Title: Who is this?
Chapter 6: I Forgive You
Italics=voice in Edward's head (in case you didn't know that already)
I was trying to run from my family and my love. If I could get far enough away maybe I could figure this out on my own.
It couldn't work, they were right behind me. I could occasionally hear their thoughts though. They were separating which would make it harder to loose them.
"Go back and finish the job. "
"No." I yelled as the voice refused to leave.
"Do it."
It was angry.
I jumped into the air, hoping to make more distance than running on the ground. I started to feel myself shift and I fell to the ground on my face. I lay there for a few seconds before I heard Alice in the background yell my name. I looked behind me but didn't see anyone. I started to run off again.
"You aren't getting away that easy."
I heard Bella call my name out as I tripped again. "I have to go."
"You will finish what you started"
"No." I yelled as I tried to stand up. I started to convulse on the ground, it didn't hurt but I was fighting something, something that seemed bigger than me. I couldn't release this feeling like something or someone was trying to take over my body. "I can never go back." I said, struggling to get to my feet.
I heard two different foot steps but smelt three people. There was Alice, Jasper, and Bella. I closed my eyes, why? Why me? Why now?
"Get her away." I muttered through my teeth. I knew Alice and Jasper could hear me.
"No, it won't do you any good to keep running." Alice said. "You need to fight this head on."
"Please take her away." I said again
"Alice is right." Jasper said.
I looked over at them, looking at Jasper as he set Bella onto the ground.
"Edward!" Bella yelled as she came to me.
"Stay away."
Like always she didn't listen.
"Kill her"
"No." I was able to say as the voice crept back into my head.
"You have been fighting me long enough."
I tried to think of something else, anything else.
"Edward fight it." I heard Bella yell as she grabbed onto my sleeve. "You have to fight this."
"You can't and you won't. Listen to me."
"Fight it."
I let out a scream in anger as I backed away from Bella. "Get away." I told her.
"No, I'm not leaving." She said coming toward me.
"Please, I don't know if I can control this." I begged. My mind was wavering in and out. I couldn't let it win.
"I can't leave you."
"Kill her. She is not your mate, she is just prey."
"So stubborn." I growled out.
I looked up at Jasper and Alice, pleadingly, "Guys please get Bella out of here. I don't know if I can control this much longer."
"You hear the voice?" Jasper asked.
I nodded. "Get Bella out of here. I can't risk it." I was practically begging now.
"I won't go." She said to me once again. "You need to fight this now. We can't live the rest of our lives with you worrying about this."
I was about to yell at her when Jasper spoke up. "She is right. We need to figure this out now while you have a chance. You need to fight it."
Alice had her vision quickly then ran to help Bella when Jasper had his arms wrapped tightly around her. "Let me go. I need to help." She yelled at Jasper.
"Bella's right, he needs to fight this." Jasper said
"No! It won't end well." Alice whined as she struggled in his grasp. He didn't give.
"Do it now, she's in reach. You wanted this from the moment you saw her. So now's your chance."
"No!" I yelled at the voice. I grabbed my hair trying to back away from Bella but it did nothing. As I backed up Bella only got closer. I growled throwing my arm out and hitting Bella making her fly back, "Have you no self preservation? I said get away." I didn't care if I was being a jerk; I had to have her gone. If it meant never seeing her again then so be it.
She slowly stood up after being dazed on the ground for a short time. She stared me in the eyes, "Edward, I love you more than anything. I was willing to give my life up for you before. If giving my life up this time means you are free from whatever is going on, then I will stand my ground."
I stared at her, why was she doing this to me?
"Now, start fighting it."
"I can't." I yelled.
"If you aren't going to listen to me willingly then I am going to take a harder approach."
I didn't know what the voice meant by that. A harder approach?
I then felt my muscles stiffen, I still had my mind present but my body was gone. I held no control of it.
"Now walk forward."
As if on command, my body did as it was told. This couldn't be happening. I stood right in front of Bella as she stared me in the eyes. "I trust you." She said to me.
I wish she didn't how I wish she could see something was wrong. I tried to gain control of my body but it was useless. It was like my body was a walking vessel. A walking vessel with only one plan, kill the one I love.
"Let's have a little fun and test this baby out. Push her."
I pushed her with a quick jab that forced her back into the tree. It was a simple shove but my force was enough to make her lose her wind in her lungs.
There was a smile in my head, no stop this now.
"We are just getting started."
"Stop Edward. You are going to kill her." I heard Alice yell from the sidelines. Jasper must have still had a firm grasp on her.
"This is their fight. He needs to figure it out." Jasper said.
Alice was so stressed out, "It's not a fair fight. We need to help. He is going to kill her but I can stop him."
"No." Jasper said firmly.
"Very interesting, seems I have free game. Well then lets see you throw her into a tree. You shouldn't be drinking this disgusting human anyways."
I tried to stop myself but to no avail as I felt my body quickly grab Bella's shoulders. "Fight it." She yelled.
I couldn't in time as I watched her slip from my hands and sail into a tree with an "Humph" She fell onto her stomach as she started to cough. She went to her hands and knees shaking as she tried to stand but fell back down. She grabbed onto the tree that she hit for support, trying to stand again.
