Victoria POV

I heard her stirring downstairs and knew that her transformation was complete. Three days of pleading and high-pitched screaming. I thought I was going to go insane if I had to go through another day of it. I had felt a bit of empathy for what the girl was going through having been reminded of my own transformation during the past few days but the feeling didn't last long. I had, had to run out of the room after I bit her to keep from losing control and killing her. Finally, all I could sense was the remainder of her blood that was slowly drying up, the last remnants of her human state.

She must be ready to feed now.

I could just imagine the insatiable state that she would be in. I would make sure that humans were on the menu. None of that pathetic tofu diet the Cullens would have undoubtedly subjected her to.

She'll be the exact opposite of those damn Cullens when I'm through with her.

I made my way down the stairs to the basement. It was dark but I knew the darkness wouldn't bother her now. I cautiously opened the door and peered in not fully knowing what I was about to encounter. Newborn vampires were usually filled with an uncontrollable rage and I didn't want to get into it with her if I could avoid it. She was just waking up when she saw me.

"Up already are we? Feeling any different?" I laughed knowing full well the answer I would receive. "Are you ready to feed yet? You must be parched from your transformation. Why don't you come up and we'll go hunting?"

She looked like she was going to respond and then I saw the horror that spread across her surprised face. She clutched at her throat wordlessly mouthing as she started to panic and pitched backwards into the wall.

Oh damn, I forgot about that.

"Don't panic and stop grabbing at your throat, you'll only make it worse. You've destroyed your voice box."

She slammed back into the wall.

She really started to panic then and started to claw at her throat as if she could force the sound out.

"I said stop that!" and I started to walk towards her.

Half way across the room I stopped, rooted to the floor.

What in the world?!

Just like that she had disappeared into thin air but I could still feel the vibrations from her trembling body.

What do you know, she's invisible…hmm.

"Bella? Stop playing around!" I started to sniff the air searching and then I heard her gasp.

Now, that was something that I hadn't expected. How interesting. I had been wondering if she would acquire any hidden powers with her transformation but this was better than anything I could have imagined. Yes, this would prove quite useful. I smiled and started moving towards her once again with my arms outstretched. I knew she was there, even if I couldn't see her. I lunged at the corner but there was nothing there. I stared bewildered. This time I could definitely tell that I was the only one left in the room.

Bella POV

I opened my eyes only to find that I was no longer in the darkened room and that Victoria was no where in sight. I was standing outside but it was nowhere that I had ever been before. There seemed to be a dense maze of wilderness and by the look of it I was somewhere up on a mountain.

Where the heck am I?! I couldn't have gone that far. Am I dreaming?

I realized that I had stopped breathing and immediately let the cool air start to circulate through my dead lungs. Totally unnecessary, I knew, but old habits die hard. As I stood there chuckling to myself I suddenly realized that I wasn't by myself. I froze finally noticing the scent that the passing breeze had just carried. I whipped around and found myself staring into the window of a small cabin.

Edward?!

I saw him there bent over heaving through dry sobs. I could see the emotional anguish that he was going through but I didn't understand why. Wasn't he supposed to be out distracting himself? Hadn't he left me to find something better? Yet here he was alone in the middle of nowhere apparently lost in some unknown sorrow…I started as I realized that without meaning to I had walked up to the window. My heart was aching and I wanted to comfort him but I knew that I wasn't the one he wanted. I wasn't any good for him he had told me and seeing me would only make it worse.

Why am I here? Why would I come here if there is nothing here for me?

But I was grateful because at least I had gotten my wish to see him one last time. Then suddenly he looked up at me. I saw his breath catch as he took in what he was seeing. I looked into his beautiful topaz eyes as they widened in surprise.

Oh no! He's mad that I'm here! What am I going to do? I'll die if he tells me he doesn't want me again! No, I can't go through that again!

Then slowly he got up and started to walk towards the window. I panicked and stumbled backwards and then I noticed the same confused expression that Victoria had, had. I looked down only to see the ground around me but I didn't have time to worry about that. If he couldn't see me then this was the perfect time to get away so I turned around and ran into the woods out of sight.

Edward POV

I don't understand…what the hell just happened?! Am I going crazy?

