JACOB HAS BEEN AGED UP TO 18!! HE IS THE SAME AGE AS BELLA!!
jacob loved bella effortlessly, his affection was constant and unwavering.
bella, left wounded by edward, didn't realize she had started to open her heart for him.
cannon divergence
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across the united states, the cullens had settled into a semi-nocturnal life in new york. life was dull, and they were somewhat happy about it.
alice was currently playing chess with jasper, he was a worthy opponent. especially now since she'd been working on blocking her gift to make the game more fair.
"checkmate!" she grinned, this was the first time she'd actually won against him. jasper clapped for her and let her do a victory dance, but they both knew he let her win. "another round?" jasper asked fondly, and quickly reset the board when she nodded.
in her moment of happiness, the barrier around her gift failed and she was shown a vision.
bella sat on a log on first beach, her hair was shorter in this vision, it fell just above her collar bones in thick and glossy waves. her eyes were warmer than she ever remembered them being.
they were alive with a passion to live, rather than surviving whatever bella deemed detrimental. there was sounds of a rowdy group of boys in the direction she was looking in, but sat next to her was a woman with garish facial scars and in her right was another woman who was facing bella.
waves crashed and the group laughed loudly, it was peaceful. then suddenly a large muscular silhouette loomed over them. they all turned to face it, and she couldn't see their faces.
"what was that?" edwards voice asked. it was strained and scratchy. "edward..i'm sorry." he let out a roar of anguish and crashed through one of the floor to ceiling windows and into the dark city below them.
"alice, dolly, what did you see?" jasper pulled her thoughts from edward, and she turned to look at him. she was unable to speak, her grief was too strong, much stronger than the grief of any dead humans she'd seen before. "bella..she..she.." rosalie scoffed from the couch and stood briskly.
she collected herself enough to not snap right away and instead asked "why should we care about some human? she's gonna die eventually." jasper felt alice's heart constrict and he held her tighter while staring down his sister.
"in my vision..bella was happier..and at first beach with other people..and she was so happy..and then this figure of this man..and then nothing..i'm trying to look but i..can't..nothing. there's nothing." rose stopped for a moment, and her posture softened.
she didn't say anything else. she'd run her mouth too much already, if she said anything now alice would snap. instead she placed her hand on alice's shoulder in a silent comfort. she pulled away and went into her and emmett's shared room.
she was never fond of bella's blatant lack of humanity. she was too willing and too quick to give up her life force. and to edward of all people. she didn't hate bella, in face she envied her more than she'd admit.
but did her sisters vision mean bella would die the same way she would? left to die on the beach in her own misery? rosalie knew she couldn't save her, no matter how much she wished to. the treaty meant one step over the border and she'd die again.
bella was a human, she reminded herself. she was a vampire. and neither of them deserved what killed her, and what would eventually kill her too. rose was a vampire, but she was also a victim.
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emmett was far more upset about bella's apparent death. bella was a friend, they didn't have many common interests but they still were fairly good buddies. but he, as always, would bottle his grief for later.
he knew he couldn't hide from it, nor could he run from it. it would find him, sitting alone atop a mountain basking in the sun, and he wouldn't know what to do. his grief turned to anger quickly, as always, but he resisted the urge to find edward and kill him. his angel needed him.
if we hadn't gotten involved with her, she'd still be alive.
it's all my fault it's all my fault it's all my fault it's all my fault it's all my fault it's all my fault it's all my fault it's all my fault it's all my fault it's all my fault it's all my fault
it's all my fault.
***** jasper held his wife, and dry sobbed along with her. while he refused to spend time with her for her own safety, she was always nice enough to keep a few feet away from him, and tie her hair up around him. they often traded book recommendations. but now bella was gone.
gone were the 'you should really give romance books a try' comments from her. she was gone. gone. dead. and in the way that still haunted rose to this day.
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carlise reacted surprisingly similar to edward. yet the reason wasn't about bella. he roared in anger, and dashed into his car. he was gone not a second later, mind running wild.
i need to find edward. i need to make sure edward doesn't slip up again, rose would demand his removal from the clan. i hope edward is okay. where is edward.
had i not been so spineless edward would still be happy, he stable. why didn't he just resist her like i told him to? why couldn't she have stayed in arizona?
***** esme reacted very differently, she almost seemed indifferent to it. but jasper knew how badly she was hurting, he felt it. esme was different from her clan, she relied heavily on carlise on how to react around humans, about news that upset humans.
so for the first time, she had to react how she felt. she sat on her and her husbands shared bed and stared at the floor, unable to understand her own feelings and thoughts
i hope edward is okay. i wonder how charlie is handling this, he was always nice to us. should i visit her grave? would she have wanted me to visit her? is that where edward went? is he going to try and turn her to save her?
*****
the cullen clan gathered 4 days later, and they talked briefly about bella. but danced around it in full. nobody felt any better after the talk. rose didn't say much, but she and emmett had to threaten to kill edward and leave the clan if they tried and turn bella into one of them. she was still just as haunted by her first death as the cursed night it happened. carlisle seemed quite annoyed at that, agreed.
