Chapter 7. Breaking
Bella felt herself begin to break again. She wrapped her arms tightly around her and ran into the house, leaving Jacob standing there with his wrong assumptions for company.
'I just hurt everybody, I hurt Edward by him seeing me with Jake, I hurt Jake by hurting over Edward. And I put everyone in danger, from the pack, to Charlie.' Bella began to believe that she should have never come to Forks after all. She did not have to hide her emotions as she ran through the house, as Charlie would be working until the early hours of the morning. She ran upstairs and threw herself down on her bed, and cried until her body could not cry anymore and she fell asleep.
Bella awoke with the sound of howling. She immediately recognized Jacob's howl, and then heard it being joined by other howls. The howls were close. She slowly opened her eyes, and immediately realized her room was too cold. "Edw. . ." her words froze in her mouth as she realized that it was not Edward in her room. She looked up to see the fire red hair framing a pale face, beautiful, with blood red eyes. "Victoria!"
"Well aren't you sweet to remember me, Bella." she purred, only the hate in her eyes betraying the façade of civility. "I have waited for this moment for a long time. I thought I was going to be cheated of my revenge when I realized Eddie had left you, and that you had taken up with a mongrel. Tell me Bella, do you wake up with fleas?" Her words taunted Bella, and Bella immediately thought of Jacob, and wondered how Victoria knew about their relationship. "Well Bella, it would have been a hollow revenge if I had just killed you when Edward wouldn't have cared. Hardly worth taking the chance of going up against a pack of werewolves for. But now that Edward has come back, well, I will have my revenge, and it will be sweet." Victoria licked Bella's face after she said the word sweet, and Bella realized that her life was about to end. She only hoped that it would be over before Charlie returned home, so he would not be in danger. She thought about Edward, and how ironically it was him coming back into her life that had renewed the danger of Victoria. She thought of Jacob, and thought about the pained look in his eyes, knowing he would be crushed once she was dead. Bella closed her eyes and waited patiently for the end to come. She felt a breeze, and a crash, and opened her eyes surprised. Edward! Edward had magically come into her room, and had thrown Victoria across it.
"Run Bella Run!" he instructed. For a moment she was struck with the irony of the things she had done just to hear him say words like this to her. "NOW!" he commanded. She did not hesitate this time, instead jumping up running through her door, and somehow miraculously down the stairs without falling. She opened the outside door, and ran out behind the house, towards the woods. As she ran under her bedroom window, she was forced to stop short as the two vampires tumbled out her window. Edward immediately placed himself between Victoria and Bella and readied himself for the fight. He was distracted however, and Victoria began to gain the upper hand. At a point when it seemed Victoria had a straight shot at Bella, she charged at the exact time a russet colored wolf charged into her. Edward regained his footing, and quickly turned as if to defend himself from the werewolf as well. He found himself looking into the eyes of the werewolf, and realized immediately that it was Jacob, and that Jacob wanted to save Bella too. 'The enemy of my enemy' Edward mumbled internally, immediately beginning to work with Jacob against Victoria. Bella watched in horror as Jacob and Edward circled Victoria, who realized she was trapped. When Victoria slammed into Jacob with a thud, Bella heard herself screaming his name. In an instant however she turned in time to watch Edward with his teeth on Victoria's neck decapitate her. Victoria's head landed only a few feet from Bella, with her eyes still open. Bella screamed again, and felt her sanity spin almost out of control. Everything became darker and quieter until she lost consciousness.