QUICKIE: Sorry this took so long to get up. I give you all cyber hugs for waiting so patiently! This was originally part of the last chapter, but I figured you'd want a nice, happy, sex chapter them. Oh, BTW I recently published another Bellice story called, The Cullen Ranch. There are two chapters up now, so check it out of you want.

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-Bella's POV-

I squinted at the light coming in through the blinds of the window and stretched in bed. My body was happily sore, after a night of enjoying each others bodies into the wee hours of the morning. I smiled to myself as memories from just a few hours ago flooded my mind, but was interrupted as a small feather landed on my nose. Confused, I picked it off me before looking around the room. The whole bed was covered in a blanket of snow white feathers, and a few lingering in the air, slowly making their way down to the floor. I turned over and found Alice watching me with a worried expression on her face.

"What's the matter?" I asked as I rolled over to be closer to her.

She gently took my arm in her hand, fingers trailing over a bruise in the shape of a hand.

"Oh, honey that's okay. I'm fine."

I pulled her closer when she made no move to say anything. I kissed her on the lips, reluctantly pulling myself away when she didn't react, and took the time to ask the question eating at me.

"Ali...why am I covered in feathers?"

She swallowed hard, a flash of anger crossing her face.

"I bit a pillow...or two."

"Okay, but why?"

"I...hurt you..." Her eyes going back to the bruise on my arm.

"Alice, look at me."

When she didn't, I nudged her chin up with my fingers until her dark gold eyes met mine.

"It's just a bruise, baby. You didn't hurt me, I'm perfectly fine."

"You haven't seen the rest of your body."

She looked as if she was about to cry as she put her head back down.

"You know what..." I said standing up on the bed.

"Bella, what are you doing?"

I didn't answer her as I started jumping up and down on the bed, naked, making the feathers fly through the air again.

"See. Does it look like I'm hurt?"

"I have a feeling your going to hurt yourself if you keep jumping on the bed."

"Alright then...weeeee!" I yelled as I launched myself off the bed, opened the door, and ran naked through the hall. I laughed as I headed to the other end of the house.

She beat me to the kitchen, of course...damn vampire speed. She was just standing there, hands on her hips, slight smile on her face. I walked up to her, wrapping my around her now clothed body and leaned in and kissed her. This time she responded, her hands going to my hair immediately and tongue grazing my bottom lip. My hands found my way under her shirt to her small breasts as her cold tongue shoved into my mouth. I backed her up against the counter, squeezing her breasts hard, making her growl into mouth.

"Bella..." She whispered in an intense tone.

I pulled back, meeting her black eyes and a pained expression on her face. I let her go, backing up, giving her space.

"I'm sorry, I just have to..."

"Go hunt. Don't worry about me."

"I won't be gone long." She said before she disappeared before my eyes.

Twenty minutes later I was in the shower when I smelled food cooking. I got out quickly, still dripping wet, and found Alice in the kitchen making scrambled eggs.

"That was fast." I pointed out.

"I told you I wouldn't be long, and I didn't go very far." She smiled, her eyes returned to the familiar golden color. "Go dry yourself, breakfast will be ready in a few minutes."

I did as she said, going back to the bathroom to dry off. It was then that I got a good look at my body in the mirror for the first time. There were a couple other bruises in the shape hand prints, one on my breast, the other on my ass. A few pink scratch marks down my back, where her nails raked across my skin. And last, a small hickey at the base of my neck. It actually wasn't as bad as she had acting like it was. She didn't technically hurt me, I was perfectly fine. And I didn't mind that she left her mark on me...in more ways than one. I smiled to myself as I put on my clothes, stomach rumbling as I remembered breakfast would be waiting for me.

The rest of the day went by too fast for my taste. When I finished breakfast, I pulled her back in to the bedroom and...you know what happened from there. The next time we removed ourselves from the bed, it was already getting dark outside. I called Charlie to tell him I'd be spending yet another night, supposedly at the Cullen's house. He hesitantly gave the okay, as long as I'd be at school the next day. We agreed that I would have to go back tomorrow, even if James wasn't caught. I would be safe, as long as I was with Alice.

Dinnertime rolled around and I made myself a sandwich from last nights leftovers, after I convinced Ali that she didn't need to go to the store. She doesn't really understand why us humans don't mind leftovers, which made me giggle. She was a weirdo, but she was my weirdo. While I ate, she cleaned up the counter and put everything back in the fridge. I glanced up at her as her eyes glazed over and she gripped the counter hard.

