I didn't understand why we were running.

Running and running and running.

It scared me. I had no idea what was going on. The pain that was pulsing through my body seemed unimportant to me right now. It was the terrified and fearful tint in Edward's eyes that distracted me.

"Edward!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. But he didn't stop. He wastrying to go faster.

The trees flew by us. For a second I thought we got on an interstate or something. Because I was positive that I saw the head-lights of a car skid by us, leaving a bright white scar in my eyes as they caught up near us. But I soon realized that these lights were keeping up with us, they were soon going to be parallel with us.

The wrenching feeling in the core of my body came back. It felt like I was burning in the inside-out. Nothing that Edward ever said or did would sate the inferno inside my chest, and it spread, slowly and oh so painfully throughout every limb of my body. You'd think I would be numb after almost three days of this, but I was climaxing to my transformation. So the blaze grew more intense. I yelped in pain, screaming out into the almost silent night.

"Bella! Bella…"Edward shifted his head to me, and then concentrated again on where he was running. "Bella! Listen to me!" I cried out in pain again. "You're almost done. It'll be okay…" He didn't sound sincere.

"Edward…" I whimpered.

"I'm sorry Bella…I love you." He told me.

I shook my head on his shoulder. "Edward," I whimpered again. "Please…what are you doing?"

But he jolted to a stop suddenly, and I let in a shaky breathe and started breathing harder again. Edward knelt me against a rock and too suddenly he turned around in a protective crouch. I felt like I'd seen him like that too many times.

I collapsed down on the ground, it was soft, brown dirt. My sweat dripped off of me in pools below my face. I would have been overly disgusted of myself, but I was in too much pain. I closed my eyes and listened to Edward's feral snarling, at what seemed to be nothing.

I heard it then. A slow ringing sound, the type of ringing you get in your ear. Only this was much higher, and faster. It started out slow, but it soon grew louder. All too suddenly it felt like I was surrounded by the ringing. I heard Edward scream out, and opened my eyes to see him on the ground almost in a ball, covering his ears.

"Edward!" I shrieked. But he couldn't hear me over the ringing…that's when I noticed behind Edward…the lights. The lights that seemed to be following us, except there were more than two, there were three now. These lights were different. They almost seamed sharp, and stabbing, bright white…whiter than snow it seamed. Whiter than the full moon's glow above us. Yes…these lights could outshine the moon's glow any day.

Edward slithered about, gasping for air and screaming out in pain. "Edward!!" I screamed out louder than before so he could hear me. He looked at me, his eyes thin, he…he was…his face…it was the most excruciatingly painful face I'd ever seen.

I cried as loud as I could, the mix of the fire inside me and the face he made nearly broke me in two. The lights were starting to dim down a little, and the ringing quieted down until it was completely gone, though it got much, much higher near the end.

"The poor creature is in agony!" A very masculine voice chimed out.

"As is the girl." A different voice, more melodic but still very masculine. This voice was closer. I opened my eyes to see a face.

He was tan…and his hair was golden. Not blonde…literally golden and it sparkled. He startled me, and I shifted back, gasping out.

"Do not be afraid." He said with authority. It was a command, and suddenly I calmed down a little. I took another look at his face. It was…beautiful. Not in the way Edward's face was. No one could be as perfect as Edward. But it glowed…with some sort of glow that I didn't understand.

"How long have you been like this?" He asked. Authority drenched his voice. Another command.

"Th-three days." I gasped out.

"No!!" I heard his velvet, musical voice cry out.

"Edward!" I yelled. I couldn't see past this man's face. I was suddenly furious and forgot about my pain. "Who are you?! What do you want?! What the hell are you doing to Edward!!" I shrieked out. "Edward!! Edward! Where are you?" I called, desperate to hear him.

"Bella!" He called. "No! Let go of me!" He growled. I tried to move upward so that I could see past the man's shoulder. But he grasped my jaw, roughly, but not enough so that I was in pain. He made me look at him square in his eyes. Green. His eyes were a peaceful green color…

"Bella…" He made his voice as gentle as possible. "I'm afraid that it's too late to fix you. We're going to have to destroy you both."

I froze, and suddenly his eyes…once light jade with saftey and comfort, suddenly they turned olive. They no longer had the softness of someone who wanted to keep me safe and comfort me, but now they were filled with wrath.

"BELLA! RUN!!" Edward screamed at the top of his lungs. I complied, jumping up away from the man. And for the moment, I could see clearly what was going on. I could see, but I couldn't understand.

I was out of the way of the man who was crouched above me from the ground and I was standing now. There were two other men holding Edward back, both had the same golden hair as the other man. Both were shirtless, revealing unbelievably muscular bodies, it was as if that's all they were, muscles. But that wasn't it. And that wasn't what made me stop from running. It was what was behind their backs that made my breath catch.

Wings.

Ivory, feathered wings.

"Angels?" I whispered. Before being snatched back into an iron brace by the other man. I screamed and heard Edward yell out at the same time as me. He shouted my name over and over again, telling me to run as I heard him struggle himself on the ground. I looked up at him.

One of the angels who was holding him held him up by the throat. But Edward, wild eyed and thrashing, kept yelling and shouting at me. He was delirious. But then the other angel unsheathed his sword. I screamed again, trying to fight back from the steal grip of this angel holding me.

"No! NO! What are you doing!? He did nothing!!" I yelled at him. But suddenly the angel's grip behind me tightend as I realized in horror….

The only way to kill a vampire is to shred him to pieces and burn it…

Edward had told me that once. The angel behind me was trying to snap me in half, but Edward! What where they doing to Edward?! He was lifting his sword with both hands over his head! What was he doing? No! No!

"Edw-"

And then there was the light. A bright, almost blue light. Unlike any I'd ever seen before, and it was warm on me, almost hot. I also felt pressure like I was being pulled down, and I was. Slowly, I was falling down somewhere, but I didn't know where, I just kept falling for a while. The light…was so warm, and comfortable.

This truly must be what dying feels like. Soft, warm. Not like you're drowning.

Edward.

It suddenly went black. Where was Edward? I moved my hands around the darkness. I couldn't see my hands! I started running. But my legs wouldn't move. I was in Hell!! That's why the Angels were sent over…to condemn us! NO! Edward! Where was he? I needed him! I tried to scream, but couldn't find my mouth.

A low echo started to form in my ear. An eerie, low windy echo, the kind you hear in a dark, desolate woods. It slowly grew louder, and then it was followed by a corresponding echoing sound that was a pitch lower. Soon a chorus of echos started…

'I'm dead.'