Guess what? I'm back! Isn't that exciting? Well it is for me because this is my first attempt at writing a chapter since school started. Thanks for waiting patiently and for not giving up on me.
Once again I only own the lovely Hannie
Ten minutes later something changed. I could feel it. Everyone around me tensed and Demetri got this chilling, creepy, smile that only villains in horror movies have.
"I think its best we go outside for this," he oozed. "I mean you wouldn't want a stain in your charming home, now would you?"
Oh dear god, oh dear god, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die.
"If you wish," Carlisle nodded his head politely and extended his arm to the door.
I looked a Alice with wide eyes and she gave me a little half smile. I think it was supposed to be reassuring, but it was not working let me tell you.
"You'll be fine," Rosalie rubbed my arm comfortingly.
And so we went. Carlisle went first as our "clan leader" I suppose. Emmett went next, flanked by Jasper and Edward the bodyguards.
Alice and Esme went after them, Rosalie and me behind them.
I was well protected, or concealed if you look at it that way.
I didn't see the good in it. They knew about me anyway and wanted me dead. They would sniff me out faster than I could cry on cue. And that is saying something.
It was even worse outside. It was getting darker, the fog was settling.
And there we stood, anticipating my death.
I wondered if it would be quick or if it would hurt. And who would miss me enough to come to my funeral.
Probably not the Cullen's, the betrayers. They were probably planning this for a while.
Would they drink my blood after they killed me?
Oh dear god.
I whimpered, and Edward started giving me strange looks.
He could hear my thoughts.
Bastard, I thought at him. Not that he would care I was going to die.
At the hands of the people I trusted the most.
I thought of Nick, sweet boy, I wished we could give our relationship another try. We might have worked out in the end.
And Jen, and Terry, and Jake, and Hunter ohhhh I'm going to miss them. Or will I? There may be life after death there may not be.
Either way I was going to find out.
Oh dear god.
And then they came.
Like a scene from a movie, descending down our lawn in the murky twilight, fog still settling.
They wore red flowing robes, which would have looked silly on anyone, anything else. But on them they looked threatening.
As if on cue, they flicked off their hoods and it was all I could do not to cry out in pure terror.
There was one in the front, who I assumed was the other tracker, Felix.
The leaders I knew, Caius, Marcus, and the scariest of all, Aro.
The three looked ancient, old, but I knew they were powerful.
Powerful enough to order my destiny of doom and sign the death sentence themselves.
Behind them were about ten guards, and curiously enough a boy and a girl.
I knew they were vampires from their eyes, but they were scarier than the others. They looked so young, yet so bloodthirsty.
They would stop at nothing to get what they wanted, I was sure of it.
"Carlisle!" Aro called out in greeting, but beneath his friendly guise I saw the desire in him, the longing.
"Aro! Hello old friend!" Carlisle greeted back, filthy traitor.
"Look, your whole family is here! What a nice welcome you have prepared for me. Ah, yes, there is Emmett, and Jasper, and the lovely and always beautiful Esme and Rosalie."
I hated him with a passion with every noise that escaped his lips.
I hated him even more as my so-called family smiled and nodded to him in greeting.
"And Edward and Alice, still not going to join us? You two would make just a divine addition to our ranks," Aro inquired to my brother and sister.
"No, we're doing just fine with the others, thank you," Edward nodded demurely and politely.
"Now. I would like to meet the little one you are hiding from us, wouldn't you all, Marcus, Caius?" Aro asked.
He was asking about me, I realized, and I knew my time was coming to a close.
I willed the tears to stop falling, but they came quicker and quicker with every thought.
"Yes, we would like to see her, the Cullen family has done a good job of hiding her for all this time. I can't believe they didn't tell us," Caius feigned surprise as he craned his neck looking for me.
"Well, dear child? Come on out, we won't hurt you," Aro called out to me.
Emmett pulled me forward to stand slightly in front of him so they could inspect me.
That was a horrible sensation, all those cold, red, eyes bearing into me with every breath I took.
I couldn't stop my shaking, nor my tears.
"Demetri, come here for a moment, would you please?" Aro phrased it as a question but it was a command.
He was in charge. No one else.
"Yes, master?" asked Demetri as he approached him and bowed deeply.
"You know what I want."
Demetri complied, and took Aro's hand.
I knew of this strange gift of his. He knew everything, just from touching the hand of another. Their past, their fears, hopes and dreams. Nothing was a secret. Not from him.
"Oh, yes, very interesting. Not going to share her are they?" he muttered to himself, expression blank.
"Carlisle? Tell the dear child to come here, I won't hurt her, and you know that. I just want to get to know her better," Aro grinned ominously at me.
"Hannie?" Carlisle motioned for me to step forward.
