Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Twilight characters, only the plot.
I don't really like Edward but needed to have his POV.
Edward's POV
Alice's piercing scream interrupted my concentration. I tried to get a lock on her thoughts but it was as if she was blocking me. I left the dead mountain lion on the forest floor and took off in the direction of my adopted sister. In a matter of seconds I was in the presence of my family apart from Carlisle and Jasper. Alice was crumpled on the floor screeching. "What's going on?" I asked.
Esme was the first to respond, "We were just talking and then she dropped to the floor and started screaming. I don't know anything else other than that."
I crouched down next to Alice and put my arms around her. "Alice. What's going on?" Her screaming stopped and her eyes flew open.
She whispered the one word that made my heart pound, the one thing in the world that could revive my dead heart. "Bella." I took off at my fastest speed towards the house. I heard the footsteps of my family following me. After a few minutes the house came into view and if anything I pushed myself harder to try and get to my Bella faster. I burst through the front door and heard Bella's accelerated heartbeat coming from upstairs. I raced up the stairs and burst into the bathroom totally unprepared for the scene being played in front of my eyes. I saw my father figure and adopted brother crouched in front of the bath containing my beloved Bella.
"What the hell is going on? What did you do?" I could hear Bella's heart fighting against the venom that had been pumped into her body. "What have you done to my Bella?" Jasper and Carlisle both growled at me objectifying Bella. What is going on? She is mine. They know this. Bella is mine not his! I heard Jasper growl in his head. "What are you talking about Jasper? You have Alice. Bella is mine!"
"No Edward. Bella is mine. She is my mate and I have claimed her as my mate. So has Jasper. She belongs to us now." Carlisle interrupted.
"I don't understand. How can this be? You are both married, you can't just take my mate. She belongs to me."
"She isn't your mate!" snarled Jasper, "She's ours."
"But Jazz, what about me?" sobbed Alice, "What about us? You're my husband."
"I'm sorry Alice," Jasper's face showed the pain he felt from everyone in the room. "But she is my mate. You knew we weren't meant to be together forever."
"But I love you." she whispered.
"I love you too Alice but Bella is my mate, I can't abandon her. She is my life now." Jasper explained. How could this happen? One minute I have Bella and I'm going to ask her to marry me and the next she is Carlisle's and Jasper's mate.
"Carlisle," one broken word that had everyone turning to look at a distraught Esme.
"I'm sorry Esme, but I need Bella. We've had a great marriage but it has come to an end. I think we should separate ourselves before we leave."
"Leave?" I barked. "What do you mean leave?"
"Jasper, Bella and I are starting our own coven." replied Carlisle.
"You're not taking my Bella! I'll rip you both to pieces!" I lunged for Carlisle wrapping my hand around his throat preparing to snap it when I heard a blood-curdling scream.
Bella's POV
The pain was unbelievable. The fire was burning hotter than ever. I felt it get hotter as it began to recede from my extremities. My insides felt like they were in an oven but my skin felt like I was in a freezer. It gradually concentrated on my heart as if trying to cook it. I felt my heart begin to give out. It refused to fight the venom any longer. I heard the last few struggling beats before it stopped. That was when I heard it. "You're not taking my Bella! I'll rip you both to pieces!" I screamed before jumping out of the bath and ripping Edward off Carlisle before throwing him into the opposite wall.
"Stay away from my mate!" I growled. I felt two pairs of arms grip me. I spun in them to see a concerned Carlisle and a proud Jasper. I gave them both a quick kiss on the lips before grabbing a robe to put around my dripping wet body that seemed to have been clothed in a black bikini.
"Get away from them Bella, they are trying to corrupt you."
"No they aren't!" I snarled, "They are my mates."
"No you are my mate!" Edward growled.
"No I'm not!" I screeched. Everyone looked at me with shock written all over their faces. Even Rosalie seemed to show a hint of fear. "Now listen all of you. As soon as Jasper and Carlisle are free we will be leaving. We have broken apart this coven and we feel that it is only right that we leave. We are sorry for all the hurt that has been caused but there is no going back we three need each other."
