I'm back everyone! Yay! I've been reading a lot of fan fictions so I know a lot about all those annoying cliffies so I'm trying to be nice and not leave you with a long waiting period. So here we go, we're off to NEVERLAND!

Chapter Thirteen: Project Rose

A Pov

"NO!" I screamed when I came to the end of the vision. I saw the confrontation in Elizabeth- or Isabella's room. I saw it as it was happening and I'd been too late to stop it from happening!

"Alice, what is it?"

"Edward's in trouble!" I said to Jasper as I ran out the door. There wasn't time to waste on explanation, I had to find Edward. I heard Jasper following me as I ran through thick brush and trees and I felt bad that I couldn't better control the swirl of misery, fear and anger.

"This can't be happening," I whispered to myself.

"Alice, what exactly did you see?"

I knew one simple sentence would be enough explanation, enough to ruin everything that I'd worked for and make Edward miserable for a longer time than I hoped to imagine. I didn't care! Edward was in trouble and I didn't know what to think about Isabella. Had it all been an elaborate illusion? Or did she really love Edward? Oh god, I've never been so confused in my life!

"Elizabeth isn't her real name."

"What?"

"Her name is Isabella Swan!"

"What?" He asked in a horrified voice. I stopped for a moment to see that Jasper had stopped running and was gaping at me with a shocked expression. "Please tell me it's all some sort of coincidence."

"I wish I could."

"We've got to get to Edward!"

I nodded and the two of us were running again, toward the house we'd never once actually been inside. I didn't know what sort of things awaited us inside but now that the others were gone, I could actually see what was happening. I couldn't seen vampire hunters, it was an extra protection thing that was in their DNA. So they could be waiting inside and I'd never know but for Edward, we had to go inside.

I didn't know if I should be angry or sympathetic. Isabella had seemed sincere when she said she loved Edward but hunters were good at acting as well. But then again, why would she bother saying she loved him as she told him her real name? Oh, I don't know! I don't know the inner workings of a hunter's cruel mind!

When we finally did get to the house, everything was cleared out. Furniture was overturned, all personal effects gone and the entire house stripped of anything that appeared to have been important.

"I'll check up stairs." Jasper nodded and turned to start searching the kitchen. I smelt Edward here but I didn't know what else we'd find in the rest of the house- best to check everything.

"Edward?" I said quietly. No answer. I quickened my pace a bit but still moved slowly, so as not to be noticed by anything or anyone. A shiver went up my spine at the eeriness as I crept down the hallway. The door was slightly ajar, a dim light coming from behind. I pushed it opened slowly to reveal the room inside.

Papers were strewn everywhere, the room just like the rest of the house- hurriedly packed up. Edward sat under the window sill with his eyes staring straight ahead and his expression agonized.

"Edward?" I asked again. I don't know why I did it, but I crept to his side just as tentatively as I had through the rest of the house.

"I loved her, Alice," he whispered. "But she's not who I fell in love with." If I had felt confused and undecided now, it was completely swept away with what he said. Edward was a brother to me but Isabella was my sister too. No matter what, there was good in her like there was in everyone. It was a choice. And from what I had seen of the vision from Isabella and Edward's past, I didn't blame her for wanting to kill the creatures that had so viciously killed her family.

"I made her like that…" he whispered brokenly.

"Edward, you still love her."

"No, I don't love-

"Edward, look at me!" I put a hand on his face and turned his chin so that he was looking at me. I glared at him angrily.

"She's angry and hurting and she's been this way for years! I don't know about you but when she was around you, I saw her whole self light up. Even if she was happy with me, there was no faking that instant lighting in her eyes when you entered a room. Maybe you were healing her, and you've just hurt her again- making her want to go out and do her job ten times more lethally!"

"You're wrong, she's not capable of love!" My own anger was starting to bubble in my chest. I hated Edward for feeling self pity and for hating the one girl who'd given him happiness for the first time since the time Jasper and I came here. I was furious that he would just give up like that! And as surprised as I was, I slapped him. His eyes were wide with surprise. "Wha-

"Edward Anthony Mason Cullen! If you won't give love a chance- No, if you won't give her a chance- then you don't deserve her!"

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Ok, I have to sign off for now but I hope that was enough until tomorrow. Review!

-V