Fire 28

Carlisle looked completely shocked for a moment before he looked, well angry. I watched his eyes waiting for that anger to be directed at me. I had after all endangered his whole family.

I wouldn't blame him really. He had the right to be angry. Instead he gave me a sad look and turned to look at Jasper. He shook his head no and Carlisle sighed.

"You should have said something" said Carlisle

He sounded hurt for some reason. That I couldn't understand. I hardly knew them did they really expect me to lay my problems at their doorstep? I shook my head no.

"It wasn't your problem" I said

If anything my answer made him look sadder. Edward took my hand in his and I turned to look at him. He looked completely heart broken.

"Yes it is your my concern and I won't let anything happen to you" he said

Alice got that far away look on her face again but I lost track of her because Edward hugged me. Maybe he was trying to distract me from questioning Alice who knows.

Alice frowned and looked right at me.

"No!" Edward said.

Okay I was officially confused now.

"If its meant to be Edward it will find a way" said Alice

She was frowning at him. I got the impression I had missed something important, but what? I looked over at Carlisle he looked lost in thought. So I decided it was probably wise to at least warn them.

They had several loopholes to their stories that could come back and bite them.

"Did Edward tell you that I knew?"I said

I decided to try his own tactic on him. Hoping he was too lost in thought to notice it. He frowned and glared at Edward. Their eyes met and Edward looked away as if he had been yelled at.

"Would you mind showing me those photos?" said Carlisle

"Sure got a laptop?" I said

He nodded and Alice left the room a few minutes later she returned with a brand new looking notebook. She handed it to me and I set it on my lap. I turned it on and waited for it to fire up.

When it did I opened up the internet and typed in one of the addresses. I decided to leave the property search one alone. I had a feeling I should keep a few aces up my sleeve.

I showed him the college photos with them in them. I watched their reactions while they looked at what I was showing them.

Jasper just about had a shit fit when I pulled up an old civil war photo of him in a confederate uniform.

"Oh can you print that?" said Alice

Several of them turned to look at her. She shrugged

"What?" she said.

I shrugged and hit the print button. Somewhere in the house the sound of a page being printed filled the air. They were all watching me.

"Does anyone care to explain?" I said

Everyone looked at each other. I chuckled when I sensed their nervousness.

"Are you going to explain about Monticello?" said Edward

"If you do?" I said back

Carlisle ran his hand over his face then pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Edward told us you suspected something but this.." said Carlisle

he shook his head

"This could all blow up on us" said Rose

I looked towards her and she sneered at me. I met her glare with one of my own. Just what the hell was her problem? She went from being nice to uber bitch at the drop of a hat.

"If they mean to pursue this then she should know" said Esme

Alice was nodding

"Besides I've already seen her as one of us" said Alice

She suddenly clamped her hand over her mouth in shock. Edward growled at her.

"No!" he said

I turned to look at him. I was confused about what he found so offensive. Was it the idea of telling me or something else.

"Be that as it may it's Edward's decision" said Carlisle.

The others groaned as if deprived of something. Edward suddenly grabbed my hand and started for the stairs. I left the fact that they hadn't answered me to keep from answering them.

He dragged me up the stairs almost literally.

"Edward slow down.. wall!" I yelled at the last minute.

He abruptly yanked me off my feet before i collided with it. I was in a bedroom before my feet touched the floor again. Golden throw rugs adorned a room that had more shelves than walls.

Stacked in these were music cds and various nick nacks. Most of them looked like they were from the nineteen hundreds.

There was no bed and one wall was windows. The only place to sit was a leather couch.

"This is my room" said Edward

I glanced around the room and my eyes fell on a stack of papers. I picked up one, it was sheet music.

"You write?" I said

He smiled at me and took the paper from my hands.

"Yeah but most of them aren't very good, I'm horrible when it comes to lyrics" said Edward

I tilted my head and gazed at him quizzically. I had a hard time picturing Edward not being good at something. I made a harrumph noise and he raised an eyebrow at me.

