Blood Moon [a Twilight Saga FanFiction]

Human Attack

WHEN I RETURNED TO MY OFFICE, Carlisle and Esme were having yet another glass of blood each.
     "Bloody hell, I'm going to have to re-stock soon and you two are definitely helping me get it," I groaned and washed my hands with bleach again.
     "What took so long?" Carlisle asked.
     "Persuasion. Don't worry, Miss Langland is no longer your responsibility. Oh, and apparently she's now an ex of yours from high school who broke your heart, just in case you're asked."
     "Thank you."
     I could still hear it in his voice. The guilt, the doubt, I walked over to him and made him look at me.
     "No one was in the foyer for you," I lied. "They're not here. Nothing was going to happen. You're too good of a man."
     He looked at me and my desk phone rang. I quickly answered.
     "Lizzie Fuller speaking," I turned to face Carlisle and Esme.
   "I know who you are," a deep, static voice said over the line. I felt my face go hard and I turned to face my desk. It was obvious they were trying to hide so I quickly turned on my computer and activated the tracking software installed. "I know what you are. You have something I want. Someone I want."
     "Who?" I asked.
     "I know you have phone tracking software on your computer. It won't work."
     "How?"
     "Because I know a bunch of kids who are good with technology. I ask the questions from here on out, or a lot of people are going to hurt. Do you understand?"
     "I do. But I hope you understand that it'll take a lot to kill the people I love," I said as I looked sideways to a confused Esme and Carlisle.
     "I was talking about your family, Doctor."
     The Hospital... he was talking about the Hospital.
     "There we go. Will you do as you're told now?"
     "Yes."
     "Are you alone?"
     "Yes," I lied.
     "Don't lie to me, Lizzie, or I get a step closer to killing everyone you love. Let's try this again. Are you alone?"
     I took in a deep breath and saw Esme quietly and quickly pull out her phone, dialling someone.
     "No," I answered.
     "That's a girl. Can you get rid of them?"
     Carlisle shook his head. "Not even if I tried," I answered.
     "They're your family. They can hear me."
     "You may have jammed my tracking software but you've just threatened three vampires. Not very smart of you."
     There was a moment of silence, and I would have thought they had hung up, if not for the breathing.
     Then he spoke again, after two minutes.
     "Can you smell that through your open windows, Lizzie?"
     It took a moment before a bitter, smoky smell wafted through the windows. It made me gag, Esme covered her mouth with her hands and coughed and Carlisle covered his mouth and nose with his shirt.
     "That is foul," Carlisle grunted.
     "I'm going to call you back on a different number when it's gone. You better pick up."
     I heard the woosh when the bitter smoke smell was joined by the smell of heat. Burning.
     "Is that...?" Esme breathed.
     Esme flinched away from her phone when there was suddenly a scream from the line.
     "Alice? Alice!" I heard Bella call from the phone. As I walked to the window, all I could hear from the phone was a lot of screaming, and our names.
     I stuck my head out the window and looked around for the noise, and saw the bright red flames already eating so much of the wall at the end of the Hospital, my throat closed. It was the same moment Mary Alice scream of "fire" rang through the phone line.
     "He's burning down the Hospital," I gasped.
     I quickly ran out of the office and hit the fire alarm and grabbed the nearby phone. It went first to reception and next to the fire department.
     "This is Doctor Lizzie Fuller, I pulled the fire alarm, this is not a drill," I explained.
     "Get out of the Hospital, Esme, stay out there and wait for me," Carlisle said as they left my office.
     "But what about you-"
     "I'll see you soon, but please, stay out there."
     "I can smell the smoke, it's coming in through the windows," I continued through the phone.
     "No! You're coming with me! You're not staying here!" Esme argued.
     "Esme," Carlisle sighed.
     "Evacuate the Hospital," I continued. "Repeat, evacuate the Hospital. Code Red."
     "On it!" Kylie said at the other end.
     The siren changed to the emergency evacuation.
     "I need to help Elizabeth," Carlisle told his wife.
     "Than I will help, too."
