DISCLAIMER: unfortunately I do not own the Twilight series. Wish I did though!
"How did you recognise Aro, Felix, Demetri and Renata if you've never met them?" Edward asked as we walked along the grass by the river that ran near to the Cullen's home.
"Well, theres a vampire by the name of Rosie, who lives in England. Her talent is to read memories. Not nearly as cool as reading thoughts, though it can come in useful. Sometimes I might turn out to be aquainted with a vampire before I've even met them. I extracted the memory from someone called Eleazar, who used to work for the Volturi. He's a member of the Denali clanmwho, I am told are very close friends with your family?"
Edward smirked, but nodded in agreement.
"Well, we were talking one time, and I happened to touch him. That was when I 'knew them'."
The rushing of the stream was louder now that I listened to it, and when I looked closely, I could see a pair of beavers, grasping onto each other as they hurtled downstream. The current was really picking up for some reason, and small waves began to appear as they pushed the beavers even further down. When I glanced further upstream, I saw that their dam had burst, and a huge torrent of water that had built up was washing them away. I felt so bad for the poor things, but I couldn't just jump into the river and save them! It was not that I was worried about scaring them, it was the fact that Alice had given me a beautiful white trench coat, and I daren't go jumping into rivers whilst wearing it, otherwise I would have to face her wrath once we returned home to the big white house.
"Look at the poor things ! I'm sorry, but Charlie's favourite animal was a beaver, we can't let them die, it'll make me feel awful!" I yelped.
Edward smiled my favourite smile, and proclaimed that he was going to be the one to save the beavers. He managed to make himself look very impressive, puffing out his chest and drawing himself up to his full height.
"Don't worry, I got it. Pick. Option one or two."
"Two."
I smiled. I hadn't really tried this one out yet. Option two was time freeze. Oh, it didn't last forever, just about 2 minutes. I quickly grabbed Edward by the arm, so he would not become frozen at the same time, and really concentrated. Hard. I imagined time stopping, and the water becoming hard, making it possible to walk on. It was reassuring to see the river's flow stop immediately. I turned to my right to see Edward's stunned face looking at me.
"What did you do?"
"Time freeze. It will only last about 2 minutes."
And with that, I ran across the hard water, plucked the beavers from the water, and put them on the side of the river bed. For the remaining minute, I skipped about on the water, and jumped off just in time to un-freze again. I could feel the heat of his gaze on my back, and so I turned around, only to find him closer thtat I thought. I walked straight into him."If I was human, I'd have bruises." I thought to myself.
"What was option one?"He asked in a low, seductive murmur. I struggled for words, though I couldn't find my lips. The words tittered on the edge of my tongue for more than a minute before I had time to answer. How did he manage to do this to me? How did he leave me feeling weak with one stare, how did he leave me breathless with just a glimpse of his perfect bronze hair, how did he look so perfect? How was it possible?"
"Element tweak." I announced proudly. He stared at me with curiosity in his eyes for a few seconds.
" W - w - wh - what?" He asked. I knew he was going to ask, and I had prepared myself well for it. I flicked my hand out to the side of me, to the river, and spread my fingers wide, pushing with the weight of my palm untill I could feel the weight of some force in my palm. With all my might I shoved it towards the river, and watched in contentment as I saw the river freeze over, solidly all the way down, and flat as a sheet of paper.
I flashed a cheeky grin at him, before sliding myself onto the ice. I had done well. It WAS solid all the way through.
"Bella, hang on, you might fall!"Edward shouted, before whizzing himself across the ice and grabbing me around the waist. I smiled. He hadn't changed at all.
"Edward, in case you didn't notice, I am a vampire now. I'm more likely to hurt something else than it is to hurt me!" I said jokingly. A low chuckle told me he agreed.
"Sorry, old habits die hard," he murmured in my ear. His breath tickled my ear, and sent a shiver down my spine., " come on, lets skate!"
We skated around the little river for hours, until the sun began to come down, casting red, orange and purple light through the Maple trees. I gasped in amazement.
"That's beautiful!"I exclaimed. His hands were in my hair in an instant, before dropping down to my waist.
"Nothing can compare to your beauty." He whispered. With that, I reached up onto my toes so I could kiss him.
His lips were cool against mine, soft ad gentle, and even though we didn't need to, we kept on coming up for air, and with each and every breath, the kiss got stronger. More urgent. Mor passionate. We kept going forever, until Edward broke the kiss. I looked up at him, scared of being rejected. There had been passion in his eyes. Now there was fear.
"Alice." He whispered, then grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me along beside him all the way home. When we entered the door, all I saw was a smashed vase, flowers all over the place, and Alice standing in the middle of the room, with an expression of horror on her face.
"They're coming." She whispered.