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A/N: Hope you liked the hints about the twins powers in the last chapter, here's Chapter Ten.

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CHAPTER 10 - Saving Another Life

•~Annabelle Cullen~•

- 1 week later –

While Arla and Niklas stayed at home under my strict orders, we – The Volturi – had travelled south to invade and put a stop to Maria's newborn army. We were, of course, successful in destroying them as well as allowing the three selected vampires we knew of to escape with them thinking that they got lucky in doing so.

Once we returned back to my home my family and I said our goodbyes before they left to return to Volterra. Arla and Niklas were happy to see me and begged me to tell them what happed in the conformation between us and the newborn army. All I said was briefly how we destroyed them all bar three of them.

Soon after when all of the drama had calmed down, the twins ventured out to the main town in our area which is situated not far from the house. They made a friend named Yvonica Platt – even with my warnings against doing so. Apparently she is a bubbly which brought out more of Arla's personality as well – resulting with her seeming to be on an all-time-high.

But one day the twins told me that that they had begun to notice that Yvonica was getting really depressed as each day passed. Soon though, not to my liking, I found out the reason why.

Reading through some of the local papers one morning, the front pages was plastered with all similar headlines talking about the death Esmé Platt, her older sister. It said that she had committed suicide a few days prior to the story. That was also when Arla and Niklas noticed the dramatic change in Yvonica's behaviour.

Just then the twins came rushing into the house from the back entrance, "Yvonica's jumped off a cliff!" They were obviously panicking at this moment – who wouldn't be? But I also registered that that must be the same cliff her sister recently jumped off.

Getting up and heading for the front door, "Lead me to her now," without hesitation we set off in a brisk run through the woods to the cliffs. It wasn't long before we reached her but unlike her sister; she hadn't landed in a way that would kill her out right. I told the twins to stay exactly where they were and not to go anywhere unless their existence is in danger.

At that moment I spotted a large brown bear stalking towards Yvonica's broken form on a suspending cliff ledge. That was when I decided that I could use a snack and pounced on the unaware bear, snapping its neck – killing it – before I latched on to its jugular and drained the animal dry. Once I had finished I turned to face the girl – her eyes were wide and frantic and they were trained on me. The only injuries she appeared to have sustained were two severely broken arms, though she must have internal injuries because I could sense bruising on her middle section and it was killing her. She must have put her arms out in front of her body to stop herself – having second thoughts – but wasn't clearly enough to cushion the drop.

"I..." she tried to speak to me, "I don't...want to die...please...help me," she was begging me to save her. It was this moment that I was reminded of what happened to my Carleton all those years ago; how I didn't have the power to save him. But with Yvonica...now I do have the power to save a life on the brink of death.

"I'll help you Yvonica, just...try your best to stay still for a little while longer," I forced a smile in attempt of comfort for her. No medical help could save her at this critical level. Her only hope of survival is to be changed – she will die otherwise. That would just devastate Arla and Niklas.

"Okay, Yvonica, I'm going to save you but you'll have to wait until later for explanations alright?" Please say yes, it's the only way for you.

"Please, Miss, I...I don't want to die. I made a mistake...jumping...I don't want this. I made friends...the twins I call them...Arla and Niklas," she begged becoming weaker and weaker.

"You'll never be able to be with your sister, you should know that," she nodded, "This will hurt, I'm sorry." I gave a weak smile before bringing her neck to my mouth and just before I bit down I heard her reply,

"I'm ready," she whispered back to me.

That's when I bit in to her; first her neck, then both of her wrists and ankles to pump as much venom as I could in to her system. As soon as the venom reached her heart I lifted her up and brought her home along with a very scared Arla and Niklas on my tail.

I got the twins to stay with her through =out her change as well as pack up the house as quickly, but carefully, as possible. In the mean time I went to Yvonica's house and picked any sentimental items she had, like I did for the twins, for her to have. Also the last thing that needed to be done was to set up a fake trail of her blood for people to thing she had died from another cause than her sister's cliff jump.

When I returned the house was neatly packed up – including that safety precautions up in place around the property to keep people out of it when we're gone. Yvon – her new decided nickname due to how much of a mouthful it is to keep saying – was close to waking up now after three and a half days of silently enduring the pain. The first thing she did when she woke up was pull all three of us in to one big embrace and thanked us for rescuing her.

"It's okay Yvon," I smiled. "But we need to explain everything to you as we need to leave here as we cannot stay – everyone believes you to be dead from an animal attack."

She nodded and sat cross-legged to get comfortable. Like Arla and Niklas, she too took it all very well, but to my surprise, she had an instant gift – she can change her appearance. Throughout our entire discussion her hair kept changing colours which we suspect is due to her different emotions, which occur subconsciously. Yvon, Arla and Niklas all thought it was awesome. I just laughed at their fascination.

The same happened with Yvon as it did with the twins; she asked if she could take my last name and add it to hers to feel even closer as a family. What could I say to that?

She is now known as Yvonica Platt-Cullen.

A/N:

What did you like about this chapter?

Should Esmé really dead or not? Carlisle has a different mate to Esmé? Let me know.

What kind of a name is Yvonica? I'm mad right?

Comments on Reviews from Chapter Nine:

- lis3011 - Sorry, no I haven't left the story, I was just in a busy time period due to my exams and slight writers block. But thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

- Alice Gone Madd - I didn't realise that you've been reading this story too, so once again, thank you for your reviews so far :) and no she's no a very nice vampire to be around.

- ZoeyMarieSnape - Yes, eventually Annie will meet with Carlisle but I'm trying to stretch it through my chapters to get more detail and timeline events included as I don't want it to feel rushed. Thanks for the review btw :)