A/N: Hey everyone...I'm a day early!! that's new! enjoy!
BPOV
My world collapsed. It can't be real. It just can't. This has to be a dream…a nightmare. He can't be…I would have known.
I was running as fast as I could without caring where my feet were taking me. All I cared about was that my legs were burning from the strain and that I was getting as far away from Alice and…him…as possible. I only stopped because I felt like I was going to be sick, and I was. I found a trashcan and vomited in it. I had pushed myself too hard; I was too upset, too angry. Where was I?
I looked around and from signs and landmarks I figured out that I was in Olympia. I had run across almost the entire state in less than ten minutes. I couldn't care about that right now. All I could see in my head was Edwards face. His face on the body of that…but it was his body…I had fallen in love with a murderer. And Alice let me…how long had she known? That must be why she had been avoiding me.
Just thinking about everything was making my blood boil. I wanted to scream, to hit something, my fingers were curling with desire and tension to pound something when I looked around, all I saw were a few abandoned cars and empty shops. Before I thought twice about it I picked up the first car I saw and threw it as hard as I could nose down into the ground. It felt good. But I needed more. I put my mask back on so no one could identify me, and started destroying all of the cars in my path.
I threw them against each other, against the buildings, against the trees, but I needed more. I then looked to the building. I was breathing heavily and with both hands extended I used all the power in my body and lifted the building off the ground ready to throw it. Suddenly I heard a voice behind me.
"Put it down," It was Carlisle's voice. And immediately my strength was gone, I finally noticed the damage that I caused in my tantrum and the guilt was setting in, then I realized the only way he could have gotten here and I spun around.
Alice was standing there looking at me. She looked guilty, and she was, she was a liar. "I'm so sorry," she started, but that didn't help, it just made all of the anger flood back into my body and with one flick of my hand I threw the building I had picked up at her. She barely had time to whirl away. When she re appeared I lunged at her using my new found speed. I was wrestling with her on the ground, hitting her pretty hard when someone pulled me off of her holding my hands back.
Carlisle didn't appear but I knew he was standing in front of me, and in a low voice he said, "Look, I don't know what is going on between you two but this is no way to conduct yourself. You are putting yourself and others in danger. Protector take her home and keep her there, I am going to have a word with Hourglass and then I will be back to speak with her. Don't talk with the press about this; I will try to calm them down."
The press? I looked around and there were cameras and police and people watching. "Come on Bells" Emmett whispered in my ear, he then picked me up and jumped flying us home. "Are you ok?" I just shook my head, "Do you want to talk about it?"
"Did you know too?" I had to know, I really hoped that he didn't but I had to know if I was the only one too blind to see Edward for what he was.
"Know what?" he seemed genuinely confused.
"Is there anything that you aren't telling me?"
Emmett thought for a second before speaking, "I have a poster of the Black Rose in my closet, only Esme knows about it since she puts away my laundry." I just stared at him for a second. "That is the only thing that I can think of that you don't know that I know."
"How can you like someone like that Emmett? She is a horrible person"
"She's hot, and I mean, it's not like I am planning on marrying the girl. She would probably poison me in my sleep. It's ok to have crushes on someone. It's just a fantasy." Emmett explained. He didn't understand. What if it was more than a crush, more than a fantasy? What if I had, in some part of my mind thought of the marriage? I couldn't hold in the sob that came out of my throat. Emmett held me a little bit tighter, "It's going to be ok Bells, I don't know what's going on, but I promise it will be ok." It was quiet for a second then Emmett spoke again, "So…how did you get to Olympia anyway?"
"I ran," I said mindlessly, Emmett just started laughing.
"Man, you didn't tell me you had a new power too. You had to be booking it to get there that fast." Emmett continued to rant about my new power; I just slipped into my own mind.
