Copyright: I do not own the rights to any songs or lyrics. Stephine Meyer owns the Twilight Franchise. All other plots and characters are mine.

A/N: So new story, a little different than what I've written and certainly a new challenge. Even though it's classified as a romance, believe me, this story is purely Bella's and for anyone who struggles with entering a new phase of life and has all these new feelings, experiences and challenges. It's a story about growing up and growing up with yourself. Now for those who aren't used to the eventual pairing, I ask to give it a chance. All the twilight characters are very OOC. So please give it a chance.

Age Disclaimer: In this story, the movie versions of characters are used. Characters have been aged up to their early to mid-twenties.

So, after this very long A/N get ready for a roller coaster, and above all

Enjoy!

When You Love Someone

Chapter 1: It Ends Tonight

She was soaring. High above the trees and the waves, she flew.

When she rode on Edwards back as he ran through the forest, the experience was exhilarating but this was another level. This was bliss.

The freedom, the power, the pain.

With a hard splash, she hit the water and it felt like concrete. At that one moment, she realized three things at once.

She was human and a very delicate human at that. The inky black water that surrounded her felt like a suffocating blanket.

She couldn't catch her breath and she didn't know where the surface was.

She was going to die here.

Not that she didn't know that was a possibility when she was up there, she just got used to the idea of her death, though she admitted she never pictured it like this.

When Edward left her the first time, it was because he was trying to protect her humanity. Edward never wanted for her to become what they were. His desire was for this sweet, innocent human was for her to grow old and die as nature intended it. He would ask for death for all the sins he committed against her. He never expected her to come after him. Bella, along with Edward's sister Alice; did indeed come after him. As a consequence, of her actions in presetting herself to the Volturi court punishment, was required…or promise. Bella knew her relationship with Edward would come with a price and Aro, the leader of the Vampire world, named it. Her death in one way or another. She was fine with death. She was okay with it. As long as Edward and his family were by her side she could live with whatever was required of her. However, that didn't happen. Edward broke his promise and left her again but this time he didn't just take away his company but his entire family. It was at that moment she realized that her life was as expandable as a pawn in chess.

Bella liked chess, ever since she was a child; she would remember fond memories of her father teaching her the basic mechanics. Her father, ever wise and humble would tell her "Chess is not the game of the pieces but the player. If you learn the player, you learn their moves and the game is yours."

All this time Bella listened to his words and applied them in many areas of her life. She remembered them in moments of crisis and triumph. She took them to heart whenever she would make her moves in the game of life. She remembered that she had to be a queen. Able to move wherever she pleased but was constantly vulnerable to attack. She knew this well when she decided to pursue Edward and thought she angled herself well to be a queen in his court. In all her experience she never thought that she was a pawn. It turned out however, that was true, what she was. A pawn in a game that she never realized she was playing.

Checkmate.

Her instincts told her to breathe but that was stupid since all she inhaled was more water. It was filling her lungs so quickly that she couldn't breathe. She feebly tried to move her tired body and flailed as she tried to swim upward but was confused. She couldn't see the surface. Her lungs were burning, and she was growing weaker. She couldn't swim anymore. She couldn't fight anymore. She felt her body losing strength. Her air supply running short. The coldness of the water was settling in. In her final moments, she remembered and tried to make peace with what she had done.

Mom, Dad I'm sorry. I didn't mean to die like this.

Jake, I'm sorry I can't visit you this Thursday.

Edward, I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise.

She felt her eyes going black. She tried to swim once more but her limbs were too weak, she couldn't move. It was colder now too; cold and empty.

In the far distance, too far for her fogging brain to comprehend she thought she heard a splash. She couldn't place it, she was so tired, so very tired. Perhaps it was a dream. Some comforting dream she thought as she closed her eyes and she let the cold take her.

Then suddenly there was fire. Gone was the cold and heaviness of water but fire on her body, fire in her veins, fire in her blood.

She screamed but no sound came out. Was she still underwater? She couldn't feel the water anymore. Only something heavy was holding her down.

It was so hot like a volcano-like she was standing in lava.

She opened her eyes briefly and the sun was so bright she had to close them. However, she was wrong. What she thought was the sun was actually a flashlight being thrown every which way as her family quickly worked to save the girl they loved so much.

Her body was shaking now, convulsing in gruesome poses as her body tried to fight the poison that was saving her life.

