A/N: Heya guys! Sorry this took a few days. One, it's long (12 pages right now) and I switch POVs twice. And two, it was fourth of July weekend, and I was hellishly busy with family BBQs, fireworks, and all that stuff. It was great, but I have a wicked sunburn, and no amount of aloe vera is going to save me now. :) Also I got a rather painful injury so I'm a bit loopy on pain killers, and I only read through this once. If there's any major mistakes I'll fix em when I find em. :)

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Black King, White Knight

Problems

Demetri

The air became thicker with moisture the closer I got to Felix. He was in the middle of nowhere, and I was even more surprised when I tracked him to a neighborhood in a sleepy little town bordering the forest.

I paused for a moment, hearing two heartbeats inside the house as well as Felix's breathing right next to one. It almost sounded like he was trying to move very gently and slowly, that was remarkably odd for him.

I leapt up to the window I tracked him to and my mouth fell open. I didn't realize until now exactly how vague he was on the phone. Worse yet, he was so distracted by this human girl, he didn't even notice me.

"Damn Felix! You weren't kidding!" I laughed, trying to keep my voice at a reasonable level.

"Fucking Hell," he muttered under his breath. He moved her off of him. "Come on, we need to talk."

Felix unceremoniously shoved me out the window, but I flipped and landed on my feet anyway. I followed him into the woods with a million thoughts and arguments running through my head. Finally, he turned and opened his mouth, but I held up a finger. I was going to get my two cents in before he went on a tangent.

"Yes, we do. Give me one second and then you can explain," I said calmly, but that was the end of my calmness. "What in the name of all that is good and holy are you thinking? She's mortal! Why for fuck's sake did I find her sleeping on you? You're bat-shit insane Felix!"

I realized he could have taken my words the wrong way, that I was annoyed he was with a mortal to begin with. But that wasn't it, not at all. It was next to impossible for our kind to be so close to a human without killing them.

Hell, I almost killed Heidi. I mentally cringed at the memory, I could have lost everything in one moment of sating my thirst. I could not, would not let Felix do something like that and turn into a living shadow like Marcus. We only got one chance at true love.

"Are you done?" he smirked. Maybe my inner reasoning didn't fly over his head after all.

"For now. Start explaining before I run far, far away." I was beyond confused why he had just changed her yet, and more so why she wasn't running the other way as soon as she figured out he wasn't human. It was a dangerous situation for them both.

He starting telling the story, but I had to stop him once he mentioned her about to be dinner for someone else. It wasn't his style, so it must have been someone we both hated.

"Anyone we know?" I asked.

"Yes, actually. Laurent, but he's dead," he smirked. Felix was always a cocky bastard.

"HA!" I laughed. "Well, he deserves it."

We continued to go back and forth about Laurent and werewolves until he finally returned to the original conversation.

"Bella?" I grinned. He was definitely head over heels for this girl, and it was odd seeing him so damned happy.

"Are you going to keep interrupting?" – I shook my head, still smiling, motioning for him to continue. – "Good. So I killed him, ran her back to her truck, and I'm basically her bodyguard."

"Felix, man –" I really had no idea what I was about to say, but something definitely along the lines of how insane he was acting.

"There's the thing, and shut your mouth until I'm done. She already knows, I'm certain of it. She was in love with one of the Cullens, and he left, like I said. I'm going to change her as soon as I can, but this isn't a simple 'change-and-run' thing. Her dad is the chief of police, and it would turn into a nation wide hunt for her. Before you ask, no, he doesn't even know I'm here. We have to come up with something that he won't dig into, and that she'll accept. I know she'd want to hurt him as little as possible, and I'm not about to deny her that," he quickly explained, so fast I barely caught it all.

"So help me out bro!" He was begging me, and that was out of character for the Felix I knew, it was usually him helping me out of a bind. But I would admit, when Felix needed my help, it was always one hell of an ordeal.

"Wait, let me see if I've got this straight. She knows about us, she was with a Cullen, and you want to spare her dad's emotions. Am I right?" Did we have an invasion of the body snatchers on our hands? At this point, that theory was sound more and more likely.

