A/N: Ok, I added a new scene to this chapter, because it needed to be lengthened. So, for those of you who wanted to know what happened the night Emmett came back, you will read it here. This scene is super long, so I hope you guys enjoy it! Again, thank you to Fate Lowe and her awesome Beta skills!

Disclaimer: The gang still belongs to Mrs. Meyer, they are just staying with me for the week.

My jaw must have become unhinged, cause I know it was surely on the floor below me. I just stood there wide-eyed and speechless as Jasper repeated the same sentence again..

"Edward told us."

'Not possible,' I thought.

I was shaking my head at his words, because they simply couldn't be true. I was a human when Edward and I were together. I know from many a vampire, that we carry over certain abilities or powers into our undead existence, and from what my three companions had told me about it, it made so much sense. Edward could never hear my thoughts, I was a mental mute to him, and though it frustrated him to no end, I was always glad that I was safe behind my shield. That's what Jasper told me it was. But, my being able to combine my powers with others, and enhance them twenty-fold was only discovered the night I met Emmett. My other ability, and the most important one, was discovered five years after I had changed, and I had kept it a secret ever since. I was able to shut off my natural vampire instincts, to a certain extent. As far as I know, I am able to completely change my eye color back to my human color, which was a chocolate brown, I can raise my body temperature a couple of degrees, tone down my alluring vampire scent, and, actually turn off my blood lust completely, though not for an extended amount of time. From the outside observer, I would essentially look and smell like any other human. How Edward had even found out was beyond me. Hell, I didn't even know until I was five years dead; how the hell did he know before I did?

I cleared my throat and looked at Alice and Jasper both.

"That's not possible," I said.

Emmett turned his attention back to me and asked, "How so?"

"Cause I didn't even know until I was five years dead. There is no way Edward could have known that," I replied.

"But how does that explain why I didn't get any visions?" Alice asked.

"It will be easier if I explained in more detail about the night when I first met Emmett, the night he came back," I said.

FLASHBACK

I knew something was off the moment I left our apartment in search of my first meal. As I cleared the front doorway I was slapped in the face by a foreign scent. A scent that was carried in on a strong southern wind, and the air around me had an odd electrical charge to it. Something was definitely off, and I decided I needed to be on my guard and look out for anything or anyone that was out of place.

As I made my way to my usual feeding ground, a bar named Twilight, the electrical charge grew in its intensity, and the scent grew stronger as well. The closer I got to the bar, the stronger the two grew and as I placed my hand on the door handle to open the door, I suddenly found myself flying back through the air. I landed ten feet back on the ground with an "Omph!"

'Well that's gonna leave a mark,' I thought as I closed my eyes and sat up.

I rubbed the back of my head as I heard footsteps coming closer to me. The strange scent came with those footsteps and I opened my eyes to see a rather large male vampire standing over me.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

I shook my head and stared blankly at his face. Curiosity and amusement was written all over it, and it pissed me off slightly.

"You think this is funny? If I had been human, you could have killed me, or at the very least knocked me unconscious," I spat.

The vampire just smiled. "Well, it's a good thing you aren't human then, isn't it?"

"I guess," I said as I rolled my eyes.

"I'm Emmett by the way," he said as he extended a hand to me.

'Emmett, hmm, that name sounds familiar,' I thought, but dismissed it immediately as I stared at his hand.

I took his extended hand and he pulled me to feet a little more quickly than I was used to and I crashed in his chest. Saying that I crashed into a brick wall wouldn't have been accurate, seeing how I could easily walk through a brick wall if I wanted to, but Emmett's body was hard and unyielding.

"If you wanted me that badly, all you had to do was ask," Emmett laughed.

I huffed in annoyance and pushed him back from me. "Over my pile of ashes asshat!"

"Hey now. No need to get rude, I was just joking with you."

"Nice to know. Now if you don't mind, I would like to get on with my evening and get something to eat," I said as I started to move passed him. I felt him stiffen when I brushed his shoulder and heard him inhale through his nose.

"Jasper," Emmett whispered.

That stopped me.

"Excuse me?" I asked turning to face him.

"You smell like my brother Jasper."

My jaw dropped. 'Brother?'

"Again, excuse me?" I asked.

"Are you Bella?" Emmett asked tilting his head to the side.

"Huh? How the fuck did you know my name?" I asked crossing my arms across my chest.

"Whoa, calm down. Alice told me about you," he replied.

