Edward

I had not even remembered falling asleep after feeding, so it was genuine shock that came over me when I found my eyes closed and my head on a white silk pillow. My longing for Bella was eating away at my control over my appetite, so I took a few sips from the cooler under the bed. After I finished, I felt slightly ashamed at myself. Ordinarily, I would only feed if necessary. Perhaps the days were longer here in this strange world of white.

I sat on the bed and tried to remember the events of before I had drifted into my dreamless sleep. I remembered running north and south to the limits of the white world, and then running east to west. I remembered gnawing a piece of the bed off and making it into a crude shovel. I remembered stabbing it into the white earth repeatedly until…

"Ah," I said aloud.

Jesse had appeared out of nowhere and screamed at me, "COULD YOU CUT IT OUT WITH THE NOISE?!" I now remembered asking him how he could hear me. Jesse had frozen and narrowed his eyes. He had waved his hands in front of him and I began to feel drowsy.

Now why would he do that for? I inquired to myself. I still didn't know how he could hear me. Perhaps he could hear everybody…

"Actually, I can." Jesse appeared at the foot of my bed. "I can also hear your thoughts in up to fifty different languages." When I didn't respond, he shrugged. "Suit yourself. Now, get up. I have a treat for you."

I rose to my feet and the world of white began to change colors. I blinked and saw that the world had turned to that of a parking lot. Bella was standing by the door of a limo with her mouth agape. Claudiena was holding my lifeless body with Tomas on the other end. Jennifer looked annoyed as she placed her hands on her hips.

"Listen, when I agreed to doing this, I didn't agree that Edward would travel in the baggage compartment of a plane!" Bella exclaimed angrily.

"Agree to what?" I asked Jesse.

"Oh, your wife agreed to the assassination of your coven."

"Excuse me?!"

"Your wife agreed to bring us to your…family because she had no other reason to live after you died," Jesse replied.

"Bella would never do that!" I replied dripping my voice with venom. "Bella would never betray the family that gave birth to her, the family who loved her, the family who is raising her daughter!"

Before Jesse could respond, Jennifer answered to Bella. "Bella, you have no say in this. Besides, Claudiena will cover Edward with an illusion so that he will fly quite comfortably to Forks."

"If she has her illusions, she can make it seem like Edward can walk to the plane. Once we do that, he can sit and 'sleep' through the whole flight!" I felt a ripple of proud run through my body as I watched her flare. She was fighting for me. There was no way that Jesse could be telling the truth about Bella. Bella inhaled a deep breath and relaxed herself. "Listen, Jennifer, all I'm asking is that I get one thing in return for the big thing I offer." Big…thing?

Jennifer narrowed her eyes. She sighed regretfully. "Very well then, Bella. You did agree to bring us to your coven." No, it can't be…!

"Yes," Bella mumbled, before brushing the topic aside. "So, will Edward be riding with us?" Her eyes flickered towards my body before turning away.

Claudiena dropped my body's feet and waved her hands over my body. My body jerked up and got to its feet. My eyes opened, revealing the white lifelessness of my eyes. Frowning, Claudiena reached into Tomas's coat pocket and pulled out a pair of sunglasses.

"Don't you see, Edward?" Jesse crooned softly. "Did you not see how Bella agreed with giving up her family? Did you not see how she brushed the topic away because she knows what pain it will cost you? She excused the topic because she has no reason to live, Edward. She does not care for you…Her life ceases to exist so she is offering herself up…Your body is merely a souvenir to her. She'll only be taking it with her to show your family what will become of them once we finish them off…"

I lunged at his throat but Jesse opened his hands, as if offering me a hug. I flew through the air and landed on the hood of a car. I felt my weight push into the car and the alarm sounded. The coven and Bella looked up. Jesse was mad now, hissing curses under his breath. "You see what you made me do, Edward?! I have over-used my power and now Bella can…" Jesse flew through the air to land on the car next to me. "I have had enough of this! Never again will you see your mate's face!"

"NO!" I roared as I flew again for his throat.

Jesse blocked again and I fell to the pavement. As I looked up, the world began to spin. The colors began fade and Jesse stood over me. "You imbecile!" I screeched.

"Never…again…ever…Edward…" Jesse murmured. His shirt was turning a rabid shade of black, his pants darkening with his anger. I looked down at my own clothing. A large slime-like creature was crawling up my fallen body, turning my clothing to the rabid black on Jesse's. "Darkness will forever cover you," Jesse mumbled as he closed his hands into fists. The creature grew bigger and began to cover me.

I proceeded to rip it off with my hands, but every time I ripped a piece off, a piece twice the size grew back and continued its journey. The creature was up my neck, squeezing it slightly as it moved over my mouth. I couldn't speak now. I ripped with the new talons of my hands, but it continued its way up. My nose, and slowly seeping over my eyes. I could not see.

I ripped one last piece of my mouth.

"BELLA!"

The slime closed.

Darkness.