A/N: For the dreaded author's note... Axiom comes with a little back story of its own- I've had it in my head for a while, and it actually came to fit with what happened in Eclipse.

This comes almost 20 years after Eclipse, set in Illinois. Like Rose and Emmet, Bella and Edward decide to move away from the family for a few years- she's a counselor at a local high school, and he decides to join her there, for reasons that are yet to be explained. Daniel, as mentioned in the next chapter, is originally from the Denali clan, and doesn't have many decades of 'existence' under his belt, like Bella. He wanted to move south temporarily... and so he's with them. The story is told from Melanie, the main character.

Disclaimer: All characters that are not my own, as well as The Twilight Series, belongs to Stephenie Meyer.

Boring? Uninteresting? My explanations are done.


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The cold air swept through the surrounding trees, into my face. It was thrust into the sky- scattering the dark clouds, making the atmosphere swirl into a gray abyss. It's absolutely nothing, now. Nonexistent.

Maybe he was right- maybe I wasn't supposed to be here. Maybe the demons that obviously plagued his mind were here- the reason for all of the unnecessary glares and warnings.

And now that I've joined them in this copse, maybe they wanted me. The demons that have always seemed invisible to me. I didn't know what they were.

Maybe. Somehow, I doubted it all. Shunned it. Why believe in something I knew nothing about?

But really, how far could I sink without knowing?

A hand, cold as ice, covered my mouth- and forced me down.