Fic: The Edge (Twilight, Alice/Bella 23/?)

[fembuck]

Title: The Edge
Author: Janine
Fandom: Twilight
Pairing: Alice/Bella
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: All characters are owned by Stephanie Meyer. I’m just borrowing them.
Summary: Victoria is on the prowl, and has caught her prey.

Previous chapters here

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Two Days Later

Bella looked around her, her heartbeat increasing as she took in the darkness that surrounded her. She began to pant, and her breath came out in loud, harsh puffs as she turned her head from side to side, taking in the complete isolation of the clearing.

She couldn’t see anything except for the large, hulking silhouettes of the trees.

She couldn’t hear anything except for her own terrified breaths.

She couldn’t feel anything but the blinding panic crushing her chest.

Three thoughts ran through her head: Alone. In the dark. Helpless.

Bella closed her eyes and tried to calm herself, taking deep slow breaths.

She opened them again a few seconds later and sighed in frustration, wondering how had she managed to get herself into this mess?

A moment later she sighed again.

She knew exactly how she had gotten into this mess. It was stupidity … and arrogance. She had been running with lions and wolves for too long. She had been lulled into a false sense of confidence. The lamb had begun to think that she was something better, something stronger, a fox maybe. She had begun to think that she was a clever fox, but fox’s were prey as much as they were predators and they were hunted with much success by animals larger, smarter, more dangerous and far cleverer than they.

“Silly human,” she muttered to herself. She heard Alice’s soft, sweet voice in her mind as the words fell past her lips, and desperately wished that her lover was there with her, her cool hand, solid and comforting as she grasped it in her own.

“I couldn’t have said it better myself.”

Bella froze, her eyes closing as her heart seized in her chest.

She had only heard that voice one time before, but she knew immediately who it was that had spoken. The voice tapped into something primal in her, something ancient and irrational. Her Reptilian brain hissed ferociously at the sound, warning her of danger, of pain, and of blood. It recognized the voice calling to her for what it was …the voice of death.

“Oh god,” Bella moaned, turning her head to the side, a whimper escaping from her throat as her eyes landed on Victoria’s lithe figure.

The redhead was at rest, leaning against the trunk of a tree about ten meters from where Bella was standing. Her posture was relaxed, her head tipped lazily against the tree trunk, her eyes trained on Bella.

Bella shivered.

Victoria was a jungle cat sunning itself, lazily watching the zebras at the watering hole, indolent and relaxed … until the second before it pounced. The problem was that Bella wasn’t a zebra. She was aware. She knew that the jaws of death were only moments away from enclosing around her. That awareness left her terrified and trembling, but ultimately it was a good thing, because along with self-awareness, human beings were capable of reasoning, of logic, of thinking. Unlike the zebra she could assess the situation and act. She could be smart.

Bella straightened her back and met Victoria’s gaze as steadily as she could.

She wasn’t going to let the redhead see how completely fucking terrified she was. She was going to be tough. She was going to be cool. She was going to channel every badass female she had ever seen on TV or in movies.

She was Ellen Ripley. She was Xena: Warrior Princess. She was Sydney Bristow. She was Sarah Connor. She was Buffy the fucking Vampire Slayer.

She wasn’t going to run. She wasn’t going to scream.

She was going to quip.

After all, Bella thought, nothing showed your opponent how completely unimpressed with them you were like a good, well-timed quip. And, if Victoria wasn’t impressed by her wit, then maybe, just maybe she would be able to buy herself some time.

“I uh guhoh,” Bella sputtered, chocking on the last sound as her eyes began to water.

She wasn’t Ellen Ripley. She wasn’t Xena: Warrior Princess. She wasn’t Sydney Bristow. She wasn’t Sarah Connor. And she certainly wasn’t Buffy the fucking Vampire Slayer.

She was Bella Swan of Forks, Washington. She was a regular human High School student with no super powers, no utility belt, and no trailing in kung fu or various other deadly martial arts. She had no holy water, no stake, no secret incantations and she was beginning to fear she had very little bladder control left.

She was scared … and pretty certain that she was going to cry.

“Oh, very impressive,” Victoria drawled, pushing off of the tree. “I can see why everyone is so … enamored with you,” she continued elegantly stalking towards Bella. Her voice oozed sarcasm and derision, and Bella was positive that if she could have seen Victoria’s face properly that she would have seen a sneer stretched across the redhead’s full, red lips.

“Yeah well,” Bella managed to choke out, her eyes locked on Victoria’s swaying hips as she tried to force something coherent past her. “I uh … smell good?” she continued, her voice quivering and cracking as she spoke.

It wasn’t great, but it was something. She would have to do better next time. She had to keep Victoria talking. She needed to buy time.

