Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, I merely play in the sandbox, I do however, lay claim to my original characters Ella, Adrian and others and the inclusion of the Fey world.

AN1: This chapter is ridiculously short -it's meant to be.

Chapter Seventy-One – If You Weren't Here

"Edward, Edward! Why are you ignoring me?"

I watched as Edward passed straight through me as if I was invisible. I was invisible. It was like I didn't exist.

"What's going on?"

I walked next to Edward, tried to get his attention but he didn't acknowledge me. When I tried to touch him, my hand went straight through his body.

"This isn't funny anymore."

I watched his face light up with joy but that joy wasn't directed at me. Bella was walking towards him with love in her eyes. They met midway in the carpark at school. They embraced, kissing passionately and I felt my heart break into a thousand pieces.

"Edward," I murmured in a strangled voice.

Watching them walk hand in hand into the school's main building was killing me. I felt as though my organs were being ripped apart and my heart was trying desperately to leave my body behind.

No one took any notice of me and I began to realise I was invisible in this storyline. Wherever I was, I wasn't real.

I followed Edward and Bella until their bodies behand to blur from the force of my tears. Yet it wasn't just my tears, the world around my blurred into darkness and then a burning bright light resurrected the environment I was in. It was just a different setting and a different place.

"Dad."

"Who is this young man you want to introduce me to Bella? I thought you didn't like any boys in town."

"Technically he doesn't live in town. Can you try and be nice, I really like him and maybe you could put the shotgun down?"

Watching Bella introduce Edward to Dad as her boyfriend broke my heart even more.

I didn't understand what was happening, if this was a nightmare I certainly wasn't waking up from it. It was like my worst fears were coming true.

Dad seemed to hate Edward and disliked the relationship he had with Bella. I wasn't even in the equation, I looked, all over the house but there was no mention of me, no extra room, no pictures and Dad was all alone, still morning Renee.

I tried to put my shaking hands on my knees and take a few deep breaths but it didn't get rid of the sick feeling in my stomach. I walked out of the house but couldn't walk any further, either by my design or by the design of who was controlling where I was.

I watched as the sky of Forks turned to an inky black sky and felt the storm roll in. This storm was different, it wasn't nature that caused it but something darker. The scene changed once more but I remained grounded and unbothered by it.

An evil had seeped into the world. A world where neither Angela or Christine existed but where there was a tribe of werewolves close by. I watched an argument between Bella, Edward and another man. It was heated, twisted and full of anger. This Bella was not my sister, this Bella was weak, defeated, unable to be her own person without a man by her side. She claimed to love Edward but she loved this other man as well and because of her indecisiveness, everyone was hurting.

My Bella, my twin would never behave that way. She had a kind soul and a deep understanding of the people around her.

The scene changed again and I felt myself recoil back in fear, the presence, though blurred and full of darkness felt familiar to me. Everything ran from it, animal, human, vampire. Nothing could stop it, it just kept coming. Bella and Edward were fighting a battle that couldn't be won but believed their love would endure.

Edward wasn't the Edward that held my heart. This Edward was tortured by his past and reluctant to make Bella his forever. This Edward believed he didn't have a soul and he was torturing himself for even entertaining a relationship with a mortal. This Edward commanded the relationship with only his needs being answered. I whimpered in despair as Bella came willingly to everything Edward asked of her.

I felt sickened to my core as I saw the Cullen's leave Bella and watched Bella take a nose dive into a depressive state I wasn't sure she'd ever recover from.

What was this place I had found myself trapped in? Why were these things being showed to me? Was this what was supposed to happen? Had I somehow messed things up?

News reports showed the growing despair of the darkness that was slowly overtaking the world. Each government had a different idea for what was happening and a different approach on what should be done. It was like watching an apocalyptic movie, and I knew there would be no happy ending.

Seeing Edward with Bella had killed my heart but seeing them rejoice in the fact that Bella now carried Edward's child, broke my soul. Never mind the fact that it was impossible for vampires to conceive, to watch the love of my life, give away something so important to someone who wasn't me was an idea I could barely imagine.

I was ready to give up then and there, curl up on the floor in the foetal position and wait for this to end but I didn't even know what this was or how long it would last.

The earth was no longer a welcoming place, every light had been snuffed out. Governments had fallen, people had died, and lives had been changed forever. This was no longer an invasion, this was a victory tour. Things that we never thought possible now roamed the streets and commanded us with an iron fist and a whip in both hands. The once powerful human race had been brought to its knees by an unknown force that we had no idea how to fight.

Dad fell first, gunned down in our home for refusing to play by the new rules put in place.

Carlisle was the second to go, there was no need for good doctors in this new world. This world was ruled by fear and darkness, anyone who was sick or in need of medical attention would be culled. There was no room for help here.

Without Carlisle, Esme went a little mad, driven by her grief she tried to attack those now in charge and was rewarded with her body being burned.

Alice and Jasper tried to run and hide, reaching out to the resistant movements still active they tried to overthrow the dark entity that had taken over the world. They were taken out in one of the biggest massacres to be seen in this new dark earth.

Rose was taken away in the night, never to be seen again.

Emmett was kidnapped, tortured and brain washed into fighting for the enemy instead of against it.

All around people were crying out for help and yet no help was given. No one cared anymore, the will of humans had been burned out in a single night. We had surrendered, we were now slaves to the darkness that had yet to unmask itself.

Bella was next, her baby taken from her at birth, I knew I would never get the sounds of my sister's tortured screams out of my head. I wanted to help, to save her but I was still an invisible watcher to this world. Unable to leave and unable to help. It was the worst sort of torture to endure.

Edward was last, the last piece of light in this world I was trapped within. His was the most gruesome death to watch. I hurled onto the ground of this place, I closed my eyes blocked my ears but it made no difference for I knew what was happening before me and the last piece that was keeping me alive, keeping me standing here broke with Edward's last breath.

"Let me go, take me away from here," I pleaded to the empty space around me.

Broken and defeated, I could not go on alone.

"This is what would have come to pass had you not been born…"

AN2: Dreams are not long ya'll ~Hannah