I'm sorry it took a bit longer than I hoped to post this. I hope you like it. I totally forgot the disclaimer on the first one sorry. But anyways this is probably the only time I'll remember to put up the disclaimer. So anyways: I do not own Twilight or its characters/plot and stuff like that blah blah blah etc. etc.
My body felt cold, hot, and wet all at the same time. Somehow, my wedding dress, the one that Alice had got me, felt so light that it felt that I wasn't wearing one at all. I kept my eyes closed; I was either too afraid or too tired to open them. My mind was foggy and drifted, and I thought I must have been in hell. Yeah, I was in hell all right, I thought. Edward wasn't there.
"Is she all right?" … "No! I didn't say that"… "Get off my…" "Stupid bloodsuckers . . ." "Oh Bella!" I caught glimpses of different people's conversations, and together they made no sense at all.
I squeezed my eyes shut to block out the voices. I figured there were three options, and only one of them looked remotely probable.
Number one: I was delirious and alive, and none of past events even happened.
Number two: I made it out of the water alive by myself while I blacked out.
Number three: I was dead, and I was in my own personal hell.
"Bella wake up, please," someone's voice cracked while shaking my body with hot hands.
I shook the voices out of my head and focused on my options. I knew I was standing, and needed to figure out how this was possible when I knew that the agony I felt meant I should be curled in a little ball on the floor.
Option number one seemed highly unbelievable because every inch of my body hurt, and if this world was real, I would only be aching and coughing with a slight fever.
Option two was even sillier than option one. I knew for sure that I couldn't have pulled myself out of the truck while I blacked out, that was simple logic.
So that left me with option three, the worst one of all, but the most believable. I was in my personal hell and I even had the voices of my past life talking in my head to torture me.
"We have to focus on Bella now. I can still hear her pulse, so there's no time for this." Somehow, I knew this voice was from Edward, and my mind seemed less foggy.
"Her pulse is getting weaker! Do it Edward!" Alice hissed.
Do what? I thought. This is making no sense at all; I had to open my eyes.
Just before I had time to open my eyes, I felt something hard and burning slice into my hands and feet. My eyes flew open and I gasped at the burning sensation coursing slowly into each of my fingertips and toes. It hurt so much that I even started to struggle to run away from the fire burning through my limbs.
Something almost as hot as my fingertips grabbed onto my arms. I looked around to see what was happening, but saw nothing but dense forest and Edward a few feet back with Alice even farther back, holding her breath. I kicked more furiously. The burning in my hands was such a horrible, unimaginable pain that I gasped for breath intensely.
"Stop kicking me, Bella! Ugh, Edward, your spit is really burning my nose!" Jacob exclaimed from behind me. I whipped my head around to see him sitting there, his nose wrinkled up, holding me at a distance to keep me from kicking him. He was the one holding me up, keeping me from falling.
"Help! Jacob, help I'm on fire!" I screamed, thrashing around even more, trying unsuccessfully to break out of his iron grip. "Please! Jake take me away-y-y-y!!" I shrieked for a long time, asking for death to come.
"You filthy bloodsucker! What did you do to her?" Jacob yelled at Edward, still holding me in place. He started to turn to Edward, obviously forgetting my spastic body in his hands.
"I'm so sorry, Jacob. But this is the only way." Edward sounded in pain and took a step back as if repulsed by what he did.
But I didn't care anymore; the fire had burned its way to my elbows and my knees. I realized that the option of my personal hell was true, and screamed even louder. I could feel Jacob's grip loosening a bit with every thrash.
"No… more!!" I shook myself so hard that Jacob totally let go. Racing forward, and then turning around I saw Edward looking at me, his hands raised in midair, as if about to shield himself.
"Bella, don't!" Alice was the first one to react. She was instantly by my side, her cooling hands numbing the pain a miniscule fraction, and restraining me at the same time.
"Let go! Please!" I looked at her with pain and terror, and then whipped my head around to Jake to see if he would help me.
