FORKS WASHINGTON

Edward POV

Bella was lying beside me, breathing heavily, frightened. "I can feel your fear," I said."It's leaking into my back." Her sweet laugh rang out. "Sorry, Edward." She said. I smiled, and sat up.

"I wish I could just take you somewhere out of this world. Somewhere for us, and only us." I said, looking down at her. Her hair sprawled wildly on the top of her pillow, and dark rings were under her eyes. "Yeah." She absent-mindly, looking at the ceiling.

She was far too worried to go to sleep. She probably thinks she'd miss something if she did, I thought.

"I love you, Bella." I whispered. "I love you too, Edward." She said with a soft smile. I bent down to kiss her full on the lips, when I felt another presence at the window. I stopped, barely brushing her lips, and quickly stood, startling her. I motioned her lie back down.

"It's just Jacob." I growled, walking to the window. There he was, in the tree, my way of getting in, smiling. "Am I interrupting?" He asked with a big grin. Bella laughed, "Yeah, you are." She said, getting up from the bed. She walked beside me, and motioned for him to come in. He quickly made him self at home after jumping through her window.

"Where have you been?" Bella asked him, smiling. Jacob frowned from his lying position on the bed. "With Nyx." I said, catching the scent on his jean shorts. "You talked to Nyx? Did you bring her back?" Bella asked with a tone of hope in her voice.

Jacob looked down. "That was the plan," He said, sitting up on her bed, "but things got a little..." He stopped, not having a word to describe it. He breathed in a shuddered breath. He looked away and closed his eyes. Bella stood back away from Jacob, grabbing her arm, "Oh." She said simply, looking down.

I walked behind Bella. "Why are you here?" I asked, wanting to ruin the little moment. Jacob rolled his eyes. "I just wanted to know if you guys are going after her. We smell a few bloodsuckers all around the area in the woods. They're probably looking for her." He said, clearly not wanting to say Nyx's name. "Not to mention Bella." Jacob said, staring at Bella. Bella looked up at me, worry in her eyes.

"I don't know," I said, not really answering his question. "I'm just following Carlisle's orders." Jacob seemed to remember something. "Speaking of orders, I have to go. The Pack is probably looking for me." Bella followed Jacob back to the window.

"You mean they don't know you left?" She said with disbelief. "They do, but I kind of disobeyed them to go get her." He said with a sheepish shrug."I didn't know you still cared." I said. Bella glared at me, Jacob did too.

"I don't." He whispered, before jumping from the window. Bella closed and locked it after watching him leave."That was mean. I wish you two could just get along." She said, getting back on the bed. I smirked, and lay beside her.

"Now, what were we doing just before he interrupted?" Bella smiled, as I kissed her full on.

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ALICE POV

Alec vanished after he saw we wouldn't say anything. "We'll just find her ourselves." he said as he left.

Nobody said a word for a long time.

"That was close." Esme finally said. "Yes, it was." Carlise said in relief. He turned to look at us. "Now, we need to find Nyx." Carlise said. We all nodded, before taking off.

Jasper was running ahead of me, so I changed my pace to match with Esme. "Do you think we'll find her?" I asked.

"We'll have to. Before the Volturi does." She said, worried. "Defying the Volturi is dangerous." Emmet said, coming up beside me. "We're putting everything on the line." I said. All of us seemed to agree silently before picking up the pace.

CANADA BORDERLINE

Nyx POV

I finally stopped when I heard something in the woods. I sat up, feeling a lot lighter. I need to leave, before someone finds me, I thought. I got to my feet, feeling woozy. Been on the ground for too long. Everything was blurry and I couldn't see where I was going. I shook my head, trying to get rid of the dizziness.

I ran to the trees, but ended up hitting one in the face. "Ohhhhhh…" I groaned as I held my nose. I glared at the tree. "Who the crackers put you here?" I asked it, but it didn't answer. I flipped it off and continued.

