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I know this is supposed to be romance/fantasy…But what's a little romance without a little angsty stuff

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BREAKING ICE

DAYLIGHT BROKE; WE HAD JUST WALKED IN THE DOOR AND CARLISLE Esme, Eleazar, and Carmen were crouching over the kitchen table with a role of paper sprawled across it.

"What's going on here?" Edward asked sarcastically even though he already knew.

"Oh! Edward, Bella." Esme turned to look at us and spoke so fast I almost missed it. "What a surprise." You could see it was no surprise; they were hiding something that was a surprise. I know them all too well. "Go back outside please," she started towards us, ushering us to the door, "were almost done here."

Edward took my hand and led me back outside, "Please tell me what the surprise is? You know I hate surprises," I pleaded with him until I was blue in the face figuratively speaking. In return, all I got was silence. I wonder what it could be. "I hate surprises even when they're the good ones." Then Edward started laughing out of nowhere. "What's going on Edward?" I was right up in his face the suspense was killing me. I imagine this must be how Edward feels when he can't figure out what I'm thinking. Karma sucks.

"I…was imagining…your face," he managed to choke out between breaths. He curled over laughing hysterically, completely driving me insane with curiosity at his every chuckle.

"Oh thanks, that tells me a lot." I crossed me arms in front of me and turned away from him. He was right behind me and put his arms around me.

"I wasn't laughing at you I was laughing at the look on your face." He slipped around to stand in front of me and put his hand under my chin to make me look at him. "You'll find out soon enough, I promise." He smiled my smile, "you're going to love it." Yeah, I'm sure I won't love it. All I could do to keep myself from running back into the cabin and demanding an explanation was pace around an old tree stump. Edward leaned against a boulder and watched me the whole time as I ran through ideas of what it could be.

"It's been forever," I was sick of standing outside not by choice, while everyone else including Edward was inside planning some surprise. "How much longer is this going to take?"

"They're wrapping it up not literally right now, so not too much longer." He said coolly.

"Ugh, I wish they didn't have to make everything a surprise." All the way to the core of my being, I wished that. If I had a genie and I had one wish, it would be no more surprises from the Cullen family.

Carmen came from around the corner with a big grin on her face, "Bella. Edward, were done in there." She smiled and then a pensiveness expression flashed across her face, "Oh, were going to town for some more supplies, did you need anything?" she asked smiling again.

"Yeah, I need to know what is going on here." I said as demanding as I could make myself sound. This new voice of mine was getting very exasperating. I could never manage to make it sound the right emotion I was going for.

Her smile faded to a smirk, "Oh, Bella dear, I can't tell you that."

Edward snickered behind me and I reached back and punched him in the shoulder, "you hush up back there."

"No need to get violent sweetie, you'll find out tomorrow when we start, first thing in the morning." Then she turned and slipped back around the corner of the cabin.

Start? Start? What does that mean? Start what? First thing that came to mind was a party.

"No party, no party," I muttered to myself and trailed off into silence.

Edward reached down to my chin and lifted my gaze from the ground to his, "It's not a party love, don't stress about unnecessary things."

"It's necessary to me, tell me Edward," I demanded putting my hands on both sides of his face and willing him to tell me with my eyes, hoping desperately that it would work.

"Not a chance," his weapon was on full force and he leaned down and attempted to kiss me. I darted out of his reach about 30 feet away. As soon as I did, he darted after me; his arms wrapped around me and he tilted me like in a dance. "You're fast, but not that fast," he chuckled and tried to kiss me again. I couldn't run so I turned my head. He didn't even flinch; he started kissing me down my neck all the way down to my collarbone.

"How do you expect me to ever be mad at you," I managed to choke out, "When you're always pulling out your secret weapon?" I breathed heavy and erratically. He noticed and finally found my lips with his. I couldn't fight anymore. He had me. His breath was like a field of flowers and his touch an electric shock. I wouldn't be happier anywhere else.

