Well as promised here's my next one. I had lost faith in my writing skill with the last chapter could not for the life of me remember what the hell was going on. Thing is I was away the last week at the Essex international Jamboree, I did start writing it before I left but packing and an aggy mother got on ma tits so I kinda had to stop writing but here it is I hope it reaches expectations! I want to majorly thank Jezzi-bee for kicking my ass and getting me into shape to start the next longer (wink) chapter. See reviews do get results ;) well get reading babeees.
Edward helped me into the car, his hands gentle. He had been quiet the whole day. Bella just knew that he must've heard the argument last night and she was ashamed. She hardly ever raised her voice and when she did there were usually earthquakes and rain. Power surges, and energy leaks, powerful winds and howling trees. She spilled what she kept so fully well hidden last night and she hated herself for it. After she realized her father was crying, she held him and apologized well into the night. Dinner forgotten, Bella wished she could cry with her father- but her tear ducts had been damaged in the accident. As the two cried, sobbed on Bella's part, Charlie relented to let Bella tell the Cullens what they were and beg that they would agree to Bella's proposal.
"Edward" Rosalie cried loudly. Her sudden appearance made Bella jump. She threw her hand up; Edward held his breath as Bella's hand glowed towards Rosalie. Bella clenched her hand shut. She hissed at Bella.
"Bloody vampires" Bella grumbled, Edward smiled his crooked smile. No-one had seen it recently; it was almost as if Bella brought it out of him. As Bella's hand slowly stopped glowing.
"What are you?" Rose demanded in fear. Bella moved her feet inside the car as Angela turned on the ignition.
"Techniquely, none of your business. Gotta go" Bella smiled smugly. Bella turned her head, and yet her eyes stayed staring at Edward as if they wanted to show Bella what he looked like. Angela didn't say anything, even though she was bursting the smile on her face. Her big curly dark hair, which had purple highlights in it. Her beautiful deep brown eyes, framed in her glasses.
"Do you like Edward?" Angela burst. Bella turned her head slowly, almost as if she was evaluating the question. Angela knew that Bella could not possibly see the annoyance on her face, but she knew that somehow Bella would know. Bella hummed, which caused Angela to groan. "Bella you're my best friend, can't you spill one tiny secret to me please?" Angela begged. Bella sighed; she used to tell Angela all her secrets she didn't know why losing her sight made her stop.
"He's a good friend, seems to anticipate all of my needs. Which is annoying as hell, as I don't like people thinking I need help; because I don't! I can do most things with Lupin" Bella said. She turned her head to the side, as if she was looking out the window even though she couldn't see anything. Angela nodded, knowing that was probably the best answer she was going to get. So she asked another question.
"Did things get sorted between you and your dad?" Bella nodded, but wasn't sure if Angela was looking at her or the road so she replied a yes and went back to looking at nothing out of the window.
"Mum loves him" Bella said absently. Angela looked over, she frowned. As Angela turned back to the road she asked a question.
"Who?" Angela asked, thinking she meant her dad.
"Edward, she thinks he's a bloody saint" Bella would have rolled her eyes if she had any control over her eyeballs. Angela chuckled; Angela couldn't seem to control her excitement that her friend could possibly have found someone that would care for her even with her disability.
"Ah, you gotta love Renee. But she is a very good judge of character." Angela observed. Bella had forgotten that, her mother was unbelievably good at first meetings, seeing whether someone is good or bad. As she seemed so delighted with Edward, Bella deemed Edward safe. If only her father would listen now. The rest of the family was happy with telling the vampires their secret. But the decision landed to the coven leader. Bella's father. Charlie. The, chief of police. Bella sighed again.
"What's up?" Angela asked, she kept taking peeks at bella then having to concentrate more on the road.
"I just wish dad would listen to me for once, I mean I am going to be coven leader someday. If he doesn't trust my judgment now, will he ever? I don't know how to convince him that telling the Cullens is possibly the best idea" Bella explained. Angela nodded, Bella took her silence as acceptance.
"I overheard your mother talking about a bonfire tonight after dinner. Maybe we're telling them then?" Angela suggested. Bella's eyebrows rose.
"She made sure you were staying the night?" Bella asked. Angela saw the smile that came upon Bella's face.
"Yeah, you are looking forward to seeing Edward tonight?" Angela asked, she hoped that Bella would slip. Instead she scoffed.
