Once In A Blue Moon, That Girl There x

Summary: Alternative Universe. Alternative Breaking Dawn. Waiting for Breaking Dawn. Bella finally has made her choice, Edward. But there is no happy endings in real life. Marriage, family... and an attack that could cost Bella everything that she worked for and loved.

Rating: Teen

Stephenie Meyer owns any Twilight characters that may appear in this story. The remainder is my original work. Copyright 2008 by That Girl There x. No copying or reproduction of this work is permitted without my express written authorization.

They say in chess you've got to kill the queen and then you made it.
Oh I, do you
A funny thing, the king who gets himself assassinated.
Hey now, every time I lose
Altitude.

Fortune Faded - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Chapter 8

All I could remember was the pain. The pain was excruciating, and to make it worse I could not see his face in the darkness. I was floating, as if I was under water, drowning. The pressure of the water was jolting my heart back to life, when all I wanted to do was sleep. His voice brought me back, the water cleared a little, giving me access to the oxygen I so desperately needed. His voice brought me back, but the pain never left. It was as if I had flames running through the blood vessels of my body, burning up everything in its way, singeing the blood and muscles. He was not there with me anymore, he had left me again. It scared me. I could see the forest in the background of my darkness. I recognised this forest; it had haunted my dreams for months. But there were differences, and they were huge. There was no empty silence, I did not scream for Edward, and Jacob was not there. But there was a wolf there, it was grey and I knew who she was. I knew who took my life from me. It occurred to me that I was going through the change, I knew enough of the theory to realise that. The burning, the fire and pain were all that Edward and Rosalie had told me about. That and the new born part. It hurt to know that he was not there with me, but I knew Carlisle was there somewhere. He took my temperature and checked my vitals every few hours. I had no concept of time, the darkness never seemed to lift and the pain increased periodically. It must be finished soon I thought, it had to be.

The darkness began to lift as the pain dwindled down to the tips of my fingers and toes.

I opened my eyes to find myself in a bright room. The faces of Edward's family, my family, came into the edges of my viewpoint. I glanced at all their faces, they were all smiling, even Rosalie. But he was not there.

"Where is he?" I asked my voice smooth and song like. I hadn't even bothered moving, but I tensed my muscles a few times, feeling the strength.

"He'll be back soon," Carlisle answered. I sat up, quickly. All the Cullens reacted quickly, defensively. I giggled a little; I was no trouble to them, even if I was a new born. I thought the burning had fully left my body; but it was still there in the back of my throat, different somehow.

Alice was the first one to break out of the defensive position, with the others soon following her lead. She grabbed my hand, and led the way to a full length mirror. It was still me, my hair was the same length, same colour, I was still pale, but this time there was no tell tale blush, my facial features seemed more defined. The eyes, I avoided looking at them for a good minute, but I couldn't resist.

They were blazing red, almost like sparkling rubies. They were just like that girl Bree's. They looked odd, as if I was expecting to wake with gold eyes like the Cullens. I knew that this was impossible, and it would be months even years before I would have gold eyes.

It was a long night waiting for Edward. Alice had explained a little on why he was not here with me, he thought I died. He still thinks I am dead, Alice couldn't keep him on the phone long enough to tell him.

We spent the whole night catching up, just to pass the time. We were all anxious, knowing who we were waiting for. Alice had worked out how long it would take to run from Mexico to here, as she could not see him. His future had disappeared into the undecided and this scared me.

We all heard him running towards the house, about six hours after I woke up. I moved to get up to greet him, but Jasper turned me around, so my back was to the door.

He slammed the door when he entered. I smiled a little; he was acting like a child. I turned to face him. His mouth dropped as he stared at me. If he was human he probably would have fainted.

No one said anything, waiting for him to snap out of it.

When he did, he turned on his heel and walked out of the house. I growled a little in frustration before following him out. I heard the others laugh behind me.

I had to run to keep up with him, he ran nearly half way to the city before he stopped, falling to his knees. I sat down next to him.

"You know, it's not a good thing when the love of your life runs away from you after the biggest change of your life." I smiled at him.

"Yeah well, it could be the fact that I thought you were dead for the last three days." He said into his hands.

"You could have waited around to check, or even answer your cell phone. Carlisle rang you a few times when I began changing."

"I can never live without you."

"Hey, look at me. We have forever now." I pulled his hands away from his face, looking him in the eye.

He smiled at me, and stood, pulling me with him. I sank into his embrace as he whispered in my ear.

"I love you."

"You better," I teased, leading him back to the house.

As we got into hearing range of the house I heard Emmett's loud boom.

"They broke the treaty; we have to find the dog that did it."

"I put my money on her lover dog," Rosalie said quietly.

"You would think that, I'm pretty sure it was one of his little Hench doggies, so he doesn't get his paws a little bloody." Emmett answered back.

"That could be it, because I heard he skipped town before the wedding," Jasper muttered.

"I think we should pay them a little visit." Emmett planned.

"No we should not, we are not going to hurt them, you've already broken the treaty." I butted in.

"Not to hurt them silly, but to warn them." Emmett ruffled my hair.

"We have to find out Bella, it means that they broke the treaty first," Edward's arms wrapped around me.

"Our flight leaves in an hour." Carlisle walked quietly into the room.