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Esme

I watched Edward carry Isabella through the portal with amusement. He's always been a bit impatient and restless, always itching to do something. He'll be good for her, as she will be for him.

He's already attached, if you go by the look on his face. We've known about her since birth and he was immediately interested. It grew enough that we, Carlisle and I, knew he would feel the draw. He would be to her as Carlisle was and still is to me. A mentor, a companion, a lover if they so choose. And we all knew she would be here soon, but her taking her own life…

It wasn't supposed to happen like that.

I was terrified of how she would react to seeing her physical form lying on her bedroom floor, but it wasn't too bad. Just shock, really. Others have screamed and cried and tried to wake themselves up.

She wouldn't have been here for another year and a half. All the stress and anxiety she'd been experiencing recently was weakening her heart. She would've found someone to love in a few months and he would've been killed in a mugging. The loss of him was going to cause too much stress on her already weakened heart and the subsequential heart attack would've killed her.

I don't know what caused this deviation from her fate. Maybe it was for the better, maybe not. It spared her heartbreak, but now she has the mental scars of taking her own life. Her physical ones are gone, but she'll always remember how she got here.

Deciding to find Carlisle, I leave Isabella with Edward so he can start giving her information about, well, everything.


Sometimes I get stuck so I switch POVs. It usually helps. There's also some extra information.