A/N: Well, I'm finally posting this. The preface is a bit weak… I wasn't quite sure what to put down. Unlike the other two stories, the path I'm taking isn't as clear. I know what's going to happen, and a vague idea of how it will end, but the path is a bit blurry. It will probably be about the length of Shadow Rising. You may notice that most of the titles are from Grey's Anatomy (my all time favourite tv show), so I don't own them. I'm not sure how soon updates will come- my life just got very hectic, so I have to beg for your patience. Please enjoy:

Midnight Flame

Preface

The past.

It's funny; I had never really thought much about it once I had left Forks. There were times I missed Renee and Charlie, of course- but beyond that, it was almost as if the past had never even existed.

Now, here I was, facing a part of my past that I didn't even realize existed, and all I could think of was how little I could remember it. Faces blurred and disappeared, I had to struggle to remember even the bigger things. All that I had was a series of names without faces.

Mike… Jessica… Angela…

Jacob Black.

The last one came from my childhood- a childhood that I only had blurred memories of. I'm not even sure how I had managed to recall the name- I hadn't remembered it even before I had been turned.

The past… it seems so harmless, doesn't it?