AN: Hey there it's Chickenn and Tempest! This is our first joined story together! We hope you like it, it's quite different, and if you like Bella, we reccommend you don't read this :P Disclaimer: We don't own Twilight, nor the characters but there are some others, actually a lot of others that we do own ^__________^!
She may or may not die in this :) Although if it was souly up to Tempest she probbly would kill off all the charters slowly lucky for everyone Chickenn prevents it so between the two of us we find the balance between pessimistic and overly happy, plesae review, all love is appreciated!
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Chickenn and Tempest!
We were standing there, me, Alice and my beautiful Bella, facing my doom. I was completely ready to face them, just to have one last moment with my life. The oppressive stone walls of this round chamber were closing in on us and we didn't have much time left.
I had spent the last few months in absolute agony I had left Bella to save her and now she is here saving me because I thought I had lost her forever and I was willing to go into the next life to find her, and tell her I loved her, but there had been a miscommunication, and because of Jacob black I believed that my love was gone. Bella and all her amazing talents, somehow made it in time with Alice, to stop me from exposing our kind to the humans on their day of celebrating for the eradication of vampires in the city, how wrong they were. As they passed their judgment I turned to her.
"Bella, in all the years that I have existed you were the one thing that had any meaning to me. You changed my life the day I met you, and now all I can say is; I love you." I said looking into her eyes trying to show the true passion I had for her. I held her hand and continued to look into her deep, intense, doe eyes. They were magnificent, shining with tears, tears that were being shed for me, the monster who put her into this situation, if only I wasn't so selfish, she would never have had to shed these unnecessary tears that were now flowing freely down her face.
"I love you, Edward with all my heart." She whispered to me her voice shaking, that's when I heard Alice have a vision.
The Volturi turning to them to announce their decision, they all look to Caius who is grinning widely, Aro is standing looking very regretful and Marcus looking as usual; like he didn't care.
All the guard were staring at the three waiting to see what they had to say. Renata was standing protectively over Aro. I could hear all her thoughts, she was frantic, and she was scared something might happen to Aro, which meant; the outcome was not going to be good. Caius spoke to us then.
"We have reached a decision."
I was going to die.Alice looked over to me with true horror she was shaking her head rapidly, I just nodded and whispered to her; 'keep my Bella safe.' I looked one last time at Bella, then put her behind me and let go of her hand. I stood waiting for my death, I knew that they would be using Felix because of his power; he is the only known vampire in the world that can kill a one of us with his bare hands. It was the Volturi's trademark, their ultimate weapon. I looked over to Alice who was holding back Bella who didn't understand what was going on.
She said that she wouldn't run over to me if Alice let her go. So they both stood there, waiting to see what Caius had to say.
"We have reached a decision." He said smugly, as if I didn't know the answer.
"We regret this decision greatly and we will be doing this with heavy hearts." Aro said looking sincerely upset.
"Don't even try to explain yourselves; in the eyes of me and my family, you are taking away a brother and a son." Alice said hotly, when she gets mad, you will know.
"What do you mean Alice?" Bella asked Alice from behind me, I was looking directly into Caius eyes, he was thinking of all the possible ways, to kill me, then quickly changing his mind trying to find the perfect way.
"So to save Bella, I must give up my life." I stated, slightly disgusted at their logic.
"Edward, because you have broken one of only very few rules we have, you have been sentenced to death." Marcus said uninterested, and sat down on his thrown, he was thinking once again about his departed mate; Didyme, he always thought of her, and nothing was more interesting than her, that's why he always looked so bored. Anything not related to Didyme was completely irrelevant in his eyes.
"With doing this, Bella will be free to live on, as long as she never ever speaks of our secret." Aro said still genuinely looking regretful.
"NO! Edward! You can't die! You are my EVERYTHING!"Bella screamed being held back once again by Alice, I simply nodded to the men and turned to Bella, Alice released her but stayed close.
"Bella, remember I will always love you, with all of my cold hard heart; I love you, forever and ever. Never forget what we had, but don't dwell, it will be okay, just live on and be happy. I love you." I said looking down to her, she was looking straight back crying, silent tears were rolling down her cheeks even more freely now. I gave her a passionate kiss, trying to give her some kind of idea of the love and passion I felt for her, I hugged her, giving her one last chaste kiss on her nose, then on her cheeks, forehead, eyes and finally one on her lips. She just stood with her eyes closed as I turned back to the men standing there ready to end my life.
