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"They're already in the air," replied Alice. Suddenly her head snapped up. "Get on a computer," growled Alice as an image flashed through her head. Edward tensed as Jacob shouted, "Someone get a damn computer!"
"Stop shouting I have one," replied Marcus, waking up instantly from the knock out Rosalie had given him with her mallet, pulling a small laptop out of the inside of his jacket. Luna stared at Marcus for a while and said, "You honestly carry that around Marcy?"
"Yes Lulu," he smiled and then his voice trailed off. "Without the internet civilization would cease to exist," he replied in an ominous voice as if what he spoke of was an omen that would eventually come through. He shook his head. "Sorry I had a Trewalney moment."
"You know Professor Trewalney?" Luna asked skeptically.
"Whose Trewalney?" Marcus asked turning on the computer and logging onto Aro's account, they shared one then again they shared everything, and he found the live feed that waited to be open. "Oh look we have a video Ary! Someone wants us to see them now!"
"And they call you loony," muttered Neville. Luna glared at him. "I don't call you it, you're my friend…" Luna turned her back on him as Marcus popped up a video in his email.
"It's from that red haired tramp," growled Aro reading the message above the live feed, 'Watch now. –Love, Victoria'
"Ron?" Luna asked innocently.
The screen fluttered onto the laptop. Bella bound and hung up in a moving vehicle, a plane by the curve of the wall behind her, and Bella was using all the strength she could to keep her balance on the box near her despite the strain on her arms as she gained her balance and used it to stay still. "I do believe this will get Edward's attention more than your website," Victoria grinned into the camera. "This is a live feed so right now they're watching us. Your dear Edward and his family. And we can't forget your idiot stalkers."
- "I'm not a stalker," growled Aro, "I observe." Jane smacked him in the back of the head to shut him up.
"Like hell. Edward! Jacob! Stay away," rasped Bella, her eyes pleading at the camera.
"Cry out for help Bella," ordered Victoria.
"Hell no," replied Bella stubbornly as Victoria's hand lashed out and smacked Bella's mouth, blood trailed from Bella's mouth down her chin as she spun around on the hook having been jerked off the box.
- "Bella," Edward cried in worry wondering when the tears of pain would fall from Bella. He remembered all too vividly Bella's tears when he came upon her and her leg was broken with venom pulsing through her body.
- Jasper walked away from the image he couldn't stand it, but then he walked back and held onto Alice's hand as he watched on. It was his fault for not being strong enough that they had moved and broken off his brother's close relationship. He knew he'd have to close his eyes if it got worse. He felt responsible for this. Edward growled at Jasper his idea on Jasper's thoughts.
Bella lashed out her feet to grasp hold of the box and keep her place as she grinned, her teeth red from the blood, and spat out the blood and saliva at Victoria. "Suck on that bitch. It's going to take a lot more to make me cry this time."
- Who was this? Edward thought to himself. When had Bella gotten so… sure of herself? It was somewhat attractive yet what had happened to his old sweet innocent Bella?
"Lucky for me you'll receive a lot more," hissed Victoria. She turned to the camera, "I'm not telling you where we're going. One time James and I had to track her, now it's your turn Edward." Victoria turned around and smacked Bella again across the face sending a stream of new blood flying out of her mouth. But this time Bella used the momentum of the swinging hook to kick off the wall and shove her feet into Victoria's chest, though one of her knees met Victoria instead of her foot and she knew she'd bruised it as she swung back.
"Damn," hissed Bella from the pain of hitting Victoria's chest. She should've known Victoria's chest would've been so hard being a vampire. Victoria punched Bella in the eye this time, though lightly so she wouldn't kill the girl.
"It will take a while to break you. Well I'm going to have fun aren't I?" Victoria smiled at the thought of Bella's pain as she turned to the camera, "Next time you see her the bruises will be worse."
And that's when the laughter came. The scariest laughter there had ever been heard; it was the sound of a woman going insane or a woman reaching her breaking point. It wasn't from Victoria though. It was Bella, hanging suspended from the hook she laughed eerily as she looked up and glared at Victoria with a smirk, "You don't get it do you? Edward and I are over."
