“Where do toi think they are?”
“Not a clue, toi got any ideas?”
“No, do toi think that because toi and Alice are like so close that toi might be able to read her mind?” I asked him with great curiosity.
“I’ll try but I don’t think it will work,” he sat down and pulled his knees up to his chest and put his head down and started to try and find Alice’s mind, it reminded me so much of Alice when she was trying to see into the future. minutes went past and finally after about twenty minutes he lifted his head slowly.
“I heard a small bit of her mind,”
“What. What. Edward what did toi hear?”
“She was sobbing, No. No. Hurt me, me its me toi have to take Bella, Edward and Jasper have nothing to do with this, please take me to them only me please no, then everything went silent and I couldn’t hear her anymore, sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry, so they want to take them somewhere hmmm where?” I was racking my brains trying to think were they could be going, when I heard Edward on the phone behind me he must’ve been calling Carlisle.
He repeated everything that he a dit to me down the phone. I could vaguely make out Carlisle’s worried voice on the other end. I continued to think where they could be. Edward hung up the phone, “Carlisle thinks that he and Emmett should help us look.”
“What? Why?” I insisted.
“I don’t know, but think about it, if they come, Nessie will want to come, and I don’t want to risk any of them getting hurt,”
“Me neither.” I agreed, “The help would be good though,”
He was back on the phone before I had a chance to finish speaking, insisting that they stay where they are.
I tried to blank out what he was saying, to concentrate on where we could find them. It would help if Bella actually told us the truth on the phone, we could’ve found them par now. I called Alice’s number, knowing that nothing would come of it. It went to voicemail.
“Damn it!” I growled, Edward was back off the phone. He could tell what was bothering me, but decided to ignore it.
“Carlisle is staying at home, much to Emmett’s annoyance.” He said, I could hear the pain cracking his voice. It was clear how much he missed Bella and Alice.
“We’re going to find them!” I assured him, it was the first time I had been assuring him, “Even if it’s the last thing I do.” I added with a hint of power.
“Lets hunt, then we can think on a full stomach,” Edward said.
“Affirmative, god I’m starting to sound like Renesmee.”
A couple of hours went par then all of a sudden a rather familiar voice came into hearing distance. “Well what a surprise to see toi two hear.”
“Emmett we told toi to stay at home, don’t say Carlisle is here too,” I a dit a bit of relief and anger filled through me at the one time.
“Sorry to disappoint toi both,” Carlisle a dit chuckling as he came out from behind a tree.
“Right, we’ll take Canada, you’ll take Mexico, call us if toi find anything, bye,” Emmett a dit and ran off into the trees with Carlisle before we even a dit anything, “Ugghhh, I a dit that they didn’t need to come, trust Emmett.” Edward sighed.
“What if they are in America?” I asked.
“Oh, right crap well I guess Emmett didn’t think of that in his master plan did he? Tell toi what, I’m not sending Renesmee over to Jacob’s now, he’ll want the wolf’s to rejoindre in and this is a family matter, so I’m going to make a call,” He pulled his phone out again, he dialled Esme, “Hello. Yes we’re fine. No we haven’t found them yet. Nessie’s friend from school has been wanting her to stay over for a while, why don’t toi call her parents and see if it’s okay if Renesmee stays there for a few nights.” He paused, letting Esme speak, “No, I don’t want her over at La Push, Jacob will know that there’s definitely something going on.” He paused longer this time, “Yes, okay. Yes, Carlisle and Emmett have been with us, they are heading to Canada, no they think we’re in Mexico,” He laughed a little, “But we’re staying in America. Yes okay, thanks bye.” He hung up.
“Sorted.” He said, smiling. I rolled my eyes.
“What’s happening then?” I asked.
“We are going to stay and find them, in America.” He said, “Hopefully we will get lucky and they won’t be in Mexico.”
“What are Esme and Rosalie doing then, if Nessie is going to her friends?”
“Staying at home, it’s only if they hear any bad news while we’re gone, that Nessie won’t be there.” He explained.
“Aaah. Let’s get looking.” I said, rubbing my hands together.
We headed east first, trying to catch a hold of their scent. We caught a faint glimmer at one point, but it was days old, and it was weak.
“You run West, I’ll run East. Meet toi in this spot in ten minutes,” I said, running East before he had a chance to say otherwise.
Ten minutes later we met back up.
“Any luck?” He asked me hopefully.
“Yes. I caught it about six miles away. How about you, anything?”
He shook his head, one rapide, swift movement, “Come on.” He said, running ahead of me.
I stopped at the spot where I last found the scent, “Here.” I said, He ran back over and took a whiff of fresh air.
“I think their scent has gone South. Let’s head to…ehm…Oklahoma.” He suggested. I thought it was a bit aléatoire but ignored myself, Edward usually knows what he’s doing.
“I hope toi know where to stop.” I said, thinking of our accidental excursion to Canada.
“Yes. Just another five minutes and we should be there.” He said, chuckling.
