I apologies for not updating this story in so long, school has been real stress full this years and amongst other things. Thank you so much for all the reviews that you guys have left me. I will add now that this is going to be an Edward/Hermione story. I know some of you may stop reading it because of this and I am sorry for not following thru. I love the Twilight story how Stephenie Meyer wrote it and I will not change anything about it. I will be bringing other characters from the Harry Potter series. Also in my profile you I will be adding graphics that I will be making for the story and soon to be a fanmix for it. I apologies once again for the delay, Also sorry for any grammatical errors.
I don't own anything all characters are from the Twilight Saga and the Harry Potter series.
Chapter 5 – Facing Reality
Hermione's POV
The week had not been so welcoming for Hermione at all. She was still trying to find a way to get use to her new environment. Although, she did get closer to Bella noticing that they had more common that she thought. She noticed that her cousin was more timid than her. As the week had been strange to her, with Mike and the other guys flirting with her and her cousin. Friday had finally arrived and she had notice the Cullen family staring at her since Monday, it was really annoying her. She felt as if she was at Hogwarts all over again. Everyone was whispering and staring. It's not like she had witch written across her forehead. But, it also didn't change the fact that Edward was missing during that week. She wanted to approach them and asked them, what was their problem.
During the week she had also felt more and more curious about the mystery of the Cullen family. She had thought she had done something wrong to make them act the way they did around her. But the more they acted weird the more Hermione notice that they seemed familiar. She observed the Cullen's features after school that Friday as she followed waited for Bella outside her truck. She had seen them before, in a book maybe, the features that they had just seemed so similar to her. She hated not knowing something. She felt useless not knowing.
She could help but to stare at them as she waited. She had every right to stare at them. They have been staring at her all week. As she looked at Alice she kept wondering why their features seemed familiar.
Skin white as porcelain, eyes that where a liquid, golden topaz. At those thought she open her eyes widely. At that instant she saw Alice and Jasper both stair at her with a form of alarm and a form of sadness. Hermione quickly turn her body facing the truck taking small breaths. She knew why they where so familiar, she new what they were. Vampires.
And she knew by the expression that they wore that she had realize what they were. She knew that she was safe. She was in a crowded area. They wouldn't approach her. They wouldn't want to cause a scene in front of the school and Hermione was right. They wouldn't approach her. She was relieved when she saw Bella coming out of the schools entrance. She could still feel them staring at her.
'They won't hurt me, they haven't hurt me yet it's been a whole week,' she thought to herself trying to calm herself down.
'Besides, I have meet a vampire before, he didn't hurt me.' Hermione was starting to get paranoid.
'Breath, not all vampires are alike,' at that thought she panic more. 'Not all vampires are alike,' she thought again. The vampire she had meat was from Alaska. She had hear him say that not all vampires where kind. There were only a few that chose to feed on animal blood and his clan was one of the only ones.
She wasn't in Alaska. She needed to do research as soon as she could.
"Hermione, are you okay?" She was torn from her thoughts by Bella.
"Yes, I am fine. Umm… Bella can you take to the library please?" she responded to Bella quickly as she headed towards the passenger seat without making eye contact to the individuals that where burning holes in the back of her head.
Bella looked at her strangely. "It's Friday." Bella responded still confuse as why her cousin would want to go to the library on a Friday.
"Oh, I want to get ahead on research paper I have to do for my English class." She answered carefully. She didn't want Bella to get worry or to know of what she just discovered.
Now even more she couldn't tell her what she really was. If she found out, she would find out that the Cullen's were vampires. She needed to find out if they there the veggie kind or the meat eaters before it got further than it already had.
They both got in the car and headed towards the library unaware that Alice knew of Hermione's discovery.
Alice's POV
"We need to head to Carlise," Alice told her siblings once she saw the red truck leave the schools parking lot.
"What did you see?" Jaspar asked beside her. He didn't like the expression she had in her face. Or the feeling he had gotten from the witch.
"I will explain everything once we get to the house. Everyone needs to hear this." They all looked at her still alarm but did what she said. No one ever questioned Alice demands. They knew her abilities in telling the outcome of the future once and individual made a choice and they trusted her with her request.
Emmet started the car and drove to the house as fast as he could without looking suspicious. Once they arriving at their home, they saw Esme waiting for them out side, which was not something common for them.
They immediately got out of the vehicle, and ran towards her in a blink of an eye. She had a smile on her face but change when she saw Alice was not smiling at all. Looking at them suspiciously she spoke.
"What happened?" She asked the petite vampire.
"Are they here?"
"Inside," Esme responded.
They all walked inside to see that Edward had returned. Standing beside Carlise. It was strange for Rosalie, Jasper, and Emmett that Alice didn't tell them that Edward will be returning but they knew it was something more.
