Bella's POV
The morbid thoughts continued in my mind. Thinking of ways of how I could break free of these chains and set the fire to the plane.
Leo is a bastard, he should not be existing. He needs to burn.
"Bella, do we need to go over this again? You realize you'll kill yourself too? Please don't try to kill him yourself, Bella," Edward pleaded in my mind.
I sighed, pulling away from the morbid thoughts again.
I don't want to take another life, Edward! I thought, fearing for my sanity when Leo would put more humans, drugged with my blood makeup, setting them literally under my nose.
"You did well with the human back there, just keep doing that, Bella. I am so proud of you, love. Just, please, don't ever do anything to end yourself," he continued.
Edward... I love you so much, Edward, I miss you so much, I thought as my heart broke into pieces. I waited for him to profess his love to me. The voice didn't answer, and remained silent. Edward?
Edward? Are you there? Edward! Please talk to me!
Silence reigned in my mind, and a sob rose up in my throat. I never felt so alone more than this moment in the past forty years of my existence. Why isn't he talking to me? I thought frantically.
The plane took a steep nosedive to the ground, snapping me out of my thoughts. While I was lost in my own thoughts, I had not realized how loud it had gotten in this aircraft. What the--?
"Lose them! Lose them now!" Leo demanded.
Edward's POV
We touched down in Cuba and few moments later, Emmet and Rosalie found us.
"Alice!" Rosalie exclaimed, running up to her as the short girl ran to the blonde and hugged each other tightly. "I missed you so much! Are you all right?"
Emmet pulled both girls into a bear hug as Alice answered her question.
"Yes Rosalie, I missed you guys too," Alice said with a somber smile. She hugged Emmet back, grinning at her big brother. "Missed you Emmet."
"I really miss your spunk, Alice," Emmet said seriously then let her go. Alice turned to Rosalie, lightening up the mood with a grin.
"I can't believe how much of the world I was missing out... I mean, the fashion from three years ago was so atrocious and insane, I'm not sure if I'm happy that I was held in Volturi."
Rosalie giggled and simply held her sister. "I missed going shopping with you, Alice," she reminisced.
"Wait... no!" Alice gasped in horror, "You enjoyed the fashion trends from three years ago? Why are you keeping those clothes in your closet?! Get your closet capsule out! I knew my being away must have corrupted your sense of fashion!"
Rosalie tugged her purse closer to herself protectively, "No it hasn't. I happened to like it!"
"Girls..." Emmet snorted, walking over to me and pulled me into a bear hug. "I missed you too. What was that fight about anyway?" he asked, looking at Jasper and me.
"Just missing our girls," Jasper muttered. "We weren't really thinking."
"Figures," was all he had to say. I saw his thoughts.
Eesh, I could never imagine going crazy enough to break away from one of my brothers... Rosalie... Maybe I might. Man, I'm glad she's got no talents but for her love...
"So," I interrupted his thoughts, "Carlisle and Esme will be meeting with us shortly, in about half an hour. Sam's sent the location signal to them so they'll land here soon."
"Is that wise? Won't that broadcast our location to the others?" Emmet asked, frowning as we continued to ignore the girls blabbering on about fashion and why the fashion from three years ago did not suck.
Alice broke out of her tirade for a moment, and stared at Emmet reassuringly, "No they won't, Emmet, don't worry. I've already seen it. And yes, Rosalie, how can those four colors ever match? It's awful."
Satisfied with Alice's words, we stayed where we were, catching up on what we had seen in this world since our separation. Soon, Carlisle's plane landed next to ours and the couple stepped out of the aircraft.
"Alice!" Esme squealed, running up to her and gripped her into a tight hug. "Oh sweetie, I am so sorry for leaving you all alone. If we had any idea..."
"Esme, mom," Alice said with a gentle smile as she hugged her back, "It's no one's fault. The real fault in this situation lies with the Volturi. What we need to do right now is to find out where Bella is."
"You don't know where she is?" Carlisle asked, creasing his eyebrows in concern.
If she can't find her, then how are we going to find her now?
"You said something about Leo..." he said, looking at me and I nodded, gesturing to Eleazar. "Ah, old friend, good to see you!"
