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Last Chapter :I didn't want to leave my ring; it's the only bit of Edward I would have left. I quickly got into my truck and drove to the airport.

Chapter Ten

Purgatory

(EPOV)

If I would have been human I would have cried. I couldn't believe she just ran out on me. If she didn't want to marry me, I told her she didn't have to; I told her I would wait. I had never been so confused and hurt in my life. They way she kissed me before she left, it seemed like she loved me or was that just to please me one last time? I looked out in the crowd and I met Jacob Black's eyes. He was smiling from ear to ear. I was snarling under my breath. Charlie, Renée and Phil had left ten minutes after her. They were apologizing, but it didn't matter. She left and she wasn't coming back. I couldn't chase after her either. It was my own personal purgatory of suffering.

I should have known something was wrong as she cried down the aisle, as Alice and Jasper tried screaming in their heads to tell me to listen to them. Why did I have to block out their thoughts? I could have been more prepared. I sighed. No. I couldn't have been more prepared for my angel to just up and leave me on our wedding day. Especially when Rosalie was thinking about everything they complained about. To hear her talk about how perfect she thought I was, why would she leave me?

Edward. Something is wrong, I know she still loves you, I can feel it. I turned to Jasper who was thinking to me. I felt her love for you as she walked down that aisle, I felt her hating what she was about to do, and I could feel her lying when she said she didn't love you.

"Jasper, just stop, it's done, she left." I snarled at him.

Just then Jacob Black was smiling as he approached me. He was careful to keep his distance, but I could see him shaking gently.

"I guess she realized what kind of monster you are after all."

"Don't start with me, you mutt." I growled. I wanted to attack him and Jasper's waves of calm weren't stopping me at all.

"Look, as much as I hate to say this, I'm sorry you got left at the altar and all, but I mean, you did deserve it. You're a monster. Bella deserved better." He said through gritted teeth.

"And what are you? You'd hurt Bella before I ever would. Just look at Sam, who claims he's all righteous, Bella told me about what he did to Emily. Jacob Black, don't think you're any better, you'd hurt her in a heart beat, you're more of a monster than I ever would be." I was snarling and my fists were clenched. Carlisle came to stand beside me and put his hand on my shoulder.

"Boys, I think it's time we all leave, before any of this gets taken out of hand." I could read Jacob's mind it was taking every ounce of him to control from changing right here and now.

I turned toward Carlisle and avoided all of my family who was worriedly looking at me. I had to get out of here; everything was starting to remind me of her. Alice was in my Volvo before I even had a chance to leave.

" Alice get out." I snarled through clenched teeth.

"We're going to Bella's. She left us something."

"You mean she left?" I was tearlessly sobbing as I drove fast to Bella's house. This would be the last time I'd look at the outside of this house, I promised myself.

"I'm not going in." I whispered to her. She sighed and went to ring the doorbell. I could hear Charlie's sympathetic thoughts. I can't believe Bella would leave him like that. I have never seen a guy look so hurt, except when Renée left me. And here I thought he'd be glad she left me. I heard Renée's thoughts next. I feel sorry for that boy, but it's probably for the best they were too young. I just hope she's okay, she didn't write where she was going. She left Forks. Where would she go? I couldn't follow her. As much as I loved her, I couldn't chase after a lost dream. I was in my own personal purgatory, to know my beautiful Bella had left me and was alive, but to also know that I couldn't go after her. I was deep in thought when Alice returned holding her wedding dress. It absolutely smelt of her and tears. I started to tearlessly sob once more.

"She left a note for you." She said meekly as she passed me a slip of paper.

"Have you read it?" I asked her. No. I figured, you would want to read it first.

I unfolded the piece of paper; I could see tear marks on the page. I touched them gently and read the letter. Where was she going? What was she doing to save me? It was all this mutts' fault that she left! I snarled at the thought of his smile when she ran from me.

" Alice where is she going?" I asked through clenched teeth.

"Edward, I don't know. She told me not to look for her future…"

"It doesn't matter, what she told you! I think she's about to do something really stupid! I can't live with out her Alice."

"I can't see anything, it's like she's blocking me."

" Alice, I know you aren't even trying." I turned to look at her. I pleaded with my eyes and I could hear her give in. I've never seen him look so heart broken before, not even when he left her. Fine Edward! She was searching now and she saw Bella crying in a room sitting with chairs everywhere, but I couldn't be certain of the room she was in.

