.A/N: No justification to my late update. I feel guilty. Sorry 

Beta's Note: It's totally my fault. I was late in getting the story back to Mai… blame me!! - dragonangeleyes

Recap:

"And whoever wins will name exactly what the loser does to make a fool out of himself. Are you in?" His grin was wild and his eyes amused. I'm sure I looked the same as I pushed him off of me and threw him across the field. I stood up swiftly, crouching a little as I smirked at him.

"Bring it on, little bro!"

Combined?

Love Happiness

Joy softness

All so true

Because we are one

Me and you

DPOV

"Edward… are you… ok?" Bella asked confusedly. She had her eyebrows pulled and her face was a frown. I had to bite my lips to keep from laughing.

"S'ti neimad…" He said through gritted teeth. Edward was standing on his hands and his legs were stretched in the air. His shirt was falling over his head and some of his back was visible. He was straining to see Bella.

You're dead for this, he thought to me, a warning in his tone.

Your own fault brother, I chuckled mentally.

Our fight had taken hours, neither of us surrendering. We nearly had the same strengths and no weaknesses. But I knew a weakness of his and I used it. He had started to worry about being away from Bella for so long. But I gave him no way of stopping. If he wanted to see her he had to surrender or beat me. When he found no hope in beating me any time soon, he decided to give up so he could see Bella.

Of course we had agreed on some rules for the loser. Edward is to walk on his hands and talk backwards till I say enough. The things my brother does for love, I chuckled.

"Edward?" Carlisle asked coming closer to see him, nothing but concern on his face.

Edward had quite an audience for his idiocy show. Bella was on her wheel chair with Esme standing beside her, looking at her son strangely. Jasper and Alice were sitting cross legged on the bed; Alice did not look confused, she was just smiling. I assumed she had a vision about this. Jasper on the other hand could feel my smugness, so he probably guessed I had something to do with this.

Emmet of course roared with laughter whenever Edward tried to talk. He was practically rolling on the floor. Rosalie was leaning against the wall trying to comprehend everything.

"Damien?" Carlisle asked looking at me for explanation.

I put on my innocent mask and shrugged, "I have no idea what's got into him. He just told me that he wanted to be… unique. He didn't want to walk and talk like everybody else. He wanted to do something new. So…" I trailed off and shrugged again. Carlisle stood back up and his eyebrows flew up. I had to fight the urge to laugh again.

"That doesn't sound like Edward…" Bella said doubtfully, "I smell a Damien in this." Her gaze shifted to meet mine, hers were accusing.

I love this woman! Edward sang in his head triumphantly.

"Me? How so?" I acted startled.

"Damien, that innocent façade won't work with me. I know you too well to get away with that act," she said, raising an eyebrow and crossing her arms, "what did you do to Edward?"

Emmet was laughing even harder and said, "ooooh Damien's in trouble and Edward's signing up for the circus."

Esme was fighting her own smile now as she tried to glare at Emmet. "Emmet Cullen, if you do not you stop you will be in trouble as well."

That made Emmet laugh harder for a moment but he put a hand on his mouth and lifted his other hand as a sign of surrender.

"Well?" Bella urged.

I was already shaking with the urge to tell her everything, I was going to explode, so I didn't need any more persuasion. "Okay Edward, drop it. I can't hold it any more!" I said with the biggest smile ever. Edward sighed in relief and in an instant he was standing up right.

"So what was that?" she asked.

"A stupid bet, but that's not important now," Edward answered quickly.

"I have major news Bella!!!" I cried as I ran to her. In a second I was across the hotel room and on my knees in front of her.

She smiled and cocked her head, "I've never seen you this happy before! What is it?" I could sense her excitement creeping in due to mine.

"I saw my mother!" I blurted quickly.

Her eyes widened and she gasped, "Oh my God! You did?"

"Yes, It wasn't really her but her ghost. Anyway, what's important is that it was Her!" I was shaking with excitement when I felt a hand on my shoulder, I didn't need to look behind me to know who, I felt the tingling.

"Calm down. You're driving Jasper crazy," he said with a laugh.

I took his hand from my shoulder and pulled him to sit on his knees beside me.

"I'm so happy for you, Damien. That's awesome." Bella's eyes filled a little with her happiness for me. I couldn't wait to see how those eyes would look like when I tell her.

I put an arm around Edward's shoulders and looked at him, he grinned back at me, "Do you know who this is?" I asked her.

"Uh… Edward?" She said confusedly.

"Yes, but do you know who he is?" I asked again. Edward rolled his eyes because there was no difference in the question.

"Damien?"

