The psychic, the mind reader and the regenerator:

Edward POV

What was wrong with me? I stood in the edge of the woods, watching Bella's house listening to that god awful music. Her heart break evident even from this distance, I knew I had reacted badly but I couldn't explain why I had.

Slowly – reluctantly I turned and ran back to my home where a disapproving Alice was stood on the porch.

"Well the kiss was the perfect time, you opening your mouth and letting words come out...not so much" with that she turned and marched back into the house muttering about me being a complete idiot. She was right – again.

I planned on moping around the house for the rest of the day, planning ways on how to make it up to her. It would have helped if Alice would help me and show me what would work and what wouldn't, but she was still too mad at me and wouldn't share any thing with me instead she concentrated hard on how attractive Jasper was. Deciding that I had no romantic intentions nor did I want any towards my brother I stopped listening and continued on with my pacing.

Time had passed that much I was sure it had become increasingly dark outside now; the sounds reverberating throughout the house were that of a typical night – Carlisle was in his office reading whilst Esme also sat with him painting. Alice and Jasper were cuddled up on sofa with Rosalie and Emmett sat across from them, all of them watching some romance film. The girls were all wrapped up in the story line whilst Emmett was dreaming about Rosalie in various outfits…I quickly left his mind be. Jasper was watching Alice out of the corner of his eye; he had been trying to keep Alice calm all day after my incident with Bella.

Ha! My incident – even my own mind sneered the word at me. It was torture living with what I had said. Why did I feel the need to tell her that? It was like all of these words had been stored up behind this dam and that kiss poked holes in it until it finally collapsed.

My self loathing was interrupted by a sharp gasp from downstairs. Alice was having a vision and not a pleasant one from the sounds of it. Suddenly my mind was bombarded with images, ones I didn't want to see.

It was the field I had just been in with Bella, only the scene was different. The air was darker and in it stood 3 figures – Me, Alice and an unknown man. He was a vampire that was obvious; he walked out of the dark into the streaming moon light. Alice Shrieked as he no longer remained unknown, I roared with fury as I flew to my sister.

"Alice are you sure?" I paced in front of her, my family looking bewildered and alarmed.

"Trust me Edward right now even I wish I was wrong" she groaned and dropped her face back into her hands. Jasper was practically vibrating from all the emotions in the room, I turned to see Carlisle and Esme entering the room, worry etched into their every feature.

"Son?" Esme's small voice filled the silence.

"Alice has had a vision…" I was cut off by Emmett's booming voice

"Well you don't sa…oww Rose why?" I had to smirk to see his face all scrunched up in confusion.

"If you don't stop interrupting people OR making stupid ass comments when it's a serious situation, then you. will. get. hit" she winked at him and gestured to me to continue, I snuffed out my sniggers more successfully than Jasper.

"Yes, well it was in the field I had been with Bella" my body flinched from saying her name, Jasper winced and gave me a sympathetic look "and there was a man there – a vampire" It was Carlisle's turn to interject

"Is he a threat?" he looked between Alice and me

"It was the same man that….was killed by the wolves…when Sofia was…was..." I didn't need to finish my sentence, Esme walked up to me and place her hand on my shoulder to comfort me, the gesture helped somewhat but the dull ache remained, my thought were filled then with Bella's parting words and the very real possibility that this vampire might pick up her scent. "When Alice?" hoping it was days away.

"In three hours" damn it! That's not enough time to cover her scent up properly. Our family became a hive of activity, it was decided that Alice and I should go and meet this person, and the others would place them selves loosely around the area making sure Bella was protected but without making it too obvious. To an outsider it would look like my family were trying to keep a respectable distance but showing that they would attack if the need arose.

I walked to my bedroom to get ready for our impending meeting, but as I walked towards my wardrobe I dropped down onto my sofa, covering my face with a cushion. My mind was clouded with worry, Bella wouldn't answer my calls or my families and leaving a message saying "hi I know you hate me right now but could you not leave your house until I tell you too" wouldn't work with her, she would immediately go out side – such a stubborn girl. I couldn't help but smile as I thought about her; what was wrong with me? Why had I done such a horrible thing was I insane?! I resolved that once this whole mess with the vampire was sorted out I would go round and beg her forgiveness. I couldn't explain my actions only that I didn't actually feel that way.

A knock on my bedroom door made me very aware that I had not heard them approaching, the thought was unnerving to say the least. Jasper peeked around the door his thoughts asking if he could come and talk with me for a while, I gestured him in and he took a seat on the floor across from me.

"Edward would you please stop doubting your self so much, it makes life very complicated when all you do is second guess everything you do and say" I let out a dry laugh.

"Look I know you loved Sofia, that much is so very clear but you cannot spend eternity wallowing and feeling regret for what happened. All you can do is learn from it, move on and make sure it doesn't happen again – which does not mean you should cut your self off from what ever happiness comes your way, in any shape or form" his eyebrows lifted all knowing.

"You sure you aren't just a little bit of a mind reader?" I chuckled darkly at him meeting his eyes.

"Many many years of reading emotions tends to hone your skill of why a person feels that way, that and you are such an easy person to read" a smug triumphant look appeared on his face, I chose not to comment on his statement.

"What I am saying is, having all this regret and anger at your self will eat you alive and leave you wishing you had died all those years ago. Love is not something to be forgotten or mourned but celebrated. Maybe you loving Sofia was fates way of preparing you – making you open to the idea of love. Making you ready to love Bella? Maybe it's your destiny to be with Bella not Sofia and that's why Sofia is haunting you? Something you did or didn't do took you so far off your path she had to intervene to get you back on it?" I sat motionless; I had no idea that Jasper thought like that, that he even thought about fate. His thoughts went back to becoming part of this family and meeting Alice, as well as looking at all the other alternatives had the choices and events had been altered. Jasper sat looking at me for some time before he spoke again. "Would you really deny your self a chance of complete happiness?"

I attempted to speak several times but I was at a loss for what to say and for a vampire that is pretty hard to do, finally I found my voice but it sounded too small and quite that I felt sure that it couldn't really belong to me.

"I don't know if what you said is true, with Sofia being fates way to open me up to love before I met Bella, but what I do know is that I love Sofia and I always will" I let out a sigh, Jasper looking at me intently never averting his gaze the guy should really become a psychiatrist I bet he would be good – I shuck the errant thoughts away before I continued with my mini revelation. "However with Bella it is different, the love I feel for her is all consuming, I feel stronger just by being with her. I know I carnt run from this any longer I know I love her and I need to make sure she is always safe. This beast we are meeting has already take one love from me in my life time I am not prepared to let him take another!" I stood my feeling so strong Jasper had trouble standing for a moment.

"Good to have you back brother" he smiled at me genuinely and slapped me on my shoulder before I muttered our parting words through clenched teeth as Alice and I left for our meeting

"And if fate has any other ideas about the outcome then I will change it. Bella and I will be together"

My mother looked like she would explode with pride at my words, and no doubt the family had all heard what had been said when Jasper had come to speak to me.