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Revelation

Serena's POV

"Tobias! Don't do this…" Oliver cried desperately.

"Oh? Looks like you've been lying to your precious Bambina. Afraid that when she finds out she'll hate you? So selfish Oliver. Tsk tsk tsk." Was Oliver lying? Was he hiding something? Tobias stroked my cheek.

"Serena, fight back!" Gabriel roared.

"Oh please do. Fight back and kill me! Then you'll never know the truth about that voice in your head." I was still frozen in his arms. He smiled, "Good girl."

"Serena!"

"Now, as a reward," he whispered in my ear. "I'll tell you what they're hiding, or rather, who they've been hiding—"

"Serena he's a liar!" Oliver roared.

"Sebastian." Tobias whispered in my ear. In an instant images and memories flowed into my mind. Oh my God. I saw in my mind the tall sandy brown haired boy smiling at me. Shiori.

"He's dead. Akira killed him," I almost sobbed remembering the pile of ash I mourned over. I was shaking.

"No. He's very much alive. You see that was something Akira did to make you suffer. To teach you a lesson. But would he really kill someone with talents like Sebastian? He had to punish you both."

"No…"

"So Sebastian was kept away. Like those newborns you saw, we pumped him full of venom…"

"No!" Tears streamed down my cheeks I sunk to my knees.

"Yes," he touched my neck showing me images of Sebastian being tortured. "He's alive and suffering. While you were moaning that mutt's name and playing house he was consumed by fear and venom the image of you haunting him." I lunged for him.

"Where is he?" I roared.

"You'll be too late now." I froze again, I lost him twice. Sebastian. He let me fall to my knees and ran into the woods laughing as he did. I was curled up on the ground crying.

"Sebastian…" I whispered. It was though only the past had taken up my mind. The present no longer mattered. Nothing mattered except him.

Oliver's POV

I watched my sister cry. I didn't ever want her to remember Sebastian. I didn't want her in this state.

I was at her side in a second, Iris and Gabriel following a second later.

"Bambina…" I whispered softly.

"How could you keep this from me?"

"Princess, we just wanted you happy."

"Serena they were just trying to protect you." Edward said. She stood up quickly glaring at him.

"You knew? You all knew?" She was horrified and hurt, it was all over her face.

Seth stepped through the circle of us surrounding her, "Serena…" He reached for her ready to pull her into his arms.

"Don't touch me," She snapped. I could feel some of what she was feeling and she was more ashamed of herself than hurt by us.

"Serena…" Seth pleaded.

"All of you lied to me!"

"Serena everything my brother said was a lie!"

"He's alive!" She whispered, and ran away from us and back to the house. We found her pacing back and forth. "Where is he...dammit!" She sunk to the ground crying frustrated and in agony.

"Bambina…" I pleaded. Trying to get closer but she shot me a death glare.

"How the hell could you keep this from me? Do you know where he is?" She spat. It felt like I was being slapped.

Gabriel moved passed me and reached over to grab Serena, "What my brother said was just a manipulation...Sebastian is dead. Akira killed him, he left you and was—" Slap. Gabriel was on the floor as my sister's slap shut him up.

"I saw him! He didn't leave he was coming back for me! I saw him through Tobias's eyes! I cannot believe you'd all betray me like this! How? How could you keep him from me?"

Iris and Gabriel stared at the floor overcome with shame. "Protect me?" She laughed, hysterical. "Is this how you wanted me to be?" She stared at me sobbing, "Did you want me to hurt like this?"

"Serena please…" I choked out.

"I have to find him."

"Serena…" Alice chimed in hesitantly, "If you know him, maybe you'll be able to see him." She stretched out her hand. Serena grabbed it and ran to her room grabbing her sketchbook.

The next few days were spent hunting for both Tobias and Sebastian. My sister scribbled away drawing buildings then ripping the pages off of the sketchbook and starting to draw a new building. The Cullens and the Pack searched far and wide but there was no sign of the mad vampire, not even any missing people or dead bodies to leave a trail.

My sister was tearing herself apart searching for Sebastian although, Alice's gift seemed to be helpful to some extent. Even Quil and Embry came over to check up on her, we were all getting increasingly worried if she wasn't sketching furiously she was crying in frustration, or crying because her memories hurt her too much.