I knew what I had just seen but was it possible? I had been imagining seeing her for so long that maybe my mind had somehow projected her, but how? And stranger still, that wasn't really the Bella that I remembered. No, there were many similarities, to be sure, but this Bella had deliberate changes and her eyes…

A vampire?

No, I was imagining things. Bella was not a vampire. No, when I left her she was very much a human. Then what had I just seen? Suddenly, there was someone pounding on my front door.

Alice? What is she doing here?

"Edward? Edward? Open up!"

Odd, she hadn't come to see me in days but the distress in her voice was evident. Maybe something had happened to someone in the family? I rushed to open the door. She looked helpless and her eyes were pleading.

"Alice, what's wro-

"Oh Edward, it's Bella!"

All of a sudden I was being attacked by a raging stream of memories. I clasped my hands to my temples as the flashes of Alice's vision streamed, unbidden, into my conscience. I was living it and I fell to my knees as I saw the nightmare that Bella had been living. I was in agony as I saw Charlie die and Victoria bite Bella only to leave her alone to suffer, Bella transforming and then disappearing. Then just like that the vision changed to Bella staring at me through the window. I looked up at Alice heaving from the emotional drain and strain that my mind had just gone through.

This is too much. I don't understand. It had all been for nothing!

"Edward, what are we going to do?"

I looked up at Alice at a loss for words.

"Bella…she really was just here?" I asked meekly.

"That's what I don't understand, Edward! This all definitely happened in Forks but then it was just like she disappeared! Then out of the blue I see her standing outside of your window and now I can't see her at all!"

"What do you mean you can't see her?"

I didn't understand anything that she was saying. How could Bella just disappear? How could she be in Forks one second and in the back woods of North Carolina the next? It didn't make any sense and now Alice couldn't find her at all?

"That's what I'm trying to tell you! I've been trying to follow her but I can't see her since she disappeared from your window! She could be anywhere!"

I just sat there remembering the look on her face before she had vanished. I could remember the pain etched across her beautiful features. The pain that I had caused her…

"Edward? Did you hear me? We have to find her!"

"You didn't see her face, Alice. You didn't see the pain that was written all over her face."

"Well, that's why we have to find her! We have to help her!"

"She ran from me, Alice! She saw me and she ran away. She blames me for what happened to her and I don't blame her. I don't think I can ever look her in the face."

Then quite unexpectedly Alice slapped me across the face. I looked up at her stunned.

"Don't you dare sit there and feel sorry for yourself! What you did might have been stupid but you had the right intentions or else I would never have agreed with it! I should have been watching her but what's done is done! You didn't do this to her Victoria did and may I remind you that we don't even know why Victoria did it. For all we know Victoria wants something with Bella and we have to find her before she does!"

She was right. How could I have been so blind? But what I had failed to do before I would never fail to do again. We needed to find her. Had she fed yet? The implications of what might happen were she to encounter humans was unthinkable. She would never forgive herself just as I would never forgive myself for what I had done to her.

"Right, we need to talk to Carlisle and we need to gather the rest of the coven. It will take all of us to find her and we don't even know where she might be."

We ran from the cabin towards the neighboring town. I told Alice to gather the others while I went to go get Carlisle and that we would regroup at the house. Time was of the essence. I didn't want to think of Bella alone dealing with everything that she had just gone through.

Dear God, what have I done?

Victoria POV

Did she just actually disappear?

I thought I knew that she was invisible but now it was obvious that she was nowhere near the vicinity.

Amazing…

I had obviously, seriously, underestimated her. I wondered if the stupid girl was even aware of how powerful she had become. Teleportation…invisibility…there were no known accounts of those powers.

What to do? What to do?

I needed help…of that much I was certain. There was no way that I would be able to find her myself let alone capture her.

The Volturi could do it.

But how would I manage to ask them without them killing me first? They still hadn't forgiven me for running away with James and now James was dead.

Aro…he'd help.

Aro was always searching for new talent and maybe if I helped him to capture Bella they would allow me entry back into the fold.

It could work and with their help dealing with the Cullens would prove only too easy.

Edward POV

I ran faster than I should have so close to a populated area but I had to find Carlisle. He would know what to do. Thankfully, I saw him heading out of the clinic towards his car.

