Chapter 58: Till Death Do Us Part

Zoey POV:

"Hey Emmett, would you mind turning it up a bit?"

"Sure thing Zo." Emmett turned up the volume on the TV a few more notches for me, the only person in the room with human hearing. We were all currently seated in the lounge, watching the live coverage outside the court room. And by all of us, I mean everyone but Bella and Carlisle. Carlisle was busy working on some new medical instruments and Bella was busy avoiding us. It's only been two days since the big fight and Bella is still extremely pissed. I looked across from me at a depressed Alice staring at the screen with glassy eyes.

The problem is, I agree with both of them. I understand why Bella is so upset with it all, but I also see Alice's view about how it doesn't matter to her. I think everyone else is as split as I am because no one had taken any sides. Liam must have known what I was thinking about because he gave my knee a comforting squeeze.

"She'll come round." He whispered into my ear quietly. Bella was currently burning off steam by working out nonstop. Poor Alice. I could barely handle Liam going on missions away from me, let alone being in the same area but dodging each other. Just then, Bella walked in angrily, covered in sweat with her earbuds in.

"Bella you wanna watch with us? Bella?" Liam called her a little louder the second time so she would hear through her music. She stopped and pulled the buds out of her ears.

"What?"

"I asked if you wanted to watch with us." Liam said calmly, but the entire room tensed up. Bella's eyes made a tiny movement to look at Alice, but she tightened her jaw before responding even more annoyed.

"No thanks." She went to walk towards her room, but stopped abruptly, every muscle on edge. She looked around, as if she was trying to listen to something extremely quiet.

"Bella what-?"

"GET DOWN!" I only got one good glimpse of everyone with terrified expressions before something hard threw me off the couch and there was an ear splitting sound of an explosion.

Ringing. All I could hear was ringing. It took me a few tries to open my eyes, but when I did all I could see was dust flying around everywhere. There was a horrible stabbing pain in my abdomen and I looked down to see there was a large piece of rebar sticking out of me. I went to pull it out, but strong hands stopped me.

"Don't." Bella was right on top of me. She was the one that threw me off the sofa, she put her entire body on top of mine to shield me. But it wasn't enough. The large piece of rebar was actually embedded in her, from her back all the way through. Her body had lessened the blow for me. "Carlisle!" She called out frantically, I began to panic at the amount of blood. "Hey hey. Zoey look at me. Look at my face. You're going to be ok. It's going to be fine. CARLISLE!" I tried to look at her face like she told me to, but some blood was now coming out of her mouth and it was making things much worse. So I moved my head to assess the others damage.

Oh I should not have done that. The room was not recognizable. Everyone was down and there were multiple body parts scattered around. Liam's body was the closest to us, I didn't need super hearing to know he was dead. Tears started flowing from my eyes. It was all too much. Bella was still yelling for Carlisle and there were the sounds of gunshots and people screaming from down the hall.

"Down the hall! They're in the hall! Keep them bottled up!" The nearest voices were calling out orders.

"Jesus what happened?" Finally Carlisle came running into the room panic stricken.

"Does it matter right now?! Help her!" He nodded and examined our middles, Bella was now grunting in pain from the effort to keep herself positioned above me without moving. I was feeling lightheaded from the blood loss.

"Ok. Ok I can fix this. I just need my bag." I'd never seen Carlisle so stressed before.

"Your family!" I cried out, still searching for any conscious Cullen around.

"They'll be fine Zoey. Momentarily knocked out from the force. But they will be good as new in a few hours, limbs attached and all." That made me feel tremendously better. But my mate was still dead, and Bella didn't look like she'd be lasting much longer. "Bella I need you. Once I pull the debris out of you and Zoey, I need you to run and get my bag from my office while I hold pressure on the wound."

"You-your office?" Bella actually appeared to be scared. I'd never seen her scared in my life. What was she worried about?

"Yes Bella my office! What's wrong?" Carlisle was just as confused about her demeanor as well as I. There was still a constant stream of screaming and gun fire coming from the hallway towards Carlisle's office, but it sounded much farther away. Was that what she was worried about? "Bella if you don't she'll die!" Well so much for trying to keep me calm.

