DISCLAIMER: NOTHING OWNED BY ME EXCEPT FOR THE PLOT TWIST AND THE NEW CHARACTERS! ORIGINAL CHARACTERS AND MUSIC NOT MINE! Read on :)
A/N: Hello there. Another update. Surprised? Me too. I'm feeling very inspired though, so I thought I'd roll with it. Here goes. OHHH BTW. For anyone who didn't understand. The last chappie was EPOV. Sorry for not putting it at the top. :( On with the content.
BPOV
As the final chords ended I stepped back from the mic stand and took a drink from the water bottle, glancing over at Nicholas and Destiny, focusing on their game as if it was the most important thing in the world. I chuckled quietly and Alex joined in as he realized what I was laughing at. I looked to our left at the girls laying and sitting on the floor, clustered around a magazine as if it was a normal happening, I knew better. Emmeline happened to glance up at me and I nodded, she looked back down and I turned around to face the guys.
Mitch, Toby, and Alex all watched me, with wary expressions hidden poorly. And it wasn't difficult to see why. With the Cullens seated up further in our basement, there wasn't much we could do that they couldn't see or hear. I looked further right at the two kids, and then at the two people I knew as my parents: Genevieve and Leonardo. They were blatantly staring at the Cullens. Though I couldn't tell if it was a curious stare or a menacing one from where I was standing, though I'm sure from where they were sitting it could be taken as either one.
I barely stifled a smirk, though Alexander growled quietly at me. I just grinned bigger at him, my back to where they were sitting. He rolled his eyes after Mitchell realized what I was doing and shook his head, grinning as well. I switched my look to an innocent one and he sighed, seemingly giving up, and turning a different direction.
By this time Em, Samantha, and Abby had gotten up and stood where we were standing, Em just beside me. I turned to her and grimaced. She nodded and leaned her temple to mine. Though I should have been expecting it, it still somewhat surprised me. I looked up in time to see both Carlisle's and his eye's widen in some form of recognition. They were still watching my parents. Took them long enough. They've known them for quite a while, by reputation anyway. Mama began and ran a music producing company and studio back home and Dad had a church where we grew up, was a pastor our whole lives. Strange for a vampire? Not for him at least.
… Wait. Did I just admit to being raised by vampires? I think I did. Surprise. We all were, really. Every single person on this stage was raised by that couple, starting at some small age in their lives. I was the last one to be adopted, I was also the youngest, and the one to come from the most… difficult background. I swallowed and turned to look at Destiny and Nicholas. They would never know hardship… Being raised in the spotlight like this, in a family of money, in eternal happiness… This is what I wanted for my child.
What they (the Cullen's) didn't realize yet, is exactly who my family was… they had to figure out that one for themselves. Sadly it was kind of obvious… in my mothers looks… and in certain photographs of children that were absent from this gathering… but they didn't seem to be catching on… which was very good for us.
After about another… moment of us standing in the middle, I realized how either suspicious or… special we looked, just standing here. Doing nothing. I sighed and draped an arm over Emmeline's shoulders. "What are we going to do with them?" She just chuckled and looked over at the kids, very focused in their game, as if encased in their own little bubble. "I think she's winning though, might have to give him a few more pointers before their next game." I focused on the pieces and laughed. She was right. I looked back at her. "If Des wins he might rage quit and not want to play chess for a while. I know your son." Mitch smirks. "You're on." "Twenty?" "I was thinking fifty." We bump knuckles and Em just shakes her head at our exchange, we turn just in time to see Leo and Genevieve reach the end of the stage and gracefully jump off, heading towards the Cullens without pause.
I hear the girls intake breath behind me, as we watch our parents approach them. They sound nervous, though I don't really know why. If anything were to happen I'm pretty confident that our family can defend ourselves. Its been done before. I shake my head to clear the memories a little and focus as the Cullens stand, first Esme and Carlisle and then the children. They look so different then when I last saw them… almost tired and worn, but still they haven't aged at all… I feel His gaze upon me and I transfer mine to Leo again, just as he reaches Carlisle.
"Hello. I am Leonardo and this is Genevieve. We saw your coming yesterday, and it's a good thing we did too, otherwise you could have been mistaken for enemies. Our family as I'm sure you can see is up there." He gestures to us kind of vaguely. By this time Destiny laughs, moves a piece and then looks up at Nicholas. "Check. Mate." He gasps and stares at the board in disbelief and then stands up, one of his feet catch on the board, flipping it, and stomps off. Both Destiny and I erupt in laughter, most likely interrupting whatever introductions the Cullens have started, causing them all to look at me. I turn, with my hands on my hips, looking at Mitch, shaking my head as he sighs and pulls out the money and offers it to me. I take it and tuck it into the iPhone case, looking back to see Destiny walking over since the game is over. I pick her up once she is beside me and set her on my hip. She leans into me and I smooth her curls, she smiles. "Good game?" She nods and chuckles. Slowly the Cullen's attention gets diverted back to Leo and Gen.
