A/N - Sorry this chapter took so long to come up but I had some writers block

Twilight still belongs to the Twilight Goddess Stephine Meyers

Chapter Two - Cullen Conference

Carlisle's POV

Carlisle injected a liquidised sleeping pill into the girls IV. He released that in the heat of the moment he hadn't even found out her name. That wasn't really bothering him though it was the fact that she seemed to know everything. Everything about Charlie and everything about himself that he kept carefully hidden, she had known he was a vampire. How had she known? She clearly wasn't a vampire. Maybe like Alice she was showing signs of a gift before she was even a vampire. Alice had seen visions before she had changed, maybe this girl was the same. Carlisle sighed this was the only explanation he could think of and his head was starting to hurt -which didn't happen often thanks to his vampire abilities- he had to get his family's point of view.

Charlie looked flabbergasted, it must be even harder for him having no connection to the mythical part of the world, he hasn't the faintest idea of what goes on Carlisle thought pitying and envying the man at the same time if only he didn't have to know of the mythical part of the world.

"Hmmm, I'm just going to check her bloods," Carlisle said picking any excuse to leave to room, he needed to get to his family.

"Is there something wrong with her?" Charlie asked clearly referring to what had just happened.

"I don't know Charlie," Carlisle said truthfully before leaving the room in rush leaving Charlie more confused than before, Carlisle was always came from Charlie's experience but now he seemed shaken. Carlisle made his way quickly to his office, he had to restrain himself from using his vampire speed. Carlisle smiled politely at his secretary before walking into his office. He hung up his white coat and quickly changed out of his blue hospital scrubs and into a pair of black jeans and a moss green turtleneck. He had to get back to his family, there was a threat to their peaceful existence seeing as this girl knew about them.

After informing his secretary Julie he was leaving. He made up some silly excuse about feeling sick and not wanting to pass it on to the patients. Carlisle didn't even need to make up an excuse he could have told the middle aged women that he was flying to the moon she wouldn't have cared, she would still be looking at him with her lusty eyes it was the same expression every female member of the staff gave him here.

Carlisle left the hospital and got into his black Mercedes before driving home. It only took him fifteen minutes while it would have taken a human half an hour. He supposed the liking of any kind of speed was just a vampire thing.

When Carlisle entered his house he was not surprised that his whole family were waiting for him in the sitting room. He supposed Alice had used her gift to forewarn them that he was coming home early to tell them something important, he wouldn't have left work if it wasn't important.

Carlisle gave a slight nod towards Alice, thanking her for gathering the family, this way the would waste no time, not that gathering the family would have taken long anyway.

"We have a problem," Carlisle announced his face a picture of stress and worry. "We should go to the dinning room," Carlisle said already moving from the hall and through the dark mahogany door.

The family didn't need the dinning room, they just had it to keep up appearances. However they did use the room when serious matters arose, they used it to discuss the problem and how to dispose of it. Carlisle shuddered at his own choice of words he didn't like the thought of disposing of a human no matter how easy it would have been.

Carlisle took his seat at the head of the dark wooden table. Esme his beautiful wife sat to the right of him and Edward his oldest son in one sense and youngest in the other sat on his left side. The rest of the family sat in their couples. Rosalie and Emmet to the left and Alice and Jasper to the right. His whole family stared up at him, each of their eyes showed some of the worry and fear that Carlisle himself felt.

"As you all know Chief Swan knocked an unknown girl down a few days back, she awoke today," Carlisle said starting at the root of the problem. He got many confused stares from his family wondering how this girl could be the source of all his panic. "When she woke up she didn't seem to know where she was and panicked," Carlisle paused there, he didn't actually know what was the cause for the girls panic, her heart had started racing the minute she had opened her eyes and gotten a glimpse of him and Charlie maybe she had known he was a vampire even then, yes that made some sense. "I managed to calm her down and I informed her of her injuries, everything was going okay until she said my name."

His whole family now looked even more confused. "How could a girl knowing your name be a problem?" Edward asked before Carlisle could continue.

"I hadn't told her my name and it wasn't only my name she knew Charlie's as well. Then when I asked what else she knew she told me that I was married and had five children and then she named all of you. Then she told Charlie he had a daughter and named her," Carlisle explained to the whole family. Each one looked shocked.

"And she wasn't a vampire?" Esme asked.

