A/N: Okay, this is my first story I've wrote for fanfiction so I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Twilight Saga or the Vampire Diaires.

Chapter 1

Bella POV

"We're leaving…

…I don't want you to come with me…

…You're not good for me…

…It will be as if I never existed…

…a clean break would be better for you…

…Goodbye, Bella."

These are the words that keep repeating themselves in my head as I run through the forest, looking for him. I couldn't let him go. I need him. I love him. And I must find him or everything would be over. What would be the point of living without the reason for my existence?

However, there's a small voice in the back of my mind telling me that he didn't matter. That he is unimportant and I can be happy without him. That actually, I don't need him and shouldn't be running after him like some pathetic teenager. Of course I ignore this voice and carry on.

Time passes. I keep on going, through the tree's and tripping through the undergrowth. It's getting dark and I can't see where I'm going. My foot catches on something, maybe a root, and I fall to the ground. I don't want to get up, but I do. And I try to push further on.

Pain shoots through my head and I fall to my knees. It's so intense, my eyes water and I pull at my hair and claw at my head. I hear this horrific scream, and I'm shocked to find out it's me. My vision gets darker, not like I could actually see much here anyway, and I can feel blood trickling out of my nose. My gums throb, like something is trying to push through. The last thing I hear are leaves rustling and then…nothing.

Angela POV

"Angela, Chief Swan is on the phone. He wants to speak to you," I heard my mother shouting up the stairs to me. I got up and ran down the stairs. Maybe it's finally happening, I think, or what if something has happened to her?

When I reach where my mother is standing she raises an eyebrow at me. I just shrug my shoulders, smile and take the phone off her.

"Hello, Chief Swan," I say, "Is everything ok?"

"Please Angela, call me Charlie. I was just phoning to ask if you've seen Bella. She should have been home hours ago." I can clearly hear the worry in his voice but I'm excited. I was right! She's changing back. I was getting anxious as it has been 3 days since her birthday. I had thought something had gone wrong.

"I'm sure she's fine Charlie. I think she's changing back! Isn't that great? I know it should have happened on her birthday but if she hasn't come home…" I trail off. She isn't at home. Oh God, something has happened to her.

"You really think so? I shouldn't really worry… She can look after herself…" It sounds like he's trying to convince himself. He should know better, he knows better than most how well Isabella can handle herself.

"I'll come right over. I could always perform a location spell and we can go get her. I care about her as much as you do Charlie; I'd hate it if she got hurt, or worse." I shudder, I should be more positive. She's perfectly fine Angela. Stop fretting.

"Ok. And thank you Angela. You're a good friend to Bella. And I'll see you soon." He hung up and I placed the handset back into the receiver.

"So…" said my mother, appearing behind me. I turned around. "What was that about?"

"I would've thought you would've listened in" I smile.

"Well, I could have. Instead I decided to respect my daughter's privacy. So are you going to tell me?"

"And that's respecting my privacy," I laugh, "asking what my conversation was about?" I shake my head. My mother could be nosey sometimes.
"It's Isabella. I believe she is changing back to her normal form. Charlie said she hasn't come home and he is getting worried. I reassured him but we need to find her. If she is changing, we can't leave her out in the open can we?"

"Ah. I was hoping that it would happen sometime soon. I'm looking forward to seeing her again. Anyway, off you go. I'll tell your father what's happening, he'll understand."

"Thanks, Mom!" I hugged her and ran upstairs to put on my shoes. I came back down the stairs, picked up my bag and put on my jacket.

"Be careful Angela, the shifters are back and Isabella will need to know about them. There is only one so far but who knows how many will pop up. Oh and the cold ones maybe a problem too. She'll need to figure out what she is going to do about them." My mother says as she passes my car keys to me.

"Everything will be fine Mom!" I tell her. "I'll be back tomorrow morning" I shout as I run out the door.

I'm outside before my mother can even reply. I get into my car and drive to the Swan residence which, thankfully, isn't too far from my house.

