Author Notes: Stephanie Meyer Owns All Things Twilight...except for my growing Jasper obsession... that one is all me.

Thanks to Bella C'ella Luna and Content1

Enjoy the sleep over.

Chapter 14

Sleepover Jailbreak

"You guys are kidnapping me, aren't you?"Bella asked us on the Thursday afternoon after her jaunt down the La Push.

The boys had all gone hunting and operation 'Keep Bella From Wolf World' was in full swing. Alice and I glanced at each other. I remained silent while Alice nodded and smiled at Bella. We had originally tried to pass the idea off as a sleepover with just us girls. She didn't buy it. Not for a single second. It didn't take Bella long to figure out that myself and Alice were, effectively, holding her against her will. Our instructions were that, in Edward's absence, we were responsible for her safety. Knowing her capacity for accidental mishaps and Edward's ever-increasing temper, we were sticking to the plan religiously.

"You are staying with us until Saturday. Esme cleared it with Charlie. You are staying Thursday night, we will drive to school together on Friday and then straight to our house after school for more girly stuff." Alice was waxing lyrical now. She could have been talking to the steering wheel of the car for all the attention myself and Bella were paying. I was not as open to the idea of 'Girly Stuff' as Alice seemed to think I was and I knew for a fact that Bella hated it.

"Why?" Bella asked. She actually just about hissed through her teeth at the Pixie who seemed to be oblivious to the rising temper to her immediate right.

"He paid me off." There was no need for any of us to speak the name of the person responsible for this.

"How?"

"The yellow Porsche," Alice declared, completely unrepentant. "It's exactly like the one I stole in Italy."

"Alice, take a chill pill, will ya? The car's suspension can't take all the bouncing." I was frantically trying to calculate how much pressure the shocks on Edward's Volvo would be able to withstand before they shattered completely. It didn't look good and it would mean that Rose would spend a good portion of the next two days stuck underneath it.

"How is he paying you off?" Bella snapped at me, glaring in my direction.

"I'm getting nothing out of this deal. I'm just hear to keep Alice from exploding with excitement over turning you into a barbie doll for the next two days. That and my Bentley may or may not have been threatened at some point."

Bella was unimpressed to say the very least. She grumbled her way through direct questions and discussions. Alice did offer a roadtrip to LA and back and I had to admit, I would have been quite happy to go along with that one, but Belle declined. She was just making herself more miserable. Rather than making the best out of a pretty crap situation, she decided that pouting like a kid was the way forward. Well, if Bella wasn't going to take Alice up on her offer for a drive to LA, I decided that I would. Alice beamed at me when she got her 'confirmation vision' and drove us home.
We wound up the driveway always just that little bit too fast whenever Alice was behind the wheel. Edward would be really pissed if we broke the Volvo. She screamed the car into the garage and avoided crashing through the back wall by millimeters. Bloody show-off.

"Edward will kill you if he sees how you drive his car. No wonder you are banned from even looking at the Vanquish...," I said, jumping out of the Volvoand grabbing the bags as I went. I watched as Bella scan the garage for the bribe. Parked in between Rosalie's BMW and Emmett's Jeep, was the offending article. It stuck out like a sore thumb, it's sleek yellow paint job catching even the smallest glimmer of sunlight. It was like Alice was drawn to the machine. She couldn't be near it without stroking it or touching it and right now was no exception. I couldn't blame her. I was the owner of a couple of Porsches and they all solicited this reaction from me. As Bella clambered out of the car, Alice sped towards the Porsche and began running her hand over the bonnet.

"Pretty, isn't it?" Alice asked. she wasn't asking anyone in particular. She was just marvelling at the glorious machine under her hand.

"Pretty over-the-top," Bella countered. "He gave you that for just two days of keeping me hostage?"
I exchanged a very loaded look with Alice and decided to plead the fifth. I knew Bella was human and delicate and cute when she was angry, but I really didn't need to see her furious. The blood rushing to her face would be a sore point, but I had a sneaking suspision that even in human form, she could have brought a vampire to it's knees. Alice, however, foresaw no problem in riling Bella's monster. She just shook her head at Bella's assumption and grinned like a maniac. I watched as my fragile little sister's mouth turned down at the corners, forming a grimace as she became totally and utterly horrified. "It's for every time he goes away, isn't it?"

