BELLA
It feels like I have been crying for hours but there are still more tears. Eliot comes in and sits next to me. Dakota appears in a cloud of pink dust and sits on my other side. The occasional sniffle escapes to break the ominous quiet. A few tears escape the stoic Eliot's eyes as he looks at the form of his one, true love. Carlisle comes back to check on her.
"How did it go?" Dakota asks me.
"I took care of Jane and Alec," I answer quietly.
"Did you lose control?" She continues to question me.
"Maybe a little. How did things go with Jen's family?" I change the focus to Eliot.
"It went about how you think it did. It took awhile to find her mother, who was very distraught and may or may not drop by, by the way. The rest of her family still refer to her as the abomination and could possibly throw a party to celebrate her death," Eliot informs us.
We lapse into silence once more. Jen's family, with the exception of her mother of course, is the worst. Just because her mother fell in love with a mortal, they hate Jen as a product of that love. Both Jen and her mother have been treated like they are lepers or contracted the plague by their so called family.
Eliot starts to stir. Dakota and I turn to look at him. He gets up and walks over to a stack of books. I join him. Dakota just stares at us a bit.
"What are you two doing?" she asks, confused.
"We are looking through witch medical tomes until we find something useful," Eliot answers for both of us.
"Really?" she sounds surprised.
"Enough is enough. We aren't helping Jen by sitting around and moping. We need to take a more active role," I tell her. She moves to a different stack of books and starts to look with us.
"Bella, Jen left something for you in your suite," Carlisle whispers to me.
I project myself to my suite to save time. Time will be needed to look for a cure for Jen. But she left me something that might be the clue that we need. An envelope catches my eye, lying on my bed. Jen used her seal to close it. Carefully, I open the envelope to find a letter inside.
Bella,
I know that you are angry with Edward. Don't bottle it all up, remember last time you tried that. Let him know how you feel, preferably in a non-lethal way. He already feels awful, I'm sure.
By this time you will have guessed that Mary Beth had a premonition about this. You are right. That is why she paid us a visit. I know the spell is coming, but I won't dodge it. You know as well as I do that with that particular curse, it will go until it hits a living being. If it doesn't hit me, it will hit someone else.
Mary Beth told me that her premonition had a very sudden ending. We both know what that means. I hope that the choice is not whether or not you are going to kill Edward. You will feel terrible and regret it for the rest of your life if you kill him. You are in love with him. You two are destiny, I know it.
You and Dakota make a good team. So, even if I die, I know that you both will carry on. You each bring abilities to the table that make it possible to find anyone you seek after.
Don't worry, Bella. Everything will turn out alright.
-Jen
I absently take the note with me when I project back to Jen's hospital room. Tucking it in my pocket, I go back to looking through the volumes of medical texts. Jen is telling me something, giving me a clue as to where the answer lies. I just don't understand what it is. What is she trying to say? Then, it hits me.
"Dakota, did you actually See the Healer coming to us?" I ask as I turn to look at my friend.
"I Saw him with us. The vision wasn't about how he got there though, just him offering to train Bethany. Why?" she sounds as confused as she looks.
"What if he doesn't come to us like we had assumed?" excitement fills my voice. I know what Jen was trying to tell me in her letter.
"I don't follow," Dakota responds as she sets the book in her hands down.
"What if we are supposed to find him? Jen said that we could find anyone that we seek after in her note to me," I explain to her.
"Okay…" Dakota still does not get it.
"If we were supposed to find the answer in a book, Jen would have said anything not anyone," I explain.
You two go on and search for the Healer. We have more than enough helpers here," Eliot catches a little of my excitement.
"So, we're off to see the wizard," Dakota sings.
"Do we have to have a Wizard of Oz sing-along every time we go looking for a Healer?" I ask while trying to keep a straight face.
"Yes," she says that like it is a requirement.
"Okay, but we are not going to start singing until we hit the end of the safe house's grounds," I counter. She fakes a pout, but nods anyway.
We both give Eliot a comforting hug and squeeze Jen's hand. Of course, Carlisle offers to tell the others what we are doing. We take him up on that offer. Edward will not be tagging along this time. I know that he did not mean for Jen to get hurt, I'm still a little miffed with him. Talking does not seem to help him get through his issues. I can't date him if he doesn't grow as a person, at least a bit anyway. It seems we are at an impasse and only time will tell which direction our relationship will go. Dakota and I stop at the edge of the grounds. I turn and watch my enchantment cover the house like a glittery, blue blanket. Edward misbehaved, so color him grounded. He literally cannot leave the safe house. Edward hunted with his family two nights ago, so thirst should not be a problem during his time under house arrest. I can't be too careful after last night.