FANFIC THE RESTART - CHAPTER 07

Chapter 7 – The Reunion

October came and the weather became colder and colder. The leaves fell, crowding on the grass, still green. I could see the squirrels playing running on the branches of trees, looking for food to store for the winter. Every morning Bella dragged up the cot, sick and haggard, and wondered if it ever would be found as well. With the new tasks that her aunt had ordered, it was very difficult to hide his state of health. He swore that you would never see her unwell, but the oath was being too difficult to meet. Sometimes he felt so weak that he hoped lose consciousness at any time. I had believed that the memories that haunted her would eventually leave her alone. But still there, as well as your stomach pain and his twitching nerves.

– Lets have to hang around and finish washing these dishes, young lady – ordered Victoria.

Bella tried to shake off the stunning up and hurried to clear another wooden bowl. Soon, could relax with a hot bath and soothe your aching body. I was tired and upset and hurt his back a lot. I was awake at dawn and had no strength to nothing. I had almost fainted when loading a bundle of firewood.

He put the plates and pulled the bowl to bathe. Victoria, while watch her, grabbed another piece of cake and bit a bit. Bella shivered, wondering how that witch could eat as much. It seemed his favorite pastime.

She wished that her aunt was sleeping as he had done uncle Laurent. Rather bathe quiet. But the aunt was not going to move, so he decided to fill the bowl and taste the water. I was pleasantly warm. She unbuttoned her dress and let it slide to the ground.

He stood in front of the naked chimney. The flames were shining smooth skin young and their shining perfilava her thin body. Her breasts had greatly increased in size and were very hard, and her abdomen seemed slightly bulky.

Suddenly, Victoria choked on the piece of cake. He stood to his feet and with a cry. His niece, frightened, turned away. The woman's eyes were wide. They watched the girl in horror.

Running across the room toward Bella, which kicked thinking that the woman had been mad, and grabbed her roughly by the arms.

– Who you are pregnant, young lady? How jackal been? – Said.

Bella froze at the thought of her aunt had just let go. His eyes were wide and her face completely white. In his innocence, he had not thought of that. I had meditated on the consequences of having been with the captain Cullen. She had believed that the source of their ills lay in the concern for all happened. But now he thought otherwise. Was going to have a baby, a son of that brazen, shameless! Crazy! Lunatic! Oh God! He thought. Why? Why?

Livid with rage, Victoria grabbed her by the hair and began to shake her head, threatening her, pulling her. Suddenly the aunt stayed with their faces lighted up, and pushed Bella to a chair that was next.

– Who was it? Who the bloody sapo? – Wondered the screaming, clutching his arms until the pain forced her to protest. – Tell or I swear I'll take you this!

Bella was impossible to think. He was deaf, and unconscious by the impact.

– Please, please, leave me alone – begged, confused.

– Jacob; was it not? His uncle told me he was very affectionate with you and now I know why. He is the father of the creature. If you believe you will ruin my good name in the village and rest assured, you're wrong. I told him that if he ever sinned, pay for it, and now you're marrying Jake. He'll pay for it!

Slowly common sense began to overcome the confusion. Bella understood what her aunt was saying, what he had said Jake. Trembling, she made a superhuman effort to regain consciousness. Do not let the blamed. I could not hurt him that way and let the despised even more. He gathered the floor dress and capped the body.

– It was Jacob – put back softly. Her aunt turned.

– How? What was that girl? – Inquired.

Bella sat motionless, staring at the fire.

– It was Jacob – repeated.

– And who was it not that cobbler?

– It was a captain who came from the colonies – said Bella. He sighed with apathy, leaning his face against the tall, rough back of the chair. The fireplace flames lit his face. – Your men found me and took me to him. He forced me. I swear by God.

        

What mattered who was the man who had raped her? Everyone would know in a few months she was pregnant, unless your aunt decided to keep her in the house and not let her go to the village. But if so, how explain the baby's presence since he had been born?

Her aunt frowned, startled.

– What are you saying? – Inquired. – What they found? When? Where was this?

Bella could not tell her aunt of James' death.

– I lost myself to separate myself by accident of his brother. Two Yankees sailors found me – muttered, still staring at the fire. – They gave me their captain for that amused me, and he did not let me go. Only when threatened one of his men with a gun, managed to escape. I came here then.

– How to split from James? – Asked Victoria. Bella closed her eyes.

– The ... We were a fair ... and do not know how, but got lost – lied. – I said it before because I did not see the need. He is the son of Yankee, not Jacob. But do not marry me. It is those who do want, will not agree to take me as his wife.

