AN: I know many of you have already read this story so for you I'm sorry this isn't an update this is just me fixing the story. I will probably completely rewrite the ending though so watch out for that.
Chapter 1
BPOV
I woke up that morning screaming I had had the dream again. In the dream I was in the woods running, chasing something I didn't know what but I knew I had to keep running, my life depended on it. I guess some people might think that this isn't such a bad dream and the dream itself isn't that bad. It's the feeling of terror that I get from the dream that makes me wake up screaming. I had been having this same dream every night since He left and every night I woke up screaming. It made Charlie worry about me more than he already did, things have gotten better though since I had started hanging out with the werewolves. I still missed Him but I felt less empty when I was near Jake and that made Charlie worry less.
I got up and got dressed. I ate a quick breakfast and drove down to La Push like I did every day. When I got their Billy greeted me at the door
"Hello Bella Jakes not here right now."
"Oh? Is he going to be back soon?" I asked hoping he would be.
"I'm not sure. Apparently Paul caught the scent of a new coven of vampires by the border about an hour ago. So they all went to check it out." Billy said
"Oh." I said dejectedly
"You're welcome to hang out here or go over to Emily's to wait for them." Billy said his eyes full of compassion and pity.
I know dad talks to him about how worried he is about me and how much better I seem to be when I hang out with Jake and the pack.
"No thank you I'll find something to do." I said trying to avoid his pity.
Billy tried to talk me into staying but when he realized it was a lost cause he sighed and said "alright Bella if you're sure but be careful and stay out of the woods Jake said Paul found a lot of new scents so there are quite a few cold ones in the area. I would hate for something to happen to you."
"I'll watch myself Billy don't worry so much. I'll probably just go hang out at the beach for a bit" I said trying to reassure him.
After I left Jake's house I drove around aimlessly for hours not really going anywhere. This probably wasn't the best idea with a strange vampire close by and Jake would be pissed if he found out how stupid I was being especially with my knack for attracting danger, but I did it anyway. Before I knew it I was driving down the curving tree lined path that is the Cullen's driveway. What was I doing here was I trying to completely destroy what little remained of my heart. Maybe I really am going crazy. Well the small voice in my head whispered since we're already here we might as well keep going. I pulled up to the Cullen's house and turned off the truck and sat there for a few minutes looking at the place that I used to consider my second home. The place where the people I considered family had lived. The place that held some of my happiest and saddest memories.
I finally decide to get out and go in. I figured if I was crazy why not keep going. I walked into the house and nothing had changed it was all the same as it had been last time I was their just a little dustier. I saw the white couch in the living room where He and I had sat so many nights talking with his family or watching TV. I walked to the kitchen and remembered all the times I had eaten in this kitchen everyone but Him wrinkling their nose at the food in disgust.
I walked up the stairs and went into the first room Carlisle and Esme's room I started crying. I missed Esme. She was always so kind and giving. She was like the mother I never had she took care of me and loved unconditionally. Then there was Carlisle who had fixed me up after so many of accident I couldn't help but love him. They were the picture of perfect parents and I missed them both like crazy. I left their room and went to the next one it was Emmett and Rosalie's room. This room wasn't as hard as the last one but it was still hard Rosalie had never liked me always making snide comments about me or just glaring at me so remembering her didn't hurt much. Emmett however was like the big brother I always wanted but never had. I sat there remembering all the times he had laughed at me falling and all the times he had made me fall. He had always loved my clumsiness and the fact that his laughing made me turn bright red made him laugh all the more. He was my big teddy bear brother and I missed him. I left their room and went to the next one it was Carlisle's study I looked at the pictures He had shown me the day I first met the Cullens. That was a happier time a time when I was happy and didn't try to not feel. I stared at the pictures I didn't know the stories of and realized that now I never would. I would never know their significance and it made me sad. I left Carlisle's office and entered the next room. This one was the hardest yet it was Alice and Jasper's room I remembered the days we spent in the hotel room hiding from the tracking vampire James. That had to have been so hard for Jasper but he had been so nice keeping me calm when I was freaking out. I sat their thinking of the time Alice had dressed me for a prom. I didn't want to go to. That seemed so stupid now. Lastly I remembered all the times we played Bella Barbie in this room. I missed Alice almost as much as I missed him. She was my best friend and she was gone.
