Sacrifices 4
ALICE POINT OF VIEW
Weeks later
My eyes blinked open heavily. My arm, wrist, and leg were in bright colored casts. my other hand and arm were wrapped in bandages due to the burns. Carlisle stood above me, Charlie was sitting in one of the chairs, likely asleep. Bella was standing by me too. I tried to find my voice, but couldn't. I was trying to say "where's jasper?" But it turned out more like "whejas?" Carlisle smiled lightly. "He's on the other side of the curtain. He's still unconscious right now though." He informed me. I frowned. "How bad off is he?" I asked slurred "pretty bad. He's alive thanks to you though." He told me. I smiled softly. The door opened allowing Emmett, rose, Cynthia, and Stephan in. "Alice! Are you okay? They wouldn't let us in." Cynthia said hugging me softly. "I brought gummy bears. You liked them as a human." She said and gave them to me. "Plus, human medicine dosen't work on us. That is the best painkiller for us in the world." She told me with a smirk. I ate a few of them. I propped myself up against some pillows. A sharp pain split through me. I winced and fell back. Stephen was playing with my hair. I heard a knock on the door. Carlisle answered. Who walked in next I would have never guessed. Peter and Charlotte. I smiled. "What happened? Peter Sensed that you and jasper were hurt, but we dunno what's happened." I hugged Charlotte. "I was in Biloxi, when I got home, another vampire had knocked jasper unconscious and set the house on fire. After that, I know a ran in and got him, but I'm not sure after that. I hadn't realized jasper had woken up. "After she found me, she was going to run out with me, but a board fell and hit her it knocked her out. The way she was positioned, she saved me. The way she landed, her neck was sheltering my mouth and nose which prevented me from breathing in more smoke." He told them. "Don't move jasper, almost everyone of your bones are broken. " Carlisle said. I looked at Carlisle in horror. "All of them?" I asked sacredly. Calmness filled the room. Jasper had felt my guilt. "Sorry." I said to him sheepishly. everyone momentarily left once Peter got a little too close to Bella. I looked over at jasper. "Jazz, I'm so sorry. I should have gotten there sooner. I'm so sorry." I said with a tear in my eye. "Ali, don't cry, you saved my life." He said reaching out with his unbroken hand. I took it just like when we met. I smiled at him, he yawned as the morphine started getting to him. He was trying to stay awake for me. "Get some rest." I encouraged him and let go of his hand so he could get comfortable. He reached back out. "Don't let go?" He requested quietly. I took his hand in both of mine as the morphine took him over. I gently stroked his thumb and kept his hand in mine. "I love you." I whispered smiling. Esme came in, "hey, did I miss him?" She asked sadly "yeah, sorry Esme." I said eating more gummy bears. "Where'd you get those?" She asked curiously. "Cynthia. She says they're the best painkillers for vampires. I think it may be true." I told her as I ate a red one.
A few hours later
Jasper was awake again. When he awoke, he squeezed my hand causing me to wake up. I glanced over and smiled. "Hey jazz." I said smiling. He kissed my hand and said happily "always so happy. It's one of the millions of reasons I love you." I smiled. "I still have gummy bears left. Want some?" I asked offering them over to him. He took them smiling when he opened the package he smiled "but, theres only green ones left." He noted. "I saved them for you because they're your favorite." I told him. "They're you're favorite too." He said and handed them back. "No. These are yours." I said forcing them back. "Nope. Yours." He said pushing them back. I took one out and tossed it at his mouth. He caught it and smiled. "Fine. But I'll get you more later." He said accepting the bag back. "No need." I said as I ripped open a new bag. "I gave Cynthia $200 to get all the gummy bears and human candy she could carry." I explained showing him my bag filled with candy. I handed him a chocolate bar bar and grinned. "And Carlisle and Esme will never know." He chuckled. "It's a good thing we can't gain weight." He said jokingly. "When's the last time we went to school?" I asked as it suddenly occurred to me. "I dunno, who cares?" He said eating a handful of gummy bears "if they realize, they might take us from Carlisle and try to make us live with humans." I said worriedly. He scoffed and looked at all our casts. "I'm sure they've heard our story. Besides, that's worst casonario." He said jokingly. I smiled. "Carlisle said we could get out of here today. They're staying at that hotel in forks." I said happily. Jasper was healing fast. Most of the breaks were healed with the exemption of an arm, ankle, shoulder, and a few ribs. Carlisle had allowed me to be his usual care taker, seeing how I refused to leave his side. Aside from that, I took the best care of him since we were closest. As for me, my left leg and left arm were still broken. I didn't hurt much though. I laid by him carefully, trying not to hurt him. I kissed his cheek softly. "I love you so much." I whispered as I wrapped my arm around him gently. I laid my head on his unbroken shoulder. He smiled softly. "We are never doing anything that stupid ever again." He said wrapping an arm around me. I smiled in agreement. I froze getting a vision. "Visitors in 2." I said getting up sadly. "Aw." He whined wishing I could continue laying there. "Pretend you're asleep. It'll make them go away faster." I told him as I went to lay on the couch. I re elevated my leg incase it was Carlisle who had