SUMMARY: This is the story of Edward's rebellion, him coming back, Rosalie, Emmett, and Alice & Jasper joining the family & of course meeting Bella for the first time. All in Edward's POV. R&R. Rated T for Language & suggestive things in future chapters.

Edward's Rebellion

By Teagan

CHAPTER 1 - Nearly Hitting A Tree

Emily trudged further into the dark forest. Alec stopped in his tracks. Emily had disappeared.

"Em, where are you? This is not funny Emily." Alec said frightened.

He looked up into the sky and felt a drop of rain fall on his forehead.

"Alec." The sudden proximity of this voice made him jump.

Alec spun around faster than he thought he could and breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the person who had called his name so softly. "Clara, you frightened me." Alec sighed.

"Hmm, well, where is Emily?" Clara asked calmly.

Alec hung his head and softly shrugged. He raised his head slightly to see the expression on his older sister's face. Just as he had suspected, anger.

"Come. We will go back to the house and tell mother and father." Clara said sternly.

Alec knew that when Clara spoke in such a tone that he was not to argue. Clara roughly grabbed his hand and pulled back towards the house.

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Alec was the only male child in his family of 8. There were six children, and including the maids, butlers and babysitters there were 18 people living in the mansion.

Clara is fifteen and eagerly awaits her debutante ball. She tries to act mature to prove that she is ready to come into society, but their father continually refuses after he found her trying to strangle young Alec.

By far, Alec's nicest sister is fourteen year old Maria, (pronounced Mariah); well, nice enough when you get to know her, or rather if she lets you get to know her. She is a bit of a spoilt brat.

Alec came next, he is 12 and, he thought, by far the most mature of the lot of them. Then came Phoebe, she is 10, and has thoroughly convinced herself that mermaids exist. Hannah is the next youngest, 8 years old in fact, and a rather smart, dreary girl. She loves books, in no less than two months she managed to read her fathers whole collection of dictionaries and atlases.

Now we come to the most, umm, interesting, of Alec's sisters. Emily. She was six years old and was unnervingly interested in snakes, forests and storms.

They were out in the forest. The forest which was suspiciously called 'Damnatio Forestae', in Latin which translates to English as: "Condemnation Forest". Lovely isn't it. Well leaving aside the name and all the creatures that call the forest home, it really is quite nice, but not to young Emily. I take pride on my ability to recall such facts about this family.

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"Alec! Clara! Where are you?" Emily shouted but she heard nothing.

She sighed and looked around. Emily heard a noise behind her, so she spun around. There was no one there. She was starting to get scared when she heard my chuckle behind her. Emily slowly turned back around, fast enough to see me slink back into the trees.

"Wait, please do not go, I need your help, please. I am lost can you please direct me towards town?" Emily said struggling to keep her voice calm, even though she was the youngest; she knew that if she did not find a way out of the forest she would surely perish.

I knew that it was forbidden to talk to the humans, but I couldn't resist. The youngest of the Collin's children lost in the forest, surely, I thought, surely I wouldn't get into trouble for trying to help her. But before I could even come out from behind the tree to talk to her, I hear lots of voices. The Voices of her Family.

"Emily!" one called, "Em, where are you?" called another.

It was the Collins. The first two voices were that of Thomas, the children's father and the second was that of Elizabeth, the children's mother. They rushed into the site where Emily and I were, so fast in fact, it caused me to run.

I sped away, nearly hitting a tree as I raced to find my companion. I hardly realised when I ran straight into him. No need to tell you that we collided, the smash echoed loudly. He groaned and sighed.

"Sorry, Will." I mumbled quietly.

"You are damn lucky, if you weren't the one who finds our prey, I would have killed you by now." William replied in return.

"Where were you anyway?" he asked.

"The youngest of the Collin's got lost, I was thinking of helping her." I said quietly.

"Well there won't be a need to help them any more." Will said coldly.

"Why?" I demanded, and then I thought, why does it matter to me? They're just humans.

"They are moving to the city. Like I wanted to." He added rage filling his burgundy eyes.

"Well, why don't we? Move back into Chicago, into the City part, I mean." I asked smoothly, I was trying to hold in the bolt of sadness that shot through me as I requested to go back to my home.

Ever since my parents died there of the Spanish Influenza, and Dr. Cullen Changed me into one of the eternally damned I have wanted nothing more to do with the dreadful city. But I do have to admit that I wish that I hadn't chosen a life like this. I could have stayed with Carlisle but I could not help but resent him for changing me.

It has been 9 years and 11 months since he has changed me, and now I am starting to regret the choice of going on this bout of rebellion. Was there any way that would warrant taking human life? I was beginning to think not.

"Well then, let's go to the city." Will said after a while.

Without another word I picked up my jacket off the ground, and was ready to leave. You see the good thing about being a Vampire is that you travel light. You can't sleep so a bed isn't a problem and you don't need to eat so food isn't a problem. But the Nomadic lifestyle that I had chosen was beginning to make me tired.

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A month later the Collins had moved to City Chicago. We hadn't hunted in a while so seeing as I couldn't find Will, I decided to hunt by myself. I never took innocents, never. I was tracking through the minds of the people when I saw little Emily herded towards an alley. I have to admit; even though they were humans I had particularly become accustomed to Emily and Alec.

Without another thought I ran towards the alley where the man had stalked and herded her. I could see the fear in her eyes as the man closed in on her.

I then made my presence known by saying in a low growl, "Get away from her!"

There was shock in her face as she stuttered, "Edward. Edward Mason?" I nodded once, how did she know my name?

I was trying to remember, when the man came towards me with a gun. Quite a small hand gun actually, but still, these humans trying to act tuff. They were weak, all of them. I didn't even take another glance at Emily as I crouched down. A long, low growl escaped my clenched teeth. The human didn't even look scared. In less than a second I sprang of the ground and grabbed the thug around the neck with my teeth.

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There was nothing left of the thug, except a few bones and blood soaked clothes when I was done with him, barely any skin. That was when I looked up into Emily's eyes. Fear. More Fear than that of when she realised that she being followed, more than when she was herded into the alley. The fear in her eyes was of me, of what I did.

Did she not realise that I had just saved her life? I was confused. I could feel the look of confusion and disgust spread across my face. She was frozen staring me in my eyes, as if I was the monster. Had she not realised what that man was going to do? But then I thought for a moment, which is the real monster?

I broke the stare by looking down. When I looked up I saw her edge around me and what was left of the thug. I moved to the other side of the alley to let her through. She immediately ran past me and screamed for help. Damn. I thought,' why did she have to scream?' Then I thought looking down at the remains of the man, destroy all evidence.

-:-

When I finally met up with Will, I had had plenty of time to think. All I could see as I closed my eyes was the frightened expression that stuck on little Emily's face.

Will must have gauged the expression of disgust on my face because he said quietly, "You want to go live with Cullen don't you?"

I felt myself nod once. "Fine, go." Will replied a sensed some anger developing.

I sighed as I rose. "Goodbye." I said to Will, wanting to be polite.

"GET AWAY!" he screamed at me. I have to admit I was taken aback. I left then, without another word.