Bella's POV


"This is getting old."

Edward looks at me with the saddest look that I've seen yet. I'm sitting on my bed while Edward now paces my room. His tall lean body shirtless and glistening from the rain that has started its undying routine .

"Bella it's nothing, they are just family and just like they have to accept you, you have to accept them."

"Have to."

Its confusing to me that all of a sudden I have to accept something or better yet some people. I still don't understand why I don't like her, I mean I understand but then again I don't. Is it my human nature kicking in? I never thought about it, Edward had just once said that human nature makes them automatically avoid vampires, is this just that nature that hasn't happened till now? Is it because of what they said about Scarlett and Gabe's older status?

"What are you thinking?"

His faced is full of curiosity and I smile and get up. I kiss him gently on the lips and smile, his face abruptly forms a smile that I so scarcely see, I love his smile and I love him.

"I will accept them, I will try to be a better person." I kiss him again. Man I love this man. "I love you."

Scarlett's POV


I'm running threw the castle, each barefoot feeling alive as it hits the cold stone floor. This is freedom.

"LILLY!"

Her beautiful face pokes out from her door. She doesn't have time to move before I grab her arm in a tight grip and swing her behind me never skipping a beat in my running. She tries to ask what I am doing but she is too out of breath from keeping up.

Lilith Renee, they say that the day she was born the sun rose over the moon, causing the night to turn to day. That her beauty could heal the ill and that her smile could stop a war mid-fight. She was kind and giving and everything a princess should be.

I run into the court yard still pulling her along. I love the feeling of fresh green grass on my feet, the smell of the earth and the wet rain that has just came down. It let me know that I am alive. The yard workers all stop and stare as I swing Lilly around and now I have both arms we go in circles. I'm laughing but her face something else.

"Don't let go! I have a new dress on!"

We swing faster until her worry turns to laughter. At arms length we move so fast that she slips and we both hit the ground and roll. We are still laughing but everyone is running to see if we are OK, instinct of theirs, no matter if you are kitchen, housekeeping, the guard, or in this case the grounds keepers, you protect and serve the family.

I insist we are OK threw laughing as they walk away i lay on my back. The world is still spinning and I hear Lilly crawl next to me, she lays next to me and I hear her sigh.

"I think my dress is ruined." She states as a matter of fact. I tilt my head up and see the salmon pink fabric.

"Think of it as a mercy killing."

I'm awake sitting on my bed, Lilly, my Lilly. "I hope you didn't suffer."

Gabriel's POV


She sits and stares, I came to check on her but I know not to disturb her. I just hope its a good memory. I return back to Carlisle office. He is sitting behind his heavy oak desk mulling over some papers, I sit in the leather chairs in the front of it. His office is old fashioned with dark colors and old books, you can smell the mildew and dust. On the wall behind him, in the center of the room is an old painting. A man holding books and fire rages all around the man. The man it a blonde haired guy that quite resembles Carlisle the books he's holding are brown but when you look up close the books paint are made of tiny words, Sins.

Carlisle has told me that this is the only thing he kept after he had turned. He had broken into his fathers house after the newborn symptoms had worn off. His father still had it on the canvas the paint still wet in the corner from where he put his final brush strokes before the heart attack. Carlisle knew that it was him in the painting, and his father thought him a devil.

"I just don't know Gabe."

He looks tired even though we do not sleep, I guess that is still a possibility. Rose comes in and sets a coffee cup on the end table at the far end on the room, we don't drink but its one of Carlisle favorite smells fresh brewed coffee. She moves a few this and then smiles her perfect smile.

Rosalie the perfect bride that never got to be. She would have been the perfect wife, caring, obedient, always organized and well dressed. If she could have lived a normal life she would have had many children, and grandchildren and then died. But here she stands like the day she "died" young, beautiful, and the same. Though things did change she wasn't as sweet or caring she had hardened up quite a bit. The there was that thing with the fiancee. That was just scary.

"What are you working on?" She comes around the chair and then sits on the arm of the other leather chair next to me.

"Nothing important, I'm about to take blood from Gabe and see what we get."

Carlisle walked around the desk and pulled a syringe. I revealed my arm and watched as the needle glided gracefully into my arm. I wish I had the skill that Carlisle has but I have never been able to just stay in one place.

"Gross."

Being the ever-child that I am when he removes the needle I swing my arm at her and watch as she flips from the chair, as graceful as she would appear to the human eye, she appeared clumsy to the heightened vampire eye.

Carlisle took the syringe and dropped a single drop in three vile's full of what appeared to be the same red liquid. But I could smell it the sweet irony smell of blood, one was human, one was vampire and one was animal. The first one, the human one, when the drop hit it had turned black then fizzled and evaporated till the vile was empty beside a slight dusting of black power. The second vile, the vampire blood, separated with my blood on top and the vampire blood on bottom, Carlisle shook the vile making them mix but still the blood returned to its separated form. The last vile, the animal blood, turned darker red but did nothing strange like the others had. We all sat up and looked at each other then back at the vile's it was silent each in our one thoughts till Rosalie's voice broke it.

"Weird"


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