Trust Factor

Chapter 5: People Don't Understand What's Not in Their Heads

Wednesday January 15- 7:12am-Emma's house-Australia

"They did a good job hide. I can't seem to find even a lead," Lewis said flipping through everything he and Emma had found out.

"The point was for them to not be found. I don't think they would make it easy, but I also didn't think they would make it untraceable," Emma said with a sigh. "What exactly did you put on that disk?"

"It wasn't that bad. No way anyone could trace it without really getting into things," Lewis answered. "They really didn't believe that when I told them. They just freaked and ran."

"And now they are gone forever, and somehow, I find this your fault."

Lewis looked up to find tears in Emma's eyes. When she caught him looking, she ducked her head, so he couldn't see her. She flipped her hair so that it was between her face and Lewis's wondering eyes. Lewis turned his head away, taking the hint that she didn't want his comfort.

A knock broke the silence that sat in the room. Emma's father opened the door just as Emma whipped her tears and looked up. He didn't smile, sensing the unhappiness in the room. He walked in and sat on the end of the bed.

"Emma, I just wanted to see how you were doing," He said looking over at Lewis, who kept his head down.

"I'm fine, really. What about you?" Emma asked knowing the thieving of the disk was hitting his group pretty hard. Without their evidence they couldn't get funding and could continue their project.

"We're finding out what happened and seeing if we can't pull together something from out research," he said. "It would be nice if we could find the person who gave us the information in the first place. Then we could talk to them about getting some of it back."

"Maybe the giver wanted to keep themselves out of target from what happened the other day," Lewis suggested.

"You might be right," Emma's father said standing up. "I guess I should get back to my search." And with that he left the room.

Emma looked over to Lewis with a silence thanks before the two of them got back to their search.

Wednesday January 15- 8:57am-Cullen's house- Forks, Washington

Cleo stumbled down the stairs as she awoke on her second day in the Cullen household. She found Alice sitting on the couch next to Jasper, this morning. They seemed to be talking much to quiet for human ears to hear as far away as Cleo was.

"Cleo," Alice called when she saw her standing quietly on the stairs. "Come, Esme has breakfast, you should get something before the Wolves take it all."

Cleo laughed thinking of the tan boy sitting in the kitchen yesterday. She had yet to actually talk to him, but she could tell he was different. He kept close to Renesmee whenever he was here and Cleo just hadn't had much of a chance to really talk to anyone, but Alice.

Alice was up from the couch and next to Cleo in the next second. She didn't give her any choice as she pulled Cleo into the kitchen. There sitting at the table was Jacob from yesterday and a new tan boy she hadn't seen yet.

"Seth, you wanted to meet Cleo," Alice called as the two of them entered the kitchen.

The boy spun around in his chair to face Cleo. Her eyes met his and everything in his mind when blank. All Seth could see was Cleo, her brown eyes, her short brown hair, the shine off of her tanned skin, her white teeth when she caught him staring and smiled.

"Would you like something to eat, Cleo?" Esme asked in her motherly tone.

Cleo nodded as she went to sit down. Carlisle was standing there and he hadn't taken his eyes off of her since she had walked in the kitchen.

"Cleo, I was wondering if I could do a few tests on you, for pure curiosity. They won't be too bad?" Carlisle asked, obviously not to Alice's liking.

"Tests?" Seth and Jacob questioned at the same time.

"I don't see why not," Cleo answered taking a bite of her pancake.

"Ok, then, we can start after you finish your breakfast," Carlisle said with a smile.

After breakfast, Cleo found herself outside of the Cullen's beautiful home. Alice was close as were the wolves, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, Bella, Edward, Nessie, and Esme. Carlisle had already gone through the same tests Lewis had, and was going a bit further into her powers and how strong they actually were.

Seth was mesmerized by the way Cleo moved as Carlisle did these tests. She really knew how to keep water off her skin, when she wanted to.

"Just a wave now, Cleo," Carlisle said.

Cleo nodded as she placed her hand in a cupped position and moved it back and forth. Slowly, the water in the stream started to rise just a little. It came to a small stop and was still for second before Cleo dropped it.

"How was that?" Cleo asked.

"Perfect," Carlisle answered and everyone, but Emmett, clapped like it was kind of show.

"Is that all you can do?" Emmett asked.

"No," Cleo answered softly.

"Emmett, don't push her," Alice said.

"Come on, Alice. I just want to see what this mermaid can do," Emmett said a bit to smugly.

"You want to see what I can do?" Cleo asked.

She placed her hand in the same position, but instead of moving it back and forth, she pushed it outward towards Emmett. This created a wind so strong it hit Emmett off his feet and lifted him in the air for five seconds, before dropping him in the stream. Cleo jumped back as everyone in front of her got wet.

"Amazing," Carlisle whispered as the others just stared in shock at the power Cleo held.