Then I remembered I had a secret weapon of my own.

When I managed to wiggle free, I decided to give it a shot, it's a long shot, but it's all I got. "Edward? My love, please won't you tell me?" I said pensively.

"Nope," he shot back before I even finished my sentence.

As I said, a long shot.

"Please, oh please tell me," I ran my fingers down his chest, trying to act nonchalantly. Then I shot my hand up to tangle my fingers into his hair.

He grimaced at my touch. "This isn't going to work." He said looking down at me adoringly.

"I don't know what you're talking about; I just want you to tell me." I made a pouty face and stuck my lip out a little, probably overdoing it, "...please." I went in for a kiss but hovered there breathing on his lips—hoping I had the same effect on him—and then I brushed my lips across his. I figured since my only weapon of self-weakening wasn't working that maybe I could borrow his.

He groaned and quivered, "Bella, you're literally killing me." I can't believe I'm pulling this off. Ha, I'm going to take this as far as I can.

"Tell me….please. I love you." I whispered seductively, "for me," against his lips still hovering and breathing. He leaned forward to touch his lips to mine but I darted back before he could make the contact. "Not so fast," I said looking up at him through my eyelashes. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pressed my lips hard against his. He groaned. This is actually fun, why hadn't I thought of this before.

He groaned again and stomped his foot, "I can't love. You're very persuasive, but I can't." He smiled at me, pushing away so he could look at my face.

I pouted again and turned away from him, "Fine!" crossing my arms in front of me.

He grabbed my shoulders and turned me towards him, "You can keep trying to persuade me, it might work." Of course, he would want me to keep trying. He could get what he wanted and I would only get the pleasure of being close to him. I needed to know what was going on and this idea was at a standstill.

"Mom, Dad, where are you?" Nessie called from inside the cabin. How long had she been awake? I wonder if she knows what the surprise is.

"Aha," I said as I turned and ran toward the cabin. Edward appeared right in front of me and I just about ran into him.

"Oh no you don't, she doesn't have a clue what's going on." He was dancing around in front of me so I couldn't get by him. "She doesn't even know that there's a surprise in the making, so don't ruin it for her." Aha, it was for Nessie, too. That narrows it down a bit, but I still have no clue what it could be.

I guess I'll let it go for now, "my lips are sealed, for now." I shot one weak dagger at him letting him know that I wasn't happy about it. He gave me one last look and I took advantage of it and darted around him into the cabin.

"Right here Nessie," I sang as I got into the kitchen.

"Morning Mom," Edward snuck in right behind me, "Dad. I just wanted to see if we could ride the snowmobiles today?" she looked like she'd been up for maybe five minutes by the way her hair was all over the place. "Embry's never been on one before and I wouldn't mind riding one again." She ended eagerly.

"Go ask Eleazar, I'm sure he'll be fine with it." She's lucky she's half-indestructible, or she wouldn't be riding anything that went faster than 5 miles per hour. She ran out of the cabin with a huge smile on her face. Nothing made me happier, except being with Edward, than seeing her happy.

Seth was fast asleep on the couch, probably from a late night of video games. I jumped onto the couch, "wake up, wake up sleepy head," I shouted.

He jumped up with a frightened look on his face, "What? Where am I? What's goin' on?" he darted his eyes all around the scene in front of him.

"Ha. Ha." I was rolling with laughter, clutching my sides.

"Bella, what are you doing, you scared the crap out of me." He laid his head back down onto his pillow rubbing his eyes.

"I'm waking you up; I'm your very own personal alarm clock." I was still laughing.

"You don't have to do it that way; there are plenty of ways to wake people up." He scowled at me.

"I'm sorry, I'm just really bored, I needed something to liven it up a bit. Sorry it had to be at your expense," I giggled again. I was glad Seth was here, he brought out the younger Bella, the one that just graduated high school.

"What is there to eat around here? I'm starving." He was looking toward the kitchen like he was about to run for it.

