Hey, there will be no super long authors note this time. But I do want to say that I will be starting a cool review incentive that I have seen on few other Fan Fictions. Say as little or as much as you want in a review and I will send you a sneak peek of the next chapter. It didn't even occur to me to think of a name in my 5 month absence, but once I tried one came to me right away. Edward, Jasper's and Emmet's band will be called the "Fate In Chains" from now on. I thought it fitted with the story and was unique. Anyway I think that's all I have to say. I hope you enjoy:

Edward's Point of View:

I am up before everyone else as usual but I don't mind. I like the solitude. Jasper's parents have their own part of the house anyway, hardly ever coming near this one. I smirk at the thought of Jasper bringing his friends home for a place to sleep like we are stray cats; if it weren't for him, and Emmett on occasion, I probably wouldn't be sleeping with a roof over my head every night. They offer in such a way though that it does not feel like charity or pity...god knows I never accept anything that seems like either. Jasper is the oldest of the three of us at 20 but anyone who sees us together would think that Emmett is because of his sheer size and often over-bearing but protective and loyal until the bitter end personality. He also keeps all of us smiling one way or another. We have all known each other since infancy and started the band when we were in high school as a result of our love of good music and the closest bond non-blood brothers can have. Our friendship has been tested in various ways over the years but we have stuck together and we know each other through and through. Knowing each other this well and knowing our music also as well gives us an advantage over other bands.

I grin as I think of last night. For some reason meeting Bella changed a lot of things about me that I didn't know needed changing. Sure, I felt like at first I should act like the self centered guy with a big ego and selfish desires that am not to afraid to admit that I have become, but I also realized, especially when we really got talking, that acting like just me for once would be what she really wanted to see. I groan in agony at the onslaught of memories of times in the past when I have been less than a gentleman to other women. I have done a lot of things I am not in any way proud of, and deep down they have always bothered me. It's completely unexplainable but after only one night in her company Bella makes me want to be a better person. I laugh without humor thinking that she literally made me grow a conscience overnight. The meter of both right and wrong has always been there, but gradually the wrongs out weighted the rights and after while I started not to care as much. I didn't have a reason to care. I wasn't always this way but that does not excuse what I have done and I already know that it will probably be impossible to keep Bella in my life after she finds out what a monster I was and probably still am for wanting to keep someone so special my life, I am willing to make the present worth it though and hope that maybe...

A sense of overwhelming alarm suddenly comes over me and without really thinking about it I throw on my jacket and rush out the door, taking the keys to Emmet's Jeep out of my jacket and rushing to his place as if my life depends on it...or hers. When I am finally running up the front steps I feel slightly foolish for showing up this early and unannounced so I quickly make up an plausible excuse. When I am barely in the door and down the entry hall I see that Bella is already rushing down the stairs; her brown eyes look glazed and faraway. Not even a second later I realize that she is going to fall, and rush forward to catch her.

"Hey...oh. If catching you makes you cry then I would hate to have not been here to catch you", I laugh and she looks at me like she does not recognize me, but I like how she feels in my arms so I make no move to pull away. She looks shocked and starts to cry, which makes me feel horrible for laughing. Falling off the last step would not have been life threatening to her but it would have hurt a ton all the same. "Are you alright?", I ask and she laughs at herself while shaking her head, pulling out of my arms and walking towards the kitchen.

"Thanks. Smacking my face into the floor first thing in the morning would have really made my day".

I laugh a little at her attempt to soften the mood and the random, sarcastic things that always seem to pop out of her mouth and take me by surprise. But I still want to know what exactly happened before she seemingly started to sleep-walk down the stairs, "Are you always this clumsy?".

She hastily wipes the tears off her face and lifts her broken arm up slightly to answer part of my question "Apparently I can master a pair of heels but on bare feet I am useless".

I think about how much she looked like a beautiful Gothic China Doll last night and how cute she looks when she cries, although it makes me feel slightly desperate to set things right, "Did you wake up suddenly from a bad dream or something?".

