AN: Last update for this one tonight. Eh enjoy.

Chapter Three: Facing the Past

Alice had wanted to go with Esme when Carlisle called to tell her that Jasper had gotten punched at school, and needed to be picked up. She hadn't seen her ex-husband getting hit and that worried her. Esme wouldn't let her come, since she and the other's had stayed home 'sick', but she was worried. What if Jasper had lost control when he was hit? Would they have to move? Edward wouldn't be ready for another move, they took so much out of him since he still wasn't eating as much as he should be. He was slowly slipping away and she didn't like it. A vindictive part of her wouldn't let him go because if they had to live without Bella then so did he.

When the sound of cars pulling up was heard she went to the door. Jasper's car stopped first, and as her ex got out of the car the passenger door opened to reveal Char. Alice resisted making a face because while she had never liked the other female she was Jasper's sister in law. When Esme's car stopped it's passenger door opened to reveal someone that she had thought dead for so long. Bella smirked at her, waving a little.

"Hello Alice. My big brother decided to try and warn Jasper off interacting with me." She called. All around the house Alice heard various things stopping, and then the pitter patter of running feet. Her siblings, including Edward were at the door with her in seconds, staring at the impossible sight in front of them.

"Bellsy?" Emmett whispered. Bella's smile was blinding as she looked at him, her eyes watering, and then surprisingly overfilling. Everyone watched the tears fall, not being able to believe that she was actually crying. Emmett left her side in a second, gathering Bella up into his arms and kissing her head. "Come on Belly-bear don't cry. You found us okay?" He whispered, his voice cracking. She hugged him tight, closing her eyes tightly

"Oh I missed you so much Emmy-bear. I know I should have tried finding you all sooner. I just… I couldn't." She whispered, his arms tightened, and he kissed the top of her head again, in a reassuring manner.

"Don't you dare apologize Bells. I know what Fuckward told you, and I don't blame you for not trying to find us. We all fucking left you when we should have stayed, let him leave if he really wanted to. We were the fucking idiots and we weren't there when you needed us." He muttered into her hair. Alice's attention was drawn away as Jasper came over, whispering quickly everything that he knew. She was shocked, and ignored Edward as he fell to the ground. HE deserved whatever he was feeling at the moment. Bella was alive, and so was Charlie. Her attention was drawn back to the meeting when Rose walked over, joining the hug and blocking Bella from them.

"It's going to be okay Ella darling. I'm so sorry that I acted the way I did before. I'm so sorry that I didn't knock some sense into Edward." She murmured. Ella hugged her tight, looking into her eyes.

"Don't' apologize to me Rose. You had your reasons before, and you were always honest about it. " She murmured, leaning up and kissing her cheek. No one saw the little glimmer from where her lips touched, and in her mind Ella did a happy little dance. Oh Rose would be shocked when that particular gift came to fruitation, but in the end there was only one thing that Rose regretted about being a vampire. Rose smiled, pulling away.

"Okay, I won't waste time apologizing for the past. But it is good to see you alive. You've blossomed from the too shy girl who didn't know how beautiful she was, and how to use that beauty." She replied. Char snorted.

"Oh I made sure she knew just how to use her beauty, but in the first half an hour after she woke she was getting lectured by a human about it. Our little Ella didn't do the newborn thing normal like. She didn't even have a proper blood lust considering she hung out with humans that soon, then caught herself a bunny to have a Bunny Rum in a wine glass as she waited for us." She drawled sarcastically. Rose smirked at Char, looking smug.

"I always knew that she wouldn't be normal. She wasn't a normal human either. Didn't have the proper fear reaction of being confronted with vampires or anything." She replied. Char rolled her eyes.

"Oh goody. So you guys got a warm welcome? When Charlie brought her over she kinda froze up when she realized we were human drinkers. She never minded our red eyes when she was a baby. I was worried that my little princess wasn't ever going to smile at me again." She pouted. Rose laughed loudly, then growled suddenly. Ella looked over and saw that Edward had broken out of his stupor and was standing a little away from her.

"I'm so sorry Bella. I never should have left you." She heard Edward rasp. Emmett pushed her behind him, growling at Edward and she heard him sigh. "Please let me just speak with her Emmett. I know I don't deserve it, after what I did, but please." He begged. The Edward standing there wasn't the one that she remembered. This Edward was broken. And she didn't know if he would ever really be fixed. To know that she had done this to him, by dying after he had told her that he had never loved her. It may have been fitting, but she didn't want to be responsible for this. She had lived in that hole of depression before she had been woken up. It wasn't a good place to be and she knew it. She was going to speak, to tell Emmett to move, but he growled again.

"Get away from my little sister Fuckward. You're never going to go near her again." He hissed. She heard Edward whimper and move a little. She took the chance to step around Emmett and take a look at him. He wasn't looking towards Emmett, but at the ground. He really was broken, and it wasn't right.

