Hey everyone Here is the edited version of chapter 9 it is a merging of chapter 9 & ten hope it goes better that way. Thanks for all who have read the original version it touched my heart that so many of you read it and also understood what I was going through at the time you guys are awesome.

Chapter 9

After running home at vampire speed Edward slowed them down and spun Harry around into his arms so he could look him in the eye "You'll be explaining that to me won't you?" Edward said with a smile as he was intrigued by what he had just seen and wondering why his mate was scared to show him this. "It's just the last person I told tried to kill me." Harry said his voice shaking Edward growled in anger at the thought of someone trying to kill Harry because he was different. "It was someone you knew and thought you could trust wasn't it? That's why you moved here isn't it?" Harry just nodded in answer.

Edward pulled Harry into his embrace and held him there comforting him until he calmed down again then they both went into the house. Edward immediately noticed that his sibling were already home and that Esme was making Harry something to eat which Edward was happy for because in his opinion Harry ate too little as it was. Everyone else was in the living room so Edward led Harry there.

Harry froze as he saw everyone else in the room but Edward gently made Harry look at him and when Harry saw the comfort and assurance in Edwards eyes he nodded a little and followed Edward to the empty love seat. Soon enough they were all seated and Edward was trying to think on where to start just as Esme came in with a sandwich and chips and gave them to Harry "Thank you Esme but you did not need to you know." Esme replied "I know dear but I was glad to do it." Edward could not help but noticed the direction his mates thoughts were taking and didn't like it. "Harry, I promise I am not going anywhere and no one is going to take me from you." Tears fell down Harry's face as he replied "You can't promise that, they are your family and I won't stay after everything if they don't want me here." After that Harry did not say another word stunning the rest of the Cullen's with what he had said especially Carlisle and Esme as they had thought they had made it clear that they wanted the young man here.

Carlisle was the first to speak "Edward, You left yesterday saying that Harry was your soul bonded and I don't see how that is possible if you were about to die when I found you in nineteen eighteen?" his voice was hard as he tried to keep his anger in check because he thought that Edward had successfully tricked Harry into believing he was this Cedric.

"You really think so little of me Carlisle." Edward sighed knowing what his adoptive father was thinking before continuing "That is where it gets complicated but I will do my best to explain. But before I get to that I need to explain a bit of back ground information that will help everyone understand what lead up to all this." Edward paused and ran his hand through his hair making Harry tut and start to fix it just like he had done back at Hogwarts "Har, you might not want to do that just yet until we explain. I know it is habit but I prefer the others know what is going on before you start distracting me." Edward chuckled as Harry blush Weasley red and nodded.

"Anyway I was not originally from nineteen-eighteen, in fact I had only been in that time for a year. I was born in nineteen-eighty six, my name was Cedric Amos Diggory. My parents are still alive and are named Amos Alex Diggory and Elian Rose Diggory nee Draven. My parents and I were a Pureblood wizarding family but we were also called Blood traitors because we did not look down upon normal people who the wizards call muggles nor any of the wizards who were not pureblooded. As Harry explained to you Carlisle, there are three classes of wizards, Purebloods the reason they are called that is because they can trace their magical bloodline back at least five generations on both sides of the family. Then there are Half-bloods like Harry who have one pureblood parent and either a muggle or muggle-born parent. Then last but not least there are muggle-borns someone with magical talent who is born to two normal people or muggles there is one he forgot though and that is a squib a child born to magical parents with no magic of their own they are usually cast out into the muggle world.

There are magical communities all over the world hidden from un-magicals through spells. I was originally from Britten close to muggle Derbyshire. Now I saw Harry for the first time during my third year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry had made seeker on the Griffindor house Quiditch team, that is when I first started to take notice of him if only from a competitive view point."

Carlisle interrupted "How am I sure you are saying the truth and not taking the information you need from Harry's mind to fool him? Because that is the most plausible theory to me right now." The anger could now be heard in his voice Edward could tell that his father was angry at the thought that he was using his gift to hurt Harry further.

"For one I would never hurt Harry, two I can't look into his mind I have not been able to since he found out I could read minds when he came to our home the first time. Third my gift is not full on Legidemensy I can only read surface thoughts and only find deeper information if it is what they are currently thinking about or if I was there to witness it. I only remembered because Harry was talking about the year we spent together and my own memories unlocked and did the rest. Harry was the key to my locked memories and my magic." Edward said the last part while using a wandless spell to float the table in front of him of the floor to hover about two feet in the air.

Edward heard his father's thoughts take a turn at seeing the table floating and knew Carlisle now believed him. After putting the table back on the floor Edward continued "Now you know what happened up till the point that I was declared dead but Harry did forget to mention a few things. One was that Harry has a bit of a hero complex,"

Harry then interrupted "I do not have a hero complex, I just don't like other people being hurt so I have to help them." Harry's voice got a little embarrassed at the end then he paused for a moment and then "Ok maybe I have a small hero complex."

The whole Cullen coven chuckled at this and Edward kissed Harry temple reassuringly whispering "It's alright it was one of things about you I fell in love with." Harry just chuckled along with the others.

