We were all crowded around in the living room; nobody said anything for a while.
"Bella, you didn't do anything wrong. I promise you." I looked up and my eyes met with his golden ones. I could see the love in them, I knew he would have forgiven me even if I had torn his arms off, he was just that guy that would do anything for me and I didn't deserve him. Tears that didn't exist started to well up in my eyes. It was a weird sensation, knowing that you are supposed to cry, but it just didn't happen.
"Yes I did, I a-" I started to say but was cut off.
"No Bella, you didn't. You were amazing, when I went on my first hunt, I attacked Carlisle." He said, clearly exasperated. My eyes were as big as saucers and my mouth was slack.
"Bella, most vampires wouldn't have had the self control you had by stopping yourself from attacking Edward." Carlisle pitched in. I was still staring at Edward.
"We were out hunting at around 3 a.m. and he was teaching me; only he wanted to demonstrate it. So he did. There was a mountain lion about a mile away so he went to go kill it, and I watched. He snapped the neck first, explaining what I was supposed to do. Then he went to bite it. The second I could smell the blood, I lost it. Carlisle noticed and leapt out of the way, but I doubled back for him and pinned him down. I was much stronger than him because I was still a newborn but he was still fighting and trying to talk to me, but I was to out of control. He was able to roll us over, but I got extremely annoyed so I threw him into a boulder and went to go finish the mountain lion. It wasn't until after I drained a deer that I noticed what exactly I had done…" he trailed off to a finish. My mouth was hanging wide open now and I kept looking back and forth from Edward to Carlisle and back again.
"I was fine, but from then on, with Esme, Rosalie, and Emmett, I didn't demonstrate, because it was pretty self explanatory." I still didn't know what to say or do.
"Oh." I squeaked. Edward chuckled and rubbed my back soothingly. Carlisle started to speak to the others again while I tuned him out and just concentrated on the soothing motion Edward was making on my back.
"I love you." He whispered. I nodded.
"I love you too."
….
"Irina, what's everyone's power? They never told me." I asked her. We were still sitting in the living room chatting amongst ourselves, though the mood was much lighter and happy.
She smiled back warmly at me. "Mine is telekinesis. I'm still not very good at it though, I can't do people, but light objects here and there, like a cd, or book." She half smiled. I gaped.
"That is so cool! How did you discover it?" I asked eagerly. She laughed.
"Thanks, um, I was sitting around the house and I was remembering that I needed to grab the mail from the kitchen counter. I was relaxing on the couch, when I felt, like this pull, and I was just concentrating on just getting the mail, when it fell into my lap."
"Wow. That's nice." I said
"Thanks, Eleazar has the power of good judgment. So it is like he knows right from wrong." I nodded. "Kate is a lie detector." She said in an irritated tone. I laughed.
"That must be fun." I said sarcastically.
"Tons. It's great and comes in handy a lot, but it is extremely irritating when she uses it against you."
"What about Tanya? What's her power?" I asked. Irina shook her head.
"She doesn't have one."
"Oh. Well what did she bring over from her human life?" she looked at me blankly. "For example, Esme brings her loving nature…" a look of understanding crossed her face.
"Oh… I guess.. She is really understanding." She said after a moment.
I nodded. I understood that, surprisingly.
………
We were all downstairs when it happened.
Alice was in the other room with everybody else, Edward and I were in the un-needed kitchen just talking about nothing in particular. I knew that I would never know everything about him, but I was going to try my hardest, we had eternity, we had time, and I was determined. He was telling me a story about when I was a human, and he was watching me. I remembered it, it was the day before I went to Port Angeles with Jessica and Angela, apparently he was watching me, and he was confused as to why I got frustrated at the book and snapped it shut.
Then it happened. Edward froze, and I could hear movement in the other room. I could clearly distinguish everybody's sound, so it was easy to tell that it was jasper that had moved. Nobody was breathing. I looked back to Edward, his eyes were coal black, and it reminded me of the day we met, in the biology class. His jaw and fists were clenched, his back rigid, and he wasn't breathing. I would have laughed because he was in the exact same position of that fateful day, but now, something was wrong, very, very wrong. "Edward…? What's wr-" I stopped there because I could hear jasper start to speak in the next room.
"Alice, what did you see?" he asked. She didn't answer. I was there in half a second. Carlisle, Esme, and Tanya were on one of the couches, Eleazar, Kate, and Irina in the other one. Emmett and Rosalie were in the love seat. There was an empty chair to Alice's left, were I assumed jasper had moved from, but they were all looking at Alice. She was seated in the next chair; Jasper kneeled in front of her, hands on her shoulders. She was frozen. Looking at everybody. I was panicking. I grabbed Edwards hand and squeezed it. I looked up at him, his jaw was still clenched and his eyes were still coal black. "Edward." I demanded. Somebody needed to tell me what was going on, or I would lose it. He looked down at me, his eyes softening a little, but still guarded. His nostrils flared and his head snapped back to Alice, about 3 seconds had passed, and I was still very confused. Jasper started to talk again and I really hoped that she gave him answers this time, or I would make her. "Alice!" he shook her by the shoulders lightly. "Alice," he said again a little more softly. Talk to me. She just shook her head at no one in particular, then so softly, and so terrified, she uttered one word, one terrifying word.
"Volturi."
The atmosphere changed dramatically and it seemed like everybody gave out a big gust of air that they were holding, Carlisle, Emmett, and Eleazar all stood up, defensively, and Edward crouched in front of me in a protective stance at the sound of their name. Jasper froze, but remained kneeled in front of Alice. He locked eyes with her and his eyes filled with fear and love, they shared a moment while I looked away, giving them their privacy. After what felt like a lifetime to me, jasper began to speak to Alice again. "When," he asked her.
