Charlie every time one of Bella's alliances suddenly changes:

• time first unzips when James sinks his teeth into Bella at the ballet studio.
• the burning in her veins overwhelms her. for a delirious moment she seizes from venom & bleeds out on a hospital room's tile floor where her mother is giving birth. to her.
• the Cullens barge into the studio. Bella's writhing on the ground. they never see the warp. a stunned James is defeated.
• Bella says nothing, chalking it up to a near-death experience. ofc she can't unravel the fabric of time lol like what?? who does that???
• over summer, night terrors haunt her when Edward is away.
• the "good" dreams give her flashes of the future. wolves. light. cliffs. a stone antechamber. red hair. a casket.
• it's the nightmares she fears the most.
• her PTSD-fueled flashbacks feel so real, she unzips time to escape James's attack & wakes up in random places as if sleepwalking.
• at first they're tiny jumps. a few minutes back. then several months before she meets Edward. then the day Renee leaves Charlie with Bella in tow.
• the night after her disastrous birthday party, her nightmare dumps her in the back alley of a neon-lit diner.
• this isn't home. not 2006, not 1996, not 1986, even...
• disoriented, she stumbles in and sits at the counter. the folded newspaper by the napkin dispenser, the Philadelphia Herald, reads March 3rd, 1950.
• oh god.
• when she looks up, a familiar pixie-haired vampire stares back at her with moony gold eyes.
• "you've kept me waiting a long time," says Alice, pushing a plate of pancakes toward her.
• time zips. back in bed. morning. 2006. Bella scrambles to school to tell Edward about the time skips.
• ofc, it's hard to speak when you're being sucker-punched in the gut by your first love's painful breakup monologue.
• instead of confessing, Bella says goodbye.
• October. November. December. January.
• as the wolves shift and Laurent stops in for a visit snack, Forks gets all gunked up with paranormal vibes. Bella warps further back for longer periods. 1935. 1933. 1911. 1863.
• luckily, she often crosses paths with the Cullens. as humans, she knows, they won't remember her. it's cathartic to see them, if only for a few moments...but it's never enough.
• she pulls increasingly dangerous stunts to keep traveling. motorcycling. chasing wolves. stalking vampires. on & on.
• Bella dives off a cliff to chase the visions.
• she smacks the water & warps to 1918.
• human Edward Masen immediately falls in love with a drenched & shivering Bella Swan. over the evening, she falls in love with him. again. ugh.
• but was it a time skip, or a near-death experience? she wakes up coughing water, Jake breathing life into her on the beach.
• Alice returns. with a renewed love for Edward (ugh), Bella jets off to Italy to save him & meet the Volturi.
• back in forks, the vote ignites a fiery rage she'd buried for months.
• how could they do this to her? how could they break her heart & leave her behind when she needed them?? did they even stop to think about Laurent??? the wolves?! VICTORIA?!!
• just as she lunges for Edward to rip his stupid face off, time unzips in front of them & she vanishes.
• further back than she's ever gone.
• London. 1640s.
• human Carlisle tries using a silver cross to defend himself against a starving vampire while Bella looks on.
• when the vampire's eyes find hers, the horror of what Bella has been doing settles in like a dense fog.
• with each time skip, Bella seals their fate.
• not only is Bella the thread that ties the Cullens together in time, but Bella aligns the stars for every member to become a vampire.
• in the 1640s, she is the scent that pulls the starving vampire away from Carlisle.
• in 1863, María sees Bella's warp & pursues her until she finds confederate Jasper Hale on his way to Galveston.
• in 1911, her time skip startles 16 y.o. Esme out of a tree, breaking the girl's leg. she is treated by Dr. Cullen.
• in 1918, a cold & wet Bella gives Edward the flu.
• in 1933, Carlisle spots Bella on his way home from the hospital & finds her so eerily familiar he calls out & rushes to catch up. frightened by the commotion, Royce et al leave a dying Rosalie in the street.
• in 1935, warping into a forest pisses off a huge black bear. Emmett saves her & subsequently gets mauled.
• in 1950, she listens to Alice tell the story of her only human memory: prophesizing as a little girl about the "lady in the blue jeans" who comes to visit, to the horror & disgust of her superstitious parents. they throw her in an insane asylum.
• now, in 2006, she reappears & falls at the Cullens' feet. her face reflects their looks of shock.
• it was her. it was always her.
• & all because she ditched Alice & Jasper to confront James at the ballet studio.
• "oh god," she whispers from the floor in a broken voice. tears blur her vision. Bella looks up at the family of vampires. "i think i've made a terrible mistake."