A/N- Sorry this took so long to post, I'm back to school and the stupid acedemic courses are starting to stack in homework a bit, I've started choir and I'm kind of reading for a novel study and stuff. So... I apologize but here's the next chapter. Not a whole heack of a lot happens in this chapter, just because it would be going to fast, and it would have been way longer than this, and well it would have been like a ton of reading. This is officially the first chapter of part 2! Yay! Thanks for all the wonderful reveiws guys! Please keep 'em coming!
ALL CHARACTERS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED BELONG TO STEPHENIE MEYER.
Part 2- Run Away
BPOV
I curled myself up in a ball and held myself, resting my head on the steering wheel. My eyes burned with venomous tears, blurring my vision and making me unable to see anything but colored blobs. Sobs shook my body and I felt completely useless. I blinked and wiped the tears away, in a couple more minutes Edward was at my door. He opened it and pulled me into his arms. "What happened?" he whispered in my ear.
"Ch-Charlie's dead." I choked out. He held me tighter and hummed soothingly into my ear. I went from crying and sobbing, to sobbing quieter, and shaking almost violently. He held me even tighter and kissed the top of my head. I tried to stop shaking but I couldn't, I just kept seeing Charlie's charred body laying in the driveway, in the middle of the charred remains of his cruiser. I had stumbled back to the car and headed back to the only place I had left, to the only people I had left; back to the Cullens'. I shook harder at that thought, I had no one left, on one except Edward and Carlisle, no family. Edward's fingers played with my hair, and he continued to hum, I closed my eyes and tried to stop shaking, I couldn't, I pressed my face into Edward's good shoulder, not being able to press it into his chest for fear of hurting him.
He pressed my head into his chest anyways. He continued to hum and I tried to slow my breathing and calm down... it didn't work. I just ended up sobbing again. Edward slid me over to the passenger seat and started the car back up. He pulled back onto the highway and began speeding back towards the Cullen's house. Edward's hand, despite the fact that it was his bad arm (thanks to me) held mine tightly. I rested my head on his shoulder and closed my eyes and hummed along to the song Edward was humming as I tried to calm myself. It worked a little, barely any, nope didn't do anything. This was pathetic, when I came here, I probably couldn't have cared less who died in this tiny, overly rainy, too green, annoyingly empty, scarcely populated town. And here I am crying because another person in the town of Forks has died... well it was my dad, I would have cried anyways... just I probably would have hidden it better.
Push all emotions out, like I did earlier tonight. I can't keep all these emotions, next thing you know, I'll kill some stranger and start balling my eyes out... and that might be a logical thing to do. I sat in the silence, nothing but the hum of a familiar song. So I have no mother, no father, no step parents, no grandparents, no aunts and no uncles. I had Edward and I had Carlisle. I didn't really have anyone else. What was I talking about? I have almost every person on the planet after me. Let's see, Tanya hated me, her whole coven hated me, this Caitlin person would probably want me dead now, Mustang would probably want me dead now, I had another group of hitman after me, let's face it Emmett still thought I was a complete weirdo, Rosalie likes my car, Esme loves everyone, Jasper... well he's not really that scociable, and the whole school population pretty much hates me. It feels like the whole world's against me, heck Aro's probably against me by now.
We were soon infront of the Cullen's giant house. I had stopped crying and sobbing and was just shaking Edward sqeezed my hand and then came around to the passenger side of the car before I could even react. He took my hand and pulled me out of the car. I just followed, my mind not in any state to decide against it, or choose different. I just looked right ahead, I saw everything, but it just didn't seem to register in my mind, too many other thoughts, other pictures flashed through my mind. First was Renee dead, then Phil, the hitman, Marcus, Edward's car, Jacob and Billy, and finally Charlie's charred remains in the driveway. I knew we were inside now and had so far gone unnoticed, and then Alice came. I agreed a hundered percent with Edward on the fact that Alice was indeed a hitman's worst nightmare.
"Alice, now is not a good time." Edward warned, his hand tightening around mine.
"Oh, come on Edward! You can't have her all for yourself we want a piece of her too!"
"She's not a piece of meat Alice." Edward growled.
