A Change in the Weather
Disclaimer: Please note I don't own the writes to the characters; they are all the great work of Stefani Meyer I merely created a new setting
A few things you need to know to understand the story. It starts two hundred years after Edward left in new moon but he never returned. This rest will be explained as you go along.
Preface:
BPOV
The last two hundred years had felt very boring to me. Strict rules had been imposed by the Volturi as they tried to curb my diet. With my neglect to join their way of life they controlled my every movement. Felix had been instructed to follow my every move, which got rather annoying. I had only joined this life as the better of two alternatives and even then I got no freedom. As the years went by Felix and I became close he was like my older brother in way. This was sort of sad because up until my 18th birthday party Emmett had fulfilled that job. I missed the Cullens; well I missed most of the Cullens. With my new vampire abilities they were always on my mind, but as Edw... well as he once told me our kind, even after two hundred years it was strange including myself, but yes our kind were easily distracted.
Aro often tried to get me to join the army on their, as they put it, exertions but watching fellow vampires get massacred wasn't what called fun. I stayed in the Old Italian castle where I continuously attempted to learn to control my ability. I would never forget the day I saw Aro's face light up with excitement, we were sitting around the table in the banquet hall, and Felix as usual was by my side, when Marcus started to talk about my old love connections. You see he is able to feel the bonds between people, and the day he met Edw... Well him he saw the bond. This had brought him much amusement over the past months since my rebirth. That summer evening while we were all sitting there he decided to verbalize his amusement.
"So Bella." He chuckled. My attention was immediately focused on him. Marcus hardly ever spoke to me, being the quieter of the bunch. But rumours' about my love life seemed to be a consuming past time that he endeavoured in. "I was just wondering if you ever intended to let Edward know that you were one of us." The room could have been set on fire for all I cared; my rage was going to end up with someone's death on my conscience. A split second later out of the sunny sky came an immense lightening bolt which hit the empty chair next to where Marcus was sitting.
The whole room looked at me in amazement. No one knew what to say, yet they knew everything. Aro was the first one to talk. Well not talk more sing with joy.
"Oooh!" he coughed. "OOOH my Bella! Isn't this just a joyous occasion. Bella has found her gift. How wonderful. How absolutely marvellous." He leapt from his chair and glided strait for my before grasping my hands with pure pleasure. But not everyone had the same reaction.
"You got to be kidding." Marcus yelled. "She nearly killed me. You know what comes from lightening, heat and with heat, fire. She could have fucking killed me."
"Ah but she didn't. Bella has found her gift which is a wonderful thing, we must give her chance to learn it, control it. Think what a wonderful asset she is to our small party."Marcus stormed out the room followed by his guard. When I next looked at Felix he merely winked.
For the years following Felix and Aro helped me learn my craft, so to speak, how to control it and the extent of my power. It turned out I could control the weather and climate. It could make it sunny when I Aro didn't feel like visitors and also provide a thick layer of storm clouds to give the army a path way to their intended victims. I felt like Aro's little protégé.
Even though I didn't approve of their life style they provided me with a family and so for two hundred years I didn't voice my complaints. Felix and I spent every moment together that are minds felt like one, we knew each other's feelings and moods, and sometimes we could guess the others thoughts. This came in handy in some situatuations. But even though I had him to keep me company and cause trouble with I felt trapped. So trapped inside this old fashion prison with no freedom I felt like screaming. This was the point that Felix helped me escape. I didn't need to worry about Demetri's or Jane's or Alec's power, thankfully my mind block was still in place for those sought of powers but getting past Aro was going to be a problem. Daily checkups from Felix on my progression were strictly requested, so the moment Felix would have the thought he sent someone else to watch me, normally someone with huge strength, my one weakness. But luckily the day Felix returned to my side he put his plan to action. He had tricked Aro into letting him return by having true thoughts of remorse. But seeing me again had flipped him back to action.
I didn't need to pack, not having any real things of my own. The only thing of true value I did own was a necklace given to me by Felix. It was a silver chain necklace with white gold pendant in the shape of a lightning bolt. Lining the edge were very small tear droplet shaped blue crystals. He had bought this the week my power had developed and put a hand done inscription on the back.
"Bella. My little sis.
Never forget your strength.
You control the skies."
I put the necklace around my neck before giving a long hug to my brother. And then I was out of there, jumping out the fifth story tower window into the dark. I was not sad to leave Felix for I new that forever was a long time and what goes around comes around. Therefore we immortals tend to cross each other's paths once in a while. And though I fear for the punishment that Aro would give him. Felix could handle himself.
So I set out to travel the world. To see the wonders within. Exposure by the sun was never a problem as I brought with me my umbrella of a personal raincloud. It was the happiest I had ever felt in my new life. I was truly free to live my, well not life, but existence as I wished, and I was even able to do good deeds in the process. Such as the time when I was in Kenya during their hot summer, there was a major draught killing thousands from dehydration, crops wouldn't grow in the infertile soil. So I brought them rain. I brought them rain to fill their wells and feed their crops and animals. Though no recognition of my work was given I still felt intensely happy.
