Edward Cullen
25th December 2033
I saw it in Isobel's mind a split second before she started to scream, I was already running to her, I put my hand over her eyes and lifted my granddaughter from the ground. She started crying under my hand, I could feel her tears as they fell from her eyes onto her cheeks. I pulled her around so I was hugging her to my chest and she wrapped herself around me. I let myself look at the dead child for the first time and my heart contracted. It was Anelie, there was no doubt about that, she was identical to Lidiya when I first met her. Everyone began to come out side but I walked back inside the house. I found Jacob and most of the others still in the living room; kids were trying to get a look but most held them back. I walked over to Jacob.
"Izzy" I told her trying to pry her from my chest; she just held me tighter. I kissed her forehead, she was so scared. "Your daddy" I told her and she gently let go to look around for Jacob. He reached for her and I gave her to him, she had stopped crying now but wrapped herself around him. I turned to leave.
"What was it?" Nessie asked me.
"Anelie" I answered.
"Dead?"
"Yes dead, Sophia is with her now though" I told her as I walked out. I reached the back door just in time to see it happen. The child sat up and bit Sophia. Esther was the fastest. She pulled Anelie away from Sophia and Sophia gasped and fell into Williams lap. Anelie was screaming, her eyes were a clouded white, Lidiya's natural blue nowhere to be seen. Esther hadn't let her get much blood at all.
"Im taking her hunting" Esther said, carrying the feisty three year old to the back of the garden where she disappeared from sight. Sophia had her hand over her neck; both Zio and Emmett were knelt by her, checking she was ok.
"Im fine, she barely got anything, Esther was too quick" she was telling them.
"You can see by Anelie's eyes that she didn't get much, Sophia is fine." I reassured the fussing parents.
"Do you feel light headed? Weak?" Zio asked.
"No dad im fine" she insisted and stood up. William followed her, his hands on her waist as if he expected her to fall.
When i made sure Sophia was ok I went into the house to find Eddie and Lidiya. I found them in Eddie's old room. Lidiya was sitting on the edge of the bed, Eddie next to her and Chloe was on the other side holding her hand.
"Shes alive Lidiya, Sophia revived her" I told her. She looked up at me, her face going from distraught to happy.
"Really?" she asked. I smiled.
"Esther has just taken her hunting, she took a bite out of Sophia but they're both ok." I told her.
"I have my sister back?" Lidiya asked, the relief and happiness in her voice radiated from her,
"Yes you do" I smiled at her, she grinned back.
The whole house was buzzing with excitement. Something we knew was never possible had happened and I could see by the minds of those in the house they were excited to meet this new little girl.
I found Bella in the living room; she was talking with Jacob and Seth. Jacob had Izzy on his lap and Cassie was tucked into Seth's side. Bella smiled when she saw me and I made my way over to her.
"You're looking good Seth" I grinned at him he rolled his eyes.
"No im looking old" he said.
"Well you're bound to in a house full of none aging people" Jacob grinned. I looked over to my daughter, who was talking to Chloe, Emma and Zac. Even though Zac and Emma were in their forties, it was almost like looking in the past. Zac wouldn't age anymore, he, Chloe and Nessie would be best friends for the rest of their forever but Emma wouldn't, she would eventually die, as would Seth. I saw that Jacob was thinking the exact same thing.
"Your dads looking good Bells" Seth said.
"Yeah he keeps fit. Your mom makes sure of that" she laughed.
"How's your mom?" he asked.
"Renee is good. She refuses to admit shes half way through her sixties; she'll be over in the New Year. She says shes going to retire in Seattle. I'll believe that when I see it. She should have retired five years ago. She keeps saying she wants to be nearer her grandchildren and great grandchildren but things always seem to be stopping her coming"
"Well if I heard correctly she would have been a great great grandmother" Seth said sadly.
