Heya Guys, sorry for taking so long to update. It was the summer holidays and ive been out and abouts and stuff. :) But here it is, i thought i'd go for a different point of view. I hope you like it. It starts at the Cullens after Bella ran off. Review :) Again im sorry for taking so long.

Felix's POV.

I had never seen Bella run so fast in all my years of knowing her, when she said she was taking it easy on me in the races we held back at the castle I thought she was joking, apparently not.

Why would Edward ask something like that after a few hours? The way Bella talked about him when she told us about their relationship suggested he had brains. Stupid man.

"She promised she'd answer the question if any of us won" Edward whispered, both sad and confused.

"She said she'd answer one question, you asked two. The agreement was void." Heidi replied. She cared about Bella so much, we all did.

"No one told us that, that's cheating" The small Pixie one, Alice whinged. We both shrugged. I hated awkward silences, I was usually the one who interrupted them, but to be honest I didn't feel in the mood. My mind was on Bella.

"Emmett's usually the one that interrupts the silences in this house…"

"Mind readers are annoying" I muttered under my breath, but of course everyone in the room could hear. Another silence.

"So, urhm… how has Bella been since we…" Esme, the mother started.

"Since you left her at the hands of a murderous vampire?" I volunteered scathingly.

"We didn't know Victoria would be back, it was unforeseeable" Carlisle came to his wives defence.

"That's the best you can come up with? You have a flipping future seeing vampire in your family! And if you really cared, if any of you really gave a damn, one of you would have stayed behind. You didn't all have to get up and leave." Heidi spat.

"I did what I thought was best for her!" Edward spat back, glaring furiously at Heidi.

Oi, Mind reader, LEAVE HEIDI ALONE. I shouted through my thoughts. Heidi could fight her own battles, but it annoyed me like hell when someone didn't respect her.

"You did what you thought was best for her, or was it best for you? To ease your conscience? That in leaving her, you wouldn't have to face up to changing her? If you loved her Edward, she would have been changed by you not Victoria. She would have spent the last 200 years with you. She would have lost her virg…" I looked at her alarmed. Bella would not want that bit of information disclosed. Looking around the room I could tell the damage was already done. Heidi snapped her mouth shut and shifted uncomfortably.

"Bottom line Edward, you messed up. You're now engaged. Bella's changed and she obviously doesn't want anything to do with you or any of your family, minus Rosalie. So just leave her alone. For your sake and hers." I tried to help cover up Heidi's slip.

"Is she going to be okay?" Rosalie asked, changing the direction of the conversation. I was grateful for that.

"We don't know. If it's a full scale meltdown, then it could take a while for her to calm down. She hasn't had one of those in what? 50 years? Something like that."

"Why do you say meltdown? She only ran…" Emmett.

"Like we said, she's changed. She'll be fine for a while and then something might set her of. She's a bit temperamental."

"Poor Bella, this is all my fault" Jasper whispered.

"No it's not. Did you hear nothing Bella said? She never blamed you. Never." Heidi said gently, then glared at Edward. Obviously saying silently whose fault it was.

"What's she been up to since we left?" Alice asked tentatively.

Heidi and myself looked at each other, how much information could we disclose?

"Close your mind, think of anything, translate something complex to another language. It works, we use it all the time. That's if you're worried about Edward"

I settled for translating the English bible into Arabic.

"Okay, we can't say everything. That's for Bella to do when she's ready"

They all nodded.

"Well for her first ten years in Volterra she did nothing and I mean nothing. She didn't hunt, Demetri and I had to bring her food. No not Human blood. We had to basically force the blood down her throat. It wasn't pretty. Eventually she started seeing things and then she started speaking. It was such a relief, it took time, but she began to open up to us and tell us what happened. It was a slow process but in the end we managed to get her out of the room and hunting by herself. The next miracle was seeing her smile, and not long after that she laughed and now she is very much the glue that holds us together…"

"I thought that was Chelsea…" Emmett attempted a joke, I ignored him.

"Thank you." Esme, Alice and Rosalie spoke at the same time.

"For what?" Heidi asked.

"For helping her, when we couldn't. For saving her." Esme elaborated.

"She's an amazing woman." I said, proudly.

"She's an amazing friend." Heidi said with so much emotion in her voice.

Another silence. The room was so still, we all sat still like rocks. Not moving.

"I've got to go and…"

"Get your Fiancé?" I suggested.

"…Yeah" He sighed. I nodded.

"I'll be home soon" He said to his family and then he was of and out of the door.

"Can we think normally yet?" Heidi asked after 10 seconds.

"Yeah" Alice laughed.

"Well, Heidi and I should be of." I announced as I got to my feet.

"Feel free to visit, at anytime." Esme smiled.

"Thank you. You have a beautiful home." Heidi replied. She then grabbed my hand and we walked out of the Cullen's house.

It didn't take long to get back to the house and as we approached it we saw the door hanging of the hinges, and heard a ruckus in Bella's bedroom.

As I walked through the broken door I yelled up to Bella, "What did the door do to you Bella?". I got no reply.

I nodded in the direction of the stairs to Heidi and we ran up to Bella's bedroom.

It was no longer clean and tidy, but clothes were thrown everywhere, her suitcases were sat on her bed with mountains of Bella's belongings thrown in them. Her faced displayed a variety of emotions; sadness, anger, disappointment but her eyes held much worse, emptiness. I hadn't seen her with that look in her eyes for over a century, it was haunting.

How could just a few hours make so much difference? She was happy this morning, smiling, joking. She was strong and confident.

This empty Bella was more scary than the normal confident if slightly angry one. I'm a strong man, its why I'm with the Volturi, I have seen stuff that I wouldn't wish anyone to see. I have done stuff I wouldn't want anyone to go through. There was only a few things that could make me feel scared and the majority of those things were if someone I loved left. And that look in Bella's eyes, showed me she nearly had. The Bella we loved was leaving us. Maybe not physically but emotionally and mentally. I had to stop it. I was angry, no I was furious. How could she let the Cullen's get to her like this, how could she let them hurt her. How did I let them hurt her. The Bella we knew was a fighter. She didn't let anyone put her down, not anymore. We were not going to lose her.

I missed the conversation going on between Heidi and Bella, only catching Bella saying "Exactly. That's why were leaving. We've only been here a day and already the Cullen's are trying to destroy our lives…"

I stopped her right then, I know I shouldn't have but I let everything I had fall out of my mouth. I didn't mean to hurt her. I didn't want to upset her. I just couldn't stand the thought of losing her and I know Heidi was as scared as I was. She was my best friend. She is my best friend. I was not going to lose her to the darkness again.