AN: I'm really sorry that's its been so long inbetween updates!!! I've just been busy with school, soccer and just no time to type. It's sad but true. And there will unfortunately probably be another long gap. I'm sorry about that!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything except the actually written work and Selene and her story. That is all work of Stephenie Meyer! (By the way: saw NEW MOON last night, and am going again tomorrow!!!! Shirtless Taylor is HAWT!!!!)

Chapter Twenty-Three: Unforeseen Betrayal

(Alice's POV)

I snapped out of my horrific vision, gasping. Panic stricken, I shot a glance at Bella, to make sure that she was still with us. She was. Bella was sitting beside me, with wide shocked eyes. One of her hands was slightly extended towards me like she had been about to touch me before being told not to.

"Alice, darlin', it's ok. What did you see?"

Jasper had one of my hands clasped in his as he rubbed circles into the back of my hand with his thumb. He was sending tidal waves of calm to me now, desperately attempting to ease my breathing, and settle me down.

As he wanted, my breathing seemed to slow and I could think more clearly as the last of the images faded from my eyes. I was still vibrating slightly because I wanted so badly to cry.

Where had we gone wrong? How could the tracker possibly get passed Edward, Emmett, Selene and Carlisle? There was no way he could have lull us into a false sense of security enough to slip away with Bella. Oh God! I had to figure out this vision.

Once he was satisfied that I was a little more stable, Jasper looked down at my drawing.

"What is it Alice? What is this room?"

I didn't know, so I shook my head. It was such an odd room. Who had mirrors everywhere with a gold band painted across them? I'd never seen anything like it.

My hand reached for the paper, with a pencil in-between my fingers and shaded in a few more places as more parts of the room flashed in my mind. A television in the far corner, a couple doors leading into different rooms…

"The bathroom was through there," Bella's voice was distant and indifferent.

Both Jasper's and my eyes darted to her after those words had flowed from her mouth. She was looking at the picture blankly, but her eyebrows were scrunched in focus. She recognized the room. That much was obvious. This sparked hope and agitation in my mind.

"You know this room?" Jasper whispered, measuring her emotions.

Bella cocked her head to the side a little and then looked at us.

"It's a ballet studio. I used to go to one just like it that was a few blocks from my mom's house…" she trailed off for a second, "I'm sure most studios look that way though," She added after watching Jasper and I exchange worried looks.

Before either one of us could get another word out, I had a snapshot vision of my phone ringing. I was over to my jacket pocket, across the room, at the very second my phone started to vibrate.

Selene Doyle-Cullen

Flicking the silver phone open in a blur, it was at my ear and my sister's frantic voice was streaming through the speakers into my ears.

"He turned around Alice! The tracker figured out what we were doing and turned around and went back to Forks! Rosalie called and said that Victoria was snooping around in the school records. We're getting on a direct flight to Phoenix in half an hour from Port Angeles…what!?" Selene snapped the last word to somebody on her own side, probably Emmett or Edward. She must have really been on edge, and for good reason, because she never snapped that harshly at the guys.

"Selene?" I asked quietly, turning her attention back to our conversation.

"Sorry Alice. Edward wants to talk to Bella." I nodded, forgetting for a second that she couldn't see me.

"Alright. Put him on." I beckoned Bella over to the phone and handed it to her.

"Edward," I said and then went to take my seat next o Jasper again.

Jasper took one of my hands into his and turned my face to look at him with the other. His eyes were getting dark. He was going to need to hunt soon, but there wasn't time for that. I had faith in his ability to not feed on the humans, but he needed to trust himself in order for him not to.

"So what are we going to do?" he asked in a voice to low for Bella to hear.

"You heard everything Selene said?" I replied in the same low voice, checking to make sure he'd gotten what was happening.

He nodded his head in one sharp motion.

"They'll be here in about four hours. We'll check out of the hotel in an hour and wait for them at the airport." I glanced over at Bella as she closed the tiny cell phone. Her eyes were bright and excited, but her face was still slightly drawn, not quite sure what she was supposed to be feeling.

She walked over to us and sat down cross-legged on the ground with her head on the arm of the couch without a word and stared blankly at the newsman with the irritating nasal voice on the television. I didn't know what to say to her. Neither did Jasper.

