Okay, last chapter I said that no one really died in it at the beginning. Sorry about that! Bella really did die. I've replaced the last chapter by now though. I was getting it mixed up with a future chapter in my other story, "Twilight Alive" where, as I've said before, Bella doesn't die. Sorry for the mix-up!
And I'm also sorry that I haven't updated in a while! I've just been so busy with everything going on, and I had some writer's block.
I hope you like this chapter!
Chap. 4 – Her body is cold. Too cold. She's been dead a while. Shouldn't something be happening? Shouldn't I be snapping out of it and facing them off for revenge? But my will is too weak to even slightly resist the arms wrapping around me and carrying me to their car.
Jasper's POV
"Alice. Alice, what's wrong? Alice!"
The strangest feeling is radiating from my wife. A sort of fear mixed with disbelief. I've been trying to snap her out of it for quite some time now.
"Alice!" This times she hears me and her head whips in my direction. I would be able to tell what she was feeling, even if I didn't know already, just from looking in her eyes. She's paralyzed with fear. For a loved one it feels like. This is no old friend. A loved one? What could happen to any of us that would be so bad she can't even speak to me yet? Wait, she said that the Vulturi were going to "pay a visit" to Edward…and Bella. What happened?
Feeling now is not the time to beat around the bush, I ask Alice some of the usual questions after a vision when she doesn't know how to explain to us what's going on.
I ask her generally what happened when the rest of my family walks in; they must have heard me and have come to find out what's wrong.
"B-Bella. I-It's Bella. And Edward. Bella and Edward. Edward and Bella." Her feelings are getting stronger as she's accepting what happened in her vision. She gets even more frantic, so I fill the room with a wave of calmness.
It works for long enough for Alice to spit out, "Bella's dead, and Edward's been taken by the Vulturi," before everyone goes into panic mode. I can't even try to do anything about their feelings now.
Wait, Bella's dead? Edward…the Vulturi? It just doesn't make sense. I bet the rest of the room is thinking along the same lines as I am.
The only person who hasn't lost almost complete control is Rose. Seeing everyone else's state, she sighs and takes over the questioning.
"How did…Bella…die?" she asks with a slight feeling of victory gently pulsing from her body.
"Jane. Jane killed her. At her house. Charlie was gone." Alice is still in complete shock. I may not have reached out to Bella very much, but it was for her own safety. I never wanted her to die.
"And why did Jane kill her?" Rose doesn't have as much practice with this sort of thing as I do, but, even being only half here, I can tell she's doing well. "Was it on accident?"
Instead of answering right away, Alice just shakes her head no. She finds her voice and says, "On purpose. Because Bella isn't, wasn't, one of us." With her words, Alice realizes that nothing will get done about what she saw if she doesn't snap out of her daze.
She looks at me pointedly, but it takes me a minute to realize that she wants me to fill the room with a bit of calmness so we can all listen and think rationally. But because I'm not feeling too rational myself, so it takes me a minute to draw the feeling from Alice. Rose is now feeling a little guilty, probably from being glad Bella died, so I can't use her feelings to spread throughout the room.
With a more reasonable air, Alice restarts her explanation.
"Remember how I said the Vulturi were going to Forks? Well, they did. Jane didn't go to our house with the rest of them; she went to Bella's house. She killed her and then made it seem like she just fell down the stairs for Charlie. Edward came to her house when one of the guards let on what Jane was doing. Aro wanted Edward to go to Vulterra with them, and Edward was in such a state that he was just dragged off by the guards.
"He's in Italy."
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