"Please, the Cullens can help me. Lupin would become a pet and not just my eyes" Bella said happily. It did just mean that her family would have to tell the Cullens the secret they've never told anyone before. Anyone who had found out, had figured it out when they got to close. Lily had told Bella a screwed up version of what Edward said to her, Bella hadn't understood until Ryan told her what he had actually said. Bella laughed at her little sister who confused herself. Bella could imagine her little sisters face scrunch up as she tried to remember how to phrase the word. Angela dropped Bella off at home.
"I'm going to get Tia and Ryan" Angela said, bella nodded and let Lupin out of the back of the car. She bent down and felt around for the lead that was in Lupin's mouth, and was dragged towards the house as Angela drove off. She felt around for the spare key, once she opened the door she hugged her little siblings and told Lupin to show her to the kitchen.
"Salutem Mater (greetings mother)" Bella spoke quietly as she stood in the doorway of the kitchen shyly, she heard her mother cooking. Her mother jumped and turned. She saw her daughter standing there, rubbing her elbow.
"Salutem puer (greetings child)" Bella smiled, as her mother did. "Dinner is going to be another twenty minutes. Angela and Rye will get here in the next ten. Your father is already home along with everyone else and the Cullens will get here in Fifteen. Why don't you take Lupin into the back garden, you haven't played fetch in a while" Renee smiled at her daughter and turned back to the stove. She felt her child walk forward. Bella hugged her mother from behind and rested her head on her mother's shoulder.
"I don't remember the last time we hugged" Bella mused. "Diligo vos (I love you)" Renee patted her daughters arms which were around her middle.
"Diligo vos puer (I love you child)" Bella grinned and shook Lupin's lead which meant the garden. As Lupin galloped off, Bella grabbed her ball as she run after her. Once they were out she let go off Lupin's lead. Their back garden was huge, so she didn't have to worry about throwing it too far. She threw the ball in a direction, she heard Lupin bark to let her know that she was running after it. Bella waited she heard her dogs paws hit the ground as she found her ball and came running back. She felt Lupin nudge her leg so she bent down and picked up the ball that Lupin dropped. She grabbed it and mimicked a different way then threw it behind her, she felt Lupin brush past her. She laughed as she almost lost her footing.
"Silly thing" she grinned. They played together for another ten minutes. She felt herself being watched but they were in the house and she couldn't exactly look to see who it was. Bella took some treats out of her pocket and started to do the whole tricks thing. She got Lupin to sit and to lie down, roll over then got her to jump. Then to shake then wave. Lupin was very well trained.
"Cool" she jumped when she heard Emmet bellow. She must have lost track of time as the Cullens were there already. She heard a smack as she heard another set of breathing. Another Cullen was out there.
"you scared her, you idiot" Jasper scolded. Bella shook her head.
"I ain't scared of no vampire" as she started to hum the ghost buster theme tune. She felt Lupin run to Emmet. "Lupin heel" she commanded. "silly dog, I need you I can't remember which way I'm facing" A vampire had run so they were standing next to her.
"Would you like some help?" Jasper asked quietly. Jasper felt her spike of annoyance and helplessness.
"Like help? Of course not! Need help? Of course" Bella sighed, Jasper held her hand and moved her a couple of steps to the left and turned her around.
"Now we're going in the right direction" as she heard all off her family's heartbeats. She sighed as Jasper held her arm all the way up the back steps and into the living room where everyone seemed to be. She heard a breath come over to her, meaning it was a vampire. Jasper let go of her arm as Esme gave her a gentle hug. Bella smiled and returned the hug.
"It's good to see you again" Esme breathed a smile. Carlisle also gave her a hug. She heard Rosalie huff in annoyance. The pounding of small feet came running down the stairs. Lily ran straight to Edward.
"Eddiepoo" she squealed, Edward grinned as he swooped the little girl up and into his arms. As Bella quickly swept down and grabbed her brother.
"Ah attack of the big sister" Riley squirmed knowing exactly what she was going to do. She attacked him with her fingers and he squirmed and laughed and gasped for breath. Everyone knew Riley, was very ticklish. Bella leaned forward and whispered something in Riley's ear when she finally took mercy. He nodded and stood. His little hands reached out for Rosalie. She picked him up, and sat him on her hip.