"Don't move Jacob, she might do something irrational! She's in intense pain right now and she isn't making smart decisions," Edward said in a quiet voice. "Just ignore her and she might…" Edward's voice stopped and he looked for a reasonable word to say to Jacob.
"What? She might cry? Or even ask for me to help her more?" Jacob yelled sarcastically, his body shaking with rage. "Just… tell…me…what…you…did," he whispered.
Edward realized that Jacob was about to snap, and he told Alice silently to move me away. "Well, for starters, your thoughts of Bella disappearing into the bushes first triggered my reflex action - rescue. I was running to her as fast as I could and -"
"And," Jacob interrupted, growling, "You broke the treaty."
Edward paused for a second, almost seeming to be taken aback, "Yes, I did, didn't I? But we need to worry about Bella now, not the treaty."
"I am, Bloodsucker! But don't you realize that you've done two things that would have broken the treaty within the past twenty-four hours?"
"Yes."
"And so, don't you realize that we're at war right now?"
"Yes."
"So what are you going to do now?" Jacob looked up, a fierce look in his eyes.
Alice cut in. "Will you just stop fighting right now? Bella is really going to hurt herself at this rate. We need to get some manacles on her to hold her down."
"What?!" Jacob yelled, racing forward to Alice and me, "Manacles? She's not an animal! I know you bit her and I know that she's turning into one of you; I can see it in her fingers!"
"D-d-d-don't change me!" I begged "Please! I would rather die."
"No! I don't want her to die either!" Jacob yelled to Alice, "can't you just not change her?!"
"Bella," Alice seemed strangely calm, "I thought you told Edward that you wanted to be like us, don't you think that your being a little unreasonable?"
I looked at Edward and cringed. He was sitting against a tree with his shoulders slumped and his hands over his head, while seeming to not move at all. He looked in so much pain that even the pain in my body wouldn't even compare to the pain I felt for him.
"I… Can you let go of me for a second please Alice?" I looked up at Alice where she held me in her grip and stared at her strait in her topaz eyes.
Her face went blank for a minute and she seemed to be watching one of her visions. "Ok Bella," Alice let me go.
"What?!" Jacob shook even harder now, glaring at me, "You're letting her go free? She's dangerous!"
I walked as quickly as I could without falling towards Edward and sat down beside him.
Edward looked up at me, his eyes wide with disbelief, and his hands fell down to his sides.
I grabbed him into a hug and felt his body relax a bit as he wound his hands around my cold body. With my face pressed into his chest I started to cry.
"It's ok, Bella," He stroked my hair and soothed me with his words, "I'm here now, it's ok."
"Oh Edward! It just hurts so much!" I wept into his chest, making his shirt all wet, "Isn't there any other way? Do you have to change me now? I want you to, but not now…"
"Bella, honey," Jacob walked up to us and sat down, pushing his warm body against my cold one, "I figured it out, it's the only way. You have to become who they are," Jacob used his chin to point to Edward, "Otherwise you would of died, you were in a fatal accident, your truck drowning you, luckily I was there and followed you to the slough and pulled you out. When I pulled you out, you weren't breathing," Jacob started to smile wryly, "and… I had to give you mouth-to-mouth."
I looked at Edward to see his reaction, and I could see that he was looking at me to see mine.
"Bella?" Alice looked at me, a bit wary, "Um, aren't you, in… pain? Edward bit you, you know."
"I know, Alice," I looked up at her with big eyes, "It hurts a lot, but it hurts even more to see Edward, and Jake like this," I put my arms around Edward and Jacob protectively, "They matter more to me than I do."
Alice's eyes grew; I heard a little gasp fly out of her mouth, just before she shut it.
"Bella," Edward whispered, "This kind of, self-control… is unheard of, and we might have to inform Carlisle about this."
I let go of Jacob and focused all attention on Edward.
"Is that okay with you?"
"Is that okay with her?! What about me! I don't want more stupid bloodsuckers coming onto our land! Were at war!" Jacob stood up beside me and shook furiously.
"Jacob, Stop! Please!" I begged, "Don't fight! What did he do to break the treaty?"
