DISCLAIMER: I do not own and of the twilight characters or content that is recognisable as belonging to the world of Twilight. Unfortunately all that belongs to Stephanie.. .

SUMMARY: It starts as many do. Edward leaves taking his family with him. Bella was distraught though with the support of her father she decides enough is enough and it's time she took back her own life and fought for her own happiness. To do so she decides to get away for a while by joining a nature group in the Amazonian forest. It's a chance for her to clear her mind and refocus her goals. It's free from stress and most importantly far far away from the supernatural right?

Wrong. No one ever told her of the Amazon's. A coven of three ancient, extremely powerful vampires that have lived in the forest for centuries and of course as is always her luck Bella seems to come face to face with brilliant red eyes in the dead of night.

I hope you enjoy this read as much as I enjoy writing it. Lemme know what yall think.

My love

Nell xoxo

Traipsing through the Amazon had been a last minute decision for eighteen year old Isabella Swan. After three months of heartache and loneliness she had decided to get her life together. What better way than getting out of forks for a month while school was on break to clear her head and refocus her priorities.

After the Cullen's had left and Edward had abandoned her, she had been devastated. She had lost herself in her grief and pushed every one of her friends away. She sat alone at school, refusing to engage. Jacob had vowed he had enough of her moping and stopped coming around. Only her father had stuck by her throughout her intense depression and it was him that made her realise just how much she needed to give herself a shake and move on.

The night he had come into her room sobbing and pleading had opened her eyes to just how much her suffering was hurting him. Her ever awkward but extremely loving father who she had never, until that day, seen she'd a single tear except from the day her mother had whisked 3 year old Isabella to Phoenix, leaving her father behind. The sight of him in such a state because of her had shook her and scared her a little and she had vowed there and then that she would get herself together and stop letting the absence of her ex boyfriend and his family destroy her.

Though she hadn't been sure of exactly why she was so destroyed by their departure. She knew she didn't love Edward, sure she adored his family but they weren't even in her life for long and yes they were vampires and that fascinated her but it wasn't the end of the world. Her reaction had confused her but until she had seen her father break down she had been unable to shake herself out of the agony she felt at their absence.

Charlie, her father had been elated when she came to him with the idea of traipsing the Amazon Forest and had arranged for her to join a group of nature volunteers that came here during the holiday to clear rubbish from the forest floor. She doesn't altogether fancy litter picking but doesn't mind the idea, it means she gets to go and do something positive for the world, having the chance to clear her mind and focus on positives so it's a win win for her.

Now she's standing in the middle of their campsite, it's late evening and the light is starting to fade. Around her the warm glow of the campfire flickers, the flames dancing together as their food warms in pots held over the fire.

This is her favourite part of this whole thing. The evening meal, where she gets to sit around with these strangers now acquaintances as they each talk amongst themselves, telling stories of their lives, singing songs and relaxing in the dying light. The atmosphere upbeat and warm as the fifteen or so campers basked in the freedom volunteering on this trip had brought them. Bella supposed that it was highly possible each of them were escaping or running from something when they made the decision to come here and that was okay. They didn't have to worry about judgement or expectations out here. It was just them, their fire, tents and the Amazon that surrounded them and that for her was peace. Peace she hadn't felt in a very long time.

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Bella should have known not to get too comfortable with the peace she had found out here. Such is her life she should have known something would come around to upset that precariously sought peace. It just so happened that like before this interruption came in the form of the supernatural variety.

'Shit' she thought as she found herself trapped in the gaze of bright red pools, unable to look away even as her heart rate increased at the shortening distance between where she lay in her sleeping bag and the unknown vampire that was slowly making their way towards her.

No matter how hard her mind screamed at her to look away, to run or scream and get herself far from the human drinking vampire in front of her she found herself unable too. Her heart raging a war against her mind as it took in the beauty that was the unknown Vampire and she had no idea why her heart despite its ever increasing pace, beating rapidly, told her she knew this vampire. That she was safe with this vampire, that this beauty would not harm her.

" Quiet" the single command was whispered in her ear as the vampire crouched, leaning over Isabella's body. Effectively pinning her to the ground with no hope of escaping and despite her brains protests she found herself complying, instinctually following the command even as the vampire scooped Bella up into her arms, sleeping bag still firmly around her and she remained quiet. The vampire carrying her bridal style out of the tent before taking off at an inhuman run into the surrounding forest.

Bella had no choice but to hold on to the vampire as she was whisked away from the campsite out of fear of falling. Even though she knew rationally that the only way she would fall is if this unknown woman let her fall. She turned her face into the woman's neck without thought in an attempt to shield herself from the slightly chilly night air that rushed her face as they sped through the forest.

"Good girl" the vampire praised, purring in Bella's ear softly and the brunette had no idea why those words or the sound of the vampires voice caused shivers to roll down her back the way they did, though she supposed she would probably be dead soon enough so it didn't warrant much thought. There was no point dwelling on things as unimportant as shivers when she was about to be a human drinkers next meal she supposed.

And as the vampire picked up speed Bella didn't register how relaxed her body was suddenly becoming as the vampires scent seeped its way into her lungs. Nor did she realise that she was slowly or rather quickly depending on who you looked at for the answer. Because Isabella would have told you they had been running forever before she eventually fell asleep though the vampire would have told you it only took less than five minutes and by the time she had made the ten minute run between the humans camp and her covens camp the human in her arms was deeply asleep. Lulled by her scent that had quite clearly wrapped the human in a sense of calm and safety.

Isabella wouldn't realise till the next morning that upon their arrival at the unknown vampires camp she wasn't harmed and she wasn't placed down either. Instead the vampire settled down against a tree surrounded by her other coven members and simply held the human close as she slept peacefully. A gentle smile and adoration on the vampires face every time she looked down at the human in her arms.