Finally I entered the final room Edward's. Here in his room I could no longer avoid thinking his name. I walked in and sat on his couch and cried it smelled like him. Everything reminded me of him. I remembered our play fight from when I first met his family and how we had landed on the couch. I remembered spending hours sitting on the couch and listening to his massive music collection that still sat on the shelves collecting dust. I looked out the window wall and looked at the forest and thought of all the times we had sat in the forest talking. Then I thought of the final time we talked in the forest. When he told me he didn't love me anymore and then how he left me there, all alone. My crying turned to sobbing I eventually fell asleep to the sound of my own sobs.
I was in the meadow and it was sunny. I looked around and realized I was dreaming. For one thing I felt happy and that never happened. Also it was way too sunny and warm to be Forks and I remembered it raining earlier and it had been extremely cold.
"Bella?"
"Edward!" I said realizing I wasn't alone. His face was perfectly beautiful just like I remembered. His straight angular features were shimmering in the sun and his golden eyes were focused on me, and I saw worry in them. He was worrying about me, just like he used to, I thought to myself.
"Bella." He said and he sounded scared like something bad was going to happen. He was definitely worrying I could hear it in his voice.
"What Edward? What's wrong?"
"BELLA, RUN!" he shouted suddenly looking at me with pure fear in his eyes.
All the sudden I woke up I was still crying and the whole in my chest was throbbing. I was still on Edwards's couch that must have been why I had the weird dream because I fell asleep in this place that smelled like him but why was he telling me to run? "Weird dream" I said to myself.
I curled up on my side and cried my eyes out. When the tears finally slowed I looked out the window and saw that it was dark. Oh no Charlie must be wondering where I am by now.
I got in my truck and went to put my keys in the ignition but I dropped them. I leaned down to grab them and when I came back up I saw a pale person in my rear view mirror staring at me curiously. I whipped around but there was nothing there. Great now I was hallucinating if I got much worse Charlie was going to have me committed. I drove home and parked my truck in front of the house. Just then Charlie came running out of the house looking both angry and relived.
"Bella. Where were you? I was worried sick." He yelled as he pulled me into a hug that was almost tighter than Jake's.
"Sorry I fell asleep on the beach waiting for Jake to get back. I didn't mean to worry you Dad." I said feeling really bad. Charlie worried about me enough without me doing stupid things like this.
"Its fine Bells just don't do it again." He told me sternly and I saw the worry in his eyes. Poor Charlie I thought I'm going to give him a heart attack one day.
We went inside and ate. I realized as I sat down that I was starving. I washed the dishes and then I went to bed as I was getting into my bed I thought I saw the same pale figure I had seen at the Cullen's outside my window. But when I looked again it was gone. Great I really was going crazy this was not good. These hallucinations needed to stop. I didn't want to go to the loony bin.
"There are no vampires in Forks anymore." I told myself hoping that if I spoke the truth out loud my mind would stop conjuring up these vampires "they left you remember?"
The next morning I woke up and was both shocked and happy to realize I hadn't dreamed. Weird I thought I always dream of something. I wasn't sure if I preferred not dreaming but it was a nice change to not wake up screaming. I sat up and was shocked by what I heard.
"Good morning." Said a voice I'd never heard before. It was polite so polite it was scary. "Bella isn't it."
I turned to look at the man sitting at the end of my bed. He looked vaguely familiar but that fact didn't really register through the shock of realizing I hadn't been hallucinating yesterday.
"V-v-v-vamp-p-pire." I shuddered because it was the only thing I knew was true he had pale skin and he was beautiful and like James, Victoria and Laurent he had red eyes.
"Yes. I am a vampire you certainly are a very . . . informed human, aren't you?"
I nodded my words failing me. Now that I was over the shock that fact that I had seen this man before fully registered. I didn't know where but I had seen him before. I hadn't met him but his face. . . I knew that face. Where had I seen it before?
"I know you" I said cutting off whatever he was about to say.
He cocked his head to the side and said "really, you know me. Odd I don't know you."
"We haven't met but your face. . ." I trailed off and then gasped I crawled to the back corner of my bed trying to get as far away from his as possible not that it would help me any I couldn't exactly run away from a vampire. "Your Aro one of the leaders of the Volturi." I whispered
"Ah you are informed," he said seeming slightly shocked and amused at the same time. "That isn't a good thing dear Bella."
I swallowed nervously and said. "Why?"
"Ah Bella I'll ask the questions. First, how do you know who and what I am?"
