I hated her. I should be dying. Letting everything go and fade away but as the burning spread and filled my body my sense sharpened. I could see through the shadows that had hidden Victoria.

Riley left not long before sun rise and surprising me he pulled Victoria to him and kissed her before he left. It seemed all wrong to me and when he left the cabin her sweet smile fell away. I didn't know who this Riley was but something told me he hadn't been a vampire for long. His eyes were hungry flares of red, always a little different to Victoria's crimson ones.

The night passed and as the sun raised. Victoria satisfied and entertained herself with watching me suffer mostly. She didn't speak only sneered and I doubted if she chose to that I wasn't in any condition to be able to reply with anything but a howl of pain.

The sky darkened and once again I could still see but I settled now for clamming my eyes shut it made it easier when there was nothing to distract me but Victoria's presence. I heard her leave for a short while clearly not worried about me. But she returned just as quickly as she had left.

"Not too much longer now Isabella," her voice came sickly sweet from above me. I imagine her hovering over me sneering with glee.

I was just opening my eyes to glare at her trying like always to shove the flames from my mind when there was another set of sounds, the whooshing of displaced air, a groan of pain and footsteps coming towards the cabin.

My eyes followed Victoria's gaze to the doorway where Riley stood with a tall blond hair boy held in front of him, and his fingers clenched the boys' neck like he had done to me. The boy was unmistakably human. This all looked to similar. I knew Victoria was going to change him.

Fear coursed through me for the boy. I caught Victoria's eyed just as riley tossed the boy to the floor but unlike me he didn't get to his feet and look around his ankle was twisted unnaturally, it was broken and I doubted it could hold his weight.

"Please don't," I managed to shove the words from my lips before she made a move towards the boy.

I saw then how red her eyes were, there were no signs of them having darkened with hunger. That must have been why she had left earlier, to feed. I knew enough about all this to know that it gave the vampire more chance of controlling themselves.

She bobbed down in front of me. "I am sparing you Isabella but I still intend to destroy what Edward loves. I'll just have to settle for his family."

They were a coven of seven vampires with exceptional powers how did she think she could take them down? Was it going to be her Riley and this new kid? I knew I wouldn't get and answer at least not yet.

The boy didn't see her coming; there was no chit chat like with me. She bared her teeth then took hold of him. I couldn't watch and it seemed neither could Riley, he leant in the door way not breathing. It was kind of stupid but I watched him instead of Victoria hunching over the boy, Riley was a steady figure solid and still in the door way and I had to admit he was beautiful but then again all vampires were, but he was different his beauty didn't make him soft and trust worthy he was looked rough and sharp edges made up his cheek bones and strong jaw. I had kept thinking boy but he was a man, older than he had really ever been physically.

Victoria went to Riley when the boy had started the writhe and scream in pain and like me she kicked him a side in to the other corner of the wall I lay curled up against. Riley's eyes went to her again and they began speaking in hushed voices to each other, this time making sure I didn't hear.

The boy in time quieten a little and he noticed I was there for the first time meeting my eyes and he seemed to jerk back then he looked again more closely. I imagined he saw the pain in my eyes that met his and my fist clenched and twisted in my hair.

Riley and Victoria moved on from talking to doing some very gross kissing. They really didn't care about either of us, we were human and inferior to them and I bet even when we were both changed we would be helpless ravenous idiots to them.

Riley left again before morning and I swear Victoria had no hobbies, it was another day of watching in glee but now she had two writhing spectacles to watch the only time she did anything was when she left around midday for an hour or so taking her chances with the shifting grey clouds.

Around then I began to notice the flames that burst through my veins began to subside the tiniest bit, at first I wasn't even sure it was happening but eventually it left my toes and fingers, then skirted up my ankles and fled from my wrists. This would have been tremendous news if the flames didn't retreat to my chest, growing fiercer with every pound of my racing heart.

The fire coursed in my chest and I couldn't help but lose my grip on my control then, I bearly noticed the boy's eyes flick to me in horror probably thinking this is what awaited him but I pretty sure he didn't know that he wouldn't die. But to be truthful that knowledge didn't help me in the least. That was all I really knew though. I didn't know how much longer this all could go on.

Victoria wasn't oblivious to the change in me and it seemed not just my screaming. Her head shot up and then she was by my side looking down at me expectantly. I felt the last lick of flame reseed into my heart that was trying to beat it way out of my chest.

I felt it convulse and shutter within me. Then it didn't beat again and the fire was gone but I still waited a breathless moment for it to pulse through me. I felt so still, not breathing, my heart not beating.

Victoria smiled down at me, she was so clear. I could see all the smooth beautiful detail of her face even as the sun stole the light from the world as it set again.

My throat was bone dry and ached like the lining of it had been skinned down and gratted. I knew what it meant and as soon as my mind thought of blood it flared up like an echo of the burning flames. My hand clutched my throat like it could do some good.

Victoria's lips twisted further, "Don't fret dear Bella when Riley arrives I will have him take you hunting then you will join the other. Now get up."

It didn't take any measure of time for me to go from the floor to my feet. Victoria was already walking off and I got the sense that I was meant to follower her. All the while my mind was whirling, what did she mean others? Where the more newborns like me and the boy still changing?

I met the eyes of the boy behind me, I don't know why I did there was nothing really a look could do to give him any piece of mind. He recoiled from my gaze like he would have from Riley's or Victoria's. It made sense to me then, my eyes, I had no doubt they would be a raging red like Riley's.