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8. Visions
"That's why you did it. That's why you're the one that changed me. The rest of them wanted me dead." I could feel the venom pooling in my eyes and stood up. I was absolutely horrified. My family, the man I wanted to marry and the man I saw as my father had both wanted me dead. Refused to safe my life, to change me like I wanted.
I rushed over to where Christian was standing against the wall and threw myself in his arms. "Thank you! Thank you so much. Thank you." I kept muttering it to him.
He was shocked at my embracing him at first, then I saw him smile and I felt him wrap his arms around me.
Anytime Bell, anytime. I will always be here for you.
I looked up at him, slightly shocked at this admission. But his smile made me smile, as usual. Granted, it wasn't exactly a happy one at the moment, but still… a smile is a smile.
My happier moment was rudely interrupted by Edward, of course.
"Get your hands off my fiancée."
I turned back to him. Complete shock on my face. "What?"
"Step away from Thaine and get over here Bella." Thaine? Oh, Christian. Since when does Edward refer to him with his last name? I was so busy pondering this, how much I liked the name and where the name had originated from, that I didn't notice Edward's temper rising.
"Bella! Get over here now!"
Then my temper flared in response to his. I couldn't believe it, I was now a vampire, not thanks to him, and he still thought he could boss me around. Well, think again Eddie.
"Shut your mouth Edward." I told him in the coldest tone I could manage. "I will hug whoever I want to. I will talk to whoever I want to. Hell I could do a whole lot more than talking with anyone I want. We. Are. Over. Edward. That, I didn't forget. I ended our engagement, before you killed me."
Edward, who had looked angrier the more I spoke, suddenly reared back. Almost like I had slapped him. I smirked. "Yeah, killed me. If you hadn't thrown me through that wall, I would still be a living, breathing human." I tilted my head to the side. "I suppose I owe you a thank you for that. At least I finally got what I wanted." I glanced from Edward to Carlisle. "Not thanks to any Cullen though."
"Bella, please. Don't be so hard on Edward. He was only looking out for you, for your soul. You know his views on the subject. And now that you are changed, nothing is standing in the way of you two spending forever together." Carlisle spoke to me in a rational sounding voice. I couldn't believe what he was saying though.
"What? Don't be hard on Edward? He wanted me dead! All of you wanted me dead!" I started sobbing, it just hurt so much to realise this. Christian, who was still standing behind me wrapped his arms around me in an attempt to comfort me. It wasn't really working too great. "If you think I will be with a boy who preferred me dead than you are very wrong."
"He is not a boy!" Tanya erupted. "Edward is all man…" As she said this she managed to look at Edward in a sultry way and glare at me at the same time. It really was kind of impressive.
"Thank you, Tanya. And this whole discussion really is unnecessary. Now that my Bella is changed, the only issue this family has to deal with is Thaine over there. He is a liability. He doesn't take orders. And he doesn't listen. It was not his place to turn my Bella. We can not afford to keep allowing him to stay here." Edward managed to sound both highhanded and absolutely murderous. Probably because Christian still had his arms around me. Which was something I didn't have any intention of changing at the moment. Aside from the fact that I loved this pissed off Edward, it felt really nice. I was ignoring the fact that he still refers to me as his.
"I agree." This from Tanya. Of course. I didn't get it. Edward was still trying to have me as his, wasn't that the complete opposite from her own goal? "Carmen, Eleazar, Kate, Irina, I think it is time Christian and his sister find their own way. They have outstayed their welcome."
Every Denali except Irina looked shocked. But, Tanya was their coven leader, in the end, this was her decision. I saw Elissa looked both horrified and relieved. I knew she wasn't happy living with the Denali's, but I also knew she didn't want to be with just her brother again. I held out my hand to her and she rushed over to me and held my hand while Christian wrapped one of his arms around her. And in this moment I knew, if they were leaving, I would go with them. If they wanted me.
"This isn't how it was supposed to happen!" Alice suddenly shrieked. "I didn't see it. How could I not see it? What changed? I just didn't see this." She was muttering.
"Didn't see what?" asked Emmett.
She must have had a vision, I'm guessing she saw the family without me. Wait.
Alice.
She sees everyone's decisions. She knows everything. Well, almost everything, not if Elissa is involved. But still. She had to have known. At one point or another, she would have seen something from Edward of Tanya. She had to have known.
I stepped away from Christian and Elissa, a cold dread filling me. "Alice?" I asked as calmly as possible. She turned to me with an anguished expression.
"Alice, how long?"
She started sobbing and looked down into her lap. "I… I don't know what you're talking about…" Bullshit.
"Yes, Alice, you do." I gritted out through my teeth. "There is no way you didn't know about the affair! You had to have known about all Edward's so called 'hunting trips'. There's no way you never say anything."
She started sobbing harder. "No…no, no, no, no."
"Tell me!" I shrieked at her.
