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Cameron

"So what did Sarah do?" I asked Seth when he stopped talking. He seemed sad as if the memories of what happened were too painful and tiring.

"She left the Volturi and tried to put us back together. It was a valiant effort but there was too much pain there, especially between your grandparents. She also went to the wolf castle and released all of the werewolves who still showed some signs of control. She relocated them into safe houses similar to this one with their families and very strict monitoring protocols. Marcus and Caius were furious but the werewolves were still being monitored so they couldn't do anything to her. Not that they could anyway. It was the only thing Sarah could do to honor Leanna but that was as far as she could get. The other werewolves were too far gone and they eventually had to be put down." Seth explained. I cringed at that thought.

"So basically she did the absolute minimum she could possibly do." I said coldly. Seth sighed and shook his head, exhausted so Chris stepped in.

"No sweetheart. Believe it or not, your aunt took a huge risk standing up against the Volturi." Chris told me. I crossed my arms.

"It was a little too late don't you think." Billie said in my defense. Chris nodded in agreement.

"Yes but it was the best she could do under the circumstances. Some of us don't agree that this was a good idea, myself included." Chris told us.

"Why? What do you have against the werewolves?" Billie asked him defiantly.

"I have been in the frontlines of the werewolf battle and I am extremely concerned at the repercussions of Sarah's sudden change of heart. Once you kids meet the werewolves you will see. They are ruthless monsters and we have lost members of this family by trying to help them, not to mention the countless human lives they have taken. Letting them free now is still as much of a mistake as it when Leanna tried it. The only thing that makes Sarah's actions different than Leanna's is that she is monitoring them so there have been no human casualties yet." Chris said. He made sure to emphasize the word yet to indicate his disproval of Sarah's actions.

"They're not monsters. My dad never killed anyone." I told Chris.

"Jack was an exceptional case. We need to see if there are any sample of his DNA left so that we can study them. Who knows? Maybe he is the key to the cure… maybe you are." Chris told me. I felt my eyes water and my lip quiver. I knew he was right but I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to see her.

"I don't want to go to Volterra." I said mostly to myself but they all heard.

"You don't have to decide that now. For now, lets just get to know one another. Your grandparents should be here soon so you guys can know them too." Seth told me. This time Jamie tensed.

"I don't think we're ready to see our grandparents." Jamie told Seth. Seth gave him a strange look.

"Why?" Seth asked him. Jamie looked at us and then he turned to Seth.

"I can't speak for the girls but I'm feeling hurt by the fact that they left us to begin with. As much as I've been blaming aunt Leanna for what happened. This wasn't her fault. None of this would have ever happened if grandma stayed. She couldn't have saved our parents, I know that part can't be changed but Jack would still be alive and we would still be human if she had chosen to stay. I don't think I can forgive her for that. Not yet." Jamie told him. Billie nodded.

"I feel the same way. I get that she wanted to be with grandpa but she literary picked him over us. They have been together for centuries, we barely had her. Its not right." Billie told him. Seth sighed.

"You haven't imprinted. Neither of you understands the power of the imprint. They cannot be apart and survive. They just can't." Seth told him. Everyone fell silent now knowing how to respond to that since none of us had imprinted.

"When are they coming?" I asked him to break the silence. I was on the same page as Jamie. I didn't know if I could forgive and forget the fact that our grandparents abandoned us but at the same time my curiosity got the best of me. I kinda want to meet them, I always have. Uncle Danny used to talk about them so much and, at the very least, we should at least hear what they have to say.

"Their jet lands in a few hours. Nessie and Jacob's jet arrives tomorrow morning. If you want we can wait for them at our place or you can wait for them here. Wherever you are most comfortable." Chris told us. Oh yea… I almost forgot about them. Jake and Nessie were my mother's real parents not Leah and Kal. Two sets of grandparents…

"I don't know how to feel about what happened but I take back what I said before. I think I would like to meet them. I thinks we should at least hear then out but I want to wait for them here if that's ok? It feels safer here." I told him. Jamie and Billie both nodded.

"Ok. You got it." Chris said with a smile. I looked down at my hands uncertain because there was something weighting on my mind.

"What is it little G." Chris asked me.

"Do you think Bella and Edward will stop by later. I… I think I need to talk to them again… To apologize..." I told Chris. I looked at Billie and Jamie to see their reactions. Jamie smiled and nodded to tell me he agreed. Billie smiled too.

