Chapter 7: Another Secret Revealed

Alexis POV

I hope that Dad won't smell Brea. If he knows I have a vampire friend, even part vampire, he might kill her. I used to have a vampire boyfriend, I knew he wasn't my soul-mate, and when he met Daddy, let's just say I've seen a vampire getting killed. I've had lots of vampire friends, and Dad's killed them all. But none of them had had my tragic past or anything close. Usually when somebody asked about my past, I would say that I had a boring life. I hated lying to Brea, but it's for the better. (A/N: I know you think that is the secret revealed, but its not.)

I glanced over at Breeze now. She was making odd hand motions. Then, it felt as though I was being pulled to her. I gave into it. Paul had headed out in front of us. We were following his scent. I was now running next to Breeze.

"What were you thinking?" She asked.

"Nothing, why?"

"You looked distant and you were also wincing. Tell me, or Caden and I are going home." Caden looked up at her, with a wolfish questioning look.

"I was thinking about how many people I've lied to." I said quietly. I looked down at my feet that were moving fast.

"And how many is that?" I looked at her. The edges of my sight were becoming darker, which meant that my sadness was showing.

"All of my past human friends, most of my vampire friends, and you. I probably lie, because I was lied to most of my life. For my first thirteen years, I thought that my dad had ditched us, because that's what Mom told me. I got used to telling people that my dad left us, and that's what I have been telling people. I'm scared for you, Breeze."

"Why?"

"Every vampire friend I had was killed as soon as my dad found out about it. I know you are part Shifter and also part human, but he hates all vampires. You can't tell him that you are friends with a coven of vampires. I know he's just one vampire, but he has special abilities." I made the word 'abilities' stand out.

"What abilities does he have that are so special?" I looked at her with a scared and vulnerable look.

"He can freeze time, but he can still move when he freezes time. He's also a shape-shifter. He could've found out about another power. I haven't seen him for three years."

"Well, I haven't seen my parents for six years and I'll never see them again."

"Sorry."

"Not your fault. Those powers may pose a problem, but Bella can do those things, too, and so much more."

"What powers does she have?" I asked.

Breeze looked at me with a huge grin. "All of them." I felt my eyes widen in surprise. Then, my eyebrows bunched together as I thought.

"Breeze, when was the last time you saw your parents?" Breeze's grin disappeared. A sad glint replaced the thoughtful one in her eyes.

"My parents were going out on a date. When they didn't return, we got scared. Two mornings after they left, we got a note in the mail from the police. It said that my parents couldn't be found, but someone did confess that they murdered them. The person said that he left them in their hotel room. But nobody was there. I heard my aunt saying that she couldn't take care of us. My grandparents had been dead. No one else could take care of us. The police man that my aunt was talking to suggested that she take us to a family friend. I hadn't seen my aunt for years, and my mom hadn't contacted her for a little over a year.

"My aunt said that she knew of one person. That person was a single woman, who hated me and my younger sister. We hated her, too. I told my aunt that, and she said the only other choice was to go to an orphanage. She told the police that she would put us up for adoption at the orphanage in two days, without our consent. My sister and I shared a room. I packed up half of her clothes and half of mine. I put those into a suit case. Then I took all the money in our room, which is about two hundred dollars. When my aunt went to sleep, we left. We missed their funeral, even though there were no carcasses. Ugh, sorry, but I don't want to waste our time by explaining like this." She closed her eyes, and then opened them. Her brows were furrowed and she stared at me.

"Breeze, what are you—"

She held up a hand. "Shush." I snapped my mouth shut. I could tell she had a hard time concentrating, because she kept on trying to close her eyes, except she couldn't, because if she did, she would run into something.

Even though I could still see where I was going, I was swiped into a memory. A memory of Breeze's, to be exact. She showed me everything. Since the day her parents left for their date, to today. I felt her pain when she had found out her parents were dead, her anger when her aunt suggested the mean woman, her sadness when she had to leave home, her love for her sister, her grieving when she couldn't find her sister, her emptiness the years following, her feeling fuller when she found Caden. Every emotion and thought she ever had was put into my mind, as she remembered it. She has a perfect memory. Everything I saw looked like it happened a few minutes before. I blinked and reality came back.

I skidded to a stop, and so did Breeze and Caden. Breeze came to stand next to me. She sniffled and wiped her hands over her eyes. "Why are you crying?" She asked. I touched my cheek. I felt warm wetness. I gave a whimper. All of a sudden, I was hugging her. I sobbed into her shoulder, as she did too. Caden's snout poked our knees. We dropped our arms to our sides and wiped away the tears. I nodded.

