.:Twilight Series - Nightshade's Hale:.

Hello guys and girls, here's another chapter up. As always I hope you enjoy this chapter.

This chapter was so hard for me to write, but I did it any way, even though it made me want to scream as loud as I can. Any way I like how i did this chapter in the end, and I hope you do too. I did my best after all.

As always, I owe nothing (if I did Charlie Swan would have defiantly got with Sue Clearwater), it all belongs to Stephanie Meyer... Well beside my own OC characters, but other wise it still all belong toStephanie Meyer . . . SO PLEASE DO NOT SUE ME . . .


.:Chapter Twenty-Five - White Hot Pain:.

I woke to the an ache deep in the pit of my stomach, but unlike the other moments of pain I'd had this one didn't pass after a few moments. I grown in pain as I sit up, and throw the quilt off me as I place my feet on the floor. I look around the room suddenly when Jasper doesn't appear at the sound of me waking up, but he's not there, instead laid on the beside table was a piece of folded paper, with my name written on one of the folds in Jasper hand writing.

I stand slowly as I retrieve the paper, and open it;

My dearest Lacey, I've gone hunting with Carlisle and Esme. Sirius and Alice are over at your house. I have asked Edward to watch you till Rosalie and Emmett return from their own hunting. Please eat something, and I'll see you when I return. All my love, now and forever, Jasper.

I smile as I read this, and then with a grimace I turn and walk towards the door. I walk with caution down the steps towards the kitchen, keeping my eyes and ears open for any sudden movement or noises. But this doesn't work very well when I turn towards the kitchen door and jump in complete panic when I hit a hard body. I slow my breathing down when I find its only Edward standing there.

"I'm sorry" he says as he watches me, confusion in his eyes.

"No, its ok, just next time, don't sneak up on me" I tell him with a small laugh.

"I won't, promise" he tells me, a small smile pulling at his lips. "So what are you doing out of bed at this time?" he asks.

I shake my head with a laugh as I walk past him, and head through into the kitchen. "I'm getting something to eat. If that's ok with you of course?".

Edward laughs slightly as he follow me, which cause me to laugh as well. Upon reaching the side board in the kitchen I grab a bowl from the drying rack, and the box of Frosties that was on the side, after filling the bowl I turn and head to the fridge.

A sudden burst of pain ploughs throughout my body; much more violent than the rest I'd dealt with, and it was followed quickly by another burst, and another. I felt my knees go from under me as the pain continued, this time not stopping only growing more and more intense. My vision blurred as I hit the floor, my hands reaching up and clawing at my stomach where the pain burnt the most. I felt a cold patch to the side of my head, but the burning sensation soon put it out. A noise hit me, and it sounded like bees buzzing in my ear, but I tried my best to focus of the noise.

A hard shake rocked my body, and I felt a sharp spike of pain run through my shoulder, only to be put out by the searing pain that burnt me to the core. The cold returned briefly as something grab my hand, and I clamped onto whatever it was hard. A blur appeared in my line of sight, and as I tired to focus it became clearer. I knew the face looking down at me, but the name escaped my mind. A shrill noise meet my ears, clearing the buzzing noise that came with every sound.

"Lace?" a voice shouted. "What's going on? What's wrong with you?".

As the voice shouted, a flash of images shoot through my head as the pain increased; a body, a hand, a face... anger built in me as I suddenly remembered what had happened. My grip tightened around the the thing I held, 'Edward's hand', I told myself as I tried to fight the pain. But the more I tired to fight it, the more it burnt its way though my body. I knew now why the pain was there, I should have know when it started that I wouldn't escape this the way I hoped I would.

"LACE?" the voice shouted again.

'Edward' I reminded myself, and it was his hand I was holding onto. "Don't... lea.. ve.." I managed to spit out.

"What happened to you?" he shouts as he looks down at me.

I scream as my body arches off the floor, and I feel myself kick backwards with my heels. I pulled at whatever skin I could get to, trying to pull it from my body in hopes the burning would stop, but the skin felt tight against me, like dried out leather, it was hard to tell what it felt like when all I could feel was the pain that racked my body.

"Bit!.. Dale!.." I screamed at him. "IT.. HUR.. TS!..".

"I'm so sorry, I don't no what to do!" he tells me, his voice trembling.

"Do.. n't... lea.. ve... Me!... I'm Sca.. red!" I scream as the pain burns white hot inside me.

