Chapter three. The Past Comes Back

I had finally gotten my story together and was on my way to Talia's. I had brought her the essentials she said she would need. Money. Seeing as she was still I P.E.I, she thought it would be great to stop at all of the major malls and get new clothing. She wanted to start a new life. I actually stopped at a few places and got her food, there was no way she was going to eat those greasy things from the malls.

I knew the place like the back of my hand as I drove past the familiar houses. I even saw mine, the grass was cut too short, the bushes badly trimmed, they hadn't taken good care of it at all. It was such a pretty sight when I was there. I slowly drove along at the regular speed for the road until I got to Talia's. I could see her mom trimming things in the front garden. I heard her dad talking on the phone in their computer room and Talia was packing up the last of her essentials in her room.

"Hello!" I called stepping out of my car. Mrs. Puite just glanced up and said nothing. I knew she didn't care for the money I had and would never answer me until I was at least fifteen paces from my car. "Mrs. Puite, I'm here to see Talia, can you tell me where she is?" I asked politely stepping over to her side. "Ah! Alyda! So nice to see you again!" She called standing up and hugging me. I guess that was the signal for her husband when someone arrived because he hurriedly hung up the phone and came out. This was one of my closest families I knew aside from the Denali's and now the Cullen's.

"Alyda! What a surprise! We haven't seen you in so long!" He said and coming over to me and patting me on the back. "Talia! Come on out, it's Alyda!" He called back into the house. Within a blink of an eye Talia came running out and embraced me in a giant hug. I allowed myself to move back two steps to make it look normal. "Alyda, finally! Come in please! You must see my room, it has changed!" And with that she took me by the arm and dragged me into her room. She closed her door, locked it, and shut the window.

"What took you so long?" She asked exasperated. "I've been packed for years!" She indicated the piles of boxes she had stacked in her closet. "Um, A, I heard you packing, and B, you said you only had three boxes and that was of valuables and stuff." I said raising an eyebrow to the ten boxes. "Oh, that, I had packed away more of stuff so it would be easier for my parents. The two on the top are mine. They contain my favourite clothes, money, books, and electronics that I could not live without and I am not going to let you buy me." She said with a huff. She stuck her chin out because I had offered to buy her so many times the electronics that were already ten years old and had better updates these days.

"And, what's with bringing the Saleen? I thought you were going to bring a BMW or something. Or at least your Ferrari." She said peaking out her window. "I thought you would want to ride in style." I said shrugging it off. I began to pick up her two boxes when she took them from me. "What are you doing? Don't you have to talk to my parents first?" She said. She was getting all worked up about the whole moving out thing. "I need to take the boxes to the front and into my car, that's how I bring up the subject." I said picking them up again.

Talia stayed close behind me, trying to keep a calm look on her face and almost succeeding. "Talia? Are you giving away some things to Alyda?" Mrs. Puite asked a bit confused. Talia seemed to gather her courage up right then. "No mom, I'm moving out and Alyda is helping me." She said turning and taking one of the boxes from me and placing it into my trunk. "Oh no you don't little missy!" Mrs. Puite said coming over wagging her finger. "You are going to college first! Larry!" She called to her husband. He came out quick as a flash. I'd rather this not be done on the lawn but if that's how she wanted it. "Now Mrs. Puite, please calm down and look at it this way." I said soothingly. It began to work immediately. "Talia needs more than just an education to become great." The thought was being put into their head to see from my point of view.

"I see, you may be right Talia, maybe you should go, Alyda thank you for showing it to us." Mesmerized they walked towards Talia and kissed her, hugged her. They said bye to her and with tears streaming down their cheeks waved by as I drove down the road. "What did you do?" Talia asked as were turning onto the highway. "You barely said a thing!" "I put the idea into their mind; you know I can do that. So they think that we just had a long talk when really it was only one second." I re-explained. She never got how it worked. "I guess the thing I am most surprised at is the fact you got up the courage to come back here." She said gazing out the window.

"I skip over that place. There are always better places away from there." I said picking up speed. "You don't need to get edgy about it. But can I ask one question?" She said shyly. "Are they going to come back for you?" When I looked over she didn't bother to look my way. "No, they aren't coming back for me, not yet, and not anytime while you are around. I won't let that happen." I said. I could see her reflection in the window and no doubt she saw mine. "Alyda, you really do care for me don't you?" She asked finally facing me. "Like a little sister." I replied. I couldn't tell her how overprotective I felt about her. She was exactly like my sister.

