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"Throw her overboard!" I heard. I had just told Captain Edward that I was a girl and had been lying to him this whole time, and now he was seething with anger.

"No! Please!" I cried as two pairs of hands grabbed my arms and began to drag me out the door. I was crying hysterically, and looked up to see that Emmett and Jasper were the ones dragging me. They were both frowning at me.

I looked at Captain Edward, my eyes pleading him not to do this. He only glared back, his eyes piercing through my heart. I tried to cry out again, but choked on a sob.

As Emmett and Jasper dragged me across the deck, I began to struggle. They only squeezed my arms tighter, until it felt as though they would snap at any moment.

"P-please! Don't-t d-do this!" I begged. I gave up on trying to escape from their grips, but I let my head drop as they neared the railing of the ship. I thought that Jasper and Emmett were my friends.

"Bella! Bella!" My head whipped up at the voice of a person I thought that I'd never see or hear again. Eric.

"Bella! No! Don't do this to her!" Eric cried. As he leaped to attack Jasper and Emmett, a hand grabbed him out of nowhere. I saw Captain Edward grab my friend's neck, and I cried out.

"Eric! No! Stop it! Please don't!" I screamed, trying to jerk out of Emmett and Jasper's grips. They continued to haul me to the railing, and I started yelling.

"No! No!"

Jasper then grabbed my ankles, and Emmett took both of my wrists. They lifted me up and I met Jasper's eyes. They were full of hate, and loathing. Then I looked up at Emmett through my tears.

"Please..." I whispered. Emmett's face got an expression of disgust, and when I heard a scream, I broke eye contact and turned to the scream. I gasped.

Captain Edward was leaning over Eric's near lifeless body, his teeth digging into my friend's neck, sucking him dry. A trickle of blood ran down Eric's neck, and he grew pale.

The last thing I heard before Jasper and Emmett threw me over the railing was Eric's cracking voice screaming for me.

"Bella! Bella! Bella!"

As I hit the water's surface, Eric's voice echoed in my head. I screamed, and salty water filled my lungs. The waves dragged me down, until darkness started to take over my vision. As I drifted into unconsciousness, the echoes of my name grew louder.

***

"Bella! Bella! Bella!"

I sat up, gasping for breath, to see Emmett and Jasper saying my name and shaking me with panicked expressions on both of their faces. I was sweating, and tangled in the sheets on the cabin floor. I felt overheated, and my couldn't speak when I tried.

It was just a dream. Just a nightmare, I told myself.

"Bella? Are you alright? What happened?" Emmett asked, unwrapping the sheets from around me. I was still panting for air, and soon tears filled my eyes. I started sobbing, and Jasper handed me a canteen filled with water. I gratefully drank half of it before my breathing began to return to normal.

When I could talk, Emmett asked again, "What happened?" He and Jasper were looking at me with concerned eyes.

"I-I... I-it was j-just a d-dream..." I said between gasps for air. Emmett pulled me close to him, and I found that his cold body felt great against my burning skin.

"It's alright, Bella. What happened in the dream?" Jasper said, moving closer to us on the floor.

I waited a second to get some air, then said, "I t-told him. He was r-really m-mad." Jasper and Emmett both looked at me with concern before I continued. "H-he told you b-both t-to, to... throw m-me o-overb-board..." I stuttered.

"It's alright, Bells. You know that we'd never do that, even if he told us to," Emmett said, hugging me more tightly. Jasper was nodding his head at Emmett's words. I felt a bit better at the use of my old nickname, but still cried.

"T-that wasn't all," I said. "E-Eric! H-he t-tried to h-help me, but, but C-Captain Edward... he, he..." I trailed off there, too terrified of what had happened to continue, but Emmett wanted me to get it all out.

"What did he do, Bella?" he asked.

I shook my head.

"Bella?" Jasper asked. They could both probably tell how horrified I was.

"H-he... h-he... bit E-Eric... s-sucked him d-dry!" I said before beginning another round of tears. I pressed my cheek against Emmett's chest as his head snapped up, meeting Jasper's eyes at my words. They stared at each other with a look of shock and horror on their faces while I cried.

