This is chapter 5! Let me know what you think! What do you think will happen next? O.o Love, B.

Chapter 5 – Powers –

He led me up a staircase and into a large room with wooden bookshelves all around. He sat down in the leather chair behind the desk, where even more books were laying.

"Have a seat." I looked at him curiously. What would be my punishment for doing something I didn't even plan on doing? William had announced that he didn't want anything bad to happen. Had he thought of this? I sat down slowly. "Before I have to question you, I need to tell you something about our family.", Carlisle said and folded his arms across his chest. I nodded slightly. "We are not like other vampires. We don't drink human blood, but live on feeding with animal blood. But that's not the weirdest thing about us. Some of us have certain – powers."

He coughed lightly. "Alice can see the future." I opened my eyes in shock. I wasn't planning on interrupting him, but that was really weird. "She sees the future?", I asked in disbelief. "How is that possible?" I saw him smile. "We don't really know. I have theories that there might have been some possibilities within her before she became a vampire and that these were aggravated after her transformation."

That sounded nearly reasonable. I nodded slightly.

"All right. Jasper is able to control the feelings of those around him. He can calm down a fight quite easily." I didn't interrupt this time. Influencing feelings sounded a lot more reasonable than seeing the future.

"And Edward is able to hear the thoughts of people around him. See, hear, know, whatever goes through their minds." I had to look at my feet.

"That was, what he meant with 'I can't hear her', right? That he couldn't read my mind?" Carlisle nodded. "Yes, this didn't happen before. But I think, something really did happen, when you looked at each other, right?" I nodded. I remembered the glance in his golden eyes before I hit the floor.

"Did you ever notice, that you – I mean – were able to do things? To look into someone's head or something? That you answered questions nobody had asked out loud? That you saw pictures of places you hadn't even been in your whole life?" Looking at him again, I saw the anxiety in his eyes. What did he think was I? Some kind of freak? "No." I shook my head in disagreement. "Not until tonight. I looked into his eyes and suddenly, all these pictures were rushing through my mind. I haven't done anything on purpose, I really haven't. I don't even know what I should have done to cause this!"

I grabbed the arms of the chair I was sitting in. The wood gave away easily, with a loud crack both arms fell to the ground and I was on my feet. "It's alright, Lana. I'm not judging you, calm down." He was right beside me, his hand on my right shoulder. "Do you believe me?" My voice was full of disbelief. Somehow they all would be sure that this was MY fault. "Yes, I do. You're young, you don't know what your powers are." Slowly calming down, I heard a knock at the door.

"Come on in, Jasper.", Carlisle called and the tall blonde guy was with us in the room. "We heard some noise.", he said, looking at me with a hostile look in his eyes. He looked at the smashed chair. "It's alright, Jazz. Lana doesn't quite know how to control her temper." He nodded lightly.

"But anyway, I'm glad, you came. I want to try something." Try something? If I had had a beating heart, it would have beat so fast by now, it would have broken through my chest.

"What do you mean?", I asked confused. Carlisle looked at me again. "I'm curious what will happen, when Jasper tries his power on you. It should show us, how your power works or if it works. Are you alright with that?"

He could control emotions, that wouldn't hurt. Maybe it would even help me to think clearly, if only for a moment. "Alright.", I said and turned to look at Jasper. "Try it with calming her down, Jazz. Might be the best thing to do." Jasper nodded and looked at me. I waited to feel something, the confusion leaving or the anxiety lessen, but there was nothing. Instead, Jasper's eyes fought to stay open, but slowly closed.

I frowned, but then he shook his head, turned away from me and was back to normal again. "You felt what you wanted to make her feel, right?", Carlisle asked. There was some joy in his voice I couldn't recall. "What does that mean?", I asked him. "I think we found out what you can do." I backed away. "I didn't do anything!", I said. I felt anger rising up inside me. "No, I know. But your mind did. I think, you imitate the power of your opponent and use it against him."

"You mean, like a mirror?" He nodded. "Exactly."