Book 5: Pain, Faith, & Love

Song: I Never Told You By: Colbie Caillat

"I see your blue eyes
Every time I close mine
You make it hard to see
Where I belong to when I'm not
Around you
It's like I'm not with me

But I never told you
What I should have said
No I never told you
I just held it in
And now I miss everything
About you
I can't believe I still want
You
After all the things we've
Been through
I miss everything about you
Without you"

1989, Now that's where everything changed once again; that's also when I became not the only God to become aware of this love story. This is where Hera the Goddess of Marriage, Women, and Childbirth also became aware and gave Isabella a blessing as well.

I bring you again into the life of our Juliet, of Isabella.

May 10th, 1989

Dear Diary,

I feel like something big is going to happen. Rose and Em have been in the area for a year now, telling the Cullen's that they wanted to spend a decade or so just them. Rose told Emmett about her past and I've formally met him. He's a bit goofy but a very sweet guy. I'm happy Rose has him. She's happy, but I can still see the way she longingly looks at children as she walks down the street. It's nice having them visit, though sometimes when I look at them I remember how Damon and I used to be before all the drama started. Before Katherine, when we were just two kids running through a maze in the garden. I miss looking into his blue eyes and the way he looked at me. Sigh…

Jane, Demetri, and Alec have also come to stay with me for the next few years. They get along well with Rose and Em. Anna has gone off on her own for awhile. Everything appears to be good right now, but I get the feeling it won't last.

Sincerely,

Isabella Watson

Just then the phone rang and it was Anna. We talked for a while.

"Ok, Anna, I'll see you in a few days." –Isabella said ending the call and deciding to go for a walk.

I was walking through the forest that was near our home when I was suddenly aware of someone watching me. I turned around sharply grabbing the person by the throat and holding them against the tree, only to see that it was Katherine with a smirk on her face. I let her go.

"Well well well, not quite the welcome I expected, but I guess I deserved it. You've grown strong Isabella." –Katherine

"yes, I have Katherine, or should I call you Katarina?" –Isabella

"Whichever you wish. I've come to help you actually."- Katherine

"What is it Katarina?" –Isabella

"I take it you are protecting our dear Sarah's descendants, well her sister's anyway?" –Katarina

"Yes, why? What do they have to do with you?" –Isabella

"Their in danger. The last of her line is soon to be born. Her mother, who was named after Sarah, is being hunted by a vampire. A vampire we both know very well actually. Damon." – Katarina

"Wait, what?" – Isabella

"Damon sought out a witch's help and she made the mistake of crossing him. He seeks very powerful magic that involves things from all of our pasts. Sarah knowing of our history and tricked him. Now Damon seeks to kill her. He has become bloodthirsty over the years. I've only just picked up Damon and Stefan's trail. If you do not intervene the last of her line will die before she is even born." –Katarina

"Ok, but what are you getting out of this? And why do you keep saying the last of Sarah's family line?" –Isabella

"Sarah is carrying the baby of a cold one, of a hybrid vampire. And it doesn't matter what I get out of this if anything, I'm doing you a favor telling you since you lost Sarah that day, just as I lost my family all those years ago. Maybe if Damon sees you he will stop hurting so much. I may be devious and manipulative, but I'm not heartless Isabella." –Katarina

"Where is she?" – Isabella

"Georgia. Atlanta, Georgia." –Katarina said as she turned to leave.

"Katarina wait, Thank You. Please Be Safe." –Isabella

Katarina smiled, "You're so kind and gentle, yet fierce and strong. Such good qualities in a girl, if I didn't know better I'd say you were a Petrova." And then she was gone.

Meanwhile in LA:

A girl with blonde hair and a boy with sandy, brown hair came laughing out of a huge house.

"Lexi, I can't believe you compelled that guard to let us into Bon Jovi's party, seriously." –Stefan

"Oh, You know you had fun!" –Lexi

"Of course I had fun, Thank You, you made this birthday very special, as always."- Stefan.

"What are best friends for?" – Lexi

"You know Lexi, I know that this time of year is hard for you too. You can talk to me." –Stefan

"You know me too well Stefan." –Lexi

"What are best friends for?" – Stefan

Lexi smacked him in the arm and laughed.

