I was in hell. I had to be. Everything was turning black and the burning… I couldn't imagine the transformation had felt any worse. It felt like fire was surging through my long dead veins, drawing my body taught with agony. I was being consumed, I knew this, yet I couldn't bring myself to care. Then I was flying. Straight over the countryside. The cool air did little to cease the burn, I felt as if it would never end. The sound of shattering glass and screaming was so faint compared to the roaring of the flames. I wanted it all to end. The yelling, the burning, the falling. And end it did as I finally hit the ground with a sickening crunch. Looking up amidst the earth and rock vaulting skyward I realized that I had been thrown through the window. Seemingly by her. As she stared down at me I couldn't imagine a reaper could be any more lovely. Her flowing mahogany hair fluttered ever so gently in the breeze, the tips licking her porcelain face drawing ever more attention to those eyes. Those beautifully deadly eyes. Cocooned in the crater my body had made I could feel the burning slowly retreating, the usual frigid cold seeping its way back into my tattered body. All of this went unnoticed. We locked eyes once again and her brow raised in.. amusement? Pity? Indifference? She was so hard to read. I never wanted to stop trying.

I sensed more than heard Edward coming towards me, my eyes still trained on the girl who had thrown me from the building. I hadn't even felt her touch me. I tried replaying the moment in my head but all I could remember feeling was that awful burning then the rush of air and the tinkling of broken glass as I plummeted toward the earth. My panic and confusion wasn't the only thing clouding my brain. White-gray clouds began to swirl in front of my eyes. I watched as Emmett hurled himself at the girl only for her to dodge every attempt. Even at vampiric speeds he was no match. Rosalie joined the fight after Emmett took one good blow to his chest. Still the girl just didn't seem phased. In fact she seemed quite bored. In a flash too quick for even our eyes to notice she had grabbed both Emmett and Rose by their throats and hurled them down in to Jasper and Edward who had been scaling the walls. Four more craters appeared in the earth as dirt and stone sprayed upwards. Still the girl seemed… bored. Annoyed maybe? Certainly not like it had taken any effort to dispatch the five of us. I knew if we persisted she would not hesitate to kill us all. I watched apprehensively as she angled her palm to us, then in horror as sparks began to appear then flourish as a mass of fire formed. The air rippled and swirled around her with the heat and force of the mass she created. With a flick of her wrist she sent it spiraling down towards us. As the roaring flames engulfed our bodies and the earth turned to glass I still couldn't think of a more beautiful reaper.

I was up before I had even realized my body was freed from the dirt. Scaling the walls quickly I narrowly missed being thrown back down by Edwards falling body, I didn't have much time. My fingers dug deeper in to the hard brick giving me just the leverage I needed to hurl myself back through the broken frame and jagged glass. Lurching forward my fingers just barely caught her wrist. Tugging gently I pulled her from the window hoping against hope that she wouldn't burn me to cinders.

"Please don't…" our eyes met as I interlaced our fingers. She glanced at our hands then back at my face and surprisingly she looked positively surprised. She pulled me closer till there was no space between us. My body erupted as a delicious warmth spread from the points where I ended and she began. I could feel my unneeded breath picking up, had I a heart it would be beating out of my chest like one of those stupid cartoons where the boy bunny finds a cute girl bunny. Except my tongue wasn't on the floor and my eyes, as far as I knew, weren't shaped like hearts.

"I do not provide favors child. I provide a service." the corners of her rose petal lips turned up in a smirk. I snapped my eyes back to hers not realizing they had strayed. Her free hand snaked around my waist to trail lightly over the skin exposed by my tattered clothing. My eyes fluttered closed at the sensation. This girl was hot. Like three hundred degree fever hot. I was surprised she wasn't melting under her clothes. At the thought of seeing the rest of her body I couldn't stop myself from backing away slowly to get a better look. She wore black leather pants topped with a black and red corset top showing plenty of her creamy skin. Long black lace sleeves and black thigh high boots complete her seemingly painted on outfit. Now my tongue was on the floor. Her ample chest started shaking with what my blood deprived brain could only assume was laughter. Sure enough as I looked back up at her the smirk she had worn before seemed to have doubled in size. I am so glad I'm already dead because I'm certain that had I been alive I would have died from sheer embarrassment. Reaching out she traced her finger down my cheek, leaving a trail of fire in its wake.

"I provide a service." She reiterated, "Meaning I require a payment." Moving closer she leaned in, following the trail her finger had left with her lips. If I was burning before then I was on fire now. I couldn't hold back a small moan as her tongue peeked out to lick the base of my jaw. My hands reached up digging deeply in to the supple leather of her corset. As quickly as she was there she was gone, now standing several feet from me. I saw a flicker of something flash across her eyes before it was consumed by her usual indifferent mask.

"What sort of service?" Call me paranoid but this woman could have obliterated us all with a giant ass fireball. She smirked at me. Again. Does she know any other facial expressions? All I've seen is 'indifferent' and 'smirking'. Even when she almost killed us there was nothing to suggest that she would regret it or even care that she was about to expose herself to the nearby humans. Speaking of which it's a little odd that we haven't heard from them yet. We've shattered windows, torn down walls and created craters. What the fuck is wrong with this place! The air started rippling again as a burning heat danced over my marble skin. Everything snapped in to focus as we locked eyes. She was pissed. Well at least she has another emotion.

"Pay attention girl or I will destroy you and your little 'family'. Understood?" I nodded weakly in response. This girl is fucking scary. "Good leech. Now I will not end the pseudo lives of you and the other children if you provide me with what I desire most."

"OK… How do I know you won't go back on your word? And what do you require? There's only so much I can provide."

Smiling wickedly she began to circle me, walking silently as a snake and possibly just as graceful. Reaching out she stroked my skin again before pausing and laying her hand flat on my hip. "From you my dear Alice I require so little." How the hell did she know my name?

"How did you-"

"The large one wouldn't stop screaming it. Honestly it was rather annoying. And seeing as the two trying so desperately to reach me via the wall were male and the other female was beside him one could only assume the brute had meant you. No matter, from you I require companionship. Simple enough no?"

Simple? I have to be friends with a fire summoning she demon? I think I would rather be forced in to a room full of those mangy mutts from La Push.

"Keep in mind that this is not just for you. If you wish for them to survive as well as yourself then you really only have the one option. So yes. Or no." Definitely no. We could run, hopefully before she could ever catch us. The forest was a mere three kilometers away, if we could make it there then we could dodge the fire as necessary. Definitely no.

"Yes." Wait what?