Alice

Jacob and I were ready to leave when I paused. I smelled a very distinct scent that I had only smelled once when I was in Italy. The Volturi had been here. I instantly thought back to the letter. Bella had said in the letter that she made a deal for the safety of the love of her life which from what Jacob told me is me. Then it hit me. Bella must have agreed to go with the Volturi to save me. It made sense. Victoria must have done something that put the Volturi on her track and when the found her they found Bella. Bella offered herself to protect the ones she loves as always, and Aro unable to pass on the chance of adding more power to his guard took her up on the offer. If the others found out that the Volturi had taken her there is no way in hell they would respect her wishes and not search for her. I turned to Jacob.

"I know where she is," I told him.

His eyes sparked, "You do?"

"Yes, and I'm sure she will be okay, but the others can't find out where she has gone," I said. "They would never leave her in peace and it could cost everyone their lives including Bella. We have to let them believe there is no chance in finding her if we ever want to see her again."

"How do you propose we do that?" Jacob asked.

"We have to convince them that she is dead," I told him.

I looked at the blood-soaked mattress and comforter. "We take those back with us. There is enough blood on them to convince anyone she's dead including Carlisle. We show them this and as long as you don't think about Bella's note around Edward then everything will be fine."

Jacob nodded and grabbed the comforter and mattress and dragged it behind him though the forests to the lake edge where we had first found Bella's scent. Before leaving, I set the cabin aflame so that if they attempted to come to the cabin where we discovered this they wouldn't figure out the same thing I had. I put in a call to Carlisle to inform him we had found something. When the rest of the family met us they saw the items they visibly broke down. Carlisle was the only one able to hold it together long enough to ask where we had found the mattress. I told him about the cabin but I painted him a gruesome picture of blood-soaked walls and bloody floors even though when we had been there the blood had been limited to this mattress. I told him I set it on fire so that none of them would have to see what torture Bella had to go through in her last moments. I faked anguish as best as I could and everyone seem to buy it which I can only assume that jasper was feeling so much from everyone else he could feel how elated I was they were buying this. They all left in the direction of the house and I stayed behind with Jacob.

"I don't believe they will want to stay after this," I told him.

"It figures. They feel responsible so they run like cowards," Jacob said with his jaw clenched.

"I was hoping I could stay behind. If Bella honestly is coming back like she says then I want to be close," I told him.

"And you are hoping the treaty would still stand," Jacob said and I shrugged. "I'm not sure how the pack would feel. I have no sway because according to Sam I'm no longer in the pack, but I can see what strings I can pull. Would it only be you?"

"And maybe Jasper, he probably wouldn't want to leave me alone. Plus he will eventually figure out from my emotions that Bella isn't really dead, and when he does it would be better if I kept him away from them lest they find out to."

"I will talk to the elders as soon as I get back. We can probably come to an agreement. It'd be nice to have you around, Shortie," Jacob said smirking.

"Yeah, whatever pup," I said back before running across the lake to join my family.

A/N: So I know it's been more than a year since I updated but I have had the most incredible writer's block when it came to this story. I have actually spent the last year trying to write a chapter from Bella's point of view but it just isn't working out. Now that I have put this chapter up I will try again. Fingers crossed.