They owe you. My mind reminded me. But did they really? I could feel anxiety clawing at me and I took another deep breath. I could do this. I could so do this. Shit what if I couldn't do this? I had the same feeling you get when your about to meet someone's parents and your heart is kind of flip flopping because you really wanted to impress them. You wanted them to like you. I groaned and shook my head, making a left and exiting off the interstate as I drove. I am over four hundred years old and I'm acting like a foolish high school girl.

Maybe that's because you look like one. Apparently my traitorous mind liked kicking me when I was down. I grimaced and looked down at myself again. I wore a light brown pair of khaki shorts and a black crop top that read 'you can't sit with us' I thought all in all I looked pretty good with my black converses that finished the look. Would they even help me? For the time being I just needed a place to stay to get my shit together. I could figure out the specifics later and they would never expect me to be there. I took a sharp curve and my tires screeched as I drifted and sped up. When it came to reckless driving that was me.

I loved the feeling when your stomach drops and the adrenaline pumps through your veins but given how my life has taken a change for the worse it felt like that almost 24/7 but it wasn't a good feeling. In a car when I was speeding and drifting I was at least in control, I was causing the chaos.

When the Volturi is searching for you and has killed almost everyone you've ever loved or valued well that was definitely another story. I could see his brilliant red eyes now. Joham, my father, had been eccentric to say the least. He had gone around for decades and found human women, slept with them, creating us. Dhampirs. Basically a child that was half mortal half immortal. Everyone thought my father had been a bad man. Killing innocent women and creating a new breed that wasn't natural; however, I knew the truth. I knew the sides of my father that no one else had been privileged to see. My brother Nahuel had been tracked down by a pixie like vampire named Alice Cullen and she enlisted his help to save her coven. He had come here to Forks, Washington and met the Volturi. He was proof that the child known as Renesmee would not become a dangerous to society or the secrecy of vampires. The Cullens had learned from my brother that Renesmee would not wither and die due to her fast growth and much more. They owed him more than they might like to admit. Without him a war would have waged in that clearing and people, good people would have died.

My brother had found me after his meeting with the Cullens and warned me that the Volturi would be hunting down our father. He personally could care less what happened to Joham but he wanted to make sure I was safe along with our other sisters but he knew out of all of them it had always been me. I was always by Joham's side, I knew his faults and imperfections but I always followed him and loved me unconditionally. He favored me, out of all of his children I was the only one he had actually sisters were close to him as well but they weren't raised by him. He came back for them after they reached maturity but he had kept me. I was his first child, the one he didn't know was coming.

I was one of the reasons he wanted to create a whole new super race of dhampirs. He had fallen in love with my mother and she him. But she didn't want immortality even if it meant a lifetime with the one man she loved. She had told him that an immortal life took away too many things. It would have meant she could never have kids and she would have had to watch the people she loved died. My father had respected her decision but he always had a sadness about his eyes. After my mother had gotten pregnant my father was so elated with joy and so was my mother. The idea of having a baby had been so far-fetched but it was going to happen. But as her pregnancy progressed and she grew weaker my father became worried. When I was finally born I had almost killed her. But my father saved her life, it was in the blink of an eye that it had happened. My mother sunk into a depression, never wanting the life of a vampire. She had claimed herself a witch and before my father could stop her or find her she had been burned at the stake.

My father told me this story over and over again like a sick version of a child's normal 'once upon a time' fairytales. He taught me that fairytales never did exist. They were allusions humans made up to make reality more alluring. Everyone wanted that happily ever after and even if it was foolish they would do anything to achieve it.

I could hear gravel crunching as I pulled into the Cullen's driveway and my car was met with curious stares. Not that I wasn't already used to that. When it came to certain aspects of life I enjoyed to stand out in the crowd. I was currently driving a neon green Chervolet Corvette Stingray and it was my baby. I named her Marie Antoinette and everything. I turned the engine off and felt a trembling breath escape my lips as I opened the door and stepped out.

