Ed POV

I thought it would protect the family, yes I was jealous of them, his control around her was impeccable, I couldn't have done that, yes he wanted her blood at the beginning but he slowly and surely began to live with it, he almost matched Carlisle's restraint. I was older then him, but he had beat me.

It was childish and wrong I know but I had the reason and the intention to bring James forward so we could stop him, Carlisle knew it was James because there wasn't much venom on the bite wound on the girl's neck he had killed.

So if I split them up long enough he would be drawn out with the idea she was no longer protected, he was always around her, his mind was furious with the thought of his plan being destroyed by our arrival. What I didn't understand was the fact that it got passed the wolves, without us here they had free range of Forks, so they should have spotted him sooner.

But then again he was a hybrid and he didn't smell like us fully. But still it makes me wonder.

My pocket vibrated and I pulled my phone out, message from Rosalie.

'He's destroyed him, he's still angry at us.'

I knew he would be, he didn't understand our meaning, we were jealous, even Rosalie was which made me angry, she initial thought was he finds her beautiful but not me. So that got my back up, why would it matter to her what he thought of her, but that is how she is. I was for his control, also I couldn't read her mind and he seemed to be able to understand her.

I ran to the Ice rink I need to make sure she was there, I had heard what she had said to Jessica Stanley that she wasn't doing nationals this year, she had pulled out, obviously Jessica had be happy somewhat for the fact that she wasn't going again, but it wasn't till I heard Angela Webber's mind that I realised what I had done, I knew this was her dream but I didn't know how badly she wanted it.

It wasn't till I got to the rink and sneaked in that I heard the thoughts of three people who were devastated for her, Cathy the trainer was worried about her, she thought about all that the girl went through and that made me feel worse.

I needed to have done it though if I didn't she would have been killed by James at some point.

Hiding behind the pillar at the back of the rink between the seats and I sat and watched. I heard the dull thwack on the ice and looked up to see Bella on her back, the boy John skated over to her and pulled her up, she thanked him and pushed away from him, I saw the look in his eyes, he was worried about her as well. It was Cathy's thought that caught me after that, I didn't know Bella had told her she had retired, why would she so that? She could get another partner, or she could do singles. I felt even worse knowing that I had done this

For half an hour I watched as the others began to warm down, she still carried on, skating and falling, I had never seen her fall so much, I cringed every time she did.

'Maybe when they all leave she will be her self.' Cathy thought.

But when the others did leave and Cathy said that Bella had an hour for her self and left, Bella put her head phones in and began to skate again, slower and working up, she tripped on her boots and came crashing down on the ice, she got up faster this time a determined look on her face as she pushed off again.

Faster she went but as she turned to skate backwards she tripped once more, hitting her side she didn't move, for a while and I began to get worried, she was breathing I could hear her heart so she was alive but then what was…. That's when I heard the shacking breath she took in, the small sob that escaped her lips as she cried on the ice.

I knew what I had to do; I got out of my hiding spot.

Em POV

I was sat on my bed looking out of the window; at least she will be safe now, well safe from the monster.

There was a nock on my door and Alice walked in she looked at me and then walked to my closet. Pulling out a new set of sweats and a T-shirt and threw them at me. "Get changed and go to the rink, Edwards there; he will explain everything when you get there."

"I'm not talking to him." I grumbled like a child.

"Yes you are, he rang me, Bella's killing her self on the ice, he did it to make you leave her to bring James out, no one other then Rose knew, you need to go she needs you." And with that she left me. "Emmett please before she seriously hurts herself."

They planed this… to get to James? They were helping us?

Changing quickly I ran from the house leaving Alice to Explain, jumping in my jeep and racing to the rink, this was it I had to get her to listen to me and make Edward explain.

Grabbing my bag with my blades in I flashed to the ice, I reached Edward and looked at him with cold eyes.

