A/N: I don't own Twilight… but if I did, it would be exactly like this ;)

Please read and review, it helps with my incentive and idea flow.

Huge modification to this chapter as of Sept 2012, sorry about the changes!

When I reached the landing, I seriously reconsidered facing him with Alice. The look on his face, the unsettling colour of his eyes; it all made me want to crawl back up into the bedroom and hide in the corner, cowering away from all things menacing.

Instead, I took a seat next to Alice on the loveseat, and thoroughly avoided locking eyes with Edward. I knew even then something was terribly awry, and my heart twisted a bit in my chest; but I held onto my trust in Alice.

I took a deep breath; in, then out. That's when she broke the silence.

"Edward, Bella and I are in love." Alice started, pausing only due to a rather loud inhale on Edward's part.

"…we had planned to tell you personally, though unfortunately, that went down the drain yesterday." She explained, though her voice seemed to be wavering.

I gulped, and kept my head down. At this point, the only thing in my thoughts was worry; if Alice was getting nervous, we were definitely in big trouble.

"I know it's hard to hear..." she started to add, and trailed off; her angelic voice fading into oblivion. The tension in the room had become so thick that I was almost finding it difficult to pull in oxygen. I could feel the buzz of electricity filling up the room, its ominous presence alerting me to imminent danger. At that point, I couldn't help but sneak a peek at Edward, whose face was in an expression of pain I could not begin to understand. I immediately regretted looking, but couldn't pull my eyes away.

could only see how hard his features looked; the stone-carved look that vampires have only enforcing the raw anger. His eyes narrowed, and his forehead creased. I saw his jaw clench, and a small crack even appeared on his jaw-line; the sharp snap of bone making me cringe away in fright.

When I looked up again, Edward was on his feet, his skin once again flawless. His look however, had not faltered - even as he started towards my Alice.

My body reacted quicker than my mind.

In the split second it took the two predators to ready themselves, I had moved from the loveseat, and was standing between them. My eyes were closed, my hands extended to each of their chests, and I braced for what I assumed would be certain death.

…but it never came.

Alice slipped around me like a gymnast, her hand contacting with Edward's smooth face. He lifted into the air, smashing into the door-frame and splintering it into a million pieces, the glass windows beside him cracking.

Before Edward had even hit the ground, Alice had me, and was shoving me out the back door. Her only word was all that needed to be said, and as she whispered it softly in my ear, all the blood in my body ran cold.

"Run."

And I did, but I had a feeling I wasn't going to get very far.

My feet swept over the ground like a pro, my running having improved since past fleeing situations. I'd learned that my only way to survive against the threat of the supernatural was to get away, and with their speed, I needed to be able to take full advantage of whatever head-start I could get.

I was halfway to the tree line that effectively marked the start of the forest when I heard the first of many crashes from behind me. Everything in my mind told me to run, but everything in my heart told me to go back for Alice.

I was so torn, that I began to slow to a stop, but something in front of me moved… and out of the corner of my eye, I thought I caught a glimpse of two large animals darting by. My heart sped up in my chest, and somehow I managed to squeak out a few words as the second pair of large wolves approached.

"Save Alice… Edward's gone mad."

And then the pack took off towards the house, and I collapsed to my knees, knowing I'd doomed Edward to death; and hoping that Alice survived.

I don't know how long I waited, or how long the fight went on, but after what seemed to be an eternity of my heart pounding in my ears I heard someone yell 'Stop', and the noise subsided. From within the house, Jake emerged in his human form, running towards me. Since he was bipedal, however; a previously unseen survivor beat him to it.

Alice swept me up unto her arms, her gentle touch helping to calm me down immediately. It was over…

… or so I thought - neither Alice, nor the two present members of the wolf pack seemed to share my relief.

The next thing I knew Alice and I were in the Volvo, driving.

My heart hadn't come down from the shock, and we were already half way to Seattle; though that didn't mean a lot of time had passed. Alice and her lead foot were keeping the car well above a hundred miles-per-hour, which translates into us exiting Port Angeles in under thirty minutes.

I could hardly believe it.

Thirty minutes ago, I waited for the pack to kill Edward, and now we were running from him. Jake and Sam had stayed behind in case he returned, but I didn't want to just sit there. How had he gotten the upper hand on a future-seeing vampire and a couple of wolves? It just didn't make sense. Pondering this was what led to the plan.

"Alice, have you got a phone?" I asked, a smirk teasing her lips even as the words slipped from mine. Reaching across me in the passenger's seat, she punched in the four digit code to the glove box, and it popped open, an array of items falling into my view. She placed her hand on my thigh and squeezed, throwing me a wink. Having just laid out the first steps of my clever idea in detail to her, I took that as a sign she was in.

"Thanks, love." I offered, and proceeded to shove all but the ugliest phone I could find back into the deceivingly large compartment. I figured since it was going to have a limited use, we might as well get rid of the 'Hello Kitty' shaped one first; after all, it could be an unwanted attention grabber if I happened to pull it out in a crowd right? Justifying my choice for no reason at all other than my own self gratification, I flicked on the vanity light, and got to work.

Opening the package, I plugged it into the car's universal chargerthe phone turning on and prompting for a calling code. I entered the one from the inside of the box and the operator told me I had a few hundred minutes, and started to blab about extra calling plans. I'd seen enough movies to know that the phone was going out the window when I was done anyways, so I declined, and hung up.

First call on the 'oh crap, I'm in trouble' list was Carlisle, but both his house and cell numbers were busy. I hung up, and dialed Charlie instead, hoping to at least secure some sort of alibi in case he couldn't find me, but there was no answer there either. I waited five minutes and tried again, thanking God when Carlisle answered, his calming voice making me feel better almost immediately.

We talked about the fact we couldn't tell him our plan, but I assured him we did have one, and were on our way to getting it in place. First we needed to lay low while we figured things out, so we told him we'd call back when we felt we were safe and the pieces were in place, but not to expect that for a few days. We told him we'd call him within a week, and hung up.

Then I called the Forks Police department and left a message for Charlie, figuring he'd get that before too long, and that would allow us to have more parts of the plan in place before anyone else got pulled in. The one thing I never forgot was that there was something really wrong with this situation, and that's why we'd held so much back… even from Carlisle.

A heavy sigh and a quick check of the numbers, and the phone exited through the right window; the only evidence of its connection being obliterated as it caught the Volvo's rear tire, slipping under the chassis and smashing into a 3D puzzle that makes Humpty Dumpty look like a preschool 9-piece.

This was a complex plan, and the next thing on the check list was acquiring a new method of transport. This car just wasn't going to do it, and we needed something with more speed.

I was thinking maybe something in yellow.