"Come on, Edward!" Alice grabbed my arm and pulled, Edward kept strong hold on my other arm. I could really care less, why don' they just tear me apart already?
"Stop fighting." I said in a flat, bored, lame, un- attached voice, that made me sound like I really could care less about what was happening.
"You can have her back in like, ten minutes, it's not that long Edward! Pleeeeeeease?????????" I just looked at the wall infront of me. Maybe if they kept going on long enough they'd just, tear me in half... I can hope right?
"Just tear me in half already, we know the majority of the world wants too, I give you the honors." I spoke in the same tone as before.
"Bella." They both said warningly at the same time, in a disapproving tone.
"She'll see you in ten minutes." Alice said tearing me from Edward's grip and dragging me down the hall before any complaints could be made. Soon she was shoving clothes into my hands and pushing me into the bathroom to put them on. Slowly and without complaint I put them on, it was a beige sleeveless top and a pair of dark blue jeans. I slowly walked back out to Alice, not really paying any attention what so ever. She pushed me down into the seat at her vanity. She started pulling make-up out, doing hair, and everythign else, I didn't even pay attention. Soon she was spinning my chair towards the mirror. "So? What do you think? Do you like the colors?" I sighed.
"Sure." she frowned.
"What do you mean, sure? Don't you think it deserves better than a sure?"
"Sure." she looked really mad.
"Fine go back to your prescious Edward, but make sure you wear these with it, they'll look good with the make-up, clothes and the ear rings."
"Sure." I said taking the gold flats, which I probably wouldn't wear. I didn't even have to think and I found myself in Edward's room. I dropped the shoes by the door, Edward pulled me into his arms and pressed his face into my hair. I closed my eyes and pressed my face into Edward's clean, knitted navy blue sweater. I breathed in his scent which relaxed me entirely, he stroked my hair with his hand, and then pulled me over to the couch. He pulled me onto his lap where I curled up and leaned against him as he placed his arms around me.
"Ok, what going on?" Jasper was now standing at the door. Curse him for having his stupid empath powers! I looked at him for about two seconds and then went back to how I was before. "Can someone please tell me? At least so I know why I'm going to be suffering for the majority of the day?" I ignored him, it's not my fault he can feel every emotion in the house. "Ok, stop acting like nothing happened! It's only flowing off her in frickin' storms here! I felt waves of calm distinctively being pushed my way, they didn't do anything. Jasper looked completely surprised, and almost confused at the same time. "Just tell me!"
"Jasper, she found Charlie dead." I sqeezed my eyes shut for a moment.
"I wish." they both looked at me.
"I found him burnt to a crisp in the driveway in the burnt up remains of his cruiser." now there was a complete air of surprise in the air. Edward held me tighter, I welcomed it at the moment. I felt very uncomfortable at the moment, my father had been blown up, they were obviously after me, yet here I sat completely unarmed, I would have to go back into the woods and get my other weapons, I couldn't just leave them there. I could get them later though, I'll wait until things get calmer. Jasper had left shocked and confuzzled, about an hour later there was a knock at the door downstairs. I heard it open I listened to the conversation.
"Hello, Dr. Carlisle, would Isabella Swan happen to be here?" Edward frowned, I slowly got up and made my way down stairs.
"Um, yes she is,may I ask why you are looking for her?"
"I'm right here." the man, looked over Carlisle's shoulder, Carlisle didn't move.
"I have a few things to talk about with you, miss." Carlisle still didn't move, I didn't move from my place at the bottom of the stairs either. The man shifted uncomfortably, then Edward came down. I couldn't be sure, but I think three pairs of eyes were watching his every move. He chose to try and ignore Carlisle. "May I come in?" he said turning to Carlisle. Carlisle didn't answer but slowly moved away from the door to let him in. The man hesitantly stepped into the house. He started to try and ignore both Carlisle and Edward. "So, you are probably well informed by now about your father's... death."
"Well, aware of it." suddenly my throat was dry. I cleared my throat out as the man began to speak.
"Well, we have came across some problems."
"Yes."