After about five minutes we arrived in Oklahoma. I immediately got to work in finding their scent. It didn’t take long to track but again, it was weak.
“What do we do?” Edward sighed.
“Do toi think Bella’s shield will still be over Alice? Try to read her mind again. You’re so attuned to her it should be easy.” I suggested. It was worth a shot.
Like last time, Edward sat down and rested his head on his knees, concentrating.
“Well?” I asked after ten minutes.
“Alice is talking to Bella, a normal conversation. A bunch of vampires started talking to them. She was thinking about the orders that the older one was giving them. They were that his son was going to stay with Alice and Bella while the others went hunting. They wouldn’t be back until early the suivant morning. Then Bella’s shield must’ve covered her again.“
“Where do we go now?” He asked. “We tried Oklahoma, nothing there. Where now?”
I suppose it was my turn to guess, “Alabama.” Was the first place that sprung to mind.
“Okay. It’s worth a shot.” He said, I began running this time. He followed after me.
“This could have been avoided toi know.” I a dit to him while we were running, “This is all my fault.”
“How do work that one out?” He asked, genuinely confused.
“If Tanya hadn’t kissed me, then Alice wouldn’t have run off and ran away. Then Bella wouldn’t have run after her. Then they wouldn’t have gotten kidnapped.” I moaned, getting it all out of my system. He waited a while, probably thinking about something.
“Doesn’t that make it Tanya’s fault?” He asked.
“No, well sort of, but I amn’t going to blame her for something if she doesn’t know that it has happened. If I had pushed her off earlier. Alice would’ve seen.”
He didn’t answer me. Instead he pointed to a sign, we were in Alabama.
I heard Emmett’s voice and stopped, dead in my tracks, spun round on my heels, and looked Emmett straight in the eye.
“Aren’t toi supposed to be in Canada?” I asked, eyeing him suspiciously.
“We looked.” Emmett confessed. “Nothing.”
“Aren’t toi supposed to be in Mexico?” Carlisle asked, copying the tone in my voice.
“No, we never agreed to your plan.” Edward said, joining me again.
“Please Carlisle, Emmett, go back home, let Esme and Rosalie know that everything is fine.” I pleaded.
“Is it?” Emmett asked, “Fine, I mean?”
“Yes, well, it will be.” I assured him.
“I’m going to go and call Esme. I don’t get a signal here.” Carlisle said, running off.
“Okay, spill.” Emmett said, folding his arms over his chest, “If toi know where they are, tell me.”
“We don’t know where they are. But Edward can read Alice’s thoughts.” I said,
“Really?” Emmett said, shocked.
“Well, I can’t just now.” Edward said, “Bella’s shield must still be covering her.”
“From this far?” Emmett asked, obviously still in shock.
“They are so attuned to each other, Alice can see Edward’s future very clearly and easily and Edward can obviously read Alice’s thoughts from across the country.” I explained, it did seem a bit impossible.
“Hmm.” Emmett considered what I’d just said.
“Go home.” Edward a dit trying to convince him, “Everything is gonna be fine, honest.”
Emmett looked at him warily, “I’m not leaving, I’m making sure that my baby sister’s are okay. It will take a lot plus than just go accueil to get me to leave,”
“Emmett, we forgot to tell toi Rose has figured a way,” Edward said, I was confused.
“Huh,” he a dit confused as well.
“Rose is pregnant,” Edward a dit trying to keep a straight face.
“What, no toi don’t fool me,”
“Damn it! I thought that would work.” We all went into a fit of laughter.
“What, if they manage to get home, escape from these horrible people, then they come and they’re all as strong as toi but your not there to save them and , the girls can’t beat them huh what would toi do then?” I questioned him raising an eyebrow.
“Right, I should go back then, ou should I stay with toi two, oh no I’m so confused-“
“Pull yourself together Emmett Cullen!” I shouted slapping him across the face.
“Ouch, thanks I needed that,” I slapped him again, “I needed that too,” I slapped him one plus time for luck praying that he would go home, “YOUR PUSHING YOUR LUCK JASPER HALE!!!!!! I’m going accueil to protect the Cullen family name, Good luck guys, see you,” and with that he ran over to Carlisle, and went accueil we could vaguely hear Carlisle say, “Why have toi got a hand mark across your face,”
“Jasper, hit me, toi know what I think toi should do when they get back home!” he accused in a little whining voice.
“Not a clue what do toi think?”
“Ground him for two weeks, that means no socialising, no motor biking, and no civilisation.” He burst into fits of laughter.
“Hey, I’m being serious!”
“Oh okay, but I’m the Father and I say one day,”
“Is that as good as I’m gonna get?”
“Yes,”
“Fine, no seeing Alice though,”
“Do toi really think that’s fair and do toi have a death wish?”
“Perfectly and apparently, but come on he deserves it I mean he’s imprinted me,” he a dit pointing to his face. They burst into fits of laughter then they were out of hearing distance.
