Bella's POV
Mist hovered over the still grey water, and the gnarled black trees waved in the howling wind. I stepped forward towards the waters edge and I could see ghostly faces reflected there. I shivered in anticipation and as I bent don for a closer look, but the faces were screaming crying as if trapped.
With a start I realised the first face was my mums, torn and scarred and the second was Jacobs smooth as ever, apart from a large bloody gash that stretched from cheek to chin. They were screaming at me but I couldn't hear the words and my mum was sobbing helplessly.
I wanted so much to reach forward and protect her from her fears, childlike as she was. I leant forward and touched the water with the tip of my finger, it rippled in response.
Then I was caught by surprise, a voice whispered my name, letting it carry across the lake with the wind. "Bella" It called to me.
I looked up startled to see three vampires in hooded cloaks, gold lined, like one I had seen before. The tone of the dream changed, my mother's screams became frantic and Jacob just shook his head sadly.
The ripples spread blood though the water, spreading like clouds across the icy waves, turning it red and the ghostly images faded. I was all alone and the vampires were crossing the blood red water.
I panicked trying to run away, but finding my self frozen with fear. I floundered desperately trying to force my feet to move. But as soon as I started running my foot caught on a dead root.
I could feel an invisible force pulling back towards the water, as I clung on for dear life to a blackened tree stump.
My feet were pulled into the pool of blood as I lost my grip, it was thick and salty like congealed tears.
I clawed desperately at the mud, rubbing my fingers raw, but the force was too strong and I was being pulled slowly under. BOOM boom BOOM boom BOOM my heart pounded in my ears as blood filled my mouth with its iron taste.
Then the rest of my head was dragged quickly under, I just had time to hear the tinkling laughter of the vampires. It filled my nostrils choking me, as I swallowed some looking for air, I couldn't breathe.
I panicked spluttering and swallowing lungfuls of the thick red gloop. The light began to fade as I lost my grip on reality, the last thing I saw was a pair of sinister red eyes.
I awoke in a cold sweat, missing my mum more than ever, now it was me screaming at night not Jacob. The role of guardian seemed to suit him, my guardian angel. He pushed me though the daily slog, helped me up when I stumbled, holding my hand when I cried. How could I tell him that I just wanted to die, to leave this world with dignity?
I remained silent even when asked direct questions, there was no point in getting attached to people, they'd only be pulled away form me. We were all here to die anyway, I figured I might as well do the job for them. Save the vampires the effort. I began shutting down inside. Each movement was painful as I remembered how my mother would never breathe again. How even the friends I had still alive would be ripped away from me.
Silence gave me time to think and the beating drum measured my breathing. for the first time I thought about escaping, no-one had even attempted as far as I'd heard. But mind you I doubted we'd have been informed if they had. No I decided it was hopeless.
Then I was disturbed from my train of though a there was an all too familiar commotion on the balcony. I looked up to see that once again the price of the night stood on the balcony followed this time by three vampires.
The vampires from my dreams.
I wasn't going to let them take all this away from me without a fight, no I thought it's there turn to pay. The way I saw it I was protecting my friends, going down fighting and holding on to what dignity I had left.
I sucked in a breath and…