"I'll call J.J. Jenks and have him draw up the necessary papers." Jasper said before leaving the room.
"Jasper!" Alice shouted before running off after him.
"Carlisle," Rosalie whispered, "Have you thought this through? You are tearing apart the family that you built."
"I have never been more certain Rosalie. Bella is all I need in this world. I do apologise for all the pain that I have caused but this could not be helped. It was going to happen sooner or later."
"If this is what you really want, Carlisle, then I will support it. I cannot keep you from happiness. That is too cruel. I would very much like it if you would visit every now and then." Esme admitted. Carlisle left my side and wrapped his arms around his soon to be ex-wife.
"Thank you, Esme. I really appreciate it. We will move into another of the houses and then we can all rotate and maybe join up for a while in the future."
"We will leave so that you can pack. We will return in an hour. Edward, Emmett, Rosalie, come." Esme turned and left the bathroom followed by Emmett and Rosalie, but Edward stood still like a statue. His gaze burnt my skin. He approached me and whispered in my ear so low that Carlisle couldn't hear.
"This isn't over. You will be mine." He spun on his heel and vanished from the room. Carlisle looked worried. I smiled trying to reassure him.
"Let's just get our stuff and go." I raced into my room shared with Edward and gutted my wardrobe, packing everything into cardboard boxes that had been placed in there by one of the others. I quickly dressed in some jeans, a light blue blouse and some converse before I collected my other possessions in the house. I quickly ran home and collected a few odd bits that I couldn't possibly leave behind before writing a note for Charlie explaining that I was leaving and that I would visit in the future. But of course that wouldn't be the case. I raced back to the Cullen's house and packed it into the boxes before finding the whole family in the dining room sat around the table. Jasper and Esme had wads of paper in front of them. "What's going on?" Everyone turned to look at me.
"Divorce papers, Bella." replied Carlisle.
"Ah." I moved into the family room and stood looking out the front window. I saw a moving truck in the driveway.
"How does it feel to know that you have single-handedly torn apart this family?" I turned around to be faced with a very pissed off Rosalie.
"I didn't mean for this to happen, Rosalie. I honestly didn't. But I will never regret it. I love Carlisle and Jasper, they are part of who I am and I will never give them up." Her face softened slightly.
"Are you ready?" I turned to see Jasper and Carlisle coming in from the hallway.
"Yeah my boxes are upstairs." Carlisle and Jasper moved as a blur as they raced back and forth up the stairs carrying my boxes out to the truck.
"Everything is packed." Jasper said as he returned to the family room.
"Well I guess this is goodbye." I said to the family as they stood looking at us. I moved first to Emmett. "I'm really going to miss you Emmett." I said as I pulled him in to a hug.
"You too, Bella. You will always be my little sister, even if you are shacking up with my dad," he laughed. Rosalie cried out and smacked him.
"Goodbye, Rosalie." She only nodded in response.
"Esme, I'm so sorry, I never meant to hurt you." She pulled me into a hug.
"No matter what you do you will always be my daughter." I smiled and hugged her tightly.
"Alice…" She kept her eyes trained on the floor. "Alice?"
"Just don't Bella." Venom started to well in my eyes.
"Alice I know I've hurt you, but please don't end it like this. You're my best friend."
"We will get over this," she lifted her head and her teary eyes locked onto mine, "but not right now." I moved on to Edward. He smiled at me.
"I'll see you soon, Bella." I left Carlisle and Jasper to say their goodbyes and went and sat in Carlisle's Mercedes. He was driving the truck and Jasper was riding his motorbike. I got behind the wheel and waited for Carlisle to start out to that I could follow him to the new house. Carlisle set out down the driveway followed by Jasper and I brought up the rear. I saw the house begin to disappear in the rear-view mirror the silhouette of a man looming in the window.
A/N: Well that is the second chapter. I'm not sure how I feel that went. What do you guys think? Was it worth the wait? I think I might have hurried it a bit but I really just want to get the three of them out there in the world on their own to start their new coven. R&R please =]