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The storyline and non-Twilight characters are my creative fault and mine alone.
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Chapter 7
(Location: Volturi royal chamber)
The reaction by the three Volturi to the failure of their plan was decidedly different, Aro though displeased, was also seeing positives to what happened. And while Caius was beyond livid, Marcus was silently relieved by the turn of events. From the beginning he had loathed that his brothers had been plotting against the Cullen coven. He knew that Carlisle wasn't a threat to them. During Carlisle's stay with them, he had actually grown rather fond of the young vampire and his rather idealistic views. Yet, for all his inner turmoil to what was happening he couldn't act against his brothers all he could do was voice mild protests to the methods they chose. Though his expression was sour as he listened to Aro try to calm Caius's ranting he was actually enjoying the moment.
"Look Caius, all is not lost," Aro said soothingly motioning his hands in a calming gesture. "First, even though it wasn't what we planned for, all who associated with Carlisle will be leery of showing him much support out of fear of us. Second, Edward and Jasper will most likely not want to remain with the Cullens once Bella and Alice discover, as Marcus says, their pure love for each other. And then there is the unexpected development with the mutts."
Swirling around to glare at his brother his crimson eyes blazing with fury, "and what of us Aro! What do we get? Nothing! No Alice! Bella's perfectly fine. Not only surviving what we did to her but she killed the redheaded bitch."
Rubbing his hand across his chin the ancient shrugged his shoulders, "her mind and gift were stronger then I perceived and she is a newborn, Caius. I'm certainly not shocked she was able to defeat Victoria."
As if not hearing his brother Caius continued his ranting. "And to top it off, not only did Dante fail to bring us Alice, he disobeyed us, he's in the wind. Tell me Aro, how will that look to others when they find out he got away."
"Dante will be handled and when others learn of his demise they'll know the consequences of what it means to fail us and run. I've Taisa watching him and have already alerted Demetri to be ready." Aro replied with a tiny snigger.
"We would've been better served if you had planted in Bella's mind to serve us after she was changed and in the end Alice would've come to her amd us voluntarily," Marcus mumbled out breaking in to their conversation, as he leaned back in his chair.
A sharp silence fell over the hall. Aro and Caius both stopped moving and stared at Marcus. It wasn't unusual for Caius to be thunder about, being caustic when things did not go according to plan but for Marcus to offer up any type of rebuke, well that was all together out of character.
Aro frowned as he gazed at the man and then said with a tiny smirk. "Ah, your still upset with what I had done to Bella, well Marcus, as Taisa has shown us it didn't work so you should be content with that brother."
"Yes, I still stand by my objections but as I've been listening I wonder Aro, if you really thought this strange cruel plan would succeed or if it was just another game for you?" The usually silent vampire replied his ruby eyes landing on his brother.
"Perhaps, a bit of game as you say Marcus in the method used but I felt it was a worthy experiment. And yes, I did and still do want the girl," Aro said folding his fingers together holding his brother's gaze firm with his own. "Her gift is wasted with our golden eyed Carlisle and his aberrant coven."
"And if you could hurt the Cullen Coven so much the better," Marcus added calmly. "Even though Carlisle has never been a threat to us."
Smirking slightly at his brother, "there are many kinds of threats and sometimes it is the less obvious ones that are most dangerous."
Tipping his head in acknowledgment, "yes, of course, you are correct Aro. You've always been able to see beyond the surface in protecting our rule then me." Closing his eyes and though the next words out of his mouth were not his true feelings on the subject, he knew it was what his brother wanted to hear. "Though the original objective wasn't achieved I'm in agreement with you that overall the mission was successful."
Caius slammed his fist down on a nearby ebony table sending splinters of wood everywhere, "I'm glad you think it was a success but we still have nothing." He snarled out towards his two brothers.
Aro sniggered at his temperamental brother, "Caius, you're just seething because you didn't get the female cur to torture, but you'll get your chance. I'm feeling the desire to see this town of Forks."
(Scene shift-Location: Cullen House)
As history has shown many times, short term plans that are thrown together without much thought can have unforeseen consequences. About the only thing Aro had grasped in his planning was how much the Cullen family loved Alice and what they would've done to get her back. He was too arrogant to think the plan; his plan would fail so miserably. When Aro had decided on the spot to turn Bella into to a tool to destroy the Cullen coven he really didn't look beyond that moment. The ancient vampire may've heard his brother Marcus but he truly didn't listen to him nor did he believe about the pure love his brother saw between the two girls being so strong. If he had been, oh say, Alice and looked to the future the ancient might've changed his plans, because the tool was slowly changing into a very angry weapon, who had an avenging angel in love with her.
