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Summary: All Human. Hidden amongst us are people with magical like qualities. For there own protection most choose to stay hidden, some blending with society while others stay away, pretending not to exist. Bella has not really existed for the last sixteen years, after a disastrous first attempt at being in public she meets the Cullen's can they help protect her before the Volturi find her and try to kidnap her and the other other gifted Cullen children?

"Edward Anthony! How dare you!" Alice yelled as she stormed towards the tree where her brother stood with a smug yet angry look on his face.

"How dare I what, Alice? Make you leave a place you shouldn't even be at? You're lucky I didn't really go up to that front door!"

"You tricked me! And I was just about to get to her hair too!" Alice said as she stomped her foot.

"She isn't a Barbie, Alice, you forced entry into her home, probably surprised the hell out of her, and then tried to give her a make over? You realize, after meeting you and Emmett, she probably thinks we all are as crazy as you two!" Edward said as he made his way back to the house.

Alice huffed, "She seemed perfectly fine, I think she likes me."

"Or, she just isn't used to human interaction and thinks this is normal." Edward muttered.

"Mom and dad aren't going to be happy when they discover you went there."

"They don't have to know, now do they?"

"Maybe it'd do you some good if I told. Teach you to some boundaries and to listen, we don't know these people Alice!"

"You wouldn't dare!"

"Try me. Just stay away from them."

Alice ran a bit a head of her brother so she could stop his walking and pointed her figure in his face.

"I know what this is about! It's about my vision, you don't want it to come true!"

"Don't be ridiculous Alice!"

"I'm being ridiculous? You're the one who is denying what's in your own head!"

Edward stopped walking and stared at his sister. "What are you talking about, the only thoughts in my head are about making sure the Volturi doesn't find us and about living a normal life. Hanging out with someone who could impale me with a flying object isn't one of those thoughts!"

"But my vision hasn't changed, and you know brother dear, those vision are based on peoples thoughts and decisions." Alice sung smugly as she opened the back door of their home.

Edward narrowed his eyes at his sister and sneered as he walked past her, not happy with her observation, but not being able to dispute his sisters accurate comment. He wasn't going to admit he had feelings for Bella. They were purely physical anyway. He knew nothing about her other than her power, and her mind was silent and beautiful. He wasn't going to fall in love with her, as his sister predicted, Edward repeated over and over in his head, the only thing Alice saw was lust.

The days seemed to move slowly for Bella, Sunday night she found herself nervous with anticipation, as she climbed the stairs to her room after dinner. She slowly opened her door and cautiously peeked her head in checking for another stray Cullen, but no one was in her room. She even called out a timid 'Hello" and waited for someone to answer to no avail.

Monday morning found her in a slightly better mood as she woke up wondering if she would have any secret visitors day. After her lessons she rushed to her room and threw the door open, but there was no overgrown superman or a tiny pixie waiting.

After she finished preparing dinner she again found herself running up the stairs and opening her door, just to sigh and hang her head in disappointment that her room was bare of any unexpected guest. By the time night fell, and Bella was getting ready for bed She realized, mixed in with her disappointment, was a hint of loneliness she had never felt before.

Edward kept a watchful eye on his siblings. He had taken upon himself to make sure they did not sneak off to the Swan property these last few days. Rosalie never had a single desire to make the two mile hike in the woods. Jasper was curious but respected his parents wishes to let things play out naturally. Emmett and Alice, however, both had Bella on the brain and were continually plaguing Edwards mind with thoughts of their next meeting with the beautiful brunette he was trying to forget. It drove Edward mad, and he spent many hours over the next two days composing on his piano, attempting to block out the unwanted thoughts swarming his head.

When Wednesday rolled around, Edward felt as though he would go insane with the lock down his parents had created. He was used to his quiet time, when his siblings would go and socialize, he would stay home and hang out in the sanctuary of his room. Carlisle would usually be at work and Esme would go about her day cleaning, cooking and doing what she does best, making plans and decorating.

