I know it's been a while...well longer than a while, I am sooo sorry. I have some news for you though, the story is unfolding and on Christmas day, special chapter, will revile what happened to Bella and what she is…I may squeeze in a short chapter before then, since I have Christmas break after this Tuesday. Thank you for sticking with me, in the next chapter we will also find out what they all know, exciting.
I own nothing, I just like to taste SM's ice cream flavours and mix them up…don't worry, she doesn't mind...Much. ;D
I didn't know what to say.
One part of my mind was screaming to tell her she shouldn't of being here to witness that.
Another was telling me to hug her and never let go.
Another was saying to approach talking to her cautiously.
I was stuck but choosing to not pass the opportunity by, I decided to listen to the latter. I slowly moved to angle my body to face her and got as close as I could before she started to inch away from me again.
My hand itched to reach out to her and stroke her pale bloodstained face, to comfort her sad dead eyes, to slowly pull her to me and let her cry. Struggling with these new feeling and passing them off as a need to comfort a sister, I spoke softly.
"You like doing that, don't you?" I questioned, studying her face, her lips seemed cracked open and chapped, her eyes were distant and yet she was still coherent and talking as if nothing had happened. Her nose scrunched in confusion and her eyes crinkled adorably. Pieces of crimson clumped hair stuck to her face and hung loosely down her waist.
"I like a lot of things Jasper, so sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to elaborate on that." She said sighing and letting her legs slide out from under her on the hardwood floor and sprawling her legs out in front of her.
"Sneaking up on us or, well, me" I stated, watching her intensely.
"Yes, especially when your in all states of undress." She said sarcastically while reminding me that all I had on was a towel and a pile of clothes covering me.
She stood up and walked around the room, looking at pictures and nick knacks that lined shelves and the dressers, feeling in no way like it was an invasion of privacy. I slipped out of the room and into the bathroom to change into the clothes I had in my hands, for going underwear.
I took a moment to think of what to do, I could call Carlisle in and let him see her, as soon as the thought came though a growl vibrated up my chest and threw my mouth and I touched my throat in shock, not understanding the reaction.
I could get as much information as I could and let them clue in by themselves, listening to our conversation and then fill in the blanks later when we all discussed what we thought was happening, hell, she may be able to join in the conversation.
When I re-entered the room, she was letting her fingertips ghost over the spines of my book collection, mostly history books or something to do with the civil war.
"Bella, can we talk?" I asked stepping behind her, she didn't stop her fingers from moving an inch away from the books as they moved but she did slow her pace down as she replied.
"Depends." She answered in a sigh almost tired of the conversation, like she had spoke of nothing but the subject that was to come, when we hadn't even touched upon it yet.
"On?" I asked, wanting to know the boundaries of topic before we started. I didn't want to start something and say the wrong thing, scaring her off and getting no answers because of my carelessness.
"If it's about the elephant in the room, I would rather just be ignorant to it" she said walking away to a wall of photos of me and Alice, our wedding, valentines days, family days out and others from over the years.
"I like this one" she said stretching onto her tip toes to point to one of the highest ones in the rows. It was of me on one of our family days, we were at a rollercoaster park and I was smiling lightly at the camera, it was the only one of me without Alice at my side.
"This elephant, wouldn't it be better to discuss it" I said trying to coax her to talk about what had happened to herself, she seemed to be hypnotised by one photo though, not listening to a word I was saying.
It was of Alice and me together, the most recent one. Alice was looking at the camera, smiling brightly and reaching behind my head to make bunny ears. I was however looking the other way, not even looking at the camera or Alice, my face had a scowl set and I looked like I was hunched over.
"Nope, I think it likes being left in the dark, it's nice and comfortable, easy to sleep in. Better than the blinding light shining on it, it prefers to live in the darkness after all, everybody's abandoned it there." She said giving me a quick glare.