“Yes,” Victoria said. Her voice was silky smooth. “I know that,” she continued, and Bella could hear her breathe in, no doubt savoring the scent of her tasty, tasty blood.

Bell cursed silently. She had never regretted being made of sugar and spice and everything nice so much in her entire life. Snips and snails and puppy dog tails had never sounded so appealing. They sounded perfect. She was sure that the scent of that wouldn’t have made her blood sing for anyone.

“The question now is … how do you taste?” Victoria continued, shockingly white teeth glinting in the moonlight as she smiled.

Bella blinked, the redhead was now only a few meters away from her, and Bella knew that she could close that distance in the time it took her to gasp.

There was no running from Victoria.

There was no hiding.

All that she could do was to wait.

“I’m going to be honest with you,” Victoria said coming to a stop three meters away from Bella. “This isn’t going to be quick. It is going to hurt. And it’s not going to be harder on me than it is on you,” she continued. “At the beginning you were just another blood bag to me, but … I’ve got to admit, chasing you for so long fucking irritated me, and now, I’m not just trying to hurt Edward,” she went on taking another step closer, “I really, really want Alice to suffer, too … which is going to mean additional unpleasantness for you.”

“What are you going to do to me?” Bella asked; her voice suddenly surprisingly relaxed.

Focusing inward for a moment, she noted that her mind was beginning to clear, and that her heartbeat was slowing down.

She felt almost … calm.

“I’m going to hurt you, Bella,” Victoria said, her voice flat as cold eyes regarded Bella thoughtfully. “I’m going to hurt you badly. And then I’m going to leave your broken, destroyed, mutilated, rotting corpse for them to find. And when they see the destruction wrought upon you, they will imagine all of the horrible and varied ways that I tortured you. They’ll torment themselves with possibilities that did not even occur to me, and whenever they think of you they will see your damaged, ruined body, and know that they were to blame. That you died and suffered because of them, and they will have eternity to lament it.”

Bella stared at Victoria for a moment after she finished speaking, and then her eyes drifted to the side.

“Oh,” she breathed out.

Her heartbeat was slow and steady, now, almost too slow, as if she were about to fall asleep.

“I kind of thought you were going to say something like that,” Bella murmured.

“You knew this was coming,” Victoria said taking another step forward.

“Yes,” Bella said, nodding slowly, her eyes tracing Victoria’s agonizingly slow progress.

“And you still fought with her,” Victoria said shaking her head, a cruel smile twisting her lips. “You still ran.”

A chocked sound escaped Bella’s throat, and she squeezed her eyes shut.

Victoria sneered at her. She couldn’t believe the stupidity of the girl.

In fact she hadn’t, for a quite a while.

The stupidity of Bella’s actions, the arrogance of them astounded her. The stupid girl had been safe while the Cullen’s were watching her. She had thought that the small one, Alice, was the weakest link, but Alice had proved surprisingly capable and Victoria had begun to despair that she would catch Bella alone, unguarded.

And then, watching from the distance she had seen Alice and Bella fighting, Bella pushing and slapping Alice, while Alice took it.

Victoria had felt a wash of disgust come over her as she watched. She couldn’t believe that she had been matched by Alice, that a weak, pathetic thing like her, who let a human hit her, who kissed and made love to a human instead of ripping her throat out and feasting on her blood, had very nearly beaten her.

It was galling.

Her face contorted in loathing, she had continued to watch the lovers fight, a growl very nearly escaping from her throat when Bella had leaned close to Alice’s face and yelled, “I can take care of myself!” at her, following the statement with a few obscenities.

Alice, seemingly finally remembering what dignity was, had then yelled “Fine, take care of yourself then!” in Bella’s face, glaring at human murderously for a moment before she turned her back on her and disappeared into the night.

Bella had then gotten into her piece of shit truck and taken off in the direction of La Push.

Victoria had been tempted to follow her then, but she was cautious, suspicious of the fight, of the opening that it had left her. It seemed too good to be true. The Cullen’s had been so careful guarding their pet that she was convinced it couldn’t be that easy. So, she had quickly made her way to the Cullen’s home, careful to keep hidden and stay down wind. She listened carefully, and watched closely and had been able to make out the voice of the blond alpha male and that of his mate, as well as Edward and Alice’s. Then, as she continued to watch she saw the big one, Alice’s ‘mate’ and the pretty blonde female return to the house.

She realized then that Bella was truly alone and raced to catch up with her, knowing exactly what route the girl took to La Push, having stalked her along the way many times. She found the girl’s truck abandoned about a five minute drive from La Push. The hood was warm, too warm and Victoria realized that the engine had overheated and that Bella must have gone into the woods to walk the rest of the way.

