Angel

EPOV

Lucas was standing in what used to be the doorway. He had a sly, arrogant smile on his face and was looking at Bella possessively. I immediately moved next to her and glared at him.

Our suspicions about him had been confirmed. This whole time, it was him. Bella had told us that he could have been anyone, and she was right. He was the one person none of us liked, but we hadn't suspected him all that much until recently. Now we had no choice. The proof was right in front of us.

"Surprised, Cullen?" he sneered, looking at me. I felt Danni grab onto my leg and put an arm around her. He moved his gaze to her for a second before looking back at me.

"Not as much as you might have wanted, Lucas," I said, my anger almost slurring my words. Bella tensed next to me and I looked down. There was confusion in her eyes.

"Your Logan is our Lucas, Bella," I said, her confusion turning to shock and resigned understanding. There was also underlying fear. She was feeling the same way I was.

"Sorry to interrupt-well…not really, but anyway, I have some business to take care of," Lucas/Logan said, turning to Bella once more. She looked at him and I watched as her eyes suddenly cleared as soon as she did so. Her eyes didn't move around while she was looking at him like they did with me.

She could see him.

Lucas brought me out of my discovery with a laugh. I looked at him and he was still sneering at me, apparently knowing what I realized. My anger bubbled higher as I watched him turn once again towards Bella, looking at her like she was an object to be collected. It clicked just then, with everything he's said, the way he always called her "my Bella." To him, she was just something else he wanted, and he was going to do anything he wanted to get her. He beckoned to her like a dog, pointing at her and curling his finger towards him.

"Come here, my Bella. Let's get this over with," Lucas said. She moved closer to me and half hid her face in my shirt. Fury flashed through Lucas's eyes and his hand tensed into a fist. I gently pushed Danni behind me she backed away towards the others. But Lucas wasn't paying any attention to her. He only had eyes for Bella and me.

"Come here, now," he whispered menacingly. Bella shook her head against me and I turned so that my body was placed more between them. This only infuriated him more, him growling at us and exposing his fangs. I heard Danni make a sound of fright, but she was quietly shushed.

Lucas roared and his whole body tensed. Both of his hands curled into tight fists and his body started glowing with a dark light. He was outlined in white light while his body seemed to get darker. Everything around us blacked out as his body darkened, but I could still see everyone. Bella was looking around and her body's outline left a white blur that faded a few seconds later.

"What's going on?" I whispered to her, afraid to make any more noise than necessary. She started at the sound of my voice in the quiet but answered.

He expanded his ability to see souls. Now all of us are in it. When I put yours back, I had to change my vision. He brought all of us straight into it instead. I just don't understand why everything is so dark. It shouldn't be like this, she said, her fear making her hands shake.

"It's because he's a murderer," I said, somehow knowing it was the truth. She didn't respond, but looked back at where Lucas was standing. The white light around him had expanded as well, but it was tinted with black. It was shaped like him, except magnified, like it was his shadow standing behind him.

It's his soul, Bella signed quickly, answering my unspoken question.

I looked down at my own hand and moved it, watching as a white blur followed. The faster I moved, the longer the blur was, but it always faded back towards my hand, like it was being absorbed. It actually moved a lot like mist. I moved my hand towards Bella and it froze, my hand freezing with it. The white mist was still there, but it wasn't moving. It was like someone grabbed hold of it, like a thin piece of white fabric. I tried to move my hand, but nothing happened. I tried to move anything, but my body stayed completely still.

"I warned you what would happen if you did not listen to me, my Bella," Lucas said. "I warned both of you, but neither of you listened. Now you will pay. You thought you could just run away from me, but I was never too far behind. It was like a game, chasing you all over and watching your shock when I showed up again. I, the son of Satan, always get my way, and this will be no different. You are mine, Bella, and I will have you. You will never get away, and there is nothing you can do to stop me. You, or your little human toy."

Lucas stood up straight, his soul copying his movement. He sneered at us and I watched, horrified, as two points slowly grew on top of his soul's head, turning and bending like Devil's horns. He put his left arm out to the side slowly and a long rod formed in the left hand of his soul. The top end split into three sections, the outer two curving out slightly before going straight up, and each of those ends fanning out into a pointed arrow.

It was a Devil's pitchfork.

"Now, Bella," Lucas said. "Are you going to come quietly, or am I going to have to get you?" I glanced at Bella, still unable to move my body, and saw her staring at the exposed piece of my soul. It looked like someone was pulling on it.

