And now for an unexpected POV. I wonder if anybody saw this coming.

Chapter 21 Angela's POV

I threw another handful of red powder into the cauldron. I had to get this just right if I wanted this to work. The last thing needed for it to work was a little bit of magic. I raised my arms over the cauldron and closed my eyes. All of my focus went into my creation. I breathed deeply through my nose and slowly pulled the power from my core and focused it. I felt it slink from my core into my arms and finally end in my fingertips. I didn't open my eyes as I cast my spell. And then finally it was done. I looked down at the ooze and nodded slightly. I really hoped this worked.

But just in case, I pulled up the serving tray that I had at my worktable and put it in front of my face. And waited…

Nothing.

I snarled angrily at the pot and crossed my arms. But the thoughtless concoction didn't seem to recognize that I was livid with it because it still remained just a tumour of green ooze with red dust on it. I leaned in and nudged at it with my stirring spoon. "Come on little ooze. Turn into something for mama."

It finally merged. A giant plume of smoke burst out of the pot. I quickly stumbled back and coughed. It smelled really rank. I lurched towards the door to my room and opened it. The nasty smelling smoke crawled out of my room and into the hallway.

I fell out of the small chamber and leaned against the wall beside the door. A small gaggle of servants had been passing by and were now witnessing my blunder. I was almost tempted to flip them off but then thought better of it. They didn't mean anything by their looks. They continued on their way after a couple awkward moments of silence where they tried to ask me what happened and I didn't answer them.

I sighed heavily and rubbed the back of my neck. I heard heavy footsteps approaching so I looked up. Lucien was making his way over to me with a sad but determined look on his face. I knew what he was going to ask and he already knew the answer to the question.

My head fell back against the wall and I gazed at the ceiling, fighting tears.

"Och, lass. Maybe yeh should take a break for a while. I'm sure the little lass and master won' mind. They've waited this long, why no' a little longer?"

My head swivelled to side so I could look at him. "But I feel so close. I know it's there. I'm just missing something."

He put one of his huge hands on my shoulder, making it feel even smaller then it was. "Lass, you know what you're doin' is unnatural. Hell, they know it too. They never expected anythin'. They could only hope. So take some pressure off yerself."

I pushed his hand off and stepped away from the wall. "This isn't about just them anymore." I started lightly tugging at my hair "Do you know how big this would be if I could make this spell work? It would be revolutionary! It could change the way we think about magic, maybe even the world! Things that we thought were impossible suddenly can become possible if I can just make this fucking spell work!" My voice grew steadily louder as I got into my rant.

Lucian came up and put but hands on both my shoulders in an attempt to stop my spiral. "Lass, yer no' changing the world. Yer helping a couple have happiness. You know that yer not allowed to tell anybody. Like you said, it could change the world, but maybe not fer the better. They know this isn't allowed to get out. So calm down lass."

I took in a deep breath. Allowing it to push my chest out and ground me. I knew that Lucien was right. Even if I did complete the spell I wouldn't be allowed to tell anybody. That was one of the down sides to taking on a project like this. But at least I didn't have a deadline

I looked up into Lucien's deep blue eyes and nodded. "I think you're right, maybe a couple days off of this project could do me some good… After one more try."

He shook his head at me and smiled slightly. I took a deep breath and then turned back to my workroom. The dark billowing smoke was still spewing out of the doorway. I pulled my shirt up so that it covered my mouth and nose and went back into my room.

I quickly waved my hand and the smell dissipated. The dark smoke still remained but at least it didn't smell. I waved my hand again and the concoction in the cauldron vanished.

Lucien poked his head in and said "Alright lass, I'll be tellen Edward yur taking some time off."

I poked a finger towards him without looking "Hey! You never know. This last try could do it."

I heard him chuckle and then leave. I grabbed my potions and started mixing again. I worked for what seemed like hours but was probably only a few minutes. Then I heard a loud knock on my door.

