Chapter 12: Fire

Bella's POV

The fire raged within me. What had started off as a small burn quickly turned into a blazing inferno. The fire was consuming everything in it's path. It felt as if I were being burned alive at the stake. I found myself fervently wishing that it would all just end already. I couldn't stand to live another second in this torment. I could feel the blackness of death lurking close by. It was so close and it was very difficult to fight. I wanted to give in. I didn't have the strength.

Then I remembered the two beautiful faces that I saw just before the fire had started burning inside of me. My two beautiful babies. My EJ and Renesmee. The two little babies I had fought to protect. I loved them so much and they needed me. I had to fight. I had to survive. They gave me the strength I needed to endure the fire and fight off the blackness that threatened to snuff out my life.

I wanted to scream out but I knew that screaming wouldn't do anything to ease the pain. I would only worry the others and cause them pain. I especially didn't want my babies to hear me in pain. I didn't want to scare them. Everything I did I did for them. I loved them. I protected them before I even knew it was a 'them' and no matter the pain I was in now I knew that I had made the right choice. I would make the same choice a thousand times over. I carried them and protected them inside of me until they were ready to enter the world.

Now all that was left for me to do was to fight for my own survival so that I could continue to love them and protect them from everything. My beautiful babies. It was with that last thought that I'd gone from burning at the stake to gripping onto that stake for dear life. I cringed to it because that meant clinging to life. It saved me from falling into the blackness.

Even when the fire increased in temperature I stopped myself from screaming out in agony. I hoped that meant that it would all be over soon. Although knowing my luck I was sure that was not the case. If anything it probably meant that I was going to burn hotter for even longer. Maybe it was because the pregnancy had done so much damage to my body that the venom had a lot more to repair that what was normal.

The fire increased in intensity once again. Every single atom in every single cell inside of my body was alight with the worst kind of fire imaginable. If I didn't know any better I would have assumed that I died and that I had gone to hell. Although I couldn't imagine that the blazes of hell burned much worse than this.

Just a little while longer. It would be just a little while longer. Just a little while longer and then I will be able to hold my children again. At least that is what I told myself to keep myself sane. I just wish that I knew exactly how much longer I would have to burn like this. I wish there was some way that I could know exactly how much time had gone by since the venom first entered my system and exactly how much time I had left to burn like this.

"How much time do you think she has left?" I was surprised when I heard Carlisle's voice in the room. What had happened? How had they found me? The last thing I remembered was my son biting me and starting my transformation. I remembered very vaguely that Liam had said other vampires found us. Had it been the Cullens? Had it been Edward? It must have been them.

"It's not going to be that much longer," I heard Alice say. Couldn't she say how much longer? Was it days? Hours? Minutes? Seconds? Were they purposely being so vague just to annoy me?

I wanted to ask her myself just how much longer I would be burning in this hell. But I was terrified that if I opened my mouth all that would come out was screaming which would alert everyone to how much pain I was in.

"She's really something. It's amazing how she can stay so quiet during the transformation," Carlisle said.

"Maybe it's because EJ turned her. Maybe hybrid venom is less painful than ours,"

"No I don't think that's it. I have analyzed his venom and it's exactly the same as our venom. So I have no reason to believe that his venom would affect her any differently,"

So they were taking care of my babies? Had they realized the error of their ways? How did Edward feel about them? Did he realize how wrong he was about them? I hoped that he did. All I ever wanted was for him to love them the way I did. I would forgive him as long as he saw the error of his beliefs. I wanted us to be one big happy family. For Edward and I to love our kids and for us to raise them together as a family.

Nobody said anything for a long time. It was so quiet that I was sure they had left. Then I heard footsteps close by. "Alice I have bad news. Though I'm sure you already know that,"

"No. If it's concerning a hybrid I can't see anything just like I can't see the wolves. What happened?"

"Edward just called me. Apparently things went horribly wrong in Italy with the Volturi,"

"Oh no,"

Why are Edward and Liam in Italy visiting the Volturi?! What happened in the last few days that would cause them to go there?!

"Bella's transformation is almost done. I'm sure she can hear us already. We only have a few minutes left,"

Just as she said that the fire began to fade in my toes and my fingers. Leaving behind a trail of coldness. The fire continued to dull and eventually fizzle out in my legs and my arms. But whereas it had decreased in certain parts of my body it increased in my chest. It burned hot racing toward the last organ in my body that had until now remained untouched by the venom. Both were losing. The fire had already consumed everything in it's path. My heart was beating hard trying to fight off the venom. My heart stuttered twice before beating one final time.

I opened my eyes to a brand new life ahead of me.

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