Chapter 4:

What's Happening

It has been two days since Edward ran off into the woods and he hasn't returned yet. You could feel the tension and stress in the air, and Jasper was having a hard time dealing with everyone's emotions. Evan usually stayed in the studio, and I was beginning to worry about him. I couldn't believe that Edward would attack me like that and then just run away. It seemed surreal to me, and I was having a really hard time excepting that something had gone terribly wrong with Edward. Carlisle has been locked up in his office the last two days and hasn't come out for anything. I was sitting next to Alice as we watched Evan practice karate. And that's when I saw her eyes begin to look like they were watching something, something only she could see. And I knew it was a vision.

"Alice? Alice? What's wrong?" Her face had a shocked look and her mouth was hanging slightly open.

Slowly she turned her head toward me. Her expression was confused, angry, and terrified.

"Alice what did you see?" I questioned once again, by now Evan was standing in front of us.

"It, it was…" Alice closed her eyes, like she couldn't believe what she had just seen.

"Was it Edward, you have to tell me!" I was beginning to become worried.

Alice looked down at her lap, and spoke slowly. "Edward was with…" She stopped and shook her head. "He was with the Volturi." She said, and immediately I could feel anger rise from within me. I had warned them, and they didn't listen. They would pay if they did anything to him.

"Well what are we sitting around for? We need to go save him!" I shouted, beginning to stand up. Alice looked up at me sadly and shook her head.

"Why not!" I shouted, I was getting scarred now, Alice didn't usually act like this.

Alice looked down one more time before she looked up at me with fierce eyes. "The Volturi didn't go looking for him, he went looking for them."

Slowly I sank back down to where I had been sitting and starred off into the distance, looking at nothing in particular. How could Edward run off to the Volturi like that? Especially since what had happened last time they had entered our lives. I looked up and caught Evan's scared eyes. I had forgot that he was there, listening to everything. He knew about the Volturi and what had happened, and I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was scarred for his father.

I stood up and started to walk back to the living room and Alice and Evan followed closely behind me. As soon as we were in the living room I sat dumbfounded on the couch and Evan sat next to me as Alice quickly told everyone what she had seen.

"Mom?" Evan said as he looked at me with sad eyes.

"Yea honey." I said wishing the pain in my own eyes would go away.

"What is going to happen to Dad?"

He asked the question that I was the most scarred of, I didn't know what was going to happen to Edward. And things just kept getting stranger by the day.

"I don't know honey, I don't know." Evan looked down at his lap, and I could her hurried footsteps rushing down the stairs towards us.

"Bella!" Carlisle shouted as he ran towards us.

"Did you find something Carlisle?" I asked, hope flaring up inside of me.

"Yes, it's not much, but it's something." Carlisle had an old book in his hand and he opened it and held it out for me to see.

"What is this?" I said as I looked at the page that had weird inscriptions that I couldn't read.

"It is a book by Aaron Juemper. He was a vampire and by now is several centuries old. About two centuries ago he wrote this book, claiming that by doing certain things to a vampire you could change their moods, how they feel, and what they do. Of course no vampire believed Aaron's claims. Even I used to doubt them. But now since what has happened to Edward, I looked over some of the pages here and they explain why he has been acting so odd. And why he is with the Volturi now." When Carlisle said the Volturi I flinched slightly.

Carlisle turned a couple more pages in the book and then began to read. "I call this the Complejo de hombre lobo, or in other words the Werewolf Complex. When the Complejo de hombre lobo happens, vampire's moods and how they act can dramatically change to the complete opposite of what they were before the Complex happened. Some vampires do not believe that werewolves exist, but I have seen one for myself. The Complex is actually a very simple thing to describe. Every once in awhile a werewolf will be born that holds more power than what is normal. This werewolf would not know of this new power because the power acts on its own and is extremely difficult to control. When this power is near certain vampires it can change that vampire's state of mind, and this effect can control the vampire. It can be switched on and off by different actions that are unknown to me at this point in time. I do know however that the only way to reverse the effects of the Complejo de hombre lobo you must kill the werewolf that posses that power. Then and only then can the vampire under that werewolf's spell return to how it was before. Note: This effects only a small number of vampires, only some with unusual powers that could make that vampire closer to the werewolf than need be."

When Carlisle finished reading I was shocked. Someone in Jacob's pack did this to Edward. Even though it sounds like they can't control this power, one of Jacob's pack was going to have to be killed to save Edward. I could see Emmett in the background cracking his knuckles, getting ready for a fight. I looked over at Evan who was staring at me, and it hit us both at the same time.

Edward had been around Jacob's entire pack before and nothing had affected him. That leaves only one. Amy had the werewolf complex.

"NO!" Evan shouted as he ran out of the house.

"What's his problem?" Emmett questioned.

"It's Amy." Everyone starred at me, realization dawning across their faces.

I couldn't even think about killing someone in Jacob's pack, let alone killing his own daughter. I couldn't hurt Jake like that, there had to be another way.

"There has to be another way." I said, starring at Carlisle hopping he would agree with me.

"I don't believe there is Bella, I'm sorry. But what must be done to save my son will be done." I could see the regret in Carlisle's eyes and knew that he did not want to do this just as much as I didn't want to. I was going to find another way to set Edward free from this stupid complex. And I was not going to kill Amy to do it.

"Well, lets go get us some werewolf!" I heard Emmett shout excitedly.

"NO! No one will be killing any werewolves, do you understand me! I'll find another way. I just can't take away Jake's daughter, I would never forgive him if he killed Evan!" Everyone looked at me, and slowly backed out of my way as I climbed up the stairs and towards Edward's and mine bedroom. I wanted Edward to come home, and soon. I didn't want to kill Amy. I didn't want Edward to suffer from this complex. There had to be another way to make him better. And that's when an idea dawned on me. I needed to find Aaron Juemper; maybe he had found a different solution. It was the only thing I could think of that might have a chance of working.

I ran down the stairs again, and saw that Alice had just had a vision, but this time she was smiling. She looked over at me, her grin getting bigger as she skipped over to my side.

"Your idea is going to work!" She shouted and everyone starred at her confused. I smiled, and hopped that she was right. And that nothing would go wrong that would ever change her vision.