Alice had been correct in suggesting I drive my car to school today, I thought to myself as I sped down the forest lined highway. I desperately needed to see Carlisle, and it couldn't wait until he arrived home, whenever that would be.

The hospital came into view as I rounded a corner. I pulled into a parking space and nearly slammed my car door shut as I exited my vehicle. I caught myself at the last second and gently closed the door. Whenever I got angry or frustrated I would forget my strength, and sort of lose it.

A nurse greeted me at the front desk. "Hello, Bella. What kind I do for you?"

"I'm looking for Carlisle. Is he busy?" It really didn't matter what she said I would go and see him anyway. It wasn't like she could stop me. I was merely following protocol.

"Umm, I don't think so, but let me check…" I was gone before she could finish her sentence. The way I would find Carlisle would be ten times faster than anything she could do for me.

I followed his scent until I found where it was strongest. I nearly ran down the hallway and found him at the end of it reading a patient's chart.

"Hello Bella," he said in greeting.

Hello Carlisle, I need to speak with you, it's rather urgent."

"Well, I don't have rounds for another hour so we can go to my office if that suits you?"

"That suits me just fine," I said moving to where I was standing next to him.

He wrapped an arm around my shoulders and I laid my head against his and he kissed my forehead. It had been an unusually long day and Carlisle's love and support was exactly what I needed. The gestures that he displayed towards me were so fatherly. Although Carlisle wasn't my biological father, he was my father in so many ways. There was nothing I kept from him, and nothing I wanted to, to be honest. He was my father as far as I was concerned. He had given me life eternal, so much more than my human father had ever given me.

When we were safely in his office with the door shut, he examined my face. "What's wrong, Bella?" He asked with obvious concern.

"I almost killed someone today." I said quietly. His look was immediately sympathetic.

"What do you mean?"

"I planned ways to kill him, Carlisle!" I said nearly yelling. "Once I caught a whiff of his blood I began to plan ways to kill him each more plausible and easier to execute than the last."

"Hmm, you've never been so driven by one person's scent before. This is rather strange." He mused quietly to himself.

"You're responding to this so calmly," I said almost to the point of indignation. He looked up at me a mild expression on his face.

"Unless there's something more you aren't sharing with me, there's really no reason to be upset." I sat and thought about what he had just said. The reason I was so upset was because Alice had seen Edward coming to us as a vampire, not a human. But not just any vampire, in Alice's vision Edward was the love I had been waiting for for nearly a hundred years.

I sighed, "Okay so you remember the vision I told you about that Alice had where there was a new vampire coming to us?"

He nodded and I continued. "Well I sort of left out that he is supposedly Edward Swan and that this vampire, Edward, is supposed to be my true love."

"Ahh, I see. And from what you just told me I'm going to go ahead and assume that this person you almost killed today is Edward Swan."

"And you would be correct in your assumption. Carlisle I didn't tell you who the vampire was because, honestly, at the time, I didn't even know who he was."

He nodded. "This is understandable." He paused before continuing. "I think there's a name for the reaction you had to Edward today." I stared at him with wide eyes.

"Well go on, spit it out."

He smiled and began to speak again. "I can't recall the exact terminology, but it all translates out to mean something along the lines of his blood sings for you." I stared at him open mouthed. "You tell me this now, when I just told you that Edward is changed into a vampire by someone before I fall in love with him! What is wrong with you man!"

He smiled. "First of all, you told me to spit it out. Secondly, just because he affects you strongly doesn't mean you are going to be the person who bites him. Thirdly, nowhere in Alice's vision does it say you fall in love with him after he is already a vampire." I closed my eyes and slumped back into my chair.

I knew Carlisle was right, but it was so much easier to believe he wasn't.

"How do you know…" he stopped me before I could even get the statement out.

"I don't know. But I know you, and I know you're too good and kind-hearted to bite someone on purpose." I was still feeling slightly rebellious even though I knew Carlisle had won the argument.

"I would need a heart, to be kind-hearted." He didn't say anything to my reply but just looked at me and smiled.

I sighed again. "What should I do now?"

It was his turn to sigh. "You go home talk it out with the rest of your family the way you want to, and then you go from there."

I rose from my chair. "That sounds a ton better than what I would have done."

"Hmmm, and what would you have done?"

"Left here, and gone to Edward's to try and apologize, after my behavior today he probably thinks I hate him. But you're right I do want to talk to the rest of my family first."

"Hmm. Well whatever you decide to do once out of my presence, I'm still here if or when you need me."

I smiled at him. "Thanks…Dad."

He returned my smile. "Anytime Daughter."

I continued to smile as I left the hospital to talk with my mother, sisters and brothers.