Victoria had then called James’ face up in her mind, and swore again to avenge him. She allowed her mouth to fill with venom and then she took off into the woods.

“Looks like you couldn’t take care of yourself after all,” Victoria drawled, the cruel, mocking smile still etched onto her pale features.

Bella felt the wind on her back, blowing her scent towards Victoria and the trees behind her.

“No,” Bella said softly her eyes scanning the tree line. “I guess people, really do need people,” she sighed.

Victoria smiled at that. Finally Bella had muttered a coherent response. She was starting to pull herself together. Victoria was glad. It was no fun kicking someone when they were already down. She would do it, but it wasn’t nearly as much fun. It was so much more satisfying to break someone.

“Good,” Victoria said smiling. “You’ll die with some dignity.”

Bella shivered. Her eyes were locked on the tree line again, staring at the small, dark silhouettes dotting it.

“I hope so,” Bella breathed out, her voice shaking as she met Victoria’s ruby gaze.

They stared at each other for a second.

“It’s just too bad you’ll never find out,” she breathed out, her lips twitching up in a smile.

The gloating smile fell from Victoria’s face and her eyes narrowed. Her lips pulled back over her teeth and she dropped in a crouch, reading herself to pounce. She was going to enjoy killing the arrogant little twit.

Bella straightened her back and closed her eyes.

All that she could do was wait.

Victoria growled and Bella’s heart stopped.

Bella felt a gust of wind against her face, and the scrape of teeth against her arm as she found herself flying through the air, her heart beginning to triple-hammer as she landed, hard, her body slumping over the solid surface she had landed on.

The sound of thunder echoed in the clearing.

Bella opened her eyes, her hands clutching at the soft fur covering the hard body of the over-sized wolf running beneath her. She clung to the russet fur, and shifted until she was resting more securely on Jacob’s back.

In the distance she could hear more thunder, and a pained howl.

She wondered if Victoria was dying with dignity.

She doubted it.

Bella blinked, trying to clear the tears from her eyes. She could see lights in the distance, and though her vision was still blurred she knew that they were very close to La Push.

Bella closed her eyes and laid her down upon Jacob’s back.

She was shaking uncontrollably.

What seemed like minutes later Jacob stopped, and Bella looked to the side to see that they were on the edge of the reservation.

The majority of the reservations population didn’t know about the werewolves and so Jacob couldn’t enter the town in his wolf shape.

Jacob sat, and Bella released the grip she had on his fur, allowing herself to slide to the ground.

Her hand landed on something hard and she looked down, staring quizzically at the large shoe her palm was resting on.

Bella removed her hand from the shoe and placed it on the damp earth beneath her. She used the leverage it provided to push herself to her feet.

When she turned around Jacob was standing before her in only the tattered remains of his shorts.

Bella stared at him for a moment.

She knew she should feel awkward. That she should turn around and let him put on the clothes that were no doubt scattered on the ground somewhere near the shoe she had been touching. But instead, she took a step towards him and wrapped her arms around his nude torso, hugging him tightly as she trembled against him, tears streaming down her face as she struggled to breathe.

“Don’t worry,” Jacob said, hugging her tightly, his head cocking to the side as another thunderous blow sounded in the distance. “When they’re done with her, nothing will be left but a stain.”

Bella made a small sound in her throat and clutched at his back, her nails digging into his tanned skin as she held him tighter.

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Fifteen Minutes Later

Bella sat with her hands around a warm mug.

She was in Emily’s house.

Over the past fifteen minutes the rest of Jacob’s werewolf pack had returned to the reservation and were seated or leaning against the varying hard surfaces of Emily’s house.

She thought that a few of them were eating, but she couldn’t be sure. She couldn’t really focus on anything. All she could feel was the warmth of mug in her hands, and worry.

“It’s been too long,” Bella murmured blinking rapidly, trying to force herself to concentrate on the figures around her. When she managed to get her eyes to focus she was looking at Jacob.

“They outnumbered her four to one,” Jacob said softly, reaching out to place his hand on Bella’s knee. “There’s no way she escaped.”

“I need to go home,” Bella said suddenly. She jerked up, her back straightening suddenly causing her to almost spill the hot contents of the mug in her hands all over herself.

Jacob reached for the mug, removing it from her hands.

“You’re not supposed to leave until Carlisle calls,” Jacob said speaking slowly, enunciating very carefully knowing that he didn’t have her full attention; that a part of her was somewhere else, wondering what was happening in the woods. “He’s going to let us know that everything is alright and then we’ll take you back to Charlie’s,” he went on even though Bella already knew the plan.

“Has Carlisle called?” Bella asked looking at Jacob wide-eyed.

“No,” Jacob said, handing the mug to Emily as she placed a hand on his shoulder and squeezed encouragingly. “We’ll take you home when he does.”