"More or less." Yep, he's been taken over by an alien.

There was one glaring problem I saw, besides the obvious fact she was still mortal.

"And she's alright with the fact you hunt humans?" I asked, cocking my eyebrow.

"Uh, it never came up," he said, more like he was asking a question. "Maybe my eyes gave it away?"

Poor Felix. Love had apparently turned him into a witless moron.

"Felix, she wouldn't be able to tell," I sighed, placing a hand on my face. "Your eyes are black. This is a problem."

"A very big problem." He looked like I just kicked him in the gut.

"Before this goes one step further, you need to decide what you're going to do about this," I pointed out. I wasn't used to being the rational one. "I can only see four possibilities."

"And they are?"

"One," – I started ticking off the options with my fingers –"she's perfectly fine with our prey. Problem solved." That was highly unlikely I'd admit.

"But if she's been around them, she very well might not be." Finally he was thinking half-way logically.

"Exactly. Two, you accept she won't hunt humans and live of animals," I said, holding up another finger. I shivered at the thought, it was nearly unthinkable to me.

"That's very doable," Felix considered. "As long as she's alright with me still hunting."

He tried to act nonchalant but I saw how much this whole issue really bothered him.

"Three," I sighed, ready for the likely backlash from the final two options. "You change your feeding habits for her. I know it's a huge sacrifice and insane to boot, but love makes you do insane things."

"Bah!" he snorted, but he seemed to be thinking it over anyway. "But you're right. Love makes you do crazy stuff. And I'm a prime example."

I couldn't agree more, I thought with a grin. "Told you. Therefore, number four isn't even worth mentioning, since you won't allow it."

The intensity of his anger surprised me. I was somewhat proud of myself at not reacting badly to his snarl, but still, he should have known me better than that.

"Whoa! Relax!" I quickly took an automatic so he wouldn't be tempted to tear my head off. I did probably deserve him to detaching a limb for the comment though. "I'm not suggesting it, I know how you feel."

"Then why did you bring it up?" Felix growled. I really couldn't remember the last time I'd seen him so livid.

"Seriously, Felix! Calm down! You know I didn't mean anything by it!" I was the one person, other than Bella (the way he talked about her made it obvious) that probably could have gotten away with walking away from his raging fury and live to tell about it.

"You're right, I'd never allow it, so it's a non-issue," he hissed.

"Exactly. So we need to come up with a plan, right? I've got your back brother." I placed a hand on his shoulder, reassuring him of the fact I wasn't going to leave him hanging. God knows he's bailed me out enough times.

"Meaning you have a plan or you're going to think of something?" he asked incredulously.

Please, Felix, have a little faith, I thought, rolling my eyes a little.

"Simple. I have one. Remember Scott? His father was deeply connected to Interpol. If we can handle Interpol, a small-town cop is nothing to worry about," I grinned, feeling rather smug.

Scott's 'disappearance' was one hell of a debacle. He was somewhat estranged from his father, so we didn't realize how far his father would take it. There ended up being a twenty-country man hunt for him, and not just your typical BOLO either. Jane and I had to get a guy with a physical build to match Scott to walk into a building with witnesses watching, and then burn the body and topple a brick wall on it to ensure DNA and dental records were useless.

"Very true," he answered, trying to think of what to do next and deciding in the same breath. "Call Jane and tell them to go back without us. I rather not have them involved.

I had my phone out and dialing before he even mentioned Jane. Sometimes, it was really nice to have Felix as my best friend. We could predict the other's moves and usually finish each other's sentences to the point it would unnerve some people. Heidi asked about how we did it once, I just shrugged and told her it was a guy thing.

"I second that," I grinned.

"Hey Jane." I really hoped she didn't pick up, then I could just leave a voice mail and be done with it.

"Hello," she said, no emotion in her voice at all, which meant something was up. "What do you need, Demetri?"

"What's happened kitty cat?" I grinned.

