He looked at her "It is kind of a grey fog or so I am told. It feels like your head is in the clouds. Does that help?" she nodded and began playing.

Jasper stood up behind her and placed his hands on her neck allowing her to play with her hands. He took a deep breath and forced her to calm down and stay really calm. Slowly he could feel the sleep coming and the more that came the slower the music got until she was completely asleep.

Jasper and Emmett carried her up the stairs and placed her on the bed letting Carlisle put the chains on her around her wrists. Edward walked into the room. "Okay, Carlisle now can we find out more about her past? Or at least as much as you know?" He asked impatiently.

"Okay" heading down to the kitchen, it was probably the best place to talk he did not want to risk waking her up. Although Jasper was sure that that should not happen for a few hours at least, when that happened he was not too sure what they were going to do. "What I know about her past is very little you see Aro doesn't know that much himself about it. You remember how we were looking at the murders in Texas thinking that it might be a vampire but the way they were all erratic killings, like they were random picking off weak individuals not really a pattern. Making police believe that it was just a crime wave that was going up." Everyone nodded at him.

"Well it was Carm. Aro seems to think that she has the capability to join the Volturi one day only she chooses not to. He thinks that living the lives that we live will be much too hard for her so she will go back to live with him. There is more to her ability than even she knows, or maybe she does know about it. Apparently she can use the abilities that she takes from others, immediately turning it against them and amplifying it, at that.

"Which brings up a question, how did you guys manage to get her to fall asleep and go upstairs?"

Emmett looked at Carlisle. "She let Jasper do that but we can't tell you how he got to do that. We both promised not to tell anyone." He winked at Edward, he never promised to keep him out of his head and if he could keep on that topic for a few seconds then Edward might be able to figure it out.

Rosalie stepped in, "does Aro know how she became a vampire? And what did she mean about touching hands with you?"

Carlisle continued, "Well I would almost assume that the touching hands thing came from Aro. Although we should be able to solve this issue right now." He walked over to the phone and picked it up dialling the number over to Italy where the Volturi stayed. Aro picked up the phone.

Aro: Carlisle, what a pleasant surprise what can I do for you?

Carlisle: you can tell me one thing, why is she afraid to shake hands with anyone?

Aro: Her past is similar to that of your boy, Jasper's only much worse. So the council felt if we were going to give her a second chance at life we should make sure that the pain portion of death would still be there so we injected her with something that makes the wounds on her arms bleed. Almost like they are scabs, and they will stay that way. She shook my hand just before I grabbed her and with the help of Jane managed to inject that into her. Oh by the way, we have been trying to figure this out but we can't seem to. Her venom is in her saliva as well as her teeth, although the venom in her teeth is more lethal than a newborns. Watch yourselves. Does that answer your question?

Carlisle: it does

He hung up the phone not wishing to say goodbye the fact that the Volturi would go that low and make her life the way it was since she chose not to join them was wrong on more than one level.

Esme walked over to him and put her arm around him. Seeing how it was Saturday he would need to register Carm for school probably on Monday although it would probably be a week or two before she was able to handle her thirst enough to be around that many people then he remembered Bella. Her scent appealed to everyone and Carm was going to have enough trouble with humans. "Esme, one of us is going to have to go register Carm for high school next Monday. I don't know how long it is going to take her to get ready to be able to handle all the people but we should encourage her to try it as soon as she is ready."

"Jasper how long did you say Carm should be asleep for?" Edward asked looking at his brother.

"A few hours at least, why?" they all turned their attention to the stairs and listened.

Carlisle walked up the stairs and sure enough she was trying to pull the latch out of the floor. "I can't believe you would do this to me, let me go this instant" she yelled as soon as he was within sight of her.

Jasper and Emmett walked into the room together looking at Carm and pushing Carlisle out of the way. Jasper touched her skin glaring into her eyes and she started to cry kneeling on the floor of the room pushing everyone away from her as much as she could with her wrists in shackles. She was still pulling at the chain but with Jasper there she sat up and looked at him. "How could you do this to me?"

Jasper looked at Carlisle and he left closing the door behind him "look, Carm, remember when I told you that everything that we are trying to do right now is going to make it easier for you in the long run well this is one of the things. Your life has been bad enough so far and keeping you like this until your thirst gets under control might be the best thing for keeping you here in Forks with us."

She glared at Emmett "there is something you are not telling me, something that you know that you just don't want me to find out? What did you do after you brought me up here?"

Emmett looked at her "we went downstairs so we would not wake you and we called Aro just to find out why you don't like people touching your hands." He got down on the floor beside her and put his arm around her shoulders. "Carm, we needed to know why you were scared of having anyone touch you at all. Carlisle wanted to know, we all had suspicions but we wanted to know for sure."

Jasper motioned to the bed and the three of them sat on it. "Carm, I want to show you something" He rolled up his sleeve of his shirt revealing the pattern on his skin and she sat there examining it letting her fingers run over it very gently. "That happened to me and apparently almost the same thing happened to you."