There was a sudden sense of panic, and my heart jumped at the sound of more voices. It all seemed to happen in a blur, like it had only taken place within a couple of seconds for all those voice to have arrived, but there was some sense of reality in the back of my mind that told me it wasn't happening like that. It was how my mind was working right no, everything else was moving faster, but everything that I was going through was ten times too slow. I could vaguely hear more shouting, and with that the pain increased from just knowing they were arguing when I needed them there for me.

I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I could hear them yelling at each other. I didn't want this, none of them should have been fitting, not now, I needed all of them right now... Please don't argue... please... I was aware of the hand I was holding trying to pull away, and I did all I could to hold on. It stopped a few moments later, and then I felt weightless, but that only increased the pain. I felt my body arch, only to feel hard steel pressing back at me that was surrounded by cold.

I welcomed the cold, even though it was gone within seconds, as the pain bursts white hot deep inside of me, and all across my body.


.:Sirius' POV:.

I sigh as I stand under the spray of the water in my shower. I'd never been more happy than I was right now; I had my best friend, a woman who I not only loved but loved me back, and a new family that I cared for. I didn't ever think I'd be able to falling in love, let alone trust someone as easily as I did with Alice. She was everything to me, and even though I feared that it wouldn't last I knew deep down that I'd anything to keep her in my life.

As with Lace, I was just glad I could still have my best friend and little sister in my life, I couldn't imagen it without her, we'd always been together through thick and thin. And right now she needed me more than ever. But Alice had told me that taking a little time off after the whole thing with Bella was something we needed, and I figured it wouldn't hurt. After all I knew that Lace and Bella would want some time alone with the men they loved.

I was proud of Lace after I found out she'd stud up to her uncle, if you could call him that, when she went to check of Chief Swan. Don't get me wrong I was concerned that she might get hurt, but I knew it was something she needed to do, she'd never been one to let other people get hurt if she knew she could help them, that was one of the many reason I admired her.

I look back slightly when I feel a pair of arms wrap around my waist. I smile when I see Alice stood there, staring up at me with those gorgeous eyes of hers.

"Penny for your thoughts" she says with a smile.

I turn to face her, and bring my arms around her small frame. "I was just thinking about how much I love my life right now" I tell her.

I then take her face in my hands and pull her into a deep, passion filled kiss. Alice smiles into the kiss as she presses herself up against my body. Her arms snake around my neck as I lift her up, and she wraps her legs around my waist. I let out a frustrated growl when I hear my phone ringing from the bedroom. Alice smiles at me as she unwraps herself from me.

"You shoulder answer that, it could be important" she says, and then place a quick kiss to my chest.

With a heavy sigh I get out of the shower, and wrap a towel loosely around my waist as I head into the through into my bedroom. I growl in the back of my throat when I see it's Edward whose calling me.

"This better be good Captain Forehead?" I snap at him as I answer the call.

"It's Lace...".

That was all I heard, it was all I had to hear, because the second he said that I had hung up the phone and was dressed within a minute. I look round suddenly when I hear movement beside me, and find Alice fully dressed, a worried look on her face.

"Is it bad?" I ask her.

Alice looks at me with tear filled eye, and with a stiffness to her whole body she nods. With that where both flying out of the house, and heading straight for Carlisle's house. Within seconds we were pulling to a quick stop in the kitchen. My anger boils in me when I see Edward crouched over Lace, who was writhing in pain, her eyes glazed over with tears, her hand clenched tight with the older vampires iron hand. A brutal scream tears from her throat as she arches off the floor, her hand reaching up to claw at her face.

"What the hell have you done?" I seethe as I look at the two.

Alice is quickly pushing me back as I make a lunge for Edward, who in turn glares at me, only to turn back to look at Lace with distraught eyes.

"I did nothing you idiot!" he snaps at me.

"Watch your fucking tongue!" I snarl at him as I make another lunge for him.

With one hard shove Alice in pushing me back, her force momentarily stunning me, but it leaves quickly as I look down at her, the obvious look of anger written on my face.

"He's right, it wasn't him!" she tells me as she tries to remain calm. "And fighting Edward will do nothing to help her. She need us,.. you too be strong for her right now!".

I felt my knees give way beneath me, my hands latching instantly on to Alice's hips as I Beg "Tell me this is a nightmare? Tell me I'm gonna wake up, and this be won't be happening?".

Her hand is in my hair, trying her best to calm me, but there was a tremor in her movements, like she was close to breaking. "I wish I could, but we don't sleep, so we don't dream,.. so we don't have nightmares".

