A/N: I own nothing, Stephenie does.
Okay I finally finished the story, it has a few more chapters for you. This is the 21st chapter, and I truly hope that you'll enjoy it! :)

Chapter 21: The path of recovery

Three months later

It's been three months since I'd become a vampire. Three months since I'd last slept, since I'd last eaten human food. Three months since I'd last seen my father, and my mother. Instead I've been spending three months controlling my thirst, learning more and more things about the vampire-life and enjoying myself in the presence of the most loving family I had ever known. They all helped me through this rough period of being a vampire on their own way.

Carlisle had spent many hours in his office with me, telling me about his experiences, about my potential and about the possibilities.

Esme did what she did best, she took the role of being my mother. She hugged me when I needed it, she made fun with me when I needed it and she took me hunting when I needed it. She just had this instinct of telling her what everyone needed and that was so great!

Jasper took control of my emotions, he did an awesome job at that too. He also told me about his experiences with newborns and how well I was doing.

Rosalie was still a bit weary, and I couldn't blame her. But at the same time she was the perfect sister and supported me in everything. She too, took me hunting, and told me about her experiences as a vampire.

Emmett was just the joker, he made fun all the way and I loved him so much for it. He really was one of a kind and it kept amazing me how his jokes always enlightened the mood.

And Alice, yes, Alice, she was just amazing. She was always so supportive, she too knew what I needed when I needed something and always helped me through everything. Alice was my safe haven, she was home.

I hadn't seen this Edward-guy these past few months, Carlisle had showed me a picture of him and I did recognize him. But I had absolutely no feelings or whatsoever running through me when I saw that picture, nothing but the rage of knowing what he did to Alice.

"Edward's coming, in a while," Alice said, as we were all doing our own thing. She had been reading a magazine in silence while me and Emmett were playing a game on the xbox. And boy, I was so winning!

"When?" Carlisle was soon with us and tried to get through to Alice. "Alice, when?" he asked again.

"Today. In a few hours, I don't know what he wants." Her eyes were still glazed and this worried me a little. Her visions didn't usually last that long, but the look on Carlisle's face comforted me a little. He didn't look worried at all and after all he'd known Alice quite a bit longer than I have. She shook her head lightly and smiled a small smile, she was back again.

"Is he going to pick a fight? Because I'm full of energy today!" Emmett boomed from next to me. I hit his shoulder lightly at this and Carlisle held back a smile.

"Emmett, he's still your brother!" Carlisle warned him. Emmett shrugged his shoulders and focused on the game again. I wasn't paying attention and so Emmett won from me.

"Hey! That's not fair! I wasn't…"

"Too bad, little sis! Never lose focus when trying to beat me!" he said, cockily. I hit his shoulder again and put away the controller. Emmett seemed offended by me stopping and I assured him it wasn't because of him.

"Now who am I going to play with?" he sounded like a 5-year-old and like always it caused both me and Alice to giggle. After a few more jokes I felt the burning in my throat come up and knew I needed to hunt.

"Alice? Will you come hunt with me?" I asked her, trying to set up some doo-eyes and convince her to come with me. She giggled and pecked me on the lips, she got up from the couch and we both left through the backdoor.

We ran through the forest, I was still amazed by my speed. My super-hearing, super-eyes, super-everything really. It felt like I just wasn't going to get used to it anytime soon and part of me loved that feeling. When we reached a clearing we came to halt, I knew how to hunt now and I really enjoyed it. It made me feel free to be what I really was. Of course I felt somewhat bad for the poor animals I slaughtered, but that was just nature. I'd rather kill animals than humans, simple as that. I sniffed the air and other than the usual scent of deer and elk there was something else. A scent that was quite unfamiliar, I didn't recognize it.

"Alice? Do you smell that?" She still had her eyes closed and I saw her inhale once more. She then shook her head and took off to the bushes. I didn't know what was going on but I followed her, I didn't have prey in mind yet but I didn't care. I'd kill whatever I would run into. I soon tracked down a few deer and after I'd drained them I picked up Alice's scent. I followed it and surprised her by kissing her neck while she was drinking. I knew she didn't like to be disturbed while feeding herself, but I never thought she'd growl at me. And she did, she growled quite loudly. I was somewhat offended but Alice soon realized what was going on.

"I'm sorry, Bella!" she squealed right after she threw herself in my arms. There were still a few drops of blood in the corners of her mouth and I kissed them away. Of course I forgave her, after all, how could I blame her for doing this. My parents always told me not to disturb a dog while it was eating and now I knew why. While we kissed that weird scent entered my nose again and I stiffened a little. What was this? And why didn't I know it? Alice too stiffened and sniffed the air.

"You smell it now?" I whispered. Whatever was close, I didn't want to scare it off. I had to know what was behind this scent, which was surprisingly nice. Alice nodded and looked into my eyes.

"We should head home, Bella. You don't want to deal with this now, really."

"What is going on, Alice? Whose smell is that?" Alice didn't speak but one look on her face told me everything. Edward. Again rage consumed me and I started running towards the source of the smell. Alice followed me, but I'd rather she didn't. I was going to talk to this Edward, and I was going to fight him. I would get my revenge, no matter how much his family loved him. He hurt my girlfriend, he hurt my reason to live and now he was going to pay for that. Unfortunately my newborn-strength had decreased somewhat and so I wouldn't be that much stronger than him. But I knew that I was strong enough to hurt him, to rip his head off.

"Bella! Stop! Come on, baby," Alice cried behind me. I turned around and hugged her, I buried my face in the crook of her neck for a brief moment and kissed it. She held me tight and no words were needed to express our feelings for each other.

"I love you," I said.

"I love you."

I turned around and traced the scent again. Mere moments later I felt Alice's sweet touch, she grabbed my hand and made me stop running.

"Bella, honey. Please don't do this. Please?"

"What did you see, Alice?" She didn't answer, she just looked at her shoes and I couldn't help but be worried. "Alice! What?"

"Bella, just don't! I didn't see anything, nothing but the potential danger. You don't want to go and pay a visit to Edward now. Really, that's no fun." She was now smiling her irresistible smile at me. I returned the smile and captured her lips with mine. But I hadn't changed my mind, not in the slightest.

"Alice, why don't you go home, baby? I'm just going to have a talk with him," I said. Alice declined and insisted on going with me, she knew that I wasn't going to change my mind about this and I guessed she just wanted to make sure I wouldn't kill her brother. Even though she said he wasn't her brother anymore, I knew he was. As we reached the next clearing the smell of Edward came horribly close. I stopped for a second and noted that the smell was everywhere. It was surrounding me and suddenly I was worried that Edward had found a way to clone himself.

"Bella…" Alice clung to my arm and looked at me with pleading eyes. I closed mine and focused for a moment, I thought of the picture Carlisle had shown me and focused on it. I suddenly knew Edward was very close, I didn't know how that was possible. Maybe because I had once loved him so much, maybe because we, technically, were still married? But I just knew that he was in this very clearing, close. I picked up the most fresh scent and it led me toward the edge of the forest. Alice pulled my arm, I couldn't believe she was actually scared. Maybe she wasn't, but she was at least terribly worried.

"Ah, my wife has come back to me."