After a while, when my crying had slowed so that it was silent, Jasper got up and took me from Emmett's arms. He sat down on the bed with me on his lap and began to stroke my hair as Emmett sat down next to me, covering one of my hands with his.

"Everything's going to be alright, Bella," Jasper murmured comfortingly in my ear. Emmett nodded his head as Jasper continued.

"Bella, it's still best to tell Captain Edward today. That was just a nightmare. He won't hurt you," he said.

"And if he tries to, I'll knock the living daylights out of him," Emmett said, punching the air. I smiled a bit at this.

"So what do you say? Are you up to it?" Jasper asked. I nodded uncertainly.

"Alright. How about after you have some lunch, then?" I nodded again.

"And don't worry, Bella. We'll both be there with you," Emmett said. This slightly reassured me, but only slightly.

"Alright, then. How about you get some pants on, and clean up a bit, before joining us out on the deck," Jasper said, and I blushed bright red. I hadn't remembered that I didn't have pants on up until that moment.

I nodded, and Jasper set me on the bed. He and Emmett threw me a smile before walking out of the cabin, shutting the door behind them.

I took a deep breath and stood up. I threw the wadded up sheets back on to the bed and picked the trousers up off of the floor, putting them on.

After tying a belt around my waist, I ran the brush through my hair. It was tangled up from my horrid night, and took a while to yank through.

When I was done, I picked up the piece of cloth that I had ripped off of my original shirt and got it wet with some of the water from the canteen. I wipped all of the sweat and tears off of my face and laid the cloth over my eyes, trying to take away some of the redness that crying for an hour had caused.

After a final check in the mirror, I walked out of the cabin and immediately went over to where Emmett and Jasper were quietly talking, keeping my eyes downcast and ignoring anything anyone said to me.

When I got to them, Emmett put an arm around my shoulder and Jasper addressed me.

"I've arranged for you to meet with the Captain in an hour. Until then, I suggest you find something to eat. You must be hungry." I nodded, and Emmett began to lead to the door that went below deck when I remembered something.

My question.

After I had agreed to talk to the Captain last night, I was so nervous that I completely forgot about how I was going to ask Emmett about the food thing.

I stopped, and Emmett jerked to a stop besides me, giving me a puzzling look.

I turned to him, and asked, "Emmett, why don't I see any of your crew mates or you eat anything? You always bring me breakfast, but I never see you eat anything yourself. The food room never looks any more empty than what I eat."

He looked shocked, and began to stumble for words.

Jasper came to his rescue. Apparently he had over heard the question.

"Of course we eat. We just do it really early in the day, and really late, after you're asleep. We've trained our bodies so that we're on a schedrule. We wake up really early, eat, work, eat, and then go to sleep," Jasper said. Emmett looked relieved and just nodded.

"Mmmm..." was my reply. "Then why don't any of you carry around canteens?"

"Because we've also trained our bodies not to need much water," Jasper said with a shrug. Emmett was still nodding stupidly.

How did they expect me to believe that? Every human being needed lots of water to survive, especially when they were working all day in the hot sun. I didn't push the subject, though. I just gave Jasper an unbelieving glance before turning around and heading to the food room. Even if they didn't need much food, I did. I was hungry. I grabbed a banana, mango, and orange from the fruit pile, and a small stack of stale crackers.

I sat on the step and ate them, and only then realized that I had just been speaking to Emmett and Jasper in front of the other crew members. It seemed as though none of them had been paying attention, though, because they were all talking loudly with one another and laughing. Oh well, they'd all find out soon anyway.

As soon as I was finished eating, I headed back up on to the main deck. Jasper and Emmett were waiting for me, and I guessed that it was time. I joined them, and Jasper led the way to the cabin I had been sleeping in. He knocked, and I heard a faint "enter." Emmett put his hand on my shoulder.

As Jasper pushed the door open, I took a deep breath and walked into the cabin.

A/N: k decent i thought, but... its not my perspective that counts, sooo..... how about u guys? wadja think? what do u think will happen next? wat will edward do and/or say? i luv to hear the guesses, and ill update soon!!! i luv reviews and reviewers!!! plzplzplz review and tell me if it was absolutely horrid!!!!!!!

~Maddy Rose