"The airport is giving us some issues about the plane," she said, but I could still hear the smile in her voice from calling her 'kitty cat', my pet name for her.

"Pay them off, simple," I chuckled.

"I've tried. The man's a goody-two-shoes," she sneered. "I believe we will just have to run for it as soon as you get back." She sounded like she was debating between just taking off or killing the guy. Personally, I didn't care either way.

"Just leave now. Felix and I will handle the airport. Who's the man?" I didn't really think we'd get around fixing that little problem due to a much bigger problem.

"Simon Langer. Are you sure? You'll have to find your own way home."

"Jane, really?" I scoffed playfully. "That's a problem for us?"

"I guess not. When should I tell Aro to expect you?" She was getting impatient.

"Not long. A week or two at most."

"Alright. Take care, Demetri, and send Felix my regards."

"Will do. Bye Jane," I said, snapped the phone shut, more than thrilled to send Jane on her merry way. I mean, she was like a sister to me, but she had one hell of a temper. So I preferred to keep her out of potentiality explosive situations.

"I'm surprised actually," Felix grinned, clearly amused. "She must be sick of Seattle."

"Oh, she is." I laughed. "She wouldn't stop bitching this morning." Jane in a bad mood usually resulted in bad moods for everyone, so I was pretty ready to get home myself.

"What? The sadistic vamp disappointed we had nothing to do?" Felix huffed with a sarcastic smirk.

"More or less," I shrugged. Honestly I was fairly disappointed too, but at least I didn't take it out everyone else by being insufferably grumpy. "I wish she could grown up a little. Maybe we should find her a mate too," I laughed.

"Frozen at fifteen," he scoffed. "Somehow I doubt that's going to happen, unless Aro agrees to change another so young.

We both thought Aro made a questionable choice creating Jane and Alec at their age. I'm glad he did in the end though, and he didn't really have a choice, Jane and Alec would have died from their injuries if we waited at all. That when I lost most of my faith in humanity, their own mother salivating to watch them burn. I winced at the memory.

"You're luck though, she adores you." I smirked.

"Yeah, maybe I should have called," he mused with a wry grin.

"I can't tell you how much I agree." You cheeky bastard, I added in my head with a hard laugh. "But, at least I won't be hiding from her wrath for the next five years."

"No kidding, I remember," he said as he shivered. Felix had seen more than enough of Jane's gift used on others to have a small inkling of how bad it was. I, however, had first hand knowledge.

"Man, you have no idea. That shit hurts! Think pain of the change."

"I know," he replied flatly.

"What?" My jaw dropped open. When the hell did that happen? Felix, Caius and Marcus were the only people that hadn't experienced it, as far as I knew.

"I got curious, the day she did Aro," he shrugged. If he was able to blow it off like that, I really doubted Jane went all out on him.

"Before or after?"

"Oh, before!" he laughed. I figured Aro probably put him up to it. I made a note to ask Jane about it later.

"You've got one hell of a badass complex, man," I chuckled, he was a cocky bastard most of the time.

"I deserve it." And that proved my point.

"Hell yes, you do. And to be fair, so do I," I said with a smug smile.

"Exactly. Only the best for the Vol–"

Felix cut off and bolted for the house, after hearing Bella's banshee-worthy scream. I followed right behind and I automatically switched into defensive mode. Anything that could make a human scream like that was beyond what any mortal should be asked to bear.

Bella

I woke up to my screams, but this dream was much different than the one that had plagued me for so long. I wasn't searching for anything, I was waiting. Waiting until the last possible moment for my reason for living to come and save me. I didn't scream because I was going to die if he didn't, I was screaming because I had been left on my own, again.

I sat up in my bed, covering my face with my hands, trying to shake off this new nightmare.

"Bella, are you alright?" Felix asked frantically, standing just inside the window. The bed was warm, and the curtains still blew slightly from the speed of his entry. He was clearly defensive, ready fend off whatever had made me scream. Unfortunately, Felix couldn't save me from my subconscious.

"Yeah, sorry. Nightmare," I breathed trying to find my lungs again. He was still here, so either I was the luckiest person in the world, or I hadn't actually woken up yet.

