I OWN NOTHING FROM TWILIGHT OR THE VAMPIRE DIARIES .
* Okay so as you have probably figured out I've changed the main character's(Bella& Elena's) ages up a bit to suit my story .
~March 27, Friday evening~
- 11:30 PM -
~ The Temperance house ~
- Forks,Washington-
~third person .~
Charlie , strode purposefully down the dark thick pine lined long driveway , having already been home , and found Bella fast asleep in her bed . Along with a note on his bed from Serenity , which said .
My Dearest Charlie ,
You must not doubt be extraordinarily shocked to hear from a dead person . I am obviously judging by the letter you are now reading not dead .
I met your daughter this afternoon a lovely rather shy and naive girl you've raised there Charlie . Why she was clueless and dumbfounded as to why we looked a-like , did you tell her nothing of our family history ? It is blazingly clear you've not ,due to the fact her boyfriend is one of those experiments !
How could you allow your only daughter and remaining living Silver heir to fraternize with the enemy ! It is well not particularly smart on your account ,unless you intended to use this to your advantage?
Do you remember my visit to you and what I said on September 13th 1995 ? I said " Your daughter will be the one to make our two worlds collide like meteors , if she survives to live up to 18 years of age , " Well as you know her 18th birthday is very soon …and I intend to stick around maybe even pay her a birthday visit .
Both you and I know your getting far to old to continue hunting Charlie , let your daughter take up the family legacy and give back to the good people of Forks ,Washington .
She maybe in for quite a few shocking surprises , why every family in this little town has a few skeletons in their back closest , Right Charlie…?
As for her vampire Beau and his family , just leave them to me , I'm having an extremely fun time toying with their minds, not to worry thought I shan't hurt them too much…
I know you'd prefer to finish them off yourself , especially Edward Masen her boyfriend , who I assure you does have her best interests at heart , but is i'm throughly pleased to report obsessive and controlling , which I assume you have also noticed ,which I personally find unhealthy and think to be a good starting point to breaking up the relationship .Just a small suggestion for you .
Now because my mood is rather good at this moment , I shall offer you this small slice of information : ' you're going to need to improve and upgrade your weapons collection , as not all vampires can be killed using the same method .'
This of course doesn't not mean you will try to track me down and kill me , but rather the Cullen's . Think of it as ridding this town of one unnatural demon at a time for the good of the human race on earth. Less vampires means less people dying and missing … one less mysterious thing going bump in the middle of the night… you understand.
Happy hunting Charlie …
Yours ,
Serenity Silver.
Charlie was furious and shaking once he's finished reading her letter , he knew she of course was right , she always was. but despite everything she'd done he still felt inclined to trust her , she was apart of his family after all , ' No, don't you dare trust her , you know what she's like , she's just using you to get rid of the Cullen's for her so she can continue what ever the hell it is she's doing ! ' he mind screamed at him .
He sighed and jogged up the steps then knocked a bit to sharply on Alaska's front door , a box of The Speakeasy's takeaway tucked under his right arm and Serenity's letter and Bella's hair brush in his left hand .
A dusky dark-haired beauty opens the front door and usher's him inside . He has to admit Alaska looks gorgeous in what little sliver moonlight is coming down through the high windows of the cottage .
Wrapped up in dark black thin silk fabric which clings to her like a second skin , she waifs down the hallway , the thin vanilla scented candles in sliver brackets fixed to the mottled grey stone walls sparking to life with bright blue flames as she drifts passed them , Charlie trudges after her keeping his head down least one of the portraits on the wall try to strike up a conversation with him , were this any other night he's gladly chatter away to one of Alaska's dead painted relatives , but not to night his mind is far to distracted and worrying about his family's future to spend time mingling with the painted dead .
Alaska picked up her pace and turns into a thin narrow hallway where one lone door is set into the stone at the very end of the hall , gliding down this she stops in front of the door , and draws a thick old fashioned iron key from her pocket , and slides it into the heavy matching iron padlock on the worn wooden door , the lock smoothly clicks open , and she slips the key back into her pocket then heaves the door open walking in she motions for him to join her , he does and he she shut's the door after him , the tiny square space goes totally dark , until Alaska snaps her fingers and bright blue flames dance on her slender fingers lighting up her face , he can hear the sound of a metal gate clanking shut then the small square box shudders and descends downwards . " You have an elevator ." he muttered trying to sound interested but failing . she nodded " Yes , there used to be stairs but they were half crumbling away so I removed them and put this elevator in instead , it makes getting to my lab easier ." she answered her voice slowly filling with warmth but still sounding as uninterested as him .
So there they stand in silence for the next few minutes both their minds on other things , finally the elevator groans and the metal gate clatters open and they both step out and walk side by side down the dim , damp stone corridor , with only Alaska's blue flamed finger tips lighting their way . Faintly they hear the elevator gate rattle closed , then soundlessly glide back up to ground level .
