Bella POV

"I said to leave me alone Jane!" I screamed in her face and continued to rush to my chambers before feeding time.

"Isabella, you're only upset because you know I am right!" She sing-songed, still following right behind me.

"Jane, I don't care what you think about her!" I yelled, stopping in my tracks and turning on her.

"I haven't seen my daughter in nearly seventeen years! How should I know what she's like or how she acts? I don't have to know any of that though to love her every single second of my existence. If I didn't love her I wouldn't be here." I snapped.

Janes eyes widened. 

"Bite me." I growled and stalked away to my chambers.

My rooms are nice, dark though, just like everything else in this god forsaken place. I made my way to my walk in closet, found the box I was looking for, and sat on my king sized bed.

I slowly lifted the lid of the box and smiled at its contents.

My little Elizabeth's baby pictures and other small things from my former life before the Volturi. I found my favorite picture of us together and smiled. I live for these little moments, where I can smile and enjoy my time. Moments where I feel a little closer to my sweet baby girl...who isn't a baby anymore.

I sometimes wonder if she ever forgave me for leaving her, but she was loved so deeply by Renee and Charlie I'm sure she was never lonely.

Flashback

"It is either you or the child young one!" Aro laughed at me from across the meadow.

Elizabeth cried out behind me, sidetracking Aro momentarily.

"So you're saying that if I don't join you...you'll kill her? But if I do join you...you'll leave her alone? How does that make any sense?" I cried, shielding my infant daughter behind me.

"Your loyalty for her life." He smiled a chilling smile that could be compared to a serial killers.

"Okay, it seems I don't have a choice then."
I cried a little.

End

"My loyalty for your life." I sighed, absentmindedly rubbing her picture.

"Isabella! Training! Now!" Felix beat on my chamber doors, bringing me out of my reverie and back to my hellish reality.

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Elizabeth POV
A few weeks later
     June 20

"Happy birthday Dad!" I cheered, throwing my arms around him.

"Thank you darling." He laughed, spinning me in a circle.

"So...the big 115?" I smiled.

"Yes, that's correct. Just so you know birthdays, besides yours of course, aren't that special to us anymore." He sighed.

"Well, that has to change!" I gasped, shocked entirely.

"Elizabeth, darling, it's not really a big deal. Especially since none of us have a real birthday anymore." He laughed as I pulled him into the dinning room.

"What's this?" He asked, gesturing to the large wrapped present on the table and our family standing around smiling like crazy.

"It's a birthday present. You know...it's a present you get...on your birthday."

"Yeah yeah, smarty pants." He laughed and shook my shoulder.

"Come on! Just open it!" I giggled, pulling him over to the table and to his present.

He smiled at me slightly, turned to his gift, and took a deep breath.

As he tore through the paper and realized what it was he turned toward me.

"How did you get this?" He smiled.

"Well, being pretty intuitive has its advantages sometimes." I smirked and he threw his arms around me.

His gift was fairly simple, but I knew it would mean the world to him.

I got him a scrapbook, filled with pictures of mom, me, and even some very sweet pictures of our family provided by Grandma Esme. With the scrapbook came a complete collection of odd little things that came from moms room that I knew he would appreciate, like her cactus for example. But, there was also a very special and sacred box to me. A box that I had found under a floorboard in my mothers bedroom.

"How did you even know about this?" He asked, carefully picking up the box, treating it as if it were a fragile and precious thing.

I tapped my forehead in our normal gesture for my gift.

"Ahh." He nodded, and took the lid off.

His expression changed drastically seeing the picture of him and mom.

"This was the last picture we ever took together." He sighed and I rubbed his shoulder.

"Thank you Elizabeth." He wrapped his arms around me sweetly.

"Happy birthday Dad." I smiled, hugging him back.

"You are one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me." He whispered. Happy tears sprang to my eyes.

"Where is Elizabeth?! That child was supposed to be in training twenty minuets ago!" Eleazar came in complaining and dad started chuckling.

"That sounds like your cue." Grampa Carlisle smiled at me.

"We may want to get outside before Eleazar makes you run extra laps around town." Dad laughed, pulling me outside with him.

"Finally you decide to show up little one!" Eleazar laughed, spreading his arms open wide for a hug.

Apparently, I have a certain charm about me that makes everyone instantly like me. When Grampa Carlisle called the Denalies, they agreed to come down and train the newest Cullens gift immediately. When they saw me they all just couldn't stop cooing over me, especially Carmen.

"Okay, you know the drill Cullen. Give me ten laps for warmup." He smirked, slipping into trainer mode. I slipped off through the trees to the course he and Dad had marked with a smile on my face.

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Edward POV

I'm smiling on the outside.

But on the inside I'm clawing out my heart.

I love Elizabeth so incredibly much and I haven't even known her a month yet. She's sweet and beautiful and her very soul is the light and warmth in my life, despite her own nightmarish life she smiles and allows strangers into her heart.

I just can't get Bella out of my head. Every time I look at Elizabeths heart shaped face, or her wide innocent eyes all I see is her mother.

Elizabeth thinks that I'm okay. She thinks that I'm perfectly content in spending her every waking hour with her, and I am! It's just...after she goes back to Charlie...

Ugh, I've been searching for any trace of Bella I can find.

I've become completely obsessed with finding Bella Swan. It's unhealthy I know, especially since there's a very real chance she could actually be dead somewhere, but I will try to find her for as long as I exist.

"Edward! There you are!" Tanya's deliriously happy voice she only gets around me called out from behind me.

Eleazar chuckled slightly, noticing my cringe at hearing her voice.

"Tanya." I regarded her plainly, trying to keep track of Elizabeths heartbeat as she ran.

"Happy Birthday!" She laughed.

"Thank you."

There was an awkward little silence while she tried to think of something to get my attention so I would talk with her.

"I just adore your little Elizabeth! It's such a shame she doesn't have a mother figure in her life though..." She sighed, stepping close to me.

"She is very precious to me. I think she handles everything quite well, even without her mother." I stepped back, trying to hint the fact that she would never be a mother figure to my Elizabeth. Only Bella.

"Honestly Edward, how long are you going to mourn that little human pet of yours? Why can't we just be happy together?" She whined.

Rage soared through me and I was about to start yelling at her idiocy when suddenly she wrapped her arms around my neck and crashed her lips into mine.

Just as I pushed her away Elizabeth ran up with tears streaming down her cheeks, anger flashed hard through her normally happy green eyes.

"What are you doing?!" She screamed.

I was upset to see her so angry, but my whole system shut down when I noticed her eyes. Her peridot colored eyes were a bright, and absolutely chilling...crimson red.