Disclaimer: I have no ownership of the characters from Twilight that Right goes solely to Stephenie Meyer.

Rated M

AU Story

Summary: When I first caught her scent, I turned my wanting into hate. Later as my cold yet sparkling hand touched her warm skin, sunlight steamed through the trees making her skin glow as golden as the sun. It was the day that secrets where spilled and lives changed forever. I had at last found a reason for my eternal life, someone who understood my pain.

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Last Time:

Edward's POV

"That was what I figured."

I didn't mean to be cruel; every time I learned something new about Bella Swan something else tripped me up. My nostrils flared as the scents of brine, dirt and decay reached me. I was out of the door and up the stairs before any one else.

"Bella, Bell-a!"

A growl of fury and a hiss of despair rushed from me at what I saw. I could not perceive its thoughts until I was in the room with it.

'So rich must have it, devour it whole.'

Its eyes were dark and hollow; the skin on its body was a pale yellow and chalky. The clothes on its body were nothing but rags, a vulture.

When it didn't seem to register my presence I realized that it couldn't I wasn't really alive. All of the creature's focus was on Bella.

'So rich, so pure, never, no never seen anything like it before.'

The Vulture's thoughts led me back to the day in Port Angeles and the drunken college boys and what they had wanted to do to Bella. This time the feral growl that erupted from me startled not only the Vulture, but me as well. The color that had been in Bella's skin was fading. Her skin was taking on a ghostly appearance.

I felt myself shiver as I realized that thing was touching her. She was mine; there was no argument about that inside myself anymore. If this thing wanted an immortal, I could only hope that it found me hard to shallow. I paid my family's thoughts with little heed, as I launched my cold hard body at the offending creature.

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Chapter 11: What's Mine is Not Yours

By TaintedDarkInuShemeeko

Edward's POV

My ears were focused on Bella's heart beat, it was slower then what it had ever been. Carlisle seemed to understand my worry but then it could just be his compassion to help. Knowing that Carlisle would do what ever he could to help Bella. I turned my complete focus on the creature before me.

It registered my intent and turn to run. I however was too quick for it. The sound of our bodies hitting one another was a mixer of rocks hitting a tree and bark being ripped from the trunk. It was also followed by the sound of breaking glass. We were both in the air for several seconds before our feet hit the ground.

The vulture let lose its own feral cry once our feet touched down on the ground. The remaining dead leaves from last fall crunched beneath us as I launched myself at the vulture pinning him to the ground. Never before in my existent had I ever felt the way I did now. I had seen it in the rest of my family. I have even experienced it from Carlisle as he had tried his best to protect me from myself those first few years.

I had more then my family to protect. I at last had someone to call my own. And this thing that now lay pinned beneath my rock hard form. Had tried to take it from me there was no way for me to rationalize. The predator in me was ready to kill; only this time it wouldn't be for surviving; it would be to just kill something in order to make sure she was safe.

I bared my teeth at him, and wrapped my cold stone hard hands around his neck. Preparing to either break it or to see if this creature breathed as Bella did and like my family and I pretended too. My eyes widened as the vulture's papery skin started to flake off at my touch until there was nothing left but what seemed to be like an exoskeleton of the creature; to which my body crushed most of.

In that moment I realized just how little I knew about the other supernatural creatures I shared this world with. I was going to have to learn a lot more about it all if I was ever going to keep Alice's vision from coming true.

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Carlisle POV

I drew in a surprised breath as I looked at Bella's pale form. The only times I had seen someone so pale, was someone of my own kind or a human who was about to pass away. All these years of medical training and I was at a loss as to what to do to help her. How did one replace one's life essence?

There was a strange snap of electricity that appeared the second our skin touched. Pulling my hand back in surprise, I was greeted by my wife's worried voice.

"Carlisle dear, what is it, what's wrong?"

How did I answer her, when I couldn't even answer that for myself? Then I realized that I couldn't give her an answer. I was just finding it hard to believe myself.

"I don't know, I wish I did, I wish I knew what to do to help her."

Never before had I ever seen anything like it. Well, no, that's not true; I had seen something similar before. I could rationalize what the Vulture had been doing to Bella. Very much in the same way fleas or ticks prey on their host; if their host was small and weak. Or if their numbers are too high for the animal to fight; then the animal soon became weak from the blood lose.

If the animal was severely anemic, then I suppose a blood transfusion would be done. Seeing how I had never studied veterinary medicine. I was grasping at straw as I moved along. What could I possibly use as an energy source that would return the life energy that was stolen; without killing Bella in the process?

Electricity was the first thought to come to my mind. I quickly shook it from my mind. It couldn't be done gently and I lacked the supplies to keep it at a safe level for Bella.

