Chapter Ten

"Marie?" I called through the dark. She gasped in agony, but somehow relieved.

"Mom." She breathed.

"Why-why are you here?" I gasped. They had taken both of my babies. Edward. He would come now. I was sure of that. He would come, and he would suffer. The thought of Edward suffering made the hole rip open. It had been so long since I had felt this, suffocating, feeling. I fell to the ground, my breaths came out jagged and rough.

"Mom, please." She was hugging me. "We have to be strong. Dad will get us out of here."

"What?" I looked up questionably at her. "He's coming here? Why?! They will kill him!"

"He is going to save us, and get out us of here, all of us. He will be fine," The determination burned in her every word. I wasn't sure who she was trying to convince more, me or her. I was so proud of Edward, she was like him in so many ways, he had done so well in raising her.

"Why did they take you too?" I choked out.

Her lips twitched angrily, just like Edward. "They said that Mason wasn't responding the way the wanted to. Where is-?" Suddenly her eyes found the lump on the bed that was Mason. "Oh my god. What did they do to him?"

"I don't know." I answered honestly. "The door opened and he just fell in like this."

"Oh, Mason." She said, her eyes were so close to crying. "Is he going to…?"

"I don't know." At this point tears were boiling behind her eyes, and I was sobbing again.

As we watched him, his already harsh breathing became jagged and less frequent. "Mom? What's going on? Why isn't he breathing right?"

"You two aren't immortal like other vampires," I cried, barely audible.

I looked down at him, the sight was devastating, and he was in such severe pain. And he was trying so hard not to show it, even subconsciously. Marie started to shake him slightly. "Come on, Mason. Wake up. Please." She cried. "I don't even know you yet." Her face was drenched with the tears that had consumed her. "Please."

Slowly his breaths were slow and barely coming at all. Abruptly, they stopped all together. "Mason!" I cried. "Please, don't leave us. I need you." I sobbed. But it was too late and we both new it, he had left us.

I fell onto my knees and put my face into my hands. Slowly I fell to my side and curled into a ball. I could feel the world fading around me and there was nothing I could do to stop it, nor did I want to.

It seemed like years before the dreaded wooden door swung open again. I heard Marie cautiously get up from the bed, she had been curled on the bed next to Mason. She took a defensive position in front of Mason's body and myself.

"How is everyone?" An all to cheerful voice coming from the door asked. "What's that? Oh well, Mason is in a much better place. Well. That is not what I have come for. Bella, my dear? It is time."

"No!" Marie shrieked. "You have taken everything from us. Don't do this, please. I can't lose her too, she is all I have."

Aro smiled wickedly up at her, "This will only take a few hours."

I knew what was to come. And I couldn't help thinking Edward, I am so sorry, over and over again. I felt a hand touch my shoulder. "Mom, this is not your fault. You have nothing to be sorry about." I didn't mean to say that out loud.

I was picked up and suddenly in someone's arms, I felt the vibrations as Marie slammed on Aro's back.

"Goodbye," I whispered to Marie as the door slammed. It was barely audible, but I knew she had heard it.

Aro carried me to a bedroom, and lied me on a large king size bed. My vision was so blurred, I didn't even know what color the comforter was. I did notice however that the bed posts were made of some kind of metal. Aro pulled out a pair of handcuffs. "We wouldn't want you getting away from me, now would we?" He smiled, "Just imagine the child we shall make!" He said happily. I stared blankly at him. I barely understood what he was saying.

"Please, don't do this."

"Now, Bella." He said, "Everything will turn out just famously." I grunted at this. "Now we should get started."

He started to kiss me, and it felt so wrong. The handcuffs around my wrists were being strained as I tried to get out. He ripped my shirt off effortlessly, I didn't want this. Only Edward.

As I thought this Aro took his mouth off of mine, and look at the door, as if he had heard something that I hadn't. The door was suddenly kicked in, and a murderous glare was on my angel's face.

"Edward." I gasped. Worry shook through my body. He slowly stepped towards Aro. His steps were heavy and angry. With every step he seemed to grow angrier. Before he could think, Aro was slammed into the wall, and Edward snapped his neck. It would take years before that was fully healed.

"Bella," He whispered, relief and love poured into his expression. "I am so sorry it took me so long." He ripped the handcuffs off, and I looked at him confused. "I am much stronger than you are right now." Before he could finish I pressed my lips against his.

"I love you, Edward." He smiled down at me, as he pressed his forehead to mine.

"And I love you, Isabella Cullen. But where are Marie and Mason?" Grief struck me as he said this, "Bella, what's wrong? Are they okay?" He asked frantically.

"Mason… he's, he's…dead." I gasped in between sobs.

"Oh no, Bella. Where are they?" I grabbed his hand and led him to the room I had been standing in. Before I opened the door, he took off the sweatshirt he had been wearing and put it on me.

"Thanks," I mumbled. "Come on, let's go."

Slowly he pushed the door open, I heard Marie's slight intake of breath. "Don't worry." He reassured her. "I'm here."

Tears began seeping from her eyes, "Dad? Is it really you?"

"Yes Marie, it's really me."

"Thank god." She ran towards him and he pulled her into a tight embrace.

"Don't leave me like that, ever again. How could you be so stupid? You could have died!"

"I know dad, but, Mason. And mom."

"Wait?" I asked in horror, "You came here by your own will?"

"Yeah. I'm sorry, but can we please go home? And Mason."

I gazed over at the lump that was my son, and I crumbled into Edward's arms.

"Can we get him home?" I breathed.

"Yes, of course." Sorrow filled his eyes and voice. He never even got a chance to really get to know Mason. "Help your mother, I will get Mason."

"Okay." Marie slipped her arm awkwardly around me.

"Thanks," I mumbled before the black took me.

"Bella?" Someone was shaking me, hard. "Isabella Cullen, you better wake up right now."

"I'm up, I'm up. What?" I opened my eyes and saw Alice smiling a small smile, but her eyes were hollow with grief. Suddenly, the memory of the past days rushed at me all at once.

"Oh Bella, we thought we lost you too."

"Where's Edward?"

"He's talking to his son, before the… funeral." Her breath caught in her throat and it suddenly looked as if she would burst into tears. "Do you want to say good-bye? I think Marie is in there now."

"Yes, thank you." My voice was cold and emotionless, it almost surprised me, almost.