I hope you enjoy this chapter. I decided I wanted to take a look at the past and I hope you all like it.

I apologise if my writing is a bit bad this week, sleep deprivation is no friend of mine.

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Chapter four - The Lost years

Cleaning her apartment was the only thing that helped calm the anger slowly building up inside Bella, she hated Richie for making her feel this way.

She remembered when she first became immortal, she remembered everything.

Bella - 2009

The rain sweeped across her windscreen creating a blurred scene for Bella to navigate her truck through. She hated the rain but her mind couldn't focus on that now, it could only focus on Jacob and the harsh words he had told her.

"You're just not good for me Bella, go home".

She would show him and everyone that she could be independent, that she didn't need anyone to break her heart or protect her. Bella slammed her hands against the wheel and screamed wanting those who had hurt her to hear her.

Without warning Bella's truck swerved sharply towards the edge of the road, as she tried to stopped the truck it slid quickly into a rain soaked tree. The last thing Bella heard was the glass shattering around her before dead silence descended.

A few minutes later

Nature was calling she thought as she heard bird and animal noises coming from around her before she realised she was inside her truck. Where was she? Why did her body ache?

Small fragments of memory came to her. She remembered rain, anger and something slipping around her, she opened her eyes and realised what had slipped. She had smashed her truck into a tree with some force judging by the way the truck's frame had been bent and torn.

Bella wedged her door open ignoring the aches and pain, she had suffered a lot worse when James had attacked her.

Bella staggered out of her truck and seated herself of the damp ground. Feeling around herself she put her hand on her stomach, when she raised it she was shocked. Her hand was soaked in blood, she quickly pulled her t-shirt up to find it soaked it in blood but was amazed to find no wound. She realised she was covered in blood but didn't have a single scratch on her.

"Don't panic" a soft voice said as he walked down the small hill that Bella had slid down.

Bella looked at the man. As far as she could see he wasn't a vampire but she could tell he wasn't exactly human, it was just a strange feeling.

"W-who are you?" she asked.

"My name is Methos. May I ask yours?"

"My name is Bella Swan." Methos smiled.

"Bella swan, that's a beautiful name. Now I presume you are wondering what has happened to you."

Bella nodded as if she was nodding in a class full of children with her being one of them, she pictured Methos as the condescending teacher.

"My dear girl I would like to tell you that you survived the accident but I'm afraid that was only the beginning" Methos said as he placed himself next to Bella.

"Am I dead? I mean I'm alive now, I can move everything" Bella whispered fearing someone would hear them. Bella thought she was going mad. It was either that or she was already full blown insane.

"You are alive but now you are so much more. You've experienced a violent death and you have now become an Immortal".

"What hell are you talking about?" Bella snapped at him before giving him an 'I'm sorry' look.

"You will never age and will practically be unable to be killed, the only way that an Immortal can be killed is if someone cuts of their head." Methos explained as brushed a strand of blood soaked her out of her eyes, she was so young.

"What am I going to do? I don't know what to do" she sobbed.

"Bella, I will make sure you know everything but first I need you to come with me."

"Where?" Bella asked wiping tears from her brown eyes.

"Into the world to find out more."

Methos at that moment became Bella's saviour. She raised herself up from where she was sat and followed Methos without a second thought.

Edward

Edward watched from the tree with fascination. He had missed watching Bella, she was his connection to humans long ago. Since then he had strayed away from having human friendships or even human conversations. The last century had been almost impossible to endure.

50 years ago

Alice

Alice was using her vision to spy on Edward, it hurt her that even after all these years he was still like this. Her once fun brother had turned almost catatonic in some aspects. He stopped listening to music and constantly had a picture of Bella in his pocket. He wasn't Edward anymore, this person sat staring at Bella's photo was only a fragment of him.

Edward

Edward stared out of his window. He could hear everyone's thoughts, lately it had become almost impossible to block thoughts.

Alice was fussing over him again, such a fuss was not necessary. Edward had considered going back to the old ways but he dismissed the thought immediately. Bella would not have wanted him to become a killer again.

"Bella, my sweet Bella" he thought sadly.

Esme came to his room to check on him, she always thought of Edward as her favourite but Edward could never figure out why. He was the one bringing the entire family to a halt sometimes, most days he had to be forced to hunt just to get out the house.

"Edward, how are you today" Esme lovingly asked as she seated herself opposite Edward.

"Still thinking about Bella and Forks" he replied numbly.

"Edward, I know what it feels like to lose something you love so much that life seems not to be worth living but I don't want you to feel that pain."

Edward looked at Esme. Her mind was focused on the loss of her human son and how similar Edward had now become to her.

"Esme I don't know what to do, I've looked for her but I have found nothing.".

"Edward I want you to think about Bella, what would she tell you to do?"

Edward pondered the thought.

"She'd still want me to look for her but she'd probably give me a speech on how I'm wasting time and life here."

"Bella always did surprise us with her thoughts" Esme smiled as she rubbed her thumb over Edward's hand, she held his hand only like a mother would.

Edward let out a small laugh and Esme gave a small laugh as well. Esme felt a rush of emotions at that moment. A small broken part of Edward had come back. She knew there were thousands of broken parts to him but she would spend eternity if she had to putting them back together.

"Edward, would you like to come and play some baseball with us" Esme offered.

Edward considered it and nodded his head. He left his room for the first time in three days.

Richie 2012

Bella had been a part of Richie's last three years and he thought she was brilliant. She learned amazingly fast when being trained in combat, even at her young age she would be a formidable opponent. Joe had come to think of Bella as his daughter, she was smart and Joe was more than happy to share old stories related to the immortals and Bella was more than happy to listen to them. Richie knew that he was soon going to have to face Bella with what he felt, he had fallen in love with her. He loved how she would cook proper meals for everyone. Duncan had been Bella's mentor and had thought of her a important member of the family.

Richie was in the training room when Bella half skipped in.

"What are you so happy about?" Richie laughed.

"Joe is coming today and I'm making a big dinner later" she smiled.

"Yum, do you want spar?" he offered.

"Sure but you know I'm going to win."

"Over confidence is a weakness Bella and I assure you that you will lose".

Richie passed Bella her sword and the two took there positions.

"Wait a minute, how about we make this interesting." Bella said.

"Such as."

"I use a blindfold."

Richie accepted her request and Bella put on her blindfold.

Bella and Richie sparred with exceptional skill. Bella blocked each blow with grace and skill, she listened for everything.

Richie was amazed with her ability to block each of his blow with no sight. Both attacked and blocked each other. Both of their swords were pressed together, they were holding each other off. Richie and her were face to face now.

Richie saw her beautiful face, her lips were red with life. Richie dropped his sword, he cradled her face and kissed her lips with intense passion. She seemed shocked for a moment and slowly pulled away.

Bella slipped her blindfold off and stared at Richie.

"That was unexpected." she whispered touching her lips.

"Bella, I love you."

Richie knew that they would need to talk, he only hoped that she felt the same.

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