Her voice broke at that, causing her shake beneath my hands as hard sobs rack her body. My hands clench tighter onto her hips, but she makes no complaints of pain, and neither does she move from my fierce hold.

"Carlisle? Esme? We're home?".

I look round slightly at the sound of Rosalie's voice, and approaching feet. But my eyes soon find the form of Lace, her body still convulsing at the pain her body was in.

"Guys what's going on?" Rosalie asks as she and Emmett enter the kitchen. "Lace?".

I watch as she throws herself towards Lace, her knees hitting the kitchen floor hard, her hands gripping her head as lightly as possible, she attempts to move her head trying her best to get Lace too look at her, but Lace only convulses more.

"DON'T TOUCH HER!" I yell as I lunge for her.

A large arm stops me just seconds before reaching her, and pulls me back. I try my best to fight to large mass that I knew was Emmett, but I knew deep down I was gonna loose, especially in my current state. Hard, furious eyes lock with mine, but as she goes to speak the sound of more feet reach my ears.

"What is going on in here?" Esme's angry voice shouts at us.

"Lacey?". Jasper face falls as his eyes fall upon Lace's form.

Lace's body arches again, seeming to respond to his voice, another scream rips itself from her throat, and her hand clenches harder around Edward's hand. Carlisle is by her side in seconds, gently pushing Rosalie from her current spot.

"When did this start?" he asks, trying to sound calm, but the worry was evidently there.

"An hour after you left?" Edward replies. "We were the only two here Carlisle!".

I freeze at his words, and try to let them sink in. Another scream, this time much louder than the others. I look towards Alice, remember she had said Edward hadn't done this, so if no one else was her but him at the time this started; That only meant one thing! A sudden thought hits me, and I notice Edward look back towards me from his spot, and then towards Alice.

"What did she show you Alice?" I ask as I look towards my lover.

All eyes turn to Alice, her form quivering from the sobs that still fell from her. "She's been lying to us all,.. even to herself" she speaks quietly.

Jasper's fists clench as he listens, his eyes once again on Lace's form, but within a second he's turning and punching a hole in the wall right beside him. A soft hand wraps around his wrist, and then Esme's pulling him into her arms. Sadness and anger clouding her eyes.

"What do you mean?" Emmett asks as he lets me go.

"It happened when she went to Charlie's... She figured he'd either tricked her into believing he'd bitten her, or not bitten her long enough to get the venom into her system. She didn't know any better about it. No one told her it was that easy" she tells us.

Alice looks towards me, her frame only shaking harder as she does. "It's been working her system for days, but she's been fighting it off".

"She didn't want this live, so no wonder she fought it!" Rosalie says, her voice shaking.

I pull Alice into my arms, my mind still reeling from all of this. I didn't want to believe that this was happening, but I knew it was, and there was nothing any of us could do.

"Do what you did with Bella!".

I look straight towards Jasper as he speaks, his voice strained with anger and demand. He was looking straight at Carlisle, his eyes pleading with the head of the coven to save his mate, his lover.

"I'm sorry son, the venom is too far deep! All we can do now is make her as comfortable as possible" he replies, defeat written on his face.

Jasper's face falls at this, his eyes now sullen as tears begin to fall down his face. "But she doesn't want this!" he yells.

"But she wouldn't want you acting like this either!" Esme tells him, a gently hand on his shoulder.

Silence falls at this, only to be broken by another brutal scream from Lace, but this time a scream to 'MAKE IT STOP.'. I clench my fist as I hear this, my heart dropping as I watch my best friend, and little sister claw at herself in pain.

"We should move her" Emmett says after a few moments as at the same time he moves towards her.

Carlisle nods at this, and then motions for Edward to let go of her hand. Edward does as told, but as he begins to pull his hand free Lace latches onto his hand with even more force, and for a brief moment there was a look of fear on Edward's face as he looked down at their inter joined hands. He tries again, but with no luck, it only causes her to squeeze harder. Jasper takes a small step towards Edward, his face pleading as he looks down at his brother.

"Edward, I know you want to get to Bella, but please, hold her hand through this. You were there when she went under, she's telling us she wants you there when she wakes up" he tells him.

Edward looks towards Jasper, a looking of disbelief at his words, but it soon replaced by understanding. Edward nods in response, and then motions for Emmett to help him with Lace.

"Where should we take her?" Emmett asks as he lifts her up.

