Disclaimer: All characters and things associated with The Twilight Saga belong to Stephanie Meyers. This writing is for pure entertainment only.
Summary: Set during New Moon. After Edward leaves, Bella is miserable and Jacob is there for her until things go too far between them, leaving Bella in an unexpected condition. When Edward returns how will Bella explain her situation to him? B/E B/J pairings
Chapter 10
Bella continued to stand in the middle of the Cullen's living room in front of Edward, her pregnant stomach feeling vulnerable. She was waiting for Edward to respond with something, anything. Whether it be anger or disgust or sorrow, she just needed him to do something. Instead he stood there as if he were a statue, his eyes glued to her belly.
"Say something." Bella finally spoke, her hands absentmindedly resting on her stomach.
Bella's voice caused Edward's eyes to break from her stomach and shoot up to her face, meeting her glance. He could see her eyes were saying something, but he could not read it, the expression on her face was foreign to him.
Carlisle moved to Edward, placing a hand on his son's arm. He was still unsure of how Edward was going to react to Bella's pregnancy. Edward's facial expression told him less than it had told Bella. "Edward…"
"I'm fine." Edward looked away from Bella for the first time since she had stood. He knew Carlisle was worried Edward would do something, but Edward wanted to assure his father that he would not, could not, ever hurt Bella. Sure, he was beyond crushed by her condition, but his love for her was as strong as it had ever been. "Can I speak to Bella alone?"
"Sure." Carlisle nodded, motioning for the rest of the Cullen's to follow him out of the living room. They all complied and soon Edward was left standing with Bella in the room.
Silence filled the living room, and Bella thought she was going to go mad; this was not how she had expected Edward to react at all.
"Can you please say something?" Bella spoke again.
"What should I say?" Edward shrugged, digging his hands into his pockets.
"I don't know." Bella threw her hands out. "Anything. Tell me you're mad or disappointed or…tell me you hate me, I don't know."
"I don't hate you, Bella." Edward narrowed his eyes. She may have crushed him, but he could never hate her. She was the only person he had ever truly loved.
Bella could feel tears coming on, and she was trying so hard to fight them off. "I just…I don't understand you. Why did you even come back here?"
"To see you were safe." Edward told her, almost sadly. "And because…because I could never let you go, Bella. I didn't want to leave you."
"But you did!" Bella snapped.
"And you ran off to Jacob!" Edward suddenly felt some anger at the situation he now found himself in. "I mean…I have barely been gone five months and you're what? Three months pregnant? That was fast!"
"Don't even…" Bella was flustered now, and felt the baby inside of her kick, clearly sensing her anger. She quickly rubbed a hand over it to calm the wolf-baby down. "You have no idea how much you hurt me!"
"Enough to get you to run off to Jacob's bed!" Edward shot back. "Did I really mean so little that you…"
"I was miserable without you!" Bella cut him off.
"So what? Did Jacob take the pain away a little?" Edward scoffed.
"Jacob was here for me when you weren't." Bella defended the wolf.
"I was trying to protect you, to get you to have a normal life, and instead you let a werewolf get your pregnant." Edward lowered his voice now, but it still cut Bella like a knife.
"You think I planned this?" Bella motioned to her stomach. "You think I wanted to be pregnant before I even graduated high school?"
"I don't know!" Edward retaliated. "Because I don't know you! The Bella I knew…the Bella that was a part of my life would have never done something so irresponsible and stupid."
"So now I am stupid?" Bella asked.
"And irresponsible." Edward added insult to injury.
Bella realized in that moment, she had never been so angry with Edward. How dare he call her irresponsible, she had been nothing but responsible about the situation. If anything, he was irresponsible, after all, he had been the one to leave her alone and seeking comfort, and Jacob had been the one to give that to her. If the entire situation was anyone's fault, it was Edward's.
"You're impossible." Bella turned on her heel and stomped into the kitchen., as tears threatened her eyes. She wanted to go home. She couldn't look at Edward anymore.
