SEEKING MY WHITE WITCH
Disclaimer: The Cullens, the Swans, and most of the characters mentioned in the story that are known from Stephanie Meyer's beloved Twilight Saga, are all hers and hers alone. I neither have nor wish to pass them off as mine. I do appreciate the fact that she did bring them to life and allows us to play with them in our imaginations. The only thing I will claim is the current storyline.
"Which one is related to Charlie?"
"Brandy, she was Charlie's older sister and she married Lawrence, who is my older brother. Results Ria.
It seemed more shocks were in the air, for the Cullens had no knowledge of this before now. Asia was vibrating with an excitement that was barely concealed from the others in the room. All she kept thinking was 'oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit.' She didn't seem to be able to get beyond that thought.
CHAPTER 4: THOUGHT YOU KNEW IT ALL, RIGHT?
"Renee, may I ask you a question?" asked Asia.
"Sure."
"Would you say that …. No, I am not going to ask that question at this time. But, I am going to ask that you please enlarge upon the family tree. And, explain what you meant 'the girls were able to do unexplainable things'?"
Renee looks at this woman like she has two heads, or something. Then, shaking her head, she answers rather sharply "No."
"But, I -"
"I said no. I don't know you, lady, and you are asking me questions about my daughter and niece. I don't think so. The answer is no.
"In fact, I think I may have said too much. I need to leave as I have a prior appointment scheduled," so saying, she gets up out of the chair, reaches for her purse and begins heading for the door.
"Renee, please, no harm was meant."
Renee hesitates at the door, turns and smiles at Carlisle. She nods, and then looks pass him to see Edward. She pauses for a moment longer, then motions for him to come to her.
"Edward, I only met you that time in Phoenix and you seemed to care for my daughter a great deal. I don't know what happened that might have changed that and I am not going to ask. Right, now you seem to be walking with a heavy burden upon you, son.
"Bella and I talked after that time and she was all about you. You were 'her everything' as she would say. I don't know what happened to cause you to decide to separate, but, I did see how it affected her afterwards, we almost had made a decision to commit her, then she seemed to start snapping out of it a bit, makes one wonder as to why, but, I am not going to ask. For some reason, I fear that I might not get an answer. At least, not a true one. So, young man, I am not going to put you on the spot.
"I see you now and you are ready to find her, in fact, your whole family is ready to rush off in search, this I don't understand why, but, it gives me hope. Hope, I cannot explain, but, it helps.
"So, with that being said I am going to say this, please, find her and bring her home to all that love her. Then at that point, I will give you my forgiveness and blessings.
"Carlisle, if there is anything else you need to know, let me know."
As she turns once more towards the door to leave, Rosalie very quickly stops her with a question,"Mrs. Dwyer, where does this Ria live?"
"Where ever she chooses. She and her husband own several homes around the world as does Charlie and Bella." So with that information she leaves.
Talk about shockwave. Everyone is in shock. Shock after shock. What did she mean 'as does Charlie and Bella'?
Asia maintains her silence, but, watches the recovery of the family. All of a sudden everyone wants to speak at the same time. "What the hell just happened?"
"All right, settle down. SETTLE DOWN!" Carlisle instructs everyone.
"We need to compile what we have learned to get a clear picture of where to start. Asia, I am going to need to you to contribute your impressions and what you got out of that, as well."
"Carlisle, I can only supply my assumptions."
"Your assumptions are usually accurate."
As they are getting ready for a family meeting to start putting facts together, Renee is on her way home. It is too early to meet with Phil for lunch, but, she does need to get a hold of Charlie. And get a hold of him fast. So, trying to keep from speeding she hurries home to make a phone call.
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"Ria, my love, are we ready to go home?"
"In a minute, if you don't mind. Keep your damn hat on. I'm almost through with this call.
"Yes, Izzy, we are getting on the plane shortly and should be there around midnight. How often have you had these dreams? Okay. Okay. Do you recognize the red headed woman? Well, shit! Yes. Yeah, we will. You think she is behind the first one? Good enough for me.
