AN: I'm glad this has had such a positive feed back so far. Thank you so much for the reviews. I am so sorry it took me so long. Between a funeral, writer's block, and trying to get Bella's POV right, which I still don't think I did, time just got away from me. This won't be as long as the other chapter I don't think. And it's going to be split POV. So here it is. Thanks again.

Disclaimer….Yea, I so don't own any of this except the plot.

BPOV

After Carlisle left I just sat there for a minute. I could feel the tears on my face, but I had no idea I'd started crying. I had no idea of anything at that point if I was honest with myself. I loved Edward. We'd been together for years. He was the man I had thought I was going to spend eternity with. But I knew as soon my lips had touched Carlisle's that I was mistaken. I leaned over and picked up his forgotten shirt and lifted it to my face. Of all the things to happen, this wasn't it. I didn't expect for such a strong connection to my boyfriend's father to be something I'd ever have to worry about. The bond was a thing of fairy tales and romance novels. And I neither lived in one nor believed in them. I looked around the room and all I could smell was his scent around me. I tried to still the sobs as they shook my shoulders but it wasn't any use. I knew I had to get out of this place before I began to suffocate.

I stumbled around my room blindly as I dressed, putting his shirt on over my camisole, and gathered a few of my most important belongings. I stumbled into my desk and knocked a pile a books onto the floor, scattering the newly developed package of photos onto the floor beneath my feet. Among the photos of Edward, myself, and his family were two photos that Alice had snapped of Carlisle and myself. One with his arm wrapped around my shoulders and mine around his waist as we walked down the trail through the woods behind their house. I couldn't even remember the conversation as I looked at the picture. Even in the picture you could see there was more. Below that, there was another picture of us sitting in his office, smiling like fools for some reason or another. I was blushing and looking down into a book I had in my lap and he was gazing at me with a look I wouldn't dare to describe in his eyes. I'd always had a certain connection with Carlisle but I'd never would have believed it was anything like what I thought I had with Edward. But between what had happened earlier today and what was in these pictures, maybe we just weren't looking hard enough. I stuffed them into my purse along with the money I had saved over the past three years at school. I was glad I had listened to Alice for once about letting them pay for everything, seeing as how my nest egg was going to be buying me the time I needed to think. The door bell rang as I ran down the stairs and I almost face planted at the bottom in surprise. I looked up as I felt arms wrap around my waist and haul me back to my feet.

"Thanks Jake," I said as I continued to rush into the kitchen. He followed me.

"Why do you smell like Dr. Fang," Jake asked as I snatched up a pen and paper and scribbled a quick note to Charlie. I looked back to Jake and tears filled my eyes. I hugged him tightly before letting go and heading out the front door with out a word. "Bella, what the hell is going on?"

"I'll talk to you later Jake. I have something important to take care of and then I'll head up to the reservation. Okay," I told him quickly as I through my bag into the back seat of my Jetta, the only gift I had ever really agreed on letting the Cullen's get me. I was hoping that he was too focused on me smelling like Carlisle to tell that I was lying to him.

"What ever you say Bella. Will you tell me what's going on when you get there. You're kind of scaring me," he said as he followed me and shut the door as I started the car and rolled the window down. I smiled up at him.

"I promise. I love you. You know that right," I told him. He blushed and shrugged as he backed up.

"Yea. Now go on and I'll talk to you in a little bit," he said as I backed out of the driveway. I drove away as fast as I dared before he realized something was up. I knew now that Alice wouldn't see my departure since Jacob had been there when I left but who knew when she'd have something pop up.

I stopped at the first gas station I saw and filled up my tank before I hit the 101 going south. I didn't know where I was going. For now I was just going to drive and get out of Forks. Hopefully, I would have some time to figure this whole mess out before anyone forced me to make a decision. As I drove on through the night, I was completely unaware of the vicious red eyes and tinkling laughter that followed behind me though the forest.

A five days later, when I pulled into the small town of Paris Texas, I let out a sigh of relief. The trip had been tedious so far and I still wasn't done. I still couldn't think of a way to resolve the situation with out ruining someone's life and even though every fiber in my body called for me to go running back into Carlisle's arms, I felt that I couldn't.

So far no one had really realized I was gone. I was keeping in touch with Charlie, saying that Alice had kidnapped me and brought me down to LA for some fashion thing and I was miserable, so he didn't keep me on the phone to much. I knew that Alice had been having a lot of trouble seeing anything regarding me lately, and with Jake being at the house when I left, I assumed I was still off her radar since I hadn't received any hysterical phone calls yet. And then Edward and Jacob, well I felt bad for using the hate that Jacob and Edward still had for each other against them. But telling them that I was with the other whenever they called was the only way to find some space to think. As long as they didn't ask each other questions I was safe and sound almost 3000 miles away from them. Little did I know, I wasn't as safe as I thought.

CPOV

"Carlisle, you need to hunt. It's been two weeks," Alice said as she paced my room. I hadn't really moved since she and Jasper had brought me back to the house. I'd spoken to Esme and I was surprised to find that she wasn't upset. She was concerned for Edward, who had not said a word to anyone besides saying he needed to talk to me before he said anything to anyone else. But as for me finding my soul mate in Bella, she wasn't as surprised or hurt as I thought she might have been. All she would tell me was that she'd explain one day when I was feeling better.

