Unknown in Our Own ForestVampAndWolfLover

Dear Reader,

I realize that this story has not been updated in over two years, and I apologize for that. I would also like to give notice that this story is never going to be completed. Now, before you get upset let me give you my reasons and then the ending to this story, so you can have some appeasement with this. My heart isn't in to finishing this story, for a number of reasons. I have spent too much time away from this story to feel that I can come back to it after so long and properly continue on as I had before. Additionally, looking back, I know that the character I created, Claire, is too original for the Twilight series. By mixing her into their world, I was really submerging my imaginary world with Stephenie Meyers. Claire could have worked out with Seth Clearwater, and I had planned for her and Seth to fall in love, but the reality is that Claire needs her own world, and warm weather climate, and seclusion. Know that I will write my version, my world, of Claire's story. It is in the works, but Twilight is a different world and I believe that the two will clash too heavily for this story to make any sense. I realized that's why it was so hard to write this story in the first place, because merging two worlds is a difficult task, and I wasn't ready. Beyond that, sometime the worlds clash too much to mesh, and I know that to be true for my world and Stephenie's. However, the rest of this will detail what would have happened with this story as the best I can.

Claire would have continued to heal the Earth and all of its creatures the best her powers could provide. The follow up chapter to the last was going to be Claire waking up at Seth's place, and Seth would have spent the day taking care of her. And they would continue to take care of each other. He would travel with her as she went on her missions, to ensure that she stayed out of harm's way as she completed her work. Claire's wolf pack, vampire friends, and cousin would continue to support her, but after much protest on her part, would also travel with her and Seth to heal the earth in any way they could. But in order to remain inconspicuous, they would come back to Forks, after every mission and take a week off or more, depending on the severity of other damage being done. In the process of saving the world, Claire and her band of misfit heroes met vampires from all corners of the globe, and slowly began to introduce the idea of drinking animal blood, to help spread the mantra of the Cullen family. Claire felt that if job entailed saving the world, she might as well help vampires to hide more easily by existing less conspicuously. In return, the Cullen family secretly built a three story, eight bedroom cabin—den for the wolves included, of course—for Claire and her friends. As the vampire world slowly began to convert to drinking animal blood, the Volturi began to lose their footing as the rulers. For the most part, they were no longer needed if vampires could keep themselves relatively hidden. But what really lost the Volturi their loyal following was that the vampires felt that the Volturi's ways and belief system were outdated and out of touch with the modern world. Slowly, vampires moved to Forks and other areas of Washington, Oregon, Canada, and Alaska, realizing how easily they could become part of society if cloud cover hid their vampiric qualities. The only problem remained in their lack of aging, the only characteristic truly incapable of going unnoticed. The Cullen family arranged a realtor system for vampires, where each coven could put up their house for transfer, and switch with another coven. This was the breaking point. The Cullen family in partnership with Claire and her family, had created a world where vampires could live happily without fear of discovery, without fear of losing their lives because the Volturi said so, or at least that's what the majority of vampires believed. The ultimate coup had finally come. The Volturi travelled to Forks, to end the Cullen family and Claire, knowing that she had been the real force behind this. Out of loyalty to Claire for showing them a new way of life, vampires pledged their lives to defend her and the Cullens against the Volturi. In the end, a meeting took place in the same clearing it had for Nessie. The Volturi's numbers paled in comparison to that of the Cullen's and Claire's followers. In fact, the guard and the royals were the only ones on the wrong side. The conversation remained superficial banter transferring back and forth between the Cullen/Claire side and the Volturi side, until Aro openly made a threat on Claire's life. Seth went wolf and attacked Aro without resistance from the guard. Throughout the preceding conversation, they had realized they were fighting for the wrong side. If they wanted to keep their lives, they should reprioritize their loyalty. Marcus did not have a change of heart like his guard, for his heart had not desired the power for years. Caius wanted power, but loved his life more, and conceded to us, but quickly let with the only people in the guard who wanted to continue to feed off of humans. The wolves tore Aro apart and the vampires helped set fire to him, or at least the pieces of him. All of the golden eyes went their separate ways, heading back home, still maintaining they would defend Claire and the Cullen family if ever the need arose. Seth and Claire got married, and had plenty of babies, that were 100% human (except for the wolf gene), because her powers didn't transfer genetically, much to Seth's relief. Could you imagine having kids running around turning into whatever animal they desired? One minute everyone would be watching Sunday morning cartoons. The next, you would have monkeys climbing all over the couches. And everyone else continued to stay in Forks and live happily, dancing in the rain.

I hope this helps satisfy your curiosity a bit, if you were one of the readers who started reading this story before I stopped posting for this. And if you were a reader who wanted to read regardless of the fact you knew there wouldn't be a remotely finished, or even started, story, I thank you for even doing that. Hopefully, I can develop this character into having her own world and maybe have a finished product, published in the future for you.

All my best,

VampAndWolfLover

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