Hey thanks for all the reviews and for adding it on alerts and favorites and stuff! I'm glad your liking it! Ok so here's chapter three!!! Mostly Isabella POV in this put there will be more Edward next chapter!
Dont worry I wont keep you hanging too long till Edward and Isabella meet, I know some of you were worried about that!

Urgh still not got internet at home yet, at friends house now, have already written chapter four but will give you time to read this and stuff before i post it.

I dont own twilight, although I wish i did! My friends have just sent me a post card from italy saying they went to the new moon set and saw kristian stuart and the guy who's playing Demitri! eek so jealous!


Isabella POV

I didn't feel good about what I was doing, Aro had been good to me and I felt bad about going behind his back, but this would be a quick visit, there wouldn't even be anytime for me to run into this mysterious Carlisle or any of his coven.

I decided to skip hiring a car as it would just be a short visit and run to Forks cemetery. It was night time anyway so no one would see me.

The cool wind from the coast blew into my face as I ran from Seattle to forks, it would take longer than driving but I could do with the chance to clear my head.

This last week had been a lot more difficult that I thought it would be, thinking about Edward has always been hard, but I've been thinking about him more and more, it's getting difficult to stop. I find myself not wanting to stop, almost as if thinking about him would bring him back. For someone who has lived for over 100 years and read every book that she has come into contact with, that is a very naive idea.

My thoughts and my legs had carried me to the outskirts of Port Angeles now, when suddenly I smelt a trail, fresh, unmistakably vampire. I planned to move on, ignore it just in case it was Carlisle and his coven, but then I caught the smell of fresh human blood. The venom pooled in my mouth as a involuntary bodily function, but it had no appeal to me anymore, the price is too high.

I stood by at Volterra as they killed all those innocent humans but I'm not letting whoever it is get away with it here, where I'm not under Aro's control and don't have to follow orders.

I changed my direction and didn't have to go far to find the culprit, or rather culprits.

There were 3 of them, from what I could tell the human was still alive but I was too late, if these vampires didn't kill him then venom that is now in his blood stream would turn him to one of us, which for me is a fate worse than death.

The 3 unknown vampires were clearly nomads and not Carlisle or his coven, who maintain permanent residence in Washington, by the state of their clothes and their shoeless feet they travelled around a lot. They had not noticed me yet, still entirely focused on their dinner.

I assessed the group in a matter of seconds, the tallest of the group had dark hair and was medium build, at first glance looked as if he could be the leader. There was a woman with them with bright flame red hair, she looked quite lethal although I knew she would be no match for me, but if they all ganged up at once, it could cause some problems. The last was a man with light brown hair and was slightly shorter than the other but slighter. I knew then that this guy was most likely the leader and would be the most powerful, probably a good idea to get his attention first, show them I mean business.

I danced up behind them, still oblivious to my presence, grabbed the brown haired one by his leather jacket, that looked almost as old as I was, and threw him across the forest clearing. He was stunned for a moment at what just happened, he was clearly just enjoying a nice meal and I had interrupted it, he would certainly be pissed at me but we shouldn't have any problems once they realise who I am. The other two abandoned their meal and crouched in attack mode, the woman reminded me of a lioness getting ready to pouch from the long grass on the unsuspecting heard of zebra.

"Good evening. I do hope I didn't disturb you." Knowing full well I did. This only made them growl at me. All three in attack mode in front of me, waiting for the ok from their leader.

I smiled at them and continued. "Don't go doing anything stupid now, I wouldn't want to see you getting hurt." Now it was there turn to laugh, clearly they needed taking down a peg or two. They underestimate me, that's ok, they are not the first. They rose and the tall dark haired one stepped forwards, although I wasn't fooled by their tricks I knew he wasn't the leader.

"I am Laurent, and this is James and Victoria. And yes as a matter of a fact you did disturb us, we were just enjoying a rather tasty meal." Their eye's were blood red, fresh from the kill. The three pair's of eye's moved to mine and took in their golden appearance.

"Yes well, as I see you have noticed, I have a rather different diet to yours. I trust you knew that the colour of our eye's is determined by what we eat?"

They didn't say anything clearly unaware of this fact but didn't want to seem stupid. They just eyed me suspiciously, James was slowly moving closer to me, staring at me intently. He was level with Laurent now, he tilted his head as if to get a better look at me and took in a deep breath, trying to get my sent. Must be a tracker, I've been told I smell nice although it is impossible to track me, as it is too strong, it stays up your nose and confuses your senses, you start to smell me everywhere even though I am no where near you. James, although he had just eaten suddenly looked hungry again, his eye's turned darker and he snarled at me.

"Who are you?" James demanded.

"I am Isabella, member of the Volturi guard." They all narrowed there eye's at me and took a step back. Victoria looked worried, she clearly didn't want anything to break up there little group.

