Edward and I joined the rest of the family downstairs; both of us sitting in the oversized chair, neither of us wanting to loose the physical connection we had quite yet. Being wrapped snuggly in his arms and the feel of having his chin deeply buried in the crook of my neck made me feel content and worry-free, knowing that he was safe and alive. Carlisle walked through the door and greeted us all, somehow already knowing that Edward was awake. He set his briefcase down and took a spot on the couch next to Esme. "I know that these past few weeks have been very stressful for all of us, but I'm sure Edward has some questions of his own." Carlisle started, "Edward, what questions do you have?"
"Well, I wanted to say thank you to Mom. If you had not gotten Bella to eat and I had woken up to see her like that, I would have had a total panic attack. Because of you, I know that you will always be there for both Bella and myself whenever we need you. Bella answered most of my questions, but can someone tell me what happened in the past three weeks?"
Everyone tensed not knowing what to say to Edward or how to say it. As everyone tensed, Bella began to tense up even more that they rest of the family. Like she felt what everyone else was feeling in that same exact moment. Jasper had noticed this behavior once already in the past two days and planned to say something. "Bella I think are you the one that needs to tell Edward what happened." Alice stated.
At Alice's comment Edward turned to me as if to ask when what I had not already told him. Slowly I revealed what I had not before. "Edward," I looked down ashamed at my fault in not telling him everything, "I…When you were unconscious something happened to me. I…. Well, I had a vision."
"What do you mean a vision? Like Alice?" Edward searched my eyes as if looking for an answer to his question.
"Yes, exactly like how Alice has her visions." Bella said, hesitating in not wanting to tell him what she saw. Bella knew that if she told Edward what her vision was about, the knowledge would destroy a little piece of him.
"And what happened in this vision?" Edward asked sharply, and then softened his tone with the next question, noting the hurt look on Bella's face. Why wont you tell me?
Bella wavered back and forth on whether to tell him or not. It destroyed her to tell him and would destroy him if it came from her. Hearing how he had been so vicious in his attack on the family. To have to tell him what she saw when she looked into his eyes. She couldn't do it. Bella looked at Esme, pleading for her to tell the story. Esme saw the way that Bella looked at her and started to speak. "Edward," everyone looked away from Bella to look at Esme, "It would be hard to look at the person you loved more than anything in this world and tell them what you saw. Especially what Bella saw! I know that if I had to tell Carlisle the same thing, I would have looked at someone else and pleaded with them to tell the story." Esme glanced at Carlisle as she said that then back at Edward. "What Bella saw in her vision concerned us all. She saw you fighting with Jasper and Emmett, attacking all of us. Alice, Rose, and myself were all lying on the floor badly injured as Carlisle tried to save us. Then when you looked at Bella, she saw that your eyes were deep, blood red intent on killing us all." Edward glanced down at Bella, suddenly understanding why she had not told him. Esme was right. If he had to tell Bella something like that, he would have looked towards Carlisle in hopes that he would save him from saying the words.
Suddenly, Jasper spoke up. "Edward, there is something else that you should know." At the sound of Jaspers voice, everyone turned to him confused at what they had all missed. "When you first woke up, none of us noticed, but Bella did. She asked me if I had sent out panic in the room, because she went from joking around to all of a sudden completely panicking. She rushed upstairs because the emotions were changing so rapidly. When she got upstairs and saw you awake, you were emitting love and adoration; she also emitted those emotions, but I could also feel a sense of relief coming from her. Watch her now; as everyone is shocked at what I'm saying, she is 6 times more shock. If I suddenly SCEAMEDDDDDDDDDDDD, scaring everyone, see how much more scared she is compared to everyone else." Jasper paused allowing everyone to see what he was saying. "I think that she is feeling everybody's emotions as well as her own. When I first discovered my powers. I acted the same way." Jasper added to justify his claim about her new power.
"Carlisle, three powers? It doesn't make sense. Why now?" Esme asked.
Carlisle thought long and hard before he gave Esme an answer. "I think that this means that something is coming. If her true power is emerging, showing its many parts, we are in need of the power she possesses." Everyone looked towards Bella as she shrunk into Edward's arms, disappearing the best that she could. She did not want a great power. She was not the type of girl that wanted this type of responsibility. All she wanted was to spend her life with the man she loved and those who loved her.
"I think that this has to do with what happened to me." Edward proclaimed, ready to share what had happened to him. "After I had finished my meal, I was heading back to meet Alice at the pre-arranged spot. However, as I walked there I was attacked."
"Who attacked you?" Rose interjected.
"It was Demetri." Edward said solemnly. "I think that the Volturi has figured out Bella's power. When Bella saved me from doing the unthinkable while I was in Volterra. Aro tried to read Bella's mind, but he could not. He then read my mind and saw how special I thought Bella was and how special I thought she would be after she was a vampire." Edward look at me with loving eyes and gently touched my face with the back of his hand.
"So Aro thinks that Bella has this super strong power. A power so unique, that no vampire in the world has even seen before. Something so unique, like Jane and Alec?" Emmett scoffed. Thinking than no power could ever exist.
A dead silence filled the room, to quiet that it unnerved everyone in the room. "Yes Emmett there is a power so unique that Aro would die trying to find it." Carlisle said with a quite, mouse-like voice. Everyone looked at Carlisle with wide-open eyes, shocked to hear what he just said. "As you know, when I was young, I spent time with the Volturi. When I was there Aro was obsessed with research on this old legend. A legend about a vampire who would possess a power that could duplicate other powers the vampire came in contact with. The legend says that the power is first revealed when the vampire is under great stress. I think Aro's goal in attacking us was to force Bella to reveal her power. But when Alice intervened and stopped the fight, Aro's plans were ruined. Now he has forced her hand by hurting the one thing she cares about more than herself, you." Carlisle finished as he looked directly into Edward's eyes.