"Well, it would seem that everyone on his will is either dead or is you. So it would appear that you get everything. That's if you want it of course." he handed me a paper, it had a list of Charlie's belongings. "Of coursem we won't be able to let you into the house premisis for a few days at the most. It would appear your father's cruiser had a bomb planted in it, you wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you?" I tensed up a little.
"You think she had something to do with her father's death?!" Edward yelled in outrage, I rraised my hand and shook my head signalling him to stop. He stopped yelling but continued to curse under his breath.
"No, I don't know anything about it."
"May I ask you a few more questions?" Carlisle and Edward were about to protest, but I spoke first.
"Sure."
"Bella," Edward said in a reasoning voice. The man pulled out a notepad and a pen.
"Where were you last night?"
"The woods and here."
"The woods?" Edward tensed beside me.
"Yes, I couldn't sleep and decided to go out for some fresh air." his eyes were locked with mine, but then broke away as he wrote.
"So if we were to go into the woods wed find your foot steps?"
"If you were searching from this house."
"Which car outside is yours?"
"The red Aston Martin DB9." Edward started to relax a bit.
"Would we be correct in saying that you haven't been to the house yet?"
"No." Carlisle, Edward and the man looked at me, Edward giving me a slightly warning look.
"So you were at the house."
"Yes, I was there about an hour ago."
"Was your father dead?" I didn't answer, the man repeated the question. "Was your father dead?" Carlisle looked at me waiting for the answer to the question too.
"Yes." I choked out, I could feel myself starting to lose it again, I had been shaking the whole time but now I was getting close to tears again. The man looked at me and then spoke.
"You realize this means that you could potentially be a suspect? Why didn't you call the police? Why didn't you tell anyone?"
"This is the most she's talked in the last hour! She's barely said anything! You think at the time she -" I cut him off.
"You want to know why I didn't call anyone?" he nodded.
"Because in the last three years my mother, stepfather, friend, his dad, and now my father have been killed. I saw them all dead, and every single time it all comes back, but c'est la vie, I just went to who I had left, I couldn't even make it this far, Edward had to come pick me up." the man looked at Edward for a milisecond and then back to me, Carlisle's eyes stayed trained on me.
"What time was it when you went there?" I shrugged.
"I told you it was about an hour ago."
"Well, we think he's been dead for about two hours, at least that's what evidence says. Which means that knocks you off the suspect list- if you were actually there only an hour ago, do you have someone to back up that claim?"
"I know she left," Edward said.
"Is there someone to second tha-"
"I know she left," Carlisle said speaking up finally, the man looked startled that he spoke. "She left, as she said, about an hour ago." Carlisle might have known I left but I was pretty sure he was just making a good lie.
"Thank- you." he flipped his notebook shut and turned to leave. As soon as the door was closed and his footsteps faded away I spoke.
"I have to go back to the house."
"What?! No, absolutely not! Never, you can't go back to the house, everything you could ever need is here-" Edward started, and Carlisle seemed to second that.
"I have a closet full of weapons there, what will they think after that, I won't take my car, I'll run, plus if they do decide to investigate the forest both Edward and I have a bag full of weapons just sitting out there."
"We'll send Emmett, or Alice, they could get out of trouble if they get into any-" Carlisle started.
"No, I'll go get that stuff, hopefully they haven't gone into the house yet."
"They're going to have it taped off, you're not going to be able to get in there without disturbing 'evidence'" Edward.
"Edward, what's the easiest way to get into my house unnoticed?" he took on the look of defeat. He sighed.
"The window."
"The window. The window that just happens to be open," they both gave me a weird look. "I'll be back in twenty minutes tops. After that assume something's happened." I didn't wait for answers, complaints or anything, I need to go for a run anyways, I had things to think about, and snger to burn. I just left shoes and went into a full out run, I went right into the forest. Soon I was at the scene of our little 'showdown' I found my bag and quickly found Edward's. I took off towards Charlie's again. I was soon in the trees beside the house. I dropped the bags, I would get them on my way back. It appeared that they were all in the driveway, they had it taped off and everything, it almost looked like a scene straight out of CSI. I looked up to my bedroom, the window was open, the wind was blowing slightly, that meant it was ok if I rustled the leaves a bit, but the tree was slippery from the rain.
