Waiting and Waiting

I paced back and forth. Where was Edward? Did something horrible happen to him? I didn't know who those women were or why they were here. Were they here to kill the Cullens? Were they here to help? How did they know what Jacob was? I asked myself these questions over and over again as I continued pacing, and got no answers. I decided not to panic until I knew what happened.

Eventually I went downstairs to make dinner for Charlie. While I was eating dinner I sensed Edward entering my room. It took extra effort not to exhale in acute relief. I rushed upstairs afterward to talk to him. He looked tired and worried. Which did not help me with the whole not panicking thing.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Nothing." he said.

Normally I would let it slide when he lied to me, but I needed him to tell me the truth. Otherwise I would probably have a heart attack or something,

"Don't lie."

He opened mouth to lie, then, seeing the glare I was turning his way, decided against it.

"Avaria and Caro belong to an organization that apparently is completely against vampires. When they heard about the battle that is about to happen they had planned to interfere and not in a good way. They decided to make a deal with us. They won't interfere if we give them something of ours."

"What did you give them?"

"Nothing yet. They are going to come over to our house after the battle to choose what they want."

He was hiding something, I could tell. I decided not to care. I sat next to him and leaned my head on his chest. I let everything fall away, until I was sitting in the, only 4 out of the 5 senses of the human body keeping me aware of my environment. I heard Edward's soft breathing and the tiny wisp, wisp as venom moved through his body.

I fell asleep like that, with Edward stroking my hair.

A/N I am going to skip over the part about the battle since it would be the same as in the books except for the way Bella thinks about everything her head. If you want me to write it then review and say so, otherwise if you want to know what happens read from page 410 to 610

The next part picks up in the middle of page 611

"No Edward. I've made a real mess of things, and I'm going to have to live with that. But I know what I want and what I need."

Edwards's body tensed up for a moment. Then he relaxed, forcibly.

"We have to go don't we?" I asked.

He had explained that I needed to be present when the Sisterhood came over to their house. Caro had come over straight after the battle to tell the Cullens when she and Avaria would come over. At first they had planned it for straight after the battle but then with the Jacob mess Caro said it could wait.

"Would you explain why I have to be here?" I asked. He had refused to tell, and it was making me nervous. I could tell that there was something wrong and it was hard for my body to handle that right now.

"Well . . ." Edward said.

"Edward." I said.

"Avaria said that what we own aren't just things. The can be people too. She said you had to be here because it is possible they could take you away as well. She said not to tell you until we got here because she was afraid you would find a way to make me let you stay away from here I'm so sorry Bella. But don't worry; it is highly unlikely they will take you Caro said so-" he continued to blabber. I tensed. He was hiding something. Something about what Caro said.

"Stop." I said. "I am not mad." Not entirely a lie. I wasn't mad. Just frustrated that he was keeping something from me. I kept my emotion to frustration and nothing else; otherwise Jasper would have called me on my white lie.

He radiated relief.

We stepped inside the house. All the other Cullens were there, waiting. We sat down with them.

All we all watched the door with vigilant trepidation.