"Yeah. I can't imagine the pain Sophia and Will are going through" Bella said, her voice breaking. I knew she was sad for them; Jasper couldn't even stand to be in the house with Sophia. He and Alice had taken a vacation late last night; just out of the blue they left. Only I knew the reason. I knew Zio wasn't happy that his adoptive parents had left him on Christmas day; Alice said she sent him a text but Zio said he didn't get anything, he tried to hide it but I think he was a little hurt that they hadn't stayed for him. They'd made every Christmas since he'd been with us one to remember, fussing over him whilst Bella and myself were with our children and Rose and Emmett with Chantelle. They were his parents.
It wasn't long before I heard Esther coming back towards the house. I looked over to Carlisle who nodded his head.
Come with me son. He thought and walked out of the room. I followed and we met Esther who had just come up to the house with Anelie. The child was covered in dirt and blood. She was holding Esther's hand, her eyes were normal now, her skin tone vibrant, although still pale. She looked so much like Lidiya it was giving me déjà vu.
"Is she ok?" Carlisle asked. He knelt in front of her and smiled.
"Yes she's much better. Is Sophia ok?" Esther asked.
"She's fine, ive already seen to her."
"Im sorry" Anelie said, only it wasn't English, she was speaking Bulgarian.
"All is forgiven little one, we do not blame you for what you did to my great granddaughter. You must have been very thirsty. My name is Carlisle; I am the head of this family. Did you recognise Esther from before?" Carlisle asked her, in English. She nodded in response.
"Do you understand what happened to you before you went to sleep?" he asked her.
"My sister" She said, speaking in English for the first time. "We were playing and she used her gift on me. Mama and papa say we're not to use our gifts but I had to. I had to or I would die" Anelie said, her voice rising as if she was scared she was in trouble.
"You're not in trouble Anelie" I said softly, I could see it in her mind. She was so confused; she thought her parents had left her because she had been naughty. "We're just trying to understand what happened that day"
"How did you save yourself from Lidiya's gift?" Carlisle asked then.
"My gift, it's the opposite of Lidiya's" she said, reverting back to Bulgarian.
"She doesn't know English as well as Bulgarian, she didn't know how to say opposite" I explained to Carlisle. He nodded.
"Perhaps it would be easier for us to communicate like this?" he asked, speaking Bulgarian himself. Anelie smiled widely at him.
"My gift protected me. I saved myself from dying but it happened too fast. I couldn't tell mama or papa that I needed blood so I could wake up" She said with a frown.
"If I had been there…" Esther said trailing off. "I could have read her mind, saw that she was still alive"
"But her heart stopped, surely. How did her gift keep her alive?" I asked.
"How does Lidiya kill a vampire stone dead without burning? How do you read minds? How do I copy? The question is unanswerable. All I can fathom is that Anelie has a protection against Lidiya, It sounds like her body uses all the blood in her system to sustain her from dying. It even stops her heart and puts her into a coma state to protect her from any further damage. All she needs to wake is blood, a lot of it." Esther said to me.
"Exactly what I was thinking" Carlisle agreed.
"She drained an entire herd of elk. For her size, she must have drank at least twice the amount of blood she would regularly need" Esther explained.
"She only had the drop from Sophia; she needed to restore her entire body's weight in blood. Even as a child. That's a lot" Carlisle said.
"I didn't hurt the girl did i?" Anelie asked, she was truly concerned for what she had done.
"No Anelie, Sophia is fine, and she doesn't blame you at all" Carlisle explained, "She knows you were just thirsty, and shes glad that she was able to bring you back"
As Carlisle spoke I was aware of Chloe and Eddie walking down the stairs with Lidiya and Holly.
"Would you like to see your sister Anelie?" I asked then, she looked at me with a wide smile and nodded.
We walked back into the living room where Eddie was with the girls.
"Anelie" Lidiya breathed, she spoke the name in Bulgarian, Lidiya appeared in front of her and the little girl looked up at her with a frown, her hand still in Esther's.
"It's Lidiya, Anelie" Esther told her, still in Anelie's mother tongue.
"Lidiya?" Anelie asked, her voice caressing the name as if it was familiar. Lidiya smiled and knelt down in front of her sister. "But you're grown up" she said with a frown.
"Remember our accident? What happened before you went to sleep?" Lidiya asked her. She nodded.
