Heartstrings Chapters one, two, and three

A/N: Please be kind and gentle with me. This is my first time (Writing that is).
{Sorry for grammar and spelling errors if any}
The Twilight Saga belongs to Stephenie Meyer.


Story Summary: Edward’s instrument of expression was not always the piano but, the violin until Alice got rid of it. As the years past, Edward’s former instrument of self expression becomes an others.
A new twist on “How Edward meets Bella” Vamp/Human: Somewhat AU.

Chapter One
Lost and Found

Edward’s Point of View

(Alaska 1940)

“I just about have enough of you. Now tell me right now, were did you put it? You freak of nature“.
I demanded from the spiky haired abomination named Alice standing in front of me.

“I’ve already told you, Edward. I got rid of it. That violin of yours gives me a headache, so I had sweet Emmett over there to get rid of it for me”. I turn to Emmett looking carefully in his thoughts to see if I could find were he put it, but all I could get from him was sick thoughts about his wife Rosalie.

I tried to calm myself before speaking. “Please Emmett…” I started. “Please, you know how much my violin means to me. It’s one of the only things I have left from my days as a human and more important, it’s the last thing I have of my father’s”.

I said mournfully thinking about my human father, Edward Sr. and how he used to play for my human mother, Elizabeth. The way he used to play, you would think time had stopped and nothing in the world could go wrong. To think now because of that fortune telling freak, I was losing one of my last ties to my humanity. What’s next? Pawning off my mother’s wedding ring?

Emmett inverted his gaze away from me when he spoke. “Sorry Edward, but I’m not telling you were it is. So stop looking in my head, unless you enjoy watching my wife performing spread eagles”. He said in a perverse amusement. “You’ll thank me for doing this”. Alice said.

I eyed her furiously. Then she added. “I don’t mean now… but some day you will”. After hearing her say that my anger was now ten-folded and I was thinking of ways to kill that pixie from hell, but then I felt an unwanted wave of calm come over me and I knew it was Jasper; Alice’s mate. How he could put up with her, I will never understand.

‘I am really sorry Edward. But when Alice sets her mind on something, she is an unstoppable force’. Jasper thought to me. “Oh, get over it Edward”. Said Rosalie in a boring tone. “If I have to do without my small pleasures because of Alice, then so can you”. ’Without my small pleasures’?

That did it. I was so enraged at that moment that I didn’t notice Carlisle putting a hand on my shoulder, walking up behind me with Esme beside him. “What is going on here?” Esme asked in a worried tone. Another unwanted wave of calm came at me from Jasper. “Nothing…” I started. “Nothing anyone here would care about”. I rushed out the door past Carlisle and Esme. I had to get out of there. I needed to hunt or just rip something, anything a part at that moment.

(Forks, Washington. 65 years later)

As time past and looking back to that day. I never thought I would forgive Alice, but as the years went by, I understood that everything she did had its reasons. Even if it took over 25 years to understand it. 10 years after that event, out of spite for Rosalie’s comment that day.

I took up playing the piano and the only one who seemed to be pleased at this was Esme. Carlisle tried to offer to buy me another violin, but it just wouldn’t be the same. My father’s violin was a one of a kind and it had it’s own unique sound, even the Angels in heaven envy it’s beautiful song.

As much as I enjoy playing the piano, I personally wished from time to time that Emmett or Alice would one day slip up and would carelessly think about the status or location on were it was hidden. To my surprise that it was actually Jasper who let it slip while he was hunting with me and Esme. To think I was just 5 miles away from my violin.

I came to learn that Emmett had a little bit of help with stealing my violin. One week before I notice that it was missing, Jasper had sent a surge of lust at Carlisle and Esme. This caused them to have a sudden urge to go on a third honeymoon.

With the parental figures gone, Alice had appointed herself in charge of everyone’s hunting schedule. While I was stuck in Alice’s and Rosalie’s hunting group, Jasper and Emmett were carrying out Alice’s orders. Where it was hidden at was also Jasper’s idea.

