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Bella

Bella had a dream and has a chance to change the future

I bolted upright in my bed, temporarily disorientated, this can't be right I just died! I just became one of them! Sweat was pouring off me and fear still ran through my veins like shards of glass. I glanced around me, the room was bare again and the smell of new paint still hung in the air once more. Just like the first time I mused or did it actually happen? what the hell was going on? Whatever this was, I was grabbing it with both hands. They won't fool me again that's for damn sure.

"Kiddo, I thought you wanted to start school today?" my father said through the door, as I groaned loudly and he laughed,

"Eh, I ..." I spluttered needing to get straight in my head what was going on?

"Good job I signed you up to start on Monday then!" He called back laughing,

"Thanks, dad, I love you," I said, really meaning it and he made that noise he always does when feelings are mentioned.

What was happening? As far as I was concerned, I've done both my Junior and Senior years! I'd survived a vampire attack from a nomad; a visit to the vampire Capital of the world, If that was even real. A newborn army attack, courtesy of the nomad's mate and of course, my nightmare of a wedding. The happiest day of your life, my ass! This was where all the humans attending it became lunch for the other guests, including my parents. Then to cap it all off, I was forcibly impregnated and bore a hybrid child before I started to die in excruciatingly slow agony. Then he changed me at the last second to become his slave and prisoner, thank God I woke up then.

Okay, so was that just the first go around, this better not be a scarier more painful version of Groundhog Day! I'll be beyond pissed if it is and how was I going to stop it happening this time? First things first, protect Charlie and the people of Forks. How God damn it? She, the sicko psychic can't see past the shifters, that's good news. I need to speak to Shaman Ateara, alone very soon. No involving anyone else until I speak to him. Okay, I have a plan, first, avoid them. Then how do I get to the Rez? Charlie! I leapt out of bed and threw on my robe, following him downstairs,

"Dad, what classes do I have? Does Forks do AP classes, do you know? I was thinking of swapping out for Chemistry and picking Biology back up when they catch up to me if they don't. What do you think?" I asked him and he seemed pleased to be consulted.

"I've got a list here, Shelley Cope said for you to do what was best for you since they don't do AP here and you're ahead in so many things!" he smiled at me, all proud as punch and while we had coffee I arranged classes which avoided them at every turn.

Even making sure I didn't have gym class at all, electing for Algebra instead, less painful all-round for everyone. Lunch break away from them too, I could have it in the library, I know for a fact they have motion sensor security cameras in there. No, maybe I should stay in the crowded cafeteria, they wouldn't try anything there I hoped. So far so good.

"Okay lets phone Shelly and set this up for Monday. Then if you'd like, I wanted to take you to the Rez, Billy has a truck for sale, but Old Quill has a little car he also wants to get sold. You can pick which one you want, it'll be my welcome home gift to you" dad said and my eyes filled up and I blinked, I had to make it up to him, I treated him so badly the first time, encouraged of course by them. I have to stop calling it the first time; it was a vision a dream, a warning!

"Thanks, dad, you're the best," I said giving him a hug, as I got up for the phone, he just harrumphed as usual.

"By the way, the school has a smaller car park around back. It's for teachers, officials and a few students use it too. Forks PD has a spot and it all yours for the next eighteen months, I cleared it with everyone at the station" Charlie said smirking, pretty pleased with himself.

He's a lifesaver, but I was aware of a couple of changes from the first time, no warning! Already things were different and I'll have to keep an eye on that. I assume as long as they are minor, everything else would stay the same. So I had to stay away from them at all costs. Also, I would have to shut Mike Newton down right away and Jacob Black too, that was not happening. I was leaving Forks for college alive, single and supernatural free! I hoped.

FMO

I had felt a tremor run through me when we passed the Forks sign when I arrived last night, was that only yesterday, but in the warning eighteen months ago? Anyway, I put it down to just being here in rainy Forks, but I wondered I it wasn't Forks itself. Like something in my blood warning me, telling something was coming.

"Dad strange question, do we have Quileute blood in our family?" I asked as we drove to the reservation later that morning,

"Yes, twice actually. Your Great, Great, Great grandfather married a Quileute woman, she was his second wife and he was the only white man ever to have lived on the reservation permanently. That's where we get the brown eyes and hair from. More recently Molly Swan married into the tribe; in fact, she was Old Quill's wife. She was a second cousin of mine I think, maybe third!" Charlie Swan explained and Bella now saw why her dad was so tight with the tribe; it was in the blood so to speak.

"How come you never said before?" I asked genuinely interested,

"Your mother wasn't the greatest fan of my heritage; Billy and I are distant cousins, Harry too. My Great grandfather, you're Great Great, moved off the rez as a young man to go to college and well, here we are still in Forks. Separate but together so to speak! Why?" Dad asked now,

"I just felt a real connection, the other night when we arrived. It was a little eerie, but not scary. You know?" I said trying and failing to explain.

