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Chapter 3: I Will Remember You

-Flashback to Bella packing for her trip-

Bella remembered packing for the assignments that she was currently assigned too, along with her time with the Volturi.

Bella had discovered that she had powers. She not only had the power of a shield but she had the power to control the emotion of love in others to a certain extent. She sensed love in others which allows her to sort-of know when it is time to kill her target.

Jane loved to make fun of her for it. Bella hated when Jane would burst into song. Before Bella left, Jane had broken out into singing Cheap Trick's song, "I Want You To Want Me".

"I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me."

Bella remembered throwing her long robe at Jane. "That is not funny. Alright, if that is how you want it." Bella started singing Three Days Grace's song, "Pain".

"Pain, without love
Pain, I can't get enough
Pain, I like it rough
'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all"

"Bella, you know you are not funny." Jane pretended to leave the room only to race down the hall to get some freezing cold water and return. She kept the water behind her back. "I have decided to forgive you."

"I knew you would come to your senses." Before, Bella could react Jane poured the water over her head.

Bella screamed knowing that it was futile to scream. No one would come to help her.

Jane only stood there an arm's length away laughing at Bella. Ice water dripped off of Bella soaking her clothing. "Do you feel the pain?" Jane's eyes seemed to tinkle as they filled with mirth.

Bella rang out her clothing. Water splashed onto the floor. "I am feeling something." Chunks of ice cubs hit the floor making, "dinging," sounds.

Worst of all, Felix was walking by when Jane decided to pour the water on her. How could Jane embarrass her like that in front of Felix of all vampires? Bella was devastated by what Jane had done to her.

-End of flashback-

That had only happened last night. She would miss Jane more then all the others. Jane had been a best friend to her. If she choose to leave the Volturi she would have to be gone from her best friend for years.

Her last assignment had taken three years. The Volturi often had not required proof on if her targets intent to expose the vampire race. In other cases, it had taken ten years to find out if a target could be guilty.

Being gone from her friends was not fair but Jane and Felix had always written her if she was away more than a week. It took a long time before Felix returned her greeting. Now, he often joined in on Jane and her pranks.

To her knowledge, Aro had only wanted her to have dinner with Carlisle. Dinner in the past: involved hunting with her friends or her targets. Friends having something to do with Jane. Everyone else was kind-of a friend. She had never hunted with someone that she had just met unless they happened to be part of her assignment.

She wanted to spend some more time with her friends but she knew that justice had to be done.

Bella had not regretted being able to procure a bag of blood only because the EMT that thought she was cute. She used her power to hide one of the bags under her hoody shirt which made her look a little fatter. Only moments later, he came to his senses trying to remember how many bags of blood were stocked in the emergency vehicle. Some humans were mental giants, that EMT must have been one of them.

That also included her escaping from the vehicle in order to race to the hospital's waiting room so that her mother could take her to the airport.

Her mother and her new stepfather picked her up from the hospital just as Bella had planned. Bella hoped that it would give her more time with her mother to talk in the car. She gave them a story about how the doctor told her that she could go on a plane right away but she should take it easy for the next few days.

They had not needed to know the truth. Telling them that she was a vampire would only confuse them. A human should not be told about vampires unless they were targeted as a meal.

Her mother looked back at Bella from the font seat of her new husband's car. "I want you to know that we both care about you."

Bella's new stepdad kept his eyes on the road but she could tell from the look on his face that he wanted to tell her something. "You really did give us a scare."

"Thanks." Bella knew she should act more like a teenager. She had decided that the look that was chosen for her was a little emo friendly without all the black. She was glad that her clothes were not goth or punk. Still, even with her clothing washed, she gave off a possible unwashed look. Dressing inferior to others might keep others away which was fine with Bella. Still, she worried that someone would see her as a charity case, too.

Humans might want to talk to her if they thought she was approachable. She hoped that her look that she would keep them away for awhile.