He had Emmett put it in an old abandon shack in the woods of Forks, Washington, just one mile short of the Quileute’s land. I almost made a mad dash to seize it from it’s long waited hiding place, until I was disappointedly informed by Esme, who was also a part of the Forks Community Committee.
That the shack was demolished 4 years ago due to parents’ fears of their children getting hurt if the small building became unstable. I felt just as worst I did that day, 65 years ago. Esme and Jasper left me there in my spot.

For the first time in a while, Jasper didn’t try to alter my emotions. I took that 5 mile hike to the place where my violin was in a human pace to clear my head, when I heard it. The heavenly sound of my father’s violin. I thought I was just hallucinating from my second moment of grief I was going through but, as I got closer to the clearing I saw the most unworldly being playing my father’s violin.

Chapter two
Angel or human ?

Edward’s Point of View

I was so captivated that I feared if I moved at that moment, that the Angel would disappear. I thought I had departed from this world and somehow ended up in heaven. The sounds and pitches were exactly the same as my father’s violin.

There was no question that it was his. But how ? Did this Angel saved it from destruction? Or was my mother’s words true about my father’s violin ;“ That violin was made by God himself and it’s only equal would be that of one of his heavenly angels”.

This beautiful creature had to be a angel because, there was no way that my mind could fabricate such a hallucination . She had long brown hair, that shown a bit of auburn lace into it when the sun peaked through the trees of the clearing. I couldn’t see her eyes because, there were closed and hidden from me but, I was sure that they were beautiful as well.

Her skin was as pale as porcelain and she looked like she was breakable if she was to be touched. I had no intentions in interrupting her by my presents or my touch. I listen carefully to the piece of music she was playing, because I remember hearing it before in one of my times of boredom over the years.

When the pace of the tune changed I finally remember the musical piece. Giuseppe Tartini's 'Devil's Trill' Sonata in G Minor. The tale behind the Sonata was that the devil himself came in one of Tartini’s dreams. The devil forced Tartini to take him on as his student and in return the devil would not condemn his soul to hell.

I wished that the situation with Carlisle and myself would of happen that way or something similar, to were I had a choice in the condemnation of my soul. There were times I wished that Carlisle would have just let me die of the spanish influenza or just killed me from bloodlust, but he didn’t and now I was stuck in this life of blood. Even though we drink the blood of animals, there was a time that each of us in the Cullen Family ( Save Carlisle ) had given in to our instincts and bloodlust.

Carlisle being a man of strong religious views, had always tried to reassure me that Vampires were not soulless and that God loves us equally as he does his other creations. I could never share Carlisle’s insight on life because I will always see myself as a blood thirsty monster.

My thoughts were starting to ring true when I took more notice to the Angel in front of me. She had a heartbeat that was picking up pace as well as the music she was playing. Her eyes were now open. They were a rich color brown and they were now reading the sheet music on a stand that I now notice in front of her. The tune she was playing was about to come to a close until one of the strings of the violin broke and had made a small cut on her neck.

The smell of her blood coming from the cut was intoxicating. I had to fight with the monster that now was thirsting for her blood. I watched as she was putting pressure on the cut with what looked like a red silk dust cloth. It shielded the smell of her blood enough that I could hold my breath and made a mad dash away from her and her intoxicating blood.

When I knew I was at lest 20 miles away from the clearing, I let out my breath I was holding. I tried to clear my head but, all I could see was the Ange… . No, the human girl and all I could think about was her blood. Her sweet intoxicating blood.

The blood thirsty monster in me, wished nothing more than to rush back to that clearing to greedily drink in the flavor of that girl’s blood until there was nothing left but a beautiful corpse. The other part of me that wished for everything that Carlisle believed to be true about us , would make me sane enough to believe that I could suppress the monster within me.

I heard a sound coming behind me in the trees and was about to brush it off, thinking it was just the wind but the sound of giggles brought me out of my inner conflict. “Do I get my ‘Thank You’ from you now or after you change her.” said Alice sitting on a tree branch above me.

