Chapter 15: Stories.

Elaina's POV

"So there I was, right smack in the middle of a blizzard, with the snow all around me. And I could actually feel the coldness. As I walked across the frozen river intent on finishing my mission once and for all. I tell you this was the hardest vampire I ever had to beat. He had just had a drinking feast in Mexico City and was very strong. I hadn't hunted in three days! We danced across the still river for a long moment before he made a stupid new born mistake of jumping right at me. I pined his arms to his back and proceeded to rip off his head slowly, with him screaming out in pure pain-"

"That's enough! Elaina already has nightmares enough as it is." Esme said to Karen who was telling us about her last mission for the Volturi. "But Esme I want to know if she won." I wined to her. Karen looked at me with one eyebrow raised. "Well of course I won Elle. I never lost before that and I wasn't planning on losing then. But Esme is right. I forget how human you are."

I pouted on my bed. I had the whole Cullen family around my bed listening to Karen's story. That was the best night time story I had ever heard and I didn't even get to hear all of it! "Elle it's going to be fine!" Taylor said chuckling and leaning down to kiss me softly on the forehead. Taylor wasn't going to stay with me while I slept tonight.

I didn't want Karen to know just how human I really was. And if she knew that I had nightmares every night if I wasn't sleeping next to a vampire than she would really think I had a mental problem.

Everyone left but Karen and I smiled at her. "Hey Karen, are you sure you haven't heard anything about my mom or dad?" I asked. She sighed before saying, "No Elaina I have not heard anything. Last I knew they were somewhere in Greenland. But there was some sort of territorial fight going on so they left. Like I said before I don't know where they went." I nodded my head. "I know I'm sorry. I just miss them I guess."

Karen leaned in and hugged me. "I know Ellie but really try to sleep peacefully. This will all turn out fine. I always get what I want." She said smiling. I nodded and she stood up to leave after saying goodnight. I laid in my bed and slowly drifted to sleep.

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Taylor's POV

I was down stairs in the kitchen putting the last dish away when I turned to see Karen walking straight up to me. Strange I didn't hear her. "How bad is she Taylor?" Karen asked. I sighed.

"Bad." She sat down on the bar stool and stared at me. I went and sat next to her. "She has nightmares every night of Gianna. I usually lay with her when she sleeps because it helps her not have as bad of nightmares but she still has them. She has panic attacks when she really remembers the monster and sometimes when she's having her nightmares. If she's in a dark place she will look around frantically like she's looking for someone. She just always thinks the monster is gonna pop out somewhere.

"She wont talk about her parents to anyone, and she acts like she's never going to have to go back to Volterra. She shuts herself away from the world before she even knows it. She still has scars all over her back and sometimes, I can really see how the scars go all the way to her heart." Karen stared at me for a long moment. "How do you know about the scars? I swear if you've taken advantage of her just because she's a week little human I'm going to rip off your-" What the heck?

"Of course not. She just showed me her back once. I mean-I would never." She just nodded her head. "Taylor I don't care what she has showed you in her thoughts, but you have no idea what this woman did to her. You didn't have to watch a little four year old girl get tortured day after day." Tears started to weld up in her eyes as she said this.

"You didn't have to see this girl beg you on her hands and knees every night not to leave her because if you did the monster would hurt her. And you weren't the one who had to bathe her and see those scars everyday for years and know that it was your fault because you didn't have the strength to save your best friend.

"And you weren't the one who had to break your promises just so this little human girl could escape all of this." She whispered. "What do you mean?" I said.

She hide her thought very well. "I talked to Aro one night. Of course he knew what was happening to her but he didn't really care. Just as long as she would-" She stopped herself. And her train of thought. "Wait a sec." She said before disappearing. I heard her whispering to Bella about Bella's shield. Then she was back and I couldn't read her mind.

"Okay like I was saying, Aro didn't care if she got hurt as long as she was alive. So I made a deal with him. If he let her go live with my only blood relative Jenny, then I would do what he wanted." She said. "What did he want?" I asked. I really did not like the whole, not hearing peoples thoughts. I don't know how Edward does it.

"I must be the one to change Elaina. Aro knew that if anyone else did it she would not live." That didn't seem like too much on her part. She looked me in the eyes. "You don't understand. I made her a promise. I said I would never her hurt. I said I would never bit her. I don't like breaking promises." She said with her head down.

Karen really did care a lot for Elaina. "Karen, if you do something for me I will change her myself." I said. Her head snapped up and she smiled at me. "Anything." She vowed.

"Find Jonathan and Susan White."

A/N WOW! :D That took a lot out of me to do! Okay so I feel like this was a dark chapter. Like all spooky and scary. Lol I love it! Haha so you know a lot about Karen now. She's a good half vamp who would do anything to protect her best friend. And if you couldn't tell, Jonathan and Susan White are Elaina's parents. So yeah that's about it. Lol. Please please please review!!

-Esmefan1-Elissa.