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"What?! Why?! Didn't he think to make sure…?"
"No. Apparently, he didn't think that was necessary."
I decided to ask the one question that I really dreaded. "Is it… is it too late?"
"It might be," she sighed. But then she hopped up. "But we have to try. You might want to stay here with one or two of us, though. I mean… your control…."
"No," I said firmly with a tone of voice that allowed no argument.
"Bella…" she sighed.
"I can handle it. I hated blood as a human. With some effort, I can use that to my advantage." It sounded like it was sure to work. Alice sighed and nodded.
"You can come. I guess you of all people really have the right to. Maybe all of us should come…."
There was a chorus of eager voices behind us. I spun around to see the entire family standing ready to jump in a car and catch a flight to Italy. There was just one problem. It was sunny in Italy, and now we were all vampires, making it that much harder to travel through the city.
"We need to go now. I found his phone a while ago. It's broken. There's no way to reach him. We just have to go and hope we can stop him in time," Jasper sighed.
"Let's go. Please," I hissed, already in the car. We divided into the various cars and took off at a speed that would put even Edward to shame.
Alice, Jasper, and I were in Alice's Porsche. I drove, amazed at the ease with which I did it. The speed wasn't even bothering me.
"I just saw something," Alice yelled triumphantly, breaking the silence. I knew the entire family could hear her.
"What was it?" I said eagerly, my dead heart aching in my chest.
"I saw him. Even after three days, he's okay. They're still debating whether or not to give him what he wants. They know that you're still alive, but they wouldn't mind getting rid of one of us pesky vegetarians. The bad news is that they're going to say yes soon, and after that… well, after that, it's a race against time."
"Oh, thank god," I sighed. I knew we could make it, but I was still fairly nervous. What would they do to him before then?
We were at the airport with five minutes to spare before the next flight to Italy. I paced back and forth up the aisles of the plane until someone complained and I had to sit down.
"I just saw something else," Alice whispered, suddenly not so happy.
"What?" I asked, dread pulling on my body, making me fell like I weighed a thousand pounds.
"The Volturi seem to have discovered a… medicine, I guess you could call it that can affect vampires. It makes them human, but only for short amounts of time. And with certain… side effects."
I drew a sharp, terrified breath. Edward? Human? He'd be that much easier to kill. And what did Alice mean by side effects?
"What do you mean?"
"Amnesia," she whispered almost too quietly for me to hear.
I moaned, the pain of it almost physical as I realized what that meant.