Similar but Different

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Chapter 7: Warnings

-Edmund's POV-

I came through Alex's window bright and early. It was too early for my Alex to be up, but my sisters were still in the room with her. We were all two hundred years old. Angelique is my twin sister and Josette is our baby sister by a year. We were all turned while walking through the woods one evening. My sisters were all I had when we were younger. Our mother died when we were young and our father was a drunk who abandoned us. I took care of them being the oldest, older then Angelique by a few minutes, and only male. Aro was the one who turned us. Him and the other Volturi took care of us during the newborn time, but we couldn't live like they did. Couldn't just stay in one place like that. We left them with complete permission of course. Aro is sort of like our father. We found Quentin who was already a vampire and then we turned Barnabas.

"How is she?" Angelique turned her head to smile at me. She was standing in front of the door. Josette was lying on the bed with Alex in her arms. Alex was using her as a pillow, which I can't understand how she does that. We are as hard as stone and just about the coldest things on Earth.

"She wants you to kill her art teacher for her. Apparently he was annoying her." Angelique told me and I laughed. I got on the bed besides my beautiful human and took a smell of her scent. Her blood called to me and when we first met I almost didn't even care about my power not working. My curiosity got the better of me though and I had to know why my power wasn't working. For that I need her alive. I ended up falling in love with her. What do humans say about curiosity? It killed the cat.

"We haven't seen Cullen all night," Josette added. I think she would move to let me take her place, but she didn't want to wake Alex up. I took Alex in my arms and picked her up like she was a baby. She moved a bit, but her head ended up on my chest and her legs were the only part of her body on the bed. I took in her smell once again. I never told anyone how good Alex smells to me. It would worry everyone too much and I would never hurt Alex.

"That's good," I whispered. It wasn't long before Cullen jumped into the window. I gave him the evil eye and hissed. Angelique came to stand besides me and Josette was on my other side. I put Alex down on the bed. She was completely safe with us in front of her. "Is there something you want Cullen?"

"You killed my sisters best friend." Edward looked at Alex.

"Still whining about that?" Quentin asked as he jumped into the window followed by Barnabas. "It was a long time ago." My two brothers stood in front of the window like guards. Cullen wasn't going anywhere and I gave my brothers a quick smile.

"We're not letting you hurt Alex as some twisted form of revenge. She's our baby sister." All us Shadows stood united on this. No one would hurt Alex.

"I would never." Edward hissed. "If I kill Alex I kill Bella."

What does he mean by that? Alex and Bella hate each other. Unless… "a Bomb Bond" my two sisters and I said together. When we were younger Aro was looking for twins who had a Bomb Bond. It was so rare he was never able to find one and gave up saying it wasn't worth it. There was no way he could see to stop them from killing each other and destroying the whole world if he found one.

Edward growled. "I'm here to warn you. My sister, Rosalie, found out about you and is coming here. She wants to kill you all and Alex. We're going to try to stop her." Edward hissed at me. "Protect your mate well or I will."

"She knows about the bond and is willing to kill Alex when she would kill Bella too?" Angelique asked clearly disgusted. Alex is apart of our family and since Bella is Edward mate she should be apart of his.

"Rose can't get close to a human since what you did to her." Edward turned to the window and was going to jump out, but Quentin and Barnabas stopped him.

"Let him go," I told them and they moved side. It was always clear that I was the leader of our coven. Cullen jumped out the window and I turned to Alex as she opened her eyes.

"What's with all the noise?" She asked annoyed. She looked at everyone in the room.

"We were just talking. Sorry we woke you."

"You think if vampires are going to use my room as a meeting room they can at least be quiet. Aren't vampires supposed to be the most quiet thing on Earth?" I laughed and gave her a kiss on the head.

"Go back to sleep love. It's not even 7 yet. I'll be here when you wake." Alex was already going back to sleep.

"Did you hear about taking out my art teacher? Stupid art teacher," Alex mumbled before going back to sleep.

I looked at my brothers and sisters and we all laughed. Telling a vampire where to get their meal. My girl was born to be one of us. We only laughed for a few minutes before we all got serious again.

"We'll run around, see if we can pick up any of the other Cullens scents. Also go to airports and see when flights are coming in." Quentin said.

"Also highways, they might be driving," Barnabas said. The two jumped out the window. They did make a great team when it came to fighting.

"I'll stay here with you Edmund. Keep my eyes on Alex. We all know when she seeks out danger it's dangerous. This one seems to be coming to her though." Josette told me with a laugh. I can't remember how many times the things Alex pulls made me think she was dead. She one time wanted to jump out of an airplane, so I found her and stopped her from be landing in a tree. She told me I ruined the excitement and she had to do it again. Next time I just pulled her out of the tree. I destroyed the parachute though.

"I'm going to see about getting this art teacher of Alex's. She mentioned it two times before going to sleep. This guy must have been mean to her and I'm going to teach him a lesson."

"Before killing him that is right?" I asked Angelique.

"Of course, I need my meal too." Angelique left the room. I looked at Josette and we both started to laugh again.

-Edward's POV-

It was hard to warn the Shadows like that. I didn't like them and they didn't like me, but I knew they would protect Alex. From the moment Alice told me about Rosalie I knew I had to tell them. I knew they would protect Alex and I was right.

I looked down at Bella who was in my arms. I was holding her the same way Edmund was holding Alex when I came in her room. In fact Bella took the same position that Alex did when I picked her up. The two were so similar in so many ways. It was hard to believe they could hate each other.

I listened in on the Shadows thoughts as they were coming up with plans to protect Alex. Quentin and Barnabas were going to make sure my family didn't get into town. Josette and Edmund were staying with Alex to make sure she was safe. Angelique was going to go take care of some art teacher for Alex. I don't know and I really don't want to know, but my point in all this is they are all so willing to protect Alex. They all treat her as a sister and love her. I don't see why Rosalie can't protect Bella like that. She only protected Bella because we forced her to. Now she's willing to kill Bella. Why does it seem that the people that are supposed to be the bad guys seem better then us who are supposed to be the good guy? Are the Shadows really that bad?

AN: I meant to make this chapter longer, but this seemed like a nice place to end. Review and tell me how you like it.