Hey guys,

This is NightFall. Im going to try and post a chapter every sunday. Reveis are nice and make me smile so you should leave me some. The chapters are decent sized so one anna week should be sufficiant. Love Hanna

Chapter One

He was trying to figthis is all edited and pretty now so im going to try and post a chapter every sunday. reveiht back, the look on his face told me that much, but it just wasn't happening. He couldn't look after both of us at the same time. The tracker had it easy; he was just trying to get rid of him so he could move on to the main course... me.

I tried to scream when I saw the tracker's shiny white teeth, covered in my blood, sinking into his skin and tearing, but nothing came out. Up until that moment I'd thought their skin was impenetrable. Edward roared in pain, physical pain, but his eyes widened when the tracker threw him on the floor and grabbed his wounded flesh. Edward turned his head to look at me. His eyes reflected so much sorrow and regret they made me sob even harder. I wanted to go to him, to hold him close and kiss him for what I knew for sure now would be the last time but I couldn't move. The only thing I could do was lie there, in a pool of my own blood, and cry.

He looked at me and time stopped, all my pain went stopped and he mouthed the words "I love you." then it was over. The tracker smiled, grabbed another handful of Edward's perfect skin, and pulled. My whole world came crashing down.

I sat up sobbing, screaming Edward's name, shaking like a leaf and drenched in cold sweat.

A pair of strong arms circled me and pulled me back down on the bed.

"Bella, sweetheart calm down! Shh my love, it was a dream. It was only a dream."

His sweet breath and soothing words made my screaming stop; I turned around in his arms, wrapped myself strongly around his hard body and buried my face in his cold chest. He had successfully stopped the screaming, but not the sobbing.

He pressed his cold lips to my forehead and took a few deep breaths close to my nose. He knew his smell soothed me and the actual proximity to his face started to do the trick. After a few moments the sobbing turned into silent tears. He kissed the salty tracks on my cheeks, tasting those tears, and hummed my lullaby softly.

The calming process happened in what seemed like hours to me but in fact the time that elapsed from my screaming fit to my quiet cries had been almost nonexistent. I discovered this when Edward suddenly went still and cursed under his breath. Not a moment later I found myself alone in my bed.

I sat up, scared. "Edward!" I called out. I heard him shushing me from somewhere in the room and suddenly my door opened. Charlie ran in, wearing a pair of plaid boxers and a white undershirt, gun in hand.

"Bella! Oh my god! Are you okay?"

"Dad!" I jumped, surprised. Sometimes it was easy to forget I still slept in the same house as my father.

"Honey what's wrong? Did something happen? I heard you scream."

I sighed "I'm fine dad, I just had a nightmare." I tried to sound reassuring and calm, anything to get Charlie out of my room and Edward back in my bed.

"Are you sure? You sounded terrified. Do you need anything? A glass of water or a soda?" He hadn't moved from under my door frame, thankfully he still felt a little awkward around me and, most of the time, stayed out of my room. I was really trying to speed things along.

"I'm fine dad, really, I'm just lucky I didn't fall off the bed." I didn't mention that it probably had something to do with the fact that a strong, graceful vampire had been resting under the covers with me, clutching me to his cold chest.

Charlie looked relieved. He ran a hand through his messy hair and sighed "well if you're sure you are okay I think I'll go back to bed."

I smiled "I should probably do the same. I'll try not to eat so much before bedtime tomorrow night."

Charlie smiled weakly "You do that Bells, you really scared me there for a second."

As soon as my dad closed the door behind him, I felt Edward's arms circling my waist again. I took a deep breath and turned around to face him.

"So, same dream?" He whispered.

I nodded in the dark but I knew he could both feel and see me so I didn't bother with a verbal reply.

He sighed, frustrated. He rested his cold cheek on my forehead and rubbed my back "I never should've separated myself from you that night."

I kissed his bare chest "It all turned out fine. If a few nightmares are the price I have to pay for everyone I love making it out of that experience alive then I'm glad to have them."

Edward mumbled something that sounded like "silly girl" and stroked my hair. "Go back to sleep Bella."

"Did you go home already?" I couldn't see if he was wearing the same pants from that afternoon, and he'd gotten the habit of taking off his shirt when he joined me in bed, so I couldn't be sure.

He shook his head and I made a face. "Don't worry my love, it's Friday. You can go home with me in the morning. I'll stay all night."

I smiled against his chest and reached up for a kiss. His cold lips met mine, unmoving, for a few seconds before he tucked me back under his arm and pulled me closer.

Away from his worried stare I was free to think about that hideous dream. I'd been having it on and off for a few weeks now. Edward kept saying it happened because of the trauma that being under James's power had caused me and I'd agreed with him, at first. However, the tracker of my dreams looked nothing like James. Sure he was beautiful and had almost transparent skin and the same piercing stare that only vampires could accomplish, but he was huge! Almost a foot taller than Edward. And he looked way stronger, even more so than Emmett. Of course by then I knew that looks had nothing to do with the actual strength of a vampire. Part of me knew, as Edward insisted on repeating every time I talked about James, that if I were ever attacked again, even by ten vampires at the same time, my boyfriend would be able to defend me on his own.

As it turned out, if push came to shove, Edward's feelings for me made him almost invincible. His instincts would take over and he would kill anyone who even thought about going near me... or so he said. That dream, however, had planted serious doubts in me, even after he told me that was "not how it worked", that it was way harder to kill one of his kind.

By then Edward had gotten pretty good at identifying the nightmare before it ended in a screaming fit such as the one I threw tonight. Usually at the first sign of whimpering he'd be on top of me, pressing his body gently against the whole length of mine, whispering soothing words in my ear and breathing steadily so I would know for a fact that he was still alive... or at the very least still kicking. He must have been distracted that night, or maybe I hadn't made a warning sound. Either way I knew he'd be paying much closer attention in the next few days.

As I remembered the dream tears rolled down my cheeks and into his arm again. He kissed the back of my head and whispered "I love you Bella. You are safe with me."

"I know I am, but what about you?"

He kissed my head again "I will always be fine, as long as I'm with you."

I smiled against his arm and hoped against hope that my nightmare was just that, a nightmare.

It was past ten when I woke up the next morning. Edward had kept his promise; he was still holding me close.

As soon as he sensed I was awake he kissed the base of my neck. My heart raced as it always did when he touched me, especially with his lips.

That was the chapter. Reveiw please :P. Constructive critism accepted, no flames tho please

LOVE, HANNA