"That was 20 years ago, ive grown up, you should have too, im sorry for what I did to you" Lidiya said and her voice broke with too much emotion. I saw Esther go to hug her but Anelie beat her to it. She was covered in dirt and blood but she fell into Lidiya's chest and wrapped her tiny arms around her neck in a hug. Lidiya had tears silently falling from her eyes as she wrapped her arms around her sister. I smiled at the scene, Lidiya wasn't just crying because she was feeling guilty over what she did, she was crying because she was happy. She had a piece of her family back.
"I love you lily" Anelie said, speaking in English.
"I love you too Annie" Lidiya smiled at her.
"Where's mama and papa?" she asked. I saw Lidiya flinch and pull away.
"They died Anelie, im sorry" Lidiya told her, Anelie frowned.
"How?" she asked. Lidiya put her head down.
"I did it, im sorry" she sobbed. Anelie turned to her sister.
"I can change it, I can save them where are they?" she asked.
"They were burnt. We didn't think you were able to come back. Im sorry" Esther said then, she felt it was all her fault that Aleksander, Jane, Katerina, Izabela and Anton couldn't come back. We had a chance with Sophia and now a definite chance with Anelie but Esther thought she had ruined that.
I wanted to tell her that Lidiya had Anelie now, even without their parents, at least they had each other. Something Lidiya had given up all hope for.
"Oh…" Anelie said sadly.
"Im so sorry, I didn't have you. I didn't have the balance, when you weren't here everything was so wrong, everything was so out of my control" Lidiya told her sister.
"I forgive you little sister" Anelie told her with a caring smile. She had so much intelligence for a small child, even as a moon pool child. Holly and Avia were never this aware or this intuitive and intelligent. Anelie was special. Lidiya looked up at her sister and did a little laugh.
"It's hard to believe you're 2 minutes older isn't it?" she asked. Anelie smiled and nodded.
"I'll be big soon though" she told her.
"I can't bring you back to our big sisters but would you like to meet our new sisters?" Lidiya said, Anelie nodded. Lidiya stood up and lifted Anelie to rest her on her hip and walked over to Holly and Avia standing by Eddie and Chloe.
"This is Eddie, he's like papa. This is his wife Chloe and their daughters Holly and Avia. They're like us. They're my little sisters, have been since the day they were born. Esther brought me to America to live with them, so I could have a family." Lidiya explained, Anelie smiled when she saw Holly and Avia. Their minds went blank and I knew they were communicating the way the children of the moon pool can.
"I hate it when they do that" Eddie grumbled. I smiled at him, as did Esther.
"Lidiya, im sorry to spoil the moment but there's something you said that's bothering me." Carlisle said coming over to her. Lidiya turned to him, waiting for him to continue. "You said there was no balance? After Anelie died, you said you lost control of your ability, that's why you accidently did what you did. Is that true?" he asked her. Lidiya nodded.
"I think to have one gift you have to have the other. I wasn't in control of my ability when I had it, even before Anelie died, I only had some control, my parents were helping me. But it didn't seem to work after Anelie left us. It was a scale and it was tipping in deaths direction and so death was making the most of it. Killing everything I touched." Lidiya said sadly, she'd never spoken about this before, at least not with us, I didn't know if Esther had asked her but this was something new we were learning. "After Zio took my ability away everything changed, I felt in control again, I could be me."
"What about now? Do you feel anything different?"
"Other than happiness that I have my sister? No" Lidiya said.
"But if the scales could tilt in the direction of death surely they could tilt in the direction of life?" I asked then, eyeing Anelie very carefully.
"And what would be wrong with that? Of all the things to be magnified, life isn't the worst option, as proven with Lidiya" Eddie said to us.
"Too much power isn't always good my son" I explained to him.
"But her power is life. She literally breathes life how is that not good?" he asked, I could see how happy he was that Anelie was back, he thought of Lidiya as his own daughter, for her to be this happy was all he ever wanted for her. He didn't see how this could go wrong.
"I completely agree Edward" Carlisle said to me. "Sophia" he said and held his hand out. "You must return Lidiya's ability"
"No!" A chorus of voices sounded. Lidiya, Holly, Avia, Nessie and Bella included.