With each unshed tear, there was a melding taking place inside of Bella's subconscious mind. Soft and hard, passive and aggressive were meshing together and becoming one. All the anger that Aro had Chelsea tap and twist inside Bella was still there but desire for payback was no longer focused on the Cullens. Nope, that desire for revenge was being channeled towards a new goal, towards the ones who had caused her to hurt her pixie and abuse herself. However, the young woman wasn't aware of these changes that were happening deep within her subconscious as she cried in Alice's arms.
On the other hand, the petite vampire who was holding her Bella was well aware of her own changing attitude. She was like Carlisle in many ways, preferring to see the good in others and willing to forgive and move on. Probably another reason she had stayed with Jasper and put up with Edward's recent attitude towards her. Yet, now, the pixie wasn't willing to offer any forgiveness she wanted to destroy the ones who had harmed the innocent girl in her arms. Alice just wasn't sure how to go about it because the Volturi had too many people with special abilities protecting them but she was going to look for a chink in their armor.
A tiny smile touched Alice's lips at that idea as she combed her fingers through Bella's soaked hair as she ignored the cascading water. She hadn't able to reach the spigots to turn the water off, which had been raining down on them for over forty-five minutes but then decided it didn't really matter, neither one was going to get water logged or wrinkled. This was healing time her Bella needed and Alice didn't care if they stayed there the rest of the night.
Alice pursued her lips together as she thought about the hellish night and decided that at least two positives had happened. She had made friends with Leah and Bella was back in her life, in her arms, 'though I would've really preferred it to happen without the sorrow.' She thought with a soft snort.
"Ali," Bella's voice was rough from the sobbing and barely louder then a whisper as she spoke. She pulled her head away from the crook of Alice's neck, "I'm better."
Somewhere during the crying Bella had lost one of her brown contacts and Alice found herself gazing into one brown eye and one burgundy. It was rather disconcerting to the pixie, kind of giving a before and after picture of Bella being a vampire. Putting it to the back of her mind to search for the lens she focused on the beauty before her. She could see the grief still in her expression but there was also the hint of a fire being built behind the mismatched orbs.
"Hmmm, I can see that you are. So you're ready to leave the shower?" She asked stroking the girl's cheek.
"Yeah and I think we've been in here long enough." Leaning into the small hand, "thank you."
Tutting softly, "Bella, you don't need to thank me." Alice said as she leaned in and gave Bella a quick kiss on the cheek. "Now, let's get dried off and dressed."
Nodding the young woman slipped off the pixie's lap and then helped her to stand up. As Alice went to turn off the water, Bella's eyes latched on to a single water droplet out of the hundreds and watched as it slowly made its way down the pixie's back. She was mesmerized by it's curving path towards the stunningly sculpted ass. As the droplet began its lovely descent Bella decided she wanted to be the bead of water caressing Alice's ass.
The rather sexual nature of the thought caused Bella to take a step back both in mind and body. Yet, before she could even begin to wrap her head around the surprising but very pleasant thought, Alice turned around and took hold of her hands.
"Bella," Alice began her voice soft so no prying ears could hear, which in vampire house was always around. "I want you to look at me, really look at me with your vampire eyes." Letting go of Bella's hands. Spreading her arms wide the petite woman slowly turned.
It wasn't a hard request on the young woman's part. She traced every inch of the pixie as she did a slow pirouette in front of her. With her enhanced sight she was able to see scars that her human vision hadn't picked up. There were two raggedy but distinctive bite marks one on Alice's stomach and the other on her right upper thigh close to her groin area.
"Alice," Bella murmured. She reached out her hand to touch the scar on the pixie's stomach but halted.
"It's alright Bella, you can touch them," Alice smiled reassuringly. Feeling Bella's feather light touch she continued, "apparently, whoever changed me didn't have a delicate touch, but Carlisle told biting me where they did made the venom enter my system faster."
Nodding slightly as she traced the three-inch scar on the stomach Bella knew Alice had no memories of who changed or being human for that matter. There was no textural difference in the scarred skin it felt as silky smooth as the rest of the pixie.
