Author: PeachesTrue

Summary: Bella dies in a car crash, Post eclipse. Edward is agonized but at home when Alice 'sees' it and the Cullens are able to stop him from going to Italy again. 2 years later, the Cullens are at Dartmouth. What happens when Bella turns up there? Is it really Bella?

A/N: This stories been in my head for a while and I thought I might as well get it out and onto paper, well, screen. Enjoy!

EPOV

"Bye, Edward" my Bella whispered in my ear. Her scent still scorched my throat but I could handle it, for her.

"I could still drive you home you know" I told her, like I'd told her a million times already.

"Edward I'll be fine" she murmured, pulling back, "You'll see me tonight. If you're really that worried that I won't get home then get Alice to keep an eye on me" I smirked,

"Fine, ALICE!!" I yelled and heard her response of,

"Yes, I know!!" Bella groaned and screwed her eyes tightly shut, blocking my window to her beautiful soul. She sighed,

"I didn't really mean that you know. I can get home own my own fine you know." I laughed. Yes, I did know that but it wouldn't stop me from worrying. It was only a few weeks from graduation when we could be married and I'd bite her. I wanted it and didn't want it. I wanted it because Bella would be stronger, she wouldn't smell as delicious and she'd be with me forever. All selfish I know, but I am essentially a selfish creature. Thus the reasons why I didn't want her to become such a despicable creature. Bella deserved so much more than me but I'd already tried that and it had failed horribly. She would always argue anyway that it was she that didn't deserve me. An insane train of thought, as if any devil could be worthy of an angel. I quickly pulled myself out of that thought. Bella was pulling away from me.

"I'll see you tonight then," I said finally helping her into her truck, acquiescing. Bella laughed and waved as she started her truck and drove down the driveway at an incredibly slow pace. I went inside to change. I had just pulled on a fresh shirt when Alice shrill shriek of 'Edward' rang through the house. I was by her side in seconds. Her dark eyes were wide and glazed over, her vision rushed into my head.

Bella's head was swaying slightly at the music coming from her speakers. Debussy no doubt. Alice's vision was completely silent. A small smile graced Bella's lips. Her eyes however were trained on the road in front of her.

Suddenly Alice's visionflickered. Bella appeared again but at a different place, a place that definitely wasn't Forks.

Bella's head was bopping to the music this time. As if it was something more modern. Her eyes were closed and a dark shadow was running along the road beside her. Bella's eyes opened and narrowed onto the shadow and she laughed. She shook her head and…

Alice's vision flickered again.

Bella's head was swaying again. Her eyes widened suddenly, she turned the wheel sharply. Not a good idea as she was on a bridge. Her truck fell off it and fell down into the shallow river below. Suddenly there was sound. Bella's scream off shock and terror; the muted crash of her truck hitting the shallow water. Bella crawled out. A gash ran across her head deeply and something was sticking out of her stomach. Her breathing was coming out in short, shallow gasps. She grabbed a stone and started to drag it across her truck's door…

"No!!" I yelled. Launching myself from the house in the direction Bella would have gone. A single mantra repeated in my head over and over.

'Why did you let her go? You shouldn't off let her go. Why?'

I know why. Because Bella had put forward very strong points on why she could drive home on her own. Damn her! Why did she have to have such strong logic?! Why did I have to give in? I reached the bridge where Bella had fallen off and I immediately saw why. A large patch of ice covered most of the right lane. Bella had seen it at the last minute and swerved to avoid it. I could see where her truck had careened off the edge, the barrier was broken outward and there were still a few sparks lit from where metal ha scrapped metal. I could hear the faintest heartbeat; the shallowest breathing. I was down by the truck in seconds flat. There etched crudely onto the metal was Bella's message.

'Guess you were right. I love y-'

It ended suddenly, as if she'd just suddenly stopped. There were no drag marks. She hadn't fallen to the ground, too exhausted to continue. And she hadn't stopped and dragged herself away, there was no track marks.

Then it hit me. Bella wasn't here. Her truck was but she wasn't. It was then I realised the beating had stopped. It was silent except for the howling of a wolf in the distance (No human would have heard it) and the faint cawing of a raven even further in the distance. (A/N: Ravens are the living symbol of death. Medieval people used to believe that if you heard a raven crow then someone had just died)

One word was running through my mind as my family arrived.

Italy.

"Hold him." I heard Alice say. Emmett and Jasper immediately held both my arms.

"You're not going off to Italy again, Edward. Bella wouldn't have wanted that. Besides, Bella's not here and Alice is wrong sometimes. Remind yourself what happened last time, son" I heard Carlisle say. I'd known they weren't going to let me go anywhere from the moment Emmett and Jasper had gripped me. Italy was no longer and option, and therefore death. I'd be trapped here for eternity. Alone. As they dragged me back home. I caught Carlisle, inspecting Bella's scrawled message and the area around it that gave the impression that she'd simply disappeared. An impossibility. Then a single thought entered my mind that made me shut down completely.

Before she left, I didn't tell her I loved her. I didn't even call her 'love'.