Hey Everyone! I haven't written fanfic in a while. So here's my new story idea, it takes place before Breaking Dawn. I don't like flamers, so they will be ignored, but I will take helpful criticism and suggestions to heart. I don't really know the last names of any of Carlisle's relatives so just bear with me. Thanks for reading and remember to review!

Even though I might wish it were true with a passion, I sadly don't own Twilight.

CPOV

As I looked down at the young girl in front of me, I felt a sharp pang of sympathy at her dying state. She had been pulled out of a smoldering car accident, almost everything broken, her insides had begun to bake, and most of her delicate blonde hair had been singed off with her skin. For a week now she had been lying in agony, the morphine only able to take the edge off her pain even in unconsciousness. But for this past week, I myself had been dwelling in a predicament as dire as her own. This descendant of mine, one of the last, was about to die and with I being so able to save her, could I do it and trouble my family with one more burden or one more deadly mistake?

It was when she was first brought to me in the small hospital in Forks that I knew I had a choice to make. When she was laid before me and I saw the delicate features on her fire struck skin I was pulled back into the past almost six centuries. On this girl of fifteen, I saw the face of my cousin Jane. Though I did not remember much of my family, since the years had eroded my memory, I recognized her instantly. She had the same pale blonde hair like sunlight, and crystal blue eyes of a calm ocean bay, half open and unconscious from the moment she arrived. Her presence struck me somewhere deep inside and I couldn't help but pause in our efforts to save her life and simply stare. The resemblance was uncanny, I had loved my cousin dearly and now seeing this incarnation of her lay here dying I couldn't force the nagging thought out of my head, 'Change her' it said. 'Save her life, she's your flesh and blood' but I couldn't let myself consider it.

My family had grown so large, and with my dear son Edward's fiancée to be changed soon enough, I simply couldn't handle another newborn in the house. But still the thought stayed persistent even when I reached home. When I walked through the door, the familiar sound of my sons Jasper and Emmett bickering over a self enhanced video game, and the sight of my darling Esme gardening outside did nothing to ease my nerves and calm me from my working day as it normally did.

Esme came in to greet me with an embrace and a sweet kiss, but she had already picked up on my uneasiness. "Dear, I have some work that I must attend to." I said. She pursed her lips but gave a smile anyway, visibly confused and worried.

"Is everything alright?" she asked. I gave her a smile with no feeling behind it and said as smoothly as I could muster,

"Of course darling," and was upstairs in a blink of an eye. I started in right away, pulling up as many family tree tracking websites as I could on the computer, working at breakneck pace. I assumed that most of them wouldn't reach back as far as the fifteenth century but I had to be sure. Especially since the decision was so permanent and dire and relied completely on my confidence in the subject.

When I heard Edward's Volvo roll down our forest path with Bella, I quickly crowded my thoughts with the largest medical mysteries in the world and every bit of history and fact to go with them. Even though that would alert him of my being up to something, I couldn't let anyone know yet about my situation. There was still far too much to discover about the matter.

I soon realized that I would not find what I was looking for on the internet, and turned to a more reliable and ancient form of gathering information, going to the Library of Congress. I had enough connections to be allowed to look through the family histories tucked away there. I didn't wait, every moment was deciding on if she lived or died. I gathered my things and prepared to run to the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

I was about to leave when Alice appeared in my doorway with a questioning look on her face. "Why are you going to Washington DC?" she asked me. I decided on the truth, but not the whole truth to tell Alice.

"I have some research that needs to be done at the Library of Congress." I said, trying to skirt around her. She held firm, she eyed me suspiciously then gave a single hop and said,

"Well have a nice time!" and skipped away. I felt a flood of relief as I left, I briefly told Esme about my plans and evaded Edward's mind and Jasper's sensitivity to emotion because both would know instantly something was wrong. I left quickly and made my way to the Library, to find one of two deciding factors on weather or not my family would be expanded. The first was if she was indeed related to me, the second was weather my family was willing to accept another member including Bella.

APOV

I was sitting on my bed debating on the outfit that I would wear tomorrow, and the one Bella would wear on her date with Edward when a vision suddenly overtook me.

'I saw Carlisle frantically searching books and records in the Library of Congress, he seemed nervous which was out of his character, and he had one more important decision to make after he found what he was looking for.'

It cut off suddenly and I was thrown back into reality. I ran to Carlisle's office to make sure that he was okay. He was visibly guilty and flustered and he came up with a on-the-spot excuse of why he was leaving so suddenly. I pretended not to notice, and could only wait until his next decision would be made.

So, Love, Hate, Both? Talk to me people! Review! I want to know if I should continue this or quit while I'm ahead.

Thanks!

-MSA