Bella McLeod

Healer

This is my first Twilight fic, and it is a femlash, featuring Bella and Rosalie as a couple. So, if you don't like, please head somewhere else.

As an introduction, you may want to read "Snape McLeod" since the Bella that trained Tobias there is the same one here, only a decade later. It's not a requirement for you to read it, especially since I will try and untangle things as the story progresses. I altered the timeline to fit my needs, so… she met Snape in 1997, they parted ways in 2000 and it is now 2011, when she moves to Forks with Charlie.

Bare in mind that I do not own Twilight, nor its characters, so if you recognize any of them, THEY'RE NOT MINE. I only own the idea of making Bella Swan part of Clan McLeod.

I also not own the Highlander series, characters and concepts.

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Bella McLeod

Chapter 10

Healer

Edward warned me that Alice had given my number to Isabella. I was mostly mad at my sister, but somehow, I was also grateful, not that I would let her know that, because she knew why I didn't want to speak to Isabella and yet she gave the human a way of contacting me, so when I saw an unknown number calling me right after I ended my conversation with Edward, I guessed it was her so I didn't pick up.

Jasper just kept giving me glances while we stayed in the forest, every few hours the phone would ring and I would see the same number trying to contact me.

"You've got to admit that at least she's trying" said Jasper to me later in the evening.

I decided to listen to the messages she had left, I had at least 15 notifications of a voice message being left, each notification was received a few seconds after the phone stopped ringing.

"Hi Rose, it's Bella. Hum, Alice provided me with your phone. Call me, ok?" said the first one. The next 13 stated more or less the same. Reassuring me it was her and she wanted to speak with me.

The last one, which had been left a little over an hour ago said "Listen Rose, I'm sorry I left yesterday. I was really excited to see an old friend. However I would take it back if I could. Please forgive my not so smart action."

I had already saved her phone number in the memory, and was debating myself between call her back or just sit there and keep the self pity coming up. Jasper was staying around because of my emotions; I still found it hard to control myself. Specially every time I thought about yesterday and the way she just ditched me there.

A growl formed in my chest and I was about to throw away my phone when it began to ring. I looked the screen and it showed me it was Bella, without thinking about what I was doing, I pressed the answer button, but kept silent.

"Rose?" She inquired. I was about to hung up, I was not in the mood to speak about this, but a strong wave of relief and happiness hit me. I knew it was Jasper making me aware of the emotions I actually felt at the moment so I kept listening to her. "No, please, don't hung up. Just, please…" I kept silently listening to her. "you promised to let me know next time you would ignore me" she said sighing. "I'm sorry… I didn't mean to upset you" she sighed again and the truth in her words made me hurt.

"When?" I asked her "When you didn't mean to?" I couldn't keep the anger or the hurt from my voice, and I knew she could hear it clearly.

"Ever" she said truthfully. "Not yesterday by my actions. Not today by calling incessantly to you. Not now trying to apologize. Not ever, Rose" And that was the truth, I was glad she at least was not trying to upset me, but I needed more than that.

"I don't like this Bella" I said. "It's been two times now that you look scared and then you look happy as hell" I sighed trying to organize my thoughts "I hate not being able to make you smile like that" I finally confessed.

"But you do make me smile"

"I understand we all have a history and a lot of baggage to carry, but… The way you acted around your friend Clara, and the way you acted yesterday… it's just something I don't like"

"Is that why you tried to stay away at first and left me yesterday?" She asked me, I grunted, but I didn't deny it. "Rose, don't. Look, what Clara and I had, it ended a long time ago. Now we're only friends"

I knew she was telling the truth, my gift worked as long as it was not a recording, no matter the distance. "What about this Tobias?" I couldn't help being jealous about her first, and realizing yesterday that what she said about dating older people was actually with a guy like him made me angry and hurt.

"We are friends, that's all"

Just friends. She's not lying to you, they're just friends. I told myself "Good" I finally told her. "Are you still going to La Push tomorrow?" I asked, wanting to get past this, we still had to talk, but this should be face to face.

"Yeah. Want to ditch your brother and come with me?" She asked and I could picture her smiling on the phone.

"I'd love to" I said truthfully, however I couldn't break the Treaty "But I can't… However, we are still going to Seattle next weekend right?" I asked hesitantly, after what had happened between yesterday and today, I was not sure if our date was still on.

"Of course"

"Will you do me a favor tomorrow?"

"Sure"

"Be careful, please. Wolves roam that land" and I sure didn't want her actually socializing with the mutts

"I will"

"Well, I better let you sleep Bella. Sweet dreams" I finally said, knowing that she had to get up early tomorrow, and she being human, actually needed to sleep.

"You too Rose"

When the communication was dead, I couldn't help the smile on my face. After all, she's not calling me Rosalie again, I am still Rose to her.

"You sure are as complicated as human teenagers" said Jasper approaching from behind.

"I can't help it" I said still smiling. Then I was curious about something. "Jazz?" He looked up at me from the lodge in which he had seated. "Is this how you all feel about your mates?"

He softly smiled at me. "Most of the time we are as confused as you are"

There were a lot of new questions in my mind and I had to clear it before going back, or else I would pose a danger to my family. Yesterday, on the parking lot, it took the four of them to drag me into Edward's Volvo and stopping me for killing this Tobias guy. I didn't know what to do, I was jealous as hell and just the simplest thought of Bella being with someone else released the beast in me. The thought of hurting her because of that scared me to death, though.

I spent the whole Saturday mulling over everything that had happened around me and inside me, since the moment I met Bella. I remembered the first time our gazes met, it was electrifying, I couldn't help the smile, and when she smiled back at me through the glass window, it was then and there I knew I wanted to spend my life with her.