When I arrive, Charlie is on the porch. He waves at me and heads back into the house before I can get out of my car. After I have, I run across the small lawn and up the porch steps, into the house.

I find him sitting at the dining table in the kitchen. As I go towards him, I see a note on the end table in the hallway next to the phone. It reads:

Going for a walk with Edward, up the path. Back soon, B.

I pick it up and suddenly a number of visions hit me like a ton of bricks. They flick by so fast I have a hard time catching them:

Edward and Bella are in the forest.

"Goodbye, Bella," he kisses her head and speeds off leaving her alone.

Bella, now running through the forest, falls to the floor and screams in pain, clutching her head. Blood trickles down her face and she passes out.

Two figures come blurring past the trees towards Bella. One is tall, pale with honey blonde hair reaching his chin with golden eyes. He is holding hands with a small, pixie-like girl who is thin in the extreme with small features. She has black, spikey hair and she too has golden eyes.

With a start, I came back to reality to see a concerned looking Charlie staring at me.

"Angela, I was calling your name for 5 minutes! What just happened to you?"

I thought back over my visions and realised who the people where in it. I have never been grateful for the cold ones until now.

"I had a vision… I saw Bella in the woods. She was in pain, but she passed out. I was right… she is changing…but she's not alone. I saw Alice Cullen and Jasper Hale with her. Charlie…Edward broke up with Bella before she started turning back. Maybe that's a good thing because that would've been hard to explain. The again, she loved him so much, I don't how she'll handle it." I explain as I move towards the table. I furrow my eyebrows in concentration, trying to figure out at what time Alice and Jasper will find her.

Charlie opens his mouth to say something when there is a knock at the door. We both look up at each other with confusion and go to answer the door.

There, standing on the porch are Alice and Jasper, who is holding an unconscious Bella in his arms.

Alice POV

"STUPID EDWARD!" I shout. "He's ruined everything Jazz! He has torn the family apart!" I fumed, my idiotic, I-think-I-know-what's-best-for-people, brother is going to break my best friend's heart.

"Calm down Alice. You know I set this off. Don't blame everything on Edward" he said remorsefully. He felt so guilty about what he did and I've got to make him understand that it isn't his fault. We are all to blame.

"Jazzy, you know it's not your fault. You're an empath, you felt everyone's thirst when Edward threw Bella into the table. He was the one that hurt her. You weren't going to hurt her when she got the paper cut. I saw that, it was he who over reacted. Perhaps we should have told them that you could feel their thirst, and then maybe everyone would've taken more precautions… I should've seen the outcome from the start and I was the one who threw the damn birthday party in the first place!" I flung my hands up in frustration.

"Ali, you know a decision wasn't made so you couldn't have possibly have seen it. You have nothing to feel guilty for. You were doing something nice for your best friend. It was in no way your fault. Edward was the one that made the whole family leave. And yes, we should have told them I could feel their thirst, I just didn't want them to blame themselves for my weaknesses."

I turned around and hugged my wonderful husband. He knew exactly what to say to cheer me up.

"Anyway, we stayed behind for a reason Alice. We can help her. I'm sure she'll love having you around to support her. Do you know when we can go find her?" Jasper asked.

The thing is we didn't actually leave when Edward wanted us to. Oh sure, we pretended to. We told the family that we wanted to leave for a while to distract ourselves from losing Bella. It was pretty believable since I was distraught mess after I saw how Edward was going to leave her. We also told them that Jasper needed to get away from their emotions and work on his control. I said to them that I could use this time to find out about my human life. I know the basic stuff such as my name, where I was born and that I was in an asylum after James' attack on Bella a few months ago.

What we're really doing is staying in a small hotel in Seattle until Edward leaves Forks. We used a separate credit card that Jasper set up so the family couldn't track us, just in case anyone became suspicious and decide to check up on us.

