CHAPTER 7

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EDWARD

Her name kept repeating in my head like a mantra, reminding me of what I had lost, what I can lose as the seconds pass.

We were driving way beyond the speed limit in this old city. Cars were honking their horns and giving us dirty looks as we passed.

I didn't care.

The only thing I was concerned about was getting to Bella, getting Bella out of there before it was too late.

Edward I still can't see her!

I looked over at Alice who was sitting in the passenger seat, tightly gripping the sides.

She never did like being this blind before and now we couldn't figure out what was causing it.

"Think back Alice," I said turning the wheel as I passed a slow truck. "Were you ever able to see Bella in these last couple of weeks?"

She hesitated for a moment and put a finger to her temple. "I…Well I never tried to look into Bella's future. I never tried until now…" She trailed off, closing her eyes.

I felt my phone buzz in my pocket and took it out to look at the callers ID.

I flipped it open, "Hello?"

"Are you almost there Edward?" Carlisle asked in a serious voice.

"Yes were just on the highway outside of Volterra, we will have to wait until dark to go inside the village. But the car we have…has a tinted window so we should be fine until then." I said in to the phone, not wanting to tell Carlisle we stole another car.

"Ok, be careful." He said and hung up the phone, I closed it shut and turned to Alice.

"Can you see Aro? Jane? Felix? Anybody?"

Alice gave me a lost expression and shook her head.

I pressed my foot to the gas peddle and the car sped up.

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ALICE

Every time I tried to see Bella or the Volturi my vision went blurry and the sound became static.

This was not the same as 68 years ago and the fight with the newborns. They were changing their minds too fast to decide the outcome of their future; this was as if someone was blocking me.

I grabbed the edges of my seat so tight, and closed my eyes.

I never did enjoy being blind. This just made me seem…Normal.

I may as well be wearing a plain white t-shirt and jeans. Gah!

I chuckled to myself inwardly as I tried to calm my anger. I also heard Edward chuckle from beside me.

I opened one eyes and could tell we were coming into Volterra now. This place was familiar to me, the old stone walls, and the big square. It looked so much the same, If only Bella was running through the square, calling Edwards name like…

Edward growled under his breath.

"So what are we going to do?" I asked sitting up straight in my chair. Edward was pulling into a small area to park. There weren't a lot of people here today; the sun was just setting sending an orange glow over the city. It was almost beautiful.

"We wait until Twilight" Edward said in a tight voice.

We waited in the car for almost an hour. Finally when the sun had gone down we got out of the car and ran. Nobody was around at night time so we didn't have to worry about anyone seeing us. We ran past the old stone buildings and through the large square. We reached the Volturi castle and entered the same way as we did 68 years ago.

We walked in the damp hallways being as cautious as possible.

"Ok no one is around." Edward whispered. His talent was very useful at the moment

We kept walking and walking down the long dark hallways. We heard the tiny pitter-patter and the fowl scent of the rats as they scurried around unnoticed.

Finally we got to the end of the hallways and Edward pulled me aside.

"Stop." He said huskily as we hid against the wall. A member of the Volturi guards I didn't recognized walked by the end of the hallway and disappeared again.

"Come on." Edward murmured. I felt totally useless without my powers.

We ran to the end of the hallway where the guard had walked by. A large wooden door was at the other end.

"Are you ready?" Edward said as he put his hand on the door. I sucked in a breath and nodded. Edward quickly pushed the door open revealing another room that was all too familiar. Gianna sat behind the mahogany counter, her green eyes narrowing as she saw us. From behind her came Alec, a childish smile playing on his lips.

"Ah the Cullen's!" he said cheerfully, but his crimson eyes blazed.

"What are you doing here so unexpectedly?" Gianna watched his back as he stepped around the counter towards us. Edward stood a foot in front of me, his fists balled at his sides.

"Where is she?" Edward said through unmoving lips. He spoke hard and cold. I could only see the back of him, but I could tell his eyes were the same.

"Where is who?" Alec smiled; he was playing with us, making Edward even angrier.

For a moment all was silent as Alec and Edward glared at eachother. "Where is Bella?" I asked, I took one step forward so I was beside my brother. My eyes were focused only on Alec's excited ones.

"Oh beautiful Bella?" Alec came closer, just close enough so he could stand right in front of Edwards face.

"Bella is gone." he smiled, I looked up at Edward and something in Alecs face made him furious. Perhaps it was what he was thinking, something I would not want to know. But all of a sudden Edward grabbed Alec by his shirt and threw him to the other end of the room.

I stood there frozen.

Why would you do that Edward! You attacked a member of the Volturi! I screamed my thoughts at him. He looked at me with desperate eyes and ran at his fastest through the big wooden doors where Edward knew he would find Aro. I followed him tight on his heels as Alec pulled himself from the wall, and began screaming from behind us.

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A/N :Thank you to my faithful reviewers. Please let me know what you think of the story, so please review. Oh, and if any one has any ideas for a good angst one-shot i could use it would be greatly appreciated :) I'm going through a bit of a writers block, which is also why this chapter is so short. So once again, please review. And thanks to all! :)