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Waning Moon

A/N: This is a story requested by my bff Jade (actually she wanted me to write my own version of Breaking Dawn, but I thought, if I'd had my way, this story would have happened in New Moon, so then I would still be able to write my own Breaking Dawn!)

Also, if you don't like the idea of Bella dying (for the moment) don't read!

Chapter 1 (This story is set in the New Moon era, this particular chapter when Bella is about to go cliff diving. In other words, Edward is still gone & Victoria is still alive.)

If you were dead or still alive,
I don't care, I don't care.
And all the things you left behind,
I don't care, I don't care.
-Apocalyptica ft. Adam Gontier, "I Don't Care"

I stood on the edge of the cliff, just letting the damp wind blow through my hair. My toes were hanging off the cliff, and I curled and uncurled them against the wet rock.

Bella, no, don't do this, I heard Edward's voice whisper angrily in my head.

What, dear Edward, you expect me not to have any fun? You're not even here to stop me, I replied back in my head, not wanting to speak aloud, afraid I would ruin the whole conversation, imaginary or not. Maybe I really was mentally insane. Or schizophrenic. Or whatever. I really didn't care, so long as I got to hear his voice; that was the whole reason I had come here since Jake couldn't come... or so I told myself.

Bella, you promised! The honey voice was laced with bitterness, a pleading bitterness.

"Yeah?" I yelled at the sky, then turned around so I was no longer facing just the air and sky. "Well maybe you should have thought about that before you broke all of your promises," I still yelled, spitting out the last word. "So now all my promises are void." I turned back to face the edge of the cliff and the wind. "I'm free of you," I whispered as a single drop rolled down my cheek, but I couldn't tell if it was a tear or the rain. I didn't care.

His Bella! was drowned out by the sound of my scream. It wasn't a scream of fear, because even as I looked down at the rumbling black water I wasn't afraid; it was more like how you scream when you're on a roller coaster: the screaming makes the ride more fun. And sadly enough, falling God knows how many feet into the watery depths was fun.

Only in the last moments when I was about five seconds away from plummeting into the water did I start flailing, wishing somehow I could fly back up. But it was too late.

At least I didn't hear a 'told you so' from him.

I fell into the water, it's hard to explain how I landed, not face first, but not legs first either, yet I didn't fall in on my stomach. (Told you it's hard to explain). I sunk lower and lower as I kicked and flailed to try to reach the surface.

Bella. I opened my eyes and saw Edward's perfectly beautiful face. I stopped moving, but now I was running out of air. I would start swallowing water soon if I didn't get out.

Come on Bella, you can do it! I was still immobilized.

Bella, fight! Come on, stay alive! he was begging me now.

Why? I wondered. Why should I fight to stay alive, when I can have you here with me? Then I remembered, It isn't really him after all.

Please, he whispered, and his whisper faded as his image did.

I couldn't take it anymore. I started gulping for and struggled my way to the surface. I didn't want to die!

As I tried to swim up I stared at the top of the water where I could see some sunlight. It looked so far.

I looked to my side and saw a flash of red and white, and I thought it made since I would hallucinate Victoria in my dying moments. Then again, why wasn't I seeing Laurent or James? They're dead. Oh yeah. Well, why wasn't I seeing Jake then?

Jake. He'd be so pissed I went cliff diving alone.

After I saw 'Victoria', my vision went black.