A/N I'm giving you a little more of the history so you can understand more of it, so I hope you like it enjoy...

Sorry again for the grammar.

I do not own Twilight or New York City I know what a shame...

Chapter one

Water and fire

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious. -Vince Lombardi

BPOV

I was walking down what was left of the city of New York, the cool wind brush my hair and face. I was looking at the once beautiful buildings that now were all in pieces some still standing up and some down my feet and scattered all around. Only the light of a full moon was directing me in my path.

I was hoping to not find myself caught, since I had not sleep much on the last couple of days and I didn't have the energy to fight, also because it would be my own fault since I was not supposed to be here.

I heard noises and I try to hide but as I did my body resented the lack of sleep and I felt against some boxes making clatter. I got control of myself and tried to hide but as I was doing it, I felt someone grab my backpack.

Suddenly I was thrown in the air and I hit the wall that was nearest, it took me a couple of seconds to recover but as I did I took off my bag and put myself on fighting stand.

Maybe I didn't have the strength to fight but that didn't meant I was not going to try, if there were going to take me down, they were not taking me down without a little battle.

Then I saw the reject, that horrible beast, he was getting near me, this one had pale skin and the purple veins were noticeable, the stench was deadly, and I had to do my best not thrown up.

He opened his mouth making a horrible noise and throwing to the floor what I supposed was his saliva.

He was getting near me. I look into his black coil eyes waiting to get my hit, he was closed to me, I jump landing behind him, I kicked him making him double himself and then with the little energy I had left I uncover a little bottle on my belt that contain water. I then proceed to covered him in a water capsule. It wouldn't not last much time but at least I hope I'll give me the time to escape.

I turn to run, got my backpack, and started to flee the scene when I felt something or rather someone lift me of the floor. Suddenly my back was against the wall and a hand was closing in my neck.

I tried to fight it at first but I had no energy left. I didn't really know how much time I had gone without air but my chest had started to hurt and burn, I guess he was no merciful follower. My eyes were starting to close I tried to fight it but I couldn't.

I closed my eyes, hoping that whenever I'll go at least I'll get a glimpse of her or even of him.

I heard a noise near me, it was a familiar sound, it was water running, and I guess it was only logical that my heaven, if there were such thing, would be overflowing with water. I opened my eyes and look around me. I seemed to be in a tent, I looked around and there was my backpack but also some other things that I had not seen until now. I got up and felt dizzy; I put my arms against my head and waited after the lightheadedness to go away before I opened them again.

I got up slowly and soon I was up, I went to my backpack to retrieve a mirror to see what I looked like in the afterlife. Once I retrieved it from the bag, I was surprise to see that I looked awful, my hair was a very messy disarray and my clothes were the same ones from the night I was killed and they were all dirty I even had some bruises in my neck.

Then I remember that maybe once I was gone I was going to be able to find her or him so not caring anymore about my dreadful appearance. I went out of the tent, to be shock for a minute when I found a fire being started but that was not what caught my attention but the guy that was actually producing the fire from his fingertips.

He was easily taller than I was probably around 6 feet tall, he had coppery hair, he was lean but muscular at the same time, he was wearing some lose jeans and a white t-shirt, then he suddenly glance my way not really surprise it seem from my presence. He had the deepest green forest eyes I had ever seen and then he talked distracting me from my admiring.

"So I see you come around," he said smiling at me. I couldn't really make sense of his words so I asked him the only thing that my head had conjured as possible.

"Are you like some kind of angel or something?" he then laugh and I felt myself getting angry because of course he was laughing at me so instead of waiting for an answer I decided to explore more of my heaven as I had come to name the place I was now residing.

"Hey wait up where are you going?" he then catch up with me and took my arm gently and turned me to look at him.

"A place where I don't get laugh at, that's when were am going, now if you'll excuse me get out of the fucking way" I said very unladylike manner but he just smirked again.

"Sorry about that but came on what's with the angel question, I guess I know that am easy on the eye but to think am an angel well that just a really fuck up don't you think" he said as he passed a hand on his smooth soft looking hair.

"What else am I supposed to think? If you are not an angel then what are you?" I asked since I was really confused at the moment, he looked up to me frowning a little.

"What do you mean with what am I, am a human just like you" he said as he continued to frown, looking at me like he had just explain that 2 plus 2 equals 4.

"Then there is not like personal heavens, we have to share like heaven or something?" I ask him looking for an explanation.

"Am what do you mean by heaven?" he answered me with a question.

"Yes we are in heaven aren't we or wherever it's call, you know the place we go after we pass away, after the intake of our last breath and all the cheesy lines ever invented to explain the death situation" I explained him thinking that it should be the other way around not me doing the explain but him.

