Chapter 4:

BPOV:

They all looked at me with a question in their eyes, I held up my hand to show that I was not finished and they all relaxed into their positions waiting for me to speak again.

" Two hundred years ago my mother and my people lived in this realm with the humans and vampires, we all lived in peace, until Aro and his brothers took their places as the vampire rulers. Aro had found out how much power the Sidhe had and wanted it. He and his soldiers found my people and pillaged their homes. They killed many and took more for studying. When he caught my mother, he wanted her as well, and he took her for his own. He raped and beat her thinking that one day she would give in and be his, only she had found her soul mate in my father, one of Aro's high ranking soldiers. My father and Carlisle made a plan together on getting my mother and her people out of that horrible place, and one night they did. My father scooped up my mothers beaten body and he got her out of there. They ran deep into the forest and my mother used her magic to call a portal into a parallel realm for them to live. She put out a magical signal to the rest of the Sidhe leading them to the portal, and what was left of my people was slowly rebuilt, until now. Aro has once again found where my people have been thriving and he will come to destroy Faylinn, my people, and my parents," I said looking at everything and nothing. I tried to tell the story with no feelings, but doing that was as easy as biting through your own arm, next to impossible. I looked around at the Cullen's to see their reaction and was surprised. I saw fear, anger, and sadness, but no pity. That was one thing I was thankful for. I need someone to help me, to fight by my side, not someone to pity me.

The first to speak was Jasper " Why does Aro want your mother so badly, I understand wanting the power, but why your mother?" He asked. It was a good question, but one I didn't want to answer. The answer to that question could be what puts me in a vulnerable position. I weighed my options and decided that having the Cullen's know one of my peoples most ancient and respected magic is less of a threat then trying to fight Aro and his people on my own. So I answered, " one of our most ancient traditions is soul-binding. It is when our kind finds our soul mates. When the soul mates connect our auras merge causing both of the people involved to jump in power level. I assume that Aro wanted a boost in his power and thought he could get it by forcing my mother into bed with him. But it is not so simple. We have to let our shields drop in order for the merging to take place, I imagine that being raped and beaten would not be a good way for one to drop their shields."

" So you are half vampire and half sidhe, what exactly is a sidhe, and why haven't any of us heard this story from Carlisle himself?" Edward asked, his brow creasing in the most attractive way, I had a sudden urge to smooth that crease, I wanted to touch him. I felt compelled to touch him, and I have never felt that way before. Edward looked up at me, probably wondering why I haven't answered him. I cleared my throat and answered the best way I could. "Yes I am half vampire and half sidhe. The sidhe are a people made of magic. We are the people of the fey, we all have our special talents, every sidhe has a different kind of magic, depending on which god or goddess has blessed the sidhe with their mark. As for Carlisle, he didn't say anything because he couldn't. As in he physically nor psychically could not tell anyone. My mother bound him to a silence oath. One that he could not break even if he wanted to. It was a way to protect our home and have Carlisle in the human realm at the same time," I explained.

" So have you found your soul mate yet?" Alice asked with a sparkle in her eye.

" No I have not, which is why I need your help. Without my soul mate I am still incredibly weak so to speak. My magic is not yet developed and it wont be until I connect with who ever he is. Being half sidhe and not full blood vampire has made me physically weaker then you are, and not having my soul mate makes me magically weaker then any other sidhe around. I am not strong enough to fight Aro, not alone, not without my soul mate," I said with a defeated tone.

" Does a soul mate really give you that much of an advantage, and even if it did, why would you with your soul mate be any stronger magically then another of your kind with their soul mate?" Jasper asked yet another really good question that I did not want to answer. However, if I am asking for their help to fight the vampire leader then I need to suck it up and answer the questions they throw at me.

" Remember when I said that every sidhe has a different kind of magic depending on which deity chose to mark them?' I asked, and they all nodded their heads. " Well," I continued, " Typically a sidhe only gets marked by one god or goddess, but I bear the marks of two, which has never been heard of before," I said.

" Which god has marked you," Emmet blurted while he was bouncing in his seat with the anticipation of my answer.

"I have been marked by Rhiannon, the Goddess of the Moon, and the Earth Mother, their magic breaths through me, thrives in the very pit of my being, but I lack the power necessary to access it," I said yet again cursing myself for not finding my soul mate, or not finding a way to do it without a soul mate.

" Enough of the show and tell guys, I have important questions for the Princess," Carlisle interrupted, to everyone's displeasure. " Now Bella, you said earlier that you suspect that there is someone that had betrayed you, some one who was exiled, do you know who that might be?" Carlisle asked with a caring and careful tone.

I nodded my head and revealed my thoughts on this subject, " a few months ago, a female sidhe was caught trying to steal a strand of my hair, my mother laid a truth spell on her and forced her to explain why. She was plotting to cast a death curse against me because I am a half breed and she believed I was going to soil the sidhe race when I took the throne. She was exiled from Faylinn that very day," I explained. " When she left she said that we were all going to pay, that she would be sure that every single sidhe suffered for her being cast out," I finished. Carlisle nodded and asked, " what is her name?"

"Jessica Stanley, her name is Jessica Stanley," I said.