I brought my eyes back to Lucas to see his hand outstretched towards me, his hand fisted like he was holding on something. His soul did the same, the swirling mist of a hand grabbing onto my soul. I heard Bella gasp, but couldn't take my eyes off that hand. As soon as it grabbed on, it felt like someone was trying to rip me apart, rip my insides out. I couldn't make a sound, but I was on the verge of screaming on the inside. The only tip off that I was in pain was the sound of my ragged breathing and maybe in my eyes, but thankfully Bella couldn't see that.

"Oh, that is a great idea, Edward!" Lucas exclaimed darkly. I looked at him, hoping he hadn't heard what I thought. But I was wrong.

"I heard what you said, all right, and it is a very good idea. Why make Bella only hear your distress when seeing it may make her choose correctly? Of course, her little blood promise won't let me give it all back, but it will be enough, I believe." He raised his other hand and snapped his fingers, the echo from his soul reverberating around my skull and increasing my pain.

I felt Bella's hands fall from me and looked to see her on the ground holding her head. She still wasn't making any sound, but she was blinking like she was clearing something from her eyes. She was gasping for breath by the time she let go of her head and she stood up slowly, her eyes trained on me the whole time. She reached up and put a hand on the side of my face, her regret and pain showing in her eyes. They still looked the same as they did before, but I could tell she could see better than she had.

"Now the real show can begin," Lucas said, breaking our locked gazes. We both looked at him, only I was still frozen all except for my eyes.

His was radiating fury again as he stared us down, and I quickly realized that any contact between Bella and I practically drove him off the deep end. I could see immense fear in Bella's eyes when I glanced at her, but she didn't take her hand away. My body and mind had numbed without the pain increasing, but a fire erupted through my body at that point as soon as he started pulling with his soul again.

He almost teleported next to me because of how fast he moved, and before I knew it his hand was around my neck and I was sailing through a hole, heading for trees. I heard people screaming my name, but my body wouldn't respond. Lucas had let go of my soul and brought us back to our world just to use everything there against me. The hand of his soul shot out at me, grabbing onto mine just as I was about to collide with a tree. He pulled back sharply, causing me to cry out in pain. The whiplash pulled something out of place in my back, causing me to crash into the ground when he let go again. Someone roughly grabbed the hair on the back of my head and lifted me off the ground. I opened my eyes to see Lucas's sneering face, his fangs poking out of his mouth. I saw his soul still shadowing him and my mind drew a blank. He laughed, noticing my confusion among the immense levels of pain.

"I see we have a few questions, Cullen. So, I guess we'll take a seat while I explain things to your simple mind." He turned me so that I was facing the others and all of them almost broke down, Jasper and Emmett bracing themselves while Esme and Alice turned Danni away. Bella was staring blankly, her eyes spilling enough tears for all of them. He roughly turned me back towards him, looked at me thoughtfully, and then turned me back. He punched me in the back, right where my pain was coming from, and laughed as I screamed.

"I think I broke him already," he said, like a child who broke a new toy. "Oh, well. We can always get you a new one once this is done, Bella." He threw me in their directly by my hair, letting go just as it would have ripped out of my head, and I collided with a hard, cool body.

Bella gently kneeled down, laying me on the ground and turning my head so I was facing her. Tears were still cascading down her face, but she didn't look away, not even when he started talking again. I could still see him a little from the corner of my eye.

"So, question one was how I was able to know everything that was going on, right? Well, that's simple," he rattled, not letting anyone confirm or deny his questions. "You actually figured it out. My bond with my Bella as her sire allows me into her mind. It also makes tracking a heck of a lot easier since I can always tell where she is in relation to me."

"Question two was something about who I was, but we've already been through that and I don't want to repeat myself. It gets boring. As to how it seems like we are back at your shack even though we are not, we'll just leave it at I'm just that strong. I can make it look like we are anywhere I want us to be." A cocky smile flashed across his face before he continued, walking back and forth in front of us like he had better things to do than explain such simple things to us. He made his soul stand still where it was, just to prove his point.

"Question three was what the Reapers are, I believe. Put simply," he said, pausing. Something grabbed my face and snapped my head around so I was facing Lucas. It turned out to be Lucas himself. He was smiling evilly at me when he finished his thought.

"We are the Angels of Death." He let go of my face and sauntered away, turning back to us and crossing his arms over his chest. "The Reapers are basically the minions of the Grim Reaper himself, since he can't bring death to all those who need and deserve it at one time. He, in turn, is a minion of my father, who designates who dies and what their punishment in Hell is." This topic seemed to bore him, but one look at our enraptured faces and he continued on.