"I guess you could say that...hey you know those spikes on your jacket are really dull", it's obvious that she wants to change the subject and it's no doubt that this is the first thing that popped into her sweet little head. I laugh at how random is, "I should hope so, or I might have hurt you more than the floor would have".

She reaches into the fridge and pulls a carton of milk out, turning towards the cupboards and giving them a blank stare.

"Third one on the left has the bowls, the pantry door beside the fridge has cereal", Alice says groggily from the doorway.

"Thanks. Hey did Emmett come home last night? I didn't hear him come in. And I didn't go to sleep right away". She grabs a cereal box out of the pantry as well as three bowls and three spoons, but I won't be eating.

"That's part of the reason I am here", I start to tell my excuse which is really just the obvious truth to anyone but Bella, "We all crashed at Jasper's and since Em has no intention of going to work today the three of us are going to have a practice. Of course Jasper is eager to see you Alice and Bella your welcome to come and watch too".

"We have a phone", Alice says bluntly. Damn it....like I said my excuse was stupidly obvious to anyone but an outsider.

"Where does he work?". She asks and I am a little surprised she does not know even this, but dismissing it. Who knows what they have and haven't talked about? Alice has always had few real friends but that's only because they eventually hear word of her gift and go running. But Bella seems more like her than anyone I have seen at her side and she no doubt plans on telling her everything eventually.

Alice gives me a suspicious grin before answering her, "He is supposed to be learning to take over my Uncles newspaper but he is as stubborn as our father about skipping out as much as our father is about his son taking over for his brother someday".

She nods, "But I would think he would want Emmett to go into medicine like him".

Before I can stop myself I burst out laughing, "Can you imagine Emmett as a doctor. Lead guitarist in a alternative metal band?".

Alice smacks me, "If he did want to be one then he sure wouldn't have supportive friends. Eat", she pushes the cereal and the milk towards me but but I politely shake my head.

"Oookkk so why the pressure on him running the paper if it's alright that he is not interested in being a doctor?".

Alice shifts uncomfortably in her seat, taking a moment to answer. "Well, umm... because my mom loved the paper. She always had the highest hopes for him in it, and when Emmett was little he used to make up these adorable one page scribbles about the household news. My parent's thought he was born to take over for my Uncle", she smiles wistfully at this memory and I think back to when her family was a normal, but love-ably chaotic family like mine once was, "But don't tell him I said that, he will kill me. Those were just childhood games though, he is his own person now".

I step into the conversation, "I respect Carlisle and all that he has done for me over the years", I look meaningfully at Alice, "But sometimes it's infuriating how he just can't see that his son is not going to follow in either his own career path or his brother's. Emmett has made his own choices along with Jasper and I; we are band brothers until the end".

Alice finishes off, "And our father is even more stubborn when it comes to anything to do with my Mom. He thinks that Emmett not wanting to do what our mom wanted for him does not honor her memory. It made her so happy and it makes my father angry to think that Emmett does not want to remember that. The paper is practically a legend around here and it has always stayed in the family. Even though my father did not dedicate his life to the paper himself he grew up around it and it would break his heart to see it go into the highest buyers hands instead of father to son like it has for countless generations", she says the last part with a bitterness that I understand.

Bella does not say anymore and Alice suddenly chirps, "So Edward what was your other reason for coming by?".

I grin and start to get up from my chair, "I had a special errand to run".

Bella stops eating and stares at me in shock. I only grin and nod my head in response before leaving through the back kitchen door, taking another way back to Jasper's on foot. Bella is apparently full of a lot of mystery already but apparently the mystery follows her.

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Bella's Point of View:

Alice and I drive over to Jasper's house with the backseat full of our recent second hand purchases. She parks her car outside of the driveway of a extremely expensive looking house and I have to take a double look to make sure that she knows we are parked outside of it.

"I know huh? You wouldn't expect such a laid-back guy to live in such a fancy house, but then again by looking at me you wouldn't guess we are comfortably rich either".