Chapter Three
Destiny’s Song

Edward’s Point of View

I was in her room now. The girl that I had mistaken for an angel. I watched her sleep and I was fascinated by her . For some reasons unknown me, I could hear everything but her thoughts but she did however talked in her sleep. When I heard her voice, for the first time in my 87 years of this existence I felt it my dead heart was sparking to life.

Her scent was as equally heavenly as her apparent that I took notice to earlier that day. I had to continually fight with the blood lusting monster within me. My mind was racing a 100 miles a minute as I thought back to everything that Alice had said to me just a few hours ago.

*Flashback*-Earlier that Afternoon

“Do I get my ‘thank you’ from you now or after you change her.” Alice asked. I couldn’t wrap the thought a round what Alice just said. Did she see in her visions that I would make the girl one of us? A monster?
“Have you lost your mind Alice?…” I started.

“ Have you forgotten about the treaty between ourselves and the Quileutes? And the girl,? Why would I make her a blood thirsty monster like us” I asked. I knew no matter what I say, Alice would come up with a reason why. And that was just what she did as she leapt out the tree branch and land right in front of me .

“It’s Bella’s destiny to become a Vampire and fall in love with you”. ’Bella?’ “You already know her name?” I asked not knowing if I wanted to hear more. “Yes, her name is Bella Swan and I knew about her before Jasper and I came into the family”. she said.

“You Knew? Your telling me you seen me change her to a vampire?” “Yes and No” she said. Now I was getting mad. I hated when I had so many questions and no real answers to put my mind at ease. “Which is it, Alice? Yes or No?”

“Well 2 out of 4 outcomes I had seen, you two fall in love and you make her one of us. The other 2 outcomes someone else finds her and changes her but you two eventually meet and fall in love”. She said . “What do you mean we fall in love? I don’t even know the girl, let alone have feels for her.”

“But you will or should I you have. When you went to that meadow, her and your destiny have started to unfold.” She said. “If you wouldn’t had taken my father’s violin, maybe my destiny wouldn’t be lead down this path you so clearly have set.” I said in a cryptic voice.

“You weren’t listening to me were you?” She asked me in a serious tone . “I was listening. I heard you telling me that I am doing to eternally dame a innocent girl in the name of love”. I said in a equally amount seriousness to match hers.

“I swear you truly are a fool sometimes!” She said annoyed. “You only hear what you want to hear. I told you that there were 4 outcomes, all in which you two end up together. Wither you change her or someone else, both of your destinies can’t be denied.”

I was about to argue with her, when she said. “Edward, Future’s Song can be changed and the song will end differently but, Destiny’s Song maybe played different ways but, will always end the same. All I wish is for you and our family to be happy. You may not see it now, but your Destiny’s Song has began and believe me the song will be beautiful.”

*End of Flashback*

As I continued to watch her sleep. All the words Alice said were now ring true. I was falling in love with Bella. The feelings in my dead heart was proof of this. I knew no matter what I would learn about her, I would love her.

My heart ached in fear that ever though Alice seen that she will love me in return, I just couldn’t see how. I am an unholy beast, damned to a life of blood. How could anyone love that? I mean by nature humans knew to fear us even if they didn’t understand why but, they knew nonetheless.

I started to notice the sun rising from out her window and knew that I would have to leave her. I didn’t want to scare her if she saw me but, in truth I didn’t want to meet the wrath of her father. Charlie Swan was Forks’ Chief of Police and even though he may seem too engross in his work to take notice of his only daughter but, the fact still remain that she was his daughter and no father would be too thrilled to find a unknown boy in his 14 year old daughter’s bedroom.

Before leaving her room, I run the back of my cold hand down her cheek. She felt so warm and her slightly parted lips were so inviting. I was about to brush my lips on the her, just to see if her lips were as soft as they looked but, she started to stir from her sleep and made a mad dash out her window before her eyes open.