Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns Twilight and all recognizable characters and situations contained therein. All original content herein is property of the author. Story is rated M and contains the recreational use of marijuana, underage drinking, adult language, and sexual content.

A/N: This story is a Bella story, and also a Bella/Sam imprint story, it is set in an alternate reality Twilight where Edward never introduces Bella to the rest of the Cullen's, Bella never establishes a friendship with Alice, and she never figures out that they are vampires. This is loosely based off of my one shot story A Werewolf on Elm Street, though the timelines aren't going to be quite the same. There are going to be some big time skips, and some mention of Bella dating Edward.

**Bella POV Phoenix AZ The day after Christmas.**

Renee drops me at the airport, "You don't have to do this Bella."

Sighing, I reply, "Yes. I do. You know I do."

She gives me a quick hug, "Thank you. Give Charlie a chance Bella, he's your dad."

Snorting derisively, I interject, "Yeah, all of a sudden after 17 years he's my dad and he wants to get to know me… If it means he'll pay for college, that's all I care about."

She nods, "still, it'll be more pleasant if you try a little Bell."

Shrugging, I reply, "I know. I will. Bye mom, love you."

A tear drips down her face, "I love you too, Baby. Call me tonight. I'll be unreachable starting next week."

I can't stand it when she cries, and I don't want to cry my way through the airport, so I grab my backpack, and get out of the car. The heat is stifling, it envelops me as I make my way into the airport.

The stark difference in the temperature, as I walk into the airport is almost overwhelming. Frigid air slices through the black tee shirt dress that was my uniform at the diner that I had worked at since the summer before my freshman year of high school. I had hemmed it about 3 inches shorter than it had been when I worked, and it grazed my upper thighs as I hurried to the security line.

I make my way to the gate, and sit down to wait, hugging my backpack to my chest. Forks, apparently my birthplace, though I had no memories of it. Charlie Swan is my father, in the loosest sense of the word. He hadn't seen me since I was a year old. His choice. He's a cop, or at least he was. He had made his way up in the world, had been Captain of the Port Angeles Police Department. His work was his life, he didn't have time to devote to a wife, or a daughter.

Now apparently he's retired, and he wants to get to know me. Originally I said no. He hadn't made time for me in his life, why should I make time for him in mine now? His answer was his pension and annuity fund, he would use them to pay for college for me, anywhere I wanted, but only if I came to live with him after Christmas and finished out high school with him.

The boarding announcement is made, and I board the plane that will take me to my future.

**A Few hours later, Seattle, Washington BPOV**

Getting off the plane, I see the man I know to be Charlie holding a sign that says 'Bella' on it in plain black marker. Going over to him I wave a little as I get in front of him, "Hey, Charlie."

He scowls at me slightly, "Don't call me Charlie, Bella. I'm your father."

I roll my eyes slightly, "Sorry Dad."

He sighs, but doesn't say anything about the eyeroll, as we head towards the exit, instead saying, "It's a 3 hour drive back to Forks, if you have to go to the bathroom you had better do it now."

I take the opportunity to walk away from him, "Okay, be out in a minute."

Well, this is off to a great start. Taking out my cell phone, I call my mom. It goes to voicemail. Shit. Hopefully she remembers to charge it, I want to talk to her before she goes on her pilgrimage with Phil next week.

I do what I have to do in the bathroom, and go back out to meet Charlie. He nods at me, and we make our way out to his car, not surprisingly it's a dark blue Crown Vic, an undercover cop car. He smiles at me as he starts the car, "I'm really glad you came, Bella. I'm sorry that I haven't really made an effort to be in your life, I'm really hoping to make up for that. So, tell me about yourself?"

**One week later, first day of junior year after Christmas break BPOV**

I lay awake waiting for my alarm to go off and tell me it's time to get up and get ready for school. The last week with Charlie has been interesting, he bought me a car, well a truck really, it's older than he is, and full on metal, he stuttered out something about Renee having bad luck with cars, and in case I took after her in that regard this would keep me safe.

On the way back from the airport I started to understand that Charlie really was just as nervous about all of this as me. It helped to start to thaw the ice I felt towards him, at least a little bit. Apparently Charlie isn't retired though, he's now the police Chief in Forks.

