Yay Chapter two's up! This one is still kinda short, around three pages, but the next one I SWEAR will be at least five. The last line of this chapter just screamed at me to stop there, so I did. I'm still switching POVs, but I think I'll stick with just Edward, Alice, and Bella for awhile, but in late chapters I might add somebody else in there. Hope it's not too confusing! Read on!

One other thing-thanks sooo much for the support, guys! I love you all!

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Chapter 2

Bella's POV

The first thought that went through my head:

"Who, no, what is Edward?

He was a blur around the room, killing, murdering everybody in the biology class. Everybody dead, bleeding on the floor. Mike, Jessica, people I had just met, and those who I would never get the chance to. But the most dominant thought was,

"Why? Why is Edward doing this?"

He'd finished his "hunt" and turned to me, after ripping a leg off of one of the lab tables, jamming it into the door, locking everybody out. His eyes were wide; he was almost foaming at the mouth. I, being the genius I am, had backed myself against a wall, the #1 mistake in the prey handbook: never get cornered. I knew, without a doubt, that I was going to die. I could try to run, but with his obvious strength and speed…I'd have absolutely no chance.

None.

Edward's eyes were black. Coal black. Ten times darker than when I'd first seen him. He was crouched low to the ground, like a lion. He moved, slower toward me. Enjoying the time he had to kill me. His eyes…his expression…he looked…almost…hungry? Like I was a meal, long awaited. He was c\loser now. I closed my eyes, then opened then again, only to see Edward completely prepared to strike. I raised my hand to my face and let out a small shriek.

Edward paused, and I wondered subconsciously why my murder was being delayed. He backed up, reeling like he was about to pass out. HE came to the wall where I was leaning and placed his hands on either side of my head. He seemed to be holding his breath.

"Oh my God, Bella…Bella… Oh my God." The ability to say anything else seemingly deserted him. His face was down, his eyes closed. He opened them and looked into my eyes, just for a half of a second.

"Bella…" I noticed his eyes were fading from their coal black of a few minutes ago, now they were turning a…golden color? He moved away from the wall, having steadied himself, I assumed, and began pacing between the blood and corpses that lay all over the biology class's floor. Or what was left of the biology class. Tables were upturned one had only three legs, and, of course, there was the remains of our former classmates. Edward pinched the bridge of his nose.

"What to do…" He muttered to himself. "Someone will arrive for the next class in a minute."

He paced a few more steps.

"Alright." He sighed. "There's only one thing to do. And quickly."

Before I knew what was happening, he had picked me up, flung me unceremoniously over his shoulder and was flying out the door. We ran like this for only a few seconds (but long enough to make me feel sick), then we reached the parking lot, where sat, to my utter disbelief, a silver Volvo.

"A Volvo." I said. "You're kidnapping me in a Volvo?!"

I was graced with the wonderful gift of having a sense of humor always, even in the most dire times. Much to my dismay. Now was hardly the time to be making jokes. Of c course, I hardly knew what the time was. Edward was kidnapping me, that much was clear, but why? Where was he taking me? And most importantly, what was he?

Alice's POV

(A/N: Just to clear a few things up-right now it is just the beginning of the biology class that Edward is in, which is why he won't respond, he's completely focused on Bella. I just wanted to make sure that time lapses didn't confuse anybody too much. Carry on)

Thirty minutes gone. I had spent the entire class period waiting for Edward and trying to convince Jasper that nothing was wrong, that the vision I had seen was noting, but, of course, it wasn't. Edward has lost control. He had killed 17 people-16 students and the new girl…Bella? A new vision hadn't come to me, however much I tried to force one upon myself. Did he massacre the entire student body? Or had he not really done what I had seen? After all, I tried to console myself; he could have just temporarily made the decision, then talked himself out of it.

"Alice?" I heard a voice, talking to me from somewhere in the distance.

"Alice? Are you there?" I was pulled abruptly out of my little thought cloud by Jasper's words.

"I'm fine now Alice, we can go now."