"Go look in the fridge; I'm sure there's something in there." He was up and to the kitchen in a flash. "Maybe I can get Alice to BBQ tonight; I'll ask her as soon as I see her." It was the least I could do for waking him up in such a savage way. I knew how much these werewolves liked a good BBQ. One problem; where was Alice? Last time I remember seeing her, was when she went with Kate and Garrett to the main house to say hi to Eleazar and Carmen. She wasn't in the group of vampires plotting my surprise against me. She was probably in on it though, thanks to her precognitive gift.

The realization hit me. "Oh, maybe I can get it out of her." I mumbled to myself.

"What was that love?" Edward asked.

"Oh nothing," he was looking at me like I was a crazy person. "I was just talking to myself." That probably confirmed his assumption. I'm probably driving down a dead-end anyways. Alice likes to surprise me more than anyone else does; she would never ruin a surprise.

"Ugh," I sighed and Edward looked at me again.

"You're driving me crazy Bella, what are you thinking?" He pleaded with me.

"Oh, fine," I knew it was definitely going to be a dead end and Edward has a way of getting me to spill. "I was just thinking I might be able to get it out of Alice. Then I decided it was a waste of time: Alice would never give up a surprise." I humphed and made another pouty face.

He chuckled of course, "Oh Bella, don't worry so much. It's just a surprise, what's the worst that can happen?"

"It's not that I'm worried about what will happen, it's just…" I paused. I didn't like talking to Edward about this; it usually upset him.

He stood up and darted to my side, "Bella you can tell me anything, I won't get hurt or upset, you know that."

"I know, I know," I took a deep breath, "I feel like I came into this with nothing, from the very beginning." He moved his mouth to say something. I raised my hand. "Let me finish and I still have nothing to give. Everything I have is because of you, even Renesmee; without you, I wouldn't even have her. Anything any of you give me is just more upsetting because I can't give anything in return." He had an amused look on his face. "Do you see where I'm coming from?"

He was smiling my smile, "Honey you don't have to be upset about anything," this time I tried to say something and he shushed me, "let me finish," he quoted me, "everything that we have: The money, the properties and the vehicles are all just pawns in our world. They mean nothing to us and you'll realize that when time goes by." He grabbed me, crushing me to him, "Please don't worry about this. It may seem like a big thing to you now, but to us it's just something to do to pass the time. We have so much of it what else is there to do?" he kissed the top of my head and buried his face in my hair. "Besides, you gave me you, and without you there would be no Renesmee."

"This is true," I said as I pointed my right pointer finger towards the sky. I let what he said sink in, and it did make a lot of sense. When you have an eternity of time before you, what else is there to do? On top of that, a lot of the assets they have are because of Alice's visions. What a good little gift she has.

"I will consider what you said. It does make some sense, in a way. Why does it always have to be a surprise though? It wouldn't make me so irritated if I knew what it was." This was true; I mostly hated the surprise part of this. I felt his phone vibrate in the left pocket of his jacket, where he always kept it. He didn't seem to notice and right before I was going to say something about it, he interrupted me.

"I'll tell them no more surprises." He smiled hugely, overdoing my smile, "The next time they want to build you a house," what did he just say? "They can tell you first." He concluded.

"A house?" was all I could manage to say. The phone call was now a distant memory.

"Yes, now Nessie doesn't know so try to keep it a secret," he lifted my chin with his finger. "I know how bad an actress you are so do your best."

Just then, Jacob came into the front room yawning and stretching his arms. "Where's Nessie?"

I was still in shock at what Edward had told me, it took me a few seconds to answer him. "She ran to the main…house," I stumbled over that last word, "to see if she could ride the snowmobiles today." Of course, Jacob's first thought in the morning would be about Nessie.

"What? Why didn't she wake me up? I would've wanted to go, too." He shrugged his shoulders and I could see just how hurt he was that Nessie didn't ask him.

