A.N- I'm back with chapter 4. I really don't much to say really. I am kind of upset that I haven't gotten one review … It makes me think my story isn't good enough. But it could also mean it's too good for words. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. But I'm not going to force reviews they'll happen when they happen. But do tell me what you think so far, pretty please?
Disclaimer- I don't own Twilight in the slightest.
P.S. When you see the italicized words in Edward's Pov they mean that's their thoughts. I won't put quotes around them either. Just a little heads up.
Edward POV
I knew Nessie was flabbergasted that this new stranger, Vittorio, was here. And I also knew that she was trying to figure him out. I heard her thoughts in the car and on her way back from the cottage before she caught his scent. What I didn't know is that she would react like this! Oh shit! Jake thought before she sprung. I can tell by his thoughts he felt the change in her emotions, as if they were his own. Luckily he caught her before she came close to clawing at his neck. He looked smug all though the process. I wouldn't mind her clawing at me. I would prefer a more private place, but this works. I have nothing to be ashamed of, Vittorio thought in a cocky manner. I hissed.
"I would advise you to keep those kinds of thoughts about my daughter nonexistent, or I'll make sure you don't have any type of thought process," I growled at him. He looked at me truly surprised. I would expect so. He popped up 10mins before Nes and her mother, so we didn't really go into details about ourselves, just simple pleasantries. Jacob had taken Nessie outside to calm her down, even though Jasper could of easily down the job himself. I was relived. God forbid Jake heard what just transpired between me and Vittorio. Physical she seemed to be getting calmer but mentally her thoughts were everywhere. Who is this guy? Why is he even here? Clearly I'm not the only one who thinks he's a threat, am I? I wished she would have at least asked everyone these questions, instead of attacking him, and then we wouldn't even be in this predicament. In so many ways she was like her uncle Em. Even though they aren't blood related, they do share some traits.
"Look Nes I'm going to need you to stay calm and listen. I understand that you see him as a threat, kudos to you for trusting your instincts. But you still can't just try to attack somebody like that, do you understand?" I heard Jake say to her outside. He speaks to me like I'm a child, she thought. If she only knew that Jacob didn't see her as a child. Even now his thoughts were obsessed with her. She looked absolutely stunning. Even mid-flight she was a graceful angel. Just add some wings and she'll make the perfect archangel. Heavenly destruction, Jake thought. I rolled my eyes. Even though it was nothing bad this time, I still didn't like the way he thought of my baby girl.
"Yeah, Jake I understand," Nes answered.
"Good now let's head back and maybe some of your answers that you may have will be answered if you pay attention," he told her.
I focused in back in the room. Jasper seemed to be having a very interesting conversation with Vittorio. He was questioning him on the differences on his kind of wolf. I was engrossed too. I've never seen a Child of the Moon and Vittorio did strike me as odder than the rest of his kind. Vittorio started explaining the living societies of the purebreds, and what made them so different. By this time Jake had returned with Renesmee and she looked calmer, but her mental jumble didn't straighten out. But even now she was interested in his elaboration.
"What makes us purebreds different from the wolves you hear is because we're rare," Vittorio explained. He seemed to like the attention he was getting. "We also have more control over our wolf because we're born with them. So we're able to live among each other more comfortably. Kind of like the wolves here. The wolves that are infected develop over time how to control their wolves and they also live longer lives. All of us are immortal so to speak, but we're also hunted. We've always been. The wolves that can't control there wolf die the quickest and the easiest. Because instead of using their brains and strategize: instinct takes over and they don't think about their actions," Vittorio said glancing at Nessie. Kind of like her. She would have died quickly in my world, he thought. And I couldn't deny his logic behind it because he was right. If Nessie had lived in Vittorio's world she wouldn't last 3mins.
"How do you protect yourselves against these hunters?" Jasper asked, intrigued.
"At a young age, us purebreds, start training to defend ourselves. Since we're rare we live in a more high class society," Vittorio said.
"So you come from money?" I asked him.
"Yes sir," he answered. Surprisingly he wasn't arrogant about it. I respected that.
