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Overboard

Up against the door, panting for breath, Bella's hair was stuck to her mouth and face, her eyes wild with fear. Her brain took in the surroundings about her.

The white door was not 20 feet from her, the walls on all four sides christened in vivid blood-red, striped with a single broad length of white across the floor, leading up to the matching exit.

Scanning the premises, she laid against the wall, composing her breath and waiting for something to pop out- some damned creature, some murderer, some horrific scene to emerge, all to spoil the peace within her that very moment.

[Edward POV

The grass no longer felt wonderful against my skin…I could barely feel anything anymore.

What was the use of existing? Especially in this place, when my Bella was not with me?

I was dead before I even ended up here.

The sky never changed. I probably had been here for days, maybe even weeks. I don't know how I even lasted this long.

I closed my eyes, breathing in the scent of Bella from my memory – still fresh and potent to my senses. I may have imagined it, but her scent was wafting in the air every time the wind would blow.

Here, I was no longer thirsting for her, but dying to be near her, as a man. It was literally killing me.

I shot up as the memory brought pain to every part of my body.

"I THOUGHT THIS WAS HEAVEN!!!" I cried out to the sky with outstretched arms. "WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME WITH NO ULTIMATUM!! NO WAY TO STOP THIS PAIN!!!"

I waited in silence, breathing heavily. The sky twisted and furled into dark gray clouds quickly. I watched, aghast, while small patters of rain began to pelt upon my pale skin, falling down my eyes and cheeks, soaking my hair to my face.

I heard it before I saw it. The hard pang against the ground not a few meters before me.

Gently treading upon the softening earth, I lifted the small dagger, sheathed with a red silk ribbon at the end, already frayed, withered, and worn.

Still unable to think, I stared up- waiting for a reply besides the method of further torture I was given. Collapsing to the ground in sobs, I let the rain fall over me until it no longer was pelting against my skin, but into me- pushing thoughts into my head – burning me inside instead of cooling the sweltering unquenchable fire in my heart. Was this how it was supposed to end? What if I didn't disappear with the strike of a dagger- what if I were to lie here eternally in misery and pain?

A different voice, my own, broke the barrier and spoke into the rain, answering my own mind.

"It wouldn't matter, I'm in more pain now than I ever will be…" and with that, my head fell overboard, gradually plummeting deeper and deeper- not even struggling to keep afloat anymore…and I closed my eyes, letting myself drown in the icy depths.

Bella fell on her knees. The door was right in front of her, but she couldn't even extend her arm. It felt like a fire had spread through her veins and was burning her through. It was like…she had been bitten by a vampire…

She had only taken one step, one – not even five feet, when every painful memory collapsed into her cerebellum and was cutting her from the inside through. Every memorable injury, was slowly coming to a surface…

She arched her back in agony when suddenly her lungs were closed- filled with water-

Swim Bella Swim!

Memories swirled into vision, the rapid pulsing of her veins renewing themselves.

Swim damnit! Edward's voice boomed in her ears.

The burning in her limbs and the intense ache in her body was unbearable.

Red dots followed her as she crawled on hands and knees on the short white walk. A serrated pain pinched at the core of her abdomen. Sucking in air, she collapsed onto the blinding white. Turning onto her back, red overtook her vision.

It seemed the longer she lay within the room, the more sufferable the needle-sharp panging in her body became.

How could she reach the door when she couldn't move?

Reaching her hand to her blurry vision, she could see the crimson painted upon her hands. The source of the splatters.

What?...I've never…hurt myself…there… the wound right through her stomach was by far the worst she had ever experienced.

Suddenly a tough, thick ripping tore through her leg, and she instinctly arched her back in a deathly scream, grappling for her leg.

Her right leg was immobile – practically severed from her hip.

Watching in blurred stupor, she turned onto her stomach.

"AH!" Bella cried out in pain as she dragged her leg with her. Within seconds, her right wrist snapped foreword without warning.

"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"

Cradling her hand into her chest, Bella refused to believe she was bleeding or in pain- despite her lack of vision or breath. Inching foreword painfully slow, the door was just in reach-

Bella jolted, eyes empty. A blast of burning fire coursed through her. Her face stung with the wetness of her sobs. The hole in her stomach was nothing compared to the hole in her heart, but Bella refused to let her misery get ahold of her. The raging fire of vampire poison spread to the tips of her phalanges, up to her eyes. Piercing screams ravaged her sore throat before her body collapsed onto the blood-soaked ground…

Just let me die…please, just let me die!...

A sanguine liquid slowly started to fill her mouth.

Edward! Remember Edward!

But all her memories were burned from her- buried so far deep beneath the pain, she wasn't sure if she could resurface herself.

Keep breathing Bella he spoke gently Just keep breathing…don't give up on me now Bella…

Her shaking hand reached for the handle –

When her fingers touched the knob, the door opened- her lifeless body was wretched into the other realm, tumbling, falling, and sliding down a large hill.

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