The girl I had been searching for was here, right in front of me. I didn't know what to say as different emotions crossed me. Happiness, confusion, shock, I didn't know what to feel. Confusion settled in as she was staring at me in fear. "What's wrong? What is it?"

I reached out to touch her but she jerked away. "Please don't." She whispered. "I have to go."

This time I did touch her. I grabbed her arm as she was walking away and this strange electrical current went from her arm through my fingers. I could tell she felt it too. "No." I heard her say and it looked like she was going to cry.

"Hey, hey." I pulled her closer, surprised I was not craving her blood. "You know who I am?" She nodded her head slightly. "I have to leave."

She kept trying to leave but I wouldn't let her. "No. I've been looking for you for years." That seemed to surprise her. "You have?"

I nodded, "Who are you?"

Without answering she ripped away. "You have to stay away from me." Saying that she ran down the alley and turned the corner. I ran after her but when I turned she was nowhere.

Was she there? Or did I make her up? No, I had found her but now I needed to find her again.

BELLA'S POV

"AAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH" I screamed on top of Big Ben (about a ten minute run) and kept screaming when I felt a presence behind me. "Keep screaming and the humans will be suspicious."

I looked at Lestat as he sat down next to me. "Of course you'd be here."

"Well, Louis had asked me to keep watch as he went out. I only arrived to see the last of your little confrontation." Crap, he saw Edward. "So that's him. Your lost lover. Well, not so lost now."

"This isn't funny Lestat." I stood up and looked towards the moon. "He knew me."

"How?"

"I don't know. I erased his memories perfect. It was supposed to be for good."

"And yet he knew you."

I shook my head. "I don't think he knew me exactly. He looked at me with recognition but he never said my name."

Lestat sighed. "Well maybe your powers are not exactly great." I glared at him. "Now I see the attraction. Of course, I've never seen one of their kind with yellow eyes. It looks so interesting."

"Well dad will get his wish." I sighed. "We're going to have to leave." Not waiting to hear him reply I jumped off and headed home.

I laid in my coffin, not able to sleep, staring at the picture of Edward and I, when Louis knocked on my coffin. "We need to talk."

When I got in the living room the two was sitting down. "What now?"

"Lestat told me what happened last night." Of course he did. "Are you O.K?" I nodded. "I'll be fine, but we have to leave soon."

"About that, we can't." What? "Armand had just entered Italy and it seems London is his destination." So he was coming here. "If we move now we may slip and he'll have the advantage. It looks like we are going with your plan to end this the minute he gets here. We must be ready."

So I would get my chance. But now I know Edward is here and who knows if the others are here as well. I couldn't let them be in the middle. Looking at the time I stood up and got dressed in my work clothes. "I'll be back in ten hours."

Work was slow today. It gave me time to think of Edward and Armand and my life. London was a big city and I didn't leave my scent when I ran out on him. The chances of seeing him again were not high at all. So for now I just have to go from work back home and when I feed it has to be close to Louis. I would not see Edward again.

"Bella, someone just came in," Terri whispered in my ear. I nodded and hurried to the other side. "Hello sir what can I …" I looked up and couldn't speak. You gotta be kidding me.

"I found you again." Edward whispered.

"You can't be here." I began to panic. Edward was here, at my job. How the hell did he find me?

"No, I need to talk to you."

"Hew bartender, another shot." A grumpy middle age man shouted. I sighed. "Coming." Without looking at Edward I walked over and poured the man another drink. "Here you are."

As I continued working Edward never left. He just sat there, staring at me. When one man tried to get my number I could see Edward glaring at the man. "Hey Bella, who's the dude on the end?" Terri asked. "I think he likes you."

"Just ignore him Terri," I heard her giggle and head into the back. I glanced at Edward and seeing him look at me made me go back to when I was a 17 human girl. I could feel my cheeks warm up though a blush would not appear. Sighing I walked back over and handed him a glass of water. "It looks suspicious if you don't have a glass."

"I'm not leaving until you talk to me."

I looked at the clock and back at him. "Fine. I get off in an hour. Can you wait then?" He nodded eagerly. Satisfied I went back to work for the hour when the cleaning crew came in. Edward was gone, leaving with the last of the customers.

"Bye Bella." Terri shouted.

"Bye." I walked out the back into the cool air but I wasn't alone. "So are we going to talk?"

Looking at him, standing there, really was pushing my limit. But I had to figure out how he remembered me. "Yeah, follow me."