It was even hotter now. Impossibly hotter. How could that be possible! Her blood was boiling. She felt pain and scorching white fire coursing through her veins. The torture of the flames licked her skin and had her in its grip as she let out a bellowing scream.

Her pain was intense, and all three vampires flinched. Edward wished Jasper had come along, he thought that his gift could ease just a small amount of the pain, but the vision came so quick there was no time.

He was in Rio when Alice and Carlisle busted through the door of his tiny rundown apartment. Alice ran to him and hugged him so tight that if he was human his bones would break. Carlisle ever calm and serene, showed his happiness at having found his son.

They talked for hours; Alice was trying to convince Edward to come back to Forks; just to talk to her, and to make things right.

"How can things be right Alice! I betrayed her!" Edward roared as he crumpled. "I didn't mean it. I thought..." He stopped short as he let the sentence hang in the air. It didn't matter what he thought, all that mattered was what happened and what he chose to do about it.

"Edward you're a lot of things but a coward wasn't one of them. You can't just leave her without an explanation. Emmett and Rose are preparing the plane right now and Jasper is hunting. All you need to do is say yes. It may not make sense now, but I know it's the right thing. For everyone." Alice pleaded with him

"I can't Alice." Edward said painfully "I'd rather her know I was a coward than her knowing the real reason."

"Edward, please be reasonable, your choice affects more than just you," Alice stated, as he took an unneeded breath, he continued to shake his head, determined to keep his decision.

"Son" Carlisle spoke for the first time "Rosalie is with her. Rose informed us she feels it too. She's hurting exactly like you are. Worse knowing what she knows, it isn't fair to her either"

"She's hurting?" Edward whispered as Alice glared at her idiotic brother.

"Yes, she's hurting! Because of this stupid choice you made! Everyone is hurting. Esme is with her too. She watches her day after day, and she fears she might do something drastic. Especially when we offered no explanation. My visions are never wrong, Edward please just talk to her! She will understand. I know Bella, she is one of the most extraordinary humans I will ever know and – "Alice's eyes suddenly went blank as the vision overcame her and Edward looked at her in shock over what would have happened.

"We need to go," They both said at the same time as they raced out of the room.

They darted through the airport as fast they dared, readying their private plane with Jasper at the controls. He flew faster than he dared before but he had to fly fast. He had to make it in time.

For her.

For Bella.

As Alice filled in the others, they all readied as soon as the jet landed and Alice, Carlisle, and Edward; the fastest of the family; raced to La Push. The Cullen's knew they weren't allowed on their land without permission however this was an emergency. Edward heard the pack as they raced along the lines; he read their minds and tried to find Bella's friend. The one who made peace happen between once fellow enemies. Jacob, he had a connection to her, and once he found him Edward wasn't so proud as to not beg for her life.

"Jacob!" He yelled as a brown russet-colored wolf caught his eyes for a few seconds before he ran alongside once more. Edward continued still once he had the wolf's attention. "Jacob we won't get to her in time! Please! I know you care for Bella so please let us on your land! We can help her! Please, Jacob!" He begged as Jacob, torn between his loyalty to his pack and his loyalty to his friend stumbled as he looked to the cliff where the cold one-pointed.

"Bella!" He called, as he hoped she heard him but of course she didn't. Her small silhouette stood so stilly that he would have mistaken her for a statue if he didn't know it was his best friend.

"Bella! Bella!" Alice called desperately as she prayed for the first time in a long time. She was not the praying type, but she still prayed they were going to make it. For once her visions were at a loss and Alice felt for the first time…helpless. This feeling was so foreign to her that at first, she had trouble placing it but then she did remember. She felt it only once…right before she lost her tiny human mother and Alice in her desperation no longer saw her best friend Bella, but her mother. She didn't like it. Not one bit. So, she screamed. She screamed her sister's name over and over again as she wouldn't lose one more person. She prayed and screamed and hoped. Hope for something else. Hoped that her vision was wrong.

"Bella!" They all called as Jacob howled once they all saw her small form fall from the cliff, her small body hurdling towards the unforgiving waves and Jacob conceded. He would have done anything to make sure she was safe.

To make sure she was going to be okay. Even if it wasn't with him. Even if she was dead, he would make sure she would still be alive.

They ran faster than they ever had before as Edward rushed into the water, diving headfirst to find her. He couldn't let her die. She was too important.

