Disclaimers: I do NOT own The short second life of Bree Tanner, Eclipse or any other book written by Stephenie Meyer, this is just fanmade.

The long text in the begining, is because there aren't dialogues but it are Bree's thoughts. I will have more dialogues in the next chapters - if I continue ;D -

Chapter one: Handshake

"Some vampires have special powers…" "So beautiful…" "That was the worst high-five ever…" "Did you see what happened? Did you see the light?" "I'll be right back…" I could hear his voice in my head and it felt like tears were welling up in my eyes, but of course I couldn't cry. He wasn't going to be right back, he was dead and so was I. Wait? How could I think about him if I was dead? I opened my eyes, scared to see the huge vampire standing in front of me but I was all alone on the field. The others were gone too and so was the human and her appealing scent. What should I do now? Should I run? Should I call out for someone? "Hello?" no one answered and to my surprise it was very quiet around me, a bit too quiet. There was no wind, making the leafs off the trees ruffle, there were no birds singing, there were no bugs running through the grass, no animals in the forest. There was nothing but me. Was this normal? I had to find out if it was. "O my," I gasped for air and put my hand at my throat. To my surprise the burning pain was gone, there was no thirst for the first time in months. I looked at my arms and my skin was still white as snow. I laid my hand upon my chest and I couldn't feel a heartbeat, which meant that I was probably still a vampire or I was dead, maybe both. I had to make sure though, and so I ran through the forest to the city of Forks. My powers hadn't become weaker, I was still as fast as I was before and in a few minutes I reached the town.

Still no sounds. After fifteen minutes I stopped at a gas station. There were cars standing outside but there was no one in them. I looked for the bathroom and opened a filthy white door. The floor was wet and the smell of urine came into my nose. I held my breath and looked at myself in one of the mirrors. My eyes weren't red, they were black as if I was thirsty. I shook my head, this couldn't be real. Maybe this was my personal hell, being alone for the rest of my life, well existence was a better word. Or maybe something had happened and everyone just left. No, Carlisle and his wife wouldn't have left me here, they seemed to care about me and so did the red haired boy in some sort of way. So this had to be it then, being here all alone, forever. I sighed and sat down on the ground. Not that I needed the comfort, it was just a human habit that I remembered. My head fell in my hands and I wished that everything would be okay with Fred. He was the only friend I had and he was alone now, in this big world of vampires and humans. I knew that he was smart but it would be hard for him to find out everything about us. Maybe the mind reader would look for him someday, if he had the time. I was sure that if there was anyone who could find Fred and tell him what had happened it would be him and his family. Riley once told me and the others that one of them had the ability to look in the future, she would find him if the mind reader told her to. They didn't seem like normal vampires, they seemed almost human. They weren't a clan, they were a family. I didn't have a family, I didn't even have friends. Except for Fred and Diego, but he had been more than a friend. The first time that I saw his perfect body in the sunlight had been so amazing, I had fallen in love with him. I didn't care about the thirst at that moment, all I cared about was seeing his beautiful face. Now I thought about it, maybe I was attracted to him all the time. When we buried the body's under the stones in the bay I felt a bit uncomfortable when our bodies were close to each other. And when we were in the small cave and he tried to stick his arm into the sunlight I jumped at him just to save him. I had only known him a few hours but somehow I wanted to save the boy. My fingers slightly brushed my lips when I remembered the kiss he had once given me. If I could cry then I would've. I remembered the last time I saw him, I remembered the stupid house Riley and Victoria were in. Suddenly I had the urge to go to the house, I had to see what it looked like on the inside. I had to see if there were still some ashes left of the boy I loved. Before I had even finished my thought I was already running outside. How long would it take me to get to the house? I had a good memory, it wouldn't be that hard to find it. If I just concentrated… And boy, how easy it was to concentrate if you didn't have that burning in your throat all the time. All the space in my head wasn't occupied by thirst but by thoughts. I ran faster and faster and I noticed that it was getting darker. It wouldn't bother me at all, but somehow it felt more lonely when the sun was down.