Why is he here then? Both Jasper and Nessie thought.
"How did you happen to be upon us then?" I asked.
"I'm was and probably still am, being hunted," he said simply. Along with my sister, I wonder where she is. His thoughts were colored in some much pain; I felt the need to change the subject.
"Hey Jas you should let him join you and Nessie during her training. You can witness his techniques, see if he's any good and I'm sure Nessie wouldn't mind a new practice dummy," I smiled. Hell yeah I wouldn't, Nessie thought. I shook my head.
"Well first let's get you some new clothes," Alice chirped. All of my family was still present, listening in complete silence, but their thoughts were everywhere.
I wonder if his chromosomes are different. Are they more like ours or our wolves? What in his DNA causes those astonishing features? Carlisle thought curious of this new discover. He couldn't wait to dissect his new specimen, at Vittorio's consent of course.
Poor child! Worry clouding Esme's thoughts, her motherly instinct taking over. Where are his parents? Where is this sister he spoke of? He looked heartbroken when he spoke of her. I wonder what I could do to help… her thoughts started compiling a list to which she could help him.
Oh I wonder what his style consists of. Is he preppy, or more of a rocker? Does he wear darker clothes or lighter clothes? Is his style more relaxed? I have to find something to make his features pop! That brown flawless skin, her hair so white, with eyes so purple. Ugh! I've never been challenged like this! I love it! Alice couldn't help standing still; she wanted to figure her subject out. "You don't mind if I take you shopping in like 10mins, do you?" Alice asked, hope in her eyes.
"Sure I don't mind," Vittorio replied, nonchalantly. Alice was out the door to god knows where. Vittorio raised his eyebrows. "What was that all about?" he asked.
I shook my head and laughed. "You'll never know with Alice just do as she says and you'll make it to tomorrow."
"Hey Torio, you any good at sports?" Emmett asked.
"I'm good at anything I do," Vittorio said boastful.
Cocky bastard. This should be fun, Emmett thought. "Oh really? Well when Alice finishes torturing you, are you in for an all-out football game that we're playing later?" Emmett asked, apparently scheduling a football game all of us were supposed to be participating in.
He laughed. I haven't played a game of football in the longest. "Yeah I'm game. But won't the nearby humans hear? I know what it sounds like when vamps collide. It's like thunder," he said.
"Don't worry, I'll find a place," Em said and dashed out of the house. Jake and Nes followed behind him. I'll be back dad. I nodded. She'll be fine with Em and Jake. I went to go check on my wife, who was in the corner reading.
"How's everything going?" my heart and soul asked.
"Perfect in a way. Apparently Em, planned a mandatory game we're expected to participate in," I said.
She laughed it sounding like a chorus of bells, and went back to reading. How did I become so lucky to find a woman who was just so perfect? I kissed her repeatedly while she was reading. Mr. Cullen, we have company! She exclaimed with a smile on her face and lust in her eyes. Over the years she perfected her mental shield. Not only is she able to stretch it 1½ football fields, but also let down her second shield, the shield that protects only her thoughts, with no trouble. Allowing me to hear her thoughts. We have a football game to attend later in the day, she thought.
"But oh Mrs. Cullen I want you right now," I growled seductively.
"And you can have every part of me after the football game," she purred.
"Can't wait," I said and kissed her again then returned back to the living room. When I returned Rose seemed to be in an intense conversation with Vittorio. She seemed to be asking him about his love life.
"So you've dated a lot but you've never had sex?" Rose asked him. He didn't even seem slightly uncomfortable with any of her questions.
"Nope," Vittorio answered between bites of food that Esme fixed for him.
"Have you engaged in any type of sexual activity? Like oral?" She asked him, her curiosity coming for no specific place. Why so curious? Vittorio thought.
"Yeah, I have. Just never done the do," he replied.
"Hm, I see, do guys ever come on to you?" Rose asked.
"Yeah sometimes but that's not my type of thing. Even though I'm flattered, I decline any type of offers," he replied taking a huge bit out of his sandwich. Rose's questions were about to get a lot more personal, before Alice busted in.
