Author's Note: Hello faithful readers! I hereby present you all with chapter ELEVEN! It's gonna rock...the moment you all have been waiting for! Her change...kinda! Half and half. I would like to thank my co-writer for this chapter, Miss. Marie Doerfer, who gave me a lot of help! This is going out to everyone who has reviewed, SO MUCH OF YOU! You guys rock my fuzzy yellow socks! Sorry if you are hateful to Edward in this chapter...Anyway, on with the story of Betrayal and Needy Love!
As we walked through the door, I swept Bella into my arms. She protested by pushing against me, but with my strength, she couldn't do much about it. I smiled at her sadly and carried her to my room. For this occasion, I had bought a four-poster bed. I didn't want Bella to have to be changed on a couch, even if it was a comfortable on. I placed her as gently as I could onto the bed. As she sat up and stretched my family filed into the room. They stood behind me in more ways than one.
Bella took a deep breath, the sound filling the previously silent room. "How much is this going to hurt… going all the way?" she asked quietly.
None of us answered, the answer apparent on our faces.
As a single tear threatened to spill down her cheeks, Edward stepped forward to comfort her. I let out a low, menacing growl, and sat on the bed, wrapping Bella in my ice-cold arms.
"No… fighting." she whispered breathlessly. Edward walked out of the room, a sneer on his face. The door slammed, making my eardrums ring. Alice looked torn between the two situations. I could tell that a battle was raging in her mind between following Edward (her lover) or watching Bella (her best friend?) be changed. I was filled with her feelings of indecisiveness for a moment before she became adamant on her decision. Her motherly instinct took over and with one last glace towards the door she decided to stay.
I pushed Bella's hair out of her eyes. "Of course," I whispered just loud enough for her to hear.
By changing Bella we were subjecting her to the worst kind of torture. The pain would never cease. For the rest of eternity Bella would be fighting her blood lust, and that was after our venom burned away all of her blood, memories, and normality.
Fun stuff.
Carlisle took a step forward and took an unnecessary breath. "I can give you morphine if you would like, Bella."
Her eyes closed, probably regretting her decision to join us. If only I could read her mind. Only sadness was coming from her. "What would it even help with? If the venom burns away my blood…" she trailed off, distracted by something on her thumb nail.
"It will help with the pain from the bite," Carlisle whispered. We were all feeling this decision. Alice and Esme were excited and nervous. Rosalie was apathetically nervous. Carlisle was upset that Bella was being changed under these circumstances. Even Emmett was being serious and solemn. Me, well I didn't know what to feel, with all of their emotions overpowering my own. Waves of Bella's fear were throwing themselves at me.
I focused all of my energy on being calm. I needed to do this for her.
Bella took another deep breath, and glanced into my eyes as she spoke to Carlisle.
"Yes… okay."
She closed her eyes for her last time as a human as Carlisle injected the morphine into her system. The needle sting made her flinch, but then all was silent as Bella was overcome with the feeling of floating.
"I love you…" I whispered, gazing into her closed eyes, hoping she heard me.
