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Bells had gone to her room as soon as we got in and I had followed her example giving dad a kiss on the cheek before heading up to the loft. Getting into my pj's I sat on my bed laptop in front of me as I went online to find a film to watch. A few minutes later there was a knock, I looked to the window first seeing no one there,

"Come on up!" I call. the hatch opened and Bells poked her head through,

"Can I stay here?" I smile and nod,

"Catching up to you?" she nodded at my question and climbed onto the bed with me getting under the covers and opening a book in her lap. The book she had brought tonight. I glanced at her, "So what's the book?" she jumped and looked at me.

"Some Quileute Legends." She paused, "Cada... Have you noticed anything odd with the Cullen's?" I raise an eyebrow,

"Like what."

"Cold skin, eyes changing colour, the fact that they never eat anything, they're beautiful. Really strong." I tilt my head,

"Sure, Jasper's hands are cold, but he says he has poor circulation, the eye colour I put down to light exposure, you know when the pupil expands? The never eating anything is understandable, the food at school tastes disgusting... Well Beauty was what first drew me to Jasper. And I like that he's strong. It means he can protect me. But you are right to some it would seem odd." I mentally patted myself on the back for my explanations. "Why? ou got any theories up there in that clever brain of yours?" she smiled,

"You know the legends?" I nod, "You wont laugh will you?"

"I'll try not to." I promise,

"Well... What if, what if they're the 'Cold Ones' from the legends?" I tilt my head,

"You mean vampires?" she nodded biting her lip. I shrug "Who knows right? To Christians god is real. Why not Vampires?"

"Can I borrow your laptop?" I nod and hand it over sidling up to her. She typed in 'cold one' and several beer adverts popped up, she sighed and typed again 'The Cold One: Apotamkin' clicking on a sight several legends pop up.

"The seductive Apotamkin with his ice-blue skin, devouring his victims in tapestries, engravings, paintings. Creatures beautiful and horrific. Craven, skeletal demons attacking villages; perfectly sculpted predators, luring innocent maidens... it's all murder, blood, sexuality. I could practically see her eyes picking out words.

'Speed. Strength. Cold skinned. Immortal...' And my on eyes pinpointed the last words she would need. 'Blood drinker.' I watched her reel back in disbelief and I rubbed her shoulder,

"Shhhh." I sooth.

"... It's not possible..." I shaky my head, I thought she didn't find out for a few days at least.

"You said it yourself, they're always cold." I could practically see Edwards hand flashing across her mind, "Their eyes changing colour, they don't eat in front of anyone, unnatural beauty... And didn't you say he pushed Tyler's van away with his hand?" I mock sighed, "Still, I'm sure it's nothing, right?" she nodded at my question and handed me the laptop settling into the pillow and I began to make her feel tired. Her breathing evened out and I grabbed my phone,

[Edward

She found out earlier than I thought.

Arc]

I clicked send and got up to unlock the window knowing he would be here in a few minutes, I kept Izzy under with a ton of tired emotions. There was a knock and I looked up in time to see Edward climb in, and behind him another came in.

'Could have warned me.' i thought sourly as I looked at Jasper.

"She knows." he stated rather than questioned,

"Yeah. I thought she would find out in a few days not tonight." I looked back at her, "She got a book today on Qileuite Legends. After that she started asking me questions on if I had found anything strange about you guys. I couldn't get her to drop it. She'll confront you tomorrow, you'll be skipping school." He looked uneasy, "Relax you're not going to kill her." I assure, it didn't help much.

"Are you alright?" he asked, I shrug,

"I'm fine." I deflect.

"The nightmare's say otherwise." I glare at him as I felt Jasper's concern.

'You should learn when to keep your mouth shut Cullen.' I snap. I looked over at my complicated boyfriend and sigh. 'Take her to her room and try not to listen in.' he nodded and picked her up and walked down the hatch, I closed it behind him and looked over at Jazz.

"You want to talk? Then talk." I mutter, I couldn't start this...

"Are you alright?" was his first question, I sighed.

"I'm sick of people who ask me that. Yes I am Fine." I answer.

