Chapter 6

Suddenly someone said "Welcome to the rabbit hole."

I turned around, and found the boy who was dressed as Tarzan in the picture.

"Who?..What?"

Somehow, words couldn't come out the way I wanted. He was here, looking exactly the same as in that picture... 25 years ago picture. Then Edward, looking the same at the picture, and Sinatra... oh and Rochester! My head was spinning with each thing I remembered about the Cullen. They don't age, they're immune to electrical shocks, and apparently they don't eat. They also appear and disappeared, but that may be a matter of speed. And their eyes, who else has amber eyes?...

I didn't realize I lost consciousness, until I woke up. I kept my eyes closed, I wanted to know where was I.

My head was over something soft, with faint traces of pizza smell, and my feet were a bit higher than my body... this was Felix couch! OK, I'm at work . Inside Felix office; well, I like to call it cave. It's closed and dark. Maybe I fell asleep.

I heard the soft voice of a woman, she was scolding someone.

"Emmett, you have to think before you act. Look at this poor girl, you scared her! Your brother must be frantic with worry."

"But Mom, I've always wanted to make a cool entrance."

"And your cool entrance made Bella faint!" I knew that voice, Felix!

"I know you're awake sweetie. Open your eyes, we don't want to hurt you." said the woman with the soft voice.

Hell! Now I have to face them. I opened my eyes and saw the warm amber eyes of the woman.

"Hi Bella, I'm Esme Cullen, mother of Edward, Alice and this baboon." She pointed to the big man. "Like I said, we mean no harm, but I guess it's much to take so quickly."

"What planet are you from?" Felix asked. My brows almost left my face, what? I wasn't the only one startled, they were quiet too.

"You're aliens, right? Otherwise, how do you explain living for a century looking exactly the same?" Felix insisted.

The big burly guy guffawed. "That's a new one. Sorry to disappoint you." He pointed to himself. "Born and raised here on Earth."

"Emmett, honey, I think they need a better explanation. I guess your sister's vision didn't turn out as she expected, she said Bella... oh!" It looks like Esme remembered something.

"Look, we are a little different from you. Yes, we were born human, but we suffered a change."

Right, a change. I think the boys are pulling a prank on me.

"Next you're gonna tell me you're vampires."

"Ding ding ding! We have a winner!"

Wow this guy is really loud. But honestly, I was tired of this prank. I'm going to fix this right now.

I ran to the boss's office, but it was empty. Jessica was seated in her desk on the hallway, filing her nails.

"If you're looking for the Boss, he's down at interrogation room 33B with your boyfriend." She said the last word with a sneer. What is with everybody calling Edward my boyfriend? But I don't have time to clarify it. I only yelled a thank you to Jessica.

"Ok, I want all of you to stop with this prank now!" I got into the room slamming the door.

Four heads turned to see me.

"You" I said pointing to Edward " you came here asking for our help, my help. The least you could offer was the truth. I didn't expect you to tell me the whole story of your father, but to lie to me like this? All this tricks and fake pictures..."

"These aren't tricks."

"Shut up Edward."

Then I turned to my boss " And you Joseph Clearwater, you were supposed to keep the order, make my colleagues treat e with respect; but no, you're helping all these idiots with this prank!"

"No Bella, wait."

"What I don't understand is how you manage to get Charlie into this joke. The guy doesn't have a sense of humor."

I turned to see our other companions, the blond woman, and the blond man. He was looking at me in such an intense way. Suddenly I was hit with a wave of calmness... Why bother so much? This was only a joke! Sure, the guys will have a few laughs at my expense. Wait, what is happening? I was mad, terribly mad. And now, I feel like... I don't have any care in the world... so light. and the blond guy is still looking at me.

"Blondie, what are you doing to me?"

The other blond, the woman, smiled to me.

"Girl, you're gonna be a good addition to the family." And she winked. "I left you to explain EVERYTHING to her" She pointed to Edward. "I'm going to help Seth to keep the others away. Good luck." And then she disappeared.

