I do not own Twilight or New Moon. sniffle I'll be waiting to get Eclipse in August with the rest of you.
A/N: I am sorry for not writing anything for a LONG. LONG. TIME! I went to Africa and Amsterdam for two weeks (no world wide interweb!), and then had a period where the 'rents decided to ban me from the computer! AHHHH! Frustrating. Especially when I had NO BACK UP CHAPTERS WRITTEN!!!! Dumb Ed, DUMB Ed!! Well, I hope you forgive me! Love you all!!
-Ed
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I gasped when I heard Edward whisper this painful, aching fact to me. This tiny whisper, filled with almost a hundred years of pain, and fear, and regret, ran through my ear like liquid fire. It set my teeth on edge and chilled me to the bones. Now, after all this time in Forks, I had no problem with a little cold, but I preferred my cold to come from hot vampire boyfriends, and not disturbing revelations. But beggars can't always be choosers.
"How is that possible?" I asked him, quickly glancing back at Isis.
She seemed normal enough, chatting at an unresponsive Alice, who was looking even paler than normal. She was staring at Edward with such intensity that I felt as if she would burn a hole straight through his chest. Not that it would hurt him.
Then Isis looked back at the two of us. "Are you okay?" she asked, cocking her head to one side, her many silver earrings jingling at the sudden movement. "Is everything all right?"
I smiled weakly at her. I could picture us now, standing at least twenty paces away from the table where we were supposedly sitting to eat lunch at, Edward hunched over and whispering in my ear. I blushed as I though about what compromising conclusions Mike would draw from THAT.
"Oh fine, just….fine." Isis just shook her head and muttered under her breath. I though I heard something about "lover's quarrel" but I couldn't be sure.
I looked at Edward, Alice, and Jasper. Jasper was staring at Isis, his eyebrows drawn into a confused frown. I knew that both he and Alice had heard Edward's slightly melodramatic stage whisper (at least to vampire ears), but he seemed more concerned with Isis than he did with Edward. This struck me as odd.
His cover was blown. He could possibly be killed, at the very least made to leave Forks forever. How could he be so disinterested in his own fate, and so fascinated by hers? I turned and poked Edward.
"Hey, look at Jasper. What do you think he's up to?"
Edward stayed quiet for a moment, listening to Jasper's thoughts. "He's got a point there," he said after a while.
I was sort of annoyed. Just because I didn't have a super-human ability, didn't mean that I should be left out of things. "He's got what point? Why is it good? Edward TELL me!"
Edward, tense as he was, grinned at me. "Don't be impatient know Bella. Jasper was thinking about how calm Isis is feeling even though she knows that we are… AFFLICTED. Why do you think that is? Humans, except for a small, modified race commonly know as BELLA SWANIUS, generally fear us, at least sub-consciously, and therefore stay well away from us. But Isis KNOWS what we are, and is perfectly calm about it. What's up with that?"
I smirked at him. It was time to show him when being intrepid could give better results than super-human powers. I stepped back in the direction of the table. Edward followed me silently.
I sat down across from Isis. She smiled at me, her red lipstick making her lips stand out from her pale face. I didn't smile back.
We stared at each other for a while, and that weird prickly feeling came back. It ran up and down the base of my spine, and had just started moving across the back of my neck when I slammed my hands down on the table. Jess and Mike looked up from the other table.
"Stop it." I hissed, and immediately the tingling subsided. Isis smiled toothily then, revealing catlike canines, sharp, much like miniature fangs, and the irony did not escape me at that moment.
"What the hell are you?" I snarled and Edward nodded.
"And how do you know what we are?" he whispered.