- The group around Edward turned to look at him questioningly. He shrugged, "What?" Confusion swept Jacob's face as he thought back to the things Bella had said, to her fierceness as she stood beside Edward... "Don't think mutt. We're together."
"He doesn't want me. "
- Again the eyes looked back at Edward. "Yes I do. She's lying." Bella lying, and not faltering, not blushing at all as she lied and he knew she was lying like he knew he was a vampire. How had she gotten to lie so well? Edward's eyes cut to the mutt, what the hell had he done to Bella?
"He left me. Do you think he would've let me have that site? He may have grabbed me at the party but that's because he was going to do me in far before you were going to. He wanted to eat me."
- Everyones' eyes got wider. "No I didn't…" Edward pointed to Jasper, "He did! Not me!" Alice bopped Edward in the back of the head and Jasper sent a wave of pain across Edward making him moan once before Jasper let it pass. Jane glanced at Jasper, "We aren't so different after all."
Victoria licked her lips on the screen. "You've done nothing by taking me. Just go ahead and finish me now," laughed Bella hysterically. "My life isn't in vain! I get to piss you off and your plans!" Bella kicked off the wall and began swinging around wildly. "Weeee! Ha ha ha! Haa!"
- "She's lost it, our poor turtle dove has lost it," replied Marcus.
- "That looks like fun," muttered Luna under her breath.
"I swear she'll hurt Edward. Wait until you see her next time. I'll wipe that smirk off her face," Victoria growled with a wicked smile though her eyes showed the loss of this victory from Bella's reaction. "Who knows I may remove it completely," laughed Victoria. The screen went blank.
"Italy," Alice breathed quietly to the group. "They're headed for Italy. Your home," she whispered looking at Aro, Marcus, Jane, and Alec.
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"Well, I believe your Alice will figure out where we are if she hasn't already," said Victoria licking the tips of her nails where traces of my blood had been left. A shiver ran down my spine as she murmured, "Yummy," and closed her eyes in bliss before opening the bright red pulpits to glare at me. "Though luckily we've beat them to the airport and are already in the air thanks to Carlisle's little toy car," hissed Victoria reaching out to wipe off the blood from my chin and lick it with an evil glint in her eyes. "That little act on the camera will cost you Bella."
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Jacob sat in the plane, the oddly bat shaped jet more like it, thinking the whole way as they chased after Bella.
He cared about her. Though he shouldn't after the hell she'd put him through. I love Edward. I'm moving on. No wait I love Edward! Now let me make out in front of you!
Her words flashed through Jacob's mind like a frightening deathly scary rerun of Home Improvement.
"Bella you're my girlfriend!" He'd shouted it at her. He'd already reached his limit when he'd seen Edward there but when Bella began spouting off those things, those words that stabbed at him he'd begun to slowly loose control as his heart was slowly ripped apart.
"No. I can't be anymore Jake. I love him." The pain of those last words. That she actually could admit aloud that she loved Edward, still after all this time. It nearly made him crumple to the ground right there and then. It shook him so much that he could feel the wind around him being lost and his ability to breathe become even more difficult. "Don't you see what him and I have is different. You and I it was just… just a hapless fling that I needed to boost my ego." A hapless fling? It hadn't felt like that to Jake. Not at all. It had felt like the beginnings of an actual relationship with Bella but for her to deny any feelings for him and tell him that it was nothing to her. That shattered him. "I don't want you to come with me. Anywhere."
"You don't want me?" He'd croaked out the words. His mind had unreeled and it was like he wasn't able to keep up with the things she was saying.
"No… of course I'll always love you… in a way. But what's happened made me realize that its time for a change. The right change, the way it should've been. Because I'm… tired of pretending to be something I'm not Jacob. I'm not a wolf girl. I've let this go on much too long, and I'm sorry for that… You're not good for me Jake."
Then who the hell is? That bloodsucker? Bella can't mean it.
Jacob remembered how desperate he'd been. He'd forced his memories of Bella upon Edward.
Bella's laugh when she was with him, their dates, the happiness she'd shared with him, the hate that would peek its head out for Edward, and even the misery she felt when she thought of him but also the independence and sheer will power she used to get over him. "She loves me." He'd needed to say the words if no one else would. If Bella couldn't say it then he had to. Otherwise the relationship that had been slowly growing between them really would feel like nothing… And who would have loved him?
