Goodbye my lovely readers! Now, to the sequal! The Guardian: Make it or Break it.

The Guardian

Chapter Fourteen- Judgement

"Alright, Bella. When we go in their take your seat and when you're pulled to the stands just speak the truth. Okay? Can you do that?" Carlisle and Esme were encouraging me to do what was right, but I wasn't so sure if I wanted this anymore. But it was too late.

"Psst," I heard something down the hall, I could see a shadowy figure gesturing me with his hands to come to him.

"I'll be right back, I have to use the restroom." Carlisle nodded and let go of my shoulder so I could make my way down the hall. But as soon as I made it to where the figure had been standing, I was pulled harshly into a corner but something with very rough hands.

"Bella, listen to me. You know you don't want to do this." I gasped and he clamped a hand over my mouth. I had to resist the urge to throw-up. "Bella, I'm your father and what I say goes. You got that?" I nodded and he spun me around to face him. "You will walk into that court room and tell the judge and jury that it was all a joke. An attempt to get attention." I scowled and pulled away from him, but he just held me tighter. "Bella you will go through with this. I am demanding it." His voice was so full of authority.

"No! I won't!" I yelled at him, struggling to pull away. "I am going to free myself from you and I am going to live my life WITHOUT YOU!" Charlie slapped me, hard. "I'm warning you, kid..." He waved his fist in the air.

"Regardless of warnings, the future doesn't scare me at all. Nothings like before." I said calmly and finally pulled out from his grip and ran as fast as I could back to the family, who had heard everything.

"Bella, are you alright?" Edward asked, checking me over for bruises or marks of any kind.

"Yeah I'm fine. Lets do this." I said as the doors opened and we were let in.

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"What does the jury plead?" The judge asked, smiling over to me.

"The jury pleads that Isabella Marie Swan, is not guilty of attempted murder on her father." The jury pounded her wooden hammer thing.

"Charlie Swan is guilty on the accounts of: Abuse, Drug or Alcohol abuse, and three counts of attempted murder." The judge smiled at me and pounded her wooden hammer thing again. "Court dismissed."

Everyone stood up from there seats and left the court room, Charlie left the doors in hand cuffs and three officers in uniform. Everything had come back to me, just like I had promised Edward.

Edward... He ran up and hugged me so tight I could barely breathe. And then kissed me full on the lips. This was the happy ending that I had always dreamed about, but there was still one more thing we had to take care of before running off into the sunset.

Leaving the Court House was very difficult on my part. There were paparazzi everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Constant flashes in my eyes was making me dizzy so Edward took my hand and pushed him behind him, to block the camera's.

Weren't we still in Forks, Washington, the smallest town and loneliest town in the world? Apparently not even the small towns are susceptible to gossip. I could imagine the headlines in tomorrow's papers:

Forks Favorite Chief of Police, Charlie Swan: Arrested for Abuse.

Hopefully the news doesn't go national, my mother would have me shipped back with her and Phil in a millisecond.

"Bella, Love?" His voice snapped me out of my revere as we entered his shiny well-known Volvo.

"Hm?" There was a slight pause before Edward smiled at me, starting the car.

"I love you, Bella." It was my turn to smile, and boy was I smiling.

"I love you too, Edward."

Today was a good day.

TGbyELV

"Bella, love, I don't want you here alone." I almost scuffed at Edwards reasoning for not wanting to go hunting with his family.

"Edward, I'll be fine. What could possibly go wrong? If someone were out to get me, Alice would have seen it by now. And plus, if someone was going to do something Alice would see it and you would have a lot of time to come here and save me. Plus, I'm in your house. No one comes here. Hell, some people don't even know where your house is." Edward shook his head, it was either from what I had said, or from something someone had thought.

"Bella..."

"Edward..." I mocked him in a playful way. Smiling, he kissed me before pulling away and sighing.

"I don't know... I don't like the idea." He shook his head, probably listening to someone's thoughts.

"C'mon Edward, she's just as stubborn as you. And she's had less practice." Emmett's voice made its way to my eardrum. I gave Edward a 'you know, he's right' look, and he just sighed again.

"If something happens to you… I don't know what I might do." He laid his forehead against mine before he kissed my cheek and the whole family left with a few last waves. But they would be back in a matter of a few hours.

Now… what am I going to do during those few hours. I shrugged to myself before climbing the stairs carefully up to Edward's room, where I laid on the bed for a few minutes, listening to some of his favorite music.

I heard a faint ringing noise vibrating through the empty house; I figured it was the phone. I slid off the silky bed and began my search for the phone.

Who would be calling this late in the day? If it were one of the Cullen's wouldn't they just call my cell phone? But then again, I wouldn't have answered my cell phone; I had left it down stairs by accident. So it could be Edward just checking up on me, but they haven't even been gone for an hour yet.

