Hanna curled into a ball against the dull thuds of pain in her head, as well as the slicing pain on her skin. Arms wrapped around her middle and pulled her to the person's chest, their skin ice cold. Both pains dulled to low throbbing of annoyance. Hanna drifted off into another sleep, melodic humming lulling her to sleep once again.

When she did wake up again, the body was gone from beside her, and she began to wonder where she was. She got out of the large bed and let her hair fall free down her back, just slightly brushing her shoulder blades. Hanna made her way out of the room and down a long staircase.

"Oh, you're awake?" Chirped a voice to her left. Hanna turned toward the sound and Alice smiled tentatively back.

"Where am I?" Hanna asked, trying to stay calm.

"Somewhere safe," Carlisle said from behind Alice.

"That doesn't answer my question," she hissed. She stepped down from the last of the stairs, standing with her hands behind her back, ready to leave if she had to.

All the Cullens and Hales stood before Hanna, all but Edward.

"You're at our home, Hanna. You're safe here," Carlisle cooed, trying to calm her.

"In a home of vampires. Yeah, I feel so safe," Hanna snapped.

"If we were going to harm you, I think we would've already done it," Rosalie snapped back, taking a step forward. The large male vampire, Emmett, stepped after her and wrapped an arm protectively around her middle. Probably more for Hanna's protection than affection.

"Hanna, just calm down," Alice chirped.

"Alice, please don't ask me to calm down. I'm trying to do it myself. It only makes me more nervous." Hanna informed Alice, closing her eyes to try and calm her sped-up heart.

"Hanna, we mean you no harm," Edward cooed, laying a hand on Hanna's shoulder. He shouldn't of done so.

Within seconds, Hanna and Edward were in Hanna's bedroom, back at Hanna's house. Then they were in Italy. Edward let go of Hanna dizzily. She took a shaky step away from Edward, who glittered like a diamond in the bright sunlight. He followed her into the darkness.

"Where are we?" He demanded, advancing dangerously towards Hanna, who took a step back every time he took a step toward her.

"I-italy. Y-you g-gl-glittered!" Hanna stammered, her heart hammering in her chest.

"Take us back." Edward growled.

"Fine." Hanna hissed, taking a step toward Edward and wrapping her hand around his. He stayed frozen to the spot. The next second they were back in the family room of the Cullen's house. She stepped away from Edward as though he were a disease.

Hanna leaned against a wall, breathing hard. She tried to forget the fact that 7 pairs of eyes were staring at her.

"Hanna-" Carlisle started.

"I'm leaving. Don't ever talk to me again," Hanna's voice shook as she said these final words. She looked up to lock her eyes with Edward's. She wanted nothing more than for him to say that she didn't need to leave and that they could help her. None of the Cullens said anything.

Hanna closed her eyes and left the family room, sitting in her own room. They were vampires. A vampire had nearly killed her just yesterday. Hanna walked numbly downstairs and stared at the darkened glass case on the wall.

She herself didn't know what her adopted parents had kept in there for years on end. They alway forbade her from going into it, it wasn't for her to see. Hanna went to the kitchen and took the meat tenderizer. She threw the heavy tool at the glass and it shattered on contact.

Hanna walked across the shattered glass, the shards cutting into the soles of her feet. There was a picture with her adopted parents in it, with several other people in the shot. Hanna broke the frame and looked on the back. Scribbled on the back were several names. Aro, Caius, Marcus, Felix, Alec, and Jane. Hanna dropped the photo to the bloodied ground and looked at the other photos.

Her heart stopped for a fraction of a second. They were of her.

One after another, Hanna shattered the frames, tearing the pictures from the wooden and glass prison. Each one, she flipped over to see the dates scribbled on the back. The first one was painted perfectly to represent Hanna. 1562 was written messily on the back. One after another, Hanna checked the backs of the other photos. 1602. 1763. 1801. 1892. 1937. 1997. It was a time period of 446 years. But, how was that possible? How was it possible that she looked that same in every one of these?

"Hanna, we're-" Alex stopped mid-sentence at the mess at Hanna's feet.

"What have you done?" Tanya growled, staring at the papers at Hanna's feet, the floor crimson with Hanna's blood.

"What have I done? What have you done?" Hanna shrieked. Scrambling backwards from the two people that she had thought were human. Guess not.

"We have kept you safe," Alex hissed, his face twisted into something like anger and betrayal.

"You kept this from me. What am I? A vampire, a monster? What?" Hanna was careful to keep distance between her, and Tanya and Alex.

"You're the last of you're kind. Something called Hatheren. They live in cycles. Their first cycle, they live like normal humans, then stop aging at about age 18. They live on for as long as they'd like, and when they get tired of that cycle, sleep. They can sleep for years. This is your 11th cycle. You have been alive for over 700 hundred years Hanna." Tanya says softly.

Hanna laughs roughly.

"And you felt no need to tell me this sooner?" She hissed.

"We didn't think you'd break into this cabinet. And we certainly didn't think you'd find out about vampires this early in this cycle." Alex whispered, his face smoothed out like silk.

"Then what are you two?" Hanna crossed her arms.

"Shape-shifters. Like werewolves in a way, only we don't change into wolves. I change into a large eagle, Alex changes into a large mountain lion." Tanya informs Hanna.

"And who are they," Hanna points to the picture with Tanya, Alex, and the other people, "More shape-shifters?"

"No, vampires." Alex says, gazing at the photo.

"Then, you help them?" Hanna asks.

"Yes. We make sure nothing happens in Forks. We watch the Cullen family, making sure they don't do anything that the Volturi would disapprove of." Alex leans against a wall.

"Then thats what they're called. The Volturi. Where are they?" Hanna asks, calming down.

"Italy."

"Funny, I was just there today," Hanna says.

"Why?" Alex asks, also calmed down.

"I accidentally went there when I 'moved'. I freaked out." Hanna sheepishly rubbed the back of her neck.

"I think we're done here. Go up to your room while we clean this up," Tanya snaps, grabbing the broom.

"Actually, I'm going out." And before either one of her adopted parents could say anything, Hanna was sitting a couple hundred yards outside of the Cullen house, her feet draped over a thick branch.

She was far enough away that they couldn't hear or smell her, she was up-wind. But she was close enough to see the house.

Hanna slid down from the tree and gripped a rabbit in her hands. A whoosh of air, Hanna peered at the leaves with her new eyes. She darted off toward the Cullen house, her tiny paws hardly touching the ground. A new smell hit her tiny nose as someone lunged for her. She squeaked playfully and sat on her hind legs, cocking her head at Jasper, who watched her with watchful eyes.

"You're an odd rabbit, aren't you?" He cooed, inching closer. Hanna took off again. Hanna was surprised at the speed the little paws could take her.

Finally, Jasper's hands twined themselves around the rabbit's middle. Hanna quickly switched back to her body. She had to touch things to switch bodies with them, but could be as far away from her body as she wanted when she switched back.

"You really shouldn't play with vampires, little girl," cooed the all-too-similar voice of the vampire from the beach.

"You shouldn't stalk little girls," snarled another voice. Hanna was surprised to see Edward standing behind the vampire. His eyes locked with Hanna's for a fraction of a second, then Hanna was gone, back in her room and under the covers. She didn't need to be there to see what Edward had done to that other vampire.