AN- So I decided to put this story up…since it won't leave me the hell alone…so, goody for you!

Disclaimer- I don't own Twilight…I do, however, own the remnants of this dream I had that this chapter represents.

Summary: When vampires are sent to capture Bella, a highly trained secret organization of vampire hunters are on a mission to save her. But is there something more than just vampires she needs to be saved from? Will one hunter do all he can to protect her?

Chapter 1

Bella

I turned to my left, acting as though I was casually glancing around. There was another…

Another pair of eyes gazing up to mine! I say gazing, but that was putting it nicely. Staring intently, as though they were trying to stare a hole in me was more appropriate.

The crowd around me stood up and cheered. I turned, glancing away from those eyes, to the basketball game in front of me. Our team was winning…but only by a few points.

I didn't really like basketball, but my roommate, Alice, did. She did, after all have something for one of the players. I didn't really want to come tonight, but she instated. Saying that I needed to get out more…and not only for class. Which is the only reason

I've been leaving our apartment the past couple of weeks…that and my job? But I work at the school library, so it was like killing two birds with one stone. But I couldn't help not wanting to leave my room. I felt as though someone was following me. Alice thought I was paranoid.

But that's coming from a Psych major. A Psych major that is only a Psych major because of the guy she's crushing on is majoring in that too. She should be doing something along the lines of fashion. But she decided to do both, that way she can help people with low self-esteem with fashion. Or at least, that's what she says anyway. So in other words…people like me; since I'm her walking talking experiment.

I glanced around me at the rest of the bleachers in the stadium…looking for him.

Him being the guy that I've been seeing around for the past two weeks; at first I thought it was a coincidence. But when I say I've been seeing him around…I mean where everywhere I go, he's there.

When I finished my glancing, I turned my attention back to the game. I was thankful that we decided to go to a small college, because if the gym had been any bigger, I wouldn't have been able to see everyone as I did.

I didn't see my stalker, but I had met three other pairs of eyes staring at me. And yes, I really do mean staring. Because when I met their eyes, they didn't turn away…just kept looking at me. And I couldn't tell from where I was, but there was just something wrong about those eyes. It was pretty creepy.

"So is he here, Bella?" Alice turned to me and asked. This was the first time she hadn't been salivating on the blond hair blue eyed hunk known as Jasper Cullen. AKA number 23.

"Who?" I asked, trying to act nonchalant, as I watched as members from the opposite team dribble the ball down the court. Like I knew how the game was actually played or something.

"That guy."

"What guy?" I knew, of course! But I didn't want her to know that I was looking for him…even though she already knew that I was lying. I didn't fool her on anything.

"Oh, you know! That guy you think been following you around."

"He has!" I insisted, forgetting to act like I didn't care. Sometimes Alice can be evil. Maybe she really should do psychology; she can get you to talk about anything. I don't even think monks could keep a vow of silence with her around.

"Maybe he has a crush on you." Yep, that sounded like Aliceology! She wants everyone to be happy and in love.

"I don't think that's it." I shook my head. Not everyone had it like she did. Being able to walk in a room and have everyone fall at your feet…like they did the last frat party she dragged me too. Must be nice to be able to have that sort of effect over everyone you come in contact with.

"Why's that?" She huffed, and rolled her eyes. She says she doesn't understand me sometimes, that I could have any guy I wanted. But sometimes I really do believe that I may be the reason that she has two different types of degree plans. Hell, she really likes to use her ideas of fashion and low self-esteem on me. By the time she gets to grad school, she'll already have a dissertation written, with me being the only subject. I sighed heavily before answering.

"I haven't seen him before two weeks ago. He's not in any of my classes." I paused. "You know, I don't even think he goes to this school!" she rolled her eyes. "No, seriously! He never has any books or carries a backpack. He never talks to anyone. He's always walking around with his hands in his pockets, or he's sitting outside my class…just looking around."

"Maybe he has a class after yours, in that room."

"No, because I've seen him leave, and walk around campus after that."

"Maybe it's you stalking him."