"The Volturi! What the hell do they want? They have what with them? Son of a bitch! Yeah. Well, they can't go too far, or, I will have Lee inform the Queen about their little nonsense.
"No. If we have to, we will, stand strong together. But, we need to figure out what they are wanting. Both, parties.
"Yeah, I agree. Okay, see you and Jason tonight."
"Okay, Mr. Impatience, let's go and catch that flight home. You had a good turn out here, but, I'm ready to relax for a few days."
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"Okay, what do we know at this point? Esme?"
"I think before anything else is discussed Rosalie should fill us in on what she has found."
"Be happy to lay it out. First, I checked to see if any credit cards or debit cards had been used any place along the way she would have taken to head east. My thought is that Charlie would have made sure she had a ready resource to use without carrying a lot of cash.
"So, I estimated just where her first stop would be, taking into account that it might not have been her plan to head east. And, all indications what has been said she was driving. Doing a sweep of the entire radius, I found where she stopped in Seattle; at that point she seemed to make a detour heading towards Vegas. From that route she doubled back towards Denver, and then back tracked to Portland. The area she shows up in is Shasta California.
"That is the point where I lost her. She used cards in her the names of Bella Swan, Isabella Swan, I M Swan, Isa Swan and Izzy Swan. After the last one, nothing. Gone.
"That is why I asked Renee where Ria lived, thinking it would help to pick anything up around that area."
"Very good, babes. Proud of you! I knew you were just putting on a front. You do care about Bella after all," Emmett hugs his wife.
"I have to honest, that at first I was angry that Edward got involved with her and brought her into our lives. I saw her as a threat. Nothing really changed in my outlook, until after I saw the full depth of his feelings for her when I told him that she had jumped from the cliff. My whole thought process changed at that point and I took the time to review everything and saw my errors."
"Rosalie, thanks, that was a brilliant idea." Edward tells her
"Okay, I must add my well done in there. We now have a beginning direction. Next, Alice, have you been able to make sense of your vision from earlier? Are they separate ones running together, or, one continuous one?" Carlisle asks.
"I get the feeling that they are two separate ones that will be happening really close together in time. Just have not gotten a hint as to the time factor. Even the locale is not familiar to me. Haven't penned those points down as yet."
"Keep working on it, and let us know something as soon as you can.
"Now, Asia, we come to you. Please tell us what you were able to gain from the conversation."
"Well, as I-"
All of a sudden, a loud dinging could be heard. Everyone trying to figure out what was going on. Rosalie jumps up and hurries over to the computer.
"Well, I be damn. My idea was right. It worked!" she hollered doing a happy dance.
"Hey, babes, you want to calm down and let us in on why you were right?"
"Sure. When Renee mentioned about Charlie and Bella owned several houses with this Ria chick, I decided to run a financial check on Charlie and Renee. I got to wondering why she said that."
"So, what did you find out?"
"Charlie inherited quite a bit of money from his parents along with property in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Germany, France and Washington. All of these properties have been handed down generation to generation with the revenue that comes from each. Bella will be inheriting these upon his death.
"His sister, Brandy, inherited a lump sum, that her husband invested for her and it did very well for her.
"Renee, although, made the statement about an average family background, did inherit some money from her parents, but, she was not to careful with how it was spent in the beginning. But, she did not receive it until after she and Charlie were divorced. Of course, Charlie did pay alimony and child support as well. However, her brother, Lawrence, did invest both his and Renee's and made a mint. Renee's stayed in a trust so she couldn't throw it away. She receives the dividends each month from the investments.
"After Brandy died, Ria, inherited her mother's mother, but, Lawrence had it put into a trust fund for her.
"The family home was in Marin county outside of San Francisco. Lawrence was a diplomat, a sort of government troubleshooter, if you will and traveled quite a bit. Brandy took care of things at home until she was shot in a hostage situation during a bank robbery. Ria was there at the time and saw her mother die.
"After the divorce from Charlie, Renee lived with her brother and help with taking care of both girls. She finished her education and got her teaching license. That is when she moved to Phoenix to teach kindergarten children.