"I know you hate me Emmett but I couldn't tell you, you wouldn't have left her alone for that long, not long enough to bring James out, I had to make her believe you didn't want her, he was watching." I didn't reply to him I looked at the Ice to see her fall, my beautiful angel fell hard onto the ice and I cringed and took a step to her, but she got up and skated again, how long had she been doing this, falling like that. Music was playing in her ears as she skated unsteadily. "She's been trying and pushing herself for twenty minutes and falling every two."

'YOU did this to her you know, she would always fall when she was on her own in front of people and then she stopped when she was on her own, she was amazing when no one watched her, now look.' I was being harsh I know but I couldn't help it.

"I know, I'm here to put it right." He said.

"You will need to explain to her." I said simply as I moved down toward the ice. I watched her as she tried to turn once more pushing her hard to the floor. I rushed to put my skates on and onto the ice, at human speed I moved to her just in case she looked up at me. She pushed her self up on to her feet and wiped at the ice flakes that clung to her cloths. Now to do this with out scaring her, but before I could even think of anything she turned and looked at me.

I could see the tears well up in her fearful eyes, and my heart broke. She tried to turn her back on me but I gently grabbed her hand pulling her around to face me. "Please no." she sobbed.

"Bella." I breathed, seeing her like this was killing me, "Listen, I didn't know about the letter."

"You wouldn't Edward sent it to me." She looked down at her feet and I saw the tears spill over and hit the ice.

'Hope to god you can make her see, coz if I loose her I will forever blame you.' I thought. "He lied, he thought he was doing it to save you." I said I didn't know how to explain it.

"I understand it Emmett…" I saw the strain it took for her to say my name, "I understand that you need to protect your family, I do. Just please don't do this any more to me, I don't know how much I can take please I'm begging you." She sobbed harder looking away from me and trying to pull her arm away from me.

"Bella I love you!" I cried out as she tore her arm away from me and turned her back.

"Please…" she breathed out between sobs, her shoulder shacking.

"Bella he's telling you the truth." Edward said coming up to us walking smoothly across the ice, I looked at her as she spun around to face us both, and her face was wet as her tears continued to fall down her deep pink cheeks. "I made the whole thing up, me and Rose. You have to understand we only did it to save you." I could see it in her face that she didn't know what to think of it, she was drained form the emotions she was most likely feeling. "James came back," fear filed her eyes as she looked at us both, the fear taking over her body as she backed away slowly.

"No Bella, don't be scared, he's gone… he's never coming back, I destroyed him." I said looking into her eyes holding my hands out wanting to take her in my arms and never let her go.

"He's telling you the truth, I made the letter, he knew nothing about it, I had to get him away from you long enough to draw James back so we could destroy him, he was killing girls like you and he was going to get desperate to get to you and he would have killed your dad, or the most of the school to just get to you. I had to do something," His voice was pleading and I had to admit he was trying to get her to listen, to believe him, "but Emmett could know either, if he did he would never had played along, he would never had let you be bate; he would never have left you for that long. I had to make you think he didn't want you anymore and to make you not want to see or speak to him, it was wrong I know but it was the only way to get James to come out so soon." Edward was telling the whole story even if it made her hate him.

"But everything in that letter is true, the treaty, the other vampires, the voltori, they would do what you said." I saw the truth in her eyes, so he had put them in the letter, "I could see it coming, I knew we wouldn't be able to compete at nationals, I couldn't let your family be found out before I read the letter I had already thought about dropping out..." She broke off.

"Then why did you retire when you could have gone solo." Edward asked.

What? She Retired, "Bella?"

"I couldn't skate, you must have seen me, since that letter I haven't been able to skate and I didn't want to skate alone… I don't trust anyone to be my partner." She whispered the last bit, it had taken me a while to get her to trust me, to assure her I wasn't going to leave her "I want to believe you, I do but… I can't." tears spilled once more.

