Chapter 11
Bella's POV
I really didn't want to go talk to Edward, but I knew that I had to. After I calmed down for half an hour with Wuthering Heights and a cup of coffee, I headed up to Getty's room and opened the door. Edward was standing with his back to me facing the window with his right hand and forehead resting on it.
"Edward-" I said, unsure of how to begin. I walked up behind him and wrapped my arms around his shoulders, resting my cheek against his back.
"What you saw happen between me and Jacob wasn't what it looked like at all. In fact it was exactly the opposite. He made advances, true enough, and, yes, he did kiss me, but I pushed him away immediately. I told him that I love you and have no intent to leave you."
"Bella," he said and then turned around. The pain in his eyes was obvious, and then he did something I never would have expected: he pushed me away. "It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I feel it would be cruel to string you along any further. I don't want to put you through that much pain. I don't know how to tell you this, so I'm just going to say it." He paused here.
"Say what," I pressed.
"I think I'm in love with Getty".
To put it mildly, I was floored. Then the door opened.
Getty's POV
I had just left Bella as she was starting to collect herself enough to talk to Edward. I figured it would be best to give her 45 minutes to calm down and talk to him. I decided to go for a walk. I got back to the house 40 minutes later, then went to file a flight plan when I realized that I had left my phone upstairs. I waited around for another 10 minutes before I went to get my phone. Just as I got to the door, I heard Edward saying something.
"I think I'm in love with Getty," Edward said.
At this point, I walked in. "Edward," I said, "Just so you know, there's someone that I love. I'm already taken. I love you like a brother, but that's it." I then grabbed my phone off the bedside table and left the room. Just as I was about to call to file the flight plan, my phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Hey, baby," the voice on the other end said.
"Scott," I half asked, half squealed.
"You know it."
"OH MY GOD!!! I missed you SOOO much!!"
"I missed you too. Can we talk?"
"Later, maybe," I said. "I have to try to save my family from the twisted, demented, blood-drinking forces of evil. I should be up in Canada in a few hours, but I don't know how long I'll be staying. I have to make a few calls so I can save my family, but I will call you later. I promise. I love you. Bye."
"Bye, baby. I miss your voice already."
"Ever sappy, aren't you?"
"You love it," he said.
"Yeah," I said dryly. "Bye." And I hung up the phone. 10 minutes later, I had a flight plan filed for the next day and was on my way to find Esme to go over the details of the plan when the doorbell rang.
At the same time, Jasper and I shouted "I got it," so we raced to the door. Just as I was about to open the door, Jasper put his hand on top of mine. "Wait," he said.
"Why?"
"Do you smell that," he asked.
I sniffed. "Yeah, it's sweet. Like humans mixed with honey. What is it?"
"Witches". Then he opened the door angrily. "What do you want," he growled at none other than one of my best friends, Ally. What struck me most about Ally was her response to Jasper. I tried to walk out the door to hug her, but I couldn't. There was some sort of invisible barrier.
For what felt like three hours, we just stood there staring at each other. It was then that Esme walked in. "Getty, Jasper, who was at the door?"
For a time, neither of us answered.
"Getty, Jasper," she prodded.
It was then that I shook my head out of my reverie. "Oh, um, Esme, Jasper, this is one of my best friends, Ally. Ally- this is Esme, my adoptive mother, and Jasper, my adoptive brother. All Ally and Jasper managed to do was continue glaring at each other. Esme, however, managed to be courteous.
"Hello, Ally. It's nice to meet you. We were actually packing up to head north for a while. Jasper, Getty, I can put your stuff in Emmett's jeep. Ally, you're welcome to come on the trip with us."
"Thank you, Esme. I'll consider it." Then Ally turned to me. "Wait… You aren't human."
Uh oh… But bless Alice and her wonderful timing.
"Getty, I just saw something. I'm not entirely sure that your plan will work out as well as I first thought."
"Okay. We'll go over it when everyone else is done packing," I told her. Then she left, I assume to tell everyone about the last-minute family meeting. I then turned my attention to Ally. "What are you doing here ," I asked her.
"I could say the same to you," she replied somewhat bitterly. "I thought you were at Trinity. Trinity is in Ireland and you are in Forks!! WHAT HAPPENED??? And they're… they've got to be VAMPIRES!!!"
