AN: Twilight isn't mine...obviously.

BPOV

The Flame rose above the town years and years ago. Before my grandfather's grandfather was born, and yet still I have always wished to see it come down. They same the Flame brings luck to our village, and yet I still wish to enter it and destroy it from within.

Maybe that will be my downfall.

My father, a mere peasant, decided years ago that I was to marry for love, like he did. Never mind the fact that my mother left him heart-broken and without a name. He loved her, and he told me I would need to experience that before I wed.

I would have married the suitor with the best family otherwise.

Yet none of my suitors had even come close to inspiring in me the passion I felt just from looking up into the Flame at night. And none of them came close to making me feel as I did when I touched myself while thinking of the man in the Flame.

I was not pure. Like many of the females around me I pretend to blush when a man insinuates anything impure, but to be honest a woman cannot know how she feels if she hasn't been with the man. Anyways, my father has always been open, and there is not a man in town who would deny me simply because I have lost my maiden head.

The man in the Flame is the talk of the town. He has been for generations. Every now and then a woman is sent and she is given over to the one who sees. According to legend there is but one who can bring the Flame down. That day is both anticipated and feared.

The town has grown accustomed to the Flame. He watches over us. Our nights are not as dark as they used to be. The legends reach back much further than any memory, and the nights used to be long and horrible filled with creatures that killed and other evil deeds, but that was before the Flame came along and changed all of that.

The Flame brought with it two things: the seer and peace. The seer may have brought the peace, but it is synonymous with the Flame. The seer built the Bell Tower. The bell tower is how the Flame is accessed. The seer sends women into the Bell Tower, one has never come out. I don't know what to believe. I only know the feelings which the Flame inspires in me are mine alone. I have talked to Angela, Jessica, and Lauren. Not one of them has felt the things I feel for the Flame.

I know one day I will need to submit myself to the seer, but not a single woman has ever returned, and the Flame has yet to come down. I do not wish to die so young. I feel as though living in this torment however is not living.

APOV

I love my brother, but seriously he needs to find the right girl. He is so goddamn stubborn. I swear I look up at his fortress and I realize that sending in woman after woman has not been good for him. He needs the right one. He needs someone who can tame him and not drive him crazy at the same time.

He needs someone to get under his skin.

Edward was always so stubborn. I have given up my day life to watch over him, but my nights are devoted to Jasper.

When I look ahead, I keep seeing a black spot. I need to talk to Jasper about all this. I can't see anything past a few weeks from now. I only go to the future in my mind when I am watching Edward. If I did it at other times. I would lose myself completely to the future. It is such a nice place sometimes.

I still am in awe about the beginning...how could Edward have broken a girl's heart, and why did it have to be Tanya Denali's.

EPOV

I was not new to this world. I had lived here for a long time, and well I had lost touch with humanity. Alice liked to call me a heart breaker, but I honestly didn't know how to survive any other way. She called it living, but honestly, was it? Was this living? I was tortured everyday. I had a to make a horrific choice, I had to choose between living and killing. I had to take lives to survive. It was not living, it was merely existing. That is until we found out about the animals.

Animals had always smelled bad, worse than humans really, but their blood is enough to abate the thirst. It is enough, but just barely. It is a difficult switch for any Vampire to go from human to animal blood, but I chose that the moment I found out it was possible to exist without killing.

I started trying to live once I had nearly conquered my battle with thirst.

I started to interact with people. I made friends. I had girlfriends.

This was during the height of the human civilization. The land had not been destroyed by nuclear fallout, and human civilization was advancing faster than ever, but my actions, and mine alone were about to change that.

I mentioned the girlfriends part. I had girlfriends, multiple girlfriends at the same time.

I was a ladies man. They loved me and I loved them and their glorious bodies. I had never actually loved a woman the way Jasper loves Alice, but I had given them pleasure, and they had given me pleasure as well.

The biggest mistake of my life was to assume that Tanya Denali would love me like everyone woman I had made mine in the last few decades. Tanya had power. I had not known how much until it was far too late. She had a great gift though, and she wanted me for herself.

I was too much in love with myself to notice her more than any of the other women so when she asked me as they all did to start dating her and her alone of course I told her what I always said. "It would be my pleasure."

Had I known that this sentence would literally have brought the world to an end I wouldn't have said it. I would have been more upfront about it, but that's life. I thought I was invincible, but she was so powerful, so ingenious as well.

Tanya Denali was a full fledged witch. Now we don't hear much about witches in my world because most of them are just little girls with what appears to others to be really amazing luck, but not Tanya Denali. Tanya Denali could literally make anything happen with a thought. And she knew it.

Only the most powerful evil witches can know their power, and that was the problem with Tanya Denali she knew her power.

It wasn't long before she figured out that I was a Vampire. She realized I would live forever, and then she realized my ability. She realized I could read minds, and suddenly she was power hungry. I never actually figured out how she had managed to figure out my secret. Something in her ability must have allowed her that, but it was impossible to dissuade her from wanting this. She wanted to become a Vampire, and there was no way I wanted her to turn.

"Edward, you will turn me. I have ability beyond your imagination and if you don't turn me I will get someone else who can."

I told her I'd think about it, and then I fled. I ran from Tanya and went as far as the earth would allow me, but I didn't stay hidden for long. A year at most later Tanya found me, and her eyes were a deep ruby red.

