Guess who's back! Back again! :P Sorry for the inactivity, I have not come up with an plausible excuse. XD

Anyway, Rainn making an appearance in this chapter! Yay!

~Rainn POV~

Standing at the edge of the woods, hidden behind a tall tree, I lean into the wood as I watch the figure on the shoreline, my pure white eyes narrowed in concentration. My shaggy black hair reaches past my hips now, it's course, and caked with dirt, from my travels, my jean shorts and blue tanktop are completely soaked from the rain that bombarded me when I reached town, and my nails are digging into the bark of the tree. Seth, my imprint, my packmate, is splashing around in the water, dressed in khaki shorts, a plaid vest with a hood on the back, with two girls his age, splashing around him, screaming and laughing together, causing my stomach to churn.

"Rainn?" I look behind me, finding Leah standing not far behind me, her arms are crossed over her chest, her lips drawn tight in a grimace, and yet her eyes are full of compassion, full of sympathy, as though she knows that it hurts, seeing my imprint with some other girls.

"I-I'm sorry." I state, causing her to sigh, crossing over to me, she pulls me to her in a hug, combing a hand through my hair.

"He's upset, it's not your fault- He caught you off guard for one." She states, I nod as I hug her back, hot tears prickling my eyes. "He needs to grow up." She states, before we pull apart, she grabs me by my arm, tugging me from my place behind the tree towards her house, where she has me shower, giving me a pair of shorts and a bikini top, the bikini top has blue, white, red, and black stripes across it, then she brushes out my hair, trimming it neatly, before pulling it back into a ponytail. "Now," She directs me to the beach once more. "I want you to walk up to Seth, and say "remember me?" as heated as you can." She states, causing me to frown, biting my bottom lip.

"I don't like making a scene." I state, causing her to roll her eyes, tugging me towards the shoreline, where she sheds her sleeveless top, revealing a purple and black tankini top, and starts down the beach with me in tow.

"Hey Seth!" At Leah's call, the girls look up, just as Seth turns, big grin on his face, which seems to vanish as soon as he spots me. "Remember Rainn?"

"Yeah," He crosses his arms over his chest. "yeah I do." He wades out of the water as I look down, rubbing my arm shyly as the girls follow him, pausing at the shoreline.

"Sethy!" One calls. "We were having fun!"

"Yeah, Sethy, come back!" The other girl calls, both a tanned with dark hair, almond eyes, long legs, and beautiful features. Twins.

"Oh yes, Sethy, don't mind us. We just came here to swim." Leah hisses, venom seeming to drip from her words as I freeze beside her, feeling a chill creep down my back as the girls frown, turning back to the water as Seth comes to a stop before us, dripping from the water. "You have a lot of nerve, Seth!" Leah hisses as I frown, feeling dread build up in me.

"Leah, stop." I beg, causing them both to look at me. "It's… Whatever, ya know." I let out a sigh, looking down. "Seth, you can date and hang out with whoever you want. Like I said, I don't want to bind either of us to this instinct that we have." I turn on the balls of my feet, walking away as tears prickle my eyes once more, when a hand snatches up my wrist, spinning me around so that I can come face to face with a seething Seth.

"You need to look me in the eyes when you say stuff like that! Only then would I ever heed you!" He hisses, I turn my head away, to downcast my eyes, when he grabs me by my cheeks, pulling me face back up, his forehead coming to rest against mine. "I don't want another girl, Rainn! I only want you! Don't you get that?!" I frown as I attempt to tug away from him. "Stop struggling against what is natural!"

"What part of this is natural? What part of any of this is natural? Tell me that!" I cry out, causing the girls to look over at us, before I can pull away, Seth plants his lips firmly against my own, the kiss is harsh and bruising, yet gentle and loving, he then pulls away.

"The part about us. That is the most normal part of any of this!" He answers, causing my cheeks to burn. "So, don't give up on us, before we've even started. Okay?" He pulls back to look into my eyes, his own are determined, full of compassion, and love. "Okay?" He urges again, I can feel them, the tears welling up, pooling over their prisons at his words, the comfort they bring as I nod, a tearful smile finding it's way to my face.

"Okay." I sniffle, throwing my arms around him, kissing him again.

~Lilith POV~

Sitting in the living room of a hotel room, Jasper is beside me, arm around my waist as two figures sit across from us in a similar position, a third figure is leaning against the back of the couch without care. "So, this is her?" The woman speaks, she has a thin, slightly rounded face with short, auburn hair that suits her, though her eyes are a bright red, beside her is her mate, a tall man with a muscular build, silver-blonde hair, and blood red eyes. "Your mate? The one that can control the Major?"

"Yes," Jasper nods, his shoulders are stiff, though he's emitting content, happiness, and a hint of longing, as though he wishes to be with them once more. "she's my mate, amazing isn't she?" My cheeks flush at Jasper's words as I look down.