"I do actually, why do you think I've never left. This is home, truly home for me and I'm not saying your mum was racist or anything, she had a couple of good friends down here on the Rez and she did love me once upon a time" he said quickly and gave the old I don't know why shoulder shrug,

"I know, she's a bit judgy for an old hippy. Native American friends would be okay, but as family not so much. I suppose she was a product of her time and I know Nana Marie was a bit of an old snob about that sort of thing and all!" I said snorting slightly, yes she wouldn't have wanted that fact known.

"Tell me about it, she really didn't care for me at all, Police officer or not!" Dad said with a sigh, shaking his head.

Well, that made so much sense; it truly could have been a spirit walk or a vision quest! I really have to talk to shaman Ateara now! We went to the Black's place first and Billy's truck was as big, red and noisy as I remembered from my dream! Also very, very rusty the poor old thing, so not for me thanks, I won't repeat all my mistakes. But the Shaman's car was a slightly older than me two-door VW beetle and I loved it on sight. It was in great condition for all that.

It wasn't yellow, but it wasn't cream either, maybe ecru was the colour I was looking for. No matter this was the car I wanted,

"It was the last car Molly had and I've never wanted to part with it before. But you're a Swan too, so I think she'll be pleased" Old Quill rambled,

Dad had moved off to talk to Harry Clearwater and I seized my chance,

"Shaman Ateara, you know my heritage, yes? I think, well I'm sure actually, that I had a sort of spirit walk or vision quest!" I said as quietly as possible.

"When child?" He asked staring deeply into my eyes,

"Last night! My first night back in Forks since I was a child" I huffed out and he nodded.

"Yes. your first time back since you hit puberty I assume?" he murmured and I nodded this time,

"We need to talk alone! So you come visit me tomorrow at twelve" he whispered,

"I'll tell you all about your history with the tribe If you'd like dear," he said finishing loudly and I saw we were not alone,

"Hey Bells," the young man said and I guessed this was Jacob Black due to the unasked for use of my dad's nickname for me.

"Hey ...!" I said raising my eyebrow and he squirmed slightly,

"It's Jake, Jacob Black" he answered in a rush.

"Wow, kid you've grown since I last saw you. What are you now fourteenish?" I asked knowing he has just turned fifteen a few months ago,

"No! I'm six..., I'll be sixteen soon" he replied clearly disgruntled by my comment and trying to make out he was older.

"Well good for you, I'll be eighteen in a couple of months myself, you'll just be going into your junior year when I leave for college, crazy huh!" I said brightly and he huff and wandered off, Old Quill smirked at me knowing exactly what I was doing.

Hopefully, that was now stopped in its tracks, these Quileute boys all had futures and none of it was with me. The dream version of my life proved that in fact being Jacob's friend had caused so many complications because he was so young and immature. So tomorrow I would tell the Shaman my weird story and see what he suggests.

I told my dad Old Quill invited me for lunch to tell me about our families past and he seemed really happy about it. Maybe glad I accepted it all so easily, but why wouldn't I, he really should have known I wouldn't be bothered by it. Just as we were leaving I was presented with a dream catcher, a Quileute blanket and a handcrafted cooking pot, I think.

"I'll explain their importance tomorrow child, but you might need their protection now!" Shaman Ateara said and I sighed thankfully and took them willingly.

Of course, they already know there are vampires in Forks and want to make sure we are protected. Once back in Forks, I laid the blanket over the back of our couch in the main room, put the pot on top of the fridge and hung the dream catcher over my bed. I had a feeling these would help to keep Alice Cullen from seeing what goes on in our house, which made me happy. Now what to do about my window?

"Dad, I know this is silly. But could you put something over this side window? I like to sleep with a window open, but I don't want any strange critters joining me in the night!" I said half laughing but deadly serious,

"Will do, I've got some security mesh around here somewhere, I'll rig it up to the house alarm today, that'll wake the dead if anything tries to get in," he said patting my shoulder.

I set off to fill the cupboards in dad's kitchen that were plainly in a very bad way. Was he trying to re-enact 'Old Mother Hubbard', granted there was just two of us, but we need to eat more than fish? Some home cooking would do him the world of good and I was going to make sure we ate together, at least once a day depending on his shifts. I would not be ignoring my father this time around, no matter what. He must have felt so unwanted and no wonder he was always working double shifts. God, I was a nightmare in that dream. All I cared about was them or him specifically.

FMO

Alice

"Alice? Would you like to explain why she was not there today? You said I would meet my singer today, no you insisted I would!" Edward whined petulantly, as we drove home from Forks High,

"I don't know! I saw her coming and now nothing. I can't even see her father anymore and he's been clear since we moved here! I don't understand it!" I answered stamping my foot, almost going through the floor of his stupid Volvo.