She was beautiful in the way all Vampires are inhumanly beautiful, but she was evil, pure evil, and that shone through all of her beauty.

"Edward, you have betrayed me. You made me find another source of venom, and now you will pay. You will pay for eternity."

It was seconds later that Tanya Denali encased me in a fiery rage. I was enclosed in fire, and there was no pain, but no way of escape without it. I was stuck, and only through one small slot in the wall of fire could I see anything.

Alice appeared in the slot moments later. She had seen it of course, and she went about finding a way to get me out.

There was one thing about a witches powers, they always contained a loophole.

Alice went about finding this loophole, but in the process Tanya created a nuclear war.

The war was just as every doomsayer had always predicted, it was as if the sky was falling. I was trapped in my ring of fire. Nothing could touch me. I was protected by my eternal cell, and there is not a day that goes by that I do not wish the fires had engulfed me and killed me.

The nuclear war had killed Tanya. She had immeasurable power. She could level cities with her mind, but she could not control her thirst. She could not find a way out, and that was what she wanted. She was a witch and her wish was her command. She wished to go out with a bang, and suddenly there was no Cuban Missile Crisis, the hot line was forgotten. War broke out. Nuclear war, which killed almost everything in existence.

Alice told me of the people who survived they were not able to bring society back up to its former gory. They lived like savages. the ones who had known how to build things had died. The ones who were left were the farmers, the country folk. They knew how to exist, but they didn't know how to build an ipod or telephone service. They knew how to build and grow food. So technology went back a few hundred years.

The people who were left didn't even want to progress it seemed. They had learned that progress only led to extinction.

Villages started popping up, and even though Tanya had died she had not given me that option. She had left me in a pit of fire that would literally burn for eternity. And inside it I would sit for eternity while I thought and thought. I tried to remember exactly what I did that destroyed the whole world and I realized I was a whore.

Had I been faithful or celibate none of this would have happened.

So I decided I was going to change my ways if I ever found a way out of here.

Then one day Alice returned to speak with me.

"I found it. I found it. I found the key!" She always did have too much enthusiasm.

"Well how are you going to get it to me?" She looked confused at my statement.

"The key? How are you going to get it here?"

"Silly. I don't actually have a key. I just have a clue. I know how to get something to you though. I need some time though."

"A clue?" I was thoroughly confused.

"Yes. I found out that fire is used as a symbol for passion. I am almost 100% certain if you can feel a passion that is hotter and more fiery than the fire itself it will allow you through unscathed."

"Alice that is by far the cheesiest thing I have ever heard."

"You try scouring a post-apocalyptic world for clues about ancient myths that no one believed."

"Another thing Alice. How am I supposed to feel any sort of passion that is hotter than fire."

She smirked. "Let me take care of that."

About a week later there was a building that resembled a bell tower across from my viewpoint. I knew it hadn't been there before, and it confused me, but it just seemed to be there the next time I spoke with Alice.

"What is that thing?" Referring to the obtrusive sight.

"It is a portal. It should allow something into that fiery pit you call home."

"What?"

"I found something from the past I believe it to be Tanya's and she seemed to have devised a portal that allowed things in but not out."

"Why did she go through the trouble of doing this?" I still couldn't fathom it.

"Because you scorned her. You denied her and she was too powerful to accept that. She was strong willed if nothing else."

Alice simply sent in a cow. I couldn't understand it, but any desire for blood I had was gone. I wasn't human that much was clear due to the undying and not aging business, but my thirst was gone. I hadn't noticed until now, but now I had a cow and I had nothing to give her. I told Alice not to send anymore animals, but that she should send some food for this poor cow.

Alice was confused as to why I wasn't eating the cow, and I tried to explain to her, but after living with the torment for so long I could understand how it would be difficult to understand that I would not need blood. Alice sent something to feed the cow, but the cow did not need to eat either. The cow and I both lived in the fires, but neither of us seemed to need anything to survive. Alice was confused.

I named the cow Sally. She was nice, and I talked to her all the time because I was lonely. She and I became friends, or as much of friends as you can be with an immortal cow. Sally was cool though. She would huff and nod in all the right places, but eventually I ran out of things to tell Sally that's when Alice got the brilliant idea to send in the women.

I don't know what happened, but one day it was like I was being assaulted. Apparently a town had sprung up in the light of my Flame, and they had sent some women up at Alice's request. The first one I saw repulsed me so much I through her into the fire depths. I couldn't stand to look at her. Sally thought it was funny. Alice scowled.

The women came one after another and some would take one look at me and throw themselves at me, and then generally came the too hard shove into the fire. There were some who jumped into the fire on accident as if they couldn't see it at all. It wasn't long before Alice gave up hope and only sent very beautiful very promising women. The problem was they weren't the one for me. I don't know who was damned enough to be meant for me, but I would know when I saw them. I wouldn't push them into the fire.

I actually tried to have sex with one of the girls Alice through into me. We were about to come and suddenly she was gone. I realized I had actually taken her to the edge and she had burned without me even noticing. That was the farthest I had gotten, and I felt sorry for these women, but I could do nothing else. This space was big enough for me and Sally, but if a woman wanted to be in here she would have to be someone I could literally be around forever.

I had a feeling I was going to be stuck here for a very long time.

AN: I want to know what you think of the new story line. I haven't written much more of it, but I got a kind of plan in my head. It will probably be a pretty short story to be honest. Let me know what you think and how you think I can improve this.