"Felix will be taking care of you today, we have decided to do it here, we would like to see the display of our most respected guard, he is the strongest vampire known to history, he is able to kill a vampire using next to none of his full potential." Caius said smiling evilly.
"Do what you want with me; just don't make my Bella watch." I asked anger in my voice, making her watch is just completely hideous. I could hear Alice walking over to a still standing silent Bella to move her along when Caius stopped them.
"I think a decent display of this sort will show her we mean business." He said manacling.
"No, don't make her, just do what you want with me, do it however you want, just don't put her through this as well!" I was pleading and I knew it, I didn't need to hear it from Aro's mind or Caius'.
"NO MORE! I will have order, and if I want the human to watch then she WILL!" He bellowed.
I just stood then with utter resentment displayed on my face while Caius motioned for Felix to step forward who had been thinking about ways to do it. He had decided to go with the easiest way which was to just hit me straight in the chest, and then move from there.
He stood in front me about 5 steps away smiling darkly. I closed my eyes, and thought of all my times, with Bella; when we first met, the first time we spoke, the time I told her what I was, the first time I spent the day with her, our first kiss, and our second and our third... that first night when I stayed over with her knowledge, the first time I told her I loved her, the first time she said she loved me.
I stood smiling at all these thoughts as I heard quiet steps slowly move closer to me, closer to my death, then I heard some louder more clumsy steps, I knew exactly who's they were, I would know them anywhere; they were Bella's.
I only just opened my eyes in time to see what she was doing before it was already too late. As Felix pulled his fist back ready to pull my heart out of my chest as he thought, Bella had stepped in front of me, she was looking into my eyes, and before I could move her out of the way, Felix had plunged his fist straight into her back going all the way through her chest, her heart literally in his hands, she took a huge intake of breath, her eyes widened and watered a little. He pulled back and looked his hand, it was all bloody, and he had left her heart in her chest. While doing this, she had collapsed onto me. I sat down carefully and pulled her into my arms I cradled her head between my shoulder and my hand rubbing her cheek reassuringly. She spluttered and coughed a bit before speaking.
"Ed...warddd..." she wheezed.
"Shh, it's okay don't speak you will be okay." I cooed to her, rocking slightly.
"Edward... I'm sorry... I will love you alw-ways...just...a wo-orld... without y-ou... isn't really a world... I di-id it for you... and y-you-r family." She continued to splutter and wheeze out sentences.
"It will be okay, we can get Carlisle, he can fix it, it will be okay, I love you Bella." I said to her, if I could cry I would be right now.
"Ed-ward, I'm n-not going to...make it..." she whispered.
"Yes you will! You will be fine!!" I said slightly angry, she just couldn't leave, what was I supposed to do without my heart?
"Edward, p-pro-mise me something." She looked deep into my eyes searching for something.
"Anything." I said clearly.
"Whatever h-happens, if I-I don't make I-it, promise to stay, stay with Alice, stay in the world." She pleaded with me.
"I can't promise that." I said looking to her eyes, to see if she understood that living without her isn't really living.
She coughed and spluttered again, this time blood came out of her mouth; she looked up to me with watery eyes. "Please, prom-ise m-me keep liveing ." She begged again, I couldn't refuse what would be her last wish.
"I promise." I said dry sobbing.
"I love you Edward Cullen." She whispered and moved her hand to my cheek to move it so our lips were nearly touching.
"As I will always love you Isabella Maire Swan." I said solemnly to her, she gave me a kiss which I returned with as much passion as I could muster.
Then I felt her lips to go limp and her body relaxed on top of me. Her head lolled back her mouth gaped open, her heart beating one last half beat, then stopped all together.
Bella my Bella lay dead in my arms , she still felt so warm and soft , I placed my hand over the gaping wound in her chest were her perishes blood flowed out freely I felt as if I was dieting a thousand deaths . There was no thought no action no escape from the terrible pain building in me tearing at me.
The only sounds I heard was that of a wonned beast no a monster. ME! I'd caused this. My life, my love, my reason for being, gone leaving her fragile body and me behind. "Promise to stay, stay in the world "her final words but how could I stay with the pain life without her? Was that life?
