Era-Lie POV

I woke up early the next morning. I laid there staring at the ceiling, and i struggled with myself for a few minutes. It suddenly occurred to me that normal necromancers shouldn't struggle or even care this much about feeling. But no. As per usual, my freakish self was laying in a bed trying to feel things that seemed disgusting and foreign to me. Things i thought i needed to feel. The ruse wouldn't last long if i couldn't muster up some sort of emotion that was beyond minimal.

I gave up, sitting up i glanced at the clock. It was going on six thirty and i figured coffee would come in handy so i showered and got dressed. Halfway through pulling my coat and boots on someone knocked on the door. I frowned and then heard a loud sing song voice. "Era, Anna said your home!" i hesitated, feeling more in the last five seconds then i had in the last day and a half, fear. Oh god, it was Angie, and i was a freaking monster now.

I cringed a little, but made my way to the door and opened it anyways. She threw her weight into me and sadly, my first instinct was defensive rather to just hug her back. My entire body reacted differently to everything and it was more then a little annoying. Someone knocks on a door and i expect an attack. Somene hugs me and i tense up prepared for a fight.

I gave Anna a smile, though im sure it came out a little cold. There wasn't much i could do about the hostility right now. "Hey Angie," i said kissing the top of her head and she just smiled at me.

"Your lips are cold!" she said and then gave me another quick hug and then ran for the bathroom.

"How was she?" i asked, stepping aside for her to come in.

"Surprisingly happy for a seven year old who lost her parents a few days ago. How are you?" she asked sitting down at the table. I shrugged indifferently before leaning back in my own seat. She was staring at me openly and i chose to ignore it. "Your different, i can feel it. I felt it the other night. It was weird."

"Yeah," was my all amazing response.

"Do you want to tell me why?" she asked, forehead creasing in worry.

I turned to her now thoughtful as i regarded her. I couldn't tell her anything, the mind reader would find out and then my Guardian would know and that still didn't seem like an appealing notion. "I'll be fine Anna."

Angie emerged from the bathroom and then went to grab the remote from the table seperating Anna and i. I plucked the remote from the table before she could get to it. "You and i are going to eat," i glanced at Anna, "would you like to join us?"

"Yeah," she said nodding, and then glanced at Angie who was smiling.

"Can we get pancakes?"

"Sure," i said, going for my cellphone and subtley sliding the gun under my wasit band then pushing a blade into both boots in a sheath on the inside of them.

"Why do you carry so many weapons?" Anna muttered as we left the hotel.

"I prepare for three different attacks when i go somewhere. So i carry a weapon for each," i said dismissively.

"Isn't that kind of overkill?" she asked frowning as i ignored a flirty smile i got from the valet.

"In my life, not really," i said climbing into the drivers side of the car. I glanced into the back seat, "put on your belt Angie."

"Okay," she said, having hoped i wouldn't notice. Unfortunately for her, I was hyper aware of everything now though. I saw clearly or more clearly anyways. I felt like i saw everything, and that was disorienting in itself. I had a headache already. Weird that i got headaches. Adjustment issues perhaps?

"So pancakes," i said to Anna, hoping she'd know where to take us.

"There was pretty good breakfast restaurant three blocks from here," she said, giving me directions.

Anna was observing me the entire drive and just as much when we finally sat down. I ordered my usual coffee, and then just gave her a look. "What's with the staring Anna?"

"It's you. You seem distant almost. I felt you before, but now all i get is this coldness, like a horribly freezing night in winter, no wind or sound, just cold," i quirked an eyebrow.

"Really? That's what your getting, silence and cold?" she gave me a disbelieving look. "What do you want me to tell you Anna? David messes with me in way i can't explain. Just let it go, alright?"

She relented, "whatever's wrong with you now, will you still be able to take care of Angie properly?"

