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~Chapter 10~
"Well do you see anything yet?" Reid asked Alice for the twentieth time in the last half hour.
He sounded impatient.
I laughed at the expression on Alice's face. Reid took a step back and I swear he looked a little frightened. I leaned long ago not to anger Alice. It took a lot to anger her, but once she's angry you learned quick to run and hide. It looked like Reid was about to get the same lesson. She looked absolutely murderous. She had been trying to track Chase and Victoria's movements through her visions. It was bad enough that they were changing their plans every five seconds, but to have Reid annoying her further by asking her what was happening every five minutes and breaking her concentration was driving her over the edge.
"I can't 'see' anything when you won't shut up for more then five minutes-" She snapped, before he cut her off.
"Well concentrate harder!" Reid snapped back.
That did it. If Alice was human her face would have been bright red with rage.
"I'd run if I were you blondie." Emmet advised in a serious tone, while suppressing his laughter.
Rose stood off to the side watching with slight amusement. I could tell she was waiting for Alice to kill Reid.
There was a loud crash like boulders being thrown together. Everyone in the room, the humans that is, had their hands clamped to their ears as they looked at what caused the noise. Edward had jumped between Alice and Reid, effectively stopping Alice from doing him serious harm.
"What's going on?" Pogue asked as he ran into the room.
Caleb, Tyler, and the girls were close behind him.
"If you don't take him out of here I'm going to kill him!"Alice's voice was low and threatening.
She never moved her death glare from Reid's face. And I really couldn't blame her. It had been going on like this for days, each of us had warned Reid to leave her alone, but taking advice obviously wasn't his strong suit. Everybody but Reid got along well with my family now. Reid even seemed to be trying harder then usual. But he couldn't go against his nature and uncontrollable temper. They always got the best of him.
"Reid go upstairs." Caleb's tone was annoyed and weary.
He ran a hand over his face and rolled his eye's toward the ceiling as if praying for patience. Jasper came in the room then. He'd been out in the forest but I guess he heard the crash and wanted to check on Alice. The moment he was in the room a calm spread over everybody. Even Reid. He listened to Caleb without a fight. I knew he'd be mad later about have his emotions twisted on him.
"Now would everybody get out and stop watching me like hawks! I need to concentrate." Alice shooed us all out of the room and shut the french glass doors behind us.
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Caleb called a meeting in the dinning room after we left Alice to her concentration. Carlisle and Esme were already there waiting for us. We were all there with the exception of Reid and Alice.
" I don't think they're after Kate and Sarah. I think Chase is to smart to try that again. Is it possible that Victoria knows about Alice's visions?"
I looked over to see Edward already nodding in agreement with what Caleb was saying. I could tell that he was also pulling the thoughts out of Caleb's head, while everybody else just stared at the two confused.
"Yes, I've been thinking the same thing. They knew not to commit to any plans. They're setting false leads."
"Hello?" Kate waved her hand to get Caleb and Edward's attention. "Would you mind explaining this to me?"
"Alice's vision aren't certain. If someone changes their mind about something then the vision changes." Edward explained to her.
"I get that, that's why she can't get a fix on their plans right, but what about us? How come she had a vision about us being used as bait if its not true."
"Because they want to lead us in the wrong direction. Away from what's really happening." Edward threw a bunch of newspapers on the table. "Read the front pages." He told us all.
It was quiet while everyone read. Shock shadowed all the vampire faces, while the human face's all registered confusion.
"I don't get it...what does this have to do with them?" Pogue was the first to speak up.
The articles were all about murders that had taken place within the last few months or so. They had started a good while before the Cullen's arrival.
"They are building an army." Carlisle looked disgusted, so did Edward and Esme.
"An army of what?" Tyler, Kate and Sarah asked.
"An army of newborn vampires." I gasped at Edward's words.
I knew from what Edward had told me that newborns were much stronger then old vampires. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Victoria was murdering innocent people so she could use them as pawns in her war. And this was all just to kill me.
"Whats with the shocked faces? It's just a bump in the road. We can kill them to." Pogue's face was relaxed, his voice nonchalant.
"A newborn vampire has ten times the strength of any older vampire." Carlisle explained.
Hearing this Pogue's face took on a more worried expression.
I almost laughed thinking back to my thoughts on the plane ride here. I thought there would be nothing supernatural, I thought I'd lead a normal life with no vampires, no werewolves. Now I was surrounded once again by the supernatural. I couldn't say I was unhappy though. Because at least now I had Edward.
"What if we ambushed them?" Tyler suggested.
He had been quiet up until now. Everybody had been taking in the dismal words Carlisle spoke.
"No! Absolutely not." Edward's nostril's flared.
Everyone tuned to stare at Edward's sudden outburst. He paid no attention, he was glaring at Tyler. While Tyler looked at him shocked, then sudden realization lit on his face.
"It's a good idea." Tyler argued defensively.
I realized then that Edward was responding to something in Ty's head.
"He's right Edward an ambush is a good idea." Jasper sided with Tyler, speaking up for the first time.
"Not when he wants to use Bella as bait." Edwards voice was laced with venom.
"It's still a good idea." Edward glared at Jasper.
"No." His words rang with finality.
I thought about what he said. It made sense to use me for bait the newborns would be following my scent it could lead them into a trap. It would take a lot of convincing to get him to agree to it, if he did at all. The meeting ended shortly after that, because Edward was being completely unreasonable. They all decided to give him the night to think about it, or find a better way, but even I knew there was no better way to lure the newborns into a trap. And I would convince Edward of this.
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"What are you thinking?" Edward murmured into my hair.
We we're in his room laying on the ridiculously huge bed he'd bought for me. He had one pale arm wrapped around my waist and his chin was resting on the top of my head.
"I was thinking that Tyler had a good idea." I bit my lip waiting for him to explode.
"Bella!" He groaned.
"Edward you know damn well its as good a plan as any. You know they'll follow my scent because that's what she made them for!"
"Bella I won't lose you!" He said fiercely.
We were both sitting up now facing each other.
"What if we spread my blood around the area of the ambush? Then I would be perfectly safe somewhere else when the actual ambush happened!"
"Bella..." His voice was weak and almost defeated, I was winning.
I laid a hand on the side of his face, stroking his cold skin with my thumb.
"Please Edward! Please! I want to help to. Your all going to be risking your lives while I'm safe. An ambush is the best plan, and I'm the only bait they'll go for. You know I'm right."
He turned his head and pressed his lips to my palm. The closed his eye's and sighed. I had won. Now tomorrow we just had to plan how this would all work.
You would think I would be happier to know I had won. But honestly it scared me to death to think of all my friends and family out there fighting. I was happy that I could help them with the ambush because I truly believed it was the best option. But I would rather have them all here, safe with me, not off battling for their lives.
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Well I hope you all enjoyed it! It's getting close to the end now! The final battle is closing in;p. I'll be sad when I'm done this story lol.
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