"Don't let them get past this point! Hold the line!"

"Ok." Bella swallowed and looked down at me with something in her eyes that I couldn't decipher. Sadness? Worry? Pain? They were all there plus something extra. "Ok ok ok. One second." She reached up and yanked the chain with her dog tags off her neck and handed them to me.

"Wha-?" I went to ask but she interrupted me quickly.

"Everything's going to be ok Zoey. I'm coming back. I promise." She looked over to where Alice's unconscious body was. "I'm coming back." And with that, Carlisle pulled the piece of iron out from both of us. Bella and I let out pained yells as Carlisle placed both his hands over my now very open wound. She had run away down the hall before I even noticed she had left. How she was running with a hole right through her torso was beyond me. I was reminded once again of how much she loved and would do anything for the people she cared for.

"Alright Zoey I need you to just breathe normally. Bella will be back soon and I can mend that wound in no time. Just relax." Easier said than done. The gunshots were getting louder and the shouting was getting closer.

"They're getting away! They're getting away! STOP THEM!" Who's they? I figured we were under attack after the explosion, but now everything was finally coming together. My stomach clenched in complete panic. Where was Bella? Who were they?

It seemed to be hitting Carlisle as well because he started frantically scanning up for any signs of Bella. The terror in my chest was building by each passing second that she didn't come back, and the shouting grew further away.

"No no no no no." Carlisle's eyes were as alarmed as mine were I'm sure. "NO NO!" Finally a couple uniformed personnel came in, one of them carrying Carlisle's bag.

"Dr. Cullen this was right outside the room." He took it with shaking hands and tried to fix me while I trembled uncontrollably.

"Bella. Where's Bella?" The man ignored me and continued to help Carlisle with his work. "Where's Bella?!" I was getting frustrated by the lack of information.

"Just relax Zoey. You're going to be fine."

"I DON'T CARE ABOUT ME! WHERE'S BELLA?" They had to push me back down as I struggled to get up.

"She's gone Zoey. The-they got her." Bile went up to my throat.

"What do you mean they? Who are they?"

"The Volturi."

I didn't care about anything anymore, not even myself. I clawed, kicked, and trashed against Carlisle's restraints, trying to get back to her. Trying to get back to Bella.

"BELLA! BELLA! BELLAAAAAAA!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, clutching onto the tags she had given me. She promised me. She promised she would come back. "BELLAAAAAAAAAA!"

Alice POV:

Everything had happened so fast. I was still upset about our fight and was trying to ignore Bella, but it was so damn hard. Then of course everything blew up, quite literally, and I was knocked out from the force.

When things were starting to come back, it was a living hell. Almost my entire family was down, some were starting to awaken like I was, and several were missing limbs. My attention was drawn to my father struggling with a very panicked Zoey. She appeared to be severely injured and Carlisle was trying to tend to it. But it was difficult with her constant squirming and screaming. My ears were still repairing so I couldn't quite make out what she was yelling, it was all muffled.

"BELLA! BELLA! BELLAAAAAAA!" Bella? Why was she screaming my mate's name? Where was Bella? "BELLAAAAAAAAAA!" Wait, why was she holding Bella's identification tags. My nose distinctly picked up the smell of Bella's fresh blood. Something was wrong.

"Carlisle?" I croaked out to get his attention. He turned to me with extreme agony in his eyes. He was crying. "Carlisle what's wrong? Where's Bella?"

"Alice. Alice she's gone." He choked out. "I'm so sorry. It's all my fault."

"What? What do you mean she's gone? Like she's down?" He wasn't making any sense. Carlisle wouldn't have been this upset if Bella had died, yeah it sucked when she was in pain from it, but she always woke up.

"No Alice. They took her. The-the Volturi got her. She's gone."

The End

Author's Notes:

Alright before anyone hits me, yes I'm writing a sequel. This is just where this book needs to end. The sequel will have a little different of a style with points of views and how long chapters are and such. I must be a bit of a sadist because I really enjoyed writing this chapter. I've been saving this chapter name ever since In Sickness and And In Health chapters. It's all part of the plan.

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