Hey guys! Here's chapter 5. I finally have an idea as to where I want this story to go. :) And I can't thank my reviewers enough. You encouragement spurs me to continue! Thank you so much!

-Vampiremoon22

The next day in Hell...

EPOV:

"But Emmett, I need you to take her off my hands." I argued with my brother. "I don't have time to have her do the necessary evils that have to be done." I lied.

"No can do bro. I've got two victims already that I have to keep tabs on. Maybe Jasper can take care of your chick."

I growled. "You're a lot of help."

Emmett just smiled and ran off. I left to find Jasper and found him in one of our fire pits with his own victim. "Sure Ed, I can take on one more. Just watch and make sure Mike here doesn't escape. And I'll go up and have a look at her."

He left and returned a few moments later. "You bit her?" He asked me, surprised.

"It was an accident. I wasn't think..."

"No, you bit her!" He said again. "You bit her and you didn't drain her. You released vampire endorphins into her. And the bite kinda looks like a mate bite."

There. He'd said it. The word I'd struggled all night to avoid thinking. What was I going to do now? What was I supposed to tell him?

"Look dude, if you mate with a human..."

"I KNOW JASPER, OKAY?" I shouted. "I KNOW!"

"What are you gonna do? I can't handle her now, man. That bite says she's off limits to everyone but you."

"What? No. That's impossible. She can't be a mate. She-she'd have to be an immortal. Or at least some kind of mythical being. I'm not going to accept that. I simply bit her to mark her."

"It could be possible."

"It is possible!" I snapped. I left then and returned to Earth. "Mate." I muttered to myself. Then I laughed, trying to shake off the notion. Jasper could be so... weird at times. Humans can NOT be mates to vampires. We would kill them.

I stopped short as I realized where I was. I was standing outside the Swan house. Still muttering, I pushed open the door and let myself in. Bella's father was not at home. Bella would be returning to school the following day. I walked up the stairs and into her room.

I stared down at her sleeping form. I examined the bite on her neck. I could see how Jasper could confuse it with a mate bite, but upon closer examination, it was clearly just a marking bite. It was strange that upon determining this, a wave of relief didn't flood through my entire body. It was comforting however to know the mark would be gone soon. Any of my kind would immediately smell my marked territory and back off.

The girl stirred and woke without a sound. She stared up at me and... smiled? No one-no human anyhow- had ever been happy to see me. Least of all, a girl when I was standing in their room watching them sleep. "Edward," She said groggily. "I'm glad you're here." She sat up.

"You shouldn't be." I told her darkly.

"I know. But I was wondering..." She bit her lip and pointed to the bite mark on her neck. "I thought you could tell me why..."

"It's nothing." I said quickly. "I was simply marking you."

"Marking me." She repeated. "Why?"

"You're mine."

She stared up at me with wide eyes.

"No!" I corrected. "I.. didn't mean it like that."

"Then what?"

"You're mine to torture." I was talking quickly again. "No one else can tell you what to do."

"Oh." Was I imagining things, or did my last words seem to disappoint her?

"Well, go ahead and order away." She said, flopping back down onto her pillows.

"What?"

"Isn't that what you came here for?"

"Yes! Of course!" I lied.

She glared at me quizzically. "You're sure?" She asked. "'Cause I'm in no rush to be tortured."

I smiled. "I'm sure you're not. Get ready. We're going out."

LATER:

Finding trouble to get Bella into hadn't been the hard part. The hard part had been ordering her to do things. I'd taken her to the local park. There, I had her steal an older woman's purse, kill a rodent with her bare hands, and push children out of swings. The look of pain in her eyes as she did these things... almost pained me.

As I thought back on the day's events, a thought creeped it's way into my head. Something our father had told my brothers and me. "True mates can sense how their mate is feeling. If one is happy, the other will be as well. If one is sad and lonely, so the other shall be."

"That's enough!" I yelled into the darkness. I've heard more than enough of this "mate" nonsense! I needed something to get her off my mind.

I flew up to Earth. I knew exactly what I needed to forget about this hunan girl, if only for the night.

There is was. How'd you guys like it? Please review and let me know! : ) Also, I'm hoping to have the next chapter up in a few days.