"Edward said you were having nightmares." I roll my eyes, after letting her- Macey out I had become a tad irritated.

"A vision's stuck with me and left a slight imprint... It just makes me jumpy is all." I try to brush off,

"Is it like the other one?" I take a breath,

"Not at first... I was just standing there watching Waylon work. And then I was in his place, I moved when he did and I had no control over the actions, I heard his voice, felt his emotions as they changed. When the first one came I couldn't see much of anything, and the voice was muffled but there was intense fear. Then another appeared, this one female and red. More fear and then a dark figure... All of them had crimson eyes." I told him as I talked I just went through the motions of repeating it. I knew who they were but I couldn't change Jack.

"Then why don't you get rid-" I cut him off before he could finish.

"Because they can help people." He didn't push the subject further.

"Did you mean it?" and here was the center of our problem at the moment.

"You should be able to feel how I feel." I whispered as i let the emotion shine through. Love. Almost impossible deep in feeling and all consuming. "I've loved you for longer than I care to admit. Sure there were other's but I was always comparing them to someone I had never met, so needless to say they didn't last long. But when I saw you, got to know you... It just happened. It all clicked into place, and it scared me, how was it possible to be in love with someone you didn't know? To think of someone you hadn't met but know they're perfect for you? So yes I love you... But you cannot control my life Jasper, I love other people as well I have more than one family all over the world, some you'd probably distrust me for but they're family and I won't choose between them and you. I can't." I rant, I started and I couldn't stop. I just couldn't loose one thing for another, no matter how much he didn't want me around the pack.

After a minute cold arms wrapped around my waist as he whispered soothing words into my ear kissing my neck. And before long I was asleep. And when I woke up from a nightmare he was there to calm me down.

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The next day at school I watched as my sister and Edward walked into the forest, part of me wanted to follow, to make sure he didn't slip up but with a squeeze of Jasper's hand we walked to Biology, Rose linked her arm with mine obviously upset at Edward and Iz but let it go. I shook my head as we went, I probably wouldn't pay attention to class today. I would focus on them. Taking my seat between the Hale's I pulled my stuff out wrote the date, Jazz held my hand on top of the table and I promptly zoned out and looked for my sister's course.

...

She stood waiting in the bleak back ground, a slight mist on the floor adding to an ominous effect. Edward appeaered behind her slightly blurry. She doesn't turn to face him. And then after a moment she began to talk.

"You're impossibly fast. And strong. Your skin is pale-white, ice-cold. Your eyes change color. And sometimes you speak like... you're from a different time." She paused taking a breath before carrying on. "You never eat or drink anthing, you don't come out in the sunlight. How old are you?"

"Seventeen." his muffled voice answered.

"How long have you been seventeen?" She rephrases the question and he hovers behind her, There was a beat of silence before another muffled answer came.

"... A while." Her breathing spikes as she comprehends that her theory is right.

"I know what you are." She choked out.

"Say it. Out loud." He demands, a beat and she doesn't. "Say it." he repeated. She stays still but complies.

"... Vampire." Her voice barely a whisper. It seemed like time had frozen for just a moment, and finally Edward asks a question,

"Are you afraid?" This was the one thing that could make or break him... I could feel the tension as they stayed silent, Izzy turned around.

"No." Edward seems to tense,

"Then ask me the most basic question: what do we eat?" He felt frustrated at her lack of fear.

"You won't hurt me." She says after another pause... He grabs her arm and a slight hiss slips through my lips-

...

I wasn't in the forest with them the next moment, I was back in the classroom Jasper looking at me in concern and I realize, I'd probably hissed here as well as in my vision. I look at him and smile.

"It's fine." I assure in a whisper as I focus on her path once more.

...

Flying, that's what it felt like at first then I see them. Edward running with my sister on his back as he ran up the mountain, it only lasted a moment before everything stopped and Izzy was on her feet again. He walked towards a few beams of light poking through the trees.

"This is why we don't show ourselves in sunlight... People would know we're different." After another few seconds her turns his shirt buttons undone revealing his chest as it sparkled like diamonds. "This is what I am." I could hear the disgust in his voice.

