Chapter 7

BPOV

I wasn't sure what was going on but the next thing I knew was that I felt a cool breeze hit my face. My eyes started to slowly open only for a bright light to blind my vision, so I squinted my eyes to get a look at my surroundings.

Taking note that I was outside lying on the ground had me very very confused, but the next thing I saw really got me. I looked round to see where I was and saw what looked like a village.

WHAT THE...!

I quickly scrambled up off the ground and glanced around to see people walking round in old period clothes. 'Well Dorothy I think it's safe to say were not in Kansas anymore' I thought to myself. That's when two men passed by, one carrying a bucket full of water and the other carrying a dead dear over his shoulder! Its official I've gone insane, I've gone completely insane.

Just then I heard the sound of laughter and turned to see from a distance two children playing together, one was a boy with brunette hair and the other was a little girl that had long brunette hair down to the middle of her back.

I don't know why but they all of a sudden had my full attention. I watched as the boy chased the little girl around, and when he caught the girl he picked her up and spun her around in his arms. The scene was very sweet, especially when the little girl gave the boy a peck on the cheek causing him to blush bright red. Why did this seem so familiar, I could swear I…

"Bella" huh? I was cut off from my thoughts by a voice. "Bella, can you hear me?" the voice called out. And just then the world before me faded away.

"I think she's coming too" I heard a voice echo as I made my way out of the dark. My fluttered eyes open but my vision was a bit blurry so it was hard to make out where I was, but after a few seconds everything came into focus. I glanced round to see Jenna and a load of other faces staring down at me in concern.

"Bella thank god, are you alright?" Jenna asked in desperation.

"Yeah, what happened?" I asked because the only thing I remembered was a pair of brown eyes and that was it.

"Your body went rigid, you stopped breathing. We tried snapping you out of it but you just fainted. Do you not remember anything at all?" she asked and I thought for a minute and then remembered the pain in my chest from before that was giving me trouble was now gone, surprisingly.

"I just remember getting this headache and feeling dizzy" I said, ok so I didn't tell her the whole truth because I know she'd either start fussing or preferably think I was mad if I told her that I had this huge pain in my chest that felt like my heart was on fire had now vanished.

"I think it best that you take her home and make sure she gets some rest" I heard a soothing British voice suggest. I glanced round to see who the voice belonged to and saw a guy with short brown hair that was parted and dressed in an expensive looking suit bent down beside me. It was those familiar pair of eyes from before, the beautiful man who had my heart doing a marathon. I made a move to get up off the ground, but not before the man whose name escapes me stretched out his hand for me to take. Without hesitation I grasped his oh so soft hand that felt so perfect in my own, his eyes never leaving my face as Jenna took my other hand and both carefully helped me up.

"Let's get you home. Err thanks for inviting us Carol" Jenna said.

"No problem, are you sure she's gonna be ok?" Carol asked.

"Yeah she should be fine" I heard Jenna reply whilst my vision was still locked onto the man as we stared deep into each others eyes and in that moment I was sure he could see into my very soul, as I him. 'What was happening to me?' I asked myself trying to figure out why he was making me feel like this.

"Come on Bella lets go" came a voice from behind me as I felt an arm wrap round my waist pulling me away from the man. I looked up to see that the arm belonged to Damon. When did he get here? Not that I cared right now because all I wanted was to stay with this mysterious man whom now had an angry expression plastered on his face, but why?

Anger soon turned to desperation though as the man looked as if he was playing a game of tug of war with himself, Damon then gently lead me out the room with Jenna following close behind till I could no longer see the mans beautiful face. I had to literally control myself from breaking free of Damon's hold on me to run back into the mystery mans arms.

I assured Damon that I was fine and could walk on my own, but he gave me the straight answer of he wasn't taking any chances. We got to Jenna's car and he gently placed me in the passenger seat while Jenna hopped in the driver's side. He then told us he was going to stay a bit longer but he'd come check on me afterwards, I told him that he didn't have to and that I was alright but he explained how he had promised Elena and Stefan that he would watch over me while they were away. With that said he went back inside as we drove off.

I didn't know whether to be angry with Elena for sending a bodyguard to look after me or not. I know my sister's heart was is in the right place because she just wants to protect her family, but she was treating me the same way the Cullen's always had, like I'm some sort of fragile glass that could easily break. I didn't want that again, I don't want to be sealed up and wrapped in cotton. I just wanted to have a normal life without burdening anyone. I still couldn't believe I fainted in front of everyone like that.

'Great first impression Bella, you were invited to your first event by the Mayor and what should happen? You fall flat on your back' I thought mentally beating myself up for the embarrassing show I put on.

My mind wandered off thinking back to that dream, it was the most peculiar dream I'd ever had because not only was it strange that I even dreamt of such a place but it also felt very real. It was like a strong case of daja vu. I started thinking of that little boy and girl, how sweet and innocent they looked. They seemed like brother and sister yet as I watched them the bond of their relationship said otherwise.

