Disclaimers to Stephenie Meyer and Tomoko Hayakawa.

I'm not lazy, I'm just preparing you for this mega long chapter (which is kind of a misnomer xD), Reviews as well please?

"What is that smoke?" Carlisle asked whilst gazing at the landscape from the villa balcony.

"Oh, that's Miss Marie's storehouse that she doesn't need anymore," a cleaner replied. Her partner frowned.

"Miss Marie would never burn that storehouse down," the second said to the first. The first smiled at her in superiority.

"Mrs. Donatello said so herself, she asked the staff to not go near it," the first cleaner said to the second and the second cleaner was silenced immediately.

Alice twitched in her seat. She dropped the glass of water she was holding. Jasper knelt in front of Alice.

"What's wrong?" Jasper asked her worriedly.

"I think Mrs. Donatello is trying to kill Bella!" Alice said her eyes not looking at Jasper her gaze fixated on some kind of thing on the wall. Her hands were trembling, her mind whizzing with the memories.

"Jasper, after Bella walked away, remember I yelled at Emmett and then tried to follow Bella?" said Alice; her eyes finally looked at Jasper's troubled face. Edward, Emmett and Carlisle were listening intently. The cleaners were more concentrated on Alice than their cleaning. The glass of water that had been dropped was spreading on the floor with every second and glistened like every tear that Bella had cried during her time in the storehouse.

"Yes, but why are you jumping to conclusions like that? What did you see?" Jasper said, his face looking at her intensely.

"Bella wasn't in the medical centre, so I thought, maybe she had confused some other place for it, and when I was walking around I could have sworn that Donatello woman was carrying a girl into the woods," Alice said hesitantly.

"Where is Auntie's storeroom?" Jasper shot at the cleaners.

The first cleaner was unable to answer. The second said, "In the woods."

Edward didn't say another word, he bolted out the door. He was closely followed by Emmett, Carlisle, Jasper and Alice.

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The smoke covered everywhere. Bella lay on the floor and she knew that she could have oxygen for so time longer but not much longer. Soon, she would suffocate and then die; her body burned and unrecognisable. What if no one noticed she wasn't where she was meant to be? What if they found her, only that they were too late? She only hoped that they would bury her instead of cremate her. She could try and say it. She could try and scream it. But if she heard it, then it would only mean defeat in the most undignified way possible?

She had to risk it. Taking as much oxygen as she could she only managed to wheeze, "Please bury me and don't cremate me!"

There was a loud crash and the flames licked onto another body.

"What are you talking about burying you?" a voice said loudly. Bella's eyes shot opened and looked at the person in front of her.

"Bella? Are you okay?" the person asked.

"Untie me, please," Bella muttered.

"We can do that outside," the person said worriedly. Bella's eyes were focused and she recognised who it was saving her.

"Edward, for the sake of my sanity, untie me!"

"Fine!"

Edward stumbled towards Bella and his fingers fumbled clumsily at the ropes tying Bella tightly. When they finally unravelled Bella ran deeper into the storehouse. Edward stalked her and grabbed her wrist.

"Are you crazy?" Edward yelled, the flames burning at the ceiling above them. Bella rounded onto Edward and Edward recoiled slightly.

"Get out, I have something to do." Bella said with her teeth together.

"No. If you're going to be crazy about the situation, then I'm going to be crazy with you."

Bella looked reproachfully at him. She then ordered him to find a large metal box with a large 'A' engraved into it.

Within seconds the desk and the file cabinets had flew open and there was a rapid searching.

"Here!" Edward yelled and made a grab for the box. The box was burning hot. Edward dropped it and then there was a loud crack. Bella pulled Edward out of danger and the burning ceiling had collapsed.

"The box!" Edward shouted at Bella. Bella was now more concerned about Edward's safety.

"Leave it, come on," she said pulling Edward away before more of the ceiling collapsed. Edward stayed his ground and wrenching his arm out of Bella's grip. He braved the fire and grabbed the box. He thought that the burning sensation on his body was from his fingers before he heard Bella scream, "Edward! Stop, drop and roll!"

Edward dropped the box and the dropped his body onto the floor. He began to roll frantically; his arm was burning and stinging.

"Come on!" Bella said, grabbing the box and wincing with the pain. The ceiling collapsed again, blocking their exit. Edward's arm was suddenly around Bella's waist.

He suddenly had an idea. He grabbed a steaming carpet, despite it flickering with a few flames; Edward wrapped it around the both of them.

"What are you doing?" Bella said, feeling uncomfortable being so close to Edward.

"Getting out."

"What? We're going to run through the fire?"

"Yes."

"Did the flames affect your brain?"

"What's life without a little risk?" Edward said echoing Bella. Bella nodded and they both gritted their teeth.

"One..."

Bella paused and looked at Edward's determined face.

"Two..."

For a second Bella felt a surge of passion towards Edward. She wanted to clutch his face and pull his lips to hers.

"Three!"