"Defiantly not," Carlisle replied after all he had preformed surgery on her that would have been impossible to do on a vampire.

"Maybe she's showing a vampire gift during her human life like Alice did," Emmett said repeating one of Carlisle's thoughts.

Before Carlisle could reply to Emmett, Jasper interrupted. "Even though this is interesting, how is it a problem," Jasper said as his gift was still feeling the rolls of worry, fear and wonder rolling from Carlisle that didn't match his explanation, sure she would make an interesting vampire but why should that worry them?

"The problem son is she knows what we are," Carlisle said his voice sombre. There was gasps from most members of his family. They were all wondering the same thing 'what do we do now?' They had spent their years in Forks living like humans. They never showed their true strength, they never went out when the sun shone, they followed all the rules they had set out for themselves.

"Wait, this shouldn't be a problem, we could get rid of her, make it look like it was unavoidable because of her accident," Jasper said he was the most tactical of our family because he had been a solider, he mostly used his survival instincts and he was now in Major Whitlock mode.

Rosalie nodded. "I know it goes against what we stand for but she's one human that could ruin all our futures, just one human, we wouldn't even have to taste her blood," Rosalie said her eyes darkening slightly at the thought of human blood but she ignored the glares she was getting from Esme, Alice and myself.

"Who's going to take her seriously anyway?" Alice asked, "Honestly people will probably just think she hit her head to hard."

"Alice has a point. I will watch her closely, if she lets me near her. I also think we should be protecting her," Carlisle ignored the confused looks he was getting from the part of his family that agreed that they shouldn't hurt the girl and the glares he was getting from the part of his family that thought they should protect themselves at the expense of the girl, "She is at danger from the Volturi as she knows about the existence of vampires and imagine the damage they could to with her gifts."

The rest of his family nodded they didn't trust the Volturi because of the way Carlisle reacted to them but he knew from the years he spent beside them that they -Aro especially- would do anything to require gifts that would strengthen their guard and help them keep their rule on the vampire world.

"I should go back and check on her, I left her sleeping and it should be wearing of any minute now," Carlisle said looking down at his watch before standing up.

Edward stood up less than a second after his adoptive father, "I'm coming too, she sounds interesting, I would like to meet her," Edward said with a slight smirk on his face, he would find out if her intentions were to hurt his family and if they were he would not have a problem dealing with the girl himself if it was too much for Carlisle.

Carlisle led his son out of the house and towards his black Mercedes. Carlisle got into the drivers seat while Edward gracefully slid into the passenger seat.

The trip to the hospital took Carlisle twenty minutes because he was now more relaxed as he had a plan and found he had no need to go really fast but of course he still liked the speed.

Carlisle walked swiftly to his office his son following close behind. He was greeted by a smile from his secretary just before he entered his office.

"You're feeling better then Dr. Cullen?" Julie asked just as Carlisle remembered he had told her he was suffering from a stomach bug.

"Turns out it must have just been something I had eaten," Carlisle said flashing Julie a smile. Edward raised an eyebrow as he listened to Julie's thoughts but said nothing.

Carlisle strode into his office leaving Edward with his secretary.

Edward's POV

Edward smiled politely at Julie, Carlisle's secretary. Edward had only met her once but his infallible vampire memory didn't forget, but for once he wished he could. Julie was practically screaming her fantasies at him. Not only was it disturbing to think of his adoptive father naked but he was also involved in Julie's fantasies. Edward felt faintly nauseous and was glad when Carlisle stepped out of his office wearing his blue scrubs and white coat.

Carlisle said goodbye to Julie and left Edward following closely behind.

"Your secretary has a very…how do I say it….imaginative mind," Edward said with a smirk.

"You don't need to be a mind reader to tell that," Carlisle said slightly annoyed. Edward knew that Carlisle didn't like the female staff fawning over him especially when they knew he was perfectly happy with a wife at home. Did they really think he would cheat?

Edward followed his adoptive father to the recovery unit of the hospital. They walked over to the furthest ward of the unit which was reserved for people with serious injuries. Edward raised his eyebrows at this.

"She should be okay," Carlisle said as he entered a room. Edward followed him close behind. The minute he entered the room he was hit with the scent of cherries, lavender and vanilla.

'I went to far' Edward looked around to see where the new soft thoughts had come from. Edward looked over at the girl and winced. She looked so fragile and weak all bandaged up and bruised, how could this girl cause his family harm? Her eyes were closed and she appeared to be sleeping.