"It's best she wakes up in familiar surroundings, so I think Jasper'S room would be best" Carlisle responds.

With a nod Emmett exits the room, Edward right beside him. Carlisle and Esme follow after them, leaving myself, Alice, Jasper and Rosalie in the kitchen with no idea what to do. Jasper looks towards the kitchen door with distraught eyes, his hands once again clenching.

"Jasper, why don't you come with me to get clothes for Lace?" Rosalie asks as she walks towards the once again broken solider.

Jasper slowly nods his head at this, but makes no move to leave. "Alice, I think you and Sirius should go tell Bella about this. She'll want to know why Edward won't be round for a while".

I nod as I look down at Alice, her golden eyes filled with tears. Alice doesn't reply, she just turns and walks out of the kitchen at human speed. With a heavy sigh I whip my face free of tears as best as I can, and follow after her.


I stood frozen off to the side, Bella sat with Alice on her bed. Chief Swan was working late tonight, so we were lucky in a way. I didn't seem to hear what Alice was saying to Bella, but the sight of Bella breaking down on the bed in a mass of tears told me that she now knew of Lace's fate. The heartbreaking sobs continued, her face buried in her duvet as Alice tired her best to explain the situation to her. It was hard seeing Bella like this, she normal seemed so strong, but it seemed things like this always find a way to make us weak, no matter what.

We stayed with Bella until her dad got back, at which time Alice told him a decent enough white lie about Lace getting into an accident which had left her in a critical condition. He bought it, sending his best wishes to Lace, even telling us to let him know if there was anything he could do for her.

I thanked him, and then took me leave. Bella had asked Alice to stay with her the night, and I told her it was ok, and that Bella could use the company, other wise she'd just let herself worry to much. I returned to the Cullen house hold, finding Lace to be no better. She was as comfy as they could get her though, Rosalie and Esme had even managed to clean her up, and put her in some clean clothes.

Carlisle and Esme had called a tense meeting with our wolf neighbours, having too tell them what happened. A guy called Sam, and an elder called Billy had come forth and listened to Carlisle, talking in the info of what had gone on with Lace. After hours of negotiating, it seemed they were willing to believe him about the whole situation. It was some kind of luck as Esme had told us. She was right, we were lucky they hadn't broken the treaty, and started telling people.

But even then Lace showed no sign of pulling through yet, and then the minutes soon turned into hours, the hours into a day, one day into two. It was on the third day when myself, and Jasper where pacing out side the door for the thousandth time that things really started to change. It was around 2 o'clock, Emmett was lent against the wall across from Jasper's room, Rosalie had stayed with Edward in the room. After much discussion we'd agreed too many people around Lace when she woke up would over whelm her, so only Edward and Rosalie had stayed with her.

Both myself, and Jasper were finding it hard to look at Lace, I think we both shared the same thought; We'd let her down. Esme had been doing her best to prepare for Lace when she woke up, even going as far as to get rid of all human food, knowing it would upset her, and she'd covered most mirrors, as we all knew she'd just mash them when she saw her new reflection.

Esme had also hiding as many easily breakable things as she could without it been to obvious. We had also agreed that with the exception of Edward that we should all be there for her first hunt, just in case something went wrong or the bastard that had caused this showed up! The screams had stopped about eight of so hours earlier, Carlisle telling us it was a sign it was all closing to an end. Her heart beat could no longer be heard unless you where in the room with her, and I could only imagen what she looked like now.

A sudden bang echoes from within the room quickly followed by a scream of pure pain, but not pain like been tortured, pain like heartache, and that only told me one thing; She was awake!

Within an instant myself and Jasper where right in front of the door, but Emmett had gripped both our arms, and was doing his best to hold us back. With a heavy sigh a moved back, knowing it was the right thing to do for Lace's sake. I turn quickly when the bedroom door is thrown open.

I stand stock still as I take a deep breath when I see Lace standing their, in all her pale porcelain skin, golden white hair and red eyes glory. She was utterly breath taking, her cheeks were more defined, and her lips fuller with a soft pale reddish-pink colour to them. Her body glowing with so much beauty that she even gave Rosalie a run for her money. Her now big red eyes rimmed with black held sadness and rage in them as she looked between the three of us. Her eyes finally choosing to stay on Jasper's form.

She instantly seemed ok upon looking at him, and I knew then that know matter what she was gonna pull through because she had him.


A/N - I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and I hope you'll let me know what you think.

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