A/N:

What happened in chapter eight?

I had no idea how I would outfight Victoria on my own, but it I wasted any more seconds, it would end badly for more of us. I had to go, and leave half of my heart with the vampire with the golden eyes and honey blonde hair.

Chapter Nine:

Alice's POV:

I kept running, not quite knowing what my destination would be, but exactly who I would find there. After running on full speed for three minutes, I felt someone's presence.

Standing still, I looked around and took in the surroundings. I was almost on top of the mountains, but the small, open spot was still covered by some trees.

High up in one of those trees was where two red eyes were staring at me.

'Victoria.' I said, and nodded. Not showing that I started to get nervous.

She smiled widely, her eyes sparkling. 'I was wondering who would come visit me, but I could've guessed it would be you.
I didn't know you were brave enough to come alone though, so I brought some company.' She told me, as she climbed down.

As she stood in front of me, another vampire walked up. Not planned, just perfectly times, because I didn't see him coming.

'Riley!' Victoria happily said, in her high pitched voiced, as Riley stared at her in awe.

I would've vomit if I wasn't that terrified. And if I could actually vomit, of course.

'So what's the whole problem? Why are you doing this?' I asked, trying to win some time, not even knowing why I did it. To put off dying for just a few more minutes?

Victoria just laughed, still sounding like a child. 'An eye for an eye, kid. I of course hoped to would've seen Edward and Bella here, but it's good to see you as well.
I can always go after them when I'm done with you.'

I wanted to shout how she would never get them, but Victoria was apparently done with the whole situation. She squeezed Riley's hand, which she had been holding the entire time and before I could see that little sign, he jumped towards me.

He hit me with a full force that threw me against one of the trees, causing them to shake wildly. Riley grinned and I saw him coming closer again, I quickly jumped up, this time more prepared.

He lifted his leg, trying to kick me in my stomach but I jumped high enough to grab a branch, lift myself and kick him in the face.
While doing that, I looked at Victoria, but she wasn't making any preparations to help her partner in crime. I figured that she would let someone else do the work, while she watches.

Riley shoved over the ground, got up and ran towards me again, growling loudly. As I prepared for him, the situation changed. Apparently Victoria didn't want to spoil anymore time, and decided to join in, which was unlike her nature causing her to flight most of the time.

Before I could react, Victoria attacked me and so I smacked on the ground. She backed up, and Riley was on top off me, holding me down to the ground.

Focusing only on Riley, I could've never seen Victoria's move coming. I had trusted too much on my ability, which meant my end now.

Victoria kneeled before me. 'Any last words?' she asked me. How cliché. 'See you in hell.' I snarled.

She let out a loud laugh and stood up. 'Oh honey,' she answered, still facing me, 'Once I destroyed the rest of your family, I'll walk this earth for all eternity.'

Victoria then looked up at Riley, but before she could give him the instruction to kill me, there was a loud growl coming from the woods behind her. She turned around, and suddenly there was a big, russet brown wolf standing in front of her. Jacob had returned.

Jacob looked at Victoria for a brief moment, before his eyes flickered to me. Those brown eyes softened for a bit, and then looked straight into Riley's, looking furious again. He launched and smacked Victoria to the ground before she had time to react. At that moment, Riley's concentration disappeared long enough for me to knock him off me. I fought him, while Jacob fought Victoria.

Riley was fast and strong, but I was faster, stronger and also smarter. My years of experience won from his newborn strength, and in a flash I landed on his back, placed my lips on his neck and with what must've looked like a sweet, soft kiss, bit him hard. He screamed in agony, and I ripped his head off in the middle of his cries. I was furious, wanted to tear his whole being apart. But then I felt a hand on my shoulder. Looking over, I saw Victoria standing next to me.