Bella was silent for a moment, her eyes losing focus.

“Alice,” she said softly, blinking rapidly as tears began to spring to her eyes once more. “Alice is small,” she said looking over at Jacob worriedly.

Jacob smiled softly. “Alice is a vampire,” he said. “She can take care of herself. She handled the bitch once on her own. There’s no way Victoria could’ve hurt her with her brothers around.”

Bella looked down at her empty hands and frowned.

“I had hot chocolate a minute ago,” she said looking up puzzled. “Didn’t I?”

“Here you go, Sweetie,” Emily said smiling gently, holding the mug out for Bella once more. “We were afraid you were going to spill it and burn yourself.”

Bella stared at her for a second, blinking slowly.

“You’re getting to know me well,” Bella breathed out finally, managing something that approximated a smile as she spoke.

Emily smiled back at her and Jacob slumped slightly in his stool, pleased to see Bella becoming more lucid.

It been her idea to use herself as bait, but theorizing about being face to face with Victoria and being face to face with Victoria were two very different things, and while Bella knew that they were coming for her, Jacob understood that she had also had to have been pretty scared to be out there at all.

Jacob’s lips turned up in a relieved smile and his parted to respond to Bella’s statement, however before he could utter a word, his head tilted to the side and his brow furrowed in concentration.

Bella looked over at Emily, and Emily nodded towards Sam who was listening the same was Jacob was. Looking around the room, Bella realized that all of the wolves had their heads bent in concentration.

“It’s the tiny female,” Sam said standing up.

“Alice?” Bella asked hopping to her feet as well. “What is it? What’s wrong? Is she okay?”

“She’s fine,” Jacob said placing a calming hand on Bella’s shoulder. “She’s … she’s at the edge of the treaty lines. She’s calling your name. Loudly,” he said his brows furrowing together.

“She’s getting closer to the line,” Sam said, his eyes focused intently on Jacob. “She cannot cross,” he said warningly.

They had been resistant to work with the vampires when Jacob had first brought the proposition to them. But Jacob was their brother, and had made a strong case, and they all cared for Bella as well and wanted to try and help her. So, somewhat reluctantly they had agreed to work with the vampires. But, rules had been set, rule that were nonnegotiable, rule that could not be broken – no matter how much they all liked Bella – and Alice was very nearly breaking the first of those rules.

Bella looked around her, her eyes widening in alarm as she saw some of the young men around her begin to shake.

“Jacob!” she said in an alarmed voice. “She’s just worried. She wouldn’t cross intentionally.”

“She’s still yelling,” Paul said. “People are beginning to go look to see what the commotion is. With those people around, if she’s all full of bloodlust …” he continued letting the sentence hang.

“We should go the borderland, just to make sure,” Quil said, practically vibrating with excitement.

“No!” Bella yelled looking around at them in alarm, realizing that were still hopped up from the hunt and that now that the Victoria threat was neutralized that they were looking for another fight. “No. Jacob, tell them!”

“They agreed not to cross the line, Bella,” Jacob said softly. “If she crosses the line …” he continued letting the sentence fall away.

“Take me to her,” Bella said, reaching out to grasp his hand. “Carry me, you run faster than I do, and … I’d get lost in the dark. Please Jacob! She’s just scared. She can’t see me here. She doesn’t know what’s happened!”

“Okay,” Jacob said knowing that if he’d said ‘no’ that Bella would have gone running out into the dark trying to find Alice about two seconds after.

“You can’t transform here,” Sam warned. The werewolves had their own rules to follow.

“I know,” Jacob said a bit irritably, even as he reached out and gently took Bella’s hand. “Come one,” he said softly to Bella, trying to get her to focus on him.

He hadn’t changed into new clothes, just thrown a blanket over his shoulders when they reached Emily’s. He’d lead Bella into the woods out of the sight of the general population, then quickly transform and run like hell, hoping to reach Alice before she did something stupid.

Bella grasped his hand and allowed him to lead her towards the door, trusting that he would do everything in his power to get her to Alice as soon as possible.

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“Oh, Jesus Christ, she’s still yelling,” Emmett moaned as they raced through the trees.

They’d been halfway to Charlie’s when they realized that Alice wasn’t with them.

“She’s scared,” Jasper replied picking up his pace.

He had felt Alice’s anxiety earlier, but during the melee everyone’s emotions including his own had been so frenzied and confused that he wasn’t able to monitor one person in particular. And then they had run, when they realized that Victoria’s body was nothing but bloody pieces, they had just turned and run.

“If she crosses the line they won’t forgive it,” Edward said. “They’ll come down on us.”

“She wouldn’t though,” Emmett said. “I mean, she … she wouldn’t!”

