Seattle, 2010

He had gotten there safely. The memories of him coming to find me in the past were slowly melding themselves into my mind. I let out a sob knowing that soon the world around me would change and I would lose all the good memories along with the bad.

Forks, Present Day

I could hear him as is continued to speak to me but nothing he said seemed to register in my brain. It was all too much. He was from the future? But why was he here? And how did he get here?

I shook my head and tried to focus hoping to hear the answers I desperately needed.

"…they wanted you to join them and when you refused, well…they didn't take it well."

Wait, what was going on? Clearly I had missed too much.

"Stop, just stop," I said abruptly holding my hand up. "Please, just…just start over."

He looked at me for a moment before nodding slightly and starting again. "I am here from the future. I shouldn't be here and I shouldn't be telling you any of this but only you can help us now, only you can stop the war before it starts."

He looked at me expectantly, clearly waiting for me to interject. It took great effort, but I managed to keep myself calm and motioned for him to continue.

"Right," he started again. "I'm going to ask you to please let me get all of this out. Its complicated and it will be easier if you let me go straight through. Alright Bella?"

I nodded, not trusting myself to speak.

"After school ended we got married."

I raised my eyebrow skeptically. Married. Right. I guess that at least meant we were still together.

"And not long after the wedding I gave into your wishes and turned you."

My eyes widened and I couldn't help the small smile that crept across my features.

"After you turned, you were surprisingly resistant to human blood. We all expected it to take ages to help you control your thirst for blood but it was almost instant. You've never once taken a human life.

Not long after, we discovered that you had an extraordinary power, one that had never been seen before," he took a deep breath and looked me directly in the eyes for the first time since he had started.

I held my breath expectantly.

"You were able to travel through time. Not very far at first, just a few minutes forwards and backwards, but you worked at it…we worked at it, and little by little you were able to go farther and stay for longer. Then one time, by accident, you sent Alice back instead of yourself. We were all shocked, it was one thing for you to travel in time, it was your power after all, but to be able to send someone else, well that…that was something we never could have anticipated."

"So I was the one…"I started but my voice trailed off.

"Yes, you sent me here," he responded to my unfinished question.

"But why?"

Taking another deep breath, he continued on with his explanation. "The Vulturi. They found out about your power and wanted you to join them. You refused, wanting to stay with me and try to lead as normal a life as possible, but they wouldn't take no for an answer. When we left Italy, they followed us back and were furious. They threatened us all, my family…our family…but they stood by your decision and when that plan didn't work they decided to go after your family, your human family, hoping that your fear of them getting hurt would force you to join them in order to keep your mom and dad safe.

We kept your parents safe for a while, but when you still wouldn't go with them, the Vulturi changed their tactics. They decided that if you weren't going to work with them then they weren't going to allow you to exist, not with the power that you held, it was too risky for them to have you as an enemy. They got passed us somehow and managed to get to your father…after that, it turned into a battle.

At first it was just us against them, but soon vampires from all over showed up to join in the fight and the humans weren't stupid. They realized that a war had irrupted, what they didn't realize was that the war was between a race quite unlike their own and that they didn't stand a chance against them. Forks was torn apart…so many people died and there were casualties on our side as well as the Vulturi's side."

I had sat there in silence for most of his explanation, but hearing of the losses proved to be too much and I began to cry. Edward took a step forward and I expected that he wanted to comfort me, but he stopped short and returned to his original position.

"Who," I crocked through the tears.

"Sorry?" he questioned.

"Wwwho diiidd we lose?" I stuttered.

He looked down at the ground, staring at nothing in particular, "Charlie and Renee were our first loses…Alice and Carlisle went next and…" he paused, fighting his own tears, "and right before I came here…I was holding Emmet in my arms."

I sobbed uncontrollably now, somewhere in my brain I knew that none of this had happened; not for me, not yet anyways, but in that moment I felt as if I was losing them all at once.

I looked up at him and my eyes wandered to his blood soaked shirt.

"Your shirt," I said lamely.

"Emmet," he responded quietly.

I instantly started to cry harder. He stood there watching me until I had no more tears left to shed. I steadied myself and tried to think. I had to do something; I had to stop this from happening. He had said that I was the only one who could stop the war before it started and I was going to do everything I could to make that happen.

I gathered my strength, stood up from my bed and looked him dead in the eye, "What do I have to do?"

Hey y'all. I know this chapter is a lot of storytelling, but it's obviously completely necessary. My plan for the evening was to work on my HP story "A New Normal," but I got a review for this one earlier and something sparked in me and I decided to update it. I'm a bit iffy about it, but hopefull you enjoyed it. Feel free to drop me a review with your opinion. It's been a while since I've read any of the twilight books so I'm sorry if my Edward and Bella aren't quite as in character as they were in the first chapter. 3