I took a quick run, jumped and swung up into the branches. I glanced into my room, no one was there, things looked untouched and smelled untouched. I quickly jumped in and landed lightly on my feet. I heard voices downstairs. "Did you hear that? Is there something upstairs?" I heard footsteps headed towards the stairs. I moved quickly, I went to my closet and threw all the weapons into my bag and grabbed the weapons that were over by my bed. I grabbed my laptop and my cell phone and I had no clue where my blackberry was, it went off. I snatched it out of my side drawer and quickly flung myself out the window. I sat quietly in the tree as two men came into my room, they didn't see me but I watched every one of their moves. I quickly jumped out of the tree and ran into the forest again, I grabbed, my other bag and Edward's and then continued to run back to the Cullen's house.
I moved swiftly through the front door. Both Edward and Carlisle looked ready to pull hair out. I flopped down on the couch beside Edward. He and Carlisle looked up. I dropped Edward's bag on his lap. "Oh, come on Carlisle, you know Aro taught me almost everything there is to learn." he shifted uncomfortably. I looked at Edward's watch. "And if I'm correct, I'm still in time, I only took ten minutes."
"Bella, you know something about Charlie's death don't you?" Carlisle asked, clearing his throught before he had spoke. I was silent for a moment, Edward's distinctive growl echoed through the room.
"If I'm correct, then the armed men that were at my house were responsible, they were part of the group that was after me for killing a couple of their men, they had been over by Charlie's cruiser, I should have checked it over. This never would have happened-" Edward clamped a hand over my mouth.
"It's not your fault." Edward assured me. "If it's your fault it's just as much mine, I was there too." I glared at him, he glared back.
"It's my fault." both our heads snapped to Carlisle in a frown. "You should have been staying here, it's what Aro's ru-"
"It's what Aro's rules were; 'whoever finds Isabella is to keep her resided at your house until Marcus, Caius and I come to retreive her.'" I mimicked Aro's annoyingly serious tone. Carlisle laughed.
"You've always been good imitating him..."
"'Come Isabella, we have more training to do, you wouldn't want to miss that would you?'" I repeated one of the lines Aro used to say to me everyday. Edward sat clueless beside me, Carlisle was laguhing.
"You really shouldn't do that, if he ever finds out-"
"He'll what? De-crown the queen?" Carlisle found amusement in this too, but then was completely serious.
"You don't have the power you once had, Bella. Too many years not using those powers has made them rusty, you wouldn't be able to fight the Volturi off quick enough anymore, you porbably wouldn't be able to even spark them!" I knew he was right.
"I'm sure I could convince Emmett to train with me, I know for a fact he wants a rematch, I'm sure he wouldn't mind a few tips before then."
"No. Absolutely not, I mean look what you did to Edward!" Edward growled.
"I wasn't the only one that was shooting bullets..." I murmered. Carlisle laughed.
"Yeah but, I mean, Edward took random shots, you immediately went for his right shoulder and his chest, had that been a human, he would have been long dead."
"Had it been a human, they wouldn't have been armed and shooting back, running at supernatural speeds and seeing in the pitch black forest." Carlisle thought about it for a moment.
"I think what he's getting at is it normally takes tremendous amounts of skill to harm a vampire." Edward concluded Carlisle's thoughts. I sighed and leaned into Edward.
"I suppose." Carlisle laughed.
"Bella do you even remember the first rule Aro told you?" I thought back to the first time I saw Aro, I smiled and shook my head at the thought.
"Always wear your crown and never give in to those you don't want to." I repeated, he looked shocked.
"W-what was the first rule in training that he gave you?"
"'Rule number 1; Always use your powers and skill to their full extent." Carlisle nodded.
"Remeber your first day of training? You hates Aro so much, you went to your room and set up a barrier and didn't even know it until Aro was yelling and screaming." I smiled
"How could I forget? I was so cut up I felt like collapsing!" Edward sat in silence, completely clueless.
"Bella, do you remember the other nine rules?" he was completely serious.
