(Okay, after weeks of reading messages and thinking about what should happen in the next chapter, It's finally up! Gahh! I would also like to dedicate this chapter to my brothers, because they have been helping me with this. If it weren't for them, it would have taken a lot longer for this chapter to be finished. I know I'm taking a long time to explain what Alice saw, but you need to know a few things before I tell you. Sorry! Ok, so prepare for the strangest and most exciting chapter in the book...REVIEWER'S CHOICE!!)

Edward closed his eyes and gripped the side of the couch, as if trying to restrain himself.

"Edward knows what Alice is about to say," Carlisle explained after seeing my confused expression. "He doesn't want to leave... he thinks it will show weakness."

I nodded and turned to Alice. Her voice quavered.

"Let me explain before I tell you what was going to happen. It will make much more sense if I explain to you about what Carlisle and I have been discussing for the past little while," she pleaded, trying to put off telling me the thing I was most curious about. I nodded, and she looked at Carlisle meaningfully. I suppose she wanted him to start.

"It seems the werewolves, or perhaps just Jacob, we can't be sure...have a new power," he said calmly. "They can make us act out on a whim, do the first thing that comes to mind. They force us to do something without thinking about the consequences. Usually, you don't even want to do the thing that ends up happening."

"Like when you have a mad killer on the phone and the first thing you want to do is scream and tell Alice, but then you think about it and decide just to go meet up with him without dragging anyone into it." I mused, starting to understand.

"Erm... not the best example, Bella, but you sort of have the right idea. Anyhow, you must understand that Jacob was trying to force Edward to do the first thing that crossed his mind, which he knew Edward would never do, not in a million years. It affected me as well, and for that I apologize," Carlisle said, looking at Edward.

Edward didn't move an inch. Carlisle continued.

"When this is happening, you go into a trance-like state. When it is over, you don't know what happened until you think about it. So at first, I didn't know the words coming out of my mouth, and I'm sure Edward didn't know what he was doing. You really think, after years of self-restraint, he would give in so easily? No, he had no idea. It's like your body takes over and you have to control over it.

It doesn't work out perfectly for them all the time, however. As it happens, Edward's first thoughts after what Jacob said was to kill him. Which he almost did. But even though you were the reason they started fighting in the first place, you called Edward's name, which also caused him to stop."

I was getting a little lost, but I kept listening intently.

"Don't you see? Just hearing your voice weakened Jacob's power. You must realize that Edward does love you, Bella, in order to go against an overpowering desire to kill him. But it hadn't completely disappeared... it was still happening when you talked to him. Which caused... well, what was about to happen next. But it was love also that made him completely overcome it and snap out of the trance when Alice and I came outside."

Everyone had grown silent.

"I think you should know, Bella," Edward murmured. "Because then, after hearing it, you might hate me even more...enough to leave me."

I moved close to Alice as she started to speak.

I laid in bed that night, going over what had been said that afternoon. It was hard to hear, and even harder to think about, though I couldn't get the sequence out of my head.

Edward was going to hit me. Not just once. He was going to hit me as hard as he could while I stayed as quiet as I could. I wouldn't be too loud, because I wouldn't want the rest of the Cullens to come out and see what he was doing. But I would whisper for him to please stop.

Apparently he wouldn't, because of Jacob. He was going to keep on doing the disgusting, terrible, abusive things. When the Werewolf Drug (that is the name we had come up with for the power) had almost worn off, he would be able to understand what he was doing, but he wouldn't be able to control his body. He would scream he couldn't stop, that he wished I was strong enough to run away. And as he started to scream, Carlisle would hear him and run out As soon as Edward was himself again, he would see what he had done... and he would have gone to the Volturi.

I shook as I went over it, and wished I could fall into a deep slumber.

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