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-JEFF-

All at once Kendall and I heard the growls of our lifetime enemies as we knocked on their front door. Then it was quiet and a barely distinguishable chuckle was heard, followed by the soft thud of nine sets of footsteps coming down the stairs of the house as one. I couldn't help but think: Strength in numbers. Every muscle in my body screamed at me to bolt from this forbidden terrain, but Kendall's very firm grip on my arm kept me from doing so. I think I was starting to lose the circulation in my arm.

The door was opened by Carlisle Cullen the rest of the family lurking behind him. I had never smelt vampires before, not technically and it honestly didn't seem all too bad; maybe a bit strong but surely bearable. I didn't understand how Dad could possibly whine so much about it. Then again Kendall and I were the ones with the "dirty" blood. We must not have smelt so bad to them either because their expressions were at first guarded, expectant but then they changed entirely. They now stared at us with shock.

I instantly found Beth, she was easy to find since she was the splitting image of my mother. The only difference was the hair, which probably came from Rachel. She cocked her head at me and my twin, as if we looked familiar. The one with the auburn hair, Edward I think, was holding her hand, with her positioned slightly behind himself. She whispered something in his ear that I didn't catch, and he seemed torn with a battling decision in his mind, but he nodded and Beth slipped from his protective embrace and walked towards us. She looked at Kendall and studied her, then she moved onto myself, her features passive giving us no clue as to what she was thinking.

"Carlisle, they need to come in." The emphasis on the word "need" surprised me. How could she possibly know that our lives were in danger? Then like a Polaroid picture the reasoning became clear. She was of course the reincarnation of Bella the fifth vampire who knew of all secrets.

Carlisle looked to Edward who nodded, encouraging him to follow through with what Beth was doing, even though the look on his face made it clear that he too had no idea. The head of the Cullen family opened the door wider giving us consent to enter his home.

Kendall decided to speak first once everyone was seated in the large living room of their home. Beth had been pulled onto Edwards lap on a couch across from where Kendall and I were sitting on a very large chair that we shared. The rest of the family was huddled on the couch along with Edward and Beth or in front of it. It suddenly reminded me of a pack of lions lounging after a large meal letting the sun warm their full bellies. I shook my head, dispelling my mind of the image and concentrated on what my twin was saying.

"I hope you don't mind but I'd like to skip familiarities for the moment and get right down to business." She paused for a moment until she was received a nod or two of agreement. She focused her full gaze onto Beth. "You know who and what you are correct?"

Beth nodded. "Aegle, and a vampire." Everyone in the family whipped their heads to look at Beth, while Edward just hugged her tighter to himself.

Kendall smiled softly. "Not exactly a vampire, but I will get into that a little later, first I would like to share with you the story of the first five vampires on Earth." The curious looks all around her encouraged Kendall to continue.

"Carlisle, Esme, Emmett, Jasper, and Alice are descendants of the first vampire, Melanthios. Most vampires are his descendants because they are just simply immortal, with the exception of a few vampires who have any special vampire, including Alice and Jasper. Rosalie I do not believe that you are a descendant of Melanthios because your beauty is much too pronounced. It is easy to believe that you are a descendant of Ancantha, the second vampire. Also by looking into your past I can see that your personality is similar with hers."

When Kendall said that, the beautiful Rosalie seemed to smile with pride. "Now, the third vampire, Adrastos is sitting in this room right now." Everyone seemed to zero in on Edward and he gave a little impish grin and a small wave. I couldn't help but smile at that. "Now Adrastos is very special, he is immortal but every five centuries or so he is born again as a human. Then at a relatively young age he is turned into a vampire. He won't have any memory of being Adrastos until he meets his Aegle, who in this case is Beth. Aegle is the fifth vampire.