"I guess we all have some apologizing. I really am sorry I bit you Seth." She told him an annoyed voice that barely sounded like an apology. Seth smiled at her.

"Don't even worry about it kiddo. All is forgiven." Seth said and then he winked at her.

I was really starting to like Seth. There was something about him that reminded me of uncle Danny. I couldn't help but feel drawn to him because of it. He saw me staring and smiled.

"I'll text Edward. I'm sure you're already forgiven but thank you for offering to apologize." Seth told me. I just nodded at him and then he pulled out his phone to text my great grandparents. Jamie looked at us with an odd expression. It was as if he was finally relaxed. I felt sorry for him. The last few days he must have been in tension because, he was the oldest and he felt responsible for us. Trying to figure out the right decision about the Cullens must not have been easy on him which was why he looked so relieved now that things were finally settling down.

Seth and Chris asked to take a tour of the safe house while we waited for the rest of the family to arrive. They were both impressed with all the safety precautions my mom had taken. Jamie saved the lab for last knowing that Seth would get distracted by all the technology. Seth got excited the moment he saw the state of the art computers and equipment. He said they were a few models older than the equipment he had in Volterra but that it was still impressive. With Jamie's blessing, Seth got started on reviewing my father's research right away. Billie gave him access to every file we had on him and his DNA. Seth was fascinated.

"Yep. I know that look. We've lost him." Chris said in jest after seeing Seth's enthusiasm. I giggled. The sound shocked me a bit. It almost sounded foreign, and it made me realize that with everything that was going on, I hadn't laughed in a while.

"That's a shame. You have quite a beautiful laugh." A voice said behind me. I froze and turned to see Edward and Bella standing at the entrance. My eyes widened in shock. Had Edward just read my mind? He smiled at me and nodded.

"How is that possible?" I asked him. Jamie, Billie and Chris looked at me confused.

"What's going on?" Chris asked us.

"I thought you couldn't read our minds?" I asked Edward, completely ignoring Chris.

"I can smell you and I can hear your thoughts." He told me and then he smiled at Jamie who was standing next to me.

"How?" Jaime asked him curiously. Edward put his hand on Jamie's shoulder with such familiarity that it surprised me.

"Well based off the re-run of the conversation I am hearing from your mind, I believe that you finally realized you trust us. I guess you were the shield this whole time but somewhere in the conversation you had with Chris, Seth, and your sisters, you realized that you trust us. So now that you trust us we can smell them and you." Edward told him. Chris smiled and Jamie looked like he wasn't sure if he liked the idea of him reading our thoughts. I definitely didn't like it.

"Nobody does." Edward said suddenly but I wasn't sure if it was in response to my comment or something Jamie thought.

"That's very annoying." I told Edward. He smiled at me and nodded.

"We all hate it but you'll get used to it after a century or two." Chris told me jokingly. Bella giggled and Edward kneeled before me. He gently tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear and kissed my cheek.

"I was out of line before. I shouldn't have said that without having all the facts." I told him. I was scared to look at them but Edward lifted my chin so that I would look at him.

"There isn't a moment that we don't regret what happened to your mother. We thought that we had time to make things up to her but time was taken from us. From you…" Bella took a sudden breath as if she had forgotten to breathe. She took a step towards us and placed her hand on Edward's shoulder for support. "I'm sorry we didn't do more. But I promise you that we will do everything in our power so that what happened to your mother, never happens to you. To any of you…" Bella told us. She leaned in and hugged me. I couldn't help my arms as they wrapped around her cold body. It was strange how warm her cold touch was.

It was lunch by the time everything was set and done. Bella went straight to the kitchen with Edward and they started cooking for us. Chris sat at the floor petting Nala who was patiently awaiting for Bella or Edward to drop something on the floor while they cooked. I sat next to Chris who winked at me as sat. I felt my entire body tingle at his wink and Edward turned for a second, looking straight into my eyes. Bella saw him turn towards me, causing her to look at me too. By the time she looked at me, I was beet red. She smiled at me and then Edward visibly tensed.

"That's not nice, Love." Edward told her making me wonder what was going on.

"You should know better, my Sweet." She responded. Chris smirked at him.

