Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer owns everything Twilight related. I just like to play with her characters a bit.

This story is dark! You have been warned! It is intended for mature audiences only… meaning if you aren't 18, please don't read, and if you do… I don't wanna' know ;)

Chapter 1

BPOV

"Bella? Hun, I brought some soup!" I heard Emily from my bedroom where I was stuck in bed with the flu.

"I'm in my room, Em!" I called back as strongly as my weakened state would allow.

Emily walked in wearing a smile and a mask and I couldn't help but laugh at her.

"What's the mask for, Em? It's just the flu." I spoke through hacking coughs.

"Well, I can't afford to get sick." She looked like she was bubbling over to say more so I waited. "I'm pregnant!"

"Holy shit! Sam must be over the moon happy! I would hug you but now I really don't want you to get sick! WOW!"

"I haven't had a chance to tell Sam yet. He's out patrolling and he can't exactly carry a cell phone, ya' know? I just left the doctor, picked up the soup from the diner, and here I am! Oh, Bella, I'm so excited! I'm gonna' be a mommy!" She jumped up and down, squealing through her mask.

"I'm so happy for you and Sam, Em! You'll be such great parents! After all, you already take care of a pack of idiots! A kid has to be much easier than them!"

"I know, right?" We both giggled. Well, she giggled, but mine came out sounding more like a dying pig.

We both turned when we heard a tap on my bedroom window, expecting Edward or one of the Cullens. My whole body went cold when I saw flaming red hair and a wicked smirk.

"Emily! You have to get out of here!" I screeched.

"I'm not leaving you, Bella! Sam is patrolling and he'll be here soon!" We both knew deep down that he'd never make it in time.

"No, Emily! GO!" I tried to get out of bed, but my limbs just weren't working correctly, I guess as a result of the fever.

"Hello, dear Bella. I'm surprised to find you unattended. Between your Cullens and the mutts I never thought I'd get you alone. And who is this? It looks like something has already done damage to her." Victoria sneered.

"Just leave her alone, Victoria! It's me you want! She has nothing to do with this!" I fell as I attempted to get out of bed.

"Well, Bella, normally I would, but you see, I'm very hungry, and pregnant women are so delicious."

"NO!" Emily and I screamed at the same time, but it was too late. Victoria snapped her neck and drained her dry.

"EMILY!" I screamed.

Victoria dropped her limp body to the ground and turned to me. At that point I wanted death. Emily and her baby died because of me. Poor Sam.

"I'm sorry, Sam. Edward, I love you," I whispered what I expected to be my final words.

"Fuck!" Victoria screeched. "You're saved for now, sweet Bella, but I will be back!" And with that she jumped out the window.

"Bella!" Jake came bounding up the stairs and hit his knees as soon as he saw Emily's body.

"I told her to take me! It should have been me, Jake!" I wailed and Jake wrapped me in his arms. He then picked up my cell phone.

"Victoria was here. Come quick!" Then he hung up and held me tight.

I'm not sure how much time passed before Edward, Alice, and Jasper practically flew through the window.

"Oh God, Bella! Why didn't I see this?" Alice cried.

"Emily was pregnant. The baby… carried the wolf gene and would have blocked you. I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" I repeated my apology over and over until Jasper placed a hand on my shoulder and sent wave after wave of calm through me.

"Bells, I need to take Emily to Sam." I immediately fell into another round of sobs. I could only imagine what Sam was going to feel. He would hate me. Maybe even come to kill me. I would welcome it, after all Emily's death rested on my shoulders.

"Darlin' you need to stop that. This is no one's fault but Victoria's. Sam will understand that." I didn't believe him for a second, but was thankful for the effort. I looked to Jake and he looked about as convinced as I did that Sam wouldn't blame me. I was never his favorite person to begin with.

"Bells, I'm gonna' go now, but I'll be back once I talk to Sam." He leaned down and kissed my forehead before picking up am limp Emily. My heart broke a little more as I watched him carry her out my bedroom door.

SPOV

Emily had been gone quite a while. She said she had a checkup and then was going to check on Bella Swan. Why Emily befriended her I will never know. That girl caused problems everywhere she went and the company she kept just made it worse. Hell, look at all the shit she had put poor Jacob through. I would know, I have to see his thoughts.

I was getting ready to call Emily's phone when I saw them. Jake was carrying an unconscious Emily in his arms. I ran full-speed to meet them and when I did, I fell to the ground. Emily had no heartbeat. My sweet and loving Emily was ALL heart, and now hers had stopped.

