A/n: Are you ready? I hope so! You better be sitting down! If you're not sitting you run a high risk of becoming faint!!!!
Bella's POV:
Edward's voice was a slight whisper, but the urgency was still the same.
"Bella! Bella, are you okay?"
I couldn't say anything; the pain was too much to bear. I just curled up into a tight ball, as if to shield myself from the pain.
"Bella, you need to go see Carlisle." He said it gently, but firmly. There were to be no questions asked. Leave it up to me to put up a fight.
"N..nn.nno" I whimpered desperately. "I..I'm okay"
He went to pick me up, but I cried out in protest. I didn't want to go, deep down inside I knew that there was nothing Carlisle could do for me, the problem ran deeper than my current health issues.
Edward gave me a look, a frightened completely hopeless look.
"Bella, what are you thinking?"
"I think you already…" Suddenly a scream erupted from deep in my stomach. I couldn't take it. "Make it stop! Please Edward make it stop!"
Edward's face twisted in pain as he, for the first time, related to all of my thoughts. The look on his face was so familiar, too familiar. At that moment I knew exactly what my problem was: Jane.
Edward's POV:
Bella's thoughts were scrambled in terrible pain as she lay curled up on the floor screaming out her agony, I knew this feeling, I had felt it the last time we had been with the Volturi.
I could hear Jane's thoughts as she tortured Bella and it frustrated me beyond compare, but I had to control myself, I didn't want to make this worse for Bella by scaring her to death. Where the hell was that little monster?
I looked around for some kind of clue, but I had to look no further than Bella's bedroom door. There she stood, a tiny four and a half foot tall demon.
"Stop." I growled at her, but she only made the pain worse.
"Hello, again Edward." She said in a sickeningly chipper voice. "It seems that your human friend is no longer immune to my, shall we say, vampiric charms." She chuckled to herself.
Jane looked away releasing Bella from her painful gaze. Bella cowered in the corner, still in a tight ball, whimpering. I wanted to go over to her, to hold her, but I couldn't do that and face Jane at the same time. My main priority at that moment was to get Bella out of harms way.
Bella's POV :
It hurt; even after she turned away form me. My skull was throbbing, my stomach churning and my heart felt as if it was going to burst from my chest. I couldn't breathe.
"Bella, are you okay?" Edward asked me quietly as he held me in his lap.
He and Jane were having a conversation about something I wasn't able to comprehend. I felt a burning in my throat and had wiggle out of Edward's arms to run to the bathroom. Jane was powerful, even more so that I could ever imagine.
Edward always told me that just because he was a vampire he was damned to hell, but I knew he was wrong. Edward was good, so, so good. Then there is Jane and the volturi, if they aren't bound for hell, I don't think anyone is.
I came down the stairs just as they finished talking.
"That's all we needed to know Edward. We'll be back soon, you'd better hurry, her time is running out." Jane said with a sick smile. Then she turned her gaze on me, causing me to cringe. "Goodbye Bella."
Her black cape billowed as she walked out the door, a cool foreboding wind chilled my bones. Something was off; I just couldn't put my finger on it.
"Edward what's wrong?" It came out as a croak. "What'd she say?"
Deep inside I already knew, but the higher levels of my conscious wouldn't allow it to process.
"We're going to run." He said quietly.
"Why?" I asked slightly dumfounded.
"Bella," He took my face in his hands gently, "They want me to change you…"
"And that's bad?" I whispered.
"They want me to do it now"
I repeated myself "And that's bad?"
"We're going to do this on our own terms Bella." He growled quietly, "We can out run them and then later when you-"
"Edward, I'm ready now."
He walked to the window as fast as a vampire would. I was suddenly frightened of him. His lip curled over his teeth as he growled out low curses. I'd made him angry.
"Edward, please?"
"We're going to run." He said firmly, still looking out the clouded glass.
