TWILIGHT FANFIC

Time- After eclipse

Chapter 1

What hurts the most

"Bella? Bella, honey are you okay?" Charlie's voice was distant, but there. "I--" My head was swirling, I didn't know what I was going to say. I laid down on the sweet wet solid ground and heard Edward's voice calling me. "Bella! Bella, what happened? Charlie, is she okay?" I didn't hear the rest of the conversation. Everything had gone black .

When I woke, I was on a table at the Cullen's house. I looked around, and to my shock, Edward was nowhere in sight, and the Cullens, who were practically my family, looked hurt to see me. "What--Where's Edward?" I said in an almost convincingly demanding voice. It was Esme who spoke. "Bella, I'm not sure how to say this, so I'll get right to the point. Edward's gone. He heard you calling Jacob's name while you were out."

Suddenly, I couldn't breathe. First, Jacob had run, I could understand that, in fact, that's what got me into this whole mess to start with. Finding out Jacob was gone made me run outside blinded by tears, and I couldn't avoid the car in time.

Snapped back to reality by the harsh tones of Rosalie, "Would you like to explain yourself? Are you saying you still love that mutt over my brother?" Her voice was threatening, but Carlisle gave her a piercing look. "I-no, Rose, tha--" "DON'T call me that, only my family is allowed to call me that. "I- I don't know what to say Rosalie (I pronounced each syllable in her name with a darkness that came from her reminding me that it was my fault Edward had left) I had Jacob on my mind, Billy called, he's run away. Because of me the two people I care about most have run away and I may never see them again." "How can you even say you care about that filthy dog!" "Because he's my friend!" I snapped back.

I don't know what came over me, but the next second, I was on my bike heading down the road back to Charlie's house. I was going as fast as I would let myself, speeding away from the place I once considered a second home, not caring if I went back there or not again. I was so angry at them. How they blamed me. It was not like Edward. Not like him at all. After he promised he would never leave me again! How could he. I- I aught to-- I stopped dead in that thought. I know what I WOULD do if I thought I could do it and live at the same time.

I SHOULD go to Italy and have the Volturi track him down. He wouldn't be covering his scent, because he would never dream that I'd think of that. All I knew is that whatever I did, I had to do something fast. If I can't find my Jacob, then I would have to find my fiance. No, finding Jacob or Edward wasn't even an ultimatum. I would have to leave Jacob soon anyway. I NEED Edward.

Just then, something from my pocket rang out. "Hello?" I asked, voice still shaking from the shock.

Part 2- Ch. 1 Edward's POV

"Edward, go to Bella!" screamed Alice as she ran down the stairs "What?" "There's no time to explain, just go to her!" "Where?" I was starting to get confused. "Her house! Edward! GO" I bolted from the house and was running full speed down the side of the road in no time flat. In about 10 seconds I reached her house. There was a car parked outside, and Charlie was running up screaming to a limp thing on the ground. Suddenly it hit me. I slowed my pace, which infuriated me.

"Charlie, Charlie what's happened? Oh Bella, Bella! Can you hear me? Charlie is she alright?" Franticly I doubt I said those words slow enough for any human to understand, but somehow Charlie had heard them. The adrenaline must be affecting his brain.

"She's-well I don't know." Charlie barely choked out. "Do you think you can call your dad?" Any hostility the man before me had held before, had obviously evaporated, for the time being at least. "Oh god, just let her be okay, just let her make it." Charlie's thought was clear as crystal in his head. "Charlie, can you take care of the driver in the car, and let me borrow your cruiser while I take Bella to him?" I asked, hopeful that he would be ready to leave his only daughter in my care.

"I suppose, but only until I can get a ride down there." It's almost as if he could read my mind instead. "Alright, Carlisle will fix her up right away." I laid Bella in the seat across the back, trying not to move her much in case she had hurt her back. I drove the speed limit until I reached the corner where Charlie couldn't see me gun it. I reached the house in about 5 minutes. "Don't move her anymore, I'll examine her back first while she's laying down, is she bleeding?" "No, she's not bleeding, I'll leave her in your care then" I said at a normal tone, but I knew everybody in the house could hear me. Not even a second later Carlisle came out and took a look at Bella. "I suspect she's pretty bruised up, but she should be fine to move, Edward?." I had stopped in my tracks. A barely audible noise, but I heard it clear as day. "Jacob" she had said in her sleep.

I ran, I had no clue where I was running to, and I couldn't make a decision, Alice would know and send somebody after me. That's the last thing I remember before tripping over a root and deciding to give up, I lay there in the woods, and for the first time in nearly a year, I wanted to cry, wanted to rip myself apart and have Jacob Black throw me in the fire.

I'm pathetic, I thought to myself. Why on earth would I even let that dog tear me up, after all, it was because of him that I was here. I let the dirt and the mud soak into my auburn hair. Bella loved that hair. But Bella loves Jacob more. I'm just keeping a promise, that's all. I promised her that as long as she loved me, I'd stay, and she loves that mutt now, so I guess I can leave.