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6. PETER AND CHARLOTTE
Alice and I were both sitting on a convenient bolder, watching Emmett wrestle with a bear. I rolled my eyes and wished he'd just kill it and eat it already. No scene of abusing the poor animal.
We had left Saturday and were going back home tomorrow- Tuesday. Still, I wanted to go back home now. The word home even made my eyes brighten.
Home. That word most generically refers to the place of where you family was. Where you lived. How you felt when you were with the people you loved. Home.
I'd never truly had a home before this- as pathetic as that sounds. The Volturi's home felt more like a house of powerful non-humans who were intent of ruling the world. Not a home at all. And as pathetic as it sounds, I missed it. The power, the wealth. The Blood? I questioned myself in my head.
No, I didn't. I couldn't miss the killing, people screaming and the delicious sent of blood in every room. I miss some of the people there, and the power I had. But I'd never go back. I'd miss this far more.
I concentrated on my odds of going home early.
Alice probably felt the same way that I felt- but she just wanted to get back to Jasper. It made me think, no surprise, Did I just want to get back to Edward?
"Emmett, hurry the hell up! You're not supposed to play with your food!" I yelled from across the clearing. Emmett turned, and stuck his tongue out at me childishly. His dimples reminding me of a child's.
The bear took his distraction to his advantage: Raking his claws ageist Emmett's chest. It went though the shirt and made a high-pitched sound. I winced at the tone that hurt my ears.
"Aw hell!" He cried in remorse. "Rose gave me this shirt!"
I rolled my eyes as Emmett made a loud: "ROOOOOAR" at the animal. Then, after letting the thing take a swipe at his head, though his paw bounced back off, he tackled it and they fought together in the forest. I frowned. He takes forever!
Ignoring the roars from both the bear and Emmett, I turned to Alice. The sensible one it seemed. "Can we leave today?" I asked with a small smile on my lips.
She gave me knowing look and laughed. "He's fine Bree, calm down."
I frowned. "Regardless if he's fine or not, I wanna go home." I snapped.
"Sure." She winked at me. "Once Emmett is ready, of course."
I scowled. "But that could take forever!" I laughed, but a true complaint underlined my tone.
The roars of the bear was cut off by a gurgling sound and after a few moments Emmett had jogged back to us with a smile. I noticed how his shirt was ripped, his hair matted in blood, and some sap of a maple tree on his chest.
"Ahhh that was a strong one. I almost felt it when he clawed me!" He grinned like a crazy person. Sometimes, I truly questioned Emmett's sanity.
Alice laughed at him. "Your so immature!" She smiled.
Emmett turned to me, eying my outfit: A pale white tank and destroyed pale jeans. I grinned. Both perfect and intact. "I thought you caught a bob cat, kid."
I frowned. "I did." I started. "I just eat more civilized."
He rolled his eyes, laughing out in a booming way. "Don't you wish they were stronger?" He questioned Alice and I with a puzzled look in his eye.
"Emmett! No one said to fight your food!" Alice snickered.
He frowned. "But no one else is worth fight. You and Edward cheat, Rosalie isn't that kinky, Bree won't fight me, and Esme gets mad when Jasper and I really get into it." He sighed in remorse.
I nodded in agreement- pretending to take Emmett's side. "He's right Alice, A bear and him do share the same brain power. It's more evenly matched that way." I teased.
She laughed, and ganged up on him. "Maybe it'd be more evenly matched with a squirrel." She teased.
He suddenly turned, pushing me slightly with a fist. "Please Bree? One go?" He begged shifting from foot to foot.
"No." I snapped.
He frowned, sprawling across the floor. "Please!" I rolled my eyes, jumping up. I Measured his size with my keen eye and decided to take a wager. "Just for 3 minutes. Like they do in the cage fights. Please!?"
I groaned. "Emmett, what makes you think I am an even match?" I asked, shifting my weight to the offense.
"Well your... new...er." He tried.
"You right." I laughed, but ran straight forward and tackled him head on keeping a low center of gravity. My arms were around his big bear of a body as I ran him straight into a tree- that poor evergreen. Needle-leaves rained down and I grinned as I pushed him into a rock. It was only lightly though, I didn't want to hurt him to bad.
Emmett jumped on top of me by then: shoving my face into the ground and holding me down. "Do you like eating dirt?" He laughed, booming as always. Then I flew upward in a single motion as he was thrown across the clearing.
A big smile entered my lips as I wiped the mud off my face. "Ready to go now, Emmett?" I asked as I went back to my seat next to Alice. I pouted when I noticed my outfit was covered in mud, grass stains, and blood from Emmett's bear.
Emmett sat down in the grass next to us. "What? I thought we were leaving tomorrow." He said, confused.
I shrugged. "Whats the point it staying?" I countered. "Were all done hunting."