demanded that I did as much as possible. I rolled onto my right side and wrapped my unbroken arm around one of Jasper's hoodies. I buried my face in it to make it appear as if I was asleep, even though it was optional for me to sleep, it wasn't required of us like humans, though it did improve our mood. Jasper did the same with one of my hoodies. As the door opened the person I least expected to walk in, did. "Okay, I know you're not really asleep." Edward said grinning down at me. "Edward!" I yelled happily and threw my arm around him in a broken hug. He spun me around and sat me back on the couch. "I missed you so much! Are you going to stay? Please stay. We all miss you so much." I said looking up at him. I froze getting a vision. I saw Bella. She was on a motor cycle. I saw her crash, but I never saw her move. I gasped softly as Edward read my mind. "No. No. No" I said in annoyance. I picked up my bag and flashed through the window out of the room. I was hovering through the woods on my way to where I'd seen her. She wasn't there. I punched a tree in anger. I guess it was time to tell Charlie. This would be fun. I sighed and picked a few roses, then fell back and just laid in the meadow for a few minutes.
Edward point of view
Alice had I vision that Bella was dead. Could it be true? I picked up my phone and called Charlie's house. That dreadful mutt answered. "Is Charlie available?" I asked "no, he's at the funeral." He answered. I crushed my phone in my hands. The hole point of Alice staying was to keep her safe! The love of my life was dead. I wasn't going to live without her. I got on the next plane to Italy.
Alice point of view
I knocked on Charlie's door as I took a deep breath, but regretted it when my airways were filled with the scent of the dog. The door opened to reveal Jacob. I groaned "okay, dog, where's char-" I saw Bella sitting at the table. "You're alive?" I asked looking over to her in disbelief. She nodded. "Yeah, why?" Uh oh. . . . "But, I saw a vision, you were riding a motor cycle, and you fell off. You didn't get up. Oh crap. Bella! Edward thinks you're dead! He's on a plane to Italy! I saw this to. He's gunna get the volturi to kill him!" I said panicking, then it hit me. I turned to Jacob. "I can't see past you and your. . . Pack of mutts." I said angrily. He stalked toward me with a snare in his eye. "What. . . Did. . . . You. . . .just. . . say .. . . .bloodsucker?" He asked angrily. "I said I can't see past you and your pack of mutts." I said crossing my arms. He phased and I caught him in a headlock. At that moment Charlie opened the door, but we were preoccupied. I heard multiple cracks come from Jacob. He whimpered causing charlie to look over. "He was attacking me." I explained holding him in the headlock. As Charlie headed upstairs, I grabbed Bella's hand and we ran to my car. We both got in, then that dog stuck his head through my window. I had never smelled anything so bad in my life! I held my breath as he pleaded with Bella for her to stay. I couldn't take the scent anymore, so I gunned it and ran over his foot. As I looked in my mirror I saw him hopping around. I smirked softly. Bella turned to me "Alice! Why'd you do that?!" She asked in disbelief "mostly because he smelled worse than that time that Emmett fell in dog crap and jasper through a rotten egg at him and he refused to shower. But also because we didn't have time." Bella looked at me with a confused look. "Wh- never mind, drive." I nodded as we sped away. As we reached the airport I bought tickets. It was the same man as last time. He could since my worry. "Well, someone flies a lot. One question though, if you're going to Italy, why are you so worried?" He asked innocently. "My brother is on a suicide mission, I just have to get there and stop him, plus I'm very tight on time." I told him as I took my tickets. "Good luck ma'am." He said with a smile "thank you!" I called back as I boarded the plane. I pulled my knees to my chest and tried to watch his future. He kept changing his mind. "Edward. . . Stop it." I thought to myself. He knew how bad that annoyed me. My head was starting to hurt. I threw my head back in annoyance. The flight attendant came over to us. "Can I get you anything to drink?" He asked. His voice was velvety like he was one of our kind. When he leaned down I saw his eyes. Golden like ours. I began to speak lowly knowing he could hear me but no one else could "you wouldn't happen to have animal blood on board would you?" I asked desperately. It had been way too long since I'd hunted, and now I was surrounded by humans. He nodded. "Yeah, I've got some if you're a legit vampire. There are a lot of wannabes on there way to Italy right now." He told me. "I'm real." I told him and offered my hand. He took it and bit my wrist. I snatched it away trying not to scream. "What the hale, dude?" I said defensively holding my wrist tightly. "I can only tell by biting." He explained. "I'll bring you the blood." He added. On the bright side the venom was healing my other breaks. When he came back he handed it to me, I was on the outside, Bella was against the window. The un known vampire leaned down and pressed his lips to mine. I stood in anger as I jerked away. Before I thought about what I was doing, I punched him in the face as hard as I could with my unbroken arm. "Get off of me!" I yelled drawing the unwanted attention of a few humans. I heard a crack obviously from him. I think I might have broken something. He deserved it. He seemed confused. Poor man, such a moron. "Wait, what?" He asked stupidly "you don't just. . ." I shook my head trying to wrap my head around this.
