A/N: Do not own Twilight.
Victoria comes for her two years after Edward leaves her.
Bella is not surprised but Jacob is.
There is no time to react. Jacob is incapacitated first – thrown against a cliff wall and slumping in an unconscious heap at its bottom- Bella collides with a giant maple, her spine snapping with a sickening crack.
Why she is not dead Bella does not know, just her luck she supposes, chucking ironically. Leaves flutter against her skin, burnt oranges and reds; pale imitations of the fiery halo of hair that now hovers over her prone form.
Victoria grins viciously, all sharp teeth and dripping venom -victory shining in her ruby red eyes. Bella remains impassive as the venom that leaks from Victoria's mouth drips into the open cuts on her face and like acid, the venom burns and burns. All Bella can worry about though is Jake. She wonders if he has woken up, if he has somehow gotten away – she hopes with all that she has left that he has. She does not want him to die for her mistakes.
Victoria begins railing against Bella, snarling about the fate of her mate, James. For Bella, those memories seem so long ago, more of a dream than anything else. She notices that Victoria has stopped talking and is just staring.
Bella waits and waits, longs for the explosion– the inevitable fallout. She is not disappointed. Victoria goes off like a firecracker.
"Aren't you going to say anything you pathetic, little human? Beg for your life; beg for your precious Edward. I want to see every disgusting tear. I want to hear every disgusting sob. I'm going to memorize every detail of your death –every moan, every scream and then I'm going to show it to your little mate. I'm going to make him feel everything, make him see everything – so he knows exactly how it feels, I'm going to make sure it is burned into his memory and then I'm going to burn him."
Bella winces and whimpers flashes of images of Edward being ripped apart and set on fire; she can almost smell the burnt flesh. Victoria is smiling now; she has gotten the reaction she wanted but Bella's next words make her freeze.
"He's gone you know. Left me for his distractions," snarls Bella viciously, triumphantly. It's a little disconcerting Bella thinks to be able to express this much emotion and yet not feel anything below her neck.
"I wasn't good for him so he and his family up and left...TWO years ago. You're a little late Victoria and your plans are a lot useless. It's even a little funny maybe a little tragic when you really look at it, he killed James for me but he ended up not wanting me so James kind of died for no reason. I guess were both shit out of luck!" Bella chuckles a little and Victoria is frozen, not a twitch of any muscle; but her face, her face is what draws Bella in. It is twisted in rage and before Bella can blink Victoria is on her, her head in Victoria's hands, and its being smashed into the ground.
Bella sees stars and thinks she hears a crack. Victoria is wailing above her and Bella can barely understand her words. Then they both freeze – all Bella can smell is the blood – it is everywhere. Victoria's eyes turn to her, they are black with thirst, and her smile is cruel.
"Oh Bella, Bella, Bella" whispers Victoria, "I have the most glorious plan. You are going to suffer as I suffer. Like I suffer and suffer and suffer. " She punctuates each word with a blow to Bella's head and now Bella can barely see anything and she can no longer hold in her whimpers of pain.
"You're going to suffer forever Bella, forever and ever and ever," she singsongs. Bella thinks Victoria has gone mad. Everything is getting fuzzy and black around the edges, there is no more pain and Bella no longer even cares what's happening, she just drifts.
All she hears are Victoria's maniacal whispers of forever, then through the abyss there is a searing pain in her neck, then there is fire –white-hot fire, and it consumes her. The last thing she hears is an inhumane wailing.
Bella hears death in the wailing.
Victoria hears revenge.