Disclaimer: I do not own twilight or the characters in it.

AN: Thank you to all my reviewers. I got a lot of positive feedback. I hope this chapter does as well as the first. Don't forget to review. It helps boost my confidence and lets me know you like the story

AN2: Another big thank you to my Beta, LePrincessKiara for taking time out of her bust schedule to edit my chapters and make them better.

AN3: The idea for the 'Master Bite' is being borrowed, with permission, from mama4dukes and her story "Life Happens So Just Roll With It."

Last Time:

Bella suddenly froze and bolted upright, looking around frantically, like she expected something to attack her. Then she jumped up off the couch and tried running out the door.

That's when something happened that confused, surprised, and terrified us all.

Chapter 8

PPOV

The next few seconds seemed to happen in slow motion. Before, the extremely frightened and skittish, Bella could make it out the door, Alice - making a move for the first time since we found Bella - reached out and grabbed her arm, halting her almost instinctual escape. Bella - seeing the arm and, consequently, the person attached as a threat - turned and leapt at Alice's shocked, immobile form and bit her, right above the left side of her collarbone. I knew that type of bite; if it was deep enough it would be classed as a Master's Bite. Why in hell was Bella attempting to give Alice a Masters Bite, she was human, she had to know it would have no effect what so ever. Then, before anyone could react, Bella turned to the door and fled as if the devil himself was at her hells, with hell hounds chasing her.

I looked around the room and saw the same shocked and confused look that was on my face, mirrored eight times. It was then we all noticed Bella had been able to bite though Alice's skin. We were all asking ourselves the same question; how? A theory popped into my head as I thought about it, something from my time in the newborn wars, a torture Maria used; pumping in just enough venom to start the change and then sucking the venom out, it left the humans partly changed. Maybe that's what happened to Bella… it also tended to cause so much pain that the humans went insane and died.

It only took us a few seconds to snap out of our shock-induced haze before we were following Bella out the door. The sight that met my eyes was truly terrifying and I felt panic well up inside of me.

There, right before our eyes, was Bella. She was being held up off the ground by the throat by a female vampire with fiery red hair and a dark, malice filled grin that held traces of triumph, joy and the most frightening was the slight hint of insanity raging just behind her eyes. I cast a glance to my brother, to see if he detected the emotions I could see, he just nodded at me in confirmation before he winced in pain from the jolt that went through him; short-circuiting his gift. From the looks of recognition on everyone's face I had to assume this was Victoria; my 'knower' confirmed it.

Bella's fear, as she stared at Victoria, was quickly becoming a physical thing as her heart rate increased to the point where it sounded almost like the hum of a hummingbird's wings, her body was almost violently shaking with the force of said fear. I could hear the blood rushing faster in her veins, pumping adrenaline though her and, consequently, keeping her wide awake to face her nightmare.

When Bella felt my gaze on her, she turned her head towards me and then, her eyes met mine and it was like my world stopped spinning. Then a rush of emotions I had never felt before filled me: protectiveness, possessiveness, attraction, adoration, and devotion.

Holy Crap. She's my mate.

That line of thought brought me back to reality. My mate was in the hands of a psycho. She was severely injured and had been tortured by said psycho. All of the warm, fuzzy, 'I just met the love of my existence' feelings left, only to be replaced by anger, panic, fear and 'heads are going to roll' feelings.

Looking at my angel, dangling in the air like that, sent a wave of hopelessness through me. I had no idea how I was supposed to save her. Why did fate decide to give me my mate, only to have her in the clutches of a certified psycho? My gift was being annoyingly silent again. What was up with that? It was supposed to be telling me what the hell was going on. Not giving me random tidbits that did not help me find a way to save my mate.

When I looked up at Bella's face, I saw recognition, elation, mischief, and a little understanding flicker in her eyes. Then you know what my mate did; she smirked. Fucking smirked! She was dangling in the air by her throat and she fucking smirked at me. I honestly started thinking that she was a little insane too; could Victoria's type of insanity be catching? Or maybe the part transformation had driven my mate to insanity already and instead of fighting it the embraced it? I really wanted to know what on earth was going on. Nothing was making any sense at all.

