.A/N: I'm back!! Missed me?? I just entered my house. I felt so horrible about leaving you on that little cliff, so I decided to update before even I could have lunch. Hope it's worth the wait.

Chapter 17: Edward's deal

Everyone was silent, they all awaited Bella's choice. The atmosphere was unbearably tense. Bella opened her mouth more than once to talk but nothing came out. She didn't have the courage that will help her in even finding her voice. She took a deep breath and was about o talk but Emmet raised one hand to silence her.

"Wait, there is something you should know" Emmet said not looking at her. His eyes were sad and his face was hanging. He seemed to take a deep breath and looked at Bella, "Before Edward went to James I talked to him." Everyone turned to face Emmet with worried expressions.

"You have to stay with her" Edward pleaded, over and over. He never looked so hopeless.

"Why?" Emmet growled, finally opening a door of discussion to Edward.

"I have to do this alone, but you have to make sure she'll stay human and won't pick Carlisle's option"

"But, then how will we wrap this up. There are two and she has to pick one" Emmet said not understanding Edward's point of view at all.

"I'll…" Edward hesitated, "I'll make a deal with James" That shocked Emmet, he narrowed his eyes examining him.

"What kind of deal?" He asked suspiciously. Edward fell silent and didn't look at Emmet. Suddenly understandment filled Emmet and his eyes opened wide.

"Oh no, you're not thinking what I think you're thinking" Emmet said appalled. He shook his head violently unable to grasp the idea. Edward looked at him with pain all over his face.

"I'm sorry" Edward whispered.

"What if she gets it right?" Emmet demanded hopelessly.

"What if she gets it wrong? It'll torment her for the rest of her life. Knowing that she was the reason of my death. I can't take that risk. I don't want her to be in pain, even if I'm not here" Edward said hanging his head. Emmet put one hand on his shoulder.

"And what do you think she'll feel like when you don't come back?" Emmet asked gently, his eyes burning into Edward's. He tried to avoid Emmet's eyes but couldn't. He sighed.

"I might come back one day. Who knows? But at least there won't be any danger for her" He said in a voice full of grief.

"Are you sure that what you're about to do will work?" A moment of uncomfortable silence passed. Emmet didn't take his eyes off of Edward's face and Edward kept trying to avoid them.

"Yes" He said quietly after a while. Emmet sighed.

"Would you stay for me if I asked you to?" He asked hopelessly. Edward looked at him his eyes full of sorrow and pain. Out of nowhere they embraced each other.

"Sorry, I can't" Edward told him quietly. Emmet nodded.

"I'll miss you, bro" Emmet told him his voice full of feeling.

"I'll miss you too, bro" Edward said emotionally before taking one last look at his brother and vanishing.

Esme started crying silently from the beginning. Bella looked mesmerized. The rest were just in shock.

"I should've known that he'll do something like this, but we have to stop him" Carlisle said firmly.

"Stop him from doing what?" Bella asked breathless.

"You know how James is into the whole revenge thing" Emmet told her quietly. Bella nodded, "Well picture this. You're trying to get your revenge but suddenly out of nowhere, your enemy comes holding the white flag and telling you that he'll be your slave and do anything you want even gives you the authority to insult him in anyway. All this in return to stop torturing his beloved. Why would you be interested in torturing her when you got him where you want" Emmet said disgustingly. Bella gasped and clapped her hands on her mouth.

"He wouldn't" She whispered her eyes wide with shock, even though she knew very well that this wasn't true.

"Oh believe me. He would" Jasper said angrily.

"Why didn't you stop him?" Rosalie demanded.

"You know Edward. Once he decides something no one can change it" Emmet said defensively.

"You could've warned us" Alice snapped not looking at him.

"Oh look who's talking. You should've seen this before me" Emmet snapped back.

"Sorry for not being a full option TV. I do my best unlike some of us" She said raising.

"Enough" Carlisle shouted before Emmet could answer. They both sat down each facing a different way. Bella started stroking Esme's hair to calm her down.

"Bella" Carlisle said sharply. She could see that he struggled to use a lighter tone.

"Yes" She said quietly turning to him.

"We need your choice right now" He said more calmly now. Bella gulped.

"Ok" She chocked. She started shaking hard, she couldn't realise why. From the spell or from the nervous state that she's in. Every eye was back on her. She took a deep breath and said,

"I'll pick the right Edward"

.A/N: So I hope it was worth the wait. I'm really tired from travelling 7 hours, but I couldn't leave you this way and go sleep. I hope you enjoyed it. Now, I'll go have lunch lol. Let me breath guys please lol.