Victoria gave a menacing smile.

– That already we will see – he said. – Now tell me, your father did not have a friend who was a judge in London? His name was Lord Hale, is not it? And it was not he controlled the investigation of all suspected ships smuggling?

Once again, the confusion took hold of the young. His thoughts were too entangled to be able to answer your aunt. Finally he replied.

         – Yes, it was Lord Hale, and for all I know still; but why?

The Victoria's smile grew wider.

– Do not worry about the reasons – said maliciously. – I want to know more about Lord Hale. You know? He was a close friend of his father?

A frown crossed the delicate forehead Bella.

– Lord Hale was one of my father's best friends. I used to often come to our house. You know me since I was a girl.

– Well, all you need to know right now is going to help you to marry – Victoria concluded with a scheming expression. – Now bathe and lie. Tomorrow we will go to London, so we'll have to get up very early not to lose the coach out of town. I would not do to go see Lord Hale in a cart. Now hurry.

Bell stood up with great effort and completely baffled by the attitude of his aunt. I did not understand why you're wondering Hale Lord of things, but it was a teacher at the time of forging cunning plans and not worth asking. It dutifully put in the tub feeling a weight in the womb. Now, for the first time, she became aware that she was pregnant.

No doubt that it was. I had to have it expected of a man like him, strong, powerful. He had completed the obligations of a man with a maddening ease. As magnificent men were sweating on their wives without result, she had had the misfortune to be possessed by a male as manly as captain.

It is abominable !, she cried to herself. It is the devil.

A muffled cry came from her mouth. He shuddered violently to realizing it than would occur if the oblige to marry her. Espoused by a similar stray, your soul and your life would be lost. I was doomed for life.

But at least the baby would have a name, and possibly would take something good of it all.

His thoughts centered on the child she expected. It was meant to be dark, like their parents, and would probably be attractive to look like Edward. Poor boy, more would it be ugly and not a well–dressed brazen as their parent.

But what would happen if it were a girl? Would assume a hard blow to the confidence of a manly beast like that. If you were to marry him, she thought Bella maliciously, pray for it to be a girl.

Before finishing his bath, Bella heard her very agitated uncle in another room. The woman had not been able to wait until morning to tell his uncle the news.

Bella got up from the tub and covered with a towel to see his uncle into the tiny place. He seemed to have aged ten years.

– Isabella, daughter, I have to talk to you, please – begged the man.

The girl blushed, holding up the towel covering her naked body. The uncle did not realize that had no clothes.

– Bella is telling the truth? It was the Yankee what you sow your seed in you? – Inquired.

– Why do you want to know? – She asked cautiously.

Laurent rubbed his forehead with a trembling hand.

– Isabella. Bella ever James touched her? Barely did you somehow small?

Bella realized that time by his uncle had been watching her like that so strange to come back from London. James knew and was concerned for her. Now I could not help but reassure him.

– No, uncle, has not done me any harm – lied. – We lost at the fair. You know? There was a show and I wanted to go. He was very kind and took me. But I got lost and could not find it. Then two men took me to their captain. Yankee is the father.

– I thought ... No matter. I was worried about you – confessed – but now we must find the father. This time I will not fail. I can not fail the daughter of my brother.

Bella managed a smile. I could not say that it was not worth going to London because the captain Cullen would never marry her.

He remained silent.

Arriving in London, sought accommodation in an inn. Uncle Laurent sent a message to Lord Hale requesting an interview. The next day he was taken home. Bella and her aunt stayed at the inn waiting for the outcome of the meeting. Despite feeling very curious, the girl did not dare to ask what they were up to. Nothing but wait uncle Laurent back and meet the Victoria.

Bella thought that whatever plan they had, was going well since his uncle had returned much more excited than when he left.

After you ensure that Lord Hale would help solve the problem, ordered him to lie.

– You only need to prove that we are telling the truth and do what must be done – explained uncle Laurent – And his Yankee will not refuse to marry you unless you want to lose everything you have and end up in prison.

Bella did not understand anything. They could imprison a man for refusing to marry a woman who had made her pregnant. There were many bastards prowling around for something to happen.

It was almost midnight when the huge hands of Victoria shook her, taking her sharply from its deep sleep.

– Lift girl – shouted. – Your uncle wants to see you.

Bella got up sleepily and looked at her aunt, who was standing by the bed with a lit candle in hand.

– Come on. We have all night – hastily. Victoria turned and disappeared in the gloom. Bella was looking for her with his eyes, still sleepy. Pulled the quilt reluctantly, letting his reluzisse white body in the dark and her hair falling around her waist, was lost in the night. For the first time in many weeks I had been able to sleep without nightmares. The rain noise banging on the windows had helped him to forget your worries, reducing them to a quiet calm.

