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About: This is the second to last chapter. The battle before the sun rises and it all get's happy again.

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Bleeding Dry

The phone dropped to the floor with an audible 'clatter' and everyone stopped to look at me. Vampires didn't just drop things...there was usually something wrong when they did. Something wrong and scary to shock a vampire.

Edward way by my side in an instant taking my hand and staring into my dazed eyes.

"Bella, tell me what's the matter!" he said, stroking my cheek calmingly, but I could feel the tension under his fingertips.

"I...she...ah..." I stuttered, trying to make sense of the situation in my head.

Luckily, Alice had picked up my phone and seen the text, thus triggering a vision, and she took was shocked and speechless. Screaming silently into the distance, she gasped open mouthed. Edward froze as he took in the vision. His eyes closed and he pinched his nose.

"Dammit..." he growled.

I looked up into his eyes and saw that they were worried. He snarled as the vision continued and suddenly his face snapped to mine.

"We need to move...fast," he said.

Emmett chuckled darkly in the corner. "Now that we can do," he said, jumping to his feet and prepared himself.

"Somebody tell Carlisle where we have gone to, and will somebody get Jacob...NOW. It seems we need to use him as our secret weapon," Edward yelled over the noise which was slowly building.

Suddenly he stopped and stared at poor, confused me. He grabbed my hand and made to run. I just followed instinct and then next thing I knew, we were throwing ourselves off the balcony of our hotel room and then landing with a thump on the damp grass outside. It was dark now, so nobody would have seen us. And anyone who did was probably incapacitated anyway at this hour...

We ran...ran a long way, and all I could do was to watch the ground in front of me. I couldn't appreciate the wind blowing through my hair, or the cool feel off the wet grass beneath my naked feet. All I could concentrate on was the awful image of Addie, lying still and dead in front of me.

Suddenly Edward stopped and spun me round to face him. There was a small cottage in front of us. It would have looked beautiful if it was trimmed here and there...and if I hadn't have guessed why exactly we were stood outside it.

Inside was death.

Maybe not the typical death...yet. But there was death, perfect, beautiful, immortal death. Like me...I sighed, then turned to Edward.

"What do we do?" I whispered, the feel of tears brimming to my eyes.

Edward's face was hard and looked set in stone. "We have to rescue Addiena for definite he said." He looked back down at me and I saw the same passion that I had. I smiled meekly, not being able to express happiness in this situation.

He took my hand and squeezed gently. "Ok, let's go!"

We ran up the garden pathway, me, Edward, Alice and Jasper. We had Emmett and Rosalie stationed behind the house, on guard. Carlisle and Esme were back at the house, waiting for any distress call. However...we had to bring Jacob, his presence may be needed to stun our vampire, and currently he was running towards the house to meet us.

"Bella," he whispered, pulling me into a tight grip, "Carlisle said you might need me?"

I could only nod, and give him another quick squeeze.

"Just follow my instructions and we'll tell you what to do specifically," Edward said, focusing on the door we were about to break through.

We began to run again, Edward in the front. I saw as he smashed through the door, splinters flying everywhere. We entered into a small living room. The lights were off and I could smell dust. This house had clearly been abandoned. However, the room had been disturbed recently. Dust particles were still floating in the air and there was a familiar scent of...her. The evil cow we were hunting down.

We froze in the room, tasting the air. We all heard a noise upstairs. A thud on the floor and a gasping breath. Edward gasped...which isn't something which pleased me. He took my hand and headed straight for the stairs in the corner. We sped up the stairs and he burst through the first door we came across.

It was a large bedroom with a double bed in the middle. This room was too in the dark, but the large windows had the curtains thrown open and the moonlight was shining through. However, I couldn't appreciate the beauty of the night...because lying in the middle of the floor was Addiena.

She stared at me, her eyes flickering with her remaining life. I listened carefully, her heartbeat thudding...thudding...thudding...to a slower beat. Her neck was glistening in shining, ruby red blood, trickling from her neck.

I froze.

No vampire would leave somebody bleeding like this in mid-feed. I sensed danger.

Addiena's hand twitched slightly. My eyes flicked to her hand and then to her face. Her eyes slowly and deliberately moved to the corner behind the door we were stood at.

We had seconds to move. I grabbed Edward's hand and forced the shield from my mind. I replayed the last few seconds to him. Suddenly he dropped my hand and shot round the corner. Alice and Jasper shot in the room aswell, Alice briefly stopping to tell Jacob to stay put.

Edward had managed to wrestle the woman into a headlock, though she seemed not to be putting up much of a fight. Her eyes were crazed, her mind still in mid-feed. You're defences are down as you give in to the pleasure of feeding. Slowly her eyes began to focus again, and as she took in what was happening, she began to struggle. Jasper jumped to help, wrestling her around her arms and waist.

"Wow, she's strong..." he huffed, looking up to Alice. "Move...quick..." he added.

Alice got down in front of the woman.

"Tell me who you are," she asked, too sweetly for the interrogation.

The woman turned her head, her faded red eyes staring at me. "I am Margravine Woods," she said simply. Her voice was cracked, her craze for blood showing.

"When were you made vampire?" Alice asked. Margravine stayed quiet, trying to turn round to see who had hold of her.

"She was made in 1736...the Georgian Period. Which why she is so strong. She has many years on us," Edward muttered, struggling under the woman's fight.

"Why have you been doing this?" I yelled, my anger breaking through. Margravine turned to look at me, stare right through me.

"Because...she tastes sooooo good," she hissed, an evil glint in her eyes.

Suddenly she twisted in Edward and Jaspers hands, and she ran. She past me before I could react and she was at Addie's throat. She sucked the mere remains of the girl's blood.

"Stop...you're taking it too far," I screamed. Margravine turned to me and smiled. "I don't care. I can find another, and her blood is getting weaker in taste..."

I paused, froze completely.

"So you could just throw somebody's life aside so easily...?" I whispered.

She shrugged. "They are merely food to continue our existence," she muttered.

I jumped at her. I ran after her and she jumped from her feeding crouch.

"Jacob...go, before Bella get hurt!" I heard Edward cry.

Suddenly, a growl erupted from behind me and I dropped to the floor. Margravine froze and I saw her eyes widen. Jacob was on her throat with seconds and he jumped out the window with her lifeless body hanging from his mouth.

It was over so quickly and I didn't know what to do.

"Bella...Addie..." Alice whispered, turning me to face the dying child on the floor.

I knelt beside her and turned her face to see me. The flicker was disappearing. She was dying...

...there was only one thing I could do.

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