     "Esme, the best way for you to help us right now, is to get yourself outside and make sure everyone gets to the designated evacuation points. Okay?" I told her and gave her a hug. "Carlisle and I will be quicker and more focused if we're not worried about you as well. Please, wait outside for us?"
     "Fire-"
     "Believe me, I know. I'll keep him safe, I promise."
     I kissed my sister's forehead before running to my top priority, evacuating patients.
     Code Red, Paediatric Wing. Code Red, Paediatric Wing.
     The fire was spreading, fast. Too fast. My instincts were telling me to run, get out and get away, quickly, but I had greater priorities to deal with. Patients I had to save. Children I loved.
     On the wing, nurses were getting children who couldn't walk into wheelchairs, already helping parents carry kids in the wheelchairs, down the stairs.
     Then the warning changed.
     Code Red, total evacuation.
     The fire was spreading faster than I thought. Nowhere was safe.
     I got to one of my patients, James Morrison, who was able to walk, just needed help standing. I got him up and ran with him out of the Hospital. His mother was waiting for him outside. My eyes caught Esme, hands over her mouth, her pale skin glowing with the spreading fire.
     "Anne..."
     "Carson told us about her fear," a nurse I recognised from the ICU, Miena, said approaching me. "We're watching her."
     "Thank you," I said and ran back in.
     When I rushed back into the paediatrics ward, I went straight to whom I wanted to make sure survived this evacuation. Lucy Arnold.
     The almost sixteen-year-old was holding her shirt over her nose and mouth, and her eyes smiled when she saw me.
     "Let's get you out of here, sweetie," I told her, unplugged her and carried her outside. She was looking weak and grey today.
     "I knew it was going to be a bad day," she muttered as I got her out.
     "A truck collapsing in a mall and now this? Some bad day," I chuckled and she laughed with me.
     It sounded too weak.
     "Get a drop in her ASAP and get blood ready for her," I ordered nurses when we were outside. "Anne!" I called Esme and she looked over to me. "Get over here and help where you can!"
     "He's in there... Carson's in there..." She whimpered to me as I showed her how to carefully monitor Lucy's vitals.
     "I know. We'll be okay."
     I brushed her hair out of her face before I ran back in.
     "Wait, Lizzie! Don't!" Lucy began calling but I ignored her warning.
     I ran in for Liam Connor next. Doctor Jordan Ryans was already there.
     "Where the hell have you been?" he asked with a grin.
     "Getting more ambulant kids. Now, come on! We didn't save him earlier to let him die in a fire," I said as we grabbed everything he needed and began running out, carrying him with a sheet.
     Nurses who had helped us in the theatre took him to an emergency dock where they could plug him back in. His mother was finally able to be with him this time.
     I looked over and saw Esme still with Lucy, she was the only one with her but there was a nice smile on her face. I looked in the crowd briefly and saw Edward and Bella.
     I couldn't bring myself to look further, I didn't want to see Igor.
     Fire at a workplace. It would bring back bad memories. But he left without his patients... I'm risking my life to save mine.
     When I began running back in, I was running in with firemen by my side.
     The fires were growing, I could feel the heat against my skin. The firemen couldn't seem to control it so it continued to spread and we all became rushed to get patients out.
     I had finished getting the kids out and began heading back in when the Hospital exploded and knocked me off my feet.
     "Carlisle!"
     I looked back at my sister and saw her screaming and Bella holding her back. Carlisle... he was in there... she had called his real name... he was in there.
     I tore off my burning jacket and looked at the red Hospital.
     My brother was in there.
     I had only taken a step towards the Hospital before cold, familiar hands wrapped around my chest and arms. Edward... It had to be. They weren't Igor's hands.
     "Liz," I heard Igor said softly, he was walking towards us through the crowd. "Liz..."
     "He's okay," I muttered as my legs collapsed. "He's okay..."
     The grip on me loosened enough. I was able to knock Edward aside and ran into the fire. Into my fear.
     "Liz! Stop!" Igor yelled.
     "Lizzie!" Lucy cried.
     The heat swallowed me. Fear burnt as hot as the heat., but I followed my instincts. I held my breath and ran, if I was fast enough, the fire wouldn't get me... right?
