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Chapter 17- Finally

JPOV

I opened my eyes slowly and looked around. Where was Jasper? I was still in my wolf form so I called for Sam.

'Sam, Sam, SAAAAAAAM, Seth, Seth, anyone?'

'Here.' It was Sam. 'I'm Here.' I got up slowly, and made my way towards Sam.

'You ok?'

'Yeah, Violet and Eric almost killed me. Luckily they just knocked me out.'

'Where's Seth? I can't hear his thoughts.'

'He was fighting them with me.' Sam thought as he got up. 'He was right here.' Sam and I looked around. We didn't have to look long. My heart sank. Seth had phased back, and was slumped by the tree. Both Sam and I went over to him. I shook him. He didn't respond. I shook him again, nothing.

'Check his pulse.' I quickly checked his pulse, there wasn't one.

'NO, this can't be happening.'

'Check again.' Sam thought frantically. I checked again, nothing. What had those bloodsuckers done? Not Seth, not sweet innocent Seth. He wasn't even 21.

'We have to get him to a hospital.' Sam put his huge paw on my wolf shoulder.

'It's too late. He's gone.'

'NOOOOO!! It's not too late! It can't be too late!' I thought hanging my head. Sam was lost in his own thoughts. He like me was blaming himself. He was thinking he should've protected him. I should have come alone, not involve my pack. We lost Seth. We should have just let him stay home. Why did we call him? Where was Eric and Violet? Where was Jasper? How did this happen? :-(

BPOV

It seemed like Rose and I ran forever. We were almost to Chicago now. Rose finally stopped, and we checked into a hotel 45 minutes northwest of Chicago. We got up to the room, and Rose ordered me a pizza.

"Bella, after you're done, we'll go and get you some clothes. I think I saw a Kohls not too far from here." Rose said. Shopping with Rose, let will be different.

"Did you check your phone? Did Emmett call?" I asked but as I looked at her face, I knew the answer.

"No, and I tried to call Alice. So everyone will know your safe but there was no answer. I did get a hold of Esme and Carlisle. They are still a little ways from Forks. They wanted to come here, make sure you were protected, but I insisted they go home. If what Alice said was true, anything could have happened. I was thinking of Jake, my Jake. I hope he was alright. The pizza came and I ate it. We went to Kohls and bought some clothes. We didn't want to go back to Forks unless we knew it was safe. How long that would be I didn't know. Rose was really worried about Emmett, and I tried to stay up with her, but I finally drifted off to sleep at 1am. At 4am I woke up and saw Rose on the phone. She was openly crying. Oh no, Emmett. I went over to her. She saw my face and put down the phone.

"It's Emmett. He's alive, banged up but alive. Chris is dead. Emmett said he barely broke a sweat. He is coming here. He'll be here some time in the morning." They were tears of joy. Emmett was alright. I threw my arms around Rose again.

"That's great!" I said. "I'll let you talk to him. I'm going back to bed." I was happy Emmett was ok. I was just hoping Jake would be too.

JPOV

I knew I should go in the house to see if Bella was still there, to see if anyone else was in the house, but I couldn't seem to move. It seemed like Sam and I were glued to the ground. Neither one of us wanted to leave Seth.

'We should go check the house.' Sam thought.

'But who will stay with Seth? We can't just leave his body.' I thought back.

'I will.' A small sad thought popped into my head. It wasn't Sam. I turned around, Leah and Paul came into view.

'This is my fault.' Leah

'How do you figure?' Me

'If I was quicker, I would have got here in time to help Seth and Sam.' Leah

'You can't think like that. I was with you. We couldn't have gone any faster.' Paul

'Please, don't think that. It wasn't your fault.' Sam

'All of you should stop thinking like that. The bloodsuckers are the ones that killed them. It's their fault.' Paul

'When this is over. I'll track them down myself and get revenge for my brother. Until then Jake, Sam, Paul go check the house. I need to stay with my brother.' Leah

No one wanted to argue with Leah.

'OK' Sam, Paul, and Me

BPOV

Here I was in a room by myself. Rose and Emmett had gotten another room, (the one adjoining to this one) and were now enjoying their reunion. I on the other hand was miserable. All I could do was think of Jake. I didn't care if it wasn't safe. I wanted to go back home to see if Jake was ok. I missed him so much. I just sat there and sat there.

JPOV

Sam, Paul, and I approached the house cautiously. We went inside. We strained our ears to see if we could hear anything. It sounded like a fight was breaking out on the second floor.

"Give it up. Bella's not here. Chris took her away from here. They're half way across the country by now." Edward said.

"Then I'll keep tracking her. I won't stop until Jake gets her back." Jasper replied.

"Edward, why did you do this?" Alice asked sadly. "I thought I knew you."

"Don't be so naïve Alice. You didn't know me as well as you thought. Do you have any idea how much pain I was in all these years without Bella?" Edward replied.

"You chose to leave her." Alice said quietly. "You chose to. I've never understood why. We could have gotten past what happened."

"I couldn't. I couldn't let anyone hurt Bella, not even you Jasper. If it wasn't for you Bella and I would probably be married by now, and she would be happy with me, and not a mutt like Jacob." There was silence for the longest time and then Jasper spoke.

"Don't you think, I think about that all the time? I blame myself, if I just kept my cravings under control, none of this would have happened. You and Bella would still be together. You wouldn't have betrayed us and turned into a physco. It's entirely my fault that you were in so much pain. It was that pain drove you to do this. This last couple of days I discovered something though."

