anonymousmaitre 3h ago Rest assured he could seek treatment any time he wished to, but would rather glut himself on drugged blood in an effort to dull his pain. I'm reaching the end of my patience. After all, it's been years since his daughter passed.

slowpianist28 3h ago his daughter DIED?????

anonymousmaitre 2h ago Yes, but within the scope of existence as we know it, such pain is to be overcome. For instance, my first memory, I'm being run down by slavers in Delhi [read more] -1.8k ⇓

slowpianist28 2h ago WHY DID HE UPVOTE

• 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."

Breaking Dawn, Chapter 38. Power.