When we got back to the house I went straight to my room and locked the door I changed into pajamas and laid in bed staring at the ceiling. I couldn't take the thoughts though; they were all of Edward, of Alice, of what I did in Olympia. I grabbed my iPod and blasted my music on the highest volume to drown out the thoughts, though it didn't work completely. I just cried through the sound, I cried and cried until I fell asleep.
I woke up to someone knocking on my door; my headphones had fallen out of my ears. My eyes were all stiff and puffy and my head was pounding from crying. I heard the knocking again, "Bells, it's Jake, can I come in?"
Jacobpov
It was all over the news, every channel, every paper was filled with Bella, well the Golden Swan, destroying a building, a car or attacking Alice. The headlines were all saying things like 'Superhero going bad?' or 'This is who we are trusting to protect us?' Didn't they understand that sometimes people have a bad day? Don't they remember all the good she has done?
I was sitting in the living room at the Cullen house with Emmett, Carlisle and Alice while Esme cooked breakfast. Alice was refusing to explain what her argument with Bella was about saying that "it concerns more than the two of us and the circumstances require me to say nothing." She looked pained, like she wanted to explain but she really wasn't allowed.
"Well, how did she get to Olympia?" Carlisle asked causing Emmett to start raving over Bella's new power to run at amazing speeds. Apparently he had seen her in Pullman less than ten minutes before the incident and then she just took off and suddenly was all the way in Olympia over three hundred and fifty miles away. Carlisle shook his head, "she has never been able to do that before, and that could not have been good for her to cover that distance on her first try."
Emmett and Carlisle were still discussing Bella running when Esme popped her head in the room, "Breakfast is ready, Jake, will you go see what Bella would like to eat? I don't want her going to school on an empty stomach." I nodded and made my way toward Bella's bedroom.
Bella's door had been locked all night since she got home and she didn't respond when anyone in her family went to her door. Alice didn't try for obvious reasons so I guess it was my turn to attempt to break down the wall that Bella has put up.
I knocked and told Bella that it was me, I had waited for a few minutes and was about to leave when I heard the lock on the door turn. I opened the door and Bella was sitting in her Bed, "Wow, you look like shit Bells." I hadn't meant to say it out loud but it was true, she looked like she had gotten no sleep and had cried her eyes out. What could this argument have been about?
"Thanks Jake, but don't try to sugar coat it. Tell me the truth." She responded sarcastically though her face showed no emotion. She moved her leg but her face contorted in pain and she stopped moving and started rubbing it. Carlisle must have been right; the running must have damaged her legs.
I nodded my head toward her legs, "You ok?"
Bella shook her head, "I can't move my legs without feeling like someone is ripping them off."
"That sounds painful." The room filled with an uncomfortable silence. I moved over and sat in the chair at her desk. "Esme sent me in here to see what you want for breakfast so you don't starve while at school until lunch."
Bella looked me in the eyes for the first time since I walked into her room and gave me a hard stare, "I'm not going to school."
Before I could respond, "Yes you are," Carlisle was standing in the doorway with a tray of food. I took that as my sign to leave and ducked out of the room.
BPOV
"No I'm not; I can't go, not after last night."
"Bella, no one knows that was even you, that is no excuse," I knew he wouldn't understand. This wasn't about my actions, though he was wrong. There were some people who would know that it was me who did those things, though only one person, besides those under this roof, that would find any of them wrong. How could I go to school and see him, sit next to him and act like I don't know, act like everything is fine. Am I supposed to pretend that we are still together? Are we still together…all of this thinking was making me nauseous.
"Dad…I…I just can't. I can't walk anyway." It was a rare occasion when I called Carlisle dad, or even Esme mom, I still felt like I was betraying Charlie and Rene sometimes when I did it but I did feel like they were my parents so I didn't really think they would mind.
Carlisle put down the tray and looked at me distrustfully, "Don't pull that Dad crap on me Isabella," he said in a playful tone and I couldn't stop the small smile that crept to my lips. He knew I said it because I wanted him to agree with me, "Let me see those legs and what damage you managed to do running across this state of ours."
