Edward
For the first time in over a hundred years, I woke up. I opened my eyes and all I saw above me was white. I jumped up from the bed and landed in a crouch. I looked above me and saw the white sky above me. I looked to my left and right, and all I saw was the white, white and more white. I looked at the bed I had been "sleeping" on and saw the white wooden bed and sheets. I looked down at my clothing and saw that I had changed into a slightly off-white shirt, a white sports jacket, and white pants.
I was in a world of white.
"Glad to see you up, Edward," a soft melodic voice murmured. I turned and saw my captor, Jesse. Jesse looked different from his appearance before. His hair was a tone darker, his skin more touched with cream. He even looked taller, which made me wonder how long I had been knocked out. Jesse also wore a white outfit, but his clothing had this glowing light coming from it.
"Where am I?" I asked.
"A world which you cannot escape. An entire universe separated from Earth. A new home with only one way to escape. Me."
Jesse can raise the dead, or when a vampire is in a coma, he can instantly revive them. Carlisle's words rang through my head. I started running towards Jesse. I ran faster than I normally did, but still didn't move from my square of space. When I finally realized that I wasn't going anywhere, I slowed to a walk and eventually stopped all together.
"This is my world, Edward. I control what happens in here, when it happens. Don't try any funny business. Or you'll regret it." Jesse chuckled darkly. "But I will provide you with some entertainment." Jesse snapped his fingers and suddenly, the world of white disappeared and I was standing back in the hotel room. I stood next to Bella, who was sitting on the bed, playing with a loose string on the blanket.
"Bella!" I gasped as I sat down next to her. Bella showed no reaction to me, and didn't even react to hearing my voice. "Bella? Love?" Bella continued to pick at the blanket. "Why can't my wife hear me?" I asked Jesse.
"We are mere spirits, Edward. No one can hear us or see us except for other spirits. Besides, she is still mourning the loss of her mate," Jesse replied, nodding to my lifeless body. Someone, probably Bella, had moved my body off the floor and had placed it on the bed next to Bella.
I got up from the bed and walked to the sitting room. Jennifer was sitting on the stuffed armchair that she had been sitting on before she had "killed" me, and Claudiena and Tomas sat on the large couch. The red cooler sat next to the table in the center and all of the vampires sipped blood from their own wine glass. Even though I was a spirit, I could still smell the horribleness and looked slightly away.
The coven was deep in conversation. "What are we doing with the female? It is obvious that she is dramatized by Jennifer's gift. I wouldn't be surprised if she picks the entire blanket by sunrise," Claudiena said, pouring fresh blood into her glass.
"Perhaps we could use that to our advantage, dear one," Tomas said quietly. Tomas, who I had never spoken before, had a voice that was soothing and calm; the voice of a gentle therapist. His voice sounded like it belonged to Esme or some other mother.
"Tomas is correct. We could perhaps do this…" As Jennifer began to speak of her plan, the entire room became blurry. I blinked my eyes to clear my vision but the world began to waver. I sank to my knees and closed my eyes shut. I felt something hit my head and I fell to my back.
When I opened my eyes again, I was lying on the white bed in the white world. It occurred to me that I had not heard Jennifer's plan. "Jesse!" I called. "Why have you taken me out?
Jesse appeared at the foot of the bed. "It was for your own good, Edward. Remember, I control this world. I can choose to let you hear something or I can choose to knock you out so you don't hear anything."
"But she is my wife! I have the right to know what is going on with my fam…"
"I'm sorry, Edward. But I have limitations." Jesse slowly began to disappear. "Oh yes…By the way…" Jesse turned back to me. "I forgot that you might get hungry." He snapped his fingers again and a red cooler appeared by my feet.
I sniffed and covered my mouth in disgust. "You're kidding, right?"
Jesse frowned. "Do I look like it, Edward?"
"You really don't expect me to drink human blood, even though I spent nearly half my life trying to stick to animal blood?"
"Who said it was human blood?" Jesse chuckled. "I had Tomas kill some mountain lion for you. I hear it's your favorite back home." Chuckling again, Jesse disappeared.
I stared in horror at the cooler by my feet. I could feel my hunger rage in me and I tried to block it out. I rocked back and forth, ignoring the aching in my stomach and in my entire body. Jesse was probably making me hungrier by using some sort of his world illusion. I felt myself give in. I opened the cooler and saw that there was a wine glass lying along the top of bag. I held up the bag. It was labeled "EDWARD" in large black letters.
Although I wanted to tear into the bag with my teeth and suck out all of the blood, I forced myself to carefully remove the tab on the top and pour it carefully into the glass. Once it filled, I held it to my nose and inhaled it again. The smell overtook my sinuses and blocked out all other smells. I held it to my mouth and gently tipped my tongue in, waiting for my own reaction. It tasted like…mountain lion. No human.
I sighed in relief and started drinking. I finished the glass quickly and began to polish off the rest of the bag. Once that bag was gone, another appeared under it. I stopped thinking and just started to tear into the tabs of the bag, inhaling most of the blood in one gulp. I drank and drank until I was full.
As I pushed the never-empty cooler under my bed for later purposes, I looked down at my bloodied hands. I had spilled a quarter of a bag on the floor and had to force myself not to bend down and lick it up. Miraculously, the blood was fading and my hands were returning to its usual paleness.
Although I was full and somewhat content, I realized that I was missing my other half.
Bella.
"BELLA!" I yelled aloud.
Into the nothingness.