"Whats this then?" Aro asked motioning the scared messenger forward, grabbing the letter smelling distinctly of human off the silver platter and the gold letter opener too, placing it in the envelope and with a flick of his wrist tearing he envolope open.
"Oh dear." said Aro dropping the letter and letter opener it making a banging clattering sound against the marble as it dropped in the near silent room tense with anticipation.
"What is it brother?" asked Caius.
"It seems we must pay the Cullen's a visit sooner then expected, to congratulate Edward on his new mate, a werewolf Jacob Black."
"Did you say werewolf?" Asked Marcus shocked.
"That I did brother, that I did."
"Does that mean he has chosen not to turn the human?" Queried Caius.
"Decidedly so."
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"Alice did you see when the Volturi are arriving?" Edward asked his voice tight and constrained, concerned and worried. Jacob stood close next to him, comforting taking Edward's hand in his; Edward gave a small smile back.
"Aro is still deliberating, but his forthcoming is imminent, before this month is out they will have decided and before this year is gone they will have killed us all, if we don't do something soon."
The room was deathly silent everyone trying to think up a solution.
"We could run?" suggested Jacob.
"Then what? They follow us to the end of the earth, being hunted for the rest of our lives, fugitives, until they eventually kill us all, hunting us one by one until we are all dead."
"Just a suggestion." said Jacob discouraged.
"This is hopeless." Edward said disheartened, throwing his hands up in exasperation and pacing.
"Nothing is hopeless," said Alice encouragingly "We just haven't found a way out yet."
"There is no way out Alice." Edward despaired "It's hopeless, we might as well just lay down and die right now; the wolves wont stand with us because they don't approve, nor like what I am; and either will the vampires, they have despised Jacob's kind for a long time now, due to all the bloodshed, all the vampires the wolves have killed over the years, they despise them too much too ally themselves with us."
"We'll find a way Edward." said Alice hopefully, but not even she believed it that time.
\/\/
Jacob turned over in his sleep, reaching for the presence that had become so familiar in the last few weeks. Still sleep confused Jacob continued blearily searching, only to come up empty,"No Edward" Jacob wasn't immediately concerned, as Edward sometimes wondered during the night when he had too much energy to lie still. Jacob got out of bed, placing his bare feet on the cold wood floor, a chill coursing through his body, he wrapped the blanket around him making his way to the music room. Listening for the familiar tune of the piano, not a sound was heard, the room was empty and barren, a wrongness started to infiltrate the air. Jacob sped up his search, wrapping the blanket tighter to keep the chilly air away. Jacob hurriedly made his way from room to room, each room emptier than the last, till he was running, looking for any trace of Edward. When no trace was found Jacob ran outside, hoping that he would find Edward there, but no trace of him was to be found, it was as if he had never existed in the first place. "Where are you Edward?" Jacob silently thought, wrapping the blanket tighter yet again, watching the sun rise, hoping to spot Edward in the distance, coming home to him.
\/\/
Jacob waited there all morning, taking a seat on the swinging patio chair, the blanket still around him, staring at a distant spot, all while waiting and hoping for the moment Edward could be seen coming out from the distance; apologising that he didn't tell Jacob he had decided to go out for a late night hunt, Jacob wouldn't mind at all, running up to him kissing him thankful that he had just came home. But that dark cloud of doubt was was swarming in his head, growing louder and harder to ignore as time wore on. Fed up Jacob couldn't take it anymore, finally deciding to wait no longer and go and look for Edward himself.
\/\/
"Jacob, honey, where are you going?" Asked Esme when Jacob was almost out the door stopping to grab his jacket.
"Im going to find Edward, to bring him home."
"Jacob, Edwards gone, he left during the night. I guess he just didn't have the heart to tell you."
Esme was saying out loud what had been going through Jacobs head all morning, but he still refused to believe it "No, I'm going to find Edward, to bring him home where he belongs." Esme gave him a sad look but didn't stop him.
\/\/
Searching for Edward, Jacob bumped into chief Swan, Charlie, Bella's father.
"Hey Jake. You haven't seen Bella around have you? She wasn't in her bed this morning, and I haven't seen her all day."
"You haven't seen her all morning, what about last night?"
"Thinking back, No I haven't. Thinking about it, I haven't seen her since yesterday morning, she was looking upset, but I thought she had gone out with her friends, as she returned looking happy" Charlie was getting concerned "No she wouldn't, would she? She promised after last time to never do that to me again."
Jacobs stomach plummeted and everything froze for a moment, "There was no denying it now Edward had left and taken Bella with him." everything sped up again, faster than before, Jacob ran off from Charlie mid sentence.
"Jacob where are you going? Jake!"
Jacob ran till he collapsed in a random place in the middle of nowhere. Which turned out to be the field. Utterly exhausted, he lay there for a long time. Time passed with no real structure. Just staring at the sky. His heart hurt like someone had taken a knife to it, cutting and cutting till his heart was ripped and broken turned into bloody little beating pieces. Jacob gasped, coming out of his stupor, the pain grew more intense as he tried to sit up. He blacked out in pain, his whole body hurting, feeling like it was tearing into a million peices.
\/\/
Seth found him, nudging him with his nose "Jake wake up, Jake." he whined calling Leah "Leah, Jake wont wake up, come quickly."
\/\/
Leah stood over Jake checking his pulse and breathing, his heart was racing abnormally fast. Even for a werewolf he felt extremely hot to the touch, like a furnace turned too high. Not sure what else to do and no one else capable around to help she picked him up carrying him to Carlisle. Seth followed along in wolf form.