A/N: On to the fall out, enjoy!
I do not own Twilight, I just play with the characters.
BELLA
THAT STUPID EDWARD! Can't he leave well enough alone? Wow, that is a lot of emotion. Anger, verging on hatred come bubbling up the surface and threaten to control my reactions. Suddenly, my life in Forks comes rushing back to me. Nothing else from my human life remains or wants to be remembered. How is it that one vampire can change the make-up of a Reaper? At least I managed to only briefly glance their way. That whole clan is a bad omen. They should have just accepted that I was gone and let it go at that. At least then they would be protected from what I am.
I can't believe that I forgot about them. My nature as a Reaper seems to have taken over most of my being. I can't forgive their intrusion. Now they will search for me even more fervently. I know that they have been looking for me, but I had hoped they would call it quits by now. At least they got to see the show. Maybe that will give them incentive to stay away. Who am I kidding? Edward will never stop.
EDWARD
"That. Was. Awesome," Emmett announces the minute we manage to get out of the Volturi's castle.
"What is she now?" Alice wonders out loud.
"Maybe she knew she was going to change when she left," Carlisle gently adds that idea to the running list I have going in my head.
The others lapse into silence. No one else has mentioned that little bit. Usually they just refer to it as the day that Bella disappeared. Not even Rose has really avoided implying that Bella left me. She did leave me, of course. I know that. My family knows that. It's just that we sort of have an unspoken agreement…at least until now. Carlisle has made a valid point though. Bella did say that she was the dangerous one in the relationship. The more I consider that day, the more I am convinced that she did know.
"Why wouldn't she tell me?" I ask out loud.
"You don't really take things like that very well, I'm afraid," Esme gives my shoulder a squeeze.
"Yeah, you take a lot more credit for her well-being than what you should," Alice smugly sides with Carlisle and Esme.
"You are way off base," I lamely try to defend myself.
"Puh-lease, can you even hear yourself or is all you get a roaring sound in your head?" Rosalie snorts as she tosses her hair over her shoulder.
"Dude, you really have a hero complex when it comes to Bella. I don't know why she put up with that. Just look at her now though. If you try that shit with her now, she will bring the pain," Emmett is clearly amused with this turn of events.
"The question is, what is she now? If we could figure that out, we might be able to anticipate where she will go and then we can try and talk to her," Jasper's military mind has once again gone straight to the strategy necessary for dealing with the situation.
"Clearly she is no longer human, but she's not a vampire either," Alice starts the plan session off.
"I don't know of any other kind of immortal. That is not to say that there aren't any, I just don't know of them," Carlisle adds his input.
"She said she was Death's messenger or something," Rose reluctantly contributes.
"Bella did talk about Death like it is a proper noun," Esme says.
"Is Death a real person?" Alice asks the question that we all are thinking.
"That is a definite possibility," Carlisle answers her.
"If it is true, what would that make Bella? Does she hunt down those whose time has come and kill them?" I can't help but throw that out there. It's like word vomit.
"What's the deal with the thing she did with the blood?" Emmett is like a kid in a candy store with this. If he didn't have Rose, I would be concerned that he would try for Bella.
"It didn't smell at all," Rose sounds a little confused about that part despite her effort at indifference.
"We'll just have to ask her about that one," Carlisle really believes that we will see her again.
"How can you be so confident that we will get the chance to see her again, let alone ask her that?" I know I sound whiney and pathetic, but I can't help myself.
"Because she said that she would be back when it was Caius's turn to die, of course," Alice says that like I'm an idiot. She might be right about that though.
"What do you propose exactly? Do you want us to hang around the Volturi until that happens?" Emmett is the picture of tack, as always.
"That might not be a bad idea, actually," Jasper says exactly what I don't want him to.
BELLA
There is a danger that he will make connections with what I said to Aro. If not Edward, then Carlisle will certainly be able to connect some dots. This could bode ill. What if they can somehow manage to show up at just the right place at just the right time again? That could get awkward. What if he still wants to try and work things out? That could be…I'm not sure what that would be exactly. It could be a good thing. It could be a completely awful thing. Wait, am I feeling? I thought those things faded.
This is really an instance where I could use a little guidance. Death is occasionally helpful, but I really could use a more solid guide through this odd experience. If one of my parents is a Reaper, then they would be a good choice. Which one is it, I wonder? It would be very helpful if they would show up every so often. I'm thinking it has to be Renee. She has moved around a lot. Charlie basically just stayed in Forks. People would have noticed if he had disappeared as often as I do. Wouldn't they? Come to think of it, he could be gone all day and no one would think that was odd. Renee could have just liked moving. I'm not entirely sure how she spent most of her days though. We were never in dire straights. Death certainly pays me very well. Really it could be either…
"You look like you could use some advice," comes a voice from the doorway. I look up at the answer to my question.
A/N: Anyone care to guess which parent it is? R&R if you please.