I purposely avoided all other immortal creatures, not wanting to be dragged back to a life of imprisonment with the Volturi, but this lead to a lonely life style. No Felix, no immortals, and no human friends. This made my mind up. The loneliness. I decided to go to college. I could study and learn things which I didn't know. I mean God knows how the worlds progressed in the last two hundred years. I would unlike at high school, learn the subjects I wanted, like art and history. And the best thing of all it was only a four year course so not long enough for people to notice I hadn't changed. It seemed like the perfect solution; at least there I would be able to have friends and conversations which I felt desperately deprived of.
So I set out to England to enrol at Oxford University. I partly choice this place due to the bad weather though that really didn't matter but mostly because I had heard Felix admire it so much. This was one of the universities he went to when he had learned to control his thirst. Even though he drank human blood, he managed to live a human life just like us vegetarians. So I went to Oxford and enrolled, all I had to do was show them my art portfolio of paintings which I had quickly created in the past week and they welcomed me in to the program on scholarship. I have to say even for me that was lucky. But I guessed my persuasive tone of voice and golden topaz eyes might have had something to do with it.
And that was that I was officially a college student.
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Chapter one: Scent
BPOV
It was my first day of college at Oxford University. My nerves were hammering in every muscle. Though I had interacted with humans time and time again, being in close proximity I had never had to worry about concealing my secret. Whenever I felt worried or tense I would just move on in the middle of the night, with no trace. But hear? I didn't think that was as viable. Not because I was incapable of doing it, but more due to the fact that I didn't want to do it. This was the first real company I had had in two hundred years, and the craving for a close friendship with someone besides my conscience was almost over powering.
I drove my motorbike into the parking lot, taking in the grandeur of the buildings. The old fashioned architecture seemed somehow like home like I was back with Felix in the Old Italian castle in Voltura. The parking lot was already filled with cars. I looked at my watch, and then silently groaned to myself. My first day of college and I was already ten minutes late. This could only increase the attention I would get after all I was joining the course three weeks late. That was bound to make me the focus point. And then there would be the familiar rumours' about my looks. I prayed that those wouldn't last long. But I was being honest I new they would. I cringed internally before making my way up to the entrance portfolio in hand.
The woman on the desk at reception was fiddling with the newest version of the touch screen computers. Obviously she hadn't got the hang of the new technology parading our countries. I made a conscious effort to work slightly louder so that she would hear my approach. I had already experienced the scares it gave people when I would supposedly appear out of thin air and I didn't want to get off to a bad start here. When the women heard my footsteps she raised her head slightly and peered over her half moon glasses. Her expression began with shook, before it smooth out back in to her corporate mask. Obviously she had noticed my inhuman differences. Here we go I thought.
"Hello." my voice was calm and tender. Put in effect as not to frighten her. Her eyelids fluttered slightly before she spoke.
"Name." Her voice was severe and harsh. Well if that's how she wants to play it. I stiffened my back and composed my face to look cold but not unfriendly.
"Bella. Bella Swan. I'm here on an art scholarship." Quick clean and straight to the point.
"Oh yes you're the girl who decided at the last minute. Three weeks into the term and you decide to join you've got allot of work to catch up on. Here is your schedule and a map." She handed my two small documents of paper and opened the second on the large desk. "Your classes are here, here and here." She used her highlighter to indicate to me the buildings on the map. Before returning to her computer screen and suggesting I hurry to class.
I was glad I had taken the night before to hunt. That woman had got so close I could feel her blood pulsing beneath her skin. If I had been hungry I couldn't truthfully say I would have resisted. This is going to be hard I thought, but well worth it.
With no one in the corridors I ran to the art room, class room two hundred and seven, at an inhuman pace. This meant I was only fifteen minutes late for the lesson. I knocked on the door and waited to be allowed in it seemed to take ages to hear a response.
"Enter." A low voice commanded.
I placed my slender white marble hand on the door knob and open the door revealing a large room full of students, with each and every pair of eyes on me. But the moment I stepped in the room that was no longer my concern, the rooms smell was odd in some way. Vampires and humans smelt so differently to each other that either smell could remain distinct among the other for a long time. And there was definitely a distinct smell in this room. A vampire had been here. A vampire apart from myself.
I took a few more small steps in the room discretely smelling the scent. I had to be shore that it wasn't the volturi. If they had come hear then they knew I was nearby, which meant I had to leave without delay. But this made no sense. They had no way of finding me no way of knowing where I could be. My mind was shielded, wasn't it?
"How good of you to join us miss Swan. I was made aware this morning that you would be joining us." The teacher said.
"Hello." was all I could say in response. But apparently that was all that was needed. At once his disgruntled expression vanished and motioned to a seat in the circle next to an easel. I quickly walked at human pace to my place and pretended to concentrate on his lecture.
"For the next few weeks we will be concentrating on the body, who to draw and capture its flaws and beauty. From time to time we will have a model for you to draw. These will be volunteers from the student body not professional so please act in a human like fashion."