"You put him in place aunt Bells." Chris told her in approval. I giggled and Chris winked at me again.

"That's why she's is my favorite." Chris whispered at me even though they could hear. Bella came up to him and fed him a cheese cube.

"That's my boy." She told him and then she fed me and Nala one too. I smiled awed at how familiar they were with one another even though they weren't really related. I wondered if my mom was like that with them and suddenly I got a flashback of a very similar scene.

Flashback

Jake walked into the kitchen with Leanna in his arms. His baby girl was only 8 years old but she was already showing signs of becoming a wolf. She was ravenous!

"Hi Bells. Guess who's hungry again? This one is turning out to be a bottomless pit." Jake said sarcastically as he set Leanna down on the counter.

"Daddy!" Leanna complained.

"Well if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black I don't know what is." Chris said as he walked into the kitchen with Edward and Nessie. Leanna giggled and opened her arms to hug her best friend.

"Thanks Chrissy, that's why you're my favorite." Leanna told him as Chris swing her in his arms. Bella smiled and walked over to him gave him a peace of the stuffed mushrooms she was making.

"That's my boy." She told Chris and popped a mushroom in his mouth. Then she blew at another piece of mushroom to cool it before she gave it to Leanna.

"Hey don't I get one!" Jake complained.

"Nope!" Bella told him while popping her 'p' for emphasis. Jake instantly pouted making everyone on the room laugh.

"That's not nice, Love." Edward told Bella.

"He should know better." She responded. Nessie shook her head as Jake crossed his arms and grumbled.

Cameron

The memory ended just as quickly as it came. I felt a tear escape my eyes and Chris quickly took my hand.

"You ok?" He asked me. Bella quickly turned to me but Edward was frozen in place.

"Its just nice to have you guys here. It's like a real family again" I told them. Bella smiled at me kindly and kept working on the kitchen. Edward turned to me and gave me a sad smile as if he was recovering from the vision I just had.

"It really is…" He told me before he kept working on the food.

After we ate lunch I went to the forest to take Nala out for a walk. Edward came with me. He had been quiet since I had my vision which only confirmed that he had read it from my mind.

"That's a very special gift you have." He told me as Nala chased after a rabbit.

"It is sometimes… I just wish I could control it. Sometimes I see things I really don't want to. Things that hurt me." I confessed to him as I remembered my mom's sentence and Jameson murdering his children. Edward's brows furrowed.

"I'm sorry you had to see that." He told me. 'Me too.' I said in my head as I wondered why I got these visions to begin with. I was surprised I got one while I was awake. That was definitely new.

"I think it was the familiarity of the scene triggered your vision. Like a memory that was floating around in space waiting for someone to catch it. Your gift seems to attract the memories you need in order to answer your questions. And I think the fact that both scenes were so similar made it strong enough for you to have your visions while awake. Plus… being around all of us is probably making your gifts stronger." He suggested but I wasn't sure what he meant by that. Why would my powers get stronger just by being near them? He smiled at me and answered my unasked question.

"You are a spirit warrior. Your power comes from nature and it is human nature to be stronger in groups. The Quileute wolf gene can be triggered by the scent of a vampire or by the presence of other wolves. Spirit warriors can also grow stronger when you are surrounded by other powerful beings, especially your family." He told me.

"So my visions will become stronger now that you guys are here?" I asked him not knowing if that was a good thing or a bad thing. He smirked.

"Yes. But we can help you control it. Your cousin Dalia is also a seer. I sure she can…" I crossed my arms and frowned bringing him to a halt. He sighed.

"She's really a good girl. You would probably like her a lot. Your mom did…" He informed me. I frowned at that not knowing how to react to that bit of information. I remembered from my dream that Dalia was the one who brought her to the rez and handed her to the council.

"She was also the one who stayed with her for a whole month while Leanna settled into being human. She was also the one who tried to visit her every time she was in the states, even though she already knew your mother would refuse to see her. Dalia loved her and she loves you too. You will see once you meet her." He assured me.

"We'll see." I responded and called Nala back.

Jaime

It seemed my sisters were a bit wary our new family but for some reason I trusted them. As upset as I was about everything they kept from me and about my grandparents abandoning me, I still trusted them. I remembered how much my grandparents loved me and each other. I missed them too much to hold what they did against them for the rest of my life. Don't get me wrong. I was furious with them but I already knew I would forgive them.

