"Get the floorboards!"

The words drew Bella's limited attention from Edward's golden eyes to the scene unfolding across the room. She could vaguely hear the conversation going on around her, but most of it didn't make it past the white noise. Something about making a choice before it was too late, and running out of time. She didn't know and honestly, she didn't care. Truth be told, it was a little hard to care about anything when it feels like slow moving acid was slowly moving through your veins.

She couldn't take her eyes off the sight of Emmett and Alice throwing body parts around them like they were nothing while Jasper took up the task of ripping the studio apart beneath his feet. She understood the reason behind it, and that the studio was going to be burnt to the ground anyway to cover up the fight, but damn it, this was a piece of her childhood, even if she wasn't very good at it, and he was destroying it before her eyes.

While Carlisle was trying to get the bleeding from the gash to Bella's leg to slow, Edward watch as her eyes began to go distant, listened to the way her breathing was starting to hitch. Shaking his head, he turned and looked at Carlisle. "I don't know if I can do this. She's already lost so much blood. How much more can she lose before she can't recover from it?"

Not looking away from the leg, Carlisle's brows drew. "She has, but she isn't beyond saving yet. She will be if his venom reaches her heart, though. There won't be anything we can do after that."

Nothing, absolutely nothing, could have prepared anyone for the scream that ripped from Bella's throat when that happened, either.

Not even Jasper, who was the one with the most experience with a changing human. Thousands over the course of his life let out that same noise because there is nothing in the world that hurts more than the moment your heart catches fire. Like everyone else, he stopped what he was doing and turned to look, watching as Bella's back arched and she let out another scream. Frowning with a slightly drawn expression, he shifted his eyes from the changeling to Edward and Carlisle, seeing the look of defeat on Edward's face, and the resigned one on Carlisle's. There really was no stopping the change at this point, only dealing with the fallout; and there would be a lot of it.

Jasper kept a half an ear on the conversation between the two males by the changing human as he went back to setting the fire to destroy the studio, an unsettling feeling forming in his gut as Alice and Emmett followed his original orders of burning James. He wasn't sure what it was, but shrugging it off as a side effect of the fact he hadn't dealt with a newborn since before he joined the coven, he joined the other two in finishing the job. He couldn't shake it completely though, and kept glancing back over his shoulder.

Carlisle simply set a hand on Edward's shoulder. Since there was no need for any extraneous medical intervention at this point, he allowed his mind to shift tracks and begin to formulate the plans on everything else that was going to need done now. It had been many years since he dealt with a newborn. However, the thing that he focused on was Bella was such a mild mannered human, and he crossed his mental fingers that aspect of her crossed over into her new life. There were many things he felt would work well to their favor, not the least of which was she actually knew what was happening to her, and her love for Edward. Those two things, hopefully, will allow him to work with her if no one else.

Sighing when his oldest companion looked at him, he gave Edward a look of understanding. "I'm sorry, Edward. I know you didn't want this for her." When Edward looked away, he frowned deeper. "There is a lot to do before she wakes up. We'll just take it one thing at a time, alright? For now, we have to get back to Washington."

Looking at Bella, Edward sighed. "Are you sure that's a good idea? What about the treaty?"

Scratching his brow, Carlisle made a noise in the back of his throat. "We don't have a choice. We have to keep up appearances because there is no shortage of people there that know of her connection to us. She has to disappear, and in order to keep from being the center of a human investigation, we have to be seen. There is plenty of wildlife in the area to keep her sated until Esme can work her magic and find a better place. As for the wolves, we didn't break the treaty, because we didn't bite her. There wasn't anything said about not being allowed to add to the coven, or we would have broken it with Emmett. For now, let's just focus on getting her out of here, and we'll figure out the rest as we have to."