Hey guys, welcome to the second installment of the 'Storm' series. For those of you that are completely new to my fan fiction, you may want to read 'The Quiet Before the Storm' before you read this, other wise you'll get majorly confused.

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Chapter 1: Jacob/Bella/Edward - Witnesses

JACOB:
Bella looked so beautiful today. I almost wished I hadn't asked the guys and the new girl along. But it was cool: Quil and Embry were arguing over the Lakers game that was on last night, and 'Laiz was very quiet. Bella was holding her hand, the red-head was shaking pretty bad. I didn't think it was that cold, but then again how would I know, my body temperature was set permanently on "furnace".

"Jake, I know why you did it; I just think that you could have been a little more tactful. She doesn't know about anything..." Bella whispered.

"Please Bella, give me some credit! I wasn't about to go rattle the whole story. I just wanted to see the one person that spooked dear old Ed."

I wasn't lying. It was almost too funny. Edward, Mr. "I'm-so-mature-and-wise-and-not-phased-by-anything" was completely freaked out by a tiny little English girl who looked like she'd never said boo to a goose! The irony!

As I thought about her, I looked up. Whoa, she really wasn't kidding when Bella said she was scared. The girl had actually started to go blue; I think she'd stopped breathing!

"Alaizabel, you've gone blue in the face! Your life jackets are too tight, take one off" I said.

Stupid idea, wearing two lifejackets. It wouldn't make it any better than one.
She shook her head like a stubborn kid. I sighed. Stubborn, just like Bella. Were all girls like this or were there some that listened?

I reached over and undid the ties of both the jackets, just to serve her right.
"...and your still on the boat" I grinned. The girl would have to learn. Bella was staring at me poisonously but I didn't care. It was crazy how this girl was afraid of a bit of water when she had five bloodsuckers lurking around her classrooms!

Her face bleached of any colour at all, and her bright curious eyes turned hard and vengeful. Evil.

"g-g-g-GIVE THEM BACK!" she screeched and then she threw herself at me!

I just thought she'd trip up and land on the boat bottom so I dodged her, not making any attempt to catch her. But she stuck her foot out to take another leap at me, and it got caught in Embry's wire. She spun like a top and suddenly she was gone.

I didn't even hear the splash. I jumped to the edge of the boat and peered down into the grey water. Not a ripple, not a bubble, nothing.
The sea had swallowed her whole.

BELLA:
Jacob was being cruel to Alaizabel, whether he meant it or not. Edward had told me what he'd read in her thoughts about her accident. I would have been scared too the way he described it. She was shaking like a new born lamb, and I gripped her hand. It would have been inhuman not to try and help her in some way. She was suddenly so petrified and vulnerable; it made me want to bury her in life jackets. To protect her.
Now i knew what Edward had meant about me.

I missed something that was said between her and Jacob, but suddenly Jacob had her life jackets. I guessed what he had done and why. I knew he was trying to help her get over the fear, but seriously, this was not the time or place to do it.

She was still shaking, but now with fury rather than fear. I let go as her fingers twisted around my own in a painful claw.

She yelled at him to give them back and shot across the boat towards him. It was too fast for me to see what happened. I just saw her lean over one way, a fleeting look of desperate horror in her eyes, the wire caught around her legs and then she went overboard. I didn't even have time to try and reach out for her.

The force with which she went over snapped the wire on the edge of the boat. We couldn't pull her back up. We couldn't save her.
We killed her.

EDWARD:
I watched the boat from the shore. Normally, I was not permitted at La Push, but Carlisle had spoken to Billy Black and allowed me a one day permit of sorts.
I saw the protective way Bella sat with Alaizabel. It was charming, and suited her well. My beloved lamb was becoming a lioness in her own right.

But I didn't smile. Alaizabel was relaying the day of her accident over and over again in her skull. She was focusing on the screaming. It didn't help my already battered psyche that she replayed them over and over again on top of the piercing ring that emanated from her.

All I'd been able to figure out was that she internally screamed with heightened emotions. Shock, sorrow and anger had all set them off. And she was a dweller. She would go over things in her mind that caused her pain in a sado-machistic fashion.

The ringing was painful. Physically painful. I didn't understand how it could hurt so much, as I hadn't felt physical pain since I was human, and those memories were blurred and smudged.

I wasn't concentrating on their conversations anymore, but I heard the distinct sound of Velcro being ripped open, and something about lifejackets.

The ringing increased ten fold and I fell to the ground in agonizing horror.

"BELLA, NO!" I shouted. Alaizabel was angry, and she was thinking the vilest, evil thoughts for a split second. She was a whole different person. And all I could think about was how I let Bella walk right into it.

I heard a few thuds, a zip of a wire and a gasp. Then nothing. I scanned the wolves' thoughts. Thank god, Bella was unscathed. But Alaizabel was nowhere.

Only then did it occur to me that the ringing had been silenced.