detective Bella Swan
Twitter - @Notyourfnbella
Age: 23
Race: Human
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Police Officer
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Family: Charlie Swan (father), Renee Dwyer (mother), Phil Dwyer (step-father), Elliot Murphy (fiance, deceased)
History: I had a pretty typical childhood, growing up with my mother with occasional visits with my father. I had to be more of a grown-up when it came to my mother. She was sweet and loving, but definitely absent-minded with a tendency to go through boyfriends faster than most teenagers I knew. So if nothing else, she was definitely my example of how -not- to do a lot of things.
My junior year of high school, however, everything changed. She got married to a guy that was really decent, if maybe a bit too young for her. He had to do a lot of traveling while trying to make a career as a baseball player, and I could tell that she wanted to go with him. So I made the decision to move in with my dad, Charlie - the Chief of Police in a little Washington town called Forks.
That was the year that I met Edward Cullen, and my world flipped upside down. Suddenly all my supposed determination not to fall in love as easily as my mom did went out the window. And I fell hard. To the point that after only a few months, I was ready to spend literally forever with him. But then after one small incident, he split and shattered my whole world.
For months, I was just a shell. Then I started taking risks, just to hear his voice warning me in my head. It was that habit that lead me to start hanging out with Jacob Black. He was everything that I should have fallen in love with. Kind, strong, supportive... the guy that my dad was none too shy about rooting for. And I had to admit, he was the one to pick me up and patch me back together. I really could have fallen for him, if I let myself. But I was terrified of falling in love again. And if things fell apart with him, who would be there to help pick me up then?
So after graduation, I moved right away to Seattle and studied to be a paralegal. Managed to get a job at a big firm and lost myself in my work. It was dull, tedious, and lengthy work most the time. But it gave me something productive to focus on. That didn't stop me from getting noticed by one of the lawyers.
I wound up getting assigned to a lot of Elliot's cases and, after about half a year of that, he confessed that he'd intentionally requested to continue working with me after the first case. I pushed him away, but he pushed just as hard right back. One night, I finally gave in and went out to dinner with him, and things exploded from there. He challenged me - nothing was ever easy. From dates of rock climbing and horse back riding to pushing me toward harder cases at work. We didn't work together after we'd started dating, but he made sure to make sure those taking on challenging cases knew my name.
After a year, he had asked my parents out to dinner with us and popped the question. I'd been frozen for a few moments before my mom kicked my foot under the table, and I said yes. That night as we walked home, vampires made a rather sudden and violent reappearance in my life in the form of the red-headed Victoria. She took us off the street, made me watch as she tortured and ripped him apart.
After the funeral, both my parents wanted me to move back with them. Elliot had left me everything, so I could have withdrawn for as long as I needed. Instead, I turned and signed up for the police academy.
Any free time I had for a long while was spent either at the gym or looking over news stories and police reports. Filtering out the ones I could tell are vampire attacks, trying to figure out a way that I could possibly fight back. And one day, take out Victoria.
I guess it was only a matter of time before someone took notice. Of all the files I'd go through, the cases I'd link together. I came into work one day and found an application for detective, and a note in my chief's writing. It wasn't something that I'd ever thought of before, but I was drawn to try for it all the same. I waited until I was sure I had it until I bothered telling either of my parents. Renee was excited for me, but Charlie seemed to understand more of what I could potentially face. It seemed to mollify him somewhat that I had been assigned to cold cases. Little did he know, with the cases I was looking into, this was more dangerous than walking a beat or being assigned to narcotics or homicide.
Race: Human
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Police Officer
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Family: Charlie Swan (father), Renee Dwyer (mother), Phil Dwyer (step-father), Elliot Murphy (fiance, deceased)
History: I had a pretty typical childhood, growing up with my mother with occasional visits with my father. I had to be more of a grown-up when it came to my mother. She was sweet and loving, but definitely absent-minded with a tendency to go through boyfriends faster than most teenagers I knew. So if nothing else, she was definitely my example of how -not- to do a lot of things.
My junior year of high school, however, everything changed. She got married to a guy that was really decent, if maybe a bit too young for her. He had to do a lot of traveling while trying to make a career as a baseball player, and I could tell that she wanted to go with him. So I made the decision to move in with my dad, Charlie - the Chief of Police in a little Washington town called Forks.
That was the year that I met Edward Cullen, and my world flipped upside down. Suddenly all my supposed determination not to fall in love as easily as my mom did went out the window. And I fell hard. To the point that after only a few months, I was ready to spend literally forever with him. But then after one small incident, he split and shattered my whole world.
For months, I was just a shell. Then I started taking risks, just to hear his voice warning me in my head. It was that habit that lead me to start hanging out with Jacob Black. He was everything that I should have fallen in love with. Kind, strong, supportive... the guy that my dad was none too shy about rooting for. And I had to admit, he was the one to pick me up and patch me back together. I really could have fallen for him, if I let myself. But I was terrified of falling in love again. And if things fell apart with him, who would be there to help pick me up then?
So after graduation, I moved right away to Seattle and studied to be a paralegal. Managed to get a job at a big firm and lost myself in my work. It was dull, tedious, and lengthy work most the time. But it gave me something productive to focus on. That didn't stop me from getting noticed by one of the lawyers.
I wound up getting assigned to a lot of Elliot's cases and, after about half a year of that, he confessed that he'd intentionally requested to continue working with me after the first case. I pushed him away, but he pushed just as hard right back. One night, I finally gave in and went out to dinner with him, and things exploded from there. He challenged me - nothing was ever easy. From dates of rock climbing and horse back riding to pushing me toward harder cases at work. We didn't work together after we'd started dating, but he made sure to make sure those taking on challenging cases knew my name.
After a year, he had asked my parents out to dinner with us and popped the question. I'd been frozen for a few moments before my mom kicked my foot under the table, and I said yes. That night as we walked home, vampires made a rather sudden and violent reappearance in my life in the form of the red-headed Victoria. She took us off the street, made me watch as she tortured and ripped him apart.
After the funeral, both my parents wanted me to move back with them. Elliot had left me everything, so I could have withdrawn for as long as I needed. Instead, I turned and signed up for the police academy.
Any free time I had for a long while was spent either at the gym or looking over news stories and police reports. Filtering out the ones I could tell are vampire attacks, trying to figure out a way that I could possibly fight back. And one day, take out Victoria.
I guess it was only a matter of time before someone took notice. Of all the files I'd go through, the cases I'd link together. I came into work one day and found an application for detective, and a note in my chief's writing. It wasn't something that I'd ever thought of before, but I was drawn to try for it all the same. I waited until I was sure I had it until I bothered telling either of my parents. Renee was excited for me, but Charlie seemed to understand more of what I could potentially face. It seemed to mollify him somewhat that I had been assigned to cold cases. Little did he know, with the cases I was looking into, this was more dangerous than walking a beat or being assigned to narcotics or homicide.