Chapter 2 ...And we all fall down.
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Title: And we all fall down
Author: aalatariel but you can call me Jill!
Rating: T for now will be M with time.
Summary: Set during New Moon (why I like to write fics in that time period I have no idea) Edward makes the biggest mistake of his existence but what will happen when he rushes back to fix it? Where is Bella, who has taken her so quickly? Why didn't Alice see it coming? and, most importantly, how much time does he have? I haven't decided yet if this will be another bad Jacob fic (probably not) but I will warn you if I decide to take it in that direction. I was inspired to write this while listening to Muse's version of 'House of the Rising Sun' and 'Almost Lover' by fine frenzy.
Warnings: New Moon spoilers!
A/N: Not my characters...obviously!
Link to chapter 1!
Edward’s POV
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I crumpled the piece of paper in my iron grasp, I could swear I felt my heart jump back to life and start hammering in my chest. I had left Bella for a fraction of a time and this was what had happened. My mind swam with what the outcome would have been if I hadn’t have stopped, if I had sped away faster, if I would have never looked back. Bella would be gone, and I would never have known. My brain worked overtime to try and process everything that was going on around me, nothing was out of place in Bella’s room, nothing broken, nothing disturbed, which made the situation all the more eerie. I sniffed the wadded piece of paper I held in my hand, the scent made my nose wrinkle and my throat burn. It was a horrible smell mixed with an amazing one, which would explain why the venom instantly pooled in my mouth. I smelled Bella, which means they had forced her in the room, they had forced her to hold the note in her own shaking hands. The paper ripped a little as another round of rage hit me. But the other scent, the horrible one, was confusing me, it was messing with my sense, and I knew that’s what they wanted. I wasn’t sure if the scent was vampire, or it was wolf, or it was both. It smelled like the foulest rain water and muck in existence, yet it smelled familiar at the same time. It made my mind reel with fear that something unknown to me held the love of my life in their clutches, that they had taken her right from under my nose. No one’s thoughts had screamed at me as I raced back into the woods, Alice hadn’t warned me about any impending attack (not that she was speaking to me at the moment, still, she would have warned me if someone, other than myself, was planning on harming Bella.), there had been nothing, Bella had just vanished, a simple pawn in a cruel game that her captors were intent on me losing.
I needed to act fast. Charlie would be arriving home soon and wouldn’t be too keen on finding me in Bella’ room with no Bella to be found. I would eventually have to deal with Charlie, he would, obviously, realize his daughter was missing and come looking for her. If only Chief Swan realized the magnitude of filth that lurked in the darkness of the town he had sworn to protect. If only he knew that the gun in his holster would be merely seen as silly prop when used against these monsters, that, in their eyes, he was merely another human, they wouldn’t think twice when they destroyed him. I couldn’t, I wouldn’t, concentrate too heavily on Charlie at the moment. The story, the lie, that I would tell him when, not if, he came knocking on our front door, would take seconds to fabricate, I needed to get home and inform my family. Finding Bella, and finding Bella alive, was my first priority.
