The timer beeped on the stove, indicating that my food was ready. I was cooking an Italian recipe of meatball soup with basil, carrots, celery, green beans, onion, tometoes, mini pasta noodles, meatballs, and spices. It smelled heavenly when I was stirring it before. I got a small bowl from the cabinet and spooned myself some supper. Walking over to the fridge, I got a bottle of Jones grape soda, a local company. Bella drinks it, and said that it was good. I twisted off the cap, and took a swig, it was good. I set it down on the table before I sauntered back to the stove.
My mouth actually watered as I dished a bowl of soup out, and went to sit down. My phone started to ring, and I looked at the caller ID before I answered it.
"Hey, Zio. What's up?"
"What are you doing tonight?" asked my uncle.
"Staying in. I finished Gatsby. I was going to start Carmilla. Why, did you have something in mind?"
"I have analyzed your blood sample," he said.
I stopped eating.
"Edward and I have put together a file on your pack if you would like to come see it," he said softly.
"I am on my way," I said. Using vampire speed, my dishes were in the sink, the soup was in the fridge, the stove was cleaned, and my jacket was on. I shut off the lights, and sprinted out of the door to the big house. I sprinted up the driveway to the house, and rushed right into the living room.
"Hey, slow down, cucciola," chastised Carlisle.
I laughed at his name for me, little pup. I was a little pup, I was a little wolf. I smiled at the thought.
"I'm sorry, Zio. I am so excited. Can we really find out who my father was?"
"We analyzed your DNA," said Edward, "and began searching through legends and myths. Your Quiltite."
"Quiltite?"
"Yes," affirmed Carliasle.
"How?"
"I am not sure. But that is why you are transitioning so quickly. You are on your land, around your own kind. Your home."
"Could Billy know my father?" I asked.
"I don't know. I am not sure how a Quiltite got in Italy since your mother never came here."
"Billy won't believe this. I got to call my mother."
I took out my phone and dialed her number. The first ring there was no answer. "Please pick up," I pleaded. The second ring, still no answer. Finally, on the third ring she picked up.
"Hello?"
"Mom."
"Yes, honey, what's wrong?"
"Is my father Quiltite?"
She sighed. "Who told you that?"
"Is he?"
"Alright what happened was-"
"Is he?!"
She said nothing for a minute, and I looked at the phone to see if she hung up on me. "Yes," she finally said.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Aro can read minds. If he found out what you were, he could have…"
I nodded. There was a lot worse than being bitten. Cauis technically took it easy on me, since he only hurt me the one time.
"How did it happen?" I asked.
She sighed, then said, "I was a slave to Aro, and he bit me and I could not have children. I heard of a way to become human with a cure, and I sold everything I had to a witch for that cure, and ran away. I lived in fear that Aro was going to find me and I constantly moved from one place to another. In 1922, Carlisle found me and took me to Washington to hide me. I met your father and we fell in love and had you with the cure still in my system. You were born half vampire, half wolf. Then Aro came and found us. If he would have found your father, it would have been a blood bath, so I went quietly, telling him that the baby was his."
"And he bought that?"
"You were a werewolf/vampire child. You looked six months old when you were six weeks old. He did not question that you were his."
"And the werewolf, my… father, he did not care about us enough to stop Aro from taking us?"
"Ephraim alpha ordered him not to fight for you, or the bloodline would me lost."
I said nothing. God forbid the bloodline be lost.
"He loved you, baby. He loved me. He wanted to save us from Caius."
"What was his name?"
"Levi Uley."
"What? I am an Uley?"
"Yes. Your grandfather and grandmother were Thomas and Beatrice Uley. They had three children: your uncle Caleb, then Levi, then your aunt Ruth. Calab had two kids, the oldest one, Johntan married a girl and had Sue who had Seth and Leah. The youngest one died single. Levi married and had two kids, Douglas and Charles. That was after he had a tryst with me, and we had you. Charles married and had three kids: Thomas, Joshua, and Elen, and Joshua had Sam. Then Ruth married and waited to have kids for a while, and then she had a boy named Paul."
"Mom, Paul, Sam, Seth, and Leah are in my pack."
"Oh good! Well, they are your family."
"What happened to Levi?"
"Well, when we met, I swore off allegiance to the Volturi and became part of the tribe. They accepted me, because I was called an imprint, or a werewolf soul mate. I was human and we had you, and you were part of the tribe. Your grandmother, Levi's mother, got to hold you, and she doted on you. That is who you are named after, Serina Beatrice Uley-Ricci is your full name. Although you were part vampire, the wolves accepted you as your own, and Eprium declared us members of the tribe.
"Everything was wonderful the first three years of your life. You played with the other children, since your vampire nature was not an issue, because of the drugs the witch gave me. However, during winter, before your fourth birthday, the Voulturi came. They found Carlisle, who was here during the time, and asked for me, saying that I had run away. Carlisle refused to tell them where I was, and it was coming to a fight. I knew Carlisle would fight to the death for me, so I went voluntarily. Aro read my mind, found out about you, and the wolves, and said if I brought you willingly, he would not destroy the tribe. I had no choice."
"And Levi just let us go?"
"The pack was too small to take on the Volturi. It was a suicide mission. Eprium knew that and ordered him to stay. We said our goodbyes and he held you, one last time, then he gave you to me and we took off. I think that is what killed him."
"They sacrificed us to save the tribe," I whispered.
"He did what he had to, bambina," she said.
"Did you love him?"
"Yes."
"Do you still love him?"
"Yes."
"I hate him."
"No darling. He worshiped you," she said. "He was ordered not to pursue us."
"Then I hate them all!" I seethed.
"Don't hate, baby. Don't let that anger fester. He did the right thing for his tribe. He was a good man." She sighed and said, "This is why I never wanted you to find out. I did not want you to understand."
"I understand plenty!" I screamed. "I had a chance to be loved and happy in a place where I was accepted, but my father let a vampire take me and rape me and turn me because he did not think I was worth dying for."
"NO! It was an alpha order. He could do nothing but sit there and watch us go. It broke his heart."
"Did he remarry?"
"Well, we never married, so-"
"Did he marry after you?!"
"Yes, to a woman named Ellen."
"And they had kids?"
"Yes."
"So he moved on while we were tortured."
She huffed, "That is not what happened, but yes, if that is what you want to think about him. Technically, while we were in the Volturi, he was starting another family. But, don't think for a second it was moving on."
"He. Moved. On. Mom."
"Baby, some stuff happened that is too hard to explain."
"Did he come and get us?"
"He tried."
"Did he die trying?"
"That is not fair."
"No what is not fair is me being raped by Caius multiple times until my heart gave out!"
"None of this is fair."
We said nothing for a minute. Finally, I said diplomatically, "You have given me a lot to think about."
"Don't be like that," she said.
"I have to go, Mom," I said, and hung up.
I looked around the living room, and saw that Carlisle must have left so I could have some privacy. I wandered into the study and found him staring at a book. When he noticed me, he got up, placing the book on his desk.
"Now you know," he said.
I nodded.
"Cara Mia," he said, holding out his arms, and I ran to him sobbing.