"Alice?" I asked, my voice sounding weak.

"Jasper's mate? Ring any bells, Bells?" he laughed, and rather loudly.

"Ha ha, very funny. Now explain how you know my family?"

"Your family? Sugar, they were my family long before you were even born, human or vampire."

"Care to elaborate on that one, Sugar?" I asked sarcastically.

After walking to a nearbybench to sit down, he did. He explained to me how he came to be how he was now, starting with the bear attack that nearly killed him, to Rosalie finding him and bringing him to Carlisle, the years he spent with the family, long before I was even born. He told me about all the times that he, Jasper, and Edward all horsed around when they went on hunting trips, all the schools they attended. When he first mentioned Edward's name I visibly flinched, but he didn't pay much mind to it. He went on as he explained about meeting his singer, and how he hadn't even hesitated in killing her. That brought on a whole different range of emotions for me, but I covered them up with a blank stare and a lot of rapid blinking. I would be damned if I was going to cry. He went on further about how ashamed he felt after he killed her, and how he felt that he let down everyone in his moment of weakness for her blood, and vowed that he would only return when his guilt left him.

"Thiry-five years, though? Isn't that a little long to feel guilty over killing one human being? We kill humans all the time," I said placing my hand on his left shoulder.

"You don't get it Bella. I killed her in front of a whole mass of people. I exposed us. I left my family to clean up the mess I had created. I left so that the humans wouldn't become suspicious of them." Emmett said softly.

"Oh," was all I said. I knew what he meant then. Humans are delightfully unware of our existence and we planned to keep it that way, but Emmett broke the cardinal rule of exposure when he killed his singer in front of those people. So, he took his punishment out on himself and left. Left behind his family and his mate, because he couldn't bare what he had done.

"So where's Rosalie now?" I asked.

"In Alaska staying with the Denali coven. Carilisle and Esme joined her recently up there; I saw them on my way down here."

"I miss them," I said softly, trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall.

"I do too, but they told me they wanted to spend some time withe the Denali coven, because they hadn't seen them since Edward left."

I flinched at hearing Edward's name, and this time Emmett noticed it.

"So it is true? My little brother really did leave you when you were human?" he asked.

"Yeah. It's not something I want to discuss, so let's drop it."

"No problem. Now, all this talking has made me hungry again, let's say we go grab someone to eat, yes?" he asked standing up from the bench.

"Sounds good to me," I said following suit.

As we made our way back to the bar and both grabbed our donors for the evening and snacked, I could still feel that odd electrical charge in the air. It was beginning to unnerve me, so as we left our donors on the ground - still alive and breathing mind you - I asked Emmett if he could feel anything different in the air, but he just shook his head. We walked around the streets talking about anything and everything we could think of, but as we approached the downtown district, Emmett stopped me by placing his arm across my chest halting me from going any further.

"What?" I asked looking up at him. Emmett sniffed the air and shuddered slightly. "You know how you asked if I felt anything in the air?" he asked scanning the area around us.

"Yeah."

"I feel it now. Wait here."

Emmett walked on ahead of me and looked around. With his back facing me, I felt the electrical charge amplify again, reaching a higher level. Something or someone bad was coming. A vampire I had never encountered before. Emmett turned and faced me, but as he made his way back to me, I saw him drop to the ground like a ton of bricks, grabbing his head and screaming.

"Fuck!" Emmett yelled.

"Emmett!" I screamed running full tilt toward his writhing figure. I had never seen a vampire drop like that before, so I wasn't sure what do it. I knelt down next to him and waved my hands in his face trying to gain his attention.

"Emmett, what the fuck is going on? What can I do?" I asked, searching frantically around me for the source of this attack.

"Jane..." Emmett whispered, grabbing his head even tighter. By the looks of it, it almost looked like he was going to squish his head.

"Who?" I asked. Who the fuck was Jane? What did she have to do with any of this?

"Volturi," he whispered between gasps.

"Shit!" I said. I had heard of them before, but had never met any of them.

I looked around once more, still not seeing anyone. "Alright Emmett, stay here. I'm gonna go look around," I said placing my hand on his shoulder, looking around once more. I was about to stand up when I noticed that Emmett had grown quiet. I turned my head back to him and saw him blinking up at me utterly calm and silent. I retractedmy hand and he began to scream again, so I placed my hand once more on his shoulder and he became silent again.

'Ok, what's going on?' I thought.

"Are you ok?" I asked softly.