     I found Carlisle with a man, thin... weak...
     "Come on," I ran up to them and pulled them to their feet.
     "Liz..." Carlisle coughed.
     "I said come on!" I yelled. "I'm not losing you, Carlisle, not so soon after you getting you back!"
     I walked out and knew the way I came was no return. I grabbed a still standing cloth and gave it to Carlisle so the man could breathe through it; neither of us were breathing unless necessary. Not now.
     We stayed close and helped each other avoid the flames and soon came across an untouched window.
     "You two first," I said.
     The patient coughed dangerously.
     "But you-"
     "I cannot carry him out! You can! Jump, Carlisle, keep him steady," I said and helped them pull it open.
     The floor above us groaned and the fear and eagerness to escape heightened. Heat and smoke and flames billowing around us.
     Carlisle and the patient jumped and before I could follow, flames from the outside pushed their way in and I jumped back, but not quick enough to not feel the fire lick my skin. I quickly tore off the burning sleeve of my shirt and back away, looking away for a new exit.
     Igor... focus on getting back to Igor... 
     "Elizabeth!" I heard Carlisle yell from outside.
     "Get to your family, brother! Stay safe!" I responded. "I'll find my way out!"
     I looked around the bright red, hot, hellish room.
     Get back to Igor... I thought and just ran. Be quick enough, the fire won't touch me... quick enough, the fire won't hurt...
     I tried to be quick enough, tried to be agile and I tried my hardest to avoid the flames, but I could smell it. My hair was singed. I could feel...
     I felt weak.
     And then it got me.
     It was worse than the change. It hurt, and this time, I really did scream. I screamed as my life flashed before my eyes.
     Igor...
     I was running to get out for Igor, but... the pain had paralysed me... I couldn't move, I could only burn.
     Igor...
     He had gotten out of the fire for me... on the brink of death, his skin was ash, clothes barely existent when I had found him, but he had been able to get out of the fire for me... so I could for him.
     I pushed through the paralysing, enveloping pain and ran through the nearest wall. Probably destroying the Hospital structure in the process didn't care.
     When I hit the cold ground I was still screaming; except now it was strange. It was like I was looking over myself, burning, writhing in the pain of fire that was no longer affecting me. It was out. I wasn't on fire anymore, but the pain... the pain was...
     It felt like death...
     I closed my eyes and waited for the pain to be over.
     Igor would be alone.
     I hoped my brother would help him.
     "You're an idiot, Elizabeth," Igor growled down to me.
     Igor!
     "Don't you dare... how could... why did..." his voice kept fading in and out. I couldn't quite make his full sentences, but I knew what he was saying. I didn't need to hear it to know what he was saying.
     "I couldn't let them die," I groaned.
     I let myself relax in his arms as he ran us somewhere... I don't remember when we stopped or where we ran too, but when I finally was able to focus again we were in a cave.
     "Edward told us all why the fire started. We're going to try and find the person behind this, but... but you need to disappear," Igor stated, looking at me with such pain in his eyes.
     I wanted to say something to make his pain go away, to tell him that I was okay, everything was going to be okay.
     "You need to disappear," Igor repeated. "You were stupid enough to go in after your brother, so..."
     I tried to interrupt, but my voice wasn't working. I couldn't understand what he was saying. Me disappearing? Revenge on the humans who started the fire? No! No... my voice wasn't working...
     "Pretending you're dead won't be easy... maybe Edward will see through it. I hope he understands..."
     I tried to talk again, it hurt, it clawed my throat and only came out as a groan.
     "Shh, I remember the pain. Everyone has to believe you're dead. The Volturi will probably get involved, I don't like that, but the humans have threatened the lives of Vampires. If they care for their people they'll help. I won't let whoever did this to you get away with it, Miss Elizabeth."
     Don't hurt them! Don't kill them! I wanted to scream, to yell, to hold Igor right beside me so nothing could happen.
     I had just almost died and he was now talking about leaving me again? No! I needed him to survive. I needed him.
     I tried to reach out for him, grab him. The movement shot pain up my arm so fast and so excruciating, that my world finally plummeted in the painless black I had been waiting for before Igor carried me away.