Authors Note; Jello! Sorry this chapter took so long to get out here, but here it is! Any mistakes are my own!

Remember

Chapter 14

Bella's POV

It's quiet, too quiet.

There are no sirens, gunshots or yelling anymore. I have this funny feeling in my gut, something is wrong.

"Bella?" I hear whispered.

I spin around, gun pointed, my eyes landing on him. "Jacob, are you all right?" I ask, taking a step forward and lowering my gun.

He nods followed by a sigh, "You've chosen him, haven't you?"

I'm two feet away when I stop. "What are you talking about, Jake?" I ask.

"You didn't run to me. You ran to him, you chose him, why?"

"Edward was easier to get to," I tell him, though I know that's not what he means.

"Stop, damn it, Bells." he closes the space between us.

"I care about you, Jacob. I really do..."

"Oh, save me the bullshit. I was good to you, I still can be. I can forget about all this if you just come with me right now." Before he's even finished, I'm shaking my head 'no.'

"Then what happens next is on you."

He yanks my gun from my hands so fast, and I cry out as he presses the barrel of the gun hard into my ribs. Seconds later, the basement door opens, and a very tired looking Alice comes out.

"Hey," she starts off, her eyes adjust, and she realizes something's up. "Jake, what are you doing?"

"Stop right there," he growls.

"What the hell, Jake?" Alice asks, wide-eyed.

"Shut up; give me your gun,"

It s over there." She nods back the way she came. Next to the door is a table that holds family pictures, a gun sits there.

"Don't you dare fucking move," Jake says, tucking his gun away and pulling out a roll of duct tape. He roughly tapes my hands behind my back and does the same to Alice. I'm silent as I watch him grab two chairs, placing them back to back and then force us each into one. We're taped to the chairs as well.

"Fucking back-stabbing bitch." I hear Alice mutter. "What the fuck, you work for the Volturi." she flat out accuses.

He laughs, "I do now. At first, I didn't, but then they offered me a fuck-ton of money if Bella didn't remember. And if she didn t, I could keep her."

"Yeah, well, I remember everything."

"Sh, we can work this out."

Alice snorts, "Edward and Bella are meant for each other."

He surprisingly ignores her. "Aro will be here soon, his men are everywhere. If they don't kill Edward, I will."

I feel Alice touch my hands, she's fiddling with something. I really want to ask her what the hell she's up to when she makes me touch her upper ass ... but then I feel it. There's something hard in the back of her jeans.

"I was supposed to be there the night Mr. and Mrs. Cullen were killed. They were my initiation job, but I got called away by Edward, and I couldn't refuse." Jake leans down to get eye to eye with me. "I would have done it too. I would have killed them. Unfortunately, I would have killed you, and I wouldn t have wanted that to happen."

"So, how did you get in?" I decide to ask as I search for the top of Alice's jeans.

"Well," he touches my face; I want to flinch away, but I hold still. "I haven't yet been officially initiated, but after tonight I will be. This is it," he stands up, waving his arms in the air. "Taking down the most feared family around. Finishing off the Cullen line."

Just the thought of anything else happening to this family makes me feel sick to my stomach. I find a clip attached to the back of Alice's jeans and pull it up. It's a knife; Alice still has her knife on her. I immediately start working on cutting the tape from around my hands. Once they're free, I start on the tape around my upper body, which isn't easy. I jump when a gunshot goes off and I look to Jake and see that he's aiming at the back porch. I see Edward flash by again, and Jake is firing his gun once more.

I break free and start working on Alice; her tape isn't as thick, so it's easier to get her free.

"Come on, Edward, why hide? Just come out, and I'll end this." Jake says like it's nothing.

I hear an "In your fucking dreams." before more shots are fired.

"Yeah, I've dreamed about killing you. Not just because the Volturi want it but because you keep touching the girl I really fucking want. She belongs with me." he growls the last part before shooting up the entire back porch.

"Run," I tell Alice before standing with the knife, "In your fucking dreams." I nearly yell before stabbing the knife into Jake's neck once, pulling it out and the aiming for his chest. The knife never fully goes in, but he falls to the ground, landing on top of me and knocking the breath out of me. But I don't stop. I keep on stabbing him over and over again. He threatened to hurt my family, he's hurt my family and he will never do it again.

His weight increases and I can't breathe until someone is pulling him off me.

