excitement brewing in her veins at a piece of the Cullen’s world (even after they tried to cut her out of it) being here - in Forks - with her. Unreal. “Did…Did they send you?”
Laurent hummed but offered no definitive answer and Bella shut her eyes, jaw working slowly.
Stupid. She chastised, angry at her herself and everyone else. Don’t ask about them.
“No.” He answered her, head cocked. “But I suppose they’ll be pleased that I’ve dropped by regardless.”
Laurent paused, giving her a once over before he clicked his tongue.
“Or perhaps not.” He sighed, hand waving through the air, brow furrowed. “The point of my visit was to serve as a warning - for them and most definitely for you, considering the methods I’ve known Victoria to take.”
Bella’s whole being stilled, doe brown eyes locked onto two sunspots and she dug her fingernails into her palms.
Dont think dont think dont think don-
She startled, jumping slightly when Laurent let loose a noise of what she assumed was frustration and when she looked up again, he was a few inches away.
She was proud when she didn’t flinch.
“They’ve left you here,” He said, not at all malicious - a simple observation - but it cut her all the same. “foolhardy, considering all that you know and could possibly tell.”
“Careful.” Edward’s spectre warned and she stepped forward.
“Never!” She protested vehemently, expression twisting painfully. “I would never endan-”
“The Volturi doesnt deal in chance or on the word of a young human girl.” He cut in smoothly and while one thing in Bella riled itself at the vampire’s words another part pulled itself to attention, like a bloodhound.
“Ah, so you have been told of them.” He surmised, amusedly. Wickedly. “Then you also know the risks - and so do the Cullens. Or so they should, especially when considering we all saw Victoria’s little vendetta coming from kilometers away.”
Bella cut her eyes at him, dark and firm.
“They wouldn’t have left if they knew.” She said and Laurent looked at her. She lifted her chin defiantly. “They wouldn’t have.”
And then Bella found the urge to speak.
“Is she coming for me?” The girl asked, voice surprisingly steady despite how very not that she felt and she took strength in that. She had to. “Is Victoria going to hurt my dad?”
“She’s goal oriented, that one,” Laurent said, long legs carrying him in a half circle around Bella and she twisted herself to follow him, to keep him in her line of sight. “She won’t put him in the line of fire until you make it neccessary, be grateful that she is different from James in the ways that it truly count.”
“Thank god.” She breathed, fists trembling and Bella let out a shaky breath. Vision dotting black with relief as her heart drummed in her chest and when she came back to herself, Laurent was staring.
“…What?” Bella spoke, feeling off kilter at the scrutiny and the immortal shook his head.
“You have no sense of self preservation.” He admonished and Bella felt a spike of irritation flow through her, eyes narrowing venomously.
“Well I lasted this long didn’t I?” She snapped, arms crossing over her chest. “Only - oops sorry! I actually wont because the Cullens are gone and some vampire with a goddamn revenge boner has something to say! And news flash buddy, it wont be kind fucking words!”
Teeth gritted and expression set in a snarl, astonished tawny eyes met hers and Bella blanched in realization.
Incredulous gaze catching onto the doubled over immortal, stomped her foot, scowl upon her face.
She didn’t care, he was getting on her nerves!
“I’m serious!” She insisted, face burning as she pushed a strand of hair behind a red tipped ear. “Laure- Hey!”
“I apologize, I apologize!” He soothed placatingly, gloved hand coming up to wipe away an imaginary tear and Bella resisted the urge to stick out her tongue at her. “Its just that, your outburst, it reminds me of somone.”
“Come with me, petit oiseau, to Alaska” He offered, hand outstretched. “And I can see that she is introduced and that you are safe.”
“Consider it the righting of a unintentional wrong.”
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