"What?" I asked, looking at her.

"Well you have noticed a lot of things about him."

"But that because he's always there!" I rebutted. So what…I've noticed a lot of things about him. He's hot! Can't fault me for that!

"Maybe you just think that because you want him to be there." Alice suggested.

"Why would I want that?" I didn't. But then again there was something about him that was undeniably gorgeous. "I don't even know him!"

"So…usually you talk to someone to get to know them."

"Who said anything about talking to him?"

"No one really, but the next time you see him, you should say 'hi,' or something."

"Oh, that's perfect!" I said sarcastically. "Just help him along with his cause of following me."

"Are you sure he's following you? I mean, is he here tonight?"

She had me there. I looked back around at the crowd, carefully. Studying each person…except those three that were still staring at me with the strange eyes. "No." I said finally "Maybe your right. Maybe I am just paranoid." Who knows, maybe I was. Maybe I really did in secret want him to follow me. Because some part of my subconscious wanted him or something.

Although…it didn't count for the three in here tonight.

"You know what," she turned to me "why don't we just leave early and go to the Java Café, and get a hot chocolate?"

I smiled. "As long as mines a white hot chocolate!"

"Deal!"

I looked back out to the court, "What about Jasper?" I pointed to the, as Alice puts it,

'love of my life…he just doesn't know it yet'.

She smiled slightly, and said calmly. "I'll see him tomorrow or something before we leave." I guess that was true. The guy did only live a few doors down from ours.

I'm still not sure if that was planned or not.

"Ya know, you tell me to talk to a guy I think is following me around, and yet you won't even ask him on a date!"

"I'm working up to it" she said evasively, smiling.

"Yeah, well, when you ask your basketball player out, I'll say 'hi' to my stalker."

She rolled her eyes "He's not stalking you!"

"It's seems to me that you're only saying that to get out of having to ask Jasper out." I'm sure Jasper liked her too, he was male after all. But he didn't know that she had a poster of him in her bedroom! Not like that! The school sells posters of the players to help raise money for things on campus.

"He's not stalking you, you have to fear for your life in order for it to be an actual stalking." she turned to me and smiled. "But you got a deal! I'll do it, now, let's go." She said, before I could say that maybe I actually did fear for my life. It wasn't that actual type of fear, like I would die or something, but fear that I was going to be a crazy cat lady when I was older…and I don't even like cats!

I got up and started to move past the people around us. I glanced up in the direction of the first set eyes I noticed watching me. They were no longer there. I looked over my shoulder for the other two; not there either.

Maybe I really am imagining things!

As we made our way out towards the concession area, our team made another point. I cringed away from Alice as she let out a loud "Whoop!" Jasper was the one after all who made the shot. I rolled my eyes at her silliness, but I was happy for her. It was highly funny watching her when she was like that. Of course most people would laugh if they saw a 4'10" pixie looking girl wearing five inch purple heels, wearing a mini skirt, cheering louder than the cheerleaders. Of course most people may just be watching her wondering how it is that she's wearing those five inch heels, jumping up and down. I know I sure am.

We finally made it to the lobby, past the cheering bodies. From the corner of my eyes I saw Alice looked at the concession stands then back at me. "You wanna just get one here?"

"Get one what?" I asked.

"A hot chocolate?" she laughed.

"No, they don't do the white hot chocolate here. And now I really want one, after thinking about it."

She laughed harder "Gees, you're hard headed!"

I laughed too. "You've known that for what? Nine years now?" We'd known each other when her family decided to move to my hometown of Forks, Washington when we were in the sixth grade. We became friends the second we met. I spent so much time with her family, that her parents considered me a daughter. I was, after all, always at their house, even though, I'll still not allowed to call them by their first names…and I'm twenty! Plus, my mother wasn't around anymore, and my dad was the police chief…so I didn't have anyone else.

