Chapter 10

"Bella? Are you alright?" The future Charles asks his… Wife. It had been over half an hour since he had shown Bella the fate of her future. And since then she hadn't spoken a word. She just sat on the bed quiet and still with an ill and traumatized look on her face. "Please, say something." He pleads.

"… I… I'm going to die?" Bella stutters shedding silent tears.

Charles swallows back a lump in his throat feeling himself become emotional as well.

"Not if we change the past. As of right now the future is unknown. If we set things differently, it won't happen." He tells her.

Bella shakes her head.

"What do you mean change the past? How do you even know all of this?" She asks, frantically.

"Because I'm not the Charles you know right now in this time. This body you see before you is just a vessel of the past me. My own body is back in my time, fifty years from now. I had no way of travelling back in time physically. I was only able to send my consciousness back to this me before what you saw happened. I came back to warn you Bella, so that you might have a chance to change fate." Charles explained whole heartedly.

As she looked at him Bella couldn't help but think that anyone else would have thought he was bonkers. But the look in his eyes told her everything. Normally the Charles she knew was happy hopeful and full of life. But the man she was facing right now held so much time behind his eyes followed by misery weariness and devotion. Bella could feel her heart breaking at the very sight. She had never seen Charles look so destroyed and it tore her apart.

"Y-your telling the truth. Aren't you?" She asks in utter shock.

Charles nods.

"I swear it." He says.

"You're from the future." Bella states.

"I am."

"And you came back… for me?"

"I did."

"Why? Why go through all this trouble for me?" Bella asks, not understanding why he had.

Charles scoffed taken aback. "Because I love you, you daft beautiful girl. More than I've ever loved anything in my entire life." He says.

Feeling her heartbeat accelerate Bella could only gasp at the three words she had not expected to slip from his mouth.

"B-but how can you love me? I'm not a good person Charles. After everything I have done. The way I treated you… I hurt you." She says closing her eyes as she thought about their fight. "It killed me to end it with you. But I only did it because…"

"Because you wanted to protect me." Charles intervenes taking her hands in his. "I know. I always knew. Even when you told me back then there was never any hard feelings. I have and always will understand why you do what you do. Because your Isabella Swan. My selfless Bella who puts everyone else before herself. The girl who protects the people she loves to the bitter end. My love who saved me, but I failed to save her in return." He says hearing his voice break as tears cloud his vision.

Bella shakes her head and cups his cheek in her hand.

"It wasn't your fault." She sobs. "You did everything you could."

Charles shakes his head.

"But I didn't, did I?" He says shakily. "I lost you. I sat by and did nothing as you slipped through my fingers."

"You stayed with me. You held me and comforted me until the end. That's all I could ask for." Bella says bringing him some peace of mind. But there was something on hers though. "Charles…"

"Your going to ask what killed you, right?" Charles cuts her off. He didn't have to always read her mind to know what she was thinking. He knew Bella better than she knew herself.

"Yeah. I mean I'm supposed to be immortal. Nothing can kill me. Or so I thought." Bella says.

Gently taking her hand from his cheek Charles then presses a kiss to her knuckles before stroking it softly with his thumb.

"It was Demon blood." He says.

Bella raises her eyebrows in surprise.

"Demon blood?" She questions.

"Lisa, your Brother's Wife is one of many children of the Grim Reaper himself. She was born half Demon, but her Mother was human. Her Stepfather never knew of this of course. He later mysteriously died of causes unknown. What her Mother was unaware of was that Lisa had poisoned him with her blood." Charles explained.

"How?" Bella asks.

"Unfortunately, the Reaper's blood is poisonous to anyone who is not a Demon themselves. The blood of the Reaper can cause instant death for anyone. Whether that person be human or mutant. You would only have to get it in a cut or in your mouth and your dead. It wouldn't even matter if you were immortal." Charles says shedding light on the situation. "You would still die an instant death. And nothing could stop it." He adds.

Bella sniffles shaking her head in disbelief. "Well at least that explains it. But what I don't understand is why? Why did they kill me? Why would Chris try to kill me? And why in god's name was Erik claiming himself to be my Father?" She asks feeling like her head was about to explode.

Charles clears his throat in an awkward manner. He knew full well that Bella wouldn't like the answer to that last question, and he wished he could spare her the pain. But if things were going to change, then he needed to be honest with her. Bella deserved the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

"Bella, listen to me. I need you to pay attention now to what I'm about to tell you." He says straightening himself up for the very crucial put harrowing explanation.

Bella hesitantly nods.

"Ok," She says.

"Bella, there's a reason that Shaw killed your parents. Why he hunted you all these years. Before you were born your Mother mistakenly had an affair behind your Father's back." Charles tells her.

"W-what?" Bella gasps wide eyed.

Charles right away holds up a hand. "Please, hear me." He pleads.

Letting out a shaky breath Bella wanted to argue but nodded and allowed him to speak.

"Your Mother had attended a bar one night and met a stranger there. They had a few drinks and apparently one thing had led to another and you were conceived. Of course, the gentleman she had bedded had no knowledge of your existence. He didn't recall your Mother and nor did she inform him of you. When Shaw finally detained you he confessed the truth behind his actions. The reason why he wanted you so badly is because… Erik is your real Father."

Author's Note: Shot's fired! How will Bella react to this one? Better find out next time.

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