Title: The Heart Needs A Bandage
Rating: T
Pairings: Alice/Bella and Bella/Jacob
Disclaimer: Characters are copyright to Stephanie Meyer.
Notes: I was gonna make this a one-shot but I thought it would be better if it had some chapters in it. Alice and Jacob are my favorite characters in Twilight, and I hope I give both them and Bella justice in this chapter.
Prologue: A Lost Forever
It was rare for the Volturi to apologize, especially to a human. Because of a string of unfortunate events, the Cullens had lost a valuable member of their family. After all that fuss Edward went to for his death wish, Bella had been strangely alive. Somehow she managed to avoid getting killed again. Nothing mattered now, Edward Cullen the most important thing in Bella's life, was gone for good. Her and Alice tried their hardest to safe Edward, but it wasn't enough. He exposed himself to the sun and allowed thousands to see him. He died still thinking she committed suicide, and that was that pained Bella the most. What did she have to live for now? The hole in her heart would be preferment.
The room was as dark as Bella's current emotion, sinking deeper than an ocean's floor. Alice and the rest of the Cullens circulated around her as she wept on the bed where her dead lover slept. Bella blew Edward a kiss, as if she was saying goodbye to miracles and all that was good in her life. In slow motion she grabbed onto Edward's hand, still ice cold as it was before. The gray cracks in his skin became a pattern with his veins. Her eyes wondered nowhere else but around his body. The face of the man she thought had the most exquisite beauty known to man kind had dissolved into an ugly death.
Bella screamed when Alice's hand tapped her shoulder. Her shook her head into Edward's chest more, breathing violent breathes. "EDWARD!" Bella yelled. "Why... WHY?" Alice tapped her shoulder hearing her livid tears. "He's gone!" Bella screamed at Alice. "I've got to die too!" Bella threw herself in Alice's chest like a wild wolf. Alice held onto her arms tight, pushing her face away, prompting her to breathe as if things were going to be just fine.
"That would be the last thing he'd want," said Alice, cradling Bella like a baby.
"But without Edward..." Bella sobbed harder, but her screaming died down. "I'm nothing without Edward. I've got nothing to live for anymore."
"Calm down Bella," snapped Alice, grabbing onto her shoulders. "We're all sad about Edward, but don't think you haven't got anything to live for."
"Alice you don't under-"
"I do understand," Alice interrupted. "I have a vision of Edward looking down on you, telling you not to be sad for him. You'll be one of us and he'll always be in your heart, Bella."
"I wanted him to be the one to do it," Bella hissed grabbing onto Alice's shoulders. "This hole in my chest will never be filled."
"It will, just believe in us."
"Edward died because of me! Everyone will hate me for what I've done!" Bella threw a fit of tears again, gripping onto Alice to tight that it hurt.
"I don't hate you," Alice whispered. She stroke Bella's locks of brown hair. "And there's people waiting for you, they're both worried sick."
Bella should have known the answer straight away. But her mind had been clouded by the despair. After a long effort of trying to clear her mind, she looked up to Alice's happy eyes and guessed, "Charlie and Jacob?"
"That's right!" Alice nodded and held Bella up more. "they're worried sick about you. I'll tolerate the dog for your sake."
"T-thank you." Bella's tears continued to flow, but she was no longer screaming – for now.
"Let's take you back to Forks," Alice said holding onto Bella's hand.
"I think that's a good idea," Carlisle agreed bowing his head down to his son. Esme's head leaned against Carlisle, pulling a heartbreaking expression. It was one of the most darkest moods that Bella had ever seen the Cullens in, but something about Alice's smile showed that something bright was ahead of her.