Carm nodded, pulling up her sleeve to reveal the same pattern on her arm only like Aro said they were bloody scabs. She looked at Emmett "I am kind of thirsty right now. Do you have a stack of animals somewhere that kind of help right now?"

Emmett looked at her eyes they were a brilliant red in colour, "Why did you wait until you were really thirsty to tell me that?" he laughed at her for a second and then looked at the chain. "If I undo the shackles you have to promise me something."

She looked up at him. "What do you want?"

"You have to promise to behave and not do anything bad. I think everyone is eating chicken downstairs right now. But you have to promise me that."

"I promise" she said as he took the key out of his pocket and unlocked the shackles from around her wrists.

When they got downstairs Carm could smell the chicken and she honestly did not know how she was going to be able to do this. Sitting at the table was hard enough for her to learn how to behave. She looked at the food and growled at it. Emmett looked at her, "You promised remember. Jasper, Edward and I can just as easily take you back upstairs and put the shackles back on you."

Carm went and sat down at the table she decided that she would give it a try everyone else in the family seemed to be enjoying themselves yet they were used to it. She took a bite and let her teeth sink into the raw chicken, spitting it out she looked up and could see the disgust on Emmett's face. Carlisle calmed everyone and Carm attempted to try again although it was completely useless. Her body wanted real blood so it thought and she did not want this fake stuff. She took the piece of chicken in her hands and threw it at Edward. Emmett and Jasper were behind her in a second.

"Carlisle maybe we should take her to the basement. That might be the best place for her for the night."

"What is in the basement?" Carm asked worried about what Jasper had suggested.

Carlisle ignored her question and answered Jasper, "I agree that might be the best place for her for the night. Then we can maybe go get a deer tomorrow for her."

"What is in the basement?" Carm yelled at Carlisle again, fighting to get loose from Emmett and Jasper. But there was no use, between the two of them she had no hope of getting away from her captors.

Emmett and Jasper dragged Carm down to the basement. Carm looked at the end wall that was facing the stairs. There were 4 shackles on the wall connected the same way the chain was connected to the floor in the room she had to figure out a way to get out of this room. She hated basements, her mind shuttered that the thought of being locked in here for the entire night. She looked at Jasper feeling his hands touching her bare skin. So she stopped struggling, knowing that it was coming the calming feeling but did she really want to repel it, it would make her feel better to be calm. The thirst was starting to become a problem. The food did not smell the greatest and the fact that everyone loved it did not help. She struggled to calm herself before Jasper had a chance to work his magic on her.

She decided to start everything off, "I have a question, although first I should probably apologize to you, Emmett. I had promised to behave myself and I did not do that. I am sorry." She gathered her thoughts together but as she was doing that Edward came down the stairs.

Edward looked at her, "Carm, I don't think that Emmett should be the one you apologize to. However I would assume that the chicken does not smell as good as a human does. I talked to Carlisle and was hoping that maybe if the three of us went out with you maybe you could do some hunting of your own."

The shackles were warm against her skin, and that was something comforting about them. "But Emmett told me that you guys don't feed off of human blood, so what do you mean go hunting?"

Jasper placed his hand on her skin near her wrist, "We have been keeping an eye on the mountain lion population down in Arizona. They seem to be having a problem with them, which means we can feed off of them and not cause a problem with the natural habitat situations. It is the perfect time to go. We are off school this week which means you will have plenty of time to adjust to the idea of that. Plus that blood tastes better than the chicken." He shut his eyes for a second bringing in what she was feeling then added. "I know that the chains seem to have a calming effect on you right now but the longer you let your thirst drive you to do things. The worse it probably will get, Carm nothing can happen to you. The three of us, and then we will probably bring either Carlisle or Alice along with us, nothing will ever happen to you."

Edward glared at her, "What is the condition that you have come up with, you are swaying between two of them. Why not say them both and maybe you can do both of them."

Carm glared at Emmett, "How did he do that, first of all?" she tried to stay calm although with the thirst as bad as it was, nothing was easy for her. "Other than that the two conditions are we take Alice and not Carlisle, I still don't trust him. And second we don't leave until morning, so I can get some sleep."

Emmett smiled at her. "Edward can hear people's thoughts, similar to what Aro can do, only he does not have to have any physical contact and he can only see the thoughts you are having at the very moment, which should make you feel better." Jasper let go of her wrist and took off upstairs. "The first condition we can do quite easily, we thought if a hunting trip was going to happen that you might want Alice or Rosalie to come along instead of Carlisle. But the second one, Carm your eyes are already a brilliant red. I think that we need to leave tonight. We will take a vehicle so that you can sleep on the way down there." He smiled at Alice and Jasper as they were coming back down to the basement. "Is that a good enough compromise for you to live with?"

She nodded.


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