That was all I heard before my mind wondered of again. The scent was not familiar. I had not come across it as a vampire, or I would have remembered. It's possible that Aro has accumulated a few more members' over the past year that I didn't know about. In which case I was going to have to be on my guard. This scent could be a warning, a threat, or just a complete coincidence either way there was no way I was going to risk being dragged back to Italy because of my incompetence. If that happened I doubted myself and Felix would be aloud alone together.
So I sat there on edge through the class until the bell rang and I was dismissed.
The next couple of weeks seemed to drag on like tedious days of sunshine, but unlike sunshine I was unable to change this fact. I had started t enjoy the class once I had relaxed a little. Mr Humphrey my art teacher was very impressed with my skills in portraiture that he even started to display some in the grand hall. The compliment I remember the most was that he was impressed by the accuracy of the miniscule details. Well my eyesight being at least ten times better than yours probably has a little to do with that, I chuckled silently to myself. Friends were harder to make. People were naturally afraid of me that the only polite conversation I received was within the class room. Outside of which they all kept their distance.
But the scent, the scent still lingered. This meant whoever was creating it was still here. Time and time again I would try to follow the scent to find the cause but I just ended up at the same dead end every time in the parking lot. I was beginning to think, who ever or whatever it was, was following my example and masquerading as a student. This only made me more curious to find them. They must have smelt my scent so why didn't they want to know me? This was part of the reason I ruled out the volturi if they were responsible they would have made their move by now. So who was it?
It was Monday morning. The clouds weren't blocking the sunshine today. This frustrated me to no end. There was no way I was going to miss my first day on photography. I had been looking forward to this class for two weeks. I had never really learned about cameras before so I was eager to try something new. And anyway the last time I had picked up a camera was on my eighteenth birthday. So I decided the rest of the student body was going have to put up with a little fog. I would let them have sun on the weekend to repay them.
My first class of the mourning, art history, which was a compulsory element to the course, had been joined by another class. Mr Warren was of sick so his students had to join our lecture. This made the room extremely uncomfortable. My throat was on fire, there were so many different exposed necks with pulsing blood. But thankfully as if God were giving me a land line to hold onto I smelled the scent. It was just what I needed for a distraction I was scanning the room over and over again trying to furrow out the source. That's when I came across two wide topaz eyes gleaming at me. The only world that came to mind was shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.
Of all the university in the entire world this vampire, this pacific vampire chose mine. Shit.
The bell rung with finality and before I could make sense of things the vampire had darted across the room, to stand right in front of me.
"Bella." She chimed. "Bella Bella Bella." There Alice stood with her bright beaming pixy like smile spread across her face. "Oh it is soooo good to see you."
It took me a moment to recollect myself. Right in front of me stood my former best friend. Still as bright and positive as ever, as if the last two hundred years hadn't occurred. Why was she here?
"H...h...hi." I managed to gasp. She continued to beam.
"Well isn't this a surprise. Well obviously not for me. I knew you would be here. But it was still a surprise to see you this morning as I popped out the shower." She began to giggle.
"Alice. What are you doing here?" I said looking straight into her face. What did this mean was she here with Jasper? With more than Jasper? I shuddered at the last thought.
"I go here silly." she was literally bouncing.
"Oh." Oh. Oh didn't seem to cover it.
"What's wrong Bella?" she tilted her head to one side trying to figure my expression. "Aren't you happy to see me?" her face was immediately sad. Her lips began pucker. Oh god I forgot how irritable this face was. How could I disappoint her? I took a deep breath.
"No. Of course not Alice it's great to see you. I just... Didn't... Well it's unexpected. That's all." Her face immediately brightened and her hands flung around my neck holding me in a tight embrace. If I could cry I would off. Just her touch brought back so many overwhelming emotions. The longing I felt for comfort was just being brought back to life full throttle. My sister, in most ways, was standing right here in front of me.
When she let go of me she started dragging me by the hand in the direction of the door. For some reason frustrated with human speed.
"Alice where are we going?" I questioned. Her smile began to grow if possible.
"You'll see." She said. No I wasn't going anywhere without an explanation. I didn't think I would able to cope with any more surprises. I stood dead still, like an immovable rock. When Alice realised I wasn't coming she wiped around and look at me in a confused way.
"Alice? Where are we going?" I tried to make my voice have a ring of authority to it. Her face suddenly went guilty. "Are the others coming to Oxford, and I don't just me Jasper."
Bingo. Spot on. Her face immediately fell and her eyes had found something interesting to stare at on the flaw.
"Alice, did you tell them I was here?" I stared at her face pleading to god that she had kept it to herself. I don't think I could handle this. She didn't answer.
"Bella do you love me?" was all she said and when she saw the yes coming from my lips she merely tried to pull me towards her car again.
I wasn't having this I was a vampire now and there was no way I was going to continue to act like a human. I wanted answers and I new a dam good way to get them. I focused on the fog that engulfed the school and relieved it so there was just enough cover for where we were standing. But for the one thing the car park was completely covered in sun. There was no way that we were going anywhere soon.
