When I awoke the next morning I set myself to making breakfast, how that became one word was beyond me. Either way I starting cooking eggs and ham, that is a way champions started their mornings.

"Hey Vlatka, oh" Bella came down to see me cooking away, I could hear Charlie awake to the smell of the frying ham and work his way down the stairs.

"Hello Bella did you sleep well?" Motioning for her to sit down while I made her a plate, and one for the Father. I ate while I was making food for the two of them.

"Bella if you have a question ask it, it is rude to stare." While the two were eating and I cleaning, Bella had kept her eyes on me, I could feel the question that was on the tip of her tongue.

"I was wondering how old you are?" Bella kept eye contact, good she was letting her real self out. Charlie on the other hand starting coughing, I chuckled at the two.

"Ahh my age, well now let me think." I started tapping my finger to my chin, "Let's see here, you take the BC then add to the AD and we get about 5187 more or less. Dates were not kept very well so I am going base off when I think I was made/born either way that is my age, well I was born in 3172 AD. I was really born about 22 winters from that so really 3150 AD." They both looked shocked at my age. "Back then I lived for fighting, I miss the fighting." They went silent for a while.

"I was not awake for some of it, I went into a hibernation for a few hundred years. Thank goodness, I don't think I could stand going through time, though now it seems to go by so fast." I was mostly talking to myself, if it was not for the boys I think I would not want to live. Having someone to take care of makes me want to live.

"How are you so lively? I mean how can you not be bored?" Charlie spoke up, I turned from cleaning the dishes to look at him, I could feel a smile tugging at my lips.

"For a long time I was alone, I thought of ending more than a few times. Around 1500 AD more or less I decided to create a child, someone for me to teach. It took me a very long time to find the right person and I did Erica Mason. She was amazing, she was a lot like me, head strong but her love for freedom was not welcomed in that time. I found her one night, alone, her family kicked her out because of rumors. I took her in and told her the same as I have told you." As I talked about my first child we made your way into the living room. It was still early in the morning and I assumed that Charlie did not work seeing as he was in regular clothes instead of his uniform. Bella was still in her pajamas.

"After about a few year I changed her, she wanted to be a little older, I turned her when she was 25; which was old back then. She said that if she was going to live forever she was going to be old enough to do what she wished. She left to wonder around on her own, which led her to making a child of her own. He tricked her into changing him, he only wanted the power that come with being a vampire. He got away from her and make four children of his own, but the oldest was able to find Erica whom contacted me. I quickly went down and fix the issue though that was in the early 80's."
"What was the issue?" Charlie the Cop asked.

"The man, Max, was trying to create a large coven but was starting to get cocky- I believe that is the word- about his power he wanted to be the 'Master of Santa Carla' and that does not bode well for the people living there. Not just that he was looking at taking over North America, and that's not good for vampires. I took him out and started taking care of the boys, they were turned very young. And still needed a parental figure in their live which lead me to finding what I needed." I smiled at the thought of my boys, "Oh there is a young half called Laddie, he is 12 right now. I will allow him to change when he is 18 at the earliest."

"Oh wow." Bella was amazed, I did get a little angry at the Max part. He was such an idiot and I had to take out the bitch he made Star, she was trying to get my grandbabies killed and the frog brothers.

"So their your boys that you talked about."

"Yes, I love them. They came into to my life at the perfect moment I was just ready to give up."
"You seem pretty hard to kill though how you would you, you know..." Bella asked.

"Fire is a very cleansing element. There is not much it can't get rid of." Even if it can kill me there is just something beautiful about fire. "Well I guess I should tell you on how I became what I am."

"Yes please, I understand on how to become one, but you talk like you are the first of your kind." I laughed at that.

"In a way yes I am one of the first. I chose to become this."

"Really?"