A part of me wondered if the reason why I wanted to trust them so badly was because I felt relieved that there was finally someone else take care of us. I loved my sisters but having the weight of responsibility and the constant worry that they might be killed was weighing on me. The worst part was the possibility that I might hurt them myself. I couldn't sleep anymore but I didn't need sleep to have nightmares about that part. I didn't want to turn human again so that I could give up the responsibility of taking care of my sisters, I wanted to turn human so that I didn't have the worry of killing them with my own hands. Connecting with our family was the only way to become human again. They hid from us all this time but it didn't take mindreading to see that they loved us.

Cam's grandparents made everyone a lovely lunch and then Seth and Eve went to the lab to work. They were doctors and two of the leading scientists for the Olympians. They spent the afternoon reviewing old notes and experiments while Chris, Karla, and I did some combat training in the training room.

I was impressed. Chris could fight and he could fight well. I couldn't have taken him even if he was blindfolded. We fought for what seemed like hours until the computer informed us that there was a car up front. Everyone stopped.

"Looks like Leah and Kal are here." Chris told us. Billie had been in the lab with Seth and Eve. They all came into the training room. Edward, Bella, and Cam came into the room to from the living room. The monitor came up on the wall and showed my grandparent getting out of the car. They were accompanied by Emmett, Rose, Harry, and Kara.

There they were but they looked totally different from what I remembered. They were young, like the pictures of them from before my parents were born. My mind was racing, going through memory after memory trying to match the image of the man and woman knocking on our front door with the man and woman I thought were my grandparents.

"They still are son." Edward told me. He smiled at me sympathetically.

"I'll bring them down." Karla announced and she left to get them. Both Billie and Cam were standing at my side. We were hand in hand as if we were bracing ourselves for something horrible.

"Its gonna be ok kids. Just remember that they love you." Seth told us. He must have seen the tension in our stance. I tried to relax a bit but I couldn't. I needed to give my sisters a good example. I needed to stay calm and let them explain but there were so many emotions coursing through me that I wasn't sure how I would react. I could hear them talking as they approached the door to the training room. Billie squeezed my hand because she could hear them too. The door opened and now Cammy squeezed my other hand. There they were... our dead grandparents, alive and young again.

"Jamie? Billie, Cameron…" Grandma said. Her voice was hoarse but it was just like I remembered. Her smell… Well… it was awful but it had the same undertone of woods that I remembered. Grandma was frozen in place but grandpa walked past her and came straight to us. Somehow his arms managed to wrap all three of us into his embrace. He let us go and looked straight into my eyes.

"I'm sorry…" He told me and before I knew what I was doing, I let go of my sisters' hands and was hugging my grandfather. I could see with the corner of my eyes that grandma had walked over to Billie and hugged her.

"I'm sorry too." Grandma told Billie. Billie didn't hug her back. She nodded and took a step away from our grandmother. Cameron was watching the whole thing quietly. Grandpa and grandma both walked over to her. She took a step forward and hugged her grandparents. I could tell from her body language that she was conflicted about it but she hugged them anyway. I was feeling pretty conflicted too but when grandma let go of Cameron, I instantly hugged her too.

"We'll be in the upper floor." Edward announced and slowly the rest of the family began to leave until it was just us and our grandparents.

"I know you are angry with us." Grandpa started. Billie instantly cut him off.

"Angry doesn't even begin to cover it." She told him with annoyance. Grandpa approached her. He was giving her a strange look that made me nervous. He was stern but then his expression changed as he stood before her. Billie's arms went tightly around herself as if she were trying to make herself smaller.

"Its not easy to forgive the people that were supposed to be there for you... No wolf should run alone. No child should be without her father or her mother. You phased and yet… you couldn't sense us and we couldn't sense you. You are my granddaughter yet I am a stranger to you." He told her. I saw the tears slip from Billie's eyes. Grandma was still holding on to Cam when grandpa looked at her.

"And you my sweet child. I didn't even know you were mine yet… Here you are, exactly how I imagined you yet complete different from what I remembered." Grandpa told Cam. He was giving her a strange look. I was confused by his words.

"I thought you never met Cameron?" I asked him. He looked at me and nodded.

