Chapter 11

Sorry I forgot to add the disclaimer in my update, so here it is.

I don't own twilight and the characters. S. Meyer does

I am so so so sorry for the long delay. I really have no excuse. I lost my muse for a long time and couldn't seem to find the effort to continue. But now I'm back and ready to continue.

Previously

"Where is the fourth child Carlisle?" Alina asked.

"Please feel free to ask any question that you wish, both of you. As for my forth child, she is my most precious my youngest, and she was taken against her will, kidnapped" Carlisle informed them.

"Oh dear. Who would take her? What would another coven want from her?" Sergey asked concerned his Russian accent curling his words

"Bella was taken by familiars not vampires" Carlisle answered. Alarm washed over Sergey and Alina.

"What would familiars want with a vampire? We are of no use to them, their masters see us as underlings" Sergey asked puzzled. Up until this point Carlisle had been confident and assertive, although this facade easily gave at the innocent question that Sergey had asked. Honesty was the only way to get their help. Carlisle knew this and was worried what their reactions would be when they knew the truth.

"Yes you are right Sergey. A familiar would not need anything from a vampire, but Bella is no vampire...she is human."

Continued

Silence filled the cozy living room at the revelation that the eighth family member was in fact a human. Forbidden amongst vampires, a taboo, vampires avoided all contact with humans, unless it was to drain the life force that pumped through their veins. Sergey did not stay silent for long.

"Human…Carlisle you know it is forbidden to expose our existence to humans." Sergey stated passionately. "What would the Volturi do if they ever found out? Your whole family will be destroyed. Killed over a human." He whispered the last word, concern laced his features.

"Sergey old friend, you need not concern yourself with the Volturi. They already know of Bella and have even met her. They have allowed us all to live with the condition that she is changed into one of us." Carlisle answered reassuring his friend that at the moment the Volturi was not an issue. "Regardless if she was human or vampire, Bella is a Cullen. There is no doubt about that and we protect ours till death. We need to find her Sergey and we can't do that without someone who has knowledge of the kind that took her. That's where you come in." Carlisle directed at Sergey. Sergey sat for a few moments, deep in thought. Would he help us? God I hope so. We were running on a hunch and some cat hair. And as clueless and ridiculous as it sounded, I knew that Carlisle was somehow on the right track. These familiars and Witches had something to do with Bella's disappearance and the only person that could help us was standing in front of us, contemplating whether he should help us over a human, a mortal, our natural prey, that he never met. Sergey looked at Alina, a silent conversation seem to be happening between them. Something I had seen mated couples do many times. After what felt like forever Sergey sighed.

"Okay I'll help you Carlisle. I can see you care a great deal for this Bella. She is part of your family and you are an old dear friend, so by extension she is a friend too. I never turn away from my friends…no matter how crazy they are" Sergey smirked. Relief flooded the room, a combination of our own and Jasper's gift. Sergey realized that his relief was not all his own. "Carlisle one of your children are gifted…an empath maybe?" Carlisle nodded proud of his children.

"Yes" he agreed "Almost all my children are gifted" Carlisle pointed to Jasper first "Jasper here is an empath" then to Alice "Alice can see the future" then to me "Emmett here has strength beyond any newborns" I had to stop him there.

"No Carlisle that is not a gift. It's just a trait" I objected

"No I have to agree with Carlisle" Jasper interjected "I have worked with countless newborns and never once have I seen their strength even come close to yours. You are gifted." Alice smiled in agreement. Wow I was gifted too. I never really saw it that way, maybe it was because I was pushing 6.6"feet and practically a wall of muscle. I'm a big guy in more than just muscle if you know what I mean. What? I can't help that I am in proportion. Bella is a lucky girl! But now I couldn't help but agree with the speculation. My strength was unquestionable.

"Sorry Carlisle please continue" I encouraged

"Well as I was saying" Carlisle continued "Edward one of my 2 children that has conveniently disappeared can read minds. Esme my mate and Rose my other child don't have any gifts…well that I know of anyway. It seems those three have been keeping a lot from me." Carlisle finished.

"And Bella? You didn't mention whether she had a gift or not" Sergey asked, curious as to why Carlisle never mentioned her. In fact it made most of us curious. Alice seemed to be the only one that knew what the answer was even without her gift. Had those two discussed this before? Carlisle looked to Alice for answers.

"It's okay Carlisle you can tell them. In fact I think everyone needs to know" Alice smiled at Carlisle. Yep they have definitely talked about this before.