"Lidiya, who knows what a tipped scale is going to do to Anelie" I told her, trying to keep my voice calm at the possibilities.
"What's the worst that can happen? Really?!" Eddie asked. I knew no matter what Carlisle and I said no one would realise unless we showed them.
"Are you dead?" I asked Eddie.
"What?"
"Are you dead, does your heart beat?" I asked.
"No but im not dead, im not a vampire" he explained.
"Oh ok so vampires are dead?" I asked but I didn't give him time to answer. I walked over to Lidiya.
"May i?" I asked, holding my arms out in invitation to Anelie. She nodded, as did Anelie. Anelie reached for me and I took her in my grasp. What happened next was exactly what I thought would happen. I felt the blood from my recent hunt in my veins rush to the direction of my heart. It was painful and very strange to feel as my heart tried to beat the blood. I gasped, trying not to drop the child in my arms I knelt to the floor, her feet touched it and she stood in front of me, frowning, she didn't realise what she had done. She was holding onto me as if I was carrying her but my arms had fallen from her body; I grasped my chest, where my heart was beating under my rib cage.
"What's happening?" Bella asked, her voice higher than normal as she watched me on my knees. She could probably hear my heart too.
"Shes bringing me back to life except its painful because it's not supposed to be happening" I gasped and pulled away from the child. I couldn't take it anymore I stepped away so she couldn't touch me, her frown deepened as she looked at me.
"Shes what?!" Bella asked.
"To her, im dead. She was giving me life, making my heart bump blood in my veins." I said, still gasping as I waited for the blood to spread back out through my body, I still couldn't move my legs. As odd as that sounds.
"I could hear it, I think we all could" Carlisle said. "She made your heart beat"
"But that's… that's not possible" Bella said in surprise.
"It is when she literally is giving off life, everything she touches, anything dead or dying she will bring back" I explained. "That's why she needs to be balanced, we can't even touch her. She has no control without Lidiya." I said sternly, looking at my son. He was shocked; he was staring at me, still sitting on the floor utterly surprised.
"What happened when you touched her?" Carlisle said to Esther.
"Nothing. I didn't feel anything, but I think im immune to their powers" Esther said.
"Why do you say that?" Eddie asked her.
"Because when I found Lidiya after she killed her family she was pulsing power, she was a live wire, anyone that touched her would die but I did and I didn't die. I think im immune to them"
"I didn't mean to do that" Anelie said to me interrupting Esther, she was standing away from me now, her hands in knots in front of her. They were shaking, she was radiating power, even I could feel it.
"I know you didn't" I said to her, finally able to stand up.
"You knew that would happen, why did you let me touch you?"
"To prove a point. Now return Lidiya's ability, before Anelie brings back every dead thing in this world or she explodes from having all that power" I said to Sophia, my voice tense. She turned to Lidiya.
"No I don't want it back" Lidiya sobbed,
"But you see why you need it back?" Carlisle told her.
"I don't want it back" Lidiya said again, Esther walked over to hug her.
"Im sorry sweetheart" Esther told her.
"I could take away Anelie's" Zio said then. "Although it's pretty powerful, I can feel it radiating off of her, shes like a beacon"
"No, she wouldn't want that" Lidiya said sadly.
"What do you mean? Im so confused." Anelie asked.
"I don't have my ability anymore, this is Zio, he took it away from me permanently. We didn't know it was returnable until his daughter was born; she is the opposite of him like you are to me. He takes she gives. She could give my ability back or he could take yours away. It's your choice" Lidiya explained.
"Why don't you want your ability?" Anelie asked.
"Because what good can come of it? My ability is death. I kill people. That's all ive ever done. I destroyed my own family. I took you away from them, the one thing I loved more than anything else in this world. I never forgave myself for what I did to you. I don't want that back, I don't want anything that might hurt the people I loved. If I hurt you again, or Holly or Avia or Esther or anyone here, I couldn't live with myself" Lidiya said.
"But you have me now. You know I can't die. Im the only person in this world that can't die from you, I'll always be here to make things right." Anelie told her.
