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It had been relatively simple to get over to Jake's house and it took barely half of that to get the three of them moseying across the expanse of the rez towards where she knew Sam hung out. In fact, through careful planning and begging they were invited to watch the Wolf Pack boys and some other rez kids jump off the cliff because apparently, it wasn't just done by shifters.

"Is it ever sunny here?" Esper asked as the three of them sat on a log near the cliff where Bella jumped off in the books and she watched the many people in the clearing mingle about. "Like the rain is pretty but the plants need equal parts water and sun."

Jake shrugged a shoulder as he took a few chips out the bag they were sharing and passed it back over to Bella who gratefully stuffed a few crisps into her mouth.

"The suns comes out when we've earned it." He joked as he popped the snack past his lips. "And we're all sinners in Forks so it comes when we've cleansed ourselves of evil."

Snorting at his words, Esper leaned against the log the other two were sitting on and overlooked the roiling ocean down below.

It still amazed her that people were jumping into that right now. Wincing as a couple of kids backflipped into the down below, Esper reluctantly admitted that she wanted to try too but luckily her self-preservation kept her feet firmly on the soil.

Taking a sip of her soda, she let her dual eyes wander the crowd - and momentarily rest on the nearby grills because she wanted a cheeseburger - as she tried her damnedest to locate Sam and his buddies. Clicking her teeth when she couldn't find either hair or hide of those handsome, muscular men the blonde turned towards Jake and poked him in the leg.

"Hey," She called with an easy grin. "where's your hot cousin at?"

Jacob, already used to her little nickname for Uley, shot her a droll look and crunched on another handful of chips before even bothering to answer her.

He was getting cheeky just like Bella - she was so proud.

"He's coming." He told her after he made a show of swallowing and she quirked a brow. "He had to pick and up Paul and the others."

Esper smirked and leaned into the side of Bella's leg and tossed said girl up a sly glance.

"Paul hm." She hummed as she waggled her brow up at the brunette. "We like Paul, don't we Hells Bells."

Seeing the red bloom on her best friend's face as she futilely shoved the young psychic away, Esper burst into laughter and leaned her full weight on Bella's legs so she couldn't kick out at her.

"We like him a lot." She cooed into the dark haired girl's face and the confused and narrow-eyed look on Jake's face slowly twisted up into comprehension and then to blistering amusement.

"Oh my god." He breathed out as he huffed out a few giggles. "Bella - Bells. Please don't tell me you have a hard on for Lahote."

By this point, the youngest Swan looked like she was both ready to sink into the ground and rip out both of their hearts and Esper was loving it.

"I don't." She bit out as she swatted at the cackling Esper. "That's physically impossible."

Perking up - because actually, both genitalia got erections - the blonde opened up her mouth to voice just that when a dark glare from Bella nipped that half-formed sentence in the bud.

Seeing that the Mississippi native was quieted she looked back at Jake and crossed her arms.

"Finding someone attractive doesn't automatically equate to a crush." She muttered as she yanked the bag of chips away from Jake. "Besides Esper thought he was hot too."

He gave a snort.

"Esper thinks everyone is hot." The boy pointed out and said girl grinned.

"He has a point, I do." She agreed with a firm nod of her head. "For me, gender isn't a factor in beauty."

Dark eyes peeking out from a brown face pinned her with a sharp side eye.

"It definitely isn't." Jake said sourly as he shot her a glare. "And that reminds me - stop texting me about how sexy you think Leah Clearwater is! If I knew this was what you were gonna do, you two would have never been introduced!"

Esper rolled her eyes. She had met Seth's older sister earlier on in her visit to Forks when Bella had a Daddy daughter day and the girl had been kind enough to her which made her wonder if Sam had already broken her heart.

Wolf politics were a harsh business.

"That sounds like your problem." She said as she took a sip of her drink. "If I think Leah is pretty then I think Leah is pretty."

The future shifter prepared to open his mouth and reply but just as he did, Esper caught sight of Sam and the others wandering into the clearing and she slapped her hand over his mouth and then quickly snatched it away when she felt his tongue brush over her palm. Wiping the leftover spit on his jeans, she scowled at him.

"I killed a bug earlier today and I didn't use anything but what god gave me." She told him in retaliation as she gave her fingers a wiggle and the russet toned boy blanched.