"I'm scared Jasper," I whisper. "I can't see anything of Bella's future after Edward leaves. That's never happened before." And it hasn't. I don't what is going on and I'm afraid something bad will happen to her.

"I'm sure it's nothing Ali. Maybe she just hasn't made any decisions since Edward is taking away the future she wanted."

"I hope so…" I replied, not sounding too convinced, even to my ears.

"I just want a chance to apologise." Jasper told me, his voice pained.

"It's ok Jazz. You know she never blamed you, she forgave you straight away." I looked at the clock. "It's time. Let's go find her."

We walked out of the room to the lobby of the hotel, being careful to move as human would so we wouldn't expose ourselves. It was difficult, I was so excited. I'll get to see my best friend soon!

Once we left the hotel, we took to the back streets and ran to the edge of the city. From there we ran back to Forks and back to Bella.

When we're close to where she is, we heard a deafening scream. We push ourselves even faster and find Bella in the same spot from my vision.

"Alice! I can't feel anything from her! It's like she's not there." I hear Jasper say. I turn to see him looking frantic. His eyes bore into mine and I don't have to be an empath to see how anxious he is. He bends down and picks her up, holding her gently in his arms.

"C'mon, we better get her back to her house. I bet Charlie panicking by now," I tell him.

We ran to the Swan residence. We're both surprised how far she managed to come considering how clumsy she is and dark it is in the forest.

We saw the house in the distance and slowed our speed as we approached the tree line. We walked across the lawn and up the porch steps. I heard two voices, one male, who I guessed was Charlie, and the other female. I knocked on the door and heard two sets of footsteps come towards the door. The door opened, and to our surprise, we saw Angela Weber standing behind Charlie.

"You've found her! Thank God. Come in and place her on the couch in the sitting room, please" Angela says, smiling at us.

I look at Jasper and see that he is as confused as I am. I shrug my shoulders and we head inside, doing as Angela requested. Charlie follows us into the room with a chair from the kitchen, places it next to the couch where Bella is and sits down.

"Thank you for bringing her back." Charlie spoke quietly as he turns his head toward us. "Angela you were right. Do you know when she will be back to normal?"

"It should just take a couple of hours, more or less. We can use that time to explain to these two what's happening. I don't think Isabella would mind even though she wanted to keep this secret. They're too involved now and they're going to find out anyway." She turned towards us and smiled again. "I know you're very confused about what we are talking about right now but I will explain everything and I'll tell you all that I know. Ok?" she asked.

I looked at Jasper and he looked at me. It was obvious he didn't know what the hell was going on either. Angela Weber, who was usually a quiet girl, knew something we didn't about Bella. What had she been keeping from us? And what has she told Angela that she wouldn't tell us?

"Ok then," I answered, "we want to know."

"Well," she began, "I first met Bella 10 years ago. She was visiting Charlie, here in Forks of course, when she saw that my mother and I had been in a car crash. We narrowly missed a deer that appeared on the road when we were driving back from Port Angeles. The thing is Bella isn't exactly human-"

"WHAT?" I screamed, interrupting her. Bella wasn't human? She seemed human, she smelt human. She has a heartbeat and has all the frailties of a human.

"Please, I'll answer any questions you have later, Just listen for now. Both of you." She looked at Jasper and I turned to see him looking like he was going to say something to her. His eyes were wide and he seemed very shocked, just like I was sure I looked.

"Umm, ok. It was just surprising, that's all. I mean she appears so human… How do we know you're not lying?" I ask, raising and eyebrow at her.

"She's not, Alice. I can't feel any deceit coming off her." Jasper whispered so quietly and at vampire speed that no one would have heard him except me.

"I promise you, everything you'll learn tonight is true. Can I please carry one now. We have a lot to get through before Bella wakes up."

"Yes, of course. I'm sorry."

"Anyway," Angela murmurs before speaking louder, "Bella isn't human. She was able to smell the blood and she got curious. She found us in the wreckage of the car. Thankfully, we were still alive but just barely. She got us out and fed us her blood." She stopped talking and glared at me as I opened my mouth to interrupt her again.