"What else did he not talk about?" Esme asked curiously but smiled at how cute a couple they made.

Harry decided to tell a little bit more "I had a hard time letting Edward in at first, but he was the only one who had ever broke through all the walls I had placed to keep myself from getting hurt. He was the only one who ever really cared enough to try. He gave me more than just someone who cared he gave everything that I had been missing. He is the only one in the wizarding world who knows the full extent of what I was put through at the Dursley's and still cared even when I thought he would not. He is everything to me and when I thought he was dead I felt like a part of me had died as well. It took everything I had not to end it then but I knew he would not want me too. That is the only reason I did not kill myself is because I knew he would want me to keep going." Harry had a few tears run down his cheeks as he relived the time without his love again.

Edward took Harry into his arms and held him whispering soothingly into his ear telling him that he was there and not going anywhere until Harry finally calmed down. But even then he kept his arm around Harry's shoulder as Harry leaned on him. "Now you know what lead up to it. This is where it gets complicated, When we where portkeyed to the graveyard in Little Hangleton Harry fell to the ground in pain all he kept saying was for me to get out of there but I would not leave him. Soon after I heard someone hissing I knew it was parsultongue but as I could not speak it so I could not understand it. I only knew how it sounded because of Harry. I now know that it was a spell because after it stopped the last thing I remember is hearing Harry cry out my name and then nothing. Minutes later for me I was waking up in the Mason's front yard with no memory of who I was or that I was a wizard, all I knew was that I was seventeen and that was it. The Mason's took me in, I found out soon after that I was nineteen eighteen and it was only a half a year later that Spanish influenza hit and Carlisle turned me. I only remember who I originally was because the memories where not erased just locked away I guess it is a type of magical induced amnesia and Harry was the key to locks. That is how all of this happened, The only reason Harry is still alive as well is because if I had truly died and passed on then he would have as well. A soul mate bond that is broken because of death with kill the still living bond mate ours only splintered because I did not truly die and now that we are together again it is now whole once more."

As the rest of the Cullen Family digested this new information Harry was remembering something that happened to him not long after Edward had been sent back "Edward you said it was a half a year later that you almost died because of the Spanish influenza?"

Edward turned to Harry and nodded causing a shocked looked to appear on Harry's face as he continued "About half a year after you had been declared dead I got really sick Poppy could not figure out what was wrong with me I was physically healthy but my body was shutting down. Nothing she did worked toward the end she told everyone to prepare to say goodbye as she thought I was going to die and then all of a sudden I got better within three days I was back to normal."

Edward was a little surprised he had not thought that the bond would be that strong within the short amount of time it had been intact. "The bond was reacting, our bond must have been stronger than I thought to be able to reach across time and space to make you have the same symptoms I had from the sickness and make you get better as I was turned, It takes three days for the venom to run its course and turning to be complete which means that as I was going through my turning and getting better you where healing as well."

Harry was stunned but could not help the smile that crossed his face as it was now confirmed that their bond was a strong one that no one would be able to break it.

The rest of the Cullen's where silent as they took in all the new information and a few could not help but be glad that Edward and Harry had found each other again. Carlisle was the first to break the silence "I am glad that you have found each other again," He said to both of them before turning to Edward apologetically saying "I am sorry Edward for doubting you and for thinking that you would hurt someone like that. I know you well enough to know you would not do that yet I did so anyway and for that I am truly sorry."

Edward gave his father a small smile as he said "I can understand why you would, anyone would think the same with the circumstances. But I have to thank you for everything you have done for me including turning me for without you I would not be here now, and I would not have the extraordinary life I have been given thanks to you. You're more a father to me than my birth father ever was so I am glad that it was you who was there that day and that it was you that turned me." Carlisle just smiled at his son glad that he had finally found his mate and was now finally completely happy.

Edward turned to Harry seeing that his mate was smiling at him and he hated that he had to bring this up but he needed to know everything that had happened to bring him to forks and what had happened after he had been sent back in time "Harry, I know it hard for you to talk about but I need you to tell me what happened after I was sent back to until you came here. I need to know so that I can help you heal and so I can protect you if anything happens. Can you do that for me?"

Harry shakily replied "I will just promise me you will be there after, that you won't leave." Edward swore on his magic that he would never leave him of his own free will and then the magic flared between them binding Edward to his vow.

Harry nodded and began his story "After Edward was taken, my fifth year was spent trying to learn how to shield my mind and dealing with my defense against the dark arts teacher making me use a blood quill to write I must not tell lies during detention my hand still bears the scars from where the quill used my own blood for ink. I was not very good at shielding my mind and because of that I fell into a trap. I thought I was going to go save my Godfather from being killed but instead ended up getting him killed. The next year I was taught all about my enemy by my headmaster I also lost him at the end of the year he was killed in front of me. My seventh year I did not even go to school, I was on the run from Voldemort who had been resurrected the night he sent Edward back in time using my blood, a bone of his dead father, and flesh of his servant, forcibly taken, unknowing given, and willingly sacrificed. He had taken over our government and named me a fugitive of the law. So for the next year my two best friends Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley hunted down and destroyed every one of his soul containers. I even walked to my death willingly to get rid of the piece of his soul in my scar when I found out I was the last Horcruxe. But only the piece of his soul died and I returned. I then fought him and killed him by rebounding his killing curse at him because the wand he was using was by all rights mine. After I touched it I felt a power surge and I knew something had happened. It was almost six months later before all the funerals were done. I had lost the only other father figure I had to the killing curse he took for me earlier in the fighting.

