Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns all Twilight Saga and characters. I, Anita11, own everything else.

Cameron

I ran as fast as I could back through the tunnels.

"Help! Help!" I yelled out as I ran. I knew I needed to get help but a part of me was also afraid. I was lost in the complex tunnel system so I screamed even louder.

"Help!" I screamed at the top of my lungs hoping that someone with super hearing could hear me. As lost as I was I didn't stop. I kept running, yelling and crying. Why did I offer her my blood? That was such a stupid thing to do?!

For a moment, I got distracted from my thoughts as a strong wave of energy swept though me and I felt it concentrate in my chest. It was getting stronger but I wasn't afraid. I could barely see through my tear so I nearly crashed into Chris, had he not grabbed me. Why didn't he let me know he was coming?

"Cameron?! What wrong? Where's Adel?" He said quickly making me wonder how he knew.

"Sh... Sh... She's hurt. She's in the room with all the paintings." I told him. He took me in his arms and ran at vampire speed to the room. I could hear the screams as we approached it.

"Calm down Adel. I'm here." Someone was telling her as we walked in. It was her half-brother, Josh. Chris quickly set me on my feet and went to Adel's side.

"Adel, I'm here. You're going to be ok." Chris told her. Adel growled at him just as she had her brother. Chris started examining her and then he looked at Josh. They both had the same worried look. Chris pulled out his phone. He swiped Edwards phone number combination and then the swiped the image outward to project the screen before he set it down. The phone televid projector displayed Edward's image and I could clearly see his look of concern.

"Chris, Josh what's going on?"

"Its Adel. We're at the main library. Hurry." Chris told him before the image disappeared.

"Where does it hurt, honey?" He asked here. She just screamed and growled.

"Damn it! What the hell happened Cam?" Chris asked me full of frustration. He wasn't angry but I could tell he was worried. I started crying.

"We had a fight. More like a disagreement. I… I… I cut myself and dared her to kill me but the wound healed. She wiped the blood off with her finger and then she tasted it. I'm so sorry…" Chris's eyes widened and he became furious.

"She drank your blood!" Chris said furiously.

"I just got so mad when she said she didn't care about her family. I was being mean and stupid." I said quickly. Josh looked at me angrily before he turned to his sister. He was clearly mad at me.

"The child harmed herself Chris. This isn't Adel's fault." He said defending her.

"Cameron is a member of this family. There is a line here and Adela was playing with it. Besides, as you said, Cameron is a child. Adela should have known better." Chris said defending me. Josh nodded at him in agreement as his sister grunted loudly.

"Kill her!" She screamed at Josh. I gasped. Josh took a deep breath and looked at me.

"Don't be scared. She doesn't really mean it. She doesn't mean any of her nasty comments. You'll come to realize that once you get to know her." Josh explained. He smiled at me kindly which I appreciated.

Edward, Sarah, and the other's came in through the front entrance suddenly. I saw all of their angry faces and I was terrified. Before I even knew what I was doing, I ran back the opposite direction to the entrance I had originally come from.

"Cam!" Chris yelled after my and then I was in his arms before I ever had a chance to reach the back door.

"No one is angry at you. Adel should have known better. I've told you that you don't ever have to be afraid of us." He said as I struggled in his arms. I didn't mean to struggle but I was so scared that I couldn't help myself.

"Cameron, please come back. We need your help." Edward said. He was carrying Adel and Chris carried me. Within seconds, we were in an infirmary. Edward, Eve and another man quickly went to work. Eve and the man placed their hands over Adel and instantly she calmed down. Carlisle came over to me.

"We need a sample of your blood sweetheart. Is that ok?" I nodded. Chris took my free hand as Carlisle took several vials of my blood. He handed them to another woman. I recognized her. It was Lina.

"Here you go Lina. Start a genetic profile and check for venom and any traces of the virus." He told her. She quickly was at a station working. Two vampires walked in. I knew them immediately. Marcus and Caius.

"What has happened?!" Caius asked angrily. Marcus went to Adel's side with the rest of his family.

"We don't know yet. She was in a lot of pain. I am trying to heal her but it doesn't seem to be working. Whatever is happening to her, its not viral or venom induced." Eve said. She had her hands on Adel.

"I am trying to fight whatever is happening but I can't." She told him.

"How?" Marcus asked angrily. I trembled at Chris's side. He put his arm around me in a comforting, protective manner.

"She drank a few drops of Cameron's blood." Edward told him. Caius looked at me.

"You…!" He growled at me. Edward and Chris hissed so loudly that it brought goose bumps to my arms.

"Don't you dare blame her for this!" Edward growled at him quickly. "Adel did this on her own and we are trying our best to fix it!" Caius hissed angrily and then he went to Adel's side.

"Can she survive this?" Marcus asked Eve. She nodded.

"Her vitals are fine but she is in pain. Aaron is controlling the pain but we need to look at her blood to get a better idea." Eve told him. Marcus then looked at Aaron who just shrugged as if he already knew what Marcus wanted to ask.

"I don't know how long she will be in pain. I know this sounds strange but it feels like the same kind of pain that a new shapeshifter goes through when he or she first phases." Aaron told them.

"She's phasing?" Marcus asked him.

"I'm sorry Marcus but I don't know that. All I'm saying is that controlling her pain feels the same as when I control a new wolf pup." Aaron told him. Marcus's brows furrowed before he looked at me. I shivered. Seeing the interaction between Marcus and I, Sarah came over to me. She stopped when I started to shake again and looked at Chris.

"Take Cameron home. Its late and I am sure she is tired and overwhelmed." She told Chris. Chris took me again and we left the room.

