A/N: Originally a one shot by .xoxo, first chapter entirely by her
Disclaimer: I own nothing, nada, no owno un plot or un characters
Come Back For Me
Chapter One
The End Of The End
An elderly woman sat by her window, the crack of thunder rolling through the valley. Her stringy grey hair fell loose down her shoulders. She shivered, her wrinkled old hands shaking with the freezing temperatures. The woman was old, and the bites of winter made her bones ache, and nothing, not even the blistering fire, could warm her up.
Her heart was cold. Cold from waiting. Cold with the promise of death.
The woman barely ever left this place. When she was young, she'd moved about the town, trying to find a suitable bachelor to marry.
She did find one, by the name of Edward Anthony Masen.
He'd left her. His father had sent him off to war.
The woman, her name was Isabella, remembered running down the street as Edward's father pulled him farther and farther away.
"No!" She cried. "Please!"
Horses could not understand her words. They kept thundering down the dirt path of the village, taking her beloved Edward with them.
"Wait for me, Isabella!" He shouted.
"I can't! Come back!"
"I will come back, for you." His voice shouted, the sound fading fast with the wind.
That was the last time she'd heard of him.
Now she sat in her rotting old chair. It was older then even she. Isabella's eyes were closing slowly.
Wait for me, Isabella! Edward's voice shouted in her head.
"I have waited out my years. I cannot hang on any longer, dear Edward." She whispered.
I will come back for you.
"I'll be there."
The woman's old eyes closed and her heart beat faded. She slumped in her rotting old chair, head facing the window where she waited for Edward.
Centuries later, on September 13th 1987, a baby was born. Her name was Isabella. She didn't know it yet, but this girl was the beginning of the new chapter in an old tale. This tale was about a woman who waited her life for a man to come back, and how the man found her again.