'I shouldn't have mentioned the whole vampire thing' The girls thought betrayed her she was feigning sleep. Edward tried to go deeper into her mind to see if she meant them harm but he met a block. Nothing like this had ever happened to him before. Usually he could get always get the information he needed out of people. This girl not only knew everything about them but he couldn't find out anything about her, it seemed he could only get the thoughts that she chose to let free. This frustrated him. Maybe it was another part of her vampire gift seeping through.

"She's awake," Edward murmured to Carlisle so quietly that only vampire ears could hear it. Carlisle looked inquiringly at Edward as his voice was rough from frustration.

"Later," He said as Carlisle moved closer to the girls bed. Carlisle coughed to let the girl know that he was there as she did not have vampire hearing. Edward also suspected Carlisle did this to let the girl know that he knew she was awake.

'Time to face the music' Edward chuckled lightly only to get shot another questioning glance from Carlisle as the girl opened her eyes. Edward held back a gasp as he saw the colour of the girls eyes. They were his eyes, well his human eyes. Her emerald green eyes were the exact same shade of green as his were in the only photo he had of himself as a human.

Get a hold of yourself, Edward thought mentally shaking himself, a lot of humans had green eyes.

"How are you feeling?" Carlisle asked.

"Fine, fine not at all tired," The girl said her voice dripping of sarcasm and she was glaring daggers at Carlisle. I remembered what Carlisle said about putting her to sleep, clearly she was not impressed. Carlisle looked a little uncomfortable. Edward was surprised to find out her voice was just as soft as her thoughts.

"Yes about earlier…..I don't usually make a habit of knocking out my patients…" Carlisle trailed off looking nervous, that was a first, Edward thought, Carlisle barely got fazed by vampires but never by humans.

"Its okay, you freaked," The girls said softly looking towards Carlisle kindly, as if she was the one looking for forgiveness.

"I freaked?" Carlisle asked confused not used to the new slang as unlike Edward he did not spend most of his day surrounded by human teenagers. Edward chuckled softly from the corner, causing both pairs of eyes on the room to turn to him.

"She means you panicked," Edward said shooting the girl a small smile.

"You're Edward," The girl said with a smile her heartbeat was getting faster.

"Yes I am," Edward replied though it wasn't necessary, "You're nervous?" Edward asked indicating towards her still raising heartbeat.

The girl blushed. "Can you hear my thoughts?" The girl asked getting straight to the point. Edward was shocked the girl was so open most humans shied away from their contact, but as Edward looked at this girl he couldn't even see a trace of fear in her eyes, just wonder. Though he also suspected from her blush earlier on that this was not the only reason that her heartbeat had sped up.

"You're different," Edward began but was interrupted with a snort.

"Sorry," The girl said, "That was just kinda obvious," She concluded with a small smile, Edward noticed when she smiled her whole face lit up, especially her eyes - his eyes.

"As I was saying," Edward said smirking at the girl, "You're different, usually I can go into a persons mind and find out what I need to know but with you it's like I can only hear what you want me to."

"Okay what am I thinking right know," The girl said smiling at this new game.

Edward concentrated for a moment. 'If I go to sleep against my will one more time I'm gonna kill somebody' Edward laughed.

"You're defiantly not tired then," Edward said smirking, "Though I highly doubt you have the ability to kill a fly."

The girl growled softly as the blush made it's way back to her face and her growl though cute it was nothing compared to the sounds Edward could make.

Carlisle coughed softly bring their attention back to him. Edward had forgotten he was even in the room, this girl was just so…captivating.

"That's very interesting but seeing as you know so much about us all ready how about we find out a little about you?" Carlisle asked his tone kind, from what Edward got of his thoughts he didn't want to frighten the girl but she just nodded seemingly happy to answer questions.

"What's your name?" Carlisle said starting off simple.

"Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heffernan," Brooklyn shuddered lightly at her name, "But call me Brooke, I despise Brooklyn."

"Okay Brooke, where do you live?" Carlisle said thinking he should keep with the simple questions. This question however made Brooke's face a picture of fear before it quickly went blank.

'You can't make me go back, I won't!' Edward was slightly shocked by this statement that she let slip, surely she would want to get back to her normal world away from all the vampires that resided her at Forks, but before he could say anything she was talking.

