DISCLAIMER: I do not own Twilight.
I know I have no good excuse to be starting another fic, but the idea of writing the next chapter in my more humorous and slightly inane one made my brain bleed, and I had a burst of inspiration. When Edward left in New Moon, things were way too tame. Shouldn't Bella have tried to find a way to escape from her mind for a little while? That's why I started this. That and I had a mental picture of Edward in the rain running and Bella in a trench rain jacket. Enough said for now...
Here's a short EPOV Prologue:
EPOV: At least Six Months after he left Bella...
My body was numb. I couldn't hear the storm that raged around me, couldn't feel the freezing cold hypothermic chills that it could give any living creature that stayed out too long, and yet, death loomed in front of me just as close. The world ceased to slow down around me as time ran out.
Trees flashed on both sides of me as I ran faster than a speeding bullet through the rainy foliage that surrounded Forks. I had thought only weeks earlier that I would never return here, forever refusing the lure of the dreaded visions in my head; it blew my mind to think I was now passing through the town limits without a second thought.
My vision seemed to tunnel the closer I got to my destination, almost as if my subconcious mind was widely aware of the only thing that mattered to me.
I passed Forks by in minutes, only slightly acknowledging the danger gained with each step south towards the coast, but during my frantic journey, the universe still held onto its twisted sense of justice; even as the panic encompassed my every sense, there was still room in my mind to regret, to wonder what would have happened had I only listened to Bella.
A movie of memories played back over and over again, accompanied by a soundtrack of the words said; the words that broke me. The words that burned me. I staggered back and forth as the memories came, bringing the words with them; I could just imagine how far from sane I looked, running headlong through the forest. Those words never left. They just kept haunting me.
"You are not good for me Bella." "That changes things." "You don't... want me?" " You know how my kind are. Easily distracted." "Edward!" "It will be as if I never existed." "I don't believe you." "Edward," "Time heals all wounds for your kind..." "Edward. EDWARD!"
Her voice replayed in my ears while her face haunted my mind; then would come along Alice's visions. Alice's many visions. One way or another, Alice saw her going off the cliff. No. This couldn't be the end.
I raced forward, running to stop death, and hopefully disprove fate.
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