I apparently came on a good day. It looked like maybe the whole coven was together on the porch which would save me some time. I immediately honed in on the girl that had to be Renesmee she was looking at me curiously as she sat on some mocha colored guys lap. I looked around oddly. Okay if my family was around and seen me in some guy's lap said guy would have something very valuable chopped off but then again I suppose I did come from different times. A silence descended on them as they all just openly stared at me. I had never been so damn uncomfortable in my life. "I'm looking for the Cullens." I began slowly. Eyes snapped over to me all of them varying colors of gold. It was odd actually seeing what my brother told me. These vampires were supposedly vegetarians. I'll admit I wasn't really expecting him to be serious.

"Well you've found them." A man stood and he was clearly the leader. He had golden hair and an older kind face. He smiled down at me looking serene as he walked down the front steps of his porch to greet me. "And who might you be?" He asked.

My heart was pounding in my chest, this was it this was the moment that could make or break my life right now. "I'm Addie-" I began.

"What's that short for?" The girl I had figured was Renesmee was walking down and looked at me a barely contained excitement in her eyes. "Sorry." She said by way of explaining her interrupting me. "I've only met one other person like me and never a girl. I'm Renesmee." She held her hand out to me but instead of going for my hand she placed hers upon my cheek. To say I was startled was an understatement. Images of this little girls life flashed before my eyes and I could even see the memory she had of my brother walking barefoot through the snowy clearing the day he met the Volturi. My eyes were wide as her hand fell to her side and she studied me with a large smile on her face and an awkwardness radiating off of her.

"It's um short for Adelaide." Was all I could force out as I looked around at this odd family. Maybe this wasn't a good idea I was coming her to hide and figure out a plan not to stick out and this coven did stick it out.

"Who are you hiding from?" Another guy spoke up looking down at me with a mixture of distrust and worry. Renesmee turned around and glared at the guy. "Dad, seriously? Let the girl explain and stay out of her mind. This is why I don't have friends." She muttered the last part and turned to me looking apologetic. "Sorry about him." She gushed.

"I um." I looked at them all oddly and took a deep breath. "I am hiding from the Volturi and I am asking for your help. I am asking," I swallowed hard. "For you to let me into your family."

I was met with puzzled stares but no protests so I continued. "My brother, Nahuel, came to your family in a time of need and he proved to the Volturi that we were safe." I gestured to Renesmee and me. "Nahuel had also mentioned my father Joham-"

"The crazy zealot who was going around impregnating women and creating a whole lot of half breed babies right?" The mocha colored skin guy asked. I felt my body tense and my fangs flashed as I snarled at him.

"You know nothing about my father! So watch your mouth." The guy flew out of his seat his body trembling as he pushed Renesmee behind him and growled back at me. "I may not have known him but based off of your brother's description he was a crazy ass leech." I could feel my anger boiling up in me and I closed my eyes trying to contain it. I had to contain it or I could kill him. I knew I could too. I had been 'gifted' if you could call it that but in all reality I had been cursed with an ability that could never do any good. I was like a reincarnate of death. I had the ability when I concentrated hard enough to envision the way someone could die and then it would happen. And it wasn't always instant but it did always happen.

Before I could control it I was leaving a trail of dead bodies around me with each burst of anger or fight I was involved in and what was worse was the repercussions from the ability. It always left a toll on me and depending on how bad the emotional blow out was depended on how much it took out of me. I had almost died once after using my ability. It was unpredictable and once had even rebounded on me and how I survived I still didn't know.

"I will not argue with you." I said calmly and looked at Carlisle with my large hazel eyes. "What I am asking for isn't much and given all my brother has done for you I believe that it is owed. Please." I never begged my pride didn't allow it, but the aspect of having no where else to go wasn't alluring either. Carlisle looked down on me a fatherly glint in his eyes he looked back at his family and looked torn. His indecision was clear in his eyes and my heart began to sink. He would say no. He wasn't going to help me, I was going to have to find another place.