I ran farther until I caught the Cullen's scent. What were they doing here? Here to take me too? I growled. I'm not letting them take me. I ran, changing directions ever so often to confuse them.

I was tired and miserable, though. I didn't know how long I could run before they caught up.

ALICE POV

We had barely crossed the border line when we had smelled Jacob's scent. "What was he doing here?" Esme asked. "Probably looking for Nyx…" Carlise said.

We suddenly smelled Nyx's scent, but it seemed to go eveywhere. "Where did she go?" Rosalie asked. I shrugged. "She really doesn't want to come home.' Emmett said with a dry chuckle. We ran a bit further when we saw a person's form leaning against a tree, immediately knowing it was Nyx due to the mutt's scent on her. Who else would have Jacob's scent on them?

We heard Nyx groan. "Why the fuckies did this have to be so difficult?" We heard her whisper. She slid down to the ground. Jasper ran to her, getting on one knee, leaning over her. Nyx shifted and looked up from the ground, glaring at us. I gasped. I had never seen someone so pale before. Her eyes were red and puffy and she had tears stains down her cheeks. Why had she been crying?

"What happened?" Esme asked Nyx. She looked up, past us, bitting her lip. "Can't you leave waste alone?" She whimpered. Esme shook her head as she bended down to Nyx's head. She cradled Nyx's upper body to her, running her hand through Nyx's dark hair. "What happened?"

"I just want to die!" Nyx answered, screaming the words out of agony. She sounded like she was being torn from limb, but I knew something even worse was happening. Her heart was breaking piece by piece, and this time I don't know if we'll ever be able to patch it back up.

"It's going to be alright. We're going to take you home." Emmet said, startling her. She snapped out of her dazed state, and sat straight up, looking at him with wide eyes. "I'm not going back." She said, the steel crawling back into her eyes. Carlise shook his head, and helped her up. Rose balanced Nyx on her shoulder. We both shared glances. What did Jacob do?

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ROSALIE POV

I felt pity upon her, for she was so empty of happiness at the time. After I had balanced her on my shoulder, Alice and I exchanged a look. What did the dog do so bad to bring her down to a state of weakness?

"Someone's here." We suddenly heard Jasper say. The wind blew a great amount, sending the scent our way. I immediately pulled Nyx behind me, protecting her from the vampires coming our way. "They've come back." Alice said, getting into a fighting stance. Carlise and Esme appeared in front of Nyx and me. Emmet and Jasper got behind us, and Alice to Nyx's left and me to her right.

"How on Earth did they find us?" I asked, crouching. "Demetri." Carlise said, noticing a figure coming behind from a tree. He didn't come into the open field, where we could see him better, but I knew he had to be apart of the Volturi. We began to back up, still surrounding Nyx, when the rest of the Volturi came up behind him. Nyx narrowed her eyes at them, snarling.

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here! I honestly thought you guys weren't protecting her. Oh how lovely." Said Aro, his head tilted to the side, a wicked smile plastered on his face. "This makes it enjoyable.

Nyx POV

There was a man standing in the middle of the open field, pale as the moon and black hair surrounding his face. On his right was a girl, and on her right a boy. On the man's left was a woman. The other man was still in the shadows of the trees, watching us. I snarled, not sure how to respond. Why did they want me? I haven't done anything wrong! How much worse could things get around here?

"Cullens." The man said, walking closer. "Move aside. We need to rid the world of her tainted blood." He yelled with great emphasis.

My eyes widened. That worse.

SCHOOL IS OVER! Now without that distraction, I swear to try to update more. This story is almost over anyway. Sorry for the short chapter. I hope you like the ending though. Now, what the fuck? Couldn't have Bella cared a bit more? No, she just had to care a lot… Fuck. See, this is why I don't like people, except for my good buddies, like Bailey, Alice, Jackie, and Haley. Sigh… oh well. We'll see how this turns out. Peace out! Hope you guys have a great summer. Until next update, BloodsuckerHater.