"Jacob: Man up man." Seth barked as he came from the kitchen, "I'm sure she meant you, too. She's obsessed with you just as much as you are with her. Give the girl some credit," he fell onto the couch with a sandwich in one hand and a can of soda in the other. "Now, I'm going back to sleep if you don't mind." I couldn't help myself; I burst out laughing as Jacob stormed out of the cabin, toward the main house.

Eleazar had said yes, I knew he would, and Nessie, Jacob, Embry, and Seth who thought it was worth it to stay awake were going to Denali Park to ride. Jacob lifted two of the snowmobiles into the bed of the pickup truck, and put the other two on a tow dolly.

"You guys be careful!" I had an instant reaction to protect them. "Make sure you wear warm clothes; you don't want to look suspect. Don't do too many crazy stunts, just because you heal fast doesn't mean you can do whatever you want. That means you too Nessie," I said as they piled into the truck.

"Ok Mom," she climbed into the truck last. "See you before the sun goes down," she yelled as they drove off and out of sight.

I turned to Edward "What do we do now?" Everyone was off doing his or her own thing. Esme, Carlisle, Eleazar, and Carmen were in town getting supplies. Rose and Emmett were in the main house, most likely figuring out the layout of my new house. I had no idea where Alice and Jasper were. "Where are Alice and Jasper?"

"They're out looking over some land to purchase and taking care of all the paperwork that's involved." Huh, I wonder where it's going to be. This will make it easier for Tanya to come back home. I hope. Then we can move on to better days.

It finally sunk in that the house was for us and not everyone. "What about everyone else? Where are they going to stay?"

"They'll be staying in the guest house."

"Why would they build a house for us and not one for themselves?" This whole selfless vampire bit was turning out to be very frustrating.

"They want to give us our own space, were newlyweds and you're still a young vampire. There are still other instincts that need to be dealt with," he winked and I knew exactly what he was referring to and I tried not to let it affect me; I still had a suggestion I wanted to try out.

"What if they just made the house bigger, that way it could be for all of us? I'd rather not be that far away from them just yet. We just spent three excruciating weeks without them." It was a little shaky, but I got my point across.

"That's definitely something to think about." He said as he leaned down and kissed me right under my jaw. That just about took me under. I still had one more thing to say.

"Well," I stuttered," I would like to talk to Alice, I'm sure she already saw you telling me."

"Yes she did," he replied now at the curve in my neck.

"Was that her calling you right before you told me?" that managed to come out in a whisper. I'm surprised it came out at all.

"Yes it was. I ignored it because she was going to try and talk me out of telling you."

"So it's a good thing I didn't mention it then."

"I still would've ignored it love, you persuaded me." He smiled my smile.

Oh, so it worked. "Was I as good at persuading as you?" I asked as I slinked closer to him and rested my hand on his chest.

"Yes very, very good." His breathing came a little faster now. I put my arms around his neck slowly and softly, and looked up into his eyes.

"Does that mean I have a secret weapon too?" I asked seductively, which was apparently good enough. He bent down and kissed me. This kiss was different from any he has ever given me. It was wild and fierce. He moved his lips furiously across my lips, down to my neck, to my collarbone and back to my lips. He wrapped his arms around the small of my back and pulled me closer, crushing me to him. I made an embarrassing moan at the same time he groaned. Then we were flying to the cabin, in through the front door, and he nearly jumped to the second floor.

"What happened to you guys?" Leah asked as we walked out of the cabin more than a few hours later.

"We had some things to discuss," Edward winked at me. She didn't question him but continued on to the cabin. She would sleep on the couch as long as no one else was in there.

"At least she's getting some sleep," I turned to face Edward. To my surprise, he wasn't there. "Edward?" I called but there was no answer. "Edward, this isn't funny." Still nothing.

Just then Alice appeared right in front of me, "Hi Bella," her voice was like a thousand chimes. "He went with Jazz to check out the land we found," I could see she was upset about me finding out and she made a pouty face.

