Hurricane Swan Chapter 25: Sellotape and Jobs, a twilight fanfic

Sorry it's been about a month. Settling in to school and breaking the computer didn't bode well. But to make up for it I have written two chapters! :)

The second chapter is from Roberts POV as I had some reviews confused about his and Joanne's relationship. But if anyone has any picture which show how they imagine Robert please tell me as I keep looking and can't find something that fits.

Again thanks to:

BPOV

"It's going to be obvious if you keep looking at him," I murmured warningly to Joanne while I read a book in the school Cafeteria.

It has been a month since Joanne told me and there was now only two weeks till Christmas, and Annabelle was still tagging along. Thankfully the mousey haired girl helped Esme in the day so I get a certain amount of peace.

She quickly looked away and looked at me instead.

"Well you could just tell them." I shrugged looking at the rest of our group, which were my family and the Cullen's, but they were all helping to plan a wedding. Speak of the devil.

As I mentioned the wedding the two lovebirds strolled into the cafeteria grinning sheepishly at each other.

Emmett let out a wolf whistle before Rosalie smacked him for being immature, but she had a smile on her face.

"What are you all doing?" Adam asked when he reached our table.

"Planning your wedding, as you have done zilch." Jack said excitedly.

"You have been supervising right Marie?" Adam asked, I looked up from my book with a grin and shrugged.

He groaned and flopped down into one of the free chairs.

"I have faith in them, but if it makes you feel better, I stopped you both sky diving to the isle." I winked as he looked stunned and slightly scared.

"Hey! I was protesting too. It would just ruin Valerie's hair." Alice said, flapping her face with her hand as if she too was horrified

"Yeah but we listen to Marie, not annoying pixies." Lorrie added causing the table to erupt into laughter, even Alice.

"That's true." She giggled.

I looked at Joanne who looked glum. She had been seeing Robert whenever she could get away in the evening and she was becoming more and more attached to him and staying for longer and longer. I was having to comfort Jack more and more often as it seemed that his twin and partner in crime was ignoring and avoiding him.

I looked at Jack, and he was talking animatedly about balloons and flowers, but I did see him glance a Joanne and look hurt, obviously no amount of reassuring would convince him.

I also glanced at Rob, who was looking at Joanne in longing and sorrow. That was when I decided to forget about my worries with Annabelle.

I sighed and closed my book throwing it on the table in front of me and stood, while walking towards the doors to the field gesturing for Joanne to follow me. On the way I caught Edward's eyes which looked confused and gave him a small smile and wink.

When Joanne and I were far enough to not be heard by nosey vampires, I stopped and turned to face her under the frozen boughs.

"Joanne, honey. You need to decide, I admit I'd rather you said after Annabelle had left, because it's likely she'll inform Aro, Marcus and god-forbid, Caius. But you are miserable, Jack is miserable and most of all Rob is." I grabbed her hands, as her eyes had diverted towards the earth. "I know how difficult it is to be with a vampire remember, and I'm just relieved he is not your singer so there is less of a risk for him, but things can get so much worse and I can't see you hitting walls so early on. You love him right?"

She bit her lip, and her eyes filled. "I think I do, although I don't want to, because I don't want him to become a vampire."

"I understand, but you love him, and he has to be able to make that decision for himself, Edward made decisions for me and look how well that turned out! Don't make the same mistake."

She nodded and flung herself into my arms for a hug.

"I want to tell everyone, but I don't know, I guess I have a gut feeling."

"An instinct? Hm?" I rubbed her back while staring thoughtfully over her shoulder. "What exactly is your instinct telling you? Tell no-one?"

"No." She sniffed. "To tell Jack, but I'm not sure about anyone else. I don't know why only him... maybe it's just a gradual thing, she's quite nervous of any vampire but you and I after Halloween."

"Understandable." I mused. "So we'll tell Jack." A small part of me now felt relieved that she felt she could tell someone, it just depends on how he'll react.

sHssHs

I found Jack at Edwards piano at the Cullen's after school.

"Not even I can save you if you break that."

With a thwack he jerked his head up out of the sleek black piano cracking the lid, and making a resonating clash of notes to accompany it.

I winced but then but my lip to prevent a laugh at Jack's horrified face.

"I just wanted to irritate him, not cause him to be murderous." The amount of worry in his voice caused a huge bout of laughter to overcome me, and so when Edward came downstairs he saw me leaning against a wall for support while doubled over with laughter, the lid of his piano cracked in four places and Jack stood beside it looking scared while holding sellotape.

"JACK!" He thundered storming forwards, causing Jack to make a little eek and run off with Edward catching him up on the last porch step, Jack threw him off using his strength and it proceeded like that for the next few minutes moving round the front meadow at about seven steps at a time, which just caused me to laugh harder.

At some point after they had both wrapped tape around each other's heads, Carlisle came home (everyone else but Joanne were at my house) and broke them up after a slight chuckle, but then after looking at them he broke out into huge guffaws, Edward and jack had wrapped the tape tightly and looked like Jim Carey when he was in Yes Man.

While Carlisle and I were laughing hysterically, once again, they looked at each other, huffed and walked off in opposite directions.

It took a while but Carlisle and I eventually calmed down.

"You family never ceases to brighten ones day." He smiled largely at me after giving me a quick hug.

"Me neither and I've basically been with each of them since they changed." I then looked over his shoulder and called. "Jack are you going to sulk, or come here so I can untangle you without you ripping your hair out?"

There was a sigh and he came out the trees and walked up to me, I had to fight with everything I had to not laugh, but I managed.

It took about five minutes but I eventually managed to unwrap the sellotape from his head and simply left his hair in a sticky dark tangle.