"I mean, you don't just come up and kiss a girl you've just met! Are you an idiot?! You're lucky jasper isn't here or you'd be dead already!" I hissed lowly. "Who's jasper?" He asked just as stupidly as the first. "My husband." I said throwing another punch making sure my ring left a mark. Someone came up behind me. "Really, dude who does that?" He asked and punched him too. His eyes were red. Oh crap, I wasn't the only vampire on board and I had a sleeping human with me. I glanced over to make sure she was still okay. While I was turned around I heard a snap. They had killed the one who kissed me. I gawked at them. "Do you realize how many witnesses there are?! What is wrong with you people?" I asked as I glanced back over they had started a fire. "You idiots!" I screeched and frantically tried to put it out. A few humans were freaking out. So was I. The fire was getting to large and too close to the gas tank. One of the humans was bleeding. Oh no. I was trying so hard not to drain it, she didn't even smell good, but it'd been weeks since I'd hunted. The fire was only inches from the tank. My instincts took over. I went over to the bleeding human and sunk her teeth in my neck. Before I could stop myself, she was dead. I cursed under my breath then kicked open the door to the plane. I quickly grabbed Bella, she woke up at that moment. "Alice, what's going on?" She asked sleepily. "Nothing, go back to sleep." I told her. I looked at how far down the jump would take me. I took a deep breath and jumped. The pressure coming down was very strong, I couldn't see anything due to how dark it was. This was one of the scariest things I'd ever done. The pressure finally died down a little. All my thoughts came back to me at one. Edward was going to the volturi. . . And asking to die. I groaned in frustration which woke Bella up. When she realized we were falling, she started freaking out. "Bella, your okay." I told her as I hit the ground gracefully as we saw the plane explode. "We almost died." She stated. "We're okay now." I told her softly. "Let's go save Edward." She said confidently I glanced around nervously. "What's wrong?" She asked "I slipped up on the plane. . . Now I'm worried about everything." I told her looking into the ocean. "There's no way we can make it in time, Bella." I said sadly as I threw a pebble into the water. "I've seen it. So far, he keeps changing his mind, and at the current state, we'll be at least a day too late." Bella shook her head. "Alice we have to try. Please?" She asked desperately. I sighed "alright, fine. But I'm telling you, we won't make it on time." I stood and walked over to her. "We'll never know if we don't try." She said softly. I picked her up as I flew as fast as I could. Since I was so small, when I ran fast enough, flying was possible. "After we get across the ocean, we should be in Italy, but voltera is 2 more hours away.." I informed her.