Alice yelled again, and Jasper exchanged a look with Edward and then they both glanced over at Emmett.

“Fuck!” Emmett swore now as worried as the other two. “Let’s move!”

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Alice danced on the edge of the treaty line, her eyes flickering between the dirt on the ground and the lights flickering in the distance.

Bella said that Jacob liked her. If she crossed he could … no, they had been so insistent. They would work with them, but no vampire was to cross the treaty line. Crossing the line would be seen as a violation of the treaty, despite the temporary détente that they had agreed to, and any Cullen stepping over it would lead to war.

“BELLA!” Alice screamed again.

She reached up and knocked the heel of her hand against her head.

She should have gone back to Charlie’s with the others. She knew that she should have gone back to Charlie’s with the others, but when they took off she just couldn’t leave.

She needed to see Bella. She needed to know that she was okay.

Everything had gone according to plan, but when she has seen Jacob’s hulking wolf figure racing towards Bella, his teeth grabbing her clothes, fear had rippled through her.

Her predator’s instinct had kicked in when they attacked Victoria and had kept her focused on the fight, but once it was over, all she could think about was Bella, and all she could feel was fear.

She had started towards La Push before she had even realized what she was doing.

“BELLA!” she yelled again.

Maybe she could explain it to them. They all liked Bella, and Jacob knew how much Bella meant to her. Werewolves or not, they were still people, they still had feelings. Bella had told her about Sam and Emily. They loved. They made mistakes. Maybe they would understand. If she explained that she just had to see Bella. Wolves understood mates. Bella was her mate. She had to see her. They would understand that.

She was sure they would understand that.

They would understand, she told herself.

Alice took a step forward, moving before her brain was fully aware of what she was doing. However, after taking no more than a few steps she found herself jerking to a stop, her right foot freezing in mid-air.

Something was different.

Something had changed.

Alice began to turn her head from side to side, her eyes scanning the forest around her, blinking rapidly, hyper appear of everything. A moment after she stopped moving, her eyes focused and narrowed. There was a hulking figure moving towards her very rapidly.

A werewolf was running towards her rapidly.

Alice tensed automatically, her knees bending dropping her into a crouch as the wolf continued to charge towards her. She breathed in deeply to calm herself, to focus her mind and prepare herself for a confrontation.

It was then that the scent registered with her.

Bella.

“Bella!” she called frantically, watching as the wolf – Jacob – came to a stop.

“Alice!”

Bella’s clear, beautiful voice rang out and Alice squeezed her eyes shut, relief flooding through her at the sound of her lover’s voice.

“Don’t!” Bella yelled hopping onto the ground beside Jacob, holding her hand out in front of her as she spoke.

Alice looked down and realized that she had moved again. Looking around she realized that she was on the very edge of the treaty line and that she may have breached the perimeter a little.

She forced herself to take a few steps back, her eyes never leaving Bella’s figure as Bella stood frozen beside Jacob, staring at her.

Alice extended her hand.

And then Bella was moving, running towards her, and Alice practically tore her skin off as she waited for her to arrive on the other side of the line.

Some part of Alice’s consciousness registered the sound of objects rushing at her from opposite sides and realized that her siblings must have been coming for her, and that the wolves were also racing to her position as well. But she didn’t care.

Bella launched herself at Alice, her arms flying around her as Alice immediately enveloped her in her arms.

Bella’s hand cupped Alice’s face, and she pressed her forehead against the vampire’s, staring into her eyes as Alice’s name fell from her lips over and over again in a desperate whisper as if she couldn’t quite force herself to believe that Alice was standing in front of her.

And then they were kissing, desperately as their hands clutched at each other’s clothing, Bella’s tears running into their kiss.

Bella pressed her face against the sweet spot where Alice’s neck met her shoulder, and Alice tilted her head up, breathing in the scent of Bella’s hair as it fell across her face.

She could smell Jacob on Bella, but she didn’t mind. Jacob’s scent was sweet to her at that moment. He had saved Bella again. He had kept her safe. In that moment, Jacob’s scent became synonymous with Bella’s life in her mind, and Alice knew that she would never draw back from the smell again.

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Edward watched as Alice and Bella embraced, Alice’s thoughts bombarding him as Bella clutched at her.

Strong emotions were next to impossible to block out, and all he could hear in his mind was ‘oh, thank god, thank god,’ over and over again in Alice’s melodious voice. He could feel her relief pouring through him, he could smell Bella’s scent as she did, and felt the way it calmed and soothed her. He could feel the way Bella’s hands moved over her, clutching, and grasping and caressing, without a moments hesitation or awkwardness.

They fit well together, their bodies interlocking seamlessly.