He woke up and put on his old dress of her aunt. Wasted no time in tightening it. Could imagine why they wanted to talk to her, Captain Cullen had refused any kind of coercion that forced to marry her. It would not be a surprise. If they had asked something about the man, they could have saved the trip to London. It would not take long to tell him what the captain had told them.

Bella timidly knocked on the door. Her aunt suddenly opened with a hateful look and gestured to enter. In doing so, the girl noticed the darkness that was in the room. A small fire blazed in the fireplace and on the table where his uncle and another man drinking beer jugs shone a single candle. The rest of the room remained completely dark. He approached cautiously to see who the visitor and discovered that it was not a stranger, but the old family friend, Lord Hale.

Relieved, Bella ran grateful arms to the man handed him.

– Isabella! – Lord Hale said under his breath. – My little Bella.

She hugged him tightly. The tears began to well up from the depths of his soul. After his father, the man had been the one who had most loved during his childhood. Always she had gone extremely well with her, even more than his own uncle. He and his wife had wished Bella would live with them after his father's death, but Victoria had insisted that the girl should live with his only relatives.

– Been a long time since the last time I saw her, small – murmured Lord Hale, away from him to contemplate it better. His kind blue eyes twinkled. – When it looks remember when I was but a little girl who crawled up to my knees in search of candy. – He grinned when lifting the delicate chin of the young. – And now the beauty personified. I've never seen before a beauty like, ever. It is even more beautiful than her mother. It's a shame he never had children with whom it could house. I would have pleased me greatly to have it in the family. As either have no daughters, one might almost say that it is as if you were.

Bella got to be able to kiss him on the cheek.

– I feel very honored to be your daughter – said sweetly.

Lord Hale smiled happily and pulled a chair to sit the girl, but Victoria pushed her and sat her in her place.

– Let stand up. This will make you well said. While pinching monstrous body in the arms of the chair, he is creaked in protest of the torture he was being subjected.

Lord Hale gaped contemplating Victoria with wide eyes. The cruelty that woman had taken unprepared. Bella indicated the other chair at the head of the table.

– Possibly'll be more comfortable there, dear – noted, heading for the chair to approach her.

– No – said Victoria, pointing a dark corner. – This chair is for him.

– No thanks, ma'am – she said the man slowly and confidently. – I'm right here.

Bella lifted the surprised sight. I did not know there was anyone else in the room. The man sat in the gloom and his silence allowed remain anonymous.

– Approach and meets us, Captain Cullen – cackled Victoria – This is the right place for a Yankee.

– I'm right here.

A familiar voice echoed in her ears. Bella noticed that his knees fraquejavam, and fainted. Lord Hale screamed and grabbed her in time to cushion the fall.

– He suffered a collapse – said, shaking her in his arms already aged. Settled it gently in the chair that the captain had declined moments before and nervously clutched a handkerchief, wet it and put it on the pale forehead. – You are well? – He asked anxious when the girl began to recover knowledge.

– Do not get used to the bad girl, Lord Hale – suggested Victoria aunt with a grimace of contempt. – If turned into a lazy thanks to you.

– I am convinced that deserves a rest after having lived with you – Lord Hale replied, furious indifference that woman.

– Please – whispered Bella – I'm fine.

With trembling fingers, Lord Hale pulled his hair from his forehead.

– Gave a good scare my old heart – joked the old man.

– I'm sorry – murmured Bella – I did not mean. I'm better. – Noticed that the piercing eyes followed him in watching her. Adjusted the dress over the bust with the help of the still shaky hands. He remembered as the powerful gaze was able to undress her and stripped her of all clothing.

– Come on, we end up with this – mumbled Aunt Victoria – Let us hear what the girl has to say.

Lord Hale looked indecisive for young, fearing to return to faint. Bella cracked a faint smile to reassure him. The man left, reticent, and returned to his place across the table.

– And now, young lady – began Aunt Victoria – Lord Hale want to make sure not to commit an injustice to Captain Cullen by stating that the child what you expect is his.

Bella looked at the old man. He was too stunned to understand what Victoria was saying. Lord Hale turned to this with frowning.

– Lady, you may not have noticed, but I speak – said Lord Hale – I promise you it is much more eloquent than his speech wrapped. If you do not mind, I will speak for myself.

Victoria closed her mouth, feisty, and shifted in his chair.

