a/n: I don't know why my line-breakers aren't showing up. Must be a glitch in the system. Special thank you to Babysis64, who's reviewed for every single chapter I've posted (for the old ones anyway). Really appreciate hearing your thoughts and enthusiastic support!

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"Come young one, walk with me."

Bella had washed, dressed, and nibbled delicately on some omelettes before the Red eyed vampire had spoken to her again. Truth be told she almost felt normal-except for the gaping hole in her chest where half of her heart had resided. Half the time Bella was off in her own world and the other was spent making conscious efforts to simply live for her nudger.

Morbidly Bella wondered if surviving childbirth was a choice or another consequence of life; when Red Eyes spoke again.

"Loose the Butler, Isabella. He is not even trying to maintain the illusion of quite." Her point was emphasized with an especially loud snap of yet another twig the burly latino man had failed to avoid.

Sheepishly both humans shared an embarrassed look, before Bella shrugged and motioned for him to stay put as she was lead further away from the security of the mini mansion.

The strange silence between the two species continued for quite sometime before Red Eyes spoke again. "Take a long look around young one, assess your surroundings."

The Vampire spread her slender, pale arms out and Bella's throat felt constricted at the familiar sight of the sparkling diamond-esque skin. She had been deprived of vampire presence to long, and even though Red Eyes was strange and frightening herself, Bella felt as though she could finally breathe deeply again.

It reminded her of their time back in their meadow, when they were so new to each other. Edward had b-

Strong freezing fingers gripped her neck and forced her jumbled mind back into the present. Fearful brown eyes flickered frantically about the scene, realizing with a powerful surge of hysteria that Red Eyes was dangling her body loosely over the cliff; the beautifully deceptive lagoon-hued ocean was calm beneath her.

Bella briefly wondered if she would actually die today, in the same manner Edward had thought she did. She wondered if he would find her watery grave as a testament to her undying love to him. A full coming of circle. Death had brought them together so many times before, who was she to deny fate from bringing them back together again?

'Ironic', she almost smiled before the feeling as though someone had dumped cold water over her entire body broke her from the safety of her numb cocoon. There was an odd moment of the wind, the sound of crashing waves, and the roar of her heart beat before fiery red eyes peered in and through her.

Bella smiled, braver now that she had reached her conclusion of what was, is and supposed to be. She had forgive him already, for it was the cycle that was sure to repeat. She finally understood it now. He was testing her devotion to him as his wif-

Red Eyes did not approve of her reaction. She didn't want resigned smiles, and an oddly mumbling human.

She wanted a fighter because yes-man's were detrimental to her cause. Too fickle, all one had to find is their weakness and exploit it to the fullest. She would take this bumbling and pathetic weakness from her human and morph it into something worthy of serving her, into a fierce soldier.

Possibly a Commander if she proved herself to be worth the amount of potential she held.

She was different from her manipulative brother, she wasn't that far gone...

On second thought she was too similar to him to be comfortable.

Hopefully she never would.

So she let her hand tighten experimentally on the young one's slender neck before casually letting the currently useless human slip from her grasp.

Red Eyes would puzzle over the reaction she'd been given, long after Isabella would be save herself and her precious load from almost-drowning :

She laughed.

a/n:

Bella maybe a lovesick, newly married teenager but she is still first and foremost, human. Human Bella, the primal side of her that we never see in the books, doesn't give a shit about Edward, family, or friends. She just want to survive, she's not dying for anybody. Think of Sigmund's Id, Ego, and Superego.

So get ready for more life threatening attempts to bring our main female protagonist into a healthier mindset! Who do you think is Red Eyes??