As I felt my body cut through the water I realized that I hadn't thought about the water much at all. That was a mistake. The water was beginning to toss me in all different directions, trying to pull me apart it seemed. The moment I heard Edwards voice, I knew I was dying. This was it.

"Keep fighting Bella. Swim!" The voice urged.

"I can't!" I thought frantically. "I don't know which way is up." Just then his voice appeared before me and I was totally complete. It seemed right, that after all he put me through that he would show up here, in my last moments.

"Don't give up! You promised Bella, for Charlie." Edward all but snarled at me.

Charlie. This was going to kill him. How could I have been so reckless? I couldn't think about this, not now. I had to enjoy my last moments with Edward. All of the sudden I felt this force pulling me. Was it up or down? I couldn't tell, all I knew was it was pulling me away from Edward. The force threw me from the water and I crashed onto the rocky shore. There was pain everywhere now. As I looked up, dazed, horror struck me. I was being saved, but only so I could endure a worse death. There she was, with the smile of success all over her face.

With great speed she rushed over to me and pulling me up by my hair threw me into the side of the cliff. My head hit with crack. I looked up at her from the ground and saw the fire that ignited in her eyes when she smelled the blood. I knew she would manage to keep her focus though, I wasn't getting off easy. In my head, Edward was snarling furiously, but there was nothing that could be done to save me from this.

"Please, please don't. He doesn't love me. He left! This won't hurt him, he won't care." As I spoke the words, I knew they were true. He didn't love me anymore, not like I did.

"You seem to be underestimating our kind Bella. We love once. This will hurt him. It's unfortunate he picked such a fragile human to love though. I am sorry, in a way I suppose. This really isn't about you." Victoria said with confidence. She was wrong though. He didn't love me. Maybe he was the exception, like I was the exception to his mind reading. I couldn't finish that thought, I didn't have time, in that moment Victoria came flying at me crushing my back into the rock cliff. I crumpled to the ground, sure that it was broken. My arms scrapped down the rocks causing more blood to spill to the ground. She reached down and grabbed my arm, examining the scar her James had left on me. Then in a slow motion she bit down into it again.

The pain was unbelievable. My arm was burning, again. Not only that, but I was losing blood at a rapid pace, she was killing me and there was nothing I could do to stop it. Then, to my astonishment, she stopped, I couldn't understand why. Then she ran. Why was she running? What had just happened? There I was, lying on the beach, burning, when I heard Jacob's voice.

"Bella! Bella, no!" Jacob was shouting, I could only imagine what he saw. "Sam, what can we do, is she alive!"

"The bloodsucker bit her Jacob. She's changing. We have to kill her, now, before she changes. It can't happen, I'm sorry Jacob." Sam stated in a very clinical voice.

"No! I won't let you!" Jacob shouted. I knew he wasn't going to leave me, but he had to help me. I was burning, couldn't he tell."

"Jake." I managed to choke out. "Jake, make it stop please. Jake it hurts so bad!" I saw him cringe when he finally looked back at me. All the same, I knew he couldn't help me. There was nothing he could do. This was so much worse than drowning, even worse than when James tried to kill me. At least then Edward made it stop.

"Jacob, we can't let this happen." Sam said in a stern voice, I could tell he was using his alpha tone.

"And I can't let you kill her." Jake retorted. He seemed to be taking over. In that moment the pain took over. I couldn't hear or see anything. I was burning.

I didn't know how long I had been burning. Time seemed to get lost. The pain seemed to be dulling, but at the same time getting worse in my chest. It started to click, I knew the burning was going to stop, and when it did, I was going to be a vampire. I could find Edward. I could follow him while he chased his distractions. Maybe he would want me now that I was beautiful. Just then I felt more heat, this wasn't burning though, this was different.

"Bella, I don't know how to stop this. I don't know how to help you. But I'm here Bells, I'm not leaving." Jacob murmured as he squeezed my hand with his warm, oversized hands.

What was Jacob doing here? He couldn't help me now. He would be repulsed by me when I was done burning. Just then I let out a scream of agony as another wave of pain hit me. The pain in my chest got worse. It surprised me that I could scream so loud, it seemed I hadn't been able to make a sound for so long. Jake squeezed my hand once more, I knew this was hurting him, not as much as it was me, but in a different way. Then my heart kicked into overdrive. It was beating so fast I thought it was going to burst through my chest.

Everything went silent except for Jacob's quiet breathing and his steady heartbeat.

My eyes snapped open.