-1Living Hell
My entire body was filled with two emotions. Rage and despair. Rage because the woman I loved and was married to was in love with another man, if you could even call him that. And despair because she was gone. When Alice told me Bella had been taken I ran to Charlie's house. I could smell four distinct people. The first was Charlie, who of course, would be there; the second Bella, who had gone there after Esme told her to leave, and the last were two vampires. One easily identified as Jane. I remembered her scent from long ago when I begged her to kill me. The other I had never smelled before. I knew it would only be a matter of time before the Volturi came for Bella. They never forget anything. I just thought we would have a lot more time to change her. I knew that in order for Bella to return alive I'd better have a good strategy. I decided to go to the volturi, beg forgiveness and then change her right then and there in front of everyone so they could all see her transformation and we would be let go.
The first thing I did was fly to Italy. When I came to the dwelling of the Volturi family I found it empty. Every trace of the vampire clan was gone and there were too many other smells to even think of tracking them. Suddenly I wished my experience in South America had gone much better than it had. I lost all control. How could I even think of saving Bella if I didn't know where she was. I didn't know for certain who had her, and, the worst of all, I didn't even know if she was alive. I once again thought of killing myself until I realized that until Bella was undeniably dead, she still needed her knight in shining armor, and who better than me. I returned home to Forks and called a family meeting to ask help in planning the rescue of my love when I didn't even know where she was.
"Alright everyone. This is what we need to do." Carlisle called everyone to attention as he stood in front of the rest of the Cullen family. "We need to find where the Volturi are living before we can plan Bella's rescue." I started to protest but he raised his hand and continued.
"We will most likely need the help of other vampires, maybe even those not of our kind. The Volturi are extremely well trained and out number us ten to one. There is no chance of a successful rescue if we try anything now." he looked puzzled and almost went on when Alice interrupted him.
"Bill will be here in exactly 45 seconds, Carlisle. I thought you should know." she announced. " I cant see anyone with him, but there's no telling. I've been a little off lately." Alice looked disappointed and then turned her head to Jasper and gave him a weak smile.
"Alright well we all know this could get dangerous so I'm going to ask Emmett Jasper and Rosalie to go out back and let the rest of us handle this." Carlisle spoke with authority that no one would dare defy. The rest of the family went out into the back yard and waited close by.
"this doesn't seem fair. I never do anything wrong around those dogs." Rosalie thought to herself.
"Jacob is damn lucky he isn't around. I'd tear him limb from limb." a fake fight scene between Emmet and Jacob was playing over and over in the largest brothers head.
"It's a good thing those dogs smell disgusting. I'm getting really hungry." Jasper grinned at Alice and then whispered in her ear. Almost immediately they whisked themselves away, no doubt to hunt.
Almost immediately after they left a knock on the door lifted me out of their minds and back into the house. Esme floated to the door and opened it, ushering Billy inside. She gave me one of those "keep your self in check" looks and asked Billy to sit down. As soon as he did another knock at the door echoed throughout the house. It was Jacob. Every bone in my body shook with anger. I was about to move for the door when Carlisle put his hand on my shoulder and asked me to please go out back with the others. There was no way I was going to disobey Carlisle when I knew he was right. Tonight was not the night for a fight, especially when Bella was in danger.