"Carlisle!"

He turned to look at me with a surprised expression on his face.

"Edward, what are you doing out here?"

"There's no time. Get in the car; we have to meet the others."

I guess he could sense my urgency because he climbed in without question and we started speeding towards the house. His voice had assumed its authoritative tone.

"Edward, what has happened?"

I shook my head. I didn't think that I would be able to get through recounting everything again.

"Alice will explain everything."

We pulled into the drive way and rushed inside. I was immediately ambushed with everyone's questions.

Edward, honey, what's happened?

There had better be a good reason for this I was just getting ready to go to the spa!

I was just in the middle of watching a very big game, you know.

Why won't Alice tell me what's bothering her?

I closed my eyes and tried to block out all of their thoughts. Then Carlisle put a hand on my shoulder and spoke.

"Alice, please explain what is going on."

She gave me a puzzled look, clearly not understanding why I hadn't filled in Carlisle. I gave her a pleading look and a look of understanding came over her as she nodded and began to explain what had happened. I cringed as everyone's face went from shock, to disbelief, to intense horror. Alice finished and everyone just sat there stunned into silence.

Esme was the first to speak and I was sure that if she could have cried tears would have been falling down her face.

"My poor Bella, Carlisle we must find her. She's all alone with no one to help her through all of this. I can't imagine the pain she must be suffering."

Carlisle rushed over to comfort her. "Of course Esme, we'll find her don't worry."

Emmett stood up a wild rage behind his eyes. "And then we'll find Victoria and I'll rip her into shreds for what she did to poor Bella!"

Alice was sitting on the couch being held by Jasper. The ordeal of having to relive her vision taking its toll on her and I knew how she felt. I was overcome by the grief of what my love had suffered because of my lack of foresight and I sank to the floor. Immediately waves of serenity started to make their way throughout the room and I breathed a little easier.

Carlisle spoke. "Alice, you said that you were unable to see Bella during certain periods?"

"Yes, at times I can see her quite plainly and then at other times it's almost as if she doesn't exist."

He started to pace around the living room and I listened to his thought process.

There but then not there. In Forks and then here…I guess it's a definite possibility. Just because it's never been heard of doesn't mean that it can't or that it hasn't already but how do we find her then? It seems that she is only visible when she chooses to be…well that would explain why Alice can't see her…hmmm.

I was starting to get frustrated from the lack of actual information that I was getting from Carlisle. I never really understood the way he processed things so I decided to just ask.

"What do you think it means then?"

He looked at me then, his eyes coming back into focus.

"I think she has the ability to teleport. That would explain why she was in Forks and then suddenly here. Though I don't understand how she ended up here because usually, in theory, you have to know where you are going in order to go there."

He paused to think again.

"My only assumption, being from the revealed events, is that she had been focusing on you, Edward, and she ended up going to where you were regardless of the fact the she had never physically been here. It's quite fascinating actually."

She wanted to see me?

The thought lifted me somehow at the idea that maybe she did still love me, but that still didn't explain why she had run from me.

"You mean she can disappear and re-appear like that blue guy from X-MEN? That's awesome!" Emmett said the excitement evident on his huge grin.

Leave it to Emmett to think of something like that at a time like this but we couldn't help but grin at the idea.

"Yes, that's exactly what I mean but that doesn't explain the prolonged absence of her presence which also makes me believe that she has a way to mask her whereabouts, to become invisible to put it bluntly."

Invisibility? Teleportation? Was he serious? But then again the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.

"Edward, when she saw you how did she seem? Afraid?"

"She looked mostly hurt and I guess she was a little afraid…why?"

"Well, I think that she wasn't aware of what she had done. If you remember, when you first turn, your powers are only manifest in times of high emotion. My only guess is that she was trying to escape from Victoria and you were the first thing that came to mind. Then when she saw you she was confused and afraid of what you might do given the nature of our departure."

What little hope I had gained was lost. It all made sense now. What a mess I had made. She still thought I wanted nothing to do with her. I had left her to this horror. It hurt me to think that she had needed my help and had run away because she thought I wouldn't care. Now she was alone somewhere, tortured. I started to cry.