"We got a problem," Alice said breaking everyone's train of thought. She had already known that Edward would be back. He wasn't one that would have run away from his problems. He just needed to think by himself without their thought clouding up his mind. However, the new information she didn't count on being true so quickly.
'Edward let me explain everything out loud,' she told him as he started walking back and forth in the room. She already knew that he was reading her mind.
"What is going on Alice?" Carlise asked her getting a little impatient.
"Hermione, she knows what we are. She is going to do research on us and she is going to find out more information. It could become a danger for us if she tells more of her kind. Others may come. I can't see the out come. I don't know what she will do her decisions jump a lot and her path are not certain. They never are." She explains to them. She didn't want her small family to move away from this place they now call home. She liked it here, although Edward was lusting for the girl's blood more, she knew that he would be able to contain himself.
'Edward, you know what you have to do. I know that you can do it. You are the only one that can. You are the only one that she may listen to.' Alice easily thought as she looked at him. The others where just staring at the two, knowing that they where having a conversation of their own, with Edwards abilities to read individuals mind and her ability to tell the future they where equally match into knowing what everyone around them couldn't.
Edward's POV
"I need to take care of this Carlise."
"What are you thinking of doing Edward?" Rosalie asked. Edward could hear her thoughts. She was mad of this human. She hated that they where spending too much time on the girl.
'Just kill her already Edward it will make our life more simple', Rosalie thought.
"You know that is not the answer Rosalie and you know I can do that." He snare at her.
"This girl can expose us all," she said in a harsh voice.
"Yes, but I can kill her. There is something about her. I can't explain. It's different. I just can't let anything happen to her. Do you understand?" He said it rapidly and with a voice of lost and concern.
With those words he looked at the rest of his family. They all had an expression of disbelief in their faces. They had never seen him this intense. Edward himself didn't understand himself at the moment.
'I know you can do this Edward,' Alice thought.
"Are you sure about this Edward?" Carlise finally spoke outloud.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt the her." He reassured them.
He could hear all their thoughts. Jasper kept trying to control them all from doing anything they would regret. His ability was one of the most important and one of the most dangerous at the same time. With being able to control everyone's emotions he could also feel them, which made it even harder on him to control his thirst when they where all in front of humans. Edward greatly admired Jasper's determination.
He was trying to sort everyones thoughts in his head. Esme was concern for him, while Emmett was enjoying the situation. He was interested in what the witch will think of them once she actually talk to them if she was brave enough. Rosalie was still thinking of herself and wanting for this dilemma to be over, and lastly Alice just gave him a smile when he turned to look at her.
'Edward everything will be okay just go and do what you have to do. We will be here waiting.' That was all he needed for her to reassure him once again that everything will be okay.
He turned around once again to leave his family.
'Be careful,' he heard them all think. He once again left his family staring at the place he had been standing.
Hermione POV
"Thanks Bella," she said as she got out of the truck.
"Do you want me to pick you up later?" Bella asked her while Hermione took her books out with her.
"No it's okay I think I can manage going home. A little fresh air can't hurt a bit. I can just walk home. The library isn't that far from the house." She explained, she really needed to do this on her own and if she knew what the Cullen family where then they may already know what she was. They where much older than her and smarter.
"Are you sure?" Bella asked un-easy.
"Yeah, don't worry. I will call you if anything." She reassured her cousin with a smile.
Bella defeated accepted the request and left her in the front steps of the library.
Hermione took a deep breath relief that her cousin didn't push the issue. She knew her cousin was really persistent like her and always seeking for answers and she was happy that this time she didn't follow that persistence.
She turned around once she saw the truck out of sight. As she entered she smelled the scent of old books. She felt at home. She knew that she wouldn't find that much information on vampires in a muggles library. But she knew that the theory books on vampires and creatures where somewhat accurate on vampire folklore.
Finding a place to sit in the far end of the library she went in search for books. Graving as many as she could she headed towards the table she had claim. As she search for answers she felt hopeless finding the same stereotypical statement of vampires.
"Vampire - in folklore, animated corpse that sucks the blood of humans. Belief in vampires has existed from the earliest times and has given rise to an amalgam of legends and superstitions. They were most commonly thought of as spirits or demons that left their graves at night to seek and enslave their victims; it was thought that the victims themselves became vampires."
She was getting irritated from not finding what she was trying to look for. It was all stereotypical, nothing about any vampires that can walk in the daytime. These times she wished she had access to her library back at school. She closed the book she was reading about vampire tearing open their victims to drink the blood from inside the individuals organs. She couldn't take the procedures and the gore of it all.