Giving him one last satisfied look as he chugged his juice to drown out whatever he thought he could taste in his mouth - she was lying to him, insects were gross - she pulled out her phone and shot Bella a text.

be prepared and be watchful okay? im gonna get you that proof

Tucking her phone away, she slid it into her jacket pocket and leaned back against the log. The plan had been to show Bella that the wolves had an inhumane level of hearing and the only way to do that was to say something scandalous enough to get them to either look over or visibly startle. It wasn't much but that was the first part of a trifecta plan. The blonde was going to try to coerce out some reactions with some wolf and dog references because surely they would see the irony in it and would react suspiciously. And the next day, Esper and Bella were planning to go find where the Third Wife had died and she would have a vision where Bella could see it. Esper was sure that whatever reaction she had would be enough to convince the other girl of her sincerity.

She only hoped that it was nothing too extreme.

Elbowing the boy next to her, she eyed him with a critical intentness that clearly made him nervous.

"Say hi to Sam." She instructed but when he sighed and stood, she yanked him back down to the log.

"No," Esper sighed. "say hi from here - like call it out."

There was a silence and two pairs of eyes locked onto each other.

Jake raised a brow at her and when she merely stared him down, he groaned and cupped his hands around his mouth and gave a shout.

"Hey, Sam!" And five dark heads turned around - there were a lot more than canon said - to stare at the boy sitting next to them.

"Hey!" He laughed sheepishly and with an amused tilt of his lips, the handsome man waved back to his cousin and resumed what he was doing. Smiling to Bella - who offered a small one back - Esper was glad that they now had their attention, which meant it was time to implement the plan.

"Hey Jake," She called with a devious curl to her lips as she made sure her accent thickened to an almost amusing degree. "are you gonna turn out to be as good lookin' as Sam and his friends?"

Making sure to point them out, she saw out of the corner of her eye one of the wolf boys' head shoot up for a second and nearly turn before the shifter standing next to him smacked him on the back of the skull and with an internal smile, she glanced over at Bella who was watching them like a subtle hawk.

The other girl had caught the movement as well but it was still just a bit too coincidental.

"Oh please," He scoffed as he flipped his hair over his shoulder. "I'll be even hotter."

Bella snorted and Jake shot her a playful glare.

"And yes Bella," He smirked. "I'll be better looking than your precious Paul Lahote."

Bella looked fit for murder - and Paul seemed to be getting teased across the way and with a quick jab to Bella's thigh she made the girl glance over and see.

Taking out her phone she typed out a quick sentence and smiled.

three guesses as what theyre needling him about

Locking her screen she glanced over at Jake who was facing off with a Bella who just put away her phone and smirked.

"Shut up you ass." She growled out as she reached over and punched Jake hard in the shoulder to which he gave a squeal. "Say anything like that again and I swear I'll end you."

Bella was such a hoot - her threats always made the psychic warm inside.

"Paul's hot." Esper shrugged in order to take the heat off of her female friend. "No need to hate because Lahote was blessed with the gift of sexy and you weren't."

Jacob rolled his eyes good-naturedly.

Hard.

"At least I don't have a crush on Leah ESP." He pointed out smugly and Esper blew a raspberry.

"That just means that you don't have good taste." She quipped back and Jake pouted as he pulled the chip bag away from Bella. Chancing a glance over at Sam and the others, she couldn't see any of them looking over but a vibration from her phone had her looking down.

Sam looked over RIGHT when you mentioned Leah and Paul looked over RIGHT when you mentioned him. Bella's text said. And all the guys started patting Paul on the back in congratulations or something the INSTANT you said he was blessed with sexy.

Feeling vindicated, the young blonde decided one last thing should seal the deal on this setup.

"Doesn't Sam remind you a chihuahua sometimes?" She asked and out of the corner of her eyes she saw the younger boys in the wolf gang choke on their hot dogs and she smiled internally at the obvious visceral reaction.

Jake shot her a disbelieving look.

"No!" He gasped aghast. "He's more of a golden retriever!"

"Or a great dane." Bella chimed in and Esper laughed.

"Well I'll admit, those options do make more sense than what I said." She hummed as she narrowed her eyes in false contemplation. "But he's too big for either of those breeds."

Tapping her chin, she made a show of seemingly getting an idea.

"I know!" She drawled in her thick southern cajun accent. "He's like a wolf!"

And suddenly Jacob bolted upright.

"Yeah, that's perfect." He grinned brightly. "Like the legends! Sam's a werewolf!"

