Summary: Isabella Swan notices things about herself, things that are strange and as she gets older they only get stranger, her mother scared of her own daughter decides to send her away to forks to live with her father, whilst there Isabella discovers the supernatural world that will soon involve her.
AN: Thanks for all the support I appreciate it.
The heavy rain battered against the kitchen window as Bella was eating her morning breakfast. "Hey kiddo, so I'm gonna be working late tonight." Charlie said stepping into the kitchen. He was wearing his usual police chief uniform the only thing new was his waterproof jacket.
Bella gulping down her food as quickly as possible and bobbed her head in response. "Alright then, I'm meant to be going over to Alice's house tonight so will you be ok with no food?" Bella asked her dad. Since she moved in, Bella has done most of the cooking if not all of it as her father was terrible at cooking, and ended up burning all the food almost every time he attempted to cook.
He gave a small chuckle. "Of course I'll be fine Bells. You do remember that I've been taking care of myself all this time, don't you? Anyway if you end up going to Alice's don't be late home all right?" Charlie gave Bella a rather stern look, something he never does.
Bella, dumping her plate into the sink gave it a quick rinse under the water. "Yeah, I won't be there long, maybe an hour or something. All we are working on is a school project." Drying her hands she spun around to face her father who was smiling slightly.
"Well either way I'm proud of you for making some friends." He said.
Starting to feel awkward, Bella excused herself and went upstairs to grab her school bag. Entering her room Bella reached out to grab her bag off her desk when she heard a slight buzzing sound in her ears. Following the sound, Bella walked into Charlie's bedroom and walked over to the window.
Looking out into the heavy rain, she could make out the trees really easy and just past the farthest tree, she could make out a shape. Bella strained her eyes, trying with all her might to make it out. The shape was big, huge even and it did look like an animal. Which animal she wasn't sure.
The more she stared at it the more it became clear. She could see the paws of the gigantic feet, the brown and gray fur on it just as she was about to see the head a low snarl came from the beast. "Bella?" Bella jumped back in freight as Charlie put his hand on her shoulder. "Little, jumpy there kid aren't ya?" Charlie said as Bella whipped her head around to face the window but as she looked at the spot she was staring at, only moments ago, nothing was there.
Frowning Bella shook her head. "Is everything all right?" Charlie asked.
Bella nodded her head. "Yeah, sorry just I heard a bang then I looked out the window and saw the rain and the wind." She said making Charlie eye her suspiciously before nodding his head.
"Well I'm off to work remember your coat. It's meant to be freezing tonight alright? See you later then."
With that Charlie left the room, leaving a confused Bella staring out the window. Hearing a slam downstairs she knew Charlie had left.
Shaking her head Bella sighed before turning around and heading down the stairs, she grabbed her keys off the table, then her coat which hung on the peg just beside the back door; throwing it on she zipped it up. It was a parka her favorite coat, her lucky coat.
After locking the door, Bella pulled up her hood to stop the rain from soaking her. Her breath came out like mist, it was freezing and the ground was slightly icy too. With a shaky hand Bella unlocked the truck door and jumped in, putting her keys into the ignition the truck roared to life.
Reversing out the driveway Bella made off towards her second day of school. Ten minutes later, Bella found herself in the school parking lot; her headphones were in her ears blasting music as she hopped out the truck.
Someone tapped her on the shoulder. Spinning around Bella pulled out her headphones as Angela was smiling at her. "Sorry Angela, headphones." Bella pointed to them before putting them safely away in her bag.
Rolling her eyes Angela just chuckled, as two boys came walking over. Bella had met both yesterday there was Eric the first person she met and the other guy Mike, who couldn't take his eyes off of her.
Eric stood beside Angela, giving her a small shove in the shoulder that almost knocked him off his feet; this made Bella laugh a little and Angela too. "So should we go inside or are we going to stay out in the rain all day?" Mike asked.
English was a bit different for Bella. At least her seating arrangements were anyway. Today she was sitting beside a new kid. She knew that because she heard Angela talk about her all morning. Glancing over at the new girl, Bella couldn't help but stare as she took in this girl's appearance.
She was tall even in her seat, she had brown hair tied back into a bun and upon closer inspection had a few stripes of gray in there too. Next was her clothing, it was expensive; Bella could tell this right away. She had a short sleeve gray t-shirt on and black jeans both had designer logo's on it then there was her boots UGGS that were brown. They were nice in Bella's opinion.
