AN: Like the summary says, this is a simple retelling of the original story. Most of the canon relationships will remain, with the obvious expections of Edward/Bella and Jasper/Alice.


Bella lays asleep in her bed, asleep on her side with the covers pulled up to her chin, her black hair spread across the pillow. It is dark and quiet and her expression is peaceful and strangely childlike. She lays in dreamless sleep.

Outside there is something climbing the drainpipe beside her window. A vampire, female in appearance, small in stature, she climbs quickly and without effort like a lizard, a dark figure, a shadow on the wall in moonlight. The window is unlocked. She lifts it open slowly and climbs in.

Bella doesn't stir. The vampire closes the window and turns to the room and pauses to inhale deeply, closing her eyes as she does, an expression of serene euphoria passing over her face. It is Bella's scent that excites her so. Finally she opens her eyes and moves to the sleeper's bedside, sauntering, ambling, stepping with a languid grace, a roll of hips, her eyes slightly lidded and her breaths coming fast and deep, a predatory air about her, a ravenous intent. She wears jeans and a top, her hair is short and black. At Bella's bedside she kneels and reaches with a gentle hand to stroke her hair and only now does Bella stir, her eyes moving behind their pale lids as if she'd been touched by a nightmare. The vampire watches her face with eyes as black as night, inky and opaque. She tilts her head. Then she climbs into the bed.

Gently, so as not to disturb the sleeper. She takes the hem of the quilt and pulls it away and then she takes Bella by the shoulder and rolls her over gently onto her back and then she straddles her waist, the scent so close and warm now that she is having trouble focusing, her eyes rolling and her head lolling on her shoulders, her chest rising and falling rapidly, gazing down at Bella in wistful hunger.

Bella wakes, her eyes fluttering open. A spasm of panic at the weight on top of her. She looks up with wide eyes and sees a pale face glowing the dark. She freezes in terror, paralyzed like a doe by the black and smoky orbs staring down at her.

The vampire lets out a low hiss, leaning down to smell Bella's hair, Bella trembling now. She can't scream, she can't move. Only watch in terror as the vampire rears up and grinds erotically against her hips, letting out another hiss, restraint slowly fading. Her hands were on Bella's shoulders as if to hold her down, but they move now, moving down over her chest and cupping her breasts, an unspeakable warmth through the thin cotton of her tanktop. Bella gasps, beginning to squirm in horror, the hands traveling down to her stomach and slipping coldly under her top to caress her waist and coming back up to again cup her breasts, squeezing them gently, and moving higher still till one of them comes to rest on her left shoulder and the other moves on to snake it's way behind her neck.

A moment of strange liaison, vampire and victim. The vampire raises her up, guiding her with the hand at her nape. They sit facing each other, the vampire straddling her lap, Bella staring up at her in terror.

"Alice?" she says in a frightened whimper.

At the sound of her voice the vampire's resistance shatters completely. Her eyes flare and her pretty face twists into a snarl and suddenly she seizes a handful of Bella's hair and violently wrenches back her head.

Bella's throat exposed. The vampire swoops to the pale flesh of her neck and bites into it.

Bella gasps. Blood squirts across the wall and runs down it, blood drips onto the pillow. She can't scream, nor can't she writhe, and already she can feel herself fading. Helpless in the grip of the vampire her head lolls backward and she stares up at the ceiling. Her heart hammers in her chest and her skin is on fire and her eyes are slowly closing. She is fading, fading. She can feel the cold lips at her neck and the cold hands at her back and she can hear the vampire's ravenous moans.

Then she woke up.


AN: I know it's short, but it just a preface; the other chapters will be much longer. Still, I'd love a review just so I know if anyone's interested. :)