"What is that? I'm just dying to know." Edward snarled.

"I think that Jake is way better for Bella then you could ever be. He loves her so much. Plus he is the opposite of you. He is so warm and caring, while you so dark and broody. I'm sorry you are in so much pain, and I'll always blame myself for that. But Edward you did the right thing. Bella is happy with Jake. That was the only thing that used to matter to you, Bella's happiness. Jeeze that is why you left. You wanted Bella to forget about you and live a normal life."

"Yeah, and look what she got herself into. A pack of supernatural wolves. I wanted her to find someone normal."

"Well, I guess Bella wasn't meant for someone normal after all. You need to stop this. You're hurting a lot of people. We get it, you're hurting but don't drag everyone down with you." I heard Edward sigh.

"It's too bad." Edward said. "It's too bad that I'm going to have to kill you."

"Haven't you heard anything he said?" A voice I didn't recognize said.

"Claire, stay out of this." Edward replied.

"I can't. I see what this is doing to you. Let's just leave. Come with me and Amber. We can leave this place behind. I know neither of us is Bella, and we could never be. But you have to know that you'll never have Bella the way you want her, but that doesn't mean you have to spend eternity alone. Call Chris, have him bring Bella back."

"He can't. Bella's not with Chris." Amber said.

"What do you mean Amber?" There was silence again. "AMBER."

"He's dead. Emmett killed him. Rose and Emmett have Bella. There in Illinois by Chicago. I'm going to hunt down and kill Emmett, for killing my Chris." I heard Jasper and Alice sigh in relief. Bella was safe. She was with Emmett and Rose. I was very happy. My Bella was safe. I owed Rose and Emmett more than I knew, and Jasper too for that matter, and Alice. Jeeze looks like I was becoming friends with bloodsuckers.

"I'm so sorry Amber." Claire said. Then she spoke again. "See Edward, Amber and I needed you. You could spend an eternity with us. We're not Bella but we care about you. I hate to see you like this. I want to see the other side of you. Since you changed me I've only see this obsessive side to you, always scheming and plotting with Sara. By the way where is Sara? Where is Eric and Violet?"

"Sara is dead." Jasper said. "I was fighting Amber." Amber snarled. Jasper continued. "Despite her power, I was winning. Amber fled. I went over to help Jake. He was fighting Sara. Sara almost killed him. She hit him really hard over the head but I took Sara by surprise. She was concentrating so hard on Jake she didn't even know I was there. I ripped her head off, and tore her to pieces. I thought you'd have notice the purple smoke. Jeeze I was so concerned about Alice and Bella that I just left him there. I hope he is ok. I don't even know what happened to Sam and Seth all I thought about was getting in the house. I didn't want to kill anybody but I had no choice."

"Oh, I really have to kill you know." We heard a lot of noise erupt then. There was a lot of growls and snarls. Sam, Paul and I raced up the stairs. When we got there, Edward was fighting Jasper. Amber was fighting Alice. Claire was in the corner of the room watching all this. She didn't want to fight. Paul ripped Amber off Alice and pinned her arms back. Sam and I got to Edward and ripped him and Jasper apart. It wasn't that easy though Edward kept charging the three of us.

"Edward stop! It's three against one, you don't stand a chance. Edward please." Alice said.

"Listen to her. You're going to get yourself killed." Claire said. Edward finally stopped. I didn't want to stop. I wanted to make sure he couldn't get to Bella again. I wanted so bad to kill Edward. Edward finally stopped but I charged him again. Sam pried me off Edward. Sam and Jasper stood in between Edward and me. I just growled. He needed to die.

"Jake, it's not worth it." Alice said. I just shook my head, and tried to get away form Sam. Edward laughed.

"Bring it on mutt. You've had this coming for a long time." I got away from Sam and charged Edward. He fell flat on his ass. I got up and grinned.

"ENOUGH!" Amber said. "If you keep this up, you are both going to die."

"Yeah, I see that too. I'm finally not being blocked anymore. I guess that is because Sara is dead." Edward charged Jasper. I charged Edward. It went on like this for at least 45 minutes. The girls and Sam could do nothing. We were determined to fight. Two against one but because of Edwards's mind reading abilities it was almost even. I don't know why but the fighting finally stopped.

"LEAVE!" Jasper said to Edward. "You'll never be apart of the Cullen family again. I don't want you to be here when Carlisle and Esme get home. It will hurt them to see you like this. I don't want to kill you, but if you push me. I will."

"EDWARD LEAVE. NEVER COME BACK. STAY AWAY FROM BELLA." I said. "If this goes on much longer you'll be the one who ends up dead." Alice had tears in her eyes when she said.

"Take the rest of your new family and leave. You're not welcome here anymore. Before long everyone else will be back and you'll really be out numbered. Just leave." She was crying, snarling, growling all at once. I've never seen anything like it. You could see all her pain. She didn't want it to end this way but she had no choice. It couldn't end any better. Edward looked from Jasper to Alice to me. He did this several times.

"I guess I have no choice. I'm not that stupid. I can spot a loosing fight when I see one but that doesn't mean I won't be back. I'll regroup. You can bet I'll be back. Jasper, you and Emmett will have to pay for killing members of my family. I'll be back one day. You can bet on it. Amber, Claire, let's go." And those were Edwards's last words. He took Amber and Claire and they were gone. Finally it was over. Finally.