"Saved by the Pixie," I sad. He looked at me curiously. Huh? He thought.
"Are you ready to go shopping?" Alice squealed. He smiled and finished off his sandwich. He got up to take it to the kitchen, but Esme flitted to his side and took it.
"I've got it sweetheart, go on ahead," Esme said.
"Thank you," he said with a grin then him and Alice left. I turned to Rose and raised an eyebrow.
"What? I just wanted to know if he's sexual active that's all," Rose said simply, flipping her hair.
"Mhm, well I'm going for a hunt before this football game. Care to join?" I asked.
"I guess I could. Esme, Carlisle, Jasper, and Bella want to come?" She asked. They showed up and we left out to hunt.
Vittorio POV
When we arrived at this big mall that seemed to not belong there. It just looked out of place. Alice and I walked in and all nearby humans stopped and stared. I couldn't blame them we both were inhumanly beautiful. I smiled. This shopping trip should be enjoyable. We found a table and sat down. Alice stared at me, I stared back.
"Since I can't see you, I can't really gauge your style. So you're going to have to help me out, K?" Alice said. I was confused.
"What do you mean 'see' me? You don't seem blind. Can vamps even be blind?" I asked.
She laughed. "I'm not blind per se. I can see you out of my eyes perfectly fine, but I can't see any visions of you," she elaborated.
"Visions?" I asked perplexed.
"Yes I can see the future to an extent. I can't see what I haven't been. I can see humans because I was one, I can see vampires because I am one, but I can't see the wolves or Nessie. But over time as I became more attuned to them I started to see them partially, but not clearly. If you stay long enough I'll probably start to see you a little too," Alice explained.
"Are you the only one that can do that?"
"Yeah. Some vampires have extra abilities that go pass the norm for us. If you haven't realized Edward can read minds, and my husband, Jasper, can influence emotions," she said. I thought so; I had my suspicions about him. "Anyways let's begin. What do you like to wear?" she asked. That was kind of a hard question. I had no specific style.
"Um, I guess you can say mostly dark clothing. Harem pants, lots of V-necks and my preference of shoes all depends on if they look nice." She nodded and then we were off.
I tried on a lot of different types of styles at different stores. Preppy wasn't really my thing, too upper-scale. A darker look wasn't me either, but I did get some skinny jeans. We've bought a lot of V-necks, different styles and colors. Calvin Klein clothing seemed to be just for me. I enjoyed Alice's presence too. She reminded me of my sister, though she wasn't as girly. But she was very chirpy, animated, talkative, but she was also deadly. I could tell shopping gave Alice some kind of peace of mind. Then she asked me a question that stopped my heart.
"Vittorio can you tell me about your sister?" she asked curiosity coloring her voice. "You don't have to if you don't want too nor can't, I'll understand." I didn't want too, but I felt myself opening up to her suddenly.
"Her name is Vittoria Alu. She's 5mins older, we're twins. The only difference are her eyes, they're a light pink. Her hair is white like mine but it's longer, like a white sea billowing down her back. We were inseparable. Everything we did it was done together. We trained together. She was the best girl in our year and I the best boy. She's my heart and soul. It's like I'm empty without her. I'm never truly happy. A part of me has been stolen and I have no idea how or where to retrieve it. She was the only person that was there for me. I could always depend on her and now that's she gone who do I depend on now? Who has my back now?" I asked frantically. We had taken a seat and she was listening intensely.
"What happened to your parents?" Alice asked me. Another tragic story.
"Our mother died giving birth to us. In our world twins are also rare. Her human body couldn't handle it. At times since I'm the youngest I blame myself for her death. If it was just Vittoria she would still be alive, but I had to come along and kill her," I laughed without humor. "I killed my mother. And our father died by the hands of a hunter but not before he killed the hunter first. So we were raised by our help, who we cherish greatly."
"First off you didn't kill your mother! Never say or even think such words and if you do I'll kill you myself," Alice said sternly, a promise in her eyes. I laughed. She was so little, what could she do to me? "How did you and your sister get separated?" I took a deep breath and got my emotions back in check before I divulged deeper into my history.