The rest of the Cullens must have been thinking the same things I was, because they each had the same look of disbelief on their faces that I did. When Bella saw their looks, her smirk grew and got this dark, sinister look to it. Then she turned back to Victoria and spoke, in a perfectly calm almost friendly manner. Ok that just about confirmed it my mate was not sane.

"What do you say we conclude 'Act One' of our show and move on to 'Act Two'? I'm starting to feel claustrophobic in this weak human body."

The gasps that came from our group clearly amused her. When she turned from Victoria and looked toward us, she had a mocking look on her face.

"Can't believe it's not human?" She chuckled at her own bad joke then turned back to Victoria. I could see she felt no fear for the red headed psycho vampire holding her. If I didn't know better I would think the two were close… but that was impossible right? The only explanation I could think of was that she was just insane.

"I think moving to 'Act Two' sounds like a great idea Bella. You're kind of creepy looking with that illusion on you know." Victoria said continuing their earlier conversation. She smiled softly at Bella, her eyes were kind and gentle now.

All our thoughts were undoubtedly the same. What the fuck? I was beginning to think Victoria's letters to us all held a huge amount of merit… or at least the 'nothing is as it seems' bit.

Then Kitten looked toward us and smiled sardonically before her whole body started to shimmer. Changing from the broken, beaten, tortured, scarred human we all saw before us, to a beautiful immortal vampire.

I don't think I had ever seen anything more devastatingly gorgeous than the vision that stood before me.

Her hair was much longer than it had been. Instead of looking ratty, unkempt and matted at her shoulder blades, it was luscious, smooth and slightly wavy, flowing like silk to the middle of her back; instead of a mousy brown, her hair was a deep, rich mahogany, with beautiful shimmering strands of gold and black strewn throughout.

Her eyes were the most shocking change. Instead of the beautiful deep pools of melted chocolate, they were a enrapturing bright, piercing, scarlet red with little flecks of dark burgundy and, surprisingly, jade green. They seemed to be burning with the fire of her passion. I could feel myself getting lost in their emotion filled depths.

Then there was her body. Oh that body! Gone was the too thin frame of an emaciated human girl, gone were the scars, broken bones, bruises and half healed gashes. In its place, was the body of a goddess. Her breasts had grown from a 'barely there' B-cup to a full, round, and perky D. Her hips had filled in and widened a little, defining her perfect waist. Her ass had gone from flat and unnoticeable to round and toned. That ass alone had me trying to adjust myself in my suddenly too tight jeans. Her legs were now long, toned, and graceful. Even in the filthy torn rags she wore she looked like a carving of a goddess, I couldn't help but stare at her, checking her out.

I found myself doing something, that I had not done since the Sunday before my change, I prayed to God and thanked him for making this goddess my mate. Even though, I would have to start wearing baggie pants, in order to hide my permanent erection, that I was sure her presence would cause.

"So cowboy. You done eye fucking me yet, or would you like a little more time to ogle my goods?" She asked with humor, bringing me out of my trance like state.

"I would love some more time to ogle you kitten, but I would rather do it somewhere a bit more private. Plus I don't think ogling is going to cut if for long". I replied back flirtatiously, winking at her a little, much to the shock of the gathered Cullen's. That made reality slam back into me and I was once again lost for what was going on.

"Yes. That does sound rather tempting, but for now - I think, I will get back to my revenge" she said, her tone darkening slightly as she got to the end. "You can put me down now Vickie".

Bella said sweetly and Victoria put her back on her feet, both of them standing side by side, smiling evilly at each other.

"I don't think introductions are much in order. Maybe you should just say hello?" Victoria said.

With that they turned toward the Cullen's and put on the scariest fucking smirk on their faces. Wow I did not want to get on the wrong side of those two. They were bloody scary. Bella cast me a small look before turning back to the Cullen's.

"Miss me?"