"Yeah, but sometimes I try to forget that." she said laughing. I laughed again, turning towards the exit…

…and stopped short. There was a guy sitting by the door, looking intently out the window, I could see his long fingers gripping the desk in front of him. But even though I couldn't actually see his face from where we stood, I still remembered all of him that I've seen. The clinching of his jaw, his auburn hair with some of the front falling into his unshaven face; blond and read highlights shining in the florescent lighting;

"Is that…?" Alice pointed to him

"Yeah!" I whispered back, still staring at him. As though he could feel my stare, he looked my way. And I was rendered thoughtless by his piercing gaze.

His eyes were the most beautiful green I've ever seen. That's saying something. You don't usually see green eyes. I've never noticed what color his eyes were before; he'd never been this close. Another thing I noticed what that he had a scare from the bottom of his right eye that curved towards his ear. I couldn't figure out what I wanted to look at most…his eyes or that scar.

Needless to say I finally remembered how to breathe once Alice pulled my vision toward her direction.

"Bella?" She said softly, linking my arm with hers. "White hot chocolate, remember?"

"Right!" I said, trying to get my mind back on track, it apparently only worked on one thing at a time. As we got closer to him, I tried to keep my gaze from going to him.

I tried! I really did. But I turned my head in his direction once more, being startled once more by the intensity of his eyes. He started slowly getting up, still looking into my eyes. I didn't think anything until I was being pulled in the opposite direction from him.

Hard.

"Hey! That's my car!" I turned my locked gaze towards the parking lot, searching for her car. I couldn't really see anything except our reflections, my questioning look, Alice's horrified expression, and his concerned watchful appearance.

"You don't want to go out there." Said a voice coming from behind me. I turned back to look at him, trying to register his warning. But between the sound of his voice and the color of his eyes, my mind didn't really register anything.

Except that his voice sounded like a pure orgasm.

See…only focuses on one thing at a time!

Alice apparently didn't hear his warning or his orgasmic voice, since she was now pulling me out the door with her. "What are they doing to my car?" She said in reply. Her grip on my arm was causing me to stumble, or course I wasn't known for have perfect balance. But Alice was pretty much dragging me behind her. And she was pretty strong, even if she was short. It must be those five inch heels.

"Wait!" I heard that voice once more behind me, before the door closed, cutting off the rest of what he was saying after that. Alice ignored him, still dragging me towards a car.

A car that I could now tell, had two people standing around; another person standing on top of it.

I don't know how she knew it was her car, but she seemed to zero in on it like a hawk. I couldn't see it was hers until we were almost next to it. And only then when I noticed that the car was taking up two spaces…and that it was yellow. See, Alice had one of those expensive cars that her parents bought her. Some type of Porsche. Don't ask me, I don't really know cars…only the ones I like. But she was the type of person that she didn't want anyone to park next to her. I know you've seen them in parking lots. The ones you get pissed off for not only having a flashy car, but for also taking up two spots.

"What are you doing to my car?" Alice asked when I finally focused on the people around the car. There were two males, and one female.

My mouth dropped open.

They were the same people watching me during the game. Maybe I'm not imagining things!

Ha-ha! I'm not insane!

"Well hello." said the female.

"It's about time!" one of the males said as they grabbed Alice, turning her around where she was facing me. I saw the other two coming towards me from the corner of my eyes, instinct telling me I should watch out for them.

But my instinct didn't mean much when I saw the guy holding Alice, bite her.

Yes. Bite.

I watched in shock, mouth gapping as her blood started running down her throat.

"Hey! Stop!" I screamed, talking closer steps to him.

I didn't get very far.

Strong hands grabbed me from behind. I thought at first it was one of the two, and started fighting him. Although fighting isn't even a good word to describe what I was doing; flinging my arms wildly, is a much better description. I figured if I was going to go down, might as well get some of their skin tissue under my nails.

I was turned toward who was obstructing me, and looked up into piercing green eyes.

"Run!" I stood there for a second, trying to grasp what he just said. Making my mind replay what he really just said. Of course it didn't really help that my body was reacting to other things in that moment.

"What?"

"Run!" he said pointing to a black car. He threw me the keys. I caught them, being surprised that I did. "Go!"

