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CHAPTER ELEVEN- ANSWERS?

I took in a deep breath as I waited for their question to hit me. And they did not disappoint.

"Those men in your house," Jacob stated. "They were your brothers?" He asked curious. I nodded my head slowly.

"Yes. Peter, Eric, Andrew, Caleb, and Travis," I told them.

"And you have another brother?" Emmett pushed. I winced slightly.

"Had," I corrected. "He died. One year ago." The memory was starting to slip through the cracks. I closed my eyes to try to stop the tears threatening to come out, but Rhys's face floated into my mind. The memory was starting to unravel and I was getting sucked into it….

I woke up with a hand over my mouth and Rhys's yellow/green eyes, two inches away from me. "Shh…" he whispered as he took his hand off of my mouth. "They're here." I knew who he meant. No! They couldn't be her. This couldn't be happening. He pulled me silently off the bed and ran me through the house. He slid the back door opened. "Go," he said.

"Not without you," I whispered, tugging his hand.

"Ryann, go. Find our brothers and tell them they found us. Then run away, I'll hold them back as long as I can," he told me, letting go of me.

"No, Rhys. Come with me, we'll run together," I pleaded.

"No, Ryann," he said in a stern, hard voice. "You have to go. I promised I'd protect you."

"We were six Rhys! Come on." I tried grabbing his hand again, but he pulled away.

"No." His voice was hard again as he stared deep into my eyes. "I am keeping my promise. And I promise you that, if you keep running away, I'll return to you," he promised me with a small smile. Reminding me of what it was like before any of this happened. Tears streamed down my face as I gazed at my brother, he was older than me by two minutes. But he had always thought of himself as my other brothers. I nodded weakly. "Go." Then a crash came from the front door and he pushed me outside. Then slammed the sliding door shut. "GO!" He yelled before turning around and running into a fight I knew would kill him.

I knew it would kill him, but I didn't try to help him. Instead I listened to him and ran away, toward the forest where I knew my other brothers were. I had the guilt building up in me as I heard shouting from my house. But what did I do? I ran away from my brother, and let him die.

"He was killed in a fight," I told them.

"A fight? With who?" Jacob asked. I hesitated before answering. Telling them this was going to require lots of explanation and I had to be ready.

"The Volturi," I said with the best confidence voice I could make. I saw a few of them widened their eyes, a few gasped, and a few stopped breathing all together. But my eyes focused on Seth, his mad face melted into one of the caring face that I fell in love with.

"And why," Carlisle started, "Would the Volturi have a fight with him?"

"Because my family isn't human. We are like the pack. We shift into animals," I told them. Confusion spread across their faces and Sam, Jacob, Leah, and Seth stood up. Suddenly I was being yelled at, asked questions, and all their voices bubbled up in my head. I closed my eyes and waited for it to quite down but it didn't. "Okay, STOP!" I shouted as loud as I could at them. "One at a time."

Again they all talked at once. "STOP!" I yelled once again. "Okay, Carlisle. Ask one question," I told him. It seemed hard for him to ask only one question but he finally picked one.

"What animal?" He asked me, with curiosity. I smiled a little.

"I didn't say animal, I said animals. We each shift into different animals." That was the only answer he was getting from me. He apparently wanted more but I moved to Esme.

"What are the animals?" she asked me, getting the second part of the answers Carlisle wanted.

"Peter, a lion. Eric, a cheetah. Andrew, a leopard. Caleb, a jaguar. Travis, a polar bear. And Rhys use to shift into a black panther." I wavered when it came to my turn. This was it, the secret I worked so hard to keep bolted up so no one would be in danger, was about to be unleashed. "And I… I shift into a white tiger." I didn't look at any of them. "Rosalie?" it was her turn to ask the next question.

"No," Seth said. I turned to look at him. "No, it's my turn." I had planned on his question last, since I knew it was going to be the hardest to answer. I had expected lots of questions from him but not the one that came out of his mouth. He stared deep into my eyes, and I stared back. He was so beautiful, even as he was angry. "Be honest with me Ryann. No more lies or dogging or games. You answer my question completely honestly," he said in a hard voice. I nodded weakly. His eyes softened and I couldn't see any end to his eyes. "Do. You. Love. Me?"

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