Timeless
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Full Summary: Bella, Emmett and Jasper have never paid much attention to History class. But if someone told them that they'd go back to 1918, meet new friends and even fall in love. I bet they would have. Canon Pairing
Chapter 2:
Visitors
Alice's POV
Time
Time is divided in three parts: the past, the future and the present.
The past is so boring. It has already passed and we know enough about it. I don't really find it interesting at all.
The present is a bit more special. It is what is happening right now. With the present you will built the future. That is why many people call it a 'gift'
The future is what I find more interesting. The future is the unknown, the unexpected. What we call impossible right now, can be not that impossible in the future. I find it fascinating and I wanted to be able to see that.
I don't think I was born at the right time. I hate the time I was born on. I can't do anything. Mostly because I am woman. I can't study too much because I'm woman and all that woman can do is cook, clean, train how to be a good wife and sew. Sew what? The clothes are horrible. People say that I don't have a good fashion sense, just because I think the clothes we can wear are ugly. I can't wear something that shows my ankle or my shoulders, because people will say I'm indecent. I have to wear those stupid pitchy shoes that hurt my feet. And I have to accept that I will never have respect. And all of that because I'm woman.
I can go to school, but it doesn't make any difference because I'm woman and they won't think I'm serious. I'm lucky that I have a great family.
My sister Rosalie is a year older than I am, she is 18. She, like me, hates the clothes we have to wear. She loves mechanics, she's great at it. But she can't study it because she's woman. Rosalie has a blond hair that ends at the middle of her back and green eyes.
Edward is my twin, but we are quite different. While he has a bronze-colored hair and green eyes. I have the same green eyes, but a black hair that falls on my shoulders.
Edward is amazing. He's not like most of boys who think woman's their slave. He's the completely opposite he does agree with me that women and men are equal and that both disserve respect equally. The woman who will marry him is lucky. He's a gentleman and treats all woman with respect. Especially our mother Esme.
Esme is a true lady. She does think like us, but she has to respect the traditions. She's so lucky that our father Carlisle and her actually married for love. She has a brownish black hair and brown eyes.
Our father Carlisle has blond hair and green eyes. He's a doctor, but like me he does think that he wasn't born at the right time. Most of doctors only think about the present and don't really care about the consequences. They don't really care if there's a way to make things work out in a easier way.
We live in Forks. A small gloomy town. Say boring.
"Alice, Rosalie, Edward come down here please" Esme called. I rushed downstairs. Rosalie and Edward were already there.
"What happened?" Edward asked
"I think it's finished" Carlisle said
"The time machine?" Rosalie asked. Our father is a genius, he's also an inventor and he's inventing a time machine. But this one is different. It is going to go to the future and bring something for him to exam.
"Here" He showed us a small grayish box with a red button on it.
"How does it work?" I asked
"I'm going to leave somewhere in the forest and press that button. It will go to the future and after some minutes it will take what's around it to our time" He explained
"And how big will that be?" Esme asked
"I don't know…" Carlisle said "That's why I'm leaving it somewhere in the forest"
"Can we go with you" I asked "I have a feeling that it will be fun"
"No, you'll go to school, but if you go to my office after school you can go with me to the forest to check if something arrived" Carlisle smiled at my excitement
"Yay!" I clapped my hands. Something I did when I was excited, but most of people thought it was weird.
"But now...." Esme put one hand on my shoulder "School"
"Ahh" I sighed "It's so…"
"Let's not start it" Rosalie interrupted me "Let's go" She grabbed my hand and we started walking to school with Edward right behind us. He's usually quiet.
"Do you think it will work?" Rosalie asked
"Yes" I said firmly "I believe in Carlisle"
"Maybe" Edward said.
"You will have a surprise" I told him. When I have the feelings that something will happen it usually does.
"If you say" Edward laughed quietly.
School went slowly. It took ages for it to end. It is already boring everyday, but on a day when something exciting is about to happen…
When the bell rang I was the first one to exit the class.
"What's the rush, Alice?" Tanya asked. She's one of the only friends I have. Our fathers work together.
"Our father has a surprise for us" I lied. People can't know about the time machine.
"Oh, ok then. I guess I'll see you tomorrow" She smiled "Tell Edward I say hi" She likes Edward, but Edward doesn't like her back. He never fell in love. None of us have.
"I will" I smiled back "Goodbye"
I ran to meet Rosalie and Edward in the school front door.
"Took you too long" Rosalie said
"I'm sorry, Tanya said hi" I said. Edward rolled his eyes. Rosalie smirked.
