A/N: Thank you EdwardDazzeldMe1812 for being my first review. I wasn't planning to update so soon, but I'm bored, and this came out of nowhere.

Bree found Riley a few miles away from where the main fight had occurred, in a small clearing up against a sheer cliff. She had never seen the place before, but she immediately knew it. There was still a scorch mark where the fire that killed their leader, Victoria, had burned, along with a fallen tree, no doubt where Edward had thrown her in battle.

It was understandable Riley would come here.

Riley stood off to the side, where he'd fought Seth. Where Victoria left him for werewolf chow without so much as a blink of an eye.

"Why are you here?" Riley growled. He didn't look up from the patch of ground he was staring at.

Bree hesitated. "I just wanted to see if you were okay."

"Why would I be okay? The person I loved left me for dead in the middle of a fight. Victoria would have let me die for her own gain. She let me down. And you think I would be okay?!" Riley's voice steadily rose until he was shouting. He spun around to glare at her. Bree instinctively took a step back.

"I only meant to- "

Riley cut her off. "You meant to what? Check up on me? I don't need you to look after me."

"Really, I just- "

"Go away! I don't need your help."

"I came out here to comfort you! Yeah, Victoria lied to you. Yeah, she abandoned you. It's over now. She's gone, she's not coming back, and there are other things out there for you. She used you. Get over it! Yeah, it happened, but that was months ago. Move on!" Bree snapped.

"I don't need you telling me what to do!" Riley snarled back.

"Of course not! You're obviously okay and doing great when you do nothing but sit around and mope about someone who betrayed you. Look around you, you idiot! There are other people that care about you, you know."

"Oh yeah? Who, you? Is that supposed to mean something to me?"

"You don't get it. You're part of a family now. Families care for each other. Even you know that."

"So? Just because they took us in doesn't mean they won't turn us out the moment we do something wrong. Some family."

"Carlisle wouldn't do that to us!"

"You say that now. Look, you don't get me, and you don't get my relationship with Victoria. Butt out!"

"What relationship?" Bree gave him a skeptical look."She used you! I'd hardly call that a relationship."

"Oh really? And what would you call a "relationship"?"

"Two people who genuinely care for each other. Who would do anything for each other. Even die for one another. Family, friend or mate."

"What, you would die for the Cullens, for the werewolves?"

"Yeah, I would! I'd die for you too! But, then again, since you don't need me, I should probably rethink that commitment, shouldn't I?"

Without waiting for a reply, Bree wheeled around and sped through the forest, back toward the house.