Her thoughts were always focused on whatever task she was doing, making sure Edward got as much time as possible away from the bothersome thoughts of others. Unfortunately with everyone being stuck at the house, he had few moments of peace and it was wearing on him dearly.

The final straw for Edward was being forced to hear Alice and Rose talk about their boyfriends, his own brothers, in a way no brother should hear about the other. Before the girls could get into too much detail, Edward was pounding on Rose's door.

"You two hold your thoughts for the love of god! I'll be out of range in few minutes, I'm going down to the lake!"

He heard the giggling, saw the image of Rose on her knees in front of Emmett and Jasper between Alice's legs before the girls burst into full on belly laughs as he ran down the stairs and to the garage. He grabbed the keys to one of the family's four wheelers, a recent present purchased for the boys since they had moved to a location with so much land. He wasted no time, moving swiftly through the grass, navigating between the trees , not slowing down until he go closer to lake, putting enough distant from the girls to effectively cut off the their rambling. His request hadn't mattered to them, as soon as their laughter had subsided, their talk had resumed and ravaged his mind.

Once down by the lake, Edwards mind was finally silent. He gave a deep sigh, peace at last. He laid on the grassy embankment and stared at the clouds, enjoying the first clear head he had in a very long while. While trying to decide if the currant puffy cloud overhead was a bear or a tree, his body started to tingle with an electric jolt, almost as if he had just drank too much caffeine. He sat up and his eyes darted to the left, in the direction he had come from, but nothing was there but the trees and four wheeler. He heard a branch snap and his head whipped to the right, staring straight ahead at beautiful, shocked, wide brown eyes.

When Wednesday rolled around, Bella decided waiting in her room all day for odd people she didn't even know that may or may not show up was just not acceptable. So after her lessons and tending to the vegetables in the garden, she talked Renee into letting her take a book down by the lake to read. She felt restless and needed to do something that would keep her mind from wandering to the mysterious visits from the Cullen's.

Bella had just laid out a blanket and opened her book when her quietness was disturbed by a rumbling noise. Perplexed, she put the bookmark back in her tattered book and walked cautiously towards the offending sound. She didn't have to walk far to see a boy around her age, with beautiful copper hair laying in the grass with his arms behind his head gazing into the sky. She tilted her head upwards, trying to see what he was gazing at, only to find a lone cloud up in the air. Not seeing anything interesting, she resumed her examination of the teenage boy laying in front of her. He wore a black shirt that rode up slightly with his arms raised, his jeans looked well worn, but not tattered, and he wore black boots. She tried to look at his face, but the thick bush she hid behind was obstructing her view. Bella pushed a stray branch out of her way as she took a step closer, but she unintentionally stepped on a stick, alerting the boy she was present. The boy sat up quickly and darted his eyes side to side before looking right at her with shock clearly written all over. His eyes narrowed and he shot her a menacing glare.

"It's not polite to sneak up on people you know!" Edward snapped at her as he stood, brushing off his pants.

"I…"

"You what, thought you would try your hand at trespassing?"

"No, I just.."

"No? Well, this is my family's property and you are currently on our land so I'm pretty sure that qualifies as trespassing."

Bella felt her face heat up as she looked down at the ground.

"I heard an engine, I was just curious." Bella said softly "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb anyone."

Edward stared at Bella intensely as he willed his powers to work, willed Bella's brain to open to him but with a frustrated sigh he shook his head and continued his glaring.

"Yea well, you should be."

Bella was extremely taken a back by his harshness. She knew this must be one of the Cullen's. She remembered him being with the others in the store but he seemed nothing like the bubbly siblings she had met.

Feeling a burst of courage she shot back, "It's not exactly like your family follows the no trespassing rule, I have had a couple visits from your sibling you know." She said crossing her arms over her chest and glaring at him in return.

"Well, what are you doing over here anyway? I thought you weren't allowed out of the house?" Edward said, ignoring her comment.