"Let's go" He started walking. We followed him and soon reached Carlisle's office. Esme was already there waiting for us on the front door.
"You kids never miss the fun" She smiled. We followed her inside.
"Hello kids. How was school?" Carlisle asked
"Aw C'mon father. I want to go already" I whined. Everybody else laughed
"We're going Alice." Carlisle smiled "I have no patien…" He was interrupted by his secretary Mrs. Harry.
"Doctor Cullen, we have an emergency. There's a girl here. Apparently she fell and hurt her hand. It must have been something serious, because some of her clothes are even ripped." She said
"For the millionth time, my clothes are not riped" A girls voice came from the background followed by laughing.
"Tell her to come in" Carlisle said.
Three people entered the room. The first was honey blond man with blue eyes. He's really handsome. He looked at me for a faction of seconds and turned his attention back to the girl. A muscled man ,with curly black hair and blue eyes, was carrying her. The girl has a brownish brown hair and brown eyes. She wasn't very happy. The three of them were wearing strange clothes. They were all wearing jeans. It was rare to see someone wearing jeans. Most of people who wear that are really poor. But the don't look like poor people. The men were wearing strange shirts. The blond one was red with a type of guitar on it. The other men's was blue with 'Ladies I'm here' Written on it. When I saw the girl's shirt I understood what Mrs. Harry was talking about. It was a black shirt with no sleeves.
"Humm… do you want us to leave?" Edward asked. I looked at him. He was blushing. I wanted to laugh but It would be rude.
"You don't need to. It will be fast, because I'm not hurt at all" The girl said "I just have two overprotective brothers"
"Bells you know we are like that because we love you. And you fall too much. It gets us worried" The blond man said
"Yeah squirt, you have to be more careful" The curly haired man laughed. The girl glared at him.
"Emmett if you don't shut up, I'll give you a bloody nose…" Wow a girl saying something like that to a man. She's my hero.
"Guys, cut it out" The blond man said "I'm sorry" He turned to Carlisle. "I'm Jasper Swan and they are my siblings Isabella and Emmett"
"What happened?" Carlisle asked
"Bella tripped and fell" The Emmett man said
"Bella?" Carlisle asked confused
"Yeah, you know Bella. Isabella. Nickname" Emmett explained
"Oh" Carlisle said. It's an uncommon sight to see people cal each other with nicknames "Let me see your hand"
"It's nothing serious" Carlisle said after examining her hand "It will hurt a bit, but will be ok"
"See I told ya" Isabella said "You can put me down now Em" She added. Emmett put her down. I guess Em is another nickname. Weird. However, cool.
"I'm sorry for wasting your time" She said "Where's my bag?" She asked
"Here" Jasper said giving her a huge and weird bag. But when he gave it to her, she let it fall and my father's time machine fell out of it. We looked at each other. She grabbed it and was about to leave when Carlisle said "Excuse me, but where did you find that box?"
"It was lost" The girl obviously lied
"Where are you from?" Rosalie asked "You dress differently"
"Humm…" Isabella looked at her brothers "Australia"
"But your clothes are so…" Esme tried to think of a word "Uncommon, and the way you call each other, the way you speak…"
"Culture" Jasper said "The culture in Australia is completely different from the culture here…"
"Yeah like people on China, they wear Kimonos and speak differently…" Emmett said
"Emmett people in China don't wear Kimonos" Isabella hit his head "It's people from Japan"
"Oh… Whatever" Emmett rolled his eyes
I couldn't stand it anymore. I had to say it.
"Are you from the future?" I asked ignoring my family's glare. They looked at each other wide eyes
"We're not going to hurt you" Edward said for the first time "Carlisle invented the strange machine that probably brought you here. We just want to know what happened"
"We want to help you" Carlisle said "We won't tell anyone"
"What year are we in, exactly?" Emmett asked
"1918" Rosalie answered
"Can you take us back?" He asked
"I'll try…" Carlisle said "This is unexpected… here sit" He took 3 chairs and put in the middle of the room where we all could talk.
"Here" Carlisle showed them the seat
The girl smiled politely "Thanks…"
"Carlisle. This is my wife Esme. And my children Edward, Alice and Rosalie" He pointed to each of us.
"Well, then. Thanks Carlisle" She smiled. She was suddenly acting very diplomatic.
"What exactly happened?" He asked. They looked at each other again.
"Well" Emmett almost smirked "We were having our gay moment…"
"Sorry, our what?" Edward asked confused
"You know gay..."
