Three weeks passed by quickly, me and Foster went on a few more dates and I badgered him about what he was while he badgered me about how I felt about each of my friends and in how much pain I was in.

"Ok, that's enough." I suddenly blurted out after one of our dates when we were returning to the common room. "How do you expect me to trust you when you won't tell me what you are? I mean, come on how do I know you aren't some kind of cannibal?"

Foster laughed nervously, "Alright."

"Really?"

"I'm not going to tell you. You have to guess."

"Oh for heavens sake."

"You like the mystery, I'm not going to ruin it for you."

"Fine but if I guess right you'll tell me, right?" Foster nodded unwillingly. "Ok. You are a bit mischievous, so maybe a pixie?" Foster laughed so I carried on.

"An elf?" He raised his eyebrows at me.

"A goblin?"

"They don't exist." He told me

"Neither do vampires." We both chuckled.

"Ok, what would make my parents laugh?" Foster rolled his eyes. "A fairy?" I laughed, I realised if it was a different situation he might have taken it as an insult, he didn't join in with my guffaws.

"Well…"

"No way." I turned to the boy and tried to smother my giggles.

Foster turned towards me, we were stood out side the common room and each of my friends stared at me through the windows. "Look, I'll come over to your house later and explain. I think it would be best if we say we're together now. You need more protection than I thought."

"Excuse me?" I was taken aback. I had guessed that his being with me was some sort of mission because no boy that attractive had ever even looked at me let alone dated me. He had now confirmed my suspicions. Foster noticed the misery on my face and his smile became less arrogant and more guilty. "W-why do I n-need protection?" I stammered.

"I'll explain everything later. Don't worry your safe here." I turned my face away from him and whimpered as I moved from one leg to the other. "Your legs hurt today?"

"Yeah, at least it's away from my torso. That was hell." I sighed.

"You have no idea what hell is." Foster whispered. I felt compassion for him suddenly. Foster smiled at me and leaned in to my face. I panicked and turned my head so his lips brushed my cheek. I noticed how he didn't need to bend down, a few weeks ago he would have had to. He smiled kindly at me. "I had to spring it on you otherwise it wouldn't look real. I'll meet you in the usual place after college."

I smiled at him and he walked past me towards the main building. I stayed where I was for a few seconds taking deep breaths before I was met by my friend's questions. I noticed a pair of feat in front of me. "Hey." A familiar voice mumbled, "You ok?"

I looked into Paul's dark green eyes, I didn't have to look up anymore. "Yeah I'm fine." I lied. I could feel tears well up in my throat.

"Wanna talk about it?" He didn't believe me.

"No I'm fine, thanks anyway." I grinned at him.

"Alright. So what's with you and that Frank guy?"

"Foster. Um, well, he's my boyfriend." It felt strange telling the guy I had loved for about a year that I was with someone now but it was also satisfying.

"Oh!" He couldn't hide the shock from his face, "That's great. I gotta go, see you later!" He told me quickly while walking away.

I sighed and lent my back against the wall next to me. A fairy? How is that even possible? He's huge!

"Hi." I was surprised by Sarah's voice. "Everything ok?"

"Yeah." I knew Sarah wouldn't make me talk about it if I didn't want to.

"We don't have to go in there if you want."

"They'll want me to tell them everything. Come on." I pushed myself off of the wall and walked into the common room.

"What happened?-"

"What's wrong?-"

"What did you and Paul talk about?-" All my friends talked at once so I let them finish the questions before I started.

They stopped asking questions and lent in as I started. "Well not much really happened but you'll all be pleased to know, Foster's now my boyfriend." This made most of my friends gasp and they started asking more questions that were slightly harder to answer. They forgot my conversation with Paul and that I looked incredibly upset considering that I had just gained a boyfriend.

After college I waited for my friends so that we could walk home together. I told myself I didn't care whether Foster appeared or not. The only thing that made me want to wait for him was the thought that my questions would finally be answered. Foster was the first to appear. "Hey." I just smiled at him and looked back at the floor.

He shook his head, "We're supposed to be a happy couple."

"Why are you doing this?" I hissed, the sound didn't scare me as much now it happened so often.

"I'll explain when we get to your house. Please pretend for twenty minutes." He pleaded.

Sarah walked up to us and I grinned wildly at the same time as taking Fosters hand in mine. He looked surprised for an instant then grinned back at me. Sarah smiled at us.

Paul raised his eyebrows in surprise as he saw us. Foster turned to me and raised one eyebrow. I hugged him and whispered "If we're going to do this, we're doing this properly."

