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Chapter 21
Tara's POV
There's one day left after today until the Volturi arrive, Jasper wasn't back for twilight, he phoned instead, he'd just missed Peter and Charlotte, they'd moved on from Chicago, but thanks to Alice's new vision, he would find them and should be back within a few hours.
"Storm!" Alice announced bounding into the kitchen through the door, Daniel instead choosing the window, both of them interrupting my diary entry.
"Baseball!" Daniel exclaimed, noticing my response was less than excited.
"Oh yeah!" Emmett instantly disappeared and within a matter of minutes everyone was lined up outside the house, ball and bats in hand; the wolves had been contacted and were meeting us at the chosen field.
"This will be fantastic!" Daniel exclaimed.
"Have you seen anything? Edward related?" I asked Alice, she was searching through for her new baseball cap, we were the last ones to be ready, everyone was waiting.
"He was in New York last night!" she explained, "He's making snap decisions though, he knows they confuse me!" she rolled her eyes but then grinned as she found the correct cap, she grabbed another and shoved it on my head "Claire found him, so quit worrying!" she tucked a stray piece of hair under my cap and danced outside.
Currently everyone it playing baseball, wolves and the Denali bunch included, as there's a small storm overhead. I'm a spectator, supposed to be trying to stop them all from moving at random intervals, but since they're all hunting ridiculously regularly, I'm not having much effect; I can't even do anything to the wolves at the moment. Emmett yelled something abusive in my direction, related to me not playing baseball, I caused him to whack himself on the head with his own bat, Esme and Rosalie yelled at me, Daniel laughed, it was worth it and showed that I could use my power when annoyed.
"Just focus on one person at a time!" Eleazar explained "Then pairs, it'll annoy the hell out of us, but in an active game like baseball it should be more difficult for you, closer to what the Volturi will be like!" I nodded and did has he said, I was improving. Once briefly, in the first game I managed for a very brief second to get everyone still. They were impressed but I wasn't, I needed to be stronger, the whole outcome of the meeting could depend on this, the lives of our friends could depend on this.
"Why don't you give it another try?" Eleazar asked as he stepped up to bat, as another game started, I smiled and nodded. Visualising my mind control as a sheet, I slowly began draping it over each occupant of the field which we'd chosen to play in. Emmett, Rosalie, Carlisle, three of the younger wolves, Seth, Jacob, Tanya, Carmen. I paused, the game continued with those 10 frozen, Daniel chuckled as he ran past Emmett's annoyed frozen form. Taking a large unnecessary breath I continued, Esme, Sam, my mind control taking Alice half way through a pitch, another 6 wolves, Quil, Embry, Brady, Irina, Kate, Daniel, Eleazar, finally everyone was frozen except me.
"Is that everyone?" I murmured, there was a chorus of yes which I found slightly unsettling. I maintained it, as though all of them where in a giant tent…
"Well done!" Jasper whispered from behind me.
"Argh!" I launched myself into his arms, pressing my lips against his, a kiss followed that I almost certainly would have never have experienced had I still been human. The mind control tent collapsed as they all began moving towards Peter and Charlotte who were standing a few metres behind Jasper.
"Woah!" Peter looked startled "What were you just doing?"
"He doesn't mean the kiss!" Charlotte intervened giggling.
"Mind control!" I glanced at them, "I'm Tara!" I shook both of their hands.
"Delighted!" Charlotte answered "Jasper hasn't shut up about you all the way here, we considered yanking his head off, but that probably wouldn't have worked!"
"Join us for a game?" I asked nodding towards the game which had stopped behind me.
"Definitely!" they responded in unison.
Eventually we stopped playing, I guess the sense of a meeting with the Volturi been just under 24 hours away dimmed the mood a little. The addition of Peter and Charlotte meant there were some new topics of conversation but the household still seemed a little subdued, people sitting in their pairs, occasionally gaining eye contact and smiling, knowing that the one day we had left ahead of us was going to be spent practising fighting, not the most ideal way of spending your last hours. As I lay there, staring at the ceiling, I would give anything for sleep, peaceful, innocent sleep, to leave the worries of the world behind, even for just a few seconds.
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