Bella

Waking up was a peculiar but somewhat familiar thing to me, as I sat up in a large, king-sized bed. The events that had sent me to my death lingered in my mind, but I shook them off to try to focus on my new surroundings. The area was all of the same white color, and stretched for miles and miles down from east to west. I looked down to my clothing, and saw that I wore an irritable white silk dress. Tempted to rip the clothing off my back, I turned back to the large white bed when I saw a peculiar thing lying on the opposite side of the bed.

It looked almost like a cocoon, but had dark silky threads of crimson and black weaving in and out of it. I poked it quickly with my finger and felt that it was slightly sticky but would break if I tore at it. I felt a rush of hunger come over me, and shook my head, trying to concentrate. I hadn't hunted since a few days before my departure to New York. I was supposed to be hunting with Edward and Nessie; it was somewhat of our quality time together. The large white world was empty, and this would be my only food source. I wasn't even sure if the creature within the cocoon was an animal or not.

The new world had caused my hungriness to rise, so I reached over and tore off a long piece of the cocoon. Holding the blackish crimson piece in my hand, I peeked in the hole to see what was inside. A familiar white hand rested on the side of a familiar body. The hand twitched slightly, unsure if it was free from the threads. I touched it gently and the hand reacted, pulling back at first but then reaching out to me. I moved over and freed the other hand of the cocoon, revealing another familiar side of a body. Could it be…?

I began to tear faster into the threads, throwing piece after piece behind me. After watching me rip, the hands I freed began to join the tearing. The last piece was the top of the cocoon. I leaned over, and pulled it off slowly, almost as if I was unmasking a thief. The beautiful face that I'd never thought I'd see was in front of me. His eyes opened and he blinked, clearing the remaining threads out of his eyes. He turned his head to look at me. "Bella? You're dead too?"

"You could say that…" I mumbled, slightly embarrassed.

Edward grinned my favorite crooked smile, and sat up quickly at an inhuman speed. He leaned in to kiss me. I missed the touch of his lips, and I quickly hooked my arms around his neck, pulling him into me. When he pulled away, he looked at me with sudden seriousness in his eyes. "So what's happening right now?

I gave him a brief retell, ending with my fall and Renesmee's new controller. Edward frowned, and then looked away in thought. "It's almost as I suspected…" When I looked at him curiously, he explained. "It came to me that Jesse controls this world of his. But how can someone control a place where souls stay in limbo, where he can hear me screaming and feel pain when I stab at the floor? It took me some thinking in the cocoon but I now see it. Jennifer doesn't kill people. She sends them into Jesse's head."

"His head?"

"Yes. That's how he can disappear to talk to us so easily. He's simply going into his mind. Which means he doesn't have the power to revive the dead; he simply has the powers of the mind. This can also explain why he took over Nessie's mind; he can do it easily. But why would he lie and say that he can revive them?"

"It's probably to mask a hidden power that can probably be useful if it were a secret," I suggested.

A ghostly chuckle sounded next to me. We turned and saw Jesse, apparently the Jesse that he thought he looked like, standing aimlessly next to the bed. "So you've got it all figured out?" Jesse asked. When we didn't respond, he chuckled again. "Believe whatever you wish, but I don't have these mind powers as you think. What I did was simply a magic trick of hypnotists."

"A simple magic trick shouldn't have controlled our daughter to your will," I replied angrily.

Jesse shrugged. "Whatever. Anyways, I have a treat for you. I'm going to show you the fall of your beloved family." He snapped his fingers, and the white world filled with color. After a few moments, we were standing in the backyard looking over my frozen body. I winced automatically, and Edward slipped his hand around my waist to try to relax me. "I'll leave you here," Jesse said absently, disappearing, only to reappear as the normal Jesse next to Jennifer.

Jacob was snarling furiously at Liberty, showing all of his teeth. Tomas and Claudiena looked as if they wanted to shut him up, but their hands were occupied with keeping the prisons up for the wolves and the angry mob by the door. Jennifer was bent over on the ground, her hands forming something too fast for me to see. She placed another log down on the ground and stepped back to admire her work. Jennifer turned to the crowd by the door. "You, you, and you," she said, pointing to Emmett, Jasper, and Felix, "Get me Edward's body. It's in the limo up front." They blinked at her. "NOW!" she ordered.

When they returned with Edward's corpse, Claudiena shut the barrier down around them. Free from the imprisonment, Emmett and Jasper looked like they wanted to lash out and attack Liberty. As if she could read their minds, Jennifer smiled darkly at them. "If you try and attack me, you'll drop Edward." Both blinked, while Felix rolled his eyes to himself, and they brought the body up to lay next to mine. Jennifer waved her hands to them and they returned to the group.

"Jane, darling," Jennifer called, "Could you please fetch the kitchen matches?"

"Matches?" I said in disbelief.

"She's going to burn us," Edward said through gritted teeth.

I reached to hold Edward's hand, and squeezed it to get out my sudden tension. If I had still had my newborn strength, Edward's hand would have been reduced to dust. Edward squeezed back, but didn't look away from the scene unfolding in front of us.

Jane reappeared and handed the matches to Jennifer, who smiled approvingly at her. "Jane, you are like the little prodigy I never had," she commented. Jane smiled back, showing dimples in each cheek. Jennifer bent down to whisper in her ear, even though everyone could hear. "When this is all over, how would you like to join Liberty? You would make a lovely team with Renesmee." Everyone in my family growled in response, but the Volturi started to growl to when Jane replied, "Perhaps…"

Jennifer took out a match and lit the pile of logs in front of her. Everyone focused on the small flame that sprouted as Jennifer lit the match. As she threw the flame onto the logs, I watched as Jacob crouched down slightly. I didn't have an exact clue as to what he was doing, but I nudged Edward and pointed it out to him.

The second the flames lit so they were at the sky, Jacob pounced. His jump was not aggressive, and looked as if he had did it to precise detail. He smashed into Jesse, who was surprised by this action. As he flailed to the ground, reaching for something to help him so his fall wouldn't be so hard, he found something to grab in each hands. Using these objects, he pushed off them to stand to his feet. Jacob was grinning his wolfish grin. Jennifer's face was the face of horror and destruction. Claudiena and Tomas's mouths hung. The mob in front of the door cheered. The frozen one's eyes shined with approval.

Jesse had touched our bodies.