"Alice? What is it?" Jasper asked Alice panicky. I told her specifically not to go searching for her future. She said she couldn't control. She was so attunded. I didn't believe her, until this vision hit.
Bella walking up to a set of doors. There were people behind her, but I didn't see their faces.
"Ah, Bella!" A voice cried. "I've been expecting you for a while."
"Um, hello. . . Aro, I believe?"
"My, you know more than I expected!" Aro cheered. "Isn't that great? Caius? Marcus?"
"Quite," Caius said, though he didn't sound like it was great at all.
"Tell me, young one. What do you know?"
"She has shapeshifters in the area," A girl said from behind her.
"Shapeshifters?" Aro asked interested. "Really?"
"You can't - You can't kill them!" Bella said, panicking.
Aro chuckled, "Why would we kill them?"
"They know of vampires, Master," A male said.
Bella was rubbing her hands subconsciously because she was so nervous.
"My, my. So tell me, where is your Edward? That was why we were watching you in the first place."
"He- He left me. We b-broke up."
"Such a shame. I was hoping for a pair," Aro murmured.
"I wish for death. I wanted to come here so you could kill me. I can't do it myself and I already took care of my family. They'll think I got lost on the road on my way to Phoenix. I just want to die," Bella whispered.
"My, she is smart as well!" Aro cried happily. He seemed to be on a sugar rush.
"What is it that young Edward saw in you?" Caius asked.
"He couldn't read my mind," Bella said quickly. "He couldn't even get the slightest thought."
"Your hand, if I may?" Aro asked.
She handed a shaky hand over. "I won't hurt you, young one," Aro murmured. He took her hand in his and leaned over it, his eyes closed. He opened his eyes in surprise minutes later and chuckled. "My, you confound us all! Jane, if you please."
Jane flashed her eyes to Bella and concentrated hard. Bella looked around confused. "What's she doing?"
"You can't feel that?" Jane asked surprised.
"Feel what?" Bella asked, slightly afraid.
"Jane's gift is to cause pain," Aro murmured. "If you can block her, you most likely can block Demetri's tracking, Alec's descentcitizing, and most likely all mental gifts! You would make a great addition to the guard."
"She knows too much, Aro. The punishment is death."
"Such a waste," Aro murmured.
The vision went dark suddenly and I growled. "I have to leave."
"No! Edward don't!" Alice cried.
"What is going on?"
"The Volturi have Bella," Alice sobbed. "They are going to kill her!"
"I think its time we made a visit to Aro," Carlisle said softly. "See what has happened."
"She went there begging for death," I whispered. "They killed her. I saw it. Caius reminded Aro that letting her know was punishment for death and Aro said, 'Such a waste' and the vision went dark."
"We'll go there and just visit for a while, act like we don't know anything," Carlisle whispered.
"My sister is dead and its all your fault!" Rosalie shouted. "I told you we should have stayed! I told you that leaving would kill her! And look what its done! She's commited suicide! This is all your fault, Edward!"
"I know," I whispered, my heart crushing with each word she spoke.
"She'll never know that I envied her! That I wished she would live! That I wished she would stay human because she never belonged with you, Edward. She belonged human! She belonged with that mutt more than she belonged with you! Didn't you hear? Yes, I went back to Forks to get my Prada bag and you know what I saw. I saw that Jacob Black sitting on the front porch, heartbroken! He phased into a wolf because we left, Bella left, and he loved her! And that's one more person to add to the list of people's lives we've ruined! I hope all of you are happy! Emmett and I were the only ones that fought to stay, and you called her your sister, girlfriend, or daughter. I'm disgusted."
Rosalie left the room, pulling a heartbroken Emmett with her. I turned to Jasper. "This isn't my fault-"
"Don't you dare blame this on Jasper!" Rosalie growled, inches from my face in three seconds flat. "This your fault. You brought her into this family, you made Jasper's bloodlust worse, and you were the one that pushed her into the plates way too hard for a human. The whole birthday incident was YOUR FAULT! We could deal with a paper cut, but you went over board and tried to protect her! Well you know where that got us?"