Yep, that's what he said.

"But?" I turned and noticed the other tow on the ground. One was moaning…the other looked dead. He pushed me toward me toward the car. My legs understood before my brain. I hurried to the car. As I got closer I realized it was a European car! Something you'd see on James Bond or something.

And I wasn't even going to get the time to ogle it!

I jumped into the driver's seat. I looked to where I just ran from. He was fighting the guy that bit Alice. She was now slumped against the car. I stared at her until I saw him pick her up.

As if she weighted nothing.

That brought me out of my ravine. I started the car, a thrill running through me as it roared to life. I drove to his jogging statue.

"Pop the seat up." he said as I opened the door for him. I did as I was told, with my foot on the brake. He threw her in the back seat. Well, he didn't actually throw her. But one second he was still holding her and the next he was sitting in the front seat. "Drive!"

I just stared at him "Wha-"

"Drive! To your apartment! Go!" I looked forward, starting to drive out of the parking lot.

I had almost made it out of the parking lot, but I noticed a figure running.

A figure running right towards the moving car.

I shrieked slamming on the breaks as the figure jumped on the hood. When I could finally see the face, I recognized him. He was the one moaning on the ground, not too long ago.

"Damn it, Bella, drive!" said the pissed off but beautiful guy beside me.

My foot slammed on the gas pedal. We finally started moving, after I burned rubber, making smoke come up while the rear of the car as it fish tailed. I had so many questions to ask. But I couldn't bring myself to ask him anything. Like how did he know I had an apartment…or my name? But mainly I knew that if I tried to speak, nothing would come out right now, plus I was trying to keep my mind on other things right now so my hands wouldn't shake.

I made it out of the parking lot, off of campus, making my way to the center of town, to the road that would lead up to our home. Then I drove as fast as I could to the other side of town. Which wasn't very fast considering that speed limit in town were only 45. This means that I drove 48. Anything above that would have gotten me pulled over in this town. And the cops really liked to sit and wait for anyone going five above the speed limit.

As we got closer to our neighborhood, I even drove though a couple of stop signs. I did slow down to make sure no one was coming. But it didn't matter, no one was around. We lived mainly around other college students, and since today was the last day of finals, most had already left. And the one who hadn't left yet, were at the basketball game.

When I reached the apartment, I took a deep breath, turning off the car, and reached for the door.

"Wait!" he said, stopping me, gently grabbing my arm. I turned to look at him. He was scanning all the perimeters that were around our apartment. He looked at me, with those green eyes. "Do you have your keys ready?"

I fumbled through my purse, searching for my keys, never taking my eyes off his. When I finally felt the familiar cold metal, I brought them out. My hand was shacking, causing the metal to cling together. If he realized it, he didn't let on.

"I want you to run to that door as fast as possible." I opened my mouth to say something, perhaps me and running not so good together…but hell, neither was me and walking! But he held his finger to my mouth, stopping me. "No, run! I'll be right behind you, with her." he nodded his head to the back where Alice lay. "Got it?"

I nodded my head.

"Now when we get through the door, I want you to lock it as fast as possible, okay?"

I nodded my head again.

"Ready?" He asked as he put one hand on his door and the other on the seat. I nodded again. That's all I seemed to be able to do.

"Go!" he was gone in a flash. I, on the other hand, wasn't so fast. I stumbled out the door, but I soon gained my footing and was running towards the door. I had almost made it when I noticed a figure running towards me from the corner of my eye. I started to slow, turning my head towards the oncoming figure. "No! Bella!" I heard him say behind me. I pushed my feet hard against the pavement.

I made it to my door, thankful for the first time that we had an apartment on the first floor. I finally got my hands to stop shacking long enough for me to slip my key in the door. It unlocked, I threw it open as quickly as I could. He came in behind me.

