Thank you very much to GreenEyedGirl9, And the Eternally Silent, RandomThoughtsofaTeenageGirl, and punk rock vampire for reviewing and making my day! Everyone, please review! Give me your thoughts, opinions, ideas, whatever you see fit. This chapter will focus on Bella, and then the next will be Edward, and then the rest of the Cullen family individually.

And GreenEyedGirl9- Bella's power will be revealed. No worries. It just didn't come up naturally in the first chapter and I didn't want to make it seemed forced or anything. And besides, Bella's power plays a role in the rest of the story, even as a human You'll see! And sorry if this chapter is boring, I just needed to set the scene up and all. Not a lot of dialogue. Hope it suffices, though.

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Chapter 2: Yesterday

Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring! Bella Swan groaned, rolling over in her bed, the sound of the alarm clock pulling her from sleep. Classes had been draining her lately, and with finals coming up, she needed as much sleep as possible. She must have forgotten to turn off her alarm last night.

Wait…sleep?

Bella shot up in her bed, looking around, her breathing heavy, disturbed by the thoughts filling her head. She couldn't even take in her surroundings, because of a blinding headache that was taking over. As if all at once, every memory came rushing to her. Living in Phoenix, Renee getting married, moving to Forks to live with Charlie…but that's when things became different. Soon, memories that she hadn't lived began creeping into her mind.

Accepting a date with Mike Newton and hating every second of it, staying home on prom night with a disappointed Charlie, Renee visiting Forks for graduation, Bella going to Arizona for college because she missed the sun too much. She was living a human life. The details of this life were fuzzy, ones she could barely make out, but she understood the general idea of that life.

Another life was in the back of her mind though, but making itself clearer and prominent as the moments wore on. Edward. Alice. Emmett. Esme. Carlisle. Jasper. Rosalie. The Cullens. Her family. Her heart was racing just thinking of them. Where were they? What was happening? Were they OK?

Something else occurred to her suddenly; her heart was racing. She had a heartbeat? Her heart hadn't beaten in five years. Frantically, she catapulted out of her bed and looked around the unfamiliar dorm room quickly, relieved when she found a mirror. She stepped in front of it quickly, and felt her jaw drop when she saw her reflection. Her complexion was completely different from what it had been yesterday. Her face was pale, but not uncommon. Her skin was warm, and her cheeks had a pink tinge to them. The dark circles were missing from under her eyes, brown eyes, no longer topaz or black. She would even take burgundy eyes at this point. Any trace that she was a vampire had vanished.

She had to face the hard reality; she was a human. Again.

Taking a deep, dizzying, breath, she sat back on her bed, her head still pounding. This new life, this human life, whatever it was, she barely knew. She had a basic outline in her mind, but mainly the memories from her real life were overshadowing them, making her beating heart ache, tears pressing to her brown eyes.

She was missing Edward terribly, more than humanly possible. She felt incomplete with out him, as if she was now missing a leg, or both her arms. Functioning wasn't an option. She needed to know if he was OK first. Was he still in Forks? Was he a vampire? He must still be back in her old life, with all the others, or he would be there with her at that moment.

But, where was she, and how did she get here?

"Bella, you OK?" a blonde hair girl asked, coming into the small room, her grey eyes filled with concern.

Bella's head snapped over, trying to process who this girl was. A friend? An enemy? She glanced around the room and saw another bed. She felt quite silly she was just realizing she was in a dorm room. This girl was probably the roommate. "Yes, I'm fine," she said, trying to compose herself, but the tears in her eyes were betraying her. She had to convince the girl that nothing was out of the ordinary. She didn't want to end up in the psychiatric ward for claiming she was a vampire. She was a human for now, and she would have to act the part until she returned home.

"Are you sure?" the girl asked cautiously, setting her bag of books on the bed, her eyes never leaving Bella. Bella cursed herself, forcing her tears away. Part of her didn't care that girl could tell something was wrong. She was hurting, to the point where she almost felt numb from the constant pain. She was lost, alone, and with out Edward. She needed to figure out what happened to her and get back home, and quick.

"Positive. Sorry. I just had a bad dream, Katie," Bella said, recalling things she used to tell Charlie when he would pester her about something or another. Katie took the hint and shrugged, before going over to her desk and opening her laptop and began working on homework.

Wait, Katie? Where did that come from? Bella gently rested her head against her temples, rubbing them slightly, as if trying to ease a headache. More details were slowly becoming clearer to her now about this new life. She was twenty-one years old and majoring in English. Her roommate was Katie Jones. She had a boyfriend her freshman year before they broke up after a week. Phil had received a job as an assistant coach on a major league team in Tennessee. Small, insignificant details were coming back to her, from this life she had never lived. But, it wasn't enough, or fast enough. She still felt lost here, and all these memories of two lives were coming together, giving her an awful headache.

She heaved a sigh of relief when Katie walked to her side of the room, convinced for the moment. Bella quickly went around the room and found clothes in a closet, many of which were new to her. Alice would have died looking in the closet, claiming everything was too plain, too ordinary, or didn't fit Bella right. She was satisfied though that it was much like her old style. A pang hit her when she realized it was her old style, the style of clothes she wore before she became a Cullen.

She willed the tears back and changed into a pair of jeans and a blue blouse. It was hard to look at anything and not be reminded of Edward or the Cullens. The only information she had gathered so far was that she was now human, in another life. Alice had been having vision problems and had passed out, and as soon as she did, Bella found herself here. The two had to be connected, she just didn't know how.

