Author's notes: I didn't know if my story would be a one-shot. I mean I know I could write the letter but what else? Then this idea came to me, Edward needed to tell Bella and the rest of the experience. I didn't get any review for the first chapter but I did get a couple of favorite story and story alerts so this is for you guys. I hope you enjoy the continuing story.
Disclaimer: Ms Myers owns Twilight but the mistakes are mine all mine but any glory belongs to God.
Chapter Two: Experience
"I can't take the chance. He's too strong. He smells stronger than that other wizard and he hasn't done anything. I don't know you guys at all. I can't risk my family. Let's go, Bella."
And with that he picked up his daughter, took his wife elbow and together they ran down the street and around the corner. They ran down the empty street at vampire speed and soon were out of sight of the other four. He stopped and gathered Bella into his arms, he was shaking.
"Edward! Are you alright?" asked Bella. "Are we safe here? We are still kinda close."
"I am fine now that you are in my arms. I stopped here because they seem to need to have their victims insight for their spells to work. I wanted to hear if they plan to follow us and we can move faster than them. Let me listen for a second." He closed his eyes while he listened to the first witch that spoke to them. Bella stood quietly, rubbing Renesmee's back still in Edward's arms.
"Too bad,' Hermione mused "I bet they had an interesting story."
"Interesting as ours?" Her husband asked.
"Probably not but I would have like to known theirs."
"O.K. They are not going to follow. They are still standing there talking about us." Edward focused back on Bella.
"Right, are you going to tell me about your experience?" She asked.
"Yeah, but wait until we get back with the others so I only have to tell it once. It's not something I'm proud of."
"You haven't told the others?" Bella asked shocked.
"Well, I told Carlisle and Esme when I got back but the others weren't there were they?" He continue when Bella open her mouth to say more or to ask another question. "Please, can we wait?"
"Sure, sure." she answered and then watched Edward flag down a cab.
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Edward caught the small silver phone that flew at his head as he opened the hotel suite door. "Oh, is this my phone? I must have forgotten it."
"Vampires don't forget," Alice shot back angrily. "You didn't want to have your phone with you, why?"
"Never you mind." He answered. "Look everything is fine now. What are you so upset about?"
"I don't know…yes I do know! I'm scared. Who? What?"
Edward looked at the rest of his family, who were standing around silently watching. "If everyone would sit down, I'll explain what happen"
Everyone walked to the sofas and chairs in the spacious living room of the suite. The tension in the room was thick and everyone chose to sit next to their mates on the sofa or in the same chair with their mates. Nessie was picked up by Jake but he chose to sit on the floor by the chair that Edward sat in pulling Bella along side of him.
"Edward," Carlisle began. "Alice saw you stopped by two couples, one person seem to find you familiar, you growl at her, then the men pull out a stick and red sparks came out of the end and you flew back like you had been pushed and landed on your back, you was still alive but you didn't get back up."
"Well, obviously, they change their minds, so you knew I was o.k."
"No, Edward I didn't!" Alice nearly shouted at him. "The vision stopped there and I didn't see anything again until I saw you, Bella, and Nessie riding up in the elevator."
"The vision stopped? Then how did you know that I needed to meet you here?"
"They didn't, Edward. They were meeting here to plan how to search for us." Bella said to him shaking her head and he said she miss the obvious. "Is that why you're scare, Alice? Because the vision stopped?"
"And because I couldn't see where you were."
"I don't understand why the vision didn't change when they change their minds and decided not curse me?"
"Curse you!" Emmett exclaimed loudly. "Who were these people?"
"People may not be accurate." Carlisle stated quietly. "Did you meet up with witches and warlocks again, Edward?" he asked with a mixture of worry and amusement.
"Witches and Warlocks!" many voices exclaimed while Jasper said resigned "Only you, Edward."
Edward nodded his head once to Jasper then corrected the term. "Witches and Wizards." And again the voices repeated the words. "Yeah, apparently the males are call wizards not warlocks."
"What happen?" Alice asked impatiently.