Finally the alarm goes off, well, here we go.

**Eighth Period, BPOV**

The day has flown, I ate lunch with a bunch of kids, they had apparently all gone to school together from like kindergarten, and you could tell that they were starting to get sick of each other but that they didn't want to leave their friends either.

I guess that's where I came in, but as lunch came to a close I saw them. Jessica, a slightly snotty brunette, saw me looking at them, "Don't bother, those are the Cullen's. They don't associate with us mere mortals."

If Jessica hadn't been speaking so quietly I would have been worried that they heard us. One of the boys turned his head and met my stare, I dropped my eyes quickly, but I knew he saw me looking. They're all very good looking, there are 5 of them, 4 are pretty obviously involved, the lone boy is the one who caught me looking. For the rest of the period I felt his gaze, but I didn't dare look in their direction again.

Now I'm sitting in Biology, and guess who my table mate is…that's right, Edward Cullen. For a split second when I sat down he looked like someone had jabbed him with a cattle prod, maybe he just liked his space.

The bell rings, and I get my books together, and start putting them in my bag, as Edward asks, "So Bella Swan, where'd you move from?"

He's smiling at me, his eyes are a warm liquid gold color, my breath catches, I'm lost in his eyes. I've never felt like this before. Is this what love at first sight is?

**Three weeks later**

Edward and I are sitting in his car after school, this is pretty much all we do. We started dating the second day of school. I think he's ashamed of me though, he never even introduced me to his brothers and sisters, and he never sits with me and my friends. It's like we're secret boyfriend girlfriend.

Sighing, I ask again, "Edward will you please come over and have dinner with Charlie and me? He's getting kind of insistent."

Edward rolls his eyes, "Come on Bella, you haven't met my parents yet, you don't see me harassing you about that."

I start to reply, tell him that I would love to meet his parents, but he turns towards me, and catches my eye, and I decide not to ruin the moment.

**Six months later, The day before Summer Vacation**

Edward and I sit together at lunch. Alone. He had decided about a month ago after dating for 5 months, that he wanted to sit together alone, rather than him sitting with his siblings, and me sitting with my friends. It took about a month of asking, but Edward had finally met Charlie.

Things with Charlie and I were much the same, he made it a point to come home after his overnight shifts though once he realized that Edward and I were really dating. Not that it mattered, to say Edward is a bit of a prude is being kind.

It's the last day before Summer Vacation, and Edward is going to Mexico with his family tonight, but he promised to come over before they left. I still haven't met his parents, but I guess that doesn't really matter.

**A few hours later BPoV**

I greet Edward at the door, "Thanks for coming over baby. I'm going to miss you so much while you're away!"

Edward scowls, then sighs, "Bella, can we go for a walk in the forest out back?"

Shrugging, I reply, "Sure thing, whatever you want."

We go through the house, out the back door, and I follow him a few yards into the forest. Stopping, he turns to face me, "Look, Bella. I've really enjoyed my time with you, but this isn't working for me anymore."

Confused, I ask, "What do you mean?"

He rolls his eyes a little, "Look, Bella. You're a great girl and all, but I'm moving. The family isn't coming back here from Mexico. This is going to be the last time I see you. Even if we weren't moving, you're just not what I'm looking for. It's over."

My brain feels fuzzy, I can't breathe, I see him moving away from me, he's moving so quickly. I try to follow him, I try to call out to him to stop, but no noise escapes my lips. So instead I just keep following, hoping he will realize and stop.

He doesn't stop, and I follow him off the path, into the dark, I can't stop following him, it's like Alice and the White Rabbit, I just keep going, until I trip over something, probably a tree root or something like that, I feel myself falling. I land on something cold and wet, I can't move. I have no desire to move. He's gone, he's gone… gone, gone, gone…

**11:30pm, Sam POV**

My phone rings, looking at the readout I see it's Chief Black, and I answer, "Hey Chief, what can I do for ya?"

His voice is frenzied, anxiety and panic the only emotions, "Sam, I need you to go into the woods, my friend Charlie Swan's daughter is missing! She went into the woods with Edward Cullen sometime after school and hasn't been seen since!"