"She certainly is, if she can calm the beast." The man, Peter, teases, his eyes flashing with amusement as I lean into Jasper's embrace.

"So, you only need us to keep any eye on her- for a week?" Charlotte asks.

"Yes. There is a woman named Victoria, she's after my mate, and Edward's, and in order to keep Lilith safe, and not rushing into a fight, I wanted to leave her with you two. Because, I trust you more than anyone else in the world." Jasper explains.

"Other than your coven, of course." Peter states.

"Of course." Jasper echos.

"We'll protect her." The third person speaks this time, she leans back over the couch, looking at me in boredom. "She'll be safe, and she'll alleviate this painful boredom inside of me." She explains, my eyes trail over her, studying her with a strange interest. Her hair is curly, a dark mahogany brown, her eyes are a deep, blood red, her face is young, a heart shape with pouty lips, currently painted a light purple, and she's merely 5 foot 2, with a slim figure, and a bored expression, yet seems to radiate a cat like curiosity.

"Grace-"

"You're a witch." The young woman, Grace, speaks, cutting Peter off. She tilts her head, slowly slinking over to my side, eyes studying. "I wonder if my power would work on you." She states, she's in a blue and black striped longsleeve, white jeans with a blue, black, and white polka dotted tutu, and black high top shoes, rainbow duct tape across the toes, heels, and tops.

"Ace!" Grace snaps into attention at Jasper's hiss. "Lily's under your protection, you're making her feel uncomfortable."

"Sorry." She mutters, backing away to drop into a chair, legs thrown over the side as I watch her.

"What is your power?" I ask, causing Jasper to groan, while Grace leans forward, cheshire-like grin spreading across her face.

"I would rather show you." She answers.

"I would rather you tell me." I rebuff, causing her cheshire grin to spread even further, she leans back in in her seat, and huffs a brown lock from her eye. She hums, as if in thought, tapping a long finger to her chin, her nail is the same color purple as her lips, which are currently pursed together.

"Let's put it this way. I can absorb others powers and project them." She states, her grin coming back just as quickly as it was gone.

"Like Rogue, from the X-men?" I ask, causing them to stare at me in confusion. "Though, I don't remember if she ever learned to project them." I look down for a moment, while Jasper chuckles, rubbing at my back as Charlotte and Peter continue to stare, but Grace starts to cackle with laughter, which echoes across the large room.

"Oh! Major, I like this one!" Grace cries once she stops laughing, smiling at me, mirth twinkling in her eyes.

"So, how long until you'll be back for her?" Peter asks.

"A week." Jasper stands. "I need to go though," He bends down, pressing a kiss to my lips. "I'll have your clothes and potion supplies delivered to you in a few hours." He promises, I stand as well, walking over to the door with him.

"Remember our deal." He nods, causing me to smile up at him, my eyes on his. "Don't you dare get hurt, in anyway." I poke him in the chest. "No new scars. No slip ups with the Major." I flatten my palm to against his chest, my eyes burning with tears being forcefully held back. "No deaths."

"Darlin, I swear to you, I'll be back in a week's time, maybe less. Completely fine." He leans down as I slide my head up, touching his cheek with a tear falling down my cheek.

"Last time we were apart for a long time- we had fought, I had… I hadn't wanted to forgive you. Then, when I woke up, you were there again. I don't want to lose you." I murmur.

"You won't." He caresses my cheek, wiping away the stray tear from my cheek.

"I'm scared, Jasper." I swallow thickly, looking down.

"Hey, hey. It's okay." He presses a kiss to my forehead.

"This is really starting to sink in, that she's trying to kill me. That you're leaving to try and stop her, this isn't okay… I'm not supposed to be like this." I reach up, wiping away more tears.

"Hey," He lifts my face gently. "breath, darlin. Nothing, I repeat nothing is going to happen." He presses his forehead to mine, a feeling of hope, faith, and love washes over me. "I love you."

"I love you, as well." I sob out, wrapping my arms around his neck, kissing him softly.

"It's gonna be okay." He breathes, once we pull apart. "Trust me. Peter and Charlotte, and Grace, will take care of you. I have to go now, alright?"

"Yeah." I sniffle, backing up to wipe away my tears with the palm of my hand. "Good luck, my love." I force myself to smile, looking up at him with a thumbs up, he smiles back, though it doesn't reach his eyes.

"Thanks, darlin. Have a good time." He answers.

"Yeah." I respond, watching him duck out the door, I wait until I can feel him moving away, before I bend my head down, pressing my head into my hands, fighting against the tears threatening to overwhelm me.

"Lily, was it?" I turn to find Charlotte standing behind me, she smiles softly. "Are you hungry? Jasper had texted me to remind me, that you're probably going to need to eat soon. You're still human in some ways."

