Chapter 1
"Clair!, Clair!" I heard his familiar voice calling my name. I wanted to go back, well, my heart did, but my mind was smarter it knew that I would only hurt more if I returned to him. I knew I couldn't out run him it was impossible, he was a vampire after all and I was but a mere human.
Who was I to deserve his time? His love? As I had just recently learned I was no one. Just a no one to fill his time. He had never loved me. How could he. I was clumsy and often stupid. Human men didn't love me, so why should any higher being?
I tripped over a tree root and closed my eyes expecting to feel a hard contact to the ground, from my recent display of clumsiness. Instead I felt two strong arms wrap around my waist and pull me rather harshly into the person's body. I began to struggle knowing that it was him and that he would only hurt me more.
"Shhhhh, Clair it's alright I won't harm you." the sincerity in the voice stopped me. "Please Clair stop struggling I don't want to accidentally hurt you." the voice said urgently. I recognized the voice it was the man I was running form, Alexander's, brother. The brother than no matter had always helped me and when I was sad always found a way to cheer me up.
"Edward" I managed to whisper, my voice sounding strange even to myself. I stopped struggling immediately; instead I fell back limply into his embrace. I could fell the warmth of this breath roll over my ear as he dug his nose into my hair. I watched in odd fascination as the clouds of our breath melted together, just as we had only moments ago. Our happy moment was soon disturbed as Alexander turned around the final curve that led to where I sat. Where we sat.
"Let go of her you cold hearted bastard." he screamed coming towards us intent on separating us.
"No, you had your chance and you have succeed in only one thing." Edward spoke calmly while removing his nose from it's place, deep with in the confines my hair. He slowly pushed mo off of this lap and onto the ground next to him. I felt a sudden loss of warmth as he moved me. I allowed a frown to grace my face. I hated seeing them fight, over anything, but, this time it wasn't anything it was me.
"What would that be, bastard?" Alexander asked, his voice filled with pure hate and covered with a sprinkling of coldness.
"Breaking her heart." Edward replied with disgust filling his feeling voice fully. I saw as both of the brother's eyes flickering quickly from gold to red and back to gold again. I had to do something, if I didn't they would both lose control of their inner beasts. Sometimes having a non human boy friend came in handy other times I felt like the gods were punishing me for something. I felt my powers bubbling, slowly filling my entire body. I could barely control it was bubbling out of control threatening to burst. Wanting to be let out so badly that it hurt even me to try an persuade my self to calm down. I lost control right then. All of the years I had spent learning to control my powers couldn't contain this.
It though that I was in trouble, it was trying to protect me from the two vampires. My eye's glazed over as a battle rages with in me; The two sides of me battling for control of my body. Each fighting for dominance; one my reasonable side was trying to calm me the other my slayer side to me danger was here and it wasn't safe. I felt like I was being torn in two, pulled in half by two powers.