Edward when he wasn't with Bella (New Moon)

(From Edward's point of view)

I didn't know why I came here. The absurd reasoning for my being here had slipped from my mind, which until recently would be almost impossible. As I struggled to regain my breath on the pavement I thought of what had brought me here to this desperate situation.

One name. Bella. It was for her own good I repeated over and over again in my head. Willing my mind to believe this. My breath came in short gasps and the concrete swirled sickeningly toward me. As hard as I tried I couldn't dislodge her smiling face from behind my closed lids. In defeat I slumped against the dirty concrete wall behind me: I should remember that I was in Mexico tracking the feline predator like Victoria, Protecting Bella from what would be a horrific death otherwise, I should realise that I was bound to be picked up by a policemen at any point for loitering after dark. But none of things registered in my conscience. I looked bleakly up at the clear night and the cold moon wondering if Bella was was doing the same thing. At that thought my mind automatically reprimanded itself;of course Bella wouldn't be she'd be asleep content that her life had been consistently free of nightmares for a full 4 months. Free of me and the constant danger I had put her in.

My breath came out in jagged gasps and my dead heart felt as if it suddenly was beating its final beats. A soft feminine voice interrupted my metaphorical death.

" Are you quite well?"

For some reason the voice reminded me of the Volturi even though the Volturi didn't have English accents as far as I knew. The thought distracted me enough to draw one shaky breath to reply to the lady. I opened my eyes and gasped the woman was a vampire like me. However even stranger was the fact that she was different. A tattoo was imprinted upon her cheeks and forehead and the spaghetti top she wore showed that the tattoo continued down toward her lower back. She smiled at me softly revealing sharp canine like fangs protruding over her bottom lip.