Carlisle examined my legs; apparently I had torn the muscles in my legs to the extreme. He warned me not to look because he was going to have to use his powers to actually look into my legs, exposing my muscles and he told me that it would hurt a lot when he fixed it. He was right, it was excruciating that I had to grab a pillow and scream into it, apparently re-attaching muscle is a rough business but at least I could move again when he was done.
"Ok, now that you are all fixed up, let's change your eyes back," and he did, "and Esme wants you to eat all of this food and get your butt ready for school. I will hold off on my lecture about last night until after since you obviously have some issues on your plate but you are to come directly home and to my study." I was going to argue about going to school when he continued, "Going to school is not optional, and you will be civil to Alice, I don't care if she is really your archenemy in disguise, you are going to be in a public place and you will be civil and not destroy anything." I just nodded and he left me to eat and get ready for school.
Emmett drove me to school; it was a quiet ride where all I could think about was the fact that Edward was going to pick me up today. I wondered what Emmett and all them thought happened since I knew that Alice wouldn't tell them about Edward, and I wondered what they would think seeing how different today is from yesterday where Edward is concerned.
Everyone at school was talking about the Golden Swan losing her mind and "crossing over," I just kept my mouth shut and my eyes on the ground and walked to pre-calc where I wanted to be able to freeze time so biology would never come. Maybe he wouldn't be here today.
I couldn't tell you what happened in Calculus, I stared off into space thinking of what to say to Edward, how to avoid him. I left Calculus a little early so I could get to Biology a little early to talk to Mr. Banner.
"Please," I begged, "It is really important, I can't be his lab partner anymore, I will work with anyone else, just not him."
"I'm sorry Miss Cullen but I can't change partner assignments just because you are fighting with your boyfriend." I went to object but he held up his hands, "The rest of the class has already been assigned and it would inconvenience them also. You are an adult now so you should face this situation as one. You are a good student; don't let mindless personal problems get in the way of your education." And that was the final word…he would not change my seat…I was stuck next to Edward Masen.
I sat down, as close to the window as possible pushing his seat as far to the edge of the table as possible. I already decided that I wasn't going to share equipment with him, I would do the lab by myself, not speak to him then when I was done I would just leave. No problems. I wouldn't have to see him again until detention…which since I skipped a day I had through Monday now.
It was getting near the time for class to start and there was no sign of Edward and I was starting to let myself relax when he strolled through the door. I wouldn't let myself look at him past my initial glance but even just from that I could tell that he looked awful. He had dark circles under his eyes and he looked troubled.
When he sat down in his seat I felt that familiar fluttering in my stomach, but I had to remind myself what I saw last night, who he really is, why that feeling doesn't mean anything because I can't trust him. I pushed it away and stared straight ahead as class started. I occupied my thoughts trying to recite Pride and Prejudice from memory. Of course today Mr. Banner was showing another video leaving me in the dark next to him with the tension building with every second that passed.
At some point in the video when there were elephants on the screen I heard his voice, "We need to talk about this." It took a lot of strength on my part but I slightly turned my head to glare at him for a second before turning back to the video. Edward leaned in closer and I could feel goose bumps rising on my skin, I told myself that it was my skin crawling from revulsion of his presence…but my heart was having trouble believing it…"Bella, come on we should really discuss…last night." He rested his hand on my knee and my heart sped up, thankful for the contact but my head knew it was wrong.
I turned angrily toward him and pushed his and off of my knee, "Number one this is neither the time nor the place for any discussions if we were to have one, number two," I lowered my voice even more and looked around, "I think the entire world knows how I feel about this entire thing, if you are unsure check a news paper, and number three I have absolutely nothing else to say to you so I would appreciate it if you would stay away from me."
Edward went to retort but I just stood up, grabbed my things and left the room.