"Alice?"

-Alice's POV-

I was laying on the ground, a quiet splashing in the background. My right arm hurt and I could feel that my face was cracked. I opened my eyes to find a shadowy figure standing over me.

"Oh, Alice..." He started. "Mary. Alice. Brandon." He let out a evil chuckle. "You don't remember me...do you?"

"Alice?" Bella said as I snapped back to reality. "What did you see?"

I took a second before answering, taking a deep breath.

"Nothing, babe. Don't you worry about it."

I didn't know when my vision was going to happen...but I hoped that Bella wouldn't be around when it did.

"Don't you 'nothing' me. I saw your face..."

"Bella..."

"Tell me." She said softly as she got up from the table and walked over to me.

I pressed my forehead to hers, and hugged her close.

"I-"

I stopped, listening to my surroundings.

"What?" She whispered.

"I thought I heard something outside..."

I left the kitchen, moving into the living room...Bella slowly following a few steps behind me. It was then that I smelled it...the familiar scent. Before I could say anything, James kicked the door in. It flew across the room, barely missing me, and through the glass window. Bella jumped back into the kitchen, her heart pounding as she ran into the counter.

"James..."

He stood about ten feet in front of me, in the door frame.

"The one and only, my little pixie."

He smiled as he stepped inside the cabin.

No one comes in my house uninvited. I sprinted towards him, pushing him with such force, he flew all the way to the beach.

"Alice!" She yelled.

"Bella, stay back!"

I raced to the beach, James already up and ready to fight. I was faster than him, but I didn't have much fighting experience. He pounced towards me, snarling. I ducked, and as he flew right over me, I grabbed his leg. I swung him around, only releasing him after I picked up speed. He flew into some nearby rocks, crumbling them on impact. I was there in less than a second. My hand going to punch him, but he grabbed my neck and flipped me over, pounding my head into another rock. Shocked, I didn't respond as fast, and he took off my right arm with one pull...tossing it to the left. I closed my eyes, the pain of loosing my arm was the most intense pain I had ever felt.

I opened my eyes, James now only a black figure standing over me.

"Oh, Alice..."

My vision...

"Mary. Alice. Brandon." His evil chuckle sending shivers down my spine.

"How do you know my real name?"

"You don't remember me...do you?"

Just then, I had a flash of my last memory as a human. Running through the forest, a figure standing over me...

"You..." My anger flared inside me.

"Why so angry Mary? I did you a favor back then. You were just a weak little human that everyone thought was crazy, but I saw more..." He trailed off as Bella came running out of the cabin. "And I'm going to do her the same. It's cruel really, keeping her a fragile little human."

Growling, he was out of my sight and over to Bella before I could even sit up.

No...

He knocked her down to the ground, holding her there. My arm had crawled back to me by now, and attached itself within a second...like a magnet. I ran as fast as I could over to Bella, but he was in control. He bit down on her bare arm, blood dripping onto the sand. I kicked him as hard as I could, sending him across the beach. Bella started to convulse from the venom, but I knew I had to finish James before I could help her...

-Bella's POV-

He bit down, moaning at the taste of my blood in his mouth. It started to sting where he bit, and I felt the pain start going up my arm. I looked at him and he smiled at Alice, then suddenly he was gone. Alice was by my side as I started to uncontrollably shake. It was like a seizure, while the stinging turned to fire that was now radiating from my chest. And then she was gone too. I shut my eyes, hearing my heart pounding loud in my ears. The burning going to my head now as I heard grunts and growls from Alice and James twenty feet away from me. I shifted slightly so I could see what was going on. He had her in a headlock, her fighting against his strong arms.

I had to do something. The love of my life was on the verge of being killed, but I was useless as I seized from the venom.

Or was I?

I looked around for something...anything that might help. My eyes landed on a big boulder-like rock about ten feet away from where they were fighting. I focused as much as I could, the fire still burning in me, getting worse with every second. Tears now blurring my vision, I kept on trying.

Move, damn it!

I envisioned the huge rock knocking into him, startling him enough that she could gain control and finish him. The pain was blinding now, and all I could hear was a loud vibrating sound...then all went black as I slipped into unconsciousness.