In Paris 1723

[2.13]

"Where did you go?" I asked, noting his wet jacket and quickly wanting to change the subject away from my sore loss.

"Hunting," he said, "took down a pretty big bear too."

I chuckled as I crossed my arms, raising an eyebrow at him. "Really? I don't know if I-"

"Hey G," Theo said, walking into the room, "wanna go hunting with me?"

I bit my lip as I nodded, quickly flipping off Emmett as he laughed at how quickly I dropped the topic when Theo came into the room. I chuckled as I continued to hear Emmett howling with laughter as I walked out of the house, hand in hand with Theo. Both of us quickly raced into the woods and looked for our meal.

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"Isabella? Not to sound rude, but why in the world are you calling me?" I ask, dropping the now-dead deer to the ground.

"I- I need to talk to everyone," she said, sighing. "I'm with Edward. We're both on the way back to your guys' house."

"We'll be there," I say simply, hanging up the phone and promptly scanning the forest for Theo. Smirking as I watched him quickly drain the deer and drop it, quickly whipping his head back to me.

"As much as I hate to cut this oh-so-lovely adventure short, Bella wants to talk to us," I call out, watching him swiftly nod and begin to run. I chuckle as I quickly follow behind him, both of us racing back towards the house.

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Leaning back against Theo's chest, I fiddled with the ring that I now proudly wore on my finger. Looking around and meeting Rose's gaze, her eyes filled with annoyance at the sudden meeting that Bella called.

"You all know what I want," Bella says, looking down at us all from her position on the stairs, "and I know how much I'm asking for. The only thing that I can think of, for it to be fair, is to just vote." She nervously tucks her hands into her back pockets, looking at all of our different expressions.

"You don't know what you're talking about," Edward murmurs from the stairs behind her, glancing her way with sorrow at the idea of her turning.

"Shut up," Bella hisses at him, turning around and shooting him a glare. Turning back around towards the group, her eyes dart towards Alice first, who already had a smile on her face. "Alice?"

"I already consider you my sister," she says, chuckling and smiling slightly as she gracefully walks over, pulling Bella into a hug. "Yes."

"Thank you," Bella says back to her, shooting her a small appreciative smile.

"I vote yes too," Jasper speaks up, his body still tense at the sight of Bella, not wanting to have another accident. "It would be nice to not want to kill you all the time."

Bella sighs as she sends a small smile his way, Jasper returning it with his own pained version.

"I'm sorry," Rose starts, glancing up from the ground to look at both Bella and Edward. "I'm really sorry to both of you, for how I've acted, and I'm really grateful that you were brave enough to go and save my brother."

Bella looks down sadly, already knowing that Rose wasn't going to vote in her favor.

"But this isn't a life I would've chosen for myself," Rose continues, lowering her voice to a whisper. "And I wish that there'd been someone to vote 'no' for me. So, no"

"I vote, 'hell yeah,'" Emmett pipes up, a grin appearing on his face as he walks up to Bella and lifts her up, twirling her around. "We can pick a fight with the Volturi some other way."