I wanted to die, why couldn't I control my body? This was worse than not knowing what I just did. I didn't want to be here right now.
"Now pick her up." My body did just that, holding her by the collar of her shirt. "Bring her to the cliff's edge."
No!
I couldn't fight it though, my body did just that as Bella was now hanging over the cliff. "Fight it."
I tried so hard to fight it but it was no use.
I held Bella by her shirt over the cliff with one hand. She hastily kept trying to keep a hold to my wrist as I held her over the edge. "Edward please. I know you are in there." I could smell blood coming out of her nails from her trying to scratch at my wrist to stay in the air.
That wasn't enough make me feel bad, it was then that I could smell a tear run down her face as she tried to talk to me.
"Jasper." Bella yelled from the cliff edge. She was finally asking for help. "Please stop him." She went from a single tear to a waterfall. It was obvious that she didn't want to die and I didn't want to be the one who killed her. "He would be devastated if he did this." Finally she got some common sense and knew I didn't want to do this.
Jasper gulped then shook his head no, "Sorry, Edward needs to learn to control himself. He hasn't dropped you yet, that means he's able to control himself…somewhat." He said.
Bella was still trying to claw at my arm as I easily held her over the edge. I thought of the chance of her surviving, 2% if she was able to find something to grab onto to slow her fall, 10% if there's water at the bottom that she can fall into. This was enough for me to take some control of myself.
"I can't." I forced out of my mouth. I tried to force my arm back but it wouldn't budge. "I can't do this."
"Fight it." Bella said, still scared. "Please do it for me, do it for your family."
I kept trying to pull her back to me but nothing, my body didn't even flinch. I felt one finger start to come off of her shirt. "No." I said, still trying to pull back. Another slipped from her shirt as she started to fall a little. My other three fingers still held onto her though.
"You can do it." She looked down at the bottom of the cliff.
Another finger slipped, I still couldn't do anything. "I'm sorry." I said.
"Keep trying." Bella said hopefully.
"I'm sorry." I was able to let out, "Please forgive me." I said as I started to feel the last of my fingers giving in.
Bella looked at me sympathetically, she nodded her head, "I forgive you. Remember, no matter what happens. I will always love you."
With that, before I could say anything back, her shirt ripped and she fell from my grasp. I could hear her screams as she hit the side of the wall twice than the ground with a thud. The cliff was so high that I couldn't see the bottom; I could just hear the deathly sound.
I suddenly got full control of my body as I fell to the ground. I stared at the cloth in my hand. I had to force an unneeded heavy lump in my throat down. "No." I whispered as I held the cloth close to me.
I don't know when Alice was out of Jasper's grasp but she refused to come near me. Jasper however came over to me, trying to make me feel better.
"I killed her." I muttered. I turned to Jasper who was standing next to me. I started to yell at him, "I killed her and your ass sat there and watched."
"You had to break the control somehow."
I tackled him over as I started to punch him repeatedly. He tried to calm me down but it did little help. "I don't need your calmness. It's your fault." I yelled at him as I punched him again.
I then remembered Alice's power.
I turned to Alice hastily, "Is there a chance?" I got of her husband and practically begged her to tell me.
"Chance for what?" she asked horrified by my actions.
"Is she alive?" I asked, on my knees. I needed to know.
"I don't know." Alice said nervously.
"How do you not know? Is she or is she not alive?" I growled out.
"I…I didn't want to look when everything was happening. I kept stopping at the cliff scene."
"Watch now." I yelled.
"I can't. I won't be able to handle it." Alice said backing away from me. "I can't see my friend dead in a vision."
"So she is dead?" I asked.
"I don't know, but if she is I don't want to have to see it twice." She looked like she was about to have a mental breakdown at the idea.
"Leave Alice alone." Jasper said to me. I forgot he was even there.
"You." I picked Jasper up by the collar of his shirt. "You better hope that Bella is alive or your ass will be scattered across this cliff." That was a promise. We all knew Jasper was best at fighting and he always gave us the benefit of the doubt but I wasn't going to just sit around this time. No, it would be on.
"We won't know if we don't go down and check now will we?" he said calmly.
I forgot that she could still be alive. I looked over the edge of the cliff; all I could see was clouds. "Bella?" I yelled over the edge. I waited to hear a response, when I heard nothing I started to get angry again.
I looked over to Jasper who was being helped up by Alice.
"Consider this a head start if I find Bella dead. You're in for it." I yelled. "I will make sure your death is as excruciating as possible."
There was a chuckle deep in the wood lines, well two chuckles. "Who's there?" Alice asked.
I was so distraught after everything that happened that I didn't think twice about someone else being there, my anger was centered on Jasper.
I was about to yell more at Jasper when we heard Alice gasp out the one name I never wanted to hear again, "Victoria."
I kinda put two chapters into one. I was going to have the first chapter end with Bella over the cliff and then the next chapter end with them seeing Victoria but I thought they would be too short of chapters, not to mention that I won't be on for the next week. Happy fourth of July and what not.
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