Now it's her turn to speak. "Our children are fully grown, and as you can see some have started families of their own. Their names are Mitchell, Emmeline, Samantha, Tobias, Abigail, Alexander, Isabella, and the little ones are Destiny and Nicholas." She didn't seem to single any of us out, though we were all looking their way by this time, and Nick was standing by his father, holding his mother's hand. "We also have two more children, but they are more apart from the family then these ones are. They usually stick to travelling and being… rather rambunctious, those two. Their names are Prudence and William." Destiny leaned even closer to me and I kissed her forehead, shifting my weight from foot to foot. Alex stilled me with a hand to my lower back. "Relax Bells. We got this." I shrugged and looked back at him for a split second. "It's not them I'm worried about." He raised his eyebrow and I glanced down at Des and back at him. He just raised his eyebrows further and I stepped closer to him. He moved to where our arms were brushing and I let the walls between our minds down, but put a protective wall around his simultaneously, so a certain someone couldn't see or hear anything going on. "Explain fast." "I'm worried about what stress like this would do to her. Them showing up like this. You remember the last time vampires showed up uninvited? It scared the hell out of her. All because of what happened when she was younger. And it downright pisses me off." ... "What about it being them?" "What about it?" "Them being in your past and all… it doesn't affect you?" "Do I seem affected? …" "Not really I guess, but you do tend to store a lot of emotions inside… while I'm in your head I COULD do some poking around…" At this point I elbowed him in the ribs to break the temporary connection and closed my mind. Causing him to chuckle audibly but know that the conversation was over. Usually it (It being converse mentally) was easier to do if I was touching someone, which is why he knew to move closer, but I still had to remember to close the connection, which I did. Always on top notch guard with strange vampires around.
I hear them talking abit more, Carlisle explaining how their family came to be, and I watch Genevieve watch him silently… almost wanting to cut him off and question, and demand things of him. Answers to questions to which I can only begin to think of… She has only told the family the gist of her story. The only people that know the entirety are her, herself, Leo, and me. I sigh, wondering if that will get brought up on this visit. Probably. Since my undoubted demise will happen as well. I look down at Destiny, who is watching the exchange as well. If only she knew. I've told her as much as I can. How I loved her father. And his family as my own. But it just wasn't meant to be for us to be together. But just before we went our separate ways a delightful thing happened. I became pregnant with her. I hugged her tightly to me, and I felt her arms do the same back. She never had to know that was her other side of her family. And as long as I kept my mouth shut, and they stayed blind of knowledge they would never have to know.
Leave it to Esme of course, to ask how our family was formed. Our parents both chuckled. "That's quite a long story, are you sure you want to hear it?" She nods and they both walk past them, heading upstairs, undoubtedly to the library, where most of the heirlooms and the 'timeline' of our family was kept. Esme followed close behind, as did Carlisle, and then slowly the rest of their family. But then they stopped, as Gen paused on the stairs. "You all coming?" I sighed and nodded. "Be up in a minute." She nodded back and disappeared up the stairs.
Sam stretched as she turned back to face us. "They really aren't gonna address the fact that they know you? What a bunch of low lives." I shook my head at her. "For one it's past tense, and two I doubt they want to draw attention to it right now. For all they know it might start a fight." I switch Destiny to my other hip and walk to the end of the stage, easily crouching and then hopping off, landing on the balls of my feet. I turn back as I start the long climb after them. "Well c'mon. They really can't explain everything without us." Some of them sighed exasperatedly, and others just rolled their eyes. The only one who even seemed willing was little Nicholas who just walked to the end of the stage to me and hopped off, taking my hand. We walked to the steps and I heard grumbling, but I ignored it. I knew I'd have to face what was upstairs eventually anyway, and I wanted my family there for it. I could hear them talking, and I knew they hadn't gotten there. By the sounds of it they were loitering in the living room, waiting for us.
As I reached the landing, all heads turned towards me. Destiny pressed her face into my shoulder and I spared a glance at her. She was fine, she just didn't like the stares. I looked up again just in time to see Genevieve smile and walk to the staircase leading upwards as more of her children appeared. She walked in front of window and that's when it happened. The barely there, dim light, shielded by clouds, caught her hair and made the bronze stand out, and both Carlisle and Edward gasped. Finally. Maybe they seemed like they had some intelligence and memory left after all. Genevieve slowly turned back around at the sound, her hair still that bronze color, and their faces still wore that shocked/surprised expression. Oh boy, they're in for it now.
A/N: OH NO! SHE DID IT AGAIN! ANOTHER CLIFFIE! ;D Well yes. But I updated quickly, yes? So more reviews, like on the last chappie, and I'll update quick too? I think on the next chapter I'll try to put more of their history… and what the 'new family' looks like and such. Let me know if you'd like that? :) xoxo Tiffany