"Bella has a gift too. It's a shield-"He started

"I don't understand why you feel the need to be so secretive Carlisle. The Volturi already have a shield, remember Antonio?" Sergey interrupted. Argh! Antonio. I had to agree though. Why would Carlisle and Ali be so secretive about Bella's power, when the Volturi already had one? It didn't make sense. It seemed that Bella's power was not so rare after all.

"Is that why Aro couldn't use his powers against her, because she's a shield?" I asked. Carlisle nodded. Wow she was human and already had power, and here we all thought she ran on a different station like Edward suggested. It was a different station alright. A whole other level of technology.

"Yes I agree the Volturi already has a shield. Antonio is very powerful indeed. However, Bella is still human and her shield is already very powerful, which means that whatever power she will have when she is changed will be magnified. Don't under estimate her just because she is human. Her power is not as benign as Antonio's. It somehow has an aggressive edge to it." We all looked at Carlisle surprised. He continued.

"Do you remember when Edward Alice and Bella got back from Italy? Bella was acting distant and distracted for the first few months. Then suddenly she was fine after Alice and I took her to Seattle for a few days. We told you she just needed some girl time with Alice. The truth is we didn't go to Seattle. " Of course we remembered that, we were vampires, we don't forget. It was weird, we all noticed it, but we thought it had more to do with our leaving than anything else. So we all bought the story without question "Well Bella came to me. She was upset. She said when Aro touched her something strange happened."

"I thought nothing happened. That's why Aro was so interested." Jasper stated.

"In a way that's true Jasper. For Aro nothing happened. However for Bella it was the opposite. She saw something. A flash of something within her sight" Carlisle explained.

"Okay so she saw a flash. It could have been the sunlight" Jasper reasoned.

"No it wasn't the sunlight and other strange things seemed to be happening to her." Carlisle objected

"Like what?" I asked curious as to why Bella had been so upset.

"One night she stayed with us while all of you were hunting. Only Alice and I stayed that night and Bella had slept in Alice's and Jasper's room. She had a nightmare. She was upset. She kept telling me Edward was going to be hurt in a fight that he and Emmett had in regards to her. She said you were fighting about her humanity. That you, Emmett kept thinking about Bella as a vampire. That it upset Edward and he tried to attack you. But that he was no match for you and that you tore his arm clear off. She didn't want the two of you fighting over her. I tried to reassure her. Tell her that you were out hunting and that nothing like that would happen. Then you came back the next morning and it turned out she was right. Three hours after her dream you got into the exact fight that Bella had predicted."

That memory was still fresh in my mind. I ripped Eddie's arm straight off from the shoulder without effort. The satisfaction I felt when I did it, because he had been touching what was MINE and he was still trying to run her life. I would have killed him easily that day, but I knew Esme would be upset. Bella would too but she would get over it, I would make sure of that. I just needed an excuse for attack so I goaded him. Yeah immature I know, but the fucker deserved it.

"So she can dream the future too, as well as a shield?" I asked

"Kind of, you see she slept in Alice's bed with clothes that Alice had been touching. Is it making sense so far?" Carlisle asked.

"Her gift it's manifesting?" I asked. Carlisle nodded in affirmation. Sergey and Alina remained quiet but you could practically see the wheels turning in their minds. They were figuring it out.

"As I said earlier. Alice and I did not take Bella to Seattle…we took her to Alaska-"

"WHAT THE HELL CARLISLE, TO ELEAZAR! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? HE'S PRACTICALLY VOLTURI!" I yelled. I couldn't believe it. Out of all fucking things to do, he takes her to the fucking Volturi 'talent scout' FUCK! Calm flooded the room. Thank fuck for Jasper.

"Emmett, Eleazar is not Volturi anymore. He stopped speaking to Aro a long time ago. I am not going to mention why, because it's not my story to tell, but believe me he will not be telling Aro anything, voluntarily at least." I snorted at that. There were no secrets when Aro was around. I calmed down more and felt Jasper withdrawing his gift.

"That's a powerful gift you have Jasper. It will be useful on this mission." Sergey smiled at Jasper. He smiled in return thanking him.

"What did Eleazar find Carlisle?" I asked afraid of what the answer would be.

"Well' Carlisle sighed "like we said earlier she is a shield but it has an edge to it. She can absorb others gifts like a sponge if she touches them….." he trailed off.

"What are you not telling us Carlisle?" I asked. Carlisle breathed deeply steeling himself to find the courage to answer.

"If she became a vampire she would be the most powerful one in existence"

Finally! I did it. Like I said earlier I am really sorry I haven't updated in so long.

So this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is much more than meets the eye. Stay tuned.