"I, being Satan's son, chose my position and do what I please in it. I chose to be the Grim Reaper." He paused for dramatic effect and sneered at me again. I could tell he couldn't wait to finish me off.

"All of the Reapers are vampires, but we are a different kind. We can feed off blood just like a normal vampire, but we have power over souls. When a Reaper takes a ready and willing soul, it's like an extremely successful hunting trip. When we take them unwillingly, it's like the first feeding all over again, except better." He sneered at me again, making me wonder why he even bothered to look away. He looked just above me then, most likely at Bella.

"I will make sure you know what it feels like, my Bella." Her hand attached to my arm and tightened, but not enough to increase the wildfire of pain burning my insides and leaving me unable to move. A white hot flash went through my back, reminding me of another time my pain had been this bad.

The accident.

I felt tears gather in my eyes as I came to this conclusion. Lucas had paralyzed me again, his punch to my back making sure the job was done. I tried to move my arm, tried to see how badly I was trapped in my own body again, and almost went into a panicked frenzy before my finger twitched. It was just slight, but it was enough to keep me from completely losing it. Laughter brought me back out of my own little world, and of course it was Lucas.

"You know what I like most, Bella?" he said, his gaze boring into mine. "When we can set things up in someone's life so that you can watch their souls change. A warm, loving, happy soul changes into a grief-ridden, self-loathing blackness that you just want to help them out of. Or even letting them have some of that happiness back, just to take it away from them again. It might be better than ripping a soul out, I think." He put his hand to his face, like he was debating with himself.

"I'd let you try it, but I think I've put little Edward through enough already. He was like a yo-yo, but now I'm bored." He smiled evilly at me once more as my vision slowly turned read and tunneled until Lucas's face was the only thing I could see. My body tightened but I didn't relax, even when flashes of pain erupted throughout my body.

"Yes, watching as I cause an accident that almost kills a soul just to have it come back to life with the arrival of the one person that would be its downfall…And then throwing in the death of a friend that leaves a child parentless…Oh, and don't worry, Edward, all three of them died quickly. I was almost wondering if those EMT's were going to pronounce you dead as well, but lucky for you, they didn't." He sighed, like he was happy he was finally done, and by then my vision was blood red with anger.

"You…set up…everything…that happened…to me…" I said, the pain in my back making it hard to draw in a breath to talk normally. He just smiled and laughed at me.

"Oh, you and your pitiful anger. You can't do anything to me, human." He spat the word, like it was some foul tasting thing in his mouth. "I can read your mind, Edward. Your weak little soul is my open door into your mind. Nothing in your head is hidden from me, and I will tell you this; you can do nothing about your anger towards me. It is useless. Your death will occur here, not mine. I will never die." I tried to keep my memory of the night we met Billy and the wolves out of my head, but it shoved its way forward and he laughed even louder.

"You think my Bella can stop me? Look at her. She cowers in fear at the sight of me, like a little kicked puppy." He glared at her with that possessive smile on his face again.

"Well, I'm done with these games, so it's time for my botch to return to her master. And it's time for you to die that slow and painful death I promised." Danni's face flashed through my mind before I could stop it and his eyes widened. I felt my fear increase as fast as my anger was wilting away.

"Don't worry about her, Edward. I've decided to keep her alive. She'll be Bella's new toy once all of this is done." He flicked his fingers at Danni and I followed the direction with my head until I could see her. She was hovering above the ground with a terrified look on her face.

"Play with her for now," he said, apparently to someone we couldn't see, "but do not damage her." Danni let out a high pitched scream, throwing her head back as she did so, but it was cut off quickly. Her head slowly fell forward and her eyes were closed, but when she opened them I wanted to scream like she did.

Her eyes were completely black, like her pupil had expanded to take up her entire eye. Even when she turned to look around, there was no white to be seen. She looked at Bella and me and smiled demonically, all of her teeth pointed. I heard Bella gasp, but I couldn't take my eyes off of Danni. The little girl I knew now looked like a demon-child.

"Good choice of words," Lucas said, grabbing my hair and raising me off the ground. He casually flicked his fingers again and Danni's body dropped to the ground, landing on her feet like a long-practiced predator. She slowly walked over, her innocent face twisted into a mask of evil. She stopped in front of me and pulled roughly on my leg, making me cry out. The two of them laughed and Lucas turned me towards him.

