Okay, so before we start you should all be aware of a few things.
1) I have changed the timeline and some of the ages to my liking. Like the fact that the wolves change a YEAR after the Cullen's show up because why would it take so long if they are supposed to protect their tribe from the Cold Ones their genes wouldn't just sit there and be like, so what if Vamps have been here for a year, let's just not do anything until a 'bad' vampire shows up. In my mind it would only take a few months for all of them to phase since their mortal enemy is in town. And they wolves will all be over the age of sixteen and Brady and Collin won't phase at all. I think a pack of eight seems like plenty. Again, the last few phased only after the big baddies came or were getting closer.
2) I'm going to do my own take on imprinting, the wolves –neither was given much of a background which sucks because it could have been a damn good story- and turn the vampires into more than walking pieces of marble that sparkle in the sun. They're going to have fangs and sleep. I'll explain later how their able to walk in the sun. ;)
3) Just so we're clear, this is not a story for Bella/the Cullen's fans. Just because my main character isn't Bella doesn't mean that she likes Eddie what so ever or any of the Cullen's for that matter. I'm going to write the way that I saw the relationship between Bella and Edward and hopefully in the next story as well as Bella and Jacob.
4) I'm not having the 'emotionally retarded' Charlie Swan who apparently, being a cop allows his daughter(s) to do any and everything she/they wants. He's going to actually be a father in this story, laying down laws, actually being a part of his daughter(s) lives and not letting Bella bulldoze over him because -in this story at least- she chose not to have a relationship with him so he won't feel any guilt and feel that he needs be so flexible with her. That's not going to fly for me and seeing as it's FF, I can do what I please.
5) This is my first Twilight Fanfiction as well as any other so I would greatly appreciate any kind of feed back that you may have. :)
Prelude
As he listened to his doctor deliver his fate, Kenneth Swan couldn't help the sigh that burst from his lips as he watched his eight month old daughter play happily on the floor with her stuffed animals, giggling as she did so. Turning his attention back to the phone conversation that he was having he couldn't help but wonder why it was him that had been given his cards in life. In the space of two years his wife had died, he'd been told that he had stage IV cancer and now he was being informed that he had an expiration date only a few months away. After thinking the man who had been nothing but nice he hung up the phone and one quick glance at his daughter steeled his determination that he was going to fight like hell to stay alive so that he could have as much time with her as possible.
Scooping the blonde child in his arms he could only smile when she squealed loudly and a smile broke across her face, her dimples popping out adorably as she babbled to her father with serious violet eyes. Alyssa Michelle Swan was without a doubt her mother's child with her blonde hair, deep blue eyes and pouted lips and she had her father's dimples, eyes and chin but the rest was all her mother. Her father knew that when she grew up she was going to be, without a doubt, a beautiful young woman who would have to beat of boys with a stick. The subtle reminder that he wouldn't be there to do it made his eyes misty and he quickly pushed that thought from his mind as he carried her into the small two bedroom house and out of the blazing Georgia day.
Two Months Later
Signing the piece of paper in front of him with an unsteady hand and even weaker arm, Kenneth let out a sigh of contentment at the fact that everything that he needed to have done before he was taken from the world was complete. All of the money that he'd saved from his career as one of the best lawyers in Atlanta was now safely tucked away in a trust fund that Alyssa would be allowed to touch when she was eighteen. He transferred all of his property, the house that they lived in as well as a slightly larger one in Forks, his car a new Toyota Camry and a few family heirlooms that had been in the family for over two hundred years. The only thing he had left to do was call his relatives to see if any of them would be willing to take her in when he wouldn't be able to care for her so that she didn't end up in a foster home or orphanage.
When he called his younger brother after being turned down by his cousins and sister, who all had children of their own, he was surprised that before he could really form the question the chief police of Forks agreed. They planned for the younger man to fly down the following month so that he could get to know the girl and so that Ken could say his good-byes and then they were going to drive back in Ken's car. The father could easily see that Charlie missed having a child in his life and that a few months in the summer with Bella wasn't enough, he almost seemed to need someone to look after so that he could keep himself grounded. Alyssa and Charlie would both need the other in their life and knowing the kind of man and father his brother was, there was really no one else that he would have be the guardian of his pride and joy.
Laying in the bed that he'd spent the previous two weeks in Kenneth smiled widely as his daughter patted his cheeks with both hands before pressing an open mouthed kiss to his cheek before giggling again. There was no denying that his little girl was a happy baby and could make even a dying man fight with all of his limited strength just to spend a few more hours in her bubbly presence. Which is exactly what he'd done and would do until she and his brother walked out the door and drove away, then he planned to let go so that he could watch her as she grew up and then old while he sat side by side with her mother.
The next chapter will be the first 'actual' chapter of the story and starts with Bella arriving in Forks.