Rose looked up at Bella and wished she could see so she could show defeat, she just squeezed Bella's hand and went and played with Riley a little, and from the childish giggles he sounded like he was having fun. As an extra heartbeat entered the room Bella somehow knew it would be her father.
"Right, we will go down to our beach when the whole family gets here this is something that will go down in our family history so, the whole coven should be here. The Malone's and Whytes are already there waiting for us" Charlie said, just as Angela an Ryan with little Tia came through the door with the rest of his family. Edward beat Charlie to helping Bella up, already deciding no matter what happened tonight no matter her secret he was dedicating his life to looking after this special woman. Charlie looked at Edward, he didn't understand what was different about this vampire, and it went against everything the coven knew about them.
"Dad… we can both feel your stare" Bella stated, Charlie cleared his throat and walked down to the back of the garden. As Edward led Bella down the back of the garden, he looked at her. She was staring straight ahead, and as the wind blew ever so slightly he for once couldn't get over just how beautiful she really was. "Yes Edward?" she asked. He blanched.
"Um, who are the Malone's and the whytes?" Edward asked. Bella smiled, she accidently tripped as the family all turned and held the breaths. Edward was there, as she had tightened her hand on his. Edward pulled her to her feet and gently brushed the dirt from her other hand, and pulled a leaf out of her hair, they had been walking through a small patch of trees to get to the beach. She smiled, she wasn't actually looking at Edward but he knew it was for him.
"Is anything hurt?" he asked quietly. She shook her head.
"No but thank you" she grinned at him, she started to walk but in the wrong direction when she was tugged back by Edward's hand she stopped sighed and waited for Edward to start walking so she knew what direction. "Alright go back to your own conversations" she said to her family who were still looking at her. As they all turned around, they continued to walk.
"So the Malone's and the whytes…" Edward trailed off. Bella grinned.
"They are the other two families that make up our Coven" Bella stated, the smile still on her face. As they all turned a corner to show a magnificent sunset setting over a tropical island type beach different to all other kind of beaches on this coast. The waves glittered like the Cullens did in the sun, the trees swayed serenely. As Bella heard all the Cullens gasp, Bella's look hardened. She tried to remember the last time she saw this beach. She couldn't. She growled quietly. Edward looked at her hard look.
"I see the bomb fire, being lit" he said, changing the conversation topic. Getting her mind away, from her sight.
"There's a hierarchy, there's one large log at the head of the bomb fire" Edward looked and nodded at his sight, slapped his forehead and said yes out loud. "My father will sit in the middle; I will sit on his left as I will take over the coven when he thinks I am ready, mother with sit on the right as she is coven mother. The Whytes will sit on the right as Gavin is Beta and the Malone's on the left as they are Gamma; you will be sitting with my family across the fire from my parents and I" Bella said quickly. "Sit in the wrong place and it's an insult, you will be beaten down to your rightful place" Bella hurriedly whispered.
"And where's that" Rosalie hissed. Bella turned her head slightly.
"An outsider, that's where" Bella hissed back, in her own authoritve voice. Rose backed down as the other families down respectively to Charlie. Edward walked Bella to sit, Bella smiled her thanks so Edward turned and went to sit next to Ryan, Lily squealed and crawled onto Edwards lap. He chuckled and started to tickle Lily. Once she caught her breath she leaned back against Edward in happiness. All he could do was smile down at the small child.
He looked up at Bella through the burning flames of her people, she was looking down at her hands in her lap smiling to herself. He grinned at her beauty. Wishing he was sitting next to her, he couldn't get the feel of her hand in his from earlier that morning. Her warmth and his lack of heat was a feeling he wasn't used too.
Charlie was looking at the love-struck expression of the vampire boy, and the shy happy expression of his daughter. However much he wanted to fight this he knew Bella would never let him and he also knew that their help would definitely benefit them. He thought about Bella and how this would most definitely help her. He sighed.
"I have brought you all together, not for our weekly barbecues and fires; but to introduce this coven to our coven" Charlie began.
"You mean, you're going to tell vampires?" Gavin demanded, flying to standing position in protest. Charlie looked at him, hardening his look.
"Yes I do, Bella trusts them and so do I. Bella is your future coven leader, so respect her instincts like you would mine" Charlie commanded. Gavin sat down sulkily. Gavin had olive skin that he had passed down to his six children, he also passed down his dark brown hair and their mother a fair woman with moderately light hair and bright grey eyes that she passed down to the children.
