Panic

His back faced me. His breathing was heavy as the muscles on his back moved in and out through his shirt. His hands were in tight fists, slight growls that were hard to hear escaping his lips.

I stepped out into the tiny patch in the forest. It was almost a perfect circle of bare grass. He stood on one side, I the other. I opened my mouth to say something, but fell short on words. What is there to possibly say in a situation like this? I started to get frustrated with myself and sighed. He immedietly turned his head to face me. I felt my breathing stop.

He turned completely around to look at me. He stepped a little bit closer, now in the middle of the circle. I couldn't believe the beauty in his face. I recalled the very clear image of my human life. THe one I couldn't let go. His beautiful face completely scratched up and bleeding. His body almost lifeless as he faced me, telling me he loved me.

I winced at the memory, causing the Emmett before me to look paniced.

"What's wrong?" He said. His voice was perfect, flawless. It was so much different than the voice I remembered.

"It's nothing it's just...it's nothing." His feet moved him slowly towards me.

"I can't believe it..." He whispered. His eyes were now transfixed on the ring that I was fiddling with. His ring.

"I uhm...I couldn't let you go." I said, still looking down at it. I felt myself look at his left hand. I winced again and felt the sadness touch my face as I saw the wedding ring on his finger. He looked down at his hand, a frustrated sigh following.

"Look, Eliza..." My ears tingled hearing him say my name, "I didn't know you were...alive. I swear-"

"It's okay. I know. Alice and Esme told me." He nodded and then suddenly growled, gripping his hair. As he braught his head back up, a smile graced his face.

"What are we doing?!?! COME HERE!" He suddenly rushed at me and hugged me tightly. I was suprised by the sudden embrace, but simply hugged him back, being careful not to get too attached.

When he let go, he was grinning at me.

"I can't believe that you're...HERE! How'd you become like this?" I was about to tell him why, but realized how horrible it was.

"What? What is it?" I closed my eyes and sighed. I held out my arm as if to guide him over to the large rock that was by one of the trees. We both sat down, me starting on my story.

"After you...were taken. I became very...not well. I wound up marrying Charlie a-"

"REALLY!?" Emmett shouted suprised.

"Yeah, I knew I wasn't ever going to...love anyone like I did you again. So, I went with Charlie." Emmett blinked a couple times and scratched the back of his head.

"Did you...yah know...do i-"

"EMMETT!"

"WHAT!? I'm curious!" Emmett held up his hands in innonsense. I squinted at him.

"We had a baby girl." His face went neatral with some shock, and then he smiled a little.

"Really? What's her name?"

"Aurora. She was born on uhm...April twenty-fifth...an exact year from when you uhm..." I looked down and looked back up again, trying to hide my hurt.

"Ironic huh? So, during all this there was this guy, Kevin. He was a vampire and could see I wasn't really all...happy. Anyway, he tried to kill me."

"He did what!?"

"Hello?? He obviously didn't succeed!" I said waving my hands up and down me to emphasize my...still hereness.

"Oh, right."

"This one couple saved me. THey had a son who is a vampire. He lives in Seattle, or we do actually."

"Oh, so...you're with him now?" He asked with sadness.

"No..I just met up with him a week ago. The Volturi killed his parents. And they tried to recruit me. But I obviously declined and...ever since I've been on my own just following my family." Emmett looked at me wide eyed.

"You still get really shocked over everything don't you?" I laughed. He simply glared at me and stood up.

"So...want to meet my family?" He said biting his lip. I nodded and walked with him at a rather slow pace to his house.

A piano could be heard coming from the house, along with voices speaking in rapid pace. I then realized something.

"Uhm, Emmett? What about...Rosalie?" I stared down at the ring on his finger like it was a beacon of disaster. I then looked up at his face and saw the coldness leap off of it.

"Nevermind her. I'll deal with that later. In the meantime, you should meet Jasper and Alice." He suddenly grabbed my hand and we began running for the house. We appeared in the front hall, the piano stopping and all of them (excluding one) stood infront of me.

"Hello again Elizabeth." Alice said all smiles. Edward looked wearily at me, scared of what might happen. Alice stuck her hand out to shake mine. As I did, I felt their eyes on my ring.

******

The sun began rising over the trees, revealing the very rare sunshine onto Forks. I sat across from Jasper, both of us looking very concentrated. Alice beside me looking a little paniced. Emmett on my other side, his tongue sticking out in frustration and concentration.

"Emmett, don't do it." Alice said paniced.

"Shut up."

"Emmett, I know what's going to happen, don't do it!" She looked really paniced now. Jasper and I waited in pure anticipation. Next thing we knew...crash!

"Damn it!" Emmett excaimed, throwing the wooden block with the others.

"Sweet that means I won!" Jasper grinned, looking down at the fallen Jenga pieces.

"This is a stupid game anyways. Besides you two cheat!" He pointed at Jasper and Alice.

"Em, how could I cheat?" Jasper asked confused.

"Easy! You make me feel all shaky!"

"What!? No! But I will remember that next time." Emmett rolled his eyes and began stacking the pieces again.

"Bella should be getting up soon..." I whispered.

"How do you know about Bella?" Emmett asked. I was about to answer when the door opened. Edward appeared at the door, Bella by his side. I quickly ran out of sight and felt my breathing turn to horror. Alice ran up beside me.

"WHat's wrong?"

"Bella...she can't see me."

"Edward wants you to meet her." I shook my head with anger.

"Get him in here!" I shouted. She nodded. Next thing I knew Edward was standing infront of me.

"Have you lost your mind!? She can't meet me! SHe's my great grandaughter!"

"Ofcoarse she can! Come on!" I growled at him, but proceeded to walk out with him.

Bella now stood before me, looking at me. She smiled her akward smile.

"Bella, this is Elizabeth."

"Hi." She said shyly. I looked up at Edward.

"Does she know?" I whispered. He shook his head no. I looked back at her and walked towards her.

"You look...familiar..." she said slowly. She looked at her hair, and then mine. Her hair was a mix of mine and Renee's.

"Bella...I'm..." Bella's eyes suddenly went wide, her face went red, and her breathing became rapid.

"What's wrong?" Edward was suddenly at my side.

"SHe's been in my house! She's been around me since I can remember! But...how?!?" She clung to Edward.

"Because she's your great grandmother." Alice said from behind me.

"She's what?" Bella's voice cracked. We all waited for her to calm down.

****

"So...you've been with granny, the Charlie, and then me? Why?" Bella asked sitting next to me.

"You guys were the only thing that was important to me. I wasn't really focused on anything else." She looked at me with pity, but at the same time happyness.

"In a way, you're family lead you back to what you love most." She whispered. I looked over at Emmett, who looked up at me the same time. He leaned against the wall.

We simply stared into each other's eyes. Suddenly, all my old feelings for him came flooding back. I felt my dead heart swell with love. It finally seemed to hit me. Here he was, my one true love, standing there. I stood up and was about to go over to him.

"Rosalie is on her way back." Alice suddenly said, staring into space. It was then I felt the iron bars clasp around my feelings for him. It was now the opposite from what it was like all those years ago.

Rosalie stood in my way of loving Emmett.