"Oh," I sniffle, wiping at my eyes. "no thanks, I'm not hungry." I shake my head, glancing around the large hotel room. "Did he have to get the biggest room? How much is he wasting, this time?"

"You think he's spending too much?" Peter asks.

"Are you kidding? He always spends too much- he bought us first class tickets to India the other week, just because I need to get ingredients for a spell, which he then smuggled through the airport." I look at them. "There are so many things that he does, that I can't even pay him back for." I shake my head.

"Do you think that's why he does these things? For you to pay him back?" Charlotte asks.

"Of course not!" I cry out, surprise in my tone. "I just, I wish I could pay him back for things he does! A relationship should be even. Equal parts give, and take. But, for us it just seems to be a give, give, give, and take, take, take situation. I can't give anything, and he gives everything." I explain.

"You don't know that." I look up at Grace in surprise. "You don't know that any of that is true." She stands, crossing over to us as Peter and Charlotte look at her in surprise. "You're possibly giving more than you realize. With Jasper, you can't have a normal life, you can't go to over crowded places, because the blood lust might get to be too much. You can't have a physical relationship, beyond kissing, because he might kill you. In ten years, twenty, when you're still together, people will wonder why he hasn't aged, compared to you. You won't be able to have children. You won't be able to be with members of your family, because they'll be suspicious. These are things you are giving up."

"It's not like that! His blood lust isn't that bad, except around other vampires, and even then it's not- it's not like I mind not going out, I'm an introvert. I don't care about the physical aspects, being with him is enough, and in ten or twenty years, I'll still look the same, because I am immortal . I can't have children in the first place, and my parents are dead, almost everyone in my foster family knows what he is! They're all witches too. Do you see? I'm giving up nothing." I grasp the sides of my neck with both of my hands, elbows touching together as I breath deeply.

"Why don't you and I go for a walk?" Grace offers, wrapping her arm around my shoulders, leading to the door with the roomkey in hand. "We need to talk this over." With a sigh, I follow after her, down the hall, towards the elevator.

"Some great first impression I made." I mutter as I stand beside her.

"Things are complicated." Grace answers, leaning back against the bar behind her. "Look at me, you'd think I'm a natural at this, at being a vampire. I was only changed, two months ago. Right now, your blood repulses me. It's odd."

"I've never heard of my blood repulsing someone. The magic that runs through my veins, it's basically a beckon to vampires." I explain.

"Exactly. But you see, I'm not like other vampires." She looks over at me. "I've never once drank blood."

"What?" I stare at her in surprise.

"Yet, my eyes are always red. I still can't eat human food, like the others, but I can't drink blood either." She smiles at me. "So, things are complicated for everyone. Not just you, not just me." She explains, she looks more calm than she did back in the hotel room, not quite Cheshire-like, but not quite like a normal vampire or human either.

"I agree. I believe things are complicated." I look down. "But, what's that got to do with Jasper and me?"

"You're a witch, stuck between human and immortal, but you're living in an immortal world." She presses off the elevator wall, stepping out as soon as the doors open with a ding. "Jasper is completely immortal. He's invisible. There are only two things that are his weakness." She looks at me while I watch her curiously. "Blood, and you." She explains as we exit the lobby, rounding towards the weight room. "The blood lust for him, is nearly impossible to control, it's always going to be there, there is nothing he can do about it. But, you? You're a wild card. You chose to be there. You're not something that's impossible to control, if he needs to leave you, he can. He's already shown he can push you away once, correct?" I nod. "Then, that means he can control himself around you, that's him controlling you. You're not always going to be around him, if you get angry or fed up. Out of his two weaknesses, though, he's more afraid to lose you."

"But, I'm nothing. Without me, he'd be-" She cuts me off.

"He's be the Major all the time again." I look at her in surprise. "If you died, he'd go back to Maria, to be used by her, or to the Volturi, to be killed. There's nothing for him, if you're not here. Do you think he'd care so much, otherwise?" I look down in thought. "He's never care about another person for as long as he lived, because he'd be looking at you. Always at you. Whether you're in the ground, or walking around. If you chose to leave him, for someone else. He'd let you go, but he'd always be watching. Always." Her words give me pause. "To you, he's giving up everything. But to him, you are giving up everything, to him, you are his everything." With that, we start back towards the elevator, taking it up to the room in silence.

"How was your talk?" Charlotte asks, her mood suddenly feeling all too chipper.

"Fine." I answer, my voice isn't very loud, though I know they can still hear me, my tone is heavy with deep thought as I start over to my private room.

"Maddening." Grace responds, I can hear the cat-like smirk in her voice, as I close myself in the room, sitting on the bed, pressing a hand to my forehead, sigh.

"Something tells me, things are starting to change. It's just hard to say, if they're for better or for worse." I murmur to myself.

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