Under everyone's scrutiny I shrink back a little, not enjoying the attention at all, and unsure of what to make of their expressions when I hear Alice pipe up from the back of the crowd.
"Can you take me for a ride!" she shrieks excitedly. I giggle and grab her arm and propel us into the air. She laughs gleefully as we flip and spin, I let her perch on a branch and I dive toward a deer I see laying on the forest floor. It seemed like it was dead, and at that moment I felt an overwhelming sadness come over me at the dead animals body. I sliver tears slipped out of my eye and landed on the deer, its eyes opened and it stood.
"Carlisle!" I heard Alice scream from the tree top before she landed beside me. "Oh my gosh." she whispered startling at the deer, it fumbled a bit but made no move to walk away from us. I heard the wind swishing around everyone as they approached.
"What happened." Carlisle came up behind me and rested a protective hand on my shoulder.
"I-I don't know." I stuttered. The deer trotted around for a few minutes, as if getting used to its legs. "It was dead." I stopped as the deer walked toward me and pressed its wet nose to my palm, not at all having a sense of self preservation, or any sign of thinking of me as a predator like every other creature I've come across.
"What the hell happened." Emmet bellowed from behind me.
"I saw it laying here, and I felt this pull toward it. When I noticed it was a dead I just started crying, when a one of my tears touched it, it just came back to life."
"Man Bells, ever since you came around this is like the freaking twilight zone." Emmett laughed loudly at his own joke. "Oh and can you put those wings away, they're blinding me." He said making a show of covering his eyes and hunching over in mock pain. I looked at my wings and saw the bright light emanating from them as they caught the light. I laughed and folded them up, feeling them furl into my skin.
"I am so going to have to make you clothes with wing slits in them." Alice squeaked when she saw my torn dress.
After a few hours after going through the story over and over and reviving a squirrel, along with around 20 minutes of trying to get the deer and aforementioned squirrel to leave my side, I was able to relax and put the babies to bed. I sat in the rocking char of the nursery with Renesmee in my arms, when Edward came in and sat in the chair next to mine. He sighed, and so did I. He touched a hand to mine and familiar zing of other people thoughts filled my ears as he read my jumbled thoughts. He sighed, not getting very far, but didn't break the connection. We sat like that for a while until Renesmee was fast asleep, laid her in the crib a quietly went to our room.
So what do you think about all this? I asked Edward mentally.
There's a lot going on, you'll have to be more specific. He though with a laugh. I laughed back, thinking about how much there really was going on, and how overwhelmed I was getting with everything. Edward squeezed my hand, and I could hear that he was feeling the same way. We had taken on a little more than we could really handle. I curled into him and forgot about everything but the two of us for the rest of the night, forgot about the kids a room down, forgot about the developing powers between all of us, forgot about the fact that at some point this was all going to come back on us. The next thing I know I'm waking up to Edward laughing.
"I cannot believe you actually fell asleep, you are the only vampire I have ever known to sleep"
"I guess there fairy outweighs the vampire sometimes." I laugh back and the weight of the world comes crashing down again
Later that day Carlisle decided that it was time to start training the girls. All three of them have grown so much its ridiculous. The twins are toddler size, and Claire is starting to look like a 10 year old, so its obvious they need to start learning to use their powers.
We worked with Esabeth on target practice. She seemed to be doing very well, until she lit up a tree. I heard laughing from inside the house and Emmett poked his head through the backdoor.
"Seems we have a little fire starter on our hands. I got this one." he said grabbing the hose from the side of the house and extinguishing the flame. He was still laughing when he was done and even after he went inside.
After that we worked with Renesmee on her teleporting, trying to help her get a handle on it. It was hard for her to move a foot, but she could move states over if she wanted to. It had something to do with the links to that places she wanted to go. If she couldn't envision it she couldn't move to it. Carlisle suggested that she start thinking more logically about that way she moves, and thinking about the lengths she was traveling. It took a lot of work but she finally was able to move short distances.
In addition to the power training the girls also had home school which Rose suggested.
We go inside and sit the girls down in one of the rooms of the house we decided to turn into their own personal classroom, with a chalk board, desk and even dummies to take the place of human classmates.
"Okay." Rose said in the front of room with chalk in hand. "Today I want to go over how we act in a classroom. In a real school your going to get a set of rules to follow, and you have to do that." Rose went over some of the regular rules, like keeping hand to feet to themselves, to vampire rules of not using you powers in class. "Even if your teacher doesn't say it, remember all of the vampire rules still apply." she said sternly.
Soon, we would all have to be going back to school again, or moving, possibly both. We have places like Italy and England picked out, we firmly decided not to stay in the U.S so that Renee and Charlie could have some distance for a while.
"Momma?" Renesmee asked while we were going to bed that night. "Are we gunna see grandma and grandpa again?" she sounded so innocent it was all I could do not to cry. Both girls had memories spanning back to being born, maybe even before, and they remember Charlie and Renee clearly.
"Maybe." I said not knowing myself, and not wanting to lie. You never know what can happen