Esme's POV

Carlisle had just been given the all clear that we could take Tori home with us to Forks, as long as he was watching over her. It had been a long day on her part, and she was sleeping so peacefully that I didn't want to wake her.

"Um… how are we supposed to get her out of here without waking her up?" asked Rosalie, knowing that she didn't need to be awoken at the moment.

"I would carry her but I think one of the boys should do it. Maybe Emmett or Edward, since Jasper is helping carry the bags from the orphanage" I said, sitting beside Tori on the bed.

I hadn't even known this girl for less than a day, and already I saw her as a daughter. It was surreal that she was now part of our family, allowed to get out of the place that has caused her so much pain in her life.

Flashback

Carlisle and I were on the way to set the final arrangements for us to adopt a little boy named Tommy. We were finally bringing along the other kids to meet him. Of course, Jasper was calming Alice and Emmett down from jumping up and down in their seats at the thought of having a little brother after today. Rosalie was, what appeared to be, angry at the thought of having a human in the house at all times. Edward was sitting by the window watching the scenery pass by.

"Hey, what is the little guy supposed to be like?" asked Emmett.

"He is a very active boy, but every time we come to see him, he has some form of scrape or bruise on him. The orphanage says that some of the other kids pick on him a lot. I'm sure you will love him as much as we did when we first met him" I said, taking Carlisle's waiting hand.

"Yes, another video game buddy. I can't wait to meet this little dude" said Emmett.

We pulled up into the driveway of the orphanage, and as we were passing the original orphanage that was built in the mid-1800's that was the perfect horror film house. I could have sworn that there was a girl standing at one of the windows and looking outside. I didn't give much thought to it, because Tommy came rushing out to us in the new clothes we bought him last time Carlisle and I came to visit.

"How about you all take a walk around?" asked the head-mistress.

"That would be nice" I said as Emmett and Jasper were playing with Tommy and acting like big brothers already.

"Please excuse me, I have something to attend to" said the head-mistress, heading off to the original building.

"What does she need to attend to in there?" I asked Carlisle, faster than Tommy could catch.

There was some movement from the top floor near the window I thought I saw the girl at. As Carlisle, Edward, and I were looking at the window, we heard Alice gasp and then Edward and Carlisle took off into the house as a blood-churning scream rang through the air from the top floor.

"I have to go inside now" said Tommy, before running inside the newer building.

The rest of us ran at a human pace to the top floor, to see a girl lying on the floor and the head-mistress looking at her with a deadly stare. I finally got a good look at the girl as I came to join Carlisle; she was covered with wounds and marks, along with freshly open cuts and re-opened ones as well. It broke my non-living heart to see a girl that young go through this by the person who was supposed to care for you.

End Flashback

"I could carry all the bags she has from the orphanage alone" said Alice, looking through her clothes and planning out the shopping spree that the two would have when Tori was feeling better.

"I cannot believe that people actually thought a girl could survive in a place like that building in clothes like this" said Rosalie, holding up a shirt that didn't even go past Tori's belly-button and had holes on the back of it.

"I don't think the point of doing everything they did to her was to help her survive to live another day" said Jacob, coming in the door with Bella and Reneesme.

"We got her some food that is warm and is easy to eat" said Bella, setting down a tray and standing beside Edward.

"You know she reminded me a lot of you from when you were a human" said Edward, looking at Bella.

"How so?"

"For one, she blew my mind away when she was having a conversation with me when she just woke up and didn't have a voice. Then she had a way of taking a lot of pain, along with trying to think of others" said Edward, looking towards Tori.

"How was she having a conversation with you without a voice?" asked Emmett.

"She can read minds as well" stated Alice, jumping up and down.

"Really, oh cool" said Reneemse.

"Great another mind-reader to ruin all the fun" said Jacob.

"Edward, can you pick up what she is dreaming about?" I asked.

"I'll try."

"I see something, it looks like an old wooden house. A lot better than the one she was living in before, but there is something going on. A door opened and in the living room of the house there are a lot of people standing looking towards the front of the room near the fire place. Someone finally looked back and the crowd is starting to split in-two. At the front of the room are two… coffins with pictures on top of them. I'm guessing those are Tori's parents and then two people come up and are standing beside her. I think those two are the guardians she was talking about.

"But it just changed, she's standing outside the house and is looking at the party in the window of the living room. It's snowing now and she is about to run inside, but turns around to look at the snow-man she just built. As she sees it, two figures appear at the forest's edge. They are coming forward into the light of the house and… they look like the pictures of the people that were supposed to be in the coffins. The little Tori just shouted 'mommy and daddy' and ran up to them before stopping about fifty yards away and looking at them. They both have… bright glowing red eyes. Her parents' were turned into vampires. The male just looked at her and asked if he could suck her blood after the woman asked her if she was lost and needed help finding her parents. Now she is trying to get away and they are about to lunge after her but are stopped by two red bullets going into them and making them fall to the ground and blow away in dust.

"Then a person from behind her, holding a silver gun, comes up to her and asks if she is okay while holding the hand of another little boy."

Her parents were turned into vampires, and then they tried to kill her. She must be horrified, but she knows the existence of vampires. I hope she is accepting of us, because I don't believe we could live without her now that we have found her.

"What did the little boy look like?" asked Alice.

"He was an Asian boy with dark eyes and dark hair of course, but he had this distinction about him. I think it was the markings he had on his shoulder. Why?" asked Edward.

"I just had a vision of Tori and a Japanese-boy talking together on that vacation we had planned to Japan in a few months, and this one had a small mark on his right shoulder as well as soon as Bella came into the picture" replied Alice.

"Alice, you said that you saw a mark appear on the boy's body as soon as Bella came up" asked Carlisle.

"Yeah, it just appeared out of nowhere and then I thought I saw something on Tori's left shoulder too, but it was covered up."

"Edward, Bella; can you check Tori's left shoulder for a marking?" asked Carlisle.

"Okay" said Bella, going over to Tori and pulling down the clothing on her left shoulder.

There it was, a mark going from the base of her neck down a fourth of her arm.

"Carlisle, what does that mark mean?" I asked, knowing it was something that was now involving us.

"That mark means that she and that boy are connected by a bond that cannot ever be broken. It means that Tori is either a hunter or a protector of vampires" said Carlisle, holding Tori's hand as well as my own and looking at her.