"Aegle was given two different powers. The first and most noticeable gift was the ability to reincarnate over and over again. Also she will not realize what, or who she is until she too meets her Adrastos. When the new reincarnated form of Aegle appears, the old has to be near her so that some of her energy can be transferred to the girl. Only until all the energy has been transferred will the old reincarnated form cast away, letting the new Aegle live her life. Over the past few hundred lives that Aegle has lived, she has started to feel that her gift is more of a curse than anything else. She hates having to start her life all over, and to have to forget about Adrastos.

"But all five vampires were created by the devil except for perhaps the fourth, but I will explain about him in a moment. If she was to stop transferring her energy into the new reincarnation of herself, her life would slip away, never to return. Aegle must do something godly to be able to stop the constant reincarnation, so that she could choose how often or not to do it. She has failed in her attempts so far.

"Now the fourth vampire, Lycrurgus is the most mysterious of the five the only reason I know of anything about him is because I see a little bit of him in your first few lives. But after about your tenth life he disappears. What your past tells me is that he is half vampire half werewolf. His name actually means 'deed of the wolf'. Before in all of Aegle's past lives her blood has always been pure, if I may, but you are different Beth you are also a werewolf, but that is the less dominant side of you. You are a lycrampire, because of the mixed blood you were born with. As is my twin and myself.

"Your parents you have now are orphaned. Your real mother is Rachel Black, our aunt and Bella's sister-in-law, and she has werewolf blood . . ." Kendall trailed off knowing that this was the hardest thing to tell someone. She looked at Beth, who was completely silent looking at an invisible dot on the wall just to the left of Kendall. She showed no emotion whatsoever, but a single, lonely tear ran down her cheek.

-BETH-

My family wasn't my real family? The people I probably loved most in this world, except Edward? And they knew?! Why hadn't they told me?! All the memories with my brother and sister, they began to feel as if for nothing. How could I picture them as my family when I've just been told straight-out by some random stranger that they weren't? I felt a soft warm tear run down my face, but I didn't move my hand to catch it from falling. It landed on Edwards hand that was holding me by my waist. I heard him sigh, he whispered something in my ear probably soft enough for only me to hear but I couldn't focus on the words. That's when he took me out of the room, carrying me as if I were a snowflake; fragile and breakable. I couldn't identify what or where I was staring at but I could feel the eyes of Adrastos' on me.

They calmed me slightly and I seemed to be able to take in my surroundings when we were on his bed. He was holding me softly, my head buried in his chest and my chest tore apart as the floodgates were opened. I sobbed uncontrollably into his shirt.

Suddenly everything was shaking all around me. Was it an earthquake? Then I realized it was Edward, my Adrastos who was causing all the shaking as he cried tearlessly. Yes I had seen him cry, the day I gave him the letter Bella had sent me but it was nothing like this. Then, it was like he had indeed lost the love of his life but it seemed as though he could pull through it. Now, I kept drifting in and out of a flashback of his, when he and his mother had been diagnosed with the Spanish influenza. For a moment I felt the pain he must have felt. He seemed so vulnerable which made me cry even harder.

I placed my cheek against his and I could feel some of my tears not only fall down my cheek but his as well. Almost in sync, the crying stopped and we were there holding each other in an almost peaceful state. I felt his gentle lips against mine; they didn't feel that hard or cold to me anymore. They felt a little chilled but not icy. Maybe it was because now that I knew I was a vampire like him-lycrampire, I corrected myself- the differences did seem very real.

"You know, I'm pretty sure that your … orphaned mother is still related to you," Edward stated softly, calculating.

My eyebrows furrowed. "What do you mean?"

"She looks like Bella, a little not nearly as much as you do, but still the face structure, hair height, the eyes. My guess is that she is Bella's half sister. Reneé, Bella's mother, must have had your mother with Phil, Bella's step-dad." He got more and more excited about his theory, almost positive that he was right.

"So they're still family?" I asked assuming that he was indeed correct.