"Bella, I wanted you to see, truly see me naked before you, scars and all, to show you I'm not this perfect beautiful being your human eyes saw." Taking an unneeded breath, Alice took hold of Bella's hands again she continued, "you've learned personally how humans are drawn to us. We can use our voice like a siren's call. We can be the masters of lies, having to reinvent ourselves so often."
Though she didn't say anything, Bella's mind went straight to Edward and she couldn't hold back her snort of contempt towards her ex.
"I've always tried to be honest with you, I won't say I always succeeded because of family restrictions, but when it came to our personal relationship I've never lied about my feelings for you." Squeezing the girl's hands gently, "Bella, when we first met I was inexplicably drawn to you, not your blood, though I can't deny it wasn't alluring to me. I cared about you from the beginning and that care turned to love that grew in depth over time." Smirking at herself, "what I'm trying to say through all this rambling is I love you, Bella."
For a few seconds Bella was sure the expression on her face must of resembled that of a kid who had just been given carte blanche access to FAO Schwartz along with unlimited funds. Her odd colored eyes were glowing with delight and her lips just kept pulling back into the hugest goofiest grin imaginable until they could go no further.
It may've been the goofiest looking grin Alice had ever seen and she'd seen a lot from having Emmett for a brother, but it was also the most beautiful smiles she had ever hoped to see.
"God, I'm so glad because I love you too, Alice," Bella finally sighed back. "I think that's why my head felt like it was going to explode when I caught your scent in the woods. It was because of my love for you that," pausing and tilting her head. "I was able to smother that malicious Bella into silence and break her control."
Leaning forward Alice drew her lips to Bella's. It was tender kiss, sweet in its innocence and warming in its promise of the future to come.
"It might be better if we don't move too fast sweetie," Alice crooned as the two separated and though a big part of her was screaming inside, 'what are you crazy?' The rational part of her knew this wasn't the time or the place to move their relationship towards a more sexual nature. "We should probably get dressed before Emmett comes pounding on the door making all kinds of rude but teasing remarks."
Reluctantly, Bella nodded in agreement to what Alice said, but mainly because her newborn emotions wanted to push for more. The humming inside of her was so pleasant from just that one simple sweet kiss, it was hard not to want to dive in but she had better control over her beast then other newborns. If she could ignore the bloodlust with ease, Bella knew she could albeit grudgingly ignore the other desires as well.
(Scene shift-Time shift Location: Cullen Home)
"The Volturi are still coming here, the phone call you were planning to make will have no effect in changing Aro's mind," Alice stated as she broke out of her vision and glanced over at Carlisle who was frowning deeply. "But Aro hasn't made a decision as to when or who he is bringing with them. Since he's read my mind he's aware of the flaw in my gift."
Carlisle felt his stomach lurch for the second time in less then thirty minutes. The first time was when Alice told them of her vision of Aro discussing plans with his brothers about coming to Forks. He had hoped he could talk the ancient vampires from coming along with their guards but pretty much knew it was going to be useless.
"Well," he began rubbing his chin with his right hand, while his left one was resting on Esme's shoulder. "It's safe to bet Chelsea will be with them and according to Eleazar her gift is strong enough to influence all of us if she is within thirty feet of us."
"There's a bitch I want to get a hold of," Bella muttered as she leaned into Alice both her eyes now the familiar brown having found the missing contact. "Along with a few others."
Emmett nodded his head enthusiastically at her declaration. He was all for teaching the Volturi a lesson for messing with those he loved. "I'm down for that," he said as he clapped his hands and rubbing them together with anticipatory glee.
"Emmett, Bella, while I certainly understand your desire for revenge, this is the Volturi we're talking about as well as their elite guards." The patriarch of the family reminded them both in his calm voice. "And they are among the most powerful of vampires and not to be taken lightly."
Bella could feel her irritation level rise as she gazed up at him. She may've respected the elder vampire but to have Carlisle use his mollycoddle tone to assuage her thirst for revenge was unacceptable to her.
Holding back the sneer from forming on her lips. "I'm aware of their abilities Carlisle," she responded slowly being careful to keep the bubbles of anger floating in her from popping. "We," motioning with her free hand towards Edward and then Alice, "saw some of them first hand."
