AN: This story is rated M for a reason. Trigger warnings to many things are present in this story.

I don't own Twilight.

I just like to play around in different worlds with them :)

And yes vampires can sleep and eat and everything else!

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Truth is a funny thing. Something that one should hold dear.

Bella learned the hard way that trust is deceiving. She sat in front of her window staring at nothing. Edward had taken the trust she had given him and crushed it as he lead her into the forest behind her house. She knew it wasn't good since he was insisting on talking out there, privately. She could feel the emotions radiating off of him before he even turned around to look at her.

He said what she had known all along. He didn't want her and he was done with her. They were leaving, for good. Like they never existed. All photos and items given to her on her birthday from the family were gone. The hardest wasn't just Alice leaving without a word. She had sent so many emails to Alice hoping that it wasn't all just in her mind. Hoping that she hadn't imagined all of them, that the last six months hadn't been an illusion.

She walked through school like a zombie most days, only being there because she had to. All of her friends had learned after a month to not bother asking her to go places. She sat at their table but was very much alone in a room full of people. Charlie was worried. She could hear his conversations with Billy over the phone about how she hadn't eaten all week or how she stayed in her room all the time.

As spring came she sat on a picnic bench outside the cafeteria for one of the rare sunny days. She could hear the laughter all around her as she stared at the forest on the edge of the property. She could feel something watching her, unable to see anything to confirm it.

She turned to Angela who looked startled as she spoke, "Angela you said last week that there was an animal attack."

Angela stared at her wide eyed for a moment, "Y-y-yeah I did. You heard that."

Bella grabbed her things, "I've heard everything, just not in the mood to talk."

Angela grinned at her as she hurried to her truck in the parking lot. When she pulled into the driveway at home she passed the house and went straight into the forest. She stumbled over branches and only fell twice before she made it to the clearing that she had spent so much time in with Edward. She looked around at the large open space as she walked to the center of it.

She wasn't sure of how much time passed, she wasn't sure of time these past few months. A voice brought her out of her trance, "Now what would you be doing out here all by yourself?"

She spun to the man and froze, "Laurent."

He grinned at her, "Bella. You still smell as sweet as ever." She blinked and he was suddenly standing right in front of her.

She didn't feel fear as she stared at the tall man with dreadlocks. He frowned at her for a moment then asked, "Where are your precious Cullen's?"

She shrugged, "Don't know and really don't care at the moment."

"Your mate left you?" he asked with a frown.

She shook her head and snapped, "He wasn't my mate."

"You shouldn't lie Bella." He grinned.

She shook her head, "Not lying." She cocked her head at him, "And all it took was this clearing and you for me to realize that."

"Why is that?"

She shrugged, "A mate would never leave the other alone to die in the woods."

He nodded, "Very true."

A low growl startled them from the tree line to the right. A large black wolf stepped from the trees and Bella's eyes widened as her jaw dropped. Laurent frowned at the creature then looked over at Bella.

"What is that thing?"

She stumbled backwards, "A fucking snake. What the fuck do you think it is?"

He glared at her for a moment, "No need to get snarky."

She stuck her tongue out at him, "I'm allowed to get snarky right before we die."

He shook his head, "You are one big danger magnet aren't you?"

"Says the one that hangs with a psychotic vampire." She said coldly.

A bark from the black wolf made them jump and face it. It licked it's large lips as it took a step forward.

Laurent glanced at Bella and sighed, "Well it's been fun catching up."

He turned to run but was too late. The black wolf landed on top of him and pinned him to the ground. Bella looked around and found a large rock near the struggling vampire. She ran to it and let her adrenaline push her muscles passed their limits, lifting it. She spun in a circle and let go allowing it to crash into the wolf's head with a bang. The wolf stumbled to the side and Laurent blurred to her.

"You saved my life." He stared at her in shock.

"Less talk more run."

He gripped her arm and whipped her right onto his back as he blurred through the forest. She looked back ignoring the wave of nausea and yelled over the rush of the wind, "Right!"

He jumped just in time to miss the second wolf that had appeared. They both saw the edge of the tree line and he pushed his legs faster. She glanced back and frowned as the massive creatures had disappeared. He stopped at the edge of the trees and sat her on her feet.

She took his hand, "Come on." She lead him into her house and locked the door behind them.

He chuckled, "You expect a lock to keep them out."

She shook her head as she went to the gun cabinet on the far side of the living room, "Vampire or not you are not going to get passed that very large pack." She pulled one of Charlie's hunting rifles out and tossed it to him, "You do know how to use one right?"

He caught it effortlessly and narrowed his eyes at him, "I'm over three hundred years old Isabella."

She glared at him, "Didn't know if those were around in your day." He growled angrily at her as she took her own rifle and turned back to him, "And don't call me that Old Man."

A softer growl rolled from his chest as he checked the window, "This is going to be a long day."

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Charlie walked through the door of his home and found Bella asleep on the sofa with one of his hunting rifles next to her. He frowned as he flipped the light on and she bolted up right with the gun pointed right at him. He held his hands up as another figure almost seemed to blur up from the floor with a second rifle pointed at him.

"Bella it's me!" he shouted.

Bella quickly lowered her weapon, "Dad?" she sat the rifle down and rushed to him, throwing her arms around his waist.

"What the hell is going on? And who the hell are you?" he said as his heart attack began to subside and the man across the room lowered his weapon quickly.

"Dad there's something in the woods behind the house."

The man across the room had a slight French accent when he spoke, "They cornered us in here."

"Dad this is my friend Laurent."

Bella said. As Charlie reached over to shake his hand Bella stared at Laurent with wide eyes and shrugged. He shook Charlie's hand as Charlie spoke, "Thanks for staying with her."

He nodded, "She saved my life." He sent a pointed look at her from behind Charlie's back.

She rolled her eyes, "Mind if he crashes for tonight?"

Charlie hesitated but he could see the determination in her eyes so he nodded. After dinner she lead Laurent upstairs to Charlie's loud protests and locked the door behind them. She glanced at him as she grabbed a change of clothes from her dresser, "You're not going to kill me in my sleep are you?"

He grinned, "As fun as that would be you did save my life."

She raised her right eyebrow, "You saved mine but running us out of there."

"You kept me here when you were right that I never would have made it passed them."

They glared at each other for a few minutes. He was surprised to see a human so willing to stare down a vampire that he was intrigued about this girl. She had evoked a strong reaction from James and now Victoria was on the war path. So what was it about this little human girl that sent vampire's running to their deaths?

"I'm gonna get changed." She finally said as he glanced down.

He was impressed as she left the room to change, going across the hall to the bathroom. He looked around her room quickly and smiled at the usual girl things he found but it only confused him more. She was, for everything he could find, just an ordinary human girl. He couldn't find anything intriguing to justify why James had died to have her and why Victoria wanted her to die for it.

The door opened as he sat in the rocking chair in the corner of the room and she tossed her dirty clothes into the corner of her room. He grimaced, "Do you even know how to do laundry?"

She glared at him as she climbed into bed, "Do you know how to use a shower?" She flipped the light off and he sighed.

This was going to be a very long night.