Bella scrunched up her nose, she didn't like how he implied she was a prisoner, her parents had never made her feel like that.

"I'm allowed out," She argued, looking at the rude boy as she put her hands on her hips. Edward raised an eyebrow and Bella sighed and muttered, "I'm just not allowed off the property."

With a laugh, Edward shook his head, "That's what I thought, so why are you on my land?"

"Your land? You make it sound like you've lived here for centuries, and you do realize it's your parents property, not your's right?" Bella bit back.

"Whatever, you saw what the noise was, so you can go now." Edward said, shrugging off her snappy remark. He wanted to smile, he felt it tugging at his lips but he refrained, he wasn't going to let on he was enjoying hearing her voice or the fact he was feeling an attraction to this girl standing in front of him that frustrated him so much.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to see who was around, it's not like I come across people often. I didn't mean to bother you." Bella said, trying to get in his good graces, she didn't know understand but she really didn't want to leave, reading her book seem so boring compared to talking with an actual person.

"Well, curiosity killed the cat. You know, it's not exactly smart wandering around the woods, you could wind up finding someone you don't want to."

"I'm Bella, are you Jasper?" She said by passing his warning with an eye roll. It was a warning her parents had already given her plenty of times.

"No."

"Oh….so you must be Edward then?" Bella asked, slightly confused. Alice had told her Edward was the mind reader. But why, if this wasn't Jasper, did he not hear her sneak up on him?

"Yes."

"Well, then why on earth did you seem so shocked to see me?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." Edward replied defensively, he wasn't about to explain he couldn't hear her. He wasn't ready to admit she was the one person he couldn't read, that he was a failure.

"Yes you do! Alice told me about you." Bella started to reply.

"Forget whatever Alice told you, she's crazy!" Edward snapped as he started to walk back to the four wheeler.

Bella was frustrated and confused, she clearly remembered the conversation she had with Alice. She looked at Edwards retreating figure and narrowed her eyes, feeling her blood boil. How could a boy who looked so handsome be so rude, she thought before she cursed herself for thinking that, he could read her mind after all. With a flick of her hand she moved the four wheeler about five feet from where it had been. Causing Edward to stop and turn with a glare.

"Excuse you, could you not do that please." He said with clenched fist and gritted teeth. He didn't wait for a response, he just turned and started walking. But when Bella smirked and did it for a second time, Edwards arms flew up into the air.

"What the hell is your problem!"

"You are my problem! Why are you lying to me? Why are you being mean?" Bella yelled back to him.

Edward pinched the bridge of his nose. "Look, I don't get a lot of peace and quiet, I came down here for just that, not to have a chit chat with the neighbor girl that makes things fly okay?"

"Oh" Bella said, feeling herself blush again. Here she was, trying to make conversation, curb the empty lonely feeling she had. While Edward was trying to escape and have alone time, something she never really cared to have again, since she had met the Cullen's.

"Well, I won't bother you. You stay, I'll just head back over to my blanket, sorry." She said in a dejected voice.

As she quickly turned and walked away, Edward groaned and rubbed his hands over his face. His defensiveness had done it again, held someone at arms length. He normally wouldn't care, he liked to distance himself from others, but he felt a pull to this girl. To make matters worse, while he was infuriated by his lack of knowledge of the inner workings of her mind, she was the only person he could actually be around and still feel at peace. But he said nothing as she stalked away. He watched her retreating form, and yes, for a moment focused on the cute, tight, round ass that was walking away.

Once she was out of sight, Edward tried to lay back down, but he felt more restless than before. He turned in the direction she had come from and willed himself once more to listen for her thoughts to no avail. He stood and started to head her way, only to stop himself and head back towards his ATV. He stopped again when he reached the handle bars and turned back to where Bella's property lay. With a shake of his head and a mutter of "You're an idiot Edward," He marched over to where he assumed the stunning beauty would be.

"I thought you wanted peace and quiet." He heard a voice call out as he reached her empty blanket.