“Ugh!” I groaned, “I’ve got it coming! And I’m grounded.”
“Your not grounded. Carlisle wouldn’t do that.” Edward said, I rolled my eyes, “He would.”
“Well, maybe. But that is not the point.” He looked around at our surroundings, and said, “I don’t think they’re here. Let’s try somewhere else? Say Louisiana?” I suggested.
“Where did toi get that from?”
“I had a hunch.” I shrugged, “So are we going ou what?”
He nodded his head and we started running.
“You do realise that we can’t go over the whole of America like this?” I pointed out.
“Yeah, I figured that.” He groaned.
“What happens when were in Louisiana? What are we going to do?”
“I don’t know, it was your hunch.” Drat. He had a point there.
“Okay. Well, toi could always try and hear Alice again? Although Bella’s shield might still be up, so that could be hard.” I suggested.
“Another hunch?” He asked,
“Pretty much.”
It took longer to reach Louisiana than we thought because we got lost.
“We’re here now.” Edward declared,
“Are toi sure? Because toi a dit that the last three times we stopped.” I said. He rolled his eyes at me, “Yes I’m sure.”
“How?” I questioned him.
“Look.” He said, pointing to a sign that a dit ‘Welcome to Louisiana.’ In bold writing.
“Oh, okay. Well then, now what?”
“We try your idea.” He said, closing his eyes and concentrating hard. He took longer than last time, it seemed like forever, the sun was beaming down on us, our marble skin sparkling in the light.
“Well, can toi hear her?” I asked, starting to get impatient. We were sitting beside a road, fortunately the cars were going past at sixty miles an hour, so the drivers probably wouldn’t trust their own eyes if they saw two sparkling vampires sitting at the side of the road.
“yeah.” He murmured, “Ssssshhh, I’m concentrating!”
“Okay.” I said, turning back to watch the road, the most fun I had had in about two days is watching all the cars go past. It’s that sad. The cars weren’t even that interesting. I got bored quickly. Although there was this one driver who slowed right down to twenty miles an heure just to watch me and Edward with fascinated eyes. I turned back to Edward.
“How about now?” I asked him, probably sounding like a small child who is impatient about going on holiday.
“Yeah.” He said, opening his eyes and letting them focus on me, “Alice was thinking about what she was going to say to her kidnapper. I’m assuming, from the way that her thoughts are running, that the others have gone to hunt, she was thinking about asking, when do we leave Tennessee? The answer was three days, she thought about what to answer suivant then decided on where do we go from there? The answer to that one was California. Then Bella’s shield went over her again.”
“Why does Bella’s shield keep going over her?” I asked, confused.
“I don’t know. I’ll be sure to ask her that when we find them.” He said, with a hint of sarcasm flowing in his voice.
“So we go to Tennessee?” I asked, making sure I got this right.
“Yes!” He said, running again.
“Tennessee is a big place.” I pointed out.
“I know.” He a dit blankly.
“Well, whereabouts are they then?” I pressed, both nervous and excited.
“How am I to know?”
“You’re the thought reader.” I said, he rolled his eyes.
“Follow their scent.” He a dit calmly, “By the sounds of things, they haven’t been there long, so there scent should still be strong.”
“That’s smart.” I muttered. The rest of the run was in silence, probably the fact that we were going to find them, and we knew that they were actually here, that had us silenced.
We arrived in Tennessee about an heure after, Edward immediately picked up on their scent. I overtook him about halfway, he was going to slow. “Stop!” I shouted. Edward sped past me, then stopped and turned round, with a confused expression on his face, “What?” He asked.
“The scent has stopped,” I pointed out.
“Oh. It has?” He said, “I guess I stopped paying attention and just followed you.”
I rolled my eyes, “Look around, they must be here somewhere.” I insisted. Although their scent didn’t go anywhere. It just stopped,
“Where in the name of Emmett’s initialled y-fronts are they?” I moaned.
“You really do have a death wish, don’t you?” Edward chuckled.
“Oh it’s not like he heard me.” I grumbled.
“Jasper, over there.” Edward a dit pointing to a tiny clearing in the forests. There was another vampire, pacing impatiently.
“Do toi think_?” I asked, I didn’t need to finish my sentence, he knew what I meant.
“It’d be a pretty big coincidence if it wasn’t don’t toi think?”
“Hmm.” We walked over at a human pace, silently, trying not to draw attention to ourselves, until the last minute. We ran through into the centre of the clearing, startling everyone.
“Who are you?” the vampire grumbled.
“Edward!” Bella cried, jumping to her feet and running into his arms.
I looked around the clearing shocked, Bella and Alice had been here, obviously to their own free will, “What have toi been doing here?” Edward insisted, obviously a result to my mental evaluation.
“Oh, long story.” Bella muttered, stepping out of his arms so that Alice could hug him, I gave Bella a hug, and gave Alice a quick one.
“We have time.” Edward insisted.