"It must have been bad. That scream could wake the dead," remarked an unfamiliar voice behind Felix.

My head whipped up, peering around Felix to find another vampire smirking in the corner.

He looked as slight compared to Felix as a butter knife next to a massive war axe, but somehow just as deadly. His sandy blonde hair was windblown and choppy, but artfully styled nonetheless, and his features were sharper, more angular.

"My name's Demetri. I'm a good friend of Felix. Calm down, Bella, I won't hurt you either," the new vampire said. His voice conjured up the image of a big brother comforting his little sister, smooth and nonthreatening. It didn't have any of the boyish tones that I might have expected once upon a time; like Felix, he was all man.

"More like brother, actually," Felix grinned, sitting beside me and putting his arm tightly around me. Demetri's amusing surprise made me believe he probably wasn't so gentle or caring with humans most of the time, or more likely with anyone. "We've known each other for over a millennium. I actually changed him."

I nodded and gave a quick flick of my wrist in lieu of an actual wave. My lungs were still securely in the 'missing' category, not having the time to recover just yet between the horrid dream and meeting Demetri.

"You don't need to be afraid of us Bella," Felix chuckled lightly.

"It wasn't about you, Felix. It was about –" Words failed me at that point, unable to even try to explain my new greatest fear.

"He really reaped havoc, didn't he?"

"That's putting it mildly." There really wasn't a reason to discuss my abandonment issues issues with him, especially with Demetri there.

"Felix, I believe you have crossed the threshold into full-blown psychosis," Demetri snickered. So all this was out of character for Felix. What if he fed on humans? Was I alright with that? I guess not really, but it wasn't something I would worry about now. There were still too many other things I was concerned about.

"I came to that conclusion long ago, brother." His icy breath saturated my hair and sent the good kind of goosebumps down my neck.

"That proves my point," Demetri chuckled. It was obvious he was referring to something specific, but with my face buried in Felix's chest, I was out of the loop.

"What?" I questioned. I had grown increasingly tired of always being the one left out, mainly thanks to my mortal condition or weird cults/gangs in La Push.

I wondered if Felix could scare the hell out of Sam into releasing his hold on Jacob. There wasn't much Jacob could do for me at this point though. If Felix left, my tolerance for this mortal coil was gone with him. But if by some miracle, Felix wanted to keep me, wanted me to join him, I couldn't see Jacob anyway. Bye, Jake.

"Another time, sweetheart," he whispered. My heart lurched in a surprisingly pleasant way when he called me 'sweetheart'. I was a bit embarrassed that not only could Felix hear it, but Demetri could too. "You have too much deal with as is."

Too much? His version of 'too much' and mine were probably very different things, but something told me that they were one in the same. I was so deeply connected to Felix already, my problems became his, and he shouldered them gladly.

"Sweetheart?" Demetri laughed quietly. I lifted my head to look at him. He appeared pretty smug, like he had some juicy bit of gossip. "If she hasn't figured it out by now..."

NO! I thought as I caught on. Felix loves me? Really, true love, soul mate loves me? It wasn't just wishful thinking! My heartbeat speed into a drumroll.

I leaned back a little to peer at Demetri with a gasp of surprise. It was genuine, but I hammed it up to hid my own shock that Felix was here and he was in love with me. I smiled at Demetri, he was the first to realize it was mutual.

"Wait what?" Felix was apparently I bit slow on the uptake. I didn't think he could have been as unsure of my feeling as I was of his. Vampires did tend to be naturally seductive.

Felix stared at me, with eye like black fire, beckoning me to come closer. I wasn't in control of myself any longer as I leaned up and kissed him.

'Amazing' did not do the kiss justice. It was so familiar, yet so different. His hard smooth lips froze for a fraction of a second beneath mine, but then returned the kiss with more passion than I've even known. Nothing that had happened to me in the past year meant anything in light of the man with his arms around me now. I'd happily take a million lifetimes for a single moment of this.