"This," he said, gesturing with his hand towards Danni, "is what is commonly called a possession. My little demon minion has taken over your little girl's body, but she is very much aware of what is going on. The possessed usually don't live long, unfortunately, since the actions of the demons possessing them tend to drive them insane. There's nothing to control once that happens, just an empty mind and a broken soul." He shrugged, making sure to move the arm that was holding me more than he had to. He dropped me to the ground and my vision blacked for minute, the impact and the pain almost making me pass out. Demon-Danni moved and stood by Lucas, who put his hand on top of her head.

"She is going to be my assistant in your death today, Cullen. You should be so proud." He brought his foot back and kicked me in the ribs, their loud cracking being the last thing I heard before I passed out completely.

BPOV

I tried with all my might to scream when he kicked Edward, but I couldn't do it. My body was shaking with my fear and my hands shot to my ears with the crack of Edward's ribs. His ragged, labored breathing still filtered through, and so did Lucas's voice.

"Oops. That was a rib to a lung. I guess we won't have as long to play as I thought," he said, talking to the demon that was possessing Danni.

No no no no no… I kept repeating to myself in my head. I was rocking back and forth, my breaths short and shallow as my mind showed me anything and everything he could do to Edward. The scariest thing was that I knew there was nothing I could do to stop him. Edward was going to die because of me, and I wasn't strong enough to fight for him.

"Bella," Carlisle's voice whispered next to me. He was so quiet I could barely hear him over my breathy sobbing. I had closed my eyes tightly and was shaking my head back and forth, the word no being the only thing running through my head.

"Bella, you need to get yourself together," Carlisle said quickly. "You are the only one who can save Edward. All you have to do is get rid of your fear. I opened my eyes and saw Lucas still looking down at Edward's broken, unmoving form. I flinched at the sight and scooted back, wrapping my arms around myself like it would help keep him away.

"Bella, think about it. Is it Lucas you fear, or is it your fear of watching him take away the one person you truly love? Is your fear of losing Edward greater than your fear of Lucas?" I stared at the ground, but I didn't have enough time to really think about it. Edward's screams of pain erased any thought in my head and dragged my gaze up to where his body was.

Lucas's hand was outstretched towards Edward, who was on the ground with the upper half of his body arched up in pain. His hands were tensed and his eyes were bulging. It was the clearest I had ever seen him, but in the worst possible situation.

A misty outline slowly formed over Edward's body and he lifted higher off the ground, like he was being lifted by it. Lucas closed his hand into a fist and Edward cried out, the sound ripping at my heart.

Demon-Danni tensed her hands and I watched, sickened, as her fingers elongated into razor-sharp claws. It bent down and slowly ran a claw down the center of his chest, drawing a thin line of blood and slicing cleanly through his shirt. I felt a growl build up in my throat at the sight, but knocked it back down. It kept going, like it was drawing patterns in his blood. My suppressed growl grew again, growing until it felt like a roar.

"I'm going to rip your soul out, Edward. So slowly that you will feel every single connection breaking one by one," Lucas said slowly, the mist above Edward's body growing bigger and bigger as I sat there.

I felt Carlisle grip my shoulder, his hand tightening as he watched one of his sons die. Carlisle wasn't breathing anymore, and Edward wasn't much better. The mist started forming a thin stream and it went right towards Lucas's soul, which had materialized right behind him. Edward's soul reformed in its grip, racked with pain just like Edward. He cried out again as even more of his soul was ripped from his body, ripping my heart apart as my fear kept me as paralyzed as he was.

"Bella, if you don't do something, Edward is going to die. You will lose him forever. Do you really want that?" Carlisle pleaded hurriedly.

I started shaking my head again, breathing faster and faster as the last of Edward's soul rose to the surface of his body. I shook my head harder and harder and the evil smile on Lucas's face grew bigger and bigger. I watched as the muscles in his arm bound in slow motion, getting ready for the last pull, when a roar erupted from my throat and my own hand lashed out, Lucas immediately freezing.

Surprise, shock, and outrage followed each other over his face as he realized what I had done. I followed the direction of my hand and saw Lucas grab at his throat, like someone was choking him. He still had Edward's soul in his grip, but he couldn't move to finish the job.

My soul was standing in front of him, its hand around his neck.

I could feel Lucas fighting against me, trying to break my hold. He turned his head towards me and I could feel his soul overpowering mine, letting him do it. He growled at me, his fangs completely elongated. He reached up slowly, fighting my hold, and wrapped his hand around my soul's wrist. I felt his grip around my wrist and went flying when he ripped me off him and threw me.

