Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or its sequels. I do own this plot line though.
1993 Denali
Edward stood on the outskirts of town, eyes a lovely ocher. He was just far enough from everyone as to not hear their tainting thoughts.
A high pitched scream was uttered in the distance. In the distance Edward could see a girl running for dear life. The swift movements of a vampire followed behind her.
Edward moved on impulse, running after the vampire and knocking them down. He could feel the vampire struggle beneath him, but he was watching the girl running towards the town until she reached the first open shop.
"These are my hunting territories-" Edward stopped halfway through his sentence when he caught sight of the vampire beneath him. "You! You're the woman from the fire!" Edward's thoughts flashed back to his rebellious years before he was brought back to the present by the vampire swiping a long scratch down the side of his face. He growled and jumped away from the pain. He couldn't figure out how she was still alive, until he remembered sensing other vampires in the area when he first saw her.
The ravenous vampire jumped after him, lashing out at Edward.
"I'll kill you." The female vampire said in an emotionless voice. Her eyes were a bright red that only resulted in just feeding. There was no way she could be thirsty again so soon.
She leapt at him again, this time connecting a devastating punch to his jaw. Edward stumbled backwards.
"Why, why are you trying to kill me? I just don't want you hunting on my territory." Edward tried dodging all of her moves, but she obviously had experience fighting her own kind.
"Does one ever need a reason to kill?" She asked as she pushed him onto the snow covered ground and pinned him down. "Killing for the sake of killing is all the reason anyone should ever need." Edward struggled against her strong hold, wishing that his coven was in shouting range to hear him.
"That's preposterous! Why would you ever want to kill somebody? Don't you feel guilty?" Edward asked while still trying to gain freedom from her death grip.
"Why wouldn't you want to kill? You get to see so many human emotions that are so rare. You get to feel like a god. You get to feel! When was the last time you really felt something?" The woman spit out her acidic venom as she spoke such vigor that it stunned Edward.
Edward tried to remember when was the last time he ever felt something in his eternal life of repetitive nothingness and only found the feeling of being just below the line of content.
"What about the guilt?" Edward's voice was weaker than before.
"What about it? There is no guilt? Why should I feel guilt for ending a life that is just going to end either way? And don't give me that bull of 'that person you killed could have grown up to cure cancer'. The people I kill could have grown up to be the next Hitler if not for me. The way I see it is that there is an equal chance of these dead people to have led a life of good as there is for them to have led a life of bad! This world is better off empty." The vampire's fingernails dug into Edward's shoulder, breaking through the skin. Her silky brown hair acted as a curtain blocking out everything but her face.
"If that's what you truly believe than why don't you just kill yourself so that you don't have to deal with our crazed world?" Edward asked trying not to flinch at the pain she was inflicting on him.
"That's an easy question. I don't kill myself because I don't know what's on the other side. It could be better than this world or it could be worse, if there is anything at all to begin with. Why take a risk on something you don't know when you already are winning in this world?" With one swift movement the vampire pulled off Edward's left arm. He let out a blood curdling scream. "And now it's time for you to die." She proceeded to tear him to shreds.
"I don't even know your name." Edward said. He had finally given up struggling against her. The vampire lit a match from no where.
"And you never will." Bella said as she dropped the match.
This is what happens when I'm trying to avoid a project. . . Review!
