Riley came to a stop just a few strides from a wooden cabin that seemed almost hidden in amongst the thickness of trees. His hand fall out from under my legs, my feet dropped to the soft floor of leaves and dirt. I lost my balance and felt myself tilt and readied myself for the fall but I didn't get the chance to, his hand disappeared from my shoulder only to grip the back of neck, he yanked me to my feet then pushed me forward his cold fingers still winding tightly around my neck.

I could make out the black hole that told me the door was wide open but I couldn't see inside, every wall was hidden in darkness. We reached the threshold and without warning he threw me into the cabin but he remained outside of the door frame like he was waiting for an invite but I knew that myth about vampires was not true, his red eyes fixed on me hungrily. He must have taken off his glasses at some point that I had missed.

The whole side of my body that had landed and skidded a little ways along the floor was numb with pain. I tried to struggle to my feet. Then there was the sound of floorboards creaking and I went ridged.

I wasn't alone in the cabin and whoever it was wanted me to know that. My heart leapt as I looked back at Riley after my eyes had scanned the darkness and found nothing but he still stood impassive in the door way but his eyes weren't on me they were looking passed me at something I couldn't see. I spun again trying to pull back the darkness with my eyes but nothing change I could only stare at my presumed company.

"Bella?" my name echoed out from the darkness I had been trying to see through, the voice was high pitched like a child's but it held a certain coo that made me think that it couldn't be a child's.

I couldn't see the person's face – I suppose by this point I could safely assume it was a vampire- nor did I recognise the voice. But that didn't change that they knew me.

"Who are you? How do you know my name?" I asked, my voice shaking and barely a whisper.

In my mind began to scan through the female vampires I knew and I knew all of them to well to not know there voice, except for one. For a brief second I found myself wishing hard that it wasn't true then the figure stirred in the darkness a moment before stepping into all the light I had to see by.

Victoria stood before me, a sneer twisted her features. Her eyes glowed a crimson red, her skin the same pale as marble as Riley's.

"Out Riley," she said in a stern commanding voice.

Riley nodded and he was gone from the door way moving too fast for my eyes, then I was alone. I found myself wishing she had not sent him away. It wasn't that I thought he was a good guy or anything it was just that he looked a hell of a lot more hungry then her, he might wouldn't bother to kill me slowly but Victoria would.

I was shaking all over from the cold rain that soaked my clothes and from general terror. With me right before her like this there was nothing that could stop her from killing me slowly like she desired. I could handle dying but she didn't just want to kill me she wanted me to have a long pain filled and suffering death just like Laurent had said.

"This all was really too easy. You fell right into my lap, they are stupid they didn't even stop you from coming to Seattle even with all the activity here," she looked curious but her expression looked more animalistic than human.

She didn't know that they had left me, of course she didn't know Laurent hadn't made it back to tell her I was unprotected because it turns out I was protect but just not by them.

"They are gone," I caught myself telling to her, as I spoke my voice wasn't scared it was filled with pain.

She flew forward and shoved me into one of the walls of the cabin. "What do you mean 'they are gone'?" she yelled at me, her face turned furious and feral. "Tell me girl!"

Why hadn't I just kept my mouth shut? I was stiff in her grip. I didn't answer her. I knew I shouldn't have said anything. I couldn't move and when she realised I didn't intend to answer her, her elbow was at my throat almost cutting of my air way, in a panic I formulated an answer.

"They left Forks a few months ago," I let out in a breathy huff but she heard me.

"Where did they go?" her other elbow pushed against my chest now ready to crack my ribs adding the threat to her words.

I was choking trying to drag in any air I could get through my air way before I spoke, "I don't know. I don't know anything other than that they left."

She screamed in anger then her grip on me was gone. I fell to the floor, her hold on me had been the only thing holding me up which was lucky because the next thing she did was drive her fist into the wall right where my head had been, against my back I felt the wall shake with the force of it.

I slumped against the wall trying to regain my breath and clutching my throat as she crouched down, hovering just above me. Her steady red eyes bore into mine when I looked up at her.

"Why did he leave you behind after what he did to save you?" she was calmer now but her voice carried a deadly edge.

Although even speaking these words was hard especially to her, I was going to answer her truthfully again it seemed the only option I had was to comply. This knowledge or lack there off that I had couldn't help her much anyway. "He didn't want me anymore." I looked away from her as I spoke.

"Is that what he told you?" I only nodded. She straightened up and began to muse to herself softly but it was audible even to my human ears, "Why would he just leave? He killed James for her she mean something to him. But then why... Why would he leave you Bella?" she spat name out and she came back to stand above me again.