"Emmett" Isabella interrupted him "Those are all expressions from the future, they don't know it"
"Oh…" Emmett said
"Do you know what gay is?" She asked. We shook our heads. Except for Carlisle but I think he wanted top see the description from people from the future.
"Gay is when a man likes another man. Like as loves him. Love to have a relationship. To date" She explained. We looked at her
"It exists?" Esme asked shocked
"I'm not surprised" Jasper sighed "People used to hide a lot at this period of history because they worried too much about people's opinion"
"And in the future it's not like that?" Carlisle asked
"Sort of" He said "People still care about what others think, bit not enough to stop them from being what they want to be"
"Yeah" Emmett and Isabella agreed
"But as you were saying?" Carlisle said
"Oh yeah… we also call something gay when it is too corny." Jasper said
"Why?" I asked
"I don't know…" He said
"It must be because they're too happy" Emmett laughed and the other two soon joined him
"You lost me" Rosalie said
"You won't get it" Emmett said "But yeah… we were having our gay moment when a blue light filled the room and this box fell out of the ceiling. I pressed the red button and we were here" Emmett said
"When you pressed the button you must have accelerated the process" Carlisle explained "Did something else come with you?"
"Our whole house" Jasper said
"Wow… really?" I asked
"Yeah, talking about it do you think our technology works?" Isabella said. The three of the exchanged looks before taking some strange machines I've never seen before out of their pockets.
"YESSSSSSS" Emmett yelled scaring all of us
"What happened?" Rosalie asked
"It's our cell phones are working" He said happily
"Cell phones?" Edward asked
"Yeah… do you know telephones?" He asked. We nodded. "Cell phones are portable telephones"
"Cool. Does everyone in the future have one?" I asked
"Most of" Isabella said
"So when can we go back?" Emmett asked
"Humm…. I'm not sure I'll have to work it out… I think it's broken" Carlisle said
"Dammit" Emmett said
"Dammit?" I asked confused
"You don't want to know" Isabella told me "Humm… sir can we go home now?" she asked
"Is your home in the forest?" Esme asked
"Yes" Jasper said
"But you can't go alone and dressed like that" She said
"I'm not wearing those clothes" The three of them said together.
"Huh? What's the problem wit the clothes?" Esme asked
"They look uncomfortable, they look too hot, in a bad way of course, and they are ugly" Emmett said
"But what do you think people will think with you dressed like that? Why do you think Edward was blushing when you entered in the room?" Rosalie said. Edward blushed and glared at Rosalie. The rest looked at Bella who blushed too and looked at herself.
"Do you think my clothes are indecent?" She asked confused. We laughed.
"Hey they're not." She crossed her arm "Well not in the future anyway"
"Does all the girls in the future dress like that?" I asked
"No, some girls wear smaller things and others bigger. Bells is on the middle" Emmett said
"And does all guys wear 'Ladies I'm here' on their shirt?" Rosalie asked
"Nah, that's just Emmett" Jasper said. Isabella laughed.
"Anyway I think we're going home" She said they got up.
"Wait we'll go by car" Carlisle said "We'll drop you there"
"Man if you want to check out the future stuff you can ask us" Emmett said
"C'mon you can all come and we'll show you everything you want about the future" Isabella laughed
"Thank you" Carlisle smiled
"No prob" Isabella smiled
We went out to the car Emmett stopped and asked "That is the car?"
"Yes" Carlisle said a bit embarrassed not knowing what they called 'car' in the future.
"Emmett if you say what I think you want to say I'll help Bella with your nose" Jasper said glaring at Emmett
"Okay, okay" Emmett sighed. They entered in the car. We're lucky that our car has a roof. Emmett and Jasper sat at one window, Isabella sat in the middle, Rosalie, Esme and I sat next to her. While Carlisle and Edward sat on the front.
Carlisle entered in the forest and went to the spot he left the machine. We could already see a big white house from the distance. Emmett, Jasper and Bella didn't even wait Carlisle stop the car. Apparently it 'runs too slow' so they could jump from inside the car easily.
"Home Sweet Home" Emmett yelled as he unlocked the big door. He entered running and after some seconds he screamed "THE ELETRICITY IS WORKING"
Outside Isabella and Jasper sighed in relief.
"C'mon you can come in" Isabella said. We followed her and entered in a huge living room with white walls and a cream colored sofa, it's so different and yet I find it so beautiful. In front of the sofa there was a huge painting, but it was strange. It didn't have anything, it was black.
"Do you want something to eat?" Jasper asked. We shocked our heads.