He sighed a small, "Fine." And got up to start human paced towards the car. "You just want to hurry back to your Edward, huh?" He teased.
I squared my jaw and Alice broke in.
"I want to see Peter and Charlotte." She said cheerfully, but a hint of steel in her voice.
Emmett nodded, running towards the car at full speed. I let him go buy caught Alice my her small arm just before she took off after him.
"Alice, wait!" I said, swallowing a lump in my throat.
"What?" She asked, a puzzled look.
I took a small breath. "There not hunting here, are they?" I said in a low voice, trying not to sound to anxious.
"Bree." Alice seemed shocked by my tone: Even a little angered. "No, there up here till Thursday. They are all ready fed. No one is going to hurt any of your friends." She frowned.
I looked down, guilt enveloping me. "Okay." I couldn't help it if I now had human friends that could oh so easily die because they tasted so good.
Alice took off then, running down the path we came: The bright yellow jeep was several miles south of here. It would take roughly less then a minute to get to.
I shifted my weight forward, starting to run.
Everyone was slightly surprised to see us get home so early- but no one complained about it. I watched Alice run, jumping into Jasper's arms. Sweet.
I also noticed a new sent in the air that made my nostrils flared: The sent was sweet and tangy: Musked with faded blood and screams of poor, defenseless humans. Great.
Our guests were here.
Peter and Charlotte bounded down the stares after Esme and Carlisle with polite smiles on there faces. I then noticed the eyes that made me look down, guilty. Should I think anything less of them because of a simple eye color? My eyes had been the same vivid red before, so I couldn't judge.
"Your home early." Carlisle said to the three of us, shocked as he looked up. I smiled at him. A smile was on his face. "And that is the newest one, Bree." He muttered to Peter.
Peter was slightly interested in me more then Charlotte. "So this is the girl we've herd of!" He exclaimed. "You really were one of the Volturi?" He questioned, looking fascinate.
I laughed, "Yeah." was my witty answer. I didn't like to talk about them that much.
"Bree?" I jerked my head to the top of the stairs. Edward's daring and light voice stood out of the conversations of the others in the house. "Your home early." He smiled, quickly passing Carlisle and Esme on the stairs.
I grinned at his eagerness.
Peter stepped back to let Edward though- a smile on his face. "It's a pleasure to meat you, then." He nodded his head.
For the first time I took in how Peter look besides the vivid red eyes. He did remind me of Jasper, though. Countless scars on his body, making it a rough texture. Tall, though. About 6'3 with a muscular frame, more then Edward or Jasper. Looks like Emmett had Competition. Peter had dark shadows under her eyes, long fingers, skinny lips, and a squared jaw with a friendly face.
I looked up at his mate, who had a small frame: Only 5'5 roughly. her hair was short, curly and light brown. Like a spinning image of a western frontier or southern bell. Her face was a small circle and her eyes, were red. I didn't like that.
Red was down with one of my least favorite colors. Sure it stands for courage, and was a signature of coke but, because of one lone reason I hated it: Eyes. Living with demon-looking eyes for about five years was not my forte.
I gave a small sigh as I noticed how Jasper shifted his weight to glare at me- he probably didn't appreciate the reaction I was giving off. Hypocrite.I thought roughly. He didn't like me when I first got here, either. He still didn't like me.
I didn't like being hated by him. It felt like he could easily control me and make me say or think something I wouldn't do. I frowned. It made me feel weak and powerless. Like somewhat less of a person- I frowned.
Charlotte slowly came down stairs, more wary then Peter. Her curt smile was small and profound. "Hello." She shook my hand lightly. "Carlisle was just telling us that you were off hunting. Hows the prey?" She said with a slight grin growing.
I laughed once, trying to hide the sour look in my eyes. "Good. Alice and Jasper were especially excited to see you two." I muttered as I felt Edward slithered his hand lightly around my waist.
Esme was smiling when she noticed me talking to the guests, and was down the stares in a flash and in front of me. "Jessica called you yesterday: She herd you were sick, and had to leave school early." She questioned absently.
I smile turning to stare at Edward.
He looked down. "It was my fault, mom." There was a small smile going towards his face. It was funny but distracting to here him call her mom. I couldn't do that yet, it was to hard for me. It only proved how much affection he held for Esme.
She huffed once, "And also, she'd like to know if you would be going to Port Angles with her and Angelia. Shopping for their dance dresses." She said. "Will you go? I think you should go and have a charming time with your friends." Esme hinted, grinning at me .
I smiled lightly at her happy tone of voice. I loved the way she understood how they were my friends, and didn't disapprove unlike most of the others in the house. "Yeah, I'll call her later then. Thank you Esme."
She nodded slightly and went to sit next to Carlisle on the couch. I wasn't being as observant as I should of. I didn't see Carlisle come down. After doing a small double take, I saw how everyone was sitting down, there full and undivided attention given to Peter and Charlotte.
