Dark Days and Places AU

[themidnightson]

It's been two months since he killed Isabelle Swan in the meadow.

It's been one month and two weeks since he walked out on his family.




The world's all a haze of red now.

Or maybe it's just his eyes.

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[themidnightson]

If she was being watched, its from a far distance still. The rustling through the leaves are still of animals that had been in the brush and trees near her.

Startled birds and medium mammals who had already been skittish, but now were running out a further added terror. This was probably not for the best given that it was also a pitch black early morning.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

The darkness didn't bother her. She could see well enough and, besides, she had the lights from her shuttle to rely upon.

But trained and sharpened senses said something was approaching. Perhaps even the demon she had heard the humans in a nearby town talking about.

[themidnightson]

And then he's there.

A long shadow in amid the long shadows of the forest.

A voice speaking from what still looks like the same darkness.




"You shouldn't be here."

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Her gun was out before he even spoke, trained on him. Jenny's eyes narrowed in the darkness as she looked him over - not bad. Not bad at all. In fact, she'd venture to say familiar.

"Neither should you," she responded, a mocking tone in her voice. "There's a demon about."

[themidnightson]

"Is there?"

The voice flitted around her, coming from different directions, never once out of breath or changing in tone.

"What does that make you then? The sacrifice?"

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

"I'm not exactly what you'd call a virgin," Jenny murmured, giving up on the gun and leaning against her shuttle. She crossed her legs and grinned. "I haven't been for... oh, since meeting him! It's been brilliant, you know. The months."

She raised an eyebrow, taking in a strong scent of the air around her. She did indeed remember him - the only other individual she met who could run this fast. Aside from the boy who had died on their very first adventure in her universe. "It hasn't been brilliant for you, has it, Edward?"

[themidnightson]

"It depends on what you think is brilliant."

He'd stopped in one location again. Closer this time, nearly at the edge of the light. But not yet.

And his tone was half a dark laugh.

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

She tilted her head in a manner so befitting of the girl she used to be. That girl never would dress as she did now: in a silky black dress cut mid-thigh that left little to the imagination. She had on combat boots, though, another bit reminiscent of the soldier.

"You killed her," she responded in a smug tone, reaching out with the abilities her Master taught her to perfect. "That human. What was her name? Weak and powerless and you snapped her like a twig."

[themidnightson]

Her.

Bella.

Bella, Bella, Bella.

Her name mimicked a fading heart beat in his thoughts even as he smiled in the darkness. "No, that would have been much kinder than I was."

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Her eyebrows raised and the look on Jenny's face couldn't be described as anything but grotesque interest.

"Yeah?"

[themidnightson]

"Snapping her like any normal, common person wouldn't have served any purpose."

Edward took a slow, lingering, utterly pointless since he didn't need it, breath.

"Her heart would have stopped quickly and her blood would have fallen on the ground. It would have been a waste."

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

"Mmm," she murmured, running her tongue over her lips as she imagined the scene. "Did she taste as every bit as brilliant as you had imagined?"

[themidnightson]

"Better."

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Still smiling, she steps closer to him and places a hand on his chest.

"I wonder if I can still taste her on you."