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EMPOV
I didn't really understand what had happened in the past two and a half hours. All I had figured out in that time was Edward had lied to all of us for the past 50 years and he was the one that broke up with Bella. He lied to her saying that I was happy to be leaving because I couldn't be myself around her. What the Fuck! I loved Bella hell I still do, she is my favorite sister, my Belly Boo. I missed her all of these years thinking she hated all of us thinking that she finally came to her sense as Edward put it and realized that we were all monsters.
Right after Bella got done telling us her side of the story I couldn't help it I was seeing red as I shouted at my brother. "EDWARD ANTHONY MASEN CULLEN! You told my sister that I didn't want her that I was happy to leave her behind because I couldn't be myself!"
I didn't really listen to what anyone else had to say but suddenly there was a ring of fire around Edward where he stood away from the family. I looked over at Bella's coven and I quickly found out that it was Kale that had started it because he was smiling sadistically. I looked at my family quickly and saw that Esme was sobbing in Rosalie's arms. Jasper just stood there and Alice's face was blank, looking into the future was my guess. And Carlisle looked worried and hurt.
When I looked back to Bella's coven I saw that they were all watching the fire. Suddenly with a loud crack there was a circle of nothing around Edward and the fire as the Earth fell away. I glanced over to see one of the other's Terry I think her name was smiling like Kale had with the fire. I growled but didn't know what to do. On some level I think Edward deserves to be punished and get a nice beating but not to be killed. That was a little overboard. I was stock still.
I glanced back at Bella to see she was struggling with something. I didn't know what she was doing but it looked like she was concentrating hard on something. I couldn't move and none of the rest of the family was either.
I noticed that the flames had gotten closer to Edward. I frantically glanced around to see my family looking slightly panicked but when I glanced back at Bella all I saw was her sway and start to fall to the ground. Instantly the flames were gone and Kale had her in his arms with our family and his beside them.
"Bella, What is it what happened to her?" I demanded.
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KPOV
I grabbed Bella as soon as I saw her sway she just about hit the ground before my arms wrapped around her waist. I was so mad at myself but I couldn't dwell on that now.
"Bella, What is it what happened to her?" The man, Emmett demanded.
"I can't explain now. Derek, Emmett go catch the biggest thing you can and bring it back here immediately please Bella needs it as soon as possible bring to or three animals if you can." I yelled at them. They glanced at each other then took off as fast as they could.
"What is wrong with her?" Edward asked. I growled at him and spoke to him in my thoughts. well now that you can hear my thoughts since Bella is out, I can happily tell you to Fuck off and that it is none of your damn business! I glared at him and growled again.
"Bella I am so sorry baby girl. I didn't realize what you were doing, I was so blinded by my rage I didn't see it. Don't worry sweetheart Emmett and Derek are out hunting for you just hang in there baby. Don't leave me." I whispered in her ear.
"We have a doe and two buck, is that ok?" Emmett said carrying the doe and one buck. Derek had the other.
"Yes that's fine bring them here." I said. They brought them over and laid the carcasses beside me. I quickly slashed one of the throats with my teeth and put it to Bella's mouth. Instantly she started taking long pulling drinks from the doe. "That's it baby girl, drink up"
She drank all of one doe so I slashed another throat and put it to her mouth, she was slowly getting better by the time she finished half of the buck. I let her finish it then stopped her as her eyes fluttered open.
"What happened?" She asked weakly.
"Don't worry about that right now baby just rest ok" I said soothingly to her. She nodded and let her eyes slide shut.
"Will you please explain what happened now?" it was Alice who spoke now and I nodded looking up at the other family.
"Bella is a very gifted vampire with many powers, one of those powers is a force field. She can create fields around herself or around things, people, those fields are harder for her to keep up because they are not centered around her. When I put up my fire she must have thrown up a field around him to protect him. Her powers and the time that she can have the field up around another person is very limited the hour that she had it up fighting against me was the longest she ever has. When she over exerts her power she needs blood as fast as possible." I explained staring into Bella's face. I looked over her body and saw that she had blood all over her shirt and I had it all over mine.
I sighed and pulled off my blood stained shirt then reached down and slid off Bella's. I knew she had a tank top on underneath but I totally forgot about the scars. My family and the Cullens gasped when they saw them.
"What the fuck are those?!?" Emmett yelled looking at Bella's healing body.
"Cuts, what the fuck do they look like?" I said back.
"But how?" it was Carlisle, the father, who asked now.