"Now I actually came here to tell you that Joanne wants to talk to you in about two hours in my old house. Know where it is?" He nodded. "Good, now go home, order Edward a new piano and join in the games I think they're near the hills in the east."

He nodded again and with a smile and wave to Carlisle and I, he left. I then wandered into the house after Carlisle intending to find Edward where he was bound to be sulking.

"You're good with them." Carlisle turned to me after placing his bag on the coffee table before I reached the stairs.

"Well I'm like their mom, just you're like Edwards, Alice's, Jasper's, Emmett's and Rosalie's dad. Someone needs to look after them." I shrugged leaning against the banister.

"That's true." He gave a short laugh then turned sober. "Do you ever feel guilty for changing them?"

"You didn't turn Alice and Jasper." I pointed out.

"True, but do you?"

I sighed and folded my arms. "Of course I do, who wouldn't? But then I think about what may have happened without them. Call me selfish, but I wouldn't change it, god knows what monster I would have become otherwise."

He smiled slightly.

"Glad someone else feels the same; I feel guilty yet if I was given another chance I wouldn't change my mind. Rosalie hates being a vampire but she wouldn't want to be human without Emmett." He walked past me and hung his coat in a closet behind the staircase. "Is your phone broken?"

I looked blankly at him. "Huh?"

"Aro. He said he tried to call you, but he got no answer then he tried to call Annabelle and he couldn't get an answer, he thought he'd call me before he sent half the Volturi to find you. That's why I was home early, so I think it would be wise to phone him back before he gets too worried. He smiled and retreated upstairs to his office.

I sighed knowing how stressed out Aro would be, he does care about us like a family, but I think he can wait a bit longer. So I went upstairs and found Edward stood in front of the mirror trying to get the sellotape off.

"This stuff is strong." He grumbled still trying to yank it off.

"Yeah one of the boy's creations, I've had many a tantrum involving this stuff.2 Walked over and started to pull the tape in its weak spots (ones that I had designed for situations like this). "They enjoy this kind of 'joke' so I've had experience in untangling." I smiled over his shoulder into the mirror, and his face looked less glum.

"You know the other day when I disappeared for a few hours after our trip in the meadow and you found me in my old house?" He nodded. "Well I saw an old friend," I smiled and looked at his shocked face. "Before you say anything I didn't go looking for her, I went to see Robert and she was leaving, he is her great-grandson, and I just had the urge to talk to her."

He turned around and smiled back. "I'm not saying it was a good idea, but did it go well?"

"Yes. But I think my family will move on after the school year is up, she knows what we are, she guessed. We can't make mistakes or I'll have to somehow destroy the town." I sighed as I pulled the last few bits of sticky plastic out of the even messier copper hair.

"We'll leave, although we love it here, it is too soon. We knew that but we didn't think about that aspect."

"No it's fine our families can't stay together much longer anyway." I pulled away and sat on his sofa, pulling my legs up and wrapping my arms around them.

"What's that meant to mean?" He asked with some accusation in his voice.

"What can I do? I can't leave them and we can't all stay together."

"You could-"

"No, I can't leave them, I do feel like their mother. Sure Lorrie and Martiee can stay with Aimee and Ash in Pechora or James And Gabrielle in New Zealand but I'd want them to come back, I'd miss them. They also can't-"

"Bella, be quiet for a minute please." I shut-up; I could tell he was on the verge of losing his temper, not at me of course. "I'll live with you."

I pursed my lips thinking. "But then you'll leave your family! What about Carlisle? Esme? Alice?"

"Shh. It'll be alright, yes they're my family and I love them, but I'm just a brother, besides I'll visit them as often as I can." He can and sat down next to me. "Stop worrying, there are more pressing issues at the moment."

I grimaced, because at that exact moment my phone decided to ring.

"Aren't you going to get that?" Edward asked after about twenty seconds of me ignoring it.

"I suppose," I mumbled pulling it out of my jacket.

"Hello?"

"Bella! What are you doing?"

"Aro, you've just seen me for a month." I sighed leaning back into Edward while he traced circles onto my palm.

"We've found him."

"What?" I jumped up. "When?"

"This morning, we need you, Alec, Jane, Annabelle, Chelsea, Quentin, and Madeline are going to meet you at Seattle airport then you are going to the Amazon. Demetri and Felix are already there with Zafrina and her sisters. If you could can you rope Benjamin in, we could use his help."

"I'll try but I'm not promising anything."

"Thank you Bella, The plane will be landing in Seattle in Two hours."

"Okay." I hung up and looked at Edward. "I've got to go."

"I heard." He said passively.

"Edw-"

"No. Go. I'll tell everyone." He sighed and stood up, turning away. I went over to him and grabbed his hand.

"I'm sorry, I have to go, it's been someone we've been searching for, for two decades."

"He sounds dangerous."

"I'm not going to lie, he is, but his children are more of the problem." I turned to stand in front of him.

"Children?" He looked down to see my eyes.

"Long story short, he mates with humans and he gets half-breed children."

"Oh my god." He looked shocked.

"His numbers of births are rising though, he has so many it makes it difficult to keep track of, they have many powers, but there are about a third who doesn't have gifts, but they are all venomous. Not usual venom, it's like a poison to humans and vampires. Vampires can't be killed by it but they have extreme hallucinations."

"I don't want you to go." He pulled me in for a hug.

"I'll have my shield up the whole time, and if I get bitten as long as I get to Volterra I'll be fine, we have an antidote. But that won't happen." I went on my toes and kissed him on the lips, but pulled away quickly. "You know I'm not telling you this just so you can worry, I'm telling you because I want you to know the truth, but you can't tell my family."

He nodded and pulled me closer for another kiss.