The rest of the school day was fairly uneventful. Lunch was boring because I sat there and said nothing while Jacob and Emmett talked, Alice occasionally chimed in. I sat out in P.E. with an excuse that I was still injured from my encounter with Hailstorm not that anyone minded since I would probably injure someone if I did participate, and English was ok, Jasper wasn't as bad, probably because I was finally taking his advice and staying away from Edward. He just gave me these weird looks through class, but that was just usual way I guess.
I was not looking forward to detention but I had already told him not to speak to me so maybe he will listen, not that he would really be one to follow rules. Oddly enough he did though. It was only the two of us in detention and neither of us spoke a word, we sat down, not looking at each other and just did our own things until detention was over.
I was walking toward the parking lot when I realized that I didn't have a ride home. I never made the plans, Emmett wasn't here. I reached in my pocket and checked my bag and realized that I didn't have my cell. I knew I could run and be there in less than a minute but I would blow my cover so I walked. Edward drove by me when I was walking, he slowed down but I just kept looking forward not acknowledging him and he sped off.
I was still walking when his car came back and stopped abruptly in front of me. He jumped out of the car and walked towards me.
"Bella, I don't care if you want to talk about this or not, we HAVE to talk about this."
"There is nothing to talk about."
"How can you say that? Bella…we can't… are you…" He was at a loss for words. "This doesn't change how I feel about you."
I looked him in the eyes and narrowed mine, "you want to kill me, and my mother."
He shook his head, "No, I don't, Bella, I didn't know that was you."
"That isn't the point. I AM her, and you hate her, you have tried numerous times to kill her. You…I hate who you are. This would never work Edward." I hated myself at that moment because I felt tears in my face, I felt weak because I couldn't stop them.
"Bella we can make it work, we know now and I can change, I already have changed." He pleaded, and my heart broke.
"No you haven't, you tried to kill Esme, how can you tell me you have changed?"
"That will never happen again, we can make it work Bella, you can't tell me that you just stopped loving me when you found out." He was right, but he was also wrong.
"How could this ever work? What are we never going to have to fight each other? What happens when you have to fight someone I know and you know that it is something I don't want you to do, or I am fighting someone you know? This would be a failure waiting to happen...yeah I still…." I couldn't say it, "but it's not worth it because it will just hurt more."
"Bella please, just give me one chance, one chance to prove that we can make this work. I know you don't want to give up on this, I know you love me."
I wanted to say yes, my heart screamed for me to say yes and run into his arms and tell him that I wanted to be with him, but then I also wanted to tell him no, it is ridiculous, I can't trust a word he says, he is a killer and it is over forever. Instead what I said was, "I'll think about it." And I would.
I wouldn't let Edward drive me home, I wanted to walk. I took a really long way home and hoped that Carlisle wouldn't be mad that I didn't go straight home. When I finally got home I was told that it was too late for a lecture that I had to get changed for duty. I was the first one ready and Carlisle suggested that I stretched my legs with running so I don't exert my muscles like I did last night so I did, I took off running then slowed down and then walked then repeated. I didn't go too far, only about a hundred miles away and circled back.
I was on my way back about to start back up running from walking when suddenly something hit me hard, it knocked me down and I was really dizzy but still conscious. I saw Hailstorm step over me. "Oops, guess I didn't hit hard enough the first time. And he grabbed the log he had thrown at me the first time and hit me again, and everything went dark.
A/N: man...that happens to bella a lot doesn't it? poor bells... i do loooove me some cliff hangers though! I was planning on going way further in this chapter but i figured that...what comes after would be best following a cliff hanger..ha ha OH and i know, i know i have made this story VERY anti-Jasper, and i will tell you that he will continue to prove himself to be on the side of evil for a while...BUT know that i am a HUGE jasper Hale fan and have faith that i don't hate him...so no matter how bad things get with Jasper, have faith...lol, i feel like i am trying to convince you to continue dating him or something.
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