Disclaimer: If I owned Twilight, The Vampire Diaries or Moonlight I would be a very happy girl. Unfortunately I don't and I just play with their characters and storylines
Also I really need t thank Vampir3.S3duction. If it wasn't for our talks Bella wouldn't act the why shed does in this fic. Thanks for inspiring me
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Part 2 - Time to break up
I was pulled out of my musings by Renee returning to my room bearing two cups of coffee. Vampire or not I am addicted to the stuff.
"How are you sweetie?"
"I'm good Renee, just a little sore"
"Don't you mean mom?"
She joked and I rolled my eyes. I guess I should explain huh?
Charlie is not my father, obviously, but he is a descendant of me. After I 'died' my Father left the town and relocated to the other side of the country in an effort to forget and as a wealthy man started a new family with a little help from Lexi whom I had ask to compel him to get him to not shut down. A few generations down the road Charlie was born. What I had told Edward was the truth except it wasn't about me. He did marry his high school sweetheart, Renee, and they spit out one daughter Isabella Marie. She was named after me down to the middle name. She even looks like me a lot. Same long reddish brown hair, same deep brown eyes, her skin is well tanned obviously not pale like me. With her photos in Charlie's house I could pass as her.
What wasn't true was that Renee left because she hated the small town. Well, she did but the main reason she left was because of me. I came to visit (something I do at least every ten or so years) and she freaked out about me being a vampire. I compelled her to forget about me and she was on her way. She lives in Florida now, married with minor league baseball player Phil Dawyer.
The 'Renee' in my hospital room is her older and wiser sister Kate. Kate is in her early forties, happily married to a doctor with twin sons. She is the head chef of one of the most prestigious restaurants n Phoenix. She found out about me when both me and Isabella were in Phoenix. I went to eat, Isabella worked there. She thought it was cool.
"Hey where did you go?"
"Just down memory lane. Anesthesia has this effect on me"
I shrugged. Kate was a good sport. She covered for me with Edward for my phone call to 'Renee' and made sure to keep up the facade of my identity from the Cullens.
"How are you? Really?"
"I'm good. My leg is almost healed, I just need to eat a little and it will be fine. Getting rid of Edward will be harder"
She laughed
"I can get you a tray if you want. I saw it was a beautiful dish of angel hair"
she said in her Michelin awarded chef tone and I almost gagged.
"No thank you, evil woman"
"Now tell me what happened. Because there is no way you went a few floors down and through a window. Not even Izzie can do that and she is a real klutz"
I smiled and concentrated to see if any Cullens were near. They weren't and I made sure I projected a vision for Alice to have in which Kate and I were having 'the talk'.
"A few months ago some strange deaths happened in Forks and Charlie called me to see if I could help. The local doctor that did the autopsies determined they were animal attacks."
"They weren't?"
"Do you know many animals with a human mouth that drain the blood of their victims?"
"Touché. Go on"
"Well, when Charlie mailed me the reports I could see that all scratches that made it look animal were done post mortem. It was a vampire. I packed and moved in with him as his daughter. Izzie hasn't stepped foot in Forks since her age was single digited so it wasn't hard. On my first day at school I saw that some of the students were not exactly human. I did a little digging and a month later I knew the truth. The problem is that I started dating Edward"
"Why?"
"Because I had to play the 'innocent infatuated human girl' for him to stop being suspicious of me and I sent a 'vision' to his sister of me as a cold one with them. Now he thinks I'm the love of his life"
I rolled my eyes for extra effect and she signed.
"I don't suppose you can ease your way out"
"Noop, tried once. He can't dazzle me and while I can push him in the right direction I can't compel him exactly"
"Bummer"
"Anyways... The killings were happening by the creep that got me here. The Cullens insisted I go play baseball with them so they can show off their speed and grace to me the humble human. He and his two pals crushed the game. The wind blew and he got my scent. Decided to come after me and the Cullens decided to get me away. They think I lived in Phoenix so we came here. The bad guy, James, broke into Renee's house and I thought he had her. He's dead now, leaving me with this"
I pointed to my bandaged arm and she sighed. I had led James into biting me knowing my blood - even though smells like Christmas dinner to a starved person - is deadly to a cold one. It would kill him slowly but Edward finally found his way to the dance studio. I'm pretty sure he'd kill me in the studio but Carlisle led him to try and suck the venom out. No need for me to tell him that their venom while yucky has no effect on me.
"Can you call Mick for me? I promised him I'd call but with a mind reader and a clairvoyant wannabe that spied my every move it was difficult"
"Sure"
She agreed and left for the night. As if it was orchestrated Edward breezed back in and sat on the bed, taking my hand in his.
"Edward, I can't do this. We've been together for less than, what, a week and I am in the hospital. My mother would have gotten hurt if she was at home. What's next Charlie?"
I yelled playing the 'offence is the best defense' card. He looked stricken. I guess talking with your mother about sex isn't exactly building to a breakup!
'Always leave them before they have time to leave you'
Josef Constan, my on and off man when I'm in LA loves to say. Sure it's in a different concept but I think it applies here as well.
"Bella, love.."
"No, we're done. Get out!"
He accepted and left the room in a fake defeated air but while whistling happily in a tone too low for humans to hear.
No one leaves Isabella Marie Swan. I leave them!