Edward plunged forwards into the flames, and Bella was dazed and she nearly tripped as they sped forwards. The carpet dropped. The air was like ecstasy. Bella craved it, Bella wanted it. She took in breath after breath in subdued silence. She dropped the box and dropped onto the floor, gasping for more air. The crackling of the storehouse burning behind her didn't bother her. All she wanted was air. The oxygen was like drugs to a drug addict out of rehab. She gulped at it hungrily. Her eyes closed in pleasure. The grass was suddenly comfortable.

"Get off me!"

Bella's eyes snapped open. No. It couldn't be her...

"Mrs. Donatello, we have evidence that you murdered Paolo Donatello and attempted to kill Bella Swan and are hereby arrested. We have every right to arrest you."

"What evidence?" Serafina screamed into the darkening night.

There was a rustling of something and a click.

"Well, well, well." Said a cold voice, "What do I have here?"

There was a moan of something.

"Why are you doing this to me?" Bella cried out.

It sounded ten times worse on tape. Bella sat up and saw Edward slumped on the ground, listening attentively. Alice's face was hard and Jasper was frowning. Carlisle looked grim and Emmett was cross between furious and confused.

"You interfered with my plans!"

"You know from the moment you looked at me, I hated you. It wasn't your attitude, it wasn't your looks but it was your personality. I could tell that you would hate to see your friend get hurt by helping me cheat on my husband."

"So I played a little with Emmett, and led him into my trap."

Emmett let out a little yelp. Everyone averted their gaze towards him for a fraction of a second before staring at the police officer holding the tape player. Each word was like a stab to Emmett and he was crumpling slightly.

"Why would you do that to Emmett? Why would you do that to Paolo?"

"You silly girl, Paolo was nothing to me. Do you think our relationship was based on the fact that he loved me, and I loved him? Of course not. Only fools marry for love!"

Emmett regretted instantly for fighting with Bella. She knew. She knew what was best for him. He was wrong again. His judgement for women overrode every flaw in Serafina.

"You never loved Paolo?"

"Hm. I supposed I loved the guy, but I loved his life insurance policy even more. His life insurance policy entitled the spouse 2 million Euros. And he was never going to die soon, and I wanted to be young and move on with my life when I got the money, so I had to set it all up. I was waiting for a young boy stupid enough to fall for my charm, which happened to be Emmett, and then lure him into a room where my dead husband lay. In America they enforce a death penalty if it's bad enough so I was just hoping that he'd get one."

Edward, Jasper, Alice and Carlisle glared at Serafina's nonplussed facial expression. Emmett had finally sunk to his knees. The police officer that held Serafina looked at her as if she was a bug. The crowd surrounded all started whispering, their hissing audible. Some people didn't even bother to mutter their insults.

"I didn't know that forensic science was so advanced these days, that a matter of a few hours can clear someone immediately. I was safe though, if I was caught on camera in the elevator then all it could prove was that I was a hostess and I was doing my job."

"Then you ruined it all, finding the knife-,"

"The scientists would have found the knife regardless of when it was found! I just happened to find it early!"

"Don't interrupt me!"

There was a slap. Bella's hand instinctively went to the cheek where she had been slapped. It was hot from the fire. Everyone's attentions were moved towards Bella. There were more whisperings as Serafina flushed. The slap had sounded, like the whole thing, worse on tape having to visual what really was happening. There was a groan of pain as Bella remembered she had tried getting up again.

"I would have tried to sneak in that room when the forensic scientist fools were busy with the body and taken the knife back. I saw you duck under the tape and knew that as long as you were those dim-witted fools would stay too. Then I heard you would allow them to print all the staff and take DNA samples. At least there was a bunch of people that didn't give them up, or I would have been busted."

"So, you lured your husband to the room, killed him, hid the knife and then left the room, and then Emmett came and found your husband,"

"Yes."

There was hush in the whole area. Serafina scoffed in her own stupidity at being found out.

"How did you get away with it? I'm sure that the third floor would have some kind of camera system,"

There was a silence.

"Those cameras are slightly old school; one swivel so the camera was concentrated on something else was enough to enable complete unexpected access to the room."

"Man, that was a clever idea,"

Everyone heard the sarcasm and they cracked a weak smile.

"Shut up!"

There was a louder slap. It rang in Bella's ears after it had sounded. Bella heard a helpless yelp on the tape, that she had not remembered doing. Then again, she was more concerned about her cheek. Alice made a motion towards Serafina, but Jasper touched her arm and she remained still. Bella pressed lightly on her cheek to see if she had bruised. She winced in pain. There was definitely a bruise.

"And the cut on my head, was it you as well?" Bella had said defiantly.

"Yes. I had to find a way to get you in this old shed without you struggling didn't I? I thought you might be a bit more vulnerable to take after you nearly drowned."

"You evil-!"

"What were you going to say?"

"This is Auntie's storeroom isn't it?"

"Yes. I've never known why we've never been allowed in it. I guess all this crap can go to waste soon enough."

There was a pause. Everyone's attention was fixed onto the tape player.

"I'm going to kill you Bella Swan,"

There was a gasp, but there was more...

"You don't deserve to live, you ugly girl."