Warning: There is some Graphic Violence (very graphic) near the end of the chapter.

She tripped lightly, catching herself quickly like she had recently learned to do. "Do you think we're heading in the right direction?" She muttered lightly, knowing he could hear her loud and clear because of his mythical senses.

"Yep!" He said, and even from behind him, she could tell Jake was smiling.

Doing a small jump over a potentially disastrous shrub, she continued after him through the forest to their destination. She had been there before, both of them had, Jake just didn't realize it yet.

A feeling of unease twisted the bottom of Bella's stomach, and she immediately connected it to the hollow feeling the meadow had once... he... left.

Self pity and hatred of her humanity swallowed her for a second, only to be killed by Jake's cheer of happiness.

"I fo-- I mean, WE FOUND IT!!" He chimed, quickly turning around and bringing her into a tight grip before swinging her around into the meadow.

She evaluated it, nothing was different apparently, as Jake held her. His chin rested lightly atop her head as he too studied it. "Seems peaceful"

Absently, Bella nodded.

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Alice looked at his form. She sighed, 'Pathetic' she whined in her mind.

"I heard that" Edward growled unhappily.

Rolling her eyes, she sashayed towards his curled up form. "Wallowing in self pity is pathetic when this could have easily been avoided..."

A growl rumbled in his chest, "You came here to lecture me? I must say, even though she told me not to bet against you, it had to be avoided"

A small, wicked smile unlike any Edward have ever seen on her face, twitched her lips upward. "Oh, but Edward..." She purred quietly, "Bella was all too right, you don't bet against me"

"And that means what?" He asked, shifting to look at her.

"It means, I'm still seeing her as one of us"

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She twirled slightly, trying to make the most of it for Jake.

Behind her, he smiled. As Bella twirled, he couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked in a field like this of wild flowers. Simply ravishing, really.

Lips twitching upward, he wondered briefly how much longer it would take for him to woo her. A year probably at most. She was already doubting her love for the bloodsucker.

His nose twitched slightly at the memory. The memory of the stench of that horrid vampire, Victoria, flooded his senses. Suppressing a snarl, a quote from somewhere ran through his head.

'Good things never last'

The sentence came and went just as fast as his awareness. Instantly, everything seemed to be a blur.

A red flame shot out from a tree branch, tackling Bella to the ground. Bella bit back a shriek as a burning sensation ran from her neck to her spine, slowly taking over her whole body.

A snarl ripped through Jake's throat as his surroundings sunk in. His body went into sudden convulsions, before he finally burst completely. Tattered clothes floated down through the air as he violently pulled and attacked the woman on top of his princess.

A bloodcurdling scream bounced off the trees, while venom (being vampire's only bodily fluid) splattered across the wildflowers, making them wilt.

His teeth sank into her face, tearing it to pieces as it peeled off her bones. A sickening snap echoed Bella's screech as her body collapsed in on itself from his weight.

Growling, he backed away from the mass of oozing flesh. With a look back at Bella, he returned to his human form, whimpering.

He crawled over to her side, cursing himself all the way as she writhed on the ground in pain, screaming incoherently. Jake had no idea what to do, he couldn't do anything. Then something snapped together in his mind, Sam might know what to do. Sam knew everything Jake ever wanted to know afterall.

Quickly, Jake tore off the remains of the shredded clothes off of the dead vampire, wrapping them around his waist. Without a second thought, he scooped up the convulsing girl and headed towards the others, knowing they knew what he knew.

Eternity is not all it's said to be, for good things never last, in eternity you just have to face that many more hard times...