Disclaimer: I hope everyone realises that all the original characters of Twilight belong to Stephanie Meyer.


Chapter 2

The dogs around us suddenly morphed into men, naked men. I screamed and buried my head in Luke's shoulder in embarrassment. Peeking from him again, I saw they all wore some sort of clothing to cover at least their bottom halves. If I was still human, I know I would be blushing.

The blonde man stepped forward to Luke and held out his hand, "If you truly are who you say you are, I may as well introduce myself. I am Dr Carlisle Cullen, this is my family. Esme, your mother, is my wife."

Luke looked at the man for a minute, before I saw his face light up. "You were there! You were a doctor there, I looked you up. You helped my mother. I kept hearing of you throughout the years, and I had hoped you were a vampire. I've been looking for you too, hoping you could tell me of my mother." Grasping Dr Cullen's hand in his he shook it excitedly, "I believe if you are her husband, then that would make you my father?"

Dr Cullen smiled just as brightly back, "If you feel comfortable saying so, I would love to have another son. I was getting bored of this lot." He joked.

"Hey!" I heard the giant boom, "You're just as boring!"

"Shut up Emmet." The blonde beauty beside him said, smacking him on the back of his face.

Something collided with Luke, and I was about to rip whatever it was off him, before realising it was his mother. She was dry sobbing into his shoulder, mumbling so fast I couldn't understand a word. I looked to Luke's face, now noticing how similar it was to his mother's, and saw the shock and happiness written on it. He hesitantly wrapped his arms around the shorter woman in his arms, before ducking his head down onto her shoulder. I smiled seeing him so happy.

"Who are you?"

Turning back to the group, I guessed it was the giant who spoke, seeing the glare the blonde girl beside him was directing to him. Who did he think he was? Frowning down at me like that? He wasn't intimidating anybody.

Walking towards him I crossed my arms, staring defiantly back up at him, "Who are you?"

I felt a hand touch my shoulder, and turned quickly to see it was only Luke. "Easy girl, they're not gonna hurt us, right?"

"Of course we won't," the short girl said, practically skipping towards us with her spiky black hair bouncing in excitement. "I'm Alice, the big idiot over here's Emmet. You learn to ignore him. Rosalie's his wife stood beside him," she said indicating the blonde who was glaring at Emmet. I almost chuckled at the sight. "This is Jasper my husband," she said, dragging the scarred boy beside her. He gave me a tight smile, obviously still not comfortable around us strangers. Well, I could relate. "Those three over there are Edward and Bella, and their daughter Renesme, but we just call her Nessie." I nodded to them, receiving a nod back from the copper haired man, and a smile from the girls.

Luke wrapped his arm around my waist and turned me back around. "Mother, Dr Cullen, this is my fiancée, Dahlia Simmons."

Giving a shy smile at the couple, I held out my hand, "Nice to meet you."

Dr Cullen gave me a warm smile in response, while Esme pulled me into a hug similar to what Luke had received mere moments ago. "Lovely to meet you dear, you must tell me how you two met."

I looked down while scratching the back of my neck, a habit I have when nervous or embarrassed, like I was then, "Oh, it's a silly story. You don't want to hear about that-"

"Of course I do!" Esme said smiling at me. She then turned to Carlisle, "Shall we take them to the house?"

Carlisle looked thoughtful for a minute, before turning to Luke, "How much control do you have around humans?"

Oh, so they lived near people. Makes sense to check, we are blood sucking creatures.

"We have excellent control sir; we should be fine around humans as long as we have regular hunting trips."

"Interesting," Dr Cullen said looking at the two of us, "You must tell me how you chose and learnt to be 'vegetarian' vampires when we get home."

Home.

A foreign word to me, but I think I could get used to it.


The house was absolutely magnificent. It felt like a magical palace to me, a modern magical palace. I could only stare and gape at the house before us. Hearing Luke chuckle, no doubt at my expression, I hit him lightly on the shoulder, to which he levitated me, walking to the house with me floating after him.

I saw the stares the coven and dog-men behind us were sending me, and I would have laughed, had I not been annoyed at the situation.

"Luke, put me down."

"Hmm... no."

"Please Luke?"

"But I don't feel like it."

"Luke!" I said a little louder now, "Put. Me. DOWN!"

"Nope."

"LUCAS DORIAN PLATT YOU PUT ME DOWN RIGHT NOW!"

"Alright love, calm down." I was floated gently into his arms. He chuckled again at my expression, and kissed me lightly on my forehead before setting me on my feet again. "Will you forgive me love?"

I folded my arms and turned my face from him, "I swear, nearly a hundred years old and you still act as if you were eight."

"Thank you Lia."

Dr Cullen stepped towards us, an intrigued look upon his face. "You have powers too, we have much to discuss. Please come in."

He unlocked the door and we all, and I mean all, managed to fit in their spacious living room. Nessie and one of the dog-men hurried to the kitchen, I suppose they were getting food for the other dog-men. They looked like they ate a lot.

Luke chose to sit on an armchair, and as I didn't feel comfortable enough in front of these people, I chose the floor by his feet as my seat, rather than his lap. "So, what do you want to know?"

Dr Cullen and Esme sat on the loveseat on the left of Luke, the others fighting over the three sofas left. They must get company fairly often. "Well let's start at the beginning; after they resuscitated you Lucas-"

"Call me Luke, it's easier."

