So my Beta-reader isn't replying to my emails and because I love you all and am awesome I'm just going to post this anyway. And because I can't be bothered waiting anymore either. So if you read this Dragonfriend, please please reply to me so I know your not dead.

As my computer mouse has this stupid fucking back button on the side of it that I keep hitting before I press save so I lose all my work, this is about the third time I have replied to everyones reviews. If it does it again, I think I might just kill myself. As I can't be bother typing up all the review replies again because my head just might explode, here are answers to some of the questions you asked...

Why didn't Raven just heal Kim instead of stitching her up?

One, if you were thinking this you need to remember that just because time passes in your life, it doesn't mean it does in the story. Two, Raven is very very tired. Remember the whole Jasper attacking the small child and twisting his neck around 180 degres incident? When Raven had to drag back the kids soul into his body and then heal all the difficult neck bones and then make the two kids forget they saw any freaky shit before she passed out from exhaustion?Yeah, that took a lot of energy. To Raven, that was this morning. So her powers are very lackluster at the moment.

Who is Susanahh in relation to Victoria, and whats her Deal with Bella?

Some of you got this right, but many didn't. I will say that she's not Victoria's child. Victoria would have had to have her when she was like twenty, the somehow get changed into a vampire. From then on, she would have to have either abandoned her baby, which would be the smart thing to do considering she would try and eat it, or she would have to somehow raise a human child. Then the human child would have to coincidently be turned into a vampire. Also, fun fact for you. Susanahh is a year younger than Victoria.

Where is Robin and Dante?

Ok, I've told you this like ten times. Dante is coming, and ROBIN IS OUT JOGGING!

Jasper and Raven are gonna end up together right? Right!? RIGHT!?!

Sure.

Thanks for all the reviews, we made it past the 400 hundred mark!

Raven Roth

I finished up the last stitch in the girls forehead, glad that I had been able to do a resonable job. All of "Kim's" shaking and small whimpers everytime I made a sudden movement were very off putting. I wasn't yet great at putting in sutures, since I usually found it easier to heal wounds, but I was getting there, and I was sure Carlisle wouldn't have a problem with this.

I let Kim's friend Emily, the one with the hideous scars, wipe the blood off her face. Even though I had tried to drop into casual remarks the hint that I wasn't a vampire, they both seemed wary. Bella was staring at the wall, her face still pale. I supposed whoever Victoria was, she was bad news for her.

Rosalie finally seemed to breath again, looking fiercer than before, as if she was angered by the fact I didn't botch the small procedure and mutilate the girls forehead with staples. But she seemed to be angry about a lot of things I didn't understand.

She apparently loved Emmett, she had him, she was beautiful, wealthy, and if she wasn't smart at first, she should be now after enduring high school fifty times. Yet she had a permanant pissed-off expression every unfortunate time I saw her. She should try living my life for a moment, and then she would understand that I earned the depressed look on my face.

"Thank you" Kim muttered shyly, looking at the floor rather than making eye contact.

I smelt them before I heard the over-enthusiastic knock on the door that I knew could only be Starfire.

The oil, the strange desiesed tang, the thick lush blood and alien scents of my friends. I hadn't used to be able to smell them this clearly.

The Cullens were getting a lot of visitors today.

My heart lept and I almost dove for the door, but Carlisle beat me there without even trying. I hadn't felt this giddy and hopeful since...I couldn't remember. It was different when Robin had come. In my heart I knew that he wouldn't let me leave, not with this job unfinished. Cyborg however, might add weight to my arguement.

Still, I kept my face stotic and wondered if they would have the sense to wear holo-rings, unlike Robin. If they wern't wearing them, I would be pissed. Very pissed indeed.

"Can I help you?" He asked politely, not opening the door far enough for me to see outside. It seemed like the whole team was getting involved. Hopefully that meant I wouldn't have to attend high school anymore.

"We're here to see Raven" I heard Cybrog announce after a silence. His voice was final. He knew I was here, and he wasn't leaving until we spoke, vampires or no vampires. Carlisle knew that.

"Let them in." I implied, my tone curt.

Carlisle opened the door wider to let them through, and though his eyes had been somewhat tired looking before, now they were alight with curiosity. I guessed my friends were new specimens to study and learn from, but I couldn't even remotly dislike him for it. Something about him and his wife made me wonder if there were such things as truly 'good' vampires.

I managed to think rationally enough to brace my legs before Starfire bounded up me and crushed me to her, lifting me off my feet. I felt my ribs bruise instantly, and my lungs compress, but it was nice. Familiar.

I hadn't realised I was this attatched to my friends.

She finally let me go and held me out, as if to examine me.