Then there were her arms. The girl, or more like woman to Bella, had a full sleeve. Bella could make out the girls tattoo's but had no idea what they were. They all had strange shapes and words in languages Bella didn't know one thing she did notice though, was a wolf with a circle around it and a queens crown on top of the wolfs head. Lastly was her skin, it was perfectly tanned making Bella feel oddly pale sitting next to the girl with the tanned skin along with the grey sharp eyes.
Although, Bella stared at the girl, she did so as sneakily as she could but as if sensing her staring the girl, turned around and looked at Bella. Her grey eyes locked with Bella's chocolate ones and a small smirk rose across the girl's face.
"Guess we are working together." She said still smirking as Bella nodded her head.
"Guess we are… I'm Bella," Bella said offering a small smile to the girl.
"Hmm… very nice to meet you Bella; I'm Athena," the girl spoke offering her hand.
Bella took it, and was surprised at how warm it is. "So Bella, you single?" Athena said, causing Bella to blush heavily against her pale skin.
"Yes… Why?" Bella's voice sounded very quiet even to her.
The girl just smirked. "Just curious."
The rest of English went by with Athena mostly staring at Bella and she doing most of the writing. Bella was thankful when the bell rang; she grabbed her bag and almost ran out of the classroom.
After feeling so flustered, Bella was happy that she didn't have Athena in her next class or her next few classes in fact. It wasn't until lunch did she see her again.
Sitting with her friends Bella was eating some fries and speaking with Angela when the cafeteria doors banged open and in walked or rather stomped in was Alice Cullen. She was furious so much that Bella could tell, judging by the looks of her family. This wasn't good.
"What's up with her?" Bella said to the table.
It was Jessica that answered. "She's been in that mood all day. She even argued with the teacher."
Bella frowned staring at the girl, "God damn it why?"
Alice ranted to Jasper who put his hand on her shoulder. "Calm down, you're getting yourself upset over nothing."
Bella's eyes widened as she realized she was hearing the Cullen's speak again, with a rather uncomfortable frown Bella focused on them to listen some more. "Calm down?" Alice hissed, "How... the... fuck can I calm down about this? This person appears and thinks she can take what's mine?" Alice closed her eyes, her fists clenched; her intakes of breath heavy.
Blinking, Bella stared confused when Alice looked up. Their eyes met and Bella offered a small smile but Alice didn't return it, in fact she just looked away. A deep sadness and anger shone in those gold eyes.
"So Bella, are you up for it?" Mike asked, looking at the brunette.
"Uh… sorry, what?" Bella gave an apologizing look.
"La Push? It's a beach on the Rez; we are all going this weekend. Do you want to go?" Mike said his eyes hopeful as Bella pondered on what to say before gently shrugging her shoulders.
"Sure, why not?"
Grinning Mike high fived another boy Tyler. When Athena walked in, she stared around the place clearly looking for someone. When her eyes landed on Bella's table the girl walked over.
Upon reaching their table she took a seat in the now empty chair that another girl had been sitting on only moments before, "Hi guys and Bella," she said eyeing Bella, that blush covered her cheeks again, "So I heard you guys are going to La Push, mind if I come?" She threw a look in Mike and the other boys direction, all but having them drooling as they nodded their heads.
"Hey, so I wanted to ask. Is that your truck out there?" Athena asked Bella.
"Yeah," came her short and quick reply earning a grin from the other girl.
"It doesn't look safe" she pointed out making Bella shrug her shoulders.
"It runs fine." This seemed to amuse Athena as the girl just chuckled before mumbling a response.
Bella was glad when lunch was over. It was time for art; it was the one subject she had at the same time every day after lunch. Bella was one of the first to arrive and took her seat next to the window, patiently waiting for her partner Alice. She was still keen to know if the smaller girl wanted her to come over tonight as they haven't spoke at all today.
Bella was too busy, staring out the window to notice someone take a seat beside her, and if not for her incredible smell, Bella would have thought Alice wasn't there at all. Turning around Bella smiled softly when Alice looked at her. "Hey," she said.
Alice, whose eyes seemed slightly darker than usual Bella noticed, still had a sad look about her face "Hey, Bella I just want to let you know that we will have to cancel tonight. I'm not feeling too good but hopefully tomorrow?" Alice said tilting her head to the side.
Bella biting her lip nodded smiling. "Yeah, yeah of course, that's not a problem Alice. Tomorrow it is." She grinned at the smaller girl and was about to speak when a scent hit her nose, unlike anything she smelled before. The scent was strong and smelled of flowers and freshly cut grass.
Wrinkling her nose Bella sneezed, when her eyes opened again in walked Athena, she went straight over to the teacher before taking a seat. Bella was relieved near the door and by herself.