I finally found the phone after the fifth ring, but I had answered it too late. It went to the answering machine, but the person just hung up. I guess it wasn't important. I put the phone down on the hook and grabbed my cell phone before returning back up stairs.

I checked my phone for any missed calls and saw that I had none, but then the house phone rang again.

"Who's calling?" I thought out loud as I slowly made my way down the stairs and looked at the phone. The Cullen's must have thought that caller ID was useless; especially because Alice could tell them who it was before they even picked up the phone and called.

Pressing the 'talk' button on the fourth ring I slowly moved the phone to my ear, listening for a voice. I felt like I was in a horror film, the one 'When a stranger calls'.

"Cullen residence, this is Bella speaking." I said so that the person wouldn't think that I was robbing their house or something.

"Bella…" I recognized the voice

"What do you want?"

"If I can't have you Bella, nobody can." Ace's voice seemed rough with venom, but I tried not to let him scare me. I mean, if he were going to do anything Alice would have seen it already and Edward and the clan would be on their way back by now, right?

"Ace, get over your self." I scuffed and hung up the phone, but he just called back until I answered the phone again.

"Leave me the hell ALONE!"

"If that is what you wish." Edwards voice surprised me, as I got ready to hang up the phone.

"Oh, Edward, I thought you were someone else…" My voice drifted off as I heard him made an exasperated sigh of frustration on the other end of the receiver.

"Bella, whatever you do, do not, and I repeat, do not go out side. Do you understand me?" I nodded though I knew he couldn't see it. "Good." I was a small bit puzzled at this, but let it slid. He probably read Alice's vision and saw that I wasn't going to disobey him.

"Are you finished already?" I had to ask.

"No, were still in the car. Alice's vision just scared me a little, nothing to worry about now though. See you in a bit Bella; call me if you need anything. Okay?"

"Mhm, see you." I said before hanging up and making my way back up stairs. This is going to be a LONG day. Sighing softly I jumped back onto Edward comfy and silky bed, the pillows were so soft I sunk right through them. I started to feel myself fall asleep and then I thought, oh, what could it hurt. Fewer things will happen if I am asleep.

I had a dream, one of those dreams where you can feel you're self-moving, but you know you're not really moving at all. Well, when I opened my eyes because I felt a very cold draft hit my arms.

"What—?" I asked out loud as I saw that I was once again in the meadow that I had found myself in many times before. "How—?" I looked around, searching for the person or thing that had brought me here. And was I pissed and scared when I saw him. "Ace, what did you do!?" I yelled at him, trying to stand up, but all of a sudden it hurt. What had he done to me?

"I warned you Isabella, if I can not have you, no one will." I saw something glimmer in his left hand then. Ace all together looked as though he hasn't slept in days, or eaten in months. Though he still seemed to look stronger then me. His hair was tousled, like Edwards only worse and unnatural. He was peering at me from behind his over-grown bangs, his eyes seemed to shine with dullness.

"Ace, what… what's wrong with you?" His body seemed to be disobeying his mind as his legs moved forward his upper body tilted over to the right, to sum it up, he looked like a dog slowly going insane with rabies.

"This," He kept his eyes on mine. "Is where you die, Isabella Marie Swan." He was making his way over to me faster then what I would have expected. And I couldn't escape because something was wrong with my legs. Oh, shit.

Ace was only a foot away from me now, and I raised my arm to block anything that he might throw at me, but he just raised his arm with the knife in it. It looked to be a butcher knife, but I really couldn't tell, I was too scared. He paused, looking down on me with an expressionless mask on. What was wrong with him?

"They will never find you here." This was the last statement I thought Ace would say to me, right before he would stab the life out of my body. Then I realized exactly what he had said.

"They will find me—"

"Because they're Vampires. Right? I know more about them then you seem to think, Bella." And with that he brought the knife down on my thigh. It burned like hell, but all I could think of was, I have had worse. Way worse.

Through the pain, I grabbed my thigh where the knife had left it bleeding. Ace just stabbed my legs over and over again, slowly moving up to my stomach. I screamed until there was no more energy left in me. My whole body had grown numb except for the areas with blood gushing out of them.

My last glimpse that I saw of Ace was him standing over me, with no expression, but his eyes seemed to be sad. Then—

Suddenly, I could feel my shoulders shake, and then an alerting paint all down my legs and in my stomach.

"…ella…"

"Edward…it."

"Now…dying." The voices that were echoing in my head were all jumbled up and didn't make any sense.

"Edward…help me…" I managed to mumble out as I coughed hoarsely. Then I felt a rough arm slid behind my head, and then a whisper in my ear.

"I'm so sorry, Bella." And then a sharp rip in my neck, like someone was biting me. That was until I felt a fire spread through me fast. I was…Changing.

TGbyELV

"Ace Hemmings is found guilty of premeditated murder attempt on three accounts, and gang abuse. Sentence is 35 to life." Ace's face fell like a rock in the ocean. This cannot be happening.