Jacob woke up with a huge head ache and a soft cushion under his back. He realized he was on the couch in his living room and tried to sit up too quickly, immediately feeling the blood rush to his pounding temple.
"Look who's awake." Jared's voice filled Jacob's ears.
Jacob looked up to see Paul, Sam, and Jared all sitting at his kitchen table with Billy. "Ugh…" Was all Jacob managed out before sitting back down on the couch.
"Head hurt?" Sam asked, standing and moving toward Jacob.
"A little." Jacob nodded.
"Remember what happened?" Sam asked.
Immediately thoughts of fighting with Edward on the front porch filled Jacob's head. "Cullen." He growled sitting up again.
"Easy there, son." Billy wheeled over to Jacob. "You need to watch your head, you took quite a spill."
"My head is fine." Jacob said. "Where is Bella?"
"Should we know?" Paul shrugged, not concerned with Bella, but more concerned with how the treaty would be handled.
"I need to find her." Jacob stood. "Edward…he could have gone after her."
"He never would." Paul said simply. "She is fine."
"He is right." Billy nodded. "Charlie would have called if something happened."
"Charlie is at work." Jacob remembered.
"Who cares?" Paul snapped. "Bella is the whole reason that this thing started anyway. Girl is nothing but trouble."
"Trouble?" Jacob was fuming. "I'll give you trouble…" He took a step forward.
"Bella is fine, Jacob." Sam put a hand on the younger boys shoulder to try and calm him down. "Right now, we need to deal with the treaty."
"No." Jacob shrugged Sam's hand off of his shoulder. "Right now I need to make sure Bella and my kid are safe. We can worry about the treaty later."
Before anyone could object, Jacob was out the door and hoping into Bella's red truck. He was in such a hurry to make sure that she was okay, and he missed the pieces of the crib that now were shattered all over his porch thanks to Edward.
Sam, Paul, and Jared moved out the door to watch Jacob leave the reservation.
"His head is in the clouds." Paul shook his head.
Sam nodded in agreement. "It's a shame. He puts too much stock in Bella."
"And he hasn't even imprinted on her." Jared reminded the group. "So it's not like she is it for him anyway."
"That is part of the reason I don't think we can condone his relationship with her much longer." Sam said, truthfully. "She is becoming a liability and she is not the one for him."
"But she is having his kid." Jared said.
"That kid is going to be nothing put a problem. Half-wolf, half-pale face; It's just going to be a problem."
Sam nodded. "I wish there was another way, but after tonight, I can see that having Bella around the pack is not safe."
"But how do we approach this with Jacob?" Paul asked. "I mean, he has had a crush on Bella since he met her, and knowing he has competition with a vampire for her is not going to make him like her any less."
"But he hasn't imprinted." Sam said. "We just need to remind him of that, and that she isn't it for him. Maybe we will be able to get him to see where we are coming from."
"But what about Bella and the kid?" Jared asked.
"Bella can live, just not around us. The further she is from the pack the less of a problem she causes, but the child…it can't be left with Bella. She wouldn't know what to do for it, it needs a pack, since it will be half wolf." Sam said.
"So we take the baby from her when she has it then?" Paul suggested. "I mean, it is half of us."
Sam nodded. "That's an option. That's the only option Jacob will have if he wants to keep the baby. We will talk to him when he gets back, but he can't have Bella and the child."
"What if he picks Bella?" Jared asked.
"Then we discard the baby. She isn't too far along yet anyway." Sam looked down as he spoke. This was not how he wanted any of this to go; if Jacob had imprinted on Bella it would have been different but he did not, and therefore, Bella was not meant to be a part of the packs world. She was too much of a risk, too much of a liability, and she brought too much of a threat with her. She couldn't stay in Jacob's world any longer.
Bella stormed her way into the Cullen's kitchen to find Esme and Carlisle sitting at the table. They both looked up to see Bella's distressed face, and almost tear-filled eyes. She was trying her best not to cry in front of them, but she knew it was getting harder with each second, her hormones from the pregnancy flying all over.
