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Chapter 12

Alice POV

'Mhmm,' Jasper murmured in my ear, readjusting my position on his lap. 'God you're bony,' he grinned.

'You never noticed before?' I rolled my eyes.

'Ow – hip bone!' He winced, pushing me sideways onto the sofa.

'Hey!' I giggled, putting my hands on his knees and leaning across to press my lips to his. I nibbled his bottom lip a little, and he lifted me off my feet as he stood up, spinning me around in his arms without removing his lips. 'Whoa!' I gasped, laughing as I stumbled out of his arms.

'What?' He grinned, kissing down my neck to the sensitive skin by my collar bone. I wrapped my arms around him and tried to accept the warm emotions he was sending me, but my head was aching like hell.

'It's like something is wrong with my visions... sometimes I can see Bella, but then other times she disappears and my head feels like it's going to explode!'

'I'm sorry,' he whispered, kissing the top of my head and holding me close to him, 'I can't do anything for pain.'

'I'm more scared that there's something wrong with me – my visions, I mean,' I added when he looked worried. 'Like...they're fading or something. Just earlier I saw Bella driving down towards La Push...then poof! Gone!'

'She vanished?'

'No, the whole vision vanished, and my head started hurting!' I muttered.

'Have you told Carlisle?'

'No,' I mumbled, pressing my hands to my temples and resting my forehead into the hollow of his neck. His hands slowly rubbed my back soothingly, but for the first time since becoming a vampire, I was in real pain.

'Shall I go and get him?' I nodded, coughing slightly. 'I'll be back before you miss me,' he breathed, squeezing me gently before leaping out of the window and streaking away so fast that my eyes could barely follow him.

'Wait, no!' I croaked as a flash of image appeared in my mind. Bella. 'No, Jasper!' But the vision was too overpowering, and my voice was weak. I staggered back onto the sofa and winced. Bella was walking... taking off her jacket... dropping her watch... I could feel her pain myself as I watched her. She was stepping towards the edge of a cliff, and the water below was churning menacingly.

'You wanted me to be human...' She said loudly, 'watch me!'

And she jumped. I wanted to scream aloud as her body hit the water, and the vision turned very fast. A wave crashing over her – a flash of red – a loud crack – resurfacing – being dragged under – another flash of red – drowning.... then nothing.

'Are you okay, Alice?' the door flew open, and I spun around to see Emmett and Rosalie together there.

'I'm fine!' I choked, 'it's Bella!'

'What happened, Al?' Emmett darted over and scooped me up into his arms as Jasper had done so many times.

'Put me down!' I laughed for a split second, before I remembered how devastatingly serious the situation was. 'It's Bella, Rosalie!' I wasn't sure why I turned to her instead of Emmett. 'She's jumped... off a cliff! There's nothing there!' I search for her future in my mind, but panic washed over me as I could see nothing about her.

'Edward,' Rosalie said faintly, sprinting from the room.

'Get me a car!' I winced, jumping out of Emmett's arms and running at lightning speed down to the bottom of the stairs and out the front door.

'Alice, you'll never make it in time!' Emmett pointed out. 'If she jumped off a cliff, she'll be...dead...already.'

'Charlie,' I said simply, snatching Jasper's car keys off the countertop of our facade kitchen. I sprinted out to the drive, slamming the key into the ignition before even sitting down, before leaning out of the window and looking up at Emmett. 'Tell Jasper I'll be fine... and that I love him. Tell him not to follow me... I... I probably won't be there long.'

'Look after yourself,' Emmett whispered, and we did out special handshake before I slammed my foot on the accelerator and sped out of the drive.

Esme POV

Carlisle and I were getting on better again; not fantastic, but better.

'Hey beautiful,' he murmured, as he walked into his office.

'Aren't you going to ask what I'm doing at your work?'

'What are you doing at my work?' He grinned, putting his clipboard down on his desk and loosening his pale blue tie. He undid the top button of his shirt, and I wished that I didn't have to play so hard to get.

'I came to apologise,' I announced, smiling sincerely. 'I overreacted about what you did and didn't do, and it wasn't nice or fair.'

'You're forgiven,' he stepped over and took my hand, 'but only if you'll forgive me. Forgive me for what I did do. I left without saying goodbye, and I didn't speak to you for two months, and I cared more for Edward than for you.'

'I would have done the same,' I sighed, inhaling deeply and tasting his baking-bread smell in the air.

'So we've both got our heads off the chopping block?' He asked furtively, seeming to tense for an answer.

'Yes,' I rolled my eyes. 'Now you have work to do.'

'Actually, it's my lunch hour,' he grinned a self-satisfied grin.

I snorted out loud, 'doctors get lunch hours? There might be some guy in here who needs a life saving operation but who's going to die because you're taking a lunch hour that you don't need, since you don't eat lunch!'

'Calm down, Ez,' he laughed, sitting behind his desk, and biting into an apple from the fruit bowl beside his filing cabinet. He shuddered slightly, but swallowed it with another arrogant smile, 'there are plenty of other guys up to the job.'

'You, Carlisle Cullen,' I walked over and leant across the desk on the other side. 'Are an overrated slacker! And I love you,' I added in a whisper, leaning forwards and pressing my lips to his.

'We've got a situation!' The shout made us break apart and spin around as Jasper climbed onto the window ledge and through the narrow gap of the open bay window. 'I just got off the phone with Emmett – it's Bella.'

'What?' I gasped, feeling Carlisle's hand close around my own, which was trembling with fear.

'She jumped off the La Push cliffs,' Jasper said, without much emotion in his voice.