I gave her a lethal stare, and she looked away quickly, regret setting her demeanor. Angie had even stopped eating and was pouting now. "I want to stay with Era, you can't make me leave her," she said, scooting over in her seat. The chair dragged a little and she ended up right beside me. I grinned a little. It was cute.

"Your not going anywhere shortie," i said, taking a sip from my coffee.

Anna just shook her head, "are you sure? I mean, Era, your a teenager. Does Bella even know you plan on adopting her? What are you going to use for records?"

"I have papers i can use. She's far better off with me then anyone else, let alone some crap foster home. I know her parents Anna, they'd come and haunt me until i brought her home if i gave her up," i said honestly. The words sounded empty, everything i said sounded empty, or i sounded weird if i put effort into the tone. I couldn't quite fake the emotions yet, but i thought i was getting close, and it has only been thirty six hours since i'd chosen.

"Great fake papers," she said snorting slightly and rolling her eyes. "Be honest with me, do you want to have her?"

"What kind of a question is that? Of course i do. Why do you keep asking these questions?" i retorted frowning at her. She was trying to get at something. "Anna, i dont know what's going through your mind, but get over it. No one will protect her as much whoever you seem to think is capable of protecting her and raising her right doesn't have the resources i do. So drop it."

"You dont have to talk to me like that, i just dont know why your so different and it's making me nervous," she said, a little hurt with my tone would be my guess. It had come out in a clipped harsh sort of way.

"I'm sorry," i wasn't, but i figured i should say it anyways, "i'm just all worked up, a lots happened. Will you be sticking around at all?"

"Do you want me to?" she asked a little hopefully, despite her previous remarks about my new attitude.

"I wouldn't ask if i didn't," i said giving her a small smile.

Everyone appeared to be about and bouncing from room to room when we got back. "Hey Jazzy!" Angie sang, running towards him and giving him a hug.

I stared at the pair thoughtfully, before shaking the images in my mind and going into Bella and Edward's room. "Brought coffee," i said in greeting, setting the four cup holder down on the table. Anna and i were holding our own. Bella grabbed hers, the same label as my own and took a sip.

"God your a mind reader," she said to me, taking another long drink.

"Whose the kid?" Bella asked quietly, watching Jasper go out onto the balcony.

"Alice showed up and murdered her parents, i was staying with them in san Fransisco, i volunteered to look after her," i said bluntly, taking yet another drink of the amazing coffee. It was good coffee. I was glad Anna had directed us there.

"Alice?" She repeated in disbelief, "wait, doesn't she have any other family, why you?"

I gave her a quick run down on the whole disaster and ended with, "i'm adopting her."

"That is a very bad idea Era, your seventeen, and she's a kid, she's what six?"

"Seven," i corrected, unperturbed with her disagreement over my decision. She couldn't change my mind and she couldn't stop me, she could try, but right now i was running on pure power and it felt good. I doubted if there were a whole lot of things in the world that could put me down. I suddenly realized something.

Everything i had decided before i'd transformed into whatever i was now, had become absolute. Almost unchangeable. it was an odd thing. I was so sure of everything before the change, and now? When stuff came up, i knew exactly what i did and didn't want. It was so simple. I wonder if other necromancers felt this way. Regretably, i was starting to wish i'd stuck around with David for a while. He knew things. I could always ask Chris i suppose, ask to change up our teaching schedules. You know, i'm probably the youngest Necromancer ever. We aren't supposed to choose, something about the mind being too young, too hormonal or something like that. i dont know.

"Your not adopting a seven year old kid Era, why do you want her? i'm sure she has family somewhere, Marcus was a dangerous guy he probably buried himself in an alias," Bella said shaking her head at me.

I kept my game face on, i suppose i should've gotten irritated with her, but i wasn't. "I'm adopting her Bella, get over it. Even if she did have family elsewhere, it's up to her if she wants to stick around. If she chooses to stay and decides she wants to look for her blood relations then i'll help her."

She scrunched up her knows slightly, probably at my calm cool tone. I'd need to work on that.

