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Chapter 8

CPOV

We reached my office and I sat down behind my desk waiting for Alice to join me but instead she remained standing a few feet away. "I don't know why I did it Alice, but I do know that I don't regret it" I told her. "What the hell Carlisle, Since when did your morals become optional?" Alice said, the disbelief obvious in her tone. A moral vampire, what an ironic thing I thought however that is what I was and although what I did caused Bella pain I think it has helped prevent a lot less in the long run. "Bella doesn't belong with Edward, Alice - I'm surprised you of all people haven't realised it by now" I said.

"Yes she does" she cried "Edward loves her and she belongs with us, it wouldn't feel right without her now" and there it is I thought, the real reason Alice doesn't want Bella to leave Edward…. Not because she thinks they belong together but because she doesn't want to lose her. "Alice you're blinding yourself to the truth because you don't want to see it, Bella wasn't happy being with Edward - she want's to live her own life and make her own choices, surely you can't begrudge her that" I said gently.

Alice seemed to deflate as she let out an unnecessary breath "Just because you don't see Bella's future with us anymore doesn't mean it's a bad thing - it could be good for her and anyway whose to say you're vision won't change again and Bella will be in it? " I said as I watched her take a seat while she stared intently at my desk her eyes blank. "Alice, what's wrong, what are you seeing?" I asked her. Her head suddenly snapped up to look at me and said "I guess things really do change, especially with you Carlisle" she said softly.

"What do you mean Alice?" I asked her, although part of me already knew what she was going to say.

"I must say, you've been very good to hide this from me for this long Carlisle - but then again living with me and Edward it must get easy after a while to put things to the back of your mind when we're around and then bring them out again when once we've gone" she said slowly. "But you've just messed up and because of that I've just seen what you didn't want me to, so are you going to tell be your secret or do I have to say it out loud for you?".

I sat there looking at Alice who looked at me and I tried to think of what I should say. "The truth" she told me simply, already knowing what I was thinking. "I have feelings for Bella" I told her. "Feelings, that's understating it a bit don't you think Carlisle?". "You love her - although well done for saying it out loud because knowing you that's probably the first time you've let those words leave your mind" she said.

"Why aren't you angry at me" I said looking at her "Why aren't you shouting and telling me that I've betrayed the family by doing such an unspeakable thing". "Because you haven't" she said " I was angry before because I couldn't see the truth and now I can, you love her and she loves you - it wasn't something either one of you chose to do it just happened".

"What made you see it?" I asked her as I placed my hands on the desk as if to remind myself all this was real… that it was actually happening. "When you decided to risk everything in order to see Bella again, to beg her to see me again even if she never wanted to see you again - not to hold it against me" she said looking at me with gratitude shining in her eyes. "Then I saw her tell you again that she loved you and our family and because of that how could she lie to us, but you don't have to worry Carlisle because things will work out - I will help you work them out".

"How?" I asked her. "Don't worry about that now" Alice said smiling at me "We have to work out what we're going to tell the others because their going to be back soon" she said. And with that I felt reality crash in.

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