Alice just nodded while I watched Bella stomp off towards the house at a reasonable human pace, paying close attention to her footfalls, waiting to catch her if she fell over. I had been informed by Edward that there was a good possibility that I would have to catch her. She reached the house door, yanking it open and I was hit with what I could only describe as the smell of burning sewage. Whatever the hell it was that Esme was cooking, it smelled putrid.

"Alice, don't you think this is just a little bit controlling?" She asked, dumping her bag on the floor next to the row of hunting shoes next to the door."You know, just a teeny bit psychotic?"

I saved Alice the bother of responding by answering that one myself. "Bells, It's not really as bad as you think," I placed a hand on her shoulder, ignoring the burn that being in contact with her skin caused. "You don't seem to understand how volatile werewolves are."

"You are biased." she accused.

"I've seen inside their heads, Bella. They are quick to temper and take so long to calm down. A split second is all it takes for someone to get hurt around them if they lose control." Something I said must have struck a chord with her. She fell silent and walked towards the kitchen to greet Esme.

"Alice, I'm not so sure this was the best idea," I whispered, keeping out of the range of human hearing. "She is fucking pissed!"

"Yes, well, I would rather have her angry than dead." I flinched at the brutality of her statement, internally fizzing that her deduction was actually pretty accurate. I threw myself onto the sofa and contemplated pissing off to my house for the night, but I was instantly slapped in the head by Alice for even thinking it. Bloody gypsy.

"This is ridiculous." Bella stormed back into the room, plonking herself into the seat next to me.

"Bella, the wolves are dangerous." I stated.

"You really shouldn't be so reckless." Alice chimed in.

"Yeah, because a vampire sleepover is the pinnacle of safety conscious behaviour." Alice just laughed at her so I put my arm around her shoulders.

"Come on Bells, it won't be that bad." I offered.

"I'll give you a pedicure and everything." Alice suggested as she pulled Bella off the sofa and towards the stairs to endure the first of tonight's tortures.

I personally thought the first night went well, Esme's cooking aside. I stuck out the smell after I made Alice promise that I would not be stopped from leaving after Bella was asleep so I could go hunting. I did offer Rosalie the chance to escape with me, but she not-so-politely declined. We seemed to be working to a script all night. I knew that Alice would have the next forty-eight hours planned down to the last second. We started with Bella's favourite movies, then we did some homework, Bella ate her dinner and I hung my head out of the window in a vain attempt to get away from the smell. Then we were all (Esme and Rose as well) ferried into Alice and Jasper's room for varied beauty treatments. I personally thought these to be redundant as our skin was impenetrable but Alice insisted. I didn't like the smell of the seaweed mask she put on my face. Not only was it completely unnecessary but it stank to high heaven. Once everyone had been subjected to at least three treatments, Bella called time on the whole charade by declaring she was tried and wanted to go to bed.

"Where will I be sleeping, anyway?" Bella asked, eying the living room couch with a measure of doubt. I had to suppress a laugh. Yeah, like Prince Edward of Charming would allow his princess to sleep on a sofa. "Can't you just keep me under surveillance at my house?"

"What kind of a slumber party would that be?" Alice shook her head at Bella's apparent slowness. "You're sleeping in Edward's room."

"Can I go back to my place to get my things, at least?" It was my turn to shake my head. If Bella thought that kidnapping her was a stretch, she was unaware of Alice's breaking and entering episode while she and Edward were out last night.

"Already taken care of." Alice grinned smugly. "Alice, can I borrow your phone?"

"Charlie knows where you are, Bella." I said, not fully understanding why she would need a phone. "I wasn't going to call Charlie. Apparently, I have some plans to cancel." Oh fucking brilliant. Edward goes on a rather necessary hunting trip and she wants to fuck off down to the dog pound.

"I'm not sure about that." Alice was nervous. We had instructions not to let her near the mutt.