“No, not that much.” Alice assured him. It felt so good to hear her voice.
Edward gave her a funny look but let it go. He turned to the vampire and growled at him,
“I’m gonna rip toi to pieces.” He snarled, crouching down getting ready to pounce, “No, wait please, I’ll tell toi the story, and besides your right we do have time because, they left at six they’re supposedly going to be back at three and its only eight.” The vampire pleaded.
“What’s your name, what story, who actually are you?” I questioned.
“My name is Benny, the story is, well, sit down and I’ll tell you,” We all sat down in a cercle while he started from the beginning.
“Well, we were in Italy, and my Father goes way back with the Volturi, and they gave us a job to do, here. That should explain it.” He said, fishing a note out of his pocket and handing it to Edward and I.
Victor,
We are glad to inform you, that we have a serious job for toi to do. One we would very much appreciate if toi and your coven could do a.s.a.p.
We would like toi to find the Cullen’s, dispose of the ones that can put up a fight, and give the rest to us.
Aro,
Marcus,
Caius.
“I knew they were involved!” Edward said, punching the herbe below him.
I was furious! They were part of this, as usual, they really didn’t like us.
“But wait, how did toi know who Alice and Bella were?” I asked,
“They told us.” Benny shrugged.
“And how did toi know where to find them?”
“The Volturi gave us something of Alice’s, and that gave us the scent, they told us to start in Forks, and trace the scent from there”
“But wait, how did toi know who Alice and Bella were?” I asked,
“They gave us there scent,”
“How, the hell did toi get their scent?” I asked fuming.
“Well, when they ran away, I’m sure they haven’t told toi this yet but, they camped out in Brazil, and Heidi was collecting food, and she remembered their smell, she listened carefully but no-one was in their tent so, she went inside and picked up Bella’s cardigan and Alice’s scarf. She ran back to Volterra leaving dîner behind told her masters and they wrote us this letter, and we set off to find Alice and Bella,”
“So toi lot think it is okay to go and snatch peoples wives!” I was at boiling point now, I jumped to my feet.
“No, please let me finish, please,”
“Jasper, let him finish please me and Bella haven’t even heard this,” Alice a dit tugging at my t-shirt trying to pull me down, I sat down immediately, hearing Alice’s voice asking me to do something just overruled me.
“Continue with your story.” I said, evenly, through my teeth.
“Okay. Well, my father agreed instantly, and so did his four brothers. But I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t see any reason. My Father just a dit that if the Volturi a dit something was to be done, it was to be done, no arguments. They can be quite sadistic with their abilities. That’s why I am glad I don’t have one.” He paused.
“Is there any plus to your story?” Edward asked calmly.
“Yes, the moment my father, and the rest of the coven, met your Alice and Bella they jumped to the chance to take them, without even realizing what their abilities are, of course now they’ve realised what they are.” He chuckled a little, “But they are away hunting and have left me in charge. Alice a dit toi were coming so we were waiting for you.” He announced quite proud of himself.
“Wait, toi knew we were coming?” I asked him, I knew Alice and Bella would know.
“Yes.” He shrugged, “Maybe I should explain, I have been trying to help them escape for the past week, but it is very hard to get past my Father, this is the first time, since our last failed attempt anyway, that he has let them out of his sight. He is very protective of them. Muttering something about, they are the key to my success, every so often.” Benny explained.
“So, you’ve been helping them?” I asked, suddenly all the pieces fit together.
He nodded.
“So, really you’ve not been trying to kill them, it’s your father and his brothers?” Edward asked, I think he knew what was going on too.
He nodded again, this time the movement plus abrupt.
“So who are we actually dealing with?” I asked,
“Well, my father Victor, is the leader of the coven, he has no ability, there’s my Uncle Cole, he can project,”
“What do toi mean project?” Edward asked,
“Well, whatever he imagines in his head, it basically comes to life. For example, say he imagined me bursting into flames, I would burst into flames.” Benny said,
“Oh. But is it mental? Like it’s not real? Like Jane’s?”
“Oh no, it’s real alright.”
“Please continue,” Bella asked politely,
Benny nodded, “Then there’s my Uncle Cameron, he is a feu starter.”
“A feu starter?” I repeated,
“It’s basically what it says, he can set feu with his mind.”
I shivered,
“Then there’s Uncle Cole’s wife, Natalie, she has telekinesis. And her twin, Amelia, she senses relationships, the same as Marcus.”
“Is that all?” Edward asked,
Benny nodded, “Amelia has a thing for me,” He chuckled, “But I’m not interested.”
I looked around, plus emotions coming, angry. “Maybe we should get them out of here,” I said, turning to Edward.
“Why?” He looked around, confused.
“Damn.” Benny muttered under his breath.
“Well, what do we have here?” A cocky voice asked, coming in from behind us.
“That’s why.” I whispered to Edward,
“Oh, crap!” Edward, Bella and Alice all a dit in perfect unison.