"Not in this life but I am sure we've met in other forms. Haven't we seer?" Grandpa asked her with a smile. Cameron shrugged but she smiled back at him. I could tell she liked him.

"Alright, alright, show off." Grandma chastised him. She walked over to Billie hesitantly.

"So… You gonna bite me too or can I get a proper hug?" She asked her sarcastically, reminding me of something Billie would say. I had forgotten about that. Grandma and Billie were so much alike! I was surprised I forgot about that. Billie's lip tensed but she shrugged. Grandma took that as her cue to hug her.

"I messed up. I shouldn't have left you. I should have waited until you were older but there was no way I could have known your parents would die. That our kids…" She stopped and her face became hard with pain. Grandpa went over to her and hugged her.

"No one could have predicted what happened. What matters is that you are all safe and that we are together at last. It will take time but we will be a family once more." Grandpa told us with conviction. When he spoke it was like listening to a great leader. He spoke with such authority and decisiveness that you had no choice but to trust him.

"So what happens now? You turn us human and return us to the rez and we all live happily ever after?" Billie asked sarcastically.

"Hell no!" Grandma told her with equal sarcasm. "We will never force you to stay immortal but we are not loosing you again. Now, we get to know each other and we learn how to become a family. You, us and the rest of family." She said in a tone that made her displeasure quite clear. Seth told us that she had a fall out with Cam's other grandparents but now I could see for myself that it was serious.

"We must. Its time to put our family together again now that we have the key." Grandpa said.

"What key?" I asked him. He smiled at me and looked at Cameron.

"Her. Leanna's legacy. The child of all three supernatural lines." He said referring to Cameron. We all looked at her and she shrugged.

"What can I do?" She asked him confused.

"Wait." He told her simply. Grandma rolled her eyes at him. I just smiled and shrugged at her. She shrugged too.

"I guess I can do that." She told him.

At night, we all had dinner together. Cam and Chris cooked with Bella and Leah's supervision. Apparently they did a good job. It all smelled awful to me but I just took their word for it. After dinner Seth and Eve, went back to the lab. They said they planned to sleep over because there was too much interesting science stuff they wanted to look over. Frankly, it was mostly gibberish to me but I agreed to let them stay along with Chris and Harry. Our grandparents and the rest of the family went to the Cullen house to wait for Jake and Renesmee. Our grandparents wanted to set things right with them before they came over to meet us. I agreed. I didn't want Cameron to have to witness any family drama between her two sets of grandparents. She was already nervous enough as it it.

I went over to check on Cam and I saw Chris tuck my sister into her bed and kiss her head with all the love that I felt for her myself. Billie was giving him the same odd look that I was. He walked out of the room and we closed the door. I walked over to the living area with Chris, Harry, and Billie. Harry made some hot chocolate and we talked.

"Why are you like that with Cam? You barely know her." Billie asked him. Subtlety was not her strong point. Chris just shrugged while Harry tried to hide his smile behind his mug of chocolate.

"Leanna was my best friend. Leah's always been like a second mother to me. I love all of you but you two are too old to tuck in." He said smiling. Did he really not notice that my little cousin/sister had a huge crush on him? I thought they were supposed to be older and wiser.

"No. Its more than that." Billie insisted. Chris sighed.

"I don't know what it is either Billie." Chris told her honestly. Harry smirked.

"I know what it is." He said mockingly. Chris kicked him under the table.

"What?" I asked him.

"I think he's her imprint. We'll have to wait till she phases or until one of the we see on of the family soul readers to confirm it but…" Harry trailed off suggestively. Chris frowned at him, as did I. Neither of us seemed to like that idea. Not one damn bit!

"Its not like that at all, jackass! Don't you remember that it was the same thing with Leanna? We took to each other like peanut butter and jelly or salt and pepper, wine and cheese, you name it. We were that close and it had nothing to do with imprinting. Kal said it was because we were on opposite sides of a spectrum, like magnets." He told us.

"What do you mean opposite side of the spectrum?" I asked him confused. Chris smiled and Harry rolled his eyes.

"Dad always had a complicated explanation for the simplest things." Harry complained but Chris just shook his head.

"Its not simple at all. Its complicated and its very very real." Chris argued.

"What is?" Billie asked annoyed. Harry sighed and signaled Chris to explain.