"Of course!" I lied, yeah right! I had tried so hard the last three years to push the whole Volturi's existence out of my mind, I wasn't even sure if I could scrape out Aro's rules, even though they had been drilled into me. I could recall almost every training match with him, but every time I tried to remember what his rules were I could only come up with Mustang's rules.
"What were the first three?" I shifted uncomfortably.
"Always use your powers and skill to their full extent...um-" Carlisle shook his head.
"That's what I thought."
"The point is I didn't get caught, and I should have been checking Charlie's cruiser either way after what happened to Edward's car." he went silent, he knew I had a point. My blackberry began going off, I took it out of the clip thing and read the mail. Is he gone yet Bella? Tonight's your dead line, I don't want to lose you. Lots of love; Mustang. I looked at it in surprise, lots of love? Edward growled beside me. I dropped it on the floor and stomped on it, effectively destroying the annoying little crackberry. I moved in closer to Edward, Emmett came practically out of nowhere.
"So, does this mean you're not a hitman anymore?" I looked up at him thoughtfully.
"I guess so." Carlisle looked shocked. "I'm sick of seeing people die."
"So..." Emmett started casually "Can I have a gun." I laughed and then said in a serious tone.
"No."
"Oh, come on! You're not going to use them again!"
"Emmett, I still have tons of people after me, I'm surprised I wasn't found before I was. The weapons, will still be used." he was in a look of defeat. "And I don't trust you with one." He rolled his eyes and walked away. Carlisle still looked shocked.
"Bella, but that means-"
"That I'm rebelling Aro again?" he nodded. "Not really I mean I haven't seen Aro in three years and yes he trained me to be a viscious killer but almost every rule I remember is one of Mustang's rules." Carlisle shook his head again. Alice came bounding down te stairs at this point.
"Guess what I just found out?!"
"I don't know Alice, what did you just find out?" Carlisle and Edward said with a bored tone.
"I found out there's going to be a talent show at school!" We all groaned. Rosalie came down beside Alice.
"And I propose a challenge." she declared. "Of course, as usual, everyone votes on who's 'act' they think was the best. I happen to be the winner for the last two years we've been in Forks." Alice quickly finished her speal.
"And she wants to challenge Bella, to a singing competition, actually she wants to challenge Bella to see who will win the talent show..." I groaned.
"Nuh-uh, nope, sorry-"
"Why not?" Alice, Edward, Rosalie and Carlisle all had their eyes trained on me.
"Fine." Rosalie smirked and headed back upstairs, while her back was to me I pulled my gun and pretended to aim at her, Edward laughed, Rosalie turned around, I just pretended to be examining my gun. Her eyes narrowed and then she headed the rest of the way up the stairs. I rolled my eyes as soon as she was out of veiw, Carlisle gave me a stern look which I wanted to return by sticking out my tounge to, but refrained from doing so. I put my gun back away,m and muttered a few words along the lines of "Go burn in hell, bitch." Edward held in a laugh but Carlisle once again gave me a stern look.
"Bella, if you're going to stay here you have have to treat everyone with respect."
"I could leave if you'd preffer, I mean I know when everyone hates me-"
"We don't hate you!" five voices yelled from various places in the house.
"Of course you'd deny it!" Carlisle gave me another look.
"Bella, to show you how much I like you, if you give me a gun I'd gladly shoot some rounds into your head." Emmett said with the most serious face in the world.
"Emmett, I'm not giving you a gun, and I could do that to myself if I wanted to." Edward growled slightly. "On second thought, I'll give you a gun." Emmett looked surprised,Carlisle and Edward looked stunned. I reached into my bag that was still full of weapons. I pulled the firing pin out of a gun making it unable to be shot and emptied all the bullets out of it. I tossed it him, Edward smirked, Carlisle looked ready to kill me and Emmett just stood there for a minute, he then decided to try and shoot the gun. Edward and I laughed at the face he made when it didn't do anything. He threw it back at me.
"You should be using your powers not weapons Bella." Carlisle said. So I put my hand out and made the gun stop and float, suspended in mid-air.
