Chapter 1

First Sight

I sighed. I hadn't felt this way in a long time. Sure, I had felt like this before, but this was different. A million times different. I haven't felt like this, since I met Bella. I didn't understand it. Apperently I didn't hide my feeling very well, my daughters warm hand was on my cheek in seconds. She was wondering why. I took a deep breath and looked into the chocolate eyes that I loved.

"I don't know sweetheart." I couldn't lie to her. It just wasn't done in my family. Renesme got exactly what she wanted to know, whenever she wanted it.

"Edward?" My wife for exactly 2 years and 103 days now looked concerned. I hate it when she worries about me, for the first year I knew her, I always worried about HER. Its not the same anymore, and I still needed to get used to it. "Is everything okay?" Her voice, as beautiful as it was, was filled with concern.

I laughed one sharp laugh at how silly I was being. It was one day that i didn't feel like myself, hardly a crisis.

"Trust me, I'm fine." I hugged Nessie closer to me, being as gentle as I could. Her warm body against mine was comforting, but some how I still felt that something was wrong...or at lest going to be.

She relaxed at little and went on getting Nessie breakfast...as much human food as she will eat anyway. Bella set down the plate of cereal and watched her with careful eyes. Our daughter stuck her nose in the air and turned away, throwing a mass of copper curls into my face. I inhaled her sweet perfume; it smelled vaguly like Bella's before she was changed.

Bella frowned. "Oh come on Nessie, please? We aren't going hunting today and it will be a while before we do. Just try it!" She begged.

Nessie sniffed and cringed away from the bowl of wheat and milk into my chest. "Nuh-uh!" For being two and a half, she acted a LOT like a seven year old. I leaned down to whisper in her ear. As i took my breath, her blood made my throat burn, even though I couldn't bear even the thought of hurting her.

"Please Renesme? For me?"

She pulled away just enough to study my face. She hesitated for a second before answering. "Okay daddy, for you." Bella beamed. If there was one thing I figured out in my past two years of fatherhood, it was that little girls had strange yet fasinating attatchments to their fathers.

She dipped the spoon into the milk and lifted it to her mouth. Just as she was starting to close her lips around the metal utensial, Emmett, Carlisle, Jasper, and Alice burst through out door, yelling and growling at each other. Renesme lowered the spoon back into the bowl absentmindedly. Bella shook her head and laughed. I guess she lifted the shield because I could hear her thoughts.

So, so close Edward. At least we tried.

I looked at her and she winked at me. I smiled the way I knew she liked it.

Carlisle stopped yelling. He turned towards Bella and I and a huge smile crossed his face. "Good morning." He chuckled. My adoptive father was a happy person.

"Carlisle, this is NOT a laughing matter. This could be serious!" Jasper retorted, his eyes wide with the potential threat, whatever it was.

Then I turned to Alice and looked into her mind. She smiled at me and showed me her vision. I saw the face of a girl who look amazingly familer, and the second I saw her I knew where she was from. I gasped. It hurt to remember. The green/gold eyes were unique, and I saw that she was comming. Here.

"Edward? Edward, are you all right?" I think I was breathing heavily, almost hyperventillating.

I heard Alice chuckle. "I think HES having hystarics, Maybe we should slap him." Of corse she was refering to the time when Bella and I where almost massacured by the....Volturri. Don't remember. Don't Remember.

"Edward!" Bella was upset by this. I couldn't hurt her...THIS would hurt her. I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself. It barley worked, but it was managable now.

"Alice," I whispered. Barley able to talk. "How long?"

She looked taken back. "This afternoon. Why?"

I roared. This could NOT be happening. Wasn't she supposed to have died, a couple, oh I don't know, a couple CENTURIES AGO?! Wasn't my leaving supposed to have guarenteed that?

"Edward!" Bella hissed, frusterated. "What's wrong?"

Renesme climbed off my lap and went to stand near Bella, placing her hand on her cheek and wondering what Aunt Alice had just seen.

I took a deep breath and realized that this problem WASN'T going away. That I COULDN'T just tell the one that I cared about.......I don't know what to do. So I did the only sensible thing i could think of. I told her the truth.

"Alice saw..." I gulped. "She saw my old.....fiancee."

And Bella froze into a statue.