Edward closed his eyes, as he realized that they always fell so easily together. Leaning against the lockers at school, Bella’s body always swayed towards Alice. Walking through the hallways, Alice’s hand fell easily into Bella’s. Sitting around the living room, their thighs always brushed against each other, their fingers twining together occasionally, or brushing against some part of the others body almost compulsively.

When they touched, and they touched often, much more than either of them realized, it was natural and casual.

Even Bella’s laughter came easily around Alice.

In fact, she never seemed to stop smiling and laughing when they were around each other. Even when they were fighting they found a way to touch each other, and Alice found a way to make her smile.

They interlocked seamlessly together, Edward thought again, opening his eyes.

They fit well together.

They were in love.

Even when they were mad at each other they were happy.

They needed each other.

Edward lowered his eyes.

If he had ever really had Bella, he had lost her. He knew that now.

Edward released a deep breath.

He felt strangely calm, almost peaceful. He looked over at Jasper, wondering if he was messing with emotions again, but a quick scan of Jasper’s brain showed him that Jasper was concentrating on the reunion scene and not on manipulating his emotions. In fact, Jasper seemed to be trying to shut down his talent, which was being overwhelmed by Alice and Bella’s emotions.

Focusing forward, Edward watched as Jacob approached the couple. He felt venom rush into his mouth at the sight of the teen and had to ball his hands into fists at his side.

He watched as Alice smiled at Jacob, and reached out with her hand to shake his. Jacob smiled back, and Bella looked between the two of them grinning. He could smell Jacob’s scent through his connection with Alice and while it set him on edge she seemed almost comforted by it now.

“Dude,” Emmett drawled disbelievingly. “She’s hugging the dog.”

Jasper nodded distractedly at the comment, his eyes focused on the scene in front of him intently. Emmett continued to give a running commentary despite Jasper’s distraction however, but Edward tuned him out.

He was wondering what the weather was like in London.

To be continued...

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Comments

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to see that Edward get's it now he can go find someone else to like.

lol. He'll probably wallow for another hundred years or so before actually finding someone else to like, but that doesn't matter since Bella and Alice will be free to have guilt free sexy time during that century!

[(Anonymous)]

this was most awesome. numerous things to tick off that i loved. bella trying to be courageous like buffy but failing. jacob saving her and the cullens ripping victoria apart. alice desperately calling for bella and nearly losing her mind and crossing. their reunion because it woke edward the fuck up and he realized bella was never really his. and possibly the same realization going on with jasper. alice hugging jacob and possibly becoming good friends. my gosh. this was all so worth the wait. :) i'm really hoping it's not going to be over soon though... i love my two girls.

-d

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks so much. I'm really glad that you liked the chapter (this was a favorite of mine, so I was worried about how it'd go over)

and possibly the same realization going on with jasper.

Yes. Jasper's not quite as far along in the realization process as Edward though. But he's definitely feeling uneasy.

i'm really hoping it's not going to be over soon though... i love my two girls.

Probably ten or so more chapters to go.

[lightbluenym.livejournal.com]

SO. MUCH. WIN.
I can't even...just...*brain melts*

[lost-dreamer23.livejournal.com]

ditto.

[ediwan-kenobi.livejournal.com]

Well at least Edward knows now that he is no match against Alice hehehe

YAy!!! great chapter n.n

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Well at least Edward knows now that he is no match against Alice

He's a slow learner, but at least he has learned, lol

[music-iz-life77.livejournal.com]

Thank god Edward realized Bella is way better with Alice. So now he can go away and be emo somewhere else. now its only a matter of time till Jasper realizes it too.

oh btw did you see the twilight live at much? stupid screaming girls were killing me. I just wanted to call in to ask a question and tell them all to stfu. like seriously why wait around in the rain for 2 days if all your going to do is scream the whole time. and when they asked the cast what they were obsessed with kristen said nikki reed and i smiled remembering your post with the nikki reed interviews.

[lost-dreamer23.livejournal.com]

and when they asked the cast what they were obsessed with kristen said nikki reed and i smiled remembering your post with the nikki reed interviews.
THIS.

By the way...

[lightbluenym.livejournal.com]

I was delerious earlier and forgot to mention: I had a lovely visual image of Team Cullen landing in a circle around V, and Alice calmly walking forward like Aragorn in the last battle...Quite possibly the best "You fuck with her, I fuck you up" moment ever...Please tell me they get to have comfort!sex in the next chapter????

Re: By the way...

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

I had a lovely visual image of Team Cullen landing in a circle around V

If vampires could shit, you know Victoria would have been shitting her pants when she saw them surrounding her. TEAM CULLEN FTW!

Please tell me they get to have comfort!sex in the next chapter????