"You look just like the Cullens, except your eyes. You eat humans." I told him and he nodded. "And E-Ed one of them showed me a picture of you, Caius, and Marcus and told me of you and he told me of Carlisle's time with you." I said it was harder than I thought it would be to try to say his name.
"Ah the Cullens told you about what they were didn't they?" I nodded.
"Why?" he asked
"I. . ." the tears started to flow." I can't talk about it." I told him.
"That's fine you don't have to. Did they ever tell you of my powers?" Aro asked.
I shook my head no. he smiled and looked unsurprised.
"It's similar to Edwards." I flinched at his name which caused my heart to rip a little more and he looked at me strangely. "I can see every thought you have ever had, all by touching you." I gasped shocked.
"Give me your hand." He commanded
I thought of resisting but I remembered he was a vampire, more than that he was a non-vegetarian vampire so I gave him my hand and continued to cry. He took it and looked expectant I watched as his face changed to the face He made when he really wished he could read my mind."
"He couldn't see my thoughts either. We never knew why he just couldn't" I told him and he looked confused for a second. Then he seemed to understand what I was saying.
"How very mysterious." He said "Jane dear come here" he said as if he was talking to me but I knew he wasn't he was talking to someone outside of the room just like the Cullens use to.
"Yes." Said a girl who had just jumped through my window. I guessed this was Jane.
"Jane this is Bella. Bella this is Jane she has a power of her own." Aro said smiling a smile that sent shivers down my spine and made my blood run cold. I was hoping that this girl's power didn't work on me either.
"Jane please shows Bella."
Jane got a wicked smile on her face and I was scared. Aro smiled at my fear. Jane's smile faltered, then it turned into a frown, and then she was scowling at me. I realized then that her power wasn't working and I was glad.
"Ahhhhhhh!" she screamed
"Calm yourself dear one. Go wait with others." Aro said while grabbing her so she couldn't attack me. Jane left and Aro paced the room staring at me.
"Why are you in Forks?" I asked timidly wanting answers but still extremely scared of the vampire standing in front of me and the 'others' he had mentioned when talking to Jane
"Like you said Carlisle lived with us we had business in California, someone was trying to build an army, so we came to visit an old friend before we headed home." he stated.
Just then he jumped out my window and second later a big brawny vampire came in stared and at me with a cruel smirk that told me bad things were going to happen very soon. I tried to get farther away from him and he laughed.
"You realize you know too much don't you." He asked.
"I . . . what." I said confused and extremely scared.
He laughed at me. "They." He nodded toward the window. "Aren't going to let you live knowing what you know about what we are its vampire law."
I gasped and curled up in a ball. So this is it I'm going to die soon. Poor Charlie, poor Renee, poor Jacob, Jacob would he know what happened. Did I want him to know? No I didn't he would try to find them and that would get him killed. I walked to my computer I was going to say goodbye to my parents. I waited for the internet to load and while it did I got a pen and paper to write Charlie a note.
Dear Charlie,
I'm going to Jake's I probably won't be home until late. Don't wait up for me. There are leftovers in the fridge take them out of the plastic before you put them in the microwave. I love you with all my heart dad and I really have loved living with you even though it may not have seemed like it.
Bella
I folded the note in half and went to put it on the table the big guy blocked me.
"I'm putting it on the table. It's just instructions on how to reheat the leftovers." I told him.
He nodded and let me go. I left it on the table. I went upstairs and got on the computer and looked my e-mail
Renee,
Stop worrying about me I'm fine Jacob and I are getting close he is like family but I think he wants more but I'm not ready for that I still haven't gotten over, him. What should I do? I was never good at this. I love you mommy.
Bella
I sent it and then started to cry I was going to miss them and they would die when they found out I was dead. This stank but no matter how much I hated this I couldn't hate the Cullens even though this was their fault, I loved them.
"Who is Jacob?" the vampire asked.
"What? Oh Jake. He's my friend from La Push. Why are they taken so long?"
"They are deciding."
Before I had a chance to ask what they were deciding Aro came through the Window. He looked at the other Vampire and took his hand he then released him and signaled for him to stand in front of my door.
"So you have said your goodbyes then?"
"As many as I could." I told him.
"Good then you my dear Bella have a choice to make."
I looked at him confused. "What choice he said you weren't going to let me live doesn't that only leave one choice."
"No no no. what Demetri meant was we aren't going to let you remain human anymore."
"Oh." I said scared stiff. "Why wouldn't it be easier just to kill me?"
