DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING STEPHENIE MEYER DOES!

Bella's Point Of View

The doorbell rang. I didn't bother to look up, knowing Renesmee would be down soon. I knew it was Jacob; I could smell him even from this side of the door. Even after two years, these new abilities still amazed me.

But what was with him? It didn't smell quite like anything I'd smelled before, with lots of almost in the gray area. It smelled like almost a vampire, but also almost a wolf. In that moment, I wished Edward wouldn't have gone hunting with Alice and Jasper.

Renesmee got to the door just as Carlisle did. She opened the door beaming and threw her arms around Jacob. He laughed and untangled himself, then looked uncertainly at Carlisle.

"We have a bit of a situation," he said, and someone stepped out from behind him.

I shut my copy of Wuthering Heights as I looked at the girl standing beside of Jacob. Only maybe half an inch shorter than me, she stood in the doorway and looked at Carlisle for a moment as if sizing him up, and then smiled and shook his hand.

"I'm Anna," she said, taking him in with her huge orange eyes. There was no question about it: she was a vampire. But not like any I had ever seen before. She had a wildness about her that I simply couldn't explain. Her soft voice sounded like the uncontrollable waves breaking in the ocean, like the soft breathing of the earth.

"We are the Cullens," Carlisle replied with his own gentle smile, and immediately Esme, Emmett, and Rosalie joined the small group at the door. I soon followed.

"What brings you to this neck of the woods?" Carlisle asked.

"I live here, along the beach," she replied.

"I apologize if we are intruding on your territory –" he began.

"No, no," she interrupted, "I've only lived here a few months."

"Oh, well, good then. Please, forgive me, come in, take a seat," Carlisle offered. "May I ask you some questions?"

"Of course. Anything you like," she said, sitting stiffly on one of the couches.

"How did you get here?" Carlisle asked.

"She's a wolf," Seth said, who had followed her into the room as he came to sit beside her. "Jacob and Leah found her in the woods. Then she changed and I ran in." He looked at her with smiling eyes. She nodded at Carlisle.

"You're a wolf?" Rosalie said.

"Yes," Anna said.

"But she's one of you," Jacob cut in.

"So what are you?" Emmett asked.

"I – I – I…" she began, and stopped, her jaw dropped. Her orange eyes were glued to the door, where Jasper had burst in and now had the very same look as Anna. Alice and Edward came in behind him, Alice rushing to Carlisle and Edward rushing to me. Anna rushed to Jasper, only a couple of inches between their faces. I noticed then how very alike they were, from the stiff, restrained stance, to the texture of their hair.

"He smelled something different. I couldn't see it," Alice explained to Carlisle and Esme frantically.

"What's going on?" I asked Edward quietly as I watched Anna start to circle Jasper as if she simply could not believe her eyes.

"I don't know," Edward replied. "Alice didn't see her, but that could be because of the wolves. But her mind, I can't read it. It's moving too quickly, and she thinks in pictures, not words."

"Anna?" Jasper said as she finally came to a stop in front of him.

"Jasper?" she said as she reached out to touch his face. "How?"

"I was changed, like you," he replied.

"I thought I would never see you again," she said in amazement as she continued to stare at him.

"What is going on?" Jacob suddenly shouted.

"This is my sister," Jasper said as the room filled with a tenseness that I could have cut with a knife.

"Perhaps you need some time," Carlisle said uncertainly.

"Shall we take a walk?" Anna asked him, seeming unaffected by the uncomfortable atmosphere.

"Yes," Jasper said with a slight smile.

"We will be back," she said mostly to Alice and Seth, who both seemed worried, and then they were gone.

"Will someone tell me what just happened?" Jacob's head nearly exploded. Everyone looked expectantly at Edward.

"That was his sister." Edward said slowly. "I've seen her in his memories. She was much younger than him, but they were very close. He thought she, along with the rest of his family, had lived her life out and was dead. He thinks about her every so often."

Alice nodded. "He's told me about her. She was the youngest of his siblings, five years apart, but they were the closest. She was the one who he missed the most."

"How did she end up here?" I asked quietly.

"I guess we'll find out when Jasper returns," Carlisle said.

"Well, congratulations, Seth," Edward said suddenly, looking up at Seth.

"Thanks," he replied, grinning broadly. "I was starting to feel left out."

I could feel the frustration and worry radiating from Alice and Jacob. "What's going on?"

"Seth imprinted on Anna," Jacob scowled.

"I thought you had gotten over your vampiric prejudices, Jacob," I retorted with a pointed look at Renesmee.

"It's not that. But we have no idea what she is. We have to know what to expect," he said, implying heavily that what they really wanted to know was what she fed on.

"What's her mind like?" Renesmee asked suddenly.

"It's very...different. It's all in pictures and smells and noises, instead of words. Also, there's feelings. It seems she's inherited some of Jasper's abilities. She can feel very strong emotions, but she can't change them. For example, she could feel it when Seth imprinted on her. It gets very confusing," Edward replied.

"I wonder why no one's noticed her before," Esme said.

"Well, she couldn't have been hiding as a normal wolf," Jacob stated.

"Her fur looks like silver," Seth explained.

"I guess we'll know when they return," Carlisle said again.

"One thing is for sure though," Edward stated. "She has no bad intentions. She was afraid when she came in, and surprised and joyful when she saw Jasper, but everything about her had a sort of...innocence, I guess."