I tore out of the house with a burst of speed, hardly caring if anyone saw me (thought I did keep mindful to stick to the back roads). I ripped through underbrush and fallen tree limbs as I ran at my top speed back to the large house I called home. I only slowed as to not destroy our front door as my feet finally halted on the threshold of our foyer,
“Edward’s home from ruining Bella’s life.” Alice said bitterly as she packed books into a cardboard box. She kept her back to me, unaware of the look on my face, as I let out a very audible growl,
“Oh what is it now Edward?!” She snapped as she finally turned to look at me. I noticed the sharp intake of breath she took as her eyes met mine,
“Bella’s gone.” I said. The smallest chuckle escaped her and her mouth twitch a fraction of an inch,
“I’d be gone too if you just, all of a sudden, acted like you didn’t love me anymore. You are such an ass do you know this about yourself?! You know I liked Forks Edward!” She yelled acidly at me,
“You know you don’t have to block your thoughts!” Why was I arguing with Alice? I had much more pressing matters to deal with but it made me extremely angry when she blocked me,
“Oh trust me Edward Cullen you’d be in tears if you knew what I truly thought of you at the moment. I am severely censoring myself for Esme’s sake. I really don’t think she’d appreciate the words that would be coming out of my mouth if I--” I cut her off,
“NO! I MEAN BELLA IS GONE! SOMEONE TOOK HER!” I roared. I thrust the wad of paper that contained the note in my sister’s face. She snarled a bit as the scent hit her,
“What is that?!” She said sniffing it again, “Did Bella roll in a dead dog?…” She looked up at me terror quickly filling her small face,
“Who took her Alice?” I whispered. Alice shook her head, backing away a bit,
“I don’t know. And, I have no idea why I don’t know.” Her voice was as low, and as terrified as my own,
“EVERYONE LIVING ROOM!” I yelled as I made my way to our central room. My family was there in an instant and Jasper’s face shot to mine as my apparent emotions hit him,
“Why are you so angry?” He questioned me. I held the ball of paper in my hand and quickly whipped it at him. He caught it and the same growl that had come from Alice’s throat burned from his,
“She’s gone, someone took her and we need to find out who.” I ground out. Each member of my family had the same reaction to the note,
“Bella?! Who would take Bella? Oh Edward…” Esme said the fear of the unknown creeping into her normally motherly tone,
“Just out of thin air? Just like that?” Rosalie asked as she read the note with a confused expression,
“Who is playing this sick game?” Emmett asked as I saw him tense,
“Whoever it is obviously knows us and means business. I mean, why else would they use a human as bargaining tool for a family of vampires?” Jasper inquired. His mind was filled with curiosity, anger, and guilt as he tried to keep an emotional hold on the situation. Carlisle, however, did not speak. His eyes were locked on my face, waiting for me to explode at any moment, and I didn’t disappoint,
“WHY DIDN’T YOU SEE IT?!” I screamed at Alice who had remained silent for a few moments. Her face shot up and her eyes locked on mine, narrowing in defense,
“I DON’T KNOW! DON’T YOU THINK I’M TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT?! WHY DIDN’T YOU READ THEIR MINDS!” She roared back. I snarled at my smallest sister, my biggest ally in the family, the one who understood me the best,
“THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY BLOCKING ME!” I hissed. She took a step forward obviously not afraid of me,
“WELL I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU, DEAR BROTHER, THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO BLOCK ME TOO OR I WOULD HAVE WARNED YOU. YOU’RE THE ONE I’M PISSED OFF WITH NOT BELLA! IF THEY TOOK YOU I’D BE FINE WITH IT!” Her words came out through clenched teeth but the sound of her voice still filled the entire house,
“Stop it.” Jasper said barely above a whisper, he couldn’t keep up with trying to control our rage. We didn’t listen to him,
“Oh shit.” Emmett said,
“Oh please. GET OVER IT! If you want your girlfriend back Edward you have GOT to stop blaming Alice and start looking for her!” Rose shouted. I turned and shot a growl her way which made Emmett growl in response,
“We would know where Bella was if Alice knew how to control her powers better!” I regretted my words as soon as I had said them. I didn’t want to be mad at Alice, I wanted my family’s help,
“Edward.” Esme scolded. Alice was instantly furious and she ripped into me,
“THAT. IS. IT! You have obviously forgotten so let me remind you, Edward, that THIS was your FUCKING idea! Don’t you DARE make this out to be MY fault when you know very well that my visions are not 100% true all the time! YOU wanted to leave Bella behind! YOU wanted to leave Forks and NEVER see her again! Are you happy now?! You probably WON’T ever see here again Edward! Way to be the fucking HERO!, way to do what’s best for her, you must be so FUCKING PROUD!” And with that Alice stormed from the room and out the font door slamming it with great force behind her, Jasper shot me a terrifying, hate filled look and followed her.
The room was quiet until my cell phone vibrated in my pocket,
New text message from: BELLA. It read.
