ANOTHER CHANCE AT FAMILY
I don't own anything except Carlie, Scott, Layla, and the plot. Everything else belongs to the one and only Stephanie Meyer.
Summary: This starts 85 years after Edward leaves Bella in New Moon. In this story Edward never came back. Now The Cullen's find that when they left, Bella was pregnant with a daughter named Carlie. Now with the help of The Cullen's Carlie Must find the one person that she hates the most Victoria and her army of Newborns.
AU: Every chapter will often have a different POV so please bear with me.
Chapter 1 Discovery:
EmPOV
I can't believe that the last time we were here in Forks was 85 years ago. It's a little strange to be here. Every time I walk through the house I expect to see my little sister Bella either blushing or tripping over something. The Family hasn't been the same since we left Bella. After 2 years Edward finally came back to live with the family again, but he still looks so…empty. Everyone does, even my Rosalie. As much as she disliked Bella She still thought of her as a sister deep down inside.
We had just moved back into town and Carlisle decided that a hunt would be good. Everyone went their separate ways in search of food.
I smiled as I caught the scent of a bear. As I got closer to the bear I got a whiff of a scent that I thought I would never smell again. Bella, it was Bella's scent. There was something a bit off to the smell but not by much. With a big smile on my face I decided to follow the scent. I rushed past the bright green trees until I entered a large field with a small pond in the center and a large boulder next to it. The back of my mind was telling me that I should leave but then I saw who the scent belonged to. It wasn't Bella as I had expected, but a teenage girl who looked to be no older than 18 years old. She had her long bronze colored hair tied into a high pony tail on her head. She wore a black leather jacket with dark wash jeans, a blue t-shirt, and black sneakers.
As I got closer to her she spun around and stared at me. We both stood there for a couple of seconds before I heard the others gathering behind me. Alice must have seen this. I shook my head and smiled. Got to love my freaky sister, no matter how annoying she can be.
The girl lowered into an attack position and growled. But it wasn't her actions that made us all freeze; it was her heart shaped face, full pink lips and big chocolate brown eyes. She looked just like Bella but different at the same time. Her features were not as soft as Bella's had been. Her face was more defined.
It was quiet for a moment longer before she spoke.
"Who are you?" she asked sternly.
Alice giggled slightly and the girl's eyes shot toward Alice with a hard glare. Everyone stayed quiet while Carlisle spoke.
"We are the Cullen's, I'm Carlisle, this is my wife Esme," he gestured towards his left.
"And this is my family. Who are you?" he asked kindly, but you could hear the confusion and curiosity in his voice. She loosened her shoulders and slowly walked closer to us in an extremely graceful manner, not like Bella would have. She was about 10 feet away when she answered.
"My name is Carlie Swan." Esme gasped and put a hand over her silent heart as she spoke.
"Are you related to Bella?" as soon as Esme said Bella's name Edward cringed in pain as Carlie quickly closed those 10 feet and growled.
"How do you know her?" Carlie spit with venom. Alice stepped forward sadly then answered.
"We knew her a long time ago. She was like a part of our family, and my best friend." The last part came out in an almost cry. I looked back at Carlie and saw her frozen face turn to one of pure hatred and rage. Instantly I wrapped an arm protectively around Rose.
"You're those Cullen's!" she practically screeched.
I looked over towards Edward then to Carlisle then back to Edward.
"Hay Eddie, what's her problem?" I asked in my head. He turned and looked at me before he spoke.
"If you don't mind my asking, but who are you to B-Bella?" he asked curiously but you could see the torcher her name had brought to his face.
"I'm her daughter, and since you seem to be the standing alone you must be Edward. Am I right?"
He nodded his face in complete shock, as was the rest of ours.
"Well then it seems we have some things to talk about, Daddy." My eyes went wide then I burst into a booming fit of laughter. Everyone shot me a glance.
"Oh come on you can't be his kid. For one thing you're what 18, and also the fact that vampires can't have children."
I looked over at Rose and saw her face fall. She has always wanted a child, but because of what we are having a child of our own was impossible and it broke my heart that I couldn't give her one.
Carlie glared daggers at me as I continued to laugh.
"You must be Emmett." I stopped laughing and nodded. She put her hands on her hips and smirked.
"We'll for your information vampires can have children-"She chuckled and rolled her eyes. "Well male vampires anyway. This is because for a woman to be pregnant her body would need to change, men not so much. They are the same from puberty until death." She spoke as if she was talking to a child.
I looked over at Rosalie and saw tears fill her eyes. I knew right away that she was blaming both herself as well as Carlisle. Carlie looked over at Rose as well; although her face remained unchanged you could see the slight remorse in her eyes.
"Alright, that may be possible but that still doesn't explain your age." Jasper spoke softly.
"Well when I turned 18 I stopped aging, so really I'm 84 well I will be in 3 ½ months." She said mostly to herself.
All of us had a different expression on their face. Edward looked both fascinated and devastated at the same time, Jasper showed no expression which meant that he was probably too busy reading the others emotions, Alice was slightly bouncing with joy, Esme was smiling lovingly at Carlie, Carlisle looked amazed and excited, I was just well ecstatic, but Rosalie just looked pissed although she was trying to hid it.