"I just miss my family. I still don't know why the vampires turned me, I mean I was so overcome with rage that I killed them for killing Amanda, John, and my father, I didn't even think to ask. It's odd really. I know that their all gone now, even my mother. But in a way I still feel like their here, that their alive, I guess maybe they are watching over me. Amanda was such a pure soul. You know what the last thing I remember before this life? It was Amanda. She had just seen them kill John and our father and yet she stood in front of me, yelling for me to run, she ran right at the vampire trying to hold him off knowing she'd be killed." –Lexi

"She sounds like she was an amazing person. I wish I could of met her." –Stefan

"I still have a small family picture we had painted. It's here somewhere. You know, your brother Damon looks a lot like John, that's why I get sad a lot of the time whenever I see him aside from the fact that he already elicits that type of reaction because of his attitude, of course. Here, that's her(pointing to the picture she just took out)." –Lexi.

Stefan gasped saying "She looks so much like Isabella."

"Isabella?" -Lexie

"Damon was in love with her before Katherine, though he never told her. I don't think he ever got over her though. With Katherine it was compulsion, with Isabella it was love."

Back with Isabella (three days later):

I was in Georgia with Sarah trying to figure out how to stop Damon. I knew it was only a matter of time before he would find Sarah. Anna was with me because she refused to let me come alone. I knew that once Jane and Alec realized what I was doing they would show up here. I knew that I could die protecting Sarah and her baby. From what Sarah told me Damon had help and he was pretty bloodcrazed. He wouldn't listen to reason when it came to this. He wanted to open the tomb because he thought Katherine was in it. And Sarah had dared to be an obstacle in his path. I should of known that Katarina would get something out of this. If the tomb was opened everyone would know she's not in there. I also knew that Anna would be in an impossible situation if forced to choose. Her mother was trapped in the tomb as well. She'd give anything to have her back. Both Sarah and I also knew that once this baby was born she'd die. The baby was already killing her. She had to drink blood just to keep the baby alive. And she was showing signs of a fully developed pregnancy after only a month. That's the price of carrying the child of a cold one. Sarah was willing to give her life for the life of this child and I knew that I had to protect them not just because of the promise I made her great Aunt, but because of her love for that child.

It was a dark, stormy spring night when the screams of Sarah came. We knew this was it. We knew that the baby would come soon. And just as the it started I could sense vampires coming one that was close and two others who were miles out, I knew the first was Damon and the last two were our children. I knew the moment Sarah said "thank you" to me that she knew what I was planning. She made Anna promise to give her daughter, once born, to Rose and Em to take care of as their own. She knew how much they wanted a child.

Just as Sarah started screaming again I made Anna promise to stay with her and the baby no matter what. I let my face change and stepped outside. There in the dark was Damon. Though this was not the Damon that I knew and loved, this was a Damon I've never seen before. A Damon so heartbroken and lost from all the pain he's been faced with. In that moment I understood, but hated Katarina for the pain she inflicted on all of us. And then I heard Sarah's dying scream and Damon lunged at me. I knew Damon did not realize who I was.

"Sarah's dead, leave the child." –I said as I dodged him.

"Why should I? Why should I let family live, she stopped me from having one. I'll get Katherine back no matter what I have to do, I love her." –Damon said throwing me into a nearby tree. I could feel my heart break when he said those words. He ran at me again and I threw him off me just as I saw Anna with Bree in her arms. That seemed to stop Damon for a moment. He seemed shocked to see Anna there.

"Stop please, this child is a descendant of Sarah's sister Annie, Sarah, Isabella's best friend. Stop Damon, Please, Please see reason, look in front of you!"-Anna

"How dare you say her name, how dare you say Isabella's name or call yourself her friend, your good friend Sarah killed Isabella all those years ago, she lead them to her and Emily saved Katherine in the tomb, Isabella's gone, but I'll get Katherine back, I'll open the tomb. No one will stop me." –Damon said as he turned back to me and slammed me into the tree again.

