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Chapter 15 reality

Nina's POV

I was currently looking out the window of the guest bedroom Bella let Peter and I have while we stay here. But it was different this time. The atmosphere in the house was silent and still. We weren't laughing together in the living room watching moves and enjoying each other's company. Bella was recovering in her room, Gale had to carry her into the house because she was so tired and week from whatever happened before we got there- nobody had actually told us what had happened so we were still lost at why Bella was hurt so badly. The minute he left Bella in her room Gale left without even saying a word to where he was going or when he would be back. Jacinda was teleporting our things back to the house so we would have a change of clothes while staying here. I had a feeling I wasn't going to go back to Germany anytime soon.

It started raining again outside, harder then ever. I could hear the pounding of the rain on the roof and windows, the wind blowing the trees in every direction. Thunder rumbled in the distance and occasionally we would see lightening brightening up the sky.

"You haven't spoken since we've gotten back." Peter said from behind me grabbing my wrists and turning me slowly away from the window to look at him.

I looked up at his worried face, the tips of his dirty blonde hair almost touching his eyes. His hair had a similar style to Gale's but Peter's was shorted and curled a little on the ends while Gale had his hair in his eyes casting a shadow on his face.

"Nobody has spoken since we've gotten back." I pointed out.

"True but I miss your beautiful voice and smile." I giggled and got on the tips of my toes and brought his face down to mine so we met in the center. His lips were soft against mine but I could feel him deepen the kiss, his arms snaked around my waist and my hands fell in his hair. We stayed like that, kissing, for who knows how long until I pulled away gasping for breath.

"Not tonight Peter, we have to wait for Gale to get back and Bella to wake up which will be soon."

"You're no fun." He said while fixing his shirt. "But I guess we can join Jacinda down stairs, she's back and has all our stuff." I smiled nodded while getting a hold on his hand before going down stairs.

When we got down stairs I didn't see Jacinda but I could hear her in the kitchen. She came in through the door with sweats and an over sized t-shirt her hair in a messy bun.

"What's up?" She asked while eating into her pear and making her way over to the living room with Peter and I fallowing her.

That's the thing I've always loved and hated about Jacinda. The way she can just act like everything is okay and say 'What's up' when we just exposed our selves to vampires and Bella is unconscious trying to heal from some accident we don't even know about. The leaders are going to find out eventually and we don't even know where Gale went. All this happened in less then 15 hours and all Jacinda can say is what's up? I was about to tell her all of this until Peter decided so speak up.

"Hey, have you seen Gale?"

"No I was going to ask you the same thing." She said slowly looking between Peter and I.

"He said he need to think so he took a walk but isn't back yet." Peter said.

"A walk? Its pouring buckets out there and he's talking a walk?" I nodded my head at her and she just muttered under her breath "that boy has finally lost it." I rolled my eyes at her while taking a seat next to her while Peter went to lie down on the other sofa.

It was petty quit after that except for the TV and Bella's breathing from up stairs. The awkward stillness was starting to get to me until Peter got up quickly into a seating position and looked out the window to the still pouring rain.

"He's close." He said with suspicion in his tone.

"Who's close?" Jacinda asked while trying to look out the window, as was I, trying to find someone but it was to dark to see that far.

"Gale. I sensed him coming near." Peter answered going back to his original seating position. Jacinda and I both relaxed and sat back down also.

A couple of minutes later we heard the stomping of feet on the porch then the door opened to find a dripping wet Gale. He had mud marks all over his skin. His clothes stuck to his body like a second skin. His hair was a mess of leaves and dirt. Jacinda was gone in a second and back in front of Gale with towels and a new set of clothes.

"Oh my god what happened to you?" she scowled at him while lightly cleaning the mud from his face and hands.

"Hiking. I'm fine, really." He said. Once he was clean of mud and leaves Jacinda escorted him to the bathroom. He came back 30 minutes later with a black long sleeved shirt with light colored jeans. His hair was washed and combed and he looked like Gale again.

While walking towards us Peter hit him in the shoulder. "Man, it looked like a tribe of leprechauns attacked you!" he said while laughing hysterically. Gale brushed his hand away. "Yeah 'cause you would know what that would look like." Gale taunted raising his eyebrows. Peter flushed and turned away from Gale.

"Wait, so Peter was attacked by a tribe of leprechauns! When did this happen?" I demanded glaring at Peter with my hands on my hips. Gale and Jacinda were laughing silently behind me.

"Uh… uh." Was all he said. I was about to yell at him again until I heard soft footsteps coming down the stairs. We all turned to see Bella. She was wearing a tight skinny jeans with a dark blue V-neck that had lace that trimmed at the bottom of the shirt.

