Twilight

Alliance

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Scene 14

More Truths Revealed

It was with the fire outside dying down, Jacob; and his crew, having been patched up that I found myself sitting on the couch. They all wanted answers to what they'd seen me do and an explanation to what they'd heard out of Jane's mouth.

"If one knows where to put pressure on your people's head, it isn't as hard to behead you as one might think." I can't help but chuckle as Bella -instinctively- puts her hand to her throat. "Don't worry, Bella, I have no desire to take of any ally's head." That makes her drop her hand and she looks a bit sheepish."

"What about your speed?" I didn't think a Mermaid could move that fast on land." Rosalie wasn't speaking stiffly - for once - just asking out of sheer curiosity.

"The Mer people are far swifter than people have given them credit for; besides, adrenaline does wonders to aid in ones rapid foot-steps." I can't help but roar with laughter at Jacob's no-duh look.

"What did Jane mean when she said she knew who we really were? And what was she going to say." Tauna-May asks the question I knew all were thinking, I can do nothing but sigh and stand up.

"We are of King Tristan's group; he's kin in fact." A bomb would have gotten less attention being dropped into the room than me at the moment. "Neptune and he had differences of opinions; the group split into two. Neptune being in charge of the bigger group, Tristan the smaller one. Jane thought Tristan was dead, and assumed without his leadership the rest would die."

"But I saw death delivered to him when we fled from the Mediterranean years ago." Tauna-May gasped. "How can you stand there and say he wasn't destroyed?"

"His death was faked." I didn't even turn my head. "He then led our people - except us - into hiding."

"Why didn't you tell me? Why did you insist on us staying in the North and American Continents? I've always wanted to be with my own people." Tauna-May was – understandably - upset.

"Jane was the main force in vowing anyone of his group would die. Tristan wanted a chance for his youngest child to survive, and ordered me to take you to a whole different continent, not to mention further inland. However, when you were 18 I could hardly stop you from moving, now could I?" That was another bombshell that rocked everyone present to the core.

"I'm King Tristan's daughter?" Tauna-May would have fallen back onto the couch, had she been standing up, as it was Alice had to steady her.

"Yes." I wasn't surprised when Carlisle put to voice Bella's question in regards to me and water. "Your people can survive outside of water it is true, but you spend more time out than any Mer person we know." Again, I found myself doing nothing but sighing.

It'd been forever, or so it seems, that I've been one of the Mer people. I always talk as if I was born one, even when I tell people our history. I forget it hasn't always been that way. Now I am having that fact thrown in front of me once more as I face my origins, and speak them.

"You weren't born a mermaid?" Everyone in the room is shocked -even Tauna-May.

"No." I sigh and stand up, moving to look at the window as I did so. "My family always lived near, or on water, my father was a part-time fisherman." I made no apology for it as he'd only been trying to feed his family, and had refused to take anymore than we, or our kin, needed. "I got to the point I'd go swimming all the time - sometimes in risky weather- drove my mother absolutely crazy." I turned around and folded my arms. "One day I - don't ask me why, I had no logical reason for doing it- I put on a belt and put a small knife in a holder. I then went swimming. I saw my uncle's boat come in and stay put as he-and others- rushed off the boat far too excited to be up to any good. So, I swam over to his boat and dove under water." I was interrupted by Tauna-May.

"You saw our people in the net, didn't you?" Her eyes were wide as saucers.