She was very small and skinny for having had six children. Gavin's sister was also of the olive colour and she had lighter than Gavin but still dark hair, she also passed down her dark brown eyes down to her three boys, they were triplets of the age of sixteen. She was a tall proud woman with no man in sight, she right to be proud of three sixteen boys. Gavin had another two brothers one boy had a small child on his lap and a girl tucked under his arm, they didn't look a day over nineteen.
The other brother was short, shorter than Gavin's wife, with blonde hair and light skin. Obviously the black sheep of the family, with a dark handsome wife and eight children; of all different ages. He sat holding his youngest little girl.
"Why must we tell, Vampires" he had paused and shuddered when he named them. The head of the Malone family, stood. Taylor a fair, tall blonde blue eyed beauty and a dream to Hitler. He was like a Viking tall, proud and strong.
He waxed his hair back and styled it perfectly. His wife, equally as tall a brunette beauty, with pale blue eyes, she gave her perfect figure to her three daughters and her blue eyes to her two sons. The boys; having received height and the muscles, of every teenage dream coming true. The girls having received their mother's perfect figure and their father's platinum blonde hair they were obviously living a life of beauty.
Taylor's brother was pretty much his opposite, short black hair and fairly lean but not overly muscled like his brother, but then maybe everyone will look like a newt if you're sitting next to him. His daughter looked about seventeen had soft brown hair and beautiful green eyes and a thin but not curvy like her cousins but she had a natural beauty. She was sat next to a boy of about fifteen who looked much like her just a younger boy version. There didn't appear to be a mother for them.
"Because, they can help" Bella commanded. "It will be good to get them on our side, we will have some extra added security for your children" Bella stated. Taylor sat down.
"You tend to lead them, even without sight?" Jasper asked, curiously. Bella did turn her head to the side a little but other than that she did not look at him. She just stared at the fire.
"You think just because I have no sight, I am weak? My other senses have, become more pronounced" Bella said. "For instance, I can feel every heartbeat, hear every breath you take. I can hear every blink- smell every shift in position and sense every emotion. I am not weak, I can also protect myself, using said senses" Bella explained.
"Well, Cullens you're here for what we are. Well, we're witches" Charlie explained. Each one of the Cullen's eyebrows apart from Alice's eyebrows went up.
"Fascinating" Carlisle said, leaning forward and putting his chin in his hands.
"Now, must come our question" Charlie said. They had not told the rest of the coven, so their reaction would be one of understanding.
"Carlisle, you are a doctor. You must have realised the healing qualities of vampire venom" Bella explained, every vampire on the beach sat back with realisation.
"We are not changing you" Edward growled, becoming too protective of her. Bella however was unfazed.
"I was not asking that you doofus, I was asking if you are aware of the healing properties of vampire venom" Bella said, calmly her facial expression not changing. "You all know of my father's reluctance to vampires, this is because we met another coven of vampires albeit much bigger than yours" Bella said. Every Cullen there, were desperate to know of the name, of this coven.
"Who were they?" Esme asked quietly. Bella turned to Esme who was sitting next to Elliot her lifeless stare boring into her eyes.
"Volturi" Taylor spat. Carlisle looked up immediately.
"The puncture wound I found in your eye. You injected vampire venom into your eyes and you regained a little bit of sight didn't you?" Carlisle asked. Bella nodded still staring at esme.
"We have spells and powers, that ensure that we can keep the venom in one part of her body" Gavin explained. Bella smiled.
"My father, said that if you do decide to do this then the reward would be of my choice." Bella explained. "I would gift you with humanity" Bella said. Rose gasped.
"How?" she asked, she had stood and so had Taylor and Gavin. Rose looked at them and sat back down Riley having to climb back onto her lap. Bella smiled, and motioned for Gavin and Taylor to sit.
"My father missed out a more important piece of information. I am actually a priestess of the old religion making me extra powerful" Bella explained. Carlisle nodded as if he knew what she was talking about. "But I cannot do it without my eyes" Bella said sadly.
"So how do we actually know you can do it?" Rose demanded, Em having grasped her hand.
"They say your eyes are the windows to your souls?"
Okay I am soooooo sorry that took so long but I just wanted to make sure it was up there with the others so why don't you review and we'll see how long the next one is ;) love ya all