"Well yes but you shield intrigues me. I'd like to see what it would become if you change. But I will not force you to become like us. If you wish to die instead that can be arranged. As you said we aren't like the Cullens we eat people." He finished with a wicked grin that scared me.
"If I change how will you keep my friends and family from becoming suspicious?" I asked already guessing the answer.
"I faked death of course." He said like it was obvious and I guess it kind of was if you think about it.
"If you change me will I have to join you?" I asked not liking the idea of being a Volturi.
"Not if you don't want to." He said but his eyes told me a different story, a story I didn't like. So I chose to listen to his words instead.
"So I could find the Cullen's and finally ask them my questions." I said more to myself than to Aro.
"If you wish to." He said shrugging. Though I could tell he didn't like the idea." You will be free to do as you please."
"I want you to change me." I told him.
"Ah good." He said and smiled. "Demetri grab Bella and let's go join the others."
"Can I change first?" I said realizing I was still in my old t-shirt and sweats that I had worn to bed.
"If you wish." Aro said to me. "Demetri wait for her."
I changed into my favorite pair of jeans and a blue shirt Edward had always loved. Edward after I was changed I could finally find the Cullens. No I told myself what if they don't want to see me. Ok I will find them but I will not force myself on to them. As I was leaving I tripped on a floor board that was sticking out. I went over to it and pulled it up and there beneath that floor board was everything. My pictures, my CD and
My plane tickets. I took the CD and the pictures. I hid them in the pocket of my jacket.
"I'm ready." I said to Demetri.
He nodded and picked me up and as we left I started to cry I would never see this house, Jacob, Charlie, Renee, or anyone else in Forks ever again.
"How are we going to fake her death in a way that will leave no body." One of the vampires was arguing with Aro.
"You could crash my truck into the woods and light it on fire." I said realizing after I did that I probably should have kept my mouth shut. The vampire Caius I realized was staring at me like he wanted to kill me. I flinched away only to run into Demetri who may have been scarier than Caius.
"Brilliant we will do that Demetri take that old truck of Bella's and go run it into a woods make it look like an accident then light it on fire." Aro told him grinning. Now Bella you come with us"
I followed then and we got into a car. They drove as fast as the Cullens maybe faster. When they stopped we were at the Cullens and the tears that had been falling turned to sobs. Aro looked at me as if I was the oddest thing he had ever seen.
"Come Bella." We went into the house and then he turned. "Do you have a preference as to where in the house or is anywhere good?"
I walked towed the stairs not trusting my voice and he followed I went into Edwards room sat down on his couch and tilted my head. He smiled and bit me. Then he pulled away and left. The pain started and it was the most agonizing thing I had ever felt and then I blacked out and was alone in my own world.
APOV
Bella was in our house in Forks. Why was she in our house? Oh no she was crying she looked devastated. She was sleeping in Edwards's room. Oh hell the Volturi were there and they saw her. Aro wants to know why she was in our house so he follows her home. He watches her and she catches a glimpse of him. "There are no vampires in Forks anymore they left you remember?" she said to herself oh Bella why would you say that out loud. Now Aro knows that you know. Aro finds out he can't read Bella's mind and Jane's power doesn't work either. Aro wants her. He gives her the option of being charged and she takes it. They are in our house and Aro bites her.
"Alice! Alice! What is it?" Jasper yelled feeling my horror.
"Bella. No!" I screamed. How could they.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Jasper demanded truly worried not just for me anymore but for Bella too. He still felt like it was his fault we had to leave her. He felt bad because he knew how much we all missed her, especially me.
"She, they changed her." I told him still unable to believe it, but it had to be true it was one of the clearest visions I had had in a long time.
"Who, Alice. Who changed her?" Jasper demanded and I could tell he wanted to kill whoever had done this to his brother's mate and my best friend. Jasper may not have been that close to Bella but he knew how Edward and I felt about her and that was enough for him.
"Aro." I whispered
He stared at me in shock. "How did they even find her, and why would they do it."
"They came to visit us and she caught a glimpse of them and said 'there are no more vampires in Forks they left you remember.' Then Aro found out about her shield liked it and changed her." I told him.
"No" Jasper said looking devastated when I repeated her words.
I nodded feeling the same way he did. We never should have left her. Screw Edward and his it's for her own good crap. "Tanya I'm sorry we have to go." I said she hadn't been listening to our conversation but I said this louder.
"Where are we going?" Jasper asked
"Forks, Bella needs us." I told him seriously because she did.
He nodded and got our stuff.
