AN: Hi y'all. So this one is a bit sad so ready the tissues and chocolate. Remember to trust me...I ain't done yet and what is to come will seriously blow you away...Die Hard style!

Limbo.

Izzy's POV

It was dark. No, it was pitch black. Where was I? There was no sound, nothing. I didn't feel fear or happiness, but something was definitely missing. Just then a beautiful lilac light shone in front of me. I squinted as it burned brightly, and then it was dark again. I rubbed my eyes viciously and, then, was overcome with the feeling that I was not alone. I spun around quickly feeling the tension coil in my muscles only to find Esme standing there. I let out a huge breath of air, thankful to not be alone where ever the fuck I was.

But something was wrong.

Esme reached for me but fell short of actually touching me.

"Bella, my beautiful Bella."

I frowned unsure of why her face was drowning in sadness or why she had used my old name. Had something happened to one of the other Cullens? Was Edward okay? My internal questions were culled by the shaking of Esme's body. She was crying.

"So unfair. So young. So beautiful. Above all my children you alone made me feel like a true mother. Not because of your obvious weaknesses, but because you wanted a maternal figure. My other children were…slow to take me on in a mother's role. I understood. I was barely older than they were. But you, from the start you treated me like I was your mother. Like there wasn't even a difference between us. Like you were my actual daughter. I will love you forever my child."

I tried to move forward, to console her, but I was stuck. I could move my arms and my head, but my feet refused to obey me.

What. The. Fuck.

"Hey kiddo," Emmett's voice echoed around the seemingly unending darkness. I floundered around trying to find Esme needing to console her.

Suddenly I feel Emmett all around me but not near me. It is a strange feeling like there was a blanket between us halting any actual contact.

"They're saying you don't have much time and that- "

"Emmett," Esme's voice drifts in he releases me, and I feel the loss of his warm arms.

Wait warm?

"Yeah sorry," he muttered his hand massaging his neck. He looked so lost and I desperately wanted to comfort him. Suddenly he seemed to remember something and there was a rustling of paper.

"I drew you a picture Iz. Look there's you, and that's me, and that a big grizzly we're killing," he said excitingly pointing to blurred figures on the paper. I couldn't seem to concentrate on it though. I rolled my eyes.

What a big kid.

"And you're all like 'I'm going to get you grizzly,' and I'm like 'yeah you get that grizzly,' and the grizzly's like 'grrrr'."

I laughed and could picture us doing exactly what he was explaining.

"Emmett," Rose sounded sad but exasperated. Having heard her voice I breathed a sigh of relief, glad that she was okay.

"Oh Iz," Emmett murmured, and his shoulders slumped. There was something I wasn't getting. Something my memory was not giving to me. I looked around wildly for a clue, anything. I tried desperately to remember, but the fog still surrounded me.

"Ok," Emmett took in a deep breath. "You are my best friend Iz. You make me happy, and you don't put me down. You play with me, and you never tell me to knock it off. You're honest so by that I know you really love me, and I really love you."

"Emmy bear," I whispered.

What was going on? Why was he talking like this?

Rose appeared next to him, and they looked at each other sadly before Emmett nodded and walked away. I watched as he faded into the background before tearing my gaze to Rosalie's stiff form.

"Hey Z. Okay so when Edward first told us about you I was beyond pissed off . You were just this insignificant dull human being."

My hands clenched into fists. "Rose, I swear I will smack the lipstick off you."

"I was even happier when Edward told us we were all leaving, and you weren't coming with us. I thought maybe he realized just how stupid the whole situation was. But then the family fell apart. We all started to bicker and fight. Alice said some pretty terrible things to Jazz and vice versa. Carlisle didn't leave his study, and Esme stopped designing things. I was mean to Emmett. I mean more than usual."

Rose stopped pulling a huge breath between her teeth. Her hands played idly with the ends of her hair while she seemed to compose her thoughts.

"Than you some back in and …you're not you anymore. I guess I always saw me in you. That's why I didn't want you to become one of us. I hated that I didn't have a choice, that certain things had been denied to me. But now, seeing you without us, we were denying you the one thing that you wanted, and it didn't make you a better person."

"I've come to love you these past couples of months. You're like a better version of me, the person I want to be more like. I admire you Iz, and I'm going to miss you."

Miss me? I wasn't going anywhere.

If someone just helped me out of this damned fog we'd come up sprinkles.

"Izzy?"

I whirled around and saw Jasper standing there his hands plunged deep in his pockets looking at me calmly.

"I'm your secret keeper."

"It's hard for me. To say goodbye to you. I feel like we were just getting to really know each other. You're a very interesting little person, you know. I didn't tell anyone that I could feel how much love you had for us. That you respect Rose, admire Alice, adore Esme, worship Emmett and value Carlisle. I kept all your feelings safe locked up inside because I knew that, to you, these are your one weakness. And that was something you kept hidden. Because of how much hurt we all put you through."

I tried to keep the tears from my eyes, but they threatened to spill with every word that poured from his lips.

"And yeah I felt it. You buried it deep, but pain like that, well… it kind of screams at me. And I didn't tell anyone how you were still hopelessly in love with Edward. I just want to thank you for those feelings. For gifting me with them. I will treasure them forever, sister."

"Isabella."

I turned around to see Carlisle. I looked over my shoulder for Jasper, but darkness greeted me. I quickly knuckled the tears from my eyes trying to compose myself.

Where were you all coming from, and why couldn't I move from this spot?

"When Edward first bought you home, I was so proud of my son for having the strength to reign in his bloodlust. But I was even more proud of you. You, this human, walked into our lives without so much as a glance and accepted us. I was proud that you could love Edward the way you did with all your being. I will miss you, daughter of my heart."

"What part of you can never leave me don't you get?"

A snippy bell like voice caused me to stumble as I sought out the speaker. I looked up to find Alice half turned from me, her arms crossed and a scowl plastered on her features.

She sighed. "Bella you're my very best friend. My only friend who really knows me outside of my family. You put up with me when I used to drag you shopping, and you let me play out all those human things that I never got to do. I may be happy and crazy most of the time, but I was broken when I became a vampire. I had no one. I was alone. There were shattered pieces that were just too sharp to pick up. And then I met Jazz, and he helped find my heart. Then Carlisle and Esme helped find my compassion. Edward helped me find peace. Rose and Emmett helped me find my strength. And for a while I thought I was complete. And then you came. You picked up the last shard and put me back together. You helped me find myself. I will always love you, Bella.

I sat down and cried

"Izzy my love?"

"Edward," I cried desperately wanted him to hold me but he kept his distance. He seemed aloof. I pulled myself up and tried to reach for him.

"I'm so sorry. I love you forever. We'll be together soon."

And then I was left alone again in the darkness. I sobbed as my knees gave out, and I sank to the floor again.

"I am sorry. You will suffer. He will suffer. You will die."

I glanced around wildly. I had no idea who that voice belonged to. It was deeper than Emmett's but strangely familiar. And what did he mean by those words? Cold fear hit me hard, and I tried not to scream.

Suddenly a sharp pain seared through my skin, and I knew that I was dying .