"Whatever you say sensai Carlisle." I said in a mocking tone. He narrowed his eyes and gave me the familiar, jokingly offended look. I had a feeling he was about to test me, suddenly he was flying my way, I quickly moved and he crashed into the couch, shoving it backwards. He turned to where I stood, I was already in a fighting crouch, he took a step, I followed, my eyes catching his every move. He flew towards me again, I moved swiftly out of the way. Carlisle's feet barely touched the ground and he had pounced back at me again, I twisted just enough to feel him whizz by but not to touch me. I then turned on him, I shot towards him, he appeared to not have registered until I tapped his shoulder from behind. I was trying desperately to use my powers, to not pull out the gun that was in my waist line. He was more skilled than I remembered, either that or I sucked more than I thought.
Suddenly Carlisle pulled a move that only Aro would pull. Next thing I knew I was countering, every match Aro had practically knocked me out with that move. I growled, it was almost as if I was picturing Carlisle as Aro, back in Volterra, it was almost as if the room had changed and I was standing in the Volturi's castle, I could practically hear the voices of all the other vampires around, I was suddenly filled with tons of energy, as if I had just been changed again. Everything seemed so sharp and in focus, every move Carlisle made, I somehow managed to compare to Aro's techniques. It was almost as if I could hear Aro's taunting, discouraging voice ringing out through the room. Yet no one was saying anything. Then I snapped out of it, I could remember almost all the rules.
Carlisle practically had me done for, a slight smirk played across his lips. I just stood still for a second and watched his swift movements. I found myself moving without even knowing it, Edward just sat on the couch and watched, eyes flickering from Carlisle to me and back. With re-energized strength I started countering his moves with ease. The smirk that was on his face slowly faded away, his lips curled back, baring his teeth. Edward didn't appear to be taking sides, he sat, no emotion showing on his face. This was taking longer than I had hoped, I started to move faster, Carlisle's snar slowly turn to a scared look. "Rule two, use all your resources." I said through gritted teeth. I wonder if I could still do it? As I fought I concentrated. Carlisle froze, realizing what I was doing.
"Please don't tell me you remember how to do that." I sent a wave out in his direction, it was a wave of energy, and heat, it would burn and practically knock them out. I smiled slightly.
"It's just a small wave." by then it hit him, he crumpled up on the floor for a minute, he squeezed his eyes shut and then opened them again, his hand immediately went to his head.
"That's gonna hurt later." he said slowly sitting up, wincing as he did so. My senses were in a frezy, Edward still sat on the couch, and I was pretty sure it was... Emmett advancing slowly behind me. I listened for one more step, it was definately Emmett. He was close enough now, I predicted his movement and spun out of the way, he came pretty close to taking Carlisle out again. I did things quickly this time, my concentration was already there, I sent a bit of a bigger wave towards Emmett. He went down too. Carlisle was still laying on the floor, on his back looking up at the ceiling. He raised his head and looked at me. "You know, you really have no idea how much that hurts."
"Yeah, we need to find another vampire that can do that thing and set them on her." Carlisle laughed.
"Emmett, there is no other vampire that can do that. Aro trained her skills to prescision, Bella was pretty much Aro's experiment, he tested almost every power out there on her and she somehow managed to use them, she just had them, Aro pushed her to the point she would pass out after training, that's when her powers started to get bigger and better, stronger, soon Aro had almost all of them in the perfect point of perscision, she's stronger than she lets on." Carlisle was looking at the ceiling again.
"Then, if no one else has that power, she should be able to do that to herself." he mumbled, clearly in a bad mood.
"I can." Carlisle looked at me in shock. "Of course the effects are about twenty times stronger on myself than if I shoved them towards someone else."
"When did you find this out?" Carlisle demanded. I shrugged. "Bella, I don't think it's possible for you to use your own power against yourself."
"Oh, but I can, see." I went into concentration. In a matter of senconds there was an incredibly painful burning sensation through my entire body, I could feel myself be thrown backwards and then hit the floor extremely hard. Pain ached through my entire body and kept me from moving at all, then the last part hit me and I was out.
I wasn't sure how long I was out, but I was pretty sure it was a while. I snapped my eyes open, Emmett, Edward and Carlisle leaned over me. My tounge felt like lead. I let myself just lay there for a few more minutes. "Hi." I was practically laughing.
