This is Wanderings Best friend I'm posting an update for her. I'm writing this note for her sake but I will delete later today or tomorrow. Thanks for staying so loyal to her and her story. She got really hurt in her accident but didn't want to let anyone down. She was in the hospital for a week and suffered pretty serious injuries. So keep reading she's dictating her story to me so she can keep posting chapters!
As the man's hood lowered the Carlisle realized who Aro's new protégé was. Garrett a crimson-eyed nomad who was widely known in the Vampire world as someone who was easy to befriend yet made a powerful enemy if crossed. Alice stepped forward with her hand outstretched. "I'm Alice Cullen welcome to our home and we are very excited to have you stay with us. I'll show you around the house if you'd like, we have some things to talk about. Garrett nodded and went with Alice to see the rest of the house.
Aro arched his eyebrow at Carlisle who promised to tell him all about it when they caught up in the study. As the two men retired into the study the remaining coven members were left chatting in the living room. Felix fixed his dark red eyes on Bella's breathtaking face and began to drift off into his own mind. Jasper felt waves and waves of lust, need, and desire rolling off of the large vampire and shuddered. Jasper turned and saw a disgusted look on his love's face and decided to have a little fun with the lecherous man sitting across from him. He sent him feelings of insecurity, childishness, and most of all extreme fear.
Felix getting hit with all of this at once fell on the ground and pulled himself into the fetal position hugging a couch cushion and sucking his thumb. With their vampiric abilities everyone in the room heard him mumbling, "I won't let them get me, nobody loves me, Vampires are scary, I want my mommy." The room filled with the laughter of the others who were all pointing and laughing. Jasper was clutching his stomach from the emotions in the room. Emmett let out a boom of laughter picked Felix up and put him in the hallway closet where he could rock and suck in the dark. Which incidentally he was scared of.
Sitting back down Emmett began firing questions at Demetri about Garrett and why Aro needed him to stay with them. Demetri looked at Jane wearily and began his story.
"Garrett came to us a few months ago after being attacked by Romanian coven of 11. He was badly injured and at the time seemed ungifted. Aro took pity on him and accepted his stay in Volterra. Garrett began to slowly heal from his wounds which were unlike any that we've seen," Demetri's handsome face darkened while he thought of the wounds that he saw. Then continued his story.
"He shared stories with us of his journeys and the other nomads he had come into contact with. Weeks went by and we realized how powerful he truly is. Garrett confessed to the brothers one night that the reason he was a nomad is that he did not want to hurt any one with his power on accident. Garrett has the ability to conjure fireballs and manipulate situations so that they work out for anyone who wishes. He also has another power but he has told no one and will never reveal that secret. Aro naturally offered him a place in the guard but Garrett turned him down. Aro understood his hesitation and offered him an opportunity to try and live a more familial lifestyle to see if it was for him. I guess Aro broke his barriers down enough and he finally agreed and 3 months later here we are."
The Cullens looked at each other each processing the story that they had just been told. Jasper felt hope and excitement radiating off of the others while the guard members were feeling a sense of loss and disappointment. Those emotions seemed a little out of character for those who were usually revered as stoic and violent. But from upstairs he caught snippets of the conversation coming from what would be Alice and Garrett's room because the pixie always got her way and he felt a surge of new found love and he smiled.