*later*
When we finally reached land, it was about 10 am. It'd take us at least 2 more hours. We'd either be on time by miracle or seconds too late. I wasn't sure how much farther I could run, and flying certainly wasn't an option now. 8 hours straight was my max, I guess. I continued to run through the woods. Bella was on my back, she was half asleep. About a half an hour before we arrived I woke Bella up. "Bell. Wake up. We'll be there in a half an hour. Get ready to run. He won't hear coming. You're the only hope." I told her. She nodded. "I'll do the best I can." As we continued to run, we finally arrived. I let Bella down. I watched her run through the 1000's of people, I saw Edward about to expose himself in the sunlight, then I saw bella run up and guard him from the sun before anyone really saw. I sighed in relive. We had a chance that we'd be okay. I had been wearing a hoodie at the time. I flipped my hood up to guard myself as I saw Felix, Jane, and Alec appear in the shade behind him. They motioned them in And the large door closed. That was my signal. I ran to the door and kicked it open. "Let's behave ourselves shall we? There are ladies present." I said smiling. Jane glared over at me sending me to the ground in fiery pain. "You were not invited." She said coldly and released me. Edward helped me up. I heard aro's voice. "Dear Jane, the Cullen's are always invited." He said in a creepy voice. "Shall we discus this in a more private manor?" He asked leading us down a hall. Soon we were in the throne room. Aro took his seat, as did Marcus and Felix. I wasn't really paying attention, until Edward lunged at Alec. I ran over to try and pull him off, but Demetri caught me thinking I was going for Alec. He had one hand on my neck, restraining me. My hands were on his forearm as I thought to Edward "you idiot, don't you dare screw this up. If I die, jasper will kill you so fast, and that's if you make it out. Besides, I think I might be. . ." He made eye contact with me. "Might be what?" He thought to me. I sighed. He'd be mad at this one. "Pregnant. . ." I thought as I looked down at my stomach and smiling. He gawked at me, but no one seemed to notice. "Again? How is that possible?" He thought "I dunno, quite honestly, I don't care." I thought in response. When we looked back up Aro was getting very close to her. Surely he wouldn't kill her, right? As he got closer, I finally spoke up. "She will be one of us. I've seen it. I'll change her myself if I have to." I said nervously. Aro motioned for me to come forward. I obeyed as Demetri let me go. I held out my hand as he took it. He watched the vision, his face twisted with fascination. As he let my hand go, he grinned. "You're free to go." He said. He caught my eye "giving up on being vegetarian? You could always join us." He stated. "No, it was just a slip up. And no thank you." I began to walk away, he caught my hood. "I'm afraid that wasn't a choice." He said and looked at the guards. "Take her away." He said simply. I met eyes with Edward and though to him "run, before he decides he wants you too. I'll be okay. Don't worry." He nodded once and ran with Bella. Two guards who's name I didn't know grabbed me by the arms. I squirmed helplessly. As they drug me I was trying to fight back. They showed me to a room, and told me it was mine. As they put me down, closed the door and walked away, I pulled out my phone and texted jasper. "I'm still in Italy, they've kidnaped me, but Edward and Bella are safe and on the way back. Come as soon as you can, I have a bad feeling about tonight." I typed and sent it. As I laid back, someone knocked on the door, I sat and said "come in" in an annoyed tone. A small girl, probably smaller than me, came in. Her hair fell at her waist, she was dressed in volturi robes, I could see converse sticking out. She looked to be about 12 maybe 13, no more than 14. "Wow, already hate this place? Don't worry so do I." She said smiling. I glanced over. "Who are you?" I asked curiously. "I'm marrissa, aro's daughter, yup, I have the misfortune of being half that guy. Don't worry, I'm not as weird though." I smiled. "A normal person in the volturi?" I asked jokingly "they're rare." She admitted. "Curiosity has to know" she took out her laptop and opened it "do you happen to know anything about the golden eyes?" She asked showing me a web page with a drawn golden eye. "Yeah, normally I actually am one." I told her. She gawked. "That is so cool! Why are they golden?" She asked excitedly "I hunt animals." I explained. She looked a little disappointed. "What's wrong?" I asked her "I'm not aloud outside, ever. He's afraid I'll run away, which I would. I've never left this castle once in my life." She told me. Jane came in. "Marrissa, your father wants you." She said, causing marrissa to walk out slowly. Jane glanced at me. "I really, really don't like you." She said walking away. I checked my phone. I had a text from jasper. It read "Alice, you're kidding right? You did not. Stay in Italy with those creeps so they could leave, right?" I sighed. "Not kidding, I'm an idiot. I'm aware." I texted back. Moments later he replied "alright, I'll be there soon. Love you." I smiled "thanks, love you too." I replied. There was another knock. "Yup?" I said popping my p as I hid my phone. Another girl walked in. "Hey, I'm Alexandria. What's your name?" She asked happily "you look a lot like the other girl." I commented. "Who?" She asked "Marrissa, the one with the black hair?" She asked. I nodded. "I would hope, we're triplets. Keep your fingers crossed you don't meet her. She's annoying. The one I figured was the "annoying" one popped her head in the door. "Father would like to see you in the throne room." She announced and walked away. "That's her." Alexandria confirmed. "I wouldn't keep father waiting, I do believe Jane is out there. Have you experienced her power yet?" She asked. I nodded "yup." I said as I got to my feet and entered the throne room. "You wanted to speak to me?" I asked. "Join the fun, Alice!" He encouraged. The others had blown up a balloon and put a Nokia phone in it. Each of them had their own balloon. Marrissa spoke first. "The object is to break your phone first, without breaking the ballon." She explained. "Watch us." She then lifted the balloon telepathically to the ceiling and dropped it with vampire force. The phone broke and the balloon was fine. She stood In front of the others and took a bow. "Thank you." She said with a grin. Jane hit her with pain, she jumped to her feet with an angry expression. She glared at Jane who fell screaming. Once marrissa broke the glare she continued to scream. "Mine is lasting." She said proudly and left.