Shit. Not good. If she's hurt, or worse, it will cause a war between my Pack and the Cullen's. My two friends and I are werewolves, it's kind of a long story, all about tribal magic and tradition, the bottom line being that because the Cullen's came to live in Forks, we changed to protect our people from them.

I try to keep my tone calm, "Okay, I'll tell Paul and Jared what's going on, and then come to you, I hope you have something that smells like her, it'll make it easier."

He replies, "Come to Charlie's, he's worried sick about her."

He gives me directions and we get off the phone, Paul and Jared are on my couch playing halo, they look up as I get off the phone. Paul asks, "So what did Chief Black want?"

Standing, I answer, "Apparently we have a job to do. Police Chief Swan from up in Forks' daughter is missing. She went into the woods after school with Edward Cullen and never came back."

The two of them jump off the couch, Jared shouts, "Are you fucking serious?"

I nod, "Yeah, look we're going to go up to Forks to his house, then we'll go into the woods and hopefully we'll find her, and she'll be okay."

**Short time skip Sam POV**

We've been in Chief Swan's house now, Billy smuggled us a shirt of the girls. Unfortunately all it smelled like was leech. The smell permeated the house, Paul had to leave almost immediately, and Jared only lasted a few minutes before he had to go outside too.

I follow the stench of bloodsucker into the forest, Jared and Paul both take a different direction. I sniff the air, underneath the bloodsucker rotten meat sugar scent is a more pleasant one, strawberries, a hint of vanilla. I follow that, trying to train my nose on just that scent. It would obviously be easier to do this in wolf form, but that's not possible at the moment, not with Chief Swan's guys somewhere in the woods too.

I follow the scent deeper into the woods, twisting and turning as it leads me off the path, into darkness. I hear her before I see her, snuffling whimpers, crying. I approach her slowly, calling out to her, "Isabella? Isabella Swan, is that you?"

There's a low moaning, and I walk around the roots of a gigantic tree, and she comes into view on the ground lying in a wet bed of moss, her clothes soaked to her skin. I take a deep breath, okay good, she's not bleeding from anywhere, and if she was bitten by a leech she'd be screaming in agony so I guess whatever happened to get her here happened after Cullen was gone.

I kneel down beside her, "Isabella? Can you hear me?"

She makes a noise, somewhere between a moan and a cry, and her eyes open. My breath whooshes out of me, and I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach as my silver eyes meet her deep brown ones, fuck.

There's this thing that happens when a wolf meets his soul mate, it's called imprinting, one look in their eyes is supposed to change everything. If I'm not mistaken I just imprinted on Isabella Swan. I feel a connection to her, she means something to me, but it's definitely lacking the punch that Jared said it had.

I look at her more closely, her eyes are open, but I don't think she's really seeing me, and she seems to be in a lot of emotional pain. Maybe that's why it's not the same. I pick her up, Jesus she's light as a feather, almost to the point of being skin and bones, though I can feel that her frame is womanly enough.

I call out, "I got her!"

And I make my way back through the woods quickly as I can. She's half frozen, and she'll be lucky not to get seriously ill from her little excursion. I see the trees start to thin, and I can see Chief Swan with his head in his hands. I call out to him as we make it into the yard, "Chief Swan. I've got her!"

He rushes over, and tries to take her from me, I pull her back a little, "I've got her, just lead the way inside. She needs to get warm."

He starts to argue, but her teeth start chattering, so he turns and does what I ask. Embry Call's mother is sitting in the living room, and I hear her say, "Thank God you found her. Is she okay?"

Chief Swan leads me upstairs, and opens a door for me, "This is her room. I'll be right back."

Turning, he goes back down the stairs, and starts talkin to Ms. Call. I bring Isabella into the room and lay her gently on the bed. Almost immediately she starts shivering, teeth chattering cold. I lift her up again, cradling her against me. One of the benefits of being a wolf is that my normal body temperature has raised by ten full degrees.

Basically, I'm a shape shifting space heater. Instinctively she buries her frozen face into my neck, causing me to jump slightly. She's not functioning, and I really just hope she gets through this. I don't know what our relationship is ever going to be like, the Cullen has pretty much left her a shell. I need to get to the bottom of this.

