Hey - so I edited all four of the previous chapters which is part of why the update took so long. But I have outlined the whole story and plan to try to update once a month at least. I'll even try for one more time this month since I'm out of school. I'm a coll student, mom and wife so always busy. Anyways, tell me who you want the point of view from next chapter - Jasper, Damon, or Iza?

Edward

As we grew closer and closer to Virginia I began to doubt if my intentions were right. I first started feeling like this when we had started passing through the country on the same trail as Jasper. It was obvious it was his trail from his scent but even more so when we got to Illinois. We had told ourselves in the beginning we weren't following him, I had told myself we were mainly focused on finding out more. But when we got to Illinois where his scent had been the strongest that had changed.

What I could only assume was once a boulder was in pieces. Large chunks of rock were thrown around, trees uprooted, and thankfully there wasn't much more since this was in a forest. I could only imagine the damage if this had been in our house and I was thankful it hadn't been. I couldn't imagine what had went through his head for him to lose it like this and at this point I wasn't sure if I wanted to know.

It was beginning to get dark out and as we made it closer it got darker, quicker. The benefits of different time zones for us was there was less of a chance to be exposed as the day progressed into night and we were able to use our supernatural abilities with less worries. I was thankful for at least that to be one less worry since I was worried about the two people when I woke up today that meant the world to me. Part of me felt silly to still be worrying about Bella despite her not being who she said she was.

I didn't even know what she was to be able to live as long as she has. She wasn't a vampire like we were and wasn't a werewolf obviously either. I suppose it could be possible she was a witch and I felt part of myself hoping for that. I had never met a witch before, and I wasn't sure if they were real, but it would explain a lot. Why she was so different and why she was willing to be with me despite what I was. She could accept that I was a monster because she was one too.

In her letter to me she had said she didn't love me, but I wanted to believe she said it to protect me from whatever monster she believed she was. Her and I had a connection for a reason, drawn to each other since her first day at Forks High, and I refused to believe it was all fake. I saw the way she looked at me and even though I couldn't read her thoughts I had known she loved me. She may have lied about who she was, but I understood why. I have been lying for years now about who and what I am. Hiding the disgusting monster that I am from those who are weaker from me. And if she is as old as that photo, we found then perhaps she has been doing so for even longer than I have.

I don't know what kind of life and love Jasper and Bella had had when they were humans. But it was very clearly a long, long time ago and if she had still had interest in him, I was sure she would have exposed who she was to him. Perhaps that is why she was hiding who she was too because despite being a witch, a monster, she wanted to be good. Maybe she knew that this would happen to Jasper and was trying to protect him by hiding the truth of who she was even more so than she usually did and along the way of hiding she found love with me. I don't know what had caused her to leave or what the truth could be but for the first time today I felt hope. Things could get fixed for all four of us, especially now that it seemed Bella was immortal, and we could all be happy with time.

By the time we entered the town of Mystic Falls it was late, a few hours from the beginning of the next day. I had convinced myself that things were going to work out fine and that when I saw Bella or Jasper, I would convince them too. I had rehearsed in my head multiple times by now what I was going to tell Bella and was ready to tell Jasper a similar version if we came across him first. I was ready to open my heart to Bella and express my newfound hope and happiness that she could live forever like me. We didn't have to worry anymore, and I had decided if she had already had a human life and didn't want to be witch anymore, I could turn her into a vampire like she had previously asked.

Alice had been quiet throughout all this and I had been so focused on my own thoughts for once that I hadn't actively listened to hers. Sure, every now and then I heard her thoughts but after so long I had learned to tune her out. We had slowed down to a stroll and were walking towards the center of the town when I had decided to end our quit reflection time. "Are you going to be okay to be here? To see him if he's not okay mentally from getting his memories?"

She turned her head towards me as we walked, and I watched as her eyes lit up with confidence. "Of course, I can. This isn't about me; this is about him. He's remembering things about his human life and is in pain and I need to be there for him." She smiles a little and I quietly listened to her positive thoughts of wanting to know what he learned about his human life and comforting him.

"What about you?" She asked interrupting my invasion of privacy. "When you see her are you going to be okay?" I could see the layers of worry start to invade her display of confidence and I wanted to quickly put a stop to that.

"I wasn't okay earlier. But now that we know she isn't human I'm hopeful. She lied to us, but can we really judge her? We lie everyday about who we are and until we know more, I'm not going to stop believing there's hope for us. Bella and I are meant for each other and I just have to remind her of that." I ignored her thought that Bella and I weren't as I heard the voice of the person; I missed the most.