I shook my head at him, hard and fast, and I did not want to touch the slime ball in front of me.
"Go, you'll be fine," Emmett whispered urgently, but I didn't trust him. Not Emmett, not Carlisle not anyone but myself.
And my gut instinct was to run, and to run far far away where no one could touch me.
But I had no options open and had to walk right into the lion's den.
So I stepped forward to look into the eyes of Satan.
"Hannie," Aro breathed. "Such a pretty name, so young and so innocent, so fitting," he murmured as he caressed my cheek.
My skin crawled and I wrenched my face back away from his withering grasp.
"Now now, that's enough of that. I won't hurt you, you'll see."
Of course I didn't believe him or the lies that lay thickly behind his words.
He grabbed my hand. And then, I relinquished all control.
I watched helplessly as he watched in amusement, the wonderful, yet helplessly tragic life of Hannie Benson.
Ok, maybe I was being a bit dramatic, but I was going to die, with no one to save me.
"But why did you take her in?" Aro called over my head to Carlisle.
To save me from you freaks, I thought and then I realized it was too late. I jerked my hand away as he read that thought.
He chuckled. "Oh so that's how it is. Caius, Marcus, lets talk about this. She knows much about our ways, too much some would say."
"Oh but they don't plan on changing her," Marcus said with a bored expression. "Anyone can see that," he snorted.
"Then what other option do we have?" Caius asked.
Carlisle came up behind me and pushed me behind him a little bit.
"Gentlemen, if you don't mind why don't we work something out? You don't have to kill Hannie, she means so much to all of us,"
"Then change her now. Right in front of us." Aro said coolly.
"Later. A few years, let her grow up, mature a little bit, experience life, before we do it."
"We cannot wait that long. I've seen her thoughts, she has a bit of a big mouth, she'll give us away quicker than you can imagine. She'll destroy everything we've worked so hard to keep secret and it'll be all your fault, my old friend," Aro breathed in Carlisle's face.
"Please, Aro, as my friend just one year, one year and I'll do it myself, we'll keep our word just trust us," Carlisle pleaded with him.
"I've spelled it out for you, I'm not going to give you another chance."
"Do it now, or the girl dies," one of the younger ones said, the boy.
With that statement, all hell broke loose.
Emmett, Jasper, and Edward rushed up growling, animal instincts taking over, prepared to attack them.
Then my heart nearly stopped as that horrible, terrible, girl got a nod from Aro and looked at Emmett.
He fell to the ground writhing in agony.
Whatever she was doing to him, it looked like Dante's Inferno right in front of my eyes.
And it scared me. Because he was Emmett. Big, goofy, invincible, Emmett. And as much as I thought I hated them and thought that they were giving me up, they weren't.
They were trying to save me.
And Emmett was suffering because of it.
"Stop it! Just Stop!" I screeched with all the energy I could muster.
And everything was still.
"Three years. Until I'm seventeen," I said, voice shaking.
"No more, no less. And then I'll let them change me. Not now. I don't care what you say. Not at all, Aro," I said to him, the defiance rising up in me.
"Hannie," Esme whispered behind me.
But I wasn't listening to her. Not to anybody but Aro who I was staring down with all the courage I could muster.
"Aren't you feisty?" He looked at me in amusement.
"Yea, I am. And you, you're an asshole," I said to him. I'm pretty sure Emmett snorted at that. But I didn't care. I didn't care about death anymore.
All I knew was that he tried to hurt my family, and Hannah Elizabeth Benson does not stand for that.
"You tried to hurt my family. And that does not fly with me. But clearly me becoming one of you is a huge deal. Huge. And I'll do it. But not here, I mean that. Kill me now if you want to. But I'll be good and comply with you. But if you want me dead, don't hurt them."
I was on a roll, I was.
But then Aro laughed at me.
"Oh my, you are quite an amusing minute thing, aren't you? I'd quite like to see what powers this transmutes into. What do you say, Caius, Marcus?"
God couldn't he make a decision without asking them?
"Fine," Caius said after what seemed like a silent conversation.
"But you only get until she is 17. No more. And we'll come to see that you do," Aro smiled evilly.
I hated him with every ounce of my being and soul I did.
But he was leaving. And we were free.
They flicked their hoods up, turned and stalked off into the dark.
And then there was silence. And me and my family.
Just us, no one else.
Jasper laughed, "My God we're saved."
I started sobbing, from relief and terror and everything I just experienced.
Carlisle and Esme embraced as Edward picked me up as easily as a child and we went inside.
Did you enjoy it? Sorry it took me so long, 10th grade is horrible sometimes. But you just got a first look at Hannie's potential powers…they do change her that is. Can anyone guess?