"We need to get going." I remembered a thought that had ran through my mind when she was showing me. She had shown me the details that the murderer said while he was confessing. It all added up to one thing. "Breeze…" She stared at me. Her eyes widened, and she smiled. I could hear her breathing and heart beat. They were both quick. She was going to faint. I reached out to catch her, but I was wrong. She didn't faint. She zoomed out of the small clearing we were in. I could hear her shouting.

"Woo-hoo! My parents are still alive! Woo-hoo!" I heard the small thump, thump as her feet pushed off from one tree trunk to the next. She was like a pinball. She came back a few minutes later. She was grinning and had leaves stuck in her hair. Her eye color was different. They weren't their usual reddish-brown. They were a silver brown, if that's possible. (A/N: My eyes have looked both ways, but are normally milk chocolate colored.) I watched as her eyes changed colors, awestruck. They finally stayed at one color, which was gold. A pure, honey gold. Great, that's gonna give her away to my father.

"Why are your eyes gold?" She looked at me confused. Then, understanding crossed her features.

"'Cause I'm pure again. Hey, do you want to come to Wolford with us to find my sister?" I smiled.

"Sure, I'd love to meet Angel." Breeze smiled back. Then we continued our way to my father.

By the time we got there, Breeze learned how to control her eye color. She put it to a dark blue. We came into a clearing. I looked around. Caden had shifted to human form, and so had everyone else.

"Alexis." My dad came up to me and hugged me. He kissed me on my forehead. "Don't worry, I already know the pack. Now who are these other two? Not vampires, I suppose." He glared at Breeze, since she was paler than everyone else.

I took a step away from Dad and gestured to them. "This is Breeze, my new friend, and her mate Caden. And no, Breeze is part vampire." He pushed me behind him, and hissed at Breeze. Caden moved to protect her, but Breeze waved him off. She glared at Dad. He tensed up and couldn't move. I moved from behind him and faced him. He could move everything, except his arms and legs. He stared at me frantically.

"Alexis, I'm protecting you. Let me kill her." I shook my head.

"No, Dad. Breeze is part vampire. She's also a Shifter. She's my friend." He relaxed but still couldn't move. I looked back at Breeze. She sighed and mumbled to herself. Dad sat on a boulder. I gestured to my dad. "Breeze, Caden, this is my dad, Derek Benson." My dad waved to them with a bored and cautious look on his face. I kissed my dad's cheek. I whispered to him so only he could hear me. "Thanks." I gave him a small smile. He smiled back. He nodded his head.

"Dad, Breeze has telekinesis. That's why you couldn't move your arms or legs. And, Dad—I know you never wanted me to have the ability to shift, and I know you didn't want me to have a vampire ability, but— I have an ability besides shifting. When I was going through my first shift, it was really painful." Paul growled. "But I never passed out from the pain. I don't really count this as a vampire ability, but it is some sort of one. I realized that I could slow down my heartbeat and breathing, to where I could barely hear it. I breathed so slowly, that I only exhaled and inhaled twice a minute. My heart beat four times in a minute. I could still feel the pain from the shift, but it was less distinct. I was almost unconscious. But I never fell asleep. You know when you are almost asleep?" I looked at the pack, Breeze, and Caden. "And how you can hear, smell, and feel everything, but you don't care?" They nodded. "That's how it felt. I no longer cared at how much the shift pained me. My body thought I was going to sleep, but I was doing that to lessen the pain."

My dad looked at me with a brow raised. "May you get to the point, Alexis, dear?" I nodded.

"Yes. My ability is being able to control and get into people's minds."

"Like you can read their mind?" Breeze asked.

"Kind of like that." I answered. "But different. To me, it's like your mind and memory is a file cabinet, and I can search through it. It can help with blackmail when I need it." I looked mischievously out into the group, with a smirk on my face. I grew serious again. "I can also read the thoughts of the person at the time."

"How are the file cabinets arranged?" Caden asked with a smile. I grinned back, showing off my teeth. Like every vampire, my canine teeth were a little longer than humans.

"By year, then by month, then by week, then by day, and then by hour. It's complicated to explain. When I search through an old vampire's mind, it makes me dizzy from all that they've been through. Instead of a jumbled mess, I am able to put the memories and thoughts into years. And I keep grouping them down. If I come across a vampire who wants to kill me, I have to search their mind for weaknesses. It is very easy to find. For example, right now I can tell that the pack's weakness is food. If I had a table of food, and was trying to get them to walk into a trap, that would be my way to trick them." My brow creased. "Lately I've been trying to put thoughts into people's minds or trying to put pictures in. It's hard, but if I concentrate enough, I can do it." I looked over at Paul, but he was looking at the ground with his eyebrows pushed together. I walked over and put a hand on his shoulder.

