So I don't have a big interest in just copying things down from the book, so I tried to skip around the best I could. After this chapter the plot should be it's own. So thanks:)
Chapter 2- The Goodbye
"You remember what I told you?" We had been talking to the Volturi for a while now. I tried to not listen to what I didn't need to hear. But I had been needed a few times and they had just declared that it was time to council. I couldn't ignore this any longer.
I feel tears in my eyes but I nod as she pulls me from her neck. "I love you." I whisper. I felt Jacob and Daddy's eyes on us now but I ignore them.
"I love you, too." She touches my locket as if to say that she'll never be gone from my heart. "More than my own life." She kisses my forehead, before leaning up to whisper in Jacob's wolf ear.
"Wait until they're totally distracted, then run with her. Get as far from this place as you possibly can. When you've gone as far as you can on foot, she has what you need to get you in the air."
I'm about to climb onto Jacobs back but then I remember Daddy and reach for him. He hugs me and kisses me while talking to Mommy before setting me in between Jacob's shoulder blades. I fit so easily between them it was almost like they were made for me. It's also very warm and cozy in his long fur. But now would not be a very good time to bring this up.
Jacob turns to Mommy and she looks heartbroken. I wonder if I look worse than her. "You're the only one we could ever trust her with. If you didn't love her so much, I could never bear this. I know you can protect her, Jacob." He whines and butts his head against her. "I know I love you, too, Jake. You'll always be my best man." I have tears streaming down my face now, along with Jacob.
Daddy leans in now. "Goodbye Jacob, my brother… my son." I don't get the last part but Jacob obviously does. He whines quietly as another gigantic tear pours from his eye. People from all directions are now saying goodbyes and I love you to each other.
Then suddenly Mommy winces "Get ready, it's starting." She says
"Chelsea is trying to break our bindings. But she can't find them. She can't see us here…" He shoots a glance at Mommy. "Are you doing that?"
She smiles. "I'm all over this." Her shield is working! That's all I catch out of that conversation. That's just one more reason I love Mommy, she prevents pain. I'm about to ask who Chelsea is, there are so many names in the Volturi guard, when Daddy suddenly lurches for Grandpa.
"Carlisle? Are you all right?" He asks in a state of panic.
Grandpa looks startled. "Yes. Why?"
"Jane." That's all he says in reply. I might not know who Chelsea is but Jane I would know anywhere. She's one of the youngest with red hair that perfectly matches her eyes. Just her name sends goose bumps down my spine. She causes pain. She makes people hurt. That's all I need to know about her to know that I would never like her. And also, frankly, she just scares me.
As soon as Daddy says her name Mommy winces. Another attempted attack. Attempted. Nobody was hurt by it.
"Incredible." Daddy says echoing my thoughts.
Tanya, a vampire from the Denali coven hisses. "Why aren't they waiting for the decision?"
"Normal procedure, they usually incapacitate those on trial so they can't escape." Daddy answers harshly.
My heart starts to pound out of nerves. Even if Jacob and I escape, what will happen to Mommy and Daddy? Will they be tortured or even killed? And worst of all, it will be because of me. I can't stand the thought of this. How horrible a person would be if they did this? What would I think of someone who escaped to freedom while everyone else stayed back and suffered? When Jane let out a high pitched horrifying scream I have to bury my head in Jacob's fur. It helps more than I think it will. But that ache in my stomach is there to stay.
Someone on our side starts to laugh. "I told you this was our time." I recognize the voice as one of the Romanians.
"Just look at the witch's face." The other laughs.
I hear Mommy and Daddy start to talk with each other. I don't want to know and when I hear Alec's name I press my head down even further. I feel a breeze against my back. It's no ordinary wind though; it can only be the wind from the Egyptian Covens Benjamin, who controls weather. Then the earth starts to shake and I know Benjamin just created an earthquake. But, I'm too scared to look up.
"Well done, Bella!" I hear Benjamin exclaim in his slight accent. So Mommy's shield has worked for something else now too.
I lift my head up, I slight smile traces on my lips when I notice Jane and Alec glaring daggers in our direction.
"I'm going to have to concentrate." I hear Mommy whisper to Daddy. Then everyone breaks into discussions on who they want to kill. I don't press myself into Jacob's fur but sit there like a statue as one of the Volturi, Aro I think, turns to speak with us.
"Before we vote, let me remind you. Whatever the council's decision, there need be no violence here." I wave of hope hits me. Maybe I could just die and everyone else could be free. But the hope is crushed almost immediately when I see our entire group crouching, ready to spring. They all have the same look, excitement. As Aro goes on the whole thing hits me. This is bigger than me. People want to fight for other reasons. A little weight lifts off my shoulders as I realize that if anyone dies, it will not be all my fault.
Then I hear the words that I have been dreading. "Let us vote, then."
One of the three Volturi members, Caius, speaks. "The child is an unknown quantity. There is no reason to allow such a risk to exist. It must be destroyed, along with all who protect it." I wince a little after each sentence. I am not an it.
Marcus the third member of the group speaks kind words of peace. But, Caius still looks as if he is anticipating a battle in the near future.
"I must make the deciding vote, it seems." Says Aro with an attempt of humor.
Then Aro thinks. Mixed emotions cross his face, he seems to have real trouble deciding. Daddy gasps a little.
"What? What is it?" Mommy asks.
Daddy wets his lips a little. "I don't know. I think Alice just tried to contact me. She said that she's sorry she isn't here and that she tried. She also says 'America'. Does it mean anything to you?"
Mommy shakes her head. "What about Aro? What's he thinking?"
Daddy's face grows solemn. "Signs point to no." My stomach contracts. I feel Jacob prepare himself to run. This is it.
Mommy leans over to Jacob and whispers quickly and so quietly that I can't hear it. Then she leans up and faces the Volturi with a new found confidence. Daddy nods slightly. "Attack."
That's when everything happens. He only said this loud enough for our side to hear so we have an advantage. Daddy runs straight for Demitri accompanied by a few others. While Zafrina and Jacob close in around Mommy.
"Hold on and don't watch." Mommy whispers to me. I obey happily. I feel Jacob lash around and only hear let out a whimper once. But he never stops. I can hear the sounds of Vampires being ripped apart in painful ways. But one scream I can't ignore. I look up.
Halfway across the clearing Daddy, Rosalie, and Emmett are all fighting with Demitri and one other. Demitri has Rosalie pinned to the ground and I watch in horror as her beautiful head gets ripped from her body. Emmett's cry of rage fills my body and he goes into a state I've never seen him in before. His eyes go wild and it's almost as if he's not in charge of his body, he's shaking so hard. He charges Demitri head on. I close my eyes because I know what's coming. After a second I look back. Demitri's arms and legs are thrown all around him and Emmett seems intent on torturing him until his last breath.
As if he was waiting for this to happen Jacob leaps into the air and dashes into the trees. I look back but no one seems to be following us. I hear the screams of the battle field until we're who knows how far away. I nestle myself into Jacob as the tears start to pour out of my eyes.
Well? Did you like the character death? I love Twilight but I always feel that in a battle someone important should die. Please review!
A HUGE shout out to krazypurplewolf for being my first review on this story! Thank you SO much!