There are several things I am not highly anticipating, come our return to Forks. A few less desired are…

1. Running into Jacob: that can never be good at this point, especially since my family seems to think that he may be the reason that Charlie's house is a disaster. I suppose you can say I'm terrified of him, maybe. I can only hope that we don't have that sort of encounter. Sadly, chances are we will.

2. The staring faces: I look nothing like the old Bella. It's as if someone shoved me into some instant model machine and I came out a beautiful, not as clumsy, new me. My parents certainly can't relate to that kind of change.

3. I'll constantly be around fresh, untouched blood. I'm scared I might forget my self-control and the instincts will suddenly and without warning kick in. That would be a fun way to get burned at the stake. Forks would probably bring back that particular type of witch killing just for me.

We waited until about 9am until we decided we should leave. Alice, against Jaspers wishes and possibly better judgment, decided to come along and rode with Carlisle while I rode with Edward behind them. She said she couldn't feel at ease until she saw Charlie alive for herself and not just in her mind. She considered him family and they seemed fairly close on that level. I, personally, couldn't be happier to have her come with us. I knew I might need her support more than the guys considering I listen to her better than I do to Edward at times. And boy, does he hate that…

I'm sure I packed far more than was needed for a few day stay but I was trying to be careful incase we needed to stay longer. Gob forbid it comes to that. As much as I would love to, that would the worst thing for the last of my sanity and for my dead health. The pressure was almost unbearable as we crossed the borders from one state to the next and then to Washington. Edward noticed by the stiff expression on my face so he reached out to hold my cold hand.

"We won't stay long if things get to be too much." He promised. He always knew exactly what was on my mind lately.

"Are you sure you can't read my thoughts even the slightest bit since I've become a vampire?" I asked, my index finger and thumb almost touching to exaggerate the 'slightest' part.

"I just know you better than I did before." He stated matter of fact with a chuckle.

"I noticed. That's why I think you're lying." I smiled playfully.

Edward sighed and shook his head with an awkward smile. I knew he wasn't sure what to say without seeming offended to that but I knew he wasn't lying. I just liked to press his buttons every once in awhile. I reassured that by leaning over to gently kiss his earlobe. He snatched my hair in one hand while driving with the other, pulling my head away from his amused expression.

"You know what that does to me." He breathed heavily driving with his eyes not on the road but on my face, yet still making the turns so perfectly I'd say he had an extra eye somewhere on the side of his head.

I smiled ruefully, ignoring his driving and licked his bottom lip in a seductive manner. Edward shuddered, his finger roughly tracing my jaw line with his thumb. His eyes were wild and solid gold with intense. The kind of stare I aimed for the most when I wanted to turn him on, even if he wasn't going to get anything out of it. His unbearably gorgeous smile that makes my dead body melt with pleasure was displayed on his face. That wasn't fair. He knew that smile would stop me in my tracks. Instead of pushing even more buttons images displayed in my mind of what I would want to happen next. Very graphic images of our naked entwined bodies. Picture perfect. I froze one image and admired it, suddenly forgetting what had me so tense, while he turned to face the road laughing quite loudly.

I snapped back to reality after a while as the smell of wet dog hit my senses like a brick wall. I looked out the windows frenetically, my eyesight narrowing in on the surroundings of Charlie's house. I shot a quick glance at Edward for an expression that would frighten me as I felt a sense of guard build up around me. I had never felt anything like it before. I felt as if I was walking into a battle and I was one vampire against the Volturi. I wouldn't have stood a chance of survival. I didn't like the feeling but I knew it was because the pack was technically our enemy. It wouldn't matter if one werewolf, Seth, would be faithful to us. That would only last until Sam orders an attack against us because a wolf can't back down from the Alpha's orders.

I don't see them standing a chance against the other three vampires I was with but I've only had five years experience as a vampire and none of it included fighting werewolves. Chances are, without a doubt, I would be the first to die and that scared me. A shudder went through my already cold dead body as I thought of the possible consequences of walking into the house. It was MY house damn it. Well…Charlie's but hell, I used to live there so I shouldn't be acting like such a sissy.

Edward was out of the car in less than a second, staring at the tall man on the front porch. The man's nose was wrinkled against us; the sweet smell of our skin disgusted them, burned their noses even. Just like their scent was nauseating me. He eyed us warily as we made our way up to the porch. Paul didn't look so pleased to see us but didn't seem surprised. I'm sure they all knew that at least one of us would come to protect Charlie.

