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"Let's just look at our options for a minute," Alice coaxed her brother.

The car slowed again, more noticeably, and then suddenly we screeched to a stop on the shoulder of the highway. I flew against the harness, and then slammed back into the seat my arm going across Bella's chest.

"There are no options," Edward hissed with Theo in agreement.

"I'm not leaving Charlie!" Bella's banshee scream echoed.

Theo ignored her completely, Edward his mind was set.

"We have to take them back," Emmett finally spoke.

"No." Edward was absolute his eyes trained on Theo's, a private conversation.

"He's no match for us, Edward. He won't be able to touch her."

"He'll wait."

Emmett smiled. "I can wait, too."

Bella glared at Theo. "You take me back. I tell my dad I want to go home to Phoenix. I pack my bags. We wait till this tracker is watching, and then we run. He'll follow us and leave Charlie alone. Charlie won't call the FBI on your family. Then you can take me any damned place you want."

They stared at her, stunned.

"It's not a bad idea, really." Emmett's surprise was definitely an insult.

I spoke for the first time, "I agree with Bella, Jasper and Alice take her and hide her while you kill the tracker and his mate, they both have to die not just one. I am not leaving but Bella needs to, Edward you're my mate, my other half but you have no say in this. My father has more pull than her's, I am staying in Fork's end of the subject," the car shook with the anger he felt. Emmett had my wrist pinned as I tried to get out from the car, I needed this tracker to come for me but not even I knew if it was Bella's scent or mine that had him.

Theo, he didn't look up. When he spoke, his voice sounded worn.

"You're leaving tonight, whether the tracker sees or not. You tell Charlie that you can't stand another minute in Forks. Tell him whatever story works. Pack the first things your hand's touch, and then get in your truck. I don't care what he says to you. You have fifteen minutes. Do you hear me? Fifteen minutes from the time you cross the doorstep." He was agitated and in pain, the thought of her gone was more than he could bear.

The Jeep rumbled to life, and Edward spun us around, the tires squealing. The needle on the speedometer started to race up the dial.

"Emmett?" I asked, looking pointedly at my hands.

"Oh, sorry." He let me loose.

Edward refused to speak to me, Alice called Rose. Her voice tinkled, "Rose and Emmett will stay with you, Caprice. Edward, we can't force her, she isn't Bella she is stubborn, she will be protected," the hurt crossed his face and tore my heart out.

I tried, "Look, if you try to take him down while Bella or I am still around, there's a much better chance that someone will get hurt - she'll get hurt, myself, or you will guys, trying to protect us. Bella and I in two locations is better, which one did he want more, who's blood. Now, if you get him alone..." I trailed off with a slow smile. I was right.

He snarled at me, "He wants both, you intrigued him and that I can understand," now his dark eyes flickered to mine.

The Jeep was crawling slowly along now as we drove into town. Despite my brave talk, I could feel the hairs on my arms standing up. He stared blankly at the road ahead. "It's my fault - I was a fool to expose you like that just as Theo was to expose Isabella, " The rage in his voice was directed internally.

"We were there, big deal. It didn't bother the other two. Why did this James decide to kill either of us? There're people all over the place, why me or Bella?"

He hesitated, thinking before he answered.

"I got a good look at his mind tonight," he began in a low voice. "I'm not sure if there's anything I could have done to avoid this, once he saw you. It is partially your fault." His voice was wry. "If you didn't smell so appallingly luscious, he might not have bothered. But when I defended you... well, that made it a lot worse. He's not used to being thwarted, no matter how insignificant the object. He thinks of himself as a hunter and nothing else. His existence is consumed with tracking, and a challenge is all he asks of life. Suddenly we've presented him with a beautiful challenge - a large clan of strong fighters all bent on protecting the two tiny vulnerable elements. You wouldn't believe how euphoric he is now. It's his favorite game, and we've just made it his most exciting game ever." His tone was full of disgust.

He paused a moment.

"But if we had stood by, he would have killed you, girls, right then," he said with hopeless frustration.

"I thought... I didn't smell the same to the others... as I do to you. I mean appallingly luscious is how I find my McNuggets," I said hesitantly.

"You don't. But that doesn't mean that you aren't still a temptation to every one of them. If you had appealed to the tracker - or any of them - the same way you appeal to me, it would have meant a fight right there."

I gave an apologetic look to Emmett, "Sorry, we ruined your fun, another time though,"

"Caprice." Edward's voice was very soft. Alice and Emmett looked out their windows. "If you let anything happen to yourself- anything at all - I'm holding you personally responsible. Do you understand that?"

Even an eye roll couldn't hinder the fact he would, "I will do all I can to be safe, you be safe Edward. Give me a minute alone with Bella," they did, Edward nearly removed the frame of the Jeep still angry with me.

Her eyes are panicked, my body filled with pain as my power coursed over us. "They can't hear us, to them we are just hugging. I need him to come to me, not you. If I have to show Rose my powers than so be it, he is a very good tracker, not the best I have seen nowhere near him, but he is good. It's the girl who is the problem, she has a slight power but his death when it happens will fuel her to attack sooner or later. You be safe, no running off he will try and trick you try not to be so gullible damn it," my fingers trailing over her face as tears came to us both.

Sobbing, "Will you be safe?"

"A good seventy five percent chance," it was the truth and she had to take this and go. I was out of the truck giving Alice a pleading stare, "Watch her, he will try and trick her and get her away from you. She is the most important thing, she has to be safe,"

Alice hugged me close, "Jasper and I will protect her, Jasper is unhappy he would rather protect you, but Bella is our family too. You be safe," her eyes hold something, calculating she knew I was hiding something.

Emmett just gave me a mini bear hug, "No trouble from you while we hunt these two,"

"Both not just one," he gave a nod if understanding.

But Edward was at my side at once. He caught me up in his iron grip, crushing me to him. He seemed unaware of his watching family as he pulled my face to his, lifting my feet off the floor. For the shortest second, his lips were icy and hard against mine. Then it was over. He set me down, still holding my face, his glorious eyes burning into mine.

His eyes went blank, curiously dead, as he turned away.

And they were gone.

Rose was standing at my window watching as I walked into my house, I sent a text to my father to stay away from that a tracker was near. He would wear a necklace from Aro, none would touch him while wearing it.

She spoke, "I will protect you,"

"I know, that's why I asked for you," her smile was evil but stunning.