2006

Alice's POV

There was another crash. Edward had been tearing the place apart. Then suddenly it happened.

A vision.

"Are you alright? You look a bit woozy. We don't want anyone fallin' overboard. That would make bad 'eadlines," Patrick O'Brian said.

"Headlines?" Bella asked. She was shaken.

"Yes 'eadlines. We can't 'ave any of the newspapers writing about a young lady such as yourself fallin' overboard. That would be very bad publicity for the Titanic."

"Publicity for the Titanic?" Bella gasped. I was just as shocked.

"Yes, Miss. We couldn't 'ave bad publicity, that wouldn't do. Not at all. Mr. Ismay wouldn't 'ave it. E'd have a cow over it if we got bad publicity, I'd bet. Now, Miss, If you wouldn't mind stepping away from the railing..."

Bella looked behind her and started hypervenelating at the sight of the Atlantic Ocean. Some how she calmed herself down enough to dismiss Mr. O'Brian.

"Miss, you are alright now? Would you like me to take you back to your room?" Patrick asked.

"No, no. Thank you, Mr. O'Brian. I'll stay on deck for now. The fresh air is probably the best thing for me."

"Alright, Miss. I'll leave you to it," Patrick said with a short bow and left.

I opened my eyes to see Edward fuming in my face.

"Where is she?" he practically yelled. Apparently he couldn't concentrate enough to see the vision himself.

I took a deep breath. He wasn't going to like this. "Edward, she is on the Titanic."

"What? She's on the Titanic? How could she be—" he cut himself off in realization.

He suddenly became furious. "Carlisle!" he yelled.

Edward's POV

"Carlisle!" I yelled. I was in his office in less than a second.

"Where is she? What happened to her?" I was yelling in his face.

"Calm down, Edward."

"No! I will not calm down! What happened to her after you changed Esme?" He looked as if I had just slapped him. "Yes, I remember, now! What happened to her?" I repeated. "How did you make me forget her? How could you erase her like that?" By the end of my speech I had broken down. I had felt it coming. I just had to get the answers.

He sat down next to me and put a hand on my shoulder. I let him.

"I didn't erase her, Edward. She erased herself." I looked up at him. He opened his mind to me then, so I could see his memories.

Carlisle's POV

I was taking Esme back to the manor, her in my arms, when Bella greeted us at the door.

"Carlisle, I need to speak with you."

I nodded once and took Esme up to my room. I called for Edward and asked if he would watch Esme. He agreed.

I went to the parlor where Bella was waiting for me.

"C'mon, Carlisle. Let's go some where more private." She said this so fast that even I had a hard time understanding her. I nodded and she led the way out through the woods.

We ran for at least half an hour before she stopped.

"Where are we?" I asked.

"That doesn't matter now," she said. "There is something I have to take care of, Carlisle. And I'll be gone for a long time."

"What? Where are you going? What's happening here?" I questioned.

"That will be revealed when the time is right. I have to leave though. I--" I cut her off.

"What about Edward? Don't you still love him?"

"Of course I do Carlisle," she looked pained talking about this. "But I have to leave to keep you two safe. Well I guess it's you three now that Esme is here."

"He won't let you go. He loves you too much," I told her.

She took a shaky breath, "I know, and I've worked that out, too. He won't remember me. At least not until I get back," she said.

"And how do yo propose to do that?"

"There is a spell to take me back to my time. There is something terribly wrong then."

"You're not going to tell me what this problem is are you?"

"No," she said. "There isn't enough time. Anyway, this spell will remove me from people's memories with one exception, you."

"I don't understand."

"No one will remember me but you. Edward, Esme, the nurses at the hospital, I'll be forgotten to them. To them, it'll be like I never existed," Bella explained.

"Will you ever come back?"

"I don't know if I'll be able to come back before you meet me as a human. I'll try, but I'm not sure." Bella took a deep breath then. "The portal is coming."

And before I knew it there was I blinding light and Bella was gone.

Edward's POV

Carlisle's memory began to fade from my mind and I started to sob in my hands. I wished that I could cry now.

"Why, Carlisle, why? Why would she leave me? What could have been so important? So drastic?" I sobbed.

"I think I could answer that," answered a voice.

I looked up and saw her.

"Victoria," I snarled.