Chapter Eleven: Visitor

~Meadow~ Friday Night

Maddi's PoV

I saw something up in a tree move, I looked over closely. There was a person, vampire.

"Alice, didn't you say there was a visitor coming?" I asked, as I took a few steps closer to the tree, it was all the way across the meadow, but I could still tell something was in it.

"What?" she whispered.

"How?" EJ whispered from beside me.

"I-I don't know."

The creature jumped out of the tree and landed gracefully on the ground. I and EJ took admitted actions, EJ was showing me images things that would make me stronger. I put my hands open wide into the air above my head, it was my physical shield, I took my other shield off of myself and EJ. My physical shield was the strongest it had ever been as I pushed it out from myself, it wrapped around me, EJ, Esme, Edward, Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, and Carlisle. It continued to push farther out until it came to contact with the creature, then I fainted.

~Meadow~

EJ's PoV

Maddi fainted in my arms, and a figure was sudden at my side. My eyes locked with hers, but only for a second. Her eyes were golden, just like the Cullens, but it wasn't the eyes it was the look in them. I stood up and pulled Maddi into my arms, "go," I said to her.

"EJ, please?" she said. Was she begging?

"No, mom, no. You used up your chance, yo-"

"EJ, please? Don't do this to me, I already know that Maddi's going to yell at me," she said.

"You should have thought twice about that mom," I said to her, before I turned to leave.

"Edward Swan," she hissed, I turned around slowly and glared at her.

"No, leave us alone. You told me a long time ago, I was to protect Maddi, and that's what I'm doing right now, protecting her from more pain and misery," I said, my voice was starting to rise.

"Don't you start yelling at me Edward," she said, angrily.

I just glared at her, and thought 'help me' very loudly.

She was grabbed from behind, and I took this as my chance to run. I could hear pursuit and I slowed, until I came to a stop, Esme, Edward, and Carlisle had followed me. I held Maddi out, and Edward took her from me before I said, "Can you help us?"

"Of course," said Esme before the others could reply.

They took off running and followed easily, keeping up with Carlisle easily. We came up to house, a really big white house, I looked up at it as old memories flashed through my mind, times when me and Maddi had escaped to go hunt or just be alone.

They walked in and Edward paused for just a second as the old memories flashed through my head. "EJ," he said, and I came. I almost felt like a dog being called to his master.

Edward set her down on a couch in the middle of what I guessed was their living room. I looked around; the back wall was made of all glass, another flash of a memory. There was a big screen TV up against one of the walls, and a stereo next to it. A coffee table was in the middle of the room and another couch and a few armchairs sat facing towards the table. Over in a corner of the room was a piano, it was nice elegant, nothing like the one in are small flat in Phoenix. I knew how much Maddi missed playing the piano, and to play one as nice as that one would make her go crazy, another flash of a memory.

"Has this happened before EJ?" asked Carlisle, he snapped me out of the memory I was in.

"What?" I asked taking my gaze away from the piano and turning to look over at Carlisle.

"Has this happened before?" he asked again.

"Only once 2 years ago," I answered, my gaze turning back to the piano.

"Do you play EJ?" Esme asked.

"Maddi does," I answered, "I have no musical talent at all."

"Oh do you do anything… extra?" she asked nervously.

"Other than being Madds memory box… I draw, I'm not very well no matter what she says," I said, my gaze turning to where Maddi laid.

"You speak very highly of your sister, EJ, but why not yourself?" asked Carlisle.

"She's my little sister, I feel like I have to take care of her, or she'll kill herself trying to prove she's the best," I smiled as I said this, Maddi would kill herself over something stupid, she was to stubborn to say no to anything. "And she's worth talking about, I'm no one without her, she's like my other half in some ways."

"That woman," said a different voice now, Rosalie. I hadn't even noticed she had been here. "She was your mother, right?"

"Yes," I said not even turning to look at her.

"She's very mad at you and refuses to tell us her name, all she wants is to see you and Maddi," said Rosalie.

"I'm not talking to her, she is nothing… but a bad visitor, a bad memory," I said, as for less than a second, her face appeared in my mind her new one.

"She said she won't tell us anything until she talks to you, and she won't show us her face."

"I don't care," I snapped, "I don't want to talk her or see her, she's not going to able to walk back into are lives just as easily as she walked out." I turned around and told her.

"I'll pass the message on," said Rosalie.

I sighed, as Rosalie left, I never did like yelling at people, I wasn't good at it like Maddi was. Another flash of a memory went through my mind.