Edward turned towards the voice, and was surprised to see a smug smiling Bella floating on her back in the water. Her arms were floating up and down, as were her legs, making angels in the water like one would in the snow. Edward stared memorized by the beauty in front of him wearing a cerulean blue bathing suit, with his mouth hanging open for second before he snapped it shut and responded.

"So did I, but then this nosey girl came over and bugged me, so I thought I would return the favor." He said with a crooked smirk, sitting down on the edge of her blanket.

"Well, that wasn't very nice of her," Bella answered, no longer floating but treading the water while watching him. "I'm sure she is sorry to have disrupted your precious alone time."

Edward wasn't sure if she was being serious or sarcastic, he felt even more annoyed because he had never had to question anyone's words before.

"What are you thinking about?" Bella asked, snapping Edward out of his musing.

"What?"

"Just now, you had a weird look on your face, what are you thinking about?"

"Why the hell should I tell you."

"Well, it only seems fair."

"I'm failing to see how it's fair." Edward grumbled.

"Well, you do read minds, do you not?"

"That's what Alice said isn't it?" Edward shot back.

"Well then, I think it's plenty fair, you must have already read my mind, which by the way, I apologize for." Bella said blushing slightly, she knew very well she had several stray, inappropriate thoughts about him. She didn't mean to think about how handsome he was, or how he looked just like the main character of one of her favorite books. But sometimes you just can't help what goes on in your mind. "Why can't you tell me what's going on in your head?"

Edward rested his arms on his bent knees and turned his head towards a near by tree. He wasn't sure why, but he had the urge to actually talk to the girl, and so he opened up.

"I can't read your mind." He said with a sigh of defeat. Although, after her apology, he wished even more he could hear her thoughts.

"What?" Bella asked not sure she had heard him right.

"You're silent to me. You're right, I can read minds, but you….You're blank."

"So you can't hear anything? Not even a little?" Bella said, thanking whatever god there was that he hadn't really heard her embarrassing thoughts.

"No, nothing, do you have any idea how absolutely annoying that is?" Edward said, his voice growing a bit hard with anger.

"I'm sorry." Bella said not knowing what to say.

"You're sorry for me not being able to invade your mind?" Edward chuckled. "That's a new one, usually I'm the one apologizing for listening to others mind."

Bella smiled and chuckled a bit too as she walked slowly out of the water, grabbing her lavender towel that was hanging on a near by branch and wrapping it around him.

"Why can't you hear me?"

"I wish I knew."

"Is my brain broken or something?"

Edward smiled at the thought before teasing her a bit "I don't know, maybe…"

Bella wasn't used to teasing though, so she frowned and looked down at the ground.

"Oh."

Edward looked up at her when he heard her dejected voice, "I'm sorry, I was just teasing, no need to get all worked up."

Not knowing what to say, Bella asked the first thing that came to mind. "Why aren't you in school? Are you home schooled as well?"

"No," Edward shook his head," We start next week, mom and dad decided it was best to give us some settle down time after all the commotion this weekend."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Bella said again, knowing the commotion he was referring to was her and the hardware store.

"You do that an awful lot you know." Edward replied.

"Do what?" Bella asked with confusion.

"Apologize."

"I'm sorry." Bella blushed before they both started laughing a bit.

"I don't bite, you can come sit down." Edward said with a smile.

Bella nodded her head and made her way over to the quilted blanket she had laid down.

"What's school like?"

Edward shrugged and tried to think of a good way to explain it, "It's different for everyone, but basically, you move around to different class rooms, have to deal with annoying people, you get loads of homework and every school has a bunch of cliques. Some of the kids are nice, some are selfish, some are mean, and some act nice but really think nasty thoughts. It's not really something I can explain, you just have to experience it."

Bella huffed, "Well, I never will."

"You're not missing much, I would rather be home schooled like you. But my mom thinks its best for blending if we are around other people."

"That must be hard with your talent."

"You have no idea!"

