Twilight through Alice's Eyes chapter 22
A/N: Hi guys. I'm back. Stupid doctors appointment and all prevented me from updating yesterday. Apparently I have a benign growth on one of my shoulders that they won't remove. I really don't care anymore. I have to go back in a few weeks to get part of it taken out. Anyway here's the chapter. I hope you like it.
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Chapter 22
APOV
I walked up to Carlisle's office and knocked on the door. It was completely silent on the other side. I grabbed the door knob and turned it-hoping I didn't find something gross behind the door. It was empty and the lights were off.
"Esme," I called, "where's Carlisle at?" If he wasn't here then where could he be?
"He works night shift tonight Alice. He's at the hospital." Of all the nights that he works night shift, why did it have to be tonight? I ran down the stairs and dashed out of the house. I needed to get to the hospital and talk to him.
I ran out of the forest, slowing down so I didn't get caught. I slowed to a walk as I went up to the front desk. "Is Dr. Carlisle Cullen here somewhere?" The lady just stared at me; it was obvious she just wanted to go home.
"He's in his office I think." She really sounded as if she were tired and didn't care about anything anymore. I ran up the stairs to his office without even saying a thank you to the woman.
I exited the stairwell and ran down to Carlisle's office. I opened the door and it was dark. There was no one in there. Where could he be? "Alice," I hear from behind me.
"Carlisle! Bella knows!" It may have sounded a little rushed to human ears, but to vampire ears it was perfectly normal.
"Calm down Alice. Do you mean to tell me that Edward told her? Where is Edward?" He looked at me with a worried and panicked expression. He wasn't prepared to uproot our lives in a matter of minutes, I wasn't prepared to move again, and I was pretty sure that Emmett wasn't ready to leave because he was stuck in a port-o-potty.
"No, he didn't tell her. She figured it out. Remember how I had that vision of the boy telling her? That's were she got it from. And Edward is in Port Angeles right now with Bella because he rescued her from a bunch of men who intended to do something bad to her." He still looked like he was worried. There were some nurses standing around staring at us. It was a good thing we didn't let anything important slip. "What are we going to do Carlisle?"
"I don't know Alice, but I believe we need to have a talk with Edward. He would be able to look into her mind and see if she was planning to tell. We need to go find him. He's going to need to take Bella home so that would probably be one of the best places to look for him first. Let's go Alice." He was already starting to turn towards the elevators to head out when I stopped him.
"There's two problems with that Carlisle. One of them is that you are on duty right now. You can't just get up and leave like that. You could get fired."
"That's true." He stood there thinking for literally one second. He walked a little further down the hall way. "Dr. Greene, could you cover for me for a little while. I have to go find my son right now." Dr. Greene looked up and nodded. Carlisle and I got in one of the elevators. "Alice, what was the other problem? You said there were two problems with my plan; what was the other problem?"
"Edward can't read Bella's mind." He just stopped for a moment.
"Can't as in he's not willing to or can't as in he physically can't?"
"Can't as in he physically can't." The elevator opened and Carlisle and I walked out to his car in the parking lot.
"How is that even possible that he can't read her mind? He can read anyone else's but hers. I don't understand it."
"Edward doesn't either. He said he even tried when they were freely talking to each other-like biology-and it didn't work." We were driving down the road and it dawned on me that I had no clue what we were about to do. "Carlisle, what are we doing?"
"We're going to park the car along a deserted road, hide in the bushes at Bella's house until Edward is alone, and pull him over and make him sit there so we can talk. That's what we're going to do Alice. Will it work?" I scanned the future for the plan and saw it implemented and working.
"Yes, the plan will work." Carlisle pulled off the road and hid the car. He and I ran along to bushes until we were close to Bella's house. We waited only for about a minute when Edward's car showed up. I listened closely to what they were talking about; I wanted to know what was going on between them.
"Do you promise to be there tomorrow?" Bella said.
"I promise." There was silence for a while and it looked like Bella was getting ready to get out of the car. "You can keep it-you don't have a jacket for tomorrow." Was she wearing his jacket? This only made me want to know more. She handed it back to him.
"I don't want to have to explain to Charlie."
"Oh, right." Bella reached for the handle of his car. "Bella?" What was he doing?
"Yes?" She sounded eager, kind of like she didn't want to leave him.
"Will you promise me something?" Was he planning to tell her to stay away from him? He wasn't going to hurt her was he? What in the world was he doing?
"Yes."
"Don't go into the woods alone." That's what he was doing: warning her. After she was almost killed the other day, he didn't want her anywhere near potential death. It was such a sweet gesture, if only she knew what he were talking about. She probably doesn't know what happened.
"Why?" She didn't know what happened. She was confused now. I looked over at Carlisle and he looked confused, too.
"I'll explain it later," I said quietly to him. He nodded his head.
"I'm not always the most dangerous thing out there. Let's leave it at that." Wait was he calling my husband dangerous? Well he is, but Edward is very dangerous, too. It looked like Bella shuddered a little.
"Whatever you say."
"I'll see you tomorrow."
"Tomorrow, then." Bella opened the door and started to get out.
"Bella?" What was he doing now? She turned around to see him inches from her and him leaning towards her. "Sleep well." Aw, that was so cute. Wait is there something I'm not getting? Does he watch her sleep and is wishing her to sleep well because her dreams have been bad lately or was he just saying sleep well because he wants her to sleep well?
He waited for her to get out and then turned the corner. Shortly after that he came back around the corner, but only after Bella was already inside. He pulled over to the side pf the road where Carlisle and I were hiding.
"I know you're there," He said. This probably meant he knew we were listening to his entire conversation with Bella; well, I was anyway.
"Edward, Bella knows we're vampires. Alice saw her in a vision telling you her thoughts. . ." Edward didn't give Carlisle a chance to finish.
"Bella knows and she told me. I told her the truth. You always taught us to tell as much of the truth as possible so I figured she knows most of it, there's no reason to hide the rest of it. She has no intentions of telling anybody so don't worry about that. Anything else?"
I knew he probably wouldn't answer me if I asked him this, but it was still worth a shot. "Do you come here and watch Bella sleep?" He looked at me as he started to rev the engine again.
"What do you see Alice?" He asked before he drove off leaving me and Carlisle hiding in the bushes. We were silent for a few moments.
"Ok. What are we going to do Carlisle? I don't know what will happen unless you decide." I waited for him to reply.
"Nothing. We're just going to stay here and let everything be the way it is." I looked at him, making it obvious by my face that I was questioning him. "Alice, Edward thinks that Bella won't tell anyone so we will leave it at that. There is no reason for us to go interfering with anything when we can't change it. Now if you will excuse me, I need to get back to the hospital. You can walk home right?" I nodded, still not believing the decision he made was the right one.
He drove off in his car and I ran home, beating Edward. I went into my room and laid on the couch searching for a vision of Bella's bed room. Then I found one.
Bella was lying in her bed already asleep. Edward jumped up into her open window and just stood there and watched her. "Edward," She said in her sleep. He took a step back thinking she might have been awake, but she rolled around a little and was just as asleep as before.
I smiled to myself. I was right about Edward going and watching her. I looked out the window and saw Edward park the car and then run off into the forest in the direction of Bella's house.
A/N: There you have it. This one didn't take me too long to write. By the way, if you want to read about how Emmett's little port-o-potty incident ended, go read my story Embarrassed. The first chapter tells about what happened after Alice's Vision ends. Please Review. ;)