"Luke, right. Well, what happened to you?"

Esme looked worried, "They didn't send you to your father did they?"

"No. I was sent to the local orphanage. I stayed there until I was fifteen, looking everywhere for any information about the elusive Esme Platt. I did see my father once, but ended up beating the man up, the awful things he said about you, I just- I just-" Luke's face was twisted in anger and disgust. I rubbed his knee in efforts to calm him; it worked slightly. "Anyway, I found out about this 'Dr Cullen' and tried to find you through him instead. I never believe you had gone from this world. So, at age fifteen I set off around the USA in search of my mother for the next three years. Then I met a man, he told me he knew where you were. So I followed him to this house in New York, hoping you would be there, but it was a trap. There were at least two vampires there, and I was almost drained of blood that night.

"I managed to live through the pain, but holed myself up when I realised what I had become. I was so afraid of what I could do to innocent people I refused to leave the room. A rat passed me by a few days later, and I couldn't resist. I made it float towards me to my surprise, and then drank all its blood. After that I realised I didn't need to feed on humans. I spent the next two decades training myself to stand to be around humans without feeling the urge to feed." He looked to me then before continuing, "I've only killed one person so far."

I smiled lovingly up at him, kissing his knee, trying to make him smile again. He smiled back slightly, but the sadness was still evident in his eyes.

"Woah! He killed you?"

"Shut up Emmet!" I heard Rosalie say, hitting his head once again.

"He didn't kill me." I said.

"Making you a vampire implies killing."

"That's different."

"No it's not."

"Not this again."

Dr Cullen cleared his throat then, interrupting our spat before it got out of hand. "Perhaps you can tell us what happened then? Explain to us how you two met, and how Dahlia was changed."

I looked at Luke, staring straight into his golden eyes, the same eyes as my own. I saw his sadness, but also his determination. Nodding to him, I allowed him to explain for the both of us, he would explain it the best. "Lia was an idiot."

"Hey!" I said, glaring at Luke now. Prick, "I wasn't an idiot, I just-"

"Ran in front of a moving train."

I glared at him once again, refusing to look at the shocked expressions facing me. "Just explain to them properly Luke, then I can kill you."

He just smirked down at me, "I had been wandering across the world searching for you Dr Cullen, to places like Africa, Russia, France, and eventually I was passing through England, having just heard a rumour of your passing through there. It turned out to just be a rumour, and after sixty odd years chasing after your 'ghost' I had almost given up hope. I must have wandered onto a railway line, I didn't really notice, but Lia saw me."

"I had been on my way to the market when I saw him just walking on the railway tracks." I said taking over from him, "He looked so lost. I was about to go talk to him, when I heard the train coming behind him. I did call out to him, but he wasn't listening, the idiot. Eventually I ran down to him and pushed him out of the way."

"You managed to push a vampire? As a human?" Emmet asked, "Are you super strong or something?"

Chuckling at his excited face, I shook my head and explained, "I don't think I was very strong, just caught him off guard. I forgot to move after pushing though, and..."

"She got hit by the train." Luke said. He took my small hand in his, making circles on the back of it with his thumb, "She was sent flying off to a side. I went to her and saw she was still alive, but I could tell she wouldn't be for long. There was so much blood, and she couldn't move. She just looked up at me." He paused for a while, lost in thought. I nudged his leg, at this rate they were never going to hear what happened. "I couldn't just leave her there, but I knew she wouldn't survive, so I changed her. While she was changing I carried her quickly to a deserted area I knew she could be kept from feeding off humans. When she woke up the first thing she did was smile and ask me 'Are you okay?' I swear she wasn't right in the head."

I glared up at him again, but smiled when I saw the loving look he was giving me. Damn, I can't resist that face of his. Turning to our 'audience' I found to my embarrassment that they were all sending us knowing looks.

"I helped her control herself over the next few years," Luke went on to say, "And we fell for each other. I proposed to her one night, and she accepted."

"May I?" Esme said to me, indicating my left hand. I smiled and held out my hand; on it adorned the precious ring Luke had given to me, so many years ago. It was a simply designed ring, as I preferred, made of white gold with a topaz stone imbedded into it, surrounding a medium sized diamond. "It's beautiful."

"Thank you." I said, happy that Luke's mother, Esme, approved of it.

"Why aren't you married yet?" I heard Nessie ask.

Luke and I both froze. This didn't go unnoticed by the others, but they just looked at us more curious now, although Esme looked slightly worried.

"Well," Luke said, "After Lia could control herself enough to stand humans I continued my search for you, although I didn't tell Lia we were looking for anything. I heard rumours you had been to Italy, specifically... Volterra."

I heard several gasps, and saw Edward pull Bella closer to him, Jacob doing the same for Nessie. I felt the need to look to the lead couple, and saw worry evident on both faces. A wave of calm suddenly flowed through me, and everyone else seemed to feel it too. "Thank you Jasper." Dr Cullen said.

I turned to see Jasper give a nod in return, so he'd an empath? "Yes, he is, and I am a mind reader." I heard Edward say, "And Alice can see glimpses of the determined future."

Woah, was the only thought in my head.

"What happened in Volterra Luke?" Esme all but whispered, clutching Dr Cullen's hand tightly.

"The Volturi, they found us."