A/N: The chest infection has gone! I'm now off the concoction of flu remedies and am back to my semi normal self woo hoo. I feel really bad for waiting so long to write a new chapter but I did say I'd be crawling into my pit. I won't leave so long in between chapters again. (All legends have been pinched from the twilight wikia, coz I'm a lazy sonofabitch and couldn't be arsed to write them out myself)

BELLA POV

"What the fuck do you mean? I did everything to make you happy and you don't love me anymore?" I screamed into the face of my 'one true love' before me. Son of a bitch, it wasn't supposed to happen this way.

"Bella, that's the problem you changed yourself to try and fit in with my family. Did you not realise that I loved you for you? Look at yourself now, a woman should not loose composure like so. You've obviously been spending too much time with Emmett and Rosalie." He looked down at me, disgust all too evident in his eyes. Shit, it's easy to forget he comes from a time when women were seen and not heard. I need to make him stay; I need to help them, to stop it happening to them.

"I'm sorry, my love, I don't know what came over me. I… I just love you so much. Edward, you're my world." I felt sick to the stomach but forced a sad smile on to my face. It didn't want to stay there so I looked down to my feet, my hands wringing the gloves I had put on earlier not knowing how long I'd be out here for, I have to say I sure as hell wasn't expecting this.

"I'm glad you've finally pulled yourself together… You need to be more careful. Men don't like opinionated women; especially ones who curse like that." If he only fucking knew… ha! Dick wad.

"Edward, please? Let's talk about this; you can't just so easily fall out of love with someone." I try to beg him; it's the only way he'll stay now. He looks down at me and moves in closer, so close in fact I feel his breath tickling my ear; his hand reaches up to hold on to my arm which he grabs slightly too tight pulling me in flush to his body. The grip grows stronger with each passing second. "No, you're right Isabella. You can't so easily fall out of love with someone. Although, if you never loved them in the first place… Well, that just makes leaving easier doesn't it?"

My heart stuttered for a moment and a smiled graced his face. "Finally clued on have we, love?"

"Please… I… I can change" I need him to stay. The plan's gone wrong. I can't think properly. FUCK!

"Goodbye Isabella." He sweeps past me further into the forest and I swear I felt him brush my cheek as he went. No, shitshitshit, he needs to fucking come back! I try to chase after him, knowing in the back of my mind he's going at super vamp speed and I won't be able to catch up. I can't even remember what direction the tool went in. "Edward! Edward, please come back! I… I hurt myself; I can't get back up, please?"

Nothing. Not a rustle of a leaf or a blast of wind. I try walking in the general direction he went; hoping at the very least it would lead me back to a road.

I roam the forest looking for him or a way out, the sky starts growing darker and I know with the cover of the trees it'll be completely dark in a short time, my legs are getting weaker and I know I've been walking for hours; it was late morning when the idiot brought me in here. I lean up a tree and my legs give out from underneath me, I can't do it anymore… He's gone. I've failed them, I can't help them. I felt my heart breaking for them, here was me with a relatively normal life and now it's all going to be taken away from them. If it hasn't already, my heart shatters now thinking of my friend, no, my family bound to a life that shouldn't be theirs.

My eyes flutter closed and I think back to the story my mom used to tell me when I was younger.

(Flashback)

"Bella! Bedtime, sweetie." I heard my mom shout from upstairs; I smile to myself, bedtime meant story time. I ran upstairs, brushed my teeth and bounded in to bed, I snuggled up to my mom who was already sitting in her usual 'bedtime spot'.

"So, what story do you want tonight honey?" she smiled down at me, as flighty and ditzy as my mom was nobody could say she didn't love me. I traced the scar she had running down her arm closest to me "The wolf one please mommy." Her smile grew slightly larger as I said this; I knew she loved telling it as much as I loved hearing it, well, the first part at least.

"Taha Aki was a leader of the Spirit Warriors. He forced one of the spirit warriors, Utlapa to leave the people, and never use the spirit because he was angry at him. One day, when Taha Aki left to perform his duty as he leaves his body as a spirit himself and fly to the spirit world. Taka Aki figured that Utlapa followed him, and found out about Utlapa's murderous plan. He tried to race back to his body, but realized that it was gone. Taha Aki followed his body down the mountain, but Utlapa managed to get into it first. Taka Aki watched with despair as Utlapa took his place as chief to the Quileute.

Eventually, Taha Aki tried to destroy his body to save the tribe from Utlapa. He then summoned the Great Wolf to try and kill the body, but since Utlapa was behind many warriors, he forced the wolf away. Taha Aki figured that the wolf had a body and therefore a soul, so he asks the Great Wolf that he would make room in his body for his spirit and share the physical form. Taha Aki manages to enter to the wolf's body. He returned to his village to stop Utlapa. The warriors realised that the wolf was no ordinary animal and realise that it is Taha Aki inside the wolf. The explanation was given by Yut who entered to the spirit world where he discovered the truth. Taha Aki took care of Utlapa once and for all and destroys Utlapa's body where he left it in the woods, before entering the spirit world. Since that fateful day, Taha Aki was able to share the body of a wolf whenever he wished. He became to be known as "Taha Aki the Great Wolf" and "Taha Aki the Spirit Man".