"Woman stop speaking riddles to me and talk to me, what do you mean you were abandoned in the dark?" I said, my brow furrowing in confusion and frustration but I could sense and hear Carlisle calling the family back to see if they had discovered anything on Bella and Esme listening in on the other side of the door.
She turned and walked up to me slowly and stretched up to reach my ear, her lips felt like they were caressing my lobe with the cold breeze her form brought. They quietly whispered.
"Ask Eddie boy" and then, she was gone, again.
I stood there for a minute trying to work out what that meant but nothing came to mind, what had Edward done?
I walked out of the room and stormed past a waiting Esme, straight to the living room. Carlisle walked into the room wearing a tired expression and pinching the bridge of his nose.
"They should be back any minute now, we'll leave Alice alone for now, I'm sure she's tired. I heard you're conversation, I'll ask Edward about it when they all arrive." He said, sighing and sitting into one of the love seats, Esme quickly scurried to his side and snuggled into him.
I sat down in the arm chair facing them and leaned my elbows onto my knees; we sat in silence all of us thinking of what were to come.
About ten minutes later, Rose, Emmett and Edward walked through the living room door all looking grief stricken.
"Take a seat, we need to discuss everything. I think Jasper and I should tell you that Bella stopped by and talked with Jasper some, we got little bits of information but not a lot to go on." he said as the new comers sat and got comfortable, though still looking sad, there emotions weren't much better.
They must have found something.
"Jasper managed to keep her talking for a little over fifteen minutes; it seems she finds him most comfortable to talk with, so we'll use that to our advantage. She knows what's wrong with her but won't speak of it though she did mention something about being abandoned in the dark alone, when Jasper questioned it, she said to ask Edward." Carlisle finished turning to Edward with a suspicious eyebrow raised.
"What are you suggesting Carlisle? That I did this…to Bella?" he said, standing from his seat and his voice getting a few octaves higher than necessary.
"No, just wondering what she could have meant by than…well?" Carlisle said looking at his eldest son with a hard expression.
"I know no such things." He said sitting back down and looking away from all of our eyes, he was lying and I didn't need my gift to tell me that.
"He's lying, he knows something." I said to Carlisle.
"You either tell me or I'll make you." I threatened him, his anger skyrocketed yet he made no move to say anything, he just fixed me with a glare.
After a few minutes of his silence, I had had enough and shot out of my seat. My hand was firmly wrapped around his neck in an instant. My knuckles paled with the exuberant pressure I was putting on his throat.
His eyes were wild with panic and he was frantically trying to breath unneeded breaths, a habit that was forced by the brain telling your vampiric body you still need air out of panic when it lost its source of air.
"Tell. Me. Now" I ground out through my teeth, his expression turned into a horror filled one as I sent him all the fear and panic I could.
"O…k" he chocked out; I briskly threw him into a chair and stood in front of him, waiting expectantly.
He rubbed his throat a couple of times before rolling his eyes at me, which earned him a growl from me.
"Now!" I roared at him, he cringed away and a shiver went through his body but I was tired of waiting this information that could be crucial to what's wrong with Bella.
"O…k. I, after what happened on Bella's birthday, two days ago-" I quickly cut him off.
"We know how long ago it was, get to the point you imbecile." I ground out.
"Well, when I went to drop her home that night, my mind was decided, we would leave. In my mind we all posed a threat to her now and this proved how much of a danger we where to her and it only confirmed my earlier fears about her safety around us.
I thought you would all agree with leaving after all, Alice, Emmett and myself were the only ones who really bonded with her, I thought they would be out numbered when it came to voting, I was wrong.
I decided to break up with her so that it wouldn't prolong our stay anymore than it needed to, one less job, you know. I stopped on the forest edge of her house and told her…I told her awful things." He stopped hanging his head in shame.
"What did you tell her?" Rose asked making him continue.
"I told her…I told her she wasn't good enough for me, that I had used her as a distraction because I got bored with my day-to-day life, that she was a disposable toy to us that we had no use for anymore…" he said not meeting anybody's eyes.
I was going to kill him. Slowly.