"She made a knife. I don't know how all I know is that she coated it in her venom so that it would penetrate the skin. The scars only last for a few days but she hardly gives them the time to heal before doing it again." I sighed sadly telling them the truth.
"but why?" It was Alexandria now, she sounded sad but I didn't look up at her.
"To feel free. It's the way she says it but its to stop the mental and emotional pain she feels everyday from her feeling unwanted and unworthy. I walked in on her one day and made her explain to me what she was doing and why. She said that she felt like she didn't deserve to live and that she was nothing because of what she was told and what she was led to believe." I said my voice was cold, even I knew that but it's what they deserved.
"This is all because of them?!" Andrew demanded.
"Yes." Was my simple answer.
"But why, she found us she seemed happy." Derek tried to understand as he held his wife.
"She is a great actress and has had time to perfect the act. She once told me how much you all remind her of them. Derek like Emmett. Alexandria like Alice. Andrew like Jasper. We remind her of them but she loves us all." there I finally told them.
"How do we remind her of them?" Terry asked.
"I'm not sure. That is something we will have to ask her. For now I think we need to get home so we can finish our conversation." I said taking control again.
"We can all come to our house and finish this if you would like I am sure Alice could find you some clothes that would be suible for the time being." Carlisle offered.
"That is fine with me. I will have to carry Bella until she is healed a little more. Carlisle would you mind looking her over after we get there just to make sure she is alright?" I inquired.
"Yes of course, please follow us." He said and then started running. Esme followed close behind with Edward and Rosalie after that. Emmett stopped and looked at Bella down in my arms.
"What he said to Bella about us, it wasn't true we all love Bella and I have missed her a lot I am sad to find that we have effected her in this way. Please accept my apology." Emmett said looking up at me than around to my family behind me.
"I accept it Emmett. I am positive Bella will too but there is nothing for you to apologize for it was all Edward." I said as nice as I could. I knew Emmett meant no harm to Bella and that he really loved her as a sister.
"We should get going, Bella will be waking up soon." Alice said. I looked at her in shock before realizing that Bella's shield had dropped with her fainting.
"Please lead the way we will follow behind." I said nodding and standing to my feet Bella cradled in my arms. They took off running and we followed behind, none of my family getting in front of me.
We arrived at a huge white house. This house was timeless, graceful, and probably a hundred years old. It was painted a soft, faded white, three stories tall, rectangular and well proportioned. The windows and doors were either part of the original structure of a perfect restoration. (quote from twilight pg. 321). It was a beautiful home and I would have looked around more but I was preoccupied by the girl I held in my arms.
We walked up to the front and were led inside. The inside of the house was just as great as the outside. Big and beautiful. The Cullens save for Alice were sitting in the livening room. My family stood next to the door, curious but cautious.
"Please come have a seat, Alice went to look for you and Bella a shirt." Esme said in a kind motherly tone. "You can lay Bella on the couch if you wish."
"Thank you very much for allowing us into your home." I said thankfully and laid Bella gently on the couch. Alice appeared a minute later with the shirts.
"I got Bella a long sleeved shirt, I figured she would be more comfortable. And I grabbed you one of Jaspers shirts," Alice said handing me a red tee shirt. "Did you want me to put Bella's on for you?"
"If you would, thank you." I said taking the shirt and pulling it on quickly.
"It's no problem She said softly pulling on the black long sleeved shirt she grabbed for Bella.
"Would you like to continue our conversation or do you want me to look over Bella first?" Carlisle asked.
"Probably look over Bella then after she wakes up we can continue." I said softly not wanting to be demanding in his home.
"3 minutes and 20 seconds till she wakes up but that is all I can see her whole family goes blank after that." Alice said sounding very sure of herself.
"Ok thank you Alice. Kale, why don't we take this up to my study." Carlisle said looking at me.
"Of course." I let him lead me up the stairs, Bella in my arms again.
"Lay her out on the table and I'll look over the scars quickly before she wakes up. I think she will be fine after she wakes up." I nodded at his words and true to what he stated, he looked quickly telling me that the scars would all heal nicely but he was worried about the one over her heart.
"I'm not sure why but it looks like this one might not go away. It seems like she cut deeper here." Carlisle said confused.
"She cut herself very deep here and I licked the wound right after I pulled the knife out to close it." I told him. He nodded thoughtful.
"Ok well we only have a minute and a half before she wakes up so we should take her back downstairs." Carlisle said and I nodded quickly darting back down the stairs laying her back on the couch.
