Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight. If I did it would be funnier.
Author's note: Here's part 2 of the tunnels. I'm coming close to writing the end! Yay! -cries tears-... -I need a moment so I grab a Twix-
Jacob and Edward were too close to each other for comfort. They'd passed the time in silence walking through the tunnels. Jacob liked the silence of Edward, now if only he could actually die and remain silent. Edward growled at Jacob, "We're both here for Bella mutt but what I don't get is why the hell you're here to save her?" And so the time hadn't lasted long at all with Edward and Jacob being on a friendly name base. Nope now it was back to ridicule.
Jacob stopped walking. His coat of fur shed off immediately like a blanket falling to the ground and his body straightened up of its own accord as he shifted into his human form. Jacob stood in front of Edward in nothing but his stretched jeans that he clutched to his body. He glared at Edward with nothing but irritation in his eyes and a sarcastic tinge to his words, "Why do you think idiot? I love her."
"You may love her that's true," Edward replied simply as he walked past Jacob and rolled his eyes, "at least for now."
"Be quiet bloodsucker," said Jacob knowing where this argument was going.
"How nervous you must be hmm," Edward breathed trailing his fingers across the wall beside him before leaning against it to stare at Jacob and read his mind as he spoke. "To know that you'll never fully be with Bella because you'll imprint on someone else. Oh how that must eat at you. But why do you risk your life for her when you know you're going to end up leaving her eventually?" Jacob's fist bound up into a ball and he was faster than Edward had given him credit for, Jacob's fist would've come in contact with Edward's nose had Jacob froze where he stood, his fist a mere inch from crushing Edward's sweet beautiful snow white face. Edward could read Jacob's thought in his mind, She wouldn't want me to hurt him. Besides, its not like he can give her what I can. Though it would be a low blow to involve his sterileness. And I'm not going to do that though... Edward crooked a brow at Jacob, anger flashing in his eyes, "We can always adopt! Look at my family! We're far better off than you and yours. At least I don't have to worry one of my friends is my half-brother."
"You're not worth a fight," hissed Jacob taking that last line of Edward's as an even tie for the low blow.
"Oh but lets take it five years from now," smirked Edward leaning away from the wall to hiss viciously. "Suppose you do get Bella and you end up dating and who knows possibly marriage. But then what happens? You go out to buy a carton of milk for you and Bella. She's just had a child, a little baby with her hair and your eyes, pale skin like hers, and the stench of a dog forced to follow in their father's footsteps. And as you purchase a carton of milk in she walks. A woman. A stranger you don't know," hissed Edward lifting his hands as he painted the picture before Jacob, "You don't know who she is nor where she's from but automatically you feel the earth shift before your feet. I believe I'm getting it to the point since I've seen Sam's mind and the love he once held for Leah. Well you love her and now Bella means nothing. So you go off with this woman and have children and the child you have has to live in the tribe stuck being a wolf with its half siblings, its feelings always in your mind. And Bella stays heartbroken raising her kid by herself… Is that a nice picture for you to look at wolf? Eh?"
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Alice stopped in her tracks in the tunnel. "Oh no! Jacob's going to attack Edward!" Rose, Jasper, and Alice bolted out of their tunnel and into Edward and Jacob's in under 2.7197 minutes.
"Bella will buy me new shoes," hissed Rose as they ran, her poor stilettos covered in lord knows what and her poor white feet were covered in goo as they flew down the tunnel.
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Esme looked at Carlisle and for a moment it all came out. His wonder at Esme being so innocent. The way she acted. "Esme, are you really so naïve when it comes down to things? Like the whole bit with Bella being a nurse."
"What do you mean? Is Bella not a nurse?" Esme's eyes widened full of shock.
"No honey. Bella is far from a nurse," laughed Carlisle, "There are these outfits that make women… well you know the stuff our daughter Rose wears. Lets just say they have less material than those dresses of hers. Bella posed in those pictures to try and seduce our son honey." Esme's brows went up.
"Carlisle… those outfits exist?"
"Yes," he chuckled as he leaned against the wall, his elbow connected with a rock that pushed down and revealed a hidden writing room with a couch and everything, it was like a medieval lounge, books everywhere, candles lit along the wall. "Would yah look a there." Carlisle stroked his chin.
"Where do you buy these outfits?" Carlisle's eyes widened as he turned and looked at Esme.
"Esme I don't want you to change anything about you. I just wanted to ask if you were really so childlike and I'm happy to find that you're mind isn't corrupted as the rest of the worlds is. I love that in you Esme. That you are pristine and innocent."
"Oh Dr. Carlisle. Sometimes I don't like being innocent." He turned to see a wicked gleam in his wife's eyes. And then she launched herself at her husband knocking back the door behind them into the writing room.
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Edward had taken it too far. By now Jacob was livid. He could control the animal within him yes, but could the animal control him? No. Jacob grabbed hold of Edward and slammed him into the wall lifting him up against it, Edward didn't even blink as he was raised in the air, "Hit a nerve did I wolf?"
"Yeah I don't know what will happen in the future. I'm scared of what could happen if I imprint on someone. I'm scared shitless to be honest. But I'm never going to leave her. I'm going to tell her what you told me, she can make a choice. But here's the deal Eddykins, as long as you're up against the wall listen to me clearly," breathed Jacob in measured tones as he said seriously, "I love her and the love I have for her is stronger than any damn imprint. So deal with it. She can make her choice between us but if she chooses me I will stay with her forever. No matter if I imprint cause imprinting has nothing on my feelings for her. If you vampires can have the miracle of overcoming death and changing than why the hell can't I have the miracle of love conquering an imprint?"
Jacob dropped Edward and glanced over at the three who had quietly gotten into their tunnel listening to everything. "Don't worry I'm not going to kill him. You better go back down your tunnel."
Alice froze again in her spot having another vision before she said, "Ew. No. We can't go back to our tunnel."
"Why?" Jasper asked as Edward made a face.
"Esme and Carlisle? We're in tunnels that smell like sewers," laughed Rosalie.
"They found somewhere and lets just leave it at that," replied Alice. "Right now I wish I was brain-dead. Lets get a move on."
"I thought they already had," replied Jasper feeling his one perve moment come on. Then Alice bashed him in the back of the head and it was gone.
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Bella lay there against the wall; the change came on faster and faster centering on her very heart. Like a large hand had clamped on it and was squeezing the shit out of it like a sadistic kid squeezing a cricket in its fist. And as the poison caught up with that vital organ she shook. Her chest was pulled forward and she rode it like a wave until at last that organ was swamped with a searing pain of fire and thumped once. Twice. And it was over.
She was dead. Her eyes lay open, dead to the world, and she was finally cold and clammy. Her sweet scent lingered upon her body.
Death had come to Bella Swan.
Author's Note: Just thought you ought to know whats to come.
The race to the end of the tunnel. Who makes it first? Who finds her? Bella's death wracks those around her but what of her heart. Can it still love even though it doesn't beat anymore? What oh what will happen?... A sacrifice for love and redemption. To be continued... Bum bum BUM!