"Where, by the way, is your mate, Alice? Do you even know?" Edward inquired, saying the word mate as if it was something dirty, pitiful child that he is,

"He's gone to Texas and stop calling him that! That imbecile of a brother he has called and asked for his help! Why he insists on keeping up with them I don't know! Lord, it's not as if I haven't tried to get shot of them a million times" now I whined at him, just as childishly and pathetically as he had at me.

I hate when things don't go as I planned! He does everything else I tell him, like wearing proper clothes and speaking without that dreadful accent. But when it comes to those hillbilly's, he just digs his heels in. I will not associate with riff-raff like them, how dare he continue to defy me!

"Well maybe it is for the best, he is not here. He is so self-righteous for a wanton barbaric killer! Why you insisted on keeping him in the family is beyond me!" Edward spat, the disgust and loathing dripping from his tongue,

"You know why Edward, he's our protection from the vampire world. This damned diet is a humongous target painted on our backs! We need his gift, his reputation and once we have her and the child as well we can take over our world and one day the humans too!" I said, my eyes glazing over and seeing my glorious future, just the way I decided it should be.

"As long as I do not have to fornicate with her! That would just be too disgusting, humans are coarse, malodorous and unsightly!" the arrogant asshole said,

Not realising at that moment just how unattractive and malevolent he himself looked. Most human females were repulsed by him as it was and It wasn't because he was a vampire either. His holier than thou attitude just rubbed everyone up the wrong way.

"You know fine that you won't, stop going on and on about it or everyone might think you actually wanted too! Carlisle will artificially impregnate her. He's finally found a way to stop our venom killing the ovum. All you need to do is dazzle her, separate her from the herd and then we strike" I said pleased with how my plan was coming along,

"Our plan Alice!" he said reading my mind.

"Whatever!" I said snidely, this was my plan, my idea and not his!

"Well? How did it go? Did you manage to not kill her?" Esme rushed out as we arrived at the house.

"She was not at school; in fact, Alice has no idea where she is! That can only mean one thing, she is at the reservation!" Edward spat disparagingly and angrily,

"Well, I'm off to do some shopping, for food for the awful human! Wish me luck, God I hate having to interact with humans" Esme said leaving the house quickly.

"Enough Edward, Rose and Emmett will be back soon and thank god he's not the mind reader. They'll have to go you know they were cover in the past! But now they are becoming a hindrance, why did Carlisle change ungifted humans, I don't know!" I said as he flounced past me up to his room, asshole! I'm not killing them, he is.

FMO

Bella

I was just leaving the market when Esme Cullen arrived, so I hid behind my car and watched as the vampire matriarch readied herself to go inside. Well, I now saw something I'd never been privy to before, Esme Cullen's gift. She changed before my disbelieving eyes from a modern, well dressed young woman into the epitome of a domestic housewife. A little frumpy, but with a gentle, kind demeanour. It had all been a lie, a front, for my benefit and the townsfolk.

What was their game? Why was this gift I had that important? Important enough to hold me hostage for and to force me to have a hybrid offspring! Although I had never acknowledged it to myself since I woke up, that child had not been Edward Cullens! She had blonde hair and clear blue eyes, so just whose sperm did that bastard, the so-called man of science actually use? His own or Jaspers, because they were the only blond men in that house! Well, I'd never know now, because that would never happen, thank God!

Tomorrow couldn't come quick enough for me; I had to get some form of protection from the tribe because a mere human couldn't fight them alone. And even though Jake had been there at the end, he believed everything Edward told him of course. That I wouldn't terminate the pregnancy, that I was letting it kill me. When in fact it was Edward, withholding food and punishing me. Because being pregnant had ruined my blood he said and because of it, he would never get to taste it again.

But they did that to me, so how was it my fault? Surely Carlisle knew that would happen or was Edward Cullen that unstable and didn't listen to anyone but himself? Yes, I was sure that was it, he had become more and more controlling as the months past. Eat this, wear that, do this, don't do that! I had lost all my friends due to him, twice! No way was that happening in this reality. I have to be more outgoing, more noticeable! Yes, if I made myself more high profile, then it would be harder for them to get at me.

So for once, I had to stand out from the crowd, not be the invisible mouse they expect. I also need to get a ward, a protective ward! One that could not be removed by a vampire! Ah, a tattoo a small tribal tattoo to ward off danger. Visible to all on my neck over my carotid artery, all that shit about them going for the jugular. As if, who wants to drink dying blood that's dirty, they go for the good clean stuff, yes a tattoo will be perfect. I hope Shaman Ateara could do that for me.

