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I'm not very sure about this part so please tell me what you think, in all honesty.
And I wonder if your guesses to who it was was right ( confusing? I think so. well it was to write) =D
Helpless
I didn't even have time to delay.
Laurent strode into the room, casually, in clean jeans and a black t-shirt. Irina was already on the other side of the door to leap into his arms, a smile from ear to ear filled with affection.
Edward's snarls echoed through the house.
The same expression of pure shock was evidently on all Tanya's family's faces.
Before Edward could leap to attack Laurent, both, Jasper and Emmett had a strong hold on him, forcing him back to the front door.
Laurent stood calmly, holding Irina to his chest and staring after Edward as he yelled, "I'll kill him! LET ME KILL HIM!"
"Edward" Esme said softly, in an attempt to quiet him.
Carlisle ordered in a sure voice, "Get him outside."
"No!" Edward protested struggling and, in a weak spot of Jaspers restraints, tore free and lunged at Laurent.
Inches from where Laurent and Irina stood, me, Emmett and Jasper seized him again. With my help we hurled him out the front door and to the trees a few yards from the house. All the way Edward was roaring and snarling in rage.
"Edward" I said through clenched teeth as we fought against him. "STOP!" I screamed at him.
Edward dropped to floor in defeat and started shaking uncontrollably. Emmett and Jasper kept their grip tight as I joined Edward's level. His eyes were shut and his eyebrows were scrunched together in torment.
"Edward. I know this must be hard for you-"
"He killed her, Alice" He stopped me short in a tone that made me feel like he only just had enough control to not break down right in front of us. "She was alone, vulnerable and this wouldn't have happened if I stayed there like I should have all this time."
"You were doing what you thought was right for her" I objected.
"What I thought was wrong." His head sagged down so I couldn't see his face. "I knew I should have stayed. I wanted to stay. I should have been there to protect her" he mumbled to himself.
I put my hand on his shoulder. He didn't respond.
"He killed her," Edward said again as if he couldn't believe she was really gone and couldn't understand why he was giving up.
"I didn't kill her."
I whirled around to the sound of Laurent's voice and the front door. Irina was behind him, panicked.
Emmett and Jasper clasped Edward firmly, anticipating him to hurl himself at him. Edward tried. When he realised there was no use, he didn't loosen out of a hunting crouch, his teeth bared.
"Don't lie to me, I went there. I saw her blood" Edward snarled the words that made my muscles lock down and I stared at him, wide-eyed.
"I didn't kill her-"Laurent spoke neutrally.
"Don't lie to me!"
"If you'll let me finish," Laurent said, unfazed. He glided forward and every step he got closer I could feel Edward brace himself and tense underneath my hand that was still on his shoulder. A small growl rose from Edward's chest, but he didn't say anything. Laurent continued, "I didn't kill her." He said the words, moving closer and closer the whole time. When he finished talking he was a metre away from where me and Edward were crouched. "I turned her into one of us."
Edward was still for a hundredth of a second, and then he thrashed against the hands that stopped him from tearing Laurent's head off. "Why? Why did you do that?" He roared deafeningly. He was so crazed that it was hard to hear his word distinguished from the rumbling thunder in his chest.
Irina curled her hand into a claw in precaution.
"I turned her into a vampire because I knew she meant a lot to you," Laurent said simply.
"So you bit her and left her there to writhe in agony," the words exploded from Edward and flew through the air like daggers.
"Edward" Emmett said in rebuff to his struggles, but he wasn't paying attention.
Laurent's peaceful tone only made Edward angrier, "I left her within a few hours of her transformation. She wasn't alone." He measured Edward with his eyes, accessing the bruises under his midnight black eyes and the chalkiness of his face. "I thought you'd be grateful."
"Grateful?" Edward's tone dripped with sarcasm, venom infested his tone. "Why would I be grateful for you hurting the women I love?"
I'd been so engrossed by what was going on, that I only just noticed the others had come outside when Tanya gasped quietly, with a heartbroken expression on her face, "what?"
Feeling guilty for hurting her feelings but quiet glad she now knew that they had no future, he met her eyes with his own. "I'm in love Bella Swan," he vowed, "I always have and I always will be, no matter what."