"We were out training," I smiled reminiscing on the memory. "I was holding back and she hated when I did that. Then suddenly, Becca, the youngest help and our close friend ran to us in haste. She said that hunters were on the way and that it was a large group of them. She told us to go through the secret tunnel out to the forest, to make a run for it. But we couldn't. We couldn't leave our home, our family. They were the only thing we had, but we had too. We could handle hunters but we were outnumbered. There was no guarantee that they would be safe, but if we had a chance to leave now and they spare their lives we had to take it. Till this day I still don't know if anybody from the house is alive or not. We made our escape into the forest. Four of them caught our scent and tailed us. They were gaining fast. Then Vittoria said something idiotic. She said that was had to split up, that if anything they couldn't get us both. But we could have taken them, with our…" I stopped abruptly. We promised each other we wouldn't tell anyone that without each other's consent. Alice raised her eyebrows ever so slightly but didn't say anything. I could feel the tears coming so I shortened my story time. "Two followed each of us when we split. I took care of mine with no trouble and continued running. I stumbled across Seth's scent and the rest is history," I said simply. Suddenly I wasn't in the mood for shopping anymore.
"Vittorio I'm so sorry," Alice said, placing her cold hands over mine. I wasn't looking for pity. "Well do whatever we can to find her, I swear to you that." I nodded.
"Can we leave? I'm not really in the mood for this anymore," I said.
"Yeah, let's go but first let's get you some sportswear. We have a football game my brother scheduled remember," Alice replied with a smile. I did remember the game the big curly head man, Emmett, scheduled. It would be just the thing to help me out of this funk. Some nice physical activity.
So many bags! Both of my hands were full when we got back to the Cullen place. Even little Alice had her share but when we arrived Jasper took them from her. A true southern gentleman. What I'm I going to do with these clothes?! Jake's house can't fit all this; he can barely fit in his own damn house!
"There's a room upstairs you can put them in for now, just place them there, "Edward said from the doorstep.
Thank you, I thought. Testing out Alice's words about him.
"You're welcome," he said with a smile on his lips. Wicked! After I set the bags down and put some sportswear on I returned downstairs. Esme flitted to me, her heart-shaped face open.
"I left some food on the table if you're hungry," she told me. I was starving. I thanked her and headed to the kitchen. When I got there I was greeted with a glare and hiss from Renesmee and a huge grin from Jacob. Those two were sitting awfully close but at the same time not touching. Like they we're scared or hesitate to. Hm.
"Ready for some kick-ass football fun Torio?" Jake asked me. I sat at the empty spot with food in front of it, directly across from Renesmee. I grinned at her.
"You bet your ass I am!" I said responding back to Jake's question.
"Well you kiddies finish up and we can head out," Emmett said suddenly at my side. When I looked around I saw that everybody was dressed in sportswear. Besides Esme.
"She's going to be our ref. To make sure tempers don't get out of control. Our wolves have a bit of a temper," Edward said with laughter. I looked at Jake for some insight.
"I don't know how your types of wolves change besides from the full moon. But my type change when we're really angry," Jake explained. I laughed and shook my head. That would be a site to see. I devoured the rest of my food. Nes keep giving me dirty looks through the whole process. I shook it off if she had a problem she's a big girl so she'll address it when she's ready. After we finished Esme insisted on washing our plates. She was such a kind women. I wonder if my mother would have been like her if she would have lived. I shook my head. Yes this football game is much needed. After Esme finished we headed out to this football field Emmett found that was away from human society.
Renesmee POV
As we left, I wondered how Vittorio would keep pace with us. I knew Children of the Moon needed a full moon to shift, but I had no idea if they could shift at will, like Jake and the others. He sat on the stairs with no intention of shifting. I shrugged. Either way I didn't care. Jake didn't have to shift to keep pace with us either. A few years back Jasper wanted to see if the Quileute wolves could bring their wolf counterparts forth while still in human form. So he trained with them continuously until he saw any results. Apparently they can and it's a very weird process. I asked Jake about it once, I was curious.