Eh, Bella tired. It's been a long day and ... ... oh, I can't keep it up. Of course they have comfort sex (well, it's alluded to at least *ducks anticipating rotten fruit being thrown)

[madndizzee.livejournal.com]

this is awesome! Bella being brave and Alice desperate to know she's ok, so desperate she almost caused a war. their frantic reunion. Alice hugging the "dog" lol. Edward finally getting the picture. and probably Jasper too, although i feel sorry for him more than anything. he'll never be that close to Alice after all.

Bella was her mate.

i love that line! so possessive and definite, like that's the be all and end all. :D

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

and probably Jasper too, although i feel sorry for him more than anything.

He's beginning to get how things are going. But their lives are gonna be a little bit different, in the upcoming months which is going to make the full realization take a bit longer for Jasper.

It does majorly suck to be Jasper at the moment though.

i love that line! so possessive and definite

Heh. Possessive!Alice is the sex. But she's possessive in an awesome way, not a stupid and annoying way (I hope at least, lol) Edward probably would have sped at Jacob and ripped Bella off of his back, and then yelled at him for not having a safety seat on his back or something.

[(Anonymous)]

I may have been slightly distracted by nikki-kstew always hovering over each other, but THIS, alice&bella's reunion, made me realize that it still is bellice for me. nikki can have kstew in real life, but bella will always be alice's mate. love, love, love! :)

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

I may have been slightly distracted by nikki-kstew

lol, I know! NikkiStew has been stealing the gay as of late, but Belice cannot be written off!

nikki can have kstew in real life, but bella will always be alice's mate.

This!

[(Anonymous)]

I was watching Mtv's Spoilers and they pretty much said that Alice is an effing badass in the fight scene in the movie so i all i did while reading this was picture Ashley Greene kicking the crap outta Victoria...awesome and kinda hot ;)

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

they pretty much said that Alice is an effing badass in the fight scene

*drops to knees* OH THANK YOU GOD! I was hoping Alice would be badass after that crazy tiger leap she does in the trailer (flanked by the other Cullens, but she's front and center like the boys were stand back and let her handle things, lol). That's gon be hawt as hale.

all i did while reading this was picture Ashley Greene kicking the crap outta Victoria...awesome and kinda hot ;)

This.

[bridz87.livejournal.com]

victoria goes DOWN! yay for butch alice, i can totally visualize her kicking the shit outta victoria...in my mind, alice is all "stay back guys, the bitch is mine!". the possibility of some comfort!sex really appeals to me for next chapter, and so long edward, see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya! great chapter :)

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

yay for butch alice, i can totally visualize her kicking the shit outta victoria

*woot* Butch!Alice love.

in my mind, alice is all "stay back guys, the bitch is mine!"

You know she was! You know after Victoria was a little wounded that Alice probably stood in front of the boys and like growled and shit at them until they backed down so that she could handle Victoria herself.

so long edward, see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!

Truer word? Never spoken.

[alexz6.livejournal.com]

SO. MUCH. GREATNESS!!!!
I loved EVERYTHING from Bella trying to pretend to be a badass, to Emily serving her a mug of hot chocolate, to everyone calling Alice 'the tiny female'
but most of all: i LOVED ADORED ---a bunch of other words meaning the same---how you wrote Alice's desperation to see Bella (despite that it was part of the plan to meet up later at an assigned location). But OH MY GOD! the way you WROTE IT, it just-- i dont even know, it's like you could FEEL it from the reader's Point of View
and
HOLY CRAP YESSSSS!!!!TO EDWARD CATCHING ON AND PLANNING ON GETTING LOST!!!
As much as i've enjoyed Jasper being such a great sport during this whole thing- i think he's getting the fact that Alice belongs to Bella and visaversa now *nod*
i dont have the proper word to tell you just how amazingly well this was written so i'm going to stop rambling now
---cept for:
MORE PLEASE!!!!

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks so much for the comments. The caplocks and exclamation points make me feel warm and fuzzy inside (like Sarah Connor does when Cameron walks around in her underwear)

YESSSSS!!!!TO EDWARD CATCHING ON AND PLANNING ON GETTING LOST!!!

He packs up next chapter, and then he's gone, bb, gone!

As much as i've enjoyed Jasper being such a great sport during this whole thing- i think he's getting the fact that Alice belongs to Bella and visaversa now *nod*

He's realizing. The way their lives are going, it's going to be a little while before Jasper really REALLY admits to himself what's happening, though. It took a dramatic event for Edward, and it'll take a dramatic event for Jasper too *exaggerated wink*

Belice FTW!