"I don't know who told you that, but it can't be farther from the truth, Damon Isa-" Anna said getting cut off by the site in front of her.

"No—dead—Isabella—I'm Isa-." –I tried to get out just when he stabbed me with a wooden stake.

All in an instant:

I could hear the shouts of Jane and Alec as they arrived screaming "Mother!"

I could hear Anna start sobbing with the baby in her arms, dropping to the ground screaming "No, not Isabella. Not Bella."

I could see Damon look from Jane and Alec who looked so much like the two of us to Anna, confused.

I felt my face change back and I could see the look of horror and realization flash across his face as he looked down at me.

"Isa –Isabella, No, What have I done?" – Damon

And the last words that came from my mouth before I died were:

"Ttakke ccare of them. Alllecc Jjanie, ddont bllamme hhimm. I- ii forrgiive yoou Daamon."

After that Alec and Jane ran to their mother.

"How could you kill her?" –Jane

"I- I didn't know, oh god how could I -ii kkillledd hher?"- Damon

"She forgave you, her heart is so pure. You know she's been searching for you and nooww shhhe's she's ddead." –Alec

"You just killed the mother of your children."- Anna screamed.

"children?" –Damon

"Us." –Jane and Alec said as they sank to the ground holding their mother.

And then Damon understood everything, or what he thought was everything, he knew why she left that day, he dropped to the ground with his children and held Isabella in his arms, giving her a gentle kiss on the lips and picking her up, holding her close to him. The rain continued through out the night and he stayed with Jane and Alec holding her until the sun rose taking her body with it.

It was weeks later and Damon had personally given Rosalie and Emmett Bree to take care of. Rosalie had attacked him and he just let her. He was broken even more then anyone could imagine. And he became even more consumed with opening the tomb. Since no one but Isabella knew the truth that Katherine was not in the tomb, the truth died with her. After they all got back, they all found letters left from Isabella to them. She clearly had the foresight to know what might happen to her. She didn't want anyone to blame Damon, especially himself. She wanted Jane and Alec to get to know Damon. She wanted Rose and Emmett to get to watch over Bree and raise her as their own. She wanted Anna to be happy. Anna left after two weeks and Damon got to know his children. They all knew that that's what Isabella wanted to happen.

Rosalie and Emmett took care of Bree away from the Cullen's until the year 2000. Then Bree went to stay with Alec and Jane with the Volturi for a few years. Damon was traveling around causing trouble where ever he went and tormenting his brother even more. Damon never told Stefan about Isabella. And Rosalie and Emmett never told the Cullen's about Bree.

They all could never imagine that everything would change in just a few years.

"Where, Where am I?" –Isabella

"It's hard to explain." – Sarah (the one that was her best friend in 1800s)

"Sarah."

"Isabella."

"How?"

"Let's just say Lady Hera has decided to bless you with one more chance. If you hadn't of become a vampire then this would of happened sooner. Unless you and Romeo found each others love again." -Sarah

"What are you talking about? Another chance? Romeo?" –Isabella

"You don't need to worry about it. Your soul has been blessed by Lady Aphrodite, herself. This is not the first time that the two of you have been given another chance, though becoming vampires complicated things greatly. Since becoming vampires that became the last time. But Lady Hera was moved by your love and strength and need to protect your family and another's. She's granting you one last chance to fulfill Aphrodite's Blessing. She's giving you her blessing for a lack of a better term to be reborn one more time. There's a woman and man who desperately want a child. You Isabella will be their child. You will be reborn one last time. You will keep the first name Isabella and be a human once more. You will only remember all when the Fates know the time is right. Please know that I thank you for protecting my family. I have faith that in this life you will find your love. Then all will be revealed once again."

"I'm so confused. What's happening." –Isabella

"Goodbye Isa, Live a Happy Life. May the Gods Bless You." –Sarah

A/N: I may use a few quotes from the actual books, tv show, or movies in upcoming parts by quoting or paraphrasing because I am following the basic plot of the some of the book but with my own twists and drama and many, many changes. Again, I do not own Twilight, TVD, or any other books or music I may refer to. I'm just playing with the writers' characters. So again, Enjoy the Story and Happy Reading!