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Chapter 28: Bella

So hard to let go
And I still hear the sound
Of your voice singin' in my head
I can't surrender
'Cause the rope's slowly coming apart
But hangin' by a thread
It's gone on
For too long
And this is it
So take a look into my eyes one last time
So we never forget
The way we were before
When we came alive at the moment we met
This is still worth fighting
Still worth fighting for
Still Worth Fighting For: My Darkest Days

Esme watched from the lobby of the airport as the plane carrying the rest of our family touched down. When it came to a stop she let out a breath and I hadn't realized that she wasn't breathing. Carlisle wrapped his arms around her. Relief flooded us when we saw Emmett and Rose exit the plane. Alice ran off running into jaspers arms. I was looking outside when I heard Edward gasp. Looking over I found the reason why.

Paul excited the plane… alone. His face unreadable as he made his way straight through the crowd. Not stopping once to look at any of us. Rose chased after him and we looked to Alice and Emmett for answers. Emmett shook his head.

"In the car." Alice whispered and we left.

Edward and I got into a car with Jasper and Alice, while the other five got into the other car.

"What happened over there Alice?" Jasper asked.

"Long story short. Robert killed Luke. Caius killed Annie's mother. Annie killed Caius and Aro. Annie stayed to bury Luke and Marcus is now the ruler of it all, Robert vowed to get revenge on Annie and she will be home in a few days." Alice finished. By the look on Edwards face, there was so much more.

Jasper sighed, "So she is coming home?"

"Yes, I don't know in what state though." I had an idea of what it would be, especially with Luke gone.

We were quiet the rest of the way there and eventually pulled up in front of our home.

"Paul, you are welcome to stay with us, Annie's room is your room." Esme offered.

Paul nodded and started to walk inside while the rest of us just stood there and shared glances.

That was until we heard Paul yell from the house.

We ran in our home to see Robert looking at pictures on the wall and Paul writhing in pain on the ground.

"Carlisle, the man that stood in as a father to my daughter. Oh how I wished I envied you." He said never looking at us.

Esme ran to Paul. "What did you do to him?" She screamed.

"Just gave him an injection of something that's all. Don't worry, he will stay alive long enough for Annie to get back. Then he will die. She will lose her soul mate just like I lost mine. Both being her fault, huh." He said tossing an empty syringe to Carlisle.

Emmett charge after him but Robert was gone before he could get to him.

"Move him upstairs, I am going to figure out what this is," Carlisle said.

Jasper, Emmett and Edward moved him to Annie's room. He was no longer thrashing, but you could tell he was still in pain.

"We need to call Sam," Alice said and left the room.

Carlisle was next to Edward shaking his head. "I don't know what it is, I don't want to give him any for the pain it might poison him." Then to himself, "Annie where are you?"

That was the thought on everyone's mind, where are you Annie?

Annie…

My powers were still weakened, and the horror of what was at my home haunted me. As I pulled up in the rental car a sense of despair filled me.

Sam and Jacob stood near the front door, and before I was out of the car Carlisle was striding to the car.

"Annie," he sighed in relief. "Robert showed up and injected him with this." He shoved a syringe in my hands and I followed him into the house. "He is obviously in pain, but I am afraid to give him anything for the pain. Afraid that it might poison him more. Right now he is still unconscious. I don't know what to do. Robert said he would die after you got back."

My mind tried to process through all he was saying.

"Carlisle, my abilities are weakened from an elixir my father made me drink. Who did he inject?" I asked him. Knowing the answer, but having to hear it.

We were stopped in front of my bedroom door. Carlisle wore a grim look on his face as he opened the door.

Paul lay on my bed, and my heart broke. I felt my arms drop to my side as walked closer to him tears falling down my face. As I could hear his heartbeat failing.

"Annie what do we do?" Carlisle asked.

"Carlisle, I- I don't know." I whispered through my tears.

My brain was working fast, but not fast enough. I was still sluggish. I needed a pick-me-up.

Hours later I was pacing in the kitchen. Carlisle standing next to me and the rest of the family in the living room.

"Carlisle I need human blood." I told him.

Without questioning he left, off to the hospital no doubt.

"Edward, Emmett I will need you, and Alice and Jasper." I said into the living room.

The whole family started to follow me to my room, but I told them to wait downstairs.

Not too much later Carlisle was back and the six of us were standing in my room.

"Carlisle I am going to drink this." He went to stop me but I held up my hand. "Now it will make me pass out, I need you to draw blood from me. As much as you possibly can. Until my heart stops."

"No!" Edward growled.

"Just shut up and listen. The blood in my stomach will absorb into me and kick start my heart." Carlisle looked at me. "Now Carlisle take everything and inject it into Paul. Alice I need you here to watch and see if you can see anything, Jasper you will need to keep Paul calm when he wakes up, chances are he won't wake up friendly. Edward, I need you to take my body away. The second his heart beat picks up. And Emmett, you need to restrain him if it comes to it. Edward once you take me away, come back and help Emmett."

