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Alice's POV

Jasper must have held me for hours, because the sun slowly started to rise.

With the rise of the morning sun, I forced myself to finally look at Bella. I was shocked with what I saw. Her skin had turned a pale, but distinct yellow and her face looked more gaunt if that was even possible.

Something's wrong! I realised as I hit the nurse call button above the bed.

An elderly nurse rushed to the room and took one look at Bella and called for a doctor.

The senior doctor from the night previous entered the room and went to Bella's side and immediately started checking her vitals.

I noticed the senior doctor's expression had changed into a look of sadness. Wait... why sadness?? I questioned myself.

I had to know what had happened to make the doctor sad like that.

"What's wrong?" I directed my question to the doctor.

He looked up in shock at me, as if he hadn't known I was there. He quickly changed his expression to one of professionalism, covering up his former expression.

"Are you a relation?" he questioned. Why would he need to know that??

"Cousin," I lied nervously.

He seemed to internally debate if he should tell me anything, but his decision seemed to go in my favour as he continued.

"You cousin is showing signs of massive organ failure. Her body is shutting down."

"What do you mean?" I demanded quickly.

"She seems to be giving up." He ended with a sigh and his is mask of professionalism slipped to show the recesses of hurt and sadness in his eyes.

Edward's POV

The journey to Volterra was taking longer than I'd expected due to a detour down to the newborn rampage in Texas.

Soon after I was "invited to Volterra" it became apparent that Demetri and the others planned to carry on with their mission down in Texas and to take me "along for the ride" as he'd so delightfully put it. I couldn't help but feel a little uneasy about the turn of events; I only hoped that the extra time would work to my benefit and Alice and the others would come to my rescue.

"Whatever you're planning just remember I'll be able to find you, dirty human lover," Demetri's harsh tenor radiated through my mind as he tapped his temple.

Of course! I'd forgotten about his "talent" for tracking. I thought bitterly.

It seemed that Demetri knew all about my extra skill. During the course of the day he'd periodically block me out. Although it seemed he had no reason to, as the other members of the group had no idea of any change of plan and we're as shocked as I was to find me tagging along on the mission, all except the girl at the centre of what seemed the be a sort of procession. I'd heard rumours about Jane but from looking at her it seemed the rumours couldn't be true. Could they? I could only hope that Jane's lack of surprise only meant that she had seen Demetri do things like this before and not because she was sent with them to find me after their mission. If the latter was the case then I was in for a lot of pain.

My only hope of getting out of this situation alive and sane would be Alice and I still had no idea exactly why she had wanted to go see Bella. Was Bella in trouble or was that just what Rosalie said to get me to stop moping around and do something? Or was it none of those reasons? Was it just because Alice missed Bella?

It seemed stupid but suddenly a feeling of relief washed over me as realisation dawned.

If Alice was with Bella then they was safe.... unless of course Alice attempted to change Bella and ended up killing her......... then I wouldn't be able to be held accountable for my actions.........


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