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"Oh my gosh! We are never doing that again!" Talia said as she flopped down onto the leather couch. Bags spilled all around her and she just let them fall. "I spent so much I don't think I could ever go shopping again. So many sales, so little me!" She cried. I couldn't help but laugh as I walked into the door with the rest of the bags. "You didn't spend a single thing. I did remember. How many bags did you count anyways? Twenty Three?" I said looking at them spread across the floor. We had just gotten back from our little tour from P.E.I to forks. On the way back Talia counted the bags.

"Too exasperated to speak. Read my mind." She said and rolled over. Forty six bags. How does that sound? Looks like you are going to have to get a job to pay all that back. "I think I actually will need a job, not! Whatever Sheila is doing, she is putting money into my bank account that just recently got sucked dry." I looked at all the bags. "Where are we going to put all this?" I asked rolling her back over to face me. "How am I supposed to know?" Talia said. She got up and picked up some of the bags and I got the rest. She followed me to her new room.

"I'm sleeping here? Are you sure this isn't the queens room?" She asked dropping the bags, once again, and looking around. She was deeply impressed by the cushiony bed with the canopy around it, a huge window looking over the forest and the fact that everything was exactly how she pictured it. "You read my mind through the phone or something didn't you?!" She said till awed. "How else would I have gotten it just right?" I laughed and left her to put her things away.

I began to make her lunch, Mac 'n' Cheese, for when she came down. I heard a ca pull into the driveway and rushed to the door hoping it was Edward. "Alyda! Are you home? Open your door!" Alice was yelling on the other side. "What's the matter Alice?" I said letting her in. Following her was Edward and Jasper. "Guys, what's wrong?" I repeated. "Edward, Jasper, search the perimeter. It's ok Alyda we will protect you." Alice said closing all of the blinds. "Alice!" I grabbed her by the shoulders. "What's going on?"

She leaned in as if to whisper. "The Volturi are coming." If my heart were beating it would have stopped at the word Volturi. They were coming after me. Demetri had finally caught onto my scent. He was leading them here. "Alice, you don't know why do you?" I said lowering my voice. "No, I don't. Why? Do you?" She said continuing her process. Closing blinds, locking windows. Like that would keep them out from me. Edward and Jasper came in right at that moment. "The Volturi are coming for me." I said and leaped up the stairs for Talia.

Talia came down a bit hesitantly. She only knew my old coven and me, otherwise she knew no other vampires. Alice came delicately up to her and held out her hand. "Hi, my name is Alice." Was all she said and gave Talia a winning smile. That was all Talia needed as she bounded her way down the stairs her usual self. "Hey guys! How's it going?" She said going over to the boys. They put fake smiles on and shook her hand. We'd rather her not know. Edward thought for me to hear him. I nodded my head and went back to her Mac 'n' Cheese. "Something smells good Alyda! The usual until I go grocery shopping?" She asked. "Yep, I may need to go once this supply runs out; it's only the basics so technically you are on a diet for a week or so." I said stirring the pot.

So Alyda, um, when are you going hunting next? Edward asked. After that, not for a year! I exclaimed. He chuckled and Alice looked at him. Edward came and moved to my side pretending to be interested in macaroni boiling. I saw Talia look over at us and beckon Alice over. "Are they going out or something?" Talia whispered in Alice's ear. She forgot that I could hear things much better then she can. I looked at Edward and he looked back at me. We exchanged a thought. Why not have some fun?

Edward stood closer to me and wrapped his arm around my waist. He then took his other hand and placed it over the one that was stirring the pot. He was pressed up against my side. I rested my head slightly on his shoulder and he curved his head down near mine. "Shall I tell you what she's thinking or are you going to tell me?" He asked inaudible to Talia. "She thinks we are about to have a make-out fest." I replied giggling. He chuckled too. We stood like that until the macaroni had boiled soft. He didn't remove his arm from my waist as I walked around the kitchen make her lunch.

When I finally had placed it in a bowl, with some difficulty because Edward wouldn't leave my side for effect, I walked over to where Talia was sitting crossed legged on the leather couch flipping through channels once in awhile looking back at us. I placed it in front of her and she looked up at me and Edward. "Ok this is driving me crazy." She said slamming her fist down onto the couch. "What is?" I giggled as Edward nuzzled my neck. "Are you guys going to kiss or what?!" She said looking from me to Edward and back. "What? What are you talking about?" Edward said acting shocked. He let go of me and stepped one step back. "I only kiss people that I am going out with!" Talia's mouth dropped open so wide we thought her jaw had detached itself from her face.