I pulled her into my arms, wrapping her up in my arms and keeping her close. "I'm not going anywhere; I will stay with you till you believe me… I love you, with all my heart." I whispered in her ear. "If it hadn't been sunny I would have followed you all day till you listened to me." I whispered.

"Bella, I was stupid but Emmett didn't know, none of the others knew but Rose, I had to, Jasper had a idea, he knew we were hiding something but we only wanted to protect you." Edward said.

"You did it to get James?" she asked uncertainly pulling her head away from my chest.

"Yes." Edward said trying to prove the truth. "It worked sooner then I had thought it would."

"How do I know it's true?" Know this would be good, how did he plan to prove it was true.

"I can't prove it, I'm sorry, so sorry, I only did it to get James, and he was what was going to destroy our family, not you… please forgive us." His face showed everything.

"Bella please, I would never want to be away from you, it's killed me for the past few days, I couldn't come in the day because of the sun and every time I tried to see you when it went down you locked all the doors and windows, I couldn't get in and you wouldn't come to the window… please I love you." I begged into her hair.

"I love you to." She whispered into my chest, her warm breath hitting the hard cold skin beneath the fabric of my top, the reminder of what she did to me and I felt the whole of my body come alive at her touch. "I forgive you Edward and I forgive Rosalie."

"Thank you." Edward said breathing out.

"She may forgive you but I don't, not yet." I said looking up at him, 'You caused so much hurt and for that I can't just yet, I will but not right now.'

"I know." He said before vanishing.

"I'm so sorry Bella." I muttered into her hair.

"Please don't do that to me." She said in a weak voice. "Don't ever do that to me please, I wouldn't take it again."

"I wont, I swear on my existence." I would never do that not now that I had her, I was never going to let her go. Kissing the top of her head I pushed off on the ice making us both glide around the ice. "You retired? I know you told everyone that we dropped out coz u weren't ready but retire are you sure?" I asked.

"I couldn't skate anymore." She said lifting her head off my chest and looking at me in the eyes. "I was trying to save your family, after I read the letter I was upset but I felt that I had caused this harm on your family so I went about trying to make it easier for you, I thought if I retired no one would remember me as the partner of you so they would forget, I thought if I told everyone that I had dropped out and we broke up because of it they wouldn't ask to many questions."

"Bella that is completely insane, sorry love but it is." I chuckled. "We will compete if you want to."

"No, I don't want to put you in danger." She said quickly pushing back from me slightly to look at me, "If not competing lets me stay with you I will do that."

"You can stay with me no matter what you do; this is your dream Bella."

"Dreams change." She said looking at me, "Your, my dream now."

I looked down at her and smiled, placing my hands on her waist I lifted her up and kissed her lips softly, "As you are mine." Lifting her higher I grinned fully, she smiled widely back and I felt whole once more.

"And anyway we can teach the younger partners to skate." She said looking down at me from above me, her hands gripped at my forearms and her legs dangled down, tilting her I lined her face up with mine.

"So we will be teachers?" I asked smirking, "I like the sound of that."

"Emmett put me down." She laughed slapping my arms.

"No I like you from this angle." Lifting her and pretending to drop her.

"Emmett…" she squealed.

I lowered her and took her hands, "Skate with me." I asked looking into her brown eyes. She nodded and spun her self round keeping my hands in hers so her back was to my chest and pushed off.

She skated as I remembered her doing when I saw her for the first time on her own, I could feel the freedom of her moves, the love of the ice… it had been gone when I was not there, these past few days, she had lost it. But now, now she had it back and she shone.

Spinning to face me when we had built up speed she smiled, raising a leg behind her in a perfectly straight line on a larger angle then I had ever seen her go, she wasn't holding back at all. Letting go of her hands I lifted her by her hips watching her hold her arms out to her side and closing her eyes. Her legs in a perfect straight vertical line making me lift her higher, I would make this the best skate we have ever done.

