Alice's POV
We hunted as quickly as we could and arrived back at the hospital just a few minutes before Bella awoke. I sat by her side while Jasper waited just outside her window in an attempt to control her pain. It was taking all of his concentration to stay focused on only her emotions and stay in control at the same time.
Bella was turned away from me but I could tell she had slowly woken up. Her body tensed and I was waiting for her to realize I was in the room. Her body began to shake and I prayed that Jasper would be able to calm her down. I saw her body relax and abruptly turn towards me. A look of surprise crossed her features before she broke into sobs.
I was about to get up and comfort her when, all of a sudden, she seemed to snap.
"Why!? Alice how could you do this to me? Why couldn't you just leave me alone? I can't take this. What am I going to do? You stole my chance to be free. I can't take this anymore. Don't you understand!? Why? Why!? WHY!?"
Each word was like a stab to my heart and I wished that I could make her realize how much we loved her. I had a vision of Jasper fleeing from the hospital before Bella began to cry out in pain. I hated seeing her like this. It wasn't right. She was supposed to smile and beg me not to take her shopping, not be the broken shell of what she had once been. Anger started to mix with my hurt. She turned to look in my eyes and I saw pain that seemed to stretch for miles. Edward did this. It was his fault, and I would make him see what he's done her.
We were running as fast as we could to get to Edward. He had nearly destroyed Bella and I wouldn't let him sit idly by. I knew Jasper would take a beating with Edward's emotions, but Jasper refused to let Bella stay in her condition. He knew the way she was feeling. He also knew that if something didn't change she wouldn't survive.
We didn't know Edward's exact location, but through my visions I could get glimpses of signs and landmarks. The main problem would be finding the hole that Edward had burrowed his self into. We'd have to find a dark place with very few people around. Not very hard in the rainforest infested part of the continent where he had relocated his self to.
As we neared where he had hidden himself I got a vision.
I was sitting in the room with Edward. He looked beyond miserable, almost identical to Bella. He was dry sobbing and then he tore out of the room. As much as Jasper and I searched we couldn't find him.
I didn't know how to fix this. He had to go to Bella. If he didn't she would try to kill herself again and I couldn't stop her forever. What was it about my being there that would send him over the edge? Bella, that's it. I had seen her, but Jasper hadn't. He had only felt her emotions. I realized that for this to work, if I wanted to save Bella, I would have to hold back and let Jasper handle this.
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