Gabriel and Iris were pretty ashamed after Serena's reaction to our secret, of course it killed me too but, if this was the result of her regaining her memories, I don't regret it.

I did worry about the state Sebastian was in. I could tell from Serena's sobs that she was torn with ideas of what he could be going through.

"Do you think he's still...alive?" Iris asked me, leaning her head on my shoulder as I wrapped my arms around her.

"She said she saw it. She's never been wrong."

"But, if he is...why didn't he come looking for us?"

"He didn't know. If my father was involved he probably filled him with so much venom it's maddening."

"No wonder she's in such pain…"

As if on cue I heard glass shattering and my sister sobbing louder than ever before. She was screaming in frustration. "Dammit!" Jasper was at her door in a second. I'm guessing he was trying to use her gift but it didn't work. I placed a hand on his shoulder shaking my head.

"Let her get this out…"

More crashing, more sobs and screams. I could hear her shredding paper. Iris and Gabriel just looked up from the bottom of the stairs in agony. Seth burst through them barrelling up the stairs looking just as agonized. He was about to bust open the door when I shoved him back.

"She doesn't want to see you," I stated.

"Shut up what the hell do you know?" He roared back. Serena was still crying on the other side of the door and I saw that Seth was the very last thing on her mind.

"I know that right now you'd only make things worse for her."

"Fuck you!"

"Seth!" Jacob snapped, Quil and Embry behind him.

Serena cried out in agony again. In an instant, Seth was shoved to the ground by Jacob and Gabriel. He was shaking and I could feel the scorching heat radiating from his body.

"He's gonna shift!" Iris astonished all of us by shoving Jacob and Gabriel off of Seth and dragging him down the stairs. She sung a tune in his ear and he passed out. She resumed her position sitting at the bottom of the staircase glaring at Seth. I was about to head down the stairs to comfort her but then, the crashing and screaming stopped. My sister was completely silent. Worried I burst into her room in less than a second and found her on the floor the light gone from her eyes.

"Serena?" I lifted her up and placed her on the bed. She stared blankly tears falling silently down her face. Jasper was on the other side a worried expression on his face.

"Bambina!" I shook her unable to feel anything from her. She just stared. "Serena! Serena!" My heart started to beat even faster as I began to panic and her lack of response. I shook her some more. "Serena!" I was about to shift into Sebastian but then,

"It's my fault…" She whispered. "It's all my fault. I'm too late. I can't...I can't find him! Why? Why? Is-is it because Akira, my father's blood runs through my veins? Is that why I'm doomed to this miserable existence? Doomed to cause bloodshed and death wherever I go?" She looked up at me tears falling down her face. I could see the misery in her eyes as she spoke. Dammit. We have to find him.

"Serena!" Alice called getting to the room in less than a second. Seth was right behind her looking as miserable as my sister did. Alice held out three plane tickets. "I think I saw something—" Immediately my sister touched Alice searching through her memories and seeing the vision she was looking for.

"Volterra?" My sister asked.

"Aro will decide to send Demetri and Felix out hunting… they'll bump into him when he bites a human as the sunsets, others will see and he'll be taken to Aro."

"The Volturi are involved?" Jasper asked, worried.

"They can be if Serena doesn't make it…"

"If I don't make it in time." Serena immediately grabbed a suitcase from what I assume to be Alice's room and started packing. It was small mainly stuffed with cash Alice handed her. Jasper went downstairs and I could hear him explaining where my sister planned on going. We all went downstairs and Alice handed Serena some car keys.

"I have to go." She announced

coldy, "Irisviel and Oliver c'mon." Iris and I followed.

"Princess what about Gabriel?"

"Iris—"

"I won't leave you unprotected." Gabriel boomed blocking Serena, while Iris and I headed to the car, I looked back at them. She smiled for the first time in what felt like ages. Touching his face softly.

"Oh, old friend. You and I both know you'd only make things worse if you went. Besides, you just betrayed your brother...I know you may say it's natural but you need some time to yourself."

