Hello Everyone,

The idea for this story came to me through a song that has sparked another story that is nothing alike this one, called Cosmic Love by Florence + the Machine. I don't really remember how, but I was actually playing around with the other story and then decided that I should split it and make this different because it was branching off from my original concept which I really wanted anyway.

No schedule for this story. I don't think it needs one because it's a fourshot at the most. :)

Here is the summary, just so you can read it again...

Summary: A vampire's mate means the world to them. They are their life source. They are their reason for being. So… when a vampire's mate is human and in peril, what happens? What happens when their condition makes them lose their memories of everyone… except their mate? Told entirely in Edward's perspective.

Just a few more notes...

The lemon will be in the final chapter. Chapters are short – around 1000-3000 words.

Though it is a short story… please review. I'm already writing the second chapter and I'll have that done for tonight. That'll go up tonight or tomorrow, depending on the response and what I think and if I'm busy or something.

Leaving Bella at her house this afternoon had never felt so wrong. Of course, I'd always felt apprehension from just the thought of doing so, but to leave my mate when she was sick?

Terrible. Incomprehensible.

But I could hardly fight against Alice. Whenever the bloody pixie wanted something, she knew how to get it and though it frustrated me, I couldn't help but love her for it – her insistence and continuity of making me hunt kept me from hurting Bella's father in thirst and that saved me from hurting Bella, too. If she wasn't forcing me, I would never go.

Though, I couldn't stop the thought that swirled around in my head, keeping me unhinged.

Something is wrong here.

I could feel it. There was something I was missing – something that perhaps even Alice was missing (or was deliberately holding back) – and it had me on edge. I finished drinking from the deer in my arms just as Alice's thoughts hit me.

Edward, calm down, Alice thought to me and I sighed, dropping the dead carcass as I looked at her. Bella's fine; you know I'd tell you if she wasn't. She will be fine, but she won't be if you don't fucking hunt. So do it and then you can get back to her, alright?

I sighed, but conceded, to which she added a mental "good". I knew that she was right, deep down, about the feeding part but anything concerning Bella made me worry right now. It was instinct, of course; my mate, already human and significantly more fragile than I and my family, was sick. Out of instinct, I was worried and unable to concentrate. My mind was fraught with worry – as if it wasn't already when Bella wasn't sick!

Bella.

I sighed again, smiling as my thoughts took on a new direction. Meeting my love had been at perhaps the best time. I was in control of my thoughts and had a stable family, but did not feel a part of it. I was in misery; so sure that I'd never find my mate. I'd been alone so long…

But then… I did find her.

I closed my eyes, smiling as memories sought attention. Letting them wash over me, I sighed as the little twinge in my heart from the distance between my love and I lessened.

"Alice, what are you hiding?" I asked her, frowning in anger. The little pixie was dragging me into the woods silently, hiding her thoughts in a way that always made me cringe and not telling me anything besides "do not hunt".

"Can't tell you," she said, smiling at me as the images that were flashing through her mind got more… graphic.

"Alice, really," I growled in frustrated, squeezing my eyes shut in an attempt to rid myself from the sight. "I don't really want to see you and Jasper together. I have no desire to see either of you naked."

She laughed her silvery, tinkling laugh. "Good to know," she quipped, her lips twitching in humour.

I sighed; there was no receding of emotion in Alice. She was always hyper, always giddy and always full of mirth.

"Can't you at least give me a hint as to why we're walking through the woods?" I begged and she paused. I stopped with her, standing close in case her mind let up for even a moment, concentrating intently on her.

"Stop that," she snapped and I smiled at the sound of her sigh. "Fine, I'll give you a hint but you'll just guess anyway." She shook her head, then sighed, "Oh, well. What you feel and experience will surprise you enough, I guess. Anyway, um… well…" she looked into my eyes and smiled, her happiness for me shining through and I was more confused than ever. "This is the only way for you to meet a certain someone that I know you've wanted to meet for quite some time."

I frowned, feeling terribly confused for all of a second. But then I realised what – or rather, who – my future-seeing sister was talking about. "My mate?" I asked softly, my tone full of awe, and excitement and so many more emotions that I could not put a name to in that moment. "She's here?"

Hope filled me as I looked to her for answers, needing them desperately. "Oh, Alice, please. Is she really out here?"

"Yes," she said simply, but that one word was enough. The exultation and pure joy that I felt upon hearing that word made me throw my head back and shout. It was the only thing I could do, and even then, it wasn't enough for me to fully express just what I was feeling.

"Where is she?" I asked her when I was calm enough. I was practically vibrating with the anticipation of meeting my mate. I didn't want to ask Alice anything about her; I needed to experience meeting her and getting to know her myself. "Is she here? Is she close?"

She smiled again, "Yes, Edward. But before you meet her, I need to tell you a few things."

I frowned and growled under my breath impatiently. "Whatever it is, can it not wait? Alice, this is my mate we are talking about!"

"Yes," she said, the pitch of her voice high with indignation. "I am well aware of that; that's why we need to speak about this before you meet her. There are some things about her that you wouldn't have expected and if I didn't tell you this, then you probably would have reacted badly and caused her all the more pain."

Immediately, I was filled with remorse. Anything that made my mate – who I had yet to meet – upset, made me upset, too. But I was exceedingly impatient to meet her, and so I told Alice to tell me and to hurry up.

What she told me startled me more than anything else.

"She's human," Alice said lowly, looking into my eyes with earnest. "She's human, but she will feel the connection and she will love you just as fiercely as you will love her."