'Jumped off... why would she jump? Oh...' my eyes widened. 'No, she wouldn't. She's not stupid, she wouldn't do it to Charlie! There must be some sort of mistake!'

'Alice saw it,' Jasper said calmly.

'We have to get there!' Carlisle snapped, picking up his coat and starting towards the window.

'There's no time,' said Jasper, 'Alice has already gone, but it'll be... too late to save her anyway. She'll be on the fast-plane now, and'll pick up the car the second she's in the US, but it'll still be hours... she's going for Charlie.'

Carlisle kneaded his forehead with his palm and collapsed back down into his chair. 'This is my fault,' he muttered, 'why did I let him bring a human so close to our family – I should've known she'd be too in love with him for him to just leave... vampires love, and receive love, stronger than other beings! I should have known!'

'It's not your fault, Carlisle,' Jasper said, and an air of muffling calm spread across the room, 'it was I who made us leave – if I hadn't have attacked her at the birthday party like that, if I'd had more self control, none of this would ever have happened.'

'No,' I announced, 'it's not either of your faults. It's Edward's! He knew that one day one of us would slip... attack her. He knew that if he didn't change her, one day he'd have to leave her. He knew that leaving her would destroy her – he told her he didn't love her! This is his fault, and no way are you blaming yourselves!'

Carlisle gaped in surprise, and I smiled weakly.

'Then I suppose we must wait,' Jasper said calmly, and I squeezed into Carlisle's chair beside him, resting my head against his chest. 'I will go and find Emmett and Rose, see what is going on,' Jasper added, sending out gushing lovey emotions that Carlisle rolled his eyes at before leaping back out of the window and disappearing at full speed.

'Jasper's right...' I sighed, 'all that is left to do is wait.'

'I can think of a few other things. We've got two months to catch up on...' I elbowed him hard in the ribs, and he coughed slightly before laughing 'joke, joke!'

Neither of us wanted to pick up the phone when it rang. I watched Carlisle's hand twitch towards it, and when he did pick it up, it was very fast, as though he couldn't be given the chance to change his mind.

'Jasper?'

'It's Rosalie, Carlisle! She told Edward!'

'WHAT?'

'She told him, thought he had a right to know! But Bella isn't dead – Alice rung – she jumped, but apparently it was all recreational, some sort of adrenaline rush!'

'Then get to EDWARD!'

'He broke his phone.'

'Then get to ITALY!' I shouted, snatching the phone. Carlisle gently prised it out of my fingers and added, 'okay Jasper... we understand. Yes.'

'Why did you take the phone off me?' I snapped as Carlisle put it down.

'Alice and Bella are on the way to Italy now!' Carlisle said calmly, ignoring my question. A slight fear tinted his usually completely unfazed tone.

'Carlisle!' I sobbed, 'what if they don't make it in time?'

'They will,' he murmured, drawing me close to his chest and stroking my hair.

'How can you know that?'

'Have I ever lied to you?' He gently turned my chin to face him.

'Probably,' I laughed through tears.

He brought his lips down to mine and kissed me so softly that it was like kissing an angel. His lips tasted of sweetest treacle and felt like the fluffy clouds in the sky... for a second, I forgot everything that was happening. 'Still scared?' he asked, smiling against my cheek.

'Yes,' I sniffed, throwing my arms around him and burying my head in his shirt.

'Bella and Edward will both be fine,' Carlisle stated untruthfully, 'Alice said that the Volturi refused him – that give us some time.'

'We should get on a plane!' I announced, 'to Forks,' I added when he looked surprised.

'I agree,' he sighed, 'I'll call Rosalie and Emmett and tell them to meet us at the airport. Jasper has already left, I think. I'll go to reception, say I have to leave. You get us a car,' he picked up the phone and started walking away towards the door. 'Yes, Rosalie? No, calm down, it's fine. No, don't blame yourself, you didn't know. No. Yes, the airport!'

I ran my fingers through my hair in despair and shook my head. 'Get to it, Esme!' I muttered to myself, standing up and hurrying over to the window where Jasper had exited. Jumping up through the window, I found myself in the car park and looked around desperately – Carlisle's newest car, a silver BMW, was parked on the far side, but I knew it wouldn't be fast enough.

Biting my lip, I turned a full 180 degrees before I spotted it – a sleek black Jag. I was by its side in a second, and lowered my hands to the lock on the handle. Growling in frustration, I tugged out the handle, and the door crashed open. I sat inside and pulled out the ignition lock, my fingers scrabbling shakily around the wires there – it had been way to long since I had hotwired a car. Connecting the two main wires, I twisted them around and heard the fuel tanks sputter and engine snarl into life.

'They've got some last minute tickets,' Carlisle said, as he wrenched open the door on the other side and climbed in beside me, 'didn't come cheap. And I expect this car didn't either! Poor Dr Wilson...' he trailed off, grimacing.

'He'll get over it!' I said loudly, as I span the car around and slammed my foot on the accelerator.

'You drive like a maniac, Esme Cullen!'

'You know Carlisle,' I exaggerated the word as the G-force as we travelled around a corner dragged me to one side, 'we never did have that white wedding!'

'Maybe if we aren't all dead at the hands of Edward or the Volturi by tomorrow we'll do it some time!'

'Everything's going to be fine!' I lied to myself and him, 'the Volturi won't kill us, they won't bother leaving Italy just to come to Forks – Bella's the only human who knows, they'd just kill Edward and her!'

'Comforting,' he said sarcastically.

'Everything. Will. Be. FINE!'

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