Alice gasped at the sudden change in weather. Looking over her body to check she wasn't exposed. Ounce her assessment was complete she turned back to me in shock.
"Bella?"She said. "Is there something you're not telling me?" she starred straight at me. Those piercing wide topaz eyes, as if trying to ferret out my secrets. Now I started to grin.
"Oh didn't I mention I controlled the weather? Funny thing that I guess if you'd stayed in touch you might have found out." I continued to smirk, but Alice's expression ounce again dropped.
"You are angry with me aren't you? You don't love me." Her pouting lips taking the place of her ounce beaming smile.
"Of course I love you Alice but if you don't tell me what you're up to, we well were going to be standing here a pretty long time." I did a long yawn to enforce my words. Though her pout was gone her face contained none of the excitement it had formally.
"Alice." I carried on. "Do the others know about me?" She looked into my eyes with such longing to understand.
"Only Jasper. Oh he was so happy to hear your okay. But I planned on suppressing the rest. That's were we were going to go." She admitted, she looked kind of guilty. "Don't you want to see them, Esme, Carlisle, Emmet, Rosalie, Jasper, Edward?" Her voice turned hopeful on the last name. I just winced. Which she noticed, and started to pout again.
"No. Alice. No." I all but screamed.
"Oh but Bella, he's misted you so much. It hasn't been the same since we left."
Well she said it. They left not me. That was there problem. He left me in the woods, dead for all he cared, why should I be concerned if he suddenly missed me because his distractions weren't working. "You said it Alice you left." This didn't help and if her face could look sadder it did. I just folded my arms. I was not going to be taken on an emotional guilt trip in to anything. I had nothing to feel guilty about.
When she realised her attempt wasn't working, she gave up and just smiled.
"How are you Alice? I mean you doing anything interesting at the moment?"
"No. You're the first bright light I've had for a long time." She looked around again staring at the weather. "So this ability. What exactly can you do?"
I loved my ability that I smiled when ever I had to talk about it. "Well it does what it says on the tin. I control weather and climate. Basically I think about what I want the weather to be and where and it happens. I don't have to concentrate on it once it's there because it stays there until I tell it to return to the normal weather."
Alice look smug and astonished if the combination was possible. "How did you realise you were doing it?"
"Aro."
"Aro?" this stumped her.
"Long story." And it really was long. Two hundred years long to be exact.
"I have a long time. As you have already pointed out I'm sort of stuck here and in case you haven't notice we are well immortal." This put a smile back on her face.
"Okay but not here. My place. If you need a ride I have my bike round the corner?" I started to walk forward. I heard a small cough sound coming from behind me. I turned round on my heal and saw Alice looking amused at me.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" she said glancing up at the sky.
Oh right the sun. Within a second storm clouds had drift over the parking lot creating a path way to my bike. When I looked at Alice again she was bouncing up and down with excitement.
"Come on. " I said and both quickly strode forward to parking lot.
When I reached my bike I got on without a second thought and got the engine revving. Alice just stood there perplexed.
"What?" I said. Why was she starring at me as if I was mad? "Alice?"
"Bella you finally understand the brilliance of speed." I smirked slightly at her response. Years ago when we last were together my Chevy was the slowest car I ever new and now I had a bike which full throttle could go an over 200 miles an hour. "It's beautiful."
"Just get on Alice." She sprung onto the bike and hugged me round the waist with more force than needed. But it felt nice to have the same relationship with Alice again so I didn't complain.
The streets were virtually empty so I went faster than the speed limit to get to my flat, holding off the impeding rain until we got indoors.
When we got into my flat Alice bounded straight for couch and sat in an anticipating manner waiting for in her mind probably viewed as story time.
"So," I began, this was going to take a long time. I really hoped there weren't going to be many interruptions, "around four months after you left I got paid a visit from the volturi." Alice's eyes had gone wide. This was not the beginning she was expecting. "Anyway apparently when he read your mind he saw I was still alive. You remember after my cliff diving experience. Well anyway he apparently had his rules to consider, so gave me a choice this or lunch." Alice sat completely still, not even breathing. "So I guess you can tell what I chose. At the time I wasn't thinking, I thought dead I would lose my family and friends but this way I could stay with my dad and Jake. But I didn't realise Aro intended to keep me."
"Bella!" Alice screeched. "Oh Bella."
I held up my hand so that she would let me continue. If I got interrupted now I would end up breaking down in to tears, not that i could cry, and refused to be that weak again. "So the volturi took me back to Italy. Felix he was told to keep a constant eye on me, which was okay, he was really nice, sort of took a big brother role."
Alice looked so anxious it was the first time I had seen her bite her lip in frustration.
"So yeh it was around four months I think after my rebirth, when Marcus got on my nerves and I nearly hit him with a lightning bolt." I laughed reliving that experience. So did Alice but she wasn't completely over the other the revelations. So I decided she didn't need to know about the rest of the time between then and now so I skipped to the end. "Around two hundred years later Felix helped me escape and here I stand." I smiled at her to indicate the ending but she remain as still as a statue.
We stat therefore a very long time before Alice regained the strength to talk.