When had I closed my door? Did Lucian close it? Hmmm…

I flicked my hand and the door glided open to reveal Jacob. I stared up at the big man. I had seen him a couple times from a distance and had heard his name from the serving girls but I had never seen the man close up. He was a magnificent specimen of shape shifter male.

I was about to ask him what he wanted when I felt a vision overtake me.

I blacked out…

…

I shook myself awake some time later. My eyes found Jacob who stood at the door looking pensive. I coked my head to the side and asked. "What did I say?"

He shook himself and looked up to me. "Nothing." Then he strode away quickly, without shutting my door.

I shrugged. It must not have been that important.

Jacob's POV

My world was spinning on an axis. I felt like I had been ripped up from the roots, or punched in the gut, or maybe both. Everything I had ever thought was wrong.

And it felt amazing.

My step felt lighter and heavier at the same time.

I don't' really remember what I had gone to the witches' room for anymore. It was like everything before going there was a blur. The only thing I could remember with any clarity was Bella.

Ah, beautiful Bella. I had known her for years, and loved her for almost as many. She was so strong despite what they did to her, too many horrible things to mention. It had gotten harder and harder to take her down to those catacombs. I had wanted to take her and run far away with her but we had never had a chance. We had been raided a week before I had planned to break her out of there. I had been horrified at the thought of what might happen to her in the new environment.

But being here with these new vampires had done amazing things for her. She had a confidence in her that I had never seen. And she was regaining her health. She almost appeared to glow now.

She was probably doing better here than with anything I would have been able to provide her with.

But she was developing an alarming attraction to the male vampire Edward. Everyone who saw her knew it. She practically displayed it on her face. But I knew from the werewolves that he was already mated to the queen vampire Amy. I haven't been able to tell her yet though, as I assume that she doesn't know.

Thinking of her made me want to see her. I rushed to the library where she was learning from Edward.

I pushed the door open to see Edward climbing the bookcases to get a book from the top of the shelves. Bella was standing at the bottom with an armful of books. Both of them turned at his entry. Bella smiled and asked "Did you get it?"

I shook my head and started to speak. "Bella I..." I tried to think over what I was going to say when Edward was suddenly in front of me. I was a little surprised that he had jumped over here from the top of the bookshelf.

He stared into my eyes and said to Bella. "Bella, there is a ladder for the shelves somewhere around here. Can you be a dear and go fetch it then get that book."

She looked confused for a moment and then said "Yes." Then she went off in search of the ladder.

Edward didn't look behind him as he pushed me out of the room and closed the door behind us. He leaned against it and stared at me. "So I'm guessing that you learned some valuable information."

I breathed, not knowing what to do. I couldn't tell him. No one could know about this. I sighed internally. I wouldn't be able to tell Bella about this either if Edward was poking around. I shook my head.

Edward looked at the ground and then said "You're lying to me. This news must be very important to you. Don't worry though, I have no idea what your news is. It's just that the visions Angela has can be very life changing sometimes. And from your expression I think yours was rather earthshaking." He looked up at me, his red eyes piercing me to the core. "So what are you going to do about your news?"

I felt my breath leaving me. What am I going to do?

…

"I have to go." I said abruptly.

Edward's eyebrow raised "What about Bella?"

"I cannot continue to be her guard."

He chuckled and said "Well… I can't really say that it's been good as you have not been here that long, but I hope that you find what it is that you're looking for. You are free to go."

I nodded. And then took off to get my things. I had to leave as soon as possible.

So, I think that was a pretty long one. (Watch, I'll look at the length and see it's not really that long.)

Wow, a lot of stuff happened this chapter huh? Angela's working on a spell for Amy and Blake/ Edward. Jacob's taking off for some reason.

So what do people think of this chapter? I think it looks really weird and frustrating because I'm not giving anything away =). Don't worry readers, all will be explained in time.

Reviews please!