THE STORY
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Renee placed the bag of blood on the table beside her. Charles was suddenly by her side as if sensing that she was about to waver at the words. Those words about the Volturi shook her emotions to the core every time. Only he truly understood what she had gone through. She sobbed as the tears fell down her face.
"I don't understand. Vampires can't cry. Not like this." Edward said softly towards Jasper.
Charles spun around. "That's because she's not a full vampire. She's half human."
"What???? I think we need to hear the whole story." Carlisle stated with shock.
Charles sighed and looked into space as he remembered the past with clarity. "Years ago, Carlisle, everything change for both of us. You left Volterra and on your way out they were bringing in humans for feeding. I can see you remember that. I was assigned to watch the humans. While standing guard I sensed something. I didn't understand it at first. One of the humans was different. It was Renee. I befriended her and found out she was not completely human. She breathed like a human. Her heart beat like a human. Her blood gave her the scent of a human. But while speaking with her I found out she was part vampire. She healed like a vampire. Her skin was indestructible like a vampire. She had the ability to stop her heart, her breathing and her blood flow. The Volturi sensed something was different about her. They singled her out and I lost contact with her for some time."
"After I was taken away from the other humans I was experimented on." Renee spoke. She wiped a tear away from her face. "They tested my abilities. They wanted to know how someone like me could come to exist. They wanted to understand how I was able to 'switch' back and forth from the human side of myself and the vampire side. Some of the experiments were so bad I wished I would die. Some of them were nothing anyone, vampire or human, should have to endure. Once they realized that none of the experiments were going to give them the answers they wanted they decided to exploit me in other ways. They didn't want to kill me but they weren't about to let me go. I became a play toy for some of the royals. Things they did to me were humiliating. I don't how many years went by. I was never allowed on the surface. I was never without a guard.
One day I was being paraded around by one of the royals and wished, though that is not quite the right word, that they would see me as poison to them. When the royal refused to touch me, afraid that I would kill him by touch, I realized I could manipulate their thoughts. I practiced many times and found I could make them believe whatever lies I told them. After that, few of them came near me. The 'scientists' knew something was happening and brought me back in for more testing."
"I happened to come across Renee again years after she had been taken from my care." Charles broke in. "I had always kept tabs on where she was. I had spent those years trying to get her away from them. I had come to love her and felt it was my responsibility to protect her. I had managed to transfer myself over into the testing area. I knew I had to do whatever was necessary to get Renee out. There was something about her that called to me like she was my destiny. I needed to protect her. One night I was left alone to watch some of the prisoners that had been tested on. I saw my chance to get her out.
I grabbed her and hid her. I explained to her that she had to make herself as vampire as she could. She needed to hide. If she didn't and they found her they would kill us both. Her abilities allowed her to hide. The Volturi didn't think to have the trackers look within Volterra for her which helped to hide her. For the next six months she continued to hide. I visited with her often and one day she gave me a reason why we needed to get out of Volterra. She told me she was pregnant.
I couldn't understand how it had happened. All we can figure is that her human side allowed it to happen. We had managed to get out of the catacombs. Of course, with me being full vampire and the sun being a death sentence, we hid in a small home that at one time belonged to her family. It was run down and falling apart. It was assumed that after her mother's, Renee's family had left Volterra or at least left the home. We knew we had to get as far away from Europe as we could. We would be hunted. Once the royals had realized what had happened they would send trackers to find and kill me and bring Renee and our unborn child back. They were a new future for the Volturi and that would be dangerous for vampires."
"I don't understand why. Why would a new breed of vampires be that dangerous?" Jasper asked. He seemed to have an idea what the answer would be but needed to have it clarified.
"A new breed. That is the perfect way to describe Bella and I. I was half human. I was able to walk amongst the humans without worrying about the sun. I don't sparkle. I can breathe or not. I can make my heart beat or not. I can pass for a human without the fear of a human finding out. The Volturi control vampires with their rules. Disobedience would no longer apply. The hold the Volturi have over vampires would no longer be a threat. No vampire would be afraid of breaking the rules."
"So where does your daughter come into play? What make her so dangerous?" Edward asked. He still couldn't put his finger on why this girl was so attractive to him. He continued to feel the pull to her and needed to understand why.
Bell hissed lowly at him. He talks as if I'm not here. Fuck you, you monster.
"Bella may only be a quarter human but she has all the qualities of a human. She can do the same things as her mother. Her heart beats when she wants it to, she doesn't sparkle, she can stop her breathing if she needs to, her blood runs like a human. But she has special abilities that make her very dangerous to the Volturi. She can make herself vanish. She can reel in her scent and disappear into her surroundings. She doesn't need to feed. Not with blood anyways. With this new breed, the Volturi's rules would no longer apply. No one would ever fear them or their powers. Think about it.
There is one thing that she can do that they fear. They know they will have problems with her so it makes her far too dangerous to have loose. She can make herself vanish. She would be able do anything she wants and never pay the price. They are afraid. They fear that if this is the way of the new breed they will be be reduced to the 'lower status' of the rest of us and they can't handle the thought. They need the control, they crave the fear, they live for the power."
"Wait, did you say she can vanish?" Carlisle snap his head and stared at Bell. His eyes narrowed as he thought of the possibilities.
"Fuck you, stop staring at me." Bell challenged.
"Bella! That is enough! I swear, child." Charles roared.
"I'm done with this, Dad. You trust these people. I don't. These three chased me from the school today. If they could be trusted why did they and why have they come here, forcing their way into our home? I've never found a reason to trust anyone. And you," Bell spit at Edward, "trying to read my mind. You're the worst. Is there no one you'll rape?"
