My head was spinning around at a sickeningly fast pace, filled to the brim with the deafening sounds of my family's screams of pain. One thing was certain, whoever that little girl was, she was much more dangerous than she looked.

There were so many unanswered questions in my life. Why and how I had morphed into a werewolf? How come, at random times, I couldn't morph or morph back? Who was this girl? How did she know Edward? How was Edward still alive? But what I really wanted to know right now was why I was suddenly immune to the powers of all vampires. Was it just Edward, or could any vampire use their gifts against me?

Would that girl do to me what she was doing to everyone else?

As if she had heard my thoughts (and I was honestly wondering if she had) she waved her hand, a bored expression beginning to dawn on her face, "Go, now, and faze back to your human form. If you do not, I will kill all of them," She motioned nonchalantly to the pack, "One by one. Then I will track you down and you will suffer their fate too."

I could barely hear her over the incessant screams echoing in my head. By the omniscient knowledge in the girl's eyes, I could tell she knew this but continued her threat in spite of it.

"Be back in twenty minutes." Her eyes flickered away from the pack for the first time and all the screams immediately ceased, the writhing bodies of my family around me went still and silence captured the frozen beach. The girl stared at me with disdainful eyes and I braced myself for pain that didn't come.

"Or else."

I was petrified to the spot. Ice captured my swelling heart and rooted my legs to the ground. Sam, lying on his side and panting heavily, stared at me and thought with as much urgency as he could muster,

Bella, run!

I took off. The beach disappeared behind me and all I concentrated on was what was in front of me. The trees flew by with lighting fast speed. I was at the spot where I had left my clothes in no more than two minutes.

Only eighteen left.

It took me longer than usual to morph back, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to morph back at all, stress seemed to have taken over my body. Sweat glistened thickly on my upper lip as I slipped into my clothes. I knew my time, and the time of the whole pack was ticking away with every passing second.

I didn't want to take the time necessary to warp up my car so I began to take off back to the beach on foot. I took rapid, shallow breaths, running as fast as my two legs could take me. My stride was longer than an average human's but even so, I didn't expect to arrive back at the beach for at least ten minutes.
I wasted no time thinking idle thoughts of what might be, I only thought about what was happening now. I didn't care about what would happen to a small, helpless weakling like myself. As usual, I was only concerned about my family and my Jacob. My Jacob. That evil little girl could not have him; I would go to whatever lengths necessary to protect him. I had never been quite as strong as the other wolves but I thought that I would probably be able to fight off that vampire if it was essential.

I would save Jacob, or die trying.

I arrived at First Beach much before my twenty minutes had been surpassed. One shaky step after the other, my feet crunched on the wet rocks over to the seemingly innocent, blonde girl.

My voice shook terribly, I could barely understand myself, but she seemed to understand when I asked,

"Who are you?"

The words were distorted, afraid as if I really didn't want to know the answer. About fifteen feet away from her, I hesitated, took one more step and stopped.

She spoke regally, with a royal air in her tone. "I am Jane, one of the Volturi, and it was my mission to come to La Push and retrieve you for my master."

"Your master is…is Edward?" I asked tentatively, recalling bits of our previous conversation. She nodded curtly.

"And this," she continued, clearly provoked by my interruption, "is Alec." She waved her hand gracefully over to a second vampire that I hadn't noticed before then. His eyes narrowed at me, they, like Jane's, were an extremely distinct shade of crimson. It was as if blood was trapped in his eyes.

"Please," he also spoke majestically, "come quietly, Edward has become extremely impatient and does not wish to wait any longer."

Again, I felt an immobile sensation run through my body. I couldn't move. I felt as if I took one breath she would attack. My fingers were still and rigid; my eyes locked onto Alec's, my breaths did not come. I saw a streak of red and suddenly Alec stood right next to me on my left side, his nose placed at my neck. He took one long breath and sighed it out pleasurably.

His voice was suddenly rough, his lips at my ear, "You smell absolutely wonderful, even as a filthy little wolf. I am sure that your blood would taste absolutely delightful…"

It was not the first time I had been told that.

Abruptly, Jane was at my right side, staring disapprovingly at Alec. I clamped my hand to my mouth to keep from screaming in fright, breaking my motionless spell. "Alec, you know that we have to bring her back to master alive. Otherwise, she would already be dead." She whispered loud enough for me to hear.

Alec sighed in displeasure and took a step back. "What a waste, I would love to taste her." He shook his head sadly. "Well let us get on with it then."

I spoke hoarsely, "Get on with what?" Fear began to choke me.

"Do not worry." Jane smiled alluringly, "We will not hurt you." She paused for a split second in thought, "Well…yes we will, but you will not feel it." She promised, her smile flickering back onto her childish face.

"How is that possible?" I whispered, my eyes growing wide.

"Just like this." Alec smiled dangerously, showing his teeth. Then everything went black.

Total blackness. I was still alive, and I was still awake but I couldn't see or hear or even smell anything. I couldn't feel the ground under my feet. That made me want to trip but there was nothing to trip on. I assumed that it was Alec's gift because there was nothing else that could make me lose all of my senses like this.

It was the strangest sensation…and suddenly I felt something on the back of my neck. I felt as if it should hurt but…I didn't feel any pain. I was only faintly aware of the fact that someone had touched me but once they did my thoughts cut off and I passed out.