Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.
Bella emerged slowly. Despite the long time she had been imprisoned in unconsciousness Bella still had control of her thought process. Something deep inside of Bella told her to keep her eyes closed and her breathing deep and rhythmic.
At first Bella sensed nothing then slowly ever so slowly she managed to find out more details of her current surroundings. Silence…dead silence. It was strange to hear nothing after the brief insanity when she had discovered her special ability.
"But based on what you will hear when you wake up you will know that that ability isn't that special."
The voice was the first thing Bella was aware of when she started to wake up. It was soft but demanding cool but hot a voice that would keep Bella calm to put it differently it was a military voice.
The owner of the voice was most likely a person who had been through basic training and at least several years of combat. Bella remembered the recent war that had been waged outside the US so it wasn't hard for her to imagine that the speaker was military.
Feeling that something wasn't right Bella decided to think on who and where the voice had been spoken. A pale face. That was all. Just a pale face that Bella couldn't pinpoint the features of.
It only seemed to float at the edges of her barely perceptible vision never coming closer. Bella could tell it was a pale face but she couldn't discern any other features so the identity or gender was left as a mystery.
What Bella did remember was a standard military uniform with the common military boots. Everything was very clean and military like. Nothing was out of place and everything looked professional like only a military officer could pull off.
It's a women. That was the missing detail that Bella couldn't remember. Now Bella had the full picture a pale faced women.
But wait that wasn't the full picture. Bella thought harder and she realized she still couldn't discern the woman's face. Which was disappointing since Bella wished she could know the face of her rescuer/kidnapper.
A shiver ran though Bella and she felt the blanket pulled tight around her body cocooning her. At first she thought she had been restrained but then she thought, how stupid to restrain someone with a blanket.
A voice not from Bella's mind but from off to the right side of her bed spoke something about a nightmare. Bella knew they had seen her shiver and realized that she wasn't following her inner voice very closely.
What happened next almost made Bella flinch, another voice spoke this time next to her ear. The voice was the same from earlier. The pale faced military woman who had pulled Bella from the freezing Phoenix River just as the water finally fully submerged around Bella.
The shock of the severe cold meant that Bella couldn't use her power. Now that she thought about it Bella wasn't sure that was her ability at all. Bella was confused as to why she couldn't use her ability to assess the situation around her so she could properly confront the two people in the room with her.
An arm shifted around Bella's midsection and Bella shivered and moaned.
"Good you're awake. I was beginning to think I had been warming a corpse."
"Huh?" Bella muttered deciding to throw all caution to the wind and just roll with it.
"You were submerged in the infamously cold Phoenix River for more than a day."
"Holy shit. How?" Bella asked and was about to say more when she finally realized what her body had rejected and kept from her mind for so long.
"When I dragged you out of the Phoenix River I knew you needed to be heated up. We don't really have heaters hear at the Phoenix Army Instillation so I decided to use myself."
"Am I naked?" Bella says.
"We're both naked lying on a mattress with only a thin blanket covering us."
"I guess you guys…" Bella says but is interrupted.
"No stop right there. There aren't any guys at the PAI only girls."
"Really? That's kind of weird." Bella says, "Where are the guys?"
"Were you not paying attention to the last war?"
"Not really." Bella says.
"Where did you live before…?"
"I lived with my mother Renee." Bella says.
"In Renee Vile? You fucking serous? Don't sell me all that shit about that place being a safe zone."
"What?" Bella says, "Safe zone what do you mean?"
"My name is Ginger."
"Okay." Bella says, "What do you mean by safe zone?"
"I'll get to that, eventually." Ginger says, "Do you want to know about your current health condition?"
"Nope. Already know what it is." Bella says, "I'm basically frozen but I can still talk."
"Basically." Ginger says with a little bit of a gruff chuckle.
"Ginger."
"Yes?"
"Are you ever going to tell me what you mean by safe zone?"
"No, probably not."
"Damn it all."
"I know. Life sucks."