I awoke with a gasp. I found myself lying in the middle of a forest. The sun had started streaming through the trees, dancing on my skin and mixing with my slight cold sweat. I guessed I might have gotten around three hours sleep. Tearing my eyes from the beautiful sun, I glanced at the patch of flattened grass beside me. Remembering the whispers and promises of last night, I ran my hand over the worn patch. A stray beam of light hit my hand. The glittering amused me until it faded. I let out a small sigh.

No-one was sure what happened to me that night. In theory, I should have become like Adan; strong, ice cold and immortal. But the moment I opened my eyes, everyone knew that I wasn't. I had one scarlet eye that was identical to every other newborn's. My other was still ice blue. Over time we discovered my limitations. I needed a few hours sleep a night, but not nearly as much as any human. A few hours a week, maybe a bit more. I cried, I sweated, and I was weak as a vampire. I hunted less often than the others, despite their protests, and still had to eat human food once in a while. I felt like I was still limited my family. Even this wasn't enough. My two sides were at war. Somedays I felt weak because my witch side was stronger, but then my vampire side would feed on it until that became stronger, causing my witch side to use its power to repress the vampire in me. And the cycle kept going round. I still wasn't equal to Adan how I wanted to be.

I decided to go find the others. They were most likely in the large clearing not to far from me entertaining themselves. Before I could push through the foliage to the clearing, I found myself back in my lying down position with Adan pinning me down. I tried to scowl at him, but my attempt was soon overcome by a smile.

"Asshole." I whispered at him.

"Yeah, but you love me." He grinned at me.

"I'd love you more if you got off me and got me some breakfast." I poked him in the chest, trying to get him off me.

"If you tell me how you're feeling today." He had his serious face on. His protective side amazed me at the random times that it appeared.

"Better than yesterday, worse than the day before." He finally relented and let me up. He offered me his hand once I was up, but I opted to wrap my arms around his waist instead. I grinned up at him.

"You're a loon, you know that?" I whispered at him, finishing with a light kiss on his lips.

"Look who's talking." He grinned and took advantage of my momentary stillness from the mock shock. I found myself pressed into his body, my hands tangled into his hair, and his hands slowly venturing southwards of the small of my back. I managed to free one of my hands enough to give his hands a playful slap.

I broke apart just long enough to whisper "While Soph's watching? She'd be disappointed she brought such a lusty man up." He answered my question with a non-verbal, very affirmative YES. Eventually, I managed to pull myself away from him to lead him to the clearing before he could try anything else. I heard mutterings about ruining his fun, but I just dragged him quicker.

We emerged into the clearing laughing and being stupidly romantic. Sophia just rolled her eyes at us and carried on texting someone. She'd once said that in a century or two we'd just be happy for the odd romantic moment, never mind every moment. Adan fetched me a packet of biscuits from his backpack, before handing them to me whilst making a face. No-one else in the coven liked my food, but they understood I had to eat it to try and keep as strong as possible. I pushed Adan onto a log we'd moved to use as a bench, and sat on his lap. I rested my head on his shoulder and started to munch of my biscuits. I couldn't think that clearly with him tracing small patterns onto my back, but it was reassuring in an odd way. I finished munching, and just sat staring at Adan's face. Eventually he turned his head towards mine, and gave me a light kiss.

"Ew. You taste of food." He made a face, before brushing the crumbs off my giggling face. "Better." He declared before giving me another light kiss. Sophia interrupted our moment by declaring that we'd better start getting ready for our meeting with another coven later. I scowled again, but obediently hopped off Adan's lap to find my backpack in my bedroom'. I pulled out a change of clothes and my small amount of toiletries and got ready.

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I was standing at the edge of the forest, my hands continually wringing. I hated meeting new people because more often than not they didn't like me, or they didn't understand me. But Sophia had insisted. An old friend of hers now lived around here, and she has said that if anyone could help me with my condition, he could. So I smiled and decided that if they didn't like me it wasn't my fault. Sophia had done so much for me that this was just a small way of paying her back.

Adan had insisted that he and Sophia go talk to the coven first so they could make sure that nothing was going to happen. Darius waited for me in the cover of the woods, in front of me, ready to shield me as we were called. Metaphorical butterflies were beating gales in my stomach so to pass the time I started to count the leaves on the trees. I got to 345 before Darius pulled on my hand. I stayed behind him, keeping my head down with a convenient side fringe hiding my ice blue eye. I broke out of the woods into a large paved clearing with a large mansion house standing in the centre of it. I glanced over the house, and Adan got my attention by taking my hand from Darius.

"Love, these are the Cullens." I glanced at the gathering of people on the front steps of the house. I smiled at each one as I glanced at them, but stopped, and let my face fall. I ran towards the most distinctive pair of golden eyes, past a few pairs I now realised that were familiar to me. I ran straight into a pair of now open arms, and clung to her with all my weak might.

"Esme, oh, please, no."

As I clung on, I felt her pair of arms wrap around me, and hold me to her, although she was careful not to crush me with her strength. My face was already running with tears, and I could feel her dry sobs racking her body. She composed herself for a moment.

"I never gave up hope that you got free from her." She whispered in my ear, transporting me back for a moment to my past. I shook my head to wake myself, and glanced up and the delicate hand placed on my arm.

"Rose, Ed-" I reached to hug them both at once, but I soon found myself behind Edward, up against the oak door with Rose by my side. Edward was growling at some unknown enemy, his whole body positioned towards the little pixie girl in front. Adan yelled at me, having sensed something.

"Gi! We gotta get you outta here." His face was pained, and, as much as it hurt me, I shook my head.

"It's too late. I can feel them coming. And they're not happy." I slunk behind Edward who was having a one sided conversation with the pixie girl now. I faced Rose.

"Rose. Get everyone inside. I don't want anymore people than necessary involved. If they see you, especially Esme, she won't-"I was stopped. A sense of utter panic and dread filled me. I faced the clearing again, and saw the three people who I would never want to see again in my whole existence.

Alanna stepped forwards. "Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use force?" The small ball of anger magic in her hand answered for me.