A/N Hello. Really sorry about changing the POV so often, but I won't be doing it after this chapter. Promise!
Also sorry about switching between present and past tense - I originally started in past, and some bits didn't sound right when I changed them to present - there's only a switch to present and a switch to past though - so after that you'll be fine. I'm going to try to submit a chapter per new reviewer, so get reviewing!
Update: After re-reading BD, I have realised how wrong parts of this are (and also how bad my writing is), so I'm uploading all the chapters just to get it over and done with. i am planning to re-write the story at some point, but I won't be doing that any time soon. I am going to write a sequel in which this story will be summarised, so really, you don't need to read it. Bye!
Chapter One - Changing.
Me
We were having a family holiday in Scotland.
I was on a walk, investigating a hidden path.
I never guessed that they'd be there.
Edward
We were hunting. It was a rarity nowadays, ever since they took Bella, we've been scared to leave each other alone.
Ever since they took Bella, I've hunted hard.
Every beast in the wild helps me vent my fury on the Volturi. I tease them, slowly making my advances. I torture, make it last. But the animals can't give me Bella back. And the real Volturi won't.
But this one wasn't an animal, and she smelt good. Like Bella, a small thought pushed at the back of my mind. But it couldn't get through to the monster, which had dropped the deer, and was running. Finally, to get to taste her sweet blood. I ripped away from Alice, and my recent habits kicked in. Tease. Spook. Chase. I zipped past behind the girl. Her head flipped around, too slowly to catch me, but fast enough to send her scent in my direction. So sweet. This would be good.
Me
I sped up. Whatever this thing behind me was, I knew that it was fast. And fast meant dangerous. And dangerous could kill me, and I didn't want that. Not now. Not ever, a small thought commented in the back of my head, but that was no time to collapse from my fear of death, so I pushed it away. I had started running. I kept seeing these flashes, as something zipped past me. A clearing, up ahead. Light. Light was good, it made me feel safe. Bad things don't come out in the light, or at least that's what my instinct told me. But I could see otherwise, as he glimmered in front of me. But I was out of breath, panting, I couldn't run, couldn't fight, could only watch as the glittering angel descended upon me, an evil smile on his face. I don't want to die.
Edward
Alice had caught up. She was standing in the back; she knew this was my show. The girl though, she was strange. A billion thoughts were passing through her head, flashing through varieties of thought chains. And many of them lead to the same thing. She wanted to live forever. She saw my reaction to that thought, and realisation dawned on her.
He can read me.
Then she started flashing through all the stories she'd read, about psychics, or anything like them. Her face lit up.
Twilight.
She looks disappointed when it has no effect. True, we'd heard of the book, but Bella had told us that it was just a load of crap, Human's fantasizing about magic powers and sex and stuff. It always comes down to sex with them. She described it as 'horrid', so I never saw the need to read it. Maybe I should have. The girl was looking panicky - she looked at Alice behind me, like she wanted reassurance. I sunk my teeth into her, and started sucking her beautiful juices out. Then she shot a dagger into my brain.
Edward.
I flinched back to my real self. How did she know? She'd have to try something better, as the monster came back, wanting, needing her blood.
Me
He started coming back at me, but I knew what to do. I was startled that he'd never read twilight, but I guess it made sense that Bella wanted to hide it. If he was Edward, then the girl in the back must have been Alice. She looked younger than I thought, and younger than the filmmakers thought too. But it didn't matter. I started remembering the films, it didn't matter that they were played by different people; he still recognised the memories as his own. That was it. He clicked out, realising what he had done. And only when I stopped being so focused did the pain shoot up at me, tearing through me like the venom it was. I could feel my DNA being ripped apart, replaced. I was changing.
Alice
He stopped. Good. I knew that the girl would do it, how else would she have been in our futures? What scared me was the look on Edward's face when he looked up at me, he looked so confused.
"It's Bella, it's Bella, and I'm killing her again."
"Edds, what are you talking about? Of course it's not Bella, we changed her, and she's in our futures."
"She changed back. It's her, it's her, she remembers!"
He was going into hysterics by then, he seemed so scared, I just didn't know what to do…
"Alice, suck it out, suck out the venom"
"I can't, Edds, you could only do it for Bells because you loved her, and even that was hard."
The girl was still screaming, so if we were going to do something, we'd have to do it soon, or she'd have changed too far.
Edward
A thought takes me by surprise. Carlisle could suck it out – he's the most powerful of any of us. We just had to get her to him. I bent down and picked her up, and although Alice was wondering what I was doing, she didn't intervene. I started racing home, and although she started running before I did, she still fell behind. Even carrying someone, who was then yelling her head off, I was still faster than Alice.
They look surprised when I come in, but I guess they weren't expecting me to come home with a human in my arms. Jasper looks taken over by her scent, but a quick growl stops him. I guess he's getting better at controlling himself.
"Carlisle, suck it out." I'm practically pleading with him as he takes her from my arms, and rushes her onto the dining room table. He starts checking her in various places, but I know every second is valuable, as her screams become louder by the second.
"Just do it, Carlisle!" I practically scream at him.
"I can't." I didn't realise that I'd been ignoring his, and everyone's thoughts until then, but when I let them flood back I realise that he's right. She's too far gone. And only now do I realise that it isn't Bella, no matter how much she knows. I can read her mind. And I can't make another child be dragged into our life. She'd be better off dead.
Alice
As soon as I see what Edward's planning to do, I move even faster home. Even if no-one else knows it yet, this child is the key. To Bella, maybe to so much more. He may be planning to use a crude kitchen knife, but anything with our power behind it could kill, so I need to be faster.
I don't know why he didn't just break her neck or something quicker, but I'm glad he chose not to. It gave me time to get to the table where she lay, to intercept him.
"She wants this. We need her. For Bella."
No-one's said Bella's name in such a long time. We almost thought we'd lost her, except for my visions. They just never told us how she'd get back. Anyway, because of our reluctance to say her name, everyone freezes when I say this. Edward drops the knife, and looks up at me like a lost little puppy.
"Really?"
"Mm-Hmm."
But the girl's still screaming, and suddenly I know what I can do. The pill. We've been working on it for a while now, ever since we learnt that human drugs can change the process, like with Bella, it desensitised her so she felt less of what it feels like to change. Well, until the end. But me and Carlisle have been working on various batches of modified drugs. I scan the future while I decide which drug to use. I see her telling us the effects of each one as I decide to use it. One doesn't have her in at all, so I get rid of the pill altogether. A few others say that she couldn't see the world around, but could still feel it, but there's one that shows her saying that it was just like sleeping, so I use that one. I pop it into her mouth and press a few pressure points in her neck to make her swallow. It should only take a few minutes to start working.
Me
The fire starts to fade away, and the further away it gets, the more the venom pain dissipates. I feel myself falling away from the flame. Falling into nothing.
I wake up in time to hear my heart give it's last little flutter, before I become completely unmoving.