When I could eventually speak, I asked her, "What is she doing out here, then?"

She breathed in deeply, and that simple action – combined with her blocked thoughts – filled me with dread. This, she noticed. "Edward, calm down. Everything's fine, alright? Or at least it will be."

"What is wrong with my mate, Alice?" I growled, raising my eyebrow at her. "Tell me, dammit." I clutched my chest as the fear and panic threatened to overcome me. I could already hear that other, instinctual, animalistic part of me as it spoke furiously in my ear.

Something is wrong with her, he fretted. Something is wrong with our mate. We must find her. There must be something we can do. Something is wrong with our mate!

I growled at the thoughts, clenching my eyes closed as he continued to prattle on in my ear. Suddenly, in the midst of my panic, I felt a slap – a harsh, quick slap – across my face and I growled as my head snapped around to look at Alice.

"Well, you wouldn't respond any other way," she defended herself. "I had to do something."

"Just tell me, Alice," I begged her, not understanding why she was withholding the information. "Not knowing is killing me."

She sighed, "She will be fine, Edward, remember that."

"Just tell me!" I growled. The beast within me was as worried as I was, and together it was intolerable. The possibilities that we were together thinking up were of the worst and the only way to end it was to know!

"Ok," she said softly, and I could see that she wanted me to calm down. I did my best, breathing harsh, quick but deep breaths in through my nose and out through my mouth. My shoulders relaxed only slightly, my muscles, too but my mind was still fraught with the same amount of panic.

She smiled, "thank you, Edward." I glared at her and her smile disappeared, a frown popping up instead. "She had a fight with her parents. They… well, how about you ask what it was about later. I don't think you need to know right now and it would help her to talk about it – especially with you, her mate." Alice's eyes warmed and excitement grew as she looked at me, pausing in her speech for a moment. I smiled but raised an eyebrow and she giggled but thankfully, resumed.

"She ran out of the house after the fight and into the woods nearby her house," she said and I swear my world stopped. She ran through the woods? What was she thinking? She could get killed! I fought to control myself and the panic that was back in full force, but thankfully, after Alice reassured me that she was, in fact, alive, I calmed enough for her to resume.

"She is alive, yes, but she is hurt, Edward," she said and before I could do or say anything on the matter, she launched into her explanation. "She's fine, it's superficial but she is bleeding, Edward and too far away from her house to go back there alone. You need to find her, talk to her for a while, get to know each other and then take her back to her house. And Edward, hurry – she's weak."

"Where is she?" I asked her, my mind already a million miles away as my senses and my monster searched for our soulmate. "What direction?"

"South-east, four miles," she said and I ran off in that direction. I wasn't even that far out when I heard her again. "Oh, and Edward!"

I turned around after hearing her shout, wondering what she could possibly want to tell me. "What?"

She smiled at my impatience. "She's beautiful. Congratulations."

And then she disappeared, running back home without telling me so much as her name or what she looked like. I chuckled, shaking my head at her antics before turning around. I took a deep breath, steadying myself and my happiness that I'd finally meet my mate.

Then, I ran for her. Fast, unrelenting and animalistic, I unleashed my monster as I ran, only using my senses to find her, my mate. Fears were gone, insecurities slipping away like the miles under my feet. And love, anticipation and a fiery, all-consuming need filled my long-dead being as I started to feel the tell-tale effects of her presence.

At around a mile and a half away from her, the electricity and strength guided me to her, just as I knew it would. Having waited so long for her, I'd made sure that I was prepared and sure of what could and what would undoubtedly happen.

Seconds later, I was close enough to hear her and yet not see her. I roared out for her, stopping suddenly when I smelled her blood and heard her weeping. She seemed to respond positively as she stopped crying and I could hear the rustling as she moved, trying to find me and see me.

I crept slowly forward, wanting desperately to see her and knowing that she needed me as I needed her.

"Who's there?" She cried out and it made me feel two things: pain at her suffering, but love at the sound of her voice.

"It's alright, my love," I whispered, slowly walking around the tree, hoping that she both could and couldn't hear me.

I slowly let her come into my view, and she heard me, gasping as her head whipped around to look up at me. There was blood smeared across her cheek, undoubtedly from when she had touched the part of herself that was bleeding then had to move her hair out of the way.

I stopped and for two thirds of a second, I took in her appearance, noting every single part of her in my non forgetting memory.

Her face was heart-shaped; she had doe-eyes that were a beautiful milk chocolate-brown colour and red, full lips with a button-nose. Her skin was pale, so pale and without blemishes which made her look like a goddess. Her hair was curly, falling down her back in long, brown locks that were the same colour as her eyes.

Her eyes… I couldn't look away from them. They were just so deep, insightful – I felt like I was looking into her very soul as she looked up at me, relieved.

The first thing I could consciously think was: Alice was right. She truly is beautiful.

The second was one simply, powerful word.

Mine.

And then, as we were looking at each other, she did the most miraculous thing.

She fainted.

The sound of my name being screamed in Alice's head broke through my reverie and I gasped, looking at her as I sought out her thoughts.

I gasped when I saw what she was seeing and I roared out in pain. The only thing that I could think was…

Bella.

And again, I couldn't help thinking…

Something is wrong here.

I guess you can panic, but this is a HEA as are all my stories and it's a short-chaptered fourshot, so there's really no need. Also, I'm already writing the second chapter which'll be put up - at the latest - by tomorrow night.

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