Sorry, it's been a while. I was a little stumped on what to do, but I figured it out ;)

The chapter is a tad bit shorter, but I was really anxious to get it out there and you let you know what I didn't forget about it!

Again, the characters and bits of the story belong to Stephenie Meyer, I'm just playing with them!

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The next morning I woke up a little chilled because I was completelysnuggled up against Edward.

"Good morning beautiful" he smiled

"mumm, morning" I smiled back

Edward suddenly sprung out of bed. He grabbed me and carried me downstairs before I could even register what had happened.

"Alice, when?" Edward spoke to her

The whole family had assembled where we were standing.

"Today, she is sending 8 of them, today" Alice replied

"Wait, what? Who?" my mind was trying to wake up and catch up to what was going on.

"Victoria, she has sent 8 new vampires this way. They are coming for you. They want to bring you to her, instead of her coming here" Alice answered

Edward turned and placed his hands on both sides of my face: "She will never come close to you. I won't let that happen - .." he accentuated.

"Bella, you should go up and change. Be ready to move" Esme said and broke the stare between Edward and I.

I turned to walk back up to our room; Edward was following close behind me. Once inside the room, I turned in folded myself against his body. I just needed to feel him, for him to hold me. This was all happening so fast.

Edward did hold me and placed a few kisses on the top of my hair.

"Bella, let's get you dressed"

"What does one wear when they are being attacked?" I tried to joke.

"You will not be attacked, but you made need to be moved quickly, so something flexible and warm"

"Right, I forgot we are up in Alaska" I smirked

I turned and quickly found a pair of black yoga pants and a long shelved shirt to put on.

Edward and I made our way back downstairs to his family again. They looked like they were ready to go. Edward turned to face me.

"Bella, we are going to meet the vampires Victoria has sent, before they get close to here. Alice is going to stay behind with you."

I nodded, but I was terrified something was going to happen to Edward. He seemed to see my thoughts in my eyes and smiled his crooked smile.

"We will be fine, I promise."

Then he leaned in and kissed me softly, I was completely lost in the feeling of his lips, when I heard a throat clearing.

"Incoming vampires, fighting – let's go! I haven't had a good fight in a while! This is going to be fun!" Emmett smiled

Edward backed away from me, but kept a hand on my cheek, "Be safe" he whispered as he turned to leave with the rest of them.

"Bella, its only 8 of them, they will be fine – I've already seen the outcome" Alice smiled a reassuring smile.

"Well, the whole vampires thing is new to me, getting Edward back is new, so I'm just trying to adjust"

"You will" Alice smiled

We sat, Alice picked up a fashion magazine.

"Alice, any news on the decision to change me?"

"No, sorry Bella, he just...."

Alice's eyes glazed over for a minute.

"Alice? Alice? What's wrong? Who's hurt? What's happened" I started to panic

She came out of her stare and looked at me quickly.

"Nothing, no one is hurt. I was just had a vision about Jasper, he is going to run into a human tomorrow and it will be hard for him"

"Oh, is it terribly hard to be near me?"

"No, you do smell good, but I know we are going to be friends. I don't want to jeopardize that – plus Edward would rip my head off if something happened to you"

I kept a watch on her for the next hour or so, as we passed the time, talking and reading. Alice's eyes glazed over a few times and after each time she seemed to get more and more frustrated.

"Alice, will you please tell me what's going on"

"The family is fine. I'll tell you if something happens"

"Why do you keep going into mini-traces?"

"I'm just keeping updated on the situation."

"Wouldn't it have been better for you to fight? You could see what was going to happen."

"Edward can see a few seconds before hand too, because they think about their step before people move. He wanted me to stay behind in case Victoria changed her mind. I would be the first to know and therefore I would be able to move you if needed"

She glazed over again, but she came to quickly, "Bella we have to move NOW"

She grabbed me and she ran with me up Edwards's room.

"Grab a coat fast. We have to go."

I did as she said.

"What's going on!?!"

"Victoria is close, I don't know where; she won't make up her mind on what she is going to do"

"I have now!" A strangely familiar voice said as I was grabbed from behind

I couldn't see her face, but I saw a glimpse of red hair out of the corner of my eye. Alice moved to get me, but I felt Victoria's cold moist breath near my neck.

"Don't come any closer Alice"

Victoria moved fast, but Alice stayed with her. Victoria backed to the window and broke it easily and jumped out. Alice followed her.

Once we were outside, I saw 3 vampires merge from the woods. Alice knew what was behind her now. She turned and started to fight them off. She was small, but she could fight.

As Alice was fighting Victoria took her moment and ran with me. She had threw me over her shoulder and ran at full speed.

I don't know how long she ran for – hours? days? I couldn't tell. She finally stopped and threw me to the cold ground. I was able to get a look at her face and her wild red hair.

"Edward will find me" I said defensively

"Oh, I hope he does come, but I hope he doesn't come too late. I want him to see you die"

"Why!?!"

"An eye for an eye and all that" she smirked

"You attacked us that night!"

"That's what we do - you, my dear are nothing but food. What he did, your precious Edward was something I will revenge. You don't kill another vampire; you don't kill a vampire's mate. I'm going to get rid of you before he has a chance to change you....who knows if you'll ever be back again. The pain and torture of waiting years to see if you will come back...I want him to feel that pain in every minute of those years. And if you do come back again...I will kill you again and again."

She leaned in closer to my face, "I will kill you as many times as you come back. You will never be with him again."

A single tear rolled down my cheek. The venom and pain that were coming out of each word she said was hard to listen too. The idea of Edward being in pain for so long – I couldn't help but get upset. We were never going to be together, that I could take, but only if I knew he would be ok – but he never would be. Edward would be in pain. I didn't have much hope. I closed my eyes and tried to remember the limited, but the happy times we had had and I tried to forget about the happier times we would have had ahead.

I don't know how long I kept my eyes closed, but when I heard Victoria snap up and hiss. I knew something was going to happen.

"It begins...." she smirked.

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Cliff-hanger! Hehe no worries, the next chapter will be out a lot faster. I feel like I'm on a roll again.

Please let me know what you're thinking : )