"Edward…"

"You promised Maria you would keep going to school" The boys around the hallways apparently hadn't gotten over yesterday appearance, because they were still staring at her "Just ignore them. They'll stop after a while"

"But it's so annoying"

"There is one simple way to fix that" An evil smirk cross Edward lips before he turned around and screamed "hey boys, I'd back off if I were you or her boyfriend will have to come here and beat you all!" well that did the trick. Every single boy in the hallway turned away "go to class Mia."

"Where are you going?"

"I have gym"

"It's been how many years since you've been here?"

"100" he whispered "Carlisle was 368 when we left, now he's 468" he said quietly enough so only Mia could hear "Alice will be in Biology with you"

"The hyper one?"

"Rose will be there as well"

"Then I'm good to go" she smiled "once you point the way"

"You went yesterday"

"Sorry I don't remember things as quickly as you do"

"It's down the hall and to your left. Room 115" he sighed softly "now go"

"Thank you Edward" Mia smiled, hugging him softly before running off to class

"Dork…"

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"How do you live with this" Maria whispered, leaning against the wall of Carlisle's office as she tried to think of something other then the sweet smell that filled the air of the hospital. All that blood around her.

"I've learned to ignore it to the point that I no longer crave it" She tilted her head down to see him bent over his desk filling out some paper work "It gets easier as time goes on"

"Yes, but the initial part of it is aggravating. Saving someone's life when there's so much…blood around"

The wall was hard against Maria's back when Carlisle moved in front of her, pushing her up against it just enough so it didn't break under either of their strength. She could have sworn he was about to say something sweet, but then there came a nock on the door.

"Carlisle, open up"

"Casius" Maria growled angrily, mad that he had interrupted their talk

Laughing Carlisle opened the door and let Casius walk in, only to receive a dark glare from Maria as he took a seat on the guest's chair.

"What? I can't exactly visit Mia in school. It would kind of look bad for a guy who's in his thirty's to be waiting for a 17 year old"

"Anywhere else would be fine"

"I can't control my thirst like Carlisle here can"

"So you came to the hospital?"

"Two vampires here to stop me if I loss control"

"It's alright Maria, if anything happens we will stop him" Carlisle smiled as he took his seat once more and continued his paper work.

"And besides, I have a message for you"

"And what is that?"

"Aro wants you back home"

"No"

"Maria…"

"I said no Casius. I already told him I wasn't coming back for a while"

"It's only for a week"

"Once again, no"

"Maria…"

"Casius I believe it is Maria's decision on what to do with her time" Carlisle suggest calmly "And in no way is it Aro's place to demand her be back home"

"That's not what Aro believes"

"I…have to get back to work" Maria whispered, stopping either of the boys from continuing their conversation "I'll see you later Carlisle" Without another word she turned towards the door and walked out of the room gracefully.

"Aro needs to leave her alone"

"He is her boss"

"It doesn't matter Casius. She has a choice in how to live her life"

"I really don't care either way. It was just an excuse to come here to see Mia"

"She'll be out of school in 2 hours. Until then, stay here and keep quiet"

"Yes sir"

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"Casius!" Mia ran over to her boyfriend, jumping into his arms before he could enter the Cullen house in safety. "I missed you!"

"It has barley been a week" he laughed softly, returning the hug as he carried her into the house and set her down

"Still….I missed you"

"And how's your fighting with Edward going?"

"We're already starting to get along" she smiled, looking back at her brother sitting on the couch with Jasper

"Finally" he sighed, laughing a bit when he saw Nessie running over to Edward and jumping on his lap.

"Hey, I haven't seen this cutie yet"

"This is Nessie. Bella had her before she…you know"

"And where has she been all weak?"

"My place" Jacob shrugged, walking out of the kitchen as Maria and Carlisle walked in the door.

"Wolf" Maria growled, moving into attack position as Carlisle grabbed her arm

"Try friend" Carlisle whispered, pulling her back into his arms as she fought with his hold.