Paul gave Carlisle as close of a smile as he could give him despite that half of Paul's upper lip was curled up like he was going to snarl. "I'm afraid you have been banned from our land." He spat, making a point to emphasize as he turned to the rest of us.

"I'm not leaving for a few days. I'm here to see my dad whether you like it or not." I snapped, making him flinch. "It's probably best you kept your damn voice down too. No need in giving Charlie something else to figure out. As if things aren't complicated enough."

I don't know where that burst of bravery came from, but i was suddenly beating myself up inside for raising my voice to a creature that could tear me to shreds in a second. I could smell his blood boil under his skin, the heat radiating a light glow. His body shuddered a few times before he could get his temper under control, then he snapped his glare back at me. "I don't give a damn traitor. You're not the Bella he knows. You're not his daughter anymore."

A growl ripped through my chest as I crouched like a lioness, ready to rip red neck out. Edward threw an arm between us, "Bella, control yourself."

"I'll always be Charlie's' daughter, you filthy mangy mutt!" I snarled.

The tension was so strong you could've felt it five blocks away. The birds stopped chirping only leaving the sound of heavy raindrops on the roof and trees. There were suddenly footsteps coming from inside the house and they were getting closer until…

"Bella! What on earth happened to you? You're skin and bones and pale and…what happened to your eyes? You look exhausted, look how red they are…contacts?" He brought a hand to my frozen cheek, flinching at the coldness.

Paul walked around to the back so Charlie couldn't see his body quiver in ripples. I paused for a moment, the only sound being the rain hitting everything it could. I couldn't help myself, I giggled unconsciously like I had never been mad only a few moments before and wrapped my arms around him carefully. And here I thought I was going to freeze under pressure of his questions and turn to run. Or worse... turn on him.

"You're freezing too…" he shot a warning look at Edward.

"I had the air conditioning cranked up." My husband replied coolly.

Charlie stood a good five feet from me so he could take in the new me. He seemed awe-struck as he resembled my new beauty to the beauty of my new family of undead vampires. Not that he will ever know that part. Or let's hope not anyway. He turned to Carlisle and shook his hand vigorously with a wide grin of recognition.

"It's good to see you Doc. I swear you never age. You'll always look 20 years too young." He turned back to me then to Edward again, his expression forcibly more softer than before. "Well, I can at least thank you for bringing her back in one piece."

"There will never be a missing piece. I promise you that…dad." Edward smirked.

Charlie grimaced, quickly turning to Alice, his eyes nearly dancing out of his head with joy. He embraced her in a tight hug, "It is so good to see you, dear. The place has missed your liveliness."

"It's been hard being so far from you Mr. Swan." She nearly sang. She took his hand and led him inside, the rest of us following as she bantered away about her new job as a wedding planner in Elkins. Ever since Edward and I had been married, she did nothing but watch those TLC wedding shows and look at wedding magazines. She is always decorating and redecorating things and that even includes some of the floral parts of town. Elkins has never seen anything like her before. She is even planning on having another marriage with Jasper soon which will be the biggest hit of all considering the whole town absolutely adores her.

We walked into the kitchen, welcomed by Neil Young – Ohio, that was blasting on the tiny crappy little stereo. I decided to go get him a new one tomorrow. He's going to need some help replacing the many destroyed things in the once cozy home.

"Ah, a classic." Carlisle commented closing his eyes as he slowly bobbed his head to the rhythm.

"Nobody better than Neil." Charlie replied.

Charlie's a die hard Neil Young fan and I was close behind considering growing up with it rubbed off. As I sung the song in my head, I examined the cupboards; they didn't look banged up at all but there was a new set of dishes, soup bowls, and mixing bowls in them. The silverware was new, the old set all bent up in a plastic shopping bag by the back door. Who on earth would have the energy to make such a mess of everything? I would have given up half way through what was done. The wicker seats on the kitchen chairs were ripped open down the center, the legs of the table looked as if some sort of small animal had been gnawing on them, the window above the kitchen sink was painted with red paint and the pantry had once been emptied of it's contents but all that stuff was back in order again.

Edward turned is unbelievable strength into use by pulling out the boards in the wall of my old bedroom that were engraved. His face was almost unbearably pained like the whole meaning was against me alone and that obviously scared him. I could sense he was going to become over protective of me during our stay here. Here and there when I would pass my bedroom from the bathroom to the trash downstairs, I would catch his eyes on me like he was making sure I was still alive. I sighed almost frustrated by the fifth time I saw this look but I wouldn't let it show on my face. The last thing I need is an angry husband who is just worried for my safety. But lets face it; he takes things incredibly out of proportion a lot of the time. But that is just his nature and I do love that about him…even if it makes me want to jump off of a cliff at times.

