The plane ride from Alaska to Washington wasn't a long one but it seemed to take endless minutes for me. Time couldn't move fast enough.

I didn't notice much. I was too preoccupied going over every move since we had left Forks all those months ago. I told him when he decided that it wasn't a smart move. Bella couldn't handle it and that he couldn't handle it. She loved him too deeply, too fully, she was part of him and he was part of her. Why couldn't he just accept that he couldn't live with out her?

I had been so certain that he would eventually falter. He'd have to go back and check on her. That path had been dangling in front of him for months now. He fought it but it was there. All he had to do was make that choice and I could have seen it. Edward, he was too stubborn.

I leaned back against the head rest of my seat and stared out at the dark clouds.

He wasn't going to take this well. He would do something extreme. I remembered seeing it in Phoenix. The moment he saw that Bella wasn't with us and I told him what I saw. The vision flashed, two choices, she was alive and he would be reunited with her.

The other choice wasn't a pleasant one. Edward would seek death, one way or another, he would find away to join her. He couldn't live without Bella. He wouldn't "exist in a world she wasn't in."

I shook that from my mind. Instead, my thoughts filled with Bella's broken face. She looked so terrible.

"I'm sorry Bella, I should've been there" I whispered to myself. If it was possible for me to cry I was certain I'd be sobbing right now.

I had let myself grow so close to her. I so badly wanted her to be my sister. She had been my best friend and I loved her so much. I left her to bleed and eventually it just over took her. I knew it would.

I heard the captain announce we'd be landing shortly. Under different circumstances I'd of been all too eager to get back to Forks. Now, it didn't matter how fast I got there I'd be too late.

I exited the plane and went to the car rental place and picked up a car. Black Mercedes, tinted windows, just in case. I drove so fast it was a blur. I got to Forks in record time. I drove to Bella's and parked across the street. No cars were there. I gripped the steering wheel tightly. I had to help Charlie. I had to help him through this. Then, I had to somehow hope that Edward could be convinced to not do something stupid. We all had already lost a sister and a daughter. I knew Esme and Carlisle had long since thought of Bella that way. Emmett, Jasper, and I loved Bella as our sister. We had all hoped her to be part of our family. We didn't need to lose Edward too.

I got out of my car and stared at the house I knew so well.

Edward, you idiot. I told you she wasn't going to be able to handle this.

I walked to the door and got the key down easily. As I stepped inside I was immediately hit with the familiar scents of Bella. She had been here not too long ago. I stood in her kitchen, I missed my friend and wished I could break down and cry.

Then I heard something, a truck, I knew that truck it was Bella's truck. I heard it stop outside. It started up again suddenly pulled away fast then idled down the street. It sounded like Bella's, it was coming back and stopped in the drive way.

I heard the familiar sound of stumbling footsteps in my mind and then I saw it a flash, Bella alive and walking to the door.

She got to the door and I walked to the hallway staring straight ahead and afraid to move.

The door opened and a shaking hand turned on the light.

Bella. Alive, for lack of a better word.