"I don't want to die," I knew it might be my only chance to plead, she wasn't going to want to talk for much longer.

"I don't want to kill you anymore Bella. There is much more pain in life don't you think? Of course I can't send you home so you will just have to stay," her red eyes glinted with humour.

I felt myself frown in confusion. She wasn't going to kill me? That didn't make any sense, she had been hell bent on my death and I was of no use to her. Killing me would make sense then she could focus on them if she wanted more revenge and I would be out of the way.

With my mind whirling I barely noticed her expression change. Her lips peeled back from her teeth and she let out a snarl under her breath before she gripped me by my throat and pulled me up the wall again. I saw the look of ferocity in her eyes and the kindling fire of burning revenge and I was sure she was about to kill me.

"This will hurt," she snarled at me with her teeth baring sneer.

Her hand left my throat and she grabbed the right side of my faced and pushed it away from her so I looked toward the door. I could feel my neck straining and neck was more accessible to her. Her hand clammed down on my right shoulder and I tried to wiggle and squirm out of her grip but only seemed to annoy her. Victoria pushed herself against me and then I couldn't even shift my feet and in that moment I knew that was me done, my pathetic struggle was over. The only thing that might have moved me was the thundering of my heart pumping blood through ever limb and vein.

I felt her cool unnecessary breath flow across my skin right before her teeth slicked through the thin flesh of my neck. I screamed but she pressed closer to me and her grip tightened then I didn't have the breath to scream.

I waited for the added pain that would come when she started to drain my blood from my body but it didn't happen instead Victoria pulled away from me and I collapsed to the floor. The venom started to burn me almost instantaneously. I didn't even feel Victoria kick me in the chest and send me skidding in to the furthest corner from her.

I lay there lost in the pain that had started to spread from my neck down into my chest. I tried not to scream but it was hard to think of a good reason not to, let alone think. But I refrained after thinking bitterly what good would it do it would probably only please Victoria. So I didn't scream but I couldn't stop the groan's that would occasionally escape my lips. My teeth were clenched and my breath was uneven.

I was curled up into a ball gripping at my hair and digging my nails into my scalp. I needed a distraction from the pain just for my own sanity something to feel other than the burning but it couldn't compare or pull me from the pain. It had now started to creep up into my neck and was beginning to start to slither through my veins, working its way down my arms and through my chest.

After only moments to smashed the agony of James bite, the burning was scorching it wasn't like being burn by an iron it was more than that it clawed all the way though my body it wasn't just on the surface of my skin it was though every muscle and every layer of flesh.

Victoria crouched down as I twitched and convulsed. The slightest smile twisted her lips as she noticed my eyes fixed and glaring. If I wasn't already screaming in pain I would be screaming in frustration.

Riley stepped in the door way again, I had been to absorb in my pain to noticed her call him back. He lingered in the door way watching me suffer like Victoria but I could see no glint of joy in his eye like in hers. His face was an unreadable mask to me; the only time it changed was when he came closer to stand a few feet from Victoria. I could tell that the bite mark on my neck was enough to send the smell of my blood swirling around the room twisted his face into an expression of pain and frustration.

"Who is she?" he said his voice strained.

"She an old friend." She sent me a smooth sneer, knowing that I was watching before turning to Riley. "She is the Cullen's pet I told you about, well she was. I don't think they will like us for making her one of us."

They already didn't want me, I thought but I didn't dare say aloud, she seemed to take some joy in the idea that changing me might actually cause them pain or affect them in anyway. As sad as it sound if that is what keeping me alive then so be it.

Focusing on their conversation was hard but it helped with the pain it didn't at all take my mind from it but it gave it something to do rather than measure the amount of agony I suffered each second.

"I mean what is her name?" Riley said after Victoria had finished. Why had he wanted to know my name? What Victoria had said should be more important than my name.

Victoria was confused by his reason for asking the question just like me it seemed but she answered any way. "Isabella swan, she lives in forks."

"She's the chiefs daughter isn't she." it wasn't so much a question as a statement.

"Yes, do you know her?"

"No, not personally I saw her once but I knew her father. She had just come to town when I left to live in Seattle." He shook his head but he eyes me curiously.

"Well that great you two will be able to discuss simple life in forks, in your free time." she rolled her eyes, the whole conversation was pointless and boring to her.

And for the briefest moment I was more scared of the idea of spending whatever eternity Victoria allowed me to have with her then the venom burning and changing me.