"My family had been through so much already I don't know if I can ask them to go through more than what they already have. The last thing we need is the Volturi coming after us again." His voice was grave and apologetic. I had come all this way for nothing I couldn't speak. The Volturi would find me and they would make me pay for what I-

"How could you say that?" Renesmee exclaimed. I had been walking to my car with my keys in my hands when her voice stopped me. She had turned on Carlisle and the girl who seemed sweet and quiet apparently had a backbone. "If it wasn't for her brother the Volturi would have waged a war on us. He was our proof that I was not dangerous. We can't turn her out alone." She turned looking at me and pushed past the guy in front of her and grabbed my wrist pulling me away from my car. "Your not going anywhere." She told me. She looked back at her family and I couldn't hide how stunned I was. This girl didn't even know me. How could she defend me so easily? People this kind didn't exist it was odd to me and what was even weirder was that no matter who argued with her she wouldn't budge. I watched as each family member voiced their opinion and she argued back with everyone of them. It also helped me learned their names as they all bickered. There was a pretty big group of them. There were Renesmee's parents Bella and Edward along with her aunts and uncles Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, and Alice followed by her grandparents Carlisle and Esme. Well that's kind of what they were none of them really being blood related aside from Renesmee and her parents. I had also learned that the mocha guy was Jacob and I was just assuming he was her boyfriend.

"Where would she even stay?" Edward asked Renesmee exasperated. She looked at him a note of smug triumph in her eyes. "She can stay in the spare bedroom beside mine." She insisted. Bella looked at her shaking her head. "But that's at our house, she should stay here at Carlisle's." She argued. Renesmee was apparently adamant that I stayed with them and not with Carlisle and I was just quiet as they continually went back and forth. Finally as they came to a decision that I was going to stay and at Bella and Edward's everyone was looking back to me.

"Well this is awkward." I muttered. I got a lot of cold stares and I was starting to come to the conclusion that I was not the most liked person here and yet again this was not a first time thing for me. There was a particular blonde who was staring me down as if I were scum under her shoe and I sent her a hard glare back daring her to say something to me. Well it was probably a god thing I wasn't going to be at Carlisle's because given the tension I was receiving. There would be a fight before the first night was over with.

A group of guys came running from the forest laughing and shoving each other as they came out into the clearing we were all in. A guy towards the front of the group had a baby face and lost his smile as he looked at Jacob. "What's going on?" He asked looking around. I could tell what he meant to. There was an almost tangible feel to the tension that was surrounding us and it was not the most welcoming feeling to walk into. I turned to the guy and opened my mouth before Jacob could.

"Oh you know I come into town leaving a trail of broken hearts behind me and upon my amazing arrival this whole lot is so awestruck they are practically speechless." I snorted. It was quiet for a moment before Renesmee burst into laughter and I smiled well at least someone thought I was funny. Jacob snickered but that was about all he would allow. I rolled my eyes at everyone else's lack of humor and I coughed. "That was called a joke." I informed them. "Well partially." I admitted but remained vague or which part I was referring to as partially true.

"It was a sore excuse for a joke then." Roaslie sneered.

Okay I was just about done with all of this no one wants Addie around I mean God damn I had just gotten here and I was being treated like the ugly red headed step child. "Well it is quiet clear that everyone here are not big Addie fans so I'm going to go for a nice little walk, that way the shit talking that I am quiet sure will happen can begin behind my back." I turned towards the woods muttering to myself and looked back at them, "And don't get your hopes up that I'll get lost. I have a perfect sense of direction." I walked off into the woods despite hearing Renesmee call after me. I mean really it was just getting awkward back there and feeling the obvious distaste roll off of everyone since I was team Joham was getting uncomfortable. But what did they really expect I mean honestly. He was my father I couldn't just hate the guy. I grimaced thinking of how Nahuel thought of him. I wasn't Nahuel I didn't have it in me to hate Joham he had raised me and cared for me. Even if he did make bad decisions he wasn't any less my father and there was nothing I could do to change what he did. The woods were quiet and peaceful a break from the tension and discomfort. I could feel my muscle's relaxing the deeper I delved into them until I was looking around and biting back a groan because I was inexplicably and completely lost. Well shit.

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