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Beware: It's sad! CRY

I'm not going to bother to put in a disclaimer. We all know Stephenie Meyer wrote Twilight (btw, she's a genius), so I'm not even going to bother anymore.

Italicized…Alice's thoughts

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I had been running for, perhaps, a minute or so, when I finally realized there was something I needed to do.

I spun in spot and whipped back toward Forks, praying Bella hadn't gone straight home, or was at least downstairs. When I reached her house, I quickly climbed up to her window and flung it open, not able to hear her in the house.

Her room smelled just like her, like it always did. I nearly doubled over in pain when I remembered all the nights she had fell asleep in my arms. Warm and soft, with her dark hair spread out around her, she was like my own personal angel.

No, I had to stop thinking like that. It was over. I shoved the thought to the back of my mind.

Quickly I tried to remember everything I'd given her or would remind her of me. I flashed from her CD player, to her scrapbook, extracting the disc and pictures.

I could take them myself, but did I need another reason to feel ripped apart by the separation? The blurry picture of us standing together made me feel sick. I couldn't keep these reminders.

I yanked a floorboard out of the floor and laid the things carefully inside. I shoved the floorboard back into the ground and fled out the window again, my eyes burning with invisible tears.

I arrived in front of my home in Forks…a place that was truly my home. The shiny silver Volvo parked in front of the house glistened in the one light still on in the house.

I heard Alice's thoughts just then, and she was trying to shield her thoughts by thinking about a bit of dust on the shelf next to her.

I slowly went inside to see what she wanted. No doubt it would be about Bella. I winced mentally at the thought of her name.

Alice was, in fact, there to talk about Bella. I caught a glimpse of the conversation she had seen us having in her head. She grimaced when she realized she had slipped.

"Alice." I groaned, turning again to leave, but she caught me by the arm.

"Please, Edward? Listen to me just for a moment." She begged mentally.

"Fine." I replied gruffly.

"She's only in danger without you. She's prone to it, Edward. There are a lot of accidents that would have killed her if she had not had you."

"And there would have been a lot less if I hadn't been there."

"True. But at least you were there to save her. She has a better chance of dying without you, then with you."

"I don't believe that. She'll be fine. She promised to stay safe.

"But staying safe, for her, takes more than just a promise. She'd have to exile herself to her house, and she still would be in danger. She'd fall in the washing machine or something."

"Stop, Alice."

"You know I speak the truth, Edward."

"Stop."

She shook her head slowly, putting her head in her hands. She seemed, then, a lot older than she was physically.

"Please, consider it. I would only want the best for her too, Edward. She's like my sister."

"Your problem is that you see things in the wrong light."

"The wrong light, or the right? Just because I see the cup half full, does not mean you must see it half empty. Consider it. Please."

"No, Alice. I'm sorry."

"Why must I leave, also? Why can't it be my decision to stay?" She was fuming now, her calm approach gone.

"Because I got her into this. It is my decision whether to take her out."

"And loose someone who makes you happy? To take away her happiness, also? Edward, I don't think you thought this through."

"She'll forget."

"No she won't! Edward, I can tell she loves you. She'll never get over you fully."

"You're wrong. B-Bella is a smart girl. She'll realize she's better off, and…."

I couldn't continue, I turned away from her.

"You love her, Edward." Alice whispered, reaching up to put a hand on my shoulder. "More than anything else, I know you do."

I sank to my knees, putting my head in my hands. I was weak, and the pain was crushing me.

"Oh, no, I didn't mean…I didn't want you to…Edward…I'm sorry."

Empty sobs wracked my chest, and I felt so helpless and out of my own control. Above all, I felt stupid for hurting Alice and Bella and…

I couldn't think further.

Bella had to be safe. The only things she wasn't safe from were my kind…

And the only one of my kind that wanted to kill her had to be stopped.

Victoria.

I straightened up…so quickly that Alice stepped back a few feet in shock. "Goodbye, Alice." I said curtly, not looking at her. Hope flashed through her mind and I shook my head mechanically from side to side.

"I need to finish something. And it's not that."

And, with those finishing words, I sprinted to the car, climbed in and sped down the road. I wasn't sure where I was going, but wherever I ended up was going to be where Victoria died.

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