A/N: Well, I wrote a couple chapters for the holidays. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah or whatever you guys celebrate. I will be going to my Grandparents house for Christmas for a few days so I will post this chapter now and a couple other ones later. I also worked on a Christmas Twilight Fanfiction that is a family/drama story. My first real attempt at drama. Well, I hope you guys like it and I hope you all feel the same way I feel towards the character I created. Well, I should probably stop talking... hope you guys love this chapter even though it's a little sad.

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight. I never did and it will always belong to SM.

Bella's POV:

Chapter 4: Truth

I made it my mission to check on my parents as well as Edward's every week. I would stay in the meadow I found and learn how to control myself better in between my regular visits. They never saw me of course, but it still helped me keep the little part of me that wants to come out at bay. I would never hurt anyone who Edward loved or anyone I loved. I would rather kill myself.

I ran to them on my weekly visits. When I got to my house, I scaled the house to my parent's bedroom window, but it was empty … in fact the whole house was empty. Confused, I ran to Edward's old house and found Elizabeth crying to someone.

"My Edward gone … now my husband and my dearest friend in the hospital. What have we done to deserve this?! I just hope that everyone comes out of this okay–"

I was running again. I couldn't believe it. What happened that would send a lot of people to the hospital? I changed my course so that I was heading to the hospital. I had to find out what happened.

When I arrived at the hospital, I walked through the doors, and I was met with a stench so terrible that I wrinkled my nose and wanted to run out of the building. I could smell sweat in the air and the smell of decaying bodies was terrible. I heard some of the doctors yelling at nurses to get medicine and clean cloths. It was chaotic. My enhanced senses made the whole experience worse. I wanted to get out of this building more than anything else, but I had to find my parents.

I ran up to a passing doctor. "Hello."

"Isabella?" he gasped, shocked. "We thought you died."

"Hardly," I said. "I heard my parents were in the hospital. I want to explain what happened. How did they get in here?"

His face darkened. "There's a sickness going around. Many are dying …" he trailed off.

My heart rate picked up. I grabbed his arm. "Please, where are they?"

"We can't have you exposed –"

"The Hell with it! Please, show me where my parents are!"

He looked at me fore a second before sighing. He lead me pass a lot of people to my parents. I gasped. My mom's chest was rising and falling rapidly, while my dad was still. I looked at the doctor as he rushed towards my father. He took his pulse and sighed. "Nurse … wheel him to the morgue."

I felt like I was going to collapse. My father was dead. My eyes prickled with the tears that were coming. No, I would not cry, not now. I looked at my mother, and but the looks of it, she was next in line to die. I went over to her side and grabbed a damp cloth and wiped my mothers face as the doctor left to go help the dying.

"Mom …"

Her eyes slowly opened and she gasped when she saw my face. "Bella," she whispered.

"Yes, Mom … I'm sorry I wasn't here … I – I can't explain," I mumbled.

My mother smiled. "I told everyone you were not dead. I told them … Is Edward –" she coughed hard. "You're not human, are you sweetie?"

I stared at her shocked. Should I tell her? Was I even aloud? I looked at my dying mother's face and knew I couldn't hold back from her. "Not anymore ..." I said cautiously.

"What are you?" she asked me curiously.

"A … a werewolf … one attacked me and Edward."

"So … Edward's really dead?" she asked me softly.

"No," she looked shocked. "No a vampire came and saved us before it killed us … he turned Edward because he was dying … I begged him to save Edward. He could do nothing for me."

She smiled at me. "Honey, you're a strong girl, and I love you no matter what. I'm glad I got to see you one more time. I hope you see Edward again. Now I can rest in peace."

"Mom, no …" I cried. She couldn't die. She couldn't leave me. I loved her, and I needed her.

"Honey, it's for the better. I can't live without your father, just as you couldn't live without knowing if Edward was still alive. I love you sweetie, and I always will."

My mother closed her eyes and she was gone into an eternal sleep.

I stayed long after to tell Elizabeth what happened and she thanked me profusely. She died later that week as the disease took another victim.

After everyone I loved was dead, I took off into the forest to live my life. I decided to stay in my wolf form after I made sure I kept my house. I tried to get Edward's too, but they told me someone else bought it. I could never look at myself as a human and not think of all the people I lost. First Edward, then my parents, and finally his. I kept my clothes wrapped around my leg in case I ever needed to change forms again.

I looked up at the full moon that shined down at me like it was mocking me. I threw my head back and let out a heart-shattering howl.