Hey sorry it's taken me so long to update but school just started up again and junior year is killing me! I have had so much homework I think they might have to hospitalize me for over taxation of my brain or something! Anyway I'm going to try to update at least once a week, but no promises. I hope you enjoy the fun twist to be found in this chapter!

Disclaimer: Harry Potter is not mine though I do own Voldemort, my Siamese cat that is! Haha…. We call him Voldie. Twilight isn't mine either.

Chapter Ten

When they saw the look of sheer terror and shock in Bella's voice they didn't question, for which she was immensely grateful. Instead Edward pulled her even closer to his side, Emmett ran off after the Jeep and Alice rose and jasper took up a defensive perimeter with Edward and Bella in the center.

"He's here," Edward whispered into Bella's ear as the rumble of the jeep speeding down the crowded street met her ears. She was pale as a sheet and not a single Cullen had failed to notice the crazed thumping of her heart. Her whole frame was shaking in fear and she barely even registered as Edward pulled her onto his lap in the overcrowded jeep and Emmett turned to face her.

"Drive," she pleaded, her voice hoarse and so soft had they not been vampires they would not have even been able to register her words. She was semi aware of Edward as he rubbed her arms with his cool fingers and mumbled soothing words into her ears that she didn't even comprehend so great was her shock. How had they found her? Dumbledore had taken the utmost precautions. The whole order had done everything in their power to insure her anonymity; she was a metamorphagus for heaven's sake! And yet they still found her. A Death Eater would not be in Seattle by mere chance.

About halfway back to Forks she came fully back to herself, her clouded eyes clearing as she came to a single revelation; she had to leave. No one was safe in Forks as long as she remained. Edward was not safe as long as she was in Forks.

"Bella, what happened?" Edward asked upon sensing her sudden change in awareness. His voice was thick with concern and even though she was staring out the window she could imagine the worry that was most certainly evident in his golden irises.

"I… I thought I saw someone I knew," she said cryptically, knowing he would be able to tell if she lied to him and so doing her best to skirt the truth.

"Just seeing someone you knew wouldn't cause that kind of reaction, Bells. What's going on? You looked like you'd seen a ghost back there," Emmett stated in a poor attempt at consolation in his oh so typically Emmett way. Rosalie slapped him upside his head for his lack of sensitivity. Bella was starting to like her more and more.

"I might as well have, he was the last person I ever expected to see strolling around Seattle," she replied, eyes downcast as she searched for some way to explain her fright without breaking her vow. "He wasn't supposed to be anywhere near me. He tried to hurt some friends of mine and I last year and got in trouble with the government for it," she replied. It really was as close to the truth as she could get. She was almost positive it was her father and he was in trouble with the ministry.

"Hurt? What happened? Who is this man?" Edward demanded, clearly infuriated.

"Please Edward, stop. I don't want to talk about him," she replied in a hoarse whisper and with that the car was silent. Sensing her mood, no one tried to strike up conversation the rest of the way to Forks.

After what seemed like forever they finally reached Charlie's house and she hopped out of the jeep, only Edward staying behind as Emmett drove away. He wrapped her up into a fierce embrace which she returned with just as much vigor. Her mind raced. She needed to leave, but that meant getting him away for her for long enough to plan. She wasn't all that worried about Alice; apparently her visions of Bella had always been hazy so she just needed to distract Edward for long enough to get away. She felt like her heart was tearing out of her chest from the thought alone, but if he were to be hurt because of her she would never be able to live with herself.

"Edward?" she asked timidly, not even having to act and instead just letting her emotions loose for the first time since she had regained awareness.

"Yes Bells? What's wrong?"

"I'm scared. What if he comes here?" she murmured into his chest, knowing he would hear her.

"I'll protect you. No one can hurt you Bella, not with my family and I here to protect you. I promise," he soothed, his voice thick with emotion as he hugged her even tighter into himself. He would not lose her. Not to some filthy lowlife human.

"If… If I give you his description could you find him? I.. I need to know what he's here for," she pleaded, gripping his jacket tighter in her balled fists.

"Of course. Anything that will make you feel more at ease."

"He.. He's really tall," she squeezed her eyes shut as memories of her father flooded her mind and almost made her cry out from the pain of her thought's. She hardened herself to her memories and forced herself to continue. "He has long, pale blond hair most likely pulled back by a leather throng. He'll be wearing a long black cloak and he always carries a black cane with a silver serpent head on the top. If you see him don't approach him, just let me know if you find him," she pleaded, feeling confident that Lucius would know the moment she left anyway. He obviously had some way of tracking her, and she seriously doubted Edward would have time to find him before he followed. Not in a city as big as Seattle.

