Hello my dear readers! I'm terribly sorry that I haven't updated in so long, I had a serious case of writers block! But one of my BFF's made me update whether it was good or not and threatened to take away my books (okay, she didn't, but that makes her sound scarier and makes me feel better when she gets mad at me…).

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Chapter Five

I swear my heart started to beat even faster when I saw her. Oh, dear whoever's listening, help me!

"Well who do we have here? Bella? Alec, you brought me a gift? How sweet of you!" Victoria said. She started to make her way over to my bed, a sadistic smile carved onto her stony skin. She trailed her hand down my face, making my face twist up, this time in disgust. She giggled an inhuman sound.

I then noticed standing in the corner was, wait, no. That couldn't be right, Edward killed James. Oh, but it is him! Except his eyes are golden. He caught my eye and I heard a voice in my head. "I'll get you out of here, don't worry. We just have to wait until they're gone." He then smiled at me and abruptly looked away, as the big dude who bit me walked over and started talking to him.

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It was night, that much I could tell from the small window. The fire in my body was starting to burn out, which I found odd; Edward had said that it took at least three days. Well, it very well could've been, I had been drifting in and out of consciousness for a little while…

James started to walk over to me. I looked around and saw that no one was there anymore. He picked me up, gave me a sheepish look, as if he were violating me somehow, and took off.

In seconds, we were at the castle, a place I thought I'd never see again. I saw Caius, pacing in the courtyard, with Aro and Marcus standing by him. My heart leaped, Caius was worried! Yeah, I do know how cheesy that sounds, thank you very much!

They all looked up and ran over. They were talking, but I couldn't hear them. That's odd. Just then I stopped burning, and I squeaked a little, trying to say something, but nothing came out. They all looked towards me, as if encouraging me to speak, but I couldn't. And I tried to tell them that, but apparently eye communication doesn't work for vampires! I then thought of how James communicated with me, and decided to give it a try.

I looked into his eyes, "I can't speak!". I'm assuming it worked, because he started talking to the others, who got even more worried looks on their faces. Then James took off running, and I started to get nauseous.

When we got to what I thought was my bedroom, I was set on the bed. They started talking again, and my vision got blurry. Hey, I didn't know that Caius had a twin, nor Aro, Marcus, or James! Huh, that's funny…

I was starting to fade in and out of sanity, one thought coherent, the next, totally loopy! Finally, I decided to give up, and let the dark take over. I tried to say one last thing to Caius, for this was probably the last time I would ever see him on Earth.

"I'm so sorry Caius. I hope you can accept this last gift," and there, where my body was, was a letter, containing the reason why I wanted to become a monster, and why I thought I was falling in love with him.