"Also, from what I can find out, Charlie would travel to California to spend time with Bella and Ria during the summer around the time Bella turned ten or eleven. She refused to keep making the trip to Forks.
"There, also, seems to be another person that made an appearance in the families' lives around the time Bella was 7 and Ria 13. He was welcomed into the family because he had saved the girls' lives from a bus accident while they were returning from camp.
"Now, the last bit of information that I have is that Lawrence died of cancer a few months after Ria's sixteenth birthday. There is still a lot left uncovered, but, at least, some of the gaps are filled in.
"Sorry, to have interrupted you, Asia."
"Well, that did certainly tell us some things that were unknown before. Now, as to what I can contribute to this meeting.
"Marie de la Castille was a white witch nearly four hundred years ago. She came from a long line of witches, so it is said. Wait. Before I go any further let me give you a bit of a history lesson concerning our species.
"There were eight main bloodlines of true witches. These witches, they had not divided into levels at that time. A witch was a witch, no different whether you worked for good or ill. And, each of these lines came from generations back to the beginning of time, so it is said. But, as time passed the current names beginning to come into existence. White witch, witch, or black witch, all by how you conducted yourself.
"But, a few hundred years ago, a witch was judged to be bad no matter the good she might have done her neighbor. And, she died for that fact along. Of course, many women died that were not even witches.
"In some of the bloodlines, the males were practicing witches, or as some called them, wizards or warlocks. The wizards were the female equal of a white witch and the warlock the equal of a black witch. And, in other bloodlines the males just passed along the gene, but, it was dormant in them to where they had no powers, gifts or talents, as it were.
"This is what I am assume was the case with Marie's bloodline, since Charlie is one of her descendants. And, what that means, is that Brandy, is sister was the one with the powers. These would have been passed on to her daughter and Charlie's passed on to Bella.
"Now, as to the gift or talent that each girl has is only conjecture at this point. But, from what you have said about Bella, she has a mental gift and it is extremely strong.
"This part is just conjecture as well, but, to comment on Alice's vision of two standing together against several incidents, this would indicate that they are committed to each other strongly and willing to die for the other. The bond is strong. So, I would say that it would be Ria standing with Bella.
"The level of the species for these two I cannot even begin to assume. That is an unknown factor. Both of these girls are strong due to type of genetic bloodline. They might be close to the Queen and she resides in a place we call the Valley of the Whispering Winds. We do not know exact location, but, are led there by the call of the wind.
"Ria and Bella are white witches, but, level is not known as I said. So, my statement in regards to the Queen, are just assumption at this point."
"Asia, what is your gut feeling in reference to their level?" Carlisle asks her.
"I feel that Ria is the stronger and Bella second. But, again a lot depends on many factors. And most of those are unknown. If I could just see of picture of the two girls together, I would be able to give you more information. Information that I don't dare utter at this moment. As it could be dangerous for the two young women."
"Can they stand against such threats that are coming as in Alice's vision?"
"It depends on their strength and talent level. So, can't honestly answer that."
"Okay, does anyone else have anything to contribute to the discussion?" Carlisle asks, looking at each person present.
No one had anything new. "Well, I would say that we need to head to California. San Francisco, to be more precise.
"Esme, why don't you and Alice go out ahead of us? You can get a temporary please set up for us to live. Alice, you can concentrate on your vision in that area and see what comes to you. Rosalie, I'm going to ask you to stay here and help close the house. That way you can help with communications and searches on the computer.
"I will take the time to wrap it here and get ready to join you. You boys are to go to Washington and see if a trail of Victoria can be found and follow it to its end, if possible.
"Any questions? Okay. Then we are done, except, that I would like to ask you, Asia, to go with Esme and Alice. See what you can pick up, as well.
"What are you waiting for? Let's go people we have jobs to do. Why are you still here? Get to moving."
Now, they have a purpose and a plan. Let the action begin.
A/N: Well, have we been educated enough yet? The answer no, not really, as a lot is still unsaid about Bella's family tree. Can you guess what it is? Have you formed your ideas as to what talents or gifts does Bella have? What about Ria? The hunt has begun.
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