Jasper and Angie came back into the room and she jumped onto my lap, surprising all of us and i gave her a smile. "Jasper tried to kill me!" she said wide eyed and exaggerated. We all gave him a look and he had an expression of pure innocence.

"Did you beat him up?" i asked her curiously, and she nodded furiously. "Excellent, he should fear for his life now. Hell hath no fury like a seven year old girl with a grudge."

Anna laughed a little, and i took a sip of my coffee. "So what's happening now?" i asked, watching the remainder of the group pile into the room from the adjoining one.

Everyone shared looks and i frowned, then realized why everyone had such weird looks on their faces. Angie, and she was staring at them all in the most fascinated way. "Angie these are my friends, everyone Angie here will be in my care from now on."

"Bella?" Carlisle said, a little unsure.

"I told her, but she'll do what she wants, she always does," she muttered irritably.

"That's how we ended up strung up like animals by your ex-boyfriend," Rosalie said coldly.

"Blondie, if you've got nothing useful to say then sit down and keep your mouth shut," i said coldly. Everyone froze for a moment and surprisingly, she sat down. Emmet went to sit next to her and everyone took a random place around the room.

"You feeling okay?" Bella asked me, frowning even more.

"I'm fine, would everyone quit asking me that. Moving on, David needs to die, how we going to do this?" Chris had sat down next to Angie and me and he was looking at me thoughtfully now. I doubted if he would figure out why i was so weird now. Everyone probably chalked it up to whatever went down between David and i, relationships issues or whatever. They could think that all they wanted. i was in no rush to correct them.

"Well we've established he's a demon, been around quite a while. I believe it's safe to assume his name isn't David. So let's find out his real name and go from there," Chris said glancing from me to Bella and back again. I looked over at Angie, bouncing her with one leg. She jolted in surprise, almost dropping my cellphone and i grinned at her scowl.

"You break it you but it," i said to her amused. She just rolled her eyes and went back to playing some racing game. I turned my attention back to Chris and Bella. "David has endless resources. I've met most of them, Underground players, a few are pretty big, he's got Cohen Travis on his side, met with him quite a few times. I wouldn't trust any intel they give us though."

"I doubt if they'd know who David really is, we can check the archives, Kaleb, the Archivist kept records of the demons that were out, we can check with him," Chris said and then began jotting down places. "He'll be at one of these four places. Unfortunately, he didn't trust anyone with his real location."

"We can't track the portal?" i asked skeptically.

"Not a stable one, or one as strong as his," he said shrugging. Portals were also easy to track, the messy ones anyways. They usually transported you to either hell, heaven or purgatory. It was much harder getting out then in, living souls attract a lot of attention in other worlds, and your hunted like it's deer season or something. Bella and i have never travelled to one of the otherworlds, too dangerous in our opinion. I didn't even know anyone who had. Not unless you count David, he'd have to use a portal to get to earth.

"What difference does having his name make?" Anna asked confused, trying to keep up and probably failing. She had no idea what any of this meant, considering i hadn't told her anything the last time i spoke to her.

"We can track a demon with their name, doing a spell. It can be tricky sometimes, but Renee left us with her personal spell book. She'd tested out all of the similar versions and wrote down the most accurate and successful," i explained.

"Which means going back to Forks. We should go see dad too," Bella said sighing and then flicked a rolled up piece of paper off the table. it his Jared in the forehead, who had been leaning against the wall and he glared at her.

"Good point, dont need him complicating matters. Alright, we'll go to Forks, retrieve the spellbook, talk to Charlie, re-stock on supplies and then split up." I wanted this over and done with, the sooner the better. But based on everyone's expressions, they weren't ready to seperate just yet. Though i couldn't blame them. This sucked, it was bad enough we had to travel and split up to do this. It was already a mission and a half just planning and getting everything done within the next few weeks.

"Split up?" Esme asked warily.