"Bella?"
"Yes?"
"Sorry. I am so sorry. It's my fault that you're like this on your own. Aro saw because of me and now you're all alone. Do you hate me?" pouting ounce again, but for the first time since id seen her again it was true sincerity; she honestly couldn't see the answer coming.
"No of course not Alice. Aro wasn't that bad. In a way he was like a father to me, just a little over bearing. Anyway I'm used to being on my own." Not that I liked it but I was definitely used to it.
She took my hand in hers stroking it with her thumb and looked down at her actions as if refusing to look at me.
"Why?" Was all she said? Why what? Was she honestly asking me why I didn't hate her?
"Why what?" I said to clarify.
"Why don't you want to see Edw..."
I cut of mid sentence not wanting to hear his name. Every time I heard it, it was like someone just through a burning torch through my heart.
"No Alice."
"Bella." He voice was long and pleading.
"I can't I just can't. Anyway you said yourself that he doesn't even know about me so it's not as if I'm crushing some sort of hope he has is it. Just get used to the fact Alice, me and... Him were over a long time ago. He made that abundantly clear." I paced over to the seat opposite the couch and perched on the arm. "It's not my fault his distraction weren't as fun as he thought they were going to be." I mumbled. I half expected Alice to beg and plead some more but she just got up gave me a hug and sprang to the door.
"Bella. I am sorry. I never thought that leaving was a good idea." She paused, "I'll see you at class." And just like that the pixie left my room and I was once again alone n the darkness.
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Chapter two: Evasions
EPOV
I sat there in the darkness of my room watching the sudden rain clouds swirl in the sky. They had appeared out of nowhere, out of thin air straight over the town of Oxford. The weather had been so erratic today. First the sun, then the fog, then sun followed by a huge thunder storm. And what made it even stranger was Alice hadn't predicted it. It was if the weather had made a split decision to change no warning or planning, just change.
Alice and jasper had been acting very strange today, both of them humming songs in their heads, as if trying to block me. But what was the need? They hadn't concealed anything from since... well... for a very long time.
Talking about the past was too hard, even thinking about it felt like the fire of being changed had circulated my body again. Alice was constantly at my side trying to think positive thoughts. But if I was being honest, nothing was going to work. My life had end two hundred years ago when I let those blasphemous words escape my lips. When I had walked out of that wood my life's soul purpose had gone, and now there was no turning back. What I was living in now just felt like the gate way to the beginning of hell. I was just going through the motions for my family. Moving from town to town when needed. Going to School College or university if required. But I felt nothing. It was though I was sleep walking through my endless night. But I endured my punishment because I deserved it. I deserved the pain and agony I lived with. I deserved the heart crush sorrow my lungs were drowning in. And I always would until the day I am destroyed.
Recently God had decided to punish me in a different way. The seductive scent of Bella's blood was filling the halls of the university. None of my siblings could smell it, but around every corner and every newly opened door it smacked the back of my throat like the very first time. But she wasn't there. The source wasn't there. There was no possible way for her to be there after all humans had an average life expectancy of eighty five and two hundred was pushing that a bit.
We had moved to England two years ago. Carlisle, my father, had decided to revisit his roots we spent two years at high school, or as they say secondary school, before we moved to university. At least it was a novelty England was new. In the three hundred years of my existence id never been here. But it didn't matter. It just seemed so pointless now. I could study law anywhere, and the change of scenery, no matter what Carlisle hoped for wasn't going to work. There was no escaping the truth. I had destroyed the reason to be alive, and now must suffer.
Class was boring. I never paid attention but thankfully my mind reading skills kept me from trouble. Every day was the same boring routine. Get up, get dressed, lecture one, lecture two, study, lunch, study, home, hunt, and back to getting up. On and on and on.
BPOV
The next sunrise. Once again to sunny for school. Well there was no way that I was sitting round the house after yesterday's ordeal. I needed to be distracted no matter how minimal it was. So I covered the sky over head with just enough grey clouds that exposure wasn't an issue.
The purr of my bike was comforting. Like a friendly cat. That was exactly right, my bike was my friend. I rode to school basking in the speed and friendship we shared forgetting what I new I was going to have to face at school. First the teachers would lecture me on skipping class, which an apology would rescue, but then Alice, and she was bound to have more questions. Questions I didn't think I would be able to answer hopefully the message about no visits from the ex would have gotten through to her.
I arrived at school in plenty of time so i went head straight to my art class to complete the photo developing I was half way through. It didn't take long before the campus and the halls of the buildings started to come to life, like a giant waking from a dormant sleep. That was my cue to head to my art history lecture. Van Gough was today's subject, which didn't help matters. I needed to have something interesting to focus on so that I could ignore my surroundings, a guy who cut of his own ear and paint a chair wasn't going to fulfil that role. I sighed in defeat; today was going to be a very long day.
I sat there as the rest of my peer group and class mates took their usual seats, but Alice was nowhere to be seen. Didn't she realise that I had changed the weather, or did planning on it being sunny today mean she made plans. I prayed for the later.