Tanya couldn't rap her head around it; she stood shaking her head for three tenths of a second then ran into the house in embarrassment and rejection. I could hear her pain in Jasper's mind, but it didn't faze me.
"I saw her not long ago you know," Laurent continued as if tempting Edward to step forward and battle him.
Edward growled animalistic-ally.
"When?" I asked and then a silence fell on us, though Edward was still on the floor, snarling quietly.
Bright crimson eyes met mine, "The last I saw of her was a month ago. She was doing quite well for herself," his gaze went back to my raging brother, "She even thanked me."
Another roll of thunder from his chest, "You're lying."
"Where's the fun in lying when I could be entertained more by the truth? Bella thanked me for changing her in to a vampire"-the roar from Edward rose louder in the stunned emptiness-"and I would have thought you would have to." Laurent's head turned to one side slightly. "Obviously I was wrong."
"You could have left her altogether. You didn't have to ruin her life!"
Laurent, for the first time in the argument, had a fierce light in his eyes. "You're making it out to be that I'm the monster. I'm not the one that left her there in the first place."
"That gives you no reason to interfere in her life, to destroy her soul! And I left for her, because she'd be better off if I wasn't there to make everything harder for her." Shaking like a mad man, Edward shouted at him.
"You should have seen her face when she said your name. It nearly killed her," Laurent teased.
I saw in a vision just before it was too late. Jasper and Emmet had, over the duration of the conversation, unfastened their clenched hands on Edward's shoulders. This time we didn't catch him in time. He sprang through the air like a bullet and to strike his target, but Laurent was ready. He dodged the attack and fainted to the left. Edward landed on his feet and turned to face his opponent in a threatening crouch.
"Stop it!" Irina demanded their attention but didn't succeed.
Laurent stood straight and patient while Edward was the opposite.
Angered by their lack of politeness Irina jogged down the porch steps. A hand reached out to stop her and she turned to see it was Katie's. "They aren't going to hurt each other, Irina."
"Speak for yourself," Edward said, surprising everyone into silence. We've never seen him be so disrespectful in all our lives. He'd always been the nice, considerate and caring creature, but losing Bella had pushed him off the edge. Anyone could see that.
Then he turned on me. "I thought you were with me, Alice. I thought you would understand. You cared for her too." Edward's eyes were crazed, but underneath the madness were confusion and a lot of pain.
"I do, Edward. We all do." Jasper, Carlisle, Esme, Emmet and, even if she doesn't want to admit it, Rosalie cares about her because you do, Edward. You really care about her, and if you do then we do too. We're family, and Bella was a part of that. Most of the speech was sent to him mentally but I was sure he got it all because his face became more hurt with every word.
"Then why aren't you helping me protect her?" Edward's eyes were on me but it felt like he was addressing all of us Cullen's.
Carlisle was the one to speak. "By hurting Laurent you aren't protecting her, you're avenging her."
"It's the same thing," he said weakly, in a voice that showed it was plainly a lie. Hearing Carlisle's words helped him more than hearing my own, it soothed him.
"You know it's not, Edward. Bella can decide her own fate and it's not our place to interfere." Carlisle said.
Edward closed his eyes in remorse and seemed to control himself enough to stand up and walk to my side. "But she didn't choose it, it was chosen for her."
"The past is the past, Edward. You can't change it no matter how badly you plead or how much blood you spill." I tried to imitate Carlisle's noble tone and tried to reach Edward.
But he'd gone distant again. He didn't respond.
Irina was still tensed in precaution. Laurent paced slowly back to her and she clung to his hand as she preserved the situation.
Everyone had deflated but the atmosphere was still thick with negative energy.
"I'm starting to think that your visit wasn't the best idea," Eleazar spoke up, still looking bewildered by what had just happened. He had a strong hold on Carmen and kept glancing between Laurent and Edward, anticipating another outburst.
Carlisle looked to his son's face to and nodded, "We'll leave. I apologise that this had to occur. Emmet, Jasper, escort the others back to the cars. I'd like to say goodbye before we leave."
Emmet and Jasper nodded, urging us back in the direction we had come from, our earlier scent lingered leaving a preserved track to follow.
They started leaving, but I didn't move.
Jasper ran back to me. "Come on, Alice." He said, giving me a small tug on the arm.
Wordless, I let him drag me away.
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