Esme was instantly by my side holding me in her arms. "We'll find her Edward. Deep down she knows that you still love her and we know that you have always loved her."

Carlisle spoke then, "We won't be able to find her until she releases her cloak. I think she still can't control her powers fully so there is still a possibility that she may be somewhere near by."

Suddenly, Alice went rigid and a moment from her vision flashed across my eyes. Bella was at the edge of some lake I had never seen before. Alice started to describe what she had seen when Jasper spoke up.

"I've seen that place before!"

"Yeah, it's that place where all those black bears hang out!" Emmett barked out.

"Is it far from here?" I questioned

"No, it's about a good 10 to 15 minute run depending who's running it." Emmett winked.

"We should leave now before we lose her trail then." Carlisle ordered

So we all took off with Emmett and Jasper in the lead. Thoughts were racing through my head.

What if she doesn't forgive me?

Bella POV

I didn't know how far I had run but I found myself at the edge of a wide lake surrounded by a grove of trees. I kneeled over the water's edge and looked down curious as to what my reflection would be like. At first I saw nothing.

Do vampires even have reflections?

Then suddenly I appeared on the water's smooth surface. I gasped. The contrast between the girl I had last seen in the mirror and the woman that I now saw on the water was astounding. I placed my hands on my cheeks and outlined my features. Gone was the roundness that had still signaled my youth. My face was now smooth and angled, though still heart-shaped. My skin was as pale as alabaster and it emitted a faint glow like that of moonlight. My hair was richer, fuller and had a deeper shade of brown. It had a sheen that I had never previously obtained with even more volume and when I shook my head it swayed gracefully from side to side. I stood stunned and realized for the first time what I was wearing. My bra and underwear were still intact though they didn't quite fit me right anymore. It was as if my normal rate of human transformation had been sped up and improved upon. I was more filled out in the breast and my curves were more defined. I followed the long line of my leg and admired my new muscle definition. Every wound and scar had been erased and all that was left was my new smooth exterior. I was a woman in every physical sense of the word.

Beautiful.

It had never been a word that I would have used to describe myself but there was no other way to describe what I was seeing. The rest of my clothes had been ripped and torn during my transformation but I wasn't too concerned. I just gazed into the midnight reflection of my eyes.

A faint breeze played across my face and I saw my eyes flash crimson. Across the lake I saw a group of black bears coming to the water's edge. The hunger, I had evaded earlier, was now back in full force taking over all of my senses. The blood lust coursed through my veins as the thirst pained my parched throat. I don't know how it happened but all of a sudden I was on the other side of the lake attached to the leading male. I quickly snapped its neck and ripped off the layer of fur separating me from its flowing blood. I sank my teeth into its warm neck and began to drink in the wonderful, life giving nectar. I could feel the pain in my throat slowly start to ease when I was suddenly ripped from my meal. It all happened so quickly and all of a sudden I was surrounded by the bloodless carcasses of all three bears.

Edward POV

We hadn't been running long when I picked up the familiar scent. It still called to me stronger than ever but differently somehow. I was overcome by the need to be near her and I tore away from the rest of the group. I was by far the faster runner and soon I was leading a little ahead of the group. Suddenly I stopped at the edge of the forest. There she was standing at the water's edge staring at her reflection. She was more beautiful than I could have even imagined. I didn't think it was possible but here she was more perfect than the perfect I had left her as. I was frozen to my spot unable to will myself towards her as the doubt began to resurface. I became aware as the rest of my family appeared around me waiting to see what she would do. Abruptly, we saw her go rigid and drop into a lunge. I looked across the wide expanse of the lake and saw a group of three bears appearing at the water's edge. By the time I looked back at Bella she was gone.

"Whoa."

I turned around and looked at Emmett who was pointing across the lake and gasped.

Bella was attached to the male having already broken its neck.

"Well, that confirms that theory." Carlisle added

I watched as Bella violently fed.

"Was I that bad?" Rosalie asked

We watched as one of the females reared up and ripped Bella off of the male. I growled ready to go to her aid but Carlisle held me back.

"No Edward, this she has to do on her own. You can't j-

But he never finished his sentence as we watched Bella raise her hand and felt our mouths drop as we watched both of the females drop instantly right where they had been standing.

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