Emmett grabbed my hand from his shoulder and intertwined our fingers together, and as soon as our skin touched, I felt a jolt of adrenaline surge through my system.

'This is new,' I thought.

Emmett stood up with our hands still clasped together and the adrenaline surged even more.

"Holy shit!" I gasped. "What are you, Superman?"

Emmett smirked. "Nah, I just have more strength than the average vampire. My strength is closer to a newborns."

"Are you kidding me? I feel like I am one! Hell, I haven't felt strength like this sinceI was a newborn."

"Come to think of it, so do I." Emmett said.

A growl echoed off the top of a building across the street and Emmett and I snapped our heads in its direction. A figure was hunched over the ledge covered in shadows, and Emmett growled in response.

"What Emmett?" I asked looking up at the shadowed figure across the street.

"Wanna test this thing we got going on?" he asked smirking again.

"Oh hells yeah!" I said giving him a smirk of my own.

We ran across the street and as soon as our feet hit the curb we jumped skyward.

'Wow!'

We landed on the rooftop with a sound like a thunder-clap and the concrete underneath our feet splintered and cracked, caving in creating a large dent.

"Holy fuck!" Emmett boomed.

"My thoughts exactly," I said looking down at the craved in concrete.

We walked over crumbled rooftop and Emmett stopped. I stopped next to him and followed his line of sight. There in front of us stood a small female vampire. She was the same size as Alice, but with short trimmed pale brown hair.

"Jane," Emmett seethed.

"Hello Emmett," she said. Even her voice reminded me of Alice.

"What are you doing here?" Emmett asked through gritted teeth.

"I'm here to collect Bella of course, but you seem to have gotten in my way," she pouted.

My eyebrows shot up. "Me?"

"Yes. Aro wants you my dear. You will make a wonderful addition to our guard. He has always wanted a mental shield, and now that I see you can shield others with touch, he will want you even more so!" Jane said smiling largely.

"Not gonna happen Jane," Emmett growled.

"It matters not, Emmett. I will return without Bella, but with knowledge of how powerful she really is."

"What's that supposed to mean?" I inquired..

"Silly Bella, you are stronger than you realize. Just look at what the two of you have done to this rooftop. You nearly collapsed the building when you landed on it. I was standing right where I am now, and when the two of you landed, it felt like an 8.0 on the Richter scale."

'Huh?'

"Don't you see?" she asked sweetly. I looked back at the crater that our landing had created. The concrete that surrounded the edges was starting to crack outward.

"I guess we don't know our own strength?" I asked.

"Don't act dumb Bella; Aro hates that. But, he will love to learn that you can merge and magnify others' powers with your own," Jane said.

"How do you know that's what is happening?" Emmett asked drawing me into his side.

"Because Emmett, I have seen this happen only once before in my long life. Aro will be most pleased!" she said smiling largely again.

'This little bitch is getting on my nerves! There's no way I am going with her to meet this Aro guy. We'll just have to make sure she doesn't go back!' I thought wickedly.

I looked up at Emmett as he glared at Jane's smiling form and gave his hand a small squeeze. Emmett looked down at me and noticed the devious grin that I plastered over my face. I tilted slightly toward Jane and Emmett grinned back, just as deviously as my own.

We looked back at Jane - who was still smiling at us - both with devious grins. She blinked for a second and we pounced on her.

Our bodies collided withhers sending all three of us into the already cracked the rooftop. The concrete gave under our weight and force and we fell through like a hot knife going through butter. We lay stunned for a moment as concrete dust showered over our heads. The adrenaline I was feeling before started to ebb and I looked down to see that our hands were no longer clasped together. A groaning sound came from above us and Emmett and I looked up to see the ceiling cracking and splintering. I felt Jane's small body wriggle under mine and I looked down at her just as she moved out from under me. Large chunks of concrete started to fall around us, shaking the level of the building we were on, and I saw Jane starting to run toward a doorway.

"Emmett!"

Emmett quickly looked down at me and then to Jane's retreating form.

"We can't let her get back to Aro. He can't know what you can do!" he shouted pulling me upby his hand as he stood. Once again, adrenaline surged through me as his skin came in contact with mine own.

'God this is awesome!'

Emmett and I ran after Jane as shegrew closer and closer to her exit. When Emmett was within arms reach, his free arm shot out to grab her shirt collar, but she ducked her head and cleared the doorway, sending Emmett's arm through the doorjamb and wall creating a hole large enough to us to run through. My shoulder clipped the edge of the hole and the drywall gave against me and fell away. We cleared the hole to see Jane running full tilt down the hallway. I could see up ahead of her running figure and knew she was going to go for the stairs at the end of the hallway.

