AN: this is a bit of a slow chapter but they will speed up soon. Thank you for the reviews and alerts I really appreciate them please continue to let me know what you think. Thanks again.

Escaping to La push

Most people seem to think that if you have magical powers your life is suddenly easy and fun and maybe that is true if you are Sabrina the teenage witch but it's not if you are Cora the child of nature.

My powers come from the elements. I can make things burst into flames with just a look and with a wave of my hand I can summon up a rain cloud to put them out but can I cast a spell to magically change my outfit? No.

Can I cast any spells at all? No, because that is not how my powers work. I can only do what nature allows me to do and sometimes no matter how much I practice or how hard I try to do something I just can't do it. Like when I was sick of being 5 foot nothing, no matter how hard I tried to gain just 3 more inches it wasn't going to happen.

My Grandmother could never understand that, she thought that if she kept pushing me harder and harder I would learn more and more. She found it hard to believe that there was a ceiling to my abilities and the possibility that I could have reached it was inconceivable to her.

For the first three years that I had my powers I didn't leave the grounds of my Grandmothers country home and the only people that I spoke to were my Grandmother and Dan. Dan is 10 years older than me and he was already living in La push back then but he phoned me every few days.

It was during one of his phone calls that Dan offered me a way out. I love my Grandmother she took me in when I was nine and had nowhere else to go. I understood that all the pushing she was doing was for my own good, every time she forced me to practice for hours on end she was trying to protect me by making sure I was ready to face whatever the world threw at me but I couldn't take it anymore.

When Dan told me he was getting married and offered me a chance to move to America and live with him on the La push reservation with him and his future wife I jumped at it.

I dreaded telling my Grandmother I was moving I half expected her to forbid me from leaving but when I broke the news to her she just smiled brightly and made me promise to look after myself, Dan and his lucky girl. She even paid for my air fare.

Leaving my Grandmother was harder than I ever thought it would be but I knew it was something I needed to do. Dan was waiting for me at the airport when I arrived. He didn't look much different form the last time I saw him save for the fact I had never seen him ware such a big smile before and there was a beautiful woman stood with him who I knew must be Leah.

As me and Dan shared our first hug in years I knew I had made the right choice by coming to La push.

Thanks for reading

Millie