At the same time both Edward and I fell down laughing. We were keeping such a good facade up for Talia. I was having a bit of fun but the real worry kept nagging at me. I can't believe they found me. I have to get out of here. Run away again, they will never know. I kept repeating in my head. I won't let anyone touch you. Edward said gruffly reading my thoughts. I looked over at him. He was dead serious. But you don't know why they are after me. I said. Well then, I guess you will just have to move into my family's house and tell us. He got up and held his hand out to me like the time we were hunting.

This time I let him help me up and walked over to Talia who was obviously having a great time with Alice. "Talia, I need to speak with Alice for a moment." I tried to make no eye contact. No one but her could read exactly what my eyes said. "Ok, I have to go to the bathroom anyways." And she skipped off. "What do I do about her? I don't know how she will feel about living in a house full of vampires." I said. "Maybe we should put her up with the Denali's or better yet stick her with the Quileute boys." Alice suggested looking up at Jasper for support. I gasped and stepped back.

"What?! Why in the world would I do that?!" I said. I was shocked. "Chill out," Edward sad coming up behind me. He put his arms around me and held me to his chest facing Alice. "The Quileute's and our family have a treaty for certain things like this; besides, there will be no other place she would be safer then with them." He said comfortingly.

With my back to his chest I couldn't look up to see his face. "She's going to smell afterwards." Was all I could say. "I'm back! What's going on? Are you done talking?" Talia asked coming back down the stairs. "Talia? How about going on a small trip?" I asked holding onto Edwards arms. "What sort of trip?" She asked. "One I'd rather you not go on but it is extremely necessary, if you care about me." I said. "Then I will go anywhere. Where is it though?" She asked determinedly.

On the ride there I couldn't help but breath in every last scent I could of her before she got all stunk up by them. "I still don't like it," I said scowling at Edward as he drove past the boarder. "Well, you already agreed to it, Talia is packed, she has agreed to it, and we already here." He said turning into a drive. Four boys stood outside. They were taller than trees and just as thick. "Wow," Talia said. "These guys are hot!" And she leaped out of the car. "I think she will like it here." Edward said. I just scowled at him again.

"Hey Jacob and Seth!" Edward called out. He went over gave them both high fives. "This is Talia. That's Alyda." Edward said introducing us. "My name is Seth, I will be watching over you most of the time Talia." Seth said stepping towards her. "I'm cool with that." Talia said taking a step closer. They both blushed. Ok, now you don't have to worry about her. She has a boyfriend. Edward said. "Hi Alyda," Jacob said coming towards me. Immediately Edward stepped to my side and put his arm around my waist. "Jacob, thank you so much for letting us keep Talia here." I said stepping forward to shake his hand. Edward moved with me.

"No problem. Besides I think she will be just fine." He said jerking his thumb towards Talia and Seth. They were now holding hands and Talia was playing with her hair trying to flirt. "I think we should go now Alyda, we have other things to take care of." Edward said. "Bye Talia!" I called. But she didn't notice me she was too busy with Seth.

"What should I bring over to your house?" I asked looking through my closet. "Nothing, Alice will want to buy you everything. Bringing too much of your own stuff would offend her, she might think I didn't tell you." Edward said peeking out the window. "Ok, so I will bring my hunting clothes, and few comfortable things, every day things and let Alice buy me things to wear outside the house. How's that?" I asked. "Perfect."

We walked down stairs hand in hand, me carrying a bag filled with clothing and Edward deciding to carry my bathroom things like tooth brush, hair brush, towel, shampoo and conditioner. He said I had to have one hand free so he could hold it. I laughed at this but did not reject. We walked out to one of my cars. I was going to take one and him the other. The other two would be picked up tomorrow by Emmett and Jasper. "I still can't believe you made me choose my two favourite cars." I said setting my things down on the back seat of the Saleen. "Well I thought the two that meant the most to you would be the best." He shrugged and got into my silver McLaren F1.

I took a last glance at my blue Lotus Esprit and my green apple Ferrari. I liked the cars that would stand out from the crowd. Then again, I guess they reflected me in a way. I was always different. "You'll see them tomorrow now let's go." Edward said impatiently. I stuck my tongue out at him and got in my car. I followed him all the way back to his place, and every time he looked back my tongue was still sticking out. I mouthed a few words here and there but mostly just laughed at him.

We pulled up to his house in no time flat. I could see where the driveway had been made so it curved around to another garage. Edward parked the McLaren at the back left and I put the Saleen right behind it. "You are so stubborn!" He said getting out of the car and opening the door for me. "But for some reason, I love it." He was just about to kiss me again when Emmett came sauntering in. "Hey you two lovey dovey's, come in, this is no time for fooling around, you can do that tonight. But right now Carlisle wants to have a family meeting." He said. Emmett had to ruin all the fun but he was right. Really we should be discussing what was going to happen here.