"Can someone take me home?" Bella asked, her voice coming out softer then she would have liked.
"Its not safe for you to leave yet, Bella." Carlisle told her.
"Jacob won't let anyone do anything to me." Bella felt like she was begging permission to leave. "I…I can't be here anymore."
"Bella, honey…" Esme stood and moved to the pregnant girl, wrapping a cold arm around her warm body. "We are sorry for how Edward is acting but you have to know he doesn't mean it. He is hurt…"
"He left me." Bella said quickly. "I didn't ask him to, I didn't want him to, but he left."
"He thought he was doing it for your own good." Carlisle defended Edward, although his voice was soft and carrying toward Bella. "But none of us expect you to forgive him."
"Then let me just go home." Bella pleaded. "The faster I am away from here, the faster all of this goes away."
Carlisle sighed. He was genuinely concerned for Bella's safety. He loved her as much as he loved his own daughters, and he feared the wolves would do something drastic. Still, he knew he could not voice these concerns to Bella without sounding like he hated Jacob and was pushing her to stay with Edward. The truth was, Carlisle knew that Edward would never be over Bella, but he also understood how Bella's situation made the decision between Jacob and Edward so much harder on her, and in her defense, Carlisle understood why it made more sense to Bella to stay with Jacob. He would not tell her to deny her own child its father. He really was just truly concerned with Bella's safety.
"Emmett and Jasper are outside watching for intruders. If none of the wolves come to…deal with this situation…in a few hours, then I will take you home myself." Carlisle offered.
Bella sighed, trying to fight back tears as she rubbed circles on her growing Bella. "Hours…is too long."
"Bella, please." Esme helped move the girl to a seat at the table. "Just relax and trust us. The stress of all of this isn't good for the baby." She motioned to Bella's stomach, understanding just how much Bella loved the child growing inside of her. After all, Esme could relate, mother to mother.
Bella nodded, after a moment, sitting in the chair and rubbing her stomach. "Okay."
"Good." Esme smiled, sitting next to Bella. She knew she needed to keep Bella calm and her mind off of Edward until they could sort everything else out. She glanced up at Carlisle, her eyes giving away her plan.
"I…I'm going to check on Emmett and Jasper." Carlisle stood, understanding from the look Esme gave him that she wanted some time alone with Bella.
Once Carlisle was gone, Esme turned to Bella. "So…when is the baby due?" Esme knew a conversation about Bella's child would take the teenage girls mind off of everything else, and focus it on something she was happy about, her baby.
Bella looked up, surprised that Esme cared about such things. "Uh…in like six months." Bella looked down.
"That long?" Esme was surprised, she guessed Bella to be much further along from the size of her.
"Yeah." Bella blushed. "I…uh…the baby develops its human parts faster because it's half wolf or something…so I look bigger." She looked up at Esme.
"Well, at least you know it's going to be a big, healthy baby." Esme smiled softly.
Bella nodded, also smiling. "Yeah."
"And…do you know what it is yet? Boy or girl?" Esme asked.
Bella shook her head. "Not yet. I don't know if I really want to know anyway."
"It's good to be surprised." Esme agreed. "Any names picked out?"
Bella shook her head again. "We haven't really gotten around to talking about it."
"Well, you will be surprised." Esme smiled, fondly thinking of her human husband, from so many years earlier. "Jacob will have a few picked out when you bring it up. Most men think about names before anything else."
Bella was slightly surprised that Esme spoke so freely and almost fondly of Jacob. She was sure the Cullen's hated him as much as Edward hated him, or as much as Jacob hated them all. "I…I haven't talked to him about it."
"Well, when you do, let me know if I was right." Esme smiled, squeezing her nose slightly as if to tell Bella a secret. "Because I bet he has like ten names picked out already."
Bella couldn't help but smile at Esme and her words. She realized in that moment, regardless of Edward or anything else. Bella did not want to lose the friendship she had with the rest of the Cullen family.