I didn't have the ability to read thoughts like Edward. I was however, keenly aware of his presence beside me.

"There has to be something we can do? It can't end like this Carlisle. It just can't.

The dismay in Edward's voice tore at my silent heart. I was at a loss for the first time in ninety years as to what to say to him.

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Edward POV

No, it couldn't end like this. The second I understood what the vulture meant to do to Bella; something primal awaken inside of me. She was mine, and mine alone. I wasn't going to share her with anyone. I seemed to be at war with myself yet again; forcing myself away, then closer only to repeat the cycle once again.

I just stood there at first, waiting and watching Carlisle. Even though all of us were able to hear Bella's weakened pulse. All of these years of living among human had him doing things like lifting her wrist to check her pulse.

The minute that Alice's new vision assaulted my mind I felt myself stiffen. It couldn't end like that as much as I had fought it in the beginning. My resolve to stay away from her was gone now. The only thing I wanted now was forever. I needed to be with her, I wanted to going on watching her sleep at night whenever she felt the need for sleep. I wanted to take her to dinner and watch her eat, as I pretended to eat.

The biggest thing that I realized now was that I needed forever with her. Images from Bella's story earlier caused me to cringe. She couldn't just crumble into dust, it just wasn't fair.

"There has to be something we can do? It can't end like this Carlisle. It just can't."

I didn't want to hear the sigh that Carlisle gave off when he was defeated. I didn't want to hear his words of defeat echo the same defeat as his sigh.

'Edward, I'm so sorry son. I don't know what else to do. Rest is the only thing I can think of but…'

"Don't. Don't think it and don't even say it. I wanted nothing to do with her from the first day I met her. You, Esme, Alice, even you Jaz pushed me to stay in Forks and get to know her. Now the four of you are just going to throw in the towel. You wouldn't allow me to do such a thing, so what makes you think, I will let you off as easy?"

Carlisle may have given up on what to do for her. I however, wasn't even close. There was just too much I had yet to experience with Bella. There were still questions that I had yet to find the answers to about her and about us. Just what was it she invoked inside of me when she touched me?

God how I wanted to experience what I had with her last night, again and again. As much as I had sworn to myself that I would fix it and we wouldn't do such a thing again until we were married. I had bitten into the forbidden fruit last night. And now I wanted another bite and then another.

My desire to be closer to her was growing to the point that soon I was standing right next to her. A small part of me warned against touching her skin to my own. The larger part seemed to be trying to seduce me into touching her. I was now a drug addict in the worst way. Not only was I addicted to the sweet scent of her blood. I was quickly finding out that I was now starting to crave the warm to hot tingle her touch caused to spread across my cold hard skin.

I wasn't even aware that I had reached out and touched Bella; until their gasps not only echoed in the room but my head as well. The spark of electricity at our touch was stronger now. Even I was surprised by it; I soon found my eyes drifting to her pale peach lips.

A memory of last night drifted through my mind. Bella's lips had been a light pink last night and as soft as the petals of a rose. In a brief moment I felt as if Bella and I had stumbled into the pages of Sleeping Beauty. The one that came to mind was The Brother's Grimm book of fairy tales. Their stories were a little darker then most and seemed to fit Bella and me most.

She was the light and I was the deep darkness that surrounded her. The pulled toward Bella was growing stronger. Try as I might I couldn't pull my eyes from her lips. The sound of my family's thoughts was soon nonsexist. There was only Bella, only me.

My hard cold lips, embrace her soft cool lips and the world fell away from me like broken glass. Even in her sleep like state I felt a hot tingle race across my lips. There was a moment where I could no longer tell the burning in my throat from the flames that seemed to be licking across my skin.

There was no response from Bella at first and then I felt her lips press hungrily against my own. As my body seemly became engulfed in flames; my lips never parted from hers. As the flames continued to race across my skin, I suddenly felt myself being pulled into whatever dream world Bella was in now.

The feeling and experience was very strange to me. I hadn't slept in centuries and then I suddenly found myself in a place that I could not explain any other way then a dream. Gone were the walls and the bed Bella was laying on. My family was no longer there as well. It was also then that I noticed that not only was the bed missing, so was Bella.

"Bella?"

The minute Bella's name slipped from my mouth. The mist that seemed to be clinging to me parted, allowing me to see what was in front of me. Bella was sitting a few feet from me, yet there was something off about her posture. It was then that I realized that Bella was crying again. Only this time the tears she was shredding were normal tears, no flowers sprung from the ground, and no crystals bounced across the ground.

I decided it was best to take some slow measured steps as I approached her. Before I could get any closer Bella turned to look at me. My silent heart ached as I watched her wipe away her tears.

