Chapter 9

Part two- Chapter 29

BPOV

It had been two years, two years since Edwards change back, two years since we had unlocked our deeper connection, two years since Edward's memories had come flooding back to him, two years of searching. Ever since Edward had remembered his brother he had been looking for his lost family, he just wanted to check up on them, make sure they were ok, but so far we had found nothing. Alice knew something but she wasn't letting us find out what. She was enjoying the teasing rights, which was typical of her.

Carlisle had been testing to see what else he could unlock with Edward and my new connection, I could hear his thoughts no matter how far away he was from me, and he mine. We had been separated for a week once, with him the other side of the planet and the whole time I could hear him clearly. I had missed him so much while he was away even though I could talk to him every second of the day. I had spent hours in the massive golden comforter in our room, lying there waiting impatiently for his return, sharing our daydreams of being together when he returned.

The scariest thing that had happened was after two days a sudden pull, there was no other way to describe it, forced me up and out the door. I had no control over my body, but I knew that all I wanted was Edward, and that was what I got. Edward was feeling the same thing; I could hear him questioning it in his head on the other side of the world. Before I knew it I was running towards the sea separating us, and so was he. The only reason that we took so long to find each other was that we were on foot the whole time. Looking back on that day the only thing I remember clearly now is finally seeing him, miles away, in the middle of the pacific ocean that had kept us apart, and then his arms suddenly around me once more holding me tight. Carlisle had followed of course, and helped us out of the water on to the boat he had been struggling to keep up with. Turns out that we had been moving faster than most vampires can run or swim, and we had no control over it. When I finally was safe on the boat and heading back to the coast of America, the burning returned in my throat, it was dull, bearable, but it was definitely there.

Edward, like Charlie, had had no issues with blood lust after his change. His eyes were straight back to Topaz, but now they had the slightest hint of green around the edges, making staring into his eyes for hours on end a favorite pass time of mine, not that he minded, he still dazzled me as much as he had when he first met me and this was greatly entertaining to him. Edward had also attained my powers after the change and I found that after a while, I was able to use his as well. The connections between us never ceased to amaze us, popping up out of nowhere. Once, while having some alone time, we discovered that we also had Jaspers power, but could only use it on each other. This came in handy a lot of the time when Edward lost his temper, or I mine. We were rarely angry at each other, but on the rare occasion we were, and we both cheated profusely when this happened.

Our connection was truly unique, and we were forever discovering its advantages.

­­­­­­­­­­Bella, pass me the pile to your left.

No problem

Thanks love. Edward kissed the ring on my hand he was holding in his as we sorted through old papers trying hard to find something connected to his lost family. This had become a daily activity now, we had discovered that Edward's brother, Samuel, had apparently died at childbirth, but there was one other record of him since then. A wedding announcement, from 1920 announcing that Samuel Masen was to be wed to Helen Seppelt, of Chicago on the 28th of May, we were sifting through the newspapers, hoping to find anything else, but nothing was to be found. We marked of each individual date was being marked off as we shuffled the delicate old pages of the almost century old newspapers.

The only problem we had was that there seemed to be no copy of the paper we had found the announcement in for the 28th or 29th of May, the dates we were searching for. Or for the 19th of February 1921, and no matter how hard we searched we couldn't find a death notice anywhere. We had looked up both Samuel and Helen Masen in every address book but had found none over the ages of 100, like they would have been if still alive. There weren't many living in Chicago, where Edward had been born, but he seemed drawn there, his thoughts had told me that he wanted to meet every Samuel and Helen Masen in the whole area, just to make sure no one had lied about their ages when he had called around.

Alice flitted in the room, still refusing to help us. It would take away the fun she thought as I scowled at her. She was doing a good job at blocking her thoughts from Edward and I. She laughed at me and threw a paper down onto the table, one of the ones we had been looking for. Edward picked it up immediately, flipping through it looking for any mention of his lost brother, with no success the first time around. He threw the paper down impatiently and I picked it up scanning through to make sure he hadn't missed anything important, which in his rush he most certainly had done. Typical impatient vampire. I thought to myself, hearing Edward chuckle in reply as I put the paper down on the table pointing to the page that announced the wedding of his brother and Helen. Alice ran lively out of the room to return with another paper. Annoying pixie had been hiding them from us! I scowled at her again and she laughed loudly at me as I did so.

This one was from the 19th of February 1921, Edward scanned the paper more patiently this time, knowing that Alice had kept it from him for a reason. But he didn't need to look far. On almost the front page there he found what he was looking for I leaned over his shoulder to read the report in the paper.

MISSING: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Masen have been declared as missing persons to the police yesterday afternoon, concerned neighbours found their 2-month-old daughter at their empty house yesterday. The house was trashed and police think that they have been kidnapped.

I couldn't read any farther, Edward had already finished and was staring blankly at the wall across the room, his fist clenched into a tight ball, snapping the pen he held in his hand.

He looked over at Alice and gave her one of the most frightening looks I had ever seen coming from my husband, I tuned into his thoughts, and hers to find out what was going on.

Edward, this means that they are still alive, well not alive, but you know what I mean! Alice squealed delightedly inside her head.

I have a brother, he is alive, oh my God! Edward thought while still sneering as he gave his reply to Alice.

"You knew! And you didn't tell me!" he snarled.

"It was for the best, he and Helen have only just decided to resign from the Volturi guard. When Aro had heard about you and your power from Carlisle, he knew that he couldn't take you after Carlisle had converted you into his vegetarian ways so he hunted down your brother instead, he made sure never to think about this in front of you, but Sam knows everything. He has chosen to live like us, and has been waiting for his contract with the Volturi to run out so he can begin his search, which started today by the way. So I only told you today to stop you from trying to mess with the Volturi again. They know your alive Edward, but if we try to interfere, it wont work, they will kill us all, even the Denali coven, so there was no way we could go back, then he would find us and kill us properly. Carlisle has talked him into leaving us alone, god knows how but he has managed, so we couldn't have you going over there to aggravate them looking for Samuel, you will meet him soon enough." Alice finished her speech by turning to run from the room, after going still for the slightest second to gauge Edward's reaction to what she had just said.

Edward was still frozen in shock in his chair, I went over him to try to soothe him, kissing his cheek and sitting lightly on his lap. He snaked his arms around my waist and I leant my head on his chest.

"Breathe Edward" I reminded him.

"I have a brother." He stated, as his kissed the top of my head.

"Yes well we knew that Edward!" I chuckled tickling his sides.

"He is alive! Bella! ALIVE!"

OMG I have actually had a spare couple of minutes to write!!

I hope you all like, I know it's a little out there, but since when has Bella and Edward been normal, and its Edwards turn to have something dramatic happen, Bella has had her fair share.

Hope you like, please review (I know I sound like a broken record, but for the amount of hits im getting, I have hardly any reviews.) I will get the next chapter up ASAP, glad you all liked Part 1, part 2 will be interesting, and different to say the least. Well I hope.

Hope this is satisfying enough for now. And RockinWriter, as much as I love you, I cant be arsed going through to check my punctuation.

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Alice (yes that's my actual name… just wish I was Alice CULLEN though)