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Suddenly, both Victoria's head and my own turned at the sound and smell of four other approaching vampires.

"I thought you said they left you!" Victoria was staring back in my direction. It took me a second to grasp her words before I realized what she meant. The Cullens were here.

"They did. I don't know why they're here." If I had still been human, my heart would have beat out of my chest by now. "I haven't seen any of them since they left…it can't be them."

We were interrupted by a high pitched scream. "BELLA!"

I turned back to the direction I'd been staring at before and saw Alice Cullen coming towards me. "Bella, oh my god, I just had this vision and we were going back to Forks to find you and then all of a sudden we –"

"Oh, well isn't this cute. Old friends catching up with one another; it's lovely really!" Victoria interrupted Alice. "Where are the others?"

Alice's face turned dead serious as Jasper, Esme, and Carlisle all stepped forward from the trees. I gasped in shock at seeing everyone again. My head was spinning from the new direction this meeting had taken.

"You didn't think we'd let you take away a member of the family, would you?" Did Carlisle really just call me 'family'? He must just be doing the right thing; he always does.

Suddenly Victoria was gone, but the Cullens weren't far behind her. Alice pulled me along to follow, and I went without thinking. I didn't have room for any more thoughts; my mind was too jumbled as it was.

Out of no where, Jasper was on Victoria's back. I hadn't even realized we had caught up to her, when Carlisle and Jasper began to fight Victoria. I stared in shock as Esme joined the fight. I inched forward, but Alice pulled me back.

"They'll take care of her Bella, I promise." Sincerity rang in Alice's every word. I turned to her once again and threw my arms around her small body while sobs rocked my body.

"Alice, what are you doing here? I mean, I'm grateful and everything and I'm happy you're back but…why?"

"Like I was saying before, I had a vision of you and Victoria meeting up. At first I didn't realize it was you, I mean, you weren't exactly a vampire when we left Forks." She stopped talking to give me an incredulous look, when we heard Victoria scream in agony. I turned to join in the fight, but Alice pulled on my arm. "Bella, don't worry about it. Right now we just need to make sure you're okay. They're taking care of the physical threat to you, and I'm trying to figure out how you're doing mentally. Although I suppose Jasper may be better at that than I would be…" She smiled at me.

"Anyway, we were going down to Forks to see if we could find you. I wasn't sure where you were, but we got lucky. As we were coming down, we could smell Victoria nearby, and Jasper was feeling emotions of nervousness – coming from you I'd suppose. It was weird though, you didn't seem to be afraid. But anyway, so Jasper smelled Victoria and we ran towards the smell. And then, well, I guess you can figure out the rest." She paused and looked at me before asking the inevitable. "Who did this to you?"

I sighed. "Laurent. He was trying to kill me, but the werewolves came after him. He had already bit me, but they got him before he killed me."

I smelled the fire starting and I realized I had completely missed the entire fight. I turned and stared as Carlisle and Jasper threw pieces of Victoria into the fire, while Esme came to me and hugged me.

"Bella, honey, I've missed you so much!" She let go so that she could look at me while she continued. "None of us wanting to leave, but we wanted to keep you safe and Edward was convinced that this was the only way. Apparently that didn't do much good for you though…" She looked so upset that I threw my arms back around her and hugged her tightly.

I didn't know what to say, but that was okay at the moment. Carlisle and Jasper had thrown everything into the fire, and we stood and watching as it burned. All of this garbage with Victoria was over.