"Hey, no one told me there would be more leeches at the house"

"Shove it dog" Maria growled

"Maria calm down" Carlisle whispered. When she continued to fight him he pulled her upstairs.

"Well that was…interesting" Jasper tried not to laugh as Carlisle and Maria disappeared up the stairs.

'Marias been raised to hate werewolves" Mia explained to Jacob "she's been alive for almost 500 years"

"And you two aren't attacking me because…"

"Edward told me today that he was expecting a friend over, and he told me you were a werewolf so I wasn't aloud to attack"

"Carlisle usually doesn't know if you're coming until he see's you here"

"Well I hope he gets her to calm down. I really don't fancy my throat being ripped out"

"Not like the Cullen's would let her" Casius whispered, keeping himself back from attacking

"Casius…"

"I'm a bit on the old side as well" he whispered

"Still…"

"You need to control it in this house" Edward whispered

"Shove it Cullen"

"Casius that is my brother" of course Casius didn't listen. The minute Edward got to his feet Casius was in front of him. The boys stood here for a few seconds before the fighting started to escalate.

"This is our house Casius. You follow our rules"

"The only rules I have to follow are Aro's" Mia was in the middle of the boys just as Casius threw a punch, hitting her straight in the face. "Mia!"

"Get out" she growled, turning to face him

"Mia, I didn't mean to hit you"

"No, you meant to hit my brother! Leave now Casius!"

Casius was about to say something in his defence, but he stopped when he saw the look in her eyes. "I take it…I need a new girlfriend"

"No shit Sherlock" she growled "now out!"

"Alright, alright" he sighed, turning on his heel and heading for the door "But don't expect to get back home easily"

"With you there I won't be going back"

"Harsh" he whispered, opening the door and walking out of the house

"Ass…"

"Mia?" she turned to see Edward and Jasper on their feet in front of Jacob and Nessie with surprised looks on their faces

"He hit me" she shrugged softly before walking off towards the kitchen

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"Maria clam down" Carlisle cooed into her ear, holding her close to his chest as she continued to fight

"I have been calm all day" she growled "Around all that…blood"

"Jacob is our friend. His whole pack is safe from us or any other vampire"

"What is he doing here?" she growled

"He imprinted on Nessie" Now that was a language she understood "he spends almost every moment with her"

"He is a werewolf. She is half vampire. How does that work?"

"Female vampires can't have children" he shrugged "so it doesn't really matter"

"But…"

"It's how it is Maria. You will have to get use to it"

"I'll try"

"That's all I ask for now" His hands slowly let go of her, only to be pulled back

"I've told you a lot about myself, what about you?"

"What would you like to know?"

"Well, you use to live here before right?"

"Yes I did" he whispered "twice before now"

"And I've heard your kid's talk about two different Charles…what about the new one?"

"He was named after the last one" he laughed softly one of his buddies in the force had a kid a few years after he retired, and a year after he died" he seemed to be getting down while talking about his old friend "I meet his namesake when we moved back here. He's the same age as Charlie was and he seemed to have the same personality so…"

"It was like Charlie never left?"

"Exactly"

"What was so special about this guy?"

"He was the first human I really became friends with. Everywhere else we went it seemed like I just…couldn't risk having friends. It might reveal our secret and if that happened, we were doomed." Maria felt his arm tighten a bit around her shoulders "But Charlie…seemed to understand everything. "he trusted me more then he had trusted anyone else before"

"Something someone could really use when they don't have man friends outside the family"

"Pretty much yah"

"Don't be embarrassed about that" she laughed, looking up to see his head lowered into her shoulder "if I could have a friend like that I'd love it. My best friend is a vampire and while that's nice to have, I sometimes wish I could be friends with a human too."

"Well, maybe we should go back downstairs and see your friend once again. I heard fighting not too long ago"

"She probably got in a small fight with Casius again. They fight a lot"

"I see" She touched his arm softly, holding onto it a bit as he lead her downstairs once more