I hit my shoulder against the ground as I dropped and rolled to a stop against something. I opened my eyes and got up on my hands, a large hand making sure I didn't fall back down. I turned to see Lucas glaring at me, his face full of hatred and anger. He was still holding Edward, his arm tensed to finish, but he was looking at me.

"How dare you touch me, you filthy whore!" Lucas screamed. "You are going to pay for that, but first, your little human toy is going to die." I glared at him and bared my fangs, my fear forgotten with the renewal of Edward's agonized screams.

I tried again, grabbing him around the neck, but it ended the same. I ended up thrown into Emmett that time, and he set me on my feet. Rose, Alice, and Jasper came over, all of them frightened and looking at me like they didn't know who I was.

"Bella," Alice started, her voice faltering as I continued to glare at Lucas. "Bella, you can do this. We believe in you and so does Edward. We're here for you."

I didn't hear anything after Edward's name. All my mind locked on to was that he believed in me. He believed in me and I still hadn't saved him. I hadn't saved him from the person that was my problem. I felt my body tense in my anger and my vision turned red.

I ran towards Lucas and threw myself at him, drawing his attention from Edward. He didn't let go, but he focused his anger on me. I lashed at him, trying to get him to let go, but he slammed me back with his hand. I landed on my hands and feet and ran right back at him.

He was focused on Edward again, and sharply brought his arm back just as I was about to tackle him. I heard the snap as Edward's soul was ripped completely from his body and screamed.

"NO!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

I turned to Lucas and lashed out with everything I had, ripping at him both physically and with my soul. I heard a ripping sound and felt a release around me, like I had been let go. I looked up to see Lucas's soul frozen where it was, its form like torn fabric. He looked the same as he fell, face first, onto the grass.

I shakily walked over to where Edward's body lay and collapsed onto my knees next to him. I felt the others gather around me, but if they said anything, I couldn't hear it over my sobbing. I looked up to see Edward's soul standing behind him, as clear as could be.

"Edward…" I whispered. He smiled and put his hand under my chin. I could see perfectly again, and Edward looked exactly the way he had in his dream. His soul's hair was falling into his eyes at the moment, but he ran his other hand through it to move it away.

I knew you could do it, Bella, his voice whispered in my mind. You broke free of him and you and Danni are safe. I shook my head, making his hand mist around me.

"Don't leave me, Edward," I whispered, tears streaming down my face. He smiled sadly, already fading.

I can't stay here, Bella. You know that, he said, his voice sounding tired.

A loud sob escaped me before I could hold it back and I put my hand over my mouth. He gently took my hand away and leaned forward until his own cool lips pressed against mine. I didn't move, not wanting to lose this time, but Edward pulled away a minute later. I could barely feel his hand anymore. I cried even harder as he stood back up and took a step back. There was another figure behind him, her body looking as mist-like as his had before. She stood there without saying a word, just waiting.

"You don't have to go…Don't leave me…Please…" I pleaded with him, taking my eyes off the woman, but he shook his head sadly.

I don't want to, Bella. Believe me, I don't. But I don't have a choice. A small, crystal-clear tear ran down his misty face. I saw sadness and understanding flash across the woman's face, but she bowed her head so I couldn't see anything else. She walked up behind him and put her hands on his shoulders.

Goodbye, love.

And with that, he faded away, a serene light like angel's wings enveloping him.

A/N: So, this was the big one. Hopefully most if not all of your questions have been answered, but if not, we aren't quite done yet. There's still another big event to come, so I can't spill all just yet. We've still got one more to go, so if you put your question in a review, I can answer it in the next chapter. If it's just something I didn't make clear, then I'll put the answer in a reply and make sure to clear it up in the next chapter.

The song for this chapter is Angel by Sarah McLahlan. You know, that one that makes those abused animal commercials so impossible to watch? I had to Google it, so that might not be the right artist.

Well, I hope I didn't depress you readers too much. This was the first section of this story I actually thought up when I thought of this story idea, so I'm really glad I finally got to write it. Even though it means we're really close to the end of the story…The next chapter might be it, depending on how long it takes to wrap up what this chapter started…

I will most likely not be able to update next week. I will try to get the chapter out, but we are leaving for two weeks to go on vacation and we leave on Saturday. So basically, if it's not up by next Friday at the latest, there won't be an update. BUT there WILL be an update the week after, since I'll still have internet access.

Please review! I really want to know what you thought of this one! :)