I moved ahead of Emmett and started pulling him behind me as I pushed my legs to go faster. Jane quickened her pace ahead of me, but Emmett and I were gaining on her and I was not about to let her get away. She hestitated for a second, then pushed her shoulder into the door containing the stairs and disappeared from my sight.

"Emmett! Wall! Crash through it!" I yelled. Emmett changed positions with me as we neared the wall next to the staircase door.

"Jump on Bella and duck your head!" he yelled. I hopped onto Emmett's back and ducked my head into his shoulder blades just as he twisted his body and shoved his left shoulder through the wall. The drywall and plaster gave way to our barreling forms as we crashed through the wall. I felt us hit the stairs, but we just went straight through them. More groaning sounds came from all around us as I looked up from Emmett's shoulders to see the concrete stairs above us crumbling down. I looked down as we continued to fall through platform after platform of stairs, just in time to see Jane's figure come into view. She had hoped over the railing and was falling through the center of the surrounding staircase.

"Emmett, grab her"! I yelled around the sound of concrete smashing against concrete.

The walls encasing the stairs were starting to crack and chip in the wake of our destruction. Jane landed five seconds before Emmett's feet touched the ground level and she took off into dead sprint away through the ground level door, away from us and the building. We landed with another thunder-clap sound as the sounds of the building comingdown above echoed off the walls. I looked up to see pieces of concrete stairs approaching us fast.

"Emmett move!" I yelled.

Emmett propelled us up and out of a larger crater than we created on the rooftop and sprinted after Jane. By the time wecleared the door, Jane was no where in sight.

"Fuck!" Emmett yelled, letting me down off his back.

The ground around us was shaking and I looked back at the building behind us. The front of it was quivering and cracks grew out of no where all over its brick surface. The windows were breaking out and the sound of glass falling to the sidewalk echoed off the surrounding buildings. I pulled on the sleeve of Emmett's shirt to get his attention as I looked on to shock.

"What Bella?" he barked as he turned around and looked down at me.

"Look," I gasped as more of the building came crashing down in front of us.

Emmett followed my arm as I pointed to the building crumbling before my eyes.

"Mother Fucker!" he gasped.

Within as matter of minutes, a wave of concrete and plaster dust engulfed Emmett and I, partially blinding us. We coughed and waved our hands infront of us to clear the air. When the air did clear, the only thing we saw were the destroyed remains of the building that once stood. We looked at each other, both of us with shocked expressions on our faces.

"Opps?" I asked.

END FLASHBACK

"So that's why you were in such a rush to move that night, Bella?" Jasper asked chuckling.

Emmett and I looked at each other and both broke intosoft laughter while nodding our heads.

I finally composed myself and looked back at Jasper. A dozen emotions seem to fly across his face as he stared at me.

"How did he know Jasper?" I asked.

Jasper blinked a couple of times and shook his head.

"I'm sorry, Bella. I really can't tell you that," he replied.

"And why not?" I asked crossing my arms.

"I told you, it's a promise I cannot break," he said flatly.

"Well, break it for me," I said.

Jasper shook his head and said, "There is only person who can tell you what this promise is."

"And that person would be?" I asked. Jasper just stared at me, willing me to understand who he was talking about.

'Oh, Edward! Duh!' I thought. Jasper nodded, apparently he understood my sudden change in mood.

We continued to stare at one another for a short span of time, Emmett was whipping his head back and forth between us, and it wasn't until Jasper gasped that we blinked.

Alice's small hand was basically crushing his right arm where she was clutching it. Emmett walked up to her and started to pry her fingers off of him, only to have her latch on to his.

"Shit!" he swore.

Jasper looked back at me for a second and I just shrugged. I had seen Alice have visions so many times before that were more intense than this one, that her reactions didn't faze me. What did faze me what the frantic look in her eyes when they finally trained on my face. All the color had drained from her face as she stared at me. I didn't understand what I was seeing while I looked at her. There was just a panic to her usual beautiful features, and actually, I don't think I had ever seen her look this scared before.

"Alice, what did you see?" Emmett asked softly as she released her grip from his hands.