Title: And we all fall down
Author: aalatariel but you can call me Jill!
Rating: T for now will be M with time.
Summary: Set during New Moon (why I like to write fics in that time period I have no idea) Edward makes the biggest mistake of his existence but what will happen when he rushes back to fix it? Where is Bella, who has taken her so quickly? Why didn't Alice see it coming? and, most importantly, how much time does he have? I haven't decided yet if this will be another bad Jacob fic (probably not) but I will warn you if I decide to take it in that direction. I was inspired to write this while listening to Muse's version of 'House of the Rising Sun' and 'Almost Lover' by fine frenzy.
Warnings: New Moon spoilers!
A/N: Not my characters...obviously!
Link to chapter 1!
Edward’s POV
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I crumpled the piece of paper in my iron grasp, I could swear I felt my heart jump back to life and start hammering in my chest. I had left Bella for a fraction of a time and this was what had happened. My mind swam with what the outcome would have been if I hadn’t have stopped, if I had sped away faster, if I would have never looked back. Bella would be gone, and I would never have known. My brain worked overtime to try and process everything that was going on around me, nothing was out of place in Bella’s room, nothing broken, nothing disturbed, which made the situation all the more eerie. I sniffed the wadded piece of paper I held in my hand, the scent made my nose wrinkle and my throat burn. It was a horrible smell mixed with an amazing one, which would explain why the venom instantly pooled in my mouth. I smelled Bella, which means they had forced her in the room, they had forced her to hold the note in her own shaking hands. The paper ripped a little as another round of rage hit me. But the other scent, the horrible one, was confusing me, it was messing with my sense, and I knew that’s what they wanted. I wasn’t sure if the scent was vampire, or it was wolf, or it was both. It smelled like the foulest rain water and muck in existence, yet it smelled familiar at the same time. It made my mind reel with fear that something unknown to me held the love of my life in their clutches, that they had taken her right from under my nose. No one’s thoughts had screamed at me as I raced back into the woods, Alice hadn’t warned me about any impending attack (not that she was speaking to me at the moment, still, she would have warned me if someone, other than myself, was planning on harming Bella.), there had been nothing, Bella had just vanished, a simple pawn in a cruel game that her captors were intent on me losing.
I needed to act fast. Charlie would be arriving home soon and wouldn’t be too keen on finding me in Bella’ room with no Bella to be found. I would eventually have to deal with Charlie, he would, obviously, realize his daughter was missing and come looking for her. If only Chief Swan realized the magnitude of filth that lurked in the darkness of the town he had sworn to protect. If only he knew that the gun in his holster would be merely seen as silly prop when used against these monsters, that, in their eyes, he was merely another human, they wouldn’t think twice when they destroyed him. I couldn’t, I wouldn’t, concentrate too heavily on Charlie at the moment. The story, the lie, that I would tell him when, not if, he came knocking on our front door, would take seconds to fabricate, I needed to get home and inform my family. Finding Bella, and finding Bella alive, was my first priority.