I stayed quiet, knowing where this was going.
"ANSWER ME!" Rosalie screamed.
"She's dead," I whispered, broken.
"It got her broken, humiliated, and dead. You broke her beyond repair that night and you blamed everyone but yourself! When it was you all along! You just couldn't leave your singer alone! She would never have been hunted my James, she would never have wanted to be changed! She would never have been put in a position that she is in now! It's all YOUR FAULT!"
She punched me in the jaw and everyone gasped in shock. Rosalie wasn't one for violence. Whenever she hit someone, she meant it. Emmett's play slaps were nothing. Just that, play. A punch was an extreme.
"Rosalie," Carlisle warned.
"Don't even start!" Rosalie shouted. "This is your fault too! You may have control, but you were the one that decided we should leave. You supported Edward's decision and that makes you just as bad. At least Jasper. . . Jasper felt guilty. It's not his fault in the slightest, it's not Emmett's fault either. We fought it and we held Jasper back, because it could have been so much worse. And Alice, she thought you were her best friend, but you dropped her like a piece of used clothing without a second thought. And Esme, you loved her and I can tell how much leaving her hurt. But you couldn't betray your mates decision. . ." Rosalie whispered the last part.
"We'll go to Volterra and demand to know where she's kept," Carlisle said.
"They burn the bodies and keep them in a ash pot," Alice whispered. "If they killed her, she's long gone. There's no way we would be able to find her."
"We have to try," I whispered broken. It felt like my whole body was gone. Jasper kept flinching.
"I have to get out of here," he whispered.
"Jazzy! Get back here!" Alice called after him.
"You!" Rosalie growled. "He can't handle the pain of the family. You may not like what he is, so you mold him into what you want him to be, but we do. He can't handle Edward's guilt, so he needs to leave the room. Understand that. He isn't a puppet, a barbie. He's a vampire. He has feelings, rather a lot more than usual, but he has feelings and you ignore those and use him for what you want!"
Rosalie stormed out of the room without another word, Emmett following behind her.
"They're going to Volterra seperately, with Jasper. They're joining the guard," Alice gasped.
"We're leaving right now. Pack a bag or not, it doesn't matter, but we're leaving in five minutes."
We nodded and ran off, but I just sank into the chair and pulled at my hair. "It's all my fault!"
"Edward, honey, no its not!" Esme said gently.
"Yes, it is," I moaned. "Rosalie's right! She's always right. I brought her into this mess and she died from it."
Esme gave a quiet sob and left the room. Five minutes later, Carlisle looked at me. "Son, we're leaving."
I nodded and stood up, walking robotically to the cars.
"You all drive there, I'm going to run, so I can take the cars back."
We nodded and she handed Esme her bag before getting in the drivers seat of the Mercedes.
We drove in silence. No one saying a word. Alice drove off as soon as we got a ticket and according to her thoughts, we were to buy her a ticket as well.
"Hello, welcome to Maine's Commercial Air Port. How may I help you?" A woman asked with bright red hair and green eyes. She reminded me of Victoria.
I gave a low growl at the thought.
"Four tickets to Rome, Italy, please."
"Excellent," the girl smiled. "Although, there are only three of you."
"I'm here!" Alice said suddenly. I hadn't even heard her approach. She was blocking her thoughts. She knew something.
"What are you hiding, Alice?" I hissed too low for the human girl to hear.
"Bella's futures still blank," she whispered. "I think we're too late."
I held back a sob and followed Carlisle around like a zombie. I didn't remember the next ten hours, but when the plane landed, Carlisle shook me to alertness.
"We're running."
We nodded and walked out into the airport, our carry-on bags on our backs.
"This way," Carlisle murmured.
We followed him outside, where it was dark, nearly midnight, in which case, we took off without anyone noticing us. Ten minutes later, we were entering the grounds of Volterra when time just seemed to stop. We were frozen. I could tell everyone else was aware. Carlisle, Esme, Alice and I were frozen, along with the rest of the city. What is going on in Italy?
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