"I can't Alice, something isn't right with Bella. I can feel it," I mumbled as I sat up and rubbed my face. My body was aching in an unusual way and I couldn't figure out why. We hadn't seen Bella since the discovery two weeks ago and I felt horrible for it. I wanted to go tell her that it didn't matter, if she loved Edward, she could still be with him. I would never do anything to make her un happy. But Edward kept telling me she was out on the reservation. I certainly couldn't go out there and talk to her.

"I know there's something wrong. I just…can't fucking see," Alice half screamed.

"Well there's nothing anyone can do about it until she wants to talk to us. You know how Jacob is with her. He'll keep her out there as long as he can," Edward said from the door way. Esme spoke up from behind him as she entered the room.

"It'll all be okay. Trust me," she said as she came to sit next to me on the bed. Edward grimaced and turned away. He'd been acting childish and bitter since Esme and I had signed our divorce papers last week.

"How can you be alright with this Esme? Your husband is destined to be with the woman who I've been with for years. The woman I love. I don't get how that is okay," Edward said. I looked up sharply and growled. I stood and took a step towards him as Edward stepped back from me.

"How do you think I feel Edward? Do you think I'm happy about this either? I've waited four hundred god damned years to find the one that was meant for me. I thought I found her in the woman who I've been married to for decades and realized I hadn't. So now, I've found her. I've held her in my arms. I've loved her and felt her and I can't do anything fucking thing about it. So you tell me what I'm supposed to do about it since it's your girlfriend," I yelled. I felt a wave of calm come over me as Jasper appeared in the room. I growled at him and he just smiled at me.

"You're welcome," he said simply.

"Shut up Jasper," I said as I stepped back and sat back down on the bed.

"Well it's good to know that finding one's soul mate can make even the oldest of vampires act like the rest of us," Jasper said with a smirk as he went to stand next to Alice.

"Jasper," I warned quietly. He shrugged.

"What? The way I see it is you really only have one option," he told us.

"And what would that be," Edward asked snidely. Jasper glared at him before looking over to me again.

"Go find her and ask her what she wants. This isn't a decision either of you can make. And as far as I can tell a bond like a soul mate is something that goes both ways. That's how Alice and I knew we weren't soul mates and that why Esme is so okay with this. She might be hurting because she loves Carlisle, but she understands that one day she'll find her soul mate too," he said. I looked up in shock.

"When did you become so talkative. Or so right," I said with a grimace. He smirked as Alice hugged him tightly.

"When you reverted in age apparently. I couldn't leave all the parenting up to Emmett now could I, god forbid. Not that we mind. We actually think it'll be good for you to take some time and step out of your adult role and go after Bella. We'll even come with you if you'd like," Jasper said. Alice nodded excitedly.

"I agree with Jasper. Nothing can be done until we find Bella and then we can figure out what to do from there. Esme, do you want to come with us," Alice asked. Esme went to speak, but the sound of a truck coming up the driveway caught our attention.

"Did anyone order anything, because there's a delivery truck outside," Rosalie said from downstairs. We all made our way to the living room and watched as the man got out of the truck and walked up to the door carrying a relatively small box. I let Esme answer the door knowing that I hadn't fed. As I heard the truck move back down the driveway Esme walked back into the room with the box.

"Paris, Texas. Who do we know in Texas," she asked to no one in particular as she went to open the box. At the same time as she made the first cut through the tape with her nail, her phone went off and Alice gasped in horror as her eyes went wide with a vision.

"NO," Alice screamed as the familiar scent of lilies and almond, the perfume Alice had gotten Bella for her birthday last year, filled the room. Esme dropped the box and backed away shaking her head. I crept toward the box as Emmett held Edward back. I lowered myself to my knees and with shaking hands finished opening the box. Inside was full of packing corn, but on top of the filling was three things I'd hope to never be found in dried blood. The t-shirt that I had left for Bella was folded neatly, still holding both the scent of her and myself in the fabric. On top of that, was the necklace of the Cullen family crest we had given her for Christmas last year. And then a pile of Polaroid's with a rubber band around them. I could hear Alice sobbing behind me as I popped the rubber band and flipped the first one over. They fell from my hands as I saw the bloodied form of the woman that had stolen my heart. On the photo, written in what seemed to be blood, was "From Paris, With Love. Victoria,"

I just sat there as the words ran though my brain over and over. I could see the other pictures that were now scattered across the floor. Each one was worse than the last. I couldn't think of anything other than the pain she must have had to endure alone while I was here, unable the protect her. I couldn't comprehend anything as my mind tried to figure out how we had let Bella get so far away from us. How none of us known she had even left? I had known something was wrong and I had still done nothing. I was trying to give Bella her space to figure out her feelings regarding the situation. We all were. But never had I thought by us giving her some space, we would be leading her to her death.

My senses were numb as I kept my eyes trained on the words written by Victoria. I didn't realize I had been growling until Jasper whispered in my ear that I was scaring my family. Or what was left of my family. I snarled at him as he placed his hand on my shoulder and he backed away slowly. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I realized that I needed to calm down since I hadn't fed in so long but I couldn't find the will to care. My mate was dead. The one person I belonged with in this world. The one person I longed to touch again. The one person who had been taken from me by a revenge seeking vampire. Victoria had made her fatal mistake in taking Bella from this family and she would realize it soon enough. I'd be damned if I was going to sit around and do nothing. Not this time. Victoria would be dead as soon as I could find her, or I'd jump into the fires and join Bella myself.