Cool chapter....seriously. And please, if you have a Twilight forum that is seriously good, tell me cuz I wanna join one!!! So in this chapter you're not going to find the DUM DUM DAAAA kind of a thing.....but close enough. So yeah, I'm using these holidays to write so have fun!!!!

6. Hostage

And then her eyes turned to me, and she looked at me with her brow furrowed, as if she was concentrating on something painful.

"What are you doing to my wife?" snarled Edward menacingly.

She paused. "I'm doing what I can do. Understanding her."

I realised that my shield had been deteriorated. I hadn't concentrated enough to keep it one me. Fiercely, I ppulled it back upon myself, waiting.

But it was too late. The girl had done what she wanted to, and now, there was nothing in here eyes. No fear. No recognition. Not even shock. She was just....empty.

Her mouth moved soundlessly again, and then they hsaped a question.

"How did you give...birth to her?"

What a strange question. What would I tell her without ruining the secret that bound us together?

"Did you give birth to her?" she asked, realising the mistake in her questions.

When I nodded, she froze. Her eyes conveyed nothing but a stream of welling tears. It made me so furious to not be able to see her eyes properly that I wanted to smash the house. I needed to see what she was hiding.

The girl stood still, for at least five minutes, and when her tears oozed out of her eyes, and flowed down her face, she stepped forward.

"Edward?" I whispered, uncomfortable.

But he was as frozen as when he'd found out first that I was pregnant.

She stepped forward till she was less that an inch away from me.

Unconsciously, she raised a finger, and deliberately, put it on my cheek.

It stung where she'd touched me, because her skin was so warm and soft, I couldn't believe she was human. he ache in my throat rose dully, but I'd had enough animal blood today, unwilling for more thirst.

When the skin made contact, she jerked as if she was hurt, and I couldn't understand anything - why had she jerked that way? What was she thinking...what was going on?

Then, slowly, her eyes locked onto mine, and her own cinnamon ones widened with fear, and I knew why.

My eyes were a reddish amber, still not fully yellow. That must have scared her.

She gased, and her heartbeat accelerated too fast, and she was moving away from me, struggling with something to say. Edward unfroze and he looked at her...terrified, and he was anticipating something bad.....very bad.

She walked backwards till she hid the glass wall, and with one sweep of fear around the room, she threw her head back and screamed.

The scream as bloodcurdling, and it just went "AAAAAAAAAGH!" for a while. We all jumped in surprise, and just stared at her because she knew something bad.

Jacob sprinted across the room and gently slid his hand onto her mouth, muffling the scream which still continued to issue from her mouth.

"What?" Jacob yelled. "What happened?"

Her scream echoed into sobs and he let out a scared noise. She looked at Jacob as if he was a monster and swiftly, bit his hand. Jacob let out a cry of pain and removed his hand, jumping on the spot.

She looked around, trembling as some of us made our way to her, to calm her down.

"Stay away from me!!!" she screamed, crying. "Go away, let me go, stay away from me!"

"We wont hurt you," said Jasper, confused. "What happened?"

"Don't come near me!!!" she yelled, shrinking inwards as we advanced.

"What happened, what's wrong?" Esme asked.

"I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE....YOU BLOODSUCKERS!!!" she yelled.

We all stopped, and stood still in shock.

"KILLERS!" she sobbed uncontrollably.

"VAMPIRES!!!!"

With that she fled out the door crying.

Jasper crouched and leaped on her, and right before she screamed, he blocked her mouth with his hand.

I couldn't blame her for probably.....dying on the spot. Jasper shouldn't have done that, it was scary watching it from here. He leapt off her and dragged her back into the house.

When she was inside, the door shut and Edward was crouching near her, she was sitting at a corner, her knees bent inward to her chest, her ams wrapped around them. She was past the shock. It was fear. She rocked to and fro, and moaned.

"Let me go!" she moaned helplessly.

"We need to to tell us this much....how do you know about...Vampires?" Edward asked gently.

But under the mask, I could feel tension. I could see him breaking down, I didn't know what to do.

Jasper knew my emotions well. Relaxation flooded through the room onto me and Edward.

She looked around, breathing deeply.

"I don't know for certain." she whispered."All I know is that vampires drink blood, have pale, cold skin and unusual eyes."

She took a breath as Edward encouraged her.

"I don't know what else I could say....there's so much! All the legends, hell, myths even, they have surrounded my life for a long time."

She stopped there.

Edward started to ask her easier questions. "What's your name?"

"Lizzie," she whispered.

Edward hesitated. "How old are you??"

She was startled. "Fifteen, my birthay's next month."