I shifted her weight in my hands and spun her slightly gently gripping on ankle and resting her weight on her hip in my hand; she got the idea of what I was doing and lifted her free leg up pointing straight. I built up speed and she curled her body and laid a hand on mine holding her ankle. Turning I spun us round still moving across the ice.

I let her drop, still gripping her ankle in my hand but my other hand sprayed out on her abdomen just below her chest, holding her torso up and leg perfectly horizontal. Lifting her other leg she raised one arm and gripped the blade of her boot and let her head fall back to look at me. I lent down and kissed her lips lightly, "You are beautiful." I whispered against her lips.

Letting the ankle I was holding slowly drop to the ice steadying her I took hold of the other ankle she still held onto the blade of, changing hands from where they were on her I pulled her leg around my back resting it on my hip and wrapped my other arm around her waist, her other leg folded up under her. Her hand my arm around her but the other one wrapped around the back of my neck kissing me lightly she released my neck and arched her back away from me, the sight of her neck exposed to me made me gulp, yes her blood was strong to me and called out to me but right now I just wanted to kiss it.

Quickly moving my arm around her waist to lay my hand on her back I lifted her above my head and let her curve more into an arch over my head. The one leg that was once folded beneath her now slowly moved up and unfolded gradually into a vertical line above her. I spun as I skated across the ice. I let go of her ankle and spun more only holding her up with my hand on her back. Tossing her up slightly I caught her in a bridal style way and smiled down at her.

I set her back on the ice and held onto one hand as I spun her into to me and out again. She pulled away and my face fell, but as I looked to her I smiled, she was skating faster around the rink and lining up for a triple axle. Her toe pick slammed down on the ice and lifted her up perfectly and spinning her till she landed swinging her leg out to the side and behind her as she turned and fell into a fast spin and falling into a sit spin. Skating up to her she pulled out standing but still spinning, one of her legs rose up behind her and she took hold of it by the blade and carried on spinning.

Making my move I pulled her to me stopping her from spinning alone as I lifted her up by her waist and raised leg. Placing her back on the ice I gripped both her hands and turned her lifting her into a press lift once more, her legs out horizontal above me and I span her once more. I hoped I wasn't making her dizzy but I couldn't stop I just wanted her to realise how well she skated with me.

Lowering her back down for a mere second as I rearranged my hands, one on her hip as I raised her again in a perfect star lift, dropping her from that I circled her waist with my arm an looped the other around her leg keeping her from hitting the ice, I slowed us down and looked into her eyes.

"You tow I will never understand." Cathy's voice came from the small door leading onto the ice, how had I missed her sneaking up on us. "Are you sure u want to retire Bella I don't think Emmett's leaving now?"

"Yes I'm sure, but we would love to help new couples for nationals." Bella said sweetly as she smiled how I loved that smile.

"Alright… the keys on the desk in my office lock up when your done okay and if I find you here when I come back I will now you spent all night skating and will not let you go to school." She said as she turned her back on us with a grin.

"No school hey, and all night with you, I can't complain at that." I chuckled.

"I have to go to school Emmett I have an essay due." She laughed.

"Stay with me Bella…. Stay with me always." I said seriously. I had to make her stay with me, I couldn't go through the pain I had when I thought I'd never be with her gain.

"Emmett we both no I can't…" her eyes turned sad. "I'm human Emmett, we all fade…. I can't promise you that unless you change me."

"I will, if that's what you want I will, I never what to be away form you." I begged.

"Not yet though, I want to stay human for a bit longer, spend more time with my dad, experience more human things before I do… and then I will be yours forever."

"That's all I want." I grinned kissing her with every ounce of my love and passion for her.

Fin

It may not be the end but it is for now, I will be going back to it and changing things that I think need changing and altering some things and adding others so I hope if you keep with me you can read it, but for now I will be focusing on entering uni, and doing this when I can.

Thank you all for reading and reviewing, they make my day and make me feel I have at least pleased some people.