It Wasn't Meant To Be, A TwilightxBTS Crack!Fic

Battle of Victoria Pt.1

The fern was now smeared with my blood from the prick on my finger. I had fallen, as expected, and part of my finger had been sliced by rock. I was ready to reach for the First Aid kit, but we were already at the baseball field. It would drive the newborns crazy.

"That will do it," Edward chuckled. He had the band-aid ready and have it to me. The temperature was dropping slowly, the sky was like a blank sheet. Snow was coming, and we were going to be hiking.

"You're...not uncomfortable?" I wasn't sure what his current stance was on small pricks of blood, especially when it was my blood. He shook his head.

"Blood hasn't bothered me since those 24 hours I thought you were dead. I always wondered how Carlisle did it, but now I know."

I covered the band-aid. I wonder if loss and grief were the only things that could change vampires from their frozen state, the way they dramatically changed humans. Edward didn't have the same experience as I did, one where I could move on. I didn't doubt that he had done what he thought was best, but with a brain that was stuck in the melodrama of the 20th century at the height of the first world war and the need to be a soldier... that didn't mean it was great.

"Are you sure you're okay to be alone with Jacob?" Edward asked. 

"I have pepper spray," I shouldered my backpack. "You'll be okay?"

"I'm not the one you should be worried about," Edward looked past me. Jacob was there, hands in his pockets. He looked highly uncomfortable after he took a look at my cast.

"Did Leah give you an earful?" 

"She threatened me," Jacob looked gloomy. 

"You have the entire way to give your apology sermon and I am ready to break my other hand if needed," I warned. He needed to carry me so that my scent would be masked quicker. 

"No funny business," I held my one hand around his neck for stability as Jacob ran away from the clearing. 

"I won't."

The trees passed by me and the heat from Jacob's body was slowly seeping in through my hiking clothes. He was like a heat radiator.  We didn't speak for a long time as Jacob was highly focused on getting me away from the base.

"I haven't seen any animals," Jacob noticed as he slowed down. "It takes a lot to silence the forest this way."
"You notice things like that?"

"I've always had," Jacob shrugged. "I grew up around nature."

"I've always wanted to learn how to do that, but I had other things to worry about," I said sadly. I wondered what it would have been like if Renée had stayed in Forks, or if I had at least spent more time here. If none of this had happened and I would have had more time to be a normal person. I wondered if Jacob would act the way he did.

"You picked one hell of a day to go hiking, that's all I have to say," Jacob slowed down a little bit and let me down on my feet. "Now, you can walk. We're far away enough."

"Thank you," I wobbled onto my feet. I felt the floor was slowly freezing. It had been mushy only a couple of hours ago.

Jacob nodded towards my bracelet. "You're still wearing it?"

"I never take it off," I looked at him weirdly. "But if you're talking about the charm, I haven't had the time and hand to take it off. Don't get it twisted."

"I thought you weren't a grudge-holder," he pleaded as he caught up to me with ease. I kept him at an arm's length away from me. 

"I'm more than just holding a grudge, Jacob. You went against what I said," I didn't know why I had to keep talking about this topic. "And there is only so much grief I can handle."

"I'm just a little mad, you know?" Jacob frowned, but nothing else indicated that he was going to flip out. "You accepted Edward back into your life so easily. After all that you went through."

"If this weren't going on, I wouldn't have," I said honestly. "Sure, knowing mythical creatures are alive is fun and things can be a lot more fun, but not this. I don't want to be hunted for the rest of my life."

"But you could have that, the best of both worlds. With me... if you wanted."

"I could have that with someone else," I thought of Jungkook's brown eyes and gentle heart. I wonder if he was hanging out with the boys or with his dog. 

"Jeon, right," Jacob looked sadly. "I forgot about him. He seems a little inhuman sometimes, I give you that."

"If you knew," I grinned. 

Edward had set up camp by the time we arrived. A light layer of white dust befell the floor and Edward had a campfire going for my sake. It didn't look like it was going to be a fun day in the woods. I pulled out the thermos, and my book, and drank the bitter tea, but it was still of comfort to me. I ignored the two boys who were busying themselves somehow. Jacob at some point wolved out and went to communicate with the pack. Maybe camping would not be so bad after all.

I noted a penciled underline in Chapter 43 that hadn't been there before. I had thought it would have been the iconic line "If I loved you less, I would be able to speak about it more" but the part afterward was the part that had been highlighted: "I have blamed you and I have lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it"

Written on the margins, the small careful handwriting wrote: you know that, too

Tears gathered in my eyes and I cried. It was silent, though I wanted to cry out loud all that came was a silent cry. I wondered if it was a good idea to have broken up with Jungkook, but it wasn't fair for us. We had both been spreading ourselves thin, like too little butter over too much bread. But I still wanted him. It had only two days, I gave it that, and we had broken it off in the kindest way possible. It would have ended either way, but I didn't want it to end because of two idiots and a vampire.

"Bella?" Edward asked. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, it's just Jane Austen," I cleared my throat. "Don't mind me."

I didn't think for one bit that he believed that, but he didn't interfere.