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White Cloud Dreamer

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Until Death

He stiffened where he stood in the doorway. I watched as the rest of his family pushed at him trying to get him to move. He watched me not moving from where he stood even through all the protests and whining. Edward looked me up and down and I couldn't help but smile with satisfaction at getting what I had wanted for a long time.

"Edward, what the?!" Rosalie managed to shove him out of the way so she was able to slide in.

"You little BITCH," She screeched once having caught sight of me. Everyone else moved in through the room Rosalie had made and was now standing quiet and still not daring interrupt her. "how dare you show up here?!"

Carlisle finally got over the shock and spoke, "Enough, Rosalie, let Edward talk."

I couldn't take it anymore and those stupid tears came flowing down my cheeks. I began to feel my cheeks burning and knew they, some how, were blushing. I still had yet to figure out how they were doing this.

"Bella?" Edward asked as he walked over to where I sat and knelt down to be level with my face. "What have you done?" He looked my face over as if searching for an answer in my eyes, on my cheeks, and on my lips. His eyes where sad and sorry as they starred at my lips before snapping back up to my own red eyes that had been covered with brown contacts. I could feel Emmett beside me move and go over to his family but ignored him.

"I told you I loved you and that you couldn't keep me human forever. I told you that if you weren't willing to change me unfortunately I would find another way. I went through with my promise, Edward." I said this looking down at my hands that were wound together. Edward followed my gaze and moved to hold them in his hands. I had thought he would be mad but he wasn't. He picked me up and hugged me, and for once I could finally hug him back.

I was clinging to his body when I felt it stiffen and I knew something wasn't right. It was as if he had just remembered something terrible.

"Edward, you okay?" I whispered into his ear even though I knew the whole family could still hear it.

He set me down. "You need to leave, Bella." He looked down at me.

"What?" I asked incredulously.

"You can stay tonight, but should be gone in the morning." He said looking over my head. I felt like he was ashamed, like he couldn't even look at me. It really hurt, but I ignored the pain that was wrenching in my stomach.

Before I knew it he had left in the blink of an eye. I decided against following him even though I knew if I wanted to I could catch him.

I sat down on the couch and Alice came and sat down beside me. "I'm sorry."

I looked up to see if I could tell why she had said this. When I did I noticed Jasper and Emmett standing around the couch with Rosalie standing where she was originally and Carlisle and Esme were hanging back, also, giving us our room.

"For what?" I looked at her cocking my head.

"Bella, this is all my fault. I had a vision of you and Edward kissing on the steps out side of our house and so I assumed if I sent Emmett to get you that he would take you back. I'm so sorry. I never knew this would happen." She looked ashamed of herself.

"Alice, it is not your fault. Let's forget about that right now. We need to talk; I don't have much time." I looked over at Emmett thinking of the house and knowing he couldn't have done it.

"Emmett!" Rosalie screeched behind us.

"I have to go. Sorry, Bella." Emmett turned and walked away and Jasper moved closer in to his place.

"It's okay," I shook my head to keep myself from becoming distracted and look back to Alice. "anyway, Alice who is the Volturi?" She froze along with Carlisle, Esme, and Jasper. What had I said? I got the reaction a young child might if they said a new word they had just learned but it had turned out to be a curse word. It was weird.

"Why?" She glanced around nervously. She tried to regain her composure but it still wasn't all there.

"I went to see Dawson and Candace to give them back the car they had leant me when I, well, when I left and to thank them. When I got there the house had been turned upside down and someone has strewn human blood through out it." I looked over at her. She and everyone else were still tense. What weren't they telling me?

"So, what are you saying, Bella?" She asked quietly.

"Well, on the door in blood there was written," I stopped as I notice Alice was having a vision. Jasper walked over to her and grasped her hands in his. I got up and stood while Jasper took my place beside her and held her hands.

Everyone watched her until she came out of it. She was panting for unnecessary breaths as she looked up at me.

"Was it the same?" She finally shifted her gaze to Carlisle as she heard his soft spoken words. She nodded her head, shifting her gaze back to me.

"Obviously, Bella, you're meant to be a part of our family. Alice mainly has visions of all of us, of her family" he motioned with his eyes around the room. "although since you left Alice has not stop having visions of you and most are the same, am I correct in saying this, Alice."

"Yes, mainly of when you were walking through out their house and when you saw the writing on the door, 'Bring yourself to the Volturi or they die, If you don't come we will know.' I saw what you saw although it was as if I were a figure watching you. Your reactions, your facial expressions, it was as if I was studying all about you." She continued to look at me. "As if someone had been watching you in the house and you I was simply seeing what they were seeing."

"As you know I only had visions of the future," Of course I caught her verb usage.

"Had?" I asked.

"Ever since you made the vision happen, rather than dissipating, it has gotten more intense, as if with every vision I have of you, the closer I get in the vision to actually touching you." I felt bad for her. She seemed really confused. "As if with every decision you have made it has brought the Volturi closer to choosing what to do with your friends, with you."

"If you know about the writing, then you know about the Volturi, which means then that Edward does too," I couldn't keep myself from asking it even if I had truly wanted to. "Is that why Edward is sending me away? You never told me, Alice, who are they?" I asked looking from Jasper to Esme, who I had forgot was even here, then to Carlisle and to Alice searching for answers.

