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Chapter 9
Edward's POV
The sun was just rising as Alice rushed down the stairs. Her eyes were far away, but her face was pained.
"What do you see, Alice" Jasper said as he flew to her side and took her hand.
"It's Bella, but…but…she is crying real tears over Renee's grave! It lists her death as the same day as Charlie's. Oh my god, her step-father is there too. They all died the same day!" That was all I needed to see, before I jumped into my Volvo and took off to Fork's only cemetery. As I turned the corner the cemetery came into sight and at the top of a hill, maybe fifty feet from where Charlie was buried, I saw Bella slumped over her mother's grave. As I got out of my car, she didn't even seem to hear me; I watched her shoulders moved slightly as she sobbed. I took slow careful steps toward her until I was close enough to touch her. I placed one hand on her shoulder and she turned to face me. Tears were rolling down her face as she looked up into my eyes and then she looked down as she leaned into me. I put both my arms around her and breathed deeply as her scent enveloped every inch of me. Even though Bella was crying, I couldn't help but think about the fact that she was in my arms. I loved her with every inch of my being and I would do anything to make her happy, but I could not bring her family back. I could however put her heart back together, which is the real reason I was there. I would have been content with holding her for the rest of my existence, but the end came too soon, when Jacob Black broke through my bliss.
"I will take it from here" Jacob growled at me.
"Thank you, but I have everything under control Jacob, come back later" I said grimacing at him.
Jacob put his hands on Bella shoulders and said, "Come with me Bella, its time to get you back."
When she didn't react to his request, I spun her behind me and growled. "If she would rather stay I will stay with her, back off Jacob." Jacob was trembling and grinding his teeth as we stared into each others eyes.
"Enough!" Bella yelled
"Don't forget what caused all of this, I won't!" Jacob screamed at me, as his eyes hurled past images at me. The weight of what I saw crushed me…it was everything that happened to Bella since I left, every painful moment.
Jacob's POV
I was so angry to find her in the arms of the man that practically killed her with his own hands. It was his selfish desire that caused my Bella to be in the pain she is in now. He dragged her into a world she didn't belong and she was only able to keep up for so long. When he left her, his world did not release her, but forced her to join it. So when I saw him consoling her I could hardly keep it together and when he wouldn't give her to me, I knew exactly how to hurt him in the worst way. I knew by the look on his face that he still held feelings for her, because why else would he return. So I looked straight into his eyes and let my mind replay the scene I stumbled upon one hundred years ago.
Flashback
When I realized the red-head had drawn all the wolves away from Forks with her little diversion, I felt sick. She had led a group of vampires right onto the reservation and let all hell break lose, while she vanished. I ran as fast as my legs would take me, but I knew it wouldn't be fast enough. She had a good head start and Bella had no warning that an attack was under way, in fact I hadn't even talked to Bella for the last three days because of our fight. When I got close enough to hear Bella scream, I pushed myself harder. In full wolf form I burst right through Charlie's front door to see a flash of red hair bolt out the back door. And then I saw the most grizzly scene that even in my nightmares I wouldn't have imagined, Charlie's lifeless body, lay mangled on the floor. Bella writhed in pain, but stretched out a bloody hand towards Charlie's and held it. She winced and screamed as tears flooded from her eyes. My heart broke into a thousand pieces as I saw the crescent shaped bit mark on her shoulder. Tears escaped from my eyes as I knelt before the woman I loved, her body contorted and she screamed again and again. I didn't know what to do, she was drenched in blood, from cuts all over her body. Bone from her left arm poked through the skin and I almost wanted to gag. That leech had brutally tortured her before finally biting her, but I wasn't sure if the venom would be enough to save her. Her face was so pale and clammy…she winced again and gasp for breathe. I wanted to hold her but I was afraid it would only hurt her more to move her. Bella's eyes finally focused on me and she whispered. It was so quiet, that without my superhuman hearing I won't have known she said anything at all.
"She killed them all…Charlie, Renee even Phil. She murdered them all…I don't want this. Jacob, you have to kill me" she whispered and then groaned again. I was so shocked at what she asked me I couldn't speak. "Please Jake, if you don't I will turn into a monster and I will try to kill you. I have nothing left, don't make me go through this. You should have never saved me when I jumped off the cliff in La Push. I don't want to be alive anymore, but I don't want to be a vampire either." Her face contorted some more with the pain that raged through her body. I trembled as my mind raced to process what she was telling me, I could not be here, this could not be happening. "I can't Bella, I can't kill you, I love you…I won't" I said as I backed away from the gory scene. My feet kept moving me backwards into the kitchen and then my body chose to run. I ran and ran, trying to convince myself that, none of that happened…but two days later the news reported that Chief Swan and Bella were killed in a house fire. I remember going out to search for whatever was left of my best friend and finding her curled up in a ball on the forest floor, crying. It was done…she was a vampire.
I didn't stop with one bad memory. I even thought about when Bella was human, when Sam had found her in the woods and all the times she clutched her chest trying to hold herself together. I showed him every agonizing moment I saw Bella live through in his absence. "No! Jake stop!" Bella screamed as soon as she realized what I was doing.