"Of course," he assured, pushing her hair from her face as he looked searchingly into her unreadable brown eyes. She stared right back, taking in every feature. She lifted her right hand to trace his jaw, his lips, his cheekbones and brow before gripping his wild hair in her fingers and pulling him closer to herself. She hesitated just a moment before finally allowing herself to admit to what she had been hiding for so long, not just from Edward but from herself. "I love you," she said sincerely, almost as surprised as he at the truth that rang through her words as she allowed what she had denied possible since she first heard of it's existence. Love was never meant for a Malfoy.

Before he had time to respond she stood on her toes and crushed any retaliation with an almost desperate kiss that she filled with all of the love and regret and sadness and longing she possessed, never wanting to let go as she cherished the most passionate kiss either had ever shared before releasing him and running into the house before she broke down in front of him. It would be hard to explain if she started bawling when he was under the impression he would be seeing her in the morning.

Charlie wasn't home yet so she went straight to her room and began to pack everything away. She had a feeling she would be moving around a lot which caused her to stop and admire her room for a minute before she stowed everything away because she would be living off the essentials until she could get back to the Order.

"Nimbus!" she called, summoning her familiar and stowing him in his carrier before using the small emergency code on the side to send her to Sirius so she would be taken care of as was predetermined before she left just in case. It would also let the Order know something was up.

Next she took the few outfits and essentials she had left out and stuffed them in her back pack before leaving a picture of just her at a beach in France for Edward and writing a note to Charlie explaining that there had been complications that forced her to leave and grabbing her keys. She never allowed herself to slow down, knowing that if she did she would break down and be unable to move so she kept putting one foot in front of the other and before she knew it she was speeding down the highway as tears streamed down her pale cheeks. She never bothered to change her appearance; she liked the reminder this face provided of the one who had fallen in love with it and the girl behind it.

Edward had been searching Seattle with a fine toothed comb for hours and still hadn't found anything when he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.

"Yes Alice?" he asked, running his fingers frustrated through his hair as he thought back on what Bella had said before he had left and how she had kissed him almost as if she was saying goodb-

"Bella's gone," he stopped immediately in his tracks.

"What?" he practically growled as he heard the plastic of his phone protest from his tight grip and forced himself to loosen his hold.

"I meant what I said Edward, she's gone. She's not at Charlie's and I can't track her scent because she took her car."

"How did you not see this sooner?"

"I'm sorry, Edward. My visions have always been sketchy about her. This came when I saw Charlie reacting to a note she left. She didn't tell him where she went. I don't think she told anyone where she went."

"There has to be some way to find her. I'm coming back. I don't know who this freak she's so afraid of is or why she felt it necessary to leave, but I have a sinking feeling whoever this guy is he's at the heart of it. I'll be back.

"Hurry, Edward. Any trail we find won't last long before it goes stale."

"I know."

He was furious, livid. His hands were gripping the steering wheel of his car so hard he would have stressed over breaking it at any other time but right now he was too preoccupied with thought's of Bella's disappearance. She had known she was leaving. She had to have, that was the only excuse for all the emotion he had felt in that kiss. She had known she was leaving him and thought she had never expected to see him again, but why? Why had she left the protection of his family? Who was this man that she so obviously feared could take on a whole coven of vampires? There were so many questions running through his mind at vampire speed that he didn't even have time to analyze them. When he reached Bella's house Charlie's cruiser was already parked outside and he was pacing back and forth on the porch with a yellow post-it clenched in his fist.

"What happened, where's Bella?" Edward asked, doing his best to keep up appearances in front of her father but unable to fully restrain himself.

"That's just it, I don't know. She didn't say. What happened today, she was fine this morning?" he asked, the panic of a father filling his eyes as he inquired after his only daughter's actions.

"I don't really know. We were in Seattle when she freaked out over some guy she said she saw. When we got here she said he was tall with long blond hair and a black cane. She seemed terrified of him beyond anything I've ever seen. Who is this man?"

"A murderer. He's a villainous, cruel murderer and he's dangerous. She left to save us I think. She wouldn't have wanted to bring him here. She's like that, foolish girl," he sighed, pounding his hand against the door and clenching his eyes shut. "So stupid."

"Please, sir, do you have any idea where she is?" Edward begged, terrified now he knew the truth of just what this man was capable of. Not for himself, but for Bella. She was so fragile… so human… so mortal. "Please I can help her."

At that the chief looked him over critically through squinted eyes, as if weighing his worth. "You know, I have a feeling you could. I'm not certain exactly where she is but she doesn't have many options unless she's gone completely underground which I doubt. She'll want to be found by our… friends. No there's really only a few places she could be now I think about it. The closest is in Reno, there's a woman there named Amalisa Valenzuela. I do not know her address, only that she is there. She is young, with long black hair and teal eyes, that is all I know. You can check the yellow pages. If she's not there I don't really know where else she would have gone besides Nicole Richie but she lives all the way in Houston which is quite a stretch even for someone on the run. She probably won't stay where she is for long though, that much I can assure you."

