Life Isn't So Simple With Her

'A Late Night Visit'

ScottsDale Hotel

Bella's eyes pop open. She's lying atop a bed, fully clothed. She rises, reorienting and enters the living room. The blinds are pulled. Alice and Jasper stare blankly at a T.V. set. Several plates of food crowd a table. Alice looks up as Bella enters, looking at her cell phone.

"I wish he'd call."

"You should eat." Alice states but Bella ignores the food. She sits heavily.

"They could get hurt. It's not worth it."

"Yes. It is." She's taken aback. It's the first time Jasper's engaged with her. "Edward's changed since he found you. And none of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you." He looks forward again. "It's worth it." Suddenly, Alice reels. Jasper goes to her, Bella follows.

"What do you see?"

Alice talks with deep worry. "The tracker. He just changed course..." Jasper quickly sets a pad of paper and pencil in front of her.

" Where will it take him, Alice?"

"Mirrors. It's a room of mirrors." Alice begins to draw at hyper speed, closing her eyes, trying to see it clearly.

"How do the visions work? Edward said they weren't always certain." Bella asks, confused.

"She sees the course people are on, while they're on it. If they change their minds, the visions change." Bella looks over Alice's shoulder to see the drawing.

"So the course James is on now will lead him to... a ballet studio?"

Alice looks up at her. "You've been here?"

"No. I don't know. Harley and I used to take ballet lessons as kids. The school had an arch like that."

"Was your school here in Phoenix?" Jasper aks.

"Yeah, around the corner from my house. But I haven't been there in ten years."

"Do you have any reason to go now?"

Bella scoffs. "No. Hell, no. I hated the place but Harley loved it." Alice and Jasper share a look, trying to figure this out. Suddenly, Bella jumps as her cell phone rings. She picks it up. Sees the caller I.D. and exhales relief. She answers. Walking away from the other vampire occupants. Alice and Jasper talk quietly.

"Do you think he will go after Harley as well?"

Alice shakes her head. "No, everyone knows to never attack or kill a third mate. Even someone as sadistic as him isn't that crazy to hurt her."

Jasper nods slowly. "True, killing her could bring something out of Rosalie and Emmett that we don't want to see." He pauses. "Something worried me a bit earlier but I brushed it off, I shouldn't have but we had this to deal with."

Alice looks to him, worried. "What's wrong?"

"Earlier, I was going to manipulate Bella's motions to calm her down from any shock she had but there was only little of it. I mostly felt smugness than anything else, which confused me."

She nods, a thoughtful look on her face. "That is strange." She pauses, a faraway look coming onto her face before it disappears. "I don't see anything but it might come later as to why." Jasper sighs.

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"Edward. Are you alright?"

"I'm coming to get you." He pauses. "We lost the tracker. The woman is still in the area. Rosalie and Esme are protecting your father and sister.

" This is my fault. You warned me, but I didn't think. I just..." Bella trails off but there is no sadness in her tone when she says this, Edward doesn't notice.

"Bella, we're in too deep. We can't change how we feel..."

"No... we can't." She pauses. "When will you get here?"

"In a couple hours. Then you and I will go somewhere. Together. The others will keep hunting." He then talks determinedly. "Bella, I swear to you, I'll do whatever it takes to make you safe again." She smirks, unable to wipe it off.

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