"It's like you're human again, no heighten senses," he told me remembering the scene. "You're standing in a dark room and you have no idea if any doors exist, if there's even an exit. It's a very claustrophobic feeling. You know there's empty space but the fact that you can't really see, smell, or hear anything makes it worse. Then you have this feeling that you're not alone, that something else is occupying the room with you. You come to realize it's your wolf, you sense him/her there with you, watching you. Like it's scared of you. When at the same time you're scared of it too. Knowing how much damage you could do if you didn't have any common sense while in wolf form is a scary feeling. You have to show your wolf that you're equally scared of him too, but that you trust him. You trust that if suddenly it was up to the wolf to think for you, you wouldn't be a danger to anyone, but also that you can be trusted with the power that your wolf gives you. Your wolf is a good being, it doesn't want to be used for evil, to destroy what it was meant to protect. If your wolf thinks you can trusted it will let you borrow his power in your human form where he has less control over you."
And that's how it happened. Jasper's training was a success. Not only were the wolves even more physically stronger and faster in their human form, but they also felt more connected to their wolves. Before all this Jake had no chance in human form to keep up with my family as they ran, but now he's able to make up the back, not really moving as fast but able to keep up sort of. And also thinks to Jasper I'm able to move almost as fast as my family too. It made me realize that Jasper is one of the greatest assets to this family. Without he's curiosity now of this would be possible. I felt a great an appreciation for my uncle.
Once everything was situated we were off to Emmett's football field. Em was leading the way since he knew the location better. I ran in the back with Jake to keep him company. If it was just us it would have been a very romantic moment. To be running to a destination unknown to us both, just enjoying the company of each other and the scenery. I felt a presence approaching fast behind us. I turned to see Vittorio gaining on us about to pass us. I wouldn't let that happen. I put myself into over-drive and passed everyone until I was in the front with Em. He glanced at me then peeked behind his shoulder. His booming laughed vibrated through the forest.
"Save all that for the field my little competitive niece," he said to me. Oh and I planned too. We arrived at the field in the next min. calling it a field was an understatement. Its span seemed to be at least 3 football fields take or leave some. It had nothing neighboring it for miles on so we were safe so to speak. Seth, Paul, Collin, Brady, Liza, and Karin were present also when we got there. Jake ran over to them once he spotted them, I followed. I didn't know the full details on how the sisters, Liza and Karin, inherited the wolf gene but on the Res it wasn't really a big deal. After Leah any other female wasn't really a surprise.
"Wassup man? I didn't know you were game," Jake said to his second.
"Why would I miss this? Edward called and I told the pack they could join if any wanted and here stands the people who did want to join. And don't worry Jared, Quil, Noah, and Reed is running hourly patrol. Hey Nessie, how are you doing? " Seth asked.
"I'm well Seth, and yourself?" I asked back.
"I'm doing fine I guess. It gets lonely sometimes but I'm okay with that," Seth replied sadly. I didn't know how to respond to that. I've never technically been alone. I had my family and Jake my whole life.
I saw Jake frown but he didn't say anything. He turned to the rest of the little pack and addressed them. "Hello ladies?" The boys gave him the birdie. I laughed at that. But the actual girls didn't even respond. They seemed to be star gazing. They were looking at Vittorio who seemed to be talking to grandpa.
"Um, chief who is he?" Liza asked Jake in her deep, raspy voice.
"Yes who is he? Besides the smell he is absolutely stunning," Karin said in her high, clear voice. Liza and Karin were very pretty girls. Long black hair, russet skin, nice cheekbones, they could have any guy they wanted. It was rare for them to fan girl. But from the look in their eyes they were close to it. I rolled mine. Stupid garbage smelling beauty, he irks me.
"His name is Vittorio and staying with me for a while and don't call me chief," Jake said. At the sound of his name Vittorio smiled and waved. Liza and Karin almost fainted. I couldn't help but roll my eyes again. Really? Somebody please kill me now.
"Alright let's get this game started!" Em's voice boomed throughout the field. It's game time baby, time to let loose and have fun!
A.N- Stay tuned for the football game of the century. Please Review!
