A/N: okay, so this is my first published fanfic ever, so you'd imagine that I'm quite nervous. Please be nice. Constructive, helpful criticism is good! This is just a "what if" sort of thing that I dreamt up a few days ago. Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I got nothing. I don't own Twilight or any of its characters (though I often wish I did!)

I was barely paying any attention to what they were saying. I didn't honestly care. All I wanted was to come out of this alive (well, that and the human); that was why I had stopped fighting in the first place. I didn't want to die today.

The brown-haired girl turned to look at me again, this time looking bored with the situation.

"Felix," she said, and one standing behind her took a couple steps forward.

"Wait," the beautiful yellow-eyed one said, putting his hand out. He spoke to the one who had offered to let me live if I would comply. "We could explain the rules to the young one. She doesn't seem unwilling to learn. She didn't know what she was doing." Yeah! Listen to the gorgeous one!

"Of course," the other one said. "We would certainly be prepared to take responsibility for Bree." Yes! Please oh please! Let me live!

The girl in the dark cloak facing us looked incredulous yet entertained.

"We don't make exceptions." NO! "And we don't give second chances. It's bad for our reputation . . . " Please, no. She paused for several moments, staring right at me. I didn't move, giving her the most sincere and innocent looks I possibly could. She turned to the rest of her group to deliberate; I couldn't hear them.

The gorgeous one turned to the human and whispered, "They're considering. They don't want their reputation ruined, but they don't want to get in trouble with Aro or Caius, either. Felix doesn't like it, but the majority have sympathy for the girl." YES!

The dark-cloaks turned back around to face us, and the girl's face was pained.

"The girl lives, but the world cannot know how she came to be. Not even Aro and Caius. The story shall be that she was found in the woods near your home, and she had sympathy toward your . . . vegetarian ways. People cannot know what truly has happened here. Should they find out," she gave me a dirty glance, "we'll see to it she is dispatched."

I wasn't going to die today. The words sunk in and for a moment they seemed unreal. I get to live . . . forever. Wow.

"You have our solemn vow," the tall, merciful, yellow-eyed one promised. "No one outside of this clearing shall know the truth." The girl nodded, as if to say, "You're very correct." She turned to her group.

"Come," she said, and they all turned and followed her out into the misty woods.

A/N: Not too painful? Like I said, please be nice!