Edward sat in his room, facing the big windows. His mind drifted back to the first time Bella had come to his house, when he jumped out those windows with her on his back and scaled the trees, both mesmerizing and frightening her. The memory saddened Edward, knowing it was something that would never happen again. He had lost the fight for Bella to Jacob. He could see that now, everything he had done and said to her earlier had come out all wrong, but now it was done, he could not take it back.
"Edward?" Rosalie called, surprisingly softly, from behind him.
Edward turned to see his blonde sister standing in his doorway. Of all people to come talk to him, Rosalie was the last one he would have thought of. He realized, if she was standing there, that he had really messed everything up. He smiled sadly, she was probably there to congratulate him for getting rid of Bella; she had never liked the human.
"Can I come in?" Rosalie asked.
Edward nodded; sliding down the small couch he was sitting on and motioning for her to come sit next to him.
Rosalie complied and sat down, silent for a few seconds. "Are…are you going to be okay?"
Edward glanced over at Rosalie, wondering how she could ask such a stupid question. Of course he would not be okay, he had just destroyed any hope he had of having any type of relationship with Bella Swan. "I…no. I'm not." He looked away.
"Then you're not over her." Rosalie said as more of a statement then a question.
"No." Edward shook his head at the stupidity of her statement. "How can I be?" He turned quickly toward Rosalie, clenching his teeth together. "Bella was my life."
"Then why are you sitting up here?" Rosalie asked.
Rosalie's question surprised Edward. He was unsure of where she was going with it, but this was not what he had expected her to ask. He had assumed she had come up here to tell him he did the right thing by pushing Bella away. "What?"
"Edward, I know how deeply you care for her." Rosalie said. "And even if she is not my favorite person, she makes you happy." Rosalie seemed to struggle on her words. "And you shouldn't give up what makes you happy."
Edward narrowed his eyes at his sister, knowing this was the closest he would get to an apology from her. "She is happy now. I…I can't take that away."
"Happy?" Rosalie raised an eyebrow. "How could Bella be happy carrying that wolf's parasite around for nine months?"
"Jacob…makes her happy." Edward looked down at his hands, knowing if he could cry he would.
"But she still loves you." Rosalie told him. She could not allow her brother to slowly kill himself in this manner. She knew now, Bella was what kept Edward stable, Bella was his world, and Bella seemed to be the only reason he wanted to exist.
"No." Edward shook his head, sadly. "Not anymore."
"That's not true, Edward." Alice entered the room, her small pixie-figure sitting down at his feet in one swift motion. "She loves you. She told me."
"And anyone could see it." Rosalie said. "When you came into the room today…her eyes lit up."
"With anger." Edward stared at the floor avoiding both of his sister's eyes.
"She was relieved you were okay." Alice told him. "I know Bella, and she was not angry at first. She only got angry after realizing you were fine."
"I messed this up." Edward said. "I…I yelled at her, I said things…things I shouldn't have said, things I can't take back." He looked up at Alice. "She doesn't love me anymore. She doesn't even want to see me, she wants Jacob."
"Edward." Alice placed a hand on her brothers. "She loves you. It's just…things are rather complicated right now, wouldn't you say? She thought you were gone forever, Jacob got her pregnant, now…what went on between you and Jacob certainly complicates things."
"I know." Edward shook his head. "I…I put her in danger."
Rosalie shook her head. "Nothing will happen to Bella. We won't allow it."
"Right." Alice agreed. "Right now, you just need to stick by her, however she needs you."
"She doesn't need me, Alice." Edward said sharply. "That's the whole problem."
"She does need you." Alice said. "Even if she doesn't seem it. She needs you as much as you need her."
"She is my everything." Edward sighed.
"Edward, trust me." Alice took his hand. "When I could see her future, you belonged in it."
"Your visions change, depending on what the person wants." Edward reminded her.
"She still wants you." Alice told him. "So you need to help her get through all of this. It will work out."
