DISCLAIMER: STEPHENIE MEYER OWNS ALL
This story begins right when Bella meets Laurent in the Meadow. Chapter 10 of Breaking Dawn (pg. 241 to be exact)
Chapter 1
"I'll be very quick," he assured me. "You won't feel a thing, I promise. Oh, I'll lie to Victoria about that later, naturally, just to placate her. But if you knew what she had planned for you, Bella… I swear you'd be thanking me for this."
I was dumbstruck. I stared at him in horror.
He sniffed at the breeze that blew threads of my hair in his direction. "Mouthwatering," he repeated, inhaling deeply.
I tensed for the spring, my entire body readied itself for what was certain to come.
All I could think about was Edward. I repeated his name in my head as it burst through the bariers in my mind that I had built to contain it. Edward, Edward, Edward! I was going to die so it shouldn't matter if my last thoughts were of him. Edward, I love you.
Through my squinted eyes I watched as Luarent crouched, like a lion preparing to pounce on it's helpless prey. He sprang towards me, much too fast for my human eyes to take in as it was happening. It was a blur of sparkling white.
Almost immediately I felt the pressure of being knocked backwards out of the meadow. I hit hard against the trunk of a tree and in the force of the impact I could feel every bone in my body being broken. An instant later I could feel the familiar burn of venom beginning its flow through my body at the base of my neck. As the fire spread I could feel myself fighting between consciousness and pain. I screamed as more and more venom flowed through my body, lighting a blazing trail through my veins as it went.
I could feel my face contorted with pain and fear. My breathing was shallow and uneven and I was getting weaker as my body was drained of blood.
This was it. I was going to die. Never again would I see the faces of those that I loved. What was going to happen to Charlie? Jacob? But even as my mind filled with those that had not left me, that I loved and they loved me more, I'm sure, than I would ever know, I could not help but think of him. Edward. Edward, I love you. I'm sorry I couldn't stay safe.
For an instant I saw a flash of white and felt myself falling lifelessly to the ground. I heard a loud crash and the sound of wood splintering. Nothing was holding me against the trunk of the tree anymore so I was sure that Laurent had taken his fill and would soon take me away from this agony. As the fire of the venom raged on through my body I drifted away. Edward, I love you.