He looked up with a startled look. His black eyes stared into mine. "Paul? What's up?"

He grinned at me. "Nothin'."

I narrowed my eyes. "Liar," I hissed. He frowned at me and put on a fake confused expression. "Tell me." I demanded. His dark eyes saddened. He took his hands in mine.

"Listen, Alexis, I haven't told you everything about myself. I'm not a La Push shifter." I could feel my own eyes darken as I frowned at him. "I am positive you are my mate, not my imprint. I'm a Shifter, like Breeze and Caden." (A/N: That's the secret revealed.) I gave him a smile, which turned into a full-blown grin. I hugged him.

"That's wonderful. I would ask you to come with us to find Breeze's sister, but first of all, it's not my place, and second of all I already feel like I'm trespassing." I looked over at Breeze. She was staring up at Caden and he was staring back. They were having a mental conversation. Apparently, Breeze was so busy wallowing in her own happiness to notice that she asked me to come along. I don't usually like being in people's minds. I like to give them some sort of privacy. I really didn't want to make Breeze feel bad for un-inviting me.

"You know what; I really don't need to go. I'll just see her when you come back. You are coming back, aren't you?"

Breeze and Caden exchanged a glance and Breeze gave me a sweet smile. "Of course we're coming back. I think I'll wait a bit before I tell Wings about our parents. She doesn't need to know right away." I smiled back at her.

"Damn it!" Paul basically shouted. My head whipped up to look at him. My dad couldn't move from his spot on the boulder. I could feel him staring at me with a look that said he wanted to protect me from whatever it was.

"What is it, Paul?" I asked.

"Vamps. Two of them." I put on a pout.

"Really? I thought it would be something more exciting." Paul glared at me. I gave him an innocent look.

"They're coming our way." The pack got into stances that they could easily shift from. I now realized the rapid thudding of vampires running. "Breeze, Caden, Alexis, get out of here. Go home and stay there." Breeze and Caden started towards Sam's house. I didn't move. Paul sighed. "Fine, Alexis. You can stay. Until it gets bad. Then you have to head home as quick as possible." I nodded. Breeze and Caden stopped by a small creek to wait for me.

Two vampires came into the clearing. They skidded to a stop when they saw us. There was a male and a female. Their eyes were a really light orange. That meant that they must have just discovered that they could drink animal blood, and chose that diet. The female sniffed the air and started heading where Caden and Breeze went. I took a step toward them and the female looked back at the male. He nodded. She stepped back to him and took his hand in hers. I took another step toward them. They looked freakishly familiar. But something about them was different. I couldn't place where I saw them.

I shook my head. I hated doing this, but it was necessary. I searched their memories. I stopped at a memory of the male's where a man led the couple into a room. It was dark and there were screams of the woman's and the male's. He remembered being frightened and feeling sticky warmth down his neck and then the burning. He remembered being huddled around the woman while they changed. He didn't know when, but at some point the one who changed them put them in the middle of a forest. I shuddered as I came out of looking at the memory. I searched to before that. It showed them leaving their house and saying goodbye to a young girl that looked like Breeze and a toddler. Wait… These were Breeze's parents.

I gasped as I stared wide eyed at them. I could see the resemblance. I grinned wide. I ran up to Breeze's mom and hugged her. She looked shocked.

"Alexis!" Paul shouted. Oh, I get it, I could hug a werewolf but I couldn't hug a vampire?

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Daniela and Michael McDay. I'm sure I have someone you want to see." I took both their hands and headed toward the creek Breeze was at. I hummed a happy tune in my head. Paul followed behind. I danced around boulders, rocks, sticks, and logs. Breeze's parents followed hesitantly behind. They were thinking that I was Volturi.

"No I am not part of the Volturi." They exchanged another glance.

"A couple questions are in order," her dad said, "First how do you know our names? We don't even own that last name anymore."

"Oh, well I just know."

"And how do you know what we are thinking?"

"I'm part vampire. I have a few abilities. I'm also a Shifter like you." I was probably creeping them out, but I didn't mind. I was too happy.


Hello. Sorry didn't feel like doing much more. I'll try to update sooner. Here are the people who reviewed: Eve1313, Anne-Marith, and Brambleshadow of WindClan. I really encourage you to read my other stories. If you like the Dark Guardian series, look at the fanfics for it. If you review you'll get a gold star mentally! So REVIEW!

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