"Likewise, Carlisle," he said with a grin. His face grew serious as he spoke of Leo, "He's hidden her away. They somehow got the tip to move out of Cuba. I cannot imagine that Leo is still working for the Volturi, but how else would he figure out how to subvert Alice's visions?"
"Me either," Carlisle said darkly, looking at me as he reviewed his memories.
Leo's time at the Volturi, to say the least, was filled with trouble for everyone, including the three brothers.
Unless... Carlisle thought for a moment, he was offered a reward in helping them out against us. The way he was cast out from the guard was humiliating to say the least. Why would he ever go back there?
Eleazar's thoughts were running along in the same vein as Carlisle's were. I viewed their memories, benefiting from seeing two perspectives, listening to their Italian conversations of the past.
"Leo, what are you doing?" Aro asked in older Italian dialect as the black curly man entered the throne room.
"Following your orders, with some of my flair along the way," he answered with a smirk. Cauis gritted his teeth in anger.
"Because of what you did, you caused a panic outbreak in humans—in New York, no less! Of all the places in the world, you had to--" Cauis said and snapped his mouth shut as he looked at Aro.
"Yes, you just simply had to reveal ourselves to the humans. Now there's all sorts of silly mobs trying to kill us, only killing each other for their own personal gains. Like the Salem witch hunts not too long ago. Wasting human lives is a needless waste, when they could be producing more humans for us to drink from. We ordered you to kill the clan that was making trouble, and what did you do? Come here," Aro ordered, lifting his hand.
Leo rolled his eyes as he approached the most powerful vampire in the world and touched his hand for a moment then withdrew his finger.
"The reports were not exaggerating," Aro stated, "if anything, they were understated. You tangled humans in front of newborns and other well respecting clans and released our prey before you killed the rogue vampires. You never made any attempts to go after the humans that saw our existence, yes?"
"That's right sir," Leo said with a cocked head and a smirk.
"And you have no regrets, whatsoever?" Aro asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes sir," Lea answered with a bigger grin. Aro sighed, shaking his head.
"Get out of our sights and never associate yourself with us. We do not want to work with a bumbling fool like yourself. You have the patience of a hungry lion, and an IQ of a monkey scratching his behind with a beanstalk. Get out, before I order someone to put you out of our sights—permanently. We just about had enough of your antics, Leo. You do not execute our orders with professionalism that it requires. You have got five minutes, mongrel, leave."
Leo's eyes went wide at the insulting word—mongrel—and backed away. Looking at Carlisle and Eleazar, begging for anyone to help him.
Alice gasped and I looked into her mind as the vision played out in our thoughts.
Bella struggled against the human that stood in front of her. The man was shaking, his eyes wild with terror of what was to come. Bella took her blindfold off, taking her surroundings in as she stared with contempt. When she saw the human, her face seemed to soften.
"Don't worry," Bella murmured with a smile, "I'm trying."
She looked around, trying to take in her surrounds as the human spoke.
"What are you trying?" he asked curiously and she looked back at him, not breathing.
"Not to kill you," was the answer. "Where are we?"
"Um, we're about fifty miles south of Cairo, Egypt," he answered, and then Leo killed him by snapping his neck.
I stared at the group once we knew the location. "Leave, now. Cairo."
With that, two groups split up, half to Carlisle's plane, and the other to Eleazar's. "How much time we got?" Eleazar asked, setting the plane's destination for Cairo.
"The vision, according to the sun's position, will take place in about two hours," Alice answered confidently.
"It'll be close," Sam said with a frown as both planes took off.
During the duration of the flight, both planes were in silence, daring not to break any of the pilot's concentration, or Alice's from viewing her future. I kept my attention on Alice's thoughts, waiting for anything else that might clue in on what will happen to her after Leo killed the human.
As the planes crossed the Egypt border, Alice gasped as a vision took hold.
"Not to kill you," was the answer. "Where are we?"
Before the human could answer, Leo snapped his neck, using snap decision before he realized what was going on. Leo stared at Bella with disappointment.
"I was sure this formula would work... it almost did, didn't it?" he asked her.
She remained silent as both stared at each other for several long moments. Leo sighed and walked away, gesturing to a large vampire with a hand, signaling something. The vampire walked forward and he chained her up so fast that it nearly became a blur.