"You have not partaken in the ritual of cutting this month!" She exclaimed loudly. She had kept her trademark red hair, but her eyes and skin had been changed, with the addition of some 'cute' freckles across the top of her nose. It almost didn't seem like her without the vivid green eyes, but this could of course be no one else.

Of course Starfire meant that I hadn't cut my hair this month, but Rosalie's eyebrows shot up and Carlisle's and Esme's faces seemed to collapse a little in worry. I manadged a small smile to go with her infectious one.

"I was too busy to cut it." I muttered. Starfire didn't take any notice. She was staring at Esme with wide honestly shocked eyes. A blond Beastboy, who had wandered in with a dumbstruck expression akin to when I threw him out windows, was currently looking at Rosalie as if she were a bright open flame. I rolled my eyes, and watched, a little impressed, as Cyborg did his best to ignore the beautiful people and come over to me for a hug.

He and Starfire were stricty the only two people in the entire universal plane allowed to do this.

His hug was more gentle than hers, and I was pleased to see him looking as he had before his accident, the shiny titanium holo-ring doing its job and giving him the illusion of human skin. He grinned.

"You look tired." he commented.

Great.

"Like I just said, I've been busy."

He let go of me and finally decided to look around all the pretty vampires. They had all suddenly appeared now that the blood was gone, the only absent person being Seth, who must still be upstairs.

Cybrog obviously decided he didn't like nor trust the vampires, because he slapped Beastboy on the head pretty quickly.

"Ow. what?" He asked, rubbing his head. For some reason his fang was still showing, yet everything else strange about his appearance had compleatly dissapeared.

"I see your still an idiot." I sighed. It was almost as if the Cullens wern't there.

"Oh. Hey Rae!" he grinned widely at me, showing off his tooth. Rosalie looked disgusted.

"Its Rae-ven." I hissed back at him. His grin grew wider.

Susanahh (Last name unkown)

"So, whats our next plan of action?" Braxton asked casually. Our one-man army trailed along behind us, his eyes unfocused. He was having trouble keeping his mind on the job. When he wasn't distracted by thirst, he was always going on about, or at least I knew he were thinking of, a girl he had left behind.

I struggled to regain mental footing. We needed to do something fast. Now that they knew we were here, they would be ready to fight us soon. It would take too long to make a bigger army. It was too hard to change the humans without killing them, and waiting with them while they turned was torture for the ears. All I wanted was my revenge.

"We have to try and take them now." I said slowly.

"Now?" Braxton's eyebrows raised. "But they will be with the Cullens by now."

"But they won't expect it, not so soon." I insisted. "And we know that Edward and Alice are away. That means they wont hear, or see us coming. We need to do something brazen."

Braxton frowned. He always wanted a fight, but only when it was at least equal for us. They would have the wolves, and five vampires compared to our three.

I found I didn't care. I needed to kill Bella Swan, or at least some of the Cullens. Everything in me hungered for justice. They would not live free and easy for much longer without paying for what they had done.

I knew that Edward would come after us when we were finished, but he was weak. Aro had told us how to defeat him best, even with his skills of mind reading, if he refused once again to join the Vulturi. And if we couldn't do it by ourselves, Jane had told me to give her a call. She wanted Bella dead almost as much as we did.

"Its too un-even Suze. You might get hurt."

I hissed sharply and spun away from him. His scarlet eyes widened. Usually I agreed with him on everything. But not this time.

"I'm going with or without you." I declared, every molecule in me yearning to run. "All we need is one. Carlisle will not let his wife or 'child' die for a human. He hates violence, and isn't prepared to fight!"

I snapped my fingers, and the newborn's eyes became alive as he came to my side. I had changed him, not Braxton, so he listened mostly to me because he was afraid. Braxton's face hardened.

"I'm sick of this Susanahh." He said quietly. He rarely used my full name and it stung a little. "I'm sick of living like this and I'm sick of your obsession with Bella Swan. Nothing you do will bring her back."'

I knew that. Nothing would help that cause. Nothing but Bella Swans dealth that is.

"I can't go on with that human still living!" I snarled. We were wasting time.

"How do you know this will help you!?" He yelled back. I flinched. He rarely yelled at me either.

"I don't! But even if it doesn't, we still need to get the Vulturi off our backs!"

This, of all things, seemed to make Braxton see the light. If we didn't kill Bella, then they would be most unpleased with us. In the moonlight his thoughtful face was even more beautiful, and now I could see he was about to agree with me I could begin to appreciate it.

"Fine. But if this doesn't work, I don't know if I can keep doing this Susie." He said, his head tilted to one side as he considered all the benefits.

