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Chapter Twenty-Six

I have to find the Cullens, I told myself, shifting into a flat-out run. They'll help me. And Adam.

Alice was waiting for me when I slid to a stop in the clearing. "You knew," I said. It wasn't a question. She nodded. "Where are the others?" She jerked her head towards the cabins. "I need to talk to them. Now."

She nodded again. "They're coming."

"Do they know? About me? Leopold?"

She shook her head. "No. If I'd told them, they would've wanted to come after you."

That wouldn't have been that bad of a thing! "And that's bad because..."

"And some of us would've died. This way, at least there's a big chance we will all survive."

I shivered, but couldn't reply. The rest of the Cullens appeared in a circle around me, Jasper arriving first to wrap his arm around Alice's waist. Rosalie and Emmett were the last to join us.

"Where have you been?" Esme asked, running over to give me a huge hug. "We were so worried!"

I took a deep breath and told them everything. Everything about me, Leopold, and the others. I even told them about Adam, though I left out the fact that I loved him.

"That's easy." Emmett flexed his arms. "Let's go now. We'll take them by surprise and destroy this…Leopold before he can come for us."

"Why should we risk our family?" Rosalie growled. "He probably won't even bother us. You're forgetting that she's been spending the last few months with him. How do we even know we can trust her?"

"It's my fault any of this happened," Bella spoke up, as usual blaming the whole thing on herself. "We have to fix it. I want to help. I can fight."

"Bella, you're still a newborn. Your fighting style is improving, but there's no way you can beat all of them by yourself. You stay here, and we'll go after Leopold."

"But I want to come!" Bella whined.

"No one's going anywhere," Carlisle said and everyone fell silent. "Let's just talk about this. Alice, what should we do?"

"We have two options: we can stay here, or we can go after them. Either way, they're coming for us."

"So we should get them before they can get us!" Emmett shouted. "We have the element of surprise that way."

"We couldn't catch Leopold by surprise," I interrupted. "He has guards all the way around the clearing. He'd know we were coming well in advance and he could pick us off one by one."

The Cullens erupted into an argument over what the plan should be. From the bits I heard Emmett wanted to go fight right away, Rosalie was half supporting Emmett and half supporting her own desire to stay out of it altogether, Alice wanted to wait to see if she could find out what would happen, Jasper was supporting Alice, Bella wanted to help fight no matter where it happened, Edward just wanted Bella out of the way, and Carlisle of course wanted to avoid violence. Only me and Esme stayed out of the argument, me because I didn't know what to do and her because she was just concerned about her family's safety.

"Stop!" Jasper called and everyone fell silent. Alice stared off into the distance and I knew she was seeing something very far away. A few minutes later, it was over.

"What did you see, Alice?" Carlisle asked as Jasper steadied her with one hand.

"A vampire army is coming for us," she answered, looking around. "Tonight. We can't go to them or they'll just pick us off one by one. If we hurry, we might be able to catch them off guard."

"Will we win?" I whispered.

She shook her head. "I don't even know if all us will survive."