Carlisle was about to say something when Carlie's whole frame tensed for only a second before she whipped around and looked behind her. She growled then took off running faster than I bet even Edward could.
"I can't read her mind. It's not blank like Bella's was, but it's like trying to hear through static." Edward told Carlisle.
"What-," He was interrupted by Alice's sharp intake of unnecessary breath. We all turned to look over at her and saw that she had that faraway look on her face that we have all seen many times.
"What do you see Alice?" Jasper asked tenderly.
"It's Carlie. She's going after a vampire. I can't see who it is but I think that we should follow her just in case." We were off like a bat out of hell. When we finally reached her she had the vampire cornered and to say that he looked scared would have been an understatement. As soon as he heard our approach he disappeared into thin air. Carlie whirled around and I swore that if looks could kill, we would all have been ash where we stood.
"Damn it!" she yelled
"Look what you've done, he got away. I have spent the last 6 months trying to catch him and when I finally do you all made him go poof!" She practically screamed at us. I couldn't help but smirk as her glare hardened.
"I swear if you get in my way again I will kill you quicker than you can say hay. I don't give a rat's ass if you are vegetarians or not." She said with enough venom to make me take a tiny step back. Esme looked like she was about to cry and Edward looked emotionless.
"Why are you looking for him anyway?" Rosalie asked
"He is the only one that knows where Victoria is and I have to find her," an evil smile spread across her face "So I can kill her."
"Victoria, as in James' mate Victoria?" Carlisle asked, Carlie nodded
"She killed my mother so I want her head." Edward's head snapped up and he went ridged.
"She killed Bella?" he asked with a mixture of heartbreak, sadness, and rage in his voice.
"Yea, about two months after I was born and two month's until her 19th birthday."
Esme broke down into waterless sobs, while Edward stared in shock. I felt like my dead heart broke a little too. Bella was my little sister. The one who could always be counted on the blush when she was embarrassed. Now she was gone. I looked at Carlie and saw that her eyes were pained.
"To be honest with you I don't remember her at all, my memory is completely blank of her. The only things I know about her was what Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Renee told me."
She glared hard at Edward then continued.
"He told me about all of you just up and leaving, Edward telling her that he didn't love her anymore, and how broken she had been the first 5 months."
Carlie's brown eyes wild with rage but I could see the flood of tears that she was expertly holding back.
"I could only imagine what she thought of me during that time." She looked up at us as a single tear ran down her cheek.
"I mean imagine being broken-hearted and pregnant. She probably thought of me as a curse; doomed to remind her of the love that she lost,-"looking at Edward. "The best friend that didn't even bother to say goodbye,-" looking at Alice. "And the family that she loved and trusted as well." Edward and Alice both looked down in shame. "You all meant a shit lode to her, even you Rosalie," meeting her gaze. "She never did figure out why you hated her so much, but even so she loved you liked a sister. I read that in her diary; the only real connection I have left to her since Charlie and Renee died." She looked around at all of us and could see the hurt looks on all of our faces. Now not only were Edward and Esme sobbing but Alice and Rosalie were as well. Even though Carlisle, Jasper, and I were upset we still tried to comfort the others.
Carlie quickly wiped her tear away fiercely then scuffed causing all of us to look up at her.
"Oh please, like any of you even care. If you did you wouldn't have left."
Jasper growled defensively while holding a still sobbing Alice. Carlie just rolled her eyes.
"Oh please Mr. solider man, make my day." She retorted I smiled at the fire she has, just like Bella.
Carlisle was about to speak when a loud ringing filled the tense air. Carlie quickly dug inside of her jacket pocket without breaking eye contact with Jasper and answered her ringing phone.
"What!" she growled exasperatedly.
"Well hello to you to, what your panties in a wad for?" said the male voice on the other line. Carlie's voice softened.
"Sorry Scott, but I just lost Donovan."
"How'd you do that?"
"One word, Cullen's"
A growl erupted from the man on the phone.
"What are they doing here?"
"I don't know, but I'll talk to you later, bye."
She hung up the phone without letting Scott replying and put it back in her pocket. Throughout the phone call the others had calmed down and were now staring at Carlie. She looked up at us then scowled.
"What are you looking at?" she barked. No one answered which made her even angrier.
Finally having had enough she through her hands up in the air and rolled her eyes.
"You know what; I don't have time for this. I don't know why you're here or even care for that matter, but I need to go look for Donovan again, so see ya." On that note she took off running through the forest leaving us all flabbergasted.
"Well that went well." I joked trying to break the tension but all it got me was a silencing glare from Carlisle.
"We have to go after her; she could get hurt or even killed." Esme said with worry in her soft voice. Alice shook her head.
"No, if we do that she will never forgive us, especially you Edward." Alice stated as she looked at a still frozen Edward. He just stared at where Carlie had run into the woods. I waved my hand in front of his face and smirked.
"Earth to Edward." This seemed to bring him out of his trance a little but he still just stood there and repeated over and over again. "I have a daughter, Bella and I have a daughter?" after a few minutes everyone started to head home, all but Edward.
"Come on Em, let's go." Rosalie said softly. I wrapped my arms around her then we ran home.
AU: the next chapter will be up soon thanks for reading and please comment