Sorry this chapter is so short. it was either just updating this, or waiting for a long one, so.... I really wanna write another fan fic, but i've got no idea's, so if anybody's got anybody's got any ideas they'd like me to write, drop me a message.

How would people feel about one on Renesmee? Started one on that, but not sure about it.

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Chapter Fourteen

Edward's Point of View

Edward. Edward, slow down. Carlisle's thoughts were as calm and efficient as ever, but instead of this being a comfort to me as it normally was, now, it just infuriated me.

I pushed myself harder, sprinting even faster.

Edward please listen! We all know that you are worried Bella, about what Alice has seen, but you've got to remember- so are we!

That slowed me down. I did sometimes forget that I was not the only one who cared for Bella's welfare. When we had left, Esme had mourned for her as if one of us had gone missing. Alice had trailed miserably around the house, with no one to nag about shopping, and Emmet had had to resort to mercifully teasing Jasper since Bella was no longer around to be the centre of that little pleasure.

"Victoria is on the loose!" I growled, knowing full well that he would be able to hear me.

Yes, Carlisle agreed, And don't you think you'd have a better chance of catching her if we were all there with you?

"I'm not aiming to catch her." I lied. After saving Bella, ripping Victoria's ignorant head off her shoulders was next on my things- to- do list. I started to run again, my anger fuelling me.

Edward- STOP! I had never, ever heard my farther raise his voice or shout in all the years I had lived with him, so it was in pure shock that I finally skidded to a halt.

In less than a minuet, he was at my side.

"I'm going alone." I hissed at him once I had got over the initial shock.

Carlisle blinked at me, then frowned. "What's happening to you, Edward?" He asked, almost sadly as he gazed at me with his warm golden eyes. They were too kind, too sympathetic- I dropped his gaze. "What are you doing to yourself? Ever since we left, it's like you've been shutting off from everyone else, creating a circle around yourself that only one person can ever venture across."

I didn't answer. I knew he was right.

"Before you left Bella," Carlisle whispered, "As a family, we were a unit. Where ever one of us went, we all followed. You used to like that. You used to like us. Now all you do is sit up in your room, snapping at any of us if we dare to interrupt you."

I stared at my father. He had never been this honest, this open before. This cruel.

"And it's time it stopped." Carlisle said firmly. "Either you are part of this family, or you're not. But you can't just keep pushing us away like this." He clapped a hand down on my shoulder and leant forward, talking earnestly. "Let us help you, Edward. You blame us for everything that has gone wrong in your life. You blame me for changing you, you blame Jasper for nearly attacking Bella that day, and you hate the rest of us for being happy when you can never be without her. We understand. You got a taste of that happiness, of that love, and too loose it must be unbearable- but you're keeping us out. You need to set your heart free, Edward. It's been caged for too long."

I touched my empty chest. "I don't have it anymore." I looked up at my father. "It's with Bella. It belongs to her. But it's time I went and got it back." There was a long silence as I thought of the trip ahead. What if I ran into Victoria? Then Emmet could help me with his strength. What if the Denali's didn't want me? Carlisle was friends with them, he could say it was a favour to him. And Alice seemed to be the only one who had even got close to breaking through to Bella.

What ever I did and however I phrased it, my conclusion was clear.

I needed my family. I had always needed them, but Carlisle had been right. I'd been shutting them out because they had what I believed I could never have again, and I resented them for that.

But not anymore.

Bella had always been a blessing, not a curse. And I would make sure it stayed that way.

"Fine. I…I'm sorry. I just…" I looked up at my father with anguished eyes. "What am I going to do if she…" I gulped. "If she…dies.?"

"Nobody is going to die." Carlisle said firmly.

A moment later, Jasper and Emmet skidded into the clearing, quickly followed by Alice and Esme. Rosalie was taking longer deliberately, and I clicked my tongue impatiently, but when I caught Emmett's expression, I attempted to smoother out my own.

A few moment's later, Rosalie strolled into view, and I started running again. Normally, when we all ran, I'm the fastest by far, speeding ahead- but today, we were all almost neck and neck. As I glanced around at my family's alert expressions, I realised just how much Bella had meant to them. She had been my true love- but she had also been Alice's best friend, Emmet and Jasper's sister, and Esme and Carlisle's daughter. The only person she had not touched in any way was Rosalie.

Long, long ago, pretty much just after I'd met Bella, I'd once collected her truck for her. On the seat, I'd propped a piece of paper saying; Be Safe.

I hoped to God that she remembered that now.

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