Hey this is my first ever story so take it easy. I watched a sneak peak from the new Lost and got the inspiration for a story from it. This is an Edward and Bella story set 3 years after New Moon if he had never come back. Bella has just turned 21. Enjoy and please R&R.

3 years after Bella's separation from Edward, Jasper discovers that somebody want hers dead. Bella has already fled her home. After a chance encounter on a high-street, Bella is pulled back into the dangerous world of the Cullen's, but what's changed?

Nearly three years after my 18th Birthday, and where am I? Well I can safely say that if Edward saw me now, if he had any doubts when leaving me, he would have packed his bag and left as quickly as possible. I wouldn't have been able to recognise myself looking back at my memories of just after our separation and looking at myself now. So much can change in such a short space of time. There wasn't a day when I didn't think about how different my life could have been had he never of left, and thinking about it used to make me angry. Angry at him. But not anymore. Now I realised what a good decision it turned out to be for him. I was never good enough to be a part of his world, everything I touch nearly always turns to dust. It was better for him this way. He would be happy now, with a suitable match and if I ever saw him again then there would be no awkwardness. Just a mutual respect for one and other. I had changed and I guessed so had he.

"Bella?"

The word sprung me back to the present. I was sitting in my black business car waiting on the side of high street in LA. The heat was burning today so I had rolled my window down to let in any chance of a cool breeze across my face. Strangely the clouds where completely overcast, keeping in this excruciating heat. My mind did a double flip as it began to process where I recognised this voice from. It couldn't really be him could it? I turned my head to take in the view I had wanted to see but had never dreamed of seeing again.

"Jasper!" my voice came out barely above a whisper but it was a happy whisper. He could read my emotions and could sense I was glad to see him and gave me a comforting smile. "You've dyed your hair!" Darn it Bella, I scolded myself! You haven't seen the guy for nearly 3 years and that's the first thing you can say to him!

"I needed a change," he replied with humour present in his voice. I guess he could sense my reaction. Just then reality hit me. Jasper was here, Jasper was in front of my car. This meant his family was here. This meant Edward. Oh no I couldn't be dealing with all of this right now. Jasper seemed to pick up on the change of tone.

"Look Jasper uhh I don't know why your here but uhh I can't be dealing with this right now," I stuttered, praying that he would get the hint.

"What's going on?" I could sense the concern present in his voice. Well at least I knew one of them still cared for me.

"Nothing just...can you just go?" My tone stayed surprisingly calm, but my eyes were glancing back and forth between him and the road in front of me.

"Why don't you just tell me?" he pushed, his concern continuing to shock me. It had been ages since anyone had shown any real concern for my wellbeing.

"Jasper! Please just go!" I was losing control and could feel a defeat coming on. I had to keep Jasper on side; otherwise there was the risk that he might tell Edward he had seen me, and the state that I had been in.

"Please just tell me." That was it I was giving in now. With so much fighting going on I couldn't afford to fight with these people as well. They were my last memories of the good times.

"Someone wants Charlie," I whispered loudly, but calmly. His face turned to confusion.

"What?"Great this was it, time to spill.

"There is a lawyer in there; his clients know that I am lying. They know what he has done and they are going to take him away." Though this was probably one of my biggest life secrets that I had just told to someone who was no more than a stranger to me now, it came out surprisingly calmly.

"Who's going to take him away?" As I listened I glanced towards the road and saw a black car pull out from the car park ahead. This was it; I was going to find out once and for all who was behind ruining my life for the past two years. I put my foot on the clutch and got my car in gear, ready to pursue.

"What are you doing?" Jasper spoke, confusion written in all his features. I knew there was no way out of this now. I had dragged the Cullen's into this mess the moment I told Jasper and I knew Edward would find out which ever way this went. He would find out that I am a complete failure. The Cullen's had saved me many times before and now they would probably try and do it again.

"Look I've got to go alright, get in or don't!" I spoke the words with the authority that I had gained in my years of absence from them. Without hesitation he moved swiftly to the passenger side of the car and stepped in. Before he had shut the down I had the car moving. Hot in pursuit of the mystery black car.

