Come What May
Chapter Four
Her Fairy Tale
Edwards POV
I had to admit, I felt much more comfortable when I had believed she was out with the wolves. Dangerous, yes. Reckless, yes. But not downright STUPID. I wasn't used to this, feeling more than one emotion at a time. Anger, fear, heartache, it was al hitting me now. This wasn't something I could fathom. Wanting to condemn yourself to an eternal life of a soulless creature. Yet this was Bella, and I knew with every inch of my being she was doing this because she wanted to tie herself to me. Foolish girl, always thinking I was going to leave her, or that I was lying about our love. It didn't take a mind reader, in this case, to see what was always written all over my girlfriends face. She didn't trust this relationship.
I was hurting more than I had known possible as I thought about this. Still, if there was one thing vampires were good at (other than the hunting and essentially killing), it was multi-tasking. And so I began, as quickly as possible, the task of getting my family together and up to speed. There had to be something that could be done. We would find her. Before it was too late.
"What is she thinking?" Carlisle demanded. For once his calm voice was cracked with a hint of anger. This made my siblings nervous, it wasn't every day our father became consumed with worry. He was the rational one.
"She thinks it's easy, Carlisle. She thinks I was preventing her from some frivolous lifestyle, that I was being selfish. She thinks she'll come back in three days and shock us all. She even told Charlie she would be home in three days."
"So what?" Rosalie took a step forward, addressing me more so than any of the others in the room. "Why should we care? This is solving our problem. Charlie thinks she's somewhere else, he's aware you have no idea how to contact her, and now when she gets killed it is not our problem."
I would have lunged at her. I felt the growl escape my chest. I wanted so badly to throw her into the wall, but if there was one thing I had learned this past year with Bella, it was self control.
"SHE WON'T BE KILLED!" The volume of my voice had caught even myself off-guard.
"That's right," Carlisle added. "Alice, you'll be watching..."
Alice nodded. "Yes, Carlisle, I'm focusing every bit of my energy on this. As soon as the boy is out of the picture, I will be able to tell you right where she is"
"And in the meanwhile?" Were we really supposed to just stand here and wait? To count on Alice's visions? That might be fine for the rest of them, but this was my life on the line. This was my Bella.
"We get ready, when we know where she is, we will leave that second."
I wasn't going to argue, that had gotten me nowhere in the past. I turned and walked out the door, I needed to be alone with my thoughts. Concentrate. I knew this girl inside and out, and I still couldn't figure out her mystery. Something would come to me. It had to.
"EDWARD!" I hadn't made it out of the garage before I heard Alice's musical scream. I was back inside that same moment.
"Where is she?" I breathed. I had been so used to blocking the minds and thoughts of my family, out of respect, that it hadn't occurred to me right then I could just listen in.
"She's in Italy, Edward... She's going to get what she wants..."
"NO SHE IS NOT!" I knew Alice had seen this before. Bella immortal. But this was not how it was going to happen. I would stop them. The whole guard if I had to. "I'm leaving."
"We will all go." Alice added. For some reason it made me more at ease to think I would be alone. Picturing my family there only made things more complicated.
"I want to go alone. I can trick Aro if I am alone. I will bring her back to Forks... just as human as she was when she left." And, I added in my head, I will lay her down and I will make a vampire out of her myself. If I could get this one... for lack of better term, miracle, I would give Bella what she wanted. I would bite her. I'd give her the whole black tie affair as she had imagined, rose petals of pink and red on a comfortable white bed if that's what she wished... I could make a fairy tale out of her demise, I would do anything for her. Just don't let it be this way... don't let her end come from those monsters!
It may have been in that instant I realized what Bella had told me all along. I wasn't as much of a monster as I had thought. I held myself above them, now. And I would bring them all down if they didn't give her back to me.