"I bet you wish more people were silent like me." Bella mused, looking at Edward out of the corner of her eye.

Edward frowned, realizing that he used to wish for exactly that, and now, the last few days he had been begging the heavens above to let him read this girls mind. "I used to, then I realized I couldn't hear you and all I've felt now is incredibly annoyed.

Bella nodded but said nothing and the two continued to sit in silence for a few moment.

"Bella!" A radio type voice came floating into their silence.

Bella turned towards her book, and lifted it up to reveal a small blue two way radio. "It's my mom." She said before holding up her finger in a shhing motion. "Yes mom?"

"I think it's time to come back, it's getting late."

"I'll be right there." Bella said standing up and walking over to her shorts and shirt.

"I guess I should go too." Edward said sadly.

"Yeah, sorry, she doesn't really like me staying out for long. Worried something will happen, which is crazy, nobody ever comes here."

Edward smiled, "Well, not since we moved here you mean."

Bella giggled, "Yes, things have livened up quite a bit since I met your family. I've spent the last two days wondering who was going to magically pop up in my room."

Edward turned serious, "I'm sorry about that, I promise no one will be sneaking in anymore."

"Oh," Bella said sadly, "I know I shouldn't want people to be coming into my home uninvited, but I actually didn't mind…it was kind of nice."

Edward raised his eyebrows a bit at this odd creature. "You mean, you enjoy finding strangers in your room, people you don't know who could potentially cause you harm?"

"They weren't going to hurt me," Bella said shaking her head.

Edward tugged at his hair as he blew out a loud breath. "But they could have. Did you ever stop to think how they knew where you lived? Do you realize Emmett knew where you lived because we had him follow you? We wanted to make sure you weren't a threat because I couldn't hear you!" Edward started, his voice going angry at the fact she was so naïve and could have put herself in danger. "Granted he wasn't suppose to enter your home, but still he could have been a bad guy and you just talked to him, didn't yell or scream or anything!"

"That's not true!" Bella argued, stomping over to her blanket and pulling it out from under Edward to fold it. "I knocked my whole bookshelf on him"

"Oh yes," Edward said exasperated "Bludgeoned to death by books! The point is Bella, you didn't know who he was, who we are and you didn't defend yourself. And then, you let another one of us into your home. You really need to be more careful. I can see why your parents locked you up if your stupid enough to talk to anyone."

Bella face heated up with embarrassment at the fact he was right and then with anger at being called stupid.

"Clearly I am if I decided to sit here at talk to you!" She said, stomping away, completely forgetting her favorite book laying on the grass.

Charlie Swan entered the tiny dinner and looked around, locating Carlisle at the booth they had occupied on Sunday.

"Afternoon." Charlie said taking a seat across from the doctor.

"Charlie, how are you?" Carlisle offered with a smile in a friendly voice.

"Good thanks, you?" The chief said looking down briefly at the menu.

"I'm fine, settling in nicely, this has been a nice change of pace for us."

"I bet this is a big change from Chicago."

"It sure is, but definitely not bad."

The waitress came to take their order and the small talk ended.

"So, Is your wife still displeased with the idea of getting to know us?"

Charlie let out a hearty chuckle. "Displeased would be an understatement. But, at least I was smart enough to talk to her without any knives around." Charlie said sipping his coffee.

"Well, I admit, her fears are certainly warranted, it's not often you come across a talented person, and here our family is with five of them. But I assure you, we are the good guys." Carlisle stressed.

"My wife's going to kill me for telling you this, but her mother was just like Bella. Could move stuff and all. When Renee was around sixteen, a close family friend, came into the home. Now, my wife doesn't talk about all the details but in short, a person that was very trusted came to her family's home and murdered her mother, all because she refused to be a Volturi pawn." Charlie paused as their waitress came back with their food.

