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Summary: Alice Cullen can't let her family be ripped apart again. So she takes Bella's mortality into her own hands. Based somewhere between New Moon and Eclipse.
Alice POV
I staggered away from Bella—what had I just done? I couldn't believe it. Oh, crap. Edward's going to kill me! How could I do this?
I'd thought I'd been saving our family, it'd been a great idea. Except now Bella was twisting on the ground in agony—and I'd been the one to cause her this.
And the scent of her blood was growing stronger. I'd have to ignore it, though. I'd started this, it was my fault, I was going to help her through it. Or at least try to help her.
Holding my breath, I carefully lifted her off the ground onto her bed. She was writhing around, still screaming. Her eyes were closed. Crap, crap, crap.
I panicked, whipping out my cell phone and pressing 3. Carlisle answered. "Carlisle. Oh shit, I need you at Bella's house. Right away!" I didn't wait for him to answer. I'd already hung up, and was pressing 2.
"Alice?" Jasper said.
"I need you to distract Edward for a few days. Whatever you do, whatever he says, DO NOT let him come to Bella's." I said frantically.
Jaspers voice had a slightly worried tone to it now. "Alice, how many days?" He said calmly.
"Three." I whispered. He knew. I could tell.
I called Emmett and told him the same thing.
When I was hanging up the phone, Carlisle had arrived in the room next to me. "Alice." He said. I couldn't read his tone, but his eyes tightened at the sight of Bella. "What did you do?"
"I had to." I whispered. If I was human, I would have been crying. I couldn't look at Bella anymore. I shut my eyes tightly for a moment, and then turned back to Carlisle. "I'm so sorry. But we have to help her. What can we do?"
He was silent for a moment. "We can't save her now." He said quietly. "It's too late. All we can do is make her as comfortable as possible and wait. Call Charlie and get him to stay away for a few days. We shouldn't try to move her."
I did as he said. When I returned, Bella had a few more pillows and blankets piled at the foot of her bed if she ever needed them, and a glass of ice water.
Carlisle had pulled her desk chair to the side of her bed.
"What do you think Edward will do?" I said quietly. My voice sounded weary and cracked. It didn't sound like me at all.
"He'll be very upset, Alice. He won't understand." He paused. "I'm not sure I understand."
"He was thinking of running away again, Carlisle. Leaving. I…I couldn't let him do that. I couldn't let our family be like it was again. He thinks he's so unsafe for Bella. This…this is the only way they can be equal." I tried to explain as best I could. It was hard. I wasn't even quite sure exactly what I'd been thinking when I'd done it.
Carlisle nodded. He seemed to understand, at least slightly.
"Except…" I whispered. "Except, I don't know how I can ever make it up to him. I don't know if he'll ever be able to forgive me."
"He will." Carlisle seemed to know. "Eventually. Maybe even sooner then you think. But he will be angry, very angry and disappointed, so don't underestimate that. But he'll understand…eventually."
"Do you really think so?" I asked uncertainly.
"You were doing what you thought was best for our family, and for Bella. He'll understand that one day."
Edward POV
"I have to go see Bella." I said impatiently, getting up to leave. Jasper and Emmett had both ran up to me, demanding to play some video game in our basement.
Twenty minutes later, we were still playing. They kept saying 'one more game', which really meant fifty more games. And then fifty after that.
And they were blocking their thoughts. I was very suspicious.
It was growing later, and Bella would surely grow anxious if I were later then usual. I had to see her, and get those thoughts out my head about what Alice had 'seen'.
Those visions were eating me up inside. I hadn't even noticed I'd had those thoughts—yet it seemed that I'd seriously considered it. I shrugged off the thought, walking to the door.
Emmett and Jasper both jumped up, running in front of me. "Wait!" Emmett cried. "Just one more. Then you can go."
I sighed, sitting back down. "One more."
I made sure my character died before theirs. Then, they were caught up in the game. They didn't notice me take out my phone and press 3.
"Alice, what's going on?"
"Edward—" She started to say, her voice rougher then usual. Then I heard a scream.
Alice POV
I wasn't thinking at all when I answered the phone.
Carlisle and I had both been very silent, and I was very nervous and jumpy. I felt terrible, more so then I could ever explain. I couldn't even be around Jasper for a while, because I didn't want him to experience this much guilt.
My head was so full of questions that I didn't think at all when I saw Edwards name on my phones screen and flicked it open.
"Alice, what's going on?" His smooth voice sounded impatient, with a very small hint of worry.
I didn't know what to say. "Edward—"
Then Bella screamed again, louder and full of pain, and I jumped—my phone cracked in two in my hand, disconnecting the call.
"The fire!" She groaned, her voice just a groan. Even I could barely understand her with my hearing. "Put it out, please! Please! PLEASE, PUT IT OUT!"
It broke my heart to see her in so much pain.
I couldn't even imagine what it would do to Edward.
But I couldn't keep him from Bella much longer.
I saw it—he was coming.
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