"Bella!" I shouted, turning to run at her in attempt to get her out of the path of the rogue redhead. She cocked her head in what seemed like slow motion, before glancing over her shoulder at the redhead and laughing. In that moment, I was pretty much convinced she had gone insane, but that was before the redhead smashed into an invisible wall. Then it was actually quite comical.

I sounded like a squealing pig in attempt to cover up my snigger, all in vain. Bella laughed harder upon seeing me.

"Victoria!" The man yelled, obviously concerned with the redhead. The woman stood up and began attacking the wall again.

"Don't worry, Edward." Bella said with a smile, walking up and taking my hand in her small one. "My shields can come in domes too."

I didn't realize I needed air until she soothed me. I inhaled deeply to replenish the oxygen in my system.

"So, what now? Are we just going to wait until they get bored?" I asked, eyeing the furious soldiers and the man, James, I think the redhead called him, in an enraged state.

"Well, if I call Carlisle, we can meet up in Cairo in a week, which gives us plenty of time to drop these guys." Bella offered in a nearly inaudible whisper, gesturing at the soldiers without looking at them.

"Can you get a signal from in here?" I asked as Bella took out her satellite phone.

"Well, let's find out." Bella concluded and began dialing.

"Hey!" Outside the shield, James waved his arms in the air like a maniac who had never heard of dignity. "We'll stay here all night if we have to!"

"Good luck with that!" I challenged back, faking a bow and going back to a smiling angel.

"Carlisle said it was fine, and to make sure that they're completely off our tail before going to the rendezvous point."

I nodded. "So, what's the plan?"

Bella bit her lip and sat back down on the hood of the car. He brow furrowed into an adorable line. "Hmm… I wonder when they're going to realize I don't have the shield up anymore." She whispered. If I had been a foot more from her, I wouldn't have known she had said anything. I clenched my jaw and bit the insides of my mouth to keep from laughing out loud. "If they attack, well… thank god I have good reflexes."

"I'll keep tabs on their thoughts, just in case." I said and sat down next to Bella. So much had happened in the past week.

Tuesday: Coming out of 'surgery' again, this time for physical modifications. The operation was apparently unsuccessful. Thankfully, they hadn't tried it on Jasper and Emmett, probably afraid that a strong emotion would set me off. I was a ticking time bomb to them.

Wednesday: I was transported to an aircraft, blindfolded and unconscious, and woke up in a cell with constant noise and turbulence. Jasper and Emmett were with me and said we were on a plane. I had been instantly excited, though my adoptive brothers did not share my enthusiasm.

Thursday: We had arrived to where ever our destination was, and were blindfolded and unconscious once again, waking up in another cell. A doctor we had never seen before spoke with an accent, but I understood enough of it to know we were being transported somewhere else to be in a special unit for some war.

Friday: Unfamiliar doctors did one last cruel 'check-up' to make sure we (mainly I) were stable. They bound us up (Emmett in thick steel cord compared to Jasper in rope and me in synthetic cord) and practically shoved us into the helicopter. An hour later, I saw the sun, low on the horizon, for the first time.

Saturday: Our guards received a malfunction in the rotor blades of the aircraft, decreasing the strength of them, and concluded quickly that they needed to drop some of the weight. They opened the doors and pushed us three out. The drop seemed like a few hundred feet, but I knew that none of us would survive that kind of fall. It was the first time I actually hated warmth and heat.

Sunday (Yesterday): Alice and Rosalie found us after a few hours in the desert.

Today: I traveled 10+ miles, walking beside a horse, into a small town, only to meet the most gorgeous angel on Earth, meet my parents (who I don't remember) and learn to drive, during which I got shot in the shoulder, having the bullet go nearly into my heart, and now I'm sitting on a car hood, with said angel, contemplating how to escape the guy who shot me!

I hope that not everybody's life is this interesting.

I don't know how long we sat there, just that it was a very long time, and the man never moved, unlike his soldiers. The redhead, Victoria, had gone to his side, waiting impatiently and constantly twitching. After some time, the moon set and the sun rose, casting a grey sheen to the air and landscape. Only then did one of them move.

"Maybe we can talk this out!" James said with such sudden volume and enthusiasm that Bella and I both flinched back. Maybe if I just talk to them, they'll have no problem coming with me. Oh glorious! My Victoria's here! Maybe she can help… convince the young man. It seems as if the girl will go anywhere he does!

I let out an exasperated sigh, shaking my cocked head at James. His thoughts had the same… perky… happy-go-lucky aura as Aro, though multiplied to the infinite degree.

The soldiers around James groaned.

Thank god he only has to sleep five hours a day. One of the soldiers thought, and threw down his gun before falling backwards into the helicopter. The others soon followed suit, thinking just about the same thing. What did they mean by sleeping…?

"If you come with us right now, we won't have to shoot you!" James insisted, a large, oblivious, and immensely creepy smile on his face. He took a step forward, but ran into a wall. Bella must have put a shield back up. But that didn't alter James' course. He kept walking at the shield and bouncing back. James didn't even notice the large red lump growing on his forehead.

"James!" Victoria said sharply, and pulled him back to her side.

I grabbed Bella's hand, opened the passenger seat car door, buckled her, and was in the driver's seat starting the car before she could even react.

After a few seconds of staring at me with an unfathomable expression, Bella spoke.

"Holy sh—"

And she was cut off by a gun being fired. I swiftly turned my head to see the bullet spiraling through the air with unnaturally slow speed for the type of gun that fired it. Whe it got close to Bella's head, I carefully swatted it away. I followed its altered path and watched Bella's window smash into a million little pieces.

In slow motion.

What was going on here?

Time returned to normal speed, and suddenly Bella was telling me, quite loudly, to go.

"Edward, floor it!" She screamed as Victoria began stalking sideways towards the car— on Bella's side. I slammed my foot down on the gas pedal and we instantly went from 0 to 250 mph in less than 20 seconds.

I let out a sigh of relief before I saw a fiery red mane in Bella's mirror.

A/N: I didn't want another chapter to end in Bella and Edward riding off into the morning together at a stupid speed, so I added Victoria. She is still paranoid. James is still a tracker, but you'll find out more about him in the chapters to come. Oh, and Edward suddenly gaining super-human traits is not completely random; I hope you all picked that up. Just in case you didn't... I didn't put Edward's week in there without a purpose.

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Kylie M.