'Oh come on Bella it was just a dream get over it already' I told myself. Something in my head wanted to protest but I paid no attention. It was just a dream. A silly dream.

It wasn't long before we got back to the house and got inside to see Jeremy coming down the stairs.

"Hey, I thought you were at the Historical thing" he said with a surprised yet confused expression.

"We were but Bella wasn't feeling too great and passed out" Jenna told him and me being glad that she didn't go into to much detail about it.

"What! Are you alright? Do you need anything?" Jeremy rambled getting panicked. I thought it was precious how he was so concerned for me, but I didn't want him to fuss.

"I'm ok, just need to rest my head. But do me favour, please don't tell Elena about this. I don't want to spoil her weekend" I asked them and they nodded in reply. I knew the minute Elena found out what happened today she'd be back here in an instant and I didn't want that, my sister deserved to have her fun without any worries on her mind. After that I went to my room and laid down on my bed snuggling into my soft pillow.

Damon's POV

Damn it! That son of…my neck was bleeding badly but was slowly healing after Elijah stabbed me with a pencil when I'd tried confronting him, big mistake. Rule number one don't ever try to challenge an original vampire because it will have consequences, especially when you confront them alone. I thought back to earlier when I arrived to find Bella lying on the floor after Carol told me how she just passed out, and when she came to I didn't miss the very intense moment Bella and Elijah shared together.

That really did have me on edge, something was seriously going on there. I didn't know whether or not Elijah was trying to compel Bella, or if I was missing a very important piece of the puzzle I was putting together in my head. Well whatever the reason I was going to find out one-way or another.

BPOV

When I woke up I noticed that it was now dark out. I reached into my jeans pocket for my phone to see what time it was, but to my surprise my phone wasn't there. So I checked my other pocket but it wasn't there either. What the? Where was it?

I looked around the bed to see if it had dropped out my pocket, but it was nowhere to be seen. Oh great. I then decided to check Jenna's car because it could have slipped out in the passenger seat or something. But just then there was a knock at the front door and seconds later I heard it open. I left my room and heard Jenna talking to whoever was at the door.

"Oh here she is now" I heard Jenna say as I got half way down the stairs and saw her talking with...I gasped. Standing in the doorway was the mystery man from before.

"Hi" I managed to say keeping my eyes on him as I descended down the remaining steps.

"Hi, we weren't properly introduced before, I'm Elijah" he said and stuck his hand out, which again I instantly grasped feeling a spark as our hands connected.

"I'm Isabella, but just Bella" I said with my eyes glued to his face the whole time. He then took my hand and a placed a gentle kiss on the back of it that made me shiver in pleasure.

'Ok Bella calm down' I told myself.

"A beautiful name to fit such a rare exquisite beauty as yourself" Elijah said as I felt the heat rise to my cheeks at his words, I'm sure I was close to melting as my legs were already starting to feel like jelly. I hadn't noticed that Jenna had left the room.

"So err what brings you here, Elijah?" I asked nervously.

"Well just as you left before I noticed that you dropped something, and I wanted to return it to you" with that said he reached into the inside of his top left jacket pocket and pulled out my phone and handed it to me.

"Oh my gosh thank so you much" I said being so relieved and grateful that he had found it, but even more grateful that he was kind enough to return it.

"Your welcome. I hope you are feeling much better now" he asked with a question in that sentence.

"Much better" I said with a smile, just him being here makes me feel better.

"Well I must be off, but I do hope to see you again Bella" he asked with that look of desperation in his eyes.

"I hope so too Elijah. And thank you again for returning my phone, I really appreciate it" I said silently wishing that he didn't have to go. He kissed my hand again before departing from the house.

I was so caught up in my own dreamland when I heard someone clear there throat. I looked round to see Jenna with a grin on her face.

"What?" I asked innocently.

"I saw that. You like him and don't try to deny it because guilt is written all over your face" she said smugly with her hands now on her hips.

"I really don't know what you're talking about" I said walking passed her to go in the kitchen. I didn't hear the next thing she said as my thoughts were fully on Elijah.

Third person's POV

He couldn't believe it. After all this time, all the searching, he had finally found her. He had spent so many years of loneliness trying to track her down, it had put him in a difficult position that he had to drop everything to come and deal with this doppelganger situation. But he saw now that it was worth the trouble.

He didn't know all the details of how exactly she came to be, but he would soon find out. For now all that mattered was that she was here and if he knew one thing it was this. He had lost her once, he would NOT. Loose her. Again.

Authors note: So there's a lot of tension going on between Bella and Elijah. Can anyone figure out what's going on yet?

To answer some peoples questions about what's happening between Bella and Elijah all I can say is that I'm gonna have to keep leaving you hanging cause all will be revealed soon enough.

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