A/N: So I knew where I was going with this story but was unsure of how to get there. With help from my muse and changing some things from the original plan, I have figured it out. So I hope you like it.

KARI

Jasper decided that he liked sex with a human, or rather just sex with me. He came back the next two nights. Bella was with him, of course. It was a win win thing for both of them. Bella got to watch me in pain, her favorite past time and the whole thing made her even more horny than she already was. And Jasper, well, he got some twice each night.

He made abousolutely sure that he didn't leave any physical evidence when he was finished. Bella reminded me of her threat before they left both nights.

I spent most of those two days sleeping. When I was a sleep I didn't have to feel the pain.

EDWARD

When I take my trips to Russia, I always choose one member of the family to come with me. Alice was the obvious choice this time. I knew she wouldn't question why I decided not to take any of Dimitri's slaves. Plus, I couldn't survive a week getting the silent treatment from Bella.

When it came time to choose my slaves, I inspected all of them. After choosing none, I explained to Dimitri that they didn't meet my requirements. Which wasn't a complete lie.

Alice and I decided the requirement was the human had to deserve a taste of their own medicine. Which meant we would only take abusive parents and husbands, child molesters, rapists, and killers. That was why we ended with only fifty humans after our last raid. Dimitri's lot met none of the requirements.

Alice spent the rest of the week, sight seeing, shopping, and worrying about Kari. I spent the rest of the week worrying about Kari. I didn't like that I couldn't be there to protect her. That caught me off guard.

The last time I felt like that was with Bella. Kari was different from Bella, though. I still hadn't figured out why. The pull to be with Kari was stronger. And there was a time when I would've killed anyone who hurt Bella but now I would have killed Bella if she hurt Kari. I had been trying to fight the feelings for Kari for months.

I knew that I was in love with her but it wasn't right. After all I've done to her, what right did I have to ask for her love? I mean I was still amazed at the forgiveness that she so graciously gave out. But asking for her love was way too much. I'd just have to settle with what we were right now. But the question was what were we know? I guess we'd have to talk when I got back.

I asked Alice a few times to check on Kari's future. Everything kept coming up blank. She just couldn't see anything. Which was very odd for Alice. I knew she couldn't see part humans like Nessie and Jake but she had seen Kari before. Why couldn't she see Kari now?

I decided to buy a cell phone and hide it in the room for her. That way I could call her if I got too worried or she could call me if she got hurt.

Finallly, we were on the plane, heading back to the U.S. Esme picked us up from the airport. We threw our stuff in the trunk and I got in the front.

Esme was one of the most amazing people I knew. She didn't agree with anything the family had become at all. I had known this from the beginning. She never even went off the animal diet. She, like Alice and I, worried about getting thrown out of the family for it. She couldn't stand to be away from us. She still loved all of us, with the exception of Carlisle, too much to walk away.

Carlisle had hurt her too much in the past six years for her to go on loving him. She stayed with though, for the sake of the "kids." I admired her for that. I never told a soul the things I picked up from her thoughts, not even when I disagreed with her. I still hadn't told Alice but I figured she'd already seen it.

She looked upset when I got into the car.

"Are you alright?" I asked when I saw her strained face.

"I fine." she said but I knew she wasn't. I didn't push it though. "How was your trip?"

"Fine." I said.

"Great." Alice added.

She then launched into a long explaination of everything she saw and bought. I didn't mind. It gave me time to think about Kari. I missed her so much. I was anxious too. I wanted to go and inspect every inch of her body, to be sure she wasn't touched. Alice talked the whole time. It wasn't until about ten minutes from the house the Esme looked at me.

"Carlisle would like to see as soon as we get back." she said.

I was polite and didn't probe her thoughts but was curious about what was so important.

"Okay. Do you know what about?" I asked.

"He said it was just to tell you when and where we're going for the next set of humans." she answered shortly. I nodded. "But," she added. "Bella has been spending a lot of time talking to him the past three days. And she always leaves smiling."

Even though she still loved each of us like her own children, she was still aware of Bella's new vindictive nature. Esme knew that she blamed me for what happened to Nessie and would do anything to get back at me. She did her best to warn me when Bella was planning things. I appreciated her for that.

"Do you know if she hurt my human?" I asked wanting to make sure she kept Kari out of it.

"Not to my knowledge." Esme answered in her motherly tone.