After about an hour and a half I could see the open field in the woods. I went to the house with the strange colors, and hesitated. Did I really want to go inside? What if his ashes were still here? Would it hurt me? Would that be the moment that I actually died? But if he was really dead it didn't matter. There was no one to live for anyway. The door swung open and the room in front of me was empty except for a pink comfy couch. Our creator must've loved pink, since the house was pink too. The green and white colors didn't really fit with it but I didn't expect a senseless murdering machine like her to know anything about fashion. Not that I was any better, I killed humans too. Only the bad one though, well before we got on the ship at least. But she, she wanted to create an army, just to kill a little fragile human. She didn't care that we would all die and I smiled, because I knew that she was dead too. I couldn't see ashes or a mark on the floor, nobody was burnt here. When I turned around and wanted to go outside I saw the figure of a hand in the wall, it must've been smashed in there. I put my hand into the figure and an electric shock went through my body. It was his hand, Diego's hand, I could feel it. The sun was almost gone when I walked outside, at a human pace. The grass was still, it didn't move unless when I walked on it. After looking outside for the sweet scent of a burned vampire I went to the tree we once sat in. I couldn't find anything around the house, maybe if I had a good view and if the wind helped me a bit I would find what was left of him. Suddenly a scent hit me like a bullet in the head, it was his scent. The scent came from the other treetops. Strange, did he jump up here once I was gone? I followed the scent, jumping from tree to tree. Maybe there was a slight chance that he survived, and that he came to look for me. But I couldn't be there anymore, I was dead or at least I thought I was. I finally arrived at the house I still lived in this morning. I could see the forest in which Fred had disappeared, and the ground still seemed as if a bulldozer ran over it. Some trees still had holes in it, because someone threw an arm at it. I followed his scent to the kitchen door. At first I didn't want to open the door. This was the room in which Riley had lied to me. He had lied about everything but the thing I hated the most was that he had lied about Diego. He told me that Diego would wait for me, that he was watching out for us, that he was still alive. He even gave me those messages of him and now I wondered if Diego had really said that or if Riley just beat the answers out of him. But I knew that even if he had to tell him, he didn't betray me. He hadn't told Riley that I knew about the sun too. Else Riley would've killed me when he had the chance. I finally opened the door and his scent was everywhere. It was strange that I couldn't smell my own scent or any of the others, they were here too, just a few hours ago and the last time Diego walked through this room was four days ago, it couldn't be possible that his scent was the only one left. I went down the stairs to go at the basement. The first sounds I heard since I woke up here were the steps of the stairs, cracking. The computers were still standing in the room, a game was still playing. Maybe someone thought that he or she could continue playing once we came back. They were all so naïve, we were all so naïve. Fred, Diego and I were the only one who ever thought about Riley's words. The rest was just too scared or too stupid to believe him. And so was I, when he told me that the boy I loved was still alive. I looked at the corner where Fred and I always sat and somehow I missed his presence around me. He wasn't so bad, he just didn't want people to bother him. That's why he used his special ability on the rest, but not on me. I didn't bother him, maybe he eventually grew fond of me after all this time. My books were still lying on the table and one of them was open. I read the page and a little paragraph caught my attention.

He ran in front of me, through the snowstorm. Where was he going? Did he know this place? He suddenly stopped and turned around. "Take my hand," he said. His hand was warm, although it was ice cold around us. We ran and ran until I saw something in front of us. It seemed like a cave, did he know this place? Was he trying to find shelter for us? I followed him inside and he finally spoke again. "I found this place when me and my parents were hiking here a few years ago, it's the first thing I could think off."

Shelter… Cave… Those words could be his. I still remembered his little hide-out in the water. And I ran outside the house as fast as I could. The water was a few hours away from here but I ran and ran. I could see the forest blurring by and the leafs were ruffling now, because I was a storm that came through. No one could ever stop me, it seemed like a sign, I had to go there. Sometimes his scent crossed by through the wind I was making and then I only ran faster and faster.

I leaped into the water and swam as fast as I could to the cave. It didn't feel real comfortable to hold my breath because I was so excited. Could he still be alive? I smashed the rocks around me once I was trying to get into the cave and when I finally came up, no one was there. I looked around and saw another book lying there.

"My little girl has finally become fifteen." I looked to my mother and saw the tears in her eyes. She could be so sentimental. I was only fifteen, she acted like I was already moving out of the house and having kids. She walked over to me and hugged me when the bell suddenly rang. "Gotta go, mum I think that's Tracey." I walked to the door and saw my best friend standing in front of me. "Hey birthday girl, ready to do some shopping?" I nodded once and took my coat. "So, where do you wanna go?" she asked. "I really want to go to the music store, I need some new CD's…"

Store? CD's? What was he doing? Playing a little game with me? Trying to check my ninja abilities? I jumped into the air and tried to pull myself through the hole. "Now why didn't I come in here by this hole in the first place," I murmured to myself. I looked over the water and saw the moon, shining bright. My skin seemed even paler but I didn't stay to admire it, I had to find him. Seattle was just fifteen minutes running from here, it wouldn't take long to get to the store. I couldn't remember which music he had picked back then and wondered if I liked it. Although the streets were empty I still ran over the roofs in ninja style. Not that I didn't want to run through the streets, it was just a thing between him and me, we were ninja's. The owner of the store had placed a new lock on the door because I could remember me breaking it. I broke the new one again and went into the store. There was nothing to be found and I walked over to the table we once sat at. A book was lying there and I started to read again.

She lay there, crying in my arms. I couldn't calm her down. "Wade?" she whispered. "Yes?" Do you mind if I stay here, I don't want to go home." I let my fingers go through her hair and told her she could. She still hadn't told me what had happened but I would wait for it to come out, she would tell me once the worst was over. We lay there for another half hour and I could feel her tears falling down on my shirt. "My mother died," she whispered. So this was what had happened. I felt sorry for her, she absolutely loved her mom. "How?" I asked while I hugged her tighter to my chest. "Car accident," she replied.