Edward, who was fully frustrated that he was no longer privy to Alice's mind, finally broke away from glaring at her and looked over at Emmett and stated, "and I experienced some of them as well and not something I want to go through again." His voice already bitter, turned colder as he recalled their time with the Volturi. "You've no idea what they can unleash Emmett."
"Maybe not dude," the big vampire agreed with the warning but it didn't dampen his desire to kick butt as he added. "But I'm willing to find out for what they did to my family."
"You're willing to put the whole family in danger with that kind of talk," the bronze-haired boy snapped out. His golden eyes perceiving Emmett with undisguised contempt, "or did you forget that abomination the Volturi uses to spy on others with?"
"None of us have forgotten Edward," Alice replied glancing at her brother. "But as Carlisle discovered from Eleazar, Taisa talent is limited and right now they have her focusing on finding Dante."
"So you claim," he shot back returning to his previous staring, still hoping to break through the block that Carlisle believed Bella had erected around Alice.
The rest Cullens reacted first to Edward's cutting remark towards Alice. Carlisle and Esme verbally chastised him for his remarks, while Rosalie and Emmett lambasted him silently. By the curling of his lips towards his siblings it was easy to tell how harsh their thoughts had been towards him.
"Edward, just because you can't read my mind anymore because of Bella's shielding, doesn't give you the right to accuse me of lying." The petite vampire retorted with her own heat at his unstated implication. "And please quit glaring at me. It's rude."
Tilting her head towards Bella, Alice was about to comment how amazing it was that the young woman had put up with her brother's glaring when she was human but the words became stuck in her throat. In that brief moment, she had a vision so astounding that it had robbed her of her ability to speak even after it was done. All she could do was wait and watch for her vision to unfold in real time, which wasn't that far away.
Silently Bella seethed as she studied her ex through slit eyes. Since returning to the Cullen house she had been good. Reining in her deepest desires to throttle the boy, but now, now she wanted to lash out at him. Only Alice's small hand in her own was keeping her grounded, keeping her from bounding off the couch and beating the sneer off her ex's lips.
Every since they had resembled in the living room, Bella had felt something akin to static electricity, licking at her skin and the sensation kept building. It along with everything else had been adding to the growing tension building inside of her and getting ready to blow. What she was experiencing was the energy from Edward's gift as he tried to worm his way back into Alice's mind.
Edward's gift was usually passive. He had never had to work to try and steal into a person's mind, except with Bella when she was human. Even when he dove deep into Victoria's mind there had been no effort involved at all, but now, now was different. He had been forcefully trying to read Alice's mind. Trying to strip away the barrier Bella's gift had placed on the pixie's mind, shielding her secrets from him, which was something the bronze-haired boy couldn't handle. In doing so he inadvertently was revealing another facet of Bella's gift, the more aggressive aspect of it to be exact.
Not willing to accept being ordered by Alice, Edward ignoring the rest of his family just smirked and like a little child bent on getting his way he returned to glaring at her. It was an arrogant act and a foolish one.
"Edward," Bella said hissing slowly through her teeth as her jaw was clamped down tight. Keeping her attention focused on him she continued speaking. "Alice asked nicely that you stop staring at her but you didn't so I'm ordering you leave her alone!"
When she spoke the boy's name an invisible flow surged off of Bella, but she felt the movement and realized it was the energy that had been tingling her skin. If her anger towards her ex hadn't been all consuming, she might actually of been flummoxed by what was happening. Yet, the only thing she latched on to was that the static electricity was moving away from her and apparently straight towards her ex.
A flash of pain like a white-hot needle borrowed its way into Edward's flesh causing him to gasp out loud before it seemingly disappeared several seconds later.
A hint of a smile touched the corner of Bella's lips and tiny wave of pleasure passed through her as she heard Edward's pant from the discharge hitting him.
'What the hell is this?' Edward questioned silently once he got over the shock and the heat receded.
The occurrence had last no more then five seconds but the residual effect was something different altogether. Once Bella had finished speaking the living room had gone quiet. It was like everyone had been affected by the discharge of energy, even though it had only impacted Edward.