"It's like diamonds. You're beaytiful." He scrunches his face at her comment.

"Beautiful? This is the skin of a killer Bella." He umped out ofthe light and behind a tree Izzy following him around. Walking down the bank, "I'm a killer." he reaffirmed.

"I don't believe that." She denied.

"Because you believe the lie. The camouflage." He turned to her, "I'm the world's most dangerous predator. Everything about me invites you in - my voice, my face, even my smell. As if I need any of that..." And suddenly he's gone. Appearing beind her on a rock. "As if you can outrun me!" He shouted before disappearing. Appearing closer again, "As if you could fight me off." he continued yanking a tree root from the tree behind him throwing it in another direction. "I'm designed to kill."

"I don't care." she tells him,

"I've killed people." He informs,

"It doesn't matter." She counters again, He was silent at first.

I wanted to kill you. I've neverwanted a human's blood so much in my life." He tried to scare her and i smirk, it's not that easy.

"I trust you." She whispered, he reaches for her face his emotions intense.

"Don't." He warned, She pushed forward.

"I'm here. I turst you!" She reinforced more strength to her words. He runs from her, his eyes black with thirst. He appears on a tree branch.

"My family, we're different from others of our kind. We only hunt animals. We've learned to control our thirst..." He tried to explain, he leaned forward, "But you- your scent, it's like a drug to me... my own personal brand of heroin." I looked on no really knowing if i should leave was the worst of it over, would something more happen. He jumped down a few branches leaning down to her face to face.

"Why did you hate me so much when we met?" She asked leaning up.

"I did. For making me want you so badly. I'm still not sure I can control myself." Izzy climbed up sitting on the branch with him.

"I know you can." She sooths, he searches her eyes looking for a glimpse of her thoughts. He jumps down, still running from the inevitable future. Bella stands by his shoulder.

"I can't read your mind." He tells her as he turns to face her again trapping her between him and the tree. "You have to tell me what you're thinking." he begged,

"Now I'm afraid." I could feel the hurt radiating from him at her words as he leant away again.

"Good." She realized his misunderstanding.

"I'm not afraid of you." He shook his head in disbelief, "I'm only afraid of loosing you. I feel like you're gonna disappear." He looked at her now, amazed.

"You don't know how long I've waited for you." he tells he quietly, placing his hand over her heart, "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb." Bella smiles slightly,

"What a stupid Lamb."

"What a sick masochistic lion." He laugh quietly. And then i knew... I didn't need to be here.

I blinked and I was back in biology, a smile graced my lips as I glanced at Jazz as he worked, I picked up my pencil and began to write my notes. Everything was going right.

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Izzy got home early that day and waited in my room. Walking in I see her sat on my bed.

"You knew." It wasn't a question but I nodded,

"I knew."

"Why didn't you tell me?" I sat beside her, "How long have you known?"

"About the Cullen's? From the start... About vampires, awhile."

"But why-"

"Some things are best left alone at the present time Bells, and their secret wasn't mine to tell." I tell her, she couldn't know about the rules, not yet... We sat there for a while before she spoke again.

"Is it possible to fall in love so quickly?" I laugh,

"I was the same with Jazz, I saw him, but then I heard his voice... And I was a gonner. Thing is though, I've always known he was out there. Well not him specifically. But someone who would be able to understand and love me unconditionally." my smile turned to a grin as I thought about him.

"When you say you knew about vampires for a long time-" I cut her off.

"Let it go." she sensed the warning in my voice and let it drop,

"Edwards Picking me up tomorrow." I grin again at her admittance,

"Aw! All eyes on you!" she groaned,

"Can you ride with Jasper tomorrow? To take some of the attention away."

"Honey, I've been with Jasper for a while now, we're old news." I watched the pout take her lips, "That doesn't work on me, but... I suppose I could ride with Jazz tomorrow, given that we haven't been on his bike for awhile." She smiled gratefully hugged me, and then begged me for help on her bio homework, and that was how we spent the night.

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Shadow OUT!

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