"He… bit… you," Jacob struggled to say the words without any emotion.
Even though I figured out that I had been bit, I stifled a little gasp at him saying it aloud.
Edward gathered me up close to him, farther away from Jacob. Jacob had run a couple of inches away, and was facing away from us.
"You already smell like them, Bella, your even going to look like them," Jacob Spat the words, "Your not going to be my Bella anymore, in my eyes, you are the same as them! The… same!"
I quickly looked away from Jacob, to my truck, which was almost totally submerged in water.
"Bella…" Edward started.
"I didn't realize that you were going to… hate me so much!" I stopped. I knew that the pain had spread up, agonizingly slow, and that was the pain of my last human moments.
"I love you Bella, but once your dead, I can't ever change anything between us." Jacob Lurched forward into the forest and disappeared behind a big gnarly oak.
"Where is he going?" I looked up at Edward.
"To tell the pack, to tell them that the treaty is over. To tell them were at war," Edwards voice was strangely quiet, and he and Alice were staring at the spot where we had last saw him, with a distant look in their eyes.
"We better go," Alice's high voice was shrill.
Edward, Alice, and I turned away from where the sunken truck was and Edward carried me back to their house, where Carlisle was. I gasped as soon as we reached the lavish front porch, seeing each of the Cullen's sitting in a circle, holding hands.
Alice laughed. Edward was smirking at Emmett, because Emmett's big frame looked silly how it was hunched up, holding Rosalie's and Jasper's hands.
Alice danced her way into the circle, sitting gracefully on Jasper's lap. Jaspers eyes slid open slowly, a grin widening on his face. Instantly I could feel that the mood had changed, a light playfulness had entered the air.
Carlisle looked at me with a calm composure. I could see the curiousness and wonder hiding behind his topaz eyes.
"I know this is different," Edward answered the unspoken question, "but Bella is different too, this might be her gift, already showing before she's even changed completely."
"Good thinking Edward!" Esme exclaimed, "And congratulations to you Bella!"
Rosalie grumbled and walked away with Emmett trailing at her heels.
Alice stood from sitting in Jasper's lap and ran up to me, slipping something onto my finger. I lifted my finger up to see an old fashioned ring, covered with diamonds and twenty-four karat gold.
"Oh my gosh Alice! Where did you get this?" I asked, examining the ring.
Alice smiled, "Well when we pulled you out of the slough, I saw your little ring glimmering at the bottom, stuck a foot deep in mud."
"How…" I began to ask, "Oh! That's right, you probably saw it in a vision!"
"By the way Alice," Jasper interjected, standing up and winding his arm around Alice's waist, "How did Bella wind up in the slough?"
"That's easy! Bella was going too fast, she overheated her truck, making the engine idle, and had it run out of control into the forest, narrowly missing trees. The truck dived into the slough, trapping Bella inside it, and giving Bella her watery grave. Jacob was the lucky part. I'm glad that I saw that Bella was going to find Jacob, make her truck overheat, and causing the rest to happen. Anyways, Jacob followed her speeding truck through the forest with his Rabbit, found her drowning. Edward now saw what Jacob saw, because he was looking for signs of Bella, and ran to save her. Thus resulting in breaking the treaty. But what was even worse was that when Edward arrived, Jacob had left Bella for dead in the truck, because Jacob had thought that Bella was already dead. So I ran after Edward, too, and helped Edward rescue Bella! The last thing was, when we pulled her out, her heart was going to stop. So Edward bit Bella, trying to save her life, and he broke the treaty again!"
I closed my eyes and a hot blush rose to my cheeks, "I'm so sorry! I wasn't worth breaking the treaty! I shouldn't have done that!"
Edwards arm found my waist and tightened, pulling me closer to him.
"It's too late now," Alice whispered, a faraway look in her eyes.
The phone rang, but Alice was already there to answer it.
"Hello Sam… I know, were running" Alice spat at him with a serious tone, "Were running, Sam."
Every eye in the room rested angrily on me.
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