"Did that not hurt you?" Carlisle asked, Edward's hand was almost touching my arm.
"DON'T-" Carlisle and I yelled at the same time. His hand touched my skin, and he quickly withdrew.
"Ow! Fu-" Carlisle gave him a stren look. "-uck!" Edward wasn't looking at Carlisle.
"Edward Anthony Masen Cullen! Another word like that out of your mouth and you can kiss your stereo, piano and car good-bye!" Esme yelled from upstairs. He quickly closed his mouth, and closed his eyes taking in deep breaths, to try and keep from cursing and swearing again.
"Now I found something interesting." Carlisle frowned. "Hand." I said to Edward, he looked at me like I was crazy, so I just grabbed his hand, he looked surprised. "And if I do this..." I concentrated on Edward's burnt hand, concentrating on pulsing cold energy out, he winced slightly, as he shifted and pulled his chest a bit. I did it for a couple more seconds and then felt the small wave crawl down my arm and then I felt it tingle through my fingers, making Edward shiver as it pulsed into his hand. Then I let it go, he looked at his hand almost the same way he had the bullet, it was a priceless look, that made me laugh a little.
"It's not burning." He concluded. Carlisle looked at his hand, and then at me.
"How-" he shook his head. "I don't want to know, it's just a good thing you know how to do that." Emmett had long ago disappeared. Carlisle now stood as I sat up, his pager going off. He read it before speaking again. "Right well I need to get to the hospital at the moment, I'll see you later." I nodded, I felt a little relaxed now, the images of Charlie had gone away for a small moment. But just as quickly as they left, they came. Edward grabbed my arm and pulled me to my feet.
"You know, I never heard you play the paino." I said eyeing the center piece of the living room. He smiled his crooked smile and then pulled me over to sit down at the piano. His fingers gracefully slid across the keys, as one's fingers may graze the surface of a calm lake. His playing all flowed together, it echoed out through the room, crisp and clear.
"This is Esme's favorite." he said, looking at me as his fingers continued to glide across the keys. Quicker than I wanted the last note rang out through the house, slowly dying to into silence, in the empty room. Then he started playing another, much to my enjoyment. I recognized it, it was the song he had hummed to me after Jacob and Billy had been killed. "This is your song." he gave me one of his heart melting crooked smiles. The notes blended together in a precise sound that rang through the entire house. I listened, completely content to just sit there for the rest of the day. Sadly the last note rang out, echoing through the room, dying into silence like the last ending note. "Do you like it?"
"I love it." I said resting my head on his shoulder. He kissed the top of my head and stroked my hair, and began playing with one of my chocolate curls.
"Awwww... look how cute the little totally wacko hitmen are together!" Alice's voice came from the doorway, Jasper stood by her side, a smirk playing across his lips.
"What do you want Alice?" Edward asked, probably reading their thoughts.
"To see what song Bella's going to sing, Rosalie's singing he Said She Said, so you cannot even think about doing that song."
"Why would I want to do that song?" Alice shrugged.
"So, what song are you doing?" I thought about it for a long moment.
"I think, I'll do... Down In Heaven..."
"I'll go tell Rosalie, you might want to go start practising... otherwise you're going to have to fight over Rosalie to be heard." I shrugged. I could care less, I didn't want to do this stupid thing in the first place. "I'll sign you up so neither of you can back out." Alice ran off, Jasper still stood there with a smirk playing across his mouth. I could hear Edward growling, I slowly let thoughts come back in to my mind. 'You two are like soooo close... it's a wonder you haven't done it yet...' I frowned, a laugh pressed against his smirk. 'Edward, it's about time you finally got someone, I was seriously starting to wonder if you were gay...' I blocked out his thoughts again as Edward's growl rang through the room. I rested my head on Edward's shoulder and closed my eyes, they were having a conversation, I could tell. Slowly the morning's events were coming back, I had been kept busy enough so far that I hadn't had much time to think about them.