"Shut it!" I used my whole body to make sure it shut well, before I turned to lock the deadbolt, I looked at the door. Checking to make it was locked. I leaned against the door, letting out a heavy breath. There was a large thump on the other side, as though someone threw their body against it. I jumped back letting out a shriek. I felt hands on my shoulders, turning me around, making me come in eye contact with a broad chest. A hand went under my chin lifting up my face, so I was looking into green eyes.

"Hey, it's okay." he said. "You're fine." I nodded; my eyes moving away from his coming to rest on the coach, where he laid Alice down. He noticed my line of vision. He brought my chin back up, so I would look him in the eye once more. "Where is her bedroom?"

"It's the first one on the right, the one with the pink door." I said softly.

He nodded once "You have a first aid kit?"

"Yes"

"Bring it!" I made my way to the kitchen as he picked her back up, making way to her room.

I handed him the box, interrupting this wincing at the picture of Jasper on her wall…it was either that or the pink walls. "Thanks" he said, taking it from me, retrieving the wipes, cleaning off the blood on her neck, carefully.

"Is she going to be okay?" I started my questioning, slowly.

"She's going to be fine. There was no venom." He said softly

"Venom?" I asked. What the hell was he talking about?

"Are you okay?" He asked, ignoring my question.

I shook my head, "Does it matter?"

He sighed. "She's going to be a little tired and sore. But fine nonetheless." he looked at me, turning on the full power of those green eyes. "She's lost a lot of blood, not enough where she would need a transfusion, but enough to make her weak for a while." I looked down at Alice's sleeping body.

"What were they?" I asked softly, looking back at him. He looked at me uneasily.

"Vampires" he said softly.

"Vampires?" I asked incredibly. If I wasn't so scared right now I might have actually laughed. "Vampires? Seriously?"

"Yes."

"Vampires don't exist!" although my mind thought differently right now. Giving me a flash back to when I was driving. The guy on the hood, baring his teeth…he had fangs. I just assumed at the time he was one of those that were a part of a subculture. Even though

I didn't really think that anyone would see any of them around here.

Not in this small college town.

"It's not possible!" I spoke again.

"It is!" He insisted. "They're vampires."

"Why are thy after her?" I motioned towards Alice's sleeping body.

"There not after her." He said calmly.

"But they attacked her; bit her!"

He shook his head softly. "They're after you. She was just merely in the way."

"Me? Why?"

"That's what I've been trying to figure out!"

"That's why…" I trailed off.

"I was sent here to watch you…I wasn't supposed to get involved," he looked at me. "In any way."

"You didn't do a very good job of going unnoticed."

"I wanted you to see me." he smiled slightly at me. "If I didn't, you wouldn't have."

"Why?" I asked. He sighed.

"I wanted to know what your reaction would be to me."

"Reaction?"

"Yes, I figured that is nothing else worked that I would probably have to get to know you!" he shrugged. "I wanted to know how you viewed me."

"Like if I thought you were attractive?" I asked. He nodded attentively. "And what was your conclusion?"

He smiled slightly, "That it was going to take some time to get close to you."

"Why would you need to get close to me?" At least I didn't appear to be attracted to him!

He looked down at his hands.

"Bella, there's things that you need to understand."

"How do you know my name?"

"I know lots of things."

"Like?"

"You were born on September 13, 1990. Named Isabella Marie Swan, born to a Charlie

and Renee Swan at Forks Memorial Hospital in Washington. You graduated two years ago from the Forks High School. You're majoring in English, emphasis in Creative Writing. You've been friends with one Mary Alice Brandon for nine years, you've know each other since you were both ten years old."

"How do you know all this?"

"I was sent here to figure out why they were after you! I couldn't find any reason out of the ordinary. Even after they did background checks on you, they still didn't know. So I was sent to spy, to gather any type of information I could. I couldn't. I was even planning on just asking you straight out, if I needed to." he confessed.

"But I don't know why they're after me!"

He looked grim. "So I know now."

AN-So now I really, really want a white hot chocolate! Two bad I'm still not in college where I could hit up the Java Café right about now…damn them for making me not want anything else!

That's all for my ranting…read and review-love ya!

~Sky