I heard her, I heard Bella, and from the look on Alice's face I knew she heard her too. It was a little far away, that was obvious from how faint her voice was and by the way I couldn't exactly make sense of what she had said. It sounded like she had said something was so good. That was weird enough, but I didn't dwell on it since this whole day had been weird. I quietly urged Alice to quicken her pace as we followed the sound of where she had spoken and to where an almost familiar sound could be heard. I couldn't exactly place why the sound was familiar and if I hadn't been focusing all my mental power on tracking her location by the sound of her voice, I would have taken a peek into Alice's mind to see if she knew.

I instantly stopped walking when I saw her and threw my arm out to stop Alice as well. What I saw her doing made it clear that everything I had thought on my way here had been wrong. She was most definitely not a witch like I had hoped on our way here. She was gripping a woman by her shoulders as her mouth moved against the woman's neck. I understood then why the sound had been so familiar - it was because it was the sound of animalistic feeding on another living creature. I watched in horror as the woman I loved drained the life out of a human being.

I took my eyes off of her and on to the man next to her, that just had to be the man from the photograph. He was no man at all, my mind clarified, as I watched him indulge in his own animal instincts but rougher with the man he was feeding on. Realization crept in that this man had no care for the person whose life he was stealing as I watched him drop the man's body on the ground and move closer to Bella and the woman she had. If I could vomit I would as I watched him take a bite out of the other side of the woman's neck.

The need to know what he was thinking as he took this man's life and joined Bella in taking the woman's life arose as I watched them. I knew that whatever he was thinking was disgusting but I still couldn't help myself as I focused on hearing what he thought. No matter how much I focused I couldn't hear his thoughts. Just like it was with Bella, there was like a wall was up stopping me from peering into his private thoughts.

Just as I realized this, Alice started walking towards them to stop them from draining the life out of the woman as well. I quickly put a hand on her shoulder, yanking her back as quietly as could so not to draw attention to us. "Stop" I whispered but in a tone that showed I was serious, that my reasoning for stopping her was serious. She looked at me with a face that showed she didn't appreciate being grabbed like that, but I couldn't be bothered to care or look into her thoughts. I was too focused on the fact I couldn't read his. There were too many unknown variables with my powers not only not working on Bella but the man - Damon as the photo had said - next to her as well.

"I can't read his thoughts, Alice." I whispered as I pulled us deeper into the shadows, in the alley way across the street from the alley way they were in. "Something is blocking me, just like when I try to read Bella's." I watch as the realization hits her face just as the sound of the woman's body hits the ground. I don't have to read Alice's mind to know it hurts her that we didn't stop them. I peer into hers for a second and see that she is trying to figure out what to do now, starting to panic but not showing it.

"Let's just wait and see. Observe them, to find out more." I say and give her a supportive look as I turned my attention back to the mysterious couple. I knew Alice needed the look from the last thought I heard from her. She was worried if Jasper started being around them, he would start being like that too. I put my finger to my mouth, in a stay quiet motion, since they would now be able to hear easier with their focus no longer on eating and we both have our undivided attention to them.

I watched as Damon lifted his finger and wiped it across Bella's upper lip and put it in his mouth. "Always been a messy eater?" He asked her as a smirk appeared on his lips. I couldn't help but wonder if there was a hidden meaning to the question, he was asking but I couldn't imagine what. I could only hope it wasn't something sexual, as I still stupidly hoped for Bella and me to reunite.

Bella took a step closer to Damon and looked up at him. "Happens when I'm focused on what I'm into." If I had to breathe, I would be holding my breath as I watched Damon take a step closer. I started to feel an ache inside of myself, a feeling of dread.

"Is that the only thing you feel like being focused on tonight?" He asked her and I knew then that this was in fact a sexual conversation. I was starting to feel uncomfortable as I listened and watched the two and from the incoming 'oh my god' thoughts from Alice I could tell she was feeling the same.

"Maybe," she shrugged and took a step, then another step, backwards and leaned against the alley wall. "Maybe not, Mr. Salvatore." The way she spoke to him was so different to how she had ever spoke around us. Her tone of voice, accent and even play on words was different. Had any of who she had been real?

Damon opens his mouth to say something back and Bella cuts him off, "Let's take a walk, talk, and find out." She said before she pushed off the wall and walked out of the alley, not waiting for him to follow. When she was out of the alley and under the light of a street light I took an unnecessary breath in and held it. That was definitely not my Bella. The only thing that was the same about her were the clothes but even they seemed different with how different she looked. They looked out of place on her like she was wearing something that didn't match who she was. She was so different but yet I still couldn't help but find the beauty in her.

Damon soon fell in step next to her, and as if he was the mind reader, asked her something similar to what I was thinking. "Do you typically dress in plaid? Do you have a secret life as a truck driver that I need to know about?" He asked her with a small chuckle, and I didn't have time to think about how his question made me feel before Alice was moving forward to follow them. She had the right instincts because soon we wouldn't be able to hear or see them if we didn't keep up.