"Derek quick come hold her shoulders, Emmett grab her feet. We need to hold her still. Sometimes when she wakes up like that she will take all the powers in the room and use them all. It could get ugly." I said as soon as I sat her down. They moved fast and held her. I placed my hands on either side of her face so I would take in most of what she threw out. I had learned that I could absorb the powers she threw out if I held her face.
"Take powers?" Carlisle asked.
"I'll explain in a minute." I said quickly back.
"Get ready." Alice said, "and three, two… one" Right as she said that Bella tried to shoot straight up but the guys held on and I kept my eyes trained.
Sure enough I felt flames try to engulf me and her trying to become invisible. The earth trembled, the minds of everyone in the room opened to me. I felt all her pain and anger she hid. She fought harder as she gained strength from Derek and Emmett. It was all so much I almost dropped my hands but I forced myself to hold on.
My own power worked against me and it hurt like hell. I tried to ignore the mind reading and the visions that came to me. The pain and anger coming from her almost overtook me. The strength were what Emmett, Derek and now Andrew and Jasper were fighting against. I could have screamed with the pain from my own flames trying to burn me to ash, let alone the pain I fought from her adding to my own.
Finally Bella became more herself and lost the strength first, slowly the trembling stopped then the mind reading and future seeing. The emotions went next and finally my flames stopped searing my body. I sighed and slowly let go falling to my knees once I did. Her eyes blinked and she sat up slowly the guys still surrounding her.
"Oh my god! Kale!" She screamed when she saw me. "Oh god baby I am so sorry."
She was beside me instantly her arms around my neck as she sobbed tearlessly.
"Oh Kale I didn't mean to I really didn't. I-I-I'm so sorry." she cried into my skin.
"shh… sweetheart its fine, I know you didn't mean to." I soothed her.
BPOV
I hadn't even realized what I was doing to Kale until it all stopped. I had my barrier up as soon as I became conscious but I didn't realize what I was doing to him. I felt so bad. He looked fine but I saw everything I did to him and I knew the pain he had felt.
He found out last time this had happened that he could absorb everything I sent out into himself so no one else would get hurt because of what I couldn't control. He had touched my face trying to calm me down as the flames got closer to the family that he could take it all into himself. So I guess this time he did it again. Even though I couldn't control it I knew how it was hurting him to have the powers hit him like that and all of them at once was horrible.
"Kale are you ok?" I asked softly scared and worried.
"Yea sweetie I'm fine." He said back trying not to wince.
"Ok now what happened." I demanded.
"Well everyone knows everything" he stressed the word and I instantly looked down seeing a new long sleeved shirt on. "And other than that nothing yet except for one shit load of powers having fun trying to kill me."
"Ok" I said trying to stay calm.
"What the hell was all of that?" Emmett exclaimed. Always so stubble.
"I guess I have some explaining to do." I said, everyone nodded.
"Ok well here goes. When I was human, as you all know, Edward couldn't read my mind and the Vulturi couldn't use their powers on me. Well now as a vampire I can protect the minds of the ones I choose. I can also borrow a vampire's power if I am within 5 miles of them. I can have many different powers at once as well. My last power is the force fields that you all saw earlier. Those are my powers. I don't use my powers for anything bad. It is fairly easy for me to protect my families mind all I have to do is concentrate for a minute and it's up. The force field around myself is also simple but it gets more difficult the wider it gets. The fields around other objects without me in the middle are very small and are very hard for me to hold. The powers I copy I can keep for as long as I like and drop them easily." I explained.
"Last time I dropped like that Kale touched my face and found he could take all the powers I throw out when I wake up, like I did this time. He does it to protect the family even though he gets hurt every time. It is never enough to kill him but it takes a lot out of him." I finished telling them the story with that and waited to see what they brought up.
"You are very powerful Isabella and you are very special." Carlisle pointed out.
"I know I am that is why I stay as far from the Vulturi as possible. I don't want them to find out about me or my families powers because we would be very valuable to them." I said looking over my family in anguish at the thought out them being forced into the Vulturi against their wishes.
"Bella can you explain something to me real quick?" it was Terry that spoke, I sighed and nodded, "WHY THE FUCK DO YOU CUT YOURSELF?" and there it was.
"Because I choose to because physical pain is better than the emotional pain I feel every damn day. The feeling of being unwanted and unworthy of the people you love. You try having a family that you love with all your heart and that you trust with everything in you then have it all ripped away from you being told you were just a toy and a distraction. That your favorite people decided that they didn't want to be around you anymore because of stupid little reasons. You try dealing with all of that for 50 plus years, then let me know how you would feel." I said seething.