"Holy hell, Bella!" Demetri quietly gasped, causing me to turn bright red.

I glanced at Felix to see the most beautiful, amused smile playing on his lips. I knew in that instant we belonged together. Not like two pieces of a puzzle, but a solid unbreakable object, just two halves of the whole wound so tight around the other it was impossible to separate them.

"Sorry. I needed to do that," I whispered slightly abashed but I was on cloud nine and I didn't care.

"Don't apologize," Felix smiled. "I just wasn't expecting it, that's all."

There was no restraint, no overdone caution, just enough so he would not accidentally maim me or worse. It was really a welcome relief to not have to be so mindful of own actions, with neither of us keeping a tight leash on the other.

"Really? It is possible?" I asked, biting my lip. I already knew the answer, or thought I did, but I needed to have it undeniably confirmed for my own peace of mind. Those kinds of things had been said to me before and then taken back like it was no big deal. Felix was different though, this was different.

"Yes, it is. Pure and simple, Bella," he smiled.

"Hold on just a second. Are you two absolutely positive you're thinking the same thing?" Demetri asked. He didn't mean it like we actually might be on two separate pages, but more like when someone asks you for the umpteen time if you're sure you know what you're doing.

"Bella, if you want me, I'm yours. Forever."

This is what I had been waiting for my entire life, not the maybes or 'as long as it good for you'. This was forever, forever with Felix. This was more then once in a lifetime, it was once in a millennium, and I had hit the jackpot.

"Forever?" I whispered.

"Yes, Bella. Forever." His smile grew with each word. He was the one, and he was willing to give me immortality so forever really would mean just that.

"Man, it sounds like you're proposing," Demetri chuckled.

"Are you proposing?" I asked. All my qualms about marriage were nothing in light of being with Felix forever. If he asked, I would say yes. Plus it's not like he'd want some huge ordeal.

"I think he is, but there's a dilemma with that. We haven't addressed the million dollar question though," Demetri smirked, but looked as if we'd both missed something vital. Well, I, for one, hadn't.

"My immortality." It was a fact, something I wanted, the only thing left between me and my love.

"Yes," he stated.

My mind ran through everything I would be leaving behind, and I could deal with it all. What I couldn't deal with was watching Felix walk out of my life. Life had given me two options, and only one was bearable. Felix was more vital to me than anything, in course of one day, he had become the reason for my every breath, my every thought, my every moment.

All my emotions overwhelmed me with the realization that somehow he needed he every bit as much as I needed him. I basically attacked him with a kiss so passionately it left all the great kisses in history in the dust.

"Congratulations, Bro!" Demetri said, absolutely ecstatic. I got the impression he'd been waiting for Felix to find me for a long time. "Looks like we have some planning to do."

"When?" Felix questioned, finally pulling away, allowing me to catch my breath again.

Now. Right now, I thought. My brain had just began working again, but the rest of my body hadn't caught up just yet.

"I wrong person to be asking that, man," Demetri chuckled.

"I wasn't talking to to you Demetri. I was asking the beautiful girl in my arms. What did you have planned today?"

"I had school, but I don't think I'll be going now. But Charlie's going to be waking up soon, so be prepared to split at a second's notice in case he checks on me." The last thing I wanted to do in the predawn hours was explain to Charlie why there were two strange guys in my room.

"We'll be ready, Bella," Demetri smirked. I also didn't want to explain to Demetri the complex nature of my father/daughter relationship.

"Your father is the chief of police, correct?" Felix asked. It wasn't really a stretch for him to figure that one out.

"Yeah," I sighed. I hated to hurt Charlie at all, but it was really unavoidable at this point. I was going with Felix come hell or high water. "This is going to be hard. I don't want to hurt him, but I know I don't have a choice. I just wish I could give him some closure."

"Well, we have a plan, sort of. I think it's best if we leave the details up to you, since you know your father best. Essentially what we'll do is fake your death, so he won't look for you," Felix explained.

"I see," I murmured.

It seemed all three of us were deep in thought. There was so much to do, so much to consider. This was going to be a long day, but I was ready. Ready to leave everything behind, ready to start my life with Felix.

