The Jaguar Versus the Wolf
Chapter 3 - Revelations
Orbiting Satellites Book Two, Chapter 3 - Embry's Court Date companion
"Hey, baby brother," Maysun? What was she doing here? "A little bird told us you found a girlfriend," my sister said as she dropped out of a tree, landing quieter than a whisper, eighteen meters in front of me. I hated when she would do that. While most Vampires could move, barely making a sound, I never, in my one hundred and fifty years, ever heard my sister, when she didn't want to be. "Human or Vampire?"
"Oh, please," my other sister Serena chuckled. Her, I had heard crashing through the forest from three kilometers away. I didn't 100% know it was her, but knew there was someone out there making a racket. And who else could it really have been? Stealth was never Serena's strong suit. "It has to be a Vamp, he'd never be able to keep a human alive. You know he has no self control," she laughed.
Apparently my track record was hilarious. But like she said, they were human. I didn't care. I liked to play with my food, so what?
"Renesmee is one of us," I explained, "a hybrid." They looked shocked. "Didn't Jennifer tell you? Isn't that why you showed up here, now. I haven't seen either of you in more than a decade, and now here you are, not three weeks after I told Jennifer about her."
"Yeah, well, it seems that there were a few things she left out when she told us the exciting news. But now that we're here why don't you fill us in on all the juicy details." Could Serena actually be interested in something about me? She normally had some ulterior motive. Not always, but when I had met Rosalie Cullen she immediately reminded me of Serena.
"Do you remember when the Volturi came to talk to father three years ago?" Of course they did and even started growling at the mention of the Volturi. They'd threatened not only Joham, but my sisters as well. "She was the reason."
"Your mate is the reason father can't make any more new little brothers and sisters for us?" Serena seemed pissed.
"Where is she anyway?" Maysun asked, looking around.
"Renesmee lives in North America."
"But if she's your mate, why isn't she here with you?"
"We are not mates… yet. She's not even three years old. That's too young. She is still with her family."
"You mean her father."
"No. She lives with an entire coven that think of themselves as family, one of whom is her father, but another is her mother."
"That's not possible." The idea seemed to make Serena angry. She really needed to take a breath and calm down.
"Her father preformed a cesarean instead of risking a regular delivery; it gave him enough time to change her mother before she died."
"Why?"
"They're mates." Wasn't it obvious? Bella and Edward loved one another. Why else would Edward have done what he did?
"But that's not possible. Father said-"
"Joham lied." I know he had the two of them practically brainwashed into thinking he could do no wrong, and had all the answers, practically since birth, but after the first couple of centuries couldn't they start to question something? Anything? "He never even tried to save our mothers."
"They were weak humans. If they were stronger, like us, he would have. Like he did with me," Serena spat. I had no idea what she was talking about and it must have shown on my face, since she soon began to explain. "Back when I was six father introduced me to his friend Anton. Of course he was a Vampire. There was an instant connection and we soon became mates. Soon after I had a child. Father had seen what happened to my mother and tried to cut the child out to save my life. He shouldn't have. I'm a hybrid, I would have survived the delivery, but instead the baby was removed too soon and didn't survive. My mate, Anton, was heartbroken. We tried again, over and over, for the next few decades. I was never able to get pregnant again, though. I had never seen Anton so… after awhile he could no longer function; he wanted a child so badly. He tried to go on but after a decade he couldn't take it anymore and father told me he went to the Volturi and asked them to end his life."
So that's what happened? I'd never heard the story before, but when I was younger Maysun had told me that Serena used to be happy, cheerful even. But if she had lost her mate, and child, I suppose it would explain the change. She was one of the most miserable people I'd ever met.
"But father became obsessed," Maysun explained. "To the point where he thought it might have been something wrong with Anton, and after he was gone father brought in another Vampire for her to try with."
"I couldn't do that. Be with someone other than my mate, it wasn't even a possibility. He knew Vampires find one mate, and only one mate, but I don't think he realized it would be the same with hybrids."
"But he soon did, when he suggested…" Maysun tried to finish explaining for her, but stopped mid-sentence, breaking down and shaking her head. "So father readjusted his plans and I got to… well you know. But I couldn't conceive either."
"Eventually father ran some tests and determined that it was no longer possible for us," Serena eventually continued. "Not since we stopped aging."
Wait! That means I have three years left (to be on the safe side) to have a family of my own before Renesmee turns seven. That should be enough time, if I started the process right away. Three children would be nice; as much as I loved my Aunt , I always wished to have others my own age to grow up with.
"What's today's date?" Renesmee's third birthday would be soon. If I was going to be there again for her party, and now it seemed I needed to be there this year, more than ever, then I needed to get a move on.
"Nahuel," Maysun rolled her eyes, "sometimes I wonder how we can be related. You're part Vampire, how do you manage to lose track of time?"
It's not that I lose track of time, or any other thing, I just never pay attention to such things in the first place.
"September 8th," Serena told me, when Maysun was too caught up in a fit of laughter to. "Why?"
"I have to go," was all I bothered giving as a response as I began running north. Oh, I should probably tell my Aunt I was leaving too. "Tell Huilen where I've gone," I yelled back.
"It looks like we'll at least get a niece or nephew if we can't have anymore brothers and sisters," I heard Maysun tell Serena.
"Perhaps." Why didn't I like the sound of Serena's voice just then?
