I rose from my comfortable position, cuddling with Jasper on the plush hotel couch, and walked in to check on Bella. She had been asleep for quite awhile. I opened the door, and sat on the side of the bed. I gave the lump under the covers a little nudge. When she didn't react, I pulled back the covers.

Oh. My. God.

All I saw was a line of fluffy pillows that could haves easily fooled people.

Bella Swan was gone. She had left the hotel room without the knowledge ofr consent of Jasper or myself. Jasper walked in. "Is everything okay?" he asked.

He caught me just as I was about to collapse. "Bella is gone," I said blankly.

I held on to his arm as he started to panic. "Oh my God!" he started to say.

I myself was having a mental breakdown. Jasper still held onto me as I wailed about letting Bella slip right though my fingers. Then, I saw it.

A taxi cab pulled up in front of a large, brick building. Bella got out of the cab and paid the driver, then nervously walked inside. The entire inside of the building was the room full of mirrors. There was a voice coming from the closet. Bella opened the door to see a movie of her mom playing, then was cornered by James. She squirted his eyes with pepper spray, but that only made him angry. He jumped across the room, grabbed Bella by her neck, and through her against one of the support beams. Her crumpled form lay still on the floor. Then, I saw Edward leap into the room.

Jasper already knew that I had seen Bella. We grabbed our cell phones and rushed out of the door. Jasper didn't bother with the valet, but instead ran as fast as he could without raising suspicions and got the car himself. I ran after him to save time.

We climbed in, not even bothering to buckle our seatbelts, and sped off toward the room full of mirrors, or, as Bella had explained, a ballet studio. I had seen that all of the other Cullens were there, along with Edward, waiting for the perfect moment. We pulled in ran inside.

The rest of our family was waiting on the balcony. Edward was down below, holding Bella in his arms. I saw tears streak down her face as Edward jumped up, but was then caught and thrown down by James. Edward stood up and tried to get to Bella, but James was too quick. He picked up Edward and flung him into a series of windows. Emmett, Jasper, Carlisle and I saw this as our que to help. Without a second thought we jumped with all of our might and leaped over the wall that separated the balcony from the main room. Emmett and Jasper ran to go keep James away from Bella, while I tended to Bella, who laid, broken, by a pillar with blood dripping off of her horrified face. I took her in my arms and brought her over to an unoccupied corner.

I set her down and held her in my arms. Blood was everywhere, even on my hands. "Oh, God," I gasped.

Carlisle rushed to my side, followed by Edward. I stood by Bella, while Carlisle debated what to do. "Carlisle," Edward persisted, forcing Carlisle to come up with a decision. Jasper and Emmett were still fighting James.

Carlisle spoke, "Either we could let her become one of us or....you have to suck the venom out."

I saw the conflict in Edward's face. He knew that he couldn't let her be a vampire, although sucking the venom out of her blood would require more control than ever before. "I can't let her be a monster like I am," he stated, and with that, he began to suck the venom our of her blood.

I ran off, deciding to give them some privacy, and went to go help my two brothers fight the tracker. They held James still, while I went right ahead and ripped his head off. Emmett and Jasper helped to rip apart the rest of his body into little tiny pieces.

"Get the floorboards, start a fire," Jasper commanded.

We did as he said, within minutes, James was a pile of ashes.

Meanwhile, Edward was having some difficulties with Bella. Although her blood was clean, Edward couldn't stop drinking her blood. I saw the pain and the lust that he was enduring. He knew that if he continued, Bella would die, and it would be because of him.

"Edward," Carlisle interjected. "Her blood is clean you must stop before she is dead."

Edward slowly stopped. When he was fully finished, he tried to get as far away as possible from Bella, so as not to raise his bloodthirsty instincts.

I took her in my arms and carried her out of the building in my arms. Carlisle had called an ambulance, and I could hear sirens sounding on their way down the street.

I saw my closest brother looking at her with such emotion in his eyes. It made me want to cry. As the EMTs put her into the ambulance, Edward climbed into the car with me and Jasper.

In the hospital, Bella lay in bed with a cast on her leg, and bandages everywhere. Edward was sitting on a bench underneath the window.

I saw as he held her in his arms when she slept the love and affection in his eyes. I knew that he wouldn't be able to live had she been killed.

I could tell that because of this event, things were about to bet interesting in the Cullen household. Very, very interesting.


Hey guys!

Sorry it took so long for this chapter to get posted. Had a lot of homework over the weekend. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I'm still eating Turkey!

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