Disclaimer: I do not own twilight or any of it's characters, the ones you don't recognize are mine.

Chapter 2:

The Cottage

Teagan's POV

They were constantly following me around and asking me questions. I was happy to answer when I had one, but the truth was I didn't really have a lot of information to give them. My life was a little rocky when I was attacked, my mother had just died in a car accident and my father was spiraling into a depression. I was working at a comic book store and some guy came in right before it was time for me to lock up. He attacked me and from what I learned from the Cullens he infected me with some sort of poison we have in our saliva. Either way he left me there, when the incessant pain finally stopped my boss came in and saw my skin. The store was a wreck and he thought I had thrown a party (mistaking my skin for glitter); he fired me on the spot.

When the anger set in I noticed that I could see every vein in his entire body, and all of them called to me. I felt like I hadn't eaten in months and the only thing I wanted was coursing through his body.

"I killed him," I said full of remorse as Esme escorted me to the cottage they were letting me stay at. It was remote and out of the way, Carlisle had been a member of this town for a while and was not sure how to explain me to guests just yet.

"We have all done it at least once," She said trying to calm me; I hated what I was and couldn't stand the thought of ending people's lives. "This will only be temporary if you like, Carlisle has some colleagues coming over later and-"

"It's ok, I understand. I really want to thank you for all of your help," I said as we approached the cottage, though it was surrounded by trees the cottage itself was barren of life. The grass in the front and back was brown and dead, something very odd for this place, the windows were all locked up; the only thing that had and green on it was a rock that stood right next to the front door had moss on it that seemed that it too was dying.

"Gosh darn it," Esme said placing her hands on her hips, "I told Emmett and Edward to clean this place up before I showed it to you, I'm sorry."

"It's ok, as long as the windows open and there are books I'll be fine," I said trying not to get anyone in trouble. I knew the look that Esme had; it was a look my mother gave to me when I didn't clean my room.

"Well there are plenty of books in there, Carlisle put all of the ones that didn't fit into his study in there," She walked over to the front door, I followed her and she watched as I tried to open the door. I tugged on it as hard as I could but it didn't budge, Esme gave me a confused look and placed a gentle hand on the door. It swung open with no effort on her part at all. "Teagan, come here," She said and instead of walking into the cottage, she turned to the boulder. "Pick this up," She said and waited as I put my skinny arms wrapped around the large rock and pulled as hard as I could.

"I can't, it's stuck." I said exasperated. She then replaced me and placed her arms around the rock, gave a little grunt, then threw it into the woods farther than I could see.

"You're not strong," She said bewildered as my jaw hit the floor at her power.

"How did you do that?" I asked picking my jaw up slowly.

"Its part of who we are, we're strong and fast," She said still confused, "That's amazing."

"No, I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure what you just did is amazing."

"I have to tell Carlisle, I don't think this has ever happened before." She said and ran off without any explanation.

Left alone for the first time in a week I was eager to get started fixing up the cottage. There was dust everywhere and cobwebs galore. Those were the first to go, and then I shook out all of the carpets, cleaned the bookshelves, and then made my way to the windows. I yanked as hard as I could, but the boards just wouldn't come loose. I pictured Esme's strength, the strength I was supposed to have too, and tried again. I pulled and pulled, but nothing happened, then there was a knock at the door.

"COME IN," I yelled still trying the boards.

"Esme's right, you are weak," I turned quickly to see Edward resting against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest, and a large smile on his face.

"I don't get it, if I supposed to be like you, why aren't I strong too," I said throwing my hands up in defeat.

"What do you know, a freak that's freakier than the rest of the freaks," The smile didn't fade as he tried to offend me; he had been trying to get under my skin since day one. I was slowly learning from Alice how to ignore him. He came over to the windows and with no effort at all yanked them all away in seconds; every single window was now free.

"Thanks," I said pushing past him and his enlarged ego and started to make my way outside. I turned and looked back at my work, so far so good. The cottage looked great, but as I looked around, I couldn't stand how bad the landscape was. I needed trees and grass and flowers.

"Well I guess I'll be seeing you around then," Edward said as he left the cabin and made his way back to the house.

"Yeah I guess so," I said semi mocking him.