"Bella! What are you doing out of bed?" I ran to her but she just rolled her eyes.

"Wow, Nina. I was expecting more of a hello Bella how are you doing, but I guess you're to busy traumatizing Peter." Bella said sitting down next to Jacinda.

"Someone fell on the wrong side of the bed." Peter muttered.

Bella turned and glared right at Peter "At least I didn't almost die getting in a fight wit a tribe of leprechauns."

"Why am I the only one that doesn't know about this!" I said raising my hands dramatically. Gale ignored me and started talking. "How are you doing Bella? While you were unconscious I checked for some injuries."

"I feel good as new and what injuries did I have? All I know was I had a broken rib." I went to go sit down with Peter who got up and sat down normally on the couch to make room for me.

"Well yes you had that but also a cut in the back of your neck which was pretty deep, and some cuts and bruises but nothing to bad. We need to talk about what happened yesterday." Bella nodded and we all turned our attention to her.

"Well when you left I heard a scream and I ran to where I heard it and I ended up at the Cullen's house. I saw two people from the Volturi guard, Jane and Felix. I don't know what they were doing there, I attacked Jane and Felix but they got away." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The Volturi were here and they know were Bella is. Everyone looked horror struck thinking the same thing.

"Bella how could have been so stupid? We have to deal with the Cullen's but know we also have to worry about the Volturi and the fairy leaders! If the leaders find out what we've done we might get our wings stripped." No one spoke. No one said a word. Gale's speech was like a slap in the face, but it was reality. A fairy's worst nightmare would be getting their wings stripped. If it ever happened you would loose all your powers and get thrown in a prison in Zenonia or loose all your memory and spend the rest of your life as a human.

Bella hung her head and Jacinda hugged her trying to comfort her. "Gale I don't think the leaders would go that far, and Bella did the right thing in saving them. We all made mistakes but know we cant just sit here waiting for the leaders to come and clean up the mess for us. We have to do that ourselves." Jacinda said quietly still trying to get Bella to look at us.

"Jacinda is right. I'm so sorry I didn't think how this would effect us in the long run but I should have because I'm the coven leader and I should have been more responsible. But I have a plan." She looked up and met eyes with me. I smiled at her reassuringly and got up and hugged her then sat back down.

"All right! What's the plan?" Peter said smacking his hands together in excitement. Jacinda and I laughed but Gale stayed still like a statue looking at his hand as he weaved together.

"Well first we should go to the Cullen's and explain how they can't tell anybody about us or were we are. And we should also ask them if Jane or Felix mentioned why they were there." Bella said looking proud of herself. It was a good plan, simple but is sure to work.

"What if they don't tell you?" Gale asked still looking at his hands. Some times he can be such a pessimist.

"Because Bella saved their ass from being a pile of ash. They owe her that much." Jacinda said getting up and grabbing me by the arm. "Come on Nina we better get changed so we can go over to their house." How fun we get to go visit the vampires again. I thought to myself. but one of them is my sister.

Edward's POV

The moment the Brandon's left our house I went straight to my room. No one had anything to say nor did they try to make conversation. I guess we were all to shocked and in our own world to really focus on what was happening in the real world. But in the real world you don't have vampires werewolves, and now I guess fairies too, roaming around. I have so many things going through my mind right know and with the thoughts of my family it was driving me crazy. You would think that after all this time I would have gotten use to it but it was still hard at times and I wish I could turn it all off and just enjoy the silence or at least my own thoughts.

I needed to leave the house for a while and I knew that Alice would see and inform the family for me. I walked over to the far end of the room were it was all glass and opened it like a sliding door. It had started raining and not very lightly either. Hard, heavy drops of rain pouring onto the ground below me like sheets but I didn't care if I got wet. Vampires didn't get cold easily or could get sick.

I jumped and landed lightly on the balls of my feet. I ran lazily through the forest, my hair a wet mess on the top of my head, but I didn't care.

Suddenly I felt like someone was watching me, I squinted my eyes through the rain looking around but all I could see were trees. I was about to shrug it off and keep going until I saw a black blur move from the corner of my eye. Faster then a human could blink I was on the tree in front of the blur. Through the rain all I could see was light skin and dark hair. The first thing I thought of was Bella but the shape of the shadow was clearly a guy, so who could it be?

I didn't have time to think of a different victim because whoever this guy was pushed up against the tree, his fists tight on my shoulders. I hissed and grabbed his upper arms and threw him off the tree but he never let go of me. We both plunged into mud and leaves right under the tree branch I was just in a few seconds ago. I threw myself on top of him with his wrists stuck to his sides. He struggled but couldn't get free. This close to him I could see he was wearing dark jeans and a black hoodie that were now covered in mud and grass. The hood of the hoodie was up and it covered his whole face except for his chin.