"I don't remember," Brooke said her voice emotionless.

Edward raised his eyebrows but decided not to say anything until himself and Carlisle were alone. Why would Brooke prefer to be here in Forks instead of at home with her family? Maybe they didn't accept her because of her gifts. That was only one of the many possibilities running through Edward's mind.

"Have you forgotten a lot of things?" Carlisle asked worriedly.

'Maybe the knock to her head did more damage than I realised' Carlisle thought as he stared down at the young girl.

"I don't know," Brooke said slowly as if she was uncertain of what information she should divulge. Edward mentally cursed frustrated that he couldn't penetrate her mind and find out was really going on. "I remember that I lived someplace sunny and that my head was considering kicking me out of school," Brooke said with a small smile, which Edward noticed this time to his disappointment didn't meet her eyes.

"You were a trouble maker?" Edward asked, shooting her a lopsided grin, "I highly doubt that." Edward was trying to take the focus off Brooke's supposed memory loss and on to lighter subjects. For some reason unknown to him he didn't like to see Brooke uncomfortable.

"I really wasn't, he just hated me. Though you'd be surprised what I could do," Brooke said feigning a look of wickedness. Edward was slightly taken aback. Was she flirting with him?

Edward turned to Carlisle who was glaring at him apparently he hadn't noticed the flirting. Was I imagining it?

'I was trying to find out more about her condition' Carlisle thought pointedly.

"Carlisle will you drop me back home?" Edward asked picking a random excuse to leave so he could tell Carlisle all he had found out about the mysterious girl. Carlisle agreed quickly as he knew if Edward really wanted to get home he could run quicker that Carlisle's car could take him.

"Leaving so soon?" Brooke asked pouting.

"Why? Will you miss me?" Edward asked smirking. He was shocked at himself. Had he just flirted back with the girl? He hadn't flirted with anyone since….No I won't think about that. Edward decided knowing it would only bring him pain.

"Well you're a change from my exciting day of sitting, oh! And wait for it…sleeping!" Brooke said her voice filled with sarcasm.

Edward chuckled lightly as he left the room. Carlisle followed him his eyebrows raised, he had never seen Edward interact with a human like that but he didn't mention it.

"You can't hear her thoughts?" Carlisle asked confused his voice was quiet and fast, only a vampire would be able to hear him.

"It's not that I can't hear them, it's just that I can only hear what she chooses to let me hear," Edward said his voice showing signs of frustration he wasn't used to not being able to hear peoples thoughts. "But she did let something slip when you asked her where she lived, she was lying when she said that she didn't know where she lived."

"How do you know? Though I guessed that from her brief look of fear that passed on her face," Carlisle said with a small frown.

"Her exact thoughts were 'You can't make me go back, I won't!'," Edward said using his perfect vampire memory to recall Brooke's thoughts. "I don't think she meant to let me hear that though. Maybe when she's feeling scared or any high emotion what ever is blocking me from her thoughts fades away for a moment. Why do you think I can't hear all Brooke's thoughts?" Edward asked after he had shared his theory with Carlisle.

"I can only guess. Maybe it's another part of a vampire gift prematurely showing," Carlisle said repeating what he had thought earlier. Carlisle's eyes were sparkling like they always did when he encountered a new mystery.

"I'm actually going to go back in and talk to Brooke and…try and find out some more," Edward said his topaz eyes quickly flickering back to the hospital room and then back to Carlisle, "Plus, she's probably really bored with nothing to amuse herself with."

Carlisle had a slightly smug smile resting on his face.

"What?" Edward asked. When Carlisle didn't answer Edward tried to listen to his thoughts without entering his mind -he had promised his adoptive family that he would never forcefully enter their minds- but all he could hear was Carlisle reciting the symptoms of cancer as he successfully tried to block what he was really thinking from Edward.

Edward raised one eyebrow but said nothing as he turned around and entered the hospital room. He couldn't help himself she was just so interesting, he had now completely forgotten his earlier thoughts about eliminating the girl to save his family, he still didn't know Brooke's intentions but he had a gut feeling that she wouldn't hurt his family.

"Ah so you couldn't resist me," Brooke's teasing voice carried out into the hallway where Carlisle stood, followed by Edward's soft laugh.

As Carlisle walked away he decided that this girl would be good for his son and he walked away with a very content smile.

A/N - Hopefully the next chapter will be out sooner than this one took to come out

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