Alice bounced into my arms, very nearly throwing me back off of the porch. Almost immediately, the emotions of being in Forks and at this house in particular, came to the forefront of my entire being. I Instantly, I heard the sound of various feet running to the front door.

"So this is what had my Alice so jumpy for the last two days?" I saw Jasper peering from behind Carlisle. I smiled at him, I really did miss him a lot. I closed my eyes as I held onto Alice even tighter.

"I'd say she hid it pretty well. She kept singing 'This is the song that never ends' in Chinese." I didn't even need to open my eyes to see where the voice was coming from. It used to be the center of my being.

"Hello Edward." I said pulling out of my embrace with Alice. I longed for everything to go back to the way things were between us. All of us, even if that meant Rose would hate me forever.

"Now if I remember correctly, you didn't want anything to do with us. So why the sudden visit now?" I looked at Edward with nothing but contempt now. But softened a bit when I realized I did deserve his cold shoulder. It was what I gave him in Alaska.

"I came to speak to Carlisle." I said looking back at the patriarch.

"And what if he doesn't wish to speak with you?" Edward retorted.

There was a lashing of hisses and groans directed to Edward. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Esme look upon her son disapprovingly.

I continued looking at Carlisle, my back now facing Edward. "Carlisle is free to make his own decisions, Edward. But I have information that one would find vital for the survival of your family." If Edward wanted to play this coolly, then so could I.

Edward punched a hole in the wall where he was standing and ran straight past me and out the door. I followed him until he was out of sight.

"Bella, please excuse my son. He's been rather disagreeable since-" He drifted off not wanting to show his sadness.

"My reappearance." I answered for him.

"Actually since your birthday." Carlisle said as he ran his right hand through his perfect blond hair. "Bella, come in. You mentioned that there was something that I needed to know."

"Yes. First, were Rosalie and Emmett on their way to Volterra?" I asked, it was something that I wanted to know. I looked around, but they weren't downstairs at all.

"Yeah we hadn't even realized that they had left for Italy. Emmett left a note saying they were going to Africa. It wasn't until Edward called them in a panic and told them to get off the plane, that we even knew where they were headed. Edward said you told him?"

"I'll get to that. Why were they going to Volterra?"

"Rose thought if she talked to you maybe even convince you to come back, this family could be put back together."

I smiled at the thought that Rosalie cared enough about Edward to think that I would come back at her bidding.

"Aro knew they were coming, Demetri knows the tenor of their minds. He probably scooped everybody's minds when we were here for the funeral."

"The funeral? You were here Bella?" Esme looked hurt at the thought.

"I'm sorry, Esme. But yes I was here. I was in Denali with Aro and Demetri. And before you say anything to the Denali's, please know that Aro threatened to kill them if they mentioned anything about the visit to you. But I don't want to get into that." I said. I couldn't get sidetracked.

"Demetri knew they were on the plane. Another vampire, one who can teleport, confirmed they were on the plane, and Aro sent someone to the airport to bring them to the castle."

"And that's when you warned Edward?" Jasper said. "With your mind?"

"Yes. I was going to call, but I figured that the Volturi would know somehow that I called. So I used my gift to notify him."

"But what difference would it make if any of us went to Volterra to see you? Carlisle has made several visits to them throughout the centuries since he left them. Why the worry?" Esme asked.

"Because he was planning on killing you. Most of you. His plan was to get Alice, Jasper, and Edward. The rest of you, he saw as collateral damage, and were killed."

Carlisle's forehead wrinkled. "Were killed?"

I slipped up. "I meant were to be killed." I still wasn't sure what to do about my dreams, and I didn't want anyone to know about them yet. Not even the Cullen's.

Carlisle looked at me, satisfied by my answer. I hoped. "Aro wants the three of them to join the guard. I got away because I lied and said I wanted to see the world. Instead I came here."

"Bella, I truly appreciate everything you've done for us. I only wish we fought harder to stay. None of this would have happened if we didn't listen to Edward." Carlisle put a hand to my shoulder and gave it a squeeze. I wanted more than that. I rushed into his arms and hugged him, despite the fact that Carlisle never really showed much affection like that towards me. It didn't matter, I knew at one point that he had hoped to call me his daughter, and I suddenly felt the need to hug him as my father.