"What… happened?" I asked between sobs as Jake laid her in my arms.

"The red-headed leech showed up at Bella's. Bells tried to stop her, but Victoria… well, she… I'm so sorry Sam! I didn't get there fast enough! And Emily being pregnant!" Jake was sobbing uncontrollably and it took a moment for me to register what he said.

"Pregnant?" I choked.

"Oh God! You didn't know?" Jake fisted his hands in his hair and my hand immediately went to Emily's flat stomach.

"She went for a checkup. She didn't even tell me she suspected it. We'd been trying, but I had no idea." I felt like I was in a fog. The air felt thick and weighed on my chest. My Emily was giving me a baby. I would have been a father.

Anger and hatred bubbled up inside me. Tangling with the grief it was a minute by minute battle as to which emotion was more prominent. Someone would pay. I would make it my life's goal to kill the red-head, and then I would deal with Bella Swan. She was the one who had brought this evil witch to our back yard.

One month later…

"Sam, it's Carlisle Cullen. You asked us to keep you updated on the Victoria situation. Things are much worse than we feared. She has built an army of newborn vampires and is coming to Forks. Alice said that they will be here in three days. Jasper has dealt with newborns. It was what he was created to do. He will be training us all, and we would like to invite you all to watch. That is if you are still willing to fight alongside us."

"We will fight, and we will watch your training. When and where?" My sentences were short and clipped. Ever since Emily's death, I had only spoken when absolutely necessary. All my words had been for Emily from the first moment I laid eyes on her, and with her gone I had no desire to do or say anything.

Bella Swan had actually had the nerve to show up at my Emily's funeral and I was so angry that I phased and almost killed her. If Jake and Paul hadn't stood in my way, I would have.

"This is not what Emily wanted for you, man. Remember who you are." Paul was always simple and to the point… and unfortunately it was one of the few times that he was right.

Carlisle gave me all the details and after I agreed once again we ended our conversation.

For two nights we observed the scarred Cullen as he showed us how the newborns fought. Well, I use the term "we" loosely because most of my time was spent watching Bella Swan with disdain. After all her involvement with leeches, why was she alive and my Emily dead? My baby?

Jake often looked at me from where he sat at Bella's side where she stroked his fur. He knew what I was feeling and always let me know that while he respected my feelings he would protect her. If it weren't for Jake, she would have been dead several times over. Yet it was always the leech that she chose. Just another reason to hate the bitch.

It had been decided that Bella would leave her scent all over the clearing to distract the newborns and then Jake would carry her to a site where the mind-reader had set up camp. The mind-reader and Seth would remain with Bella while the rest of us fought. I watched in Jake's thoughts as Bella kissed him and begged him not to go. What a heartless bitch she was. Wanting one, yet keeping both.

When the fight finally began everything moved so quickly. I released my inner wolf and gave myself completely to him. He was savage and vicious and took no mercy upon those who got in his path. My teeth ripped and sliced, tore and shredded. My brothers in battle fed from my hate and rage and we destroyed every newborn in our path. We would listen to no begging or pleading for their lives, because they had shown none to their victims. All the while, I looked for the red-head. I should have known that she wouldn't dare show her face in a real battle. Then, in Seth's mind I saw her. She and another newborn were circling Bella and the mind-reader.

I took off like a shot, determined that I would be the one to end her. By the time I got there she had just thrown what was left of the mind-reader in the fire and Seth was tangled with the newborn. Her eyes focused on Bella and a sneer came across her lips. Bella simply smiled and with a final "I love you, Edward" took the rock in her hand and sliced the sharp edge along her wrist. The red-head and the newborn were momentarily distracted by her blood, giving Seth and I the chance to take them down.

"WHY? Why didn't you let her kill me?" Bella screamed and pounded her small fists in my side. I growled at her before phasing back to my human form.

"Because death is too easy for you. Because of you my Emily and my baby are dead. And now your leech is gone as well. No, you deserve to suffer." I spat.

"Well, you can't stop me. The second you're gone I will finish what Victoria started. I don't deserve to live, nor do I want to." She cried, falling to the ground.

I didn't think of her pain of losing her mate. Only of my rage and that death was too easy for her. No, she would live as long as I did and I would take pleasure in watching her suffer. What I did next shocks me to this day. I lifted the girl in my arms and took off running. She was not allowed to escape the pain and I would be there every day as a reminder.

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