– Thank you – Lord Hale added harshly, turning to look young. – Honey – said calmly – as a man of honor that I am, I can not make Captain Cullen to recognize your child, if you are not completely sure he is the father. If you have been abused by another man ...

– There was no one else – assured the girl calmly, looking hands. He reported the facts as if he had memorized one by one. – After escaping it – explained – I took a carriage that led me back to my uncle's house. There is only one car out in the morning and reaching the village. I arrived at dusk and walked the rest of the way to the house. I have not met anyone. My aunt can give faith the time I arrived.

– And since he did not lost sight of even a second – she assured the woman in triumphal tone.

Lord Hale looked Laurent to confirm what his wife claimed was true.

– And what happened before that, Bella? – Insisted the old man hesitantly.

She blushed intensely and could not answer. The gloom returned to hear the confident voice.

– The child is mine – Edward said flatly. Victoria laughed and turned to Lord Hale with a winning smile.

– And now you have to say to that? – Inquired anxiously.

– Lord Hale sighed wearily. – To amend the enormous lack of decorum inflicted on Bella due to its deplorable neglect, lady, I do it. I regret the day I allowed to take her to live under his roof. Should protect more carefully to this priceless jewel. – He looked away, full of anger, for uncle Laurent, who remained very quiet, totally embarrassed. – They who are of the same blood, are worth nothing before my eyes. I despise them.

– Well what about her? – Shouted Victoria – was she who did. It was she who lay in bed with the Yankee.

– No! – Bella exclaimed involuntarily. With a grunt, Victoria aunt turned and gave such a strong slap that girl's lower lip started bleeding and his face turned red.

A beer pitcher struck against the table in the dark. Bella saw before him the anger that shone Captain Cullen, who straightened to his feet, leaning forward, firmly planting his hands on the table and told her aunt in a threatening tone.

– Lady, his actions are the vilest nature! You have the manners of a barbarian. If you were a man, I assure you require a reckoning for what just did. Now, you'd better go to bed Isabella. Of course that is very dismayed by all this.

She raised thinking that he could retire and headed for the door. Suddenly, Victoria grabbed her dress and groaned:

– No! At least once in your life, you will stay and be responsible for their actions. No decent young man meteria in bed with a man. I did everything I could to instill in you the fear of God, but is the daughter of the devil. Look what happened to him.

Victoria snatched ruthlessly old dress leaving her beautiful naked body in plain sight.

In the darkness, Captain Cullen pulled the chair furious, angry, crossed the room with great strides. Victoria fell into the chair contemplating the figure wrapped in a black cloak and the enraged face, reddish glow of the flames. Isabella was accused of being a witch and was now convinced that the man who stood before her was the incarnation of Satan. He raised his hands to defend him, but Edward shook the water from his cloak and extended is that Bella desperately tried to hide their nakedness. She was involved with her, shaking violently. The proximity of that burly man filled her with terror.

Edward launched a furious look to three people who were watching.

– Enough of so much useless talk – he demanded coldly. – Is she takes my child in the womb, and so I am responsible for the support you provide. I am late to my trip back home to prove that is installed in a home of their property, with servants who will be in charge of caring for her. – I looked at Lord Hale – I give my word that both she and the baby will have the best education. It is clear that should not live any more time with their relatives. I will not allow, under any instance, my son grow into contact with malice this woman who dares to call itself aunt. I had planned that this would be my last trip to England, but due to circumstances, will continue to come every year to assure me of their well–being. Tomorrow morning I will put me to look for a suitable accommodation for the young, just come here and get her to take you to a seamstress so the view properly. Now, sir, I return to my ship. If you must say something more to these people, the wait in the carriage until it completes its affairs. – He looked away for Victoria and slowly and very precisely added. – I suggest you, lady, you take care not to put a hand on this young or regret.

Having said this, he went to the door and left with the only promise to keep his bastard son and his mother. No one dared to expose the subject of marriage. Away with the sole purpose of converting it into his mistress.

– When we're done with it will no longer be so arrogant and powerful – Victoria assured with contempt. Lord Hale looked at her coldly.

– It seems that I meet his vengeful requirement with considerable displeasure – complained categorically. – If not for Bella, I would terminate the subject, but I must, for your safety, take this man to the altar. Acautelo it, lady, that Captain Cullen has very bad temper. Will do well to take seriously his words.

– You have no right to tell me how to treat the girl – said Victoria.

– In this're wrong, lady – Lord Hale replied sharply. – He is the father of her child and in a few hours will be her husband.

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Which Witch that Victoria.

My God captain will start the head of this woman.

I comment on what is going to happen. Will have wedding or not ???