Carlisle's handsome face was completely captured by a frown, while Esme had her right hand covering her mouth and her amber eyes were filled with sadness. Rosalie who usually either looked bored or pissed during the family meetings had rather sickened expression gracing her beautiful features. As for Emmett, his normally jubilant expression was gone. His lips were curled in disgust and his golden eyes were ringed with onyx black. The only two who were not reflecting dismay or revulsion in some fashion were Bella and Alice. In fact, both women seemed rather content as their eyes drifted around the room before joining everyone else and staring at Edward.
The young man didn't understand why everyone was gazing at him with such expressions. It was like he had done something wrong instead of being the one who had been harmed. What he didn't know, was that salvo Bella had launched at him, had broadcast his innermost thoughts to everyone in the room for a brief period. As he began to sift through their thoughts his mouth popped open in disbelief. They had heard his contemplation of turning Leah over to the Volturi. The realization that his family was privy to his thoughts knocked Edward for a loop. He hated the idea that his family had could hear his thoughts.
"Don't worry Edward, your thoughts are back to being your own." Alice chimed in coolly as if she could still read his thoughts but it was just from the vision she had, had earlier. She then locked her butterscotch eyes on to his golden one's, "which I assure you, we're all quite grateful for trust me on that."
Esme finally utter the only word she could summon. "Edward."
The sadness that was etched on her face was even more profound in her voice. It was so strong that even demons would have hid their faces in shame for causing such a sound to come from her.
Carlisle laid a soothing hand on Esme's shoulder, but kept his thoughts to himself. Edward had already revealed that he would've willingly left Alice to the Volturi, so though he was severely disappointed, he wasn't all that surprised by his son's thoughts about Leah.
"I can't believe," Emmett rumbled out with icy slow precision. The huge vampire was beyond livid as his eyes continued to become a darker hue as he spoke. "That you would voluntarily give Leah to the Volturi. That you would even think that was an option."
"Of course, it's an option." He growled in defense. "If it would get the Volturi to leave us alone then we should give then to her. She's just a damn mutt!"
"I don't care if she is a dog, Leah is a woman first and I will not sacrifice her to keep my own ass safe," Emmett snarled back cracking his knuckles, which sounded like gunshots being fired.
Whipping his head around so his eyes landed on Rosalie who had been absent in sharing her thoughts, Edward's lips formed into a crooked smile, "but your wife would, wouldn't you Rosalie. You sit there so quietly because you had the same idea."
"Yes," the beautiful blond answered but instead of her voice carrying the true shame she felt there was defiance in her tone as she continued. "Out of reflex it crossed my mind but unlike you Edward, I realized it was wrong."
"Hah, don't forget Rosalie, I can read your mind and the idea is still there," he trumpeted out.
"Only because when I saw your thoughts, I was sickened that I had briefly shared the same selfish idea as you," she snapped back at him.
Shifting slightly on the couch she was sharing with Bella and her sister, Alice tenderly stroked Rosalie's cheek with her free hand. She understood why her sister's thoughts would jump to giving Leah to the Volturi it was to protect the family. But the petite vampire also knew, if not for Edward reading Rosalie's mind, that thought would've never come to light. It might've been a different story if the Volturi had wanted Jake or one of the other wolves. Oh yes, Alice understood her sister completely and knew the idea of what Caius would do to Leah repulsed Rosalie down to her core.
Keeping her eyes on her sister, Alice spoke softly, "it's okay Rose. We all know you were only thinking of trying to protect the family." Turning her head to glare at her brother, "how dare you use your gift to lash out at Rosalie, just to try and shift everyone's outrage away from you."
The direct and fiery comment earned her a deep snarl from Edward, which in turn garnered him a vicious growl from Bella.
Before he could respond a bloom of intense pain enveloped his head. It felt like his scalp was being torn away. If he hadn't of been seated he would've been brought to his knees by the intensity. The agony only last seconds but again it also had far more reaching ramifications.
The monster inside Bella flew to the forefront again when her ex had snarled at her pixie. Within those seconds, Bella had wielded once again that kinetic energy that had been supplied by Edward back at him and like a finely honed blade she sliced into his mind. The energy went straight back to its source, like a worker bee being called home by the queen bee, but it was an unhappy bee and proceeded to attack. It was guided by young woman's rage towards her ex, towards his telepathic gift and how he abused it.