"What does the Volturi want with us? We haven't done anything." She asked, her voice thick with malice.

"Nothing... yet. But if you keep hunting like this then you are going to leave a trail and with vampires maintaining a permanent residence near by I'm sure you are causing them a lot of trouble. This could lead to exposure. I suggest you move on quickly and continue hunting further a field or head back into the city where deaths are less noticeable."

"Thank you for your kind concern, but we like it here, in the great out doors." said James mockingly.

"I said move on." my voice was almost a snarl now.

Victoria was the first to launch at me, foolish girl she is by far the weakest, although she seems very confident, I will not underestimate her as she has done to me. James and Laurent just stood back and watched coldly, as I dismembered Victoria, piece by piece in under two minuets and burnt her remains. She was a fool.

When it was over they were still staring at me, Laurent looking furious, James with a slight smile on his lips.

"You really are something aren't you Isabella. Beautiful too.. yes very beautiful." Urgh James is such a creep. Demetri would love to beat up on this guy.

"Heed my warning gentlemen." They both backed off, Laurent still mad but defeated, James with the smirk on his face and a look of lust in his eye's that made me want to heave. Clearly the risk of avenging Victoria's death by killing a guard member was too high for either of them. At least they weren't so foolish.

They ran off deeper into the woods, leaving me with the burning remains of Victoria and the undead human, who had been totally forgotten in the madness. He was wriggling around on the floor, the venom clearly taking affect, he opened his mouth to scream but no sound came out. He looked to be in his early thirties, he probably had a wife and kids at home, they were probably sat around waiting for him to return, but he would not return. I didn't want to do this, but I didn't have the resources to look after a new born, I bent down, his eye's locked with mine and I wanted to make his pain go away. Save him whilst he still had his soul intact. I bent my head further down and whispered in his ear.

"I'll make it go away, don't be afraid, I'll make the pain go away."

I looked at his face one more time, it was calmer more peaceful, I was glad that he could be comforted by the very things that were designed to help me kill; my voice, my face and my sent. Then with a flick of my wrist I broke his neck.

He looked asleep, so peaceful, I envied him, I wished dying for our kind could be as simple. I lifted up his body and laid it down somewhere safe, but somewhere it would be easily found.

Then it was onward with my journey. I ran for about another hour and I kept getting the feeling I was being followed, so I took the longer route and double backed on myself a couple of times just to make sure. I was confident that I had lost whoever it was, so carried on to my original destination.

It was about 4 o'clock in the morning now, and the sun would be rising soon, so I should make this quick. Although Forks is the wettest place in the continental U.S. so it should be pretty easy to blend in here.

My fathers grave wasn't difficult to find, Forks cemetery was a lot smaller than the one in Chicago.

Here Lies Charlie Swan

A great friend and devoted Chief of Police.

1873-1934

The grave was in bad condition, he had no one behind to take care of it, I felt so guilty. My poor loving father. I spent little time with him in my human life, well not as much as either of us would have liked, but it was awkward living so far away from him and when me and Edward got older all our time was spent together. I thought I had the rest of my life to spend time with my dad, I didn't think it would come to an end so soon. I wanted to make it up to him some how.

The grass surrounding the grave was as tall as the grave stone itself. I chopped it down with my hands to clear the area, ran off into the woods and found some wild flowers, pulled them out the ground, roots and all, to plant them by my fathers grave. This did make the grave look much more presentable but the grave stone itself wasn't great. I wiped off all the green stuff that was growing on it and smoothed out the edges of the stone with my hand, like sand paper on wood. Finally I re-carved the words with my nail so that they could be more easily read. The grave make over was complete, it was the least I could do for my loving father.

Bella was 6 years old and was visiting her father for the summer. Charlie Swan was a humble man, he worked hard and liked the little things in life, but he loved his daughter deeply and missed her terribly when she wasn't around. She was the light of his life, they were so similar, he couldn't get over how mature she was for her age, always had her head in her book.

He was so proud of her he wanted to show her off all the time. They would visit the diner everyday whilst she was visiting. One because Charlie wasn't the greatest cook but also because everyone in Forks usually stopped by the diner at some point in the day so was the perfect place to be seen by everyone.

Bella sat in the window of the diner reading Oliver Twist and munching on her french fries and burger. She enjoyed spending time with her father, she loved him very much and also missed him terribly when with her mother. However Forks was wet and she didn't like the rain, she missed the sunshine. Her mother recently took her on holiday to California with her new husband Phil, which was beautiful they spent everyday on the beach.

The sun began to break through the clouds and shine on the wet dew grass just outside the diner. Bella craved to be outside in the sun, she began jumping up and down and begging her father to let her go play outside, she promised she wouldn't go far. He chuckled and said of course she could. Forks was a small town and he was chief of police, she would be safe.