"It will work." I promised with a bright smile before taking off into the forest.

Bella Swan was as good as dead!

I let out a loud peal of laughter as silvery and haunting as the moon itself and felt my spirit lift into the air.

Jasper Hale/Jasper whitlock

A blur of orange flew at Raven so fast I felt a compulsion to protect her from it. But during the next second I saw it was only a girl with bright orange hair, smilling brightly as she picked Raven up off the floor with a suspicious amount of stregnth and crushed her to her chest.

And underneath the cold mask and shortness of breath I could see Raven was smiling too. I could feel how happy she was. She must have forgotten to block me out again. Her eyes widened as the girl squeezed so hard it looked painful.

Suddenly she let go and held Raven out. She was exceptionally beautiful, whatever she was. A few brown freckles sprinkled across her tanned face, tall, slim, with bright brown eyes. Another demon? Maybe all wern't beautiful in the gothic way Raven was. Maybe they were all beautiful in different ways. She certainly didn't smell like Raven. Her blood had the effect of pure paint thinners. It was strong, wasn't compleatly unpleasant, yet it certainly wasn't nice either.

"You have not partaken in the ritual of cutting this month!" She squeled joyfully. My heart dropped like a stone for a second. If anyone else had said that sentance, it would have seemed sarcastic, joking, or obnoxious, but this young girl seemed genuinly overjoyed as she looked Raven over.

Was Raven honestly depressed that much?

I began to go over everything I had said to her in my mind, searching for something that would pertain to self-harm. If it was true, than Alice's letter would have unsettled her more! Why hadn't I seen any signs? I hadn't felt any severe depression from her. Maybe Raven was right, and we vampires trapsed through life as ignorant as could be of what was going on around us. Maybe this was what she had meant when she said that.

Strangley, a real smile cracked across Ravens face.

"I was too busy to cut it." She muttered, and I thought I saw her eyes flick over to me. It would have had to have been less than a second.

Was it possible that the strange red-head had been talking about Ravens hair?

I guessed it was. It only just brushed her jaw line when I had first met her, but now it was closer to her shoulders. By now her friend wasn't paying attention. She was too busy staring at Esme. Her other friend, the short blond boy, was looking at Rosalie like every other male did when they first saw her; dumbstruck. I almost laughed. He was about to start drooling. Rosalie looked disgusted.

The last of the visitors, a tall, muscular african american about nineteen walked straight to Raven, arms outstretched, a grin on his face.

"You look tired." He commented, and behind his wide grin I could see concern.

Who were these people? What had they possibly done in this life that meant two of them had been able to hug the half-demon without any resistance what so ever?

It made about as much sense as why I was still thinking so much about Raven. I would have hit my head against the wall if only the wall wouldn't crumble into a hundred pieces.

"Like I just said, I've been busy." Again I thought I saw her eyes flick over to me, but it was so fast it wasn't really there at all. The guy let go and looked around at us all. His eyes rested on me, and narrowed. I could feel he didn't like any of us. His look was almost accusing. Then he suddenly whacked the smaller teen on the head.

"Ow. What?" He asked, finally breaking his gaze off from Rosalie. From this angle I could see what looked like a fang jutting out over his bottom lip.

A demon as well?

Where they supposed to have fangs?

This was a big problem. It seemed like Raven had a coven too. The Roth's?

"I see your still an idiot." She remarked dryly. The boy grinned.

"Oh. Hey Rae!"

"Its Rae-ven" She replied dangerously.

"Sheesh. Sorry."

"You will be if you don't call me by my full name." She promised. I was becoming almost irritated with the situation. She comes to my house, yells at me in the middle of what some would call a breakdown and then stays, pretending nothing happened?

I guessed that was what she had asked for. For Alice to never mention it again and I supposed that included everyone else.

Emmett came down the stairs. His eyes seemed sad, like he had only just comprehended what had happened between Alice and I. Inside, he was fuming. I could feel all of the anger directed at Raven's back. I wanted to tell him that it wasn't her fault. Emmett didn't know about the kiss, so there was really nothing he could blame squarly on her shoulders.

Somehow, just thinking about the kiss made my throat burn. Yet I wasn't hungry for blood.

Damn it!

Raven spun around to face Emmett, her eyes confussed. Then they became a dark sort of violet . As if Emmetts unhappy emotions had awaked her cold side, she blocked all her emotions out from me, shooting me a glare after giving Emmett his.

"What did they just do?" The dark-skinned man asked almost aggresivly, balling his right hand into a fist.

"Don't worry about it." Raven replied flatly. "I just...felt something." She trailed off.

Bella caught my eye and I saw hers were filled with fear. For Victoria? Probably. The new arrivals wouldn't have helped, whoever they are.

