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[ofthefamily]

The escorting from his unusual cell back through the crowd of people was bizarre enough.

It made returning to the door Carlisle had entered to arrive here, opening it, seeing the utter quiet and dank of familiar tunnels, jarring.

He walks through the door expecting another cell.






Carlisle is standing in the hallway. Outside of his former cell door.

He starts to run.

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[betagainstme]

They run. They run from the guard as fast as they can, and though Alice feels sick the entire time, nothing else happens. No, their futures are still there.

She's dizzy with visions of the future--their future--secure in her head, and as soon as they get far enough away, she wrenches herself away from her husband, dry heaving with tearless sobs.

They did it. They did it.

"We need--" she can't communicate the words to tell them that there's a door to Milliways in the back of an alley. That they can go home. She trusts that Edward will communicate this to Jasper.

For now, she's just going to slump against a wall.

[themidnightson]

Edward does just that, with little more than a sharp look (sharp for the situation and all the people still crowded up his head) and a motion of his hands.

"There's a way out."

Beat. "Follow me."

To the tune of a conflicted, but concerned and pointed sort of message in his tone of take care of Alice, I've got point.

The door isn't too hard to find, neither is avoiding them once they know they've done what they came to do. Edward can keep them from running into people when he hears them, and Alice's visions keep the both of them appraised of people changing directions or searching.




But no one will find them.

And no one hears the door close after them.