"You lied to me Edward. I know you lied to me in some twisted way to protect me now, but back then? You tore me apart, tore me down and left me in pieces in the woods all alone. And you left a note for Charlie, signed as me because you knew that I would be in those woods for a while. I was dead inside for a long time, until Charlie took me to my godparents and they brought me out of that darkness kicking and screaming. And then instead of missing you to the point of harming myself I hated you. I didn't deserve what happened, I didn't deserve to be treated as if I never meant a thing to you and that made me angry. The longer I thought about it the more I started to forgive you. You did what you thought would keep me safe. It wasn't right, and it made both of us miserable, but there's nothing we can do to change it, or get back what we lost." She spoke, her voice not catching. Understanding and sadness shinned in his eyes, along with defiance as he understood that she didn't think that they could go back to how they were before. She could see that he still loved her, that he had convinced himself in his darkness that their love would be forever, and while she had grown and changed he hadn't.

"Just give me a chance to make this up Bella. Let me prove to you that we can have what we had before. I still love you, I never stopped loving you. I swear I can make this up." He pleaded his voice cracking. She sighed as char growled, stepping forward. This wasn't going to be pretty and she knew it. Edward didn't acknowledge her.

"You know what you little Jackass. You may think you love Ella, but you don't. You obsess over her. She's not your mate; if she was then you would have never left her. Just leave it as it is, because I can tell you that Ella has moved on from your little toxic love affair. She had her time to examine everything from your controlling behavior to the fact that you left her alone in the woods where anything could happen to her. A mate wouldn't do that. A mate would have made sure she was safe if he had to leave her, and if her mate would have thought that she was dead… Well he wouldn't be in his own mental hell. Markus of the Voltaire can tell you that. He's still alive, but he's dead inside. It's a fact that you can't deny." She sneered. "I'm not afraid of tearing you apart if you start stalking her, because sneaking into a girls room when she's asleep? Yeah not cool." She added. Edward sneered at her, not accepting what she was saying or the warning that he was getting. Ella rolled her eyes at his reaction.

"You have nothing to do with this. I made a mistake and I can and will make it up to Bella. I love her." He spat. Ella backed up as char puffed in anger at his words. She wasn't going to get in the way of this. Jasper wrapped his arms around her as she moved, and she leaned into him, only to hear Edward make a noise loud enough to make her jump. "Get the fuck away from my Bella Jasper. I can see what you're thinking and it's not going to happen. She wouldn't want you anyway. You tried to kill her when she was human!" He yelled, coming forward. Char intercepted him, ripping his arm off. He yelled in pain and Esme gasped in horror.

"I told you little boy, step closer to my little sister and I won't hesitate in tearing you apart. Ella's moved on from you, and if the Major there thinks he can handle the spitfire all the power to him. From what I saw earlier after Peter punched him I think they may have some sparks." She growled, sounding amused and angry at the same time. Edward lunged at her and she took his other arm. "Oh naughty, naughty boy, I can more than take you. I used to train newborns with more fighter potential than you." She taunted, not letting up. She was going to really fuck with him. Ella giggled and he looked at her betrayed. She laughed even more as she raised her hands.

"I told you that we were not going to go back to the way we were, and you insulted Auntie Char. She changed my diapers Eddie-boy, so she has a hell of a lot to do with how you left me. She put me back together so don't expect me to step in now. She's just defending her honor after all." She laughed out. Rose giggled at her response, looking at her with a blooming respect. She was liking the new Bella so much more than the old one.

"Char, I know you want to hurt him more than this, but Charlie deserves a piece don't you think? Let Esme piece Eddie back together because I have a feeling that he's going to be coming with Peter soon enough Darling." Jasper suddenly spoke. Edward shuddered at his words and he had to smile. The brat never really got punished before, even the last hundred years his misery was his own making. He had a feeling that Charlie wouldn't spare the rod either. All he had sensed from the other man in relation to his brother was rage. Oh and Peter was going to tear the fucker apart piece by piece, and he just didn't know it yet. Char pouted, but handed the Cullen mother her son's arms reluctantly. He smiled at his sister-in-law. She had a good heart, and he thanked god that Ella had her to rely on. Hell he could see Peter in Ella, and he was surprised as hell that he hadn't before.

"You ruin all my fun Major. He's going to be wishing for death when Daddy C and Petey get done with him. They have big plans for the little whine baby. He shouldn't have messed with one of ours." She pouted, coming over and hanging off his arms. She poked Ella. "And you little missy, you were too soft on him. I know he looks like shit, but with men like them you have to stand your ground and rip a couple body parts off before they'll even listen to you. He's clearly delusional, believing that you'd run back to him no matter what. I know my Ella, she's not one of those girls who do shit like that. My Ells is a man eater who plays with their minds and stomps on their hearts. Sometimes I wonder if the little shits that Peter tortures are being saved by him." She purred. Ella giggled loudly and heard Edward whimper at her response. He was clearly hoping that she'd object to what Char was saying and doing to him. He was chanting that this wasn't right; it wasn't how it was supposed to be.

"I understand, I felt sorry for him though, because he doesn't know who he messed with. You're one bad bitch Char, Peter doesn't even know what to do with you most of the time. Hell he doesn't know what's in store for him when Ella's daddy gets a hold of him." Jasper replied, looking at her over Ella's head. Char smirked widely.

"You're right. Carry on babying him then, because when those two get here he's in for a world of pain." She all but cooed. Ella rolled her eyes. She liked the playful side of Jasper a lot. Her human memories of him told a story of someone tortured, but seeing him now, without him having to hold part of himself back? It was defiantly sexy.