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Bella's POV

I am slowly drifting tot he surface. To the surface of the dark sea, which is my mind. I keep my eyes closed as I slowly start to feel again. I enjoy the feeling of my body lying on a soft material. The heaviness slowly leaving me limb after limb. I curl my fingers and enjoy the feeling of my fingers digging into the mattress. I feel warm. So warm. I can hear a voice. At the beginning it's just a distant sound, but it gets clearer every second. The soft melodic voice is talking to me. Says something. Calls out to me. I enjoy the sound as I try to struggle to get to the surface faster. I stretch out my hand as I am just below the surface of my consciousness. Just as my hand touches the small barrier between dreamland and the real world, I can finally understand, what the voices are saying. Because it is indeed more than one person talking. "Bella?" …I know this voice…"Bella, are you awake?" …Tis one too…"Wake up, mia cara."

I open my eyes with a start as all my memories come crashing down on me. The Volturi. Edward. Alice. Kidnapping. Victoria. The stranger, who wanted to bite me. Pain….Faces…red eyes…kings…mates…mates?..."Mates…."I let the word roll over my tongue. Mates…I have mates…my mates. An embrace. Loving words….purring….hands touching my hair…my mates…Red eyes look at me with worry, love, care….my mates…MINE…JUST MINE…

I open my eyes again not knowing when I closed them and look in the same red eyes, that I just saw in my memories. Three pairs of red eyes with the same mix of worry and love in them as I remember them. But they are more. So much more. It's strange. It's like I can see them more clearly now. Feel them more clearly now. It's a new startling experience. But I can't get myself worried about it. Because they are here. Now. Here to protect me. To hold me. To love me. My beloved mates. I concentrate on the intense red that seems to dance within their eyes. This eyes are like a deep pool. And I want to do nothing more than to lose myself within them. I feel like I am able to breath again. Like I haven't been able to really breathe before. It seems as if there was a huge stone on my chest before, which I didn't notice and couldn't get rid of. But now I am free. Now I can see them. Like I have never seen them before. They are more now. Seem to be so much more. I can't control myself anymore. I need to touch them. I need the feeling of their skin on mine. I need them to hug me. To kiss me. To love me. To show me, who I am. Who I really am. I just realize, that I was never whole before. I was just a shadow of, who I should be. And with them I can be me. The real me. The whole me. Not just a little puppet, who lives through her live depending on the strings to hold her. Not like someone with a hole in the chest, who can't do anything but try to breathe. To live. No, now I can finally live. Live like I have never lived before. Even if that means that I am one day going to die to be more alive. But for now it's okay. That's something that will happen in the future.

Now is the presence so I should focus on it and on them. On their beautiful eyes on their slowly nearing forms. On the feeling of their fingers brushing through my hair as they finally meet me. Yeah, now is the presence and I am finally me. Finally whole. Just because I am together with them again. But now without the glass, which seemed to be between us before. Without the shadow, which darkened my sight. Whatever it was. Whatever reason there was for me not realizing it, it is gone. The warm light made it disappear together with the hole in my chest. Together with my loneliness.

I reach out and cling to Caius shirt as Marcus and Aro sit behind me. I hold on to Caius as they start purring again. Like they did when we were in their bedroom that first time to soothe me. It is such a lovely sound. I put my arms around Caius and embrace him tightly. I can feel three pairs of arms around me, pressing me to their bodies. I know, that they are confused. They don't know, why I am upset so suddenly. Probably think, that I am in some kind of pain. I smile through the tears, that I didn't even realize where rolling down my cheeks. They are so stupid. I am not upset at all. I am just so happy. So very very happy. "Bella…what's wrong?" Marcus words are full of concern and worry. They nearly make me cry even harder. I need them. I need them so very much, that it hurts. "Bella?...What's wrong mia cara?" I try to control the tears so I am able to talk. It takes me a while before I am able to speak again, but I finally manage it. Just before one them could ask again. "I can remember…" I slowly look up into their eyes. Their beautiful eyes. Look into each pair for a few seconds. I can see confusion swirl around in them. Before Marcus says. "You remember?" I nod and go on. "It's not just the memories of the past few days. I can also feel the connection. Really feel it. I feel the mating bond like I couldn't before. It's so much more…real. More intense. It feels like there was something between us. Like a barrier I couldn't break before. But now it's gone and I can feel you. Feel, what I have missed before I meet you. It's so…" I search for words for a moment. "perfect. Now it's like it is supposed to be. Like it should have been from the beginning. It's nothing like it was with Edward. Or even with you before. Now it's like I have found myself again. Found the missing parts of my soul. I feel whole again. You make me whole. You are the reason, why I feel like that. You are my mates. Mine. Only mine" I press my face into Caius body and breathe his heavenly scent in. Like a drug addict, who finally gets his shot after a long period without it. I can smell the wonderful scent of all three of them. I close my eyes again for a moment before looking up.

I feel immediately captured by three pairs of burning red eyes. Blood red eyes are seemingly looking directly into my soul. I open my mouth to say something. Anything. But before I can utter one word I feel burning hot lips on mine and a tongue slips in between my lips.

My eyes widen as the eyes are suddenly so close to mine. I can feel two pairs of lips on my neck and then a hearse whisper by my ear. "Yours. Only yours as you are ours."

"Only yours…" I close my eyes as my body starts burning. The intense feelings make me unable to do anything. I can only concentrate on their touch on my skin. The feeling of the hot tongue in my mouth.

And I am burning. Burning for them. Only for them.