Safe

'The flight departs in two hours' time.' Felix says walking back to me. 'Business class, red eye flight.' He chuckles about this and wags his eyebrows. 'To bad I can't really make it so.'

'Can we get some take-out?' I ask.

'You're hungry for human food?' he looks stunned.

'I'm not. But it's tradition.'

'Sure.' He shrugs. 'Tradition?'

'Yes, one should always attempt to eat some delicious chicken after surviving some scary ordeal.'

'Where does this tradition come from?' he asks frowning.

I smile. 'Lucy. We would eat chicken take-out when we have conquered some fear.'

'What fears?' he asks as we make our way to the food court.

'She feared her past. She had amnesia when I met her. We faced it together and ate Chicken after crying the whole night. She was afraid of heights so we went bungee jumping, deep fried chicken. Talking to a stranger at a bar, chicken kebabs.'

I order a chicken burger and we sit down at a small plastic table so I can eat. He looks at me with incredulous disbelief all the while. I am not a big fan of chicken but I enjoy my chicken burger. Telling him about Lucy all the while.

Felix shakes his head as he hands me a napkin. 'I could leave you some?' I taunt making him smile against his will.

'No need.'

'You sure?'

'Oh yes. – you missed some.' He leans over the table and kiss me on the cheek. 'You seem happy.'

'You're with me.'

I love this smell. It smells like home. My eyes fly open and I look around disorientated. I'm home in my bed.

'Felix?' I ask turning over and seeing that I'm alone. It only takes a moment then he is standing next to the bed.

'Picollo caro, you finally wake.' He bends down and kisses me on the mouth.

'When did we get home?'

'A few hours ago.'

'How did we get home?'

'By plane. Then we drove to Forks.'

'I don't remember any of this.'

'You slept the entire time.'

'What about my mother?'

'She was kind enough to let you sleep.' I head her bell voice from behind Felix. She dances around him and bounces onto the bed, and then pulls me into a tight embrace.

'I didn't call you from the airport.' I say, kicking myself internally.

'Felix did.' She looks at him smiling - her kind smile- making my mouth drop open before I quickly recover seeing the amusement on Jasper's face who is doing his confederate officer walk to the foot of the bed.

'She likes him now.' Jasper explains to me smiling with confused amusement.

'So that is why the rooms temperature is so toasty warm?' I say getting up, walking over the bed and embracing him. He is clearly surprised but hugs me softly back.

'Oh!' I let go of Jasper and walk toward the lovely set of chairs standing where Edward's sofa was.

'Esme thought you'd like them.' Alice chirps skipping to my side.

'She was wrong.' I hear the surprised silence in the room and enjoy it for just a moment. 'I absolutely love them.' I sit down and let my fingers run over the wonderful luxurious fabric. 'Where is she?' I ask getting up.

She is waiting for me in the living room, her face bright with excitement. 'You love them?'

'Yes thank you it is so much nicer that Edward's old sofa.' The mind reader pretends to glare at me. I stick out my tong making him smile. 'Wait. Where is Emmett?' I ask my voice dangerous all of a sudden.

'No need to worry about that, Mary-Alice.' Carlisle says coming in thru the front door. I am glad to see him and give him a quick hug before allowing the dark cloud to descend again.

'Why not?'

'Because I taught him a lesson.' Felix smiles triumphantly at the top of the stair case. I turn back to Carlisle with alarm.

'Is he okay?'

The blond vampire chuckles with amusement before softly touching my arm. 'No permanent damage done.'

I gasp and walk toward Felix who is slowly coming down the stairs. 'What did you do?'

'I just showed him he is not as good a fighter as he thinks?'

'You didn't hurt him did you?' Felix frowns seeming to weigh whether to tell me the truth or not. 'Felix.' My voice sounds high.

'Did you miss me?' Emmett asks very close by. I spin around gasping loudly. The big curly haired vampire starts shaking the house with his loud booming laugh before glaring at Felix. 'There is going to be a rematch.'

'Of course.' Felix pulls me into an embrace making Emmett frown, obviously he was hoping to do that.

'Felix.'

'Yes cara mia.'

'Next time you teach him a lesson, will you let me watch?'

'With pleasure.'

I wipe the leaves off the tombstone. 'Hi Lucy.'

I place her favorite candy on top of the plain headstone. Once in the middle of a random conversation she had mentioned to me that she wanted a simple marker for her grave; 'Not some weeping angel or huge monument, just something square and plain. And preferably not the words "daughter, sister, friend" but "she enjoyed life and lived it to the full."

'How do you like the tombstone? It is exactly what you wanted. – I miss you. Even that horrid meatloaf you would make every Friday and then force me to eat.' I laugh shakily. 'I am happy Lucy, for the first time in...' I shake my head. 'For the first time in my whole long life. I never told you. I am half-vampire half-human, although I think you suspected something. I have a mother.' I laugh out load. 'More than one. I also have more than one father and brothers and sisters. I am so happy. Remember how you always said I will fall in love and how I insisted you are mad? You said he'd be a bad boy? Well, as always you were right. I have fallen head over heels in love with the most unlikely person around.' I feel a small blush on my cheeks. 'He also loves me, can you believe it? So much so that he has left his old live. He has his faults.' I touch the growing collection of charms on my memory bracelet. He bought me a beautiful crystal in Italy when I was sleeping. His face when he gave is to me nearly broke my heart with joy and sadness. "I do not know what the human showed you in Volterra, all I know is that you own my heart and the small fragments that is left of my soul." The crystal is a strange red, exactly like blood. 'We are planning a spring wedding or rather Alice my mother is.' I cringe and then touch the small cross that was on Lucy's necklace, now also on my memory bracelet. 'Felix caught your killer, he won't hurt anyone again. Now I don't know if you would condone the method by which the public has been made safe, and it doesn't help this situation much but at least we got him.' I pat the tombstone again. 'I just wanted to come say goodbye, the Cullen's are leaving Forks, we have been here too long.' I look up at the cloud covered sky. 'I'll miss the place. – My life has not become some soppy love story though, nor some romantic comedy. The one who stalked me, remember you caught me looking out the window, well in a twist he was my true love, but the ones who sent him, their dangerous.' I remember the strange murky red eyes, the skin that appeared to age despite immortality. 'I don't think we have seen the last of them. I haven't told anyone but I know a dreadful secret that has put everyone I love in grievous danger.' My laugh sounds hysterical. 'Edward knows though, I slipped up one night.' I shake my head recalling his wide eyes. 'He said it might been an advantage. I don't know, Aro killed his own sister for the sake of power. Maybe I'll think of something before they come looking. All I know is that we not are safe.'

Cara mia – my darling

Amore mio – my treasure