Elena's POV: (Opening thoughts)
Oh god. A sadistic vampire is probably going to come after me. I need to get away but I need to protect my family.
We are speeding down the road and the speed seems to be increasing more and more.
"What now he's coming after me?" I ask him after a second.
"Listen to me James is a tracker," he tells me and I know this probably means more to him then it does me. "The hunt is his obsession. I read his mind. My reaction on the field set him off. I just made this his most exciting game ever. He's never gonna stop."
Oh god. "What should we do?"
"We have to kill him," Edward says and I panic for his and his families safety. "Rip him apart and burn the pieces."
"Where we going?" I say as this does not seem the way back home.
"Away from Forks!" He says. What? "We'll get a ferry to Vancouver."
"I have to go home," I am adamant. "Now. You have to take me home."
"You can't go home," he states wanting to protect me but I am thinking of my twin and father. "He's just gonna trace your scent there. It's the first place he's gonna look."
"And my scent will lead to my dad and twin!" I exclaim to him.
"It doesn't matter," he snaps at me.
"Yes It does! my sister and father could get killed because of us!" I yell getting annoyed. My family is important to me.
"Just let me get you out of here first all right?" He asks wanting to get me away.
"It's my family," I say wanting to hit something. "We have to go back. We'll figure out a way to lead the tracker away somehow. I don't know. But we have to do something."
I burst through the front door of my house with tears in my eyes and turn to yell at Edward.
"Edward I said leave me alone," I say and Charlie, who was on the sofa asleep, stands up.
"Bella don't do this please," he tells me.
"GET OUT!" I yell at him slamming the door and running up the stairs.
"Hey, hey hey!" Charlie says racing up the stairs after me but I ignore him. "Elena. What's going on?"
"I just gotta get out of here," I tell him glad my twin is not home right now. "I'm leaving. Now."
I enter my room and lock the door. Edward is there with a bag prepared to help me pack.
"Hey!" I say to him before their is a knock on my door.
"Elena?" He asks and I begin to panic.
"What am I gonna say to him?" I ask Edward hoping for some advice. "I can't hurt him or Bella."
"Elena, what's going on?" Charlie asks through the door.
"You just have to," he tells me and I look down and close my eyes as I try to prepare myself. "I'll be down at the truck."
I nod at him as he disappears and take a deep breath. Then I head out of the door and I glance at Charlie before looking down and heading for the bathroom. I panic more as Bella exits her room.
"What's going on?" She asks.
"I'm going home Bella!" I tell her in a raised voice.
"Did he hurt you?" Charlie asks and Bella seems to get more angry.
"No," I tell them as I gather my toiletries into my bag as well.
"Break up with you?" Bella asks.
"No, I broke up with him," I tell her.
I leave the bathroom and go back to my bedroom.
"I thought you liked him?" Charlie points out.
"Yeah that's why I have to leave," I tell them and Bella stares at me as I pass her to reenter the bathroom as I forgot something. "I can't do this. I don't want this and I have to go home."
"Home?" Both Charlie and Bella say at the same time and then Charlie says. "Your... your mom's not even in Phoenix."
"I have a key," I point out to him. "Plus she'll come home I'll call her from the road."
"You're not gonna drive home right now!" Charlie tells me as I head down the stairs. "You can sleep on it! If you still feel like going in the morning I'll take you to the airport."
"Or I'll come with you!" Bella says.
"No Bella I can go on my own," I hope I don't have to say anything to either of them. "And I want to drive. It'll give me more time to think. I mean, if I get really tired I'll pull into a motel I promise."
"Look, Elena I know I'm not that much fun to be around," Charlie says and I blink tears out of my eyes. I'm gonna have to say something to get them both to leave me alone. I grab some stuff out of the kitchen cupboards. "But I can change that, the three of us can do more stuff together."
I turn away before l look back at both of them. "Like what? Like watch baseball on the flat screen? Eat at the diner every night? Steak and cobler? And that's if you're even here Bella and not flirting with Jacob Black! Anyway dad that's you it's not me."
"Elena come on," Charlie says as they both follow me to the door. "I just got you both back."
"And we go everywhere together," Bella points out looking upset.
If I live through this I hope these two forgive me for what I am about to say.