I was looking at the door, how did she got out so fast? When a cold hand touched my face.

"Bella please, look at me." It was Edward, looking very concerned.

"Please, look at me. You want proof, right? These are the handcuffs Charlie so kindly gave to me."

"You're chained to the table"

"Yes, Charlie wasn't very creative. Look." And he snapped the cuffs from the table. Then he showed me the bits. He closed his hands, moved them fast, and he stopped. "This is for you."

He made a steel rose from the cuffs. I tried to touch it, but he took my hand away from it. "It's a bit hot, wait until it cools."

The boss decided to intervene "Bella, I know it's too much to take. Hey! I was in your place a couple of hours ago. These guys were a part of the legends of my tribe. All my life I believed it was all bullshit from the elders, to keep the young ones in line. Now, between Seth and Jasper," the blond man nodded "I see what the elders said was true. Bella, they are real. Nothing was a trick, and by the way, they're ready to prove it to you."

"Prove what? That you're 'different'?" I'm not going to say it.

"We are what you said, vampires." The blond guy, Jasper I think, said while looking intensely at me.

"Did you hear me? I was two floors above!"

"Our hearing is very developed. All of our senses are. You've seen how fast we move, how cold we are. Our skin is so hard we are immune to almost everything."

"That's why the taser didn't shocked you?"

"We have a cousin that can shock vampires, but her voltage is too high for humans." Jasper said, still looking at me.

"Why do you keep looking at me like that, blondie?"

"Hmm, some of us have special gifts. I'm an empath, I can control moods. You were nearly hysterical after you passed out, I helped you to relax enough to listen to us."

"Yeah, I felt like someone anesthetized me. If you're vampires, why are you out in the day? Isn't daylight lethal for you?"

"Bella, why don't you ask me the most important question? And no, daylight is harmless to us." By now, Edward seem a bit exasperated. Well, he lied to me, so he could answer every damn question I have. But the boss wasn't so patient, so he asked them for me.

"Why don't you tell her what do you eat?"

Ah, this was the most important question. I think I'm still anesthetized.

"Bella, we drink blood from animals. We won't hurt you, ever." Edward was looking at me with pleading eyes, and there was something with his eyes. They make me want to hug him, to tell him everything will be alright. I couldn't resist and lifted my hand to touch his face.

"I believe you."

He took my hand and caressed it. "I really wish we had time to do this differently."

"But why didn't you tell me?" I turned my head to look to the floor. "I don't know why every time I'm with you, I feel some connection. I never felt this way before. And it's really confusing."

"Bella, this is very complicated. And we seem to have very little time." He looked at Jasper.

"I think it's better if I explain you our plan, and Edward will go with the other details with you later." OK, this I can handle.

"As you know, there were several murders near Forks, including the disappearance of some members of our families. Vicky from ours."

"Harry was my brother, he's Seth father." The Boss said.

Oh, so that's why he's helping them. At least he's keeping Charlie and Jacob from lurking around here. And the rest of the people on the building.

"Well, this Friday will be the exact 25th anniversary from the massacre."

"OK, but I don't understand..."

"This will be very difficult to explain. My kind, we are immortals; to get rid of one of us is nearly impossible. But we could die. The Quilleuttes, they have a way to deal with us."

I turned to see the Boss, he looks pretty normal to me.

"My people have confronted their kind, but this isn't the point."

"The Quilleuttes have a way to deal with us, some of them aren't quite human."

I didn't like where this is going, but Jasper kept explaining.

"But they aren't the only force that could kill us. There are other things... One rogue agent, Stefan, opened a portal to call one of this forces. He didn't knew what he was doing, and his experiment went wrong and he freed something that killed all his followers, but trapped him, Vicky and Harry within the portal. "

Oh God! Charlie said Stefan was his boss at the time...

"The only thing we rescued from the destruction, was a page full of signs. Thanks to other of our kind we discovered that is the next part of the spell Stefan used to open the portal. It says the portal will open again exactly twenty-five years later."