A/N: Hey! Yeah... a new one. Normally I don't like posting two stories at once, but I haven't written a chapter of Hoodwinked in more than 2 months. With all the fires in my country, mostly in my state, we have been literally living under smoke and ash for almost three months. I suffer from terrible hay fever and sinus, and my first priority has been to keep the migraines at bay. I can barely even look at my computer screen for longer than half an hour. I feel like I've had one terrible, shitty headache for three months straight! Ugh! Anyway, I started this story a couple of months after I started Hoodwinked, and I have almost 21 chapters completed. I don't like keeping people hanging, so I'm hoping this one will make you smile until I can start writing again. I don't know when that will be, so Hoodwinked might be going on a short hiatus.

It's a vamp Bella and human Edward. Bella is... not a very nice, generous soul. She's very dark. And sadistic. I think my inner psyche comes out well here ;)

Finally, I just can't with Stephenie Meyer's vampology, so I amalgamated several different lore's with hers. I kept the cool skin, no sleeping, and red/gold eyes, but there is no sparkling in the sunshine, no venom, no frenzied feeding, and no bodies that feel like granite. There is fangs (from the canines), beating hearts, flesh and blood bodies that will turn warm for a limited time after feeding, and they turn humans into vampires by feeding them their blood. They, naturally, have super human strength and speed.

And lastly, lastly, Kim, my Beta, is going to hate me, and when she gets the notification about this she will more than likely headdesk in exasperation. She has not edited this. She has not even set eyes on any chapter of this story. What can I say; I'm rash. Impulsive. Impatient. Set in my ways - yadda yadda...

My pre-reader StarryEyedWriter8 has, so thanks, doll, for the support. I'm sorry, Kim... *hides under bed*

Anywho... I hope you give it a shot, and maybe like it enough to forgive me about Hoodwinked. I'll post this one and two chapters tonight.

Black Swan

Prologue.

Out of all my siblings, I'm closest to Rose. We bonded over the similarity of circumstance.

When a vampire is created, the events and subsequent emotion surrounding their human death will often be carried over with them into immortality.

Both Rose and I were murdered, and the burden of it we carry into eternity with us is tainted by bitterness. Though, bitterness in varying degrees can project very differently in each immortal.

In Rose it comes across as haughtiness, resentment and narcissism. In me it's anger, mistrust and vengeance.

Mostly vengeance.