"Bella…" It was Edward that said my name. I growled and turned to him glaring.
"What do you want?" I asked well more like spat.
"I left you because I didn't want to turn you into a soulless monster like us. I wanted you to live a happy human life. I thought that if you thought our whole family was ready to leave that it was too difficult to be around you that you would move on. The last time it didn't work so I thought if I was harsher that you would hate me and forget it. I still love you Isabella." He said this quickly but sincerely. I just looked at him. My jaw just about hit the floor. My shock quickly turned to anger.
"You know what Edward none of us are soulless, you maybe because of everything you did to me. But us my family and the Cullens we have souls and I want you to understand that now and if you ever forget it I will happily beat it into you. As for you wanting to keep me safe you can take that and go fuck yourself because that is down right ridiculous, it is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Yes I still feel something for you but I have Kale and he has never left me or said anything to me in the past 50 years as I have gone through everything. He stood by my side through thick and thin. You run from your problems, you are a pussy that can't stand yourself so fuck you Edward. I'm done." I was so angry I didn't even care what I said to him I just wanted it to hurt. From the flash of pain I saw on his face I knew it worked. He took off out the door to I don't know where. I turned back towards the Cullens to see shock on all of their faces along with the faces of my family.
"Carlisle, Esme, I am very sorry for using that language in your house. I just didn't want to here it from him. Please forgive me?" I said my head hanging.
"Oh Bella of course." Esme said.
"Can we all sit down and talk like adults now please?" Carlisle asked. We all took a seat on the chairs and couches that were in the livening room. "Who want's to start?"
"I will." It was Emmett, "Bella I want you to know that me being careful around you was something I knew I had to do to keep you safe. You were… are my sister and I want you to know that what Edward said to you about me was not true. I want to apologize for everything. Please accept it."
"Of course Emmett, I always saw you as my brother too." I said softly.
"Bella," It was Alice now. "I'm sorry I didn't see what he was planning because I would have put a stop to it all but he figured out how to block my visions and I never learned what he truly said until today. I am so sorry for everything we didn't know what was going on and I hated the fact that we left you here again. Please, please, please forgive me!"
"Of course Alice." I said happily and she came over and hugged me tightly.
"It wasn't hard for me to be around you," Jasper stated, "After your birthday and Edward forced us to leave the first time I made myself work on my control and I did. It was almost easy for me to be near you. Edward always made me feel weak and I am sorry he used that against you because I know how guilty you get when you are hurting people. Please accept my apology."
"Jasper I never blamed you for my birthday and I am so proud of you and the fact that you worked on your control that couldn't have been easy. You did great and I am proud of you. I forgive you too." I said smiling. I was really proud of him.
"I know I was never nice to you Bella and I still don't really like you but it was very wrong of Edward to do that to you. But I will not apologize for what he did to you." Rose said. I figured as much from her.
"I don't really care what you have to say Rosalie you were always a bitch to me anyways." I stated.
"Bella, daughter," it was Esme. "I was so sad to hear that we had lost you it hurt so much. I lost a daughter that day and with it my family because we were not the same without you. I love you so much Bella and I am so sorry for what Edward did to you."
"Oh Esme, I love you too you are so much of a mom to me you always were." I ran to her and hugged her tightly. She held me close brushing a hand through my hair.
"I missed you my daughter" she whispered in my ear.
"I missed you too mom." I whispered back.
"Bella, Esme is right we lost our family when we lost you. They were never the same. Edward was very wrong to do that to you and when he told us what you said it hurt us all deeply. We know now that you didn't say any of it and Edward lied to us all of these years. I am so sorry that you had to go through so much pain because of our family." Carlisle said.
"Carlisle I know you guys didn't know what Edward said and that is why I am sad that you were all affected by this as much as I was. I love you all and you were always family in my heart." I said looking over all of the Cullens but Rosalie.
"Bella we hope that we can become closer with you again, and maybe if not join, stay with our family. All of you of course not just you. When we left you, you became a very strong young woman and you found yourself a family to help you pull through I would never ask you to leave that behind." Carlisle said that and I looked at him them the faces of my new family.
"So what do you say?" Emmett asked.
AN: ok so wow there is another chapter YAY I happy!!! Lol ok so now I need to know what you guys want to see I have run out of ideas for the moment. So let me know what you want to happen next and I will try to incorporate it in some way. SO REVIEW AND LET ME KNOW
