A few Days later Carlisle sat in the forest just outside his house after a long shift at work. He had been putting up all day with weird looks from his co workers. Some of pity, and some of triumph, like they knew Esme was planning on leaving. One of the doctors had even tried to talk to him about it, of course that wasn't going to happen. The one thing he did hate about small towns is how fast information got around. It had taken barely a day for everyone to know about Esme's leaving once Carlisle had talked to Charlie. Of course, none of it was Charlie's fault. They had been talking in the middle of his office so anyone could have heard them.

"You must be Carlisle" The branch he was sitting on nearly broke under the weight of a second person "Believe it or not, Aro was worried about you"

"And why would Aro worry for me?"

"he said something about being your friend, and he was pretty ticked when he saw that Esme chick with another guy" yes, he really needed to be reminded of that "but he couldn't leave, so he sent me to check up on you"

"And who may I ask are you?" he asked sweetly, standing up on the branch so he stood a bit taller then her "I've never seen you before"

"That's because when you were with the Volterri for that short amount of time in your life, I was out on my own" Her smile was definitely alluring, although Carlisle didn't see himself moving on from Esme any time soon. "You alright Hun?"

"I will be fine" He shrugged softly "so Aro actually sent someone here all the way from Italy just to check up on me"

"Well…kind of" she shrugged "he was thinking of it, and I wanted to get out of the place before I hit Jane, and my friend wanted to come too"

"And your friend is…"

"Well you wouldn't remember her well I guess" she laughed softly "she's Edward Cullen's Twin sister. You bit her at the same time as him but she didn't want to stay"

"You mean she joined the volterri?"

"Well, she hangs around but when she needs to eat she goes hunting in the woods for Animals. She just didn't want to spend forever around her brother. They got into a lot of fights"

"Well, I guess I can understand that. But it must be hard for her to keep that diet around Aro and Casius. It was for me" he watched as she pushed a long red strand of hair out of her face and behind her ear. "So how does she survive"

"I keep them away from her" It was the first time he had noticed her eyes since she had popped out in front of her. He had been looking at her face the whole time, but never her eyes. The soft Golden colour with a small ring of red around the edge of her pupil told him she drank human blood, but not enough of it. "I go hunting with her once in a while, and I don't kill humans for food. Since most of the Volterri food is volunteers Aro makes me a bottle every day so I can survive. Same for her. Our amount doesn't kill the person, and they are never food for anyone else." She smiled as she fixed her hair once more "It's so we can Survive like the others, but we're not killing humans and their not being changed"

"And how may I ask did you convince Aro to go along with this? He is a stubborn man for his diet"

"But he can't say no to me" she smiled "I he wants to call me his adopted daughter he usually has to treat me like one, and besides, I'm too cute to say no to" she laughed "Now, your family seems pretty up tight right now"

"How do you know this?"

"I thought you would be at your house" she shrugged "but you weren't so I came here"

"Ahhh, I thought you could read minds like Edward"

"No" she laughed "Amilia Controls emotions, but on a different level then your…Jasper? She can make people feel emotions they may never have felt before"

"And what may I ask if your special ability?"

She simply shrugged "never found out"

"and you've been alive for…"

"500 years" she smiled "of course I look like I'm…"

"20"

"I was thinking my real age, 23. But I like your idea for age more" she smiled "so, would you like to go see your family? Amilia is dyeing to see Edward but she won't go without me"

"Alright" he smiled, looking back at the house as she jumped ahead of him "by the way, what's your name? You never told me!"

"It's Maribel, but please call me Maria" He shook his head softly before following her through the trees and back towards home