Bellamy POV:
I am jolted awake by a scream so agonizing it's hard to believe it's coming from my sister who is safe in her room.
The Cullen's left, something happened at her birthday party but she refuses to speak about it. Actually she refuses to speak about anything. She spends her days being unresponsive, catatonic, and her nights sleepless and pained filled.
I want to help my sister but for the first time in my life I feel powerless.
Bella POV:
He left, they all did. Everyone except Rosalie. She didn't stay but she calls and writes still committed to finding a way for me to come into my powers early so I can help her become human again. In fact her and Emmett are somewhere in Africa right now, he thinks for another honeymoon, but Rosalie sneaks off trying to find a couple witches she heard about after she sent out feelers.
What Rosalie doesn't know is I've already found a way to access my magic... pain.
When Edw- when HE left it tore through me leaving my soul open and bleeding. After trying to chase after him I collapsed on the forest floor. The cold started to numb me and my mind became free to wander. I had another chat with Grandma Swan, but this one was longer and I had more control because it wasn't just a dream and my subconscious, I was more aware of what was happening.
I got the information I needed. While I can't access natures magic yet, there was another kind. Something dark and unpredictable but much more powerful. It required tapping into my most extreme emotions.
I was able to transfer the power of my turbulent emotions into a set of crystals my grandmother had buried in yet another place, I think the ground was trying to keep me from it. The roots tore at my hands and the frozen ground burned but I did not give up. I knew what I had to do to be worthy of Edward, to be more than a distraction. I would prove myself and I would find him and he would no longer be able to deny me the love I know we both felt.
The actual process was excruciating. I tried to be quiet as long as possible but enviably the pain won out and caused me to screen out in agony usually in the middle of the night waking the whole house up.
I thought that first time Bellamy came in I had been caught but she thought I was just a stupid heartbroken girl. I must know a magic she does not, that made me gleeful to finally be superior to a supernatural even in this small way.
Bellamy POV:
I told Dad to stay a couple days at the Blacks, he needed his rest and a break from watching one of his daughters descend into madness.
I went up to check on Bella, thank god... she's asleep. I was about to close the door and get some sleep myself when something caught my eye.
It was coming from her hand... a sort of... glowing.
I unclasped her hand careful not to wake her and found a long crystal pulsing violet. I went to grab it my fingers only had just met it when I felt such intense burning, like I had put my finger into a car's cigarette lighter.
I jumped back cradling my hand to my chest and Bella's hand closed around the crystal again. What the hell is going on?
Bella POV:
The next day I had charged another crystal and I was finally ready to get in touch with Rosalie. I kept Noticing my sister giving me these weird looks, could she have figured it out? I don't see how she's been completely clueless for months now.
I had just sent Rosalie the email that would start everything in motion when I here a knock on my door.
Time to put on the catatonic face again.
Out of there corner of my eye I see my sister enter. Ugh, I understand and even appreciate she's worried about me but why is she giving me so much attention now? Why can't she be distracted down at La Push like she was the whole previous year. This is the worst time for me to have a sister shaped shadow.
"Hey, can we talk?"
I don't respond, keeping up the act but she carries on anyway.
"I don't know how you did it but I know you've accessed your magic somehow,"
I turn and look at her, damn, please don't catch on now, I am so close.
"I'm not mad, and I haven't told Dad so don't worry about that but I have to say I am worried about you. I wish you would have come to me when ever this first happened, I could of helped you..."
"I didn't need your help." I tell her,
"I know you think that but, learning magic on your own is never advised. And I am afraid of what you have been accidentally teaching yourself.., I don't want to scare you but there is a darkness to you now."
"Nothing I did was accidental." She looks confused by my admission.
"What are you talking about, Bella?" She asks fear showing on her face.
"I am using dark magic on purpose, it was the only kind available to me since Renee and Charlie had my own magic bound, and I needed it."
"Needed it for what? What have you done Bella?" Her voice is now quivering but mine stays strong,
"I found a way to help myself, to stop being so fragile."
She looks at me sympathetically now, "look I know breakups suck, their painful and horrible. And even if I didn't approve of you and Edward I would never want you to experience such pain... but that's how you know it was real. And I promise I won't always hurt so bad, first loves can be the hardest to get over but you will survive this pain and you will get over it I promise you just need to give yourself some more time and stay away from whatever those crystals are."
She knows about the crystals! Before I even know what I am doing my hand shoots out and wraps around her throat.
"What do you know about the crystals!" I demand to know but before I can force her to tell me she has flung herself across the room much like HE once did when things got a little too heated between us.
"Look, I don't know what you've been playing around with but I've been practicing my magic since you were literally in diapers so don't ever make the mistake of thinking you can take me on again!"
With that she storms out of the room and I quickly send another email to Rosalie telling her to get here as soon as possible before my sister can figure a way to stop us.