And if Esper had been drinking she would have done a spit-take like Sam's wolf pack did.

Damn, the boy didn't even know how true his words were.

"Yeah okay." Esper snorted calmly as she drank the last of her drink. "And I'm a witch."

"But that doesn't match the theme of the legends." Bella pointed out dryly and Esper rolled her eyes.

"Well yeah," She scoffed. "who wants to be a vampire? There are way too many disadvantages and they scare me - ergo witch."

"Why not a psychic?" Bella grinned ironically and Esper shoved at her.

"Witches are damn near psychic anyways." Rising to stand, she made her way over to the trash. "But if I had to choose between vampires and werewolves I'm picking wolves any day."

And if she and Bella saw the wolf pack - minus Sam, he was too covert for that - shooting her approving looks, then that only helped prove her point.

"According to the history of the land, the first of the Quileute people lived around here." Esper announced as she reached the clearing and put away her map. "Now the only thing we gotta do is explore."

Turning to glance behind her at the slightly winded Bella, Esper - who stayed active with her self-defense - raised a brow

"I told you to stay consistent with track." She sighed. "Stop doing one year on the team and then one year off, once we go back it's full time for you."

Ignoring the glare and mumble of "I did stay consistent, it's just that you do both gymnastics and martial arts now" from the brunette she instead moved further inland - besides Esper was only trying to help.

"What time did Charlie say we had to be back at the campsite?" The blonde asked as she shifted her backpack off of her shoulders and onto the ground before she pulled out her water bottle and took a deep swallow.

Bella leaned against a nearby rock and sighed.

"At three," She informed her. "So we have an hour and a half."

Esper nodded.

"That's good," She smiled as she closed her eyes, took a deep breath and stretched out psychic 'feelers' and scented out the remains of the past that lingered on the land. "That gives us enough time to fully explore and see what we need to."

And with that, they were off to roaming as random blips of the past tried to snag her attention and with a mental swat those memories stayed dormant.

Surprisingly it only took forty-five minutes for them to find the site of the first interaction between the Shifters and the Quileutes and she didn't slip into the vision so much as fall into it. One moment she was walking beside Bella and the next there were women and children being torn apart before her very eyes.

Needless to say, she screamed.

Turning on her heel she made to run away but just behind her, there was the sight of a body with its throat torn out - what was she even seeing? - and she half tripped half stumbled in her effort to reverse her course but pretty soon she was back to running. Esper was leaping over corpse after motherfucking corpse - oh god the vampires, the Cold Ones killed so fucking quickly - and the terror and pain of everything made her head throb with a sharp hot pain and she couldn't stop the tears from welling up.

Yelping as a young child - a goddamn baby oh fuck she was gonna throw up - was taken to the ground and savaged right in front of her, the blonde psychic bent over and upheaved right onto the red stained grass beneath her booted feet. Hands pressed to her aching stomach, she flinched at the screams that were piercing her ears and covered them with her palms - it didn't work, they were in her head and they were never leaving oh fuck oh fuck - and.

She wailed.

She wailed and screamed and sobbed as the din around her rose to an almost suffocating height. And as she felt her nose grow warm and the taste of copper fall past her lips, the sensation of hands grabbing hold of her body was not welcome.

It was one of the vampires who were attacking the village come to eat her whole.

And suddenly Esper was fighting for all she was worth. Her lithe body twisted this way and that like a madman and when her hands came into contact with the body holding her up, she attacked as best she could in her daze.

Hearing a muffled cry, she was dropped to the ground and she wasn't dropped out of her vision so much as pulled. Breathing hard, she blinked up at the blue sky - not crimson with the hue of freshly spilled blood - and tried her hardest to find her equilibrium. She didn't know how long she laid there with her gaze trapped on the pale expanse above her but when she heard the sound of shuffling beside her, she froze.

"Esper?" A soft and hesitant voice called as a faint sniffling echoed shortly after and the young psychic let her eyes close.

Bella.

"Es-per?" She asked again but this time her voice broke on the second syllable. "Adelaide? Please. Just p-please."

She cut herself off and the sound of an agonized groan slid into her ears as something seemed to hit the ground - did she fall? - and then there were hands fluttering around her face.

"Adelaide." Bella rasped as her tear stained face appeared in the corner on her vision. "Please - oh god please. You gotta tell me okay? You gotta tell me if you're hurt."