"Yeah that just proves that you should not judge by appearance. At least the band has a good place to practice", I say through the pain of the headache that started not even half an hour ago, after the strange light in my vision at Mimi's Second Hand.

She laughs, "His parent's are nice enough but they don't like the noise so they practically gave him the garage and they park on the street".

I laugh with her and answer her as I normally would, even though all I feel like doing is going to sleep in a dark room, "That works, especially since they aren't some teenage garage band that will break up when real life comes calling".

"Exactly. This is their life and they are happy with it. Jasper always had a stable home and you will notice if you haven't already that he has this natural calming effect over people so he is like the center point of the band, though a quiet one. Emmett is always welcomed here after after a fight with our father and Edward practically lives here too so you have been warned...this is a major guy living zone", she says mock seriously.

"Haha, alright", I reach over with my good hand and open the car door, then I use my foot to hold open the door and grab my purse and my light jacket. Happy that I manage to find ways to help myself with only one good arm I jump out of the car and use my hip to close the door. When I try to walk away however I realize that if I move another inch ill rip my thin cotton baby doll top which I managed to close in the door, "Errr.. some help Alice?".

She laughs when she sees what predicament I am in and comes over to help me, "Yeesh Bella I looked away for all of two seconds". We both burst out laughing and she carefully opens the car door. Once I am free she leads me to a door on the side of the garage.

"Hey sis! Welcome to the lair of Fate in Chains Bella!", Emmett booms from the table where him, Jasper and Edward are seated. Loose papers are spread out across the table among pencils and pieces of crumpled paper, but Jasper holds three or four sheets triumphantly in his hand as he comes over to give Alice a kiss.

"It's great to see you again, baby. Do you want to hear what we have so far? The vocals are as usual mostly by Edward, but Emmett and I managed to work out the background too".

She looks a little dazed from his kiss but manages one word, "Ya".

"Great", he waves in arm in Edward and Emmett's direction and they follow him over to where Jasper's drum set, and Emmet's electric guitar are set up. Edward stands in front of them where the mike would be set up and Alice leads me over to a nearby sofa. On first glance the room is actually pretty tidy; the wall to our right has two doors that presumably lead to bedrooms and across from the table and chairs a Foosball table is set up.

My mind drifts towards what happened this morning; when Edward caught me just in time before doing some more serious damage to myself. Is it possible that it was just mere coincidence that he happened to be there to catch me? Or like I assumed before is he somehow already twisted into the fate of the Baltimore's and my connection to finding out what happened to them? I make the decision to think on this more later and to focus on Edward and the band as they begin. Within seconds I feel the mood and the meaning to the song the words are just as amazing as last night even though this is just a rehearsal and Edward has no mike. He flawlessly falls right into the rhythm and it's obvious that these words were already memorized and taken to heart before he put them on paper. His voice is full of regret and despair but laced with a little hope:

Even now, I realize the time I'll never get.
Another story of the Bitter Pills of Fate.
I can't go back again.
I can't go back again…
But you asked me to love you and I did.
Traded my emotions for a contract to

Commit. And when I got away,
I only got so far.
The Other Me Is Dead.
I hear his voice inside my head…
We were never alive, and we won't be born again.
But I'll never survive with Dead Memories in my heart.
You told me to love you and I did.
Tied my soul into a knot and got me to submit.

So when I got away,
I only kept my scars.....

My focus is suddenly taken away when the strange light from before suddenly appears in front of me. I know I am probably the only one seeing it but I can't help but be curious so I get up off the couch and step towards it, blinking my eyes. This time however, it does not go away. It actually gets brighter...too bright, and the pain in my head worsens until I am on the verge of feeling nauseous. I don't hear anything or anyone near me as I put my hands over my throbbing head in an attempt to touch the pain away with my cool hands. The light gets brighter until I can't see anything else and in the blinding light and dizziness I feel my knees give out.