“Not a clue, toi got any ideas?”
“No, do toi think that because toi and Alice are like so close that toi might be able to read her mind?” I asked him with great curiosity.
“I’ll try but I don’t think it will work,” he sat down and pulled his knees up to his chest and put his head down and started to try and find Alice’s mind, it reminded me so much of Alice when she was trying to see into the future. minutes went past and finally after about twenty minutes he lifted his head slowly.
“I heard a small bit of her mind,”
“What. What. Edward what did toi hear?”
“She was sobbing, No. No. Hurt me, me its me toi have to take Bella, Edward and Jasper have nothing to do with this, please take me to them only me please no, then everything went silent and I couldn’t hear her anymore, sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry, so they want to take them somewhere hmmm where?” I was racking my brains trying to think were they could be going, when I heard Edward on the phone behind me he must’ve been calling Carlisle.
He repeated everything that he a dit to me down the phone. I could vaguely make out Carlisle’s worried voice on the other end. I continued to think where they could be. Edward hung up the phone, “Carlisle thinks that he and Emmett should help us look.”
“What? Why?” I insisted.
“I don’t know, but think about it, if they come, Nessie will want to come, and I don’t want to risk any of them getting hurt,”
“Me neither.” I agreed, “The help would be good though,”
He was back on the phone before I had a chance to finish speaking, insisting that they stay where they are.
I tried to blank out what he was saying, to concentrate on where we could find them. It would help if Bella actually told us the truth on the phone, we could’ve found them par now. I called Alice’s number, knowing that nothing would come of it. It went to voicemail.
“Damn it!” I growled, Edward was back off the phone. He could tell what was bothering me, but decided to ignore it.
“Carlisle is staying at home, much to Emmett’s annoyance.” He said, I could hear the pain cracking his voice. It was clear how much he missed Bella and Alice.
“We’re going to find them!” I assured him, it was the first time I had been assuring him, “Even if it’s the last thing I do.” I added with a hint of power.
“Lets hunt, then we can think on a full stomach,” Edward said.
“Affirmative, god I’m starting to sound like Renesmee.”
A couple of hours went par then all of a sudden a rather familiar voice came into hearing distance. “Well what a surprise to see toi two hear.”
“Emmett we told toi to stay at home, don’t say Carlisle is here too,” I a dit a bit of relief and anger filled through me at the one time.
“Sorry to disappoint toi both,” Carlisle a dit chuckling as he came out from behind a tree.
“Right, we’ll take Canada, you’ll take Mexico, call us if toi find anything, bye,” Emmett a dit and ran off into the trees with Carlisle before we even a dit anything, “Ugghhh, I a dit that they didn’t need to come, trust Emmett.” Edward sighed.
“What if they are in America?” I asked.
“Oh, right crap well I guess Emmett didn’t think of that in his master plan did he? Tell toi what, I’m not sending Renesmee over to Jacob’s now, he’ll want the wolf’s to rejoindre in and this is a family matter, so I’m going to make a call,” He pulled his phone out again, he dialled Esme, “Hello. Yes we’re fine. No we haven’t found them yet. Nessie’s friend from school has been wanting her to stay over for a while, why don’t toi call her parents and see if it’s okay if Renesmee stays there for a few nights.” He paused, letting Esme speak, “No, I don’t want her over at La Push, Jacob will know that there’s definitely something going on.” He paused longer this time, “Yes, okay. Yes, Carlisle and Emmett have been with us, they are heading to Canada, no they think we’re in Mexico,” He laughed a little, “But we’re staying in America. Yes okay, thanks bye.” He hung up.
“Sorted.” He said, smiling. I rolled my eyes.
“What’s happening then?” I asked.
“We are going to stay and find them, in America.” He said, “Hopefully we will get lucky and they won’t be in Mexico.”
“What are Esme and Rosalie doing then, if Nessie is going to her friends?”
“Staying at home, it’s only if they hear any bad news while we’re gone, that Nessie won’t be there.” He explained.
“Aaah. Let’s get looking.” I said, rubbing my hands together.
We headed east first, trying to catch a hold of their scent. We caught a faint glimmer at one point, but it was days old, and it was weak.
“You run West, I’ll run East. Meet toi in this spot in ten minutes,” I said, running East before he had a chance to say otherwise.
Ten minutes later we met back up.
“Any luck?” He asked me hopefully.
“Yes. I caught it about six miles away. How about you, anything?”
He shook his head, one rapide, swift movement, “Come on.” He said, running ahead of me.
I stopped at the spot where I last found the scent, “Here.” I said, He ran back over and took a whiff of fresh air.
“I think their scent has gone South. Let’s head to…ehm…Oklahoma.” He suggested. I thought it was a bit aléatoire but ignored myself, Edward usually knows what he’s doing.
“I hope toi know where to stop.” I said, thinking of our accidental excursion to Canada.
“Yes. Just another five minutes and we should be there.” He said, chuckling.