I would've been able to get over it easier had she not done that. The image of Bella locked onto the bloodsucker's body, their lips mashed together. And those words. She'd never called him that. It was only something that a vampire would've yelled at him. "Get the hell out of here mutt!" A vampire's words. And the last that struck the blow below the belt. "I've never cared about you!"
Even now in the huge bat-like plane Jacob growled at Edward, his eyes locked on Edward's and Edward only stared back. He didn't do anything, which was really infuriating. It just pissed Jacob even more that he didn't have a reason to launch himself at Edward. Sam and Embry reached over and clutched onto Jacob's fists that had already dug into the black leather interior of his seat turning it into fluff and shreds. "Jacob you're stronger than this," muttered Embry. "Calm down bro. He isn't worth the time. Besides you should save that for the woman that's got Bella."
"I still don't understand why we're with these bloodsuckers," hissed Paul. Luna threw a beetle at Paul's head.
"It isn't nice to call people names," hissed Luna. Marcus nodded his approval. The odd pair had become quick friends.
"Because Bella is family," replied Sam simply. "And we take care of our family no matter what. Even if they don't wish others to help. Jacob didn't want help when he began to change, the same is with Bella. She may not want our help, she may have turned her back on us, but we can't forget the time she's spent with us. Besides, if I don't bring her back Emily will be pissed. She wanted Bella to be her maid of honor."
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Charlie, Voldemort, and Emmett had already torn up Rosalie's room. The amount of alcohol the three of them had consumed together was equal to that of 12 small kiddy pools that are sold at Wal-Mart.
–Subliminal message: Other stores are better than that 1 because the other stores don't beat puppies. Now go and mass-produce cheese! -
"Lets go fishing," replied Charlie. "Ya' know I haven't been fishing in 6 whole hours. It seems like that's all I ever do y'know. Like my life is nothing when my daughter isn't around but fishing. And then when she's around its like my life revolves around me leaving for fishing. Like I'm not significant in her life, just some character that's there…" Silence met Charlie's epilogue, the only one he would ever get to see short of his previous wedding vows that lasted a full 5 seconds of Charlie-speechness.
"Okay he's had one too many drinks," slurred Emmett. "Now you're just talking crazy talk."
"Letsssss go fisssshing," cheered Voldemort. He turned to his pet snake who had down so much to drink it had died in the process but Voldemort didn't realize it and threw the lifeless snake over his shoulders like a boa. "Letssss go get whatssss hisss facsssseee."
"Billy," Charlie roared enthusiastically! "To Billy's!"
………At the moment Billy was dancing around his house in his leopard print underwear singing Kiss's "Hotter than Hell" but substituting the words with 'I look good I look hotter than hell, dressed in leopardddd print'… Billy secretly could walk but he kept it a closely guarded secret that he never told anyone secretly because secretly he stayed in the wheelchair mostly to get money from the government secretly and to keep Jacob from taking off even more secretly. If Jacob had a dad in a wheelchair then that meant Jacob would always feel obligated to visit Billy when he finally moved out of the house and lets face it that's all parents want. Their kids to visit….. and you know occasionally get back at the government through loopholes… Secretly.
–Subliminal message: The word of the day is secretly…-
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Mike Newton was still using the Mapquest to find the Cullen's house when he ran into a newly hatched snargle that had been watching him. "Wow… you're an odd... thing." The snargle lifted up its trunked nose and let out a small trumpet sound. Within seconds the ever-knowing snargle appeared in a poof of green smoke. It looked at Mike for a moment before nodding its head and flew with its leaf-like wings to Mike's forehead to place its trunk between his eyes. In a moment Mike knew exactly where the Cullen's house was, where his house was, where he was, where Atlantis was, and where Ben Laden was… And he even knew the meaning of life, which was…
But as his mind processed the true meaning of life he fainted. For one so weak as Mike to be touched by the snargle could only do that in its presence. And so the snargle flew away with its young leaving Mike in the woods he'd wandered to and wondering why that boy smelled like melted cheese and rotten eggs. But the snargle didn't need to wonder long. The snargle knew everything. It nodded as the answer came to it; but of course, pink chairs. Pink chairs had caused Mike's stench. It was apparent to the snargle as it flew away.
