The Mysteries of Bella

Summary: as Harry was trying to escape from Voldemort, Voldemort hit him with a curse that makes it impossible to apparate. The curse hits Harry while he is apparating, and throws him off course- way off course. He was trying for Hogsmead and ended up in Forks, Washington. The curse keeps him from apparating, or his location being apparate to. How can he get out of this mess? He meets a strange family, the Cullens and they might be able to help. Will Harry, and the Cullens be able to keep their secrets secret? And what will happen when a secret none of them knew becomes apparent? Read on to find out.

Harry had been knocked out upon his arrival in the middle of a forest. He woke up in a strange house. He couldn't remember what happened, at first. Then, it all came back to him.

~Flashback~

Voldemort snagged Harry when he was battling. He took him to a cave in the side of a mountain. Harry fought with him for a while. Finally, the curses they had been flinging at each other caused the cave to start to collapse. Harry turned to apparate, and saw a light headed for him. He thought the curse would be too late, but it wasn't. Voldemort had cast Apparatis Collenium on Harry. It was a curse to keep him from apparating, but as it hit him while he was apparating, it just knocked him off course. Harry struggled to keep going, but couldn't. He landed, and passed out from shock and exhaustion.

~End Flashback~

That still didn't explain where he was. Harry struggled to sit up, and became aware of the fact that he had been lying on a couch. 'How did I get from the forest floor to a couch?' Harry wondered. He tried to figure out where he was. His first thought was that he had made it to the Forbidden Forest, and someone had rescued him. Then, he realized that couldn't be right. He would recognize anywhere in Hogwarts or Hogsmead, and he didn't recognize this place.

Meanwhile, Dr. Carlisle Cullen was pacing behind the couch in his living room. He was trying to convince himself that he did the right thing by bringing that boy back to his house. 'It's not like I could have left him there,' ha thought, finally deciding that he had done the right thing. The boy stirred.

"Good, you're awake," Carlisle said, coming to the front of the couch. Harry was startled at the sudden appearance of the man in front of him. Even Harry had to admit that this man was handsome. He had mid-length blonde hair, pale skin, and eyes that were a buttery gold.

"Umm… where am I?" Harry asked Carlisle. Carlisle took in the appearance of the boy. He had messy, black hair, emerald green eyes, and a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead. 'I wonder if he purposely cut himself for that scar,' Carlisle thought, upon seeing the strange mark. Other than the scar, and the fact that he had been unconscious when he found him, the boy looked quite unharmed, so Carlisle couldn't understand how he didn't know where he was.

"Forks, Washington," Carlisle said slowly.

"Damn, my aim was way off," Harry muttered in an undertone that he obviously thought Carlisle couldn't hear. That strange comment made Carlisle even more confused. "Thanks. I'm Harry. Harry Potter. And you are?" He added in a louder voice.

"Carlisle Cullen. Dr. Carlisle Cullen, but you can call me Carlisle," he informed the boy called Harry.

"You're a doctor? Am I in a hospital?" Harry asked frantically. He knew that, if someone ran blood tests on him, the tests would be all whacked up, because of the magic in his blood.

"No. You're in my house. I found you passed out in the woods, not far from here, and I carried you back," Carlisle informed him, wondering why the kid was so freaked about hospitals. Harry relaxed against the pillows beneath him. Carlisle didn't have long to ponder the boy's strange behavior, before he heard the sounds of his family's approach. 'Go slow! There's a human in the house!!' Carlisle repeated the warning in his head, knowing Edward would warn the others. He heard the sounds of them slowing, so he stopped the repetition of the warning.

A few minutes later Edward, Bella, Jasper, Alice, Emmett, Rosalie, and Esme came through the door at human pace. Harry's eyes immediately snapped to them, and their's to him. Harry reached down to feel for his wand. It was still in the waistband of his jeans, where he'd put it right before apparating. He curled his fingers over it, in case it would need to be used.

"Harry, this is my family, Bella, Alice, Edward, Esme, Rosalie, Jasper, and Emmett," Carlisle said, pointing to each person as he said their name. "Everyone, this is Harry Potter. I found him unconscious in the forest." Everyone looked at Harry strangely, then. Harry, having decided he didn't need his wand at this moment, released his fingers from around it. He studied the group. They were all as pale as the doctor, had the same color eyes and the same beauty. The four women took his breath away.

"How'd you end up in the forest?" a short pixie-looking girl Harry thought was named Alice asked him.

"Er… I dunno, actually. I can't remember," Harry replied. If they didn't know who he was, then they obviously weren't wizards, though there was a magical quality to them, and Harry certainly wasn't about to tell them.

"Oh," Alice said looking disappointed. The pale people (that's what Harry was beginning to think of them as) drifted off, into little groups, and started talking.

"I can't get a read on him, Carlisle," Edward said to the doctor.

"You can't?" Carlisle was completely surprised at that.

"Nope," Edward confirmed.

"Is it like it was with Bella," Carlisle asked, his voice dropping even lower.

"No. With Bella it was like she didn't exist at all, in terms of a mind voice, but with this Harry person it's like there's something blocking me. It feels like I run headlong into a brick wall," Edward told him. This news startled Carlisle even more.

"That is rather odd. Bella and Harry are the only people you can't get a read on, right?" Carlisle asked, deep in thought.

"Yeah. How did you find Harry?" Edward asked, suddenly sounding curious. Rather than tell Edward all about it, he decided to replay the scene in his head, and let Edward read it from there.

~Flashback (Carlisle's POV)~

I was hunting. Chasing a herd of deer. I smelt human blood, but managed to finish my meal. When, after I had finished, the human hadn't moved, I thought it safe to investigate. I saw a teenage boy with dark hair, and glasses crumpled on the forest floor. I would have thought him dead, if I hadn't heard his heartbeat. I picked him up, and swiftly carried him back home.

~End Flashback~

"Oh," Edward walked off, and Carlisle tried to figure how both Harry and Bella could be immune to Edward's mind reading. After several moments he realized there had to be some kind of link between the two. If there was Bella didn't know it, so to find out Carlisle would have to learn more about this Harry person.