The teacher told the class to continue where they left off yesterday, and so they did. Bella and Alice began discussing what they were going to draw and going through plans that would benefit them both.
"So Alice, tell me about yourself." Bella said scribbling down on a piece of paper what she was going to draw first as Alice spoke up.
"Hmm, there isn't much to say really, I'm sure you have already heard stories of me" Bella shrugged and looked at her.
"I bet they are incorrect." Bella said with a smirk.
Alice smirked back and began drawing a sketch on her book of the Golden Gate Bridge. "Maybe, you're right. Ok so my parents died when I was little, don't remember them at all, um I like the color purple and fashion. I love shopping! Hey we should go sometime it will be great!"
Bella chuckled at Alice's enthusiasm. "I highly doubt she'd want to go shopping with you Alice. She would be there all day if she went with you." Hannah spoke up from beside Alice which earned her a kick as Alice shot her a look.
"What about you Bella? Why did you move to forks of all places?" She asked.
Bella stopped writing and looked up deep in thought.
"It happened again; yes I know I'm terribly sorry Mr. Cunningham." Bella watched on as her mother was speaking on the phone, her voice sounded strained. Bella was in trouble again. When her mother put down the phone she gave her daughter a very worried look.
"Mom I-" holding up her hand to stop her from speaking, Bella's mother squatted down so she was level with Bella who sat on the floor.
"Bella, this-this isn't good. What's happening? Someone's going to end up getting hurt." Bella could see the pain on her mother's face.
"But I don't know what happened… I-I blacked out. Honest I wouldn't do something like that! You know I wouldn't- I couldn't…" Bella's voice was tearful and quiet as she spoke.
"I know sweetheart, but every time it happens, you are always found right next to it. Now I believe you one hundred percent, I do, you are my daughter but Bella, people are starting to get freaked out. Phil, the neighbors, even myself. I want you to spend some time with Charlie."
Bella's eye's started tearing up, anger came crashing down on her. Pushing herself off the floor, she snarled at her mother. "Fuck, it's not my fault! I didn't do anything! You don't believe me. I know you don't and now you want to send me to live with Charlie, in cold, wet, boring Forks! What the fuck Renee? You want to know what I think. I think you are scared; scared it might end up a person next time, well let me tell you something there won't be a fucking next time".
Bella stormed out the room leaving Renee to gape open mouthed at her daughter who seemed so aggressive towards her that she wasn't even sure that was her daughter. Wiping away her eyes Renee whispered. "I didn't want this for you Bella, never had, never will".
Coming out of her train of thoughts, Bella looked at Alice, "Sorry Alice was thinking back, yeah so I moved her because my mother and Phil travel a lot and I wanted to give them some space."
Bella heard Hannah whisper. "She's lying…" Bella looked past Alice and raised an eyebrow at the girl.
"How am I lying?" Bella asked; at once there was three shocked looks, across the faces of Alice, Rosalie and Hannah Bella tilting her head back spoke. "Well? How do you know I was lying?" she pressed, curious to know if this girl was guessing. However, when none of them answered that's when Bella just realized two things.
One was that, she just whispered and even to Bella it was very low. She only just caught it and second was the darkening of Rosalie's eyes. The blonde herself looked away to stop Bella from staring. When she turned around again her eyes were back to gold all though it was a slightly dark gold.
Looking around Bella felt awkward and just when things couldn't get any weirder they did, Athena was staring at them too. Her eyes looked different too, but Bella couldn't make them out as clearly as Rosalie's. "Uh, Bella she didn't mean as an offense. It's just Hannah is good at reading people." Alice spoke fast, making Bella a little confused.
"Sure, okay well anyway that's what happened." More awkward silence followed before they began to talk again. Bella asked Alice what would be a better idea, the empire state building or the tower of Pisa. They agreed on the tower of Pisa to begin with.
When the bell rang at the end of the day, Bella made her way out to the parking lot. She said goodbye to Alice and she noticed Athena, lingering around her truck and as if sensing the girl from the other half of the parking lot she turned around and gave Bella a grin a very sneaky grin.
Bella had a feeling that the girl was up to no good. When she got home that night she made tea for Charlie before going to bed early. Her mind was all messed up with the day's events, as strange things seemed to be happening all around her and she didn't know why.
Tick tock, I am almost out; a friend is near can you smell it? People are going to die starting tomorrow.
"Isabella, they are here, they will help you, hunt with you, and protect you. They are the Guardian angels that stand watch over your very life."
Tick tock, I am almost free; don't you realize you are in enemy territory? Bloodshed will soon be here.
AN: So quick question who do you think Athena is?
Thanks to Sunny for being a great beta again.