"Who are you?" I hissed but he didn't say anything instead he took hold of my arms. I felt this sizzling sting go up my arm and it reminded me of when I shook hands with Jacinda but this was 10 times worse. I jumped away from him not being able to deal with the stinging flames. I looked at my arms were he grabbed me and I could see light red marks snaking all the way up to my shoulder like red veins but they were slowly disappearing.

I turned back to the stranger but he had taken off into the protection of the trees again. I ran after him fallowing his scent but because of the rain it was difficult. I had to count on my hearing and eyesight for this.

I had ended up in the field at the bottom of a cliff's edge. There were bushes everywhere but no tree and grass, just rocks and mud. It was small and almost all surrounded by jagged rock. Indented in the cliff's edge was a small cave. Off to the side of the field was the silhouette of the person. He motioned me with his hand to enter the small cave. I didn't move from my spot thinking this might be a trap. He put both his hands back and went in the small cave first but waiting for me to fallow. Out of curiosity I fallowed him in the cave. He sat on the right side of the cave and I sat on the left side. He slowly took down his hood so I could see his face. Even with the protection of the hood his hair was dripping wet with clumps of mud in it. His eyes were deep green like the forest but had unusual speaks of red-ish orange in it. His face features were sharp which made him look older then the other Brandon's. He had a gash on his forearm, which I couldn't help but stare, as it healed in seconds who would have taken a human weeks for it to heal, might have even needed stitches. But they're not human just like me. I reminded myself.

"I'm sorry Gale I didn't know that was you." I said but he just shook his head and put his hand up to stop me from going on.

"Don't apologize to me, vampire. And by the way I knew that was you when you attacked me." He said coldly but he grinned, probably thinking of back to us fighting in the mud.

Ever since I first saw Gale he looked cold and the way he held himself he was a fighter, a warrior. An animal looking out for his family. He wasn't afraid to kill and I knew he was mad at my family for knowing his secret.

"So what now? You're not going to ask a million questions or try to bite me?" he said bitterly looking at me through his dark black hair.

"Bite you? I wouldn't bite you, Gale. And I know you're mad at me that I know you're coven are fairies."

"For one thing its not my coven. Second I'm beyond mad that Bella could trust you filthy bloodsuckers with our secret."

"Bella can trust us, and so can you. We're not like other vampires."

He laughed while shaking his head. "You just want Bella to trust you because you love her." He said like it was yesterday's news. My mouth almost fell open. How did he know that? Is it that obvious? Does my family know? All these things were going through my head faster then I could comprehend.

"W-what are you talking about?"

"You know what I'm talking about. I'm not stupid; I see the way you look at her. She's like my little sister and since we've been young, guys have been running after her, falling for her, begging for her. I've learned what to watch out for when a guy is near her and I also know how to deal with them."

"Does she know?" I asked while looking at my hands that were crusted with dry mud.

"No." Was all he said.

"I wont hurt her. I'll protect her, I'll show her that she can trust me with anything." I said more to myself then to him.

"Of course you wont hurt her." He said as if it was funny. "Bella doesn't need protecting either. And good luck on winning her over." He said but I didn't sound like he meant it.

"So why are you out here?" it occurred to me to ask considering we were in a middle of a bad storm.

"To get away from everything. And I needed to think to myself but you so rudely interrupted me." For the first time I saw him smile a little. "What about you?"

"To get away from my family's thoughts and to think." He nodded as if he understood. He got up and turned to look outside. It was still raining but it wasn't as dark or windy.

"Well nice talking to you, vampire, but I got to go home and I believe so should you." He said raising one eyebrow. I also got up and joined him at the entrance of the cave.

"Yeah it was." And without looking back he ran into the trees and out of sight.

Instead of running back home I walked thinking of Bella, fairies, vampires and my family. I wanted to ask him so many things about his kind and of Bella and what he meant about some things but if I was going to get Bella I had to show her family that I meant no harm. When Gale had mentioned other guys liking her and having the same feeling for her as I do, I felt jealously come on so strongly I was surprised I could hide it from Gale and keep the conversation light and going without asking to many things.

I could hear my family's thoughts now as they swirled in my head. I looked down at myself covered in mud.

Esme and Alice are going to kill me.

I hope you guys liked it! My two favorite characters talk for the first time! Who's your favorite? Edward or Gale…

Please review so I can start on chapter 16! :)

xxValeria