Edward's telepathic gift was figuratively, rendered into useless ribbons within those seconds along with other aspects of his personality, which were connected to his telepathy. The damage could've been far worse, if Alice hadn't drawn Bella's focus away from the young man. Though Bella was using the last of the energy she had unconsciously drawn from the bronze-haired boy, there would've been more then enough to render Edward into a vampire vegetable.
As Alice crushed her lips onto Bella's her mind had two thoughts skittering through, 'not exactly how I planned to confirm Bella and I are dating but I know this'll work.' Then a third thought popped in her mind as the two deepened their kiss and their tongues danced together, 'oh damn this addicting. I want to taste more of my Bella.'
The petite vampire recognized it wasn't the most appropriate time to be thinking about such things, considering what her vision had shown her but it was hard not to. Her body was responding to the kiss and Bella's touch in ways she had never experienced in all years with Jasper. It brought back fleetting memories of another one who moved her body in such away but even that wasn't like this. There were glorious tingles moving inside her and in many ways the sensations were making her feel almost virginal because of the newness.
To say Alice's distraction worked would be putting it mildly. Not only did Bella's fury towards Edward peter out, she completely forgot about him and everyone else in the room. The only person she was aware of was Alice and her pixie's enchanting lips against her own. If this was going slow, well, it was a pace that delighted her newborn instincts to no end.
'I'm in heaven,' Bella's mind chanted over and over.
Where the kiss in the bathroom had been delightful and innocent, this one was toe curling, oh my god, liquid fire through the veins and pooling between the legs, hot. Which was exactly happening to Bella's body and she was ecstatic, thrilled and if her heart could thump it would've thumped right out of her chest.
While Alice was latching her lips to Bella, Esme and Carlisle were moving hastily over to Edward. As Bella's thoughts moved away from Edward, the boy slumped down and nearly slid out of his chair. Rosalie and Emmett were both were frozen in their places as their stares went from the girls kissing to their brother who seemed to be drooling.
"Edward?" Carlisle asked worriedly as he pulled his son back into the chair and began to examine him. Being a doctor the elder vampire was quite concerned by the dull glazed expression on the young man as well as the venom dribbling down his chin. Wiping the young man's chin he inquired slowly, "Edward, how do you feel?"
Tilting his head Edward gazed into his father gentle golden orbs and blinked several times to clear the confusion. He wasn't exactly sure how to answer his father's question. The pain that had captured him was completely gone and he only had shadows of what had happened but he really didn't care because he felt good. In fact, for the first time since becoming a vampire the young man felt carefree as if an oppressive dark weight had been lifted from him.
"I feel good, really good dad," he finally answered in a pleasant tone that was quite unlike his normal nature. Turning his head away from Carlisle his eyes landed on the two girls who were still kissing, "whoo hoo!" Edward exclaimed and broke out into a big grin. "That's hot!"
His enthusiastic vocal reaction startled everyone including Alice and Bella, which brought their kiss to a halt. They joined the rest of the family in gazing at the young man who was giving a teasing grin at the two women.
The petite vampire reacted first, releasing a soft sigh of relief. She had seen two outcomes and this one was by far the better one, even if was rather disturbing to see him acting like a normal teenager.
"Holy crap," Bella mumbled feeling bit disconcerted by Edward's response and Alice's sigh of relief. 'I did that to him? Huh? Kinda cool wonder if it'll last.'
"Hey, go back to necking with Ali, cause that was the bees knees." Edward giggled out as he pointed towards his ex girlfriend. Then seeing the expressions on his family he looked quizzically at them, "what I was just joking." Then turning his gaze back to the girls, a more apologetic expression graced his face. "You two truly belong together and I'm sorry for trying to mess that up."
"Well, that's fucking weird." Emmett remarked quietly as he ran his fingers through his hair.
"No shit, Sherlock," Rosalie replied without the usual sarcastic tone she used when her mate stated the obvious.
Esme was so stunned by the changes in Edward; she didn't even bother scolding the two for their swearing.
"So are we done? Cause I'd really like to do something fun, like beat the pants off Em in Icibus the Destroyer," Edward blurted out clapping and rubbing his hands together in merriment.
"Dear lord," Carlisle and Esme murmured simultaneously as they studied their son who slid out of his chair and went happily over to the gaming area.
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As always thanks for giving this story a read and for reviewing. Thank you to all who provided input in regards to what should happen to Jake and Jasper.
I decided not to kill Edward in this story but give him a makeover via Bella's expanding talent.