Chief Swan startles me out of my own thoughts, "You can lay her on the bed, Mr. Uley. Thank you for finding her. Kay and I will take it from here."

I do as he says, and he guides me gently, but firmly from the room, down the stairs, and out the door, thanking me again as he shuts the door in my face. I stand here on Chief Swan's porch, staring at the door like an idiot. So this is what having an imprint is like?

I don't feel any different, maybe a little stupider, but I guess that's to be expected. I smell Jared approach the porch, but his voice still startles me, "Tell me you didn't do what I think you did?"

Sighing, I turn and walk down the steps, "I wish I could, brother, but I'm pretty sure I did."

He looks at me strangely, "I don't know Sam. I remember when Kim and I were newly Imprinted…"

I cut him off, "I do too, you don't have to tell me that it's weird J, trust me I know. It's definitely not what I expected. It's lesser somehow. Like it's a half imprint."

We get in my truck, Paul is on patrol tonight, so he'll run back through the woods. Starting it up, I pull out onto the road, and pull my cell phone out, "We need to get to the bottom of this. I'm going to call good Dr. Bloodsucker, and find out just what the hell happened with his 'son' and that poor girl."

Jared nods, and I use the number that I've always despised even having in my phone, and call Dr. Carlisle Cullen. He picks up on the second ring, "Hello Mr. Uley, I've been expecting to hear from you, though I wasn't sure if it would be by phone or in person. First off I'd like to assure you that my family and I are leaving Forks. Tonight."

I snort, "Yeah, not a moment too soon by the looks of things. What the hell did your 'Son' do to that girl? She's practically a vegetable!"

He speaks calmly, which only raises my level of agitation, "Samuel, I assure you that I had no idea what was going on with Edward and the Swan girl. He never told us he was seeing anyone. We had assumed he was hunting when he was out at all hours."

My teeth are clenched in anger, but I keep my tone level as I demand, "What exactly happened with them?"

The fucker actually chuckles, and I hope for his sake that he's already en route to wherever his next destination is, as he tells me, "Well apparently they were dating… Of course it's not as simple as that. Look, my son is incredibly gifted, unfortunately his gift is also a curse. He can read minds. He doesn't have a lot of control over it, he can't turn it on and off. So he's bombarded with the thoughts of those around him on a constant basis."

I snap, "Please get to the point!"

The man apologizes, "I'm sorry. Very well, Edward could not read the Swan girls' mind. She is the first human whose mind was blissfully quiet to him. Also her blood was very fragrant to him, I hate to say it, because I know it will anger you, but she's very lucky to be alive. She is what we call his singer, her blood calls to him in a way that is very much like a drug to an addict, somehow her blank mind saved her. He couldn't kill her, because he enjoyed the quiet too much. Unfortunately it was getting harder and harder for him to resist the smell of her, he was afraid that he would slip. If he killed her obviously we would be in a tight spot with your Pack, it would bring on a lot of unwanted attention, and if he somehow managed not to kill her, and turned her instead then, well quite frankly we'd be stuck with her."

The man is most definitely a vampire, he spit all of that information at me quickly, and without taking a breath. He only pauses now because Jared lets out a loud growl, which is echoed by me as I snarl, "Stuck with her? You would be stuck with her?"

He interrupts me, cutting me off sharply before I have a chance to really start to let loose on him, "Yes! We would be stuck with her! We are very happy with the size of our family right now, and if she was Edwards' mate then that would be another story, but she is not. I'm sorry for the after effects of Edward's relationship with her, but I assure you they will fade. He wanted quiet and he did a bit of a parlor trick we call dazzling on her. The effects will pass, I assure you she will be quite unharmed. It may take some time though, they were seeing each other for most of the last 6 months. So probably about a week or two."

Taking a deep breath, I respond sarcastically, "Well, I'm sure that will be a comfort to her father. I'm sure it won't be too much of a problem to him to deal with a child who's basically detoxing, but who he won't find any drugs in. Let me tell you one thing Dr., you and your family are no longer welcome in Forks. You have had welcome in our area for the LAST time. Do not come back here."

He laughs, "I assure you, we have no intention to."

I snap my phone closed and Jared has to physically restrain me to keep me from launching it across the cab, "Damn it Sam! That's your fifth phone this year!"