"Ally, Ally. Calm. Down," I said. I then told her everything that happened since I'd last seen her.
"YOU ALMOST GOT KILLED BY A BANDSAW!!! YOU IDIOT!! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING??? NO… YOU DIDN'T ALMOST GET KILLED BY A BANDSAW. YOU DID GET KILLED BY A BANDSAW!!!"
"Deep breaths, Ally. It was an accident. You know how careless I get on tight deadlines."
"That's no excuse," she yelled at me, calmer than before, but still overreacting. "Wait… if you're here, that means you're a vampire too."
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. There was a reason I didn't want to tell you that story. I knew you would react like that." It was then that I noticed everyone standing on the stairs. "Okay," I said. "Let's get this family meeting thingy over with."
We all went into the living room. Things were pretty tense in the foyer and I wanted to escape some of that. Once in the living room, I went over the plan one more time and at the same time, Ally said "That's so STUPID" and Alice said "There are a couple parts of that that won't work." Not two seconds after that, I saw Ally's clothes change into something I'd never seen her wear before. It looked like gold armor, complete with chain mail, breast plates, a shield, multiple weapons, and a helmet. My jaw dropped to the floor.
"Where are the werecrows," Ally yelled. "Come out, come out and play".
And she was worried about me… Then a bunch of crows flew straight through the house and out the back, with Ally hot on their heels, in a manner of speaking. When the rest of us got out back, Ally's clothes had changed again. This time she was in a gold business suit writing insanely complex calculations in the air. When she finished, she screamed at them. "I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!"
Then the doorbell rang. Again.
Ally dashed back inside and answered the door before any of us got a chance. "Brie," she said excitedly. "What are you doing here?"
The person I could only assume to be Brie walked in rolling a 55 gallon drum of something in before her.
"Brie," Ally asked. "What is that?"
"Icing," Brie said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"You have a 55 gallon drum of icing," I asked incredulously.
"She has a thing for icing," Ally told me.
"Well obviously. She has 55 gallons of it."
"Hate to interrupt the discussion," Brie said. "But would someone care to tell me how you vampires got into trouble this time? (A/N: I almost stopped here, but then I figured that you've been so patient and it would be cruel to deprive you) And Edward, why haven't you changed Bella yet? You know that a certain group of vampires will be very angry with you for that".
"I know," he sighed.
"Okay," I said. "Brie- stop picking on Edward. Here's the plan as it stands: We are going to run. For now. We will contact the Denali coven and ask for their assistance in building an army to fight the Volturi. We are going to meet them in Yellowknife up in Canada and spend as long as we possibly can training me to fight and having other vampires that can sympathize with our cause join us. We will train and, when we are ready, I will fly us all back, hopefully including the Denalis. When we return, we will fight. I know Alice and Ally wanted to make some changes to it. We can do that now if you'll all come back inside with me. Just so you know, though, any changes must be made rapidly. The Volturi will be here in about two and a half hours."
We all went back in the house and congregated in the kitchen with Bella nervously rummaging around for something to eat. "Okay," I began. "We were going to make some changes to the plan… Alice, tell me what your vision entailed."
"Well, if we fly up to Canada, it will take the Volturi longer to find us, but we need a new location. It seems that they have spies in Yellowknife and if we go there, they will find us in less than 2 days. I recommend that we go somewhere more isolated and difficult to get to, Prince Edward Island, for example. Or maybe the Yukon. Either will be a good place. I'd say go to the Yukon because it will be easier for the Denalis to get there. Other than that, we have no other problems."
"Unless they have the place bugged," I said skeptically.
"They don't," she assured me.
"I still have a couple of objections," Ally said. "It really doesn't make sense for you to go there and then come back here. Either go there and stay, or stay here and wait and send Edward to talk to Tanya and everybody."
Edward spoke up at this for the first time in hours. "No, no, no, no, no," he said repeatedly looking at each one of us in turn. "I am NOT going to talk to Tanya by myself. I would either take Getty with me or we train up there while waiting for the Volturi to find us."
"What do you think," I asked Brie, accidentally catching her with a mouthful of icing.
After swallowing, Brie responded. "I think we should combine a little of Ally's plan and Alice's suggestion. Go up to the Yukon and talk to the Denalis and get their cooperation and train while waiting for the Volturi. That way Getty will be able to fight if needed and you will all be able to cooperate better with each other."