"Serena—"

"I trust you to take care of the Cullens for me." She smiled at him. Then, turned to the Cullens and the wolves, all but Alice and Jasper looked concerned and determined to go. She backed away and held the doorknob, Iris and I were already almost in the car. "I know this is confusing for you all. I'm sorry but I have to do this. Don't worry I'll come back," She said, "Gabriel will explain it all to you. He knows it all." Iris and I got the car started, my sister was heading over to us when Seth—who woke up the moment she announced she was leaving—grabbed her arm, his face a mixture of anger and pain.

"I'm going with you," he growled in a low voice.

I was about to get out of the car when Iris grabbed me. "She has to do this," she said softly. I looked back at my sister who wasn't looking at Seth, only at the ground ahead of her.

"Seth you're staying here I only have three tickets…"

"So make Iris stay," He tightened his grip on her arm.

"No."

"Serena! I've actually seen the Volturi. I'm not letting you go over there unprotected!"

"I won't be! Iris and Oliver will be there." She tugged trying to get her arm free but Seth only gripped harder turning her to face him and grabbing her by the shoulders.

"Oh! The same Oliver and Iris who left you for dead! The same Oliver and Iris who didn't give a damn about you!" He roared, angry.

"Watch it mutt," Gabriel snarled.

"Oh you shut the hell up! Serena, either I go or you stay. I don't give a damn who this Sebastian is. He can rot in hell fo—" In an instant my sister freed herself from Seth's grip on her shoulders and shoved him away from her.

"Don't say his name. I don't want another word about him or my family coming out of your mouth!" She spat glaring at him. "Don't you get it? I don't want you to come! I don't want to be anywhere near you, I don't even want to look at you until Sebastian is okay! Because while I was here playing house and being happy he was being tortured, he suffering. Now I can bring him back. I'm not going to let anyone stop me even you." Seth looked miserably at my sister.

"So you'd leave me?" He grabbed her wrist one last time his voice tightening. "You'd abandon all of the happiness you found here in Forks: The Cullens, Jacob, Quil, Embry, Me? For him?" He said, choking out the last part.

"I'd abandon all of it." She said so confidently that it pained me, because I understood the reality of these words more than anyone else. "All of it. If I could just see him for one more minute, Seth." Tears fell down her face, "If I stay here, if you go, it'll only make me stay in this state. Miserable, broken, empty. Is that...is that what you want? Do you want me to hate you for taking this moment away from me?"

"I want you," His voice broke.

"And right now, I only want to be with Sebastian." She said shocking him. He just looked at her agony all over his face. She stared back at him. In those looks I could see all of the words she wished she could say to him and all the love they had for one another but I could also see the immense love she had for Bash, as if even over all this time they had met just yesterday. After a beat of silence, the exchange between the two lovers was over. Seth finally fell to his knees and let go. My sister flitted over to the car, threw the suitcase in the back with Iris. Just before she closed the door she looked over at Seth staring at her, miserably.

"Thank you." She said softly smiling at him. Then she closed the door immediately turning on the car peeling out of the driveway, to the airport.

We arrived in time for our flight and as we boarded the plane, I handed Serena a necklace I had taken from her with a ring and a locket on it. She took it tears pricking her eyes, "Is this…"

"The one he gave to you before he died." I whispered. Iris looked at her, "I'm sorry we didn't tell you but, I made sure we didn't lose that."

My sister looked at us. "Thank you both. For everything. I know that you all did this, for my sake." She smiled at us. Iris and I held hands as we took our seats relieved that my sister had forgiven us. My sister looked out the window and when I crept into her mind I saw that thoughts of Bash were the only things on her mind.

Don't worry Bambina. If he is out there. We'll bring that idiot back.

I can't lose him again… but, if it's like Tobias said then he might already be lost, mentally…

Realization hit. If Sebastian was really mad from venom and Tobias's torturous gift, he won't recognize us. He might even kill us with that gift of his.

And if he is—

I'll do it. I'll be the one to end him. She said, looking back at me.

Serena—

It has to be me. I started this, started him. I have to be the one to do it. I just...really hope that we can make it in time…

"Il mio amore, basta aspettare un po di più," She whispered. My love, just wait a little more.

I stared at my sister Iris's hand still in mine, and I prayed that we did make it in time, for her sake.