Jasper, Canada

"That was a nice story," Jasper said after a while of comfortable silence. We all stared at him, slightly puzzled. Alice elbowed him in his side and stared at him in disbelief. "The last part with your family, I meant," he added quickly. We all laughed at the irony of the situation.

"Yes, my family has made all the difference," I said to him with a grin on my face. He chuckled.

"So, what else is it that you can do Bella?" Rosalie asked.

"I can maybe guess one of them," Edward suggested.

I nodded and waited for him to guess. I had a feeling he'd get it right.

"You can transfer you're abilities to others," he guessed.

I smiled at him, "What makes you say that?" I asked testing his observational skills.

"Because I can't hear any of them," he said grimly.

"I thought it was just me," Alice said hastily "but then I just brushed it off because I can't see werewolves." She seemed upset about that fact. "That's going to be very annoying."

"I can't sense anything from them either," Jasper added.

"Don't be upset, Alice," I said trying to comfort her. She didn't seem comforted by my words at all, so I tried again. "You did see that you were going to need a bigger house, did you not?"

Her eyes widen with excitement by my revelation. "Yes, I did," she said "but didn't know why."

"You see," I said smiling to her "you are more talented than you give yourself credit for. You just have to learn how to work around slight obstructions. If you can't see the picture just adjust the hue button."

"Than everything will be all green," Emmett said. "Hey, that's not a bad analogy for them actually. Average human one minute, a rage of emotions the next; like the Hulk."

"I guess I will learn get around that little problem," Alice said dejectedly.

"And the smell, also," Rosalie added, covering her nose.

"You get used it after a while. It doesn't bother me anymore," I assured them.

I was still smiling and they seemed to be irritated by the fact that there powers where useless on us. I turned to look back at Edward. "You're only half right. I can transfer my abilities, but not all of them. Actually, I can only make them immune."

They all seemed fascinate by that little fact. Yes, even though that was all I could do for them, it had proven useful on countless occasions throughout our travels.

"That is extraordinary, Bella," Carlisle said "Tell us, what else can you do?"

"Yes," Emmett said "When we accosted you in the woods, which I apologize for," he added quickly "but you sent Edward flying backwards several feet without even touching him. Was that one of the powers you'd acquire or already had? Tell us when you first knew of this power you possess? What abilities you took to help you win that fight?"

I couldn't help but smile at the eagerness to know more about me. I wanted to know about them, what they had been up to. I guess that would come later. I sighed. I thought back to the time I found out what I could do.

"I'm sorry about that by the way, for attacking you earlier," I said to Edward apologetically.

"You had … have every right to do that," he said to me "I told you, my life is yours; do with it as you please." I couldn't help shy away and smile slightly at his words. I was kicking myself for it; I was supposed to be making him work for it, not giving him open windows to climb in.

"You're blushing," Edward said loudly. He was staring at my cheeks, his eyes filled with wonderment. "How are you able to do that?"

"One of my many abilities," I said shrugging it off, I'd explain all of it soon enough. "You see I am able to do all sorts of things, many of them are helpful for existing in the human world. Back in the days of my wandering, I had come across other vampires, some friendly, others not so friendly. The first vampires that I had come across, aside from the Denali clan, was oddly enough in Jasper, Alberta, Canada." Everyone laughed. I looked over to Jasper, "Did you know that there is a whole national park, town and lake named Jasper?" He nodded, honestly unaware.

"Oh, road trip," Alice said enthusiastically.

"It's really not a good hunting area," I added before getting back to my story. "I was hunting and could smell them coming closer to me. I was skeptical, at first, I didn't know if I should run or stay put. I decided to stay, hoping that if they were there to harm me, I would let them; I didn't care for living.

"It was a male and female; companions most likely. When they reached me, we said nothing to each other, just ducked our heads as a polite gesture. Finally, the male spoke and I can only assume that he was introducing himself because he was speaking in French. 'I'm sorry;' I said 'I don't understand.' He turned to glance at the female who stepped forth. She seemed to be concentrating really hard on something, but then relaxed her face, slightly, but remained confused. Finally giving up, she turned back to her mate to say something. She spoke in French to him, but the odd thing was that this time I was able to understand them.

"She said to him, 'I can't learn her language.' They both stared at me, seemingly not knowing what to make of me or say to me. 'I can understand you now' I said to them in French. 'I thought you couldn't understand us,' he said. 'I couldn't,' I replied. They looked at each other once again. 'Why can't I learn your language,' the female asked. I shrugged, honestly not knowing why. I had no idea at the time why she couldn't, but I quickly knew that I was somehow able to mimic, possess other abilities; once the other party attempted to use them on me. They seemed aware of this concept also and had asked me to join them."

"So you can speak every language … can understand any language in the world?" Jasper asked in awe.

"No, I don't know every language, yet," I said boldly "But I do have the ability to understand any language. And when I mean any language, I mean any language, even computer languages."

"I envy you," he said "that must be a very useful talent."

"I know you do," I hinted. "It definitely proved useful when I was in Spain, when I met Maria."

"Did you join them, then?" Edward asked, wanting me to continue on with my story.

"No. By the look and color of their eyes, I knew I shouldn't. Their eyes were ruby red. I could never be apart of something like that. So, I respectfully declined their invitation. Luckily, they didn't give me any problems and we went our separate ways. Others, however, have not been so kind." No, others weren't so kind at all.