If anything, Bella's power should have protected her from all this, if it dealt with Alice's power. When she became a vampire, she had an enhanced trait, her privacy. Not only did she have the privacy of her mind, but she had the privacy of her body, too. Jasper's power no longer had an effect on her, and Alice could only see Bella's future if she wasn't guarding herself. When she was, it was as if she was invisible to Alice, which annoyed Edward to no end when he would read Alice's mind to see any potential danger that might be headed towards Bella.

"Where you heading to?" Katie asked.

"Oh, classes," Bella said, lying easily.

"On a Saturday?" she responded, her tone suspicious. Bella winced. OK, she had to find out more than the day of the week, like who she was, where she was, and what she was now.

"I meant that I had to go to one of my classrooms to meet with a professor," Bella recovered, hoping that was enough.

"OK…good luck," she said, but her suspicious tone was still unconvinced. "And don't forget, in a couple weeks we have that guest lecturer for our class, Professor Plattson, Platty, Jones, whatever. Jenson wants us to write a paper on it," Katie said, rolling her eyes dramatically. Bella raised an eyebrow carefully, judging the statement. It was a test on Katie's part, to see how far gone Bella was, or if this even was Bella.

Bella laughed slightly, praying that whatever limited acting skills she had would come into play now. "Thanks, I swear, if I have to write another essay this semester, I'm going to die," Bella said with a forced smile. Katie smiled back and grabbed her work. Bella sighed, thankful she passed the test, before grabbing her jacket and heading out the door.

The second she got into the hallway, she saw rows and rows of other doors, some decorated for fun, others as plain as a blank wall. Glancing back at her door, her eyes widened slightly. One half of the door was covered in color, mainly shades of green, with the name Katie decorated with construction paper and pictures. The other half of the door was empty, except for a mandatory nametag that read, "Isabella Swan, Room 402. Forks, WA." Someone, and she assumed it was herself, had crossed out Isabella and rewrote Bella there in untidy script.

She sighed, running her fingers over the name slowly. She wrote this, she could see the memory clearly in her mind now. It was written by a different Bella though, a human one, who had never met the Cullens in her life, who had never known the love that she was capable of, who had never known what it felt like to feel whole. She felt sorry for this Bella, but also deathly frightened. What if she couldn't find a way back home? She would be stuck in this life forever? Would she become that Bella?

"Hey Bella," a different girl called down the hall, waving to her enthusiastically as she went back into her own dorm room. Bella waved back weakly, feeling rather nauseous. It seemed that everyone in this hall knew her better than she knew herself. She was just so confused, and lost…she just wanted to be home.

Bella couldn't handle it anymore. She stumbled into the bathroom down the hall and closed herself into a stall, letting all her tears out. It was surprising to her how easy the ability to cry came back to her, as if she always could. She had grown so used to life as a vampire that all of this; sleep, hunger, tears, were so foreign to her now. She had to remember what it was like to be human again.

She curled her ball into fists, her fingernails digging into her palm and breaking the skin, but for once, she didn't notice the blood, or the smell. The overwhelming realization of the situation she was in and the absence of Edward had overpowered that reaction. She needed Edward. She needed him to be with her, right now. How was she supposed to find her way back with out him? She prayed that he didn't think she was dead right now. She didn't want to return and find out he went to the Volturi and…

No, she couldn't even bright herself to finish that thought. She felt as though her heart was ripped in two pieces, to even think of Edward no longer existing.

She had to find her way back now. She was going to, before Edward did something ridiculous, or she worried the family too long. Edward was probably blaming himself in some fashion, Carlisle trying to figure out what had happened to her and Alice, Esme wanting make sure she got her children back safe and sound, Jasper was more than likely at Alice's bedside, attempting to keep his emotions in check, but failing miserably, Emmett might be keeping Edward away from Volterra, and Rosalie, trying to protect her family while they were vulnerable. With her and Alice infected, it might catch on to the rest of them, and who knows what had happened to Alice. She needed to warn the others, and get back so she could stop them from entering this messed up world, this world with out the Cullens. She needed to keep the family together.

Bella finally managed to compose herself, and got out of the bathroom stall, some eyes following her, curious to why the normally quiet and shy Bella Swan ran in to the bathroom crying. Bella did her best to ignore the glances and washed her hands, catching a glimpse of herself in the mirror again, flinching. Her eyes were now puffy and red from crying, and the soap was stinging her hands where she had hurt herself. After being a vampire so long, she had gotten used to the beauty that came along with the immortality, and seeing her reflection now, of a plain human, was just startling. Yesterday, she was a beautiful, dead, vampire, and today, she was now a weak, plain, human.

She tore her eyes away from the mirror before she could let this sink in any further. This was just temporary, she had to convince herself of that. Soon enough she would be back in the arms of her husband, her mate, her love, and have the ability to arm wrestle Emmett, keep up with Alice's shopping trips, or be awake at 4am in the morning when she finally decides to getting around to do her history homework with Jasper.

Determination filled Bella, all thoughts about tears leaving her. A fire burned in the pit of her stomach. She was going to find out everything that had happened to her, and find a way back home. She needed to pass as this new Bella while she was stuck here, and in the mean time, she was going to go to every library, internet website, and resource out there dealing with alternate universes. She was going to get back, even if she had to go to the ends of the world trying. She would find her way back.

With a purpose in this new life, she turned around from the sink and walked out the door. She could stand there and complain about how much she hated this and wished that it was yesterday, or she could actually do something about all of this. Unfortunately, one of the hazards of being a human again was her lack of gracefulness, and all too soon, Bella tripped over her own two feet and landed face down in front of the elevators. She groaned heavily, closing her eyes, hearing some people snicker, and a few others offering to help her up. In the back of her mind, she could hear Emmett's booming laughter at the site. Her klutziness was back full force now. This was definitely going to make things more difficult.