"Alice! C'mon!" Bella whined. I saw a tantrum in the offing the likes that even the Cullen household had never seen before. That being said, Alice picked the perfect time to become a pushover.

"Okay, okay,"she said, pulling a mobile out of her jeans pocket. "Edward didn't specifically prohibit this...," murmuring as she handed Bella the phone. There was a rather quick conversation about Bella's inability to appear at La Push tomorrow after school, a mildly amusing threat from Jacob that some wolves would be coming to liberate Bella and then a rather pathetic attempt at guilting her into a visit. God, that mutt was desperate. Once that phone call was over, Bella dialled a new number.

"He won't have his phone on him." Alice told her. The boys didn't take mobiles when they hunted. They generally ended up wrestling and breaking whatever was in their pockets.

"I'll leave him a message." I didn't quite manage to contain the hilarity that Bella threatening Edward with the wrath of a grizzly bear had inspired in me. The thought was ludicrous. She couldn't hurt him if she wanted to. That being said, her anger spiked again whenever she made her way to Edward's room and discovered the huge wrought iron bed he had purchased for her. Esme had taken delivery of it this morning while we were at school and had set everything up perfectly. It did require a re-shuffle of Edward's other furniture, but from what I saw from her mind, she did an astonishing job. Once she was upstairs, I went on a quick hunt to clear my head of the human and 'food' smells. I wasn't gone long like I had planned, but when I got back to the house, the atmosphere had changed. I could hear Bella's steady, slow breathing indicating that she was in a reasonably deep slumber. Alice and Esme were quietly going about their business, being careful not to wake up Bells. The biggest difference was Rosalie. She was in the garage when I got back and before I had the chance to even think about pulling Edward's gift forward when she turned from the passenger's side of my Golf.

"Don't even think about it Kali, or I will turn the Lamborghini into shrapnel." she warned. I really didn't need to question whether or not she was sincere. Her face told me she was.

"I wouldn't dream of it, Rosalie." I lied, heading into the main house to hang out before school in the morning.

"Why not just drop the pretenses altogether and lock me in the basement until Saturday?" Bella grumbled. She hadn't slept well last night and it only impacted her previous bad mood. I was in no doubt about the fact that if she had used the bed rather than stubbornly using the couch, she would have fared better. Silly human.

"He's going to take the Porsche back. You're supposed to be having fun and I'm not doing a very good job," Alice looked utterly devastated. I would have probably fell for it had it not been for the fact that I knew Bella was a sucker for guilt trips and Alice was completely unscrupulous. We were just over half way to school when Bella conceded and grumbled herself into silence, deciding to behave herself. She was in a miserable mood all morning. Bella lumbered her way through the first two classes we had before I ended up in class with her.

"Why are you doing this to me?" She asked

"I ain't doing anything," Okay, that was it. I hit my limit and I was done with this coddling the human bullshit!

"Why am I not allowed to go and see Jacob?"

"Because he is dangerous and volatile and I would rather that we kept you close while there is a psychotic vampire trying to put her hand through your chest and squeeze your heart till it pops." Her eyes widened at the frankness of my statement. I had to focus on Jasper's ability to project calm over her before she got us caught.

"The pack can protect me," Bella offered. "I'm sure you would rather that you didn't have to babysit."

"I like hanging out with you, Bella. You are fun and loving and clever. But sometimes you can be a bit dense. We aren't babysitting you. We are protecting you from anyone and anything that could pose a threat to your life. If that means that we have to sacrifice a little bit of freedom, so be it. I have only known this family for a few months and I absolutely dread to think about what it would do to it if something happened to you. You know what it would do to Edward so why can't you just take a pill, chill out and accept that until after graduation, this is how things are going to be?"

"Miss Cullen, question four- The answer please?" I looked into Mr. Varner's mind, not even bothering to pretend I was paying attention.

"They don't balance." I fucking hated fractions at the best of times, and I was in no mood for them today. I was entirely over the babysitting gig. I loved Bella with all that I was but this was ridiculous. I was silent for the rest of the lesson and so was Bella. We separated for the next class.