Edward shook his head. "I hurt her. I don't know how to apologize for all I have done to her."
"You can start by going downstairs and talking to her instead of moping around up here, and losing any chance you have at fixing this." Rosalie told him.
"Why are you pushing this, Rosalie?" Edward had to ask."You hate Bella."
"I don't hate her. I just think she does stupid things, sometimes. But it's not my feelings that matter right now, it's yours. I won't watch you rot away over this." Rosalie stood. "Plus, even if she annoys me, there is no way I would rather see Bella with a wolf then you."
As Rosalie exited, Edward turned to Alice with a small smile on his face caused by Rosalie's statement.
"She has a point." Alice smiled back at Edward. "So I think you should listen to Rosalie and get downstairs."
Edward nodded, knowing his sisters were right. He could not, and would not, give up Bella without a fight. She meant too much to him, and he hoped he meant too much too her. Alice and Rosalie seemed to think so, but he was still unsure.
Jacob pulled Bella's truck up to the Swan house. Charlie's car was not there, so Jacob assumed he was not home from work yet. Knowing Charlie was not there gave Jacob no reason to knock on the door. Instead he jumped out of Bella's truck and ran quickly to her bedroom window. He could see the tree limb that had fallen as he looked up to her window.
Immediately the smell of Edward filled the air. Jacob growled, knowing Edward had been there. As he was about to climb the tree and into Bella's room to see if she was there, the familiar sound of Charlie's police cruiser filled the air.
Jacob turned swiftly to see Charlie coming up the road. Charlie parked and casually got out of the car, waving to Jacob.
"Bella not letting you in?" Charlie asked.
"I…maybe she is asleep." Jacob tried to act calm. He had a feeling Bella was not even home but he did not want Charlie to notice he was worried.
"Well, come on in." Charlie motioned to Jacob as he climbed the stairs to the house, and unlocked the door.
Jacob followed Charlie into the house. Immediately, both men noticed the house was dark.
"Bells?" Charlie called out up the stairs.
After a second, there was no response.
"Maybe she is asleep." Charlie shrugged, moving into the kitchen.
"Should I go check?" Jacob asked.
"Uh…no." Charlie came out, holding up a note that he found on the table, a puzzled look on his face. "She…she isn't home."
"Is that from her?" Jacob indicated the note Charlie was holding.
"Uh…yeah." Charlie nodded, looking down at the note. "She uh…she said she is out with Alice Cullen." Charlie waved the note again. "I didn't know the Cullen's were back."
"Yeah." Jacob tried his best to hide the anger that immediately rose in his chest at the mention of a Cullen. "They just came back."
"I see." Charlie nodded, his eyebrows creasing at the thought of Edward being back. He wanted to punch that boy between the eyes for hurting his Bella so.
"Don't worry, Charlie." Jacob smiled, despite his anger. He knew why Charlie looked so perplexed. "I won't let Edward near her."
"Right." Charlie nodded. "Well, I doubt that matters…with the baby and all." Charlie moved into the kitchen, still holding the note.
"Well, I am going to get going." Jacob said, not waiting for Charlie's response as he quickly moved out the door and into the fresh air.
Once outside, Jacob took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down. He was unsure who he was madder at, Bella for leaving with a Cullen while Edward beat the crap out of him, or the Cullen's for clearly coming to get Bella. He was sure they must have figured out a way to get her to leave her house with them, and immediately the safety of Bella and his unborn child crossed his mind, and the young werewolf began to panic. He had no idea what the Cullen's would do to Bella once they found out she was carrying a half-werewolf child, but he had a feeling Bella could be in danger.
Immediately, Jacob took off running in the direction of the Cullen's home. He knew, if one hair was out of place on Bella's head, he would rip every Cullen apart; and that's how he would take care of Edward and the treaty.