When we arrived at my house I let go of his hand. "Ok, explain." I listened for my family and I realised he was doing the same. "Don't worry they're not here, dad will be at work, Stu will be out with the pack and mum will be hunting. So explanations would be nice." I pressed on and he sighed.

Foster walked into the living room and sat down. "Ok. Ask me any questions and I'll answer as truthfully as I can." At my annoyed expression he added, "I don't know every detail about being a fairy, that's all."

I sat next to him and asked him, "Ok why are you this big and where are your wings?" I smirked.

"Fairy's are shape shifters too," He ignored me, "but we don't turn into different animals, we turn into different humans. It makes our missions slightly easier." He didn't look at me as he said "missions," "It makes it easier for humans to find us attractive if we are human sized. We can be any size we want but it makes our skin feel tight. This size," He suddenly shrunk and flew onto my shoulder, "is the most comfortable." He sat down, leaning against my hair. Although I was still angry with him my heartbeat rose.

"A-and the, um, the wing thing?" I managed to stutter.

"Oh, yeah you have too… earn your wings. Once you get them they can disappear cos obviously no one wants to date someone whose got wings. You know the book Peter Pan?" I nodded. "Well we think that J M Barrie saw a low class fairy, Peter Pan, and a higher class fairy, Tink, and then interpreted them into his book. Well made them the stars of his book." He chuckled to himself.

"So what's with the shape shifting thing?" I didn't want to ask the question I wanted to ask the most.

"Oh, when we are given missions, by the high commander fairy, we change as soon as we find out who we have to protect. It's easier to protect a person if they are attracted to us. Are personalities also change so that we get on with the people we're protecting. For example you like guys to be quite forward and you really like the Welsh accent. If Sarah was… who I had to protect, I would be Irish, blonde haired, brown eyed, skinny and I would be quite shy. It's nice to be a guy again, I've been many different women over the last hundred years."

"Hundred years?"

"Oh right." He jumped off of my shoulder and became full sized when his feet hit the ground. "I'm actually five hundred and twenty three." He announced proudly. "I was eighteen when I became a fairy."

"How do you become one?"

"Don't get any ideas, your already messed up enough." He laughed, "You are chosen when you are born and then the fairies wait till you're coming out of childhood to change you. You are usually chosen because you have some sort of ability. I was really good at lying, doesn't sound too impressive but now I can manipulate people."

"Like some of the Cullen's have ability's. Ok I get it."

"Exactly. Well, this beautiful woman came to my eighteenth birthday party, she looked around twenty and she seduced me and managed to get me to agree to be a fairy. You don't really get to say "no" to fairies." He smiled sadly and scoffed.

"Foster, am I just a "mission" to you?" I asked softly, looking at the floor.

He sighed and vanished. "Foster?"

"I'm here. Sorry when I get nervous this happens."

"You're nervous?"

"You've made me nervous. You decided my personality."

"So I am just a mission." I could feel tears in my eyes.

"No. Please, stop. I have to explain things first." He grew to his full size again and sat down next to me. "My mission, is to protect you. A lot of different mythical creatures are interested in your case and some not in a good way. You are a threat to them."

"But I'm not!"

"We know that, but they don't. So I have to protect you from them and I have to make sure your transition into shape shifter/ vampire is safe and easy. Your changing quicker than I thought though so I'm going to ask your parents if they'll move you closer to the Cullens. You'll need their support."

"They won't want me. I'm a freak."

Foster laughed loudly. "Have you heard that they have a half vampire half human child in their coven? And that child is betrothed to a shape shifter? You'll be accepted easily enough."

"Foster…" I started pleadingly.

"You have to be just a mission for me." He interrupted. "I can't fall in love, I have to pretend to be in love with each of my missions. I then have to break their hearts when I'm given a new mission. I can't be in a relationship with anyone I'm protecting because I cannot hurt them. I have to pretend. As soon as it stops being pretend I have to leave. I'm sorry if this is hard to hear." He could see my emotions go through misery, pain and finally anger.

"It's ok. It makes a lot of sense actually. Excuse me for a second." I walked out of the living room and into the kitchen, I opened the back door and let out a long, low whistle. A tear rolled down my cheek. I could hear heavy paw steps. Me and Stu didn't get on especially well but he would always come running when I needed him.

I know this took a while but I'm writing two fics at once again and hopefully everything has been answered. Please tell me if I've left out anything that you wanted to know the answer to. Let me know what you think.