Of course. I had completely forgotten Jasper was there. So strong was my worry for Edward, for our family that I had pulled out of the real world. I didn't do that very often (aside from my visions) and I think it worried Jasper. He was looking at my face critically, like he was trying to figure out what was running through my head. Too bad, I thought. You're not Edward. Speaking of Edward, where was he?

Jasper and I got out of the Volvo, trying to decide where to go. We could always go back to class, but where was the point in that when Edward was in such a fix? I could always go looking for him, but I didn't want to alarm Jasper unless absolutely necessary. So, I decide o take Jasper out into the woods behind the school. WE walked for at least two dozen miles, then an elk appeared just over the horizon. Jasper looked at me imploringly, and I settled down on a rock to wait. Jasper hadn't eaten in nearly a week, which was a stretch for him, and we were far enough away from the school to be safe. As he walked off, stalking the elk, I lay back on the glass to try to decipher the meaning of my vision, and, more importantly, what has happening next.

After Jasper had killed the elk and disposed of the remains, we were sitting in the grass together, enjoying peaceful companionship or a peaceful as it could e under the circumstances. Jasper was getting annoyed with me, I could tell, for not explaining to him what was going on, for I suppose it was obvious something was. The Volvo came to me in my mind. Edward was in it. So he was safe! I celebrated inside my mind. There was nothing to fear, he just…another image came to me. The backseat of the Volvo, the picture was foggy, but vaguely I could see the image of a girl. I jumped up and swore loudly.

Bella.

Jasper leaped up alongside me, grabbing my shoulders.

"Alice." He said it tenderly, but sternly. "Tell me what's going on."

I looked up into his loving, golden eyes.

"Edward …" I hated to tell him this. I hated to expose him to such pain, but I had no choice. I took a deep breath.

"He lost control in his biology class. He killed sixteen people. Seventeen, I thought at first, but he saved one girl. The new one. Bella. She's with him now. I have no doubt he's simply waiting for me to see the visions I have seen and come running with Emmett and Rosalie."

Jasper covered his face with one hand. I put my hand on my shoulder, and he shrugged it off.

"Then let's get Emmett and Rosalie," he said through clenched teeth, enunciating clearly. I couldn't tell if he was angry or sad. For a person who was so good at changing others emotions, his were certainly hard to read.

We stood up and walked back through he forest together, side by side, but far apart, the tension clear.

We made it back to the school in only 10 minutes. Super speed had its advantages, like when you needed to run nearly 25 miles before your younger vampire brother completely ruins your family's secretive life and gets everybody in the family killed. Of course, it wasn't Edward's fault. We all slip up, even Emmett. Even I. Of course, as slips went, this was a pretty big one. Jasper and I were standing in front of the main doors of the school.

"I'll get Rosalie." I said. "You go for Emmett. After you find him, run back here as fast as you can. We'll meet at the car. We only have so much time. Be quick."
Jasper nodded grimly, then stalked off through the doors, quickly, but not so fast that anybody would notice anything abnormal. I sighed, then did the same.

Rosalie was in a Calculus class, way up on the second floor, at the farthest end of the hallway. I sighed. Did Rosalie plan to make \herself extremely hard to reach in a time of dire need? Of course, I could have always run up the stairs, down the hallway, been in the door, grabbed Rosalie, and be out by the front doors before anyone ever knew what was going on. But there were the typical junior skippers lounging around all over the place, and I didn't know how they'd react if they saw a pale blur with short black hair streaming down the hallway at extreme speeds. So, I, very undignifiedly, (A/N-I realize that undignifiedly isn't a word, but I'm making it one. It's an Alice word.) walked.

"And, why, exactly must you see Miss Hale?"

Of course, when I reached the classroom after nearly 3 minutes (walking, how do people stand it?) the teacher obviously found it to be his duty to interrogate me in every way possible before surrendering Rosalie. After trying, unsuccessfully, to explain that it was really really important, without exposing what was really going on, I came up wit the perfect words.

"There's been a family emergency." I enunciated the syllables in emergency, staring right into Rosalie's eyes as I did. She nodded, instantly understanding. Rosalie could be a real brat, but when you needed her most, she really could be there for you. But, as soon as she came next to me, I regretted thinking that. The first thing she said:

"So what did Emmett do this time?"

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