Edward took a deep breath outside of his kitchen. He could smell both Bella and Esme and knew that the two of them were in the kitchen together. He knew he needed to get Bella alone, he was just unsure how to go about it. He had already hurt her so much that day. After a moment of contemplating what to say, Esme appeared in the doorframe.
"You can go in and talk to her." Esme smiled at Edward, knowing why he was there.
"Does she…know I was standing here?" Edward asked, awkwardly.
"No. I told her I left laundry in the washer." Esme told him. "Edward, please be gentle with her. She doesn't need any extra stress in her condition…"
"I know." Edward nodded, and then slowly moved into the kitchen to find Bella sitting at the table, her eyes on her hump of a stomach as her hands glide over the bump. She did not notice him as he entered, her thoughts clearly somewhere else.
"Hello." Edward said after a moment, repeating the same word he had first spoke to her over a year ago in biology.
Immediately, Bella's face shot up, and her eyes fell onto Edward. Her expression was unreadable, somewhere between annoyance and sadness. "I don't feel like hearing about what an irresponsible person I am anymore so if that's what you came to do, just leave me alone."
"That's not what I came to do. I just want to talk to you." Edward told her. "Would you come up to my room so we can speak privately?"
"I doubt you have much more to say." Bella tried to sound strong, but her words came out quiet.
"Please?" Edward asked.
Bella immediately fell into his trap, and cursed herself for doing so. Edward's requests had always been impossible for her to follow. She stood, rolling her eyes, but unable to tell him no. "Fine."
"Thank you." Edward said sincerely and then moved aside to let Bella lead him up the stairs and to his room. The extra weight from her pregnant stomach caused Bella to take longer than expected to get up the stairs, and more than once Edward could have sworn she lost her balance, though she caught herself without his help. Once in his room, he closed the door behind the pair.
"So?" Bella threw her arms out and then eased herself onto the couch in Edward's room. "What else could you say to me?"
"I'm sorry." Edward started as he moved to face her.
"What could you be sorry for?" Bella asked, although she was shocked he had said it at all.
"For everything I've done and said to hurt you." Edward knelt down in front of Bella. "I am so sorry I left you, Bella, and I am sorry I called you irresponsible and stupid. You are neither of those things. And….and I'm sorry for hurting Jacob." Edward looked away as he said the last part, seeming to choke on his words. "I know how much he….means to you."
Bella just shook her head, fighting back both tears and the urge to jump into Edward's arms. She wanted to stay mad at him, to hate him, but she knew she couldn't. She loved Edward, she always would. The only thing keeping her from the vampire's cold embrace was the child growing inside of her; Jacob's child. "I can't do this." She whispered softly, her voice shaky.
"Bella, I love you." Edward said, his eyes sad. He slowly reached out and took her hand in his, and to his surprise, she did not pull away. "I never stopped, and I…I can't lose you. I won't." He finished his sentence through a clenched jaw.
"Edward…I…" Bella fumbled over her words, she wanted to tell him she loved him right back, but she couldn't. She knew she couldn't do that to Jacob, and more importantly, she could not do it to her baby; it deserved to have its father in its life and she knew if she chose Edward, Jacob was as good as gone. She quickly pulled her hand away from Edward. "I'm pregnant." She seemed to laugh at her own statement. "I'm having Jacob's baby."
"I don't care." Edward said quickly and then laughed. "I…I don't care if you are having a monkey…I just…I can't be without you. I don't want to be anymore. I was and I was miserable. I can handle a wolf-baby, I can't handle losing you."
Bella's heart broke. Edward said everything she had wanted him to say and more; he was telling her he would never leave again, and that he loved her. She knew she couldn't give into him that easily though, she had to think of her child and Jacob. Jacob had been so good to her, how could she hurt him now? "I'm sorry, Edward." Bella stood and moved out the door into the hallway.
"What?" Edward seemed to become desperate, his eyes darting all over Bella's pregnant form.
"I…I can't do this again." Bella felt the tears fill her eyes now, but she did not care.
"Please don't…don't go." Edward stood and followed Bella, but only to the doorway. "Don't cut me off like this."