"He could've said something before just leaving me," I pouted back. That wasn't like Edward, to just leave without me; even worse without saying anything. I felt betrayed like I wasn't all of me anymore. Alice must've seen it in my expression.

"I was talking to him before we even came into view." She pointed to her head and said, "Remember." It was easy to forget about his inconvenient, yet sometimes convenient gift, when I was deep in thought. "Jazz is towing him away as we speak. Now, I was under the impression that you wanted to help," she quirked an eyebrow at me.

"Yes I do, and I would like it so much if you wouldn't keep me out of the loop anymore. I want to be the one giving surprises for once." I said sternly as I stared into her amber eyes. She pouted a little but returned to a happy face.

"Ok, so I guess this will only be a surprise for Nessie and Jacob. We have so much to do Bella, the color schemes, the furniture…" she trailed off into babbling.

"Jacob, what about Jacob?" I asked as we walked toward the main house.

"He needs a place to stay too. He can't sleep on the couch forever," Alice was looking at me disapprovingly. She loved the werewolves almost as much as Nessie and me.

"Yeah, ok you're right." Which she was, I knew Jacob would be coming too, I just hadn't accepted it yet. "I just wish she didn't have to grow up so fast."

Alice put her arm around me in reassurance, "Let's go Bella, we have a lot of work to do," she screeched as she tugged on my arm. She was vibrating with excitement.

"Put me to work," I was trying for enthused and excited but got glum and depressing instead. One day I would figure this voice of mine out. When I stepped into the house, I was in awe. Rose and Emmett set in the middle of tons of blueprints and furniture sketches. On one of the blueprints read, game room.

"Game room," I gasped running my fingers over the blueprint.

"Yes, it also poses as a movie room," Alice smiled lightly. "Also, a master bathroom that has four shower heads. Ha! Ha!" she laughed rubbing her hands together, "it's going to be great."

I stared at her with my mouth gaping, "Alice, no." I was at a loss for words. "Alice are you serious, please don't?" Ranting and raving was all I could do. "Don't do this; this is way extreme, even for you. What happened to nothing ostentatious?" Nothing was going to stop the unstoppable force of Alice.

"Bella, don't go overboard about this," Rose replied to my madness while still sketching something silently next to Emmett at the kitchen table.

"You think I'm the one going overboard," I barked back at Rose who looked slightly taken aback by my reaction. I turned back to Alice. "Alice! Who really needs all this stuff?" I pointed to the various blueprints of rooms and buildings, buildings. "What is this?" I pointed to a smaller blueprint that looked like a duplicate of the others.

"That's a serenity room," she flitted to my side and looked down at the blueprint my finger was trembling over. "I figured what better way to keep you stress free." She smiled sincerely.

I threw my hands into the air and turned to walk away, "this just keeps getting better and better."

"Bella!" Alice grabbed me by my shoulders and spun me around to face her. "You really need to get over all this. We've told you time and time again that this kind of thing is nothing to us. Money is expendable, it's nothing." She tightened her grip on my shoulders and shook me a little. She shook me. "Do you understand me?" She searched my face for some kind of understanding and I don't think she found it because she continued. Scary Alice wasn't stopping until she got her point across, "It's going to be like this for the rest of eternity so you had better get accustomed to it." She looked again and still found nothing. "Ugh, Bella really," she released me and threw her hands over her head turning to walk away from me. "Why do you have to be so melodramatic all the time?" She might be a little pixie but, I can tell she is a force to reckon with and even Nessie and Jake knew that.

I didn't respond I had nothing to say. A combination of my conversation with Edward earlier and Alice, just three seconds prior, made a clicking sound in my head. I was going to live forever, be with Edward forever. Money really isn't an object because we have plenty of it. We could probably build 500 of these homes and still have money left to live on for at least 20 years. By that time, Alice would've earned even more money from the stock markets. It was a win, win situation.