"Mmm but we haven't pass away and we haven't taken our last breath and to us all those cheesy lines don't apply as far as I know or am concern" he then explained to me.

"You mean we aren't dead," I asked with a bit of relief, confusion and embarrassment sipping from my voice.

"No we are not, what makes you think we are?" he then asked.

"I just assume since I was fighting the other night and that creature got a hold of me and everything, oh my god am so embarrass right now" I turn away from him trying to hide the fact that my cheeks were now color by a very fierce red. Then I heard him not chuckle he was way past that he was beyond laughing even I turn to look at him he was as red as me but from way different reasons, his knees were a little doubled and he had even tears streaming down his eyes.

Now I was really pissed.

Since it seem that I had gotten enough rest not the necessary but the minimal, I could do a trick or two. I looked at my surroundings finding a familiar looking lake but not paying that much attention to it. I decided to wet the stranger in front of me so I put up one arm I grabbed some water, he haven't even notice and I had transported the water from the lake and was now holding it above his head. Then closing my hand I let the water descend to the stranger not angel head's.

What happen next scared me a little because in the blink of an eye a very angry stranger not angel was grabbing me by the arms. An orange almost red color replaced the green forest in his eyes.

"Don't ever do that again," he said in a voice so deep and troubled that it made me shudder. Unexpectedly I began to feel warmth in the places his hands were holding me and I notice that not only his hand was radiating heat but also all his body, then I remember that I also saw him producing fire a while ago, then realization hit me in the face. He could be one of them but then if he was then he would not have let me leave this long.

Then did that mean that he was one of us? Before I could make any assumption, I had to get rid of his hold, so that in any case that he was not one of us I could at least get the opportunity to defend myself.

"Am sorry, I won't do it again, could you please release me?" I pleaded not that I like doing it but it's was necessary. He then look at my eyes and then release my arms he turn his back on him and then he spoke.

"Am sorry I shouldn't have reacted that way, I hope that you find it in yourself to forgive me," he then said and now I was puzzle by his strange way of shifting moods and I also notice that he was now dry that was why I had felt warm her was drying himself.

"Don't worry about it I overreacted, am just really confused and all of this is giving me a head ache" I confessed while looking at him noticing that his eyes were a little more soft and they had more sparkled.

"Yeah I guessed I understand, so what do you wanna know?" he said as he motioned for me to sit on some logs that I haven't had the time to notice before since I was mesmerized by his ability. I sat down looking at my fingers before speaking.

"Do you know what happen that night?" I ask him knowing that if he was there he would know about what night I was referring to.

"Only what I saw" he answered, I look at him trying to tell him with my eyes that I needed more than that, I guessed that he understood my request because he immediately began to talk.

"I had gone to the city to find some food, when I heard a noise, of course I immediately knew what that sound was, I then went to look at the reject to see if there was even a possibility that I could kill it without it killing me." He then made a pause like struggling whit his next words. "That's when I saw you, he already had you in a vice gripe against the wall, I knew that I had to help you so as silently as I could I got near him then I appeared in between the gasp that he had left between you and he. He was surprised and I used that to my advantage so I put my hands in his arms burning them causing him to double a little in pain but also forcing him to drop you, you were already pass out when I caught you once he let go of you. I knew that I didn't have much time so I immediately kick him backwards, sending him afar from us, then used some of the flammables things around us, I lit them up creating a barrier between the monster and us. The reject then got up trying to pass my fire barrier but was lucky getting burn each time using this as a distraction I left with you on my arms trying to get away from here as soon as possible. Then I don't really know where and where not I didn't turn and suddenly I was on this wooden area and decided It was a great place to hide and I guessed the rest you already know". This in another time it would have sound unbelievable but right now it seem as common as breathing. Suddenly I couldn't help but feel a sense of gratefulness to the stranger in front of me which I now realized I didn't even knew his name.

"Thank you" I said to him since right now it was the only way I could express how grateful I was at him for saving my life. He just nodded at me.

"Do you have any more questions?" he asked then, I tried to think of anything and I immediately found something that I wanted to ask but was a little embarrass to do so. I think he saw my reluctance and encourage me with a soft smile.

"What's your name?" I asked while I felt myself blushing for not thinking of asking that before, just realizing what selfish I had been at making this entire conversation about what had happen to me. He just laugh at my question, and the sound brought some relief and I couldn't help but join in.

"I'm Edward Masen and you are?" he answered and questioned at the same time. This time it was him that was blushing I smiled at him "Isabella Swam but called me Bella".