They all stared at me, "Do you all understand?" I asked, they nodded and I grabbed the bag of blood. It probably wouldn't kick start my heart, Carlisle knew that. I had to save Paul.

I focused on Paul's heartbeat as I drank the blood. Darkness enveloping me.

Alice…

I silently sobbed as Annie told us her plan. I did as she asked and tried to search the future, but she and Paul were nothing. Their futures were blank.

Annie opened the bag and we all held our breaths. We didn't need a blood crazy vampire on top of all this. She brought the bag to her lips and drank the entire bag.

She stood there for a few seconds before she passed out. She looked at me right in the eyes before she fainted and I had my first vision.

Bright sky blue eyes smiled at me, but they were in the face of a young girl. A girl with a darker complexion than Annie. As soon as it was there it faded to black as Carlisle took the last of Annie's blood and her heart stopped. Her future disappeared.

I came out of my vision as Carlisle started to infuse Annie's blood into him. Just as she said, Paul's heart rate started to pick-up and Edward took Annie out of the room. Seconds later he was back standing next to Carlisle.

"I am sensing some hostility," jasper said and Emmett started to hold Paul down.

"He is waking up," Edward said copying Emmett.

The blood was finished and Carlisle quickly withdrew his needle.

Paul's scream filled the air as he stared to thrash and fight against Edward and Emmett. Jasper and Carlisle joined them while jasper tried to keep him calm.

Eventually the thrashing stopped and when Paul just lay there they let him go. He sat up and looked at all of us.

"What happened?" He asked. His voice was gravely.

Carlisle told him everything.

"Where is Annie?" He asked Edward.

"In Esme and Carlisle's room. Once you were awake we were going to move her back in here. Esme is with her now." He told him.

Paul went to get Annie and we all went downstairs to give him some privacy.

An hour later he joined us and walked right up to Carlisle.

"She isn't waking up is she?" he whispered.

The room went silent as waited for his response.

Carlisle looked away. "I don't see how."

"You let her do this knowing she would die?" Edward asked. Carlisle sighed.

Just then I had another vision. Paul in a tuxedo dancing with a girl in a white dress. Dancing with Annie.

"Yes I did, because she would have died if he did." He told us.

Paul went to the windows and stared out them.

"Annie isn't dead Edward." I said and Paul turned to me.

"How do you know?" Rose asked.

"I keep on seeing her. The first was just her; the second was at a wedding." I explained.

"Our wedding?" Paul asked. I nodded. "When?" he asked.

I shrugged. That I didn't know.

Later in the day Esme and I were sitting with Annie. The family had taken turns.

"Esme I saw something else, but it faded to black. So I felt it was best to keep it to myself." I told her.

"What?" she asked concerned.

"I think I saw a child." I whispered.

She set her hand on mine.

"It was probably best you kept that to yourself," She nodded

Annie's heart stayed silent for two days.

Carlisle was sitting with her when the faintest heart beat could be heard from her chest.

A week later it slowed back down. We were all sitting in the living room listening when Paul walk down the stairs.

Paul…

I couldn't bear to see her like this. It was wrong. Her heartbeat was growing even fainter. Probably because the blood she drank was wearing off. I stood up and placed her ring back on the night stand next to her bed. I went downstairs. Something had to be done.

"Is there anything we can try?" I asked them.

"I have been entertaining a few ideas," Carlisle said.

I just stared at him.

"If one of us bit her," he started.

"It could work, but only if you did Carlisle," Edward said. "You were the only one bitten by her."

"That is the best thing I have heard," Rosalie said. Then silence fell.

"Wait, do you hear that?" Alice asked.

In the mist of us agreeing, no one noticed the disappearance of the heartbeat from the second floor.

"No," I whispered and we all ran up there.

My heart broke as my eyes searched the room. To find it empty.

She was alive.

She was gone.

She took my ring.

Tears poured out of my eyes as I smiled then ran out of the house.

"What happened?" Rose asked.

"She took the ring," I heard Edward say as I ran out the front door and to her bike.

For the next four hours I searched for her. At my house, Jacobs, Bella's, the beach, the café. Now with the sun setting I stood at the cliffs looking over the water.

I felt someone next to me.

"I want to get married right here. At sunset," Annie whispered.

I looked down at her and grabbed her hand.

"I would like that," I whispered back.

I couldn't bear it; I dropped to my knees and pulled her toward me. She sank down with me and I just listened to her strong heartbeat, she was cooler than normal. I started to sob as I clutched her to me.

"Shhhh," she whispered. "Never again, Paul. I love you."

"I love you." I told her back then kissed her like never before.