Sorry for all the confusion over Chapter 8, with the multiple uploads and rewrite…

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FPoV:

More. Take more, Felix…I just couldn't. It was a soft, gentle peck, but it shut her up real good.

BPoV:

I touched my lips in shock. Um…okay…I looked at him and saw that he was gazing at me.

"Bella…you need time to process what you've learned…" I stopped him by putting my hand over his as I looked down at my bedspread. It had suddenly become extremely interesting.

"Felix…" I whispered. "What are we doing?" He tilted his head and put his finger under my chin and lifted my eyes to meet his.

"I have no clue, my little Swan…but I can't fight it anymore. Part of me wants to just sit here and say something smart about how petrified you were in there, and part of me wants to beg your forgiveness for not being able to do more to reassure you. And the part of me that wants to be a jerk and a smartass just gets quieter by the hour." He said, his voice low and hoarse.

"Want a cough drop?" I cracked, laughing weakly. He shook his head and smiled.

"No. I want you." He said, his voice tinged with a note of irritation as he stood and left the room.

FPoV:

"Marcus!" I yelled as I strode (AN: Here we go again…)down the hall and around the corner to his room.

By the time I got there, the door was opened and Marcus stood in the doorway.

"No need to shout, young Felix…come in." He said.

"Nice to see you aren't a vegetable anymore…we should have let a human stay here long ago." I hissed. He chuckled jovially.

"Maybe we shouldn't have let one stay here at all, it's nice to see you can still act like a brat." He said warmly. A flash of guilt ran through me.

"Forgive me, Marcus…I am frustrated, irritated, and confused. I shouldn't take it out on you." I said, laying a hand on his shoulder as I walked past him to his sofa.

BPoV:

I was sitting on the windowsill looking over the Tuscan (Volterra is in Tuscany. Seriously…Wikipedia it. :-D ) countryside, pondering to myself. Every so often my fingers would touch my lips. I could swear I still felt his pressed gently to mine.

The door opened and Jane walked in, followed by Victoria. I glanced over, and went to stand, a whimper forcing itself from my lips when my right foot hit the ground, sending pain shooting through my ankle. It was getting better, but it was still difficult to bear any weight. Jane flew over and picked me up, setting me down in a chair.

"We will build a window seat here for you, since you like to look out the window…it'd be safer than sitting on the narrow windowsill." Jane said with a smile.

"Thanks for buying me all those clothes…and thank you for getting stuff I'd feel comfortable wearing." I said. She shrugged.

"I don't try to mold people into what I want them to be." She said. The reference to Alice was not lost on me. Jane chuckled out loud and I looked at her.

"Treacherous cunt…I like that…I may have to use that on a lawbreaker someday." I allowed myself a weak chuckle. I was mad though…infuriatingly mad. Alice had been my friend…No, she wasn't, Bella…a friend would never do that to another friend…I thought to myself. And this is why I was mad. It was all a lie. I wasn't even fit enough to deserve the truth. Felix's words in the throne room were lost in all the anger and hurt. I wanted to scream.

So I did.

"!" I screamed, a scream filled with anger, burning rage, out of control fury…and beneath all of that, the most horrific heartbreaking pain I have ever known. Victoria and Jane ran out of the room in shock. I didn't care. I kept screaming.

FPoV:

A scream split through the castle, interrupting Marcus's refusal to tell me what he saw between Bella and I. His head snapped up and he looked to the door. I heard two sets of fast, heavy footsteps. Jane…I knew her frantic run anywhere.

"You have to figure it out for yourself, Felix." Marcus said again as he stood and ran to the door to fling it open, muttering under his breath "Don't want to lose another door".

As he flung the door open, Jane flew in, then her gaze fixed on me.

"GO!" She fairly screamed at me. She didn't have to tell me where to go. I was running (AN: Good lord.)down the hall and nearly crashed into Aro and Caius, who were standing with the rest of the Volturi Guard outside the door to Bella's room. I growled.

"Why is no one in there to comfort her?" I asked impatiently. Aro lifted his hands in caution.

"We dare not…she will not see any of us…we tried." Aro said, resigned. I growled again.

"Not everyone has tried. Stay here." I commanded, then pushed open the door, and once I was in, I shut it behind me and locked it. When I looked over to Bella, I nearly died in agony. I could feel her pain…and it killed me. She was looking at a picture of the Cullens and screaming at it.

"I wasn't good enough to deserve the truth, was I? I wasn't worthy of you and your precious, demented little clan, was I?" Her breath caught and she crumpled to the floor. Her next words shot through me like arrows.

"I wasn't good enough to be left alone, was I? I was plain enough and stupid enough and easily manipulated enough that you all let him play his little twisted games, you even allowed Alice to play…You all left me so broken and shattered…and here I thought you all stayed away because you all assumed I was moving on…but they knew how broken I was…you left because you didn't care…there is nothing real in my life anymore, is there?"

I walked over to her and picked her up. She fought against me.

"Go away!" She cried.

I will never leave you alone to hurt and despair like this.

BPoV:

"Go away!" I cried, fighting against Felix's grasp. He held me tight, but did not hurt me.

"Bella…" He crooned softly. "Don't you remember what I said to you?" I stopped and looked at him, then hissed.

"LIES! It's all lies, Felix! I'm not stupid! Everything was all a lie!" I sobbed. "I'm only allowed here because I'm keeping my word, no one cares about me…it was all a show to teach Edward his lesson…there is nothing real for me left in this life anymore…" I would have kept going but I was interrupted by his hands grasping my shoulder. He shook me hard, but not hard enough to hurt anything.

"Shut up, Bella…Be quiet, mon cher, and listen to me. There is nothing real for you? What about me? I am real, Bella. I am real, and I am here, and I…" He paused and I laughed bitterly.

"You what, Felix? You can't even say it because it'd be a lie…" I said coldly…and flinched when he smacked me across the face. I looked in his eyes, and shrunk away from him in fear…they were black. He crept towards me.

"Do not accuse me of lying to you, Bella. I am not scum…Aro is not scum, Jane is not scum like those…those…Cullens." He came closer, and I took another step back.

FPoV:

Her eyes grew wider with fear as I stepped closer to her. If only she knew…my eyes are not black with anger…

BPoV:

"Felix?" I stammered, taking a step back.

"Do not, ever, accuse my of lying again, Bella." He hissed. He caught hold of me and I whimpered in fear.

"And do not ever fear me…I would never, ever, do anything to hurt you." He said lowly, a gentle growl in his throat. He placed his face near my throat and breathed in deeply, then pressed his lips tenderly to my skin. Shock ran through me as I realized what was happening. He's kissing my throat…he's not biting me. He drew back and looked into my eyes…his were still black. I was so confused.

"I would never harm you, Bella…because I love you…I love you, and I am real." He whispered.

I stopped struggling. What?

"What?" I asked, my voice caught in my throat.

"Are you really going to have me say it again?" He teased. I nodded.

"You are infuriating, girl." He murmured into my hair.

"Is that your term of endearment for me? You say it a lot." I taunted. He pulled away and looked at me, his eyes back to red.

"Bella…do you feel the same about me?" I moved my face closer to his, so I was mere milimeters away from his face. He breathed in, and his eyes went from red to a very dark red, but I didn't pull away.

"Yes, Felix…I love you." I whispered as I pressed my lips to his.

FPoV and BPoV:

Dibs.

Please believe me…even though they have confessed their love, this is NOT the end of the story. Bella still has to be turned, the Cullens have to go away…I still have a lot of inspiration for this, so I just wanted to let you know that this story is not over!

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