"Why did you do that?" he asked

I shrugged

"Because you seem to do everything right its hard to picture something you can't do." I said

He looked embarrassed and his gaze was riveted on the floor.

"There are plenty of things I am not good at" he responded.

He moved closer to me until he was mere inches from my face.

"oh really name one?" I said

He smiled and leaned in closer. I started to close my eyes. His lips softly brushed mine.

"Avoiding you" he said

"Now why would you want to do that?" I teased

"Because you smell so delicious I just want to drink you dry" he said

He said the last with a moan as if i was denying him something.

"Well then just dip me in chocolate and call me dessert" I muttered.

He groaned and moved away so fast I felt a breeze. He was flattened against the wall breathing heavily.

"Are you okay?" I asked

He nodded but I noticed his eyes were black now.

"Do you wear contacts?" I asked

He looked up at me in shock.

"Huh?" he said

"Your eyes they were gold an hour ago" I said

He swallowed and looked completely nervous for some reason.

"Your too observant for your own good" he said.

I moved closer and he backed away.

"What is wrong?" I said

"You ah.. smell so damn good.. just please.. I don't want to hurt you" he said

"Why thank you, I think" I said

He chuckled darkly.

"Do you want to hurt me Edward?" I said

He shook his head violently no.

"No but your just too tempting" he said

I moved closer, yeah i know it was crazy. It would help me get my answers though.

"Tempting you to do what?" I said

I closed on him as if I was stalking him. I was almost as close as he had been to me and he was trapped by the book case.

"Bella?" he said

His voice came out a gasp and his eyes seemed to darken. I moved closer to his face and tilted my head so I could look into his eyes. I moved my face close to his.

"What do you want to do to me Edward?" I said.

He moaned and put his hand on my hips.

"Please Bella move back." he said

"Tell me, every relationship starts with honesty" I murmured.

He moaned pulled his hands back and curled his fingers literally into the wall. I breathed on his collarbone.

"I want.. I want to drink you like a fine wine and then fuck you until you scream my name" he said.

I chuckled my mind absently recorded the drink me comment.

"Drink my what?" I said

He moaned and rolled his eyes back in his head.

"Your blood" he said softly.

If I had been human I wouldn't have heard what he said. In that instant everything clicked and I mentally slapped myself.

"You're a vampire?" I said

He looked shocked by my out burst. He nodded solemnly and I burst into laughter. I was laughing so hard I fell off his sofa and was rolling on the floor. He looked irritated.

"why is that so funny?" he said

I wiped at my eyes because they were watering.

"I'm sorry its just of all the things I thought of that was last on my list" I said

He crossed his arms over his chest and looked just like a vexed child.

"Why?" he said

I was still chuckling when I climbed to my feet.

"Honestly it was the eye color thing" I said

"Eye color thing?" he said

"Yeah aren't they supposed to be red?" I said

His mouth dropped open in shock. His hands lowered and he looked pained.

"Normally yes but we feed from animals that's why our eyes are gold, those with a more traditional diet have red eyes" he said

He got this far away sad look on his face.

"Wow!" was all I could say.

"You know a normal person would be running for the door right now" he said

I raised a single eyebrow at him.

"Since when have I done anything normal?" I said

He started laughing as hard as I was a minute ago.

"Besides its a bad idea to run from a predator or at least according to the nature channel" I said

He laughed harder and i rolled my eyes at him. After a few minutes he wiped at his eyes even though nothing had fallen from them.

"I doubt the nature channel covers vampires" said Edward

I heard a childish giggle from outside the room and opened the door. Alice was standing there with a grin on her face. Edward groaned and tried to close the door.

"I knew you would figure it out" said Alice

"What do you want Alice?" said Edward

"Esme wanted me to check on you and dinners ready"she said

She was grinning at him. He closed the door on her. He turned towards me. I was busy staring at his music collection.

"Would you like to hear something?" he asked

My eyes widened, I wouldn't know what I wanted to hear. Half of his music was groups I had never heard of.

"I don't know how do you have these organized?" I asked

"By favorites and genre" he said

I pulled one partially out and read the cover.

"Clair de lune, I already have that in my stereo" he said