Alice didn't arrive all the way through the lecture or the next class or the next. But then at lunch in the grand hall from the corner of my eye I saw them. All of them, sitting on their own as usual, with their props of food. I lowered my head trying not to catch their attention, which was all I needed.
Three rows down a group of girls were giggling. They were all gathered together hunched over their food as though to try and have a private conversation. Well that wasn't going to happen with six vampires in the room. I focused in on what they were saying trying to distract myself.
"He is so gorgeous." One girl said.
"I now he looks so perfect. And he has this like sultry seductive brooding quality about him." Another replied.
"I bet he is really romantic. Has anyone ever talked to him?" the gaggle of girls started to shake their heads. "No one really does talk to them do they? You going to ask him out?"
"You think I should?" The blond one asked.
"Totally babe. Why would he say no? You're so hot; Cullen would be an idiot to say no." My heart stopped, yet I began to laugh. Of all the emotions I thought I would feel in a moment like that laughter hadn't crossed my mind. But the idea of some mortal going after him, any of them was just hilarious. After all he made it abundantly clear to me that he was tired of trying to be something he wasn't. So silently i laughed and laughed, enjoying the hilariousness.
I watched as the girl got up egged on by her mates to boost her courage, and walk over to the Cullens. There he sat in all his perfection, when he turned round and give the girl the blankest expression I have ever seen. It was as though he was an empty shell. All she managed to mumble were the words hi and his name before he gave a sharp and final NO and turned to face his family again. Now that was definitely worth seeing.
But then Alice spotted me and her beaming smile gave away my location and the truth to everyone of her siblings. I could only imagine the thoughts running through her head right now.
Bella is alive isn't it great? Aro turned her and now she is here. Oh how wonderful.
But before I was able to escape his head jerked round and gazed straight at me. That was it I couldn't take it anymore. I picked up my jacket helmet and gloves and ran out the room. As soon as I was out of human sight I ran as quick and fast as possible dressing as I went. I was covered head to toe, which meant sunlight was no problem. So to give me time to get away I lifted the clouds and let the sun shine. The footsteps which had been trying to follow me abruptly stopped when he reached the edge of the shadows.
EPOV
Bella Alice thought so wonderful, amazing, I guess she really wanted to come to school today would explain the change in weather. I miss her. Why won't she sit with us? It's only at matter of time but it's very frustrating.
Alice was the only mind that seemed to be thinking in coherent thoughts. Jasper seemed to be continuing to block me, whereas the others, for all their incoherency might as well of gone blank. What was this, were they all trying to be brutal to me? That hardly seemed kind.
Bella! Bella! Bella! Alice's mind was literally jumping with joy. So I decided to turn and look at the object of their excitement. After all Alice seemed so eager for me to play along and at least this way they tearing and stabbing of my heart would be over that much faster. So I slowly lifted my head from its drooped position and followed their eyes to the opposite corner of the room.
My heart stopped, not that it had ever started, but if I were human, my heart would not be beating. I took in a long breath to try and steady my nerves before even trying to register what I was looking at. In the opposite corner of the room two large topaz eyes boring into mine.
I couldn't comprehend this. Two hundred years of agony, of nothingness, thinking my heart and soul had died. But know she was sitting mere mortal meters away. I was about to get up and go to her, frustraighted though with the need of a facade, but with one blink she was gone. And with another I was running. Taking in long a lungful of her scent, running in the direction it led me. The last image I had was of vision in black surging out of the car park on the back of the newest model of racing motorbike, before I saw Alice's vision and thought.
You won't be able to catch her, not if she doesn't want you to. And then her mind showed me a split second before reality the sunlight beginning to blaze overhead. I came to an immediate holt inches away from the edge of the shadow created by the stone arched walkway.
Seconds later Alice's hand was gently on my shoulder.
I'm sorry she thought. But the sun will return behind clouds in ten minutes, well not clouds exactly but a hail storm, I guess she is pretty annoyed with me.
That made no sense, what had the hail storm got to do with her annoyance at Alice, and for that matter why was she annoyed at Alice? Alice of all people. She's not the one that left and broke every promise she ever made.
"What?" I mumbled.
"Bella is angry with me and herself, so she is going to create a hail storm, and believe me if you don't have our skin you don't really want to be caught under it." She said in a nonchalant manner.
"How is she going to make a hail storm?" this is still so confusing. How could Bella create a hail storm, how was Bella even here?
Silly Edward not very quick are you? She thought with a slight sigh in her mind. "It's her gift. Edward. That's what Bella can do." That took a second to register, just a second. Bella could create hail storms.
"Bella can create hail storms." I said just as the sky started to cloud over right on cue.
"Oh yeh." She beamed as she saw it begin. Alice seemed to love this, this apparent gift. "And it's not just hail, she is pretty talented. She only has to think of the weather she wants and where. Then hay presto. To put it into simple terms she controls the weather and climate. I mean haven't you noticed the very erratic weather and the fact I can only predict it moments before it arrives. It's because she is making split decisions."