Slowly Jasper's thoughts began to flood into my mind as images of Charlie flashed, almost quick enough to have my head spinning. 'Her emotions are changing...' His arm snaked around my waist and pulled me closer. 'They're changing faster now...' I could feel myself starting to shake a bit, the images of Charlie slowed, as if torturing me, letting all the gruesome details sink in before changing to the next image. It was like my own personal torture slide show. I became aware that I waas shaking again. 'What's up with her?' Edward growled again and pulled me closer to him. I didn't deserve this, I didn't deserve Edward, I didn't deserve Carlisle, Alice, Esme, Emmett, Rosalie... heck I didn't even deserve Aro... I didn't even deserve to walk the earth.
'Seriously, what's her problem?' Edward growled again.
"She found Charlie... dead this morning."
'Yeah right, she just wants attention.' I started trying to send images to him. 'That was creepy...'
"That's what I saw." I said weakly. Jasper just stood there for a minute. 'That's creepy...' suddenly there was loud music blaring from upstairs and a strong, smooth voice singing to it. 'Rosalie sounds like she's got this year down again...'
"Right, I should probably go see what Alice has came up with, she's going to be down here soon asking me to help her 'choose a song'." Alice came flying back down the stairs.
"I don't know what to sing!!! Oh, my gosh, this is a mess! Jasper, what should I sing?! I need your help!" she grabbed his hand and pulled him up the stairs behind her at a vampire speed. Edward laughed and then looked down at me, I looked up into his eyes, and quickly shifted my gaze to the piano keys.
"I don't deserve any of this." I mumbled in a voice that was barely audible to me. He took my face in his hands and turned my head so I was looking at him again.
"You deserve all of it." he said quietly, he brushed the hair away from my face with his left hand, his right hand cupped around my neck, his thumb rubbing my cheek. I pressed my face into his hand for a moment and then looked back up to his eyes. I shook my head. "Yes you do, do you want me to prove it?"
"And how, may I ask, do you plan on proving that?"
"Well, what makes us deserve it any more than you do?"
"There's a difference."
"How so?"
"Let's see shall we, you're not a physco, hitman, killer, vampire, run away queen, none of you are, none of you lived with the Voturi for a year, none of you gave the commands to kill people, none of you have done as many bad things as I have."
"Name one bad thing you've done that I haven't."
"I couldn't catch one guy so I figured out he was going to the subway station, I figured out wich train he was going on and it's route. I planted a bomb in the subway." he rolled his eyes.
"Please, I've done that multiple times."
"I broke into a bank on Aro's orders, robbed them, took a hostage, and brought them back to him, hostage was killed and held for ransom after death, the money wasn't needed so he gave it away to the next human he saw, which he didn't kill."
"Bank huh? Classic, can't say when I did it, it played out to the same script though. I robbed the bank, took hostage and killed him for no reason, I gave the money away to charity."
"Um... I stole a car, ran over three people on purpose, put it in reverse and hit them again before driving away, purposely crashing it into an electronics store, creating a lot of expensive damage."
"I've ran over people before... but I don't recall crashing into a store... but that's still not a real big deal compared to everything." this was true, I shrugged, his point was being proven. He smirked seeing my defeat. "That's what I thought, you no worse than me... the others haven't exactly been the best either, they killed tons of people before they turned 'vegetarian', Jasper fought in a huge land war with a bunch of other vampires over territories. Alice doesn't really remember a whole lot, Rosalie killed a couple, I think she actually went after a few for... her own reasons, Carlisle rebelled againt himself, he tried starving himself and everything, Esme, was changed after she tried to commit suicide after losing a child at birth, she tried a couple more times after, not believing the idea that he wasn't able to die from jumping off a cliff anymore. See you're not that bad."
"What about Emmett?" he was silent for a moment.
"Emmett killed quite a few, mind you some were killed by accident using his super vampire strength and crushing almost all the bones in their bodies, but he killed a fair amount too." So I guess I really wasn't much worse than Edward at least...
"Ha! Score!" I heard Alice's triumphant yell through Rosalie's music and down the stairs. Soon there was two songs blaring from the speakers of two systems. We still had about three hours before we had to head out to school, I could tellt his was going to be the longest three hours of my existance.
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