AN: Yes, I should be punished! Just read the chapter first.
Chapter Six: The last ten minutes
The 'King' of Christmas sat in Carlisle's now glue ridden chair and sighed adding the last page of the destroyed leather bond treasure to the paper teddy bear he had been crafting for the now imprisoned Bella, but Edward was oblivious to this. He checked his watch, ten minutes in this suit left. Thank god! He thought, it was boiling in that polyester prison. If Edward could sweat at this point in time he would have been.
He barely heard the light patter of foot steps before the door slammed behind him. He whipped round and then sighed in relief.
"Oh, it's only you Jasper." He said and turned back to his newspaper wonder. Jasper grinned. "Look…" Edward paused. "…sorry about earlier, it's just you know how I get about my room and I really wanted it to be…." Edward was rudely interrupted in his profuse apologies however by the sudden presence of a battered Hessian sack. Normally this minor detail would not have fazed Edward but you have to understand that said sack was covering his face. This was a situation Edward was eager to get out of and he staggered around the room blindly, the teddy sculpture flew out of his hands hitting jasper hard in the face, knocking him to the floor, his bells tinkling merrily.
Emo elf shook himself and made to stand up and face his nemesis but before he could do so his whole body was engulfed in a wave of crimson velvet and artificial fur i.e. Edward fell on him.
Meanwhile back in the elf's putrid cave of Emo-ness (you can tell I'm getting As in English can't u?) The captured Cullens were becoming anxious by the delayed return of their host, for want of a better word.
"Where is heeeeeeee!" Rosalie screamed frantically trying to fend a dress-thirsty Bella off what was left of her skirt with her feet.
"How long have we got left?" Asked Emmett trying to twist his head round to look at his watch which of course was round his bound wrist.
"Five minutes!" said Alice grumpily.
"Ah. Ah. Ah. Alice, mushrooms can't tell the time!" Rosalie teased. Alice growled at her and she shrank against the side of the sleigh.
"Personally, I can't wait to change my costume." Emmett grumbled.
"You can't wait!" Alice said incredulously. "Anyway, I'm not changing, I've had enough of this game." She slumped back Bella came to rest her chin on her battered stalk.
"Oh come on Al…"Rosalie began but Alice silenced her with a poisonous look
"In fact!" said Alice, standing up. "I'm getting out of this costume right now!"
"No Alice!" yelled Emmett also jumping up. "There's only a few minutes left. Don't crack now." Alice sprinted out the room, not very successfully I might add as when was the last time you saw a mushroom sprinting? Last Tuesday? You're weird!
She knew where she was going, done the stairs, along the corridor. She ran, with Emmett at her heals. She was almost there when she felt something hit the back of her legs and she fell to her right. The overgrown mushroom rolled violently down the grand staircase, hitting the sofa with a bump.
Emmett stared down at her in disbelief, the murder weapon clutched in his sweat less palm. Rosalie and Bella rushed up to him and they too stared down at the motionless vegetable.
"Why?" shouted Emmett holding his whisk up in the air in despair. "Why her?" Rosalie tutted.
"Because you clobbered her with a whisk you walnut!" She mumbled. Emmett ignored her
"And so young!" He exclaimed, sank to the floor and sobbed into his apron. Rosalie patted the cold blooded murder on the shoulder.
"Oh Emmett…I don't know what to say!" Her face brightened slightly. "But at least you have ingredients for your meal now eh?" Emmett's sobs double and he slapped the floor with his whisk.
Bella padded down the stairs and lay down next to the face down body and whimpered, licking at her stem.
"Fffphget ofmph" came a muffled voice from under the mass of foam.
Bella's ears pricked up and Emmett stopped sobbing.
"Alice?"
"What?" she grumbled and sat up indignantly.
"Alice!!!!" Emmett screamed with joy and rushed down the stairs, throwing himself at her! "You're alive! Oh Alice! I'm so happy! I'll never attempt to make soup out of you again." Rosalie chuckled and Bella began running around, barking enthusiastically. Alice smiled.
"You know what, maybe being a vegetable isn't that bad!" she said happily.
And that is when the timer went off.
AN: So what has happened with Edward and Jasper? Will they play another game? Will Bella be able to speak in this one? Will Alice give up being a vampire and become a full time vegetable? Find out in the next chapter of Dressing up with the Cullens! Cue theme tune!!!