Me and Alice went to Art and Bella went to Spanish...on the opposite side of the campus. I began to scan the minds of the people in school, searching her out. I was on my third attempt at making a clay vase, but I kept collapsing it. Pottery for humans was difficult, for a mildly pissed off vampire, it was impossible. Thankfully the torture ended and it was just before lunchtime. I was still scanning minds, looking for Bella. I found her in, of all heads, Mike Newton's. They were just walking to the lunch hall together when the roar of a thunderous engine rattled the windows of the cars in the car park.

"Bella, RUN!" Jacob Black screamed as he revved the engine of the motorbike he was straddling on the pavement. Bella's head whipped from side to side, clearly looking for vampire interference. I ran at full, human, speed towards the front of the school. I heard Alice's thoughts as she ran in the same direction.

"Shit! Edward is going to kill us!"

"You think?" I said, low enough and fast enough that she would catch it as we met in the hall and barreled towards the doors in unison.

"If anyone asks, I got sick and went home, okay?" Bella asked a still very stunned Newton. She looked so desperate that he immediately complied. His head got a little fuzzy after she kissed him on the cheek in gratitude and ran for the dog on a bike. Myself and Alice burst through the front doors of the school in time to watch her climb on the bike. I stood stock still as the bike roared past us, forcing myself not to make a scene by ripping the fucking mutt's head off. Bella shot us an apologetic glance as she zoomed out of the school. I felt my teeth bare and my hands curl and I imagine that Alice looked the same.

"Fuck it!" I yelled, garnering a little attention from those around us. I made towards the car with every intention of going after that bike. If I caught them before the boundary line, he was fair game. He was on Cullen territory and kidnapped himself a family member. I was going to destroy him. My movement was abruptly halted by someone grabbing onto my arm.

"That won't help, Kali." Alice said, tightening his grip on the wrist she was holding.

"Fuck that! She just went off with that mongrel. Do you know what Edward will do to us when he finds out? He will rip my head off and beat you to death with it."

"Just wait till she comes back to the house and you can talk to her there." Alice said, towing me towards the car and away from what I still considered to be a pretty solid plan. Killing the wolf would eliminate a lot of problems. "Let's just get back to the house and wait." She suggested anxiously. Alice didn't like her second blindness. She was so used to looking out for Bella that her lack of sight in the area when Bella was with the wolves made her nervous as all hell. I had to admit, she had good reason to be. I had honestly never met a human with a more defined liking for dangerous things. Vampires, werewolves and motorcycles. How she wasn't worm food already baffled me.

"Why are you two home from school? Where's Bella?" Esme came out to the front door when we got home, not even bothering to wait until we got inside. Rosalie followed her out, noted the absence of out little prisoner and went inside, silently cursing her. I had to admit, at this point in time, Rosalie had a very valid point.

"It's funny you should ask that, Esme," I said, stepping around her and heading inside. "The answer to those two questions are quite similar."

"Sorry?"

"Bella ran away to La Push with Jacob Black." Alice said, following me inside and flopping down onto the sofa beside Rosalie. I moved into the kitchen to wash my hands. They were still covered in clay from art class and now my clothes were covered in it too. As the slip washed away, I decided I was going to kill Bella myself. It was a difficult choice of course, but if she was so insistent in putting her life in danger when everyone around her was trying to protect her, then I would shorten the process. It was ridiculous. I had been here the grand total of eleven weeks and I was already sick of it.

"Kali, stop that. Edward won't be happy."

"What did you see, Alice?"

"You driving a car into a tree that had Bella in it. Now, behave." she called.

"Tell it to the human."

"Don't you worry. I will." She promised.

"OH!"

"Alice? What's wrong?" I asked, holding the pixie's face in my hands.

"I can see her now. She is on the way back."

"Good. I was getting bored and I need something to kick."

"Kali... she will be upset when she gets here. Take it easy on her," Alice asked "Esme, could you put something hot in for Bella's dinner? She is going to need it."

"Already on it, Alice." She called from the kitchen.

"How long?"

"Five minutes." Alice's eyes unfogged as she moved towards the garage to wait. I got up and went into the kitchen with Esme.

