As promised EPOV, hope you enjoy.

Chapter ten: A Picture Of Me (present day EPOV)

That damned painting is all I can think about. We got it about a year ago, and I still hadn't figured out who had sent it, and why? Who had painted it?
And if it would take such a great role in our lives, why didn't Alice see that coming, saw who send it and to whom? It was addressed to 'E. Cullen'.
So that left Emmett, Esme and myself.
Where did someone find a painting of me looking about one year old?
How did they know I was a Cullen, or that I was even still walking on this earth?
I couldn't find an answer to any of my questions here in Nova Scotia, so I decided to call Eleazar. He might know something since he had ties to the Volturi. Maybe it came from them.

Alice still couldn't see the Denali clan; we even visited them when that started.
I had not wanted to go on that trip. I knew how Tanya always acted around me, and I didn't have the patience to deal with that then nor do I now.
I don't have much patience for anything anymore, not since I left my love, my life, my whole world behind.
But the family made me go, wouldn't leave me alone, not since I tried to go to Italy when Alice saw my Bella die.
I still don't know what happened to her; in Alice's vision she was walking to her car and all of a sudden she was gone. Only blackness remained.
I didn't pay attention to anything when we were there last time. I must have been going crazy, because I thought I smelled my Bella's sweet freesia scent when we got there. it appeared to be even stronger inside the house.

Two new members were added to their family, Irina's mate, Laurent, I wasn't happy to see him there, after what had happened to my Bella when we last saw him.
And a mate for Kate, Garrett a vegetarian vampire, who I did like. He was easy to like, calm, controlled, and he could sense the bond between vampire mates.
He found a strong bond for my mate, my Bella. But as soon as I heard him thinking about the strongest bond to a mate he had ever sensed, he started to sing a Hungarian lullaby.
But, like I said before, I didn't pay much attention to anything really.

Back to the painting now, I didn't really believe Eleazar when he told me he didn't know anything about it; he didn't sound convincing.
So I decided to take a trip to Alaska.
As soon as that thought entered my mind Alice came crashing through my bedroom door without opening it.
"You're not going to try and kill yourself again. Do not put Esme and the rest of us through that much pain ever again!" she yelled.
"I'm not ever going to try that again," I said "I promised all of you. Why would you need to break down my door? I like my door, you know."
As soon as I asked, I saw the vision play out in her head.
I saw myself stepping on a plane and then nothing, only darkness.
"I was just thinking about visiting the Denali's, not going to the Volturi. I would like to know what they know about that dammed painting of me," I told her. "You know you can't see them, so maybe you can't see me when I go to them either."
I heard her thinking that maybe she and Jasper should come with me, just to be safe.
"I give you my word I will not do anything that any of our family members would be unhappy about. don't worry so much. Just going to talk to Eleazar," I said to her again.
I saw a vision going through her mind. She saw herself, me and Jasper take the plane and then disappeared.
Fuck, my little pixy sister, always wants everything to go her way.
So it was decided, they would come with me to Denali.
Alice was not happy about not seeing anything that would happen on our trip, so they wouldn't let me go alone.
If she wasn't able to see visions of my trip, she sure as hell would come with me, and so would Jasper he would never leave her side.
I booked plane tickets for the three of us, and we would be leaving in a week.

It was strange for me to look forward to something. That hadn't happened to me in a long time, not since I walked out of my Bella's life.
Maybe I would be able to at least smell her again, once we got there. I quickly shoved that thought away. I didn't smell her there last time; it was just not possible. but it had been a scent so close to hers, that in my depression I thought it was hers.

I would give anything to be able to smell a whiff off her just once more, to be able to put my nose to her neck and take in all of her delicious aroma, feel the pulse of her blood.
I wanted to look into her eyes and see the blush that colored her face. What I wouldn't give for just one glance of her.
It's official I'm going insane. I know she passed away; I saw it in Alice last vision of her.
But she was still all I longed for, the only thing I would ever want, the only one who could ever make me happy.
I did not fully edit the rest of the chapter, but I did scan for obvious mistakes or types of mistakes I had not addressed above.
So the week passed, we hunted just before we had to leave for the airport and then said our goodbyes to the rest of the family.
I had tried calling the Denali clan again, but as soon as I spoke the line went dead, I did hear someone breathing strongly into the phone, as I said my name.

As soon as the plane landed the three of us hopped out. It wasn't easy to sit in a confined space with that many humans for a long time.
We walked out of the airport, into the nearest woods, and started running.
As soon as I could hear the minds of the vampires inside the Denali house. I knew they were not exactly happy that we were coming, they must of heard us running.
"Three of the Cullens coming, he's with them, get them out of here, he mustn't find out, she doesn't want him to." Coming from Eleazar, it confused me.
"GET THEM BOTH OUT OF HERE!" I heard someone shout.
"Won't do any good now, they will be here to soon. They will have heard you yell, John. You should be more careful," Carmen replied.
I didn't know they had new member in their family again.
But that was not the most important matter at hand, who needed to get out and who didn't want us to know what exactly? I told Alice and Jasper what they were thinking and obviously the heard John as well.
Alice was thinking thing like, "get who out? She, so it's a female. Two vampires why wouldn't they want us to know? We like everybody, everybody likes me. We could meet some new friends, yet she doesn't want to meet us, …"
Jaspers thoughts where the same but more in control. "Two vampires they don't want us to meet, we defiantly need to talk to them, let's go Edward."

We started to run even faster, to the house and we saw someone leave, dark brown hair wavering after her, she had something clinging to her back.
And then I saw what they wanted to hide, a child!
What? Did they create an immortal child? With their background?
"Go to the house!" I yelled at Alice and Jasper
"Ask them about it, I will go after the child."
Now I knew why we were not welcome, any child like that is strictly forbidden in our world; they can't be, it's just not right.
And so I ran after the dark haired female, I was fast, faster than her.
As I came closer I noticed I couldn't hear anything coming from her, but I could hear someone else, the child.
"Daddy's here, he came to me, and now mommy doesn't want to see him," the tone of his mental voice changed, "mommy, stop I want to see daddy, stop now!"

The vampire stopped and started to turn around, I was still running, but was stopped dead in my tracks as I saw her face.

"My Bella?"

"You lost the right to call me that a long time ago, Mr. Cullen," she hissed at me.

My love hissed at me?