"There!" Bella said, she pointed to a parking space two lots down. Human eyes wouldn't have seen it. But Edward sped over to the spot and parked the car.

"Finally," Bella said, "Nessie's probably in Jacob's room already.

Edward smiled.

"Yes. He seems to have taken my side in the argument."

Bella rolled her eyes.

"Of course."

"You know Jacob." His voice had become slightly bitter, and definitely annoyed.

"Yes." Bella seemed annoyed too, "But I guess there's nothing we can do to change that. Jacob is alright, isn't he?"

"Yes. Worrying about Nessie, but not in pain. He's still not sure whether he'll heal from paralyzation or not. Carlisle doesn't know either."

Bella bit her lip.

"I hope he'll heal. Jacob would be so miserable if he could never walk again. It would be horrible."

"Yes. It would."

Edward raised his eyebrows. Bella detected a trace of amusement in his features.

"What?"

"Renesme's pretty mad at Jacob - he just kicked her out."

"What? Why?"

"He's worried about suspicions arousing because of her body temperature."

Bella was suddenly dead serious.

"And There aren't any suspicions anywhere, are there?" she whispered fiercely.

Edward sighed.

"The doctors, of course, are a little miffed, but they respect Carlisle enough not to-"

"Did you just check, or is that just from before?"

He smiled.

"Just from before, but nothing will have changed."

"You don't know that."

"Yes I do."

"Check, just in case. Please?"

Edward sighed.

"Alright."

Then suddenly he was out of the car and moving towards the hospital so fast that no human would have even seen anything.

Bella moved just as fast and caught him. She pulled him to a stop. They were at least one hundred yards (300 ft) from Edward's Volvo.

This all had occurred within a second.

"Edward! What are you doing? What's wrong?" In her successful attempt to restrain him, she had her arms wrapped tightly around him and he was struggling to get free.

"Bella! There's no time for explanation! We have to move!" he said between clenched teeth.

"Why? Edward, if they're suspicious of our human-ness this is not going to make it any better!" Bella said, too low for human ears.

He stopped struggling.

"But Bella! They saw!" He sounded desperate, anguished.

"Saw what?" Bella's voice edged toward hysteria as it moved up a few octaves.

"They saw Renesme with Jacob and they're going to-"

"Wait - they're after Renesme?"

"YES!!!"

He started thrashing against Bella's tight embrace again.

A few bystanders had stopped and were staring; one or two had pulled their phones out and looked to be on the verge of calling the police.

Bella was infuriated, but she didn't let Edward go.

Right now she was eternally grateful for newborn vampire strength.

She understood how Edward felt: To heck with the consequences, what mattered was saving Renesme!

But Edward's temper had always consumed his whole person and made him unable to focus on anything else.

Bella may have been just as angry, but she was able to think around the anger.

She realized that rash actions would be the worst possible thing for Renesme. She pointed that out to Edward, who stopped thrashing suddenly and turned on her.

He looked at her hard.

She smiled, but the smile never reached her eyes.

"And you said that you had better reflexes. Self-control, Edward. You've got more than I do and you need to stop and think this through." She was whispering gently.

She released him, but eyed him warily.

He didn't make any move towards the hospital.

"What do we do?" he whispered back, no sign of ferocity in his voice now, only sadness, and defeat, "They're cornering her as we speak."

His tone and expression scared Bella. He had nevergiven up like this before, except when he was about to commit suicide. He'd had the same expression, the peculiar look in his eyes, he'd held himself in much the same way.

The first feeling to touch her was fear. Then horror. Then anguish. Then annoyance. Then downright anger. He had no right to give up like that!

She felt her temper flare up and its flames envelope her.

"We're not going to give up! That's the last thing we're going to do! We will save her!" she whispered furiously.

She pulled herself tightly into Edward's arms kissed him with a force that would have crushed boulders into pulp.

To her utter relief, he kissed her back. First halfheartedly, then with more and more ferocity.

"We will save her," he whispered with the same force, "We have to."

"Yes we will, and don't you ever scare me like that again!" If she had been human, the tears would have been flowing. As it were, her voice betrayed her anger.

"You're right," his voice was hard now, it had gained life, and Bella was able to calm down, "but what do we do?"

"I don't know." Bella whispered.

He looked over his shoulder suddenly and hissed under his breath, "Yeah right!"

"What?"

"Nessie thinks we should just let her find a way out of this herself!"

Bella snarled in response.

"There's no way!"

"I know."

But then he put his finger to her lips and his eyes tightened as if he was listening to something he didn't want to hear.

"What is it?"

"She is too much like you!" he moaned softly, rolling his head around to look at her.

By now the people passing by them did so without paying them any attention.

"What?"

"She feels guilty. She's blaming herself. But she's right," he finished in a whisper.

"Hmmm?"

"If we barge in there, people are going to die."

"Yes."

He looked scrutinized her.

"You realized that all along, didn't you?"

She smiled sheepishly.

"You were mad, and you've been known to act impulsivley."

Edward was suddenly intense again, and his eyes burned into Bella's.

"But we've got to go. You distract me too easily. We've got to go about this very carefully, and we can't waste any time."

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