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Flower of the Night

Alyssa's POV

My mind was cluttered with the evening's events. Ezekiel and I had been planning to come and visit our family for a while, but things just kept coming up. Ironically, when we were headed to Forks to see them another problem had surfaced.

Tanya's call had been a bit of a surprise. Generally she only called me when she needed something or someone tracked. Typically that was when anyone out side of Carlisle's coven called me. My major skill was my ability to track people by using their thoughts. I was able to keep track of someone's thoughts even though they were far away. Right now I was keeping tabs on the thoughts of the Volturi at the request of Carlisle. When I first became a vampire my ability drove me crazy but after a while I learned how to control it. The good thing about it was that I had to have actually met the person to track their thoughts or at least have met someone who knows that person well.

Irina, a member of Tanya's coven, had fallen for a vampire sent to Tanya by Carlisle. This fellow, Laurent by name, had pretended to change his ways and managed to win over Irina. Well he had never really adjusted to our "vegetarian" lifestyle and was in fact working with a member of his old coven. He got killed by werewolves, now Irina wanted revenge. She had gotten tired of waiting for the Cullens to leave Forks so that they could attack the wolves and decided to take matters into their own hands. That was bad, that was very bad. The repercussions from this would not be good on either side. I sighed. I wouldn't enjoy telling Carlisle about this. Couldn't Tanya have told him? Maybe Alice would already know.

Then there was what happened at that girl's house, Angela I think her name was. I could still see the bodies of her parents in my mind. It had been awful. Her father had already been drained of his blood. I was able to save her mother, however, her heart was still bleeding and she still had enough blood for me to suck the venom out. She would be able to live normally after recovering from her broken bones, well almost.

I didn't know where the other children were. I could smell their traces in the house but they were hours old. They weren't in the house when the newborn attacked. That was a good thing. I suspected though that I would have to do some explaining about how I knew something was wrong.

I sighed. I had more than one piece of bad news to tell Carlisle.

We pulled into the Cullen's driveway and stopped in front of the garage. This wasn't going to be easy.

"Lets go, Lyssa." Zeke said gently.

I stepped out of the car and took his hand. I smiled up at him and we walked to the door.

When we reached the door it flew open and Alice flew out. "Alyssa!! Zeke!!" She squealed in delight. "You're late!" She said quickly changing her face into a pout.

"Some things came up." I said softly. " I need to speak with everyone when Carlisle returns."

Alice looked thoughtful for a moment. "He will be back in one hour." She said.

"Good, that gives me enough time to clean up." I said indicating the blood that stained my white shirt.

Alice held her nose. "Yeah. It's a good thing Jasper isn't here." She said.

I nodded in agreement, and followed Alice up the stairs. I walked to mine and Ezekiel's room. I was glad to be home. I enjoyed the smell of our home. The room was just as we had left it three years ago when we moved here. I selected some clothes from my closet and went into the bathroom.

After I had finished showering I felt a lot more "human". I quickly dried my hair.

There was a knock on the door. "Lyssa, Carlisle is here." Zeke said through the door. I listened to the beautiful baritone of his voice. It was mesmerizing and I never got tired of hearing it. I had felt that way since I'd met him. I shook my head and cleared my mind of memories that were distracting me from what I needed to do. I finished brushing my hair and left the room.

I was not thrilled with being the messenger of such horrible news. I walked into the dining room. Alice, Esme, Carlisle, Rosalie, and Ezekiel were already seated and waiting for me. "Stupid Laurent, this is all his fault." I muttered. At least Emmett wasn't here. He would have made this incredibly difficult.

I looked into the faces of my family. People Irina was putting in danger for the sake of her revenge against someone who didn't have the same regard for her, obviously. I had tried to tell her when I was in Denali and met Laurent. He had had no intentions of changing his lifestyle. I sighed better to get this over. Fuming over Laurent wasn't going to make things better.

I quickly explained the situation to the family.

Carlisle was the first to speak. "We will help you stop Irina." He said."This is a situation that could get bad and it risks exposing us all not to mention the war that would be started. If Irina were to be killed by the wolves then Tanya will expect us to help her take them down. When we didn't we would be at war with Tanya's coven AND the wolves because she attacked."

"Even worse than that there is a newborn loose here in Forks. I saw it this evening but it was too fast for Ezekiel to catch." I stated simply.

"Mrs. Weber will recover from her injuries. She has you to thank for her life. You could have let the venom spread but you chose to stop it." Carlisle said. "But that does leave us with a problem; she will have seen the newborn so we may need to do some damage control."

"The daughter saw the newborn clearly. I'm afraid I may have slipped and sped to the door rather quickly." I said.

"Had you waited any longer then Angela would have been an orphan." Carlisle said. "You did the right thing."

"Should we try to find this newborn?" Esme asked softly. "We could take it under our wing."

"We should wait until Emmett, Jasper, and Edward get home before we make that decision, Esme." Carlisle replied.

I stood. "I'm going to go look for Irina tonight." I said.

I hope you enjoyed it! Please R&R. I'm working on typing the rest of the story. I have a lot of it written out but just not typed up yet.