Oh god the pain I need an escape I flung open my mind to the room to anything that wasn't me , it was a haze of blood lust and rage, greed, deviant pleasure, sadness, grief ,excitement , pity .
They revelled in the bloodshed like a pack of animals. It made me sick. Slowly I stood up cradling Bella in my arms her heir draped across her pale face like a veil of mahogany silk I brushed away the last of her tears the tipped of my fingers and touched her all too perfect mouth. Grabbing Alice as I turned to leave, leave this place of hatred. Aro however, had other ideas.
"Edward, please wait, going out into the city, in the sun, and with... the body of Bella..." He trailed slightly hesitant.
"The body of Bella? What; so because she has moved on into the afterlife she is no longer Bella? You think because her body lay here in my arms dead, because of you, she this is just a corpse of what she was?" I said hotly.
"No, no, no I didn't mean anything like that..."Aro said lost for words.
"Well I think I'm the best one to the fix this situation," Marcus interrupted, he seemed to think that because of his past experiences he can relate to what just happened to me, his thoughts of his pain were horrible but nothing compared to what I was going through, "If you and your sister will please follow me."
The four of us walked out of the round room into the hallway; we walked along until we came along to a big auburn door, with a huge knocker in the centre. We walked straight into the room, it was all dark drapes hanging over the walls, and they were all a deep red, with the furnishings all black.
There were books all around the room; more than even I had, there was a big black arm chair behind a big darkwood desk. There were two slightly smaller chairs in front of the desk.
Marcus moved over to one of the book shelves as if looking for something.
"Please sit." Unwillingly I slowly moved to the chairs with Alice pushing me all along the way. I was still cradling Bella in my arms. I picked up the blanket that was draped over the chair and wrapped it around Bella so she would not get cold, again my fingers traced her lips, thinking of every kiss we every shared from that very first kiss after the meadow to our very, very last kiss when she left this world forever.
"I have arranged for a private plane to take you back to forks. And customs will be taken care of now all we need is a plausible reason for Bella being brought back in this condition "
'This, condition "I hissed under my breath "I know why don't we just tell everybody that she had her hart ripped out by vampires , the truth will set you free as they say"
Foolish boy
Alice spoke up then, she'd been quiet since the incident, I had almost forgot she was with me, all my thoughts had been consumed by thought s of Bella.
"I think we will take your offer Marcus, I know of an excuse that we will be using, thank you for helping us we will be on our way now." She said in a monotone.
I looked over to her questioningly she looked back at me not showing any signs of emotion.
Edward we are going to be telling everyone that she was a boat on the upper deck, she fell and broke her spine on the lower level deck railing. Carlisle is going to fix her up and fake the autopsy.
I couldn't believe what she had just said; my mouth was just hanging open in disbelief. Marcus led us out to another door, this one was white, and there was a big red cross on the centre of it. I didn't understand why we were here until Marcus moved to a shelf and pulled a big black bag; it looked like a huge dry cleaning bag. He walked over to the big metal table in the centre and laid it down, then unzipped it all the way and looked expectantly.
"What is that for...?" I asked cautiously.
"Edward, you can't expect to keep her like this and have people believed the story you and your sister have come up with." Marcus said calmly.
"No, are you kidding? NO! She can't go in there! She's afraid of the dark! NO, I will not let her go!" I was panicking now.
Alice went to take Bella but I stopped her, tightening my hold on her.
"NO I SAID NO!" I bellowed.
I felt an hand touch my shoulder, I looked to see Marcus.
"Edward, I know how it feels to love someone so much and then have them ripped way from you when it was clearly not their time to leave, but it's time to let her lay in peace." He said calmly.
But how could I let go? How could I leave her? How could I believe that my one true love was gone forever and couldn't follow her? Why did I have to promise her? I looked down to her, she was so pale, and lifeless, she didn't even look the same; her cheeks were hollow and pale, her beautiful lips were a pasty white, all the colour had left her face, she… wasn't Bella. I looked back to Marcus and nodded.
I slowly placed her body into the bag, I made sure she was still wrapped up tight and supported her head, even though there was no need.
I watched as Marcus walked to the other end of the bag, and slowly began to zip up the bag. The zip came over the bottom half of the body as she was slowly being swallowed by the darkness. I watched as her face was finally covered, I had broken my promise to protect her, by leaving to save her, I ended up killing her.