I sunk back into my own thoughts. They weren't enough, however, to stop Esme clicking ones from entering my mind. She was putting things together and preparing to ask the question I was dreading.

"What's going on with you and the human? Her name's Kari, right?" she said.

I nodded but didn't answer the question at first. I debated whether or not, I should tell her. I thought I could trust her but what if? With the way things were now, you couldn't be to sure.

"Your secrets are safe with me." she thought.

I looked back at Alice who nodded.

"I think I'm falling in love with her." I said.

She smiled.

"I thought so." she said.

"What do you mean?"

"Don't think I haven't noticed your changes." Esme replied. "It feels like Bella all over again, only better. They way your trying to protect Kari from everything. I noticed you both went back to the animal diet. And you stop using the girls for your own peasures. I'm betting she had something to do with all of it."

I just nodded.

"I honestly saw it all coming from the first day you saw her." Esme continued. "You looked at her the way you used to look at Bella. Well, I mean, to me you did. I know you well enough to have see it deep inside your eyes. I'd like to talk to her some time if you mind."

"Anytime." I said.

It was nice to know that we had at least one of the "parentals" on our side. If Carlisle was too stupid to see through what Bella was trying to do, we didn't need him.

When we pulled in front of the house, Alice and I grabbed our bags and went inside. Alice took my bag at the door.

"Go see Carlisle. I'll go up and check on Kari." she said and headed to the stairs.

"Okay, thanks, Alice." I said and headed to Carlisle's study.

ALICE

When I got upstairs, I found Kari asleep on her cot. I didn't want to wake her but I knew she'd want to know right away when we got home. I walked over to the cot and gently shook her awake.

"Kari, honey, it's Alice. We're back." I said.

Her eyes fluttered open and she stared at me for a minute until recognition set in. Then she sat up and through her arms around me.

"Alice, oh my god. I'm so glad you're back. I missed you so much."

She had a death grip on my neck. I had to pry her off.

"Kari, are you okay?" I asked.

"Yeah, it's just so boring around here without you two." she said.

She was lying, I could see it eyes. Someone had done something.

"Did Bella hurt you at all?" I asked.

"No." she said. I wasn't convinced. She had that look in her eyes that told me she was hiding something. "In fact," she added trying to sound a little more convincing. "She just ignored me when she came in."

I wanted to question her furhter but she started asking me questions about the trip. She kept me talking about the sites and the shopping until Edward came back up. I didn't get a chance to ask her about anything.

EDWARD

I walked to Carlisle study and knocked on the door.

"Come in." he said.

I opened the door and walked in. He was sitting at his desk with papers and books scattered accross it. He was writing something. I tried to hear what this conversation was going to be about but he was carefully blocking me. That was how it was now. Everyone blocked me when they knew I was in a room. That was something they never did before. The family was always open and we never had secrets. Now, it felt like our family was built on secrets and lies.

"Have a seat." he told me.

I sat, even though I technically didn't need to. It would be easier to talk about this sitting, anyway.

"How was your trip?" he asked.

"It was fine." I responded. I hand a feeling of what he was getting at.

"Did you find anything for us?" he probed.

"Unfortunately, nothing caught my interest." I said evenly.

"I see."

He had a look on his face that told me, he thought there was more to it.

"Yeah," I said trying to sound as convincing as posible. The humans are just getting so dull. I'm not having any fun anymore."

"But your human is still holding your interest."

"Yes."

"Can I ask why?"

"Is this really what you wanted to talk to me about?" I asked getting annoyed. "I had a long flight and would like to rest."

"Right, sorry. I just wanted to inform you that we will be going to Palmer, Alaska for our next set of slaves."

I tried to keep my features blank as I proccessed the information. I was fuming inside though. Bella had the diary and she had read it. I wasn't going to let her get away with taking Kari's niece. I do what I could to stop it.

"Okay," I said. "Is there anything else?"

"No, that's all." he said and I got up to leave. "But I hope that you'll find something of interest there because I don't like having empty cells at the warehouse."

I just walked out and had to use all my willpower not to slam the door. I walked up the stairs contemplating how I should break this news to Kari.

When I walked in the door, both Alice and Kari turned to look at me.

"We have a problem." I announced.

KARI

"We have a problem." Edward said the minuyte he walked through the door.

That phrase drained any happiness that his coming home brought. From the look on his face it was bad. Bella was no doubt using the diary to manipulate Carlisle.

