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Now, without further ado, I present the second chapter of

Serious

EPOV

Baby, I'm worried about my mental state

Don't know if I'll recuperate

I carried Bella into the house, shaking at the what I had just seen, my family's thoughts burning in my head.

Bella awoke.

"Oh! Edward," she looked around frantically. "What happened? Did I lose conciousness? Is that possible for vampires? What did I do? What about the family? I—"

"Bella," I interrupted. "It's fine. Everything's fine. We'll see what Carlisle has to say. But, are you alright? You're so warm," I marveled. It wasn't even as though it was only her face, she was warm all over, just like when she was human. Her being a normal human temperature was like a human having a 109 degree fever.

"Oh, I feel fine. Maybe a little warmer than usual. You feel cool again, though. Like how it used to be." She mused for a moment, then began to laugh.

"What?" I asked tersely. What could possibly amuse her at a time like this?

"Tanya!" She giggled. "I remember! H-Her face!" She shook in my arms with obvious merriment.

Although it might have been wrong of me, I began to laugh as well. When I thought about it, how wrong was it? Tanya got her just desserts.

We approached the room we'd be sharing and I laid her down on the bed provided. She sat up immediately, looking rather indignant at being treated like a sick person. Carlisle appeared in the doorway. He, I could see, was trying to hide a smile.

He looked Bella over, commenting on her warmth as I had. He also commented on her eyes, they were now lightly sparkled with red and orange hues, rather like fire.

He stepped back. "Well, Bella, I think I know what's wrong."

"What?" she asked anxiously.

"We've discovered your power."

Think it's serious, gone from bad to worse

And I'm in trouble

Bella visibly paled. This made me notice the rather rosy tone to her cheeks.

"I…what?" she breathed.

"It seems you have some sort of control over fire. Most likely, it needed something that made you angry to trigger it." Here he chuckled. "We'll have to experiment with this a bit. Come back outside, it doesn't seem as though there's anything wrong with you."

Shakily Bella took my hand, and we followed Carlisle back outside. I squeezed her hand reassuringly. Even though she was warm, she was still just as durable.

I think I'm coming down with something

I know it gonna need your medicine

She let Carlisle walk ahead of us and murmured to me, "Edward…I'm scared. What is this? Where did it come from?"

"Well, we're about to find out what it is, precisely. As for where it came from, I'm not quite sure…It may have something to do with the fact that you spent so much time with vampires, your warmth and our cold…I'm not sure." I answered thoughtfully. Even I had to admit her power was interesting.

Bella blushed as she returned to everyone. They were all waiting for her, and fell silent as she arrived. Emmett laughed at her reddened face.

"I've missed that," he commented cheerfully.

Carlisle cleared his throat. "All right, Bella. I need you to concentrate on lighting this." He gestured toward a pile of sticks and leaves they had gathered just before we arrived. "Make it as large as necessary, we'll work on controlling it later. We just need to ensure that you can ignite something without anger."

She nodded and then glanced up at me nervously.

So help me now, I'm freakin out, lover

I squeezed her hand again. She turned her head to the pile of vegetation. Everyone was quiet for a moment.

Then the pile ignited. I glanced at Bella, whose eyes were red again. Greedily the flames devoured the pile, and then, almost carefully they curled into themselves. I was surprised, most newborn vampires' powers took years to control on just a minor level. (A/N: I know it's unrealistic, but I need it for the story!)

Carlisle was pleased. "Very good, Bella, very good…" He trailed off here, and thought to me.

Edward, tell Bella something that would anger her—I need to see if she can set things on fire without any damage afterwards.

I've got an idea! Alice screamed in her head. Carlisle must have almost said his words out loud, because she knew what we were talking about. I shook my head warningly at Alice when I heard what she had planned—I didn't want Bella that angry.

Naturally, Alice ignored me and skipped over to Bella. She put her lips to Bella's ear.

"You know, Bella, Edward wasn't really a virgin before you. Tanya managed to first."

Bella rolled her eyes. "Very funny, Alice. Can we get back to practicing?"

"I'm not lying!" She said with wide, innocent eyes. "Just ask Edward!"

She turned to me expectantly. Misreading the anger in my eyes, hers narrowed.

"This isn't true, is it?" Bella asked sharply.

"Of course it's true," Alice answered for me. "Why would I lie about something like this?"

"But why would you tell me now, of all times?"

"It just occurred to me, being that we're at Tanya's," Alice shrugged.

"This can't be true. You're all kidding with me." Bella looked around, disbelieving. No one knew what we were up to, but they knew enough to go along with the charade.

None of us was expecting it: we all jumped as everything burst violently into flames.

"YOU'RE KIDDING ME!" Bella screamed, furious. I couldn't help but notice that my fireless circle was becoming gradually smaller. "AFTER ALL THIS TIME, NOBODY SAID ANYTHING?" I also noticed that the flames didn't seem to affect Bella, she stood right in the middle of them, not damaged at all. However, I would be quite damaged if these flames got any closer… "I AM GOING TO RIP THAT WHORE TO PIECES!" I attempted to move around in my small space, avoiding fire. This wasn't good.

Emmett laughed then. "Don't worry, Bella, Edward was as virgin as you could get before you. Tanya didn't even get close."

The flames went down slightly, but didn't die. I could only stand perfectly still, my back like it had a rod down the spine.

"Well, who's lying?" Bella demanded.

"Me," Alice confessed cheerfully.

Once more, Bella looked to me, and the flames died completely. I murmured to her, "you don't really think I'd lie about something like that, do you?"

She smiled, then scowled at Alice.

Carlisle spoke then, saying, "I needed someone to anger you to see if you could light a fire but leave no mark, when extinguished."

"Oh," she sighed. I rubbed her hand with my thumb soothingly.

It was a long time before Carlisle was satisfied. I was supporting her as we returned to our room.

"Oh, Edward," She said to me, suddenly sounding small and scared. "I can't imagine what you must think of me…trying to hurt Tanya…she's your family, and I'm just a stupid, impulsive newborn…"

"Bella," I said, shocked. How could she think of herself like that? She was the most perfect being on Earth. "You are the farthest thing from that! You are my love, my angel, and Tanya…" my fists clenched. "She's nothing to me, compared to you. She deserved what she got."

A little smile formed on Bella's face as we entered our room, and she stroked my face with her warm hand. "That's right…she was messing with a married man…my married man…" her perfect voice turned to a purr. "Tell me you're mine, Edward…"

"I'm yours," I whispered, her mouth was on my neck.

"Tell me I'm yours, Edward."

"You're mine," I growled.

"Show me."

I smiled as I tossed her on the bed.

Well, now that I've got all the stupid setup crap out of the way, I can start with the plot! It'll be up in around a half an hour! Review! Love ya all to bits!