Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns all. I merely tried to create new thoughts for her words.

Author's Note: I probably shouldn't be writing one shots when I have two stories that I need to get off hiatus, but this is tiny in comparison to that task. I apologize to anyone possibly waiting for an update.


Worth It

The room was empty for once. The only sound: her thumping heartbeat, skipping and racing, rushing blood through thin veins. Mind elsewhere, he had forgotten his rule. He had forgotten that I was weak. He had forgotten that I wanted to fantasize of trailing sweet kisses along her clavicle, puncturing the pulsing vein in her neck, draining her steaming blood. He had forgotten what I felt, what I dreamt, and what I tried to subdue. He had forgotten, and for once, with him not listening and her not watching, I could let the dream flow, if only for a moment's relief. I breathed in her sweet scent of heat and sweat and salty tears, letting myself bathe in the taste – the aura – of it all.

But something cut through the fog. Her despair rang louder than her scintillating heartbeat. Her pain and worry and selfless adoration overpowered all else, stronger than anything I had felt before, wishing it wasn't happening; that we weren't going into battle for her, believing that she didn't deserve it; believing that we deserved to live, as if our hearts beat just as hers did. Love – in the most immense and pure sense of the word – overcame her, wishing and willing the danger to leave us; to leave him.

Mindlessly, my thoughts ran into words, marching out before I had a chance to keep them in order.

"You're wrong, you know."

Her pulse quickened, fright sparking in her voice, a short gasp of hot air. "What?"

What? Did I even know?

"I can feel what you're feeling now –" I told her, trying to put it into words; needing her to understand; needing her to believe it; needing her to know that she was more than just sweet blood and salty tears to me, "and you are worth it."

And he doesn't deserve you.


Author's Note: I'm not sure about this one, but I've been tossing the idea around for a while. I just wanted to get it out.

Thoughts?