A.N: Okay, so this chapter is written a bit different than usual. Instead of being written in one POV, I have them from Bella, Andrew, Jasper, Esme, and Emmett. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, and I hope you enjoy:

Twelve. The Waiting Game

We were caught in limbo.

We didn't know if the wolves would find us- or if they would stop looking at the border.

I didn't like being in limbo.

"Calm down Bella," Edward soothed from where he sat on our bed watching me pace. "There's nothing to worry about."

"I'm not worried," I retorted, pausing for only a second to glare at him. "I'm frustrated. I fell so useless! We can't do anything because we don't really know anything- just that the Quileutes want our family dead. Aren't you the littlest bit frustrated about that?"

Edward stood up fluidly to come and lead me back to the bed. I thought about struggling, but tossed the thought aside. Pacing was doing nothing but make me more irritated.

Once I was on the bed and situated firmly in his arms, Edward answered the question.

"I am frustrated," he told me. "Of course I am- I hate not knowing what's going on as much as you. It's just… the ball's in their court, for lack of a better analogy. We can't do anything until they act. Hopefully Alice will have a vision then and… well, we'll work from there."

I gave an inelegant snort and got up to pace once more.

Behind me, Edward sighed.

Andrew

"This is driving me nuts!"

I sighed and rolled over on the bed in the room that the Cullens had made available for Tia and mine use.

"What's driving you nuts?" I asked dryly- not actually curious, but choosing to humour her, just because I loved her.

"This whole not doing anything… thing!" Tia replied, shooting me an angry glare that said quite clearly that she knew exactly what my tone meant, but was choosing to ignore it.

"Tia, come to bed," I told her, holding out my arms. "I can't sleep without my teddy bear, and a tired werewolf is a grumpy werewolf."

Tia rolled her eyes at me.

"Please, Lassie- I couldn't be compared to a teddy bear as a human, don't insult me by doing it when I'm a vampire. As for the whole sleep thing- you do it far too much."

I sighed again as Tia continued her angry pacing. She reminded me of a caged lioness, or maybe a tigress… she reminded me of a large, dangerous cat, anyways.

"You're comparing me to a large, dangerous cat again," Tia told me, mirroring my dry tone from earlier. "I can tell by the look in your eye- you seemed to get turned on by the thought of a lions and tigers."

"Lionesses and tigresses," I corrected her. "It's only the female wild cats that have that effect on me."

Tia raised an eyebrow at me and I raised one back. She shook her head and began to pace again.

I sighed.

Esme

Carlisle was worried.

Had anyone else- excepting Edward, Jasper, and, perhaps, Tiazza (for obvious reasons)- been in my place, they would have thought he looked as calm and collected as ever. He sat behind his desk, reading the morning paper as if he didn't have a care in the world.

I knew better.

I could see the signs of his stress in the way his shoulders hunched slightly- almost imperceptibly- forward. There were traces of it in the slight crease his thoughts caused between his eyes, which, if you looked closely, were looking at the paper, but not really seeing anything. Carlisle was worried.

That made me worried.

I set my book (a book on building houses by a man I could remember the name of… something Holmes) down on the table next to the chair I was curled up in so that I could move around to stand behind my husband.

"You're tense," I murmured, rubbing his shoulders. He closed his eyes and leant his head back against me, allowing me to rub the tense knots out of his shoulder blades.

"You're worried," I stated.

"I am," he agreed, not bothering to hide the truth as he might had I been anyone else- even Edward, who had been with him longer than anyone.

"Why?" I asked. "You said it yourself- chances are they won't find us here."

"I didn't want to worry the others," he replied, grasping my hand so he could kiss my palm. "I have a feeling, Esme."

"Not a good one, I take it?"

My weak attempt at humour fleshed an equally weak smile out of Carlisle, but at least he didn't look quite as worried.

"No, not a good one," the smile disappeared again and I felt a pang in my heart for the man I loved. He was so good- so caring… what effect must the news Andrew carried have on him? "They're going to find us, Esme. I can't say how I know, I just do."

"Perhaps we should leave, then," I murmured.

"They'll follow us. If they hurt an innocent- a human- in their pursuit of us… we can't risk that Esme."

"We can't risk our family, either," I murmured.

Carlisle didn't reply at first, choosing instead to pull me down into his lap and cradle me against him.

"I don't want to Esme… I don't know what to do."

I said nothing, allowing him to hold me and take whatever comfort he could in my presence.

Above my head, he sighed.

Jasper

I leant against the wall, watching Alice. She sat cross-legged on our shared bed, her eyes closed and her brow furrowed; concentrating on something only she could see.