"Bella! Do you understand?" Alice asked fuming walking back toward me and interrupting my reverie.

"Actually Alice, I do. You put it just right." I smiled shyly. "Ok, what do I need to do?" Alice was now staring at me with her mouth open. "Alice, that's a good look for you," I've never seen Alice so shocked before, "I guess there's a first time for everything," I thought out loud.

"That was way too easy," Rose looked at me dumbfounded stopping her pencil on the blueprint.

"I'm serious, I get it." I raised my eyebrows before I continued. "Money's nothing, time is inevitable and we've got plenty of both. So what do you want me to do, I'm your slave, shackles and all," I swiftly told the two of them. Emmett was keeping quite in the seat next to Rose; he knew not to get involved in our hissy fits.

"Alright, if you say so," she still wasn't convinced, "do you want to help design your room?" she asked.

"Yes and I don't want an unnecessary bed to be part of it," I was sick to death of unnecessary things even if it was to keep up appearances.

"Whatever you want, it's your house," she was still in shock that I was accepting this.

"Where will the rest of you be staying?" I tried to ask nonchalantly. I needed to suggest them staying with us. Just the thought of them not being right next to us all the time was extremely nerve-racking.

"We'll stay in the guest house," Rose smiled, but I could tell it was forced.

"Why aren't you building a house for yourselves?" I was a little upset that they would build me a house but not one for themselves.

"We'll be fine, there's plenty of room for us there." Alice didn't look up from the blueprint she was readjusting.

"I don't want to be away from you, those three weeks that we were apart was unbearable without you. I need you all to be close to me." I was whispering now, I didn't like sounding weak and afraid but I needed their company. I knew I sounded weak but I didn't care because I wanted them all to know how much I loved them.

"Bella," Alice looked up from her blueprint and into my eyes, "you and Edward are a newlywed couple and you're still a new vampire." She looked to Rose and back to me. "You can ask any of us—especially Rose—the need to be with that other part of you is so strong." She looked at me all knowingly and I couldn't help but believe every word she said. "You need to address it so you can adapt to it. It will never go away but eventually you'll be able to set it aside and deal with it at a more appropriate time." She chuckled and continued. "I've seen you and Edward, it's still as strong as ever between you two," she was looking at me with an encouraging smile, while Emmett was behind her chuckling. I let it go.

"Can't you build two houses next to each other; I don't want to spend my time miles away from any of you. That doesn't sound like a good surprise at all." I pouted.

"We can look in to it," she smiled widely. "I can't believe you're willing to spend money on something that isn't necessary." She sashayed around the table to one of the many blueprints and fingered it for a moment, not saying anything.

"It's necessary to me, I want you all to have a new house too, and I'm sure Nessie would be thrilled." I know she would be.

"You're probably right, with everything that's going on we should be close," Rose agreed with me. Alice nodded her head and pulled out her cell phone, hit the speed dial button and ran the idea by Carlisle. I hope he thinks it's a good idea.

Edward, I miss Edward, my love, my life, my everything. There was free time for thinking and Edward wasn't with me. Anytime this happened, my mind wondered straight to him. I wish he wouldn't have left me the way he did. You never know when it'll be the last goodbye. Every parting should be as if it were the last. Suddenly a feeling of loss came over me; I dropped to my knees and held my face in my hands.

Alice rushed over to me, hanging up the phone on the way, "What is it Bella?" She asked frantically lowering herself to the floor. "Answer me Bella." she was searching my face for an explanation but nothing was there.

I fought with the feeling; pushed it aside and answered her, the best I could. "It's probably nothing," I informed her lightly.

She eyed me skeptically. "Let me be the judge of that, what is it?"

"I was just thinking of Edward and how much I miss him," her breathing hitched, "I was thinking how every goodbye should be treated as the last," I looked down to my lap where my hands were fidgeting with the hem of my shirt, "because you never know when it'll be just that."

"So you fell to your knees…because you miss Edward?" she asked confused.