I wished I could see Charlie. But not just see him, I wanted to be with him. But there was no way I could do that without endangering his life. The Volturi would surely come to kill him, and the Cullen's while they were in the area.

"Bella will you be staying with us? There's plenty of room obviously." Esme asked, being the gracious host.

"Yes. If that is alright with you."

"You can stay in Edward's room!" Alice blurted. Alice could hardly contain herself from the excitement she was feeling.

"Alice, it's not like I need to sleep. I don't need to stay anywhere. I'm just hiding out from Forks right now. Actually, I'd like to go hunting if that's alright. I'm pretty thirsty right now."

"Bella, I'm so glad you're back." Esme said giving me the hug I could see she was dying to give me since she saw me on her porch. I inhaled her scent which was so pleasant.

After a few more hugs, I finally made my way to hunt. I caught the whiff of some deer, and quickly drained one. I wasn't ready to go back to the house just then so I decided I'd try to find the meadow that Edward took me to that one time. I shut the memory out of my mind, I didn't want to dwell on the past anymore.

I knew that the meadow was Edward's favorite thinking spot, and after his display of foolishness at the house, I figured he had a lot of thinking to do. I hopped into the highest tree that surrounded the meadow, and saw that he wasn't there. When I jumped back down, it was as if the ground was coming up to me and I landed without a sound. I walked into the meadow and I could smell Edward's comforting scent. I must have just missed him.

I laid down on the grass and closed my eyes to let the dream come at me.

There was a huge lady that was taller than the trees of the forest, standing in the middle of the familiar clearing. When I saw what was in her hands, I realized she was the Blind Lady Justice. Her dress flowed freely in the wind as she was holding onto her scales. I looked up at her tall figure and noticed that there was one figure in each of the scales. A reluctant Carlisle was standing on the right scale, while Aro was on the left. Aro was unhappy with the way things were turning out because the scale clearly was in Carlisle's favor. An angry Aro lashed out at Lady Justice and then at Carlisle, striking both of them dead.

"But that doesn't make any sense." I said, coming out of my dream.

"What doesn't?" I opened my eyes to his silky voice that startled me from my dreamscape.

"Nothing. Just remembering the last time I was here, is all." I covered.

"You're still a terrible liar. It seemed as though you were dreaming?" Edward was no doubt trying to figure out why it seemed as if I was sleeping .

"You're imagining things Edward. Whether you know this or not, but the person I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with brought me here one time. I loved him and I thought he loved me, but I was wrong because he then told me that he was lying the entire time. But get this, several months later, he tells me that he was lying about lying to me. All the while leaving me for dead!"

"I did not leave you for dead." His nose was pinching and I resisted the urge to smooth out the lines in his forehead.

"Then how do you explain Aro finding me in the woods, nearly catatonic?" Now I was getting frustrated with him. "Edward why do we have to have the same argument when we see each other? I'm tired of this run around."

"I know. It's 'cause I can't forgive myself. I thought about what you said in Alaska, and this is all my fault. I'm not even sure that my family forgives me. Rose left because she hated the moping. Everyone was miserable. And I had to exist knowing that I caused all of this." In a whirlwind, I felt Edward's lips brush against mine, and nothing else seemed to matter anymore.

I opened my eyes as we pulled out of our kiss and stared into his amber eyes. "Why did you do that?" I asked, somewhat dreamily.

I heard him chuckle as he pulled away from me even further. "Bella don't you know that I can't live without out. I thought I could, and I was miserable, thinking that it was to protect you. If I hadn't thought it was you at the memorial, I would have gone to the Volturi anyway to end my life."

I gasped at the thought of life without the hope of Edward. "The Volturi? Why would you have gone there?"

"You don't remember our conversation while watching Romeo and Juliet?" I fought against the fog in my head that made up my human memories.

"Thankfully everything worked out the way it should have then." I said once I pushed the memory back in the fog where I hoped it stayed for eternity.

"Bella, I love you and now that you're here, I'm going to do everything I can to win back your trust. I can't lose you again. Ever." Edward was instantly at my side again. He knelt down to give me light, tender kisses on the back of my neck. I closed my eyes, surrounding myself in the ecstasy of his touch when all of a sudden...

A/N: Ohhhh that was evil I know!! But I honestly couldn't help myself with the cliffhanger there. Anyways hope you enjoyed. I'll be back soon with another update for the story soon!!

Jshai