"What?" I asked.

"Carlisle has just told me that we are going to Alaska for our next human pick up." he said.

No! She couldn't have done that. I told her I was going to say anything. She was going to back out on her word. I could feel the tears coming. Why was she doing this to me? What did I ever do to her? I didn't choose any of this.

"No, you can't. Not them." I said.

Edward was in front of me in a minute.

"Shh!" he whispered and wiped the tears away. "Alice and I will do everything we can to make sure they don't get hurt."

I nodded. I couldn't help but believe him.

"Did Carlisle say anything else?" Alice asked.

"Nothing to prove that Bella's told him anything about you and I. It was just the suspicions that our actions lately have been causing." Edward answered.

The two stared at each other for a minute and Edward nodded. They did this quite often they were good at the whole silent conversation thing.

"Well, I'm going to go unpack and let Japser know I'm back. Not tht he would care." she said and stood up to leave.

I heard the sadness in her voice and wanted to tell them both but I didn't know what Bella was planning on doing in Alaska. I figured it was best not to give her fuel for the fire. Besides, we hadn't even discussed what we were going to do. Why was she leaving now? When she walked out the door Edward began pacing.

"Did Bella do anything to you while we were gone?" he asked.

"No." I lied. He seemed to buy it.

"Good because I worried the whole week." he replied. "It was hard for me not to be here to protect you. Alice got very annoyed with me."

I nodded. I had a feeling were this was going so I was just going to let him talk through it.

"It was a weird feeling because I hadn't been that anxious to be away from someone since Bella and I started our relationship. She was the only person I couldn't stand being away from. And the ironic part is I would've killed anyone who hurt her but now, I'd kill her if she hurt you." He continued.

I continued staring at him intently. I had been waiting for something like this for almost two months.

"And I know that it's crazy to be sayin this to you. After everything that I've said and done to you but I think I may be in love with you." He said. "And not like I was in love with Bella. I think her love was supposed to lead me to you. And I know I have no right to say it or feel it but that's the way it is. And I know I have no right to ask for anything in return, which I won't but...:"

I held up a hand for him to stop. I wanted him to know that I felt the same way because yes, he did some horrible things to me but it didn't change how I felt too.

"Stop, please." I said. "I've been waiting to hear those words for awhile. And I want you to know that despite everything that you have done, I love you too. The things you've done have only helped you to reach this conclusions and they helped you realize that you needed to change. I can't hate you for those things because they helped you. I..."

Before I could say anything else, he was kissing me and I was kissing him back. The kiss was full of passion and longing. It was something we both needed at that moment. I closed my eyes feeling the passion and peasure of it. As the kiss deepened and he leaned me back on the cot, Jasper's face flashed accross my mind and I had to stop Edward.

"Did I hurt you?" he asked concern flooding his features.

"No." I replied. "It was just a little too fast for me. I'm sorry."

"Don't be." He whispered pulling himself away from me.

He got up and walked to his bed. I followed. When he sat, I laid down resting my head on his chest. He began stroking my hair. This was nice but we still hadn't discussed how we were going to save my sister and her family.

"Are you sure you can protect them?" I asked.

"I'm not going to lie. It's going to be difficult but I promise we will do everything we can to protect them. But when Bella wants something, she'll stop at nothing to get it. And we have to be careful not to blow our cover."

"I know." I said. I had my own experiences with Bella's wants. I didn't want them to get caught either. I couldn't stand it, if I was responsible for tearing them away from their family. "Don't get caught. I don't think I could live with that. I don't want you sent away."

"Don't worry." Edward said. "We'll be careful."

He kissed the top of my head.

"Oh and Esme wants to talk to you sometime." he said after a few minutes of silence.

"Have I unintetionally offended her to?" I asked.

My heart was racing. I didn't think I could take another vindictive female vampire who wanted me dead.

"Calm down." He said. "I imagine she just wants to thank you."

"For what?" I asked trying to get my heart rate back under control.

"Giving me life again."

He kissed the top of my head again. We laid like that for awhile. I couldn't believe how comfort I was. I felt like not even Bella could hurt me while I was in his arms. Eventually, I drifted off to sleep again.

A/N: I'm sorry for the ending of this chapter. It got too late for me to work on last night and by the time I was able to work on it today, I had forgotten the dialouge. So I hope this version turned out good.