Once again I had not payed enough attention, because Jacob was lying on the ground. Not dead, but not quite alive. His eyes were going dull and he was taking short, rapid breaths. My whole body was aching and I wanted to scream loudly. I had that childish wish to be able to pinch myself and wake up from this nightmare. But you can't wake up from reality. I wanted the world to stop hurting. I wanted to give myself to Victoria, because no version of hell could be worse than the one I was in now.

In that brief second, Victoria had flashed her teeth, ready to fulfill my last wish. But then I saw Jacob's eyes focusing on me, and as if our minds were connected I heard his voice. 'Fight Alice, I want you to fight.'

That made me come to my senses again, I ducked before Victoria could place her teeth in my neck. I grabbed her arm and with all the strength I had left in me, threw her on the ground.

I got a flash of furiousness over me, reliving all the things she had put me and my family through, and now this last thing with Jacob, pulling me over the edge. I let out the loudest of screams, and made and end to all the suffering. With one snap, I made and end to her.

With a sudden feeling of calmness, I pulled out a lighter and lit the two remains of vampires on fire. 'So far your eternity' I whispered to the burning pieces. The last thing I saw before turning around was the red of Victoria's hair melting with the savage flames. Almost like a work of art.

I rushed over to Jacob and kneeled down next to him. My calmness was gone as soon as it had come up, and I felt empty from inside. He had transformed back to his human form, and the bones in his left shoulder looked anything but right. His breath was getting slow, his voice was almost too low as he said: 'Alice, being away from you was the worst thing ever. I know you love him like you could never love me, and the thought of losing you again is worse than dying now. But all I want for you is to be happy, and I'm not going to be the one tearing you apart. Don't choose me, don't choose him. Choosing for yourself is the only right decision, and the one that truly belongs to you will be at the end of the path you choose. I love you Alice, I love you so. Please be happy.'

Along his speech I noticed it was almost like a goodbye, and it terrified me more and more. 'Don't you dare do this Jake, don't you dare leave me again. I love you and we'll figure it all out but please stay with me, please.' I was shouting the words by now. His eyes blinked and I saw a small tear in the corner of his eyes. His whole body was covered in sweat, and shaking from the pain. He needed help as soon as possible.

I leaned in and kissed his lips. It was short, but it made me feel something in my chest. A feeling I had never felt before. 'You promise me to stay awake Jacob Black; I will be back with Carlisle in a minute. Please.' I whispered, before getting up. I was just about to turn around and search for my family, when I heard a familiar voice behind me saying: 'No need to, help's already here.'

It was Jasper, of course it was Jasper. And from the look on his face, he had witnessed the small moment between me and Jacob. I scanned his eyes for emotions, but everything was blank. Behind him, Carlisle sped towards us along with the rest of my family and the pack

I heard Carlisle check on Jacob, and shout a few things to Sam Uley, about getting Jacob away from here. Rapid visions of Jasper hurting Jacob were fired at me. 'Jasper please don't do this.' I told him anxiously, 'I'm the one who created this whole mess, not him.'

As the pack walked past us, carrying Jacob, I wanted nothing more than to follow them, but Jasper held me standing. 'Look Alice, you know I love you more than anything in the world. But this has to stop right here and right now. I know I belong with you, and you with me, but if you're foolish enough to think that he'll treat you better, be my guest. But I need an answer right now.'

I looked into the eyes of the man I had loved from the beginning of all time, and it all became clear to me. I cupped his face with both of my hands, and kissed his lips softly.

Jacob's POV:

Doctor fangs left, leaving me with morphine that burned almost immediately at my body temperature, and my bones broken again to help them growing back in the right place. Everything still hurt a bit, but I would be back on my feet in a few days. Werewolf perks.

The only thing still hurting was my heart, so to say. It had been one hour and thirteen minutes precisely, and I had not seen Alice yet. I was worried about her, what had Jasper done to her after he saw us together there? After he saw her kissing me, and heard our conversation.

I fell asleep worrying.