"What does everyone else think," I asked. "Because that plan sounds good to me."
"Sounds good to me," Emmett, Rosalie, Carlisle, Ally, Alice, Jasper, Esme, and Edward said.
"Okay then. It's a plan. Let's put her into action. We're rapidly closing in on two hours before they get here."
After I said that, everyone started haulin' ass out to the cars and toward the airport. "WAIT!!!," I called out to them at the top of my lungs. "I'm NOT ready for us to go just yet. I have to go on a hunt with Esme quickly and, unless you want to be sitting at the airport waiting for up to 45 minutes, I suggest you stay here." Their jaws all plummeted to the ground, never having seen me so authoritative in the time that they had known me.
"Ready," I asked Esme.
"Sure, let's go".
Shortly after we disappeared into the woods, I spoke up. "Okay, here's a couple of details that concern you and only you so I felt that it was unnecessary to have everyone else hear. Basically, it consists of how I'm going to get you up to the Yukon."
"I'm listening".
"I want you to meet me at the Friday Harbor airport in about 5 hours. I need you to entertain the Volturi and make sure that they don't get suspicious. What I have planned for your escape is fairly simple. All you need to do is tell them that you are going to run an errand and take your car. Tell them you probably won't be back for three hours or so. I figure that they will take an hour before they become suspicious enough to come looking for us. By that point we will be about ready to land in the Yukon.
"But, what I want you to do is to drive as fast as you possibly can to the Friday Harbor airport. I will be there waiting for you by a small single-engine plane. You should see it right away. No one will be suspicious if I'm just standing against it. Bring your bag with you and be sure to get into the plane quickly. By the time you get there, we will have to be off the ground within 10 minutes, so run at human speed to the plane. We don't want to alert any of them to our existence as vampires, otherwise there will be more hell to pay.
"I'm taking everyone else up on a business jet to try to trick the Volturi into thinking that there's actually 2 different pilots when its really only me."
After I told Esme all that, she agreed. After that, we parted ways for a short time to hunt. I nabbed three bunnies, the final one in front of Esme. She was giving me one of the strangest looks. "What," I asked. "I thought I told everyone that I hunted bunnies. And what's it to you if I do? They taste like Peeps mixed with Cadbury Crème eggs. I thought I told everyone that too. Guess not… Let's head back. We've only got two hours left".
(A/N: I almost stopped here too, but then I figured, why not get everyone but Esme up to Canada)
Esme and I got back to the house in under 5 minutes to find everyone packed and waiting by Emmett's jeep. "Okay, guys," I said. "There was a reason I told you to only pack one bag. It'll be faster if we run to the airport than if we drive, even though we all drive like maniacs". With that, we all took off at a dead sprint toward the airport. Almost immediately, Emmett caught up with me.
"So why are we flying up to Canada instead of running or driving," he asked me.
"Two reasons: a) it's faster to fly, and b) flying leaves no scent between the departure point and the destination". With that, we arrived at the airport.
"Okay, everybody in the plane," I said.
"Which one," Edward asked.
"The one that's just getting pulled out of the hangar". I pointed and they all turned their heads and stared in awe.
"You think that's amazing," I said, "Wait until you see the inside. Come on. Get in, get in." With that, I put their bags in the cargo hold and they all got in. I made my way up to the cockpit when Jasper stopped me and asked my why we weren't going to wait for Esme.
"I'm going to pick her up at the Friday Harbor airport in about 6 hours in a different plane. We have to make sure that the Volturi don't get suspicious".
"Oh, gotcha," he replied.
"Everything okay," I asked him. "You seem a little tense".
"Yeah," he said. "I'm fine. I just hope this whole thing works out fine".
5 minutes after that, we were in the air on our way to the Yukon. All of us. Me, Ally, Alice, Jasper, Edward, Bella, Emmett, Rosalie, Brie, and Carlisle. On to the Yukon to see what we would have to work with when we finally had to fight the Volturi.
A/N: Okay, now I'm done with that chapter. And what a marathon it's been. 6 wonderful pages of writing that took almost 15 hours to get perfect. And neglect of AP Stats homework. Leave me a review letting me know what you think. No promises on when the next chapter comes out. I would like 10 reviews before going on, but I'll take what I can get.