"Mom," I began, sitting on one of the breakfast bar stools. "I am confused."

"You called me 'mom'." She beamed.

"Yes, and I have a problem and you are busy grinning like the Mad bloody Hatter because I called you 'mom'."

"Sorry, dear. What's wrong?"

"I am having trouble deciding whether or not I am helping."

"With what?"

"Bella." I said in a small voice. "I mean, it's just so damn frustrating trying to protect her when she fu-buggers off," Esme's face darkened considerably when I was mid-curse." To wolf-boy whenever she gets the chance. She puts herself in danger regardless of how sacrificing we all are. What more am I supposed to do? I am more angry at her than anything else right now and I really want to shout and scream at her she she gets home but Alice said that she will be upset. So, do I be a bitch or a big sister?"

"Kali, you will be you. You will see what she needs and give her that. You cannot expect to make it right for her. Just be whatever she needs you to be." She placed a hand on my shoulder and turned to look towards the garage door. Bella was arriving there on a motorbike. I could hear the acceleration of her heartbeat as she slowed to a stop. After she stumbling off the bike, I focused on Alice's mind to hear what was happening.
Bella stood in the middle of the garage facing Alice who appeared to be sitting on the bonnet of her Porsche looking completely inconsolable.

"I haven't even had a chance to drive it yet," Alice muttered, stroking one finger along the yellow paint. Bella was standing in front of her, shivering violently. She resembles something of a 'drowned rat'. She just huffed at Alice's decree.

"You look like you could use a hot shower." Alice noted, taking in Bella's sodden appearance.

"Yeah," Bella's teeth chattered as she spoke. Alice gave her an appraising look, taking in just how upset she seemed to be.

"Want to talk about it?"

"Not really," was her short reply.

"Do you want to go to Olympia tonight?"

"Can't I just go home?" Bella asked but swiftly changed her mind when she saw Alice pout. "Never mind, Alice. I'll stay if it makes it easier on you." At least the girl knew how to pick her battles with regards to the pixie. Alice thanked her and led her inside. After dumping her wet boots at the door, Bella headed straight up the stairs and I got shot a very loud 'Not a word!' straight from Alice's head.

"Sorry, Kali." Bella mumbled from the top of the stairs before disappearing into Edward's room and taking a shower. Esme flitted around the kitchen sorting out food for Bella, Alice was scanning for reactions from Edward and I was thinking. I was trying to decide whether to kick Bella in the arse or comfort her. Unfortunately, that decision was made for me when I heard Bella stifling a sob while she was in the shower and I had to be physically restrained by Alice and Esme to prevent me from going up there to help her. I was to be a big sister tonight, then. As much as I wanted answers for the stunt she pulled today, she needed me to be there for her more. She finally came downstairs about thirty minutes later, giving me a small apologetic glance before settling down to dinner. I nodded once to Esme who gave us some space and waited for her to go into the living room.

"Alright there, Bells?"

"I'm fine."

"Kali," Alice thought, "The boys will be back about one in the morning."

"Kals, I'm sorry about..."

"Don't worry, Bells, It's fine," The words were out of my mouth before I could even think about being the bad cop. I was becoming a god damn push over. "By the way... what the hell did Esme cook for you?"

"Um, cannelloni?" She said, poking it with her fork. "It's Italian. Kinda like lasagna. Why?"

"It smells evil." I said, scrunching my nose as she shoveled another load of it into her mouth.

"Sorry."

"Of all the things you could apologise for..."

"Sorry about earlier too."

"It's okay, will talk about it later."

"But..."

"Bella, don't be ridiculous. Now, eat your toxic waste." She giggled a little as she finished eating. We sat, mostly in silence until it was time for Bella to go to bed. She went earlier than I thought she would but I could tell that she was missing Edward and was operating under the theory, that if she went to bed earlier, the morning would come and her other half would be here. God, her other half. He was actually going to rip me into marble chips. By the time Bella had settled into an uneasy sleep, we only had three hours to go before our hunters got home and the inquisition would begin. I shuddered at the thought and began to brace myself for the 'Wrath Of Edward'.