"Bella I am sick of you smothering me, you need to learn to stand on your own two feet and leave me alone, maybe Jacob Black can handle you," I say and she freezes as tears streak down her face. "And dad you know if I don't get out now, then I'm just gonna be stuck here like mom."
I then throw the door open and run out. I head for my truck and take off in it. If I look back then I will turn around and beg them both to forgive me.
I am driving down the road with tears in my eyes. I jump as someone appears at my side door. It is Edward. I'm gonna have a heart attack before this is over.
"Your father and your twin are going to forgive you," he tells me before he opens the door so he can climb in. "Why don't you let me drive?"
So I budge over so he can fit in but I only let go of the wheel when he has hold of it.
I cross my arms over my chest. "They won't. You should've seen their faces. Bella and I swore we would go everywhere together and we have never separated. And my dad... I said the exact same thing to him that my mum did before she left him with Bella and I."
"It's the only way they'd let you go," he points out to me. That doesn't make it any easier. "Just don't worry about them now. They're safe. The tracker's following us."
I go to say something else but then a thud behind me makes me gasp. Oh god the tracker!
"Shh," Edward says and he can see how anxious I am.
"Oh god," I say in fear.
"It's just Emmett," he tells me and I gather he is on top of my truck as a look out. "Alice is in the car behind us."
We go past the cafe and I see my friends coming out. This feels like the last time I'll ever see them. They, Bella and Edward made my time here a lot nicer then I thought it'd be.
We finally arrive at the Cullen's and we all head into the house. Edward leads me into the house but we both freeze as Carlisle approaches with Laurent. Edward hisses.
"Wait!" Carlisle says to him. "He came to warn us about James."
"This isn't my fight," Laurent tells Edward but he glances at me every now and then. "And I've grown tired of his games, but he's got unparalleled senses, absolutely lethal. I've never seen anything like him in my 300 years. And the woman, Victoria, don't underestimate her."
He glances from Edward to I and back again before walking out.
We head to the garage to leave as the others begin to make plans.
"I've had to fight our kind before," Jasper tells Emmett as we head for different cars. "They're not easy to kill!"
"But not impossible," Emmett points out as Edward and I come in with his arm around my shoulders. "We'll tear them apart and burn the pieces."
"I don't relish the thought of killing another creature," Carlisle says clearly not happy. "Even a sadistic one like James."
"What if he kills one of us first?" Rosalie asks sitting on the counter.
"I'm gonna run Elena south," Edward ignores her and speaks to Carlisle. "Can you lead the tracker away from here."
"No Edward," Carlisle tells him and I glance up at him. "James knows you would never leave Elena. He'll follow you."
Alice steps towards us. "I'll go with Elena. Jasper and I'll drive her south. I'll keep her safe Edward."
"Can you keep your thoughts to yourself?" Edward asks her in a tone that implies that he doesn't believe that she will.
"Yes," Alice says before taking my hand and pulling me along behind her towards a car.
I glance back at Edward as I took a piece of hair and placed it behind my ear before following Alice. I wish we did not have to seperate.
"Rosalie, Esme," Edward says as I begin to climb into the car but listen to the conversation and I hear Edward tossing my clothes at them. "Could you put these on so the tracker will pick up Elena's scent?"
Esme takes the shirt but Rosalie places it down next to her and looks at Edward with anger. "Why? What is she to me?"
I glance out at her. I can kind of see where she is coming from. I come into their lives putting them at risk if I end up dead and now they want her to protect me.
"Rosalie," Carlisle says turning to Rosalie and keeping his voice calm but firm. "Elena is with Edward. She's part of this family now. And we protect our family."
He is now holding my coat out to her. After a second she nods and takes the coat off of him. Rosalie and Emmett get into his truck. Edward closes the door to the car I am in and then he approaches the window my head is out of.
"Oh god," I sigh worrying that this'll be the last time I see him. "If anything... What if... If anything happens I swear to god!"
"Nothing's gonna happen," Edward promises me. There is no way he can know that. "There's seven of us and there's two of them, and when everything's done I'm gonna come back and get you."
"Yeah," I say looking down.
"Elena you are my life now," he tells me and with that parting line Alice starts the car and we race out after the other car which Esme and Carlisle are in.
QUEENC2020:
Few more chapters left I think about three or four.