"Sorry." I said sheepishly. What did she mean fed them her blood? Why would she do that?

"It's alright. Bella then picked us both up and carried us home. We were healing but we were still unconscious. She supervised us for 24 hours to make sure nothing happened to us. By the next morning we were perfectly fine again. When my mother woke up, she immediately knew what Bella was and expected her to want something in return for saving us. However, she did not. She just didn't want two innocent people to die. You see, me and my mother aren't exactly normal ourselves… We're witches." She pauses, seeing if we would butt in again. I bet Jasper looked as stunned as I was but I couldn't tear my eyes away from Angela.

Witches are real? I thought. I suppose that's plausible, I mean vampire's and werewolves are real too, why not witches.

"My mother had been teaching me how to use my powers since I was 7. I first showed signs of my powers a year earlier but my mother thought I was too young to know about the supernatural. They started to develop and she was forced to tell me because I was afraid of what was happening to me. My father knows what we are as my mother was never able to keep it a secret from him. He supports both of us of course but he doesn't want to know all the details. He said the less he knew about the supernatural the better. And frankly, my mother agreed with him.

Anyway, I'm getting off topic here. Isabella became good friends with my mother and, in turn, me and kept in contact. Witches never really trust other supernatural beings, they usually want something off of us but my mother saw Isabella as a good soul. So when Isabella came back to Forks last March and asked for a favour I readily agreed. She wanted me to place a spell on her so she would appear as human. I couldn't make the spell last longer than 6 months and decided that to make sure that she would turn back on her next birthday. I kind of over shot it a little and that's why she is changing back now."

We stood there quietly, contemplating all of what Angela has said. I realised that Charlie has been quiet throughout the explanation. I looked at him. He seemed sad and I realised that Bella must not actually be his daughter. I would have to ask him about that later.

"So…What is Isabella exactly?" I hear Jasper ask. I'm curious about this too and I draw my attention back to Angela, waiting for her to tell us about that too.

"Her name is Isabella Salvatore…" she starts and I see Jasper stiffen out of the corner of my eye. Before I can ask what's wrong with him, Angela continues.

"She was born in 1844, to a Giuseppe and Marie Salvatore. She is the middle child out of her siblings. She has two brothers, one who is two years older than her and another, who is two years younger than her. Isabella was born and raised in Mystic Falls, Virginia. The Salvatore's were one of the founding families and had settled here in America but had originally came from Italy. They became quite wealthy and owned the most land out of all the founding families.

In 1864, a woman by the name of Katherine Peirce came to Mystic Falls with her maid, Emily Bennett. She claimed she was moving from Atlanta after her parents died in a house fire. She did play the lonely orphan card well, and adding the fact that she was quite wealthy herself, Giuseppe welcomed her with open arms and let her stay in the Salvatore boarding house.

Katherine wasn't who she appeared to be. She was in fact a vampire. She wasn't like you too though-"

I cut her off. "What? How do you know what we are?" This is not good! I did not see this coming! Oh we are going to get in so much trouble!

"I'm a witch; of course I know what you are! And so does Charlie." I looked towards Charlie. He shouldn't know. He can't!

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. It isn't your fault I know anyway, you're not the ones who told me." He says quietly, looking back at Bella who was still on the couch. I appraised her; it seems as if her appearance is changing. Her hair is darker now, not the brown I was used to but black. Her skin was still as pale but she looked even more beautiful now.

"Ok, back to the story. Katherine wasn't like you. She was a traditional vampire whereas you are cold ones. Her type of vampire is more like how they're portrayed in movies; they can burn in the sun, be killed by a stake to the heart, have fangs etc. They are also faster and stronger than you. Isabella will probably explain more about them to you later.