What was the right thing to say in this situation? The Tracker was on his way. But so was Edward. She had us, and we weren't going to let anything happen to her. At the same time, though, it felt like a race between Edward and James now. Who would get to Bella first? Would it be death, or would it be love and safety? Those were the things that kept me from seeing what was going to happen for sure.

How had Bella gotten into the Tracker's reach? I wished, like many times before, that the future was more certain and set in stone, that way I could see the absolute outcome before all the choices were made. My visions were just too infuriating.

And then, we had to worry about Bella's mom showing up back at home before the problems had been resolved. Bella had left a message for her, but according to Bella, her mother wasn't very technologically savvy, and she was hoping that her mother hadn't lost her phone again, or let it die.

Another snapshot vision of my phone appeared in my head, and my hand was on it in the next second. I didn't recognize the number, but I answered anyway.

"Bella? Bella?! Where are you Bella?!" It had to be Renee.

Bella could hear her mother's voice over the speakers of the phone too and reached a hand out for the little object.

"She's right here Ms. Swan. Bella's right here," I told her as I handed the phone over for the second time in that long twenty minutes.

"Mom? Mom! I'm right here!"

That seemed to satisfy Bella's mom because I could no longer hear anything coming from the other side of the call.

What I did notice though, was how Bella's face drained slightly of her remaining limited color. And her face drew tighter than it had been a second ago.

"Mom. I'm fine. Stay where you are." Her voice was almost dead as she walked into the bedroom and closed the door behind her. I for sure couldn't hear a thing then.

Slightly confused, but ignoring it, I turned to Jasper.

"Jazz. Why don't you go get us checked out?"

He nodded and dashed to me, pecked a quick, but strong kiss on my lips and then was gone without a word. I heaved out a breath, trying to calm myself as I slumped down on the couch.

This was going to be a long day. I was sure of it.

From the bedroom, it sounded like Renee was doing most of the talking because Bella rarely spoke. When she did, she sounded like she was still reassuring her mother that everything was all right and convincing her to stay where she was. At least we wouldn't have to have another person to look out for.

I had just closed my eyes to look for another vision when the door clicked, Bella came out and handed the phone back to me. There was no expression on her face at all. Was she scared? Indifferent? Worried? Surely one of those fit, but she just didn't want to show it, maybe.

She looked around.

"Where's Jasper?"

"Checking us out. We're going to go wait for Emmett, Carlisle, Edward and Selene's flight to get in at the airport."

Something flashed in her eyes but it was gone as quickly as it had appeared and I couldn't read it fast enough. She nodded and turned to go back to the bedroom, but before she had taken a step, she was facing me again.

"Could I give you a letter for my mom?"

"Of course Bella."

She left then and closed the door, once again, behind her.

(Selene's POV)

The anxiety was killing Edward. Every fiber of his being thirsted to be with Bella: to have her safe in his arms, have her away from the danger and under his watch again. Of course he trusted Jasper and Alice unconditionally, but there was something about the fact that he wasn't the one right there with her, keeping her safe himself. I could understand that. Had Emmett been human and being hunted, I would have wanted to be the one by his side, and be the one he was under constant watch from.

It seemed to take an eternity for our flight to be called and then a whole other eternity just for us to take off from the Port Angeles runway.

"Sel. You okay?" Emmett asked, his arm going around my shoulders.

I'd been trying to pick the Tracker's mind out of the millions of thoughts circulating around the airport we're leaving behind, but he'd gotten on an earlier flight (damn sneak!) and was getting too far away from my hearing range.

"I'm fine, just wishing our stupid flight would speed up, or would have been earlier so that I could have kept tabs on James still."

He kissed my cheek and nodded his head. He was eager for us to be in Phoenix as well. Emmett was looking for a fight. He hadn't been able to show off his massive strength in a long time and he was looking forward to showing James that if you messed with one of our family members, you got the whole coven. That was a lesson he needed to learn, and to Carlisle's dislike, we all knew the only way to stop the tracker was to destroy him.

We'll be landing in Phoenix in five minutes. Thank you for flying with Southwestern and have a nice stay in Arizona. A voice announced over the plane intercom. This was it. We were landing. It was time to end all of this. James had met his match.