I turned around to look into Edward's eyes, and I could already feel the despair creeping up on me.
I jumped up and started pacing-vampire speed-backwards and forwards. I only came to a stop when Edward rushed over and picked me up in his arms. What do I do? What do I do? Was all I can think, everything was falling into place and now it was ruined by one small glitch in the system.
'Bella. Shush. It's okay! We will get through this, you're the only thing that matters, and I will keep you safe.' Edward said.
I stared at him in horror, how could he say this? If it was a world of metaphorical speaking I would have burst into flames and I would be burning the whole house.
'Edward! How can you say that? It's not me that's going to be in trouble, its you! They are going to try to get me back, and I'm sure Felix has something to do with it!' I was literally in hysterics.
I growled to myself and started snarling. How could this happen?
Edward just shushed me even more, and he held me in his arms to stop me from pacing, or possibly breaking something valuable in his house, the hysterics were fading and the anxiety flowed through me, how long did we have?
'Alice, how long do we have?' Edward asked, obviously noticing my wander.
Alice just stared at us, as if she was scared of the answer.
'What is it Alice?' I snapped. She looked at me hurt and I smiled at her, I didn't like hurting her like this. And I didn't mean to either.
'We have 10 minutes.' She said and she withdrew herself by stepping back a few paces.
The hysterics came again, this time I was throwing my hands up in the air and shaking my hair all over the place. Maybe we could run. The velvet-y voice inside me head made me jump and I just stared at him considering it. He gave me a sheep-ish smile as if it embarrassed him that he was thinking of it.
'Edward, if we run we will only make things worse for your family, and I don't want your – our family to be in danger.'
Edwards reply worried me, he just smiled at me and through his thoughts I realised he was pleased with the thought and sound of 'our family' that came from my lips.
I calmed a bit, and looked at him. He held his arms out to me and I hugged him, I wished I could stay like this and completely ignore the fact we had a royal vampire family looking for us and waiting to hunt us down.
'I think you should fight' Emmett surprised me and Edward both, as we turned around, Edward releasing me from his grasp, I wanted to tell him to never let me go.
Emmett was smiling, I turned to him. I almost laughed at him, this was his answer to everything.
But then I noticed it, he said 'you' not 'we'. The whole Cullen family, noticed it at the same moment I did.
'Emmett, what do you mean 'you'?' Jasper said, through my whole hysterics Jasper seemed to fail in calming me down, or he wasn't trying.
Emmett turned around to look at Jasper, Jasper looked as confused as he did intrigued. I saw Jasper also was holding Alice in his arms. We never usually saw them showing their affection publicly but, Jasper was always there to defend Alice.
'Well, Jasper, Edward let Felix hurt him last time, but I'm pretty sure that Edward has a fantastic chance of getting him. Besides, Edwards love, obviously, is deeper for Bella than Felix's. And if it goes wrong, we are all here to fight behind him.' Emmett was looking at all of us for our reactions to the plan.
Carlisle
was distressed as was Esme, they didn't want this to resort and be
sorted by a fight.
Rosalie wasn't showing any emotion as usual,
she just stared at Edward waiting for him to decide. It didn't
matter to her, she wasn't involved in this particularly.
Alice was biting her lip, she knew this would hurt me, she knew she didn't want me to watch it. Edward didn't know the female connection me and Alice had. She was like a sister to me, and she knew exactly how much it would pain me.
Jasper was waiting still for our reactions, and Edward was turning me around to see what I thought.
'I don't know…' I said, know biting my own lip.
'Well, we have 3 minutes.' Alice said, she could see how hard it was, but we should decide before we came. Spontaneity wasn't good with the Volturi around.
'Bella, I can do this. You know I can.' Edward said, ducking his head to look at my expression. I was trying so hard to conceal it by hiding my face.
'I know you can, but I don't know if I can watch you do it. What if it goes wrong? What if someone jumps in to save Felix? What if he hurts you and its worse than before?' Hysterics seemed to be my emotion of the day.
Jasper saved me from a replay of my earlier performance, so I threw him a grateful glance.
'Bella, I will be safe. My only concern is keeping you safe.' He said, and he put his finger under my chin, lifting my face up. He kissed me, softly and my lips parted. How could I let anybody hurt him? He was so gentle and soft, and loving. I couldn't let him do this?
'Bella. Don't worry about me. I will do it.' He said. He knew he would win me over.
'Okay.' I said quietly, I didn't like being won over, but this time it was difficult to give in.
At the moment I said it I immediately regretted it as, the Volturi were here, their thoughts focused on Edward. They were all coming for him. I couldn't let this happen.
They came in one by one. Aro. Marcus. Caius. Jane. Alec. And Felix. I wanted to raise onto the balls of my feet and send him to hell. I needed to protect him. I wanted to, but I said I would let Edward do this.
I snarled to myself, only detectable to Edward who was close to me.
'Be safe.' I whispered, he would only hear it, and yet I wished he would actually promise me that he would be safe. He couldn't be safe unless he didn't do this.