School doesn't resume until next Monday because of thee Fay and the flooding so I'm gonna try to update at least three more times.

There were obviously some questions about the last chapter so here are the answers.

MickeyandMinnie- Just like in New Moon, Bella doesn't want to succumb to hope yet. She wouldn't be able to bare it if she let herself think they cared and then have her hopes crushed again.

edwarddazzlesme17- Maybe, maybe not. You are close though.

I was against the wall in a second, Edward's hand around my neck. "What?!" He bared his teeth.

I chuckled again and ordered him to let go of my throat with my mind. As I stepped away from him I chuckled again. "I said,' I killed her.'"NOOOO!!" Edward's roar filled my ears and I winced slightly. He hadn't exactly given me a chance to explain what I meant.

My family was on him in a sec, holding him back so I could step around him. The other Cullen's looked like they wanted to rip my throat out. I sat down on the couch and crossed my legs, waiting for them to calm down so that I could speak.

Suddenly, Edward kneeled over and cried. Well, dry-sobbed. The expression on his face tore at what was left of my heart. The heart-wrenching anguish that emanated off all of them tore at my heart even more.

Finally, I spoke. "Sit down and please be quiet."

Everyone sat back down simultaneously.

"Is it possible for you to calm down? I can't influence you to do that." My chest was hurting, throbbing, and I resisted the urge to wrap my arms around my stomach.

"And why should we listen to anything YOU have to say!" Edward lashed out.

"Because there is something you need to know about this Bella of yours." It felt funny talking about myself as if I were, well, dead.

Everyone quieted and I got up to go look out the window. I stood there, feet apart, hands behind my back, face grim. Ashley understood what I was about to do.

"You don't have to you know," she said softly.

Yes, I do, I thought to her.

"Before your Bella died," I started, still staring. "She told me her story. It was a story not so different from my own. When she finished, she begged for an ending. She thought there was no meaning, no reason to go on after the path she had chosen, the people she cared about more than anything, had left her.

"To those who knew her, it seemed as if she were withering away with each passing minute. But to me, she had already died. I could see it in her eyes. The way she held herself, arms wrapped around her waist as if to hold herself together." With these words, I wrapped my arms around my waist the way I had when Edward left and when I was a newborn. "She could go nowhere without seeing the faces that had abandoned her to this life, some without so much as a 'goodbye' to her. "A clean break," is what he said."

I turned around to face them. They were all staring at me with a mixture of sorrow, anger, and confusion.

"The pain and sense of loss that rolled off her in waves were almost too much for me to bear." I came up with an idea then. I would let them feel what I felt.

Painful, wounded, sobs came from the Cullen's when I unleashed the things I had been felling. "She said that there was no more reason for anything. So," I shrugged. "I killed her off. I killed who she used to be. After Vicky found her, she had changed on the inside; still forever dead. There was nothing that could be done. Because you see," I smiled grimly. "I am everything that Bella was not. We are polar opposites, and yet we are the same. So when she passed on, I had inherited things that Bella lost."

There was a brief silence. Then, "So, what did you inherit?"

"I am an empath like Jasper," I gestured to him. "I have Emmett's strength and Rosalie's beauty." Emmett laughed when I said this. Rosalie on the other hand, huffed and scowled at the floor. She was trying to convince herself that I was wrong.

"When I was a newborn, I had Carlisle's control. I still do, actually," I smiled slightly.

"She's right you know," Ash piped up. "I took her on her first hunt and she got a whiff of some hikers and started going after them right? But when I told her who it was, she stopped and ran away! Right during the hunt too! Then, when I confronted her about it all she said was, 'It could have been someone I knew'!" (Sorry, I couldn't resist putting this in here.)

The Cullen's mouths dropped open at the same time.

"Fascinating," Carlisle whispered.

I cleared my throat. "Anyway, I read minds like Edward too."

He looked startled to say the least.

"Y-y-you can read minds?" His voice was incredulous.

I nodded, and a tingling in my stomach confirmed that I was happy he was finally speaking to me like a normal person. "Mhmm. Read it, control it, bend it to my every will."

"Awesome!" Emmett yelled.

"Is there anything else you can do Raven?" Esme asked me.

"I can control the weather and plants, I have telekinesis, teleportation, shape-shifting, and I can fly." I smiled when everyone's mouths dropped open. Again.

"So what did you look like when you were human, Raven?" Alice asked me curiously.

I gulped. Great, the one question I didn't want them to ask. What do I do?!

Bella (my other, human self who pops up when there's a crisis and I need some logic thinking) thought for a moment. Tell them who you are without actually telling them.

I guess that would work, I mused.

Of course it will, she scoffed. I'm your smarter self. Besides, it was my idea.

Whatever, I mentally rolled my eyes at her comment.

"Well…" I started off slowly. I'm treading in dangerous waters now. "I was kind of short, not really athletic either. I had shoulder length, brown hair, and dark eyes."

I didn't say that my eyes where brown; that would be pushing the boundaries.

"Wow, you practically described Bella," Emmett said, clueless.

"We have more in common than you think," I muttered.

"What did you mean by you had 'inherited things that Bella lost'?" Carlisle asked.

Damn his perceptiveness!

Hey, you let it slip now you explain, Bella said.

"To put it simply, I am everything that Bella lost because I'm pretty much all of you in one. Give or take a few powers." I remembered what Ash told me after I told her my story.

"But you can't see the future," Alice pointed out.

I smiled and looked over at Ashley who was looking happy to add something else to the conversation.

"Nope, that's my job." Ash said. "I wouldn't hang around Raven if we had the same power. How unfun."

I mocked hurt. "What!? After forty-five years, you say that! What about all the good times?!"

"Wait" Edward spoke up. "Forty-five years? You've been a vampire for that long?"

I could see the time tables turning in his head. It was only a matter of time before Edward figured it out; he's not stupid after all.

That's what we love about him. His perceptiveness, Bella whispered. She yearned to tell him who I was, to stroke his face and tell him that everything would be okay. But I couldn't, not yet. I COULDN'T LET MYSELF FALL INTO ANOTHER ABYSS OF HOPE!

Kindly shut up. I pushed Bella to the back of my mind and headed for the front door. We had to get out of here. Now.

"Well it was nice meeting you all, but I'm afraid school is in a matter of hours and we must be going."

"Are you-" Alex started to ask and I threw him a glare.

"Yes, now come on!"

"Sorry for our abrupt leave," Elaine shook Esme's hand as she spoke. Ever the courteous one.

"See you guys at home," I grabbed Joker and teleported home.

What I didn't know was that someone had grabbed my arm at the last second and was teleporting with me. Someone who wanted to talk.

"I want to know who you really are," a voice asked behind me as I was putting Joker back.

I turned around, startled that I hadn't heard his thoughts or felt his presence.

Edward.

Well? You can't posibly have seen that coming! Don't worry, he might figure it out in the nax chapter, or maybe not. You'll have to tune in soon to figure it out...

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