"Why don't you two give them a tour around the house while I have a shower" Isabella started walking up the stairs. I decided to tease Edward a bit
"Isabella?" I called
"Bella" She corrected me
"What?" I asked confused
"Call me Bella" She smiled "That's for all of you" She my family. They looked as surprised as I was.
"What?" Bella blushed seeing our reaction "Isabella makes me feel like I'm 200 years old"
"Ok" I smiled "Bella will you do me a favor?" I asked outing my innocent face on
"What?" She asked
"Take it easy on Edward" I smirked. She blushed. Edward glared at me and the rest of us, even Carlisle and Esme, laughed. Bella didn't say anything she just walked up the stairs.
"I hate you Alice" Edward told me. I smiled.
"Stop teasing your brother Alice" Esme scolded "It's weird for him"
"Sorry" I smiled
"But he better get used with it" Emmett said
"What do you mean?" Edward asked
"Man" Emmett laughed "In the future girls always wear something like what she is wearing and if what you say that is decent is what your sisters are wearing. Then it will be impossible because no girls wear that much in the future"
"Can we stop talking about it please" Edward kept blushing, but Jasper decided to be nice and save him.
"Okay, do you want to see the kitchen?" He asked. We entered in the next room. It had white walls. The furniture was black. It had a technology much more advanced than what we are used to. The whole house was filled with different types of technology. We finished with the tour, I've lean so many interesting things. I'm loving the future. Edward, Rosalie, Carlisle and Esme were also fascinated.
"Where's Bella?" I asked. She was spending too much time in the shower
"She takes too long to have a shower like any other girl" Jasper explained "Especially today that she's probably washing her hair" He rolled his eyes
"Let's show you her bedroom then…" Emmett had a grin on his face. We walked up the stairs and entered in a room with light green walls. It was different. It also had this black panting I wonder why there's a panting like that in almost every room. There were some photos on the wall. I noticed that they were colored and also how she'd hug and play with boys and girls as if there were no problems.
"The girls… I said, they're treated very differently in the future…" I trailed off
"Everything is different, I've already seen that here, people don't really touch each other… everything is so cold" Jasper said "In they future it is not that critical about everything."
"It's really different…" Carlisle stated
"Yeah, it sounds like a good future…" I said
"Sort of, it is good in some ways, but on others, it's not as good" Jasper said
"What year are you from?" Rosalie asked
"2009" Jasper said
"Wow that's almost a century…" Carlisle said
"So what are we going to do?" Emmett asked
"You'll have to stay here…" Carlisle said "I don't know how long it will take for me to fix the machine…"
"Can we at least stay in our house?" He asked
"Of course" Carlisle said "Nobody comes here"
"Awesome!" Jasper said "Humm… I have an idea… BELLA ARE YOU READY WE DON'T HAVE THE WHOLE DAY"
"I'M GOING" Bella yelled slightly annoyed. She got out of the bedroom with a towel on her hair and wearing black jeans and a green sweeter.
"I had an idea…" Jasper said
"What?!" She asked
"Since you're all so curious about the future…"
"Who wouldn't be?" Emmett cut him off
"And we could give you some 'future classes' you can ask us anything… and if we can, we'll show you" He ignored Emmett and kept finished his sentence
"We could do that" Bella said
"Yeah, but I have a condition" Emmett said "While we're here. We won't go to school"
"I guess that will never change" Carlisle laughed "But I agree, the way you act is too suspicious"
"Yessssssssssssssssssssss" Emmett jumped on Bella's bed and screamed
"Emmett, if you don't get your butt off of my bed…." Bella warned
"Okay, I'm down" He got out of the bed
"No fighting guys…" Jasper sighed
"I'm hungry I'm gonna make something for us to eat. What do you want?" Bella asked
"You can cook?" Esme looked at her. She has always tried to teach Rosalie and I how to make something, but we never get it right.
"Yeah, I have to feed two monsters" Bella smiled
"We're not that bad…" Jasper said
"Yes you are" She smirked. I could tell there was a story behind it.
"ok, ok" Jasper said
"So what do you want?" Bella asked one more time
"What do you eat in the future?" Edward asked
"We can ask some Pizza" Emmett said happily
"Emmett we're in 1918" Jasper said
"And…" He looked at them
"Where were you in history classes?" Bella asked
"Humm… I must have fallen asleep" Emmett grinned
"That's so you" Bella sighed "Pizza will only become popular in the middle of 20th century"
"How about… lasagna? It is enough for 8 people" Jasper said
"Okay" Bella said heading doorways.
"So what do you want to do?" Emmett asked
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