"Well Bella since introductions are finally over would you mind if I was the interrogator for once?"

"I guessed is only fair," I said as I waited for him to ask away.

"What where you doing in the city?" he asked and I instantly was put in an awkward position since I really wasn't supposed to be in that part of the city, we knew that there were some rejects wondering around but it was only fair that I answered since he had responded to my questions. I ponder a little about what I was going to tell him and decided to tell him half the truth.

"Well the reason is not far from where you stand a group of friends and I came here to look for supplies, I was in charge of getting some medicines, pills, bandages you know the drill." I finish telling him.

"What do you mean by a group of friends?" he asked suddenly interested in that part of the history for which I was grateful since then I could stay apart from why I had been so out of the route I was supposed to follow. At the same time, I tried to think if it was a good to tell him this part of the information since I didn't want to put anyone in danger. I then realized that if he was one of them he would had killed me already but I didn't want to risk the others.

I decided to stick to the half-truths since it seem to be working. "Yes me and some others had found a place to hide from the rejects and the NAGL all together," I said not giving him that much information.

"Where it this safe place you are talking about?" this was tricky information to give so I decided to give and honest answer.

"Am sorry Edward but that's something I can disclosed right now, I had only meet you for what 3 hours?" I said not really having a grasp of time, I saw as his eyes clouded a bit and I felt sorry for not being able to tell him but I couldn't risk it I just couldn't.

"It's ok Bella, I understand" before he could even finish my stomach grumbled taking a bit of the edge that had formed around the conversation, making Edward laugh while I just stood there with a red face and a hand to my stomach.

"Maybe it's time to feed the stomachs don't you think Bella?" he said while going into the tent and bringing back his backpack. Before I knew it, we were both eating some canned things to which I really pay no attention to since in this time just getting food in our bellies was a privilege so I found it in me to not be so picky.

Instead, I was admiring the area trying to think of where part of the city we were, having a flash back all of the sudden.

My eyes were covered whit a silk garment making my others senses to intensify, I heard the rumble of water near me, the sounds of birds singing I could even hear the gust of the wind and footsteps inching closing at me, making my whole body go on alert.

I felt someone take my hand and my whole body relax recognizing the hand capturing mine.

"Come on Bells you didn't think I was going to let anyone else get near you did you?" he whispered in my ear making my body shudder.

"Aren't you the one that always tells me to constantly be on guard," I said smiling trying to direct my voice to where I thought he was.

"I see you have been listening," he said while laughing

"Of course how could I not, now take this bloody thing out of my sight," I told him getting a little restless.

"Always the impatient one sweetheart" he murmur while taking the blind fold out of my eyes. As soon as it was of I was lock in his gray eyes and his smile, he kiss my cheek and step aside. I couldn't help the gasp that escape me, our surroundings were beautiful, there was a lake with clear, crystal water next to us, there were huge, lush, green foliage from the trees around us making inviting shadows and a gentle hush of wind. Then on the bottom of the highest tree, there was a blanket with a basket that I was almost certain contained delicious food.

I turned to him and launch myself at him, as he twirl me.

"This is beautiful" I said to him once he put me on the ground "Thank you for doing this for me"

"Don't thank me Bells I would do this and more for you" I smiled at him closing the space between us and tasting his lips.

I stop the memory right there it was sometimes really hurtful to know what I had and what I lost. Right now I had to think of the importance of the memory. That specific picnic that I had just recall was held in Central park near the Turtle Pond.

I gasped, "Edward I know where we are" but before he could answer we heard a growl not so far from our location.

"I guessed it's time to go" instead of answering to my previous statement he said, I just nodded. "You'll lead the way," he stated as he gathered his things making me remember mine. By the time we had them all gather I had assess the grounds and had decided that we were nearer the Marymount school of New York if we headed south of our location.

So that's what we did we cross East Dr, passing next to the Marymount school of New York but wanting to be as far as possible from this forest or better said park. We then entered 5th avenue and I kept us walking down E 80th street until we got to Park Avenue where we turned and walked reaching E 77th street where we turned left we continued in that street and getting to the Lenox Hill Hospital. We entered and I began gathering what I was supposed to get in the first place.

Once I was done Edward look at me a little sad and before I could ask him why he looked like that, he talked.

"I guess is time for you to head to your safe place, we don't your friends to worry about you do we?" by the time he was done speaking my teeth had already captured my lip which was a nervous habit. I thought of what to do next, once I decided I could only hope that in the future the consequences of my decision wouldn't come back and bite me in the ass.

"Edward do you want to come with me to the safe place?" he looked surprise by my question but then he smiley lightly nodding his head. I really hoped I didn't regret this.

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