She took another deep breath, something she has been doing a lot lately. She placed back her head against the chair with her eyes close. She didn't even know why she was this determined to find out about them. They weren't hurting anyone as far as she knew. However, she had grown up during difficult times making her always alert and needing to know her surroundings. Specially when those surroundings where new to her.
"Find anything interesting," she heard a voice asked her.
As she open her eyes she saw what she had been avoiding to see since she left the school, one of them. However, it wasn't any of them it was the missing Cullen. Edward.
Hermione sat up in her seat and looked at him. Drifting away from her thoughts.
"What are you doing here?" she asked him as calmly paying attention back to the books in front of her.
General POV
Edward could smell the sweet need of her blood. His body was burning for him to take her. Not caring of who will see. But he resisted that urge; as much as he wanted her blood the need to protect her was stronger. He couldn't explain it and he hated it.
"I see you started on a side project," he said as he pointed at her books. She was indeed a smart witch. Already looking up research on them. He felt kind of proud of her for some reason.
Hermione kept fighting with herself. She didn't know if she should reach for her wand or not. She knew that they where fast. If he wanted her death he would have done it by now. So all she had to do is wait to see what he would do next.
"Yeah, I don't like being in the dark of things." She didn't want him to know that he was just clouding up her mine just by being there. Another feeling she didn't like at all. She hated not being in control.
"We don't like being in the dark either," he said calmly. He looked around the area they where in. This wasn't the place for them to spill out all their dark secrets to each other.
"I don't think this is the place to talk about our situation," she too had noticed that this was not the best place to talk about their situation. It felt like she was reading her mind. He felt strange.
"I can take you to a place where we can."
"I think I don't have any other option." She started to gather all her belongings as he looked at her patiently. He looked at her movement carefully and studied how gracefully she organized her belongings. It felt as he was looking at someone much older than her age. Even her eyes as he looked at her looked much older than her aged allowed actually showed to be. As if she had seen too much for her young human age.
Once she was done she followed him out of the library getting some stares from some people. 'At least I have some witnesses,' she thought as she took a deep breath.
"Where are we going?" she asked him once they where out of the library.
"A place we wont get interrupted."
She took a deep breath once again before she spoke, "a safe place I hope."
She wasn't dumb. That was for sure, Edward knew that that already.
"Don't worry Hermione, I won't hurt you. I promise." He looked at her eyes as he stated those words. He felt kind of hurt that she thought that he could hurt her, when all that he could think about is protecting her.
All that Hermione did was nodded. He extended his hand towards her. A very risky thing for him to do; however it was something that he had to learn to control. She looked at his hand after taking it.
Holding her hand was like heaven for Edward. He had never felt like this before. He took it as if her hand was a delicate flower. He led her towards his silver Volvo that was parked across the street. He felt proud of himself that he had so much control.
He opened the passenger seat for her and let go of her hand. She looked at him hesitating but when in anyway. The Gryffindor in her didn't let her give up on this adventure. He soon got on the car himself and headed to an unknown direction for her.
They seemed to be driving to a direction that was not located in an area near the small town. It was starting to worry Hermione.
'Is he planning on finishing me up because I know their secret? Is he going to have me for lunch? Was this wise of me?' All these thoughts when in Hermione's head, she didn't known what she had gotten herself into.
Edward could feel her tense up next to him. It was very hard for him to stay where he was where he can easily just lean and drink her there. He tried hard not to inhale the air around him. If he did he would easily smell her lilac smell. He hated that his emotion kept going back and forth.
Edward finally came to a stop in front of the forest next to the small town. Stopping the car he got out. Hermione did the same actions that he did.
"What are we doing here?" She asked a little alarm.
"A place where we can talk. Trust me. I won't hurt you." At those words he extended his hand to her.
She didn't know why but she did trust him. So she took his hand.
"Clime on my back," he said as he pulled her towards him.
"What?"
"That is the only way we can get there. Don't worry I won't drop you." She looked at him funny and did what he asked.
"Hold on tight." At those words she was instantly pulled throw the trees. She hold on to him tighter.
She hated this as much as flying. It felt as if she was in a hippogriff all over again. She closes her eyes hoping that I would be over soon.
"It's okay you can open your eyes now," she heard his angelic voice.
She opened them to find herself in a meadow. She looked around to see the beautiful seen around her as she climb down from his back. Then looked at him once more.
"I guess we both have some explanations to do."
AN: What do you guys think? Please review. I will update faster now that I am in the holidays. The next chapter is already being made.
Chapter 6 – Answers
"I guess we do." He replied to her statement as she saw her walk around his sanctuary looking more nervous. He observed her nibbling on her bottom lip, seeing that there was silence Edward finally spoke breaking the awkwardness.
"You know what I am."
