With Time Comes Power

(Sequel to Only Time Will Tell.)

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A/N: Special thanks to KCLutz4475 for Beta-ing this story, you rock Tasha…hugs.

Chapter 1

A Power Within

It had been thirty years since the confrontation with Maria. The Cullen's left taking Alice with them to care for her. She hadn't talked to anyone for over ten years after that day. Then one day she rose from her bed and went about her day as if nothing had happened. She was the same Alice they had all known, before she changed in such an evil way.

She didn't seem to remember any of it at all, at first. Oh, she knew the love that she had for Jasper had ended and they had went their separate ways and she knew he had found another love and was happy living with me, Peter and Char, but it didn't seem to bother her, instead she was happy for us. Sure we worried that it was all a farce, that maybe she was putting us off our mark so she could find other ways to get back at us, but nothing ever happened.

Edward watched her closely to make sure this wasn't the case, but he found nothing to give him worry, but he still watched over her, remembering the last time when she pulled the wool over his eyes. It has been twenty years since she woke and still she has done nothing to cause us worry of any more attacks.

She went on her way with her shopping and keeping to her everyday rituals, staying happy with the family, as if nothing was wrong. She stayed on the internet and flipped through numerous magazines to get caught up on the newer fashions she had missed over the years, while in her comatose state.

Carlisle wondered if it was one of the shamans, which there were many, he took her too that did their voodoo dances and made her drink their foul drinks that never seemed to help at the time, that maybe had a delayed affect on her. He wasn't sure, but was wearily happy she was back to her old self. Could she have the patience to hold out this long to finally get her vengeance she wanted so badly before?

She even approached us once on our many visits to the Cullen's and apologized for her behavior, she told us she was better and that she didn't want to cause us any harm and asked for our forgiveness, for the way she acted. She wished us the best that life had to offer and she seemed sincere. At first we were leery of accepting what she offered, but in the end it had surprised us in such a way that we accepted her apologies out of shear shock at her admittance, but we still kept an eye on her.

Jasper and I owned a few houses across the country and in Canada, we traveled quite a bit, but there were a couple of places where we stay more than the others and that was our house in Texas and the other was in a little town just outside of Denver. We were happy with the life we shared with Peter and Charlotte. They were just as much my family as they were Jasper's. I loved them and was as close to them as if they were truly my brother and sister. We traveled together, as we lived together.

Jasper and I were happy, he was my soul mate and I loved him dearly. I gave up on trying to help him remember his human days that we shared together, for that was another life time ago and we were clearly not those people any longer. Yes, Jasper did remember some of it after a while, but I saw no need to keep hammering him with a life that would never be again and he agreed.

Although we were married in our human years, we decided to have a ceremony again. Char helped me with the details and we were married once again as vampires. Jasper took me on a honeymoon to Italy where we shared our alone time together joyously. I think it was the only time we had went anywhere without Peter and Char and I missed them terribly, but enjoyed our time together none the less.

We kept a low profile while there not wanting to alert the Volturi of our presents. Jasper said that it was the last thing we needed for them to find out about me, especially since a few more powers made them self's known throughout the years. Peter said that they would make a presence, as I grew as a vampire and he was right.

We found out that Jasper and Peter was right about the power I had that resembled Peter's. I did know things before they happened and just like Peter I never knew how I knew, I just did. I was also just as persist as he was. Whenever something was about to happen I would just get a feeling. I knew what was coming. Peter and I would just look at one another, knowing we both were thinking the same thing.

At first, it was mostly knowing happy things or something stupid one of us were thinking of doing, but then it would become more intense, like the vampires that would come to challenge Jasper or the God of War as they so boldly called him and then they found out about me. We didn't know how they found out, but they did and they came to challenge me as well as Jasper. But of course the one's that challenged us would be defeated or they would run off after finding that they were in way over their heads in facing us.

As we sat and thought about how other vampire's knew of me was a dilemma. The only thing we could come up with was that one of the vampire's that had crossed our path without our knowledge had a power that could see what gifts different vampire's possessed. Either that or Alice was sending them to us, which we tried not to believe, but as I said before we still didn't trust her too much.

As time went on my powers grew, I had more than one, which was something we all knew to begin with, but before long I had three, then four and so on. Jasper and Peter sat down once and discussed what powers I truly had at the time. I started out as a fire starter along with the empathic ability and then shortly thereafter came the same ability that Peter had of just knowing things which Peter was very proud of. Then came my ability to hear Jasper in my head, we could carry on conversations in our heads without opening our mouths once. At first we thought it was just due to the fact that we were mates, but we never came across anyone else that had that ability as well. We had Carlisle research it with no luck what so ever. But the one that had everyone stumped was a power I discovered on my own.

One day I was out in the forest hunting alone. Jasper had some business with Jinks, his attorney from town and Peter and Char was out hunting, with them hunting humans and me hunting animals, I was left alone for the day.

After bringing down a few deer that I hated by the way, but there was nothing close enough for me to take down, I was relaxing in one of the nearby trees enjoying the summer day. The birds were singing which was a rare occurrence, considering that most of the animals and birds fled when one of us was around. It was a beautiful day, the air smelled fresh after the morning rain, but then it all changed.

The smell of the fresh day turned into the smell of vampire which was close. I jumped from the tree and started to head home not wanting to face anyone alone. I also remembered Jasper telling me to take care not to start any fires, even though it rained this morning, the land was dry from the lack of rain that it still needed. He told me that even a small spark would set the forest a blaze and would devastate the surrounding area and could cause the death of many people not willing to leave their home in fear of losing all they owned.

