"I submit because I need it. I submit because for the first time in my life things feel right, and because I've never felt freer than when I'm kneeling before you with your collar around my neck engraved with your initials." AH/Non-Canon

NM AU - Bella is immediately enthralled with Aro when she meets him - having already given up on a relationship with Edward. She quickly agrees to stay in Volterra instead of returning home with Alice and Edward - figuring to be killed or changed by them is preferable to whatever Victoria has planned. Is it? Or is she stepping right into the arms of a different killer? BPOV - OOC