Suddenly his expression changed. Understanding and sympathy pulsed through his dead veins, and he took my face into his hands. I could feel the soft pad of his thumb gently smooth out the skin around my red puffy eyes. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't tell me that you think that since they're not blood relatives, they are not family. I mean look at us Cullen's, we're most defiantly not blood related but we never let that stop us from becoming a family. Now, the people you've lived with all your life is your family, they shared every injury every happy memory, and every mistake and every good decision in your life. They know you. They love you, Beth. We love you."

A couple more tears had sprung from my eyes at those words, because in that instant I knew he was right. I lunged at him, kissing him fiercely. He was surprised by my enthusiasm but I could feel him kiss me back with as much energy as I was. One of his hands were on my back, softly stroking it, while his fingers of his other hand were combing through my hair. My fingers were memorizing his face hungrily. When he pulled away he was smiling.

"Not that I object, but what was that for?" he asked laughing.

"For what you said, I thought it was obvious," I said laughing back.

He shook his head, chuckling. "Maybe I should talk to you like that more often."

"Maybe," I agreed. I sighed, remembering that the children of Bella Black were downstairs waiting for us. "I think I'm ready to go back now," I said confidently.

He nodded taking my hand, and leading down to my family. We took our places on the couch once again. Kendall looked at me, slightly worried, I smiled reassuringly. "Please continue."

"Actually my part of this discussion is over, so Jeff it's your turn." She leaned back, settling into the chair she was sharing with her brother. For a moment Jeff looked as though his sister had just handed him a bomb that was about to blow. Then his expression became serious and forlorn. I had a feeling that what he was about to say was going to be vital to their survival.

"As you know Aegle has the power to know, hide and create all secrets. For our whole lives she has hidden the fact from our pack that we are not only werewolves but vampires as well. You see, even if we are werewolves they will want to destroy us, because our other half poses as a threat to our tribe. They wouldn't like the fact that they would have to kill us but they will do anything to keep the Quileute reservation safe. Our father doesn't even now about… us.

"Our mother is nearly ready to become a past reincarnation, Kendall believes that she will die tomorrow evening, once she does the secret that she has kept hidden will become known and we will never be a part of our pack again. That is why we have come to you, because Beth is supposed to be our alpha, our leader. We have left what has once been our home for sixteen years forever because it is what our mother wanted, she wanted us to live on, and we can only do that if we are with our own kind, and that's you."

"Carlisle," it was Esme's voice, and everyone looked at her, to see that if she could she would be crying. "Carlisle, let them stay, they have nowhere else to go and since they are vampires and grew up disgusted at the thought of drinking human blood they are like us. We need to help them like we have done with our children." She made perfect sense and had instantly convinced Carlisle, but even if she hadn't he would have brought them in any way's.

He looked at the twin's and smiled. "Welcome to our home."

Their smiles stretched from ear to ear when they heard this, and they visibly relaxed in their seats. Suddenly Rosalie and Alice sat up pin straight at exactly the same time. They looked at each other and spoke in sync. "We get two Barbie dolls!"

Everyone except for Beth and Kendall roared with laughter. The two girls groaned, covering their faces with their hands. Kendall must have looked into the past and realized what this meant.

Sorry it took me so long to update and please forgive me if this chapter seems a bit scrambled it was very hard for me and I couldn't think of any other organizational way to word things, again I'm sorry. Also for those who still haven't read that author's note I put up I'd like to re-anounce what was stated. If you have the knowledge to make videos I would really like it if you could make a trailer for this story. (I obviously don't have that knowledge since I'm asking you) I just thought It would be really cool to see what you would do to my story. I know it's not finished yet but I promise it will be soon in a couple more chapters I think so you could start the video then and then send it to me. I was also thinking about giving places first to fourth out but I'll make sure there is a link on my profile for every single video that I've been sent. Also my only requirements for the video is the same cast for the Cullens and Bella, not Beth but Bella, you can do anyone you want for Beth as long as you specify. Thank you so much! And have fun with my little project! Now review review review!