"We're leaving, we need to stay on the move," Leo said as the vampire hauled her back to the plane.
"I'm not going with you! Just let me go!" Bella roared, thrashing in the brutish vampire's arms.
"I'll let you go when I feel like it," Leo said with a smirk. "Blindfold, please."
"Leo!"
I let out a growl, not liking what Leo was doing to her as I snapped off both my armrests and muttered an apology to Eleazar.
"How much longer?" I asked through my teeth. She was getting so close, I could feel in my dead heart.
"In a few minutes, Eleazar will see the plane on the radar in about two minutes," Alice said, making Eleazar and Sam to become even more attentive to the radar in front of them. "It'll be a blue marking on the bottom right corner of the screen."
"Thank you Alice," Eleazar said, making a change in direction to make the marking to be
in the center. Eleazar then turned on the radio to Carlisle's plane so that they would hear what was going on.
"In about ten seconds," Alice said a sometime later in the tensed silence. A blip resounded throughout the room of the aircraft.
Sam throttled the plane forward, spotting the plane on the horizon.
"How are we going to get her down to the ground?" Eleazar asked Alice.
"We're just going to chase them, Carlisle's on the left, and we on the left of the plane. They will run out of fuel in about ten hours," Alice said.
"Provided they didn't do anything," I added darkly to what Alice wasn't saying. In some of her possible visions, it showed a burning plane. In others, showed two burning planes. He couldn't risk that—losing his family and Bella.
"Right..." Alice said somberly and then explained to the others of some of the possible visions.
The people of both aircrafts were silent for several moments.
"And how will we avoid that scenario?" Eleazar asked quietly.
"We can't, it's Bella's decision. If we could just communicate with her..." Alice said with a groan. "She's trying to bring the plane down or wait for us. If she does try to bring the plane down, it's up to Leo—he will affect how many of us will die in her attempt."
I closed my eyes, praying with all of my might that I could simply send her my thoughts, to let her know that she would be okay if she just left the rescuing up to us. I gritted my teeth, and I was sure that if I had steel in between my teeth, it would be dust by now.
Bella, Bella, please don't do anything, don't do anything. Don't do anything. Leave the rescuing up to us. Bella, Bella, Bella, love... Don't do anything please, don't. Leave the rescuing up to us. I love you, love.
I knew it was useless, but it comforted me somehow in some small way as I kept repeating the chant in my mind, trying with everything I got in my power to relay my thoughts to her. The planes continued their chase after Leo as I kept focusing all my concentration on her. I could only imagine what I would do when I first saw her—for the first time in two score years.
I love you, I love you, please leave it up to us, don't do anything rash.
"Edward?" a timid voice asked and I snapped my eyes open, looking around the room for the unfamiliar voice.
"Who's there?" I asked suspiciously, causing the attention of everyone except the pilots on me.
Edward, are you alright? Jasper asked, concerned, wondering if I had snapped. Emmet's thoughts wondered if it was possible for a vampire to go insane. I shook my head, trying to detect the voice.
"Edward? Are... why do you sound confused? You're in my mind, you know, have been since I was a human..." the voice said, making me confused even more.
"What are you talking about? I'm not a... a part of your delusions! I'm not—I can't be delusional, who are you?" I demanded, ignoring the now panicking thoughts of my friends and family.
Nothing came in reply, and I grew frustrated, wondering what human could have had delusions since she was a human.
No... it can't be... Are you... Bella?
"Oh boy, now my delusions really have gone overboard. I'm now thinking that you actually exist!" Bella said, twisting some of the pain into my heart.
I exist? What? She's throwing the words I said back at me! I panicked, trying to figure out what was going on.
"...You're joking, are you actually talking to me, not my delusional Edward, but the real Edward?" she asked.
Her question had made me blink, stunning me into silence. Was this not the first time she heard me? Was something wrong with her? I dearly hoped not.
"Edward? Please don't do this to me again, I hate not hearing your voice! Talk to me!"
"Okay, then do me a favor, whatever you do, do nothing. Alice's vision shows that if you tried anything, one or two planes will clash, crash or catch fire," I said seriously, but overjoyed with the fact that my wish had been granted. I was talking to her. How, I did not know.