Edward's POV

All week I had been trying to get into her mind, find out what really happened you her, but there was nothing. I could hear what she was about to say before she said it, but when it came to the actual thoughts, the things she wasn't planning on saying, I heard nothing.

I started to walk back to the house amused with her; her personality was something I had never witnessed before. She felt all the normal things like sadness and pain, happiness, even anger, but she took them all with a grain of salt. After the initial shock wore off when she found out what she really was, she was just ok with everything. She was always pleasant, not like Alice and her bubbliness, but cordial and accepting of everything.

Ok first things first

Did she just think that? I ran back to the cottage and perched myself on a tree branch so she couldn't see me. She placed her hands on the ground and closed her eyes really tight, like she was concentrating on something. Her hands began to glow this flicker of green then yellow and back the green, just like they did when I first found her out in the woods hovering over the dead hiker's body.

Before my eyes the dead grass that surrounded the cottage started to turn green and tall, it traveled all the way around and sprung to life. She stood up and looked at what she had just done, her smile went from ear to ear and the glimmer of joy she was feeling caught me off guard and I was smiling too. Did she just bring that grass back to life?

She moved to one of the windows and placed her hand just below the sill, the flickering colors came back around her hand. Instantly vines sprouted from her fingertips and wove themselves together forming a box under the window. She walked back towards the tree I was perched in and I froze thinking she had found me. She kneeled down and scooped up dirt from the base of the tree and placed it in the new vine box she had just made. Once again her hands glowed as she placed her hand inside the box and miniature sunflowers grew like weeds within it.

That's better, but… lets see

She was thinking it; I could hear her thoughts as clear as anyone else's. Why now? She walked over to the front door of the cottage and placed her glowing hands on the ground. It began to shake, a vibration that went through the tree and resonated in my entire body. In seconds little stones created a path that led from the door to the edge of the tree line, and on either side of the path, tiny wild flowers bordered it.

I heard her give a little giggle and as I looked around amazed at what she had just done, I mistakenly let out a quick chuckle. Her head shot up to my position in the tree and I was found. I jumped down walked over to her, trying to not give away my astonishment. "Impressive," I said before she could accuse me of spying.

"Sorry, I just thought it could use a little more life," She said back almost embarrassed.

"Don't be sorry, that was amazing," I said walking through the ankle high grass she just created. "And no, I'm not being sarcastic."

"Wait, I was just going to say that?" She said back confused.

"You have a gift Teagan, I do to."

"You can what, read my mind?"

"I can read everyone's mind, yours… it gets fuzzy sometimes," I said with a hint of annoyance I hoped she didn't pick up on.

"What am I thinking right now?"

I focused and tried to hear her thoughts, nothing; I couldn't hear anything. This was really getting frustrating; I just heard her minutes ago. "I don't know," I said defeated.

"But you just said-"

"I know what I just said, but I can't hear you now. You're blocking me or something." I said angrily.

I saw her relax a bit, "Try it now," She said closing her eyes.

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes

"What are you five, I hate that song," I said with a laugh and shock rushed over her face.

"You heard that?" She said.

"What did you think I was lying to you?"

"I don't know, maybe. Ever since I got here you've been saying things to get under my skin." She said placing her arms behind her back and looking down.

I didn't know why, but I wanted to make her feel better; I wanted to apologize for being mean. I walked over to her and placed a hand under here chin and lifted up her head to meet my gaze, "I'm sorry I was rude to you before. You didn't deserve it." I said and looked into her crimson eyes, she looked nervous.

He's going to kiss me, do I want him to kiss me? I kind of want him to. He doesn't want to kiss me, why would he want to kiss me? I'm going to screw it up; I've never kissed anyone before.

Kiss her, kiss her, kiss her.

I smiled when I heard that familiar voice, "Hello Alice," I said looking beyond the cottage to where she stood trying to hide.

"Oh hi Edward, Teagan, how are you?" She came dancing over with a huge smile on her face. "Carlisle sent me here to retrieve Teagan, should have known you would be here."

I looked back at Teagan who looked even more confused, but once again I couldn't hear her. "Well, go ahead." I said to Alice and she took Teagan by the arm and led her back to the house.

Thank you for reading, please leave comments so I know if I'm going in the right direction.