My head was spinning, with confusion, with pride but most of all hope. If she were one of us now, maybe I could hear here, hear something from here. But before that hope could even be fanned, the flame was put out with a single no from Alice.
I don't know how long we stood there watching the rain and hail pour from the sky. People all around us were ducking for cover under the entrance of buildings mentally and verbally praying for the hail to stop. I took me a minute to remember what Alice had said previously which had seemed odd.
"Why is she angry at you Alice?" I said in a calm collected voice. Her face dropt staring at her shoes.
"Because, well I guess she hoped I would be able to control my mind. It's just she doesn't..." want to see you she added mentally as if it was too hard to put into words. My head sunk. Of course she doesn't want to see me, I was the monster, I ruined her life, and it was probably my fault she was stuck in this immortal stage. Why would she want to see me? But I had to see her.
I began to glide forward into the oncoming hail; even on my skin it was slightly uncomfortable.
"No." Alice said in loud but calm finalizing voice. She doesn't want to see you Edward which means she will do everything in her power to stop it. I'm sorry. But I don't fore see anything good coming from your visit. Give her time to adjust Edward we're the first contact she has had with vampires since the voltu... she tried to block the rest of her sentence before I could figure out the ending but it was too late I new exactly what she was hiding from me. My fists began to clench and a loud hiss escaped my mouth.
"The Volturi changed her." I merely stated.
Yes she thought.
"And how do you know this Alice?"
"She told me Edward, at her house." Alice had spoken to Bella, she knew she was alive and didn't tell me. Why, how could she do that? Bella was mine, my love my soul mate. How could she even dare consider not telling me? Then suddenly something kicked into place. It wasn't one but two vampires who had been blocking their mind to me before.
"Does Jasper know?"
Yes. He was there when I had my vision; he could feel how happy I was I couldn't hide it from him. Edward Bella is my friend, she is like a sister to me, and as a sister I feel I a have to protect her, which means warning you to give her space. She was in one sense raised by the Volturi. So think about the violence and horror she has seen, she won't be the same person, she is still Bella but... but she is less guarded or held back. She will not think twice about attacking you if you over step the mark. And since she has been brought up around violence, with the help of Felix and her mind block, she would probably do you more damage to you than you her. That's if you even tried to retaliate.
It took me a moment before the realisation hit that Bella was no longer fragile.
But you won't she continued. I don't want to lose you as a brother Edward or Bella as a sister, but she only has to send a lightning bolt to you for that to happen, and she is getting pretty good with her aim, just ask Marcus.
With a gentle hand she led me to the car and we drove home. Today's events were painful the idea that my love didn't want to see me, that she wanted to kill me were crushing. I deserved it though. The pain of seeing her but not being able to have her and hold her, was nearly as bad as the pain of thinking I had lost her. But now I could feel the pain, it was like an electric bolt had restarted my nervous system. I was numb no longer.
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Chapter three: Warning
BPOV
I drove around in the blazing sun, trying to get my bearings. I was angry with everyone including myself that today's events had happened. Why didn't I just leave as soon as I new they were here? But I new why, I didn't want to leave. If I ran from them I would be running from two families, when one was hard enough. And anyway Alice could hardly be able to keep her thoughts to herself for the rest of her life; she would see where I was going and so Edw... Well he would see. In my mind I was laughing at myself for being so stupid. I couldn't say his name, so how the hell was I supposed to confront him. My anger started to rise so much that I nearly lost control, so instead I focused it into a hail storm. One like England has never seen before.
I didn't drive home, but far away as possible in an aimless direction. I could have been an hour two hours or a day later for all I cared before I stopped. But when I did a shinning glint caught my eye. The necklace that Felix had given me was hanging off my neck. Slowly turning it over I read the inscription over and over again, breathing in his words.
"Bella. My little sis.
Never forget your strength.
You control the skies."
I controlled the skies. I thought to myself. I control the skies. I did control the skies so decided to show my strength. If Alice saw me do it, so would he and maybe he would back off.
I closed my eyes and concentrated on the area over oxford. So far they had experienced hail, now they were going to experience me.
EPOV
All I herd was Alice's little chuckle before she sprang into the house in a moderately quiet voice, yelled "take cover."
And she went and sat on the kitchen table. Then it started.
BPOV
WIND. I thought, and sent a large gust of wind over to oxford with such strength that some trees which had been standing there for centuries were blown down. I didn't let them have time to recover before I screamed thunder. Then grey clouds engulfed the town in darkness and the beast began to rumble.
EPOV
Impressive Alice thought as the vision of the upcoming weather came. Bella was definitely angry. Alice was right about that. But not being able to comfort her to hold and sooth her was the hardest part. What Alice saw coming was not going to be minor. It showed how much distress my love was in and I was in no position to help.
"Alice? What's going on?" Jasper called from upstairs, as a large gust of wind knocked over a tree in our front lawn.
"Bella." She chuckled as if her antics were no more than a little child throwing a temper tantrum.
"Bella." He replied and before the next gust of wind could come all my family was in the room. "What do you mean?"
"She is just a little frustrated. That's all." Thunder growled from the skies.