I knew Edward Cullen was there outside my home last night, I heard his movements in the tree, geez not very stealthy. So I made sure he heard nothing important or pertaining to the tribe. Dad and I watch a game before I turned in for the night, getting changed in the bathroom. I didn't need the pervert watching me, because I know he did in the dream. Also, the hiss when he realised my window was wired up to the house alarm and it would be beyond obvious if he tampered with it. Yes, this was not going as he expected it to at all. How had I fallen for his crap in my vision, he had to have used his glamour on me? So no looking him directly in the eyes and hold my breath if he exhales over me, he used to do that a lot too.

FMO

Edward

"Carlisle, something is wrong with Alice's visions. Nothing she said would happen has done so! That human was not at school yesterday but at the reservation! That human thing now has her window alarmed, I could not get in like I was supposed to and the house stinks of shape-shifters! I think Alice is defective!" I told my coven leader and father of sorts,

"Now Edward, that's a little harsh, you know her visions depend on decisions made! Obviously, the Swan girl decided not to go to school until Monday and also decided to have her window secured! It's not the end of the world, just be patient. You'll never get her to fall for you behaving like a spoilt child whose toy was stolen from him!" he replied haughtily and I was not happy, how dare he insult me.

"Be careful Carlisle, I do not think you want Esme knowing about all your little dalliances, now do you?" I said reminding him who had the upper hand here, he clammed up at that and walked away,

It was Friday today and I intended to follow that awful thing everywhere and see what was going wrong. What is she driving? That is not the truck Alice said Charlie Swan would give her! Where is she going? Damnation the reservation again, why? She better not be showing an interest in any of those mutts! Well at least Alice got two things right, I cannot read her puny mind, it is probably a blessing, humans are all so banal and her blood is divine, I cannot wait to taste it!

Well since she is there I will go and investigate around her house, let us see what else is different. Well now I know why Alice can no longer see Charlie, these Quileute things are new. I cannot destroy them myself, but I will order the human to do it for me. Once at school, I will have her under my power in seconds and then we can get this farce moving along, as it should.

FMO

Bella

I saw him following me as far as the treaty line. Jesus, is he really a vampire? I've never seen such arrogance, he assumed I wouldn't know he was there and didn't even try to hide at all. What I thought in my vision was him being mysterious and amazing was utter crap. He was a bonafide asshole of the first order. God is my taste in men that bad? Maybe I should stay celibate, just in case.

I sighed with relief as I crossed the boundary, realising for the first time I could feel it. It's not marked and in the dream thingy I never could work out where it was. I truly was a Quileute descendant, thank the spirits, he obviously got to me before I could work it in the vision. I'm desperate to see what Shaman Ateara thinks about all of this. When I pulled up outside his house there seemed to be an awful lot of people milling about. He invited me in shaking his head,

"I asked for privacy to talk to you, therefore everyone is hanging about! Never mind I have a plan! He said handing me a note,

He was going to dream walk in my head and see the vision for himself, that way nobody else would know anything. Well okay, not what I thought would happen today. He handed me a drink then and said,

"All of it please, then just relax and I will do the rest"

The next couple of hours were surreal, to say the least. He and I walked together through my dream world and we saw firsthand what happened, that time. Saw things I'd missed or discounted and he was angry about it all, I could feel it. Some things like my first meeting with the family, how Jasper looked past the vision me and straight into where my eyes would have been, then the shamans too and he stepped back away from vision Bella, it was as if he felt us here.

How when it came to the wedding the house was actually empty, I saw what I'd been told to see and so did Charlie. How they'd blown it up to cover the massacre of the guests and how it broke me as it was designed too. How Rose, Emmett and Jasper also died that day, but not in an explosion. They were executed and their bodies were thrown into the burning building. How Jasper had locked his eyes on our position again as they killed him, he knew we were there. Was that because he was an empath, how could that be right if it was a dream?

The fact that what I had seen was not the truth, just a manufactured illusion they fed me. I had to show the shaman what the unconscious me we could see lying there, was seeing. Still thinking we were in Forks, that the other three were alive and that I wanted this. But I had to have been fighting it because some of that dream was not their illusion but the truth. Because I'd seen it it was there in my head in that incarnation of my life, just hidden behind their lie. Shaman Ateara patted my hand saying,

"You are an amazing girl, not only showing me what might have been, but what they wanted it to be, as well. A vision within a vision, very rare Bella, as I said you're special. You just showed me an alternate timeline yet within it another possibility. He is your only ally in this life now. The other two were used; he will gain their help as well"

It was soon after that I woke, feeling refreshed and less afraid as well. Well, it was good to know I had one ally and possibly three, but how do they keep Edward and Alice from finding out. That would be a problem for them, well I knew Jasper could do it I'd seen him, but the other two couldn't get around Alice as easily.

Fornicate - have sexual intercourse with a person who you are not married to