"Uncle Kal or uncle Edward could probably explain this better but I'll do my best. So… there is this legendary ancestor, we call her the common ancestor or the great mother or the less kinder term, the mother of monsters." Chris told us. I furrowed my brows wondering what the hell a boogie monster had to do with his relationship with aunt Leanna. Harry saw my expression and nodded.

"Bear with him. There's a point to the story, even if it is superstitions." Harry assured me. I crossed my arms and nodded at Chris to continue.

"She is called the mother of monsters because we have found her DNA in almost every powerful supernatural being." Chris continued.

"Almost?" Billie asked him intrigued.

"Yes. Well… There are supernatural beings that are natural anomalies. Like when a mother has a bad dream that her child is in trouble and a few hours later her kid is in a car crash. Or even something as simple as when humans form a connection to a pet. There are connections in this world that are natural and sometimes these connections become so strong that they naturally transcend into something else. Something beyond. The spirit warriors were the most powerful example of this. The original ones, I mean. They were ordinary humans who did extraordinary things without any influence from some supernatural ancestor. They did it through their connection to the earth." Chris explained.

"So what does this have to do with you and aunt Lee?" Billie asked, taking the question right out of my mouth.

"I'm getting to it. I just really need you to understand this because it means that there are two lines of supernatural powers. One that is naturally occurring like the examples I just gave you and one that comes from…"

"From the common ancestor." I interrupted as I put the pieces together.

"Right… So vampires, werewolves, shifters, humans can have powers through these two sources, through nature or through the common ancestor. Any being that has a genetic link to the ancestor has some form of supernatural power or the potential for it. For vampires who have the gene for this ancestor, they are always gifted and their gifts are more pronounced if the marker is stronger. For the vamps who don't have the gene, they are usually not gifted unless they had a strong connection to nature as human. My biological father was one of them. He had the ability to connect with powers and sense them in others. We have a good friend named Benjamin who was able to control the elements as human and once he was turned he could still control the elements. He doesn't have a genetic connection to this ancestor but he was able to do this because the elements are a part of nature and some humans can develop the ability to connect to the elements." Chris told us.

"Like the spirit warriors?" I asked him. Both he and Harry nodded.

"Yes. The spirit warriors were connected to the earth. They could also manipulate the elements without any connection to this ancestor." Harry confirmed.

"So if the spirit warriors became vampires…" Billie suggested.

"Then they would become very powerful vampire spirit warriors like me. I was the first Quileute to be born a half vampire and I was the first decedent of Taha Aki to have access to the spirit warrior powers after generations." Harry informed us. Billie gave him a sad smile and I suspected she knew about his biological father. Harry told me about his lineage when we were back in the house while the girls were asleep so I wondered how Billie could have known but I didn't dare to bring that up again.

"So is this ancestor is only related to the vampires?" I asked him. Chris quickly shook his head.

"No. Most of the Quileutes that came after Taha Aki are also connected to this ancestor. All the shapeshifters and imprints have the gene with the exception of your grandpa Kal. We believe that the wolves only imprint on humans with the gene in order for this genetic to create stronger future generations. This gene started showing up around the same time as the shapeshifters but not before because the original spirit warriors didn't have this genes. They were just regular humans who had access to the many naturally occurring magics that earth has to offer." Chris told us.

"And the werewolves?" Billie asked him.

"The children of the moon are also linked to the ancestor. Like the vampires, werewolves are also in two groups. The ones that show the gene are able to resist the virus for a longer period of time and the ones that don't have the gene deteriorate into madness within the first 6 years." He told her. I was confused by this. It seemed that the common ancestor was a catalyst for power not a source.

"So if this ancestor gene has the ability to magnify power, why do you call her the mother of monsters?" I asked him.

"Hence why I prefer to call her the common ancestor." Chris told me. That's when Harry jumped in.

"The thing is that vampires and werewolves are created. So the belief is that the reason why the most powerful ones are related to the ancestor is because they are from the same family. Some think that this ancestor was the source of venom so when her descendants or the descendants of her family are turned, they are more powerful than when regular humans are turned." Harry explained.

"That doesn't make sense. You just said that your friend Benjamin doesn't have the gene and he is a powerful vampire like you." I told him. He smiled.