But then between my brother's banter and the conversation she had on the phone, and the intensity of the raw emotion I was feeling, I did what seemed best at that time. I ran away from her.

On biology, that first day, it was not the need to feed which scared me, it was not fear of losing control over my thirst for blood, it was fear of my need to mark her as mine. I still am overwhelmed by that need every time I am around her, but marking her without her approval, would be the same or worse than what Royce did to me.

It took me the rest of the week to control this urges. I was driving everyone crazy at home. But then, thanks to a chat with Jasper, and later on with Emmett, I realized it was not that hard, because hurting Bella was the last thing I would want to do. So next Monday I decided to introduce myself to her, it worked relatively well and I discovered that she was smart, but also there is a lot of her past that is lie to the Forks population. She was becoming a little more than a mystery, one I would gladly spend my life trying to figure out.

Then stupid Tyler had to almost kill her. The moment I realized that if I did nothing she would die, I knew I couldn't let that happen. Living without Bella now that I had finally found her was not an option, so I reacted on pure instinct. KEEP HER SAFE, was all that was going through my mind. Even when we were arguing under the vans, the thought that kept me there was that, keeping her safe.

Of course this complicated things, it was a lot scarier to think that I wanted to be part of her life and let her become part of mine; than thinking of her as just an attractive young human who without a doubt would be a great pleasure to be with.

I think, in part I was lucky that her 'friend' arrived that moment to the hospital. But it tore me to know that I had never made Bella smile that way. Bella tried to get close to me after that incident, but I kept her as far away as possible without actually leaving Forks. I knew that wasn't what I wanted, and I was making us both miserable so I tried to make amends. Things appeared to be working out but my jealousy got the best of me on the parking lot. Maybe I should have stayed standing there, waiting for her to remember I was there and introduce me to her first; but no, all I wanted to wipe the memory of this first of hers out of her mind, out of her body and most importantly, out of this world.

If it hadn't been for my siblings, I would have exposed us and killed him. The Volturi would probably come and kill us all, because of my possessiveness and jealously over Bella.

I had to let her know exactly what I felt. The problem here was I didn't exactly knew what I was feeling.

I started to roam the forest at human pace. It was Saturday night now. It was not raining anymore. There was a thin ribbon of a trail that led through the forest here, the trail wound deeper and deeper into the forest, mostly east as far as I could tell. It snaked around yews and the maples. I followed the trail as long as my anger at myself and confusion at the whole situation, pushed me forward. I slowed down when I realized I was coming back to Forks.

A recently fallen tree rested against the trunk of another tree, creating a sheltered little bench just a few safe feet off the trail. I stepped over the ferns and sat carefully and leaned my hooded head back against the living tree.

This was the wrong place to have come. I should have known, I was really close to Bella's now, but where else was I to go? My footsteps usually made me end up there anyway. The owls were quiet, as if sensing they would be an easy prey now.

I forced myself to focus on the two most vital questions I had to answer, but I did so unwillingly. First, I had to know if it was possible that Bella was my mate and that to be the reason I felt so strongly about her? Which lead to another set of questions, such as would she accept me? Could we make it work?

Second, could I tell her the truth about my family?

I really did want her to know, and now knowing that it was a possibility that she was my mate, she needed to know about us before getting into a relationship with me. What would we tell the Volturi? Would she be willing to turn into one of us to stay alive? What about her past? How much could I trust her when she didn't have enough trust in me to tell me the truth about herself?

So far I knew that Charlie was not her father, at least not really her father, the same with Renee, which was supposedly her mother. But she hadn't say any of that to me. I only knew because of my gift. I also knew she had been scared right before both her 'friends' revealed themselves; I could smell it on her. The question was why?

I had to decide now what to do about this whole mess. I closed my eyes and the first thing that popped into my mind was her smiling face, I snapped my eyes open. I didn't know if there ever was a choice, really. I was already in too deep. Now that I knew I was actually in love with her, I could do nothing about my frightening secret. Because when I thought of her, I wanted nothing more than to be with Bella right now. I shivered and rose quickly from my place of concealment, and headed to her place. Charlie's lawn stretched out in front of me, the house beckoning me, promising warmth and her.

It was a few minutes past dawn, as I approached to the doorbell I heard her voice, the chills that flashed up my spine were different than anything I'd felt in my life.

"I'll take a shower and then head out" she said. For some reason I couldn't bring myself to knock on the door. I heard three heart beats inside the place, and footsteps were coming down the stairs.

"Bells… Oh, Tobias, I thought you were staying at La Push" said Charlie, which made believe he was the one who had come down the stairs.

I walked around the house and peeked into the window. The sight that greeted my eyes made me growl. Tobias was sitting on the couch in the living room, Bella was laying down there, her head over his lap, and he was stroking her hair.

"I am. I am heading back there actually" said Tobias, but no trace of him actually standing up.

"Why don't you just bring me the supplies instead of sending me to Port Angels to buy them then?" asked Bella stiffing a yawn.

"Bells, you look exhausted" said Charlie sitting in front of them.

Bella straightened up yawing again. "I am. Tobias here kept me up all night. We just finished"

"I did not hear you complain last night" said Tobias with a sneer on his old face.

"Whatever" said Bella yawning again. I was about to go through that window and kill this man in Bella's couch when I felt strong arms tighten around me from my back.

"Let go" I growled. I knew it was Jasper. He was also trying to calm me down using his gift.

"Calm down. Remember what she said. They're just friends" he said into my ear.

"It doesn't look like that" I seethed through my teeth still trying to break free.

"I'll take a shower, I really have to get all this grease and sweat off of me" I could hear Bella say and Tobias chuckling which made me growl louder.

"Rosalie!" said Jasper a little louder now, his grip still strong on me. "You have to trust her" he said. "If you want this to work out, you have to trust her."

A/N: Hope you liked it.

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