Chapter 3. Enjoy :)

I hope I write this chapter well. Edward's a hard POV to write, I think lol. So much to live up to!

Disclaimer: Not SM, not my characters.

EPOV (earlier that day)

I was back at our new home with the rest of my family now. It had been months since I last visited. I tried to keep busy nowadays tracking Victoria, but I was no good at it. And it didn't help me one bit. I still thought of her every minute of every day. I was constantly miserable. I didn't speak to anyone. I could barely function. I've considered returning to Forks, back to her, but then I force myself to remember why I left in the first place. I did this to protect her. I was too dangerous for her. She would wind up dead because of me. No, I couldn't go back. But my God, I wanted to so bad! The feeling overwhelmed me.

I was currently lying on the black leather sofa in my new room. I was thinking about her of course. I knew it was wrong, that it would just wind up hurting me, but I didn't care. I missed the way her heart beat at an unhealthy speed every time I touched her. The scarlet color her cheeks turned whenever she was embarrassed. Even the frustration I felt from never knowing what she was thinking. This was torture.

I was interrupted from my own personal hell when I heard my door slam wide open, probably leaving a hole in the wall. I looked up and saw Alice run into the room at full speed. She was right next to me, her small hands gripping my shoulders.

"Edward! oh no Edward! We have to save her!"

"Save who? Alice what's wrong?" It occurred to me that I could just read her thoughts. But they were jumbled with so much fear that I couldn't make out the reason for it all.

"Bella! Oh no, we have to save Bella Edward!"

That struck something in me. And I was suddenly on my feet, towering over my favorite sister, yelling at her.

"What's wrong with Bella, Alice?! What's wrong? What happened?!" I was frantic, and her thoughts were still too jumbled to read. She had to tell me now!

"Nothings happened yet. But have to get to her. Oh Edward it's horrible" she cried. That's when she finally got her thoughts in order, and I could see her vision.

I saw Bella walking down the street, it looked like Port Angeles. It was dark out, and I couldn't help but feel disappointed in her for walking around the town alone at night. Doesn't she remember what happened last time? Then she abruptly turned around and started running in the other direction. That's when I noticed the two men pursuing her. I growled out loud, making Alice step backwards, but she continued to show me her vision. Bella, of course, fell, catching herself with her hands. But before she had time to get back up and run again, one of the men grabbed her by her thin arms. The other man grabbed her legs, and they carried her. I saw them throw her into a van parked on the corner. She hit her head on the van floor and I saw blood on her fingers as she touched her wound. I flinched, remembering the scent of her blood. Then one of the men climbed on top of Bella, straddling her. I saw Bella punch him right in the face, with so much force that his nose bled. I was filled with pride. But that only lasted for a moment. The man Bella slammed his hand down hard on her cheek, she cried in pain. Then the man reached his hands to Bella's jeans, and began to unbutton them.

"No!" I shouted, and that's when Alice stopped the vision. I hadn't realized how infuriated I had become until this moment. I was leaning forward in a crouch. My teeth were bared and I was snarling viciously. All unconscious reactions.

"Edward! You have to calm down. We need to leave, now!"

I straightened up, suppressing my anger and relaxing my face into a calm expression. Alice was right, I needed to calm down, I needed to save Bella. I didn't care that for the past 6 months I had been telling myself that Bella was better off without me. That I had been trying to forget her. None of it mattered. I coudn't just sit here and let Bella be attacked! Be raped! I shuddered at the word. No one deserved that, especially not Bella. Sweet, innocent Bella who had never hurt anyone in her entire life. She did not deserve this.

"When Alice?" I asked her, forcing a composed voice.

"Tonight. A few hours" She said. She carefully judged my appearance, doubting my calm misdemeanor.

"Well let's go!" I shouted at her, grabbing her arm and leading her out of the room and down the stairs.

"We'll take your Volvo" She said, grabbing the keys and following me to the garage.

I jumped into the drivers side immediately, Alice was already perched in the passengers seat. She threw me the keys and I started the car, speeding out of the driveway. Alice took the cell phone she rarely used out of her back pocket and dialed a number, Jasper's no doubt.

"Jasper" Alice huffed as soon as he answered the phone. "Bella's in trouble. Edward and I are driving to Port Angeles to help her. Let Carlisle and everyone else know what we're doing."

"Thank you Jasper. Yes, I love you too" She said then hung up the phone, placing it back in her pocket.

It was silent in the car for the next hour. Alice didn't say a word. And I just stared intently out the windshield, driving like a maniac. I couldn't help but to think what Bella's reaction would be if she were in the car with me.

I heard Alice gasp, when I turned to look at her her eyes were glazed and she was focused intently on nothing. A vision.

"What is it Alice?" I asked worriedly. Then she snapped out of it. She glanced up at me sorrowfully.

"We won't make it in time Edward."

I felt the pain in my heart intensify a thousand times. It was unbearable. I wanted to slam my foot down on the gas pedal more than anything. But I knew it would do no good, I was already flooring it.

"How much time do we have Alice?!" I yelled at her. I was frantic now.

"Half an hour, forty five minutes at most. It will take us at least an hour to get there even if we keep going at this rate." I could hear the sadness in Alice's voice. She loved Bella too, and I knew this was hurting her as well.

"Goddammit!" I yelled, squeezing too hard on the steering wheel and parts of it braking off into my hands.

Sixty agonizing minutes later we pulled into Port Angeles. I parked the car randomly and jumped out, Alice did the same.

"Where's the van Alice? Where's Bella?!" I screamed at her.

"I don't know Edward. There were no street signs or landmarks in my vision."

We both started looking around frantically, trying to pick up a scent.

"This way Edward!" Alice yelled. Then she took off at full vampire speed. I assumed that since Alice had done it, it meant no one would see us. So I took off too, following right behind her. Alice came to an abrupt stop once we rounded the fifth street corner.

"Right there Edward" she pointed to a blue van parked by the curb.

We both ran straight for the van. Alice grabbed one of the doors at the back of the van and I grabbed the other. We pulled the doors right off the van and flew them across the street. What I saw then broke my heart. Bella lie motionless in the van, she was naked from the waist down and a man was on top of her, also exposed. I couldn't take it. I grabbed the man and ripped him away from my Bella. I dragged him into the alley right next to the van. Alice approached me with the other man in her tiny arms. We both looked at each other with a knowing glance, and then we snapped the men's necks, nearly ripping their heads off with the hostility we used.

I then heard a whimper coming from the van. It was so quiet it was barely even audible to me. I ran back to the opening of the van and jumped inside. I grabbed Bella's battered body and pulled her into my chest. She didn't say anything, I wasn't even sure she was breathing. She was in too much shock.

"I'm so sorry Bella" I whispered to her, rubbing her hair. Then she went limp in my arms.

Who's got ideas for chapter 4? Anyone?