"But why would you want to? Why even risk it? What's the point of me being death? Why am I death when I feel bad about doing it? Am I such a horrible person that should have this, you are light and I am dark. Who got to pick? Why did I get the short straw? I don't want to kill people" Lidiya said, her voice shaking as she spoke. These questions just couldn't be answered and I felt awful for her. She was a good person, a loving and family orientated person and yet she had been given this gift of darkness as she put it. It just didn't make sense.
"Don't think of it that way Lidiya, you are so powerful. You can use your gift for good. To protect your family." Esther told her.
"It just doesn't seem worth the risk. Would you want to leave me alone in a room with your children?" Lidiya asked turning to Nessie for a brief second, before she had time to answer her Lidiya spoke. "No. and you wouldn't with Holly or Avia. I can't have people fear me, I don't want to be feared" Lidiya said turning to Chloe.
"But you won't be, you'll be respected. If you and Anelie can learn to control and use your abilities together, you two could do so much." Carlisle told her, his hand on her shoulder.
"If things go wrong I'll take it away again, but I really think you should learn to accept it as part of who you are. I took it from you because you were a frightened child and we had no chance at ever reversing the things you could do. Now we can train you, we can help you understand and accept your gift." Zio told her softly. Lidiya looked up at him; I could see in her mind that she liked the idea of that.
"You promise you'll take it away if I ask?" Lidiya asked. Zio nodded. "Then it's down to Anelie." She said turning to her sister.
"What do you mean?"
"It's your choice, either Zio takes your ability away to even the balance, we live our life, you grow up and we do whatever you want, you can go live in Italy, find a husband, travel, live forever. Or you can choose for Sophia to return mine, we train and we learn together. Probably end up becoming members of the hybrid protection in Italy, or even the Volturi, a life of power and of people being afraid of us. A life where we never leave each other so long as we are life and death" Lidiya explained.
"You won't become Volturi, I won't allow it" Esther said, her hand tightening on Lidiya's.
"I don't know why anyone would choose the first option. You're my twin sister; I will always love you and will always want to help you. I don't want you to be scared of who you are." Anelie told her. Lidiya nodded and let out a long sigh before turning to Sophia.
"Go on then" she said and closed her eyes tightly shut. Sophia rested her hands on her shoulders and closed her eyes as well.
Lidiya gasped and immediately dropped Esther's hand. Sophia stepped away too.
"You ok?" Sophia asked. Lidiya nodded.
"So who is going to be the first to test it?" Emmett boomed. No one answered.
"I think maybe for now we leave it. The balance is restored, Lidiya has control so long as Anelie is near right?" I asked her, Lidiya nodded although she was standing very still as if she was afraid to move.
"No don't!" she shouted just as Esther put her hand on her arm.
"I trust you" she told her.
"I don't want to hurt you" she gasped.
"You won't" Esther said strongly. Anelie stepped forward then and took Lidiya's hand. They both gasped and Lidiya looked down at their linked hands.
"I remember that feeling" she said with awe.
"Like we're one" Anelie agreed.
"Like when we're talking?" Holly asked to the side.
"No this is something different. It's like we're one person, I can control her ability, and she can control mine" Lidiya explained.
"That's crazy" Eddie mumbled. He was in awe too, 'crazy' was a compliment not denial.
Im so glad my kids aren't here. I heard in Nessie's head. I saw how nervous she was. The kids had been taken upstairs, at least the younger ones. Holly and Avia were here because they were Anelie's sisters just as much as Lidiya was.
I walked over to my daughter.
"Perhaps you should call them down" I told her, she glared at me. Are you kidding? She asked. "No im not. It will give Lidiya the confidence she needs. You don't need to worry, Anelie is here now" I whispered. "Please" I begged her, Lidiya needed to realise she wasn't a plague to be avoided. Nessie glared at me harder but I saw her mind softening, she saw that I trusted Lidiya and she knew I wouldn't have my grandchildren down here without being absolutely sure they wouldn't be harmed.
"He's right" Jacob said to her. Fine she growled in her head.
