Disclaimer: I do not own the Twilight series or The Covenant. This story will contain rape, violence, some swearing, OC, OOCness, alternate universe and time-line, and what can be viewed as twincest.

Warnings: swearing, rape mention, pedophile mention, abuse, kidnapping. Warning will be given for that section of the chapter, enabling people to skip it.

A/N: This chapter was split in to 2 parts to keep chapters short. Plus, I love cliffhangers. It is also a little short cause writer's block. Next few chapters should be better.

'Thoughts'

'Selene's thought speech'

'Bella's thought speech'

"Spoken words"

"Selene"

"Bella"

"Twin Speak"


Previously…

The twins are staying at the Cullens for the weekend. After a rough night, they decide to play a game to mess with Emmett and the othesr boys.


Bound by Binding Ties

Chapter 8

October 30, 2004, After Breakfast

Cullen Residence - Forks, WA

No POV

Emmett was cautious. He had called Selene and Bella weird while they were eating breakfast. Then they had a secret conversation in a language he didn't know, involves the other girls soon after. The other guys were curious, but not as worried as Emmett seemed to be. Edward hated that the girls were hiding something from him so well. Carlisle was mostly amused, and happy that his mate was spending time with the girls and having fun.

Jasper was conflicted. He knew his mate was planning something with the others, but didn't know if he should be worried, or glad that she was getting along so well with the rest of his 'family'. Just then he received a text message. Opening it, he saw that it was from Peter:

Don't worry Major. She's just having some fun. Things will be strange, but no one will get hurt.

With that, Jasper decided to relax and watch his mate have fun. Although, he still hoped to figure out what the girls were planning. He knew it had something to do with Emmett calling them weird, but other than that, he was clueless.

The girls, on the other hand, were plotting. Rosalie was glad that Selene was smiling, even if it was at her mates expense. She knew no one would be hurt, and that Em would find this game funny when it was all over. Esme was of a similar mind. She knew that this game would be a good way to get to know her newest daughters better and for them to enjoy themselves. Alice was focusing on not seeing the twin's immediate future while also trying to hide anything she saw or thought of from Edward.

The twins had their minds open to each other. Trying to think of good memories to tell the others, while not deciding on any. But they did decide which not to do, enabling them to hide from Alice's sight.

Trying to salvage the situation, Emmett went over to Selene and Bella, "What language where you two speaking earlier anyway?"

"Quileute." They replied, knowing that he couldn't learn it, they didn't feel the need to lie.

He pouted, "Of course it had to be a language none of us could learn."

"That was kinda the point Em," Selene smirked.

"That's rude. And you're not going to tell me what you girls are planning either?"

The two shrugged, "Not until the weekend is over."

Emmett sighed, "I guess that's better than nothing."

"Speaking of languages," Carlisle started, walking closer to the twins, "How did you learn it? Do you know any others?"

"Well, we started learning it during our summers with our dad. But yes, we also know Latin, Italian, Greek, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, Hindi, and Arabic. But we also know American Sign Language and are in the process of learning Romanian and Portuguese."

The vampires were impressed, few humans knew so many languages, especially at such a young age.

"That's quite the list. I'm impressed with you both, but how did you learn them all?"

"Thank you, Carlisle. You probably know that the earlier human start learning a language the easier it is. Most of the ones we know we started learning after we met you all. We started with Italian because we knew that all the guards that would check up on us in the future would know it. But once they found out we were learning, we asked them for other suggestions. With their help, we learned six languages, not including Quileute, before we visited Volterra. After that, we learned one language a year, with our eidetic memories, it's easier than it would be for a normal human."

During this conversation, Emmett slowly started to relax. "You've learned a lot from them."

Selene shrugged, "Yeah, well we like to learn, and Aro is trying to entice us into staying with him when we're turned. It makes getting things we want pretty easy. Like using Guard members for target practice. That was fun."

'Why would we do that? Moving targets. Dad did teach us to shoot one summer and bullets don't hurt vampires at all. Ah, fake story that is actually something we could do. Devious. I like it. Well, we did just tell them something true but slightly unbelievable since we're humans, and young. And we did spend a lot of time with Jane and Alec. She's pretty sadistic; while we wouldn't do half the things she's done, they make for good stories.'

The vampires froze.

Carlisle looked concerned, "You… used the Guard as target practice?"

The twins shrugged, "How else were we supposed to practice on moving targets?"

"How did you… WHY did you?" Edward asked, confused?

"Our dad is a cop, and Forks has a large hunting community, we learned how to safely handle a gun a few years ago. But some of the things that could hurts us are a lot faster than a deer, we needed to practice with something faster. Vampire are and they're not going to be accidentally harmed in the process."

Emmett shook his head, "You girls are wild."

The rest of the day past in a similar manner to the girls other visits. Apart from the occasional crazy stories from the twins.


That night…

Bella and Selene were eating the dinner Esme made them when Alice walked into the room. Sitting across from the girls, she looked them over.

"What should we do tomorrow?"

"What do you mean Alice?"

Rollin her eyes, "It's Halloween! We need to do something fun!"

"Like what?"

"Well, I've already planned all the decorations, but we should all dress up!"

The twins glanced at each other.

"Alice, we're not going anywhere tomorrow, so we'll only dress up if the costumes are comfortable."

"But we'll gladly spend the day watching Halloween classics and horror movies. And continuing our game."

Alice frowns but thinks it over. "Alright, we can do that. It's still holiday fun, but more relaxing."

The girls finished their dinners and continued their game.

A few hours later, the twins went to sleep in their respective rooms, leaving the vampires to argue over what movies they'd watch the next day.


The next morning…

Alice woke the girls the next morning to dress them the way she wanted. She wanted them to wear stylish Halloween costumes, but Bella and Selene refused to wear the uncomfortable garments all day. So they compromised. They agreed on fleece-lined leggings and Halloween sweatshirts. Bella wore black leggings and an orange sweatshirt that had an 8-bit graveyard with a flying witch saying "What's Up Witches?" Selene wore orange leggings and a gray sweatshirt that read "If you can't fly with the big girls, stay off the broom."

After eating their breakfast, everyone filed into the living room to marathon Halloween movies. The girls only had time for 4 movies before they had to head home. It was decided that they would watch Hocus Pocus, Scream, Beetlejuice, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The day was spent in good holiday spirit: laughing at bad movie effects, and (for the humans) eating way to much candy and junk food.

Sadly, the weekend was nearing its end and the Swan twins needed to head home. With their bags packed and in their car, they said their goodbyes to the Cullens, even though they'd see most of them the next day at school.

As they were leaving Emmett stopped them.

"What was the game you were planning yesterday. I haven't been able to figure it out?"

Bella smiled, "We thought we'd try to freak you out with all the things we've done that aren't normal for humans. It didn't work exactly how we planned but you were freaked out over a lot of it."

Scoffing, "That's what all that was about? I'll admit that some of those stories were unbelievable, but I don't see how that was supposed to bug me."

Selene smirked, "Oh it wasn't just the stories that were supposed to do that."

Confused, "What else was supposed to?"

"The fact that only half the stories were true."

With that the girls left laughing. Emmett finally processed what they meant and yelled, "Wait come back! Which ones were true!?"

The Cullen girls laughed, while the guys groaned, trying to figure out which stories were true.