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The next weeks passed quickly for Jenna. The girl spent most of the time with her family and Shane.
Jacob Black objected to the amount of time that Leah and Seth were spending with Jenna, the vampire. As she was never human, the treaty that tied the other Cullens did not bind Jenna. Still, she didn't venture to La Push very often. She respected both of the pack's wishes and the council's. Jacob didn't particularly like Jenna-in fact, he disliked her almost to the point of hatred. At first. After sharing Leah and Seth's mind-both of them liking Jenna-for a while, he couldn't help but like her. Jenna had that effect on people; humans, vampires, and werewolves alike.
Four days before the arrival of the Volturi, Jenna contacted Holly Short and Artemis Fowl.
"How's it going, guys?" Jenna asked. She plugged the phone into the television on the wall in the office. The screen split three ways, and Holly and Artemis' faces appeared, along with an animalistic hairy face Jenna didn't recognize. She took it to be Foaly, the LEP centaur technical genius.
"I was looking in the Book the other night," Artemis said, "I found something really interesting."
"What's that?" Jenna and Foaly said simultaneously. Jenna said it with genuine curiosity, and Foaly said it mockingly. He mocked everything Artemis said.
"The book does mention Fairies and Elves. Very briefly. And by that I mean the words are used once each on one page."
"Oh yes," Holly said, flipping through her own copy of the Book, "here, page 323."
"What does it say?" Jenna asked.
"It says that Fairies and Elves are the key to our existence. Without them, the other elf species would die out. Wow. I guess I have your family to thank for my existence." Holly said.
"I guess your race will always continue, now that I am an indestructible immortal Fairy-Elf. That is, if we survive this stupid Volturi attack."
"Speaking of that, I'm coming topside tomorrow. Artemis, I'll meet you at the Manor at ten. We should be at the Seattle airport by four. Will you pick us up?"
"Of course."
"See you then."
Jenna spent the rest of the day practicing combat with Edward and Emmett. She had asked Jasper, but his reaction had her backtracking quickly. Jasper had gone through a complex series of emotions in a few seconds. His expression turned from surprised, to absolutely livid, and then to an alarmed expression. Jasper rearranged his attractive features into a forced composure, while he declined Jenna's request.
Jenna beat Edward and Emmett by a landslide, even after she closed her mind. Edward could still read her mind, but she could read nobody's. She used no magic against them.
The young vampire spent her nights with Tanya, Kate, Bella, Carmen, and Esme. They hunted for an hour, and then just sat and talked.
The first day of this routine, Kate had convinced Jenna to repeat part of her life story.
"It'll only make it easier, Jenna." Kate said.
"But still, Esme. I don't want to talk about it." Jenna turned away.
"Jenna, I want to understand you. If you're not honest with me, how can I?"
"I am being honest with you, Kate!"
"Why won't you-"
"It's too hard, Kate! I can't talk about it yet. The thing is, I've had the memory of a vampire for my whole life. I have to remember everything that's ever happened to me, because I can't forget. It's like Jasper and his time with Maria. Jasper's a lot like me. He hides, too. You don't know what it's like!"
"What what's like, Ne?"
"You don't know what it's like to have your mother let all of her many boyfriends into your room when you're asleep. And let them do God knows what to you when you're trying to sleep. It started when I was two. Well-I say two because I was the size of a two-year-old. But really, I was only about ten months old."
Esme gasped. Her expression was copied on the stone faces of four other vampires.
"How can a mother hate her own daughter like that?" Bella whispered, "I mean, Edward and Nessie are the best things that ever happened to me."
"That's what I always thought. She never let on. I told you about the time I put her in the hospital when I was eight, right? Well, I never said how I did that. One time I was lying awake, and she let one of her boyfriends in to my room. All I really remember was killing the Elf and crushing the bones on the left side of Mother's body."
"Oh, Jenna-"
"No, Kate. Are you happy now? You got part of the story out of me. You can ask Jasper for the rest. His story is almost the same as mine."
Jenna retired to her room. In the main house, she gained possession of Edward's old room, as he was living in a cottage with Bella.
In the early hours of the morning, Jenna visited the house of her old adopted family and picked up her stuff. She set it up in her new room. Sadly, she tapped a few keys out on her keyboard.
"Connie bought this for me when I was thirteen," She said as Edward walked into the room and came beside her.
I heard your conversation with Kate.
Is she okay? I should go apologize to her. I'm not usually like that.
I know, Jenna.
But she was pushing me too hard.
I know, Jenna. I'm so sorry.
Just don't say anything like that to Jasper. He won't react the way I did.
It scares me, how you've only know Jasper for a few weeks, yet you already know him better than most of us, other than Alice.
