Authors Note:

I know this chapter seems a little farfetched but you know what they say about tempers.

I hope you like it anyhow.

R+R please.

Flashback

Edward entered the room. The phone in his hand was squished in the center, leaving two bulky ends poking out from his tightly clenched fist. "We're leaving" he said grimly.

"What?!" Bella tried to say, but it came out as a weak 'Wha ha.' She cleared her throat.

"Edward what are you talking about? Why? What did he say?" Renesmee turned on her heels, not bothering to ask if she should start packing now or wait until morning.

"What's wrong?" Bella continued "Edward?" he stood silently in the door way, still clutching the small blue device that delivered the news.

"Edward I'm not leaving! Tell me!" He just stood there, arms shaking lips trembling.

"We are not leaving. Not until you tell me what happened. I have every right to know. What did Jake say…? Edward?"

"Dammit Bella!" Edward rushed towards her. She figured he would stop just in front of her but he didn't. He kept going, smashing her into the wall, creating a Bella shaped indent. '

"We are leaving because I said so and you will cooperate. Why do you have to be so god damn stubborn Bella!" Still pressed against the wall, Bella reached for her phone out of instinct. She made sure to avoid eye contact with Edward.

In the same mille-second that Bella reached for the phone, Edward grabbed her hand and pinned it above her head. With his other hand he grabbed Bella's chin and pulled it forward. When she refused to look at him, Edward became even more enraged.

Bella did not know why she didn't defend herself. She could easily throw him off of her, through the next room and into the ocean. But she didn't. She just hung on the wall feeling weak and helpless.

Edward snarled and shook her chin ferociously. Before bringing her head forward again, he smashed it against the wall. A growl so naturally ripped out of his throat and shook the house.

"Look at me!" Edward hissed. Bella's hair covered her face, but when it fell, he met her eyes.

When Bella finally looked at Edward, she didn't see him. Her attacker was blood-thirsty and many times stronger than her. Her attacker was no longer her husband, it was James.

She looked into his red hungry eyes that took all hope away and laughed at her, just by looking at her. Oh. Those horrible red eyes.

Edward saw Bella's golden eyes. In the, he saw his reflection. His teeth bared, revealing his perfectly white fangs. He was not looking at a Cullen. Looking back at him was a cold blooded killer. A monster. His eyes glowed a crimson red.

He looked at Bella. Her eyes silently pleaded. He'd never seen her look like that.

"Shit!" he screamed. He released his grip. Bella fell to the floor and crumpled into a ball. She felt the broken wood below her. The flashback grew stronger.

She heard James' laugh, she saw his grin. She could feel her ears pounding in her ears as he screamed at her, telling her to dare Edward to avenge her.

"Tell him! Tell him!"

Bella screamed. Her leg throbbed. She heard the bone crack. She screamed again. She saw the Cullens arrive, coming to rescue her. She saw Carlisle and Emmet, Rosalie and Esme, and Alice and Jasper. Everyone was there except for Edward.

"It's almost over" she thought "they're here." but they were too late.

James' fingernails curled around the tender, weak flesh of her forearm. His sharp fangs easily penetrated her skin, injecting his poisonous venom into her veins. Her armed burned.

Bella saw Alice over her. "Alice! Alice! Please help! Edward. No! James… he…No please!"

It went on like that for ten minutes. Her arm burning intensely. Finally, a figure appeared above her and made the pain go away. Everything went black.

When Bella regained her vision, Edward was gone. She could not get up. Her leg was still throbbing. No matter how many times she blinked, Bella could not see a bruise. Bella breathed heavily. Eventually, the pain subsided.

When she finally got up, nearly half an hour after she had been attacked, Bella inspected her arm. The four dots were red and burning. Bella did not understand how that could be even remotely possible, but then again, she was a vampire.

Bella now focused her attention to the room. What was once a cozy family room now looked like the scene of an emergency jet landing. The floor was shattered and formed a wave, disrupting all furniture. The couch nearly tore through a wall and a massive chair was only half visible. The other half was hidden beneath the floor. None of that mattered. Bella's daughter was her only priority at the moment.

Bella listened carefully but she heard no sign of life. She listened closer. Still, she heard nothing. "NO!" she yelled. Where was her baby? Bella stood in every room listening for the tiniest sound. The search only resulted in more destroyed rooms and a very angry young vampire.

Bella walked barefoot on the dock curling her toes around each board and then snapping it, letting it fall to the ocean. Just as she was about to snap another, Bella heard someone stumble in the woods. Immediately, she ran towards the noise. The closer she got, the clearer the 'Thump thump-thump' of her daughters heart beat in her ears. "Renesmee" Bella yelled as her daughter came into view.

Renesmee turned to face her mother. She was still in her pajamas. Her bronze hair stuck to branches and tangled around her ears. Her face was red and puffy from crying.

Bella hugged her daughter with a power that Renesmee sometimes had to remind her she had. The hug also contained a gentleness that mothers unknowingly delivered in everything they did.

"Baby" Bella started, "We're leaving. Right now. I know I said we weren't before but.."

"Mom?" bella stopped talking and looked down at her daughter. "I'm sorry I ran off. I'm so sorry. I knew I should have done something, it's just, you were, I didn't know what to do." This brought on a new wave of tears streaming down Renesmee's cheeks. "I just couldn't" she sniffled. "See you like that. I'm so sorry mom."

Bella patted her daughters back. When Renesmee calmed down, she asked her

"How much did you see?"

"I never left." Renesmee told her. "And then even after" she swallowed "Dad left, you lay on the floor for a long time. You twisted and screamed. You were in a lot of pain weren't you?" Renesmee paused but her question was not answered. "I ran when your screaming started to die down. I thought it was dying down." Bella shook her head.

"I'm so sorry you had to see that." Renesmee held out her hand and moved it towards her mothers face. Bella grabbed the hand before it reached her face.

"Please Renesmee, don't make me see that again." Renesmee lowered her hand. "Come on." her mother told her. "We're leaving."

"Mom…"

"It's okay dear, dad will meet us there." Bella grabbed her daughters hand.

"Wait mom" Renesmee said laughing. "I meant my legs." Bella looked at her daughters legs. They were cut and covered in a thin layer of dried blood from running through the brush in the woods. Bella smiled a little.

"Come on. I'll carry you. But we're still leaving, no matter what."

She lifted her daughter onto her shoulders, then ran.