"Yes, five others and I chose to have this gift. We chose this because at the time there was no other choice, it was either become a vampire- there was no name for it then- to safe not only ourselves but your loved ones." The two began leaning in as if to hear me better. "At the time my, I guess you would call it a tribe, was being attacked by a more advance tribe. Our healer-which whom was a witch- asked the fighters if she was able to give us the power to defend our home, but have to see our loved ones pass without us, if we would take it. Only six of the twenty agreed to take on what she had to offer, in that time anyone was able to fight was in the front lines men or women." I could see the images of the battle, we were awe inspiring to the rest of the troop. In the end we were not the only side to have made vampires, we lost the battle, and many lost their lives. It was still hard to think of the lost we took, but in the end we won the war.

"I will not go into detail on how we became but the six of us became what we are today, now don't get me wrong we didn't jump into being this with glee. Over time I lost not only my family, friends, people who really knew me." A small sad smile floated across my face, I miss them so much, but I did what was best for my people at the time. My family was big fourteen kids total, I so had had many nephews and nieces.

"Wow, that must have taken a lot of courage to do what you did." Charlie, the dedicated father that he is, must have known he would have done the same to save his family.

"But why do you have to drink blood?" Bella the ever curious person that she is,

"In a way it is the price we have to pay to be like this, now don't get me wrong I could stop but, then I would go in a bloodlust and kill every human till it stops. It is the curse part of what we are it is never to be seen as a bonus to what we are, that is the problem that Max had the thought of killing the people made him happy." I never thought I would say that, at one point in my life I loved killing the fighting, just the overall excitement of being in that atmosphere but I have grown out of it; more or less.

"Now don't get me wrong I like a good fight, just not killing someone innocent ." I had to tell them outright, about me. "Is there any more questions?"

"No I'm good, Bella?"

"Nope, I am ready I finished but what little I had last night so I am ready when you are."

"Wonderful, though Charlie if you like you can come with us, you don't have to change but if you want to come and see how she is going to live or just to stay with her then you are more than welcomed." I know that Charlie wouldn't want to lose Bella again, and I don't want him to think that he could never come and see her.

"Where are you taking her?" Charlie turned the TV on and began watching the rerun of an older football game, I know he was still listening but wanted to show Bella he was okay with her leaving.

"Well I was thinking about moving up here, but right now Santa Clara, CA. There is a cute house for sale around here that I have looked at and it's perfect if I can get the boys to come down. I did look to see if I could get near the Cullen's home but they seem to own most the land around them. I found one a little farther out and got it. I have some concrete crews out making more 'homey' for the boys." I smile at the thought of moving them up to Washington, I hope they will like it.

"Really? Move here?" Bella seemed excited about that idea,

"Yeah, I know how it is to the so far away from family. Not just that the boys would like a change of pace or place, haha." Laughing at my own joke, I need to feed soon. "But I would like to change you there over the coming summer so when you come back the change won't be as big of a shock. You will become more beautiful it is just in our nature to be. When does your school end?"

"Oh, it already has, I only had half a semester. I was going to surprise Edward that I had a few extra weeks off but..." Her eyes dimmed at remembering that he left her.

"Sweetling, remember he still loves you."
"Then why did he leave I thought I was his mate?" She was getting upset again, Charlie's hand clenching the remote, I could hear the plastic trying to keep it's form.

"Oh Sweetling, because neither and of you completed the bond. That's why he was able to leave you because he reasoned with himself that leaving you would keep you safe. With the bond you have allows him to leave without major damage to the two of you." I hope, you seemed on the verge of depression.

"How do you complete the bond?" Poor innocent thing, that won't last long at the house with the Boys' natures and all.

"How you complete that, my Sweetling, is something I will not say in front of your father." And that has to see the biggest blush I've seen on a person and that poor remote.

"With that! I will be staying here, I know I can come down if I want. You also said you will be moving up here and as long as you kept to your word about that." Charlie looking right into my eyes, I knew where or rather whom, Bella got her stare from. Grinning I nod my head, while Bella ran to grab her stuff, I also wrote down the number in which he would be able to reach us at and the address of the home I had if he wanted to visit before we got back.

Once everything was done with, I had called the boys and told them to get the guest room ready for their new sister before I went to bed. So, I called for a car to be delivered so we could get down, though with my driving we would get there in less than the two days that it usually took.