It was then that a question slipped past my lips, "Bella, where are we exactly?"

She gave me a weak smile, as she looked up at me.

"Well, you've always wanted to know what was on my mind. So here we are, this is a place that only exists in my mind. It's where I come to talk with my mom when I'm confused."

Bella then grew silent.

"Bella, what is it?"

Her breath became shaky as she pulled in a breath.

"They're gone. I thought they would be here and they're not. What if today is the last time I ever get to see them?"

Kneeling down in front of her, I let a sigh pass from my lips.

"Bella, none of this is your fault."

She however, shook her head in disagreement. Bella then stood up and walked away from me. Something else came to mind as I watched her stare out at the misty horizon.

"How did we get here, Bella? Are you doing this?"

Her answer was so soft I almost didn't hear it.

"Yes, I am. This is apart of you too. We have this connection now. It started the first day when you brushed by me."

Before I could ask how or why Bella stopped me.

"I can't tell you how or why I know any of this."

Bella was staring right at me now. Her deep dark soulful eyes where locked with my topaz colored ones. There was so much hurt in her eyes. It wasn't the pain of loosing a family member; but the hurt of loosing apart of oneself.

Nothing would have been strong enough, to brace me for what Bella was about to say to me.

"I'm no good for you, Edward."

"Don't be so ridiculous." I had been hoping for my voice to sound angry. Instead it just ended up sounding like I was begging her to stay. "Bella, you've become the best part of my existence.

There was something hiding in her eyes, though no more tears fell from them.

"Rosalie is right. I'll only cause your family more trouble and pain. I don't belong in your world."

Didn't belong in my world, what in the hell was she talking about?

The stunned looked on my face must have been something. A small smile etched across her lips before fading. The center of her bottom lip was swollen from her biting down on it.

"Bella, you are in my world."

Her mahogany locks bounced as she shook her head again.

"No, I'm not. You're family has worked very hard to live in the world with humans. My attacker today reminded me that I'll never be able to pretend to be human anymore. Besides that won't be the last vulture to come after me. It won't even be the last attempt. If its not the vultures, something else will be after me."

I was completely shell-shocked by her words. It was then something else she said came to mind. 'Rosalie is right. I'll only cause your family more trouble and pain.'

"I really don't care about how Rosalie feels about all of this. You are apart of the family now. You're apart of me now, there would be no meaning to my life. Without you it would be like I never existed."

There had been a time when I had told Carlisle that my life had been fine without Bella and now she was the one trying to leave me.

"No, Bella, no you can't leave me. You have to stay with me. You can't go, you just can't. You have changed me so much. There is no way for me to go on existing without you."

I jumped as I heard the slowing of a heartbeat inside my ears. Bella started to fade slightly in front of me. A sudden warning snapped free inside of my brain. Bella was dying just like in her story.

"NO, don't go Bella. If you go then I will be following soon after."

"Edward, I can't let you do that."

"Then fight, live, tell me what to do. Just promise me you'll stay."

Bella seemed to be thinking things through before speaking.

"There is a way, but there is no way to go back, completely."

I truly would do whatever she wanted all she had to do was tell me. When she told me in more detail I froze for a second.

"Bind yourself to me. The first day and a half you'll be a living immortal. Then once the binding is over you'll be just as you are now."

'A living immortal could I really do that to my family? Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper and even Emmett would understand. Rosalie, what would she do if I chose this? It wasn't a mortal body but it would be pretty damn close to being human. I didn't care what Rosalie thought or felt. If binding myself and sharing my essence with Bella helped her heal then I'll jump through that fire.'

The sound of Bella's voice pulled me out of my thoughts.

"Edward?"

I snapped my head toward Bella's voice.

"I'll do it Bella. Is it very painful, I mean will it cause you any pain?"

Bella just shook her head.

"No, I'll be fine. It could be a little painful for you. I'm only half-immortal."

I nodded my answer to her. I was taken by surprise when Bella was suddenly in front of me.

"What needs to be done first? Is there something I need to do?"

"Just stay still, and don't move."

Bella's lips captured mine taking me by surprise. I felt something warm trickle down my throat. As our kiss slowly intensified, I gripped her waist to pull her closer. My hands were exploring her body as something warm trickled down my throat once more.

One of the thoughts that ran through my head as I held her to me was a warning.

'What is mine is not yours, if you want my Bella. Then you will have to go through me and my family.'

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A/N: Okay, so I know it's a cliffhanger. Sorry about the late chapter, this chapter was hard to write. I had it written and then I deleted it and started over. So I do hope this chapter managed to pique your interest again.

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