She was too important to a lot of people, even if they didn't know it yet.

He found her small form being thrashed around as he quickly grabbed her, listening for her ever-familiar heartbeat and to his dismay all he heard was silence.

"Carlisle!" He screamed, "Carlisle she doesn't have a heartbeat!"

Carlisle swiftly pushed his way through and started CPR her on and turned on the penlight as Jacob howled in agony as he saw his best friend lifeless on the sand.

She was dying and they all knew it.

Tormented he saw Carlisle administer CPR to no avail. She wasn't waking up. Her body was too weak. Phasing quickly Jacob rushed to the doctor and said the words he never thought he would say. "Turn her!"

Shocked all three golden eyes turned to him. "You know what I said, please! Save her, she's dying" Jacob pleaded, as tears ran down his face.

Alice who knew more than she let on, pleaded with her father "Yes Carlisle, it's supposed to happen this way. We got to her in time"

Carlisle who realized the weight of his daughter's words bit her on the wrist. He bit the other and moved to every pulse point he could with the final bite her straight in the heart.

Bella convulsed and writhed and screamed. Jacob cried for his friend and for the loss of her human life took a final look and left for the trees, he had to tell his brothers what some, he no doubt, already knew.

Edward lifted her in his arms and cradled her as she screamed and made a beeline in the opposite direction, the others hot on his heels as the familiar white house came into view. The figures cast shadows on the lawn and Edward burst inside, the girl in his arms shrieking in pain.

He placed her on the bed in his room and watched. His family filed in after him and watched as Edward fell apart on the floor. The already complicated situation was made far more complex. Bella would be forever changed, and they didn't know what to expect from this headstrong woman. Her death was so quick, and she was so young.

They stayed like that for days until finally, Bella calmed, and her shrieks turned to screams then to yells, and finally to moans as the fire retreated from her body.

Bella felt everything. She felt the fire leave her fingers and toes, felt her arms going cold, her whole body succumbing to some unknown force as the fire burned brighter and hotter than ever before and it started to be pulled back to her chest as she heard her heart racing to its last beats.

Racing and thundering and beating so hard she thought it would burst from her chest until finally it gave one last thud and her heart stopped.

Bella Swan was dead.

Then she opened her eyes.

Everything was so new! So vibrant! Bella could see things she never could. The dust mites danced in the light and the dark, the hues of color streamed through the great glass window and she heard the squirrel nibbling on a nut on the tree outside the door. Bella heard it all, including the labored breathing of two people in the room with her.

In approximately 2.8 seconds since she awoke, she took in all this information and leaped off the bed, crouching in the corner to defend herself should she need be, but she gasped at who was standing in front of her.

Edward had his head bowed, hands in front of him while Carlisle did the same. Their postures tensed and Edward looked up as she gasped.

Bella, almost on instinct, took a smell of the air and recognized the scents of each of her family members. She could see each of them in her mind's eye yet there was someone missing. Her scent here was old but why wasn't she here?

"Where's Esme?" She asked curiously and wondered why the gentlest of the Cullen's was not there. Then she realized her voice was different, it was like thousands of tinkling bells. She looked down on herself and discovered she was no longer wearing her jeans and sweater but leggings and a soft blouse. Her skin was paler and hard as stone. She brought her hands up to her face and discovered her once warm cheeks were ice cold. She darted to the nearest mirror as she saw her reflection but not her face. Her eyes were a bloody red, and her nose straighter. The slight bump she got when she fell and broke her nose was no longer there. She looked nearly perfect except her full lips were uneven. A trait she quite liked about herself because her dad was the same. That was something Bella always liked about herself. She had Charlie's lips and ears but had Renee's eyes and nose. Or at least she had her mother's eyes.

With the pieces locking together she turned to face her former family and asked her second question… one with more importance.

"What did you do to me?'

A Falling Star

Least I fall alone

I can't explain what you can't explain

Your, finding things you didn't know I look at you with such disdain

When darkness turns to light

It ends tonight

Just a little insight will make this right

It's too late to fight

It ends tonight

It Ends Tonight – All American Rejects

A/N: These chapters have been re-edited and uploaded. The read-through should be much cleaner and more focused; not to mention easter eggs and clues will appear in the edited versions for the story's mystery. Don't forget to review and tell me what you think! Each Monday with a new chapter posted, an edited chapter will appear as well!

~ Jules