Prologue

(BPOV)

Edward and I have been together over a year now, and he still insists that I will stay human… That is unless I marry him. I'm not ready for marriage yet, and so I decided to wait until he gave in. It wouldn't take that long, and even if it did I would be changed after graduation whether Edward did it or not. I had accepted this, but I still argued with him on the subject occasionally; just to show him I wasn't going to take no for an answer.

It was two weeks until graduation and I was content on waiting until then. I was walking across the school parking lot with Edward, Jasper, and Alice when it happened. I fell, and Edward didn't catch me this time. I knew that this would cause problems because all three of them hadn't been hunting in a while. In fact they had planned on going hunting today.

The only sense of relief I felt as I saw Edward and Alice trying to restrain Jasper from attacking me was that no one else was around, so if I were to be bitten it would be alright. Jasper broke free after a moment and was attacking me. Edward pulled him off me and Alice helped me get up, but it was too late. Jasper had bitten me. The venom started running through my veins and I had to bit my lip to keep from screaming.

We only had a few minutes until students started pouring into the parking lot, so there was no time for Edward to get the venom out of me. He picked me up and carried me to the car as I writhed with pain. Alice opened the door to the Volvo and Edward climbed in holding me tight to his body. "Bella, shh Bella. It's ok. I've got you." Edward said trying to sound soothing although he was close to a break down himself.

Jasper was driving the car I realized briefly through my pain. I couldn't pay attention to anything else though because the venom had now reached much of my head and shoulders. Jasper had bitten me in the neck, and so I believed that the venom would quickly flow throughout my body from there. Most of these thoughts were incoherent even to myself until I put them together later.

The pain was getting to be too much, and I knew that any moment I was going pass out. But I kept clinging to Edward.

Before I knew it my world went black.

(EPOV)

I can't believe I didn't catch her. She fell, and I was too busy listening to Alice's thoughts of a surprise we were putting together for my angel. Blood was all over Bella's hand and knees, and I knew we would have to restrain Jasper. Normally this would've been a very bad situation, but add to it that none of us had hunted in quite some time, and you get a catastrophic situation that has no possibility of ending well. I held him off for as long as I could hoping Bella would get up; do something!

She didn't. My precious angel just stared up at us waiting for something to happen. After a moment Jasper broke away from us and was on her. I raced to her and pulled Jasper off as fast as I could, but it was no use. He had bitten her. Alice grabbed Bella and helped her up while I helped Jasper gain some control. I looked around the parking lot to make sure no one had seen. Alice brought Bella over to me and I held her. I picked her up and held her tight to my body as she started to feel the pain. We continued walking to the car, and Alice opened the door so I could climb into the back with Bella.

Jasper was driving, and his thoughts were full of desperate apologies. I wasn't paying attention though. I was trying to think of a way to save my angel. There wasn't room enough in the car to lay her down, and therefore I couldn't get the venom out as I had when James had bitten her. By the time we got to the house it would be too late. There was no way to save her. My Bella, my angel. She'd never breathe again, she'd never sleep, never eat, blush. Had I known today would be my last day to witness those things I would have paid much more attention to her.

I'd never get to hear her whisper my name while she slept in her bed, her body snuggled in close to mine. I'd never get to embarrass her by telling her how gorgeous she was, or simply by touching her. I'd never get to hear how her heart sped up when I touched her, or stopped briefly when I kissed her. All the things that were so precious about her human state would be gone. I kissed her forehead after she blacked out because of the pain, and I asked Jasper if there was any way for him to go faster.

Alice called Carlisle on her cell phone and he said he would be waiting for us at the house. Rosalie and Emmett were coming home and were planning some way to put evidence together to fake Bella's death. Poor Charlie. He hadn't even seen his daughter this morning, and he would never see her again.

Oh god. I thought. How can she ever want to be with me. This just shows how bad it is for me to be with her. We can't even walk with her without endangering her life. My precious angel was now damned to a life of endless torture.

I sat there holding Bella close to me sobbing tearless sobs as her pain wracked body struggled to get out of my grasp.

(Alice's POV)

We had finally convinced Bella to skip her last class and come with us. Edward wanted to spend some time with her before we left to go hunting for the weekend.

We were walking across the parking lot, and I was engrossed in a vision of something me and Edward were planning for Bella. She tripped which was expected of her, and then she fell, and Edward was so busy listening to my thoughts that he didn't even notice that Bella had fallen until the scent of her blood hit us hard. It was really hard for me to hold back from the smell of her blood, but it was doable.

Jasper lunged for her. We could only hold him back for so long, but then we were there again. Edward had pulled Jasper off of Bella, and I had helped pull Bella up from the ground. I walked her over to Edward who was calming Jasper down, and gave her to him. I walked ahead of Edward and Bella towards the car calming Jasper as I went. I opened the back door to Edward's Volvo and they got in.

We pulled out of the school parking lot as I pulled out my cell phone and called Carlisle.

"Dr. Cullen's office?" The receptionist said.

"Hello. This is Alice, I'm Carlisle's daughter. Can I talk to him for a moment?" I asked my voice shaky.

"Sure thing. Just a second." The lady said.

"Alice?" Carlisle asked as he picked up the phone. "What's wrong?"

"Carlisle, Bella fell, and Jasper bit her. We need someone to get things ready for her at the house." I said in a rush "I'll explain what happens as soon as we get there."

"Ok. I'll go right now. See you in a minute." Carlisle said and hung up.

I heard Edward soothing Bella in the back seat and sighed. I couldn't help but blame myself. It had been because of my vision that he hadn't been able to catch her.

"Jasper could you please go faster?" Edward asked irritation, anger, and sadness apparent in his voice.

"I'm going over a hundred, but sure." Jasper said. I felt sorry for him. Having to deal with all those emotions on top of the guilt he had to be feeling after biting Bella, I wouldn't be able to handle it. I leaned over and rubbed his back lightly. He relaxed a little and smiled at me. I smiled back at him.

AN: I know I shouldn't be starting another story yet, but it just started running in my head and I couldn't concentrate on writing my other ones until I started this one. :P Ok, so what do you think? This was cut short, I wanted to put in everyone's point of view, but I will continue it next chapter. This will be a really long prologue. :P

Much Love,

Diger