Isabella Marie Swan was born a hunter, a vampire hunter that is, in a humdrum, small, vampireless town named Forks. She had come from a long line of hunters on her mother's side. The same mother that had been sent away at a young age to said town, so that she could be out of danger during a particularly fierce battle down south.
Renee sat in that dingy town everyday, waiting 'til she was old enough to go help her family. But she never expected to fall in love. She had a baby and a shotgun wedding straight out of high school, something she immediately regretted. She had brought this poor, innocent man into something he could never understand. She loved him and her daughter and was willing to give up everything for them, until one day she received word from her cousin, her mother and father had died fighting off the scumsuckers in Arkansas. She was now the head of her family, she had to fight.
She brought her little girl with her, not wanting to leave any traceable links to Charlie. She had to break his heart, breaking her own in the process. She drove the two of them across the country in two days to the outskirts of Bentonville, Arkansas, her hometown. Her first stop was her cousin's place, he told her that they had already taken out the beasts in the area. He also informed her that her parents had already been put to rest in the hunter's way, cremation.
She had already shed her tears, this was the way things worked for people with their lifestyle. She asked to stay with her cousin until she figured out her next move, and he agreed. She stayed in the city for around a week before she figured out what to do next. She had to get herself and her daughter away from this life, at least for now, she couldn't bear the thought of watching her Bella on that pyre next.
She moved them to a small town in southern California, Maywood City. In her first week, she wiped out the only two vampires in town, securing the city as her new home. After her parents' deaths, she had received plenty of money for an easy life, and spent the next decade as a stay at home mom.
Renee wasn't naive, she knew that eventually vampires would come for them, so she decided to train Bella and teach her everything that she could. From a young age Bella learned that vampires were the enemy, that they could never be trusted, and how to fight them. By the time she was ten, Bella had learned everything that her mother could teach her without real vampires, they had even practiced killing on dummies in the backyard. One of the first and most important lessons that Renee taught her was about vampiric abilities that hunters had encountered over the years. She taught her how to evade these attacks at all times, even when she was asleep.
On her twelfth birthday, Renee decided that Bella was old enough to hunt, with supervision of course. Besides her daughter's slight ditziness, she was a great hunter.
The next day they were on the road, headed for a so-so level of vampiric danger city, Phoenix, Arizona. Before they had left their old town, Renee had bought a small two bedroom, one story house in the suburbs and enrolled her daughter in the local middle school. So upon arrival, they were greeted by an unfurnished house and blinding heat.