"Really? Is that all I have to do? Just sit here like a pretty doll?" Bella asked sarcastically.
"Please don't do this to me, you know I love you, always had, have and always will?" I pleaded when I sensed her thoughts about still wanting to do something as I heard Bella sigh in her thoughts.
He's definitely a delusion. They're becoming more real, I must, really must be going crazy now. I can't listen to him anymore. Hm," she muttered to herself as though she was picking up where she left off on her train of thought, "once I trick David to unchain me, then I can do something to Leo and make this plane crash and burn. The voice of Edward does nothing for me anymore. I bet Leo is doing something to make me believe that we are actually being pursued. Maybe he found out about my delusions and is trying to break me so that I could be even more insane?"
I shuddered at the thought of Bella be broken down by Leo, and it only fueled my anger for the vampire. I had never desired to kill anyone more in this world. Even my anger at James pales in comparision!
I looked at Jasper, his thoughts only confirmed what I was thinking. He looked truly terrified by my raging, fiery hatred for Leo. I took a deep breath. Edward... I never want to cross paths with you, what's going on?
"Bella, don't do this to me, I'm not a delusion, love," speaking out for the benefit of everyone, knowing that they would want to know what was going on and to let them know that I was still sane. It failed. however.
"I'm sorry son... but I think you're going bonkers," Carlisle said over the intercom. "I understand for the need to be with Bella again, but you'll only make this harder on yourself by talking as though she can hear you."
I ignored him as I waited for Bella to talk to me. Instead, all I heard was more suicidal thoughts.
"Oh god," Alice muttered to herself and looked at me with horrified eyes. "She's going to do something mad!"
The vision in Alice's mind differed nothing from what was being planned in Bella's mind. It was exactly as she was planning. And succeed, the vision seemed almost irreversible.
"Is there a way to try and change this around?" I asked Alice as I gritted my teeth.
She closed her eyes as she watched several possibilities running through her mind. Before she could say anything else, I realized what I had to do.
"Bella, listen to me for a moment. Leo is not tricking you. Alice says that the plane will run out of fuel in about nine and half hours. One of the pilots will say this in about thirty seconds," I said, hoping she was listening to me and not ignoring.
Her thoughts went silent with her self-reflection questions for a moment, relieving me from her suicidal thoughts. Then I heard the pilot's words through her thoughts.
"Sir, we can't outrun them forever, we will run out of fuel in nine and half hours. No way. He's telling the truth! Oh god, Alice is safe with Edward! Is that true?" she asked me with hopeful in her voice.
"Yes love, she is right here with me."
Bella's POV
"I love you, I love you, please leave it up to us, don't do anything rash," Edward broke through my thoughts, distracting me from listening to the antics of the pilots. I smiled, wondering if my mind finally made Edward answer my wish.
"Edward?" I called out, testing to see if he was still there.
"Who's there?" Edward asked, causing confusion in me.
What in the world?
Edward? Are... why do you sound confused? You're in my mind, you know, have been since I was a human.. I said to Edward, trying to figure out this new Edward.
"What are you talking about? I'm not a... a part of your delusions! I'm not—I can't be delusional, who are you?" he demanded and I felt taken aback by his accusations and demands.
I sat there for several long minutes, debating whether or not this new Edward was another figment of my imagination.
"No... it can't be... Are you... Bella?" Edward asked, sounding awed by this knowledge.
I snorted to myself.
Oh boy, now my delusions really have gone mad. I'm now thinking that you actually exist! That he's actually talking to me, somehow... I thought with derision.
"I exist? What? She's throwing the words I said back at me!"he exclaimed as though he was not talking to me. Something clicked in me then and I began to dare to hope.
...You're joking, are you actually talking to me, not my delusional Edward, but the real Edward? I asked with skepticism.
I heard nothing in reply and I panicked. I wondered if my real Edward or delusions were trustworthy enough to answer when I needed them the most.
Edward? Please don't do this to me again, I hate not hearing your voice! Talk to me!
"Okay, then do me a favor, whatever you do, do nothing. Alice's vision shows that if you tried anything, one or two planes will clash, crash or catch fire," he said seriously.
