Beyond The Forest || Twilight Reimagined

Everything Changes

EDITORS NOTE: Sorry for the delay on part two! Your patience means a great deal though. I hope you all enjoy this chapter! I might end up editing some of the ending but I'm not sure yet. TRIGGER WARNING: This chapter does involve an attempted assault.

The air was damp with the smell of recent rainfall and the only sound that could be heard were droplets of water cascading down from the trees, but if you listened really carefully, a lone deer was lapping up water from a puddle in the near distance. The rain couldn't wash away the scent of blood pumping through the living creature, not from this kind of predator. Letting instinct take control, the monster hunted it's prey, becoming consumed with it's need for blood...

He knew that he was getting close, he could practically taste it when suddenly he was being slammed into tree bark. A guttural growl escaped him as he took hold of the figure that was familiar to him. "You made me lose dinner." He said with a hiss through his fangs as his eyes glowed a golden yellow, still consumed by the hunt. "I can give you something better." The blonde said with an enticing tone and as if he couldn't control himself, he let out a low growl and pinned her to that same tree as they both embraced each other in a frenzy of desire.

Starring up at the canopy of the trees he laid on the ground as the heat of the hunt mellowed out of his system and clarity took it's place. "Mmm." The blonde practically purred as she stretched out beside him, moving to drape her arm along his bare chest. Feeling aggravated, Edward moved away from her touch and got up to retrieve his pants. "What are you doing here Irina?" He said as he finished doing up his fly and pulled his shirt back on. "I missed you. I haven't heard from you in a while so I figured I'd come see you." She said innocently, but he knew her mind. "I still stand by what I said last time Irina, I'm done with this." They've had this sort of on and off thing for a while now that started as a mutual physical release, but he always tried to end it when she began having feelings for him cause he didn't share those feelings for her. At one point he had considered her to be a friend, that is until he started to see how manipulative she could be.

"Funny how your actions say otherwise." She said as she got up and made a show of getting back into her clothes. "That's hardly fair. You knew I was hunting. You knew exactly what you were doing." Hunting for their kind was a very primal thing. You lost yourself to the hunger, sex was pretty similar in that sense, but it was hard not to give in when you were already so consumed. "Why do you fight what we have so hard?" He sighed, they had been over this so many times before. "Because it's one sided. I've told you I don't feel the same way as you do." He could see that she was trying to hide the hurt on her face, but her thoughts always betrayed her in the end. There was a part of him that felt guilty, but he had always been honest with her, she just wouldn't except it. "You don't know what you want Edward, cause you're always too busy trying to shut everything out." And with that she gave him one last longing look before turning to leave. It was true that it was hard for him to get close to someone intimately when he could hear their every thought. Even sex was hard to fully enjoy due to the distraction of his ability, which was probably why his encounters were always so rough and carnal, it was the added frustration. He once wondered if he hadn't been plagued by her thoughts would he have fallen for her like that, but deep down he knew he wouldn't have. Clutching the side of his head out of aggravation he sighed and began making his way back to the house.

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The past few weeks seemed to of gone by in a blur. To anyone else it looked as though she were settling in just fine. She was keeping up with school, had a group of friends she would sit with at lunch. (only two of which she actually considered friends.) But no one knew her like her best friend Jacob Black, who to her dismay was visiting his sister Rachel in Seattle and wouldn't be back for another couple of days, to which she continues to guilt him about. Jacob lived with his father on the reservation in La Push, so it wasn't like they would be going to the same school when he did get back, but she missed him. He was part of what made her feel home here. They're dad's were pretty good friends, so they spent a lot of time together growing up when she'd come to visit. He was like a brother to her, and the feeling was mutual. She looked down at a picture of them on her desk that she had brought with her from Phoenix and picked up her phone, opening her messages and began typing.