"I'm sorry." Bella glanced up, trying to combat her tears. "I just don't want this."
"You…don't want me?" Edward felt as though he had been punched in the gut fifty times in a row.
"No. I don't." Bella lied, the words cutting her tongue as they spilled out. She was lying to his face, and worst of all it was breaking her heart to say the lie as much as it broke his to hear it.
Edward looked down in defeat. He knew he had been too late; he had no clue why Alice and Rosalie had pushed him to talk to Bella. He had been right all along, she had moved on. "I see."
Bella immediately wanted to run to Edward and gather him in her arms and tell him she was lying, she loved him still, she always would, but for some reason she felt herself frozen in place. "I'm sorry." She whispered again.
"Jacob's on his way here." Edward looked up at Bella again. "I can smell him." He looked away from her.
As if on cue, Emmett's huge body came flying through the front window, shattering it into a million pieces and causing Bella to jump at her position on the upper landing as Rosalie, Esme, and Alice quickly filled the living room. Quickly Jacob stepped through the shattered door as Carlisle and Jasper followed.
"Calm down." Carlisle moved past Jacob to Emmett's angry form that was on the floor.
"Where is Bella?" Jacob seemed to growl.
"Who invited the dog in?" Rosalie eyed Jacob up, reading to pounce on him if need be. No one pushed her Emmett around.
"Rosalie." Carlisle warned. He knew Jacob had every right to be mad after what Edward had done to him. He then passed a warning glance to the rest of his family, and they understood, they would not interfere with Jacob at the moment.
"Where is she?" Jacob's fists were clenched.
"She is fine." Edward spoke up.
Jacob's eyes immediately darted up the stairs to see Edward and Bella standing on the landing. "You!" Jacob moved up the stairs. "I should rip your head off!"
"Jacob! Stop!" Bella moved to Jacob, placing both of her hands on his chest and looking up into his eyes. "I'm fine. See?" She motioned to herself and her stomach. "We're both fine."
Jacob looked Bella's pregnant form over to see she was indeed fine. His eyes then darted back up to Edward, and they were full of hate.
"Jacob, please!" Bella tried to calm him down; she did not want him to hurt Edward. "I just…I want to go home."
"I should kill you." Jacob spoke to Edward, ignoring Bella.
"She wants to go home, Jacob." Edward motioned casually to Bella. "I think you should honor her wishes."
"You don't get to tell me what to do, you blood sucker!" Jacob growled at Edward as he stepped past Bella.
"Jake!" Bella, out of desperation to keep Edward safe from the angry werewolf, pulled Jacob's face toward hers, and kissed him.
Immediately, the kiss calmed Jacob down, and for the first time since he had walked into the Cullen's home, he unclenched his fist.
Bella, however, opened her eyes as she kissed Jacob to see that her kiss was crushing Edward with each passing second. Quickly, she pulled away from Jacob's lips, not wanting to hurt Edward anymore, and redirected her eyes to Jacob's. "Can we please just go home?"
After a second Jacob nodded. He knew he couldn't get even with Edward in front of Bella, but at least she wanted to leave, and she wanted to leave with him. Jacob could be grateful for that and the fact that she was safe. "Okay." He nodded and took her hand, leading her down the stairs.
As Bella descended the stairs, she glanced over her shoulder to see that Edward had not moved from the position he had established as he watched her kiss Jacob. His eyes were still cast at the floor and his fists hang loosely at his side as he bowed his head, clearly defeated. She only wished she could take back the pain she caused the vampire.
When they got to the bottom of the stairs, Jacob looked back up at Edward. "We are not done dealing with the treaty."
"Jake." Bella was shocked he would say such a thing. She did not think he would be so hell-bent on revenge, but she knew she could not let Jacob go after Edward.
"I'll be waiting." Edward ignored Bella, although with his vampire hearing he could easily hear her, but his form never moved, his head never flinched up, his eyes never looked away from the floor. He was broken.