After about five minutes we arrived in Oklahoma. I immediately got to work in finding their scent. It didn’t take long to track but again, it was weak.
“What do we do?” Edward sighed.
“Do toi think Bella’s shield will still be over Alice? Try to read her mind again. You’re so attuned to her it should be easy.” I suggested. It was worth a shot.
Like last time, Edward sat down and rested his head on his knees, concentrating.
“Well?” I asked after ten minutes.
“Alice is talking to Bella, a normal conversation. A bunch of vampires started talking to them. She was thinking about the orders that the older one was giving them. They were that his son was going to stay with Alice and Bella while the others went hunting. They wouldn’t be back until early the suivant morning. Then Bella’s shield must’ve covered her again.“
“Where do we go now?” He asked. “We tried Oklahoma, nothing there. Where now?”
I suppose it was my turn to guess, “Alabama.” Was the first place that sprung to mind.
“Okay. It’s worth a shot.” He said, I began running this time. He followed after me.
“This could have been avoided toi know.” I a dit to him while we were running, “This is all my fault.”
“How do work that one out?” He asked, genuinely confused.
“If Tanya hadn’t kissed me, then Alice wouldn’t have run off and ran away. Then Bella wouldn’t have run after her. Then they wouldn’t have gotten kidnapped.” I moaned, getting it all out of my system. He waited a while, probably thinking about something.
“Doesn’t that make it Tanya’s fault?” He asked.
“No, well sort of, but I amn’t going to blame her for something if she doesn’t know that it has happened. If I had pushed her off earlier. Alice would’ve seen.”
He didn’t answer me. Instead he pointed to a sign, we were in Alabama.
I heard Emmett’s voice and stopped, dead in my tracks, spun round on my heels, and looked Emmett straight in the eye.
“Aren’t toi supposed to be in Canada?” I asked, eyeing him suspiciously.
“We looked.” Emmett confessed. “Nothing.”
“Aren’t toi supposed to be in Mexico?” Carlisle asked, copying the tone in my voice.
“No, we never agreed to your plan.” Edward said, joining me again.
“Please Carlisle, Emmett, go back home, let Esme and Rosalie know that everything is fine.” I pleaded.
“Is it?” Emmett asked, “Fine, I mean?”
“Yes, well, it will be.” I assured him.
“I’m going to go and call Esme. I don’t get a signal here.” Carlisle said, running off.
“Okay, spill.” Emmett said, folding his arms over his chest, “If toi know where they are, tell me.”
“We don’t know where they are. But Edward can read Alice’s thoughts.” I said,
“Really?” Emmett said, shocked.
“Well, I can’t just now.” Edward said, “Bella’s shield must still be covering her.”
“From this far?” Emmett asked, obviously still in shock.
“They are so attuned to each other, Alice can see Edward’s future very clearly and easily and Edward can obviously read Alice’s thoughts from across the country.” I explained, it did seem a bit impossible.
“Hmm.” Emmett considered what I’d just said.
“Go home.” Edward a dit trying to convince him, “Everything is gonna be fine, honest.”
Emmett looked at him warily, “I’m not leaving, I’m making sure that my baby sister’s are okay. It will take a lot plus than just go accueil to get me to leave,”
“Emmett, we forgot to tell toi Rose has figured a way,” Edward said, I was confused.
“Huh,” he a dit confused as well.
“Rose is pregnant,” Edward a dit trying to keep a straight face.
“What, no toi don’t fool me,”
“Damn it! I thought that would work.” We all went into a fit of laughter.
“What, if they manage to get home, escape from these horrible people, then they come and they’re all as strong as toi but your not there to save them and , the girls can’t beat them huh what would toi do then?” I questioned him raising an eyebrow.
“Right, I should go back then, ou should I stay with toi two, oh no I’m so confused-“
“Pull yourself together Emmett Cullen!” I shouted slapping him across the face.
“Ouch, thanks I needed that,” I slapped him again, “I needed that too,” I slapped him one plus time for luck praying that he would go home, “YOUR PUSHING YOUR LUCK JASPER HALE!!!!!! I’m going accueil to protect the Cullen family name, Good luck guys, see you,” and with that he ran over to Carlisle, and went accueil we could vaguely hear Carlisle say, “Why have toi got a hand mark across your face,”
“Jasper, hit me, toi know what I think toi should do when they get back home!” he accused in a little whining voice.
“Not a clue what do toi think?”
“Ground him for two weeks, that means no socialising, no motor biking, and no civilisation.” He burst into fits of laughter.
“Hey, I’m being serious!”
“Oh okay, but I’m the Father and I say one day,”
“Is that as good as I’m gonna get?”
“Yes,”
“Fine, no seeing Alice though,”
“Do toi really think that’s fair and do toi have a death wish?”
“Perfectly and apparently, but come on he deserves it I mean he’s imprinted me,” he a dit pointing to his face. They burst into fits of laughter then they were out of hearing distance.