Edward escorted me to the dining room table and sat me down beside him. Everyone else came in and sat down as well. Edward stood up. "I believe Alyda has something to say about why the Volturi may be after her." I thought this to be a bit too formal but I stood and began to explain. "Awhile back my coven and I had lived in P.E.I. We were enjoying a normal life there with no worries at all. We lived in an outskirt town out of the way so we could have stayed as long as wanted. But one night a roaming vampire decided to stop in our town for a midnight snack and left a body lying around flowing with venom on the brink of death."

"No one found him until people began to go missing, and people began to realize a resemblance between us and this newborn. The rogue vampire had left and kept behind a little piece of him we wish he would have taken with him. My family knew we had to take care of this. As more newborns began to arise so did big problems. My coven was very gifted. So we decided to put our skills to action and get rid of them before the Volturi got involved and found out about us." I looked around at every intrigued face and got a reassuring hand squeeze from Edward before I continued. "We got rid of them in almost no time flat, every last one burned painless as possible. We were gentle but we knew what needed to be done. There were six of us in the coven including me. Ace, he had a telekinetic ability, Sheila, could make anyone think she was multiplying into a zillion different copies.

"Roger could make himself appear ten feet away. Elise, she knew how to dodge every gift that could have been thrown at her, mentally or physically. Alex could create momentary time lapses where he completely wipes your brain from its memory for five minutes. And finally me, I could put ideas into people's head and bend them to my will by seeing things my way, the only way. But just recently found out I could duplicate gifts as well." I sat down and bowed my head. I didn't want to go on. Edward, say the rest for me? I asked. He just nodded and began to read my mind.

"So, as you can tell, Alyda's coven was extremely gifted. They had defeated the outbreak within a day, 30 newborns to six gifted vampires." He stopped for second, re-counting my thoughts. "They had thought that after the burning it would all be over. They had checked and re-checked the area looking for anymore but none was found. The scent had drifted away, the smoke cleared, the ashes disposed of. Everything was turned back to normal without a single human knowing no more then there were killings and it suddenly stopped." He made eye contact with each of his family.

"But somehow, one evaded them. Alyda had tried to scare a small group out of their wits so she could attack them easily. She simply put into their minds that if they don't give up to her, the Volturi would come for all of them and do stuff that would be twice as horrible as what Alyda and her coven could do. One was smarter than the rest. He had been turned a university professor. He thought about it knowing small bits of history of the Volturi. He thought if he could get away he could go to the Volturi, turn them in and be spared. Maybe even become their pet favourite." I let out a small cry and put my head in my hands, it was hard having to remember this memory.

But Edward continued. "He managed to get away when Ace came to help Alyda. He made his way there and retold everything he knew right down to names, and the gifts to go with them. He never came back. The Taress coven knew they needed to move away for no more suspicion. They spread a rumour saying they were scared about what happened and didn't want to be around if it happened again. In the middle of the night they fled leaving no trace of them behind." I winced at all of the mind lapses Alex had done. When someone was tired and the right subject was brought it could easily be erased with your mind not paying attention too closely.

"Once they were out of P.E.I, had crossed the bridge, they were ambushed. Forced out of their cars. The Volturi had come for them. Even the wives. The Taress coven defended themselves well, being able to hide behind Elise's shield. The Volturi couldn't get to them. Elise went through a great deal of pain as she tried to protect, always stretching and exercising the rubbery like film that could only be seen from the inside. But they knew well enough not to look at it, to give it away, for if anyone outside touched it they would be shocked. She stretched the film over the cars so they could get in them and drive away. They only had Alyda's beautiful cars who had gratefully shared them with the family when she bought them. Elise would occasionally writhe in pain in the back seat of the first car and the rest of the cars would move so close that they could have scratched if it wasn't for the vampires careful driving." Edward sat back down and put his arm around me. "They decided to the hide the cars and retrace their steps ten miles. They knew the Volturi was following them. They fought instead of keeping Elise in pain and got captured. Alyda was pushed behind some bushes by Ace and was told to run. He lov-" Edward had trouble going on with the sentence. "He loved her too much to see her get captured as well and gave her her getaway. She hasn't seen them since."

It went silent. And as if on cue, there was a knock on the door.

A/N: I hope you liked it! I left another cliffhanger. I'm sorry but i love to write them like this. Please R&R! The more reviews the more chapters. I don't care if you send a flame, i just want to know what you think about my story!