Disclaimer: I am not Stephenie
Meyer, hence do not own Twilight. You may have guessed that
though.
I'm just having fun with her characters.
torturing
them more like. Lol.
Chapter
5.
After hearing the polite knock on the door,
I jumped off the
hospital bed a little too quickly and fell over Jake's IV.
Edward
opened the door slowly, to reveal me crumpled in a heap on the floor,
clutching my wrist in pain, and had very obviously been
crying.
"Bella Love" Edward said anxiously, as he rushed over
toward me at a very inhuman pace.
He quickly grasped my wrist and
surmised that my wrist was broken, again.
"Bella, you need to
have Carlisle look at your wrist, I think you've re-broken it" He
said, scooping me up into his cool arms.
Nice of him really. I
knew that he was getting fed up of the constant battle between Him
and Jake, but I thought he knew, as the ring on my finger showed,
That I had chosen Him.
But
the revelation that I loved Jake maybe had made more of a difference
to him
than I would have thought. He walked me down the stairs very gently
with a calm and collected look on his face. When he noticed that I
was looking up at him, he place my
favourite crooked smile
on his face. My heart nearly skipped a beat.
He put me down on the
pale couch in the living room across from Alice. Carlisle walked into
the room as I saw a strange look flit across Edwards face.
"Well
Bella, looks like you'll be having that cast after all" He
carefully removed the remnants of the brace and started wrapping
cotton wool around my wrist. The tension between Edward and Alice was
growing with every passing second. Alice was rather guiltily trying
to avoid eye contact with Edward. Carlisle was wrapping my wrist with
plaster now, but I was too busy watching the two of them. In the time
that I had known them, they had never bickered, seriously over
anything. More often than not they worked together in their evil
plans. Edward spoke up. "Alice would you mind telling me why you
are singing Hannah Montana repeatedly?" his eyes narrowed.
APOV
Oh
God. Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. Oh God!!!
Why was he looking at me!
I
made sure that when he was around I was doing something that he found
infuriating. Popular music was generally an appropriate option. But I
couldn't tell him.
It
would mean the end of life as we knew it.
He
was still waiting for his answer.
"Well you know how Emmett is
always watching the TV show, it kind of just got to me."
It was
a pathetic lie and I knew it. I was a horrible person. But I hoped
that the idea of Emmett actually watching Hannah Montana would
actually distract him from the issue at hand.
"Emmett does not
watch Hannah Montana anymore. He hasn't since the first episode,
when Rose blocked the channel".
Oh God. Bad lie Alice, Bad lie.
I was resigned to telling the truth.
"Alright!" I
screeched. Bella jumped a mile and stared at me incredulously, and
Carlisle looked at me very curiously.
"I may have had an um…
revelation of my own…" I looked into my lap. I couldn't face
either of them.
"You know that, from the very first vision,
there were only ever two distinct possibilities"
"But…
Alice…" Bella looked confused. The Hannah Montana Jibe had
obviously worked on her and not Edward. Drat.
"The first was
that you would cease to live. The second being that you would become
one of Us."
Edward said, thinking very hard. He was on the brink of figuring it
out.
"Alice…." Bella glared at me. She was very
suspicious.
"Well…." Edward picked up the teacup that I had
prepared for Bella for her to take, but she was too busy staring at
me to take it, so I continued.
"Excuse me, I'm going to take
out Jacobs IV…" Carlisle said, before leaving.
"Does this
have something to do with my revelation?" Bella questioned.
"Well
yes and No…."
"Just spit it out Alice" they said in
unison. Edward rather viciously and Bella like she was getting a
little impatient.
"We always knew that my visions are
indistinct and open to interpretation…" I trailed off, trying to
let them figure it out.
"So you misinterpreted the very fist
vision you ever had of me?" Bella was very quick.
"Yes I
think I may have… In light of certain events, there is still the
distinct possibility that you will become one of us. However, I may
have mistaken Death, for your future-" Bella cut me off.
"Disappearing"
Bella gasped. Edward forgot about the teacup in his hand a held it a
little too tightly.
We were all sprayed with shards of crockery and tea, as Edward
stormed out of the door and into the forest.
Bella looked
Horrified,
but as I feared. She looked like she had seen the light of day, for
the first time in a very long time…
BPOV
Oh. My. God.
Like
it was a cruel twist of fate, Alice had mistaken me dying for
choosing Jake. Ironic really, considering that, that was how Jake had
seen me choosing them would be like.
That I would be dead.
Fate
hadn't marked me for death. It had set up an intricate and winding
path that would ultimately mean that I wasn't marked for death, I
was marked for Jake?!?
And If I was marked for Jake, that would
only mean one thing, that had made sense all along. Imprinting was
not so much as a Myth, or a rarity. It
was a reality….
But
I stood at a Fork in the road. There were two signs two destinations.
Two people that I loved, with their Two families. There was going to
be hurdles along the way on each path. But I felt like it was a new
path. And for the first time it really seemed like the one I wanted
to go down…..
As I walked through the forest, I
followed the trail of destruction right the way into our meadow.
Edward was sitting on a low branch of a tree to the North. He had
his eyes closed, shirt off sparkling in the sun.
It was a
remarkably beautiful thing.
"I'm sorry that I showered you in
teacup" He said gloomily.
"I'm sorry too. I should have
taken it earlier." But he didn't laugh.
"Never be afraid to
tell me how you feel, Bella. If I'm not what you want, tell me" I
stopped breathing.
"I…" I was at a total loss of what to
say. Never for a moment, since he had met me, had he doubted that I
wanted him.
" You are my World Bella, I would do anything to
make you happy. Anything, anything
to make you happy. I won't make you marry me, I won't pay for
your tuition, Hell I won't even whinge if we go to Alaska! I would
live on Penguins for you Bella. I love you Bella, and I'll prove
it." Be finally looked at me. I was frozen. He got off the branch
and closed the distance between us in seconds. He stroked my hair
with one hand, while the other grasped my wrist and brought it up to
be between us. He pulled my pale and fragile wrist towards his mouth
and stopped. He inhaled.
Enjoying
the Bouquet, but resisting the Wine
as
he had once put it.
And then it dawned on me. He was willing to
do anything
for me.
He pressed my wrist to his marble lips.
"Tell me to
bite you and I'll do it.
No promises, no bribes and no
bargaining. Just you and me and the Venom. There won't be anymore
wedding, no College either. Only what you want. To
be a monster
too…"
A/N
Cruel to leave it there I know.
I hoped that you like the
change in POV. Alice was a lot of fun to write. I generally love the
Cullen family and their shenanigans, particularly Emmett, hence the
Hannah Montana jibe.
I'm going to try a vote.
Do you want
Edward to Bite Bella?
Or do you want to see Jake as Romeo?
Review
please. It is the only way that I will know!
Xoxo B.
