The Twilight characters belong to Stephenie Meyer.

Chapter 2

EPOV-

I had been so happy to just be alone with Bella for a while that I wasn't paying attention to anyone else around us or I would have picked up the scent much sooner. The couple in front of us had seemed perfectly normal at first glance. They didn't move too quickly, they didn't seem to be looking at anyone or anything other then each other. Now that I was watching closer I could see the man for what he really was.

The way he moved should have alerted me before we even entered the park. The girl was only human though. She gazed into his red eyes lovingly, she must be under some sort of trance I thought.

I crouched lowly, ready to attack. I couldn't let this vampire kill an innocent girl so close to our home. I couldn't understand why he was walking around with her out in the open in the first place. This wasn't how vampire's killed on a normal basis. I reached out in my mind to see what was going on before I lunged for him.

In my complete shock he wasn't thinking about killing her at all. He was thinking about how cute she looked with her nose all red from the cold air. They were only a few yards from us at that point and he was so wrapped up in the girl under his arm that he was just starting to pick up on the scent of other vampires.

He looked up and I saw from his own point of view how Bella and I looked, the both of us in position to attack. In a flash of movement he quickly pushed the girl behind his back and bared his razor sharp teeth. A low growl escaped from Bella. I reached out and put my hand on her shoulder.

"Wait" I had to tell her that he wasn't planning on killing the girl before she jumped in for the rescue.

But first I had to make sure I was right. My mind probed a little deeper into his. This girl was definitely not his dinner. She was his girl friend.

He was thinking that Bella and I had tracked them and wanted to kill her. Her thoughts were echoing the same fears as his. She was terrified; we were not the first vampires they had come across in their time together. Fear washed over her like ice water. She was thinking that I would take on her boy friend while Bella attacked her, but she was more worried about Silas. The girl gave me what I needed to calm down the situation. A name.

"Silas! It's ok." Confusion passed over his eyes for a split second, but he didn't move.

"How do you know me?"

"I don't, but I don't want to hurt you or your companion." I relaxed my stance and pulled Bella back too.

I was hoping if he saw us relax he would too, and I wanted Bella behind me just in case he decided to go on the defence. Luckily I didn't need to worry for long. Silas stood up too, keeping his girl friend behind him. He reached back to take her hand and let her know it was ok for the moment.

"Can we talk for a minute? Let me explain why we are here." I called out to was reluctant to come any closer.

"We can talk from over here if you'd like." I lowered my voice, he could hear me even if I whispered.

"Alright." He answered, the both seemed to be calming down.

"My name is Edward, this is my wife Bella. We were just going for a walk since our movie was sold out. We didn't come here looking for you." I looked down at Bella to encourage her.

"Please, we don't want to hurt anyone." She called out. Silas wrestled with the idea of us lying to him but decided to come closer. Our amber eyes interested him. Without letting the girl out from behind him they edged closer. I caught her name in his mind

"If they even move towards Ann I will rip their throats out..."

"I promise, we don't want to hurt Ann." I put my hands out palms down to try and show him that we were not violent. I had made a wrong move.

"How do you know her name?? Who the hell are you?" Silas moved back into attack mode.

"We live not too far from here with our family. We don't drink human blood. That's why our eyes are different. I know her name because I can hear what you think." My words rushed out in an effort to calm him down. He was strategizing his attack. He thought Bella would be easier to kill first.

" And if you even blink towards my wife I will not hesitate to kill you." My instinct to protect Bella would win over my urge to keep peace any day.

Silas finally seemed to believe we weren't there to harm them, he wasn't very comfortable with the fact that I was reading his mind though. Ann came forward to stand beside him. She was still scared but felt better since Silas had relaxed. She was interested in what we had to say. Bella and I moved closer to talk to them.

"You don't drink human blood?" she whispered, gripping Silas' arm tightly.

"No, not in a very long time anyway. My wife has never even tasted human blood. As a vampire that is." I smiled down at my wonderful Bella; her self-control was something I like to brag about.

"How do you survive??" Silas was genuinely interested.

"We drink animal blood." Bella answered simply.

"Animal blood.. I didn't know that was possible." Silas' eyes were wide with wonder.

I could hear his thoughts running with excitement. A light laugh formed in my chest, I felt like I was trying to convert him to our religion. It was easy to tell he was vampire more like my family. Not the violent nomads we sometimes came across.

"There is a lot to talk about if you would like to. My family is very different from most covens. If you want to, you are welcome to come and meet them. Our daughter loves to meet new people." The last sentence caught him off guard.

"How old are you two? In your immortality I mean" Silas suspected that we were young vampires. He was thinking we had a child before we were turned and we were mistaken about being able to drink animal blood. I laughed and stuck my hand out towards him.

"I am over a hundred years old, and yes my daughter is biologically mine. Please come with us! We have a lot to share with you. My father is a great vampire, he can help you."

Bella looked up at me with murder in her eyes. But she hadn't heard everything that I had from the couple in front of us. Not what I had read out of their minds.