"Bella, it's okay, he's dead," Edward says prying the knife from my hands. I wrap myself around Edward and run my hands through his hair. He pulls me away from Jacob s lifeless body.

"He can't hurt you anymore." I whimper.

He pulls me tight against him, "He never will, you've made sure of that."

I don't know how long we stay that way, but the feel of someone else touching me brings me back to our current situation. "If what Jacob said was true, others will be arriving soon," Garrett says.

"I want you to go down into the basement. Janey has a panic room there. Get everyone inside and don't open the doors till this is all over." Edward tells me.

I shake my head no, "I can't..."

"You have too, I promise, I'll be okay." That's when I realize he's already not okay; his upper arm is bleeding, and I feel my throat tighten.

"You're already not okay." I lift his sleeve and it looks like his arm has been pierced and is bleeding pretty badly.

"Holy shit, I didn't even know it." he says looking down at his arm.

"Please, don't make me leave you," I whisper.

His arms wrap around me, before his hand reaches up and cups my face; his eyes remind me of ocean green, I love how they change color with the way he's feeling. I've never seen this color before. "What are you doing to me?"

"I'm sorry,"

He shakes his head. "Don't ever apologize," he brings his lips to mine, touching them softly, I allow him to lead. He never pushes for pressure, his lips move slowly, softly over mine, sometimes barely touching mine yet I feel as if he's seared a piece of his soul to mine and took a little of me with him.

He pulls back, and I watch his eyes go from hooded with lust to all business. "Come on," he says, helping me up. He pulls me to the basement and knocks on a door the way he'd done earlier. Janey answers, and we find Carlisle and Alice there too. All three are covered in blood, but it's the bed in the middle of the room and the sound of a heart monitor going strong that has my attention. It makes me smile.

Esme has made it so far.

"They're coming. Jacob set it all up; he's been working for them this entire time." Edward explains to Carlisle.

"I'll fucking kill him." Carlisle growls, "Where is he?"

"It's too late, he threatened to take her, he threatened to kill all of us." Carlisle starts to say something but Edward continues, "I didn't kill him."

"Bella's covered in blood," Alice says looking at me. I look down; of course, I am ... Jacob s blood.

"You killed him," Carlisle says.

I nod, "I couldn't let him hurt you all anymore."

"She stabbed him to death, around thirty-seven times," Edward says.

I'm shocked when Carlisle walks over and hugs me, but what shocks me more is I hug him back just as tightly. "Thank you, Isabella, I owe you everything, anything, no matter what it is. You've done so well, I'd be proud to have you as family one day," he whispers that last part in my ear so that no one else can hear.

Then, without warning, he's spinning me around so fast and pushing me back into the small room and slamming the door. I'm not even sure what happened until it's too late.

"Keep her in here Alice, don't let her out. Not until I say." Edward's voice comes over an intercom.

"No, no, Edward, please. I have to be there with you ... to keep you safe!"

"I'm sorry, don't hate me," he says before I catch movement over to my right. They have a whole security system set up down here and security cameras throughout the house. Edward is walking away, back up to the main floor.

Seeing the door has no handle, only a keypad stops me from trying to yank it open. I turn to Alice who looks sad, "I'm sorry about all of this, but I won't open the doors until my father or Edward say otherwise."

There's no point in arguing, fighting, screaming and kicking, demanding to be let out. So instead, I walk over to the computer screen and Alice takes a seat next to her unconscious mother. Janey is on the other side, holding Esme's hand.

I watch the screens as if my life depends on it. I watch as Emmett shows up and he and Garrett start moving bodies around. They put a bag over Jacob's head and set him up in the chair where I'd been tied. I watch with so much fascination as everything is put into motion and then everyone gets into place. Edward stays sitting in a chair facing away from the door, in front of Jacob.

A black, fancy-looking car pulls up seconds later, and I hold my breath.

Out steps three men, two who I'll never forget; two who changed our lives forever. I know if what happened that night hadn t occurred, I would have never met these people I now call family. But I would take it all back if it meant none of them would ever have to suffer the pain of losing their loved ones. If it meant Edward had his mother back.

The thought of never knowing him pains me, but I would give everything back just for him.

"The Volturi are here," I whisper.

AN: Jello again, just wanted to apologies for how short this chapter is but I feel it works all out. Thanks for reading!