Sorry for not updating earlier but it was very difficult for me to write "The Fight", hope you like it and give me some feedback, thanks!!!!!!

EPOV

My heart, if it beat, would have been stopped when I saw Bella flying back to the meadow. I shot out to catch her. However, Victoria curled her arm around my shins and yanked me to the other side. I struggled to get going again while there was still time. I caught her just in time to cushion her fall but I knew that my body was just a little better than the hard surface underneath.

"Laurent is here!" Bella looked at me with frightened eyes.

How stupid I was. I was so focused in my fight with Victoria that I failed to catch Laurent's thinking nearby. It was lucky that he didn't kill Bella on the spot or otherwise, I would not have the chance to see Bella again…. or to say goodbye to her when I took in the gravity of the situation. If there was only Victoria, I might have a chance to win; but with the two of them, our fate was doomed. Bella seemed to know it at the same time.

"You must go when there is still a chance, Edward." Bella gripped my arm and begged. Her tears spilt over to her lovely face.

"You are my destiny. It is because of me that you are here. I am so sorry that I always put you to such danger." I shook my head unbelievably. She still didn't know how much I loved her. I realized that these few seconds might have been our last moments together. I had to convince her or she might have no chance to know. "My life is yours to keep, always. Without you, there would be nothing." I leaned forward to kiss her trembling lips. She was so warm and alive. The beating of her heart was the most important thing in my world. How can I let it come undone? I had to think of a way to keep her from harm, even at the expense of my existence.

She wined her arms around me and pitched her voice low. "We are in it together. Don't ever think of ditching me somewhere safe and face them alone. I don't want to live without you anymore."

The determination and fearlessness in her voice surprised me. She should be afraid. She had a right to be frightened. Even at such critical moment of life and death, she could still amaze me with her insensitivity to the danger ahead or maybe, her headstrong courage to face the challenges ahead. Her love filled me with new strength.

"No, we will walk out of this together." I said with conviction. I backed us against the cliff and turned to face the two monsters in front of us.

"So touching! It makes me all the happier when I think about how you would feel when I finish the game today." Victoria said with a skeptical smile on her face.

Victoria was thinking how to dislodge Bella from my back. She would start the simplest way. She would attack at the front and when I strike back, Laurent would take Bella away from the left. Victoria leapt forward as she had thought. At the last split second, I swayed Bella to my right side and kicked Victoria straight at Laurent. She let out a shriek and collided with Laurent. I grasped Bella back to our original position.

Victoria and Laurent resumed their attack in no time. This time, Laurent did the attack first. He moved like a serpent. His razor-sharp teeth are griming in the now drizzling rain.

"Why are you helping Victoria? You said before you didn't like their way of life." I had to dissuade Laurent from joining force with Victoria as it would be our only chance of winning.

"You are right, but how could one resist joining the winning force and share the glory and food, so to speak." Laurent replied without the slightest sense of shame.

"But if you take this course, you will have the whole Cullen family chasing your back. Have you thought about that?" Laurent was floored by this argument. I could see his indecision now present in his blood-red eyes. Being chased after by six vampires clearly was not a situation he wanted to put himself into. He was remembering last time when he was nearly killed by the gigantic wolf like creature in Alaska and how James and Victoria fled for their own lives without a thought of him.

"You think Victoria will lend a hand when you are cornered? You remember last time she ditched you? That's what she is good at, right? You still have a chance to change side now, friend or foe, Laurent?"

I could feel Bella frozen with anticipation all the time when I tried to persuade Laurent. She hid deeper behind me as if she knew one wrong step from her would trigger the insatiable thirst in Laurent that would completely cloud any rational thought in a hungry vampire.

"You want her blood as much as I do. It smells so good, hmm." Victoria looked at me with vicarious thrill when mouthing the words to Laurent.

Laurent's eyes feasted on Bella's face which was half-hidden behind me. I could literally see the beast in him slowly waking up.