We Three Witches (Twilight)

The Swans

Edward's POV

March 21st, 2003

Content warnings: violence, angst

A few hours earlier...

"I should rip your throat out," Paul snarled, his pupils wide and his chest heaving. "I should have ripped it out the moment I found out you betrayed Bella, you lying piece of vampire filth!"

Jasper didn't react, even as the entire pack looked seconds away from shifting and coming after him. He just stood there, silently agreeing with everything they were saying.

"Back off," Emmett growled, stepping in front of Jasper. We might have been pissed at Jasper's involuntary betrayal, but neither of us were going to let these dogs touch him. "Watch your tongue, mutt, or I'll rip it out myself."

"You'd be better off watching that piece of shit you call a brother. It's his fault the girls are being gods know what right now!" Paul snarled

The witches stood aside with apparent disinterest. This whole argument had started because of one comment, one comment implying we weren't trying hard enough, and of course Jasper and Emmett responded in kind, the wolves had lost their shit, like the stupid mutts they were, and now everything was in chaos. Again.

If I hadn't despised them so deeply, I might have appreciated their defence of Bella. But right now I just wanted to shut them up. Particularly Paul who would not shut up. I narrowed my eyes at him. Who was he to think he alone had the right to be pissed on Bella's behalf? They got drunk together one time and suddenly he was her knight in shining armour? I bared my teeth at him. I ought to show this mutt his place.

"Don't pretend you care," I snapped. "You know nothing about the girls and what they've had to go through. If you really cared you'd have shown up before this."

"We know enough to know that the two brats are horrible to their sister, we know you leeches conspired with those spoiled princesses and broke Bella's heart, we know that you all betrayed her when she was already dealing with all that shit the readhead brought up," Leah snapped "And we know she fucking cared about your entire family, she fucking considered you almost to be her own before you broke her heart! We know lover boy over there dined and dashed, leaving her alone after sleeping with her, and we know you had almost conned her into forgiving you before you let your true colours show, hell we know more than her sisters do!"

Finally, Jasper's mask of self-loathing broke into a flinty glare. "Hold. Your. Tongue."

"Why don't I hold yours instead?"

I heard a deep aggravated sigh from amongst the witches, I didn't pay them much mind as I bent into a crouch as the mutts shook and snarled at us.

"Right, that's it." Those words were the only warning we received as the trees around us suddenly began to grow rapidly, cocooning us in some sort of dome as the branches weaved together above us

What the—

"I have had enough of this squabbling." One of the witches stepped forward, glaring at all of us. "You are wasting time quibbling over where the blame lies when none of you are trying to find them. For all you know they're already dead because you couldn't put your egos away long enough to look for them!"

I whirled to face the group, as did the others. "Of course we're loo—"

The witch cut me off. "No, you're not! Meeting up is supposed to be a quick exchange of information before we go out to search again, but all you have managed to do is waste over half an hour at each others' throats when the girls you profess to love and care for could very well be dying, bleeding out on some cabin floor without so much as a hope of rescue all because you lot can't put your differences aside long enough to see to the matter at hand! If we lose them it will be you who will have to look into their father's eyes and tell him he no longer has children because you all lacked proper discipline!"