A/N: So… I officially think I'm in love with you guys!

You all tell me how great my writing is, but I never thought It was all that good.

Sorry it took so darn long to update! I've had a bit of writers block and testing all this week (You know that standardized testing where the paper is like vivid –hurt-your-eyes white and you have to bubble in endless answers that start to blur together… yeah, those)

MORE Victoria drama?!

Blasphemy!

"Well, you are the one, the one that lies close to me
Whisper's "Hello, I miss you quite terribly"
I fell in love, in love with you suddenly
Now there's no place else I could be but here in your arms"

Here in your arms – Hellogoodbye

(Good song, hard to find one that fit this chapter but this reminds me of Bella and Edward somewhat)

Bella's POV

I laid in Edwards's arms for what felt like eternity, yet only minutes at the same time. I stared into his topaz orbs and he looked straight back into my deep purple ones with nothing but love (and a hint of… lust?) in his eyes.

Suddenly the door burst open, I guess we were so absorbed with just looking straight into each other's souls that we did not hear them earlier. Their breathing was frantic and I was slightly shocked, if it was that hard for a vampire to breathe why not just stop breathing all together?

The vampire clasped her little arms to my shirt and clung to me as if her life (or afterlife, whatever) depended on it. Her mess of jet black spiky hair obscured her face from me and she looked at me with horror.

Edward snapped up and went rigid in his place, never releasing me from his grasp. Something was up.

"Alice, what's wrong?" Edward and I asked her at the same time, apparently her mind was blocked.

"Bella! You have to come help, I just had a vision of someone being attacked by Victoria in Seattle, maybe we can get there soon enough to save them!" Alice said dramatically.

Edward had an odd expression on his face and a strange gleam to his eyes. Was it amusement…? Ugh! I don't have time for this!

Alice's POV

SHE FELL FOR IT!

Yes! Bella's surprise here we come!

Hear that Edward, that wasn't true, we get to give Bella a surprise! YAY!

I could almost hear him sigh in exasperation as I started to go crazy in my mind, my head began filling with things we would do when she got there. Man I wish I didn't have to keep all of this energy pent up, I could just scream to get all of the excitement out (or at least a little of it)

"Alice, don't just stand there! Get your little hyper butt into this car or Victoria will have killed half of Port Angles before we get there!"

Oh this is SO perfect.

Bella's POV

For the first time in my life I was uncomfortable with Edward's driving for a different reason… he was going too damn SLOW! People could be dying, yet he went the same 110 miles per hour he would if we were simply late for school when I was a human. None of this makes sense! Uggh.

I sat in the car, the silence from Alice and Edward comforting, letting me wallow in my thoughts peacefully.

Finally! We're in Port Angles. Why are we heading for the mall? If I wasn't so worried about the prospect of the amounts of people who would see Victoria's performance I would have thought Alice was tricking me into shopping with them. But even Alice wouldn't do that to my nerves right?

Oh well. It was all I could do to stop myself from running full out and letting my wings erupt from my back, but I knew this would only cause even more commotion than Victoria would have.

Edward's POV

Bella is so oddly silent. It is making me nervous; she hadn't truly fallen for this had she?

Edward, she believed me, and she will probably be incandescently pissed when she finds out we used such a colorful lie, but she will be grateful later, I'm sure of it. You might not believe me but I'm sure it's true. Came into my brain from Alice's mind, this was obviously a surprise for me too, because she put up her mental block once again as soon as she was done.

She smugly snuggled her small form into the plush seats of my Volvo and gave me an all-knowing smirk. I grimaced at her, hoping Bella had not noticed. I knew she hadn't, for she was deep in her own thoughts, staring intently out the window. Even if I couldn't read her mind I could tell she would not have picked up the miniscule details she was usually so apt to observe.

I sighed in my mind as we pulled up to the Port Angles mall as Alice had swiftly instructed me to do. Bella would be incandescently pissed after this (A/N: yes, incandescently means light, but it also means extreme emotions, this time anger; it's sort of my own coined phrase that I use around my friends when someone is extremely mad) why the hell is Alice always right? Oh yeah, she can see the damn future and she could tell us when one of our enemies were around and she could see some of Bella's past, yet she couldn't tell me how well I'd fare when my fiancée would round on me about Alice's vision. Very convenient…

I got out of the car, and it took all I had to keep Bella at a human pace, suddenly I worried about her control around human blood, but then I remembered that she wasn't a vampire and I mentally signed in relief.

We sped towards the mall. Was that a gleam of pink I see? Oh lord, Alice decorated the mall? What the hell?

Then I stopped dead as I heard people's terrified thoughts.

Oh lord! Alice didn't say this vision was true! She said it was a surprise for Bella! Came Rosalie's thoughts flooded into my mind.

I'm going to squish that little bitch. Emmett.

Get all of the humans out! Now! Carlisle, Jasper and Esme's thoughts all seemed to think the same thing.

What's going on? One unfamiliar voice said; where are these people leading us? Thought another, thoughts desperate for answers. Then I heard the unfamiliar voice think the thing I feared the worst. What does that woman with the fly-away flame-orange hair want with us, her eyes look like a black hole and I think she wants to kill us. Ho-l-y shit.

I froze. It was Victoria and she was standing menacingly in front of us. Alice's look of pure horror eroded the gleeful smile she had failed to suppress since her departure from the car. This was not good, too many human witnesses, but Victoria was not threat to 7 vampires who had their own guardian angel.

Bella tensed beside me and let out a menacing hiss. Victoria snapped her attention to Bella and said, "So we meet again Isabella, and Edward too." She said, turning to me. "Now Edward, you get to see your mate die right before your eyes."

Suddenly my body went rigid as I tried to retaliate, and I saw my family and the humans do the same. Then my vision suddenly went into blackness…

A/N: Yes, what is happening to Edward is Victoria's power. You will find out about it in the next chapter, sorry this one is so short, but I have to go pack for my camping trip this weekend, I hope to type some chapters on the drive to the mountains, so you might get a new chapter on Sunday when I get back, maybe two if you're extra nice.

NO, Victoria is not the old 'friend'

If someone can guess the 'friend' and tell me what Bella's third power will be I'll send them the epilogue in advance when my story is over (I was planning on making you guys suffer and have to wait a while…), I'll leave a hint at the end of every author's note (I love to make a game out of anything) You guys get two hints today. Lucky Ducks.

HINT:

1.) The friend is mentioned in one of the earlier books.

2.) Her power has to do with the 'shield' that symbolizes it, more than the lily or the trumpet represent her other powers.