The future.

I just stood, watching her- unable to help, but not able to let her out of my sight. We had been separated far too long by our stubbornness, and I wasn't willing to let her out of my sight.

Not for another fifty years, anyways.

Well- that wasn't entirely true. I would have to leave her side to have a long conversation with Bella (translation: beg for her forgiveness and pray to God that we could become as close as we were before). But after that, I would be like a magnet.

"I don't see anything coming," Alice growled at last, opening her eyes to look at me.

"That's a good thing, Ally," I said softly. "It means we're safe- that nothings coming."

"Do you really believe that?" she asked me, her voice anxious.

Truthfully, I didn't. I didn't need my empathy powers to sense the coming storm. To be cliché- something wicked this way comes.

I didn't want to worry Alice with these thoughts, but I didn't want to lie to her either. Instead, I chose the middle ground.

"I don't know, Alice," I murmured truthfully, flopping down on the bed next to her and pulling her thin frame into my arms. "I really don't know."

Alice held me as tightly as I held her and snuggled into my chest.

I laid my head on hers and closed my eyes with a sigh.

Emmett

Rosalie paced.

I sighed.

Rosalie paced some more.

I threw myself backwards on our bed with a loud groan.

Rosalie finally stopped pacing to look at me with a raised eyebrow.

"What's wrong with you?" she asked.

"Your pacing- it's making me tired, and I'm just watching," I retorted. "Come lay with me Rose- you need to relax a bit."

"Samantha Bennet has threatened our sister, there's a pack of murderous werewolves after our… blood, for lack of a better term, and you want me to relax," she began to pace again. "Please be realistic Emmett."

I couldn't help rolling my eyes as I sat up once more and began watching Rose pace again. It made me slightly dizzy, so I decided to lay back down once more.

"I hate this," I told her, staring at the roof as it held all the answers.

It didn't- although I did notice a spider. Esme would freak if she knew about it.

I decided to spare the poor creature a lot of pain and not tell her.

"What exactly is it you hate?" Rose asked. "Because there's a lot of stuff you could hate, so I need specifics."

"I don't like waiting," I told her. I knew my voice was sullen, but I couldn't bring myself to care. "I don't like doing nothing while a bunch of mutts are planning the best way to have a vampire roast."

"Welcome to the club, Emmett," Rose replied, finally giving up her pacing in favour of sprawling out across my chest. He hair tickled my nose, so I moved the strand of delicate golden hair away. "We all hate waiting."

"I know, I know… I just hate it a little more than most people."

Rose smirked and pressed her lips to mine.

"Then I guess I'll just have to distract you."

As Rosalie's lips began to work their magic, I couldn't help but let out another sigh.

Bella (Once Again)

I was still pacing when Edward suddenly bolted upwards on the bed.

"What's wrong?" I asked him, worried because he looked so worried.

He held up a hand without answering, so I sat next to him on the bed silently, waiting for him to finish hearing whatever it was he was hearing.

"Dammit," he cursed, jumping off the bed.

"What is it?" I asked alarmed.

"Alice," was his short reply as he shot out the door. I was hot on his heels. He moved quickly from our room to Alice's, slamming the door open without knocking, and talking as soon as he could see the room's occupants. "How could the future just disappear like that? That only happens if someone's dead, doesn't it?"

"Yes… no… oh I don't know Edward! The future's never just… disappeared before- not even when Bella uses her power. I see the rest of us, still- just not her."

"What's all this ruckus about?" Carlisle asked, entering the room followed closely by Esme. Emmett, Rose, Tia, and Andy trailed behind him and stood in the door way.

"Alice says that the future suddenly just disappeared. She was looking for the wolves, and suddenly there was nothing," Jasper shrugged helplessly. "Alice could explain it better."

We all looked at Alice, but she wasn't paying us any attention. Instead, her gaze was focused on Andrew, her face looking as if she had suddenly had an epiphany- and not a good one.

"Italy," she breathed.

"What?" replied Tia confused. "What does Italy have to do with the future disappearing?"

"In Italy, I never had any visions of Andrew- I've thought it was because Bella was using her power, but she didn't find out about her ability to affect others until after you and he had escaped. I should've seen it when Jazz decided to help Bella get you out, Andrew- but I didn't. I never saw anything about you."

"And…? I'm guessing you have some sort of a point," Andy pointed out dryly, earning an elbow to the ribs from Tia and a quiet growl from Jasper.

"My point is that I can't see werewolves- we have no way of knowing if they're coming. We're now officially working blind."