Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns the Twilight Series and killersmile originally had the idea of switching the roles of Bella and Edward.

CPOV

"If she doesn't want to be found, then there's no use in tracking her." Emmett said soberly. "Believe me; I tried."

"You tried, or your vampire did?" Alice hissed. I didn't understand why she was so upset about this.

"Both." Emmett said with his head in his hands.

"Alice, can you see where Bella is right now?" I asked my daughter, trying to calm her. Alice's eyes went blank for a second before she spoke.

"Yeah, but it doesn't help us much." She growled. "Bella and Edward are still in the forest, near a city, but I can't see it." Her eyes narrowed and she looked daggers at Emmett again. "Well, Emmett, at least your outburst helped us some. For all the park rangers will know, a bear could have actually eaten him."

"I'm sorry, okay?" Emmett pleaded in a small voice. "At least I didn't suck him dry."

"But we have to get back to Forks." Alice said. "The wolf's probably trying to find us. I bet he's visited the attack site."

I nodded and began packing up my useless equipment. Never before had I felt so utterly helpless. Bella was out there, probably crying her heart out over Emmett's mistake, if Edward didn't survive, and there was nothing I could do to find her.

EPOV

What's three days of excruciating pain to an eternity with Bella?

I laughing mentally laughing at myself for thinking this was going to be a breeze. I thought Jasper had been kidding when he describing this, but no. This was worse. A million times worse than his description.

The fire running through my veins wasn't just fire. It felt like… liquid oxygen, at negative four hundred degrees Celsius freezing me. I couldn't move. I wanted to, but I couldn't. I was limp on rock.

Sometimes I tried to think. But, trying to keep a coherent thought from getting mangled by the pain was like trying to light a match on the top of a mountain.

It couldn't have been that long before I began trying to keep track of the time. The seconds meshed together like cogs and wheels of a clock. Ironic, isn't it? A clock keeping me from knowing the time.

The burning in my throat couldn't have been anything else but the thirst Jasper told me about. My jaws were stiff from keeping together to keep me from screaming. I could feel my limbs twitching, but it was like a nervous rabbit had taken control of them. And then, cold hands would hold my wrists together against my chest and hold my legs to the ground.

In the fire, the cold temperature of the hands felt wonderful, and in the liquid oxygen they felt like a relaxing warm. Like God had sent me an angel to give me relief in any situation.

My heartbeat was racing to the point of pain before it stopped. Not just stopped hurting me, but stopped altogether. Not beating. Almost simultaneously, the pain disappeared.

Gradually, my senses came back.

I could hear the quiet sobbing of someone, growing louder as my hearing returned. Eventually, I could hear talons clicking along tree bark and a whistled tune; a bird. And car horns honking in the distance.

I could feel that someone was beneath my torso, holding me up from the ground. My spirits dropped as I realized they were warm, so they couldn't have been Bella.

I could smell an almost sickly sweet scent, like freesias. A scent that I recognized.

And that's when I forced my eyes open. I couldn't take not knowing if Bella was here or not. It was almost as big a pain as the constant burning in my throat.

The first thing I saw was a tree, right in front of me. There were scrapes in the bark that made it look like a rhino had filed its horn on it. The second thing I saw was the bluish tint of a shield. I sighed in relief that Bella was here.

A few reddish-brown strands of hair draped over my should, the same color as Bella's. I couldn't take it anymore.

"Bella?" I asked. I abruptly closed my mouth. The voice that spoke was mine… but not. Like, it was more musical, like Carlisle's.

"Are you alright?" Bella's voice replied from behind me. Her heart-breaking tone was filled with unshed tears.

"I really have no idea."

Warm hands grasped my shoulders and turned me around to see Bella. I smiled at her, as she did, but then we met each other's eyes. Instead of Bella's molten gold eyes, they were a brilliant blood-red. We both grimaced.

"What?" I was the first one to recover.

"Your… eyes. They're red." Bella whispered.

"Yours are too." I took a deep breath. "You smell better than Friday."

"Being a vampire heightens your senses." Bella said in a confusing tone. It was like she was happy, and sad, and furious, but gentle… "I think you need to go hunting before we run into somebody."

"What's so bad about running into somebody?" I asked as she pulled me up to a stand.

"You can't distinguish your favorite flavors yet." She said simply.

"Ah."

"Want to run?" Bella brightened. I remembered her speed when she ran and nodded enthusiastically. "Try and keep up with me."

She began running. Her movements seemed almost slow, though. I quickly caught up to her. And went past her. And got out of sight of her.

Not five seconds later I caught a scent. Though not as delicious as Bella's, this one came dangerously close, and it smelled edible.

It was like I wasn't myself anymore. Thirst exploded in me and a snarl sprang from my throat.

"Edward!" The word meant nothing to me. I barely noticed, though the part that did was pleaded the rest of me to snap out of it. It was brutally ignored.

I began to run, a part of me knowing I was faster than Bella, towards the scent. With each step it grew stronger. Stronger to the breaking point of my conscious. Like, if it were any stronger I would go mad if I didn't have it.

A few seconds of running let me see the source of the scent; a hiker. I got closer and he didn't hear me. I rejoiced. A delicious meal— so easily gotten.

The forest is so beautiful. I wish I could go hiking more often… I heard a voice say. I assumed it was the hiker talking to himself.

But, yes. The forest was beautiful. It's especially beautiful when a delicious meal is spread out in front of you. No witnesses. No complications. No nothing. Just the forest. The empty forest…

I silently lunged on him, breaking his neck before they knew what hit him. Or killed him. Same thing, in this case.

Acting on pure instinct, I took the hiker's neck in my hands, lowering my lips to his skin to bite. But it was impenetrable. I bit once, not breaking the skin. Frustrated, I began clawing at it. There should have been a gruesome hole in the neck, but the skin was still clear.

"Edward."

A/N: So, yeah, Edward's awake, and a vampire. He catches his first whiff of human.