EPOV

When nobody would answer her question, she ran upstairs and slammed the door to what I am guessing is the room we shared.

"What was that?" Emmett asked.

"Carlisle, how could she see my scars so vividly?" Jasper asked, the only one who seemed relatively calm.

"Could she be turning?" Alice asked?

"Nobody's bitten her Alice. The blood hadn't gone directly into her blood stream. She can't be changing. I don't know how to explain her change in eyesight." Carlisle said.

We could hear Bella rustling around upstairs, as if she were looking for something. I started pacing, totally unraveled by this situation. Everyone's thoughts were everywhere, including my own. I ran upstairs to go check on Bella.

"Bella are you ok?" I asked, knocking on our door.

"Go away Edward. I need to be alone right now."

"I just wanna be there for you baby."

"I know and I absolutely love you for it, but I just need time to process. Wait before you go," I heard Bella's footsteps hurry to the door, she opened it and held out a cup, "Could you spit in this?"

I looked at her puzzled, but I spit in it for her. She then didn't hesitate to shut the door in my face.

2 days later

Bella refused to leave the room and was vehement about keeping everyone out. Every so often she would come out and grab a few Amps A/N it's an energy drink by Mountain Dew for yall who don't know hugs me, and then goes back to the room. She found a way to block out Alice so that she couldn't find out what it was that Bella was doing. Everyone's anxiety was too much for Jasper to handle so he had to leave the house.

"Hey guys," I heard Bella said. I was shocked because I didn't hear her coming down the stairs. She was just there all of a sudden.

"You know, there's been a lot of shit going on these past few weeks. I mean, my dad dies, I lose everything, my mother abandons me, and now I'm going through excruciating pains every few hours. I'm sure you all know what it feels like. It feels like a white hot fire is coursing through your veins, burning out everything inside of you?" We were all silent as she said this. It didn't make any sense. How could she be changing? Nobody had bitten her.

"How could you have been going through pain like that? Nobody heard you scream," Rose asked skeptically.

"Are you fucking questioning me? Don't believe what I've been going through up there? Bitch I'm human! Do you know what it's like to be a human and be able to see every quick vampiric move you guys make? To be able hear you guys question my sanity down here while I was on the third fucking floor? What the FUCK is happening to me?" Bella said, her voice rising with each word she said. Rose ran over to me and whispered that she thought Bella had totally lost her mind and that we should all have her committed. That's when Bella pulled out her dad's gun and pointed it at Rose, who in turn looked at her with an and-what-are-you-gonna-do-with-that look.

"I heard that. I saw you run over to him and tell him that I should be committed. Why the fuck would you say that? I already feel off. I feel so fucking wrong right now." Bella said, her voice filled with sadness and confusion.

"That may be so Bells, but what are you gonna do with a gun?" Emmett asked. It was the same thing that we were all thinking.

"I don't feel safe. I'm not saying that you all can't protect me, but I need to be able to protect myself too ya know?"

"Yea Bells we get that," I said stepping closer to her, "But a human gun won't have any effect on our kind, and barely any on the wolves." Bella then chuckled a slightly manic laugh that I had never heard before. I was starting to wonder if she had lost her mind.

"You'd think so wouldn't you? A gun must seem so innocuous to you, though I did a little work to it. I think it could do some serious damage," Bella said and then rested her back against the wall before slumping to the ground.

"There is too much going on. Something's gotta give," Bella said before placing the gun under her chin and cocking it. Then Alice burst through the door with Jasper not too far behind her. Bella then pointed the gun at Alice who stopped dead in her tracks.

"I'd never intentionally hurt any of you. You all should know that," Bella said and put the gun back in her lap. That was when I exploded.

"WHAT THE FUCK BELLA!" I screamed, "YOU WANNA FUCKING DIE NOW!" if I could cry I would have at that moment. Bella looked up at me with total hopelessness in her eyes and shook her head no.

"I'm not that selfish Edward. I love you too much to kill myself."

"THEN WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT??" I said, wanting so badly to go over to her and just shake the hell out of her. I wouldn't be able to survive this world without her. I didn't understand why she would even play like she was ready to take herself out of it. Bella stood back up and started pacing back and forth.

"I think I'm in the middle of a break down. I mean, what kind of normal person would do this shit?"

"We know Bella…"Esme started trying to provide some kind of maternal support.

"No you fucking don't!" Bella screamed, "I go through these random debilitating bursts of burning pain. You guys got to get it all out of the way at one time. But nooo, not me. I get to be punished. I get to think that it's all over, just for it to come back all over again. After ever episode I come back with some freaky vampire trait. What the fuck is going on?" Bella screamed. She shocked us yet again. Nobody ever screams at Esme.

"I'm sorry Bella," Esme said, her face chagrined.

BPOV

I wanted to feel bad for yelling at Esme, I really did, but my brain was so scattered I couldn't bring myself to apologize. I was pacing the floor, holding my stomach. I could feel the burning sensation starting up again, but right now it just felt like really bad heart burn.

"Was there an open wound that Edward's venom could've entered in?"

"I don't know. Maybe her hymen?" Emmett said, trying to joke.

"Besides the fact that your comment was grossly inappropriate, if it had gone in through her hymen then the transformation would have been immediate," Carlisle said.

"Yeah, plus my hymen was already broken," I said. Everyone looked at me shocked. I could see the accusations in their eyes.

"Not like that," I said, "When I was a little girl I really liked climbing trees, despite my obvious clumsiness. One of those days I just so happened to have a cold. While I was climbing a tree, I sneezed, and I fell. I broke my pelvis and I had hemorrhaging in my uterus. I had to have a partial hysterectomy and, of course, my hymen broke," I explained.

"It's a possibility that the scar in your uterus might have torn during you and Edward's, um, activities, allowing the venom to slowly seep into your veins." Carlisle deduced.

"Wait, if you had a partial hysterectomy then…" Rose started.

"Yeah, I can't have children," I spat at her.

"Bella, why didn't you ever tell us this?" Emmett asked

"I didn't think it was any of your business," I then looked over at Edward and said, "I told you children were never a problem." And that's when the pain started again. It was probably the worst pain I had so far.

A/N Hey guys. I know that there is an endless amount of dialogue in this chapter, and it seems a little choppy but I had to get this chapter out of the way so that I could really get this story moving. Within the next few chapters I'm bringing back Jacob and Victoria. After that I'm bringing in Tanya, and then you'll all be able to see what Bella's gun can really do. lol