Bella had likely been seeing things. The terror of seeing another female vampire attacking her so soon after Victoria's dealth would have caused her to see things, especially in the dark.

I needed to turn my attention to destroying this vampire. I would have to talk to the wolves to find out how many there were, but that could wait until... Edward was back. With his mind reading everything was easier. I simply would have to mention last night for there thoughts about it to swin around their heads. No need for long conversations and arguing. Get in, get out.

"Where's Robin?" Raven asked. Her female friend stopped looking around at all our faces to snap back to Raven's. The way she moved was flowing, graceful, almost like a vampire's, but it was at the same time different. More forceful, deliberatly powerful.

"I believe Robin is partaking in the sport of running. The letter he left at the yellow rooms table said that."

The girl spoke strangely, as if english wasn't her first language. But she definatly looked american, and she seemed to be pretty happy about something. I felt myself want to stand near her, to soak up some of that joy. It was childlike in its purity, and I wondered how she could be so different from the half demon she stood next to, who felt like a void in my emotional senses.

"In other words, Robin left a note saying he was jogging. Again." The shortest boy said off-handedly as if this was a normal habit.

Carlisle judged this as a good time to step in and find out what was going on.

"I believe introductions are in order. Dr. Carlisle Cullen." He extended a hand, which the largest teen took reluctantly. He turned his head to stare Raven in the eyes. She stared back intently, her expression thoughtful. Then she inclined her head catiously.

"Victor." He said loudly.

"Garfield." The blond boy said, taking his cue. He gave Raven a conspirital wink. She sighed.

"And this is Kori." Victor said, before she had the chance to speak herself. She looked confused for a second, before her face broke out in a grin.

"Yes my name is Kori. Don't wear it out!" She giggled. Emmett looked amused rather than sulky now. "And what would your names be?!"

Bella even raised an eyebrow.

Carlisle smiled kindly at her. She was the only one that didn't seem dangerous in some way. Garfield smelt sickly, as if he didn't have much time left, and Victor smelt like he had been bathing in motor oil for some reason. Like Raven, all had heartbeats, but Kori's was much stronger than all put together.

"My name is Esme." Esme came forward to smile gently at the visitors.

"Your voice is most beautiful!" Kori exclaimed. She was genuine.

"Thank you."

Emily, the wolf pack alpha's mate, snorted quietly.

"I'm Emmett." Emmett grinned. Victor looked at him like he was a challenge.

"Rosalie." She said simply in one word. The blond boy returned to staring at her.

"Emily."

"Kim" She whispered shyly.

"My name is Bella." Bella said catiously.

"My name is Jasper." I said catiously. Raven's eyes fell to the ground in an effort to avoid mine.

"Your accent is... cute!" Kory laughed, bouncing on the balls of her feet. I frowned while Emmett stiffled a laugh. Even Raven's shadowed face broke out in a small smile.

What accent? It had been years since I had a full southern twang. I'd gotten rid of it to better fit in up north and keep questions about why Rosalie and I, supposidly twins, sounded like we had grown up in different states.

"Told ya ya accent wasn' completlay gone" Emmett said in exagerated but perfect southern accent. I grimaced.

"Your funny!" Kori smiled. She looked around the whole room. "Will you all be my new friends!?"

"Uh sure we will." Emmett answered in amusment.

"You must have extraordinary hearing to have picked up on that." Carlisle commented curiously. Ravens face became hard.

"Something you wont be studying." She said fiercly. Carlisle held up his hands in a gesture of peace.

"I don't intend to take advantage of your friends while they are here. I am extremly sorry for having taken some notes on you, at the time I saw it as nessesary."

"You studied her?" Victor growled threateningly. Her hand flew to rest on top of his raised fist.

"Calm down. It's not like he got anything useful out of it."

For the first time since our heated arguement, her eyes met mine. But instead of being defiantly blank, the violet irises were full of fear. I still couldn't feel the fear radiating off of her, and it wasn't in her face, or in her body language, but it was there. She was truly terrified I was going to tell them.

I couldn't handle this. If I had choosed to take the path that meant Raven come with me, then why was her secret more important that the path I was choosing, my family? Why was I so compelled to keep her safe, even though she seemed perfectly capable?

I turned around and headed for the back door before anyone could say anything. I needed real, fresh air. I needed space. I needed to think.

I had said I didn't want Raven, but was that true?

And if it wasn't, why did I want her so badly?

The answer to that question, my dear Jasper, is because she's hot.

You know what would be a great goal for my story? 1000 reviews.

Just saying. That would mean at least 35 chapters.

Wouldn't that be nice?