His eyes glazed over and he swayed. No idea what was up with that, but it seemed like a good time to strike. I lunged at him, but at the last second he sprinted into action and his sharp teeth tore at my throat, venom trailing from the wound soaking my shirt.

“You are not one of the others.” He said others like it should be capitalized. I knew he was referring to the Volturi. Was it possible that this one feral vampire could take out the host of Volturi guards that I’d seen tracking him in my vision?

“Nope, just your average run of the mill friendly vampire that has a penchant for saving the day. I guess I’m like the Spiderman of vampires,” I joked.

But while I’d been talking he’d stalked closer. “I do not think you will be as lucky as the comic book hero you liken yourself to.” He laughed high and cold. “And they say I’m deranged.” He roared and was on me, his hands tearing into my flesh, his teeth gnawing at my shoulder as we rolled over the embankment into the woods.

For every handful of flesh I pulled from him, he tore two more from me, but I couldn’t stop. I had to make sure he couldn’t continue his serial plague.

Even as I fought him with every ounce of strength I possessed, I imagined what Bella’s reaction would be upon hearing of my demise. Naturally, she would struggle at first, but she had good ol’ Jacob by her side like an ever faithful golden retriever. He would take care of her and eventually…maybe they’d get married. That thought pained me more than my flesh being ripped from me.

The sound of my body slamming into the tree knocking it to the ground was deafening. Now probably wasn’t the best time to be imagining my love marrying someone else, I thought as I got to my feet, my body quivering from the damage he’d inflicted on me. All of my attention needed to be on the crazed vampire bearing down on me with a near gleeful look in his red eyes.

If I died here, then this vamp would be free to kill Charlie and a host of others. Now that he knew that the people of Forks were important to another vampire, he would undoubtedly seek to gorge on their blood wiping this town out in a matter of days.