Katherine wasn't the only vampire in Mystic Falls. There were around 20 of them in the town itself. For some reason they were attracted to the town, and mostly just wanted to live their lives in peace. Their feeding habits became obvious though and people in the town were very superstitious. There was a council made up of the founding families that dealt with supernatural stuff. They found out about the vampires in the town and took extra precautions. They started to put vervain, a type of plant that is harmful to traditional vampires, in everything." She stops talking as we start to hear Bella muttering in her unconscious state about someone called Damon.

"Damon…no…stop being an idiot…be nicer…why can't you just get along…" she muttered. I had no idea what the hell she was talking about and who was this Damon guy? Before I can ask, Angela shakes her head, grins at us and carries on with the story.

"Katherine assured the vampires that they wouldn't be harmed, that they didn't have to leave and should just be more careful so they wouldn't arouse suspicion. There was a reason that she didn't want to leave. She was having too much fun messing with Stefan and Damon; the Salvatore brothers. She was sleeping with both of them at the same time and they both knew. So did Isabella. They got into many fights about it. Isabella told me that Katherine compelled them to love her but she and I both know that it might not be true…"She trailed off, looking thoughtful.

"What does 'compelling' mean?" I ask.

"It's something traditional vampires can do. They can control humans, make them do things or forget things. Create new memories for them, stuff like that. They can only do it if the human doesn't have vervain on them or hasn't consumed it," She answers. I wonder if this vervain can affect our type of vampire…

"Where was I…? Oh yeah, Isabella confronted Katherine about her brothers and found out she was a vampire. Katherine force fed her blood and told her she would snap her neck so she would become a vampire herself. Isabella didn't want that and stayed out of her way. What neither of them knew was that Giuseppe had found out Katherine was a vampire and spiked Stefan's food and drink with vervain. So when Katherine went to him that night and fed off him, she actually consumed vervain. It made her very weak and Giuseppe was able to capture her and lock her up.

The whole town was hunting vampires that night. They were gathering them to burn them in the church. Damon and Stefan tried to free Katherine and were shot by their own father for betraying them. Isabella saw this and forgetting she had consumed vampire blood, she killed herself. She would've rather died than live with her father knowing what he did.

When she awoke, she found out that her brothers where in transition, just like her. Emily Bennett who she discovered was a witch told her everything that had happened that night. Both of her brothers had been drinking Katherine's blood for months. Stefan had to be compelled whereas Damon did it willingly. She discovered that she would have to drink human blood within 24 hours to complete the transformation otherwise she would die permanently. She chose to let herself die. She went to find her brothers but could only find Damon. She told me all he talked about was that Katherine was dead, and that there was no point in being a vampire without her. Isabella couldn't stand it and told him goodbye and left to find Stefan. As she was searching for him, she came across a bleeding human and couldn't resist his blood. She ended up draining him.

A few years later she found her brothers and saw that they were vampires. They only got along when she was around but as soon as she left the room all they did was fight. Isabella hated what Katherine did to their family and she hated the fact that all her brother's did was fight. Stefan tried to just live his life but Damon blamed Stefan for becoming a vampire. So she did the only thing she could do; she left. She goes to visit them both every few years.

This is why she wanted to become human for a few months. Her brothers hadn't seen each other for a while and she couldn't stand the rift between them. She wanted a break, where neither of them could find her. She told them they wouldn't be able to find her for a while and they were ok with it. As long as she was happy. And now here we are." Angela finished off her story with a small grin but her eyes looked so sad.

I was astounded by Bella's story… she had been through so much. I looked at Charlie, who was stroking Bella's hair as she whimpered. I realised Jasper wasn't saying anything so I turned towards him. He was looking at Bella with a sad smile on his face.

"Are you ok Jazz?" I asked. He was acting weird.

"Ummm, yeah. Alice I need to tell you something-"but he was cut off by a sharp intake of breath. I spun around and saw Bella opening her eyes…

A/N Please review then I may actually carry this story on. I'll probably update sometime this week. If I do, it should be before Friday.