But when she didn't say anything the girl above her groaned out a wail as she buried her red and bruised face into the palms of her hands and started to bawl.

"No!" Bella whimpered out as she bent herself over in grief. "No, please, please I'm sorry - I swear I swear - I'm sorry!"

Blinking languidly as hot tears hit the skin of her face, Esper could feel the cloudiness that encompassed her psyche shift and with an amount of effort that almost hurt the girl opened her mouth and spoke.

"Don'" She grunted out from behind her thick tongue and her brows furrowed.

"Don' - t" She pronounced her tee hard to make sure it was heard.

"Call me Adel-" Esper paused and mulled it over. "Adelaide."

Taking a deep breath, she stared into wide and terror-stricken brown eyes and managed a shaky smile.

"Don't call me Adelaide." She rasped out and Bella burst into tears and damn near draped herself over Esper's prone from.

Grunting under the weight, the blonde sighed and gave her limbs a cursory flex and was so very relieved when everything responded immediately and with vigor. Reaching a hand up she tapped her best friend on the shoulder and it took the girl five minutes to even find the will to release her from the improvised hug.

"Help me up." She instructed and when Bella did just that, Esper threw up once more.

"Fuck." She cursed as she wiped at her mouth and when she glanced at her hand and saw red, which made her do it one more time - she had a nosebleed. "Fuck!"

Chancing a glance at Bella who looked to be a moment away from hoisting Esper up and nursing her back to health, she managed to afford her friend a small smile.

"We should get clean."

"Girls?" A voice shouted frantically as the sound of thudding footsteps neared them and both of them started. "Girls where are you?"

Esper grimaced but couldn't help but be warmed that Charlie heard them and ran the thirty-minute hike from the campsite in maybe ten minutes flat.

Fuck he was such a good father and she'd be damned if she let Bella's innate canon traits treat the man like shit.

"Or," She muttered. "we go to Charlie. The story is that I had a seizure and nothing else."

"Wait so you dragged me out of the vision's range?" She asked the other girl as they sat in her hospital room eating the free fruit cups. "Is that how you ended up with those bruises?"

Bella shrugged.

"I didn't let go until I knew you were far enough away." She told her before she gave her a sad smile. "I'm sorry Esper."

And said girl sighed.

"I already said it wasn't your fault after the first fifteen times you said that." She huffed. "And then I said you were forgiven to the next twenty that came after and I'm gonna start hitting you in return soon."

Sitting back in her bed, she smiled.

"I knew it was gonna be bad before hand." Esper soothed. "But I underestimated the force of it and overestimated myself.

"I guess I just gotta keep practicing my mental technique." She joked and when she saw Bella give a shaky but watery grin, she cooed and held open her arms to which the girl eagerly crawled into.

And if both of them cried for half an hour, then no one but the orderlies knew about it.

And if the next morning when her mother came storming into the hospital demanding to see her daughter, Esper cried for thirty minutes again - then she was taking it to the grave.

Finally, I'm updating! I'm glad to be getting this show on the road to be honest. I think three to five chapters should have us getting to canon but I could be wrong. Mainly because Bella is still going to be going to Forks for the summer instead of staying in Phoenix - because she loves her caring dad wth Stephanie Meyers? - so when Esper calls Bella in Forks Charlie is gonna be like? Do you have a relative named Alice? And he's gonna ask Alice about Esper too lol. Also, Sam might not be Jake's cousin but in this story, he is lol.

Question 1: What did you guys think about how Esper showed the wolves having supernatural hearing? Good? Bad? Believable? I think the guys are rowdy enough to outwardly react to anything scandalous they heard save for Sam.

Question 2: What did you guys think about the vision scene with Esper? Good? Bad?

Question 3: I know I asked this before but what do you guys think about Esper? What do you think about her character? How she's affecting the story and characters? What about her relationships with the other characters? What do you think about her abilities (to see the past/psychrometry and her Mesmer)?

Question 4: What do you guys think about the Bella in my story? Like her? Don't like her? What are some differences you see between canon!Bella and Twilightd!Bella you can see? How do you think those changes are gonna effect Bella's interactions with the Cullens and other characters?

I would like to thank you all for sticking with this story. It means a lot to me to have readers like you guys. The next three chapters should come in a quick succession because I already have them partially written out.

Please go check out my Patricia Briggs SI-OC into the Mercy Thompson Series called It's All Going To The Dogs.