With me being a fire starter it was not a good idea to face anything or anyone in battle. As I turned to run back to the house I ran into a male vampire that blocked my way.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here? Would you be Mrs. God of War?" He asked evilly.

"Leave me alone, Jasper isn't here, but he will be soon," I told him.

"Oh, really? Well we don't need him anyway. From what I hear you're as strong if not stronger than he is. I think you will do just fine," he said with a smirk. I looked at him angrily.

"Leave now! If you want to live," I told him. He burst out with laughter.

"I think not little lady," he said as his eyes roamed over my body. He licked his lips slowly. "I would love to have a taste of what Whitlock tastes at night when the lights go out," he said sinuously. I growled at his comment wanting to set him on fire and turn him to ash, but knowing I couldn't, then it dawned on me that he said we, we? I looked around and saw no one, but I sensed there were more.

"You said we? Who else is with you?" I asked nervously.

"Oh, a few of my buddies, they might want a taste themselves," he said with a chuckle. As out of the corner of my eye a few more vampires came into my vision. I turned to see there were many of them, at least twenty. They surrounded me in a circle as he laughed evilly again.

"What are you going to do little lady? Do you think you can take us all on?" he asked still chuckling as the rest of the group joined him in laughter.

I knew the only way I could beat them all was to set them all on fire, but I didn't want to cause a forest fire, I was beginning to worry, it was me or let a lot of people die due to fire, I was at a loss of what to do.

"Please, don't do this. Just leave and no one will be hurt," I begged him.

"I don't think we will honey, I haven't had a good fuck in quite some time and I'm sure there's a few here that hasn't either and you will do just nicely," he said licking his lips once again. The anger was building inside me so much so that I had beads of sweat on my upper lip. I closed my eyes trying to control the fire that was stirring inside me. I was digging deep inside of myself to gain control of my anger before I started throwing fire at these idiots.

I kept hearing Jasper's voice in the back of my mind telling me to be careful not to start a fire, but my body was saying something completely different. My body began to shake as I fought the natural order of protecting myself the only way I knew how, by fire. The shaking became worse, I opened my eye and glared at the vampire in front of me as he laughed again and began to approach me.

Out of nowhere a light began to surround me. It poured from ever part of my body. I lit up like a damn Christmas tree. I put my hand up to stop the vampire from coming any closer as his eyes widened at what he was seeing and poof, he was gone, I heard a gasped from around me, as I turned everyone of the vampires that was surrounding me went up the same way. Poof, poof, poof, the only thing left was a powdery substance that floated in the air. I was amazed at what had happened.

The threat was gone. What just happened? I wondered. Was this another one of my gifts? I looked around and listened to see if there was anyone around and it was silent. Even the birds stopped chirping. I took a non needed deep breath and headed back to the house.

Once there I began to pace the house as I waited for my family to return home. It seemed like hours had past, when in reality it had only been an hour when Peter and Char arrived. They saw the anxiety that was pouring off of my body, as they ran to my side, asking if I was alright. I told them what had happened. After finding out if I was okay, they were in awe of the new power they thought I might be attaining. They calmed me down by talking to me and reassuring me that it would be okay. They said they would work with me to gain control of the new strength.

Shortly thereafter, Jasper returned home. We told him of my new capability and although he was happy for me. I could still see a hint of worry in his eyes, especially when he found out that I was approached by the group of rogue vampires. He grabbed me and checked me from head to toe to make sure I was alright, even though I told him that they didn't lay a hand on me.

That very same day my family took me out and tried to recreate the power I used earlier that day. But it didn't happen. We tried many times throughout the months to come, trying to recreate what had happened, but alas it never came again. I don't know why it would occur once and never show itself again. Peter seemed to think it was done self consciously and would show itself once again, when needed. He said it was nothing to worry about to just give it time. We all agreed and went on with our everyday ritual of living our lives and traveling.

A few years later, we were snuggled up on the sofa with our significant other watching a movie, when Jasper's cell phone rang. It was Carlisle asking us to come for a visit. It seemed that there was this vampire that wanted Bella. He was a nomad and was traveling through the city of Seattle. The Cullen's were no longer allowed in Forks, due to the changing of Bella, but had a house in Seattle, which they frequently used. The nomad had seen Bella and took a liking to her.

He tried to lure her away from the Cullen's to travel with him. With Bella denying his advances and a warning from the Cullen's family he had left. But was seen by the wolves close to the reservation and ran off, but kept coming back tormenting them. It seemed that the said vampire captured one of the reservation girls and killed her. The wolves were having a hard time catching him, saying he had some special powers of his own as he kept avoiding their strategic advances.

After some time passed the wolves followed a scent that one of the vampires left which lead to the town of Port Angeles. The wolves that followed the scent found a group of vampires. There were at least sixty or more. When returning to the reservation and meeting with their elders had decided to approach the Cullen's about the group of vampires in the nearby city asking what they knew of them. The Cullen's put two and two together and figured out that the same vampire that had tried to lure Bella away was building an army and offered to help the wolves to rid the town of the army and asked if we would come to help them out.

Jasper told him, he would talk to his family about this and would call him back afterwards. There was no need to tell us what had happened, with our sensitive hearing we heard all that was said between Jasper and Carlisle. We decided to go and help our friends as well as the wolves, the last thing we needed was the Volturi to get involved and with an army being created to cause havoc on the neighboring city and coming to Seattle for the simple reason as to start a war, we knew that it would make it back to the Italian Royalty. So our solution was to go and help out.

Within two days we left for Seattle and went to war.