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

CPOV

It had been three and a half days since we had arrived back at the house. No word from Bella. No activity from the werewolf. Nothing. Like the calm before the storm.

"He's awake!" Alice suddenly gasped from her room. "Edward's awake!" She ran into the living room, dragging Jasper behind her. "Carlisle, I think I know where they are!"

"Where?" I stood up, ecstatic at the new information.

"They looked like they're in the forests south of Olympia. They're still in hearing distance of the city."

"If we leave immediately, we might be able to catch them before they stray too far." I said. "Emmett, you better come with…" Emmett looked at me, his red eyes filled with shame and agony. "Never mind. Jasper, Alice, let's go."

BPOV

"Edward." I said, trying not to cry. Seeing Edward being taken over by a monster was not a pleasant sight. "Edward, please."

He finally looked up from the corpse's neck and glared at me. "What?" He snapped. His eyes were like a burning fire and I knew he was not in control of himself at the moment.

"Edward, listen to yourself." I said calmly, trying to remember that I was speaking to his vampire. Apparently that vampire was a little angry with me. "Calm down and come here."

Edward began taking stiff steps, like he was fighting with himself on whether or not to come to me, dragging the body behind him.

"Without the body." I whispered. He immediately dropped it.

When he was a few feet away from me, Edward stopped, unsure of how to continue.

"Edward, snap out of it." I pleaded. "Where's my Edward? Where's the Edward that I love?"

Edward's red eyes softened to the point of being liquid blood swirling around his irises. And then he collapsed with a sob.

"Bella, I'm so sorry!" He mumbled between his sobs. I dropped to my knees in front of him and lifted his head, removing his hands from his eyes, and kissed him on the lips. This was actually a difficult task, considering that Edward kept shaking and refused to return it.

"Edward, everybody slips." I tried to pull him up, but Edward remained like a shaking sculpture on the ground. After a while, I just gave up and leaned on his shoulder. "Carlisle and Rosalie have never had human blood. I was able to stop Esme before she had any. Emmett tries hard to live up to his wife's expectations, and I help him succeed.

"Those four just rely on their mates to guide them, but Jasper, Alice and me go on something different. Jasper doesn't drink from humans because he can feel their emotions before he kills them, same thing with Alice only she sees that they have a future. I can stop myself before I begin."

"How does this help me feel better?" Edward whispered. "I'm a newborn; I can't control myself. And we don't even know if I have a pow—"

"Edward, listen to me." I said sternly. "There's no way you could be that much like a vampire as a human and not have a power. Just give it time."

Edward suddenly shot up to a stand, faster than any vampire I had ever seen, even newborns.

"A-are you alright?" I asked shakily, fearing it was something I'd done.

"Can't you hear them?" He asked me in a whisper.

I listened closely and just barely heard two pairs of running feet. They were vampires. "Yeah. They're running. I wonder what they want. How did you—"

"They caught our scent trail a few miles east. They haven't any other vampires in a while, so they're looking forward to this." He said quickly. I stared at him with my mouth open.

"How can you tell all that?" I managed.

He looked at me like it was obvious. "They're talking, can't you hear them?" Edward paused for a moment. "One of them's wondering why our scents only lead somewhere. It started abruptly and they don't know how."

"It was a shield to keep Emmett or the wolf from tracking us." I explained. Meanwhile, the vampires got closer. They weren't talking.

"They think we're nomads." Edward extended his hand to me and pulled me up to a stand. "I think they recognized your scent, but they're not sure. They know you're in Carlisle's coven, and they don't know what you would be doing with just one other."

"Can you catch their names?" I asked, wondering who they were to know me.

"Um… Jane, and… Alec."

I froze. Jane and Alec? You couldn't be in a worse situation than that. At least when you had the entire Volturi guard after you, someone would hold her back. But now… I looked at Edward with scared and worried eyes.

"What?"

"You know the Volturi?"

"Jasper told me about it."

"Jane and Alec are the worst of them." I said darkly. Edward gulped and shot to my side, wrapping his arms around my waist protectively. Little did he know that I was the only one who could protect us from them.

A few seconds later, the small, childish bodies of Jane and Alec entered the clearing.

CPOV

We ran for an hour, Jasper on my right, Alice on my left, until we were only a few miles out from where Alice thought she had seen Bella and Edward. We each had a cell phone and would be starting in a different direction. I'd go east, Jasper south, and Alice north, and if any one of us found a trail, we'd follow it.

It took me a while to find out Alice wasn't with Jasper and me anymore. She'd probably had a vision while running and didn't want to risk hitting anything.

Jasper and I backtracked to find Alice lying face down on the ground. Only when I got closer did I realize she was crying.

"The Volturi found them."

A/N: So, sorry I didn't update last night. My dad's computer crashed and so I had to write the chapter all over again, but it's all good. No worries, mate.

Just a few things you should probably know:

1. School stats tomorrow, though I doubt my chapter-writing will be affected until I start getting homework next week.
2. I start a new story on Saturday. I'll have anywhere from 1-4 chapters posted that night on that new story. I will probably commit to updating once a week on Saturday night, but with 5 or so chapters. I'm creating a sparse update promise so then it doesn't pressure me while I'm still writing this story.
3. I'm taking suggestions on whether or not I should find a Beta, because I sort of notice a lot of mistakes I write when I reread my chapters. If you know any good ones out there, please tell me. It would be much appreciated. That is, if you guys think I need a Beta.
4. If anybody knows how to put pictures on my profile, that would be great if you could tell me how.
5. Last thing: Anyone know what a pride period in school is? I saw it on my schedule, and I don't think it's a free period. I know the school board can be nice, but they're definitely not nice enough to give my school an extra 40 min. of free time.

Thanks!