Finding Herself

by StillIRise

She's traveled back in time. She knows the Cullens. She knows the Pack. They don't know her. Both boys had torn her pretty heart in two when they had both fought, pleaded, and needed her to love them. She had. She did. She had love them so much that they consumed her, but she can't go through it again. She couldn't because she was barely a person herself. She's in the past, but doe

Author's Notes:

I have no plot planned. I'm winging it. I'll probably edit my chapters a lot. Breaking Dawn is non-canon in this fic. Future!Bella is from after Eclipse, traveling back before the events of Twilight. Recommend some good literary quotes, explain them, cite them, and I'll credit you.

Preface:
"So, is that why you're here?" Edward smiled, showing a flash of teeth. Edward was like that, torn between light and heavy, forever pushing others away when he really wanted to pull them closer, "To mourn your lost love?"
"He jests at scars that never felt a wound," she quoted softly, echoing his tone.
He looked at her startled, eyes gleaming with a million questions. He leaned forward, voice prodding, "If he left you, he couldn't have the right guy for you." Then, he leaned backwards, one arm looped on his chair, the movement quick for a human, too slow for a vampire, feigning easy arrogance, forever playing at being human so others didn't see the predator lurking beneath the exterior.
You're worse, the voice echoed in her ears, exploring what she could not voice to him, You want to talk to me, get to know me, see into my soul and screw and screw and screw until you're done with me.
She let a curtain of her hair conceal a side of her face, hiding a smile as she saw the brief flicker of irritation in those golden depths, "Am I that easy to read?" The last time she had said them, she had meant it sincerely, self-conscious as ever. Now, the tone was different. and they could both hear the mockery behind the words. If it was directed at herself or him, then she couldn't tell.
"On the contrary," he said, the words an echo of her lost lover, "I find you very difficult to read."

Author's Notes:

In act 2 and scene 2, Romeo said, "He jests at scars that never felt a wound." It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut. (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)
Vicky said, "You're worse. You want to talk to me, get to know me, see into my soul and screw and screw and screw until you're done with me." (S1E1 of the Vampire Diaries TV Series)