"Yes, split up, we need to cover all of these places quickly and quite frankly i dont want to take a dozen plane rides in one big group for nothing three times in a row. So yes, split up," i said annoyed with the idea alone.

"Whose going with who?" Jake asked slowly.

"Your not going anywhere, your going home. You Paul and Jared," Chris said smirking a little.

"What? No way!" Jared said in disbelief.

"Your going home Jared, i'm sorry but you dont have any fighting skills or special abilities. Your dead weight that i dont need right now," i know it was harsh to say that. But it needed to be said. "Besides, Forks could use all the help they can get."

"They bumped up the amount of dead to 93%," Anna added, a sad look in her eyes, "my parents are still missing."

They agreed, to Jared's reluctance and Paul's enthusiasm to go home, more due to the fact that he didn't want to get onto another plane. "Is Anna coming with us?" Rosalie asked, a little hopefully.

"No. David doesn't know about her, and i want her kept safe. I'll leave her with the pack, they seemed to handle the Darklings far better then anyone else in the room did," everyone gave me a dirty look at that. But it was true. Only Embry died during the battle and everyone here got kidnapped. Bella included, i pondered just how hard it must've been for them to actually get their hands on her. Or Chris for that matter. That would've interesting to watch. I decided to ask about that later.

"So whose going with who?" Chris asked next, leaning forward.

"Well the three of us have to split up, i doubt if these guys know how to access the Athenaeum," i said frowning a little. I didn't want Bella out of reach, especially after eveything that's happened, and certainly not in a different country.

We all sat there thinking that over for a moment. "Jasper will go with Era, Edward and Bella can travel together and i'll take Emmet and Rosalie with me. Carlisle and Esme should be able to get into the one in Capri. I'll give you detailed instructions on how to access it," Chris said to them, beginning to jot down a bunch of steps. "You'll need human blood to do it, but aside from that i dont think you'll need much else. We have enough crystals and we have about four of the daggers blessed by Hecate, we'll each take one."

"Hecate? The God?" Edward asked surprised, "Gods are real?"

"That's like me asking you if vampires are real," i said snorting in disbelief. "Brush up your lore, you seriously need too."

"Which reminds me, we are training a few sessions before anyone goes anywhere," Chris said next, giving Bella and i a dark look, mostly myself. "Bella's almost done, you still have a whole year to go."

"Whatever," i said rolling my eyes. What else was i supposed to say? It also just occurred to me, that after everything that's happened, it's like i'd completely forgotten Chris had been busted for his big secret. I wasn't sure how to go about that just yet. We'd have to discuss it sooner or later. Perhaps before we left for this trip.

"Alright, so give it a week or so, then we get this done. We should re-locate," Bella said next.

"One of the safe houses?" i supplied as my agreement. Forks wasn't safe, and it was in ruins.

"Doubt if there very safe anymore," Chris pointed out. "I have a place we can go to, it's outside of New York though. Big enough for all of us."

I mulled that over and shrugged, "works for me."

"Wait back up, so your going to what, bring Angie all the way to New York, and then put her on a plane and send her back to Forks in a week?" Anna asked in disbelief.

I turned to the Pack, "you dont all seem to want to go home right away, you feel like babysitting and going on a little vacation?"

"To New York?" Paul asked a little hesitantly.

"Yes, New York, all expenses paid," i said amused with his suddenly wide eyed look.

"We'll have to talk to Sam, but i'm in," Jake said, and then slapped him on the back, "dont be such a wuss. I like all this traveling, when do we ever get to leave Forks?"

I smirked a little, and then glanced at Angie who was still sitting quietly in my lap, this time fighting to get out of some kind of maze by the looks of it. "Fine," he said reluctantly and then looked at Jared.

"Where you go, i go," was all he said. I grinned even more.

"Excellent. Angie doesn't have to bounce around. Alright, Forks, Charlie, pack up, and then head out, agreed?" i said, addressing the entire room. Everyone nodded. "Lets be out of here by five tonight."