Bella awoke with a groan. Her head was pounding, reminding her eerily of when she had woken up in Seer's bed.

The thought of the girl, Bella couldn't really picture her as anything but a girl as far as appearance went, had her sitting up quickly. She instantly regretted the quick action when the world began to spin around her, but she closed her eyes and willed the dizziness to pass. When she opened her eyes again, she realized she was in someone's home, but it most definitely wasn't the limbo she had been in before.

Had it all been a dream, then? Was she in her own time period, safe and sound? Had the van missed her and she merely fainted from shock?

No, she decided. The memory of Edward's screams was still fresh in her mind, and she knew no amount of imagination could possible conjure up such a horrid image. It had definitely been real, but what about the last part? The going to the past part? If that was true too, then she wasn't in her own time anymore, rather she was sometime in the past, and she didn't even know when!

“Ah, good, you're up!” the voice was decidedly masculine, and Bella startled when she heard it. She turned to face the newcomer, only to see a man, not much older than herself, smiling kindly at her.

“Uh, y-yeah, yes I am,” she answered. “Not to sound rude or anything, but…where am I?”

“Ah, not rude at all,” the man said with a wave of his hand. “I found you unconscious on the ground, and it's not safe out there! You could've been trampled by a carriage! I dragged you out and brought you to my home.”

“Oh, thank you!” Bella smiled gratefully at him. Carriage? She was definitely in the past! “Um, if you don't mind my asking, who are you?”

“Oh, how rude of me! I'm Nathaniel, Doctor Nathaniel Crocket to be exact. And who might you be? I daresay I know most everyone in this town, but I've never seen you before.”

“Oh, uh, I'm Bella, Isabella Swan actually. I'm…not from around here. I'm from a small town called Forks.”

“Forks? Never heard of it,” Nathaniel shrugged. “Ah well, you're in good old California now.