A short while later, Sadie found herself in a horribly familiar situation. She was sitting in a car driving about three times the legal speed, sitting with a few vampires, not knowing what was going on, driving north.

There were only a few changes to the situation, one being that she was awake this time. Another, Mark was with her.

Edward and Bella were both sitting in the front seats of the car, holding hands as Edward drove one-handed, and Bella looked out the window.

In the back seat, Mark and Sadie were sitting, Mark nodding off occasionally. Sadie just stared at her best friend.

After a while, Mark turned to Sadie.

"Would you quit it?" he asked exasperated.

Sadie jerked out of her thoughts. "Quit what?" she answered.

"Glaring at me! It's driving me insane!"

"Oh, ok, I'll stop."

Five minutes later, Mark turned back to Sadie.

"Seriously! Stop it!"

"I did stop!"

"No you didn't!"

"Yeah, I'm not staring at you, am I?"

"But now you keep glancing at me, as if I'll spring any second!"

"Sorry! It's not my fault! I'm just…" Sadie's voice drifted off.

"Just what?"

"Well, overwhelmed! You can't just spring that kind of information on me and then expect me not to do anything, or feel anything!"

"I'm still just Mark, you know that?" Mark asked her quietly.

"No, that's the point! You're not just Mark anymore! Now you're Mark the were-wolf, the fantastic creature that's not supposed to exist!"

"I'm not a were-wolf! Well, not technically, anyway."

"Then what are you?"

"I'm a shape-shifter."

"Oh, right, 'cause that's SO different from a were-wolf…"

"Yeah, it is!"

"Uh huh, like, how?"

"Well, we can't get killed by silver bullets, if that's what you're wondering."

"Wow, what a huge difference," Sadie commented sarcastically.

"And, I don't know if you noticed, but when I transformed there was no full moon. That's a pretty big difference, don't you agree?"

"I guess so," Sadie grudgingly admitted.

"You know so."

There was a short silence in the car, until Sadie spoke once more.

"I'm curious; did you ever want to tell me?"

"Yeah, of course I did, but I couldn't, not with you being-" Mark broke off in the middle of his sentence. "I mean, I wasn't allowed."

"With me being what?"

"Hmm, sorry?"

"You were going to say something else."

"No, I wasn't."

"Yes, you were. You started saying I was something, and then you stopped."

"No, I don't think so."

"Come on, Mark. I know you," Sadie looked at Mark with pleading eyes. "I need to know, does all this supernatural stuff have something to do with me?"

A hiss came from the front seat. Edward turned to glare at Mark. He gave an almost imperceptible shake of his head. Mark growled at him.

"She has to know!"

"No, she doesn't. She's not ready to handle it."

"You don't know her!"

"You don't know her as well as you believe, Mark. I do."

Sadie stared at the pair of them. "Would you quit talking about me as if I'm not here and tell me already!"

Edward shook his head once more, and turned back to the steering wheel. Bella laid a cool hand on his shoulder, and whispered something to him. He seemed to tense for a moment, but then relaxed.

"All right," he said quietly, his words coming out of gritted teeth. "You can tell her."

Mark turned back to Sadie. "Sadie," he began, taking both of her hands, and holding them in his huge ones. "This is going to be very hard for you, but I need you to listen very carefully."

Sadie nodded seriously.

"Remember that we told you that we were protecting you?"

"Yeah," Sadie answered.

"Well, that's not entirely true."

Sadie's face remained impassive as she absorbed this new bit of information.

"You see, Sadie, some vampires have special powers."

"Really? Like what?"

"Alice can see the future, Edward can read minds, and Jasper can control emotions."

"Emotions? Well, that's sure not a power that I've ever heard of."

"Well, Jasper's got it, and it comes in handy occasionally."

"Who else has special powers?"

"Bella."

"Bella?"

"Yeah," Bella twisted around in her seat to look at the pair sitting behind her.

"What can you do?"

"I can block all mental powers."

"You mean like Jasper's?"

"No, I mean like Edward's."

"Cool! How can you do that? Can you teach me?"

Bella smiled, "No, sorry, I was born with it."

"Aw."

Bella turned back to face the front.

Mark continued, "Anyway, Carlisle has this theory that humans each have a special gift, and they bring it into their vampire selves, only stronger."

"Ok, I get it."

"So, when you were in Europe, earlier this year, another vampire sensed you."

"Sensed me?"

"Yeah, with his gift."

"Oh, ok."

"Anyway, he sensed you and figured out what power you would have, and he told the Volturi."

"What's the Volturi?"

"They're like the, um, kings of all vampires. Anyway, he told them, and they sent someone after you. But you didn't get caught because Alice saw you and we brought you here."

"Wait, so I have a power?"

"Yes, and apparently it's really huge."

"What do the king-people want me for?"

"To destroy our family," Edward said quietly.

Sadie's face went through many expressions as she assimilated the information. Mark waited patiently for her to say something else, but Bella interrupted the silence.

"We're here."

(A/N) Well, another chapter, just one week after the old one. Don't you feel special? I know I would. Do you forgive me for not posting? Probably not, but, anyway, I hope you enjoy this. Oh, and don't count on weekly updates, I'm kinda drowning under piles of homework, so, if I don't write, it's because of that. Anyway, R&R!