"Well, the women, witch, thought I looked like a friend of her that had die and …"
"Yeah, yeah, we got that part! Why did you growl at her? How did Carlisle know what they were? And why did my vision stop?" Alice interrupted to ask her questions. The questions ran to together and her voice got louder as she asked the questions.
"I growled at her because when she got close enough I could smell her clearly and I thought we were in danger and I wanted to warn her off but that almost got us into more trouble. If she and the other hadn't stopped their husbands your vision would have gone down that way. I'm sure with two wizard I wouldn't have been able to stay upright. I think the reason your vision stopped might be related to what happens when Jake's around."
"What, because they're not human, it stops them halfway instead of completely?" she asked puzzled. It didn't follow. Why not have everything disappear like it did with Jacob?
"Well, they claim they are human. Maybe it's because they have supernatural powers that stop others from seeing them."
"Huh?" Emmett asked puzzled too.
"Maybe they have a spell that keeps their existence a secret too." Edward explained his reasoning,
"That makes sense," Jasper spoke quietly to Alice. "Your vision didn't stop until it revealed what they were."
"O.K." Alice said calmly now that she had some reason as to why her vision failed. "But you didn't explain how you recognize the smell or how Carlisle knew about them."
Edward sighed and began his tale. "I came across a wizard during my spout of rebellion. I was in Chicago at the time."
"Chicago?" Rosalie exclaim."Wasn't your rebellion ten years after Carlisle turned you. Didn't you think you were being a little risky? Someone may have recognized you."
"Well first, most of the people I knew had died from the Spanish influenza "
"Oh, yeah. Sorry."
Edward just shrugged and continued, "And second, I was a selfish bastard then."
"Edward." Esme protested and admonish with that one word.
"You know it was true, Esme." Edward smiled at his mother.
"No, I do not and even if it is true you are not allow to say so." She answered back with a mother's logic. Everyone laughed at that.
"Oh, o.k." he took a deep breath and start telling how and when he met his first wizard.
"Well, like I said I was in Chicago, and it was about two year into my rebellion. I sort of tour Chicago and was at the train station waiting to board to leave when it happen."
"Where did you get the money to buy a train ticket?" Bella asked.
"By that time I was looking pretty rugged, so I would sit on the ground with my hat on the ground beside, with wearing sunglasses people believed I was blind and put money in my hat."
"You panhandled!" Emmett laughed.
"Yup!" Edward grinned at him; everyone else just shook their heads or smiled. "I was doing pretty well too. So I'm sitting there trying not to listen in on anyone, when this obviously rich women walk across my path, dragging this boy about fourteen behind her. She stopped right in front of me and as bold as brass, check me over.
'A little old but I've never had one so pretty!' she thought. 'And him being blind will make him easier to handle.' She walked right over to me and ran her finger down my face, neck and into the top of my shirt. I push her hand away but she just laughed. She gasped my hand and put five twenties in it. 'There's a hundred dollars' she said in what I guess she thought was a sexy voice, 'if you wait right here until I get back I give you another twenty twenties.'
'What do you want?' I asked knowing she probably wouldn't say it out loud but I just needed her to think it. And she did too think about what she wanted to do to me, what she had done to the boy with her and to countless other boys. Some of the things she thought of doing to me were beyond disgusting, they were sick.
'You just wait here,' she said to me instead, 'I just have one little problem to take care of and I'll get right back to you.' She turned to the boy and gasped his arm and pulled him with her. She wasn't that much bigger than him but he was so beaten down and hungry, he just when along with her. By this time the train had finish unloading and was ready to load the new passengers. I was going to just leave but I couldn't leave that boy to the fate she had in store for him. I followed them through this alley way to the back of the train station.
That's where she was going to kill the boy to make me her new toy because she was tired of him because he had gotten too old – too old! I rounded the corner to see her pointing a gun at his head, explaining how it was his fault that she was going to kill him because he had become boring, , no more crying, no more begging for her to stop or for food which is why she hadn't given him any for the past two days. No he was boring because had finally reach the stage of numbness but he lasted longer than the other did but now she had new prey she told him.