Really? Is that all I have to do? Just sit here like a pretty doll? I asked sarcastically once I realized he mentioned Alice—who was supposedly still in captivity. I don't think so.
"Please don't do this to me, you know I love you, always had, have and always will?" he continued to plead.
I sighed, shaking my head, marveling at how creative my brain had gotten. To go as far as to make me think that he was finally able to talk via some kind of mental link, and then free me out of this horrible place.
Yes, he's definitely a delusion. They're becoming more real, I must, really must be going crazy now. I can't listen to him anymore. Hm, I muttered in my thoughts, once I trick David to unchain me, then I can do something to Leo and make this plane crash and burn. The voice of Edward does nothing for me anymore. I bet Leo is doing something to make me believe that we are actually being pursued. Maybe he found out about my delusions and is trying to break me so that I could be even more insane?
"Bella, don't do this to me, I'm not a delusion, love," Edward bit out, breaking through my thoughts. I barely heeded any thoughts of him as I pondered my next course of action.
If it's true that Leo has figured out about my delusions, then he really deserves to die a fiery death, I thought, finally deciding on goading David into freeing me. I'm never going to be with Edward ever again. I can't wait any longer.
I opened my mouth to start goading David, when Edward interrupted me again.
"Bella, listen to me for a moment. Leo is not tricking you. Alice says that the plane will run out of fuel in about nine and half hours. One of the pilots will say this in about thirty seconds," he said.
Huh? No, he's lying. How could he make such claims when he doesn't have Alice?
"Sir, we can't outrun them forever, we will run out of fuel in nine and half hours," one of the pilots said, shocking me to the core as all my preconceived notions about the world had been ripped away from me. No way. He's telling the truth! Oh god, Alice is safe with Edward! Is that true? I asked him with hope. I heard chuckling then he answered with loving in his voice that I had not truly heard in so long.
"Yes love, she is right here with me. We're trying to get to you, but we don't want to shoot you down or anything. Please, hang in there," Edward said. "We're all coming for you."
I let out a squeal of delight, grabbing the attention of Leo and others.
"What's the matter with you? Have you gone insane now?" Leo asked, impatience running through his words. I giggled, deciding to play the part that I had been up to only moments ago.
"I just thought of a great plan, I'm going to crash this plane, and kill you. I want you to die a fiery death, Leo. And I just thought of a way. You see, I have these delusions in my head for some days now. I haven't had them since I was a human."
"Oh really now?" Leo asked, sound intrigued. I could only wish that the blindfold was off so I could read his face. "Do tell."
"See, I have been hearing my beloved Edward and he told me how to kill you all by goading David into freeing me," I said with a smug grin. "Then bring you all down."
Leo guffawed for a moment, and turned away from me, shaking his head. "You have gone insane... I wonder if that blood from the girl brought the delusions back...?" he muttered to himself, finding me no threat.
But his words made me stop my thoughts as my body ran cold.
Could it be? Did her blood bring back the delusions? But why haven't I heard him when I was a newborn? What's going on? I wondered, becoming confused.
"Bella, don't worry about him right now, just focus on not bringing attention to yourself," Edward said and then I became unsure of whether or not this was the real Edward or the fake one. "I'm here, right behind you on the plane. Not a delusion, love," he reassured me. I shook my head, deciding not to keep taking to Edward, for fear of not figuring out whether or not the whole thing was real. "I understand, I'll keep quiet unless I have something to tell you from Alice's visions."
Thank you, I thought to him, comforted by the silence of my mind.
The further the flight wore on, the more agitated Leo became. Some hours later, I felt the plane thump from above and wondered what was happening now.
"Don't worry Bella, we decided to get you out now. We figured out a plan now. Alice saw you safe in the end," Edward told me as I heard more thumping sounds, some on the wings, some from above and on the tail of the jet.
Leo cursed and ordered the vampires at two openings, the one near the cockpit and one in the rear. I kept my eyes closed, staying still from where I was. I wondered briefly of how many had come on this trip to rescue me.
What I was not prepared for, was the stench of werewolves. And in particular, Jacob's. Then I smelled other vampires and wolves. I couldn't count them all.