Demetri

I was still trying (somewhat in vain, I might add) to wrap my head around the fact that Felix had found her. After so long without anyone, I doubt it would ever happen for him, but it never upset me at all; he seemed more than happy without a mate. He was always more of the big brother type, picking up the slack from a mostly absent father figure. Even I needed someone like Felix to keep me from getting in over my head more often than not.

Change was so rare in our kind, it was going to take some getting used to. Now I knew exactly how Felix felt when I found Heidi. It wasn't a bad thing at all, but it was a little strange to be rather unceremoniously knocked down a peg on the people-I-care-about scale.

Bella's warning proved to be a good move, as Felix and I both heard Charlie mumble to himself, open his door and come down the hall. I darted into the closet and Felix, being as huge as he was, didn't have another choice besides hanging by his fingertips off the roof outside her window.

Bella wouldn't have fooled her father if he watched her 'sleeping' for one second longer. I was trying my damnest not to bust out laughing. Felix was having a hard time himself, though he'd never admit it.

"How much evidence of a death do you need to make it obvious I'm not coming back, but with no body?" Bella asked after she was sure her father was gone for the day.

"No body? Hmm..." I thought out loud. It wasn't impossible but still difficult nonetheless.

"Don't even tell me you would kill an innocent person just to change me!" Bella snapped. Strangely, she reminded me a bit of Jane when she was mad, without all the pain.

"Demetri, help," Felix mouthed. He wasn't the most graceful when being blindsided like this. Thankfully I was, and with Bella looking daggers at me, I was in the spotlight anyway.

Honestly, it still surprised me Bella responded so negatively to killing a mortal. We were vampire, after all. Killing human was sort of what we did. I wasn't like Felix and I killed people for fun. We still had enough to respect for the sanctity of life to kill only when we deemed necessary, although what we deemed necessary was up for debate. Now was not the time to have that discussion with Bella.

"No! Sorry, Bella, I didn't mean it like that," I backtracked quickly with the genuine shocked expression I had mastered over the centuries. "I was thinking of using you after the change, or closed-casket or something, but your father will probably want to see the body regardless consequences. Forgive me, I think out loud sometimes." I shot a you-owe-me look at Felix, and owe me, he did. Big time.

"Oh, right. Sorry," Bella said and blushing. I actually felt a little bad about making her feel the need to apologize, when I was bending the truth a bit.

"The question is, Bella, what are you willing to do and what would be plausible?" Felix asked.

"This is going to be difficult, I think," she said, pinching the bridge of her nose. "But I might have a plan. And considering the state I've been in the last few days, he can make his own conclusions. I've been wanting to go cliff diving for a while. I'll have to find another place than where I wanted to go though. I'll park my truck nearby, and make sure some scrap of clothing washes up on shore."

My mind was already going through every last detail. The location and the way I could place a shirt on the rocks were already set before Bella even finished speaking.

"You want to make it look like you jumped? That's plausible, and bodies don't always resurface and aren't found. I actually know a place. I found it when I was hunting for something a couple days ago. Are you sure you want to do this?" I asked, this was a pretty permanent step, but not quite as final as becoming immortal.

"Yes." Bella's tone made it clear she wasn't about to change her mind now. She really loved Felix, and would do anything if it mean she could stay with him. I couldn't fault her for that at all, she was absolutely perfect for him.

"Alright, Demetri, you ride with her in her truck and I'll follow on foot." Felix didn't sound too thrilled about that, but after seeing her truck, we couldn't manage any other way since I had to give directions to Bella, and Felix in the cab would make it uncomfortably cramped for her.

Bella gathered a bag of clothes and things she wouldn't leave behind. I completely understood the need to hang on to something of her human life. I barely recalled anything of my own, and only really what Felix recalled.

I didn't realize until after we turned on the highway how insanely slow Bella's truck was. I tried to keep my sighs to a minimum, but I failed pretty miserably. At least I managed to keep them below human hearing range. Felix told me to shut it a couple of times.

