The Other Side

Once Bella had made it home, the dust started to settle in her brain as she came to terms with what was happening, a simple, almost great day once again ruined by Edward and his never-ending ego, drown her, and everyone around him in the process of swimming for his pride. She turned her head to the side catching a glance of Esme sitting on the tree outside of her room, for a minute the air froze, she felt vulnerable..seen, the lights of passing cars flashed against Esme's face as they held eye contact until it became too much for Bella, so she looked away.

It was weird, this new limbo she had found herself in, would she die a woman? Bella wasn't stupid of course she had thought of this before, backwards and forwards in all the ways, she imagined that maybe it'd be worse to keep fighting to be a part of Edward's life, give up on showing out for Charlie's benefit, if she was to become a vampire could she honestly stand being a woman for the rest of her immortal life with quite literally nothing to do about it..unless she burned..no..too risky.

And even then, despite everything else she had another problem dropped on top of her shoulders.

Bella had no good idea of how this would all turn out, she'd either die, be undead, or miraculously live and all of those things ended badly in her eyes because at the end of it all nothing has truly changed and no matter what she's stuck being someone she doesn't want to for as long as she's breathing. Sometimes she wished Edward was a girl and she was a boy, how much easier would the family have welcomed him, how much differently everything would have gone is life if she was born the opposite gender.

Before she knew it Bella was waking up the next morning confused at how she even managed to fall asleep with all the thought's running rapid in her mind, she heard Charlie's loud footsteps as he made his way upstairs knocking on her room door.

"Hey uhm Bella you've got that Edward boy downstairs for you." He said through the door when she didn't make a move to answer it, all she wanted to do was disappear into her mattress never to be seen or heard from again, but when she thought about the possibility of those killer nomads coming back around and using her father as leverage, she groaned loudly and sat up.

"Tell him I'm getting ready! Please." Bella said raising her voice even though she knew the pale boy could hear her anyways, she sometimes likes to imagine wistfully the idea that he has respect enough for her privacy to not listen to it to what she's saying when he hasn't at the very least been invited inside the home where eavesdropping is much more involuntary by technicality.

She whispered a bunch of angry toned non-sense under her breath before she started looking for clothes to wear, rolling her eyes as her own need for comfort as she struggled to find one of her only good shirts, which was one of 4 that for once didn't cup her chest like some kind of bra-in shirt, she laughed at her own thought as she tugged on her shoes making her way downstairs to where Edward was staring at Charlie with an odd look and Charlie was ignoring him sitting in his chair with the tv blaring football babble.

Bella nodded her head towards the door simple as she walked out. "Bye Charlie!" she said quickly making her way out to the car not much caring for his reply she tugged at the car door only to realize it was locked and huffed under her breath in embarrassment she leaned against the car constantly looking side to side as she waited for Edward to shut the fuck up for once and come outside before she was kidnapped before she even got to hear the plan of how they WOULD have saved her had she NOT been kidnapped while waiting for Edward to- is he seriously still going- finish talking.

Not being able to sit with her thoughts much longer Bella decided to tug at the car door just for the hell of it, but Edward exited the house before she could even begin. He was looking at her weirdly too, but she didn't much care, all Bella wanted was to get away from here, the pit in her stomach was only getting deeper and harder to ignore the longer she stood here out in the open like waiting bait.

A part of Bella wanted to die, honestly as sad as it sounds, she thinks her life would be much better if she couldn't think or feel, she couldn't hate her body if she wasn't in it.

"You can get in the car now Isabella."

"Bella." She replied bluntly as she gripped the door handle and tugged in back the door almost flying open at her force, she got in turning away from him as she slipped on her seatbelt her eyes stuck to the window.

The mansion door slammed open as Emmett ran out lifting Bella up in a bro hug. "B-BEARRRRRR" Bella laughed ruffling Emmett's hair in return her mood now a clear contrast to what it was when she was stuck in that speeding hunk of metal with Edward. "I'm glad you here I have to tell you what we've got planned!" he said as he tugged Bella along behind him pulling her into the house behind him leaving Edward to grumble in the gravel about how he wasn't getting any attention, by the time Bella walked in Edward was sitting in one of the recliners in the living room with the rest of the family scattered across seats around the house downstairs.

"Bella doesn't need to know anything about the plan all that she needs to know is that I- you know her mate? I'm sure you do." He said in his almost too common tone of mocking directed at Emmett causing Rose to roll her eyes, Edward somehow always made every single thing going on in the family solely about him, he has put his own alleged mate, yeah, I said alleged, she thought in her head glaring at Edward in the worst kind of danger he possibly could next to cutting her open in fucking Italy.

"She's an adult Edward and not only that but this is her life, and it's her right to be told how the hell we plan on...oh I don't know... KEEPING HER ALIVE!" Rose said trying to keep her usual cool, but the more she thought about the amount of bullshit that not just Bella, but the entire family was forced to endure because Edward's ego is bigger than his brain.

"Listen, everyone needs to calm down and just..listen, we don't know what kind of things these vampires can do, but there's seven of us, one human, and three of them, so if we do this right we can and WILL come out of this with everyone, in our family." Alice said taking everyone's attention away from Edward and Rose's potential heated conversation before it could even start.

"The one thing we do know is that Bella's scent is their main lead, it's what they need to find out where she is, so we're going to have Jasper and Emmett go running two different directions with some of Bella's things, brushes a jacket, anything she uses more often than other things, stuff with her scent all over it seriously that's the only way he'll believe it's recent and not some old trail from all of her visits. We'll have to find some place to hide Bella, Esme and I can watch over her while everyone else finishes them off, although it brings you guys down to a five v three, you'd still have the advantage, and if anything, find time to call me if I don't show up when things go wrong." Alice said finishing off her explanation looking at Bella for her thoughts.

"What about me?" Edward's voice felt like a nail scratching down a chalk board for five hours straight the second it hit her ears.

"You and Esme are going to defend my mate what will I be doing?"

"Oh, I don't know maybe killing the evil vampires you sicked on her?" Alice replied sarcastically throwing her hands up.

Bella stepped away slowly letting the family get caught up in their very argument-like 'family conversation' walking out onto the balcony she closed the door behind her taking a deep breath of the cold and crisp air that almost stung her lungs.

and then Bella got a call.

A/N -

the groove is grooving and I'm keeping it up for you guys for once I have FINALLY found the perfect direction for this story and I know I've got lots of people looking forward to meeting the Denali's and seeing all the ships and involvements, just know I've got some pretty insane characters coming in to be a part of my simple little story and I plan on banging another chapter to the 100 fanfiction tonight after work, depending on how well this is received I may ignore what little scraps of a schedule I have and just slap another update over here too!