I averted my gaze from Edward's face to Bella's, I could feel my own eyes fill with tears as I said, "Edward Anthony Masen is my brother, Bella. My mother was Elizabeth Masen. My father was Sr. Edward Anthony Masen. My name is Damien Anthony Masen." I felt Edward's arm wrap around my shoulder as gasps were heard from around the room.

Bella's eyes were wide and her mouth fell open.

"Edward?" I heard Esme and Carlisle whisper together. I looked back with Edward. Esme was in shock, Carlisle's face was filled with awe.

Edward's grin was impossibly big as he said proudly, "it's true. I have a brother. To quote our mother, 'Same flesh, same blood'." He patted my shoulder proudly and I felt even more joyous, if such thing were possible, "He's my older and wiser brother." He laughed, and surprisingly the shock in the room broke and they chuckled along.

Suddenly Bella's arms were around me. I turned my head back to see that she had fell off her chair and was hugging me tightly. I laughed as I saw that she had her arm around Edward as well, trying to hug us both together. We squeezed her while laughing. "I'm sorry," she said as she pulled away, "I'm just so happy for both of you."

Edward grinned as he wrapped his arms around her and stood up, carrying her back to the chair. "We appreciate being happy but we'd also appreciate being careful," he said with a smile as he kissed her forehead.

"Could you do something about his over protectiveness, since you're his older brother?" she asked in a mocking desperate tone. Edward rolled his eyes as he fell on the bed and pulled Bella's chair beside him.

I laughed, "I promise you that that will be our next bet."

He ignored me and leaned in to whisper in her ear even though we could all hear him. "No one can do anything about it. I love you, you'll have to learn to live with it because I'm sticking here." Bella feigned fear.

"You're sticking here? Aw man! Way to kill a buzz." We laughed with Edward and Bella.

"Are you sure about that?" he asked in a soft voice as he kissed her temple. He gazed into her eyes and Bella's face went blank.

"Sure about what?" She whispered.

He chuckled. "That's what I thought, too."

"Hey, lovebirds. Break it. I'm too crazy right now to have things calm down!" I shouted jumping to my feet. That sent them laughing again, even Bella and Edward.

"Okay, I want details." Bella demanded sitting back in her chair.

I flopped down on the bed and told them everything, stopping at places to give Edward a chance to express his point of view on things. My grin was a never fading grin. It never wavered, it only grew. We told them about our connected mind and that intrigued Carlisle but when we told them about the fight Emmet and Jasper were the ones intrigued.

"Aw, Bella. You made Edward lose. But I like that," Emmet commented. Bella just laughed.

When we finished, there were smiled all over the room. The first to break the comfortable silence was Carlisle.

"So… it looks like we have a new addition to our family," he said happily and Esme was mirroring his expression.

My eyes widened and I stared at Carlisle. I haven't thought about that, so I didn't expect it. From the corner of my eye I saw Edward mouth his thanks to Carlisle. He just smiled and shook his head as he said, "it would be an honor to have another Masen. That's, of course, if you do not mind being a Cullen, Damien."

And I heard sounds of agreement and encouragement from around the room. "If I don't mind??? Of course I don't. I didn't even dream of that!" I blurted at once. I felt dazed with joy. Such an odd feeling but that was the way it was for me. Carlisle and Esme just gave me their kind smiles and patted my back.

I've always wondered how it would feel like to have a family. Would I feel happy?... Safe?... Loved?... Brave?.... I never thought that I would feel everything. And by everything I mean EVERYTHING! If I had to write a list with my feelings it would be full of words like: Happy, Belong, Safe, Loved, Brave, Lucky, Incredible, Grateful, Crazy…and so much more.

Could one feel so much at once and not explode? It felt physically impossible. Everything looked different to me now. Before this amazing discovery I saw everything as desperate and sad as I was. Everything and anything. When I would see the twilight it would seem to me as if the night sky was pushing away the beautiful, shining sun away, because it did not belong between the small sparkling stars. But now, as I gazed at the same twilight outside the window, I sensed a whole other meaning from the scenery. I saw the white ground welcoming the sun, as if it was welcoming it back home. And I saw the fading oranges as if the night sky was clinging to its best friend, not wanting to let it go. It's odd how things looked differently to me now.

"So what's your combined power?" Bella's odd question brought me out of my reverie.

"What?" I said at the same time Edward said "Excuse me?"

She looked at us with a strange look, "Your combined power. Oh come on, that was about the only thing that was clear in the riddle."

When neither of us answered she clarified.

"The prophecy said that when you find what you're looking for, which is Edward. You will both combine to be something powerful. That's got to mean that you two together have a different power than each of you separately."

We stared at her for a few moments then Edward met my eyes. It was strange how she put it in a way that sounded right. But was she? "A combined power?"

A/N: Tada! So what do you think it is??? Hope you liked this chappy! Big thanks to my Beta Megan!! Thank you!!

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