Taha Aki then became conditionally immortal, and lived for roughly two centuries; his first two wives died of old age. He was also around at the time of the Cold Man's attack. He had obtained the ability to restrain himself from phasing when he met his soul mate, which allowed his aging to continue so he could grow old with the love of his life. However, this came to a halt when he, along with his sons, fought the vampire's mate and all were killed except him. His third wife sacrificed herself to give him enough time to kill the vampire. Taha Aki never re-joined the tribe and never changed back to a man again. He lay for one day beside the body of the third wife, growling whenever someone tried to touch her, and then he went into the forest and never returned.

Not all the spirit warriors died that day, although, they were too young to do anything. Taha Aki's sons also had children and they passed down the gene to their children. But as you know, my darling, when a man turns into a wolf this means one thing…"

I lay captivated and whispered what my mom was about to say "Cold ones…"

"Yes sweetie."

"Ephraim Black was a Quileute chief and Alpha of a pack of three shape-shifters: himself, Levi Uley, and Quil Ateara II…"

I cut in excited "Jakey, Sammy and Quilly's great grampies!" She giggles and strokes down my hair.

"Yes sweetie, sometime during Jake's great grampys life, the Cullen family, came to live in Forks, near the Quileute reservation of La Push. They were the traditional enemies of the Quileute, and the vampires' presence in the area made those who were of the right age phase into wolves, in the preparation of a fight. Carlisle Cullen managed to negotiate a peace treaty with them: as long as the Cullen's didn't bite any humans or come on to the Quileute's land, the shape-shifters wouldn't attack them or reveal their presence to the humans. But eventually the vampires moved away, the men stopped phasing and the tribe passed the stories on as legends as not to scare the Quileute people. But, whenever a vampire came too close to the reservation at least one man or boy would phase so the tribe would be protected, this happened six years ago."

I gasped, as many times as I'd heard the story I still provided the right sound track to spur on my mom.

"One day, when you were a teeny tiny three year old-"she tapped my nose with her index finger making me giggle. "- I went to visit Allison, Sam's mommy, but when I got there Josh, Sam's daddy, told me she'd gone out for a while and said I could wait for her. I got to work in the kitchen, getting Sammy and his daddy a snack while they played outside, I took it out to them and we all sat round the table in the garden talking. All of a sudden Josh went stiff as a board and told me to get Sam inside, I didn't know what was happening so I took Sam in and told him to watch cartoons while I went to go see what was wrong with his daddy. I went back outside and Josh was facing away from me, scanning the treeline in the back yard as though he could sense something there.

I went to lay a hand on his shoulder but just as I was about to someone came out the trees, and Josh just exploded into fur and jumped on them. There in front of me was a huge wolf, the size of a shed, lying completely on a still Sarah Black."

Tears sprung to my eye's that was Jake's mommy. My mom, knowing this part always upset me cuddled me closer.

"Billy came running out of the forest then yelling and screaming at Josh to move, but Josh wasn't in his right mind, he was panicking; the stories he'd always known as legends were happening to him, in his mind he was protecting his baby from something and at that moment it just so happened to be Sarah that was the person who walked out. Josh swiped at Billy causing Billy to hit into a tree, I heard the crunch and knew I had to try and calm Josh down. I walk slowly round to face him; I'd always loved wolves and had read a lot about them so I knew how to show Josh he was the one in charge. I kept telling him how Sam was inside the house and what if he saw his daddy acting like this, he started whimpering and I moved slightly closer to him with my arms outstretched. He obviously didn't like it and he swiped a paw at me half-heartedly, that's how I got this scar. It hurt but all I could think of was getting our Josh back, we'd all been friends since we were tiny, so I started telling him stories of back then. I saw him relaxing and soon Josh was there, human Josh, crying and trembling. I walked over to him making sure I kept talking so he could hear me approaching and he looked up at me. "What have I done?" it was all he could say. He heard a car approaching and that seemed to have startled him. He got up and ran, I tried to call him back but nothing was working. I heard a groan behind me and quickly raced into the kitchen to get the phone, I called 911. After Sarah and Billy had gone I grabbed Sam and went back home, I told your dad to watch him and raced over to the hospital, I went up to visit Billy and to ask what he wanted for me to say about the day. Car crash. He knew I knew about the legends and I knew I couldn't say anything to anyone, not even your daddy. After I knew Billy was out of the hospital I left, it hurt me to know I couldn't share one of the biggest secrets of my life with your daddy, and your daddy knew something was wrong. So, me and you, we moved here and lived happily ever after."

(End flashback)

I'd always dream of wolves and cold ones after hearing that story. And knew without a doubt what my mom was telling me wasn't some tall tale, it was the truth. Nights after telling me that story if I woke up I'd hear her crying in her sleep, telling Joshua Uley to think of Sam and Allison.

I knew the Cullen's were real and I knew that as strong physically as these men were that they were still young and they'd need all the help that they could get.

I can't remember the day my mom killed herself, but I know for a fact it was after telling me this story and I also know that I was way too young to lose my mom. I'd already come to live with my dad in Forks; the depression too much for her.

I didn't get to say goodbye.

I also knew that one day, if given the chance, I'd help to be the death of the Cullen's.

But the one thing that was making my heart rip from my chest was that I knew I couldn't help the wolves now that I'd made the Cullen's go, they'd always have the chance to come back.

A/N: The twist has been revealed!

I hope this makes sense, in my head it does but I tried to put a lot in this chapter and it may have got muddled while I was typing. Also, I know it isn't really a story you'd tell a child, but we all know that Renee wasn't the best mom and that Bella was always old before her time. If any part of it doesn't make sense PM me or something and I'll try and explain.