I tore out of the house with a burst of speed, hardly caring if anyone saw me (thought I did keep mindful to stick to the back roads). I ripped through underbrush and fallen tree limbs as I ran at my top speed back to the large house I called home. I only slowed as to not destroy our front door as my feet finally halted on the threshold of our foyer,
“Edward’s home from ruining Bella’s life.” Alice said bitterly as she packed books into a cardboard box. She kept her back to me, unaware of the look on my face, as I let out a very audible growl,
“Oh what is it now Edward?!” She snapped as she finally turned to look at me. I noticed the sharp intake of breath she took as her eyes met mine,
“Bella’s gone.” I said. The smallest chuckle escaped her and her mouth twitch a fraction of an inch,
“I’d be gone too if you just, all of a sudden, acted like you didn’t love me anymore. You are such an ass do you know this about yourself?! You know I liked Forks Edward!” She yelled acidly at me,
“You know you don’t have to block your thoughts!” Why was I arguing with Alice? I had much more pressing matters to deal with but it made me extremely angry when she blocked me,
“Oh trust me Edward Cullen you’d be in tears if you knew what I truly thought of you at the moment. I am severely censoring myself for Esme’s sake. I really don’t think she’d appreciate the words that would be coming out of my mouth if I--” I cut her off,
“NO! I MEAN BELLA IS GONE! SOMEONE TOOK HER!” I roared. I thrust the wad of paper that contained the note in my sister’s face. She snarled a bit as the scent hit her,
“What is that?!” She said sniffing it again, “Did Bella roll in a dead dog?…” She looked up at me terror quickly filling her small face,
“Who took her Alice?” I whispered. Alice shook her head, backing away a bit,
“I don’t know. And, I have no idea why I don’t know.” Her voice was as low, and as terrified as my own,
“EVERYONE LIVING ROOM!” I yelled as I made my way to our central room. My family was there in an instant and Jasper’s face shot to mine as my apparent emotions hit him,
“Why are you so angry?” He questioned me. I held the ball of paper in my hand and quickly whipped it at him. He caught it and the same growl that had come from Alice’s throat burned from his,
“She’s gone, someone took her and we need to find out who.” I ground out. Each member of my family had the same reaction to the note,
“Bella?! Who would take Bella? Oh Edward…” Esme said the fear of the unknown creeping into her normally motherly tone,
“Just out of thin air? Just like that?” Rosalie asked as she read the note with a confused expression,
“Who is playing this sick game?” Emmett asked as I saw him tense,
“Whoever it is obviously knows us and means business. I mean, why else would they use a human as bargaining tool for a family of vampires?” Jasper inquired. His mind was filled with curiosity, anger, and guilt as he tried to keep an emotional hold on the situation. Carlisle, however, did not speak. His eyes were locked on my face, waiting for me to explode at any moment, and I didn’t disappoint,
“WHY DIDN’T YOU SEE IT?!” I screamed at Alice who had remained silent for a few moments. Her face shot up and her eyes locked on mine, narrowing in defense,
“I DON’T KNOW! DON’T YOU THINK I’M TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT?! WHY DIDN’T YOU READ THEIR MINDS!” She roared back. I snarled at my smallest sister, my biggest ally in the family, the one who understood me the best,
“THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY BLOCKING ME!” I hissed. She took a step forward obviously not afraid of me,
“WELL I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU, DEAR BROTHER, THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO BLOCK ME TOO OR I WOULD HAVE WARNED YOU. YOU’RE THE ONE I’M PISSED OFF WITH NOT BELLA! IF THEY TOOK YOU I’D BE FINE WITH IT!” Her words came out through clenched teeth but the sound of her voice still filled the entire house,
“Stop it.” Jasper said barely above a whisper, he couldn’t keep up with trying to control our rage. We didn’t listen to him,
“Oh shit.” Emmett said,
“Oh please. GET OVER IT! If you want your girlfriend back Edward you have GOT to stop blaming Alice and start looking for her!” Rose shouted. I turned and shot a growl her way which made Emmett growl in response,
“We would know where Bella was if Alice knew how to control her powers better!” I regretted my words as soon as I had said them. I didn’t want to be mad at Alice, I wanted my family’s help,
“Edward.” Esme scolded. Alice was instantly furious and she ripped into me,
“THAT. IS. IT! You have obviously forgotten so let me remind you, Edward, that THIS was your FUCKING idea! Don’t you DARE make this out to be MY fault when you know very well that my visions are not 100% true all the time! YOU wanted to leave Bella behind! YOU wanted to leave Forks and NEVER see her again! Are you happy now?! You probably WON’T ever see here again Edward! Way to be the fucking HERO!, way to do what’s best for her, you must be so FUCKING PROUD!” And with that Alice stormed from the room and out the font door slamming it with great force behind her, Jasper shot me a terrifying, hate filled look and followed her.
The room was quiet until my cell phone vibrated in my pocket,
New text message from: BELLA. It read.