“Ugh!” I groaned, “I’ve got it coming! And I’m grounded.”
“Your not grounded. Carlisle wouldn’t do that.” Edward said, I rolled my eyes, “He would.”
“Well, maybe. But that is not the point.” He looked around at our surroundings, and said, “I don’t think they’re here. Let’s try somewhere else? Say Louisiana?” I suggested.
“Where did toi get that from?”
“I had a hunch.” I shrugged, “So are we going ou what?”
He nodded his head and we started running.
“You do realise that we can’t go over the whole of America like this?” I pointed out.
“Yeah, I figured that.” He groaned.
“What happens when were in Louisiana? What are we going to do?”
“I don’t know, it was your hunch.” Drat. He had a point there.
“Okay. Well, toi could always try and hear Alice again? Although Bella’s shield might still be up, so that could be hard.” I suggested.
“Another hunch?” He asked,
“Pretty much.”
It took longer to reach Louisiana than we thought because we got lost.
“We’re here now.” Edward declared,
“Are toi sure? Because toi a dit that the last three times we stopped.” I said. He rolled his eyes at me, “Yes I’m sure.”
“How?” I questioned him.
“Look.” He said, pointing to a sign that a dit ‘Welcome to Louisiana.’ In bold writing.
“Oh, okay. Well then, now what?”
“We try your idea.” He said, closing his eyes and concentrating hard. He took longer than last time, it seemed like forever, the sun was beaming down on us, our marble skin sparkling in the light.
“Well, can toi hear her?” I asked, starting to get impatient. We were sitting beside a road, fortunately the cars were going past at sixty miles an hour, so the drivers probably wouldn’t trust their own eyes if they saw two sparkling vampires sitting at the side of the road.
“yeah.” He murmured, “Ssssshhh, I’m concentrating!”
“Okay.” I said, turning back to watch the road, the most fun I had had in about two days is watching all the cars go past. It’s that sad. The cars weren’t even that interesting. I got bored quickly. Although there was this one driver who slowed right down to twenty miles an heure just to watch me and Edward with fascinated eyes. I turned back to Edward.
“How about now?” I asked him, probably sounding like a small child who is impatient about going on holiday.
“Yeah.” He said, opening his eyes and letting them focus on me, “Alice was thinking about what she was going to say to her kidnapper. I’m assuming, from the way that her thoughts are running, that the others have gone to hunt, she was thinking about asking, when do we leave Tennessee? The answer was three days, she thought about what to answer suivant then decided on where do we go from there? The answer to that one was California. Then Bella’s shield went over her again.”
“Why does Bella’s shield keep going over her?” I asked, confused.
“I don’t know. I’ll be sure to ask her that when we find them.” He said, with a hint of sarcasm flowing in his voice.
“So we go to Tennessee?” I asked, making sure I got this right.
“Yes!” He said, running again.
“Tennessee is a big place.” I pointed out.
“I know.” He a dit blankly.
“Well, whereabouts are they then?” I pressed, both nervous and excited.
“How am I to know?”
“You’re the thought reader.” I said, he rolled his eyes.
“Follow their scent.” He a dit calmly, “By the sounds of things, they haven’t been there long, so there scent should still be strong.”
“That’s smart.” I muttered. The rest of the run was in silence, probably the fact that we were going to find them, and we knew that they were actually here, that had us silenced.
We arrived in Tennessee about an heure after, Edward immediately picked up on their scent. I overtook him about halfway, he was going to slow. “Stop!” I shouted. Edward sped past me, then stopped and turned round, with a confused expression on his face, “What?” He asked.
“The scent has stopped,” I pointed out.
“Oh. It has?” He said, “I guess I stopped paying attention and just followed you.”
I rolled my eyes, “Look around, they must be here somewhere.” I insisted. Although their scent didn’t go anywhere. It just stopped,
“Where in the name of Emmett’s initialled y-fronts are they?” I moaned.
“You really do have a death wish, don’t you?” Edward chuckled.
“Oh it’s not like he heard me.” I grumbled.
“Jasper, over there.” Edward a dit pointing to a tiny clearing in the forests. There was another vampire, pacing impatiently.
“Do toi think_?” I asked, I didn’t need to finish my sentence, he knew what I meant.
“It’d be a pretty big coincidence if it wasn’t don’t toi think?”
“Hmm.” We walked over at a human pace, silently, trying not to draw attention to ourselves, until the last minute. We ran through into the centre of the clearing, startling everyone.
“Who are you?” the vampire grumbled.
“Edward!” Bella cried, jumping to her feet and running into his arms.
I looked around the clearing shocked, Bella and Alice had been here, obviously to their own free will, “What have toi been doing here?” Edward insisted, obviously a result to my mental evaluation.
“Oh, long story.” Bella muttered, stepping out of his arms so that Alice could hug him, I gave Bella a hug, and gave Alice a quick one.
“We have time.” Edward insisted.