So many... all for me? I wondered, amazed by how large my rescuing party was. I knew then, that I would get out of this safe. And in Edward's arms.
I heard noises entering the plane now and more than anything, I wished that I could see them fight. To make sure no one was hurt on the account of me. I would never forgive myself, to put them all in such a danger as a moving plane, capable of catching fire. I strained my ears to listen for anyone talking. No one was. I grumbled, hating that I was missing out on the action.
Then someone suddenly stood in front of me, and the slightly familiar scent wafted in front of my nose. It was so sweet, it reminded me so much of my first love.
"Oh Bella," he murmured, taking the blindfold off my face. Before me stood my love.
My Edward. I sobbed, wishing that I could shed tears, to show just how much I had missed him. To show how my memory of him had not done Edward justice in the least. He looked so much--
Edward kissed me on my lips as he unlocked the chains off me. I had not known how he got them, but I was free now. I kissed back hungrily, and once my arms were not chained, I wrapped my arms around him tightly, never wanting to let him go. Not even the fight on the plane, perhaps the greatest battle of all time, could take my attention away from Edward.
Let's go, Edward said without using his mouth to utter them. I smiled, taking advantage of the gift.
I love you so much, Edward, more than you could ever know.
Oh, I think I have the general idea, love, Edward said as we quickly made our through the battle field. I noticed then, that five pairs were fighting inside, and the rest were outside on the wings or up above. Ready to jump?
What? I wondered incredulously. Before he could explain himself, we jumped off the plane, falling to the ground at high speeds.
"Edward! You're insane!" I yelled, clutching on to Edward tightly.
"I think that you might be the one who's insane," Edward said with slight humor in his voice, but his eyes told differently. He looked concerned.
I shook my head as we watched the surface of Indian Ocean come up closer.
"Piece of cake," I said, pushing myself away from Edward, looking forward to hunting a shark to rid of my lust for human blood that I had been craving since the time in the desert. Edward looked at me in confusion.
"Ever had sushi?" I asked with a grin, causing Edward to stare at me, incredulous. I prepared to dive into the ocean and he followed suit.
Just follow me, I said to him with a grin as I broke the surface of the ocean. I swam my way towards a coral reef I spotted from high above. It was bound to be teeming with fishes, and that was bound to attract some sharks.
Soon, we arrived at a reef and I grinned at Edward who obviously had not taken the time to see the reefs of the world.
Wow, I never knew... so many different kinds of life! He thought, watching the animals of the sea swim around him, giving him a wide berth. I giggled in my mind. But what do you mean, sushi? You don't mean...
My favorite is a shark, the best tasting blood I have ever come across, apart from a human of course, I said to him, swimming around as I tried to find the predator of the sea.
A shark? he asked suspiciously, I don't think anything will ever taste better than a mountain lion.
I merely shrugged my shoulders, Be as it may, I think you'll like it.
Why are you so confident? he asked, liking my new slight personality changes, then stopped swimming suddenly, I forgot... I saw in the memories of some humans, that you were holding a shark. You actually feed off them?
I stopped swimming in surprise and stared at him in front of me. He saw me in their memories? Had he been searching for me then? My love for him grew impossibly more than ever, knowing that he would go everywhere to find me.
His lack of understanding made me remember Leo's words about the call of a human's blood. If my hypothesis were to be correct, then we would have almost the same kind of taste, if not, exactly the same. I shook my head, I knew I would have to explain this to everyone later. First, I had to show him this. I knew he wouldn't understand my love for the shark's blood otherwise.
I spotted an eight-foot shark and pointed that out to Edward.
Have your way, enjoy, I said with a grin.
Won't you show me how? Edward asked, sounding a little frustrated. I shook my head, still smiling from ear to ear.
My tip is to make sure your mouth is covering completely over the hole. The salt water isn't very good tasting.
You think? Edward asked sarcastically. When he saw that I wouldn't show him how, he rolled his eyes and swam for the shark. After a few minutes of fighting, he was finally able to feed off the shark.
Eww, I made this such a mess, now I got the awful taste—ooh, this tastes good, Edward moaned in his thoughts. I giggled at his reaction in my mind, causing Edward to growl dangerously. I stopped, realizing that he was in full on hunting mode and remained silent. Once Edward was done, he swam to the ocean floor and dug a hole for the shark.