Six months after all the funerals were done I noticed that I had all three of the items known as the deathly hollows. I tried many ways to die after I found out just to test the theory that came with the hollows. After many failed attempts I understood that I was now the master of death and at the moment I felt myself change. It was like I had all of the perks of being a vampire but none of the weaknesses. I had read a fable that turned out to also be true, that when the master of death accepts his place then if his mate is any type of creature as it was labeled that the master of death would change to be like them in a way that would not allow death to touch them but would allow them all the benefits of what their mate was. I was confused as to why it would do this to me when I thought Edward was dead. A few months ago now I finally plucked up the courage to ask Hermione Granger for help but when I told her and Ron what had happened to me they freaked. Hermione tried to stab me, she tried to kill me, but the knife broke when it came in contact with my skin. Which freaked them out even more they started talking about how they would get me sent to Azkaban saying that I would become the next dark lord when I would never do that. So I erased the conversation from their minds and made them think that they never wanted to see me again. I then ran packed everything I owned and talked to by account manager at Gringotts got enough money to get me though till I could get to the Gringotts here to open my vaults from this side. I came here to Forks expecting not to find anything interesting but hoping no one would find me here. But then I found all of you, I never expected that here in this little town I would find my mate again or anyone who even cared enough to get to know me again. But the hardest part of all of this is knowing that you are all now in danger because of me."

Esme spoke up shocked at what this brave young man had been though and confused as to why they were now in danger "How are we in danger because of you dear? I don't see how you being here would bring harm to us."

Harry would not meet any of their eyes "Because everyone I love or care for ends up either dead or betraying me something bad always happens and I don't want anything to happen to you."

Edward now stepped in knowing he had to get that thought out of his mates head but he had to go about it in a specific way "Harry love, what do you mean that everyone who loves or cares for you ends up dead, please explain this to me?"

Harry looked at Edward as if he had lost his mind before he answered "My parents loved me and died because some mad man believed in a prophecy, he only wanted me they didn't have to die. Then Sirius if had not been so stupid and he had not loved me as he did, I would not have fallen into that trap and he would still be alive, Remus would not have taken a killing curse meant for me if he had not cared so much. You would not have been sent back in time and nearly died if you had not loved me and bonded to me. If I had never been born then none of this would have happened." By that time Harry was finished he was in tears and could not look anyone in the eyes as he feared that they would be disgust and fear because they would now realize that it was his fault that all that everyone around him got hurt.

Edward was appalled by what his mate thought of himself but knew now how to get him to understand that it was not his fault but circumstance and others who had done the deeds not him "Harry I want you to listen to me very carefully. Let's start with you parents, You where just a baby you could not have done anything to save them, and they did what any good parent would do they protected their child just like I know you would have done if we had ever had a child and they were threatened."

"But they should not have had to, They did not need to die!" Harry cried

"No they should not have had to but Voldemort forced them to not you they died the way they wanted to, protecting their child. Now let's move on to Sirius, did you know that it was a trap?" Edward asked

"No of course not?" Harry yelled

"Then where you the one who shot the curse that killed him?" Edward kept going trying to get Harry to see that it was not his fault.

"No, I would never have hurt him?" Harry cried

"Then it was not your fault, The blame rests with Voldemort and with whoever shot the curst that killed him. Now on to Remus, did you ask him to take the curse for you, did you pulled him in the way of the curse?"

"No." Harry whispered tears still running down his face

"Then that was not your fault either they all loved you and went out how they wanted to go fighting for those they loved. Now onto me I don't blame you for what happened that night, It was not your fault you did not know the cup was a portkey. You sure as hell did not know that Voldemort was going to send me into the past like he did or that while in the past I was going to get sick. None of it was your fault Harry." Edward paused letting what he said sink in before he drove the point home with the last thing Harry said "And if you had not been born then Voldemort would have been ruling the world a long time ago, and the world would be poorer for it. You being born and that prophecy may have been the only way that Voldemort would have ever been destroyed. So yes people you loved died but I am still here and so are others who cared for you. It was never your fault and if you ever think like that again I will prank you mercilessly until you understand that."

Harry chuckled at that and smiled up at his mate before leaning into his embrace saying "Thank you."

Edward just held Harry close. The Rest of the Cullen's where all shocked but glad that Harry and Edward had each other and now could start to heal from the past that had asked so much of them both.

Carlisle was trying to think of a way to get Harry to understand that they were not going to send him away and when he figured it out he started to recite the roman dictionary in his head to stop Edward from hearing the idea. Knowing he would get it started tomorrow.

Soon after everyone went their own ways and Edward and Harry went up to Edward's room where Harry's slept that night in Edwards arms. Both of them were happy to have found each other again.

edited 5/3/2019