**Meanwhile BPOV**

Cold, I'm so fucking cold. I feel like I'm trapped in frigid waters, struggling to break the surface, I'm nauseous, I can't breathe, I can't move. I hear my dad yelling, screaming at me, and though from this dark corner of my mind I know he's right up in my face, it sounds like he's yelling for me from a million miles away.

I hear a woman's voice, so faint it seems like it almost can't be real, but I know it is. There's a stranger in my room, and she very gently removing my soaking wet clothes, drying me with a towel, and replacing dry clothing on me.

I can't even lift my limbs to help her. I'm trapped in my own mind. The last image I have is of silver grey eyes staring into my own, everything after that is blackness, shadows moving on the barely visible screen.

**Charlie POV**

Shit, this is bad. This is very bad. Kay snaps at me as I open my mouth to start calling Bella again, "Charlie don't! She isn't going to answer. You need to get a doctor here. This is not normal. She's basically catatonic."

Bella lurches forward as if pulled, but all that happens is she vomits into the trash can that Kay luckily placed at the side of the bed. I run my hands through my hair, "It's drugs. It has to be drugs. Heroin or something like that. She must have shot up in the woods."

Kay rolls her eyes, "You're welcome to go over her Charlie, I'm telling you the girl has not one needle mark. Not one track."

I snap at her, "Look at her Kay! She's a zombie! She just puked, now she's passed out, and she's lost at least 10 pounds in the time she's been here! Thank God that Renee is on that pilgrimage with her new husband. We'll get Bella cleaned up and she'll never have to know that I let our only daughter develop a smack habit in the first 6 months she lived with me!"

Kay sighs in exasperation, "Go in my bag and get the butterfly needle and the blood vial you asked for, we'll take a blood sample and put this to rest one way or the other."

**One Week Later Charlie POV**

The tests had come back negative. For everything. As soon as I knew that I brought in a doctor. Dr. White is the best psychiatric specialist that Forks has to offer. He came very highly recommended. He examined Bella, and determined that she had suffered a psychiatric break. He was very doubtful that she would ever snap out of it.

He wanted to put her on a feeding tube, but I told him that I put food in her room every day, and that it was always eaten when I came back. Though usually she left about a quarter of it on the plate.

This led him to the conclusion that Bella was faking. He told me that if she would eat and get up and use the facilities as long as I didn't bother her than I should just accept that she didn't want to socialize with me and my choices were to commit her, or to hope for a change. Since she was on summer vacation anyway I chose to just let her continue on her own.

I went back to work after the third day, and I started staying at Kay's the way I usually would when Bella hadn't lived with me with the exception of stopping in a few times a day to leave her something to eat.

**Sam POV**

I stop by Chief Swan's to see how Isabella is doing, I never go inside. I don't want to freak her out. Instead I watch her from the tree outside her window. She mechanically eats the sandwich that her dad brought her earlier. The look on her face never changes, I doubt if she even realizes she's actually eating. Most likely her body just moves on autopilot.

It's been about a week now, and I'm hoping for some sign of life today. Jared had told me that sometimes if he thought about Kim really hard she would call him to see if anything was up. He called it the Imprint Bat signal.

I've been trying it with Isabella, but mostly she just lays on her bed staring at the ceiling and muttering 'he's gone'.

I sit back in the tree, I concentrate all my energy on Isabella, thinking her name so hard its practically in neon inside my head. Being in the tree was stupid, if she did wake up out of her catatonic state and look out the window I'd probably scare her right back into it.

Shaking it off, I concentrate again, Isabella, Isabella, I don't know if you can hear me Isabella, I just want you to get better. I wish you could give me a sign Isabella, give me some sign that you're going to be okay Isabella. Please Isabella.

My head jerks up as I hear a small voice say, "Please. Call me Bella."

She's still laying back on her bed, eyes on the ceiling, but she says it again, and I watch her lips move, "Please. Call me Bella."

Jumping out of the tree, I phase and do a victory lap in the woods. Fuck that feels fantastic! I know she's not just gonna be normal tomorrow, but the fact that she spoke, that I was able to mentally reach her, even if she was dreaming. Somehow it feels like she's going to be okay.