"A little angry." I mumbled in sarcasm. I could see from her vision that Bella had no immediate intention to stop, and if her anger escalated she was going to do serious damage. I yearned so much to go hold her, to rap her in my arms after all this time and tell her I loved her, wiping away her pain. But I could not. "Alice if someone doesn't stop her, she is going to do something shell regret."
"She won't regret it Edward. She is thinking quite logically, even if her temper is rising. She is sending a message." She wants you to get a message Edward. She continued in her mind. She wants you to stay away from her, like I said it's a warning. Just as I told you about her power she is now doing the same thing. She's stubborn Edward, you've always known that.
She was stubborn, I had always known that. Well she couldn't have changed that much I thought with slight relief. Emmett started to chuckle. My head looked up and I stared at him glaring.
"This is no time for laughter Emmett." I growled.
"Oh come on. Lighten up Edward. It is kind of funny. I mean think about it the clumsiest person I have ever met, who would fall over every possible chance, can now nock all of us down by just thinking STRONG GUST OF WIND in her head. Know that is kinda funny." Not just that but imagining the pout on her face in the process, he continued.
I was imagining that pout along with the small furrows between her eyebrows. But I found no humour for I could not smooth them out as I wished with my finger. She wasn't within reach.
Alice's face went suddenly dead, and I new why. Bella had just decided to through aimless lightning bolts from the sky. Though these weren't going to land anywhere near us, her judgement had become so impaired that it was going to start a forest fire and put her in danger. I leapt from the chair I was sitting in, but before the instinct to run and protect was able to be put in action, Alice had ordered Emmett to restrain me, I struggled in his arms trying to break free.
"Let me go Alice." I snarled. "She is in danger. I have to save her, I can't lose her again."
"You won't." She answered her eyes apologetic. "But you can't go."
"Why the hell not." I continued to snarl wrestling with Emmett. He seemed unaffected, if not quiet amused.
"Because I fore see if she sees you. It will just make things worse Edward and you will both get hurt."
I stopped moving and slumped to the floor. She really didn't want to see me, there was no salvation from this, I had lost her.
"Jazz and I will go. Esme could you possible go to Bella's home and meet us there. Carlisle, Emmett and Rosalie stay with Edward."
"Of course dear." Esme replied and Alice quickly wrote down the address. Before I new it three vampires had left the house and the remaining eyes were on me.
BPOV
I didn't mean to but I accidently sent a lightening spark into the forest nearby and the next thing I realised was a blazing inferno was head my way. I new I could of stopped it but at that moment I panicked and started to run. Run straight back to my bike parked on the main road.
A natural gust of wind blew the fire cutting up my pathway. I stumbled backward on to the grass. What had I done? I couldn't think clearly all I could see was the fire, the inferno, and the pain of death.
The next thing I felt was not expect a wave of calm came over stopping my tearless sobs. I turned around to see Jasper and Alice holding hands in the meadow with sympathetic faces.
"Alice?" I moaned.
"Hay Bella." She said and another wave of calm came over accompanied by kick of confidence. "You need to put out the fire Bella. You need to put it out." She continued as she walked over and put a hand on my shoulder. Jasper smiled and scent happiness in my direction. "Make it rain Bella. Make it cold and make it rain."
I stood up in a zombie like trance following her instructions, and soon the fire had ended. Alice and jasper picked up my trance like body supporting me all the way back to the car. I think jasper drove my bike hope, but the next thing i remember was esme holding me against her chest and the room being filled with loving calm feelings. I slowly stood up and assessed my company. What must they think of me this deranged vampire? I think jasper felt me get tense ounce again because a new feeling of calm loosened my muscles in my body.
"Hi." I said. Soooooo pathetic.
"Hello dear." Esme cooed. "How are you feeling?" a sweet loving tender smile on her face.
"Um a little over whelmed actually. Today has been pretty eventful." Why was esme hear and why were jasper and Alice leaving the room. This was very strange.
"How have you been Bella before today?" she sounded like a loving mother.
"Fine. I guess. I was hard at first but the volturi helped me so I'm getting used to things." Well i was getting used to things but i hated the way they were.
"Its so good to see you my dear."
"Yeh. It's good to see you to." I replied going and sitting on the furthest seat. She was hear for a reason and i was bracing my self for it.
"We all miss you my dear." All yeh write. I thought
"I missed you to esme." Skip the preliminaries and get to the point.
"i hate to see you here alone. I have always considered you a daughter of mine."
I snapped, i new she didn't deserve but i snapped anyway.
"And so you i think i should come live with you, under your roof. That's not going to happen."
She look really hurt had i really been that brutal.
"We ALL miss you my dear." I didn't miss the emphasis.
"Well I'm sorry that I'm causing so much suffering but it doesn't change my mind. This is my home and i want to live in my home. Look im sorry esme. Youre welcome hear but im cant go there. I am sorry." She walked over to me lightly kissing my forehead before leaving.
I guess that is what it took to get the message through alienate people. I was once again left alone like usual. But my head was so tierd at that moment that i needed to quiet to recover.
What was i going to do