Bella just got sliced by Mike… hope you like this chapter it was kind of hard to write this one.

I don't own anything from Mrs. Meyer…Darn she gets to own Edward!!!! Ugh…I wonder if she would share him? Hmmmmmmmm………….I wonder?

- Octavia Deveraux ♫♪

A Darker Side

I scream as loud as I can as mike slashed me with the knife, it hurt like Hell, (Dear God forgive me for saying that…) I then started to smell the blood flowing out of my wound. The smell of the iron made my stomach retch; I almost threw up all over trembling Mike, with the open vial about to pour the silver liquid over me.

I stared in disbelief as he bent down to my half naked body and spilled the venom all over my wound. Tears flowing from both of our eyes he emptied it out onto the gash. At first nothing happened, until it hit me like a rampaging truck. The anguish, the fire of the poison filled my body. I could feel the venom crawling through my body like a swarm of spiders biting me. Involuntarily my body begins to shake, then this shake turned into full on thrashing.

I could feel the bones in my body break and start to reform into its new taller form, the muscles in my body contracting and growing in size. My skin felt like it was being shaved off, like it needs to relinquish the fat and the soft skin to produce the marble hard skin vampires have. My face started to feel like it was being crushed and be moved around in different shapes.

I screamed until my lungs were attacked by the pain and eventually just gave up, instead when to whimpering. The pain gained and then suddenly my back arched and an inhumanly growl erupted from my lungs so loud that I could tell the birds flew away.

I heard a gasp from behind me and through my tearing pained eyes I shot a look behind me. Mike was behind me about three feet away from me. He had a five-o-clock shadow and he looked like he was starving himself. He was startled at my speed; he almost jumped back five feet. Though he never looked away from my death stare like he was frozen in pure fear.

Another spasm of pain shot through my body and I growled once again and then heard one of the most unlikely things I think I would have heard from Mike's mouth ever.

"It's almost over, two more days. I'm here for you."

Mikes POV

I was about to fall asleep against the tree nearby Bella, when I heard the most terrifying growl. Looking around I saw it was Bella making the sound. And I make the ever-so-quiet gasp that escaped from my mouth. Immediately I saw Bella whip her head in my direction.

Her eyes were glowing dark crimson, like blood held in a light. Her stare was so piercing it held me in my spot, there was something completely different about her. Her whole…dare I say it aura? Was completely different. She, instead of her usual presents, it felt like she had an evil one. The anger and pain in her face just proclaimed her evil stare. She looked completely different already, and its been only about a day.

As I watched her, her face began to soften her stare then her eyes darted around her eye sockets and she growled loud again, only it was more of a roar than a growl. I felt a little remorse and sorrow for her then decided it would be best if I comforted her, whether she liked it or not I could tell she needed someone there to be for her.

"It's almost over, two more days. I'm here for you."

I came close to her, and realized that she wasn't going to fight back, she was too tired to tell me to go away.

"Bella, please get some rest, go to sleep." I begged thinking that might help she may need some more rest for the next few days.

It took a few minutes but finally she closed her eyes, she was still whimpering in pain, and a couple of times she actually started to cry for Edward. She constantly said his name, it was maddening! Though through the night I also heard her say, "Edward, yes I'll marry you." It was a faint whisper but she definally said it. I gaped at her, did this really happen? Did she really get proposed to?

I left her next to the tree and walked toward the end of the clearing, the opposite side where she shook in pain. And I sat down on the wet grass and hugged my knees. Have I really loved a girl who was proposed to? She must really love Edward. Damn why did I do this? I should not have ever talked to Aro.

Begin flashback

Mike was walking toward Bella in the parking lot one sunny day and again asked her on another date. And she again refused to him.

Angry he headed off toward his car and drove off toward the woods where he found a trail where he usually walked whenever he was angry. It was like a safe haven to him, where no one could hurt him.

He walked this trail for a few hours until he finally cooled off. He was still upset but he realized that he would never be able to be with Bella, she loved Edward.

He was about to get up when a pair of cold hard hands out of nowhere reached for his and for a spit second they were there they returned to their owners sides.

"Whoa man! Jeez, get away from me dude!" Mike said backing away from the pale figure.

"You love dear Isabella do you?" that question made him stop in his tracks.

Mike slowly turned toward the man behind him on the trail.

"How?..." he asked as the pale man approached him.

Mike found that he almost looked like the Cullen's only he had piercing red eyes instead of their usual yellow color. It disturbed him to know that so many people had the same perfect features like the Cullen's.

"Mike, I can… persuade Isabella to love you if you wish. Just get her alone with you I can make it just you and her."

A short pause, "Who are you? What are you?" Mike asked him.

"My name is Aro, and Edward Cullen and his family and I are vampires." He said.

End Flashback

I glance back at Bella's limp figure beside the tree. She looked utterly tortured, pained, and suffered. I didn't want this to happen, I just wanted to be with Bella, to hold her like what Edward was like to her.

I began to sob in my own demise. It was sad, and selfish for me to do. I hated myself for what I did. To kill Bella's humanity, to destroy her hope of freedom from Aro. I was tricked, and I fell for it.

I looked in my hand and spotted the vial of venom Aro had given me. He said it was the only way for me to be with her, to love her. But I missed my chance of becoming a vampire, like Bella. By the time I inject it into my body Bella would already be changed, and then once she wakes up she would be very hungry.

But somehow I never thought that I would run while I had the time, I couldn't bring myself to thinking for me to leave her. I have to wait until she finished her transformation, I have to. I told her that I was going to be right there for her and I will, for her, even if that means getting myself killed in the process.

I got up again and made my way toward the sleeping Bella. She was twitching and she looked liked she was cold. Taking off my jacket I draped it over her shoulders as gently as I could.

Sitting against the tree I fell asleep, next to my crush for the pass two years.

The next day

Mike's POV

I wake up to another sunny morning, Bella was still asleep and she still was whispering to herself. Moaning every once and a while she sill looked like she was suffering. After about another hour she woke up with a startling scream from her mouth. She had less than twelve hours left of her transformation, and twelve more hours left of my humanity and my life. Strangely I wasn't scared, I just worried about Bella. Is this what love is? Not to fancy someone but to cherish her? Is this what people are talking about when they fall in love? Saying they haven't felt anything like this, is that cherishing not loving?

I started to get really hungry, I thought for a while thinking how I'm going to get nourishment. Well I'm no botanist, so I decided that mushrooms weren't the best idea. I got up from my sleeping spot and wondered toward a nearby creek I spotted not too far from the clearing and began to drink deeply.

Spotting a bush across the stream I saw a small wild berry bush, it looked delicious, and it wasn't poisonous.

Crossing the shallow stream I made my way to the berry rich bush and began to eat eagerly. Eating berries along weren't very good but in the current situation it was a blessing from god.

Taking my fill I made my way back toward the small clearing where I heard the cries of Bella increase. I ran back to her to see that her cries are getting frantic, louder than ever before. I looked up toward the sun, it was almost twilight, within a couple hours Bella would be a vampire.

Bella's POV

I could feel the pain increase to heights never reached, it was horrible. My eyes begin to see darkness in the corners slowly covering my full vision. My heart was beating ever so slowly, I knew I was dieing. Before I went completely went blind I look to my side to see Mike at my side.

Carefully I reach my hand out to him and grab his shirt, and gently I pull him closer just in front of my face, then I lean into his ear and I whispered, "Run." Then I went blind then felt my heart die like the rest of my body…