"Sarah, bring them down please" she said no louder than a normal voice. I heard my grandchildren come down the stairs; they entered the room, Sarah holding onto Izzy. They entered the room hand in hand. Will who had been in the room with Sophia joined hands with Zac so they were standing in a line, the eldest at either side. Nahuel appeared by Sarah, standing in front of her in a gesture of protection. I could see in his mind that he loved her, truly loved her.
"Anelie these are Renesmee's kids, Eddie's sisters" Lidiya said, although I could hear her nervousness in her voice. "You guys should have waited." She added anxiously looking towards Nessie, Nessie smiled at her.
"I trust you. They wanted to meet Anelie" she said. Lidiya gave her a weak smile back and turned to my grandchildren.
"Anelie this is Will, Sarah, Lauren, Anthony, Zachary and Isobel."
"Hello" she smiled. Izzy looked over to her from Sarah's arms, she cringed slightly. I could see her making the connection in her mind, she wasn't a baby anymore, she was 8 years old, smarter than our family gave her credit for.
It's ok. Sarah placed in Izzy's head. Shes nice see? Someone to play with now. Izzy smiled and wriggled in Sarah's grasp, Sarah placed her on the floor and Izzy walked over to Anelie she smiled widely at her and Anelie smiled back.
"Someone new to play with. Avia is getting too old" she smiled. We laughed; Isobel was always blunt in her childlike innocence. Avia smiled and Anelie smiled wider.
"I like to play, now my sister is older it's nice to see a small face like me in all these adults" Anelie replied. Izzy giggled and didn't even hesitate when she hugged her. Anelie dropped Lidiya's hand and I think I heard Nessie's heart stop for a second before it started again.
"Shes ok" I told her. She nodded but I knew it would take a bit before she was ok with Lidiya being on her own again.
It's so strange, I trusted her with my children's lives, I always have, I never even doubted it. She always looked after my eldest children and I didn't even think twice. Now my internal mother bear can't help but want to protect my children.
I didn't have time to answer her because something was happening with Anelie, she had pulled away from Izzy, both of them giggling, and Izzy had brought her over to her siblings so she could meet them properly, the first one she met was Anthony and they had both stopped still on the spot.
"Seriously?!" Lauren asked, looking backwards and forth between them. "Well done mom and dad. More than half your kids are imprinted. Good going" Lauren said sarcastically.
"You included" Zac said,
"So you love to remind me" she spat back at her brother.
"Imprinted?" Nessie asked.
"Your middle son just imprinted on Anelie it would seem" I informed her. Jacob laughed.
"So much for it being rare."
"So much for it being to carry on the gene" Bella mumbled. "Imprints are getting weirder by the generation" she added. I nodded in agreement. First Jacob imprints on a hybrid, then Leah imprints on another wolf and now a wolf has imprinted on a moon pool child. Next will be a wolf and a vampire or a wolf and a freaking table or something.
"Anelie" Lidiya whispered. Anelie stepped back towards her sister and took her hand but her eyes hadn't moved from Anthony's. He was still as a statue staring at the little girl. Before anyone said anything else he turned and left the room,
"Tony!" Zac called after his brother, he followed him out, Will and Jacob left too.
"What's an imprint?" Anelie asked then, her eyes on the door from where he had left.
I heard Lauren sigh. Sophia stepped forward and began to explain it to Anelie.
"Relax" Esther told Lidiya.
"I can't"
"If you don't you're more likely to lash out. You need to relax and be who you are. You're in control aren't you? You're not going to kill anyone" Esther told her.
"Thanks for the vote in confidence" Lidiya glared.
"Im being serious. You will not harm anyone in this room. I believe in you" she said softly. She stroked Lidiya's cheek and she shook her head in response.
"Deep breaths Lidy" Holly told her. She stepped forward but Phoenix stopped her going to Lidiya. "Move" she told him. Phoenix looked down at her with a glare.
"I don't want you near her" he told her.
"Shes my sister, she'd never hurt me. Move" she hissed. I could see in her head she thought of him as her boyfriend, and he certainly thought of her as his girlfriend too, so much that he was over protective of her. When had this happened?