Bella wasn't outside 5 minuets before she managed to trip over her own feet, fall over and graze both her knees. Bella wasn't much of a cry baby but it really hurt and she couldn't help but cry. She walked back in the diner tears rolling down her face and blood running down her legs from her knees.

Charlie saw Bella walk back in and instantly ran to her, he was concerned but couldn't help but smile at how clumsy she was. Other customers in the restaurant and friends of Charlie started fussing over Bella, buying her cake, drinks, getting her plasters for her knee's and tissues for her runny nose.

Charlie sat his little Bella on his knee and wiped away her tears, giving her little kisses on her cheek and stoking her hair to try and calm her down. A man who had blond hair and golden eye's and who her father called Dr Cullen, was cleaning the dirt out of her knees and putting plasters over the cuts his hands felt cold but his touch was comforting to her, along with his smile. Bella felt embarrassed and silly, her cheeks were bright red and not just from crying. She didn't like all this attention, but she understood it was just because these people cared about her and that her father loved her, so she smiled sweetly through it and politely thanked everyone who looked after her.

Charlie could see Bella was uncomfortable but was made proud again by how well Bella understood that it would be rude to not let everyone look after her. This just made everyone want to look after her even more. She was sweet as pie.

I was unsure why I thought of this memory at this point. Nothing all that memorable happened. I think it was just the moment where I felt most loved by my father, that was the most amount of affection he had ever shown me in public. He, like me, found it difficult to show how he felt in words or otherwise.

I stayed by his grave for about another hour and told him all about what actually happened to me and what I am now. It felt good to tell him but I still felt like I had unfinished business in Forks. Perhaps after thinking about that memory I needed to go visit the diner. It was light now and the sun was brighter than I expected. I was in shade at the moment but if I stepped into the sun I would surely sparkle. Typical that the one day I come to Forks the sun is shining. I pulled out a parasol that I had in the bag I was carrying, which had my clothes and other personal belongings in, and shaded myself from the sun's rays, I would have to be very careful, but I had manged to travel around the city of volterra many times before with my parasol on much sunnier days than this and not been spotted so I wasn't too worried.

The diner looked almost exactly the same, it had had a new lick of paint, well it had probably had quite a few licks of paint over the years but this one was fresh I could still smell the paint it must only be a few weeks old. Although only 7 o'clock in the morning it was open and half full.

The layout of the diner was the same booths were around the edge of the room next to the windows and the main bar was in the middle of the room with high bar stools surrounding it. The floor was different and the seats had been reupholstered, but the room was the same, it even smelt the same, coffee and fried stuff. It was rather comforting. I obviously didn't recognise any of the people in there as anyone I did know would probably have died by now, but the people did seem familiar in some way.

I walked up to the bar and ordered a coffee, I wouldn't be drinking it but i felt it would be polite. I took my coffee over to the booth that me and my dad used to sit it when I was little and I pulled out a book.

I wasn't reading for long when I caught the conversation of two men on the other side of the room.

"The old Swan house is back on the market again."

"I'm not surprised. No one even seems in stay there long."

"Beautiful house though, all the original features apparently."

"Your Tina still in real estate then."

"Yep and making good money too."

"Good for her."

I'm not even sure why this was of interest to me, I barely remember what Charlie's house looked like. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to have a look at it again and then I can be on my way. I poured my coffee into the pot plant next to me faster than human eye's would see, gave the waitress a friendly smile, put up my parasol and walked back out into the sunshine towards the estate agents I had passed on my way to the diner.

The woman, coincidentally Tina, the woman the men were talking about in the diner, was very helpful and offered to drive us round to the house now to take a look at it.

It wasn't very far away and we were there in a matter of minuets. It all came flooding back to me. I remembered everything about the house now. Although over 100 years old it looked in very good condition.

In the inside some updates had been made, such as a new kitchen and a wall had been knocked down for a more open plan living space. The bedrooms up stairs were still the same as well just different colour paint on the walls. I felt so comforted here. I walked back downstairs and into the kitchen to look at the back yard, on those rare sunny day's I would take a blanket and sit outside to read my books. I paused in the door away and noticed notches on the wooden beam next to me, I peered closer, "Bella aged 10, 90 cm." was carved into the wood, there were other notches as well, marking my height for every summer I had spent there. My chest tightened and I though I was going to cry. Before I knew what I was doing I had turned round to Tina.

"I'll take it." Did I just say that? I don't even know how much it costs, not that I can't afford it.

Tina looked slightly taken a back, as I hadn't really said anything the whole time I was looking round, then she smiled broadly at me, clearly thinking of the commission she could get for this. "That's great Ms. Dawyer, I'll get the paper work drawn up asap."

"Yes that would be great thank you very much."

Aro is going to freak. I guess I don't have to tell him, I can just say that I decided to stay in Chicago. Maybe I would go back to school... I never did get to finish my senior year, well officially anyway.