She pulled the trigger but I was there and push her arm and the shot when wild. The boy didn't even flinch. 'No,' I told her. 'I have new prey.' And I pull off my sunglasses to show her my red eyes and she freaked. She began to cry and beg for her life. The longer I let her wail the more life there seem to be in the boy so I let her continue while I sniff, licked, and generally tortured her. I tossed the money she gave me to the boy and told him to leave.
He spoke for the first time 'Are you going to kill her?' he asked.
'Yes.' I answered simply.
'Slowly?' he wanted to know.
'Yes' I answer again.
'O.k.' he said and walked calmly to the alley way. She, of course got louder with the crying and begging but I this one I had no problem killing. I had just about finish her when I heard a voice shout a word at me and before I could complete turn to it I felt a force hit me in my shoulder knocking me to the ground. I quickly recovered my feet but my arm was numb and I couldn't move it. I ducked behind some boxes but again he spoke a strange word and the boxes flew up in the air and expose me. I stared at him for a second while he brought the stick, wand, back to me.
He waved it at me and said 'Stupify' and red sparks came at me from the end of his wand, I dodged them but I could feel a force, a power as it when by. He shot other color sparks at me while I dodged them. He said what sounded like abracadabra and waved his wand straight at me, it would have hit me dead center but his arm was push and the green sparks shot out and when wild. I was saved by the boy the same way I save him. The wand was quickly pointed back to me. This time he didn't speak out loud but it sounded in his mind as guiltiue and my neck was encased with this glowing band and it was slowly shrinking. The boy shouted at the man to stop but he never took his eyes off of me and his mind kept repeating reducio and each time it did the band shrunk a little more.
The boy began shouting about how I saved his life and how the woman was evil and deserved to die. Not taking his eyes off of me he told the boy that I was a vampire therefore evil, therefore did not have the right to be judge, jury, and executioner. The boy reply that he knew what I was but I saved him and did him having special powers mean that he had the right to kill someone who saved a life. This stopped the wizard from reducing the band for a minute but it was still there.
The boy continue in his defense of me by saying 'If he was truly only evil why did he stop her from killing because that what that gun right there was for' pointing to the gun on the ground but the wizard didn't look 'if he was evil why did he give me his money and tell be to leave why didn't he just eat me too. He is not evil!' and with saying that the boy step in front of the wizard blocking his sight of me. As soon as that happen the band around neck disappeared. The wizard push the boy aside shouting no but it was too late the boy delay him getting his sight back on me and I jump to the roof of the station and escaped." He paused.
"He didn't leave until he was sure that the wizard wouldn't harm the boy" Esme added when it looked as if Edward was trying to make himself look self-serving.
"Esme, you know I didn't stay long enough to make sure of that."
"That doesn't matter" Rosalie interrupted "why didn't you or Carlisle or Esme tell us of this threat."
"Because in my three hundred - odd years that was the first time I knew someone who actually met a magical being." Carlisle explained. "I didn't believe it was a risk that needed to be discussed and frankly at that the time I had you then Emmett to deal with and by then it didn't seem to be a risk that we come across again."
"Well, you were wrong, weren't you, we have come across it!"
"I don't think this is a risk." Edward interrupted Rosalie this time. "They didn't harm me. They just wanted to talk and didn't try anything when I refused."
"So are we going to act if nothing happen and go on with this vacation?" Rosalie demanded.
Carlisle thought for a moment than said, "No, this vacation was nearly over anyways. Edward see if you can get our ticket change for tomorrow afternoon if not just buy new one." He paused for a moment thinking than continue. "Tonight we all hunt together than go home tomorrow."
Everyone but Edward and Carlisle walked into theirs room to pack and get ready to hunt. "As much as it disappoints me not to learn more about these seemly friendly witches and wizards, I think it is better all around if we don't take any extra risk and perhaps leave while we are still ahead."
"Or while still have our heads for that matter." Edward added as they both walked to their bedrooms to help their wives pack.