CHAPTER 1 part 2
THE FLIGHT
"What are you talking about Alice?' Bella came into the room and sat on the other side of Alice. She took her hands and made her focus on her face. 'What do the Voturi have to do with this woman you see?" Bella was Alice's best friend and if anyone could get my wife to calm down and focus enough to explain then it was Bella.
"Oh Bella, I am not sure what they want from her. I just know that she is in danger and she knows it! Please help me? I have to get to her!" My heart broke from the look on my darling's face. Whatever it took, I now knew that I would help her find this mysterious woman who seemed to mean so much to her.
"Alright then Alice. We will all go and find her." Bella looked at Edward and he nodded. Again our family was coming together to help each other.
"NO! You can't come! She will be frightened of all of us together!" I felt the panic start to rise in my darling again.
"Calm down sugar. We will find her and we will not frighten her. I promise." I would do anything to remove the panic that I felt in her.
"And you can just forget going alone Alice Marie Cullen!' Rose said as she and Emmett both came into the room. Rose had the look of a killer on her face. The memory of the Volturi was still fresh in her mind, as they were in all our minds.
"Damn straight!' Emmett, our bear of a brother had wanted to fight when we were confronted by the Volturi and he was drooling at the chance of maybe finally being able to, 'we are in this together Alice. They won't hurt her. Sometimes like now Emmett could be truly frightening. I am so glad he is on our side.
"Alright then, Edward started taking charge of the situation, 'I'll make the reservations.
"And I will call Jake and tell him to take Renessmee to Charlie's for the week.' Bella squeezed Alice's hands and got up to call Nessie's imprint and protector, 'I will meet you at the cottage Edward. We will just need an overnight bag, right Alice?" All eyes were again on my wife who was "looking" to see what we would need.
"Yes, a week. That should be long enough. But we have to hurry!"
From that point everything happened fast. Edward had chartered a private jet and it would be ready when we got to the airport in Seattle. Bella called Jacob and arraigned for him to take Nessie to Charlie and they had came back to the house so that Nessie could say goodbye to her parents. She was young but she could tell that something was bothering us all. She had tried to get one of us to tell her what was going on but no one wanted to worry her. She left with Jacob knowing only that a friend was in trouble and we were going to get her and bring her home with us. Within the next hour we were speeding along in two cars towards the Seattle airport. We arrived just as the jet was taxiing up to the terminal, fueled and ready. The flight would take about 8 hours and I was starting to feel the panic that Alice was feeling. If this woman was our singer then what was I going to do. I had almost killed Bella once from just the smell of one drop of her blood. If this woman's blood sang to me the way that Bella's did to Edward I didn't see any way of not being a danger to her. Alice could feel my worry and she spent the next few hours assuring me that she did not see me harming this stranger. I was not convinced.
"We'll be there Jazz', Emmett said to me after Alice told everyone why I was looking so worried, 'we won't let you hurt her. I have got to meet this chic. I want to see just exactly who is supposed to be a singer to two vampires! She really must be something!" Rose again slapped him on the back of the head. I wondered at times that he didn't suffer from brain damage with all the knocking around he took from Rose. But he just didn't seem to know when to keep his comments to himself.
We landed at the Milan airport just before dawn. There was a stretch limo waiting on the tarmac for us as we got off the plane. We got to the hotel just as the sun was rising. It was a bright sunny day in Milan today. The Festival of the Dead was just starting to get into full swing and the streets were crowded. We checked into our rooms and then the family gathered in our room to plan our next move. We were not going to be able to go out until after sundown so we ordered room service and just hung out in our suite waiting for the sun to go down so we could go find this stranger who had suddenly become the main focus for our entire family.