Who Killed Bella Swan?

Chapter 2

N/A :  Usual apologies

Disclaimer: See first chapter

Thanks for all the reviews. I got some interesting guesses as to who the killer might be but I'm not telling just yet. (See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

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Alice let out another sob and Jasper cooed in her ear in an attempt to get her calm, although he couldn't help but disapprove of Alice's hysterics.

She really isn't as upset as she seems.

In fact before the party started, Alice had already thought up five different ways of killing Bella without implicating herself or anyone in the family and disposing of the body. So did Jasper. Maybe they killed her and just didn't have time to get rid of the body. It's possible, especially since as previously stated, both Alice and Jasper needed Bella to disappear as well.

It happened mere moments after the incident in Carlisle's office.

"You should try it on."

Leah jumped in surprise when Alice suddenly spoke from the door way and the shifter stepped back, away from the large white ball gown hanging on the hanger in front of her against the closet door.

It was one of Rosalie's old dresses, from her third wedding ceremony with Emmett. They'd only taken it out since Bella had come over and Alice thought that she might want to see one of Rosalie's wedding dresses before choosing her own for her wedding with Edward. Rosalie wasn't too pleased with that and had resolved to burning the dress should Bella so much as think about trying it on. But Bella didn't really seem all that interested in the dress or even in the wedding for that matter, so it's basically just been hanging there since that morning.

Leah gave a snort as she folded her arms across her chest, "Yeah, I don't think so."

"Why not? I'm sure you'd look lovely in it." The pixie offered again as she stopped just a few feet away from the shifter with a small smile on her lips and Leah just rolled her eyes in return, "Because it reeks like a walking corpse that's why."

Alice didn't say anything to that. She didn't mention the fact that Leah was standing in the middle of their house which most probably reeked like walking corpse about just as much as the dress did, if not more and that didn't seem to bother Leah much at all.

Of course there are reasons why Leah was at the Cullen mansion; hours before Edward and Bella's engagement party when she was actually only meant to be there, it seemed to be the only reason that Leah ever really did anything at all.

Her little brother Seth, who was a bit preoccupied with Jasper downstairs in the den at that very moment.

Jasper and Seth happened a few months ago, just a few days before Victoria and her army of new born vampires attacked.

At first it seemed to be nothing more than mutual fascination. Seth has always been insanely curious about the vampires and what they were like, but never got the opportunity to actually speak to one since Sam was strict whenever it came to any kind of contact that the shifters had with the cold ones. So when he got the opportunity he made sure to take full advantage of it.

And Jasper well... simply put Seth was absolutely wonderful. His emotions seemed to consist of nothing more than pure joy and happiness and Jasper realized that he never felt calmer or had more control over his abilities than when he was around Seth.