A/N: Decisions must be made, and some are about to happen.

I do not own Twilight, I just play with the characters.

BELLA

What will I do? What should I do? I just don't know. Seeing the Cullen family again made me realize how much I really and truly missed them. I should note, however, exactly how dangerous it would be for them to be around me. Ah, screw it. Sometimes a girl just has to follow her heart. If they really and truly talk about it and decide that they want to chance it, I will let them. Well, I might make them sweat a bit.

EDWARD

"Why did we have to leave?" I demand.

"You certainly were not making things go smoothly," Rose snaps at me.

"Rose has a point. You were a bit rough," Alice agrees with her.

"I can't believe what I am hearing," I stutter.

"You can't push Bella into doing what you want to do," Carlisle interrupts me.

"He can't do that anymore. Bella is most definitely her own person now. Where she might have caved in the past, now she holds her stand firm," Rose huffs.

"I think she would hold even firmer to her stand if you try to push your own ideas on her again," Jasper adds his own two cents.

"Surely you don't suggest that I was overbearing," I look at them all in turn.

"We are saying you were overbearing, overprotective, and way too self-involved to think that she had any better ideas," Rose will not back down.

"That's certainly true. You refused to be friends with her 'for her own good' and now that she did something for your own good, you don't like it," I can't believe that Jasper is taking sides.

"We need to talk about the matter at hand. If Bella wants to, do we want to accept the risk of living and moving with her?" Carlisle brings us all back to the real topic.

"Of course, did you see how AWESOME she was?" Emmett voices his opinion first.

"I…" I start.

"We all know what you think. I like the new Bella, so I vote yes," Rose interrupts me.

"I've always thought of her as a sister," Alice chimes in.

"I think that the situation would be preferable to the other one, where Edward is all obsessed and depressed," Jasper says dryly.

"Bella is a part of this family," Esme adds simply.

"Then we have a consensus. Let's hope that Bella's thoughts will lead her to agreeing with us," Carlisle ends that part of the discussion.

"Hey, she might be immortal, but I think she still needs sleep. No one is heading over there before morning," Alice points at me when I try to edge to the door.

"But…" I whine.

"You are not even allowed within sight of the street," Rose narrows her eyes at me. When did they start teaming up against me?

This night could not possibly any longer. The seconds feel like years. I finally found her. I know where my Bella is. Okay, so she's different, but I can learn to accept that. I still love her. She still loves me. I just know that she does. She has to. And yet, here I sit waiting and watching the clock. We eventually decide to go hunting, but that does not distract me for very long.

CARLISLE

"Hello, Carlisle," Charlie greets me. He is sitting on a low branch of an oak.

"Hi, Charlie," I answer him.

"I've been waiting for you," he says simply. That's Charlie, always to the point.

"I gathered as much. What's on your mind?" curiosity colors my tone.

"Bella has isolated herself for so long that I think she might be in danger of letting her head overrule her heart. She loves Edward. Leaving Forks when she was changing was the hardest thing she has ever had to do because she loved him so much," Charlie rambles.

"Leaving you behind was hard too," I assure him.

"Yeah, I know. I just think you need to know that she did what she thought was right at the time. She didn't know that I was a Reaper, guess I should have told her. I just didn't want my life to affect her. Life in hiding from Death can be a hard thing to do. I know from experience. But while Death is easily annoyed, he is also easily bored. He only looked for me about a decade. Things will be different for Bella, though," he seems to have lost himself in thought.

"Why would they be different for her?" I have to ask.

"Because she is the latest in a long family line of Reapers," he informs me.

"I take it that is unusual," I can see why that would be.

"To say the least," Charlie says as he lands lightly on the ground.

"Do you think Bella will want to live with us? You would be welcome too, of course," I ask him what I really wanted to ask since I saw him waiting.

"Oh, she wants to. Whether or not she will allow her heart to have its say and follow through is the real question. Who can say? Bella keeps her own council, but then you already knew that," he looks at me like I am trying to trick him into something.

"I suppose I did know that. I was just hoping to have some kind of sign for how things are going to go in the morning. Will she even still be there?" I sigh.

"If she said that she would be there, then she will be there. If she did not say she would still be there, then it's anyone's guess, but she will have probably already moved on. Speaking of, it's time for me to head off," Charlie starts away.

"See you soon, Charlie," I respond.

"Well, you will probably see me, but I'm not sure how soon it will be. Bye, Carlisle," he grins as he vanishes.

As I hunt, I think about what he said. Bella was concerned about our well being. That does not surprise me about Bella, but it is still a new thing. She stood by us when all she knew were the rumors about our adopted family being, well, loose with our morals. She still stood by us when she learned that we were vampires. I mustn't forget that she even covered for us while she was in the hospital after that awful affair with James. We made the right decision earlier. Bella deserves our loyalty. Besides, we all love her as a part of our family anyway. This should prove to be a learning experience for us all.

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