“No, not that much.” Alice assured him. It felt so good to hear her voice.
Edward gave her a funny look but let it go. He turned to the vampire and growled at him,
“I’m gonna rip toi to pieces.” He snarled, crouching down getting ready to pounce, “No, wait please, I’ll tell toi the story, and besides your right we do have time because, they left at six they’re supposedly going to be back at three and its only eight.” The vampire pleaded.
“What’s your name, what story, who actually are you?” I questioned.
“My name is Benny, the story is, well, sit down and I’ll tell you,” We all sat down in a cercle while he started from the beginning.
“Well, we were in Italy, and my Father goes way back with the Volturi, and they gave us a job to do, here. That should explain it.” He said, fishing a note out of his pocket and handing it to Edward and I.
Victor,
We are glad to inform you, that we have a serious job for toi to do. One we would very much appreciate if toi and your coven could do a.s.a.p.
We would like toi to find the Cullen’s, dispose of the ones that can put up a fight, and give the rest to us.
Aro,
Marcus,
Caius.
“I knew they were involved!” Edward said, punching the herbe below him.
I was furious! They were part of this, as usual, they really didn’t like us.
“But wait, how did toi know who Alice and Bella were?” I asked,
“They told us.” Benny shrugged.
“And how did toi know where to find them?”
“The Volturi gave us something of Alice’s, and that gave us the scent, they told us to start in Forks, and trace the scent from there”
“But wait, how did toi know who Alice and Bella were?” I asked,
“They gave us there scent,”
“How, the hell did toi get their scent?” I asked fuming.
“Well, when they ran away, I’m sure they haven’t told toi this yet but, they camped out in Brazil, and Heidi was collecting food, and she remembered their smell, she listened carefully but no-one was in their tent so, she went inside and picked up Bella’s cardigan and Alice’s scarf. She ran back to Volterra leaving dîner behind told her masters and they wrote us this letter, and we set off to find Alice and Bella,”
“So toi lot think it is okay to go and snatch peoples wives!” I was at boiling point now, I jumped to my feet.
“No, please let me finish, please,”
“Jasper, let him finish please me and Bella haven’t even heard this,” Alice a dit tugging at my t-shirt trying to pull me down, I sat down immediately, hearing Alice’s voice asking me to do something just overruled me.
“Continue with your story.” I said, evenly, through my teeth.
“Okay. Well, my father agreed instantly, and so did his four brothers. But I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t see any reason. My Father just a dit that if the Volturi a dit something was to be done, it was to be done, no arguments. They can be quite sadistic with their abilities. That’s why I am glad I don’t have one.” He paused.
“Is there any plus to your story?” Edward asked calmly.
“Yes, the moment my father, and the rest of the coven, met your Alice and Bella they jumped to the chance to take them, without even realizing what their abilities are, of course now they’ve realised what they are.” He chuckled a little, “But they are away hunting and have left me in charge. Alice a dit toi were coming so we were waiting for you.” He announced quite proud of himself.
“Wait, toi knew we were coming?” I asked him, I knew Alice and Bella would know.
“Yes.” He shrugged, “Maybe I should explain, I have been trying to help them escape for the past week, but it is very hard to get past my Father, this is the first time, since our last failed attempt anyway, that he has let them out of his sight. He is very protective of them. Muttering something about, they are the key to my success, every so often.” Benny explained.
“So, you’ve been helping them?” I asked, suddenly all the pieces fit together.
He nodded.
“So, really you’ve not been trying to kill them, it’s your father and his brothers?” Edward asked, I think he knew what was going on too.
He nodded again, this time the movement plus abrupt.
“So who are we actually dealing with?” I asked,
“Well, my father Victor, is the leader of the coven, he has no ability, there’s my Uncle Cole, he can project,”
“What do toi mean project?” Edward asked,
“Well, whatever he imagines in his head, it basically comes to life. For example, say he imagined me bursting into flames, I would burst into flames.” Benny said,
“Oh. But is it mental? Like it’s not real? Like Jane’s?”
“Oh no, it’s real alright.”
“Please continue,” Bella asked politely,
Benny nodded, “Then there’s my Uncle Cameron, he is a feu starter.”
“A feu starter?” I repeated,
“It’s basically what it says, he can set feu with his mind.”
I shivered,
“Then there’s Uncle Cole’s wife, Natalie, she has telekinesis. And her twin, Amelia, she senses relationships, the same as Marcus.”
“Is that all?” Edward asked,
Benny nodded, “Amelia has a thing for me,” He chuckled, “But I’m not interested.”
I looked around, plus emotions coming, angry. “Maybe we should get them out of here,” I said, turning to Edward.
“Why?” He looked around, confused.
“Damn.” Benny muttered under his breath.
“Well, what do we have here?” A cocky voice asked, coming in from behind us.
“That’s why.” I whispered to Edward,
“Oh, crap!” Edward, Bella and Alice all a dit in perfect unison.
