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Italics for thoughts (Edward can hear it if he's present)

Stages of forms

Tiger: first form (actual tiger)

Tigris: second form (were-tiger, like werewolves, larger than actual animal)

Taiga: third form (cat ears, tail, more tiger musculature, fur, full canines, paws)

Tigam: fourth form (half and half, humanoid form, light fur, tail, nearly full canines, paws)

Tegamen: fifth form (mostly humanoid, no fur, stripes marking the skin and claws and longer canines)

Higar: sixth form (human but with cat senses and scent, regeneration and able streak mind)

Human: seventh form (completely human)

Chapter 15

Miracles Unknown

Daniel POV

Tam sat still beside me while I fidgeted near constantly. I kept thinking about things that would bring me nightmares. Like what state was she in, and was her face contorted forever in this mask of horror, loss and pain? I couldn't keep my mind from playing horrible images over and over and yet I knew that there was nothing I could have done to change these events.

The plane landed and I was so lost in my thoughts and Tam had to practically rag me out of the plane to collect our few bags and make our way to the car I had left here. It was cheap and if we had never come back it would not have been a loss, unlike Meira, Bella's bike. My heart did weird flips when I thought her name. I pushed it aside though not wanting to think of her only to have to face her death.

"Come Daniel, we must collect her and honour her rightly." Tam spoke and I jumped and finally nodded as I pulled the keys out of my pocket and got into the car. The familiar sights and drive made my heart ache but in the back of my mind I felt some of my sorrow soften and eventually vanish. What did it mean?

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I stared nearly sobbing as I watched what had been the last place I held Bella burn. It was a recently started fire but still I could do nothing to save the last I had of my best friend and the woman I loved most. Only in the loss of her did I realise that she was my whole world. I almost wish that I had never realised that I loved her as more than she loved me that I would be spared from this new heightened pain.

"The last place I saw her burns as she will." I spoke though the words were not mine. Tam nodded and I got back into the car and drove to the school. If she had even tried to live she would have gone there out of the basic routine. Since it was five o'clock at night it was easy to see that her bike and her body were not there, at least not any more.

"We should not hunt her like this, let us follow her scent." Tam spoke after we sat looking at the school for a few minutes. I agreed with him and rolled down the windows and breathed deeply. Her scent was here but it was days old, I drove slowly and ended up in front of a turn off that was barely noticeable. Confused I drove down to the Cullen home and wondered why they had Meira's body.

Only as a slight tingle ran through my body did I know that Bella lived. I jumped out of the car and threw myself towards the house, I ran as fast as my human body would allow and stopped only a barest degree away from the door as it opened and she jumped into my arms. Safe and alive, I breathed in the scent of my miracle and cried for joy.