Once we arrived, Bella handed me an overshirt, and I lightly ran my fingers across it, enough to rip it. I handed my jacket to Felix and dove into the water.

There were enough nooks and crannies in the cliff face under the water that a human could easily get stuck, never to be found again. All in all, it was a pretty routine job for us.

"Bella, we're going to northern Canada to change you," I heard Felix tell her as I reached the top of cliff I had just scaled. If he was going to take her to my lodge, we were going to have a little chat. It was the only house Heidi and I had that wasn't in desperate need of repair. "It'll take a few hours if we run and I carry you. Is that alright with you?"

"Just bite me now. I know it takes days, and I'm not much of a masochist, so I want to get it over with as soon as possible," Bella said after a brief pause. I couldn't blame her for wanting it behind her quickly.

"Demetri?" Felix asked, more unsure than I had seen him in ages.

"NO! I want you to Felix, if you can."

"That's not what I meant Bella," he smirked. "I was simply asking for his opinion."

"I don't see why not, Felix. Worst case scenario we can just avoid any human settlements. There's a lot of forest between here and there and I doubt we'll be noticed," I said, shrugging it off as much as I could. I didn't want Bella panicking about disturbing the mortal population with her screams; Felix and I could deal with that.

I probed the area, finding Felix's mind in an instant, and then shifted my focus to his side, where Bella was. I hadn't tried to track her yet, I had no reason to, but I figured it might be wise to be somewhat familiar with her mind, so I could find her if need be. I searched over and over again, and began to think my skills were slipping until I accidentally picked up Heidi all the way in Volterra because I was concentrating so hard.

"Holy shit!" I shouted, completely taken off guard. I have never been foiled, not even by Afton, although he had come close and it took a pretty big amount of focus to track him across the planet. Bella's automatic reaction to my shout nearly made me laugh but I was still too baffled.

"What? What's wrong?" Felix asked. Well actually it was more like an order. Although I outranked him thanks to my ability, I thought in this case he had every right to play the I'm-older-than-you-and-created-you card and pull rank on me.

"I can't track her!" I yelled, still hopelessly confounded.

"WHAT?" Felix's face was indescribable and I was glad I wasn't the only one in shock.

"I can't feel her mind at all! I never thought to track her instead of you, but I figured after she's changed, we might have to track her down if she bolted for some reason. She's untrackable," I said, staring at her in wonder, almost to the point of inappropriateness.

"My mind is sort of private, I guess. He couldn't read my mind either," she admitted, her cheeks turning scarlet.

"Bella, you have an amazing gift there. I wonder if it works on all mental powers," I mused after I managed to absorb the implications of this new information. If her power was manifesting itself already, I couldn't even begin to imagine her as an immortal. "If so, Jane nor Alec would have any affect. And I doubt Aro would either."

"Wow." Felix still hadn't recovered yet, and he wasn't even affected by her gift.

"It's late afternoon, Felix," I said, finally snapping him back to the present. I doubted human could see the location of the sun like we could. It was just a faint brightness filtering through a tiny spot in the dense clouds. Plus, we tended to be much more aware of the time passing, though it meant little to us, less a single atom meant to the average mortal.

"So, let's do this." Bella had an odd tone, like a perfectly blended meeting of opposite ends of the emotion scale.

Felix bend down to kiss her whispering a tender 'I love you'. She responded in kind, then a second later, he was forcing the fiery venom into her bloodstream. I expected the inevitable tortured cries and the pleas to kill her and stop the pain, but Bella just locked her jaw and went limp. The only person I knew who had remained silent was Carlisle to the best of my knowledge.

"I'm so sorry, Bella. It will all be over soon and we'll have eternity together," Felix whispered.

It was incredibly cheesy, but I didn't dare say so right now. He wouldn't have killed me, but I'm pretty sure he would have had a good go at it.

Felix picked Bella up and took off. I was right on his tail as the three of us headed straight for my lodge in the Arctic.

A/N: So there you go! Hope you liked it and I will get the next one up asap :)

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