Once done covering the carcass, he swam to me, grinning. He pulled me into a hug, kissing my cheek.
You are so right, love, it was the best tasting blood I have ever tasted, apart from a human. How did you know I would enjoy it? Not many vampires ever share the same kind of... taste, if I could use such a term. You know about Emmet with his irritable bears and I with... well, used to be lions, Edward said, pausing to think about his preferences. I giggled again, hugging him back.
There's a reason, but that's for another time. We have to worry about Leo and the others, I said, swimming to get a shark quickly.
No need, they have the situation under control.
You can hear them from this distance? I asked, looking up at him with surprise from my thrashing shark in my arms.
I've honed my skills over the past few decades, Edward said with a shrug.
Huh...
Then I resumed feeding, thinking about what had happened to Leo. My thoughts must have made it to his mind, for he answered the question.
I took care of him, he said with a sinister smile. I shivered, wondering what he had done.
So, he's no more? I asked, hopeful.
Right love, from here on out, the eternity is ours to share with together, Edward said, his eyes shining with love for me. I could only imagine that mine did the same as he kissed me once I finished draining the blood of the shark and hid it.
Mine for eternity. Volturi, clans, price on heads, and the war—all be damned.
Fin
Hey everyone!
I hope this chapter wasn't too rushed. But I have a reason for doing so. I decided not to do much in the way with the war situation. It's just that, recently, a huge, massive upheaval have taken place in my life, and I did not want to leave you all hanging because of what happened in my life. I even lost all my will to write and had to force myself to write this final chapter. I mean when I say I lost the will to write, and I mean all will. It's not a writer's block or anything. It has nothing to do with the plot or anything.
Still, I couldn't be any more happier in my life than I am right now. And because of that, my priorities have changed, and I am so sorry. I understand that this may make some of you angry. It also irritates me when writers just up and stop writing, or put stories on hiatus indefinitely. So, I decided the best course of action for me was to write an open-ended ending for this story (even though it is exactly where I planned the story to go, just won't be continuing it on). I even toyed with the idea about 'rocks fall, everyone dies.' But that's just not the style and even disrespects what I have done for this story. Not to mention that I already did that kind of ending in another epic-long story HP fanfic already (though not by rocks, but by some wizard-murderer on a rampage) and didn't really like that. (Mind, that story was from about 5 years ago.)
And really, the only thing of interest in dealing with the Volturi, if I were to continue writing in this story is the fact that the Romanians are now back in power, and decided to make the ruling class of the world to become a democracy. (The president/leader's term would probably be about a century in office.) I also can easily envision that in about half a millennium to a thousand, that a good half of vampire population would be vegetarians. As for the blood makeup explanation that Bella was going to give to Edward and others, I'll leave that up to your imagination. smile
(Oh and about blood makeup, you can use the idea for your stories, even though I made it up on the spot. But I do love the explanation. XD It's just a great way to explain the la tua cante scientifically.)
I also think that it's best to end the story in this chapter and on a good note, before dragging the story on too much, or it might bore the readers, so that's another reason for ending the story here. I know how much you guys enjoyed it, so I won't try to milk it for all it's worth.
And if you are interested, you could read the highly unoriginal alternate storyline I originally started with for this story. I assure you, that you can see why I decided not to go with that storyline. smile (It'll be in the next chapter, titled: Alternate Storyline) It's over 11,000 (unedited) words. (And that's another reason why I wanted to expand this story into a wonderful epic story that we know it, because I had wanted to do an epic story. -grins-)
But really, thank you all, the readers and reviewers, for sticking with me on this journey. I just can't apologize enough if you are disappointed. As for my other story, Live Not For Love, I'll be posting the rest of the story without the open-ended ending, since all the story really needed is one more chapter then it's finished. (But a long chapter, of course, like this current one -grins-) But I'll warn you, you may need kleenexes, but if you like a good story, have a read.
Lastly, I am not against the idea of someone continuing the story from this point. If you have a great idea and think you can do it, feel free!
May you all have a blessed life!
Tiffy