"Thank you so much chief, I'll never be able to repay you."

"Yes you will. Bring my daughter home safe, that's all I ask."

"I will sir," and with that he was gone, speeding back to the house to confer with his family. Determination set his stride as he pushed his car to it's limit's. He hardly even stopped before cutting the engine.

"Alice I need a plane ticket for Reno," he called from the car and swung open the front door. "Jasper I need your computer skills! Find Me an Amalisa Valenzuela in Reno! Carlisle I need cash! Esme will you please find my passport!" he continued as he ran up the stairs and began throwing clothes and everything else he thought he could ever need in his overnight bag and running down the stairs where Alice handed him a printed ticket for a plane leaving in an hour, Esme handed him his passport, Carlisle a wad of cash, and Jasper shoved a list of addresses his way. Luckily there were only three. An hour later he was sitting on a plane, wishing he had had time to hunt before he left and one step closer to finding his Bella. Hopefully he wouldn't be too late.

After what seemed like hours he was finally leaving the airport and after flagging down a taxi he gave the first adress on the list and tipped the man extra to speed. His patience was running thin.

Fifteen minutes later they were parked outside a small house in one of the suburbs on the outskirts of Reno and Edward hurried up the steps and rang the doorbell only to be met by an elderly Hispanic lady in a wheelchair glaring balefully at him and ranting in Spanish about young vagabonds and trespassers and he quickly shushed back to the cab, spouting off the next adress and staring impatiently out the window.

The next house was much smaller and had practically no yard in the middle of the city. He sprang from the cab and rang the doorbell again. He accidently snapped a pen in his hand as he waited for the door to open and the ink leaked out onto his palm; he barely noticed because just then the door opened. The lady's thought's were promising as he heard Bella's name come up fleetingly almost as if being stifled and when he saw te young woman who opened the door his relief was so high he almost sank to his the ground as his knees went weak.

"Please, tell me she's here. Tell me Bella's here," he begged. Her thoughts gave her away before she even answered.

"Yes, she is, but she's out at the moment. I can relay a message if you'd like to leave one for her," the lady replied pleasantly, though confused.

"Please, where did she go? It's important that I find her as soon as possible.

"May I see your left forearm first?" she asked. He was puzzled but showed her anyway, willing to do anything for the information he was sure she could give him.

"Yes, she left to go on a walk at the city park just down the block. It's usually empty this time of day and she wanted to clear her head," she replied, indicating the late hour before going inside and bringing him a napkin with the address.

"Thank you," he mumbled before racing back to the cab and practically throwing the new address at the poor cab driver. It was nearing four in the morning when they finally reached the park and Edward threw a wad of bills at the grateful cab driver before leaving the car at a sprint and once he was out speeding up as he caught her scent. When he found her just seconds later she had her head in her hands sobbing under a tree.

"Bella?" he called out, concerned as he approached. She looked up in surprise.

"Edward? What are you doing? You shouldn't be here!" She protested, drying her tears and lifting herself into a standing position. He kept walking until he wrapped his arms around her in a tight embrace.

"Don't ever do that to me again. I was so worried. I was in Seattle and Alice said you were gone and I couldn't believe it. I love you, let me help you," he pleaded.

"Oh Edward I love you but you shouldn't have done this. You're not safe here," Bella sobbed, holding him tight as her worry and fear for him overtook every other thought in her mind.

"Yes Edward," a cruel voice mocked from the shadows. "You should have left while you could, bloodsucker," Lucius added as he stepped into the clearing. Edward snarled, Bella drew back in fear.

"Really Ariabella? I would have expected better from my daughter, even knowing the blood traitor you are, a leech? That's just disturbing. Oh well, neither of you will be alive long enough for your latest disgrace to go any further.

"Bella, what's going on?" Edward asked, confused as he pulled her further behind him.

"What? You didn't tell him? Oh well, if you didn't why should I? I'm wasting time. Incend-"

"Avada Kedavra!" Bella shouted, her wand already drawn while he was preoccupied with Edward and successfully cutting off the spell that would have been fatal to a vampire like Edward with a fatal spell of her own. As soon as the words left her lips her face drained of all color as her lungs seized. She fell, Edward's arms the only thing that stopped her from meeting the hard ground as her hair paled and her eyes changed to back to their usual silver; her magic was draining and with it her life. She had broken her vow to save Edward, and now she was going to die. Where was the justice in that?

"Bella?" Edward demanded, noting her lack of breathing and the slowing of her heart. She looked up at him sadly and with what little breath was left in her lungs she murmured a soft "I love you," that only a vampire would hear. Her eyes closed and darkness took her.

Well there you have it! Edward finally knows! She broke her vow and Lucius is dead!(good riddance!) What will become of our young couple now? Review and I'll give you a little preview, otherwise you have to wait until next week! -A