[acg453.livejournal.com]

She was Ellen Ripley. She was Xena: Warrior Princess. She was Sydney Bristow. She was Sarah Connor. She was Buffy the fucking Vampire Slayer.
She wasn’t going to run. She wasn’t going to scream.
She was going to quip.
“I uh guhoh,”

I ROFL'd so much at that!

But, on a more serious and important note... *begins victory dance*
Edward is gone! He's leaving! GAHA!

Re: Belice FTW!

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

I ROFL'd so much at that!

I'm glad you liked that part. I was wondering if it would go over well, or if it would seem cheesy, so I'm happy it was actually funny instead of cringe inducing lol

Edward is gone! He's leaving! GAHA!

Next chapter he is literally packing his bags, and is then gone!

[p3-den.livejournal.com]

Pure awesomeness. I love the way you write. I especially loved Alice being so worried that she was screaming her lungs out and almost crossed the treaty line. And then the reunion part was just...wow.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks so much! I'm really glad that you enjoyed it (and the Alice/reunine scene. I was all anxious writing that one, so I'm happy the urgency came across. I feel like NikkiStew talking about how they NEED NEED NEED each other, lol)

[bizarro-bluth.livejournal.com]

I know everyone's been saying it but...

She wasn't Ellen Ripley. She wasn't Xena: Warrior Princess. She wasn't Sydney Bristow. She wasn't Sarah Connor. And she certainly wasn't Buffy the fucking Vampire Slayer.

...I have mad, take-it-behind-a-middle-school-and-get-it-pregnant love for that line.

Alice debating whether or not to cross the treaty line and her desperate calls for her bb were love, as was their reunion. *cough*makeupsex*cough*

I think your Victoria was pretty spot-on; I actually always found her kind of interesting in the books, even if she's dumb as a post and SMeyer wrote her fairly 1-dimensional. Glad you included more of the La Plush gang too, that plus the possibility of an Alice/Jacob friendship, Edward leaving, and Jasper coming to an inevitable realization = too much win to function.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

...I have mad, take-it-behind-a-middle-school-and-get-it-pregnant love for that line.

Take-it-behind-a-middle-school-and-get-it-pregnant love ... awwwww *gets misty eyed* This gets me, right here *pokes thumb against heart*

*cough*makeupsex*cough*

lol. There will be make up sexin', but it won't be as explicit as in other chapters. Hopefully it's enough to satisfy though (well, the readers, I promise you both Alice and Bella are satisfied, lol). More sexin' is on the way though, so don't worry.

even if she's dumb as a post

LOL! This can be said for SO many SMeyer characters. At least Victoria had badassery to counteract her stupidity, lol

[widget007.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Brilliant update! *big grin*

can't wait for the next one!

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks so much. I'm really glad you enjoyed it. I'll try not to keep you waiting too long for the next chapter.

[itsmysecretlife.livejournal.com]

mad love for this chapter...but we can has peek at the sexytimes, plz?

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

but we can has peek at the sexytimes, plz?

There will be a peek at sexytimes, yes :D For full blown, dirty, NC-17 sexy times, it'll be the chapter after the next one though (if I remember my game plan right!)

[orange-soda77.livejournal.com]

Oh my god this chapter is just made of win.

Like, everything.
And this line "She was Ellen Ripley. She was Xena: Warrior Princess. She was Sydney Bristow. She was Sarah Connor. She was Buffy the fucking Vampire Slayer."
is the epitome of awesome.

:D Can't wait for more.
Or for Edward to leave!! *does a little dance*

[kukui-olelo.livejournal.com]

JUST SAW THE MOVIE! and it made me want to re-read all oft the chapters, so I did. Can't wait for the update!

[steppenwolf-20.livejournal.com]

She was going to be tough. She was going to be cool. She was going to channel every badass female she had ever seen on TV or in movies.
She was Ellen Ripley. She was Xena: Warrior Princess. She was Sydney Bristow. She was Sarah Connor. She was Buffy the fucking Vampire Slayer. ROFL

Nice trap *g* And seeing Alice so desperate that she almost crossed the line (nice innuendo BTW).
And idiotic Eddie finally got a clue *ggg* He's leaving now, isn't he ?? *ggggg*

[curiousleigh.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes. Fantastic.

[demzrulez.livejournal.com]

"Dude she's hugging the dog" I can just imagine in my head the look Emmett would have on his face when he said that.

Forgive me, I like to reread things...a lot... :)

[lightbluenym.livejournal.com]

*Quietly raises hand* small request? Would you ever consider writing the fight scene from Alice's POV? Cuz seriously, imagining her and Edward tag teaming Victoria WWE style is the best thing I've imagined all day... :D

[spydrmnky4.livejournal.com]

“Dude,” Emmett drawled disbelievingly. “She’s hugging the dog.”

Lol. I had a feeling it was a set up. Very nice chapter!