She finally looked back up at me. "I'm so sorry Bella." I reared back from her. She really had known. She was supposed to be my best friend, some part of me still wouldn't accept the fact that she had helped my fiancée cheat on me, helped him hide it from me. "Please Bella, I'm so sorry. I knew." Her eyes darted around the room, looking for someone to help her.
Neither Edward nor Tanya would meet her eyes. The Denali's didn't offer any sympathy. Neither did the Thaine's. Rosalie glared at her. I guess, even though she had never liked me, she was upset that my so called best friend had hidden something like this from me. Especially since it was something that would have gotten me off the going-to-be-a-vampire track. Emmett looked downright murderous, while Carlisle was looking only mildly disappointed, like she'd missed her curfew or something. And Esme looked grief stricken. Stuck between angry at her for hurting me, and the urge to comfort her sobbing daughter.
But Jasper was the surprise. He was sitting nowhere near her, again, this seemed strange. And he looked just plain pissed.
Alice closed her eyes like she had given up. "I'm sorry Bella." She told me again.
"Why? Why would you do this to me?" I just didn't get it.
"Because I saw the outcome. If I had told you, you would have left him, left us. I wouldn't have a best friend anymore. Edward would be miserable and hate me forever. And you, you wouldn't be a part of the family. But if I kept it from you, you would become a vampire." She looked at me. Then to Christian, frowned, and turned back to me. "I never saw how you were changed, I never saw Christian. I only saw one vision of you. Hunting. I have had that vision for a long time, and keeping this from you was the only way I could find to make sure it happened. You were never supposed to find out about Tanya and she would never be with Edward."
Tanya snarled. "What? What do you mean Edward won't be with me?" She turned to me with pitch black eyes. "This is all your fault. If it weren't for you, he would be mine!"
Then she lunged.
The fight was over almost before it started. It lasted maybe 50 seconds.
I won.
Well, I suppose you could say no one won since Jasper calmed us down and he and Carlisle ended the fight. But, I had managed to do some damage while Tanya never even got her hands on me. I, however, had ripped her arm off.
Never mess with the newborn.
This did however make me realise that I may be a vampire and therefore far stronger than any human, other vampires were still a threat. Especially after my newborn strength wanes. At some point, I am going to have to get someone to teach me how to fight.
Christian and Elissa came up next to me while I was thinking this over. I was watching Tanya out of the corner of my eye fusing her arm back on by the kitchen doorway.
You're a natural you know. Never seen someone with such a natural talent. He smiled at me. You should have seen the first time I trained Elissa. It was hilarious. He flashed me image after image of Elissa attacking him and ending on her butt, in a tree, in a lake and landing on her face.
I smiled at him. He always did seem to know just what to say. "Thanks." I told him.
My speaking aloud grabbed the attention of the other vampires in the room.
"I'm sorry Bella." Jasper came up to me and grasped both of my hands in his. "I had no idea this was going on or that Alice was hiding something from you. Heck, I didn't even realise she was hiding something this big from me." He looked pained. "I mean, she has always hidden things from me. I figured it comes with seeing the future you know. I just didn't know she kept these kinds of big things from me. I didn't know…" He made 'hmmph' noise. "Some empath I am." And started shaking his head.
"No Jasper." I lifted my hands from his and hugged him. I had never done that before. I was never 'allowed' to be this close to him. I was going to have to change that now that I'm a vampire and have no more wardens. "This is not your fault, you hear me? No one blames you for this, least of all me. And you are a great empath, she's just an exceptional liar." I pulled away from him.
He smiled at me. I think it was the first time he has ever done that. "Thanks darlin'." A southern drawl. Never heard that either… Hmmm. Kind of sexy.
Damn it. Empath.
He smirked at me and I slapped his arm. "Oh get off it. Just wasn't expecting that drawl."
He laughed fully now.
Alice seemed to have noticed the lighter atmosphere and decided to come up to me again. She smiled tentatively.
I sighed. "I'm sorry Alice." Her smile broadened. I held up my hand before she got the wrong idea. "You were my best friend. I trusted you. The minute you found out Edward was having an affair you should have told me. As my best friend you should have told me! You chose being his sister over being my friend. And I can't forgive this. I know that you did it because you wanted me to stay in the family. I know you didn't do it to cause me more pain. But you did. It just hurts so much that not only has the boy I loved been lying to me, but also the girl who was my best friend, my sister. I'm sorry Alice, but I can't be your friend anymore. I just can't get over this."
She started sobbing and I hugged her. I was going to miss her. Despite all her crazy quarks, her shopping trips and makeovers. Despite the lying. She was my very first best friend.
"You know, now that I'm a vampire, we have forever. Who knows, maybe in a couple hundred years, we'll be able to try being friends again."
She stepped away from me with a small smile. "I hope so." Then she turned and ran out the door.
I just looked after her until there was no sign of her left.
"Well, now that that has been taken care of, we should get back to the matter at hand. Getting Thaine away from this family and my Bella."
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