"Well, I had a weird feeling shoot through me; it was like I had lost someone." My first instinct was that I lost the one person I was thinking about: My husband.

Something like realization flashed across Alice's pixie face, and then it turned to horror. "Oh… oh no, we need to go check on Nessie and the others, I'll call Jazz." The phone was in her hand and to her ear before I could even look up. "Jasper?" she asked frantically before he could even say hello.

"Yes love," Jasper said on the other end of the phone.

"How are you and Edward doing?" her eyes were moving a mile a minutes as she grabbed the keys to her Porsche and stopped to wait for his response.

"Were doing great, he likes the land we've picked out. He thinks we should build a house for us as well, me, you, Esme, Carlisle, Rose, and Em."

"Yeah, yeah Bella said the same thing," she said it so fast I barely caught it. She darted past me, grabbing my arm on her way, pulling me towards the door.

"Is something wrong Alice, you sound anxious?"

"Yes," she looked at me reassuringly and we flew through the door and toward the yellow Porsche in the driveway. "Bella had a feeling of loss and you and Edward are fine so we need to check on Nessie and the wolves."

"We're on our way," was all I heard on the other end before Alice snapped the phone shut.

"Where are we going Alice?" I asked as we jumped through the doors of her car simultaneously.

Once in the car, she was turning the key and bringing the roaring Porsche 911 Turbo to life, she answered me, "We're going to check on Nessie and the others."

"Why," my voice rose by instinct so she could hear me over the load roar of her engine. "All because of a feeling I had?" I couldn't believe she was over reacting to something this insignificant.

"Yes," she looked at me with wide eyes and she was scared. "Bella you don't have a feeling of loss unless you lose something."

"Well," I shouted, "pedal to the metal." So many possibilities were running through my head: Nessie going over a jump and slamming into a tree causing the snowmobile to explode or Jacob trying to show off for Nessie and breaking his neck in the process.

"Alice, wouldn't it be faster if we ran?" I asked.

"Yes, but there's no way for us to stay concealed; the trees don't start for a couple more miles," she never took her eyes from the road, "but as soon as they do we'll be running." Déjà vu swept over me. It was just like when I had to race through Volterra through a crowed of close-knit onlookers. It was Saint Marcus Day, the sun was bright under the clouds, and it was almost noon: The time when Edward would step out into the sun to provoke the Volturi to kill him.

Alice skidded to a stop; we jumped out and ran into the trees. Running full speed ahead, I could still see every detail of nature. Every snow covered leaf and every ice sickle hanging from those leaves. Alice was having trouble keeping up but that didn't slow me down. I heard something coming in our direction from the west and it was coming fast. I was instantly in defense mode, ready to attack.

Just when I was tightening all my muscles to pounce, Edward and Jazz ran in. I just about leaped into Edward's arms when he took my hand and ran alongside me.

I relaxed at his touch, but still had the worry in the back of my mind. "Nessie better be okay," I shouted as we continued running forward.

"She's going to be fine," Alice yelled from a few feet back. Even though she wouldn't know, she still feels like she's in tune with her enough to know if she were dead or alive.

I could see an opening ahead and prayed that we would be able to see her. The trees were hanging low, low enough I had to crouch down to break through it. I came to a standstill as soon as the hanging branches were behind me. I swept the scene in front of me and all I saw was white.

Then I heard it, the engines to the snowmobiles. I released Edward's hand and took off running in that direction, not caring if he or anyone else, for that matter was following.

They broke out of the trees 100 yards in front of me. I ran faster than I ever ran before, praying that whatever I was losing wasn't anyone I was running from or to. I reached Nessie in less than three seconds and as soon as she saw me, she slowed to a stop.

Edward, Alice, and Jazz flew by me after Jacob, Embry, and Seth.

"What's going on Mom?" Nessie asked as she turned the snowmobile off, surprised to see me.

"I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen and Alice said we needed to check on you." I smiled knowing she was okay, "are you okay?"

