Hi I'm so sorry for letting you wait for so long. I'm still my beta took a holyday and my son has been very ill, so real life got in my way.

There's 2 chapters after this one so this story is coming to an end.

I did start writing a new story so keep an eye out for that if you are interested.

Chapter twenty-four: To find love in strange places. (Present day EPOV)

The first night in Miami, Garrett and Victoria where still in their trance. Garrett stood still on the beach looking out over the ocean, with his eyes still closed. A few moments before the sun came up, we guided them into an empty house nearby.

It wasn't long after that that they both came to. First Victoria opened her eyes, and then so did Garrett.

"Where are we?" he asked, still a little confused.

"Miami, and it's just before sunrise," Kate answered.

He turned to look at her, and within seconds he was holding her in his arms instead of Victoria. "How long has it been, Katy?"

"About nine days," she said, as she hugged him tighter.

"What are we going to do now?" Victoria asked.

"We have to wait until the sun goes down; it's very sunny here," Garrett told her.

"But what about my mate?" she wanted to know. "How long until I can meet him?"

"We are close now. I can see our path very clearly now. I believe we will find him tonight."

She looked happy with that explanation and sat down on the floor.

We spent the day playing with Carlie and talking to Victoria. She and Garrett were curious why they were not hungry after nine days. She looked appalled at first when we told her that we fed them animal blood. After a while she said, "Apparently it does do the trick."

I must admit that Victoria, once I got to know her, wasn't as bad a person as I thought she was.

She told us her story. She was turned by an unknown vampire in the early 1900s, and she was 21 at the time. She met James shortly after, he had always told her that she was his mate and made her do everything he asked, threatening to leave her if she didn't.

She ended her story with the words, "I'm actually glad you guys let me see how it really is between mates. I never had something like that with James. I am sorry for all that I did to you. I was so alone, and at that time I really believed he was my mate."

We all told her our own stories, and I knew that we had made a new friend.

As soon as the sun was down, we resumed our search.

Surprisingly we found him within the hour…, well actually he found us.

We were, to say the least, shocked.

The man must have been seven feet tall, very skinny, and he had short, bright red hair. We knew he wasn't a human; we smelled no human scent and heard no heartbeat. The problem was, he wasn't a vampire either.

EPOV

The man we found was strange; he looked like a human, but he didn't smell human. He had the same build as me. His hair was blond and very long, he had green eyes. I was confused was he a human or not? I could not read his mind, and the minds of my family members were clouded.

KatePOV

We found him sooner than I thought we would. He was a strange individual, with his small and slender form, his strange smell, his short brown hair and brown eyes. He didn't appear human, but what was he then?

GarrettPOV

I was glad I was done with my promise to Victoria. We found her mate. I saw the bond between them illuminate like a neon sign. There was something strange about him. his smell was not that of a vampire, and he did not look like us either. Was he human?

CarliePOV

A human mate for Victoria; that would not work well. He was a big guy, but not as big as Uncle Emmett and Uncle John.

He did have the same color hair as Uncle John, and his eyes where a strange color green.

VictoriaPOV

Here he was, my mate, but he wasn't a vampire. Luckily for me he wasn't human either; he didn't smell like one to me, so that was good. I didn't want to feed off him, and that was all that mattered. He was gorgeous, long and muscular, with nice golden hair and grey eyes.

Back to BPOV

"You have been looking for me," the man said.

"Yes, we have," Garrett said.

"My name is Ethan, and you are?"

We each introduced ourselves to him before he continued.

"Why would you be looking for me?" he wanted to know.

"It's a little strange, you see, we are not what you think we are."

"Oh, so you aren't vampires? I could have sworn you where. Except for your eyes, you have all the traits of vampires."

All of us just stood there for a very long time, not able to say anything.

"You know about us? But you are not one of us." Edward was the first to talk again.

"I will gladly tell you my story, if you first tell me why you are here. I have been avoiding your kind for over ten years now, so I am curious as to how you found me," Ethan said.

"We will go somewhere more comfortable, and we will talk," I told him.

Victoria had not said one word since we found him. I really wanted to know what she was thinking about him.

We went back to the little house we stayed in the past day and told our story to Ethan. We told him how Edward and I became a couple. We told him everything about Carlie. Garrett and Kate told him a little about their family. Victoria told him a bit about her time with Laurent and James.

When we finished, he looked over at Victoria and smiled. "You are the one for me then?" Ethan asked her.

"Emm, well maybe. Garrett thinks so, and it is his gift to find mates," she said, looking like she could be blushing.

"I'll tell you my story first, and then you can tell me if we could be mates, as you call it."

"You all must be wondering what I am, and how I know about what you are.
I am human, and I know about vampires because ten years ago I was recruited by your kind to be in their guard. I didn't want to be, and with the help of one of them I was able to escape. She was not happy to be there either, but she didn't have a choice. I have an ability, as you call it: I can change my appearance, my smell, even the way you hear or feel me. I would not even taste good to your kind.
I can only fool vampires, so the little boy will see me as I am; the rest of you see what I want you to see. The woman, Renate was her name, helped me develop my ability, and that is how I was able to get away before they changed me. I have been hiding in sunny places ever since."

"Why didn't you want to be a vampire?" Victoria asked him when he finished his story.

"You want to know if I would ever want to become a vampire, don't you? It's not that I didn't want to be changed, that doesn't scare me that much. I didn't want to be changed to serve other vampires for the rest of eternity." I heard Victoria sigh in relief.

We quietly left the room so they could talk and get to know each other.

We wanted to go back home, back to our families, so we knocked on the door where we left Victoria and Ethan.

No one answered, so I knocked again, and after a while again. When they still did not say anything, I slowly opened the door.

"Victoria, NO!" I screamed.

I hope the POV change wasn't too confusing.

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