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Why me? Why now? It's time...

Chapter 9: Is it time for me to pay a visit back home?

Bella POV.

I lay in my room one night, thinking abou what had happened over the last few weeks. It seemed like forever, since I had last been in Forks. 3 weeks since I had left the Cullen's hanging, 3 days since Jasper had arrived. You could see it in his eyes, that he wanted to go back home. Back to Alice. He missed her. Just like I missed Edward.

Just as I was about to drift off to sleep, there was a knock on the bedroom door. "Come in." I called to whoever was there. The door opened and Jasper walked in. He smiled and walked over to the window. "Are you okay Jazz?" I asked, watching his movement. He didn't turn round to look at me as he answered.

"I need to go back home..." I sighed, I knew this day was coming. "I miss Alice." This time he turned to look at me. "I think you need to come back as well." I frowned. Could I go back now? Was I ready to 'face the music'? I didn't know what I thought at that minute.

"Jazz...I..." I sighed. "I don't know Jasper."

"Bella, you have to come back, sooner or later. Why not do it now?" Jasper pleaded. He did have a point.

"What about Damon? How can I just leave him like this?"

"Damon is a big boy, he can handle himself." Jasper replied, his voice didn't sound so sure.

"Do you really believe that Jazz? After all that happened? I can't just leave him here...After all I am the only one that can sort him out." I frowned.

"What do you mean...Sort him out?" He replied to me, looking confused.

"Damon and I always had that connection. When Katherine, another vampire of our kind, compelled Stefan, he was left heartbroken. He really truly loved Katherine, but she didn't love him back, she was just using him to get to Stefan. Stefan was the one she really loved. She wanted her and was willing to go to extreme measures to do get him." I sighed. "Our father, shot Damon and Stefan, after realising that they knew about Vampires. What he didn't know was that both Stefan and Damon had vampire blood in their system." I smiled ever so slightly.

"How did you become a vampire?" He asked me, that was the question I didn't want to answer.

"When our father told me that Damon and Stefan were dead. I instantly felt empty. they were both there for me, when I needed them the most. Damon practically raised me." I took in a deep breath. "I didn't know what to do. One day, I was sat on the roof of the Salvatore boarding house...This building and I jumped. What I didn't know was that Katherine had also drank from me and then fed me her blood, not that long before, this whole event happened. So when I fell, I came back a vampire. That was when I found my brothers again."

Jasper was looking at me, like I had 3 heads. "So that's what you are?" He asked me and I nodded. "But that doesn't explain why you are the only one who can sort Damon out..."

I sighed, this was the question I have answered many times, to many different people. "When I first completed the transformation...Damon, went round doing what he had done the other day. He was coming after me, not realising that I was a vampire." I was now stood by the window looking out, as I heard Jasper gasp behind me, but I carried on, "I was perfectly fine Jasper. Anyway, when he first attacked me, he didn't know it was me. I soon made him realise and that made him stop what he was doing, but not long after he went into another 'episode'... He killed what was left of our family. Just as he was about to run out of the building. We all lived in the same building at the time you see. Anyway...I stopped him, from running. He struggled and struggled, to get past me, but I wasn't having any of it. So, I slapped him. He looked at me weird for a while and then, he just froze. Un-moving for, what seemed like hours. Finally, he came back to reality and just looked at me. He apologized and then ran. Every time it's happened since then, only I have been able to stop him. Everyone else has tried, but it's just me..." I turned round and looked at him. "Now do you see why I don't want to just leave Damon here?"

Jasper was stood there in shock looking at me. "Y-you can bring him with you." That was the first time, I had ever head Jasper Hale stutter.

"Bring him with me? To forks? Where he could snap any moment." I raised an eyebrow at him. "As much as I hate Jess, Lauren and Mike...It's not fair on them..."

"Bella...You need to come home..." He sighed.

"I am home." I replied, to him. He frowned. Mystic Falls, had been my home for many, many years. Forks was home too, but this was home home.

"As in Forks home Bells." He smiled slightly. "We miss you. We all do. It's not the same without you..." I sighed. Why is he making me do this?

"I will come for a visit..." I finally gave in and Jasper grinned.

"I'm going back tonight...Are you coming then or...?" The grin, was beginning to become a little freaky.

"Yeah...Damon is coming with me. I don't care what anyone says." I replied to him, determined.

Later that night; Jasper, Damon and myself were on our way to forks. Damon didn't put up a fight, he seemed quite...Excited about the fact that he will be meeting Edward. Jasper and Damon had quickly caught up. I laughed remembering that day, they both looked at me weirdly. I shook my head and shrugged replying, "What can I say? It's me..." They both laughed with me.

That day was funny. Jasper and Damon hadn't seen eachother is over 100 years...They had a lot of catching up to do.

~Flashback~

Damon and I were sat in the living room, when there was a knock at the door. "Come in." I shouted, and smiled when I saw Jasper walk in. "Hey Jasper." As soon as I said his name, Damon looked in his direction.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Major Jasper Whitlock. Long time no see." Damon smirked and stood up to greet Jasper.

"Damon Salvatore...You haven't aged a bit." Both of them laughed, I had to join in. After all he was right, none of us had aged, even in the slightest.

"Likewise." Damon replied. Both of them came to sit next to me on the sofa. As the day progressed, I found myself engrossed, in stories they were telling me, from the times at war. I had heard most of them off Damon, but it was always nice to hear them again. Jasper's on the other hand, I hadn't heard any. They were amazing...You could tell that Jasper enjoyed talking about that part of his life. When he told Damon about how he met Alice...that story I had heard. His face lit up at just the mere mention of her name. You could really really tell he missed her. Damon looked happy, to see his old friend happy. Seeing Damon happy, made me happy.

~End of Flashback~

As we arrived we drove past the 'Welcome to Forks' sign. I looked around, instantly feeling at ease. This place I had grown to love. Forks, was home to me...Another home.

Slowly Jasper pulled into the Cullen driveway and I looked up, doing the same thing as I did last time. "We're here..." I heard Jasper say. Jasper got out, followed by Damon, then slowly but surely I followed.

We walked up the front steps and went into the house. "Uh Isa?" I tutned round to see Damon, stuck at the door.

"Come in." Jasper replied with a smile. He had been told everything about our kind, he could help us tell the story later. Damon walked into the house, and we went up the first flight of stairs. I heard mumblings coming from in the living room.

"This is it..." I said to myself. This really was it. Damon, tightly took hold of my hand, for support and we walked in followed by Jasper. Gasps filled the room and they took in the sight before them. Damon holding my hand and me standing unusually close. You can't kill me...He's my brother. I looked at Edward, who was glaring at Damon.

"Bella? Who's this?" Edward asked.

"Edward, everyone. This is Damon Salvatore..." I smiled slightly at all of them.