Tell me about it. Eddie growled in my head. I smiled over at him.
Now you know how I felt with Nessie.
No, Nessie had Jacob. She was his imprint; I don't know who this guy is.
She's not a child anymore, she can protect herself, not that I think she needs to the way he thinks. I told him.
Phoenix had reluctantly let Holly move to Lidiya, he kept behind her though.
"Anelie hold Lidiya's hands" Esther said, Anelie who had moved over to the couch with Sophia stood up and did as Esther said, holding both hands in front of her.
"How did you know she had to do that?" Lidiya asked, she was immediately calm.
"Because I know you"
"You don't know the things that calm me though" she frowned.
"Of course I do" Esther said, I then saw a flicker of something in her head, something I had never seen before, a secret.
"Let's go have Lesson 1" Zio said. "Where's my father when you need him" he added then leaving the room.
"Why would we need Aro?" Lidiya gasped.
"I meant Jasper" he told her and left the room.
"Oh" she mumbled, dropping one of Anelie's hands and following him out. Zio was right, we needed Jasper, he was far more qualified than Zio but at least they had someone. Bella followed him out too.
"Where are you going?" I asked her.
"To help. I learnt to control my shield, maybe I can help them" she answered. I smiled proudly at her. I was about to join them but I was stopped.
"Grandpa" Sarah said to me. She was holding Nahuel's hand.
"Yes?" I asked.
"I need your help with something" she told me and took my hand before walking over to Nessie.
"Mom" she said.
"Yes?" Nessie asked nervously, she too noticed Nahuel and Sarah holding hands.
"Im going back to college in the New Year" she said to her mother, Nessie's eyes narrowed.
"I don't think that's a good idea" she told her.
"I thought you'd say that, which is why Nahuel has agreed to come with me. Carlisle said he will be able to pull some strings and get him into the university. He'll be there to protect me. And Grandpa is here so you know im telling the truth and so you know that Nahuel will do anything to keep me safe" Sarah said.
Nessie looked up at Nahuel then to me.
"She is telling the truth?"
"Nahuel loves your daughter more than you think Nessie; he's saved her life more than once already. I think you should let her go" I told her. Nessie sighed.
"If anything happens to her, I will personally hunt you down and kill you." Nessie said to Nahuel. He smiled at her.
"I promise nothing will happen to her." he said, bringing Sarah's hand up and kissing the back of it. "I will protect her with my life"
"I should hope so" Jacob said coming into the room with his sons.
"Where is Anelie?" Tony asked then.
"Outside learning her ability with Lidiya" I answered him, he was already leaving the room.
It was strange thinking about Tony being imprinted and Holly having a boyfriend; it was another two of my grandchildren moving on. The only ones left were Avia and Izzy now. Soon they'd all be married and having children of their own.
That was the curse of being a vampire, 18 years felt like months in reality. I had seen my children grow up and I had seen my grandchildren grow up. Would I see my great grandchildren too? How far will the generations go, I just didn't know.
"Lauren" Carlisle said then. I looked over to her sitting on the couch with Nick.
"Yes?" she asked.
"I need to talk to you" he said motioning for his study.
"What ever it is, I didnt do it" she said. "It was probably Zac" she added. He smiled at her.
"You're not in trouble. It's about why you can't be turned into a vampire, I have some news"
A little lead onto the thoughts Bella has in my new story, if you're curious about their future generations, it's touched on in Living in Paradise. Those of you that follow me on twitter or have me on author alert know that I updated it today, it follows Edward and Bella 100 years after the events of this story and they have a moon pool daughter, Elizabeth. It will follow her life living on Isle Isabella.
Thank you to Dawnmac, giving me the idea to have Tony imprint on Anelie. I'll be having the odd chapter in Sarah's pov like I'll be having Matthew. I realise there are a lot of story lines in this at the moment but Anelie and Lidiya's won't be a very long one, I just have to get it out of the way before I get back to the Black's. Next chapter you find out about Lauren :) Then time is going to skip at bit. The Volturi drama has settled for now, I need to fast forward time a bit to get things moving again.