Carlisle ran out to Home Depot with Charlie nearly 45 minutes ago to replace the ruined pieces of wall from a few areas in the house and some wood for the ceiling under the tub that was left over flowing. There was terrible water damage there. Needless to say, a good amount of paint would be purchased as well. Even the tiles in the bathroom upstairs had to be chiseled out because they were beginning to rot the floorboards underneath them.

Poor Charlie fought with Carlisle for half an hour over Carlisle paying for everything. Charlie was dirt poor after all of this but he wouldn't admit it. He eventually called Alice trying to coax her into telling Carlisle not too do it but she told Charlie it would really make her happy if we helped him out with this. Of course that made him give in because if it was something that would make Alice happy then Charlie would be all for it as long as it wasn't a party.

It took us from about 1pm to 9:25pm to have everything in a livable atmosphere. We ordered pizza even though Charlie was the only one to horse it down. Of course he was suspicious with my sudden absent appetite. So I was interrogated even more, Charlie asking if I was anorexic. I almost went to hide in the broom closet because I didn't have an answer yet for my lack of hunger but I still pleaded against the anorexia. I'm not entirely sure if he's convinced.

We must have filled up 20 trash bags with garbage and broken appliances so the house did seem drastically emptier than it should be but it was clean and fixed up. That's all we could do for today, Charlie was falling asleep on his new couch that Alice had picked out. Luckily for Charlie, she didn't shop for her but for Charlie's taste so he was very pleased to see a plaid fabric couch long enough for his whole body to fit in while he lounged and watched television…when he replaces it. We at least agreed to let him pay for that.

Before he passed out completely he mumbled under his breath, "Bells, don't forget to lock up. Have Edward show you, it's a new kind of lock."

"Sure dad." I kissed his forehead as lightly as I could but he still shivered.

After Edward locked up we all lazily climbed into our cars and drove to our once upon time home. I don't know how but it looked like Alice had fixed the place up while I was at Charlie's' with Edward. She must have done it while she was shopping for the couch. The lights inside were on and the almost empty space of the mansion was waiting for us to intrude once again.

"Something about this seems like a trap." Alice commented as I, the last one in, shut the door behind me.

We looked at her waiting for an explanation not that the thought hadn't crossed our minds as well. If it was a trap then it was too easy to get us where they wanted us. But who would be so desperate to get to us that would use someone else? It was mind boggling to the point that we began shouting agreements and disagreements between the four of us. It was becoming a bit disheveled.

"All I'm saying is..." she raised her hands in defense against us letting her velvet voice soften, "is that something is missing. Something…smells funny. Metaphorically speaking."

"No, I sense it too." Edward replied.

"We all do. We all knew something wasn't right when Alice told us about her vision, the message and everything. Of course it doesn't seem right. It never did." Carlisle had a finger to his right temple like he was getting a headache.

"So what do we do?" I asked after an uncomfortable silence.

He sighed and walked to the stairs to sit on the second step. It looked like he shrugged but he didn't intend on that meaning 'I don't know'.

"We wait. If whatever it is, is here, than there isn't any need to let it follow us back to Elkins."

"What if he/she wants us to wait?" I asked impatiently. I didn't know why I asked it because it sounded stupid. If someone wanted us so badly then why would they make us sit around and wonder when we will be attacked?

"That, I cannot answer." he sighed again, "Oh, and...Jacob called Charlie while we were at Home Depot. He's doing well, he's dating one of his local tribes daughters."

My eyes snapped to his face, frozen. Part of my mouth twitched unsettlingly at the name. His familiar face and build so vivid in my memory still, I could have sworn I was back at La Push shore staring right at him. My habit of breathing even seemed to fail me as well. Edward looked at me warily.

"Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything." Carlisle said slowly as I came back to reality. "He didn't mention you. It's probably best even though I'm sure he's heard of it from Paul." he ended with a shrug and walked into the kitchen.

After a few seconds of staring at the hard wood floor, I turned to Edward, who's gaze had not left me from before. I didn't smile though. There was a sort of distant, yet familiar pain pulling at me towards the floor but I refused to let myself fall to my knees. I didn't understand why I was reacting so dramatically to this. Was it maybe fear? Maybe it was the shock of a sudden many fond memory that had been so long forgotten. I didn't know what else it could have been considering I had no desire for him anymore. Everything about my new self had changed me in some sort of way. I had completely forgotten anything that I had liked about him until now. Strange it took so long.

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