AN: Okay guys. This chapter is going to tell you a bit of Bella's past. So is chapter 11 when I put it up. Im not telling you everything because I want to leave some of the surprises for later on. So I hope you enjoy finally finding out what Bella is and would love to hear what you think of it. As always enjoy ;)

Chapter 10

I breathed in for a moment. "I don't really know where to begin", I slowly told Edward. How do you begin a story? Well from the beginning naturally. But that is a bit difficult for me, because you see they didn't want me to remember. They didn't want me to remember the innocence of childhood. The freedom of running with friends.

The only thing they left for me is pain and corruption and of course violence.

"Start from the beginning", he told me softly in a coaxing voice. I sighed. That's what everyone asks of a story. For the beginning.

"I can't remember my childhood. I only remember that I was born in the year 1698. I think I was happy. I can't remember a family or any friends but somewhere in the back of my mind, subconsciously I think I had a good life.

"Well up to my 16th birthday"....

(Flashback)

"Bella, Bella, Bella", a young girl around my age giggled. Brianna I think her name is.

"Hush Bri", I whispered back, "Im trying to listen". I turned back to the man who had just entered the house. My parents had sent me and Bri back to my room to play while they spoke to the strange man. I had a bad feeling about him though. Like when he entered the house the first thing he did was give me this menacing smile. Almost smug. I think that's why my parents sent us upstairs. I think they saw it too.

"What can I help you with sir", I heard my father speak.

A gruff voice answered back. It was the kind of voice that makes your back go all shivery because you can hear the suppressed violence. That's what it did to me anyways.

"I was wondering if you could come out and take a look at my car. I believe that something has happened. It won't start and sadly I know nothing of automobiles". I heard my father get his coat and heard two pairs of footsteps as they walked out the door.

"Come on Bella. Let's go back down now", Bri whined from beside me. But I shook my head at her slightly. "Bella, Bella, Bella...", she giggled again, "come on Bella im boooooored". I shot her an exasperated sigh. She truly was driving me up the wall. I was beginning to contemplate why I was friends with her when I heard something.

It was so quiet I thought I had imagined it for a moment. For outside. It sounds like a scream. But that was foolish. Men don't scream...only women do. (Don't yell at me people. In my story at this time that's how people thought).

Just then I heard front door break open and my mother gave a horrified scream. So did Bri. I ran for the door desperate to get to my mother when I heard her scream from bellow.

"Bella RUN!". But mother never screamed at me, I thought as I shook. I couldn't move. I was terrified. Then I remembered my father. And the scream from outside earlier. I looked at the window but couldn't look out of it. The possibilities terrified me.

A foot step hit the first stair. And another. And another.

Bri was still on the ground wailing and beating her hands on the floor. But I didn't have time to comfort her because the stranger had reached the last step. And was coming for us.

"Quite Brianna. Be quiet", I pleaded with her but she didn't hear me. She was in her own world. Damn, damn, damn. I took a shuddering breath as I saw the door knob slowly turn, revealing the stranger. But he wasn't the reason I screamed.

No. The amount of blood dripping from his soaking shirt was what cause the scream to escape my lips. And the fact that my mother was no longer screaming. That frightened me even more.

He took no notice of me however and walked over to the still wailed Brianna. And pulled a bloodied knife from under his robe.

"No", I screamed launching myself onto his back, kicking and punching and biting every inch of his body I could reached. But I was only a teenage girl. And he was a mountainous man who swatted me off as though I was a pestering fly. Meaningless.

I turned from the sight but nothing could replace the nauseating smell of rusting iron that assaulted my nose. Blood. I whimpered in despair as I heard the sudden choking off of Brianna's cries.

I didn't even notice when I was being pick up and taken downstairs. But once we reached the bottom the smell grew worse. I shut my eyes tight and clutched at my nose to remove the smell.

Once we were outside in the cold air I gulped in a wave of fresh air, and with the air my mind stared whirling with questions. Why am I not dead? Where is he taking me? Where is my father?

But as soon as I questioned that my answer appeared before my vary eyes. And my dinner was exposed as I vomited onto the ground. The man held me away with a grunt until their was nothing left in my stomach. And I sobbed and screamed but no one heard me.

(End Flashback)

The rest of the Cullen's had arrived and were all seated staring at me in shock. But I looked for Edward. He was shaking. So was I but his eyes had turned black in his fury.

"It's okay Edward", I told him softly. "I've had a long time to come to terms with what happened that night".

"Bella, if this is only the beginning im scared to hear the rest", he said sounding almost vulnerable.

"I could stop".

"No. Keep going".

I nodded and thought back.

"So he brought me to the compound. I was unconscious at the time so I didn't remember anything about how I got there. I remember waking up on a slab of concrete. My head was pounding and felt like it was going to explode". I sighed.

"I won't bore you with the details but I was their prisoner for a very long time. Exactly 102 years. They experimented on me. Made me 'better' as they put it. They messed with my DNA. They had me fast, stronger, more durable than any human ever could be. They also added bird DNA in me. I don't really know why but they did".

The Cullen's were looking sick. I didn't blame them.

"The experiments on me lasted 17 years. I would go to sleep with needles being poked at me and wake up to the same. I remember standing for the first time in 17 years. My legs didn't work for about 3 months before I got used to the feeling of using them again. Most people don't remember their first steps. I do.

They put some vampire DNA in me as well. They couldn't have their weapon dying just when they made her perfect. So now I can live forever and I have the speed and strength. Not completely like a vampire though. I can't beat Emmett in a wrestling match and I can't outrun Edward, but still I can hold my own".

I got up for a moment to stretch. My limbs were growing sore and tight. The Cullen's all watched me with tranquil faces. I knew I saw pity in all of them. I didn't like it so I continued.

"After 102 years of them training me, testing me, and some more experiments I knew I had to get out. So for the last few years of my time their when they thought I was asleep I would make plans to escape. I would make a plan and see what the probability of escape was. Nothing I thought of worked. And then one day it just came to me.

"A way to escape. And I planned. And I waited. And then one day I saw my opportunity".

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lol as always I end with a cliffy. Hope everyone enjoyed it and click on the button bellow to let me know what you thought. Was it not at all what you were expecting? And let me know if you want the next chapter to be EPOV or Bella's? ;)

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