Silence filled the car for the first part of our journey. I could see him glancing over and looking me up and down. I was wearing a well fitted suit with a blue shirt. Not a teenager anymore. There was no more fun and games in my life. All business. I had money and plenty of it but it had done me no good. I looked the part of someone who had everything, but the reality was that I had nothing.

"What is going on Bella? And I want the complete truth. Look at you, you have changed so much. Where has all this money come from? Why aren't you in Forks? And why are you pursuing Mr Carson's car?" Wait hold one second. Did he just say what I think he said? Rewind.

"What? How do you know whose car that is? What do you know about Mr Carson?" Was Jasper working for him? Was he out here to trick me?

"I know more that you probably. I know for one that it is a very bad decision to pursue Mr Carson in public!" He could sense the distrust radiating from me and felt the need to continue and explain himself. "He has been following me and my family for many years, and his father for the years before that. They are what you could call human trackers. They keep tabs on us, vampires that is, and clean up the mess that we leave behind us. That's why most of them are lawyers. The millions of murders a year at the hands of vampires have to be covered up by someone. The Volturi do a lot of the leg work but Carson cleans it up legally. We've never really had any problems with the previous generations of this family but this son found out about us. That we live among humans and don't hunt them. He doesn't like it. But he can't do anything about it! He followed us here to LA, he's planning something but we have no idea what or why he came here, until this morning that is." As he finished he glanced over at me. My face was calm and collected the perfect business exterior. I still didn't trust Jasper wasn't working with him. Maybe doing him a favour so he would leave his family alone. Why else would he of just shown up out of the blue.

"What did you find out this morning?" I sounded interested but not overly. Just enough for him to know I understood everything he was saying but enough to give away how much I knew.

"That he is after you, Bella." My eyes bulged wide for a second. This was it; Jasper was here to kill me. My heart started pounding loudly in my chest and I made a reach for the glove compartment. He put his hand on my wrist to stop me. "Bella I would never agree to kill you. What has happened to you to make you think such a thing?"

"You would do anything to protect your family right? What if getting me out of the way was a way to do just that? I wouldn't hold it against you." As I spoke his facial features became horrified.

"Bella you are family. That is why I came to find you. One of Carlisle's close friends at the hospital got attacked. We managed to knock out the attacker and quarantine him but I found an address in his pocket. I didn't recognise it at first but when I looked it up I found it was yours. Don't worry I haven't told anyone anything. I went to visit you but a neighbour said you had left a few days earlier. I followed you scent to here."

He seemed very genuine in his answer. I felt claustrophobic in this tight space. This had gotten out of hand. He was now going directly after the Cullen's close friends.

"I left after he approached me at my home, with the news of his plans for Charlie's arrest. I have to find out who his client is! It's the only way to stop this madness!" For the first time in years my facade was beginning to slip. I couldn't imagine Edward in any type of danger because of me. I took a deep breath to calm my nerves.

"Why? I don't understand why you are involved in this. What I do understand is that he knows you are following him and that it will be trap. You have to stop this car and turn around. Be reasonable here you cannot help your father this way." He was nearly pleading to me.

"This is my only chance. I have no other help and no where left to go! Charlie is my only family. No one else cares about me I cannot lose him as well." My eyes never left the road, burning holes into the back of Mr Carson's head.

"There is another way Bella. There always is. Come back with me. We will help you, we were family once Bella and I know you think that Edward doesn't care but he does. We need your help as much as you need ours. Please?" My resolution failed me then. I was truly desperate. But was I desperate enough to beg my ex-lover and his family for help? If any one of them died they would never forgive me. But all I had left was Charlie, and this was my one chance at keeping him safe.

"What way to your house?"

Thanks everyone. This is my first ever story and I know it seems a bit confusing! There is nothing going on between Jasper and Bella, he was just the only character I could place in that situation. I promise next chapter Edward and Bella will meet! Please review otherwise I might just give up!