"What does that look like to you?" I asked.

"I don't know; it could be anywhere." She said uncertain of herself for once. "Let's just go home Edward. Whatever it is that she is doing, she didn't want you to interfere with."

"If it's her life on the line, I can't let her die."

"You don't even know if she's risking her life. You don't even know when she'll get to that room, or if she'll get there, you are relying on my vision and your own irrational thoughts, way too much." She didn't want to look at me and she was blocking her thoughts.

" Alice, I can't live with out her. Even if she's just running away, I want to run with her, she still loves me and I have to know what she's doing to save me."

(APOV)

I stared at Edward. We were still sitting in Bella's driveway. I didn't understand why she left him, until I read his note. She was leaving to save Edward. Always like Bella to worry about us when she was in more danger than any of us. He wanted to follow her, but I couldn't let him do that. It would take away everything Bella was

doing—whatever she was doing—this for. Was he right, was she going to kill herself? I thought of when Bella came to our house to vote on her immortality, she said it herself "I'll go to Italy alone." Was she going to Italy? I searched my mind once more and there she was, in an airport crying as she purchased her ticket.

" Alice, what did you see this time!?" Edward's panicked voice was yelling at me.

(BPOV)

I stepped out into the sun. My plane ride felt like it took years. I could just see Edward's face as I ran away from him. I had to keep reminding myself that it was for the best. I kept looking at my ring and tears would build up in my eyes. My legs were wobbling as I got a cab to take me to Volterra. Even now, death was awaiting and I was shaking rapidly, not from fear of the pain, but the thought of Edward. I hoped he was okay. I hoped he knew that I really loved him and didn't try to stop me. Maybe the Volturi could make it to where Alice couldn't see my future. There had to be something to stop him from coming to find me. The cab driver was staring anxiously at me. I gave him a weak smile. It didn't work he was still staring. I ignored him and tried to think of Edward. I had to think of him before the wedding, before I left him; his bronze tousled hair, his perfect angelic face, his beautiful topaz eyes, his perfect chiseled chest. I tried to imagine what would have happened if I would have stayed to marry him. We'd go somewhere where it could just be the two of us, for our honey moon. I figured we'd go to a remote island where we could lay in all day or go out and lay outside with him glowing. I cried realizing I'd never see him sparkle ever again; I'd never see him ever again. I was sobbing now and I couldn't control it. I just let my tears come. The cab came to an abrupt halt and I threw some money at him and ran out of the car. I ran to the clock tower like I had once before.

It seemed so much like the time before, only this time I wasn't running to Edward, I was running away from him. Tears were streaming down my face as I ran to the tower. I was surprised to run right into Jane. She glared furiously at me and then a wicked grin set across her lips.

She grabbed my arm and spoke, "They are waiting for you." I nodded and followed her down the same tunnels I went through with Edward and Alice not too long ago.

Aro was smiling as we entered the same office I had been in—what felt like yesterday—with Edward and Alice. I cried at the thought.

"Now Bella please quit crying. Tell us why you're here?" His sing song voice filled my ears.

"I…I…left Edward." It was all I could say before I started dry heaving. I couldn't believe it—I left him—my body went into convulsions. Someone lightly touched my shoulders and with a soothing voice whispered for me to calm down. I turned to see Marcus standing beside me. I would have never imagined him as a compassionate type, when I first saw him he was so apathetic. His voice was so soothing—as if he had once felt the pain I was in now. I wiped my tears away and told myself to be strong. I had to do this for Jacob, for the rest of the pack, for the Cullens, but most importantly, I had to do this for Edward. I stood up straighter and held my head high and I continued, "You see there's a treaty from werewolves in La Push, it's a town right near Forks, and I'm best friends with Jacob, who happens to be a wolf. I didn't know he was a wolf—when Edward left, I got really close to him—and then Edward came back and Jacob was upset. The treaty specifically says that the Cullens can't bite a human or else it will start a war between the wolves and vamps. I couldn't not be bitten either because then you'd come and kill me. Either way it looked as if I would die, I kept having a dream that Jane and Alec would come to kill me even though I was changed and Edward and Jacob would kill each other anyways. I decided that I was going to die either way and I'd rather have you kill me here then have everyone else die for no reason." I sighed when I finally finished.

Caius smiled as he entered the room, he must have heard the whole conversation.