It scares me too. I remember I had a favorite TV show when I was with Connie. One of my favorite characters said: 'I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind' That's how I feel.
You're afraid of your own mind?
I'm mostly afraid of what my mind can do. I don't ever want to loose control, because I don't know what will happen.
Leah came to the house around ten the next day. She and Jenna spent five hours singing and mixing music before Emmett came in.
"Jenna," he said, "It's three. Holly and what's-his-name are coming in at four."
"Yes, we should go. And what's-his-name's name is Artemis." Jenna hurried out the door, followed closely by Emmett, Leah, and Edward.
They took Bella's Ferrari. Bella didn't come along because there would be no room for Holly and Artemis if she did. They made it to the airport in perfect time.
Jenna found Artemis and Holly with her mind just before they saw them. Holly was shielded, but Jenna's vampire eyes easily picked her out.
"Artemis! Butler!" she called, at the boy's side in fraction of a second. Nobody noticed-thank God, "I'm so glad you could make it!" Jenna hugged both of them.
In the meantime, everyone else had arrived at Jenna's side. She preformed introductions.
"Artemis, Butler, Holly, this is Edward and Leah, and of course you already know Emmett. Shall we?" Jenna asked, beckoning towards the parking lot.
On the way back, Jenna sat in the back seat with Artemis and Holly, with Leah sandwiched between Edward and Emmett in the front. This was to prevent Emmett or Edward from killing Holly. They left the top of the convertible down so the scent of Holly's blood blew out behind them.
She does smell good... Edward thought ...Even better than Bella...Wow...I never thought I'd experience that with anyone, except Jenna.
Jenna sent him a warning glance through the rear-view mirror. It took him a while to catch it.
As soon as they were within two miles of the big house, Edward and Jenna's eyes glazed over as they watched a vision in Alice's head.
It happened four days in the future. They were in the clearing, and so were the Volturi. Everyone was there, including Jenna's new and old family, and all of her friends.
Jenna was in the middle of a mob of her friends. There was a clear break between the vampires and the Elves. At one end of the break was Jenna, and at the other were the three Volturi leaders. Jenna's head was down.
"Child, raise your head." Aro called.
Looking up, Jenna kept her eyes closed, "You have come to destroy my family," she said, "and for that you are corrupt. I will not allow it." Jenna Annabeth Trinity Ellanora Minerva Greenleaf's piercing violet eyes flew open.
"Woah," Emmett said as Jenna projected the vision into everyone's heads, "Heavy."
"What happens next?" Holly asked quietly.
"I don't know." Jenna answered truthfully.
Jenna introduced Holly and Artemis to the other vampires in the house, and the werewolves. Then they traveled, with Holly flying with Jenna and Artemis riding Leah, to Jenna's grandparent's cottage, where they would be staying.
"This day has been full of introductions," Jenna commented casually to Holly.
"Only one more round," She replied. Wanna dive?
Bet on it, Jenna projected, angling her body into a steep, sleek dive. Holly followed suit.
The cottage was amazing. It was fair and averaged-sized. Jenna landed in the large yard, along with her fey friend. Leah trotted into the clearing, and both elf and Fairy-Elf laughed at the sight of Artemis.
The boy was covered in twigs and leaves. His normally perfect suit was ripped and torn. He had many scratches and a good-sized gash that was still bleeding on the side of his face. Artemis tumbled off of the giant wolf he was riding.
"Never again" he said as Leah slunk into the woods to phase.
Holly placed both hands on Artemis' face and muttered, "Heal" Artemis' cuts, scrapes, and his gashes were healed.
All of a sudden, something hit Jenna's back. She hardly felt it, but still her self-preservation instinct told her to turn.
A flash on the ground caught her eye. An arrow-sleek and elfish and deadly. Jenna caught a new smell-one she knew well but hadn't caught in years. Her mother was close, and she had fired on her. Jenna grabbed Holly and Artemis and booked it into the cottage. When she returned, she found Leah dodging arrows as if her life depended on it, which it did. The young vampire didn't know exactly where her mother was, but her intellect told her the approximate area. She fired arrow after arrow into the forest in a wide sweep.
A screech in an all-to-familiar voice reached the clearing. One of the arrows had hit Matilda, "Jenna! I'm coming for you! You cost me sixteen years of my life! Annabeth Trinity Ellanora Minerva Greenleaf, surrender or die a horrible and painful death!" And then the presence was gone. Jenna didn't relax.
"Jenna?" Holly, who had cracked the door ajar, asked, voicing everybody's thoughts, "Who is Annabeth Trinity Ellanora Minerva Greenleaf?"
"Me" replied the stunned Fairy-Elf.