"As for Edward, I can not answer," Carlisle spoke, he looked down ashamed. "But as to the Volturi, with that I may be able to help. They are a very powerful coven in Italy. Their leader Aro and I use to be friends and I suppose still are at least on friendly terms, he has the power to see the memories of a person or thoughts of a person through out the sourse of his entire life simply by touching him. As for another one in his coven, Jane, she has ways of getting people to accommodate herself or Aro. They found out about our coven and had wanted Alice and Edward to join them but they refused. You see, Bella, they see not the way you or I do. They live for..." I cut him off.

"Human blood." It certainly made sense. I had smelled it back in the house and no one I knew killed humans.

"Correct. So as you see it would have been rather difficult for them." I felt he would have said more but we were interrupted by a cry from behind me. "Bella, you can't go!" I turned quickly to discover Alice having another vision.

"What?" I asked confused taking a step closer to her. I assumed she was talking to me in her vision. She began screaming again, "Oh God, Bella, No!" She reached out her hand and her eyes went back to their former place where they could have been. Jasper put his hand on top of Alice's knee and she grasp it. She looked at me, just as everyone else did too. I was now the center of attention and I can't say I enjoyed it.

"I touched you. I finally touched you in my vision." She panted. "When I did, you were in Italy being torn to shreds."

For a minute the meaning of her words didn't truly kick in. When they did, though, I didn't realize but I stopped breathing. It was as if someone had just kicked me hard in the stomach and I could no longer get air.

I ran out of the house to find Edward. How could I die? I was a vampire; my life had just truly begun, right? Well, if it was going too end soon, there were several things that I was going to do differently.

I raced through the woods tracking his scent in the air. After about a hundred trees in all directions I found him hunched over with his face in his hands sitting on a boulder. I think, had it been possible, he would be crying.

"Edward?" I asked. His head snapped up at the sound of my approaching and he became more alert.

"Don't run, please. I really need to talk with you." I was pleading and obviously he could tell. I truly think that is what actually kept him there with me; instead of taking off in the other direction. There was no doubt in my mind that I could keep up with him now, especially by the way Dawson and Harrison had commented on my speed back at there house. I really missed them.

"Is this seat taken?" I asked walking over closer to him.

"No." He answered moving over some to make room for me to sit on the rock as well.

"Edward," I looked down at my hands that were folded in my lap. "You can't send my away now." Out of the corner of my eye I could see that he looked up at me in question. However, I ignored it and continued pretending that I had seen nothing.

"I need your help, Edward. If you send me away, you might as well, kill me right here and now. I know that you know about the Volturi taking my friends and leaving the blood on the door. Some how I know that you're not clueless about Alice's visions and if you turn a blind eye, then you might as well do the deed yourself. Besides she has already seen the out come, she has already seen me dying, is that waht you want! Is that what you truly want? To watch me die? Well, fine, I'll leave, I just hope you know that no matter what you choose, I will still love you." It was a little harsh, but it hurt me to that he knew all that was happening and still refused to help me. It hurt that he cared that little, however my voice softened at the end.

He stood up and walked over to the nearest tree. He lunged at it send his fist flying through the air and colliding with the wood. It created a deafening noise that went ringing through my ears. He seemed truly torn, but over what I couldn't tell.

"Bella, my family won't be safe if you stay. I have no choice." He remarked looking at the hole he had left. I sat calmly trying not to yell at him. Several times I had had to bite my tongue and actually had succeeded in doing so.

"Edward, do you honestly believe your family will be safe if I leave either?" I replied. They would find them too. I could feel it. They were next. "Look at what happened to Dawson, and Candace. At what happened to them just because they knew me." It felt like my unbeating heart was being wrenched tighter and tighter. It was all my fault that they were going to die. No, I wouldn't let that happen. I will save them with or without him.

"Don't talk of him. He is one of the reasons this is happening in the first place; the other is me." He looked down at the ground ashamed.

"What did you do, Edward?" I asked urging him on to continue.

"The Volturi came to visit me several days before I left you. They wanted me to bring yourself and Alice with me. I refused and they said okay, but they would get you another way. They will get you, Bella, I have never seen someone so determined to have something in all my years. So they have taken your 'friends'" He held his index fingers and middle fingers in quotation marks as her said the last word. "knowing that you would have no choice but to go to them, unless you're willing to let them die. As far as that goes though, they know you won't."

"Edward, this isn't your fault." I looked up into his beautiful topaz eyes as I finished speaking. "But if you send me away, knowing what I face, the end result will be your…" I didn't get the chance to finish my sentence because Edward had begun kissing me. It was tender and soft at first, but every second that went by it became more intense. It wasn't until then that I truly realized just how much I had missed him. I never wanted this to end. I wanted to stay happy and carefree as I was that second standing there with him, all other thoughts far from my mind, it truly was the best moment of my life. When we broke apart I gazed up at him and I could see the longing in his eyes.

"I'm sorry." He said.

"Will you help me?" I tilted my head as I looked at him and he suppressed a chuckle.

"Until Death." He said smiling. I stretched up and met my lips to his. It was tender and I didn't wish to have such intensity this time. I just wanted fulfillment and I had gotten it after all. As I broke apart from him he took my hand in his and we headed back to his home.

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