Although Bella was unconscious, her mind still responded to touch and sound. Her mind was drifting this way and that, in and out of thoughts and memories. From her and Edward's first kiss, to her eighth birthday party where she got a bike. That turned out to be a fatal decision on Renee's part. Bella hadn't gone two feet when she crashed into the phone pole. But a verse from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's dream was repeating itself over an over again in her head:
'For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
But either it was different in blood,
Or else misgraffed in respect of years,
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentary as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And, ere a man hath power to say "Behold!"
The jaws of darkness do devour it up.
So quick bright things come to confusion.'
Damn, I should have listened, Bella thought. Love was always doomed. Just like Edward and I, she thought.
"Victoria…she…Bella's gone." Alice muttered as she scrambled around.
"Alice sit." Jasper said, forcing her to take a seat. "I'm going to call Edward, whether you like it or not."
"Fine." Alice said, "Let me do it."
She got to her feet and took out her cell phone, dialing Edward's number.
"Hello?" Edward said in a sincere tone.
"Edward? Edward, it's about Bella. Jasper and I brought her to the hospital because she was sick, she was poisoned. She was kidnapped by Victoria. Edward I did all that I cou- Edward? Edward are you there? Hello? Hello?" But all she heard was silence, Edward had hung up. Either he was serious when he had said that he didn't want to be apart of Bella's life, or he was on his way home.
When Alice entered the room once more, Emmett and Jasper where fighting for her attention.
"What did he say? Is he coming?" Emmett said.
"Yeah, is he coming? Where was he anyway?" Jasper said grabbing Alice's hand.
"He hung up on me." she said, pushing past the guys and sitting in a chair looking at Bella's bed.
"Oh." Both boys said in unisen.
"I'm going to go and find Bella." Alice said to the void.
"Alice, not by yourself. If Victoria was hanging out with James for all those years, do you honestly think that she wouldn't pick up a few of his tricks? She will lead you this way and that, then attack when you are most vonerable. Or she will leave little things of Bella's, her night gown, strands of her hair, making you follow the wrong sent trail. If we are going to do this, we're doing this together." Emmett said.
"Right, exactly. That's why we're going with you. Damn, its times like this when I with Edward was here. That boy could follow Bella's sent for miles." Jasper added. He really did miss his brother's presence.
"Fine then. Tell Carlisle that we're leaving." Alice said turning to face Emmett.
"I'm not telling him." Emmett said, shaking his head. "I'd rather tell Rosalie that I'm in love with Bella, than tell Carlisle that we're going on a suiside mission."
"Alright, I'll tell Rosalie that you love Bella." Alice took her cell phone out of her pocket.
"No! No. I'll talk to Carlisle." Emmett turned on his heel and left the room.
"Baby." Alice grunted, although she was internally thankful.
Emmett came in the room again and looked dazed. "We can go. Carlisle is going to circle the woods around, all we need to do is call and he will be there to back us up."
Alice stepped forward to the window, speaking to the dark forest. "Ok, Victoria, lets play chase."