Everything after that moment was a blur, I remember at one stage, Alice gave me a change of clothes, when I looked down to see why I had to change I saw I was covered in crimson blood, I guess it made sense to change, but to me, nothing made sense at all.
It was easier then I had anticipated to block out everyone's thoughts, they were insignificant in comparison the thoughts running through my mind at that moment. The plane ride felt like it had lasted at least an eternity, the whole time me and Alice sat in tormented silence; I could hear her thoughts; all she was thinking was 'she's gone, she's gone' then slowly changed her thoughts into thoughts of Bella, but Bella was pale and had golden eyes just like me and my family; she was a vampire.
It was just too painful to see so I blocked her thoughts out and settled into nothingness, because everything else was nothing compared to Bella.
We got to the airport, and I saw the airport security bring out a black bag on a trolley and it just broke my heart all over again, when we went out to the arrival section; Carlisle and Esme were there waiting for us, Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper were just behind them. Me and Alice walked over to them, slower than human pace when we got there Jasper went to Alice and put an arm around her, she didn't say anything to him or anyone, she just slumped into Jasper's chest as they walked back to Rosalie and Emmett.
I stood in front of Carlisle and Esme, they didn't move to embrace me which I was thankful for, I looked to me left, there I saw the airport security pushing the trolley with the bag on it out the side entrance where an ambulance was waiting.
Carlisle had organised for all this to be done, he also planned to have the hospital staff to put her in the morgue, but have no one inspect her except for Carlisle, except that was only so Carlisle could fake the autopsy.
"Edward…" I heard Esme whisper, I snapped my head to look at her, if she was human she would be crying, I moved to embrace her, trying to be comforting, but I was rigid, longing for a warm set of arms.
"We should get going." Carlisle said looking back to the ambulance which looked ready to go.
I didn't reply I just walked out the main entrance and waited to see which car we were going in. Emmett had his jeep there and Carlisle had his Mercedes, I got in the jeep not bothering to ask, Alice and Jasper got in with Carlisle and Esme and we all went to the hospital.
*
We had been sitting, waiting for Carlisle when I heard what Alice was thinking, she was thinking about her times with Bella doing her make up and hair, sitting in Bella's room while she would protest, and how she would give in so easily.
That's when I remembered something very, very vital; we had been sitting here for about 3 hours and no one had called Charlie. We had forgotten her own father, how could I be so stupid, I forgot because I was so consumed with my own thoughts. I went to say this out loud when Emmett beat me to it.
"What about Charlie? We forgot to call him, he's probably worried sick about her." He said seriously, Emmett hadn't said one funny thing since we met them at the airport.
"I'll do it." Jasper said, looking at me kindly, though I was still looking at the floor, I hadn't blinked since we got here to this spot.
"No, I'll do it, it would be better from me." Esme said kindly.
"Edward is going to do it." Alice butted in whispering, everyone looked at her confused.
" I saw it, it's not going to be good, but he is going to do it himself." She said quietly.
I stood and looked at them, with no expression on my face. "I'm going to call him now; I will be back in a few minutes."
I walked outside and found a bench away from the entrance, I got out my phone and dialled her house number and waited, I waited for nine rings, but no answer. I called the station next; I waited for four rings then someone picked up.
"Hello, Jenna Wilkins, Forks police station how may I help you?" She said firmly.
"Hello, may I please speak to Chief Charlie Swan?" I asked politely.
"Ugh, he's busy at the moment can you call back?" She continued, I was losing my calm and I knew it. I took a breath and answered her.
"No, it's quite important, it's regarding his daughter; B-Bella" I stuttered over her name, though she wouldn't have known because of her human hearing.
"Oh, okay then." She said and put me on hold.
"Hello?" Charlie's voice rang through the receiver.
"Charlie, it's Edward." I said.
"Edward? What do you want? Where's Bella?" He was angry I could tell, but it wasn't half as bad as it was going to be.
"Charlie, I think we need to talk face to face, saying this over the phone wouldn't be right." I said in a monotone.
"Why?" He asked suspiciously.
"It's…B-Bella."
So what did you think? Love it? Hate it? We know we know, Bella's gone... wonder what Charlie is going to say ayee... Don't be put out, Edward will be fine sooner or later... depends on how sinister Tempest is feeling and how much debating Chickenn has to do with her :P
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