IMPORTANT:

I wrote this a couple of months before Eclipse came out, so this is considered an alternate universe now. Because this is pre-Eclipse, Victoria is still alive, the engagement hasn't happened, Bella hasn't realized she's in love with Jacob...etc. But for my sanity things like Rosalie and Jasper's past are going to be the same, as well as imprinting.

OFFICIAL DISCLAIMER: I do not own the novels or characters created by Stephenie Meyer.

EXTENDED SUMMARY: Frustrated with Edward's decision to not make her an immortal unless she marries him and too impatient to wait until after graduation for Carlisle, Bella decides to take matters into her own hands, bringing Alice along for the ride. But with Victoria still on the loose and an unknown danger conspiring against her, will Bella make it out alive? Or rather...undead?

Solar Eclipse
by Declan

PROLOGUE

Her eyes glinted wickedly in the afternoon sun. The normally amber colored irises were a charcoal black. My eyes widened.

"The funny thing is," her velvet voice drawled, "is that no matter how many years you go without the taste of human blood, you never lose your craving for it." The corners of her mouth curled up into a dangerous smile.

And for the first time in her presence, I suddenly feared for my life.