Author's Note: Here's my first Twilight fic, I hope you enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Dedication: This is dedicated to Sheena, Ashes, and Lynn, who inspired me to write this.
Preface
As a child, my mother told me fairy tales, just as most mothers did. And as most children, I was fascinated by the idea of them. The prince overcoming an obstacle, rescuing the princess and living happily ever after, the idea bewildered me. Throughout my childhood, I'd hoped to someday find my prince to live happily ever after with. Of course, after getting old enough, I stopped believing in things such as fairy tales and whatnot. I didn't believe in vampires either, so that proved me wrong. Who knew? After meeting the love of my life, I secretly began hoping for a happily ever after sometime soon.
Though, here we were, we had overcome two obstacles already, my prince rescuing me, and were facing yet another one. Only, this obstacle was up to me. A bit unorthodox for your average fairy tale, but I could tell this was no longer a fairy tale by just looking around me. The room full of people who had potentially destroyed my happy ending, I hated them all for it. I don't normally believe in hating people, disliking yes, but I absolutely hated them. They knew they were hurting people, and they had no feeling of remorse about it whatsoever.
I looked to the left, which held almost everything so dear to me from my past that I'd come to love. And then I looked back, which held part of my future. Either my past is destroyed, or my future. But, without my past to follow with me, I wouldn't even want a future to continue for. There would be no reason for me to pursue the future without my past to stay with me at my side, embarking on it right along with me.
This was all up to me, and I wouldn't be happy with either option. There was no longer a way out, no way to escape the heartache I was soon to be feeling. How could I sit here debating what to choose when I knew that whatever decision I made held someone's life in the balance? I stared, hoping for some form of sympathy, that they would lessen their savage threats. Though, as I looked into the coal black eyes that belonged to who held my future in the balance, I knew that no ending here would be a happy one.