"RAPE! I would never." Edward growled.
"What do you call it when you enter someone uninvited. It's my mind not yours. Stay the hell out not that you'll get in. I have no intentions of lowering my defenses around any of you." Bell hissed and suddenly disappeared.
"BELLA! Come back here now." Charles hollered. Renee curled up in a ball around her husband. "It's okay, she'll be okay."
"That is one girl I don't think I want to tangle with." Emmett voiced.
"She's not normally like this. She's had to be very protective of herself. She's never had a normal life. Being both vampire and human and not excepted in either world has taking a toll on her. I'm sorry."
"Let me get this straight. They want you, Renee, because you were born from a human. Because there are so few of your kind, they want you to study and find out how to destroy your kind. Or they just see you as a threat. Bella, however, is wanted because of her abilities. They want her to be a object for them. They want her to become a tracker or guard. She could help find the ones who are disobeying the laws. She couldn't be caught by them or have them know she's found them till it's too late." Edward surmised sensing a presence within the room.
"That's what I thought, the one and only time they managed to capture me. Stupidity allowed that capture and it'll never happen again." Bella said with an angry tone. She now stood behind her parents. No one had realized she had returned except her parents.
"You're half right." Renee said. "They want both of us. But not to destroy our 'kind'. They don't care about our kind. We have been here before and will again. They want me because I can manipulate Bella and make her believe it is right for her to find those who break the laws. She would never be with them of her own free will. As you can see she can make herself disappear and re-appear anywhere. Think about what they can do with that ability. They want me so I can control her. They realized when they had her that no one besides me had the ability to convince her and control her. There are others who have the ability to control a person's free will but because of what we are it's not possible for them. There is something within Bella and I that cancels out their ability to do so. Her abilities are uncontrollable by the others. But as her mother and another one of this kind I have a connection whose abilities can control and manipulate her free will."
Everyone sense she wanted to say more but when Charles gently squeezed her knee she stopped. He looked at Bell and said something to her. She shook her head almost as if she was arguing with him. He reached up his hand and ran it down her arm she had resting on his shoulder. He turned back to the others in the room.
"So, Carlisle, do we have any reason to leave? Are you going to turn us in or let us leave in peace?" Charles questioned.
"I have missed you, Charles. I see no reason at present for you to leave but this will put all of us on alert. We don't live as our kind should. We have chosen a different way. We cherish the humans. We don't see them as a feeding ground. This will put a danger on the humans in the area but we have an ability within our family that will give us an advantage warning if there is trouble coming.
I think for now you are safe and I'm sure I speak for the rest of the family not present when I say you are welcome to stay for now. But if trouble comes looking for you, we need to think of the human safety first. I'm sure as part human your family understands that desire."
"We do, Carlisle. Thank you for your understanding. It will definitely be different having others to be honest with. We've done so much running and deceiving that it will be nice to set roots and have a somewhat normal life for a small time." Renee answered.
"Carlisle, we need to catch up. So much has changed for you since you left the Volturi. You have your own family. I have mine. Shall we reconvene and spend time together tomorrow evening." Charles asked.
"Certainly, I do apologize for the intrusion. I am sure your family would like time to get to know the area. There are certain restrictions, treaties, that need to be discussed before you feed again. I will send someone to get you and you may come and see our home."
"Thank you." Renee said as she rose and walked by Carlisle. She headed to the kitchen. She turned for a moment and looked at Bell. After receiving a nod from her daughter she turned and continued into the next room.
Edward raised his eyebrow. How where they able to communicate without words? He hadn't heard the thoughts. Were they that powerful they could block the thoughts like that? There were many questions that needed answering.
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EPOV
What is it about her that attracts me so strongly? I don't understand. There are more of her kind out there. That's what her mother said. We have been here before and will again. That's what she said. But what about this Bella? She has a temper. Jasper can't control her emotions. I could see it. He tried. Can she stop all abilities? That would make her dangerous to the Volturi.
No one would be safe, human or vampire, if she was in the guard. She is determined to be free. To live. But there is something I need to understand. What am I missing? What is it about her that draws me? I can't hear her thoughts. Could that be it? It couldn't be that simple. No, no one has ever had my thoughts so twisted about them.
I need to know more about her. I have to know what it is about her that is so attractive. She is so mesmerizing. She is vampire but everything in her appearance screams otherwise. Her hair, so vibrantly brown. It falls so delicately around her round face. She has eyes that pierce into the very depths of me. I've never felt so pulled by anyone, human or vampire. I'm so confused about her. I need to know more.
"Edward? Do you want to talk?" Alice said as she floated into the room.
Edward didn't move. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do. He needed time. "No, I need to figure this out."
"If you want to talk you know where to find me." Alice answered back with a smile and skipped out of the room as if paradise had opened it's arms and welcomed her in.
Does she know? Does she understand something I can't? I'm lost.
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Bell stood in front of the school the next day. The Cullen's were going to drive her to their home where her parents would meet her.
Why would my parents allow this? These people have nothing I want. I don't need anyone. I wish they'd just stop this nonsense. The three of us is all that's ever been needed. We've only ever depended on ourselves. That's all we've ever needed.
Great, here they come.
Bell looked at the two women walking with the three men. She wasn't shocked at the way they held themselves. What shocked her was the tiny jumpy one.
"Alice?" Bell screamed. She flew, remembering the humans around her, and landed squarely in Alice outstretched arms. Of all the people in the world she had never expect it to be the one friend she had ever had.
"Isabella? I knew it had to be you. Oh my god, I've missed you." Alice squealed with excitement.
Everyone stood with their mouths hanging open. Now this was a twist in Alice's history no one saw coming.