"Right. The difference is that Benji and I aren't just powerful vamps. We are mutations. That's why most vampires show some form of psychic power but Benjamin is the only vampire who can manipulate nature itself. When venom mixes with naturally powerful humans it mutates, and I mean naturally magical without the ancestor gene. When the venom mixes with the ancestor gene it magnifies the gene's power but it doesn't change it. That's why vampire powers are usually extensions of their personality. The only case of a mutated ancestor gene is me. It changed so that I can exist." Harry told us.

"What do you mean by that?" Billie asked him.

"The shape shifters are allergic to venom. The moment that the venom entered my mother's system, her body was supposed to reject it. I was never supposed to be. The ancestor gene mutated so that I could be conceived. I suspect the same thing happened with Cameron since technically she's not supposed to exist either." Harry told us.

"Was aunt Leanna a mutation? Is that why she was able to conceive Cameron?" I asked him, wondering if all this genetic mutation stuff could save Cameron from the effects of the werewolf virus.

"Leanna was different. Nessie and the other female hybrids have dormant venom. That's why they are able to have children with shifters without a problem but when Leanna was conceived... The sheer magnitude of her spirit powers cause every single one of us to sense her presence. Jacob and Nessie both have strong ancestor genes which is why Sarah is a true shifter and Will is an extremely powerful spirit warrior. Some say he is even more powerful than Sarah. It seems like every time they conceived a child, the child was stronger but Leanna broke the mold when it came to power. She is the only child to ever show powers from the womb. She had strongest expression of the ancestor gene that we have ever seen which is why she was so powerful. In her case the gene changed to accommodate the magnitude of her powers. It was the ancestor power that triggered the mutation." Chris told us.

"So why are you her polar opposite?" Billie asked him.

"Right. We got of track, so anyway. We thought that for a hybrid like me to be created, the human female had to have the gene for the ancestor like the imprints do but we were wrong. What they absolutely need to have is a connection to power, whether its natural magic or the ancestor gene. Spirit warriors, for example, had a powerful connection to earth and to the natural magics. They were able to change the weather, manipulate the elements, even move through time to catch glimpses of the past and future. They discovered a way to do this as humans because there are powers on this earth that go beyond our understanding, beyond science, beyond anything that could be explained. My biological mother wasn't a spirit warrior but she had a strong connection to nature. She was a social worker and she used her connection to identify people in need. She was naturally gifted and that's how come I exist. I am the only hybrid who doesn't have this genetic marker which means I am a mutation of venom and nature like Benji. I am a mutation of the powers that are naturally exist in nature and the virus that exists inside vampire venom. That's why I am able to sense power and track it across distances. Because both my parents were had access to the natural powers that exist on this earth as humans. I am the only mutation of this power that exists without the help of this ancestor's genes." Chris told us.

"How come? Why did your dna mutate when it came in contact with venom and for other humans it didn't?" I asked him.

"That's a fair question. So… After doing some research on my mother and the vampire that impregnated her, we realized that BOTH of them shared connections to these natural powers as humans. My biological father used to trade stocks before the depression. He used to say he could sense when something big was about to happen like the universe was speaking to him. At least that what his decedents used to say when we interviewed them. We managed to get samples of his parent's DNA and we found no traces of this ancestor so we know that he also didn't have the gene. Normally, for a hybrid to exist, at least one parent must have the genetic marker but both my biological parents had such a strong connection to nature that it just naturally mutated." He told us.

"So imprints have the gene, vampires with power have the gene, humans who can carry hybrids have the gene, but you don't?" I asked him. He nodded.

"Yep. I'm an anomaly." He said. Harry laughed.

"I'm glad you know you're a weirdo." Harry told him. Chris punched his arm and rolled his eyes.

"My mutation occurred out of the natural powers that occur in this earth like Benji's. But I am different from Benjamin because in his case the venom enhanced his natural gifts, in my case, the venom enhanced the creation of life. I am a true immortal in the sense that I didn't need any help from this ancestor gene to exist. I am in one end of the evolutionary spectrum and Leanna was at the other. Leanna was quite literally my polar opposite. She had the strongest, most powerful connection to this ancestor that we had ever seen and I have no connection to the ancestor whatsoever. She was the physical manifestation of the power of this ancestor and I was the physical manifestation of the powers of nature." Chris told us. I was in shock. I was having a hard time processing all this information. It was hard to think that we all came from one ancestor, the mother of monsters.