Edward took my hand, pulling me over to them. "They're going to tell us their story." He muttered.
"I know!" I said lightly, sitting down on the arm of the couch next to him.
He rolled his eyes at that. "Carlisle, Esme and Alice all want to hear it." I grinned at who he left out. The Vanity of Rosalie and the short attention span of Emmett kept them out.
Peter started the tale, his warm smile gone with no trace of happiness as he started. His voice was slightly raspy at first, but then fell into a normal southern accent. "I don't remember the exact date. Back then, time wasn't accounted for as well as today. All I'm sure of, is I had became a new born roughly the same time as Jasper. Perhaps only a month or two after. I dully remember my human days. But, I was practically an out law." He grinned at that. "Not like, billy the kid, or anything like that. I hadn't killed before. Just stole, or cheated. I never really cared for the past or future, silly now. I was, and have ever since been, twenty two. Frozen in time, since that day..."
"I had never really given much thought into my death, but, hell! I never thought I would come across a beautiful Hispanic woman, white as a ghost, biting down on my neck as hard as possible and living in hell for three days. Lucy was her name. I thought I was going to die then and there. The fire inhaled me. I didn't expect it to be like that.
"Truth was, I always figured I was going to hell, so I wasn't in a complete shock when this happened. I just... didn't think I would return from it. I didn't think I would ever return to stand on this earth. But I prayed I would. I always had regretted that, too. At the time, I thought by becoming this, that god was cruelly getting me back for all I had done.
"It was a short time, though it didn't feel like it. It was Only three days: 72 hours: so on and so forth. And, I was shocked when I 'reawakened'- I liked it at first. I was Fast, Strong, Beautiful. A 'Hundred times the man I was when I was human. A 'thousand even. But that all changed when I was introduced to my new... job. My duty, my life? I don't know what to call it, truthfully. It wasn't like it was work I was being paid for, or somethin' I would personally pick out for myself.
"I was like him." Peter muttered lowly with a small tilt of his head to Jasper. "She favorite'd me because I was always winning the fights. Though I didn't have a power to make me rise above the rest of them, I still fought amazingly. Eventually I was Promoted to what he was. A major, I suppose. Not really a ranking, but held higher then the newborns. Yet lower then Maria, and her other two comrades. Her only two allies that she would rid of herself.
"It was painful, killing off so many of them, though they were innocent and didn't know what they were doing. They were like children, oddly enough. They would do what we told them for their own self preservation. Young, Naive. But, I didn't know what I was doing, either. At least, it was my excuse for the time being.
"I hadn't thought about it though, but then I met Charlotte shortly after she was created. She captivated me- she was caring, kind, good. Opposite of all the others in the current camp we were in. She practically opened my eyes to the gory world around me. But everyday I was fearing for her. Shortly, her years timing would be up.
"It was a dark, chilling night in Mexico. I wasn't sure what town we were in at the time. All I would remember is how they all looked the same, and had so many humans. But, once we had made up a camp Maria ordered us to rid of the expired. They were the newborns at and over there yearly mark. Nettie and Lucy had left her by this point, in fear of what she would do to them.
"I was fine the first few, killing dully and ridding of the bodies. But then, Charlotte had came up. Jasper made a dull wary noise before going towards her slowly, about to claim this one. But, I was in love with her. I needed her, alive.
I shouted then, 'Charlotte, Run!' and we ran. Away. I expected Jasper to chase us down, and kill us both, but he didn't. He never ran after us. I was thankful for that.
"It was roughly five years after we had left when I was feeling guilt. Jasper had spared me, and the least I could of done was give him a better life. We were up north, in Kentucky at the time. I persuaded her to make one last trip down to Mexico, to get him.
"Once back, I told him of our new life up north. How it was so much more peaceful then it was there. How much peace, pride and progress we held for ourselves at the time. I didn't have to talk to him for too long before he agreed.
"It wasn't till the mid to late 30s when he left us- a solid forty years. We were in Philadelphia. He had insisted on leaving us in that state... strangely right before he met Alice." Peter said with a small chuckle.
"We weren't thrilled to see him go but..." Charlotte muttered, grabbing at his hands.
Jasper started from the couch then. "Strange how a fate can change from just getting out of the rain. I dunked into the dinner where- she was. Waiting for me. She held out her hand and I took it without thinking. For the first time in a century, I felt hope." He muttered kissing her hand lightly.
Alice grinned. "You should of herd him! So polite! 'I'm sorry ma'am.'" She mimicked in a lower voice. She smiled softly, intertwining her hand in his. "It was the first time I've ever experienced love before... I think" The last part was steel-like, hard- regardless it was Alice.
I hated how she didn't remember anything of her human life. It wasn't fair to her or me. If she didn't remember her past, I couldn't pick at her brain for what she knew.
Even my powers had a weakness.
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