AN: Welcome Back, FanFiction and Happy New Year. Okay so I am starting my new story today. This one might be one of my favorites because I love all the characters and this gave me a chance to do a few things that I hadn't done before. One of my reviewers said last story that I keep growing with every story and I really home that is true with this one because I absolutely love the premise and if things go right this will be the first of a trilogy. Don't worry I haven't forgotten about Beyond the Past or any of my other stories that could have an additional add on. If I can get those stories right then they will be out too. Also because I see doing more with this series I am going to try to update more than I normally do. So it might not be double posting Wednesdays or Thursdays but I will make sure that I get at least two chapters out each week. Alright I think that is all so without anymore hold up I give you Heart's Devotion :).
Name: Heart's Devotion
Category: Drama /Romance
Rating: M-Mature (simply to be on the save side because of language)
Summary: When Bella is bitten and turned into a vampire things don't work out the way Edward hopes. There's someone else with a claim to her heart that makes Edward question whether he'll be able to spend forever with the woman he loves.
Can true love win out over legends? Can one word change the course of three lives? Is fate truly the strongest power there is?
Disclaimer: If you don't know by now then you never will. Stephenie Meyer owns it all. I'm just having fun.
IT BEGINS
Edward POV
I had to make it. There was no other option; no other choice. I couldn't let her die.
As I ran through the trees that was the only thought in my mind. It had been my only thought since I realized that Victoria wasn't in Brazil but was actually on her way back to Forks; back to Bella.
I should never have left her. I should have known that my sins would come back to haunt her, but I had been trying to protect her. Trying to keep her safe and now it felt like I was only seconds away from losing her for always.
I could see her street. It was closer than I ever dreamed it would be again. I hated that Victoria had picked the one sunny day in Forks to plan her attack but at this point I didn't care if every one of Bella's neighbors saw me sparkle as long as I got to her in time. I weaved my way through backyards and dense trees rushing to my angel's room. I jumped before my feet reached the edge of her grass landing harshly against the tree outside her window. I scaled it as if the fires of hell where behind me and indeed they would be if anything happened to Bella. I would not remain to see the outcome as my ticket to Italy was already in my pocket.
I pushed against her window but it was locked. Why was it locked? Her window was never locked to me, but she hadn't been expecting me. I had told her that I wouldn't be back. That it would be as if I hadn't existed and she had believed me. I was about to kick in the glass when my phone went off. I didn't want to distract myself from Bella but this ringtone I knew and if anyone could tell me what I needed to know now it was her.
"Alice, what did you see?" I didn't have time for niceties.
"She's at the meadow Edward" I could hear the run in her voice. They were obviously on their way and I was grateful that after all my time away my family would come on such short notice. "I saw Victoria there also but then everything went dark."
I didn't know that I had fallen until I felt the earth slam into my body. "I don't think she's dead but we have to hurry." Alice was still talking. "We are almost to Forks but you have a better chance of making it there before us. You have to hurry, Edward."
No sooner had she said it my body was in motion again. I couldn't fail Bella again. I had done so many things wrong by her but if by God she could find a way to give me another chance I would never leave her again; I would never let anything come close to hurting her again.
I was close. I could smell her beloved familiar scent as I moved through the forest desperate to have her in my arms safe and unharmed. My throat tingled slightly as the scent became stronger having been so long without it but I didn't care. For the first time in a long time blood was not foremost in my thoughts. They all centered on the one person in the world that made this existence worth bearing; the only person I would ever need.
She was there. She was around the corner and I couldn't wait to touch her again. I couldn't wait to feel her body against mine; to touch my lips to hers; to tell her that I love her and that I would never leave her alone again.
I was one step from the meadow when I heard it. The most terrifying sound in all creation; Bella's scream and with that my dead heart stopped and I crumbled to the ground tasting death for the first time in a hundred years.