"I don't know maybe a week." She said.
"Who was it?" he asked through his teeth.
"Jane, Alec, Aro, Marcus, Caius, and some of the Guard." Alice looked like she would be crying if she could. Edward snarled at the sound of their names.
"Where, what happened?" Jasper asked sounding frustrated, and angry, and terrified, looking into Alice's eyes.
I don't know we were at the field I think, I don't know, it was some sort of clearing, and Aro was ordering…" she trailed off, remembering. "He wanted us…he said something, and the guard ran forward. To us. To attack." She finished.
I was angry. I was beyond infuriated, I was pretty sure I looked similar to Edward now, my jaw clenched, nostrils flared, fists in a tight ball, and I was sure my eyes were pitch black. Why couldn't they leave us alone?! My mouth tasted hot. I changed, I'm a vampire, they got what they wanted, they can't touch my family, they won't. I got so infuriated, the only thing I could concentrate on was protecting everybody I loved, all of their faces flashing in my mind, the most important one, Edward, even Charlie, my mom, Phil, everybody I loved and it felt like I kept getting more and more furious, my concentration rising, they can't touch any of us, they won't.
Then something hit.
Voices, I heard voices, though everybody was silent, and images flashed through my mind, and I recognized it, it was what Alice just described. I watched in my head. Aro, Marcus, Caius, were in the center, Aro in front of the two, Jane and Alec of to the side, and a blanket of black cloaks further beyond. Jane was smirking at me, and Aro said something very low and fast, I didn't catch it, then the blanket of black rushed toward us, Jane falling behind to walk towards us. And then it ended. I felt the anger rise up in me more, as I felt lightheaded, a small part of me started to feel scarred, then terrified, and worry, then more and more anger, it started to cover me creeping up, making it stronger, and stronger the more it crept up, and it's like it was coming to me and it was a small pull or tug, like I was connected to it with a string. I felt unsteady and confused, though my anger was still good and strong in me. The voices I concentrated on became clearer, 'no! no, no, no, Alice, they can't hurt her th-' 'Aro, why is he doing this' 'Demetri better be coming to, time to finally pick a fight with him, I-' 'my children-' 'we must try to reason with them-' Irina could hel-' they started to get faster, and faster, and then it slowed when I heard my favorite voice 'my Bella, they can't touch her, they made me turn her, they can't touch her! My life. My love.'
I fell back when I heard that, falling onto the floor. And it all stopped, I couldn't hear the voices any longer, and the only anger I felt was coming from me. I didn't know if vampires could feel dizzy, but I was. I felt like I would pass out if that were possible. Edward stepped out of his stance and turned to me. Everyone else turned to look at me too. I was still, and looked around at everybody, breathing heavy, stunned at what had just happened. I couldn't even explain it, and I needed to understand.
"Bella what happened?" I heard jasper ask me. My eyes were closed. I opened them and looked at him. He was confused. "You were so angry, I could feel it, and I have never felt anything that strong before, except for Edward, but you kept getting more and more angry, and then it just stopped, I couldn't feel you any more, at all." What he said shocked me. How could he not feel me anymore? That's not possible. Then again, what had just happened to me was not possible either; I just kept getting more and more confused by the second. Everybody turned to look at jasper while he was speaking, but now they were back to looking at me with equally confused expressions.
"What?" I asked him.
"I couldn't feel you anymore. And I couldn't… I couldn't feel anyone in here either…" he said and his eyes got slightly unfocused, remembering I assumed. "Yes, I couldn't feel anybody." His expression showed he was getting more confused too.
Edward turned to me then, his brow furrowed, as in deep in thought, he opened his mouth, then shut it again. He was still angry, that much was evident, but now something else was bothering him. "I couldn't…I couldn't…..hear. Anybody."
"What's going on?" the three of us whispered in unison.
"Bella you have to tell me everything, what happened, what did you do? How did you do that?" Edward pleaded with me. He wanted to understand, just as much as I did.
He wanted to understand.
I needed to.
"I didn't do anything! I don't know what's going on!" I shouted. I was so beyond frustrated at this point.
"Bella calm down. We have to discuss this rationally," Said Carlisle.
"We don't have time to discuss this Carlisle! The Volturi are coming to kill us! We don't have time! We don't have time!" I was pretty sure I would be hysterical by now if I were human.
"Bella, calm down. You have to tell us what happened."
"I got mad. Really mad. And all I wanted was to protect everyone. And then, I…I don't….and then I heard voices, then I saw what Alice described. Perfectly in my head, it was like I was watching it was so clear. And then I started to get angrier by the second, it was like it was engulfing me, and I could almost feel a tug with." Jaspers head snapped up at me when I said that, but I kept going. "and then I could hear the voices clearer when I concentrated on them, it was your voices, but you weren't talking, and I was so confused I didn't know what was going on. So I fell back." They didn't say anything.
"So that's it, now can somebody please tell me what happened, please?"
Jasper was the first to speak, "That's what I feel, the tugging."
Then Edward, "That can't be possible," he said. But he wasn't looking at me.
He was looking at Carlisle.
"It seems as though Bella has another power," Carlisle stated. And then everything fell into place.
A/N: Ok, see, so I know that this Is really, really short but, I felt really bad for not updating in, what… half a year? So I decided to just give you what I have Life happened, and I couldn't update, and I finally started my other fanfic, but I am going to finish this one before I post the other one. The other reason why I wasn't updating this is because…I'm just really no feeling this story anymore. At all. But what did get me through this chapter was a song. Called Such Great Heights. By The Postal Service. Really doesn't have anything to do with this chapter, but eh.
Happy valentine's day everyone, I love you all.