I could hear her snort at his question, and I wished I could see how this Bella looked when she did so. The sound was just as unfamiliar to my ears as her appearance was to my eyes. "God, no" she said as she started messing with the sleeves of the plaid button up, she had on. "I had to dress differently than I would like. I didn't want anything about me to stand out to them. Give them any reason to suspect I wasn't who I said I was." I could hear the smile in her voice at her next set of words. "I played my part and I played it well."

Alice and I followed behind them slowly, staying in the shadows, thankful that there were humans out so even if they did hear us, they wouldn't think much of it. We were lucky that we didn't have heart beats or need to breathe because that made it so much easier to hide from them as well.

"When you were pretending to be - Bella Swan was it?" I could see Bella nod her head just slightly at Damon's question before he continued. "Did you start to love Jasper again?" I glanced at Alice as she stopped walking for a moment and then continued walking. I was sure that question bothered her much more than it did me. Especially because her thoughts right now consisted of 'Well, answer the question' and 'I hope he doesn't love her again.'

When I saw Bella stop walking, Alice and I did the same, so they wouldn't hear our footsteps just in case. I watched as she turned her body towards Damon and grab his arm to stop him from going any farther. "Damon, when Emily had said you two would be alive again, I thought she was just trying to comfort me." That doesn't answer the question, I thought as she took a pause. "So, when I saw him in that glass house looking out at me like - I told you I heard him talk about me as if I was a human tempting him - I had to know what had happened to him. I didn't get to know a lot about him, honestly. But from what I did find out from Edward and from the few times I was around him showed me he was happy."

When Bella said my name I audibly sucked in a breath and could feel the dirty look Alice was giving me as I watched Damon give his own impatient look to Bella. "It's almost like that doesn't answer the question." He said to her and it made me wonder if when they were humans, he would talk like that. I would never talk to a woman I was interested in like that.

"I'm getting to that, Salvatore." She shot back not including the Mister like she had previously done. I assumed previously it was to mock him since they were both from a time when she would say that, but this was obviously her being irritated at his impatient attitude. That was the only thing obvious about her besides the fact she was a liar.

"Anyways," she continued after clearing her throat. "You already asked me this earlier. I told you I can't feel love unless I'm interacting with the person and have experiences with them. I wasn't doing that with Jasper - it wasn't my intention, Damon." I watched as she touched his arm. "I saw he was happy and there was no way in the world even if I had started loving him again that I would have messed with that."

"What if he hadn't been happy or if in the future, he isn't happy with the life he has?" It felt wrong eavesdropping on this conversation, but it was also information that I wanted to know. Even though I often listened in on humans' minds this felt different.

"If he doesn't end up happy, I still wouldn't tell him the past. You and I both remember how hard things got between all three of us and I don't even know what it was like after I was" She paused and for a second, I was worried she had spotted us. "Gone. After I was gone. I wouldn't want to cause him to remember that."

Before he could respond to her, she started talking again. "I get it, Damon." I watched as she moved closer to him and moved her hand from his arm to cup his face. "Things were complicated between the three of us. And that was my fault and that is something I have to live with. I don't ever plan to put you through that again."

I looked away from them as they moved their bodies and faces closer together in a way I didn't want to see. That didn't stop me from seeing it through Alice's mind as she decided to keep watching.

"Was tonight's experience enough to remind you of how you used to feel love for me?" I heard him ask which was extremely weird to me. What kind of person doesn't have enough understanding of their emotions that they don't remember how they loved someone? What was Bella some kind of mentally ill immortal?

"I think a part of me never forgot how I loved you which was why I decided to come back. A part of me always has loved you, it was just tucked down and hidden away as life went on." I really wish Alice would quit looking at them, even though it wouldn't stop me from hearing this.

"I know I love you, Iza and I know you just came back in my life today, but I want to spend time together and help you find that love with me again because I've never stopped loving you." And then she kissed him. I don't know if I would have known she kissed him if Alice would have stopped watching them but regardless, I am seeing it.

As it became obvious their kiss wasn't going to end anytime soon, I turned Alice away from them. I looked at her and mouthed 'what is wrong with you' over the fact I had to turn her away. She just shrugged at me and glanced back at them. I glanced at the same time, out of curiosity sake, and regretted it. They were intertwined as they kissed in such a passionate way that I have never experienced despite how long I have been alive.

Before I could get lost in thought about how I had never had nothing like that, they separated from each other a little. Damon bent down and whispered something to her, and she nodded. I watched as they separated a little more and took off at a speed that seemed almost faster than ours, hand in hand.

Alice looked at me wide eyed, "Now what!" She exclaimed, the situation obviously being a lot to take in for her too.

"We follow them. We need to see where they are staying just in case Jasper shows up there." I waited for her to argue that, since we weren't supposed to be following Jasper. But she didn't and instead took off after them and I took off after her.