Author's Notes: I know it is short, they will get longer, but this was meant to be short.
Disclaimer: Well... yeah? You know what I mean...
Human Emotions - Part 1
Vacant
Although my organs had long ceased to operate, and it made no difference whether they were within me or not, there was a strange sense of vacancy with their disappearance. Sharp pain would stab as though they had been forcibly removed and now I was left, dying, as once indeed I had been.
I knew where they were though, they remained with Bella – no matter who she loved. The pain itself was enough to want to stop existing, but I had once promised her that I would continue to 'live' as long as she was alive.
No matter how much I hurt myself, I wouldn't let anything happen to her. Her happiness was my first priority and all I wanted, and needed, was for her to be happy. This was the best way.
But this was just to convince myself. I am such a masochist – What a sick, masochistic lion.
The pain was especially acute when I saw that Bella had truly believed me – excruciating pain indeed. However, it had done the job, and that's all that mattered.
Such pain, anguish – so intense a human's heart would shatter into a million fragments, lost to the blowing of the cold wind, never to be found again.
It was good I wasn't human, I suppose.
I closed my eyes over my ancient anguish.