They walk along this corridor for some time , still silent , until finally Alaska announces " We're here," and pressed her hand against a barely visible mark on the wall , the section of stone wall shudders the edges glowing a faint blue , it rumbles then slides aside rearranging itself into an opening, Alaska strides through it Charlie hurries after her , when he realizes the wall immediately starts to close up after her .
The Lab is very large With wide ash wood bookcases standing on either side of the heath on the right side of the room filled with books with strange symbols on them , some in different languages and others with no-name at all .
then on the left is a large granite work bench with stacks of notes , parchment pieces , several quills and a small bottle of dark blue-black ink as well as a large caldron with a fire lit underneath it. bubbling away quietly sitting on the Centre of the bench . above the bench are rows and rows of oak shelfs , stocked with all sorts of different shaped bottles and containers holding some really weird ingredients like eyeballs of different shapes, colours and sizes , frogs toes , worms, flower heads ,spikes and animal fangs /scales/feathers and internal organs .
Hastily Charlie walks over to Alaska who with a flick of her index finger has the large thick cast iron cauldron clean and on the bench in front of her as she hums to herself she grabs several bottles off the shelves above the table as well as jars with animal parts in them too . grabbing some brass scales and measuring spoons she gets too work unscrewing jars and measuring ingredients , halfway through measuring out what looked like it could be blood of some kind she again pointed her index finger at the darkness and soft wordless music floated around them from an invisible source . pouring the blood into the cauldron she then grabbed several mint leaves and chopped them up along with a few lavender flowers throwing both into the now bubbling cauldron .
Stirring it a few times , she then starts setting up a circle of white half burnout candles and lighting them with matches , a large handmade red clay bowl sits on the table beside the bubbling caldron in front of her , along with a map , and small fat black African snake wood pendulum hanging from a heavy thick gold chain . the bowl is filled with boiling water and strong smelling herbs used for tracking . the potion however is for foresight .
Charlie lays Bella's hairbrush and Serenity's letter on the table in the middle of the circle of candles and then stands on the opposite side of the table , watching curiously as Alaska chants in latin .
" Arache " Alaska called into the gloom dipping the blessed pendulum into the herb infused water then holding it over the map , Alaska holds the Letter in her other hand and keeps chanting again then stops her eyes flickering to the map the pendulum has suddenly stopped moving in lazy circles and dropped onto the map as if drawn by an invisible string.
" Saint Fredrick's Cemetery . Forks , Washington " Alaska reads out quick copying down the address for him on a scrap of parchment with a feather quill then handing it to him .
Charlie grabs the address just as a tan coloured spider slightly smaller than his palm scuttle's across the bench and over his hand , then stops resting edgily in front of Alaska , it's hundreds of beady eyes all watching her intently . " This is Arachne my familiar ." she said letting the spider hop on her palm then crawl up her shoulder onto the shelves above her , it starts gracefully and quickly creating a web in between them .
Charlie nodded ," so that's where the special spider's silk for repairing all my Hunter's injures comes from ," he said staring amazed at how quickly the spider works . Alaska nodded moving over to the cauldron , carefully detangling a thin thread of Bella's hair from her brush her drops it into the potion , which fizzes as soon as the hair touches the potion and instantly turns black , then shimmers and goes dark blue , after which it cycles throughout the entire spectrum of the colour wheel , before finally going completely translucent .
Alaska frowned looking up at the web Arachne has just finished Which reads :
' Her future's not her's , thought not set in stone ,
She still has time to make her choices her own .
Time is quickly fast forwarding every second is precious ,
For very soon the full blue moon beckons .
And then the curse of the Sun and Moon may crumble .
Unless she choses death over life ,
otherwise all life in this world will stay forever unbalanced . '
Charlie stared at the web transfixed , half an aghast in horror and half in shock his baby girl has to die to set the whole world straight ? No that can't be right ! " A-Alaska…?" he whispered tearing his gaze away from the web to stare at his friend of twenty years who's practically helped him raise Bella , as Renee was always busy in the early days , and who Bella affectionally named'Auntie . A ' she's silent and staring sadly at him , he just shakes his head , strongly and absolutely refusing this to be true . " this potion , it makes Arachne go into a trance and write prophecies , Arachne isn't human, but a magical being Charlie she can't lie . So this future … Bella's future is going to happen. I'm sorry, Charlie I know she's your only daughter and heir maybe she won't really die , you know not all prophecies are meant to be translated literary , many have double meaning's perhaps this is one of those ones," she said softly her tone sad , she reached her hand over the table and squeezed his gently .
He nodded weakly . " I dearly hope your right Alaska… so , shall we open up the takeaways I'm staving ." He said rubbing his hands together half-heartedly , his grim smile curling up just slightly as he looks at her .