Before she could answer, I heard the most God-awful sound coming from behind me, like metal crunching together. When I looked toward the direction of the noise, all I saw was Edward diving into the ground with no hesitation. "What happened?" I yelled as Alice and Jazz went in after him.

Nessie jumped off the snowmobile and we ran toward the hole in the ground. I didn't see anyone, no Jacob, no Embry, no Seth. I knew where Edward, Alice and Jasper were, the more important question was…where Jacob, Embry and Seth was. When we were about 20 feet away, the ground under our feet began to crack. "Stay back Nessie," I realized why there was a hole in the ground. "It was the ice," that must be where Jacob and the others are.

"Jacob!" Nessie began looking around frantically, turning in a complete circle. "Where is Jacob?" she cried hysterically.

I hoped with everything I had that he would be okay. "Your father is getting him," the feeling of loss came over me again.

"Embry and Seth," Nessie started toward the hole in the ground.

I had to run and grab her before she fell into the water as well. "Nessie, stay back, we need to stay off the ice," she curled over and cried in my arms. "There's no way we can help them right now. We need to stay on land in case they have to break through the ice to get out." I was panicking and trying to keep Nessie calm all at the same time and failing miserably doing so.

Not even a half second later Alice flew out of the hole with Seth over her shoulder. Jasper followed with Embry in hand.

"Where's Edward and Jacob." I didn't take my eyes off the whole in the ground waiting for him to emerge, willing him with my every sense to come out of that hole with Jacob.

"They were right behind us," Jazz said right before he jumped back into the hole after him.

I looked over to Alice and she was leaning over Seth, it looked like she was doing CPR. "Oh, no, Seth," I whispered and ran to his side. "What's wrong with him? Alice, will he be okay?" I searched her face for answers but there was nothing.

"Yes, Bella, he'll be fine," she said that just as Seth coughed out the water that was blocking his airways.

"Where's Jacob?" Nessie asked frightened standing behind me.

"Edward and Jasper are getting him," Alice said matter-of-factly.

We stood there staring at the hole in the ice, willing them to show their faces. I wanted to jump in and see what the holdup was. They'd been in there so long and Jacob couldn't possibly hold his breath for this long. Sure, he had unparalleled healing abilities but he can't heal himself if he isn't alive to do it.

After a few seconds passed, I couldn't help myself. "Where are they Alice?" I asked frantically.

She had a far away expression planted on her face. "I don't know Bella, I'm trying to see," that was enough for me. I wasn't going to stand aside while somebody I loved was in danger. Before she could say anymore, I was jumping into the hole. I wasn't extremely worried about Edward or Jazz, they didn't need to breathe, but Jacob does and I don't see how anyone can survive being under water, especially freezing water, for as long as he has. Nessie yelled something after me but thankfully didn't follow.

Once in the murky water I could make out every speck floating around me. The fish that were nearby when I entered were non-existent now. The darkness was no issue; it took me a moment of searching when I finally spotted them. They were all the way at the bottom of the lake. Jazz appeared to be trying to lift a huge boulder. I swam down to him and as I got closer, I could see Jacob's arm was pinned under the rock.

So many emotions were running through me; loss, because I could only imagine what was going on with Jacob, happiness because I found them with ease, and confusion, why wasn't Jasper able to lift the rock?

I shot myself toward the rock as fast as I could swim, slamming my shoulder into it as hard as I possibly could. It didn't budge. I swam down to Jasper, asking him with my eyes what I needed to do to help move the rock. He looked to the left of him where a hug log was nestled on the lake floor.

I swam to it, ripping it from its place and swam back to the boulder that was crushing Edward and Jacob. With Jasper pushing and me pushing with the log, we were able to move the boulder off of them long enough for Edward to escape with Jacob in tow.

Edward shot to the surface, carrying a limp Jacob over his shoulders, and flew through the hole without hesitation. Jasper and I flew through after him.

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