I woke up sweating and shaking, nightmares had taken over my sleep. My eyes shot open, everything was consumed by the darkness of the night. Then I felt a tiny squeeze in my hand. It was Alice

'Hey you' I said, and she smiled.

'Hey yourself'

'What time is it?'

'2am'

'Oh'

'Jacob I…' 'Alice..' we both started.

We chuckled, 'you go first' I said

She took a deep breath. 'Jacob I am so sorry for all of this. It was never my intention for this to escalate so much. But besides everything, I'm glad you're here. And I can't thank you enough for earlier, with Victoria.'

I smiled a bit 'Pleasure's all mine ma'am. Tell me though. How did he react? Was he hard on you?'

Her eyes got sad, and as if our emotions were connected, I felt sad too, but also anxious, terrified, really. There was a long moment of nothing but silence.

And then she finally started to talk.

'Jake, this whole time this thing had been the biggest dilemma of my life. I had never felt more torn before. I've faced so many tough decisions, but never one hard like this one. Even though you left and I was with him, I still hadn't fully decided, but I lived with the choices I was forced to make. You left so I kept saying to myself that it should just be like it always had been… me and Jasper together. When I saw you again today, when I saw you laying there… everything came back. It hurt me to the bones, it hurt my whole being. Then Jasper showed up and I knew I didn't want to make a decision again, I'm done choosing and I just want to live my life the way it should be.'

Her words hit me like a brick. Part of me wanted to try and talk to her, ask her to please reconsider, but I also realized that if this is what she wants, I should just let it be.

'I understand Alice...' I said, 'I really do. It's my own fault, I left so of course you just want things to continue the way they are. I don't resent you for it. It hurts though, and it always will. But I understand.'

The words came out of my mouth almost like tiny whispers. I had a hard time chocking back the tears, and for that moment I just wanted the whole world to become quiet. I wanted it to stop, because I knew that the moment I first saw her, she took over gravity and took over my being. I knew that that feeling would never leave, not just because of the imprinting-wolf thing, but because of the fact that I loved Alice more than anything in this whole wide, wicked world.

The Romeo & Juliet quote 'Eyes look your last' shot through my head, even though I never really liked that not-quite love story. Still I listened to it, and forced myself to look into her furious eyes.

… furious?

Was she angry with me now? Before I got the chance to ask, she fired her words at me.

'Jacob Black, do you hear yourself talk? Can you please just stop assuming things? How will I survive eternity with you if you won't even let me finish my monologues?'

Was the morphine messing with me after all, or did she really just say that infinity part?

'I don't want to make decisions like that anymore,' she started again, 'I don't want to, I shouldn't but I also don't have to. This is not like choosing between wearing a denim jacket or a leather one. This isn't something where you look at and think: Okay, I'm just going to pick this one and it will work out. This is something that even I can't predict. Jacob this is about true love, and you don't get to choose true love. It sort of chooses you. Of course I love Jasper, and when I left to look for Victoria, it felt like I left half of my heart behind, but I didn't. I know, because when I saw you, it didn't feel like my heart was torn in two, but like our hearts were connected. It was like my heart was telling me: You don't have to choose, silly, everything you want came back to you. And when…'

I kissed her.

I kissed her, softly at first but I couldn't stand the distance between us so then I kissed her more passionate, and then she put her arms around my neck and I put my arms around her waist, pulled her off the chair, and she rolled into my arms.

Then I kissed the top of her head.

'What did I say about interrupting my monologues?' She said softly, and I could hear the lump in her throat but also the smile on her face.

Then I kissed her lips again.

A/N: Took me long enough again, but what's new. I'm very busy with my internship at this moment in my life, but tonight I finally found the time and inspiration to finish this chapter. I have to say that this is probably the last chapter, due to the fact that… well I'm not really a committed writer as we all know, and also this is the happy end I've been trying to get to for about three years now. I will upload an epilogue tho. Probably. One day.

Thank you all xxxx