He nodded. "Why.....did you go up to my wife like that?"

"I was curious," she whispered. "Vampires scare me."

"From......experience?" he asked intensely.

I gasped audibly, but no one paid attention.

"No," she said firmly. "Only curiosity."

"You're hiding something....." he said, in a pained voice.

"You would hide something too, when there's too much to be given away," she said." What with a person who can read minds, a person who can detect and alter moods, a person who has a mental shield and a person who has premonitions."

Edward gasped along with the rest of us and Carlisle stepped out, his face disturbed.

"How do you know this, Lizzie?"

All of us were thinking that she was Eleazar's offspring.

She grimaced."I don't know," she said bluntly."I can understand people well if I can concentrate on them.

Carlisle and Edward exchanged a glance.

"Understand them? How?"

"If I focus on someone...or thing..........I can see their personalities, the truth, their ties and doings and memories...whatever that makes them who they are." she frowned."It's not right. Only vampires have those powers. I'm not a vampire. It's abnormal, but so natural. It freaks other people out. Like if I walk down the road and my mom's friend is feeling blue, I accidently understand her like that and just give suggestions. It's damn freaky."

She looked around uncomfortably, as our eyes widened and Carlisle mutteres an audible "unbelievable!!!" under his breath.

The curious element was that this girl looked human, impossibly beautiful, she smelt human, and there was blush on her face, and her heartbeat was quickening. I also remembered that when she had touched me, her skin was warm, very warm, but dim in comparison to Renesmee's or Jacob's. Her skin was as warm as Charlie's. She was definitely human. And yet, the impossible knowledge of vampires, the beauty and the slightly pale skin, also the unusual power - she could have been a vampire for all I knew!

She breathed a quivering breath and moaned.

"Can I leave now?"

Edward hesitated. "One condition."

She closed her eyes and a tear oozed out the side and her chest rose up and down, as she shrunk into the corner.

"What?"

"It would be appreciated," Edward murmured," if you didn't say anything about us. We've tried our hardest to establish a nice, normal world for ourselves." His voice came out fierce.

Through the mask of fear, Lizzie's face broke with anger.

"Normal?" she asked, angry. "Normal, you say? What - luring hikers into the woods and....sucking their bloods for food?"

Jasper snarled.

Carlisle threw him a look and answered, pained.

"Lizzie," he said , "Traditional vampires, of course, like it comes to your knowledge, do drink human blood."

"Traditional?" she asked.

"The red eyed monsters."

She nodded imperiously.

Carlisle continued. "But look at us. We don't have red eyes. If you can see, our eyes are a yellow color. What does this say? I had discovered an alternative to my thirst when I first became a vampire. I could drink animal blood instead. This is what I've brought my family to realise. When they joined my coven, it wasn't human blood they drank. I was animal blood. I am a fierce protector of every important life I know, and I would do anything to protect anyone who deserves to be protected. I fashion myself....a vegetarian in vampire terms. We have established a base in such a way that I can keep an eye on my family, we can hunt our animals in the woods, and should there be any problem in the human world connected to a human," his eyes flickered towards me ,"I shall do whatever I can to make sure no life is wasted - or frozen for evermore."

Lizzie had noticed his glance that came at my direction.

"And her eyes?"

Edward's eye twitched a little.

"She is not quite that old. Her eyes aren't red. They're changing. This is because she is only a few months old. The animal blood diet is diluting the color."

"Newborn?" she asked. "And you said you didn't harm.....humans."

Carlisle answered this one. "Bella gave birth to the half-human half-vampire child you see there. As soon as that was done, she was dying, losing so much blood. My son, who married her, tried to save her life by changing her into a vampire. He injected his own venom into her heart, and she was changed, able to live on, and care for her daughter as well as spend her existence with my son, who she loves immensely."

The way Carlisle said it made me want to cry. His words came out so pleadingly, so softly, and so sweetly when he confirmed my love fore Edward, and his for mine.

I watched Lizzie mull this over. Seth and Leah were simply staring at the scene, tension clear on their faces, and they too were thinking heavily about the situation like I was.

How strange was this, the feeling that hung in the air - we were truly the more powerful species, and here we were, the fate of our identity in the hands of a single human girl,who had just come to deliver a letter from Sue and Charlie to us.

And as we stood there, waiting for her to understand our innocence, it could have all fallen down. If she didn't believe us, then we would have to move and start a new life...and Charlie would die of grief that his only daughter was a blood sucking vampire.

I looked at her. She was thinking it over, and it was evident on her face that she was torn - what to beleve: the legends, or us?

After a while, she nodded, and swallowed at the sacrifice.