She blinked at me and looked at Emmett, while Jasper and I stared at one another. I knew he could feel her fear, hell I could basically smell it perfuming the air, taste it on my tongue, like I could with humans. Something bad was gonna happen, something huge, and I was gonna take a huge leap, and guess that it centered around me.

'So what else is knew?'

"Bella.......Volturi.....blood, lots of blood," she mumbled.

"Can we prevent it?" Emmett asked rubbing his wrist.

"No," she whispered shaking her head.

'Didn't think so.'

Emmett walked over to me and pulled me into him, wrapping both arms around me. I hugged him back only to appease him. I knew this would eventually happen, that one day they would find me, and I would be shipped off to a lab, only to be subjected to many a blood test. I wasn't afraid of what would happen to me, but of what would happen to those I loved, if I didn't agree to go with them. I would bare any pain or torture, they would no doubt put me through, to save them.

"It's alright Emmett. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine," I said pulling back to look up at him.

Emmett looked down at me with blue eyes, and a pained expression upon his face. I felt Alice's tiny hands encircle my waist as she molded herself to my left side, and felt Jasper's hand on my right shoulder. I looked at him and saw exactly what I had seen on Emmett's face, a pained expression. I smiled slightly at him to appease him too.

"You really aren't afraid, are you?" he asked softly smoothing my hair behind my shoulder.

"No." And with that Jasper pressed his body against mine and wrapped his arms around all three of us. There was no overly tight squeezing this time, just a comforting embrace between the four of us. Alice silently sobbed against me, as even more silent tears slowly fell from my eyes.

"Do you know what they are going to do?" Jasper asked, whispering in to my hair.

"I have a pretty good idea," I replied.

"And what's that?" Emmett asked.

"Nothing you guys need to worry about. I would gladly take any amount of pain for any one of you, you know that," I said.

"Bella, you won't have to. Me and you could totally take these guys out, " Emmett said chuckling.

I laughed as well, because we probably could, but I didn't want them knowing I combine my powers with others, nor magnify said powers. And thenIthought of something that could possibly damn me further.

"Oh shit! Jane," I said pulling away slightly from them. Alice moved around me and pressed her body against Jasper's. He removed am arm from me and encircled her tiny form, kissing her head.

"What do you mean?" Alice asked.

"Jane was the one that we went after. I know she told Aro about me. I don't know if she knows about me being able to shut off my instincts, but she knows that I can magnify others powers. She witnessed that herself." I said.

"Shit!" Emmett yelled.

"Emmett calm down, no use getting upset over this. There is nothing we can do about it," Jasper said as he blanketed us with a wave of calm.

"Fuck you Jasper! I don't want to be calm right now," Emmett protested.

I moved closer to Emmett again and hugged him once more. I could feel the tension in his body. "Shhhh, Emmett. Don't worry about me. I know what to do," I said.

Raising his arms around my shoulders, I felt the tension in his bulky form start to ebb, finally giving into to the emotion Jasper was still giving all of us. Alice and Jasper moved into us again, and hugged us both. We stayed like this for sometime, cherishing the embrace, that might be our last. A dozen kisses were placed in my hair, on my temples, my cheeks, and I basked in it all. If this was going to be my last time with my family, then I would take what I could get.

Alice stiffened slightly and pulled away from us. "In two minutes they are going to come through that door, and when they do, none of us can move. Trust me when I say this, do not try to fight them," she said the last part looking at Emmett.

"Am I really that bad?" Emmett whined.

"Yes!" the three of us said in unison.

"Jasper, this may be your last chance to show her, so go ahead," Alice whispered looking at me.

"Show me what?" I asked slightly confused.

Jasper walked over to me and cupped my head in between his hands. "This," he whispered as he lowered his lips upon mine.

The kiss never became more, just a soft press of his lips against mine. It wasn't a kiss you would give your lover, but one you would give your beloved. A kiss to show them just how much they meant to you and you to them. I felt him pour all the love he ever had for me into that kiss as I raised my hands to his to keep them pressed against my cheeks. Tears fell from my eyes as he moved back to press his forehead against mine, still cupping my cheeks. "I love you Bella," he breathed.

"I love you too, Jasper. You healed a part of me that I never thought could be healed. No matter what happens, you will always have a place in my heart," I whispered.

"And you will always have a place in mine," he said.

Emmett and Alice once again came to our sides and we embraced each other one last time.

'Please, don't let this be the last time,' I thought.

"Hate to interrupt this little Kodak moment, but Bella has a date with fate," A voice called from the doorway.

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