A/N: Answers await you all! I want to say thank you for all the reviews. I know there are errors and I hope to polish this up soon, so please bear with me! Someone asked about Edward's bites.. susfera are only dangerous to wolves.. for humans its like a dog bite. Since Ellaene was in her wolf form when bitten, she was at a great risk.

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A week later

The formal dining room was filled with people, I sat next to an anxious looking Ellaene. She had been both dreading and looking forward to this day ever since she had heard the truth about her family. She had woken up the next day, surprising us all with her recovery. It took me a while to calm her down and then several hours for Carlisle to help her purposefully shift back.

Then I sat with Ellaene as Carlisle told her who he suspected she was. He showed her pictures of Charlie and Renee and a few of a little girl who was the spitting image of Ellaene. She was shocked, surprised and even a little angry to discover that her life may had been one huge lie. Asking for time, Carlisle left and we spent the remainder of the day and all night secluded in the guest room.

In those twenty-four hours, we grew closer. I held her as she cried and screamed at everything she had been through. She was coming to accept that Aro and Pecia were not her real parents. Which then led to sadness over parents she didn't remember and were no longer around. Through it all, I reminded her that she was strong and that maybe this was the Divine Ones way of saying she gets to pick her path. No longer did she need to abide by someone else choice for her life. She was free to choose her own destiny.

Esme was the first to help Ellaene break the funk she was in. She had come under the guise of bringing food and when she came back to gather the dishes, she asked if Ellaene wanted to go running with the other females of the pack. Ellaene quickly agreed. Together Esme helped her shift and they were off.

That kicked off Ellaene immersing into how to be a wolf. The whole pack worked with her on being able to shift at will. Esme took her to see where Charlie and Esme lived. Their cabin had been closed off since their bodies were found, Carlisle had been unable to let another family live there. Carlisle took her to see the memorial to Charlie, Renee, and Bella. She never spoke of what happened there, but ever since that day she had asked us to call her Bella. That declaration was met with cheers from the pack and smiles from the alpha.

Now, we were sitting at the table, waiting for Aro and Pecia to arrive. They had been sent a message via wolf courier asking for a meeting. Bella needed to hear from them how she came to live with them and to get the final confirmation that she was the long-lost child of Charlie and Renee.

When they finally walked through the door, tension hung thickly in the air. Bella tensed beside me and reached for my hand as they sat down across from us. The wolves that were in the room openly sneered at Aro and his wife. A sharp look from Esme and their expressions were wiped neutral. When they spotted Bella, Pecia reached across the table for Bella's hand. Tears fell from her eyes. When Bella squeezed her hand, she began to openly sob.

"Thank you for coming Aro and Pecia. I'm certain that you know what this is about, so I'll get right to the point. Bella, or as you call her, Ellaene, came to us a week ago, brought by the human, Edward. Bella was in wolf form and seriously injured. I have very good reason to believe that Bella is the long-lost child of my enforcer and dear friend Charlie and his wife Renee."

Pecia wasn't looking at Carlisle, her head was buried in the crook of Aro's arm. Aro sat stoney faced, he wasn't defiant or angry, more like trying to save face in a situation in which he knew the score. He was on the verge of losing something and all he had left was his pride.

"I ask you here to ask you to tell us what you know." I had to admire Carlisle. He laid out the facts in a very succinct manner but also managed to let it be known he was expecting Aro to come clean and admit Bella wasn't his daughter.

Aro's shoulders slumped and he clutched his wife's hand. "We found Bella in the woods. We were foraging for herbs and found her under a pile of leaves. She was injured. Nearby it was a bloody mess of fur and bones. At that time, we had no idea that Bella was a wolf or that the fur we saw belonged to her parents."

As he confirmed that they weren't her parents, Bella sagged against me.

"Pecia and I had been trying to have a baby, but we were unsuccessful. Not knowing who she was or where her parents were, Pecia begged me to take her back to our home and we did. It was a few days later as she was recovering from her injuries that we realized she was a shifter. We found her in her wolf form when she was amid a high heat. By this time, Pecia and I were already attached to the child. We made the choice not to inquire with the packs if there was a missing child. Together we placed a bind on her wolf form, and a memory block and we raised her as a witch child."

With the bulk of his confession done, Aro looked down, tears dripped onto the table. When he raised his eyes, they were filled with anguish and love, and he turned them toward Bella. "We love you, Bella as if you came from us. We were convinced you were a blessing from the Divine Ones. Yet, we knew that this day would come. As your rite came closer, we knew we should say something, but we were so deep in the lie we feared we'd lose you forever. We never meant to hurt you, dear child."

Unable to take her adoptive parents pain, she got up from her chair and raced to the other side of the table. The three of them collapsed in a pile of tears, hugs and whispered apologies. Carlisle motioned for the room to clear of the extra wolves and the rest of us moved to the living room. Ten minutes later and the three of them walked in arm and arm, faces red and blotchy. It was Bella that addressed the room.

"I have forgiven Aro and Pecia, for they only acted out of love. With that said, they understand that this is where I belong. They have removed the memory spell and bind on my wolf form. I ask you Carlisle that they be able to go home and that there will be no reprisals for their actions."

"You didn't need to ask, Bella. It was evident that they love you. It is because they took you in and cared for you that I will place them under pack protection. They are now part of our family." Bella hugged Carlisle. He then addressed Aro and Pecia. "I promise to watch over Bella as if she was my own daughter. She will be cared for and she will be loved."

With that, Pecia threw herself at Carlisle who held her as she cried. He murmured into her ear, rubbing her back to try and soothe her. Eventually, Pecia felt calm enough to pull away and joined her husband's side once more. Unable to delay their leaving any further, they hugged Bella once more and walked out the door.

I hugged Bella as we watched the only parents she knew walk away. I had thought that Bella would be crying, instead, when I looked, she was smiling. "I'm surprised to see you smiling. Not that I mind, I guess I thought you'd be sadder."

Bella turned in my arms and liked her arms behind my head. "What's to be sad about? I'm right where I need to be. I've found my destiny."

A/N: Aww... An epi will follow later today! Please, leave your thoughts!

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