It's been 4 years since he left. 4 years since I exposed what he was up to all along. 4 years since his family and I decided that we had had enough and left. 4 years since I started really living for me. Started discovering who I was and who I wanted to be. Some times it takes tragedy to figure out that the way your life is, isn't the way it's supposed to be.
"Hey darlin', you ready to head out?" the love of my life asked me.
"As ready as I'll ever be." I responded from my perch by the window. Today was the day I was going to see his scumbag face again. My family and I had been preparing for months, planning for every possible scenario that could happen. He had called Carlisle asking for a meeting with all of us. Said he was in some trouble that would require all of our help. If it had been up to me, I would have told him to rot in whatever cesspool he had found himself in. He wasn't worth the trouble to me anymore. Carlisle, unfortunately, had a heart so forgiving and loyal it bordered on being a fault.
We all gathered in the foyer of our beautiful Colorado home. We all looked at each other before making the silent decision to leave together. We ran through the forest in a v-formation, like geese, but deadly. The trees whipped by us blurring into one long evergreen streak. The ground was still partially covered in snow with tiny little flowers and grass beginning to sprout. I could hear the animals scurrying to their homes sensing a predator in their midst, their heartbeats accelerating the closer we got. None of us dared to take a breath. We were all too ridden with nerves and anticipation. Nothing good was going to come from this meeting.
We made it to the field before our visitors. We purposely planned it this way so we could scope it out and make sure there were no traps already in place. Alice mentioned that she didn't see any sort of fight happening, but her visions relied on decisions. It could all change in the blink of an eye and we would have little to no warning.
"Incoming on the left." Emmett said quietly to all of us.
In unison we turned and looked at the opening in the trees. 15 seconds later, he walked through, holding the hand of the one person I never wanted to see, aside from him of course.
"Edward, what is this? Why is the wench with you?" Rose scathed in his direction.
"Carlisle, thank you again for agreeing to meet with me and for getting the family on board."
"Do not mistake the will of my family. If they did not want to be here, they wouldn't be. I did not convince anyone." Carlisle said. Over the last 4 years I noticed that the more stressed or angry he was, the more thick his British accent became.
"Right, well. Cullen clan, I would like for all of you to meet my mate, Victoria."
"Mate?" I asked. "How could that red headed soulless bitch be your mate?" That got me a growl from the bitch in question.
"Matters of the heart are very rarely ever understandable. You of all people should know that, Bella."
"And who do I have to thank for that? Oh that's right. I can thank you, Edward."
"So again I ask, why did you call us all here?" Carlisle added, ever the peacemaker and keeper.
"The Volturi are coming and they are coming for you and your family. They have found out about Bella and feel they can no longer sit aside and let you collect all these gifted vampires without viewing it all as a threat." Edward said to the group.
"And how do you know this Edward? I haven't seen anything about them coming and I've been watching for years." Alice said from beside me.
"Because I am one of them, or so they think. There's a coalition that has formed to over throw the ruling family and I am one of many double agents gathering intel for the revolution."
Alice gasped from beside me and her eyes glazed over, another vision.
"Incoming, about 15 vampires. From the north, running fast."
"It's a trap!" My love yelled. I noticed that Edward and Victoria also looked really scared, so they weren't apart of this ambush.
"No, not a trap." I whispered. We didn't have time to run. No less than 10 seconds later, the unknown vampires burst through the trees then stopped.
AN: So, this idea randomly came to me while I was reading something else. Not 100% sure where the story is going to go but I do know that the first few chapters will jump back 4 years so we can see what Edward did that was so bad and what happened to Bella afterwards. Whatever is about to happen in this chapter won't happen for a while. If this sounds like a story you want to see progress, leave a comment and let me know!