The book fell down on the floor and I ran to the place where Kevin and the blond boy were playing superhero. Well, superhero was a bad word, they were the bad guys, killing people while proving their point. I could still see the cars and the bodies lying there and I could remember how my throat burned, but I decided to go away with Diego, to find other victims. It wasn't good for a vampire to get in the centre of attention. I arrived at the place where the cars had exploded and there was nothing to be found. Suddenly I felt alone and I knew why, his scent had disappeared too. So, this was it then? Making my head go crazy and then realizing he was really dead. I fell down on my knees in the middle of the street and smashed my fists into the ground. "It's not fair!" I screamed. This was my personal hell, living without him and maybe I deserved it, for killing all those people. For the first time today, something moved without me being the cause. My head turned to one of the roofs and something jumped off and ran into an ally. I could hear footsteps coming closer towards me and I looked at the ally. The creature was walking at a human pace, it couldn't be stronger than me, could it? Suddenly the footsteps disappeared and I felt a little breeze behind me, something blurred by. This being wasn't human. "Who's there?" I asked while I stood up and looked around. Suddenly two arms grabbed me from behind.

"Do you want to see my handshake?" he whispered in my ears. This couldn't be real, when I turned around he would be gone, I was sure of it. In less than a second I was facing him and he was still the same. He was still handsome and he still had his dark curly hair. But his eyes were black too, like mine. Maybe he was real, because his scent made my head go crazy. "Bree?" he seemed a bit concerned because I hadn't answered his question.

"Yes, Diego?" I replied. A smile appeared on his face and he kissed me, not like the other times, there was much more power in this one. We didn't have to stop because we didn't need air but after a few minutes he let go of me and finally spoke.

"So, what do you think of it?"

I rolled my eyes. "That's not really a handshake you know."

"I know," he said. "But I liked this one much more."

"Where are we exactly?" I asked him.

"I don't really know Bree, I remember being ripped to pieces by Riley and our creator and the next moment I was lying in the house with no one around me. Maybe this is where everyone goes when they're dead," he said. I didn't want to think about him being ripped to pieces.

"But that doesn't make any sense, where's the rest? Why are we the only two still standing? And where are all the other people that die?" These questions were pretty logical, and I knew that he already thought about it too but didn't know the answer. He shrugged his shoulders and took me in his arms again.

"I missed you, my little ninja."

"I missed you too." It was true, I missed him. I missed our little secrecy while we were trying to find out what Riley was planning. I missed his smile and I missed having a friend besides Fred. He was good company, but we couldn't talk like Diego and I could.

"Say, were you killed by the vampires with their yellow eyes?" His question seemed strange now I knew the truth about them.

"No, they tried to save me actually. It was all a trap, Riley just wanted us to die, we needed to kill a human, she was the lover of one of those vampires." He would probably think this was strange, a vampire loving a human.

"That can't be, doesn't he get thirsty when he's around her?" I knew it, he would think it's strange, any vampire would.

"Probably, but they're very special and in control of their selves. They're good people. The human's mate killed Riley and our creator, Victoria." Suddenly a strange feeling crept upon me. What if Diego was right? What if Riley and Victoria were here too, somewhere.

"He must be very strong then."

"Yes, but he's a mind reader. Maybe that's why he has an advantage in battle."

"Maybe."

"Tell me Diego, what happened to you?" One side of me didn't want to know what had happened, I didn't want to think about him, dying. And certainly not about Riley.

"After you were gone, I waited for Riley. He was surprised to see me there and he asked me what the problem was. I told him about the sun and suddenly a red haired woman was standing beside him. She told him I couldn't live, that I should die or I would ruin their plans. I tried to run of course but they were older than me, they weren't stronger but they were clever. As they ripped me to pieces they asked me if anyone else knew about this but I just told them no one did."

I couldn't believe what he was saying, although they were torturing him, he didn't tell them that I knew. Well, of course I knew that he hadn't told Riley, but it was strange to hear him say it.

"They were being all melodramatic and asked me if I had a last wish before I died. That's when I thought of you. I told him to tell you about our handshake because I knew that you would come and look for me and probably Riley was going to lie, like he always did and then you were going to die too. The next thing I know is that I'm on the floor of the house and they're gone. I wandered around for a bit and didn't found a human, animal, vampire or anything else. The best thing is, I'm not thirsty at all! And that's a good thing too since there are no humans around here. I hoped that you would come too, since I thought this was the place where dead vampires went and then I laid the books in the house, the cave and the store. After I did all of that I just ran to all the places I could think of but there's nothing here but you and me. I just came back because I knew that four days had passed."

"So there really is no one but us?" He shook his head.

"No one."

"Do you want to go on an adventure, o great ninja?" I asked him. He smiled his beautiful smile at me and started to run as fast as he could and I followed him, to the beginning of our new adventure.

End of chapter one.