"Are you ok?" He asked me. I stopped crying but I was far from ok.

"I shouldn't have come here. This was a mistake." I told him.

"Adel is a complicated girl but deep, deep down, she's a good kid. She's loyal to her family. She wouldn't have hurt you. That's why I didn't follow you when she brought you here." He explained. Something dawned on me.

"You knew I was coming here?" I asked him.

"Of course. Now that I know you, its virtually impossible not to know exactly where you are. Can't you feel it?" He asked me. Suddenly I felt both embarrassed and elated.

"I don't know. I don't have tracking powers." I explained to him.

"In the caves. You knew I was coming. Your heart rate changed before I even got there. I thought you knew it was me. That's why I didn't call your name to let you know I was near so that you didn't crash into me again." He said. I remembered the feeling in my chest I got a few moments before Chris arrived and I smiled to myself as I held the spot that ached for him.

"I guess I did know." I said. We looked at each other. He was carrying me so when we stared into each other's eyes our faces were very close, making the moment seem even more intimate. I could see the love and relief in his eyes as clearly as if I were a soul reader. Chris brought me closer to him and his lips touched my forehead. They lingered there for a moment before they parted and he gently tucked me closer to him. I held him tighter, not wanting the moment to end. It made me wish that somehow we were back in the 18th century, when it was ok for older men to declare romantic love to young girls as long as they would wait for them until they grew older, like in Jane Austen. Love was so innocent back then because it wasn't about sexual attraction. It was about two people who were able to see into each other's soul and connect, but the new centuries twisted and perverted this kind of love to make it seem like something other than what it was. It broke my heat because it meant that Chris would never allow himself to love me like I wanted him to love me.

Moments like these were so confusing to me because I knew that they didn't feel the same to him as they did to me. It was a different kind of intimacy for him, a different kind of love, but I didn't care because when he held me like this, none of that stuff really mattered.

We arrived at the house and Nessie, Leah, Will, and Jake were there with my brother and sister.

"Cam! Are you ok? They wouldn't let us go get you." Billie growled angrily at my grandparents. Jaime took me from Chris giving him a cold angry glare that made me feel protective over Chris. I missed Chris instantly.

"She's fine. You know I would never let anything happen to her." Chris told him calmly.

"You should have brought her straight here." Jaime told Chris sternly.

"Adel is my niece too. She needed our help too." Chris explained. I couldn't help a flash of hurt and jealousy hit me as he called me his niece and made it seem like Adel as important to him as me.

"Yeah. Its all becoming clearer by the second." Jamie told him.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Chris said annoyed. Jaime turned and walked away with me and Billie. He walked me over to my room and he closed the door making it clear that no one was to enter, even though the room was unlocked. Jaime placed me on the bed. Billie was already there so she curled up with me.

"Are you really ok?" Billie asked me.

"I did a stupid thing." I countered, not wanting to answer her.

"They already told us. Why in the world would you taunt a vampire?" Jamie asked me angrily.

"I don't know… I think I was angry at her but… I knew she wouldn't do it and I guess some part of me wanted to show her that." I said. Billy put her arm around me.

"That was a very stupid thing to do. You don't know these people. You don't know what they are capable of."

"That's true but I am beginning to learn. I learned so many things today." I told them.

"What? What did Adel tell you?" Jamie asked me.

"She told me our history. The real one, not the lies the council fed us. These people are in war. That's why they brought us here. To keep us safe." I told them.

"They're in ware with the werewolves." Billie said with a tone that implied she already knew this.

"No. The werewolves were pawns of their real enemy. They're in ware with Romanian vampires who used the werewolves to overthrow the Volturi. The werewolves were being used and manipulated. The Volturi tried to stop the other vampires but they ended up creating more werewolves and now their population is out of control. It was their own fault. The werewolves don't deserve to die but the Volturi didn't really have a choice." I told them. I sighed exhausted.

"Everything here is so complicated and I just made things worst. My very existence complicates things. My own blood is hurting Adel as if I am the enemy too. All these visions, all the stories. I feel like I am connected to all of them but I am not a part of any of them like I exist in the shadows, always watching but never being a part of anything, never belonging to anything yet everything feels like it belongs to me." I told them. Billie nodded as if she understood.

"I feel that same belonging with Will. I can't really breathe when I am not near him yet I am not sure if I should trust him knowing he's a Volturi. Its all so complicated." Billie confessed.

"I know what you mean. Its like they have other priorities. They've been together for centuries and we're the newcomers. Ever since we met the whole family, I have this feeling of loneliness. Like an outsider and I am not sure if I trust all of them anymore." Jamie said unsure.

"That's because they are all killing each other, betraying each other and making terrible choices that hurt each other… even mom. I saw the woman that my mom once was and I didn't like what I saw. Its this place… Its them… They pretend like they are a family but they don't know how. Not here. They might be a family by blood but its every immortal for themselves here." I told them. Remembering how my human mother had been hidden away in a castle with Esme instead of being as far away from the upcoming fight as possible. What kind of parents keep their child in the center of a warzone?

"I'm starting to wonder if that why grandma and grandpa Clearwater never told our dads about all this." Jaime said, distracting me. He sighed and hesitated for a moment. "I know you are mad at them but maybe they did aunt Leanna a favor by turning her human and sending her away." Jaime told hesitantly. I nodded in agreement.

"She was happy at the rez. Even without her imprint, she was happy. We were happy too." I contemplated.

"Let's sleep. I'm tired." Billie said. I agreed. So she and I went to sleep while Jaime watched over us. I felt better knowing he was there to protect us.