It had a long way to fly… and as it did so a million of its young hatched as if being called into service and flew after its mother/father.
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"We're close to our destination Victoria," came Caius's nervous voice from the cockpit. "We have 30 minutes before we land." I awoke from my sleep. Luckily Caius had begged Victoria to place me down from the hook when her theatrics were over and to place me if not in a chair in a corner of the airplane on the floor. It was nice knowing Caius was a little sympathetic and had some power over her. Then again he was driving the plane so his power could only last so long. I didn't want to open my eyes though so I kept them shut and continued to conserve what energy I had. Then again looking as if I was asleep might do me justice. I might find out something.
Edward, we're 30 minutes from wherever the hell we are. I sent my thought out to Edward hoping he would receive it despite the vast distance.
Bella? Is that really you?
No, it isn't me. It's someone else who can send you their thoughts.
You can be sarcastic in your predicament? Bella we know where you're headed. Italy. We're on Carlisle's private plane…
I don't know if you can get here as quick Edward. You guys are following after me right?
Well that's just it, Carlisle's plane, jet; whatever you call it has been rigged by dad to fly incredibly fast… Carlisle's a fan of batman… and well you get the picture. We're in a giant bat shaped airplane…
I would've chuckled had I not feared arousing Victoria's eyes and the pain she would probably inflict upon me. Who all is with you Edward?
Luna, Neville, Aro, Marcus, Alec, Jane, Esme, Carlisle, Rose, Jazz, Alice… and your wolves. They couldn't be deterred from coming. My heart froze in my body. Why would they put themselves at risk? This had nothing at all to do with the wolves, I thought angrily to myself.
"What's the weather like ahead?"
"Cloudy."
…Is Jacob with you Edward? Deadening silence followed my question. Answer me Edward. Is Jacob with you?
So you do care about him?
Edward try to get him the hell away! I didn't want him to come! I took every precaution to make him stay behind. But what does he do? Idiot! Edward dammit! I'm sorry. Edward I'm sorry. I know I'm confusing you but… dammit. The weather is cloudy here. You're all in luck where the bat jet is concerned.
You care about him?
"Can we contact the ones you left behind in the caves Caius? Including the wives? Is there anyway we cant ell them to get lost?"
"No," smirked Caius, if there was one thing even Aro couldn't do it was make the wives move. They wouldn't even move if hell froze over and Lucifer came bearing icicle death spears for one and all. "But I…" Caius hesitated a moment before continuing, "I know the way through the twists and turns below the city. We won't be disturbed. I'll bring us to a private area that hasn't been touched for eons."
We're going to an old part of wherever it is Aro lives under the city, I thought to Edward skipping his question. Caius said it hadn't been touched in eons.
"Perfect."
"Victoria what exactly to you plan on doing?"
How much Bella?
"I told you I wanted vengeance didn't I Caius? You promised to see me through the end with it as well didn't you?" Her eyes looked so saddened as she walked up to the cockpit to look at him like a saddened angel.
"Well yes but…"
"Don't worry. I'm just going to change her."
Oh God Edward!
Bella don't freak out over this question. A simple answer will suffice. I don't care if it hurts I just need to know.
"You're what?"
Edward! Help me now! Get the hell here as fast as you can!
"You heard me."
Are you trying to distract me?
This time I gulped in fear and opened my eyes to look at Victoria who grinned. "So you heard that part did you Bella? Let me set up my camera while you prepare yourself. By the time we touch down you'll be in pain. Oh yes you will." The smile Victoria sent me was as chilling as the cold look of the grim reaper as he gazed into the eyes of his victim in the coldest of winter –though not like he did with Scrooge because that wasn't cold at all more of a warning-. She scared the hell out of me and I wasn't afraid to admit it to myself as she smiled and let a tongue touch one of her eyeteeth that shone out sharp as steel back at me.
Edward shut the hell up! They're going to change me! They're going to change me into a vampire!
What? When?
Now.