Buying the house was a lot quicker and easier than I thought it would be I brought it on the Saturday and was in it by Tuesday. Apparently they really wanted to sell this house and it was already empty so I didn't have to wait for anyone to move out. Thankfully the sun had disappeared by Sunday so I didn't have to walk around with my stupid parasol anymore and the hunting choices here in Forks was excellent.

I had stayed in a motel the last couple of nights, not that I had actually done any sleeping it was mainly for washing and storing my things whilst the sale was going through. I went shopping on Monday, brought a comfortably leather table and some other random furniture that I wouldn't use, bed, dining room table etc.

My favorite thing I brought was my new car, a black Nissan Z350. Stunning. Not quite as good as my yellow lamborghini that I drive back in Italy, but I have a feeling that would be slightly too flashy for Forks. My Z350 would be perfect.

I convinced myself that Washington is a big enough state and that Forks is a small enough town that I wouldn't be any where near Carlisle or his family.

However, whilst hunting the other day I found a big house on the outskirts of town, it reeked of Vampire, at least 4. Very unusual for vampire's and If they have a house does that mean they bring in there food from far away like the Volturi do... or, and then it clicked, they were like me. That was why Aro and Caius didn't want me to go to Washington, because they were like me and had built a life together from it, just like I was trying to do now on my own.

I called Aro the other night, I was actually nervous, I've never liked lying anyway so it was very difficult to lie to him. He took it rather well when I said I was going back to school. I told him that if he ever needed me I would be on the next flight back to Italy and I meant it. I didn't want to let him down. He was good to me and had given me so much. He told me he understood and that he missed me. I almost jumped straight on a plane home then, but no I needed to do this, have a life outside of the volturi. I was probably kidding myself that I could fit in with humans, but I had to try.

I had already enrolled in school, using fake documents and forging "parents" signatures. As far as the school was concerned I was living by myself as my parents worked away from home, after all I was still just an 18 year old girl, frozen in time.

I had missed the start of the year but the woman on the phone, Mrs Cope told me I would soon catch up. My first day would be on Thursday and I was seriously nervous. What if they don't like me?


Edward POV

Just as Alice predicted the sun was shining on Friday morning as we drove up to the mountains. Emmett was bouncing around in his seat like an excited child going to disneyland. I had to admit I was pretty excited myself, looking forward to catching me some mountain lion. We would be coming home on Sunday as the rain would return then and it would be safe for us to return to school Monday. This was also the perfect opportunity to forget about all the things I had been thinking about recently or rather about the person I had been thinking about recently.

After my conversation with Alice the other day I was doing my best to keep out of her head but it was difficult as I kept seeing a pair of round golden eye's in her mind, I was unable to give them an owner though. Tanya's eye's were much more oval shaped so it couldn't be her or any of her sister's for that matter. I let the matter drop, a difficult thing for me to do, but I would find out in due course.

Back to the hunting trip, I did look into Alice's head when she looked to see if we would have any problems on the hunting trip but apparently nothing, accept that Emmett was going to loose a fight against Jasper and would end up throwing a hissy fit and breaking his beloved jeep. We tried to convince him not to get into the battle against Jasper but he wouldn't listen, insisting that Alice's visions were subjective so the out come could change at any decision either of them make.

Well as you can guess in the end Emmett lost and threw his jeep 100 feet in the air. Rosalie hit him for being such a sore looser and attempted to fix the car, but it would need new parts which she obviously didn't have with her and in the end it had to be carried back to the side of the road so that they could call AAA. Last we saw of those two, they were carrying the jeep off and thinking up explanations to tell the AAA guy. We would carry it all the way home but according to Alice we would be seen and it would cause way too many problems for us, we didn't want to draw any unnecessary attention towards us.

The rest of the trip was uneventful, I caught my mountain lion that I wanted and then felt sort of bad when I realised I'd left her cubs without a mother. Luckily they were just about large enough to look after themselves.

We were home by Sunday night to find that there had been another "animal attack" just outside of Port Angeles. They say the man died very early Saturday morning and that the body was moved from where he had originally died as they found a pool of blood a quarter of a mile inside the woods. This was getting stranger and the attacks were getting closer to Forks.

After another family meeting on Monday night, we decided that if there were anymore attacks then we would have to take matters in our own hands, track down the other vampires and ask them to not hunt in this area (Carlisle Idea, the rest of us just wanted to destroy them and have it over with.).

School was as uneventful as usual, except I over heard the conversation that someone had moved into Bella's dad's old house. I knew this was the area that he came from but I only met him a couple of times and couldn't actually remember what he looked like, never mind what house was his, so it seemed unimportant to me. The girl who moved in apparently would be starting school here some time this week for senior year, great, another set of unimportant, vulgar thoughts to listen to. I'll be glad when this year is over and I can pretend that I left to go to college.


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