I stood there in petrified silence closing my eyes and tensing my body waiting for it to start. My body seemed to go into shut down as my other senses seemed to close off; maybe this was my body's way of blocking the pain.

Tracing the small crescent shape on my hand left I remembered my last encounter with a blood hungry vampire. Although James had been a different situation all together it seemed all too familiar; my pounding heart as I stood frozen waiting for those crimson eyes to crack and finally pounce. James had only managed to bite me once before Edward had come but the excruciating pain was still vivid in my mind. It was as if my blood was on fire and I was burning slowly; I knew it would be a hundred times worse if the venom managed to spread through out my system. Looking back now I realised I had never asked enough about this all from Edward. How long would I survive? Would Jasper make it a long drawn out process taking him time as I bled broken on the floor? Would he be too consumed in his bloodlust and suck me dry in seconds? Perhaps I would get lucky and he would hit an artery and I'd bleed quickly; he'd have to be fast then. If it wasn't for the over whelming fear engulfing me I might have laughed at the irony. One day I'm worrying about raising a baby in a few months the next I'm hoping my death will be fast. My thoughts moved away from me and over to Jasper. How long would it take until he came back to his senses? I could only imagine his horror when he snapped back to reality to find me dead next to him. How would he possibly be able to explain this to Edward? He would be back with the rest of the Cullen's soon after they finished hunting what would happen? I shuddered remembering him when he left for Italy believing I was truly dead. I knew at the moment I couldn't let that happen.

My body tensed as I waited but nothing happened; I wasn't pinned to the ground by a rock hard body, I hadn't been bitten and sucked dry and I was most certainly not dead. I had been closing me eyes and thinking for a good amount of seconds surely with his vampire speed he would have been done by now.

Not relaxing my body I slowly squinted one eye open hesitantly. My vision was blurred and unsteady as I looked up: Jasper was still standing in front of me breathing heavily blood clear in his red eyes. What I didn't understand was why he was still just standing there. Why hadn't he just killed me already? I opened the other eye cautiously as if by doing so I would break the spell that kept Jasper frozen. Suddenly all my other senses seemed to jolt back to life as I heard crashing and yelling surround me.

"Bella get the hell out of here NOW!" I was surprise to heard Jacob call from somewhere I couldn't pin point. My searching eyes found him suddenly standing behind Jasper. It seemed the only reason I was still alive was that he was struggling to hold him back from me.

The words didn't pierce through to my consciousness as stared at him stunned.

"Bella!!" He screamed again sweat dripping down his red face. My muddled brain recognised these words as I snapped into attention.

"Run Bella!"

I nodded scrambling around them out what was left of the door. I cringed as my feet hit the gravel drive way as I ran. Now more than ever I dreaded being a clumsy, slow human as I tripped and skidded over and over again. Each time I fell I forced myself up again and kept going ignoring the pain and blood. Glancing down at the red on me I knew if Jacob couldn't contain Jasper my strong scent would give me away and I would be dead.

I heard thrashing and yells coming from behind me as I sped up and dived into the forest. I knew it wasn't much but I wasn't making it impossibly easy for Jasper; who knows maybe a few milliseconds was all I needed.

It seemed as if the world suddenly went into silence as I was left with just the sound of my harsh breathing. Panic guided me further and faster through the forest until I didn't know where I was coming or going. My mind now seemed to focus on only one thing repeating it over and over.

Stay alive; for Edward, for you, for the baby. Stay alive, alive, alive, alive!!

Another noise joined my breathing. Every so often a twig would break or there was the soft rustling of a bush. It was getting closer to me with each passing moment until I realised I was being followed. Trying to be silent and calm my breathing I changed direction dodging trees and I swerved all over the spot. The subtle noises followed me gracefully; there were only a few things I knew of that were that graceful and Jasper was one of them. What had happened to Jacob?

My mind refused to take the time to process the question let alone an answer as I heard faint foot steps; not a meter behind me. I tried to speed up but in my haste I tripped over a loose tree root. I slumped in defeat as I landed face first in the dirt. What was the point? I had no chance anymore, it was over; he'd won, the end.

I felt two strong hands grab me waist and lift me easily over their shoulder. My body was limp with exhaustion as I flopped into his grasp in defeat. We were jolted into motion as he began to run. The wind whipped around me as we rushed past the trees. I looked up slowly opening my eyes. All I could see was the moving forest behind us and his legs powering on. Why were we running? He had me why go somewhere else? I didn't think he would have that much control.

"Jasper?" I whispered confused not able to lift myself high enough to look at him.

"Guess again" he muttered with a faint laugh as I looked up suddenly still unable to see him properly, hope filling me.

"Jacob!" I yelled flopping down on his shoulder hugging him upside-down as he continued to run.

"No time for celebration yet and keep your voice down" He muttered his voice serious again.

"What happened?"

"I've… immobilised him for the time being but it won't hold him long; we gotta get outta here." I nodded as we hurried on in silence.

"Shit!" Jacob hissed angrily under his breath speeding up. I looked around panicked not seeing anything from my view of the ground.

"Wh-"I went to ask before Jacob jolted a different direction knocking the breath out of me. I struggled to breathe unable to ask what was going on when he whispered a single word.

"Footsteps"

My breathing attempts stopped as I frozen in realization. He was coming for us; for me. My breathing slowly returned but I still couldn't hear the phantom footsteps Jacob had mentioned. I just had to trust him as his supernatural powers once again. My body flopped back down in exhaustion; I couldn't do this for much longer. A sudden flash of light passed me and if it wasn't for Jacobs crushing I wouldn't have noticed it at all. Jacob Spun in one fluid movement turning and running back where we had been coming from. I could see the flash faintly from where I hung until we suddenly swerved again and again. Jasper had caught up to us again. I knew what Jacob was doing but it didn't seem to have any effect von throwing him off our trail. Every move we made was copied with equal fluency behind us. I started to feel motion sick as we continued to swerve and move; how much longer could we keep this up? Deep down I knew no matter how hard Jacob tried we weren't going to escape. My questions were suddenly answered when the flash sped up; it wasn't until he was inches away that I could only just make out his blonde hair and uniform. He slammed into us with such force I felt like I had been hit by a car as we collapsed into a heap on the soft earth. Fresh pain over ridded all other feelings as I laid on the ground paralysed. My eyes slowly opened as the scene unfolded around me. Jacob took a defensive crouch in front of my limp body as Jasper went to lunge. There was a sickening crunch as the collided again and Jacob was flung into a far away tree. I looked over to where he lay; his face was blank and pale… was he okay? I didn't have time to worry as I heard slow deliberate foot steps approach me. Jasper hovered over me his eyes a darker more distant shade of blood red than before; he was lost of all recognition by this point. He bent over and picked me up easily as if I was a toy. My body began to tremble as I stared into his eyes hoping for a painless death when it all went dark…

AN- Yeah I know its cliché darkness but trust me there's a reason behind the suddenness of it your just going to have to wait and find out!!