"I know Renee wasn't visible to this guy, but she did witness it all and Volturi knows her mother had a daughter. She has never dealt with what she saw. When Bella was a baby and we found things floating above her crib, my wife locked herself in her room for a week crying and praying that this was all a dream, talking about how they were going to find us. It was shortly after that we moved to our new home and Renee only ever leaves when it's necessary. Bella never stepped foot off of the property until Saturday and well you see how well that went. I've gone along with everything Renee has said because, well….I didn't know about this stuff until Bella came along, Renee never once mentioned this was a possibility, having a magical child. I trusted her judgment to handle it the best way possible, but now I'm not so sure."

Carlisle ate, and listened carefully to everything Charlie had said.

"So what's your story doc?"

"Esme and her sister Endora came to live with my great uncle, Eleazar and his wife Carmen when Esme was sixteen and her sister was twelve. Their parents were close friends and disappeared one night. You see, they were gifted, as well as Endora. There are speculations that they ran off to join Volturi before they could discover Endora's power. But no one knows for sure. Anyway, Esme and I had just married and returned from our honeymoon when Eleazar called us. Endora was claiming to be pregnant and in love with a man named Demetri. Eleazar knew he worked for Volturi, he tried to stop them. You see, Eleazar can sense peoples powers and tap into them…borrow them if you will. Demetri's power is sort of like projecting. He can appear in your dreams and he filled Endora's head full of stories of love and how Volturi is such a wonderful place to go. The web of lies was too strong for Eleazar to quickly undo and once Demetri had left with Endora, Eleazar couldn't continue to borrow his power. We searched for over a year trying to find her and then one day, Emmett arrived on our doorstep with a little backpack and a note from her. She begged us to keep him safe. We aren't sure if she knew he had powers or not. He is fast, and for a long time we tried to figure out how he wound up in the kitchen after being in his room not a second before. But Esme was sure all powers were mental not physical and never thought more of it than us not being used to a quick toddler." Carlisle paused with a chuckle. "Then, Emmett and I were in the car and got stuck in the mud. I was trying to push the car but wasn't having any luck. Out of no where Emmett appeared, out of his car seat and lifted the car right up off the ground. Damn near gave me a heart attack."

"Did you ever find Esme's sister?" Charlie asked, he had long since finished his food and was listening intently to Carlisle's story.

"No, we stopped looking after the letter. We didn't want to draw attention to ourselves and she has never made any contact with us again."

Charlie nodded his head "And the others? How did you end up with them?"

"Edward and his parents were in a car accident, just before he turned seven. They didn't survive. I was the doctor who was going to break the news to him, but he let it slip that he already knew. He told me he could hear the nurses thoughts. I asked him what he meant and he told me, he could hear my thoughts too, and to stop feeling bad for him. Then he asked me if I could keep him safe. When I asked what he meant, he said that the bad people were after him, and that his parents were speeding trying to get away from them. That's how then ended up wrapped around a tree after losing control, we still aren't sure why they didn't snatch Edward then, we are guessing because they couldn't easily grab him, the firefighters had to use the jaws of life to pry him out. After a lot of paper work and red tape he came home with us. Alice and Jasper appeared on our doorstep one day, a little more than seven years later. Jasper had been bounced from foster home to foster home before running away and living on the streets and Alice came from a family who was happy to be rid of her, they hid her away in the basement and pretended she didn't exist because of her power. You already know Rose's story."

"Well, that's quite a lot of information to take in." Charlie said letting out a deep breath. "You said you've had run in with the Volturi before, when were those?"

Carlisle nodded and looked at his watch. "I'm sorry Charlie, I really need to get back, I didn't realize how late it had gotten. Could we continue this conversation soon?"

"Sure sure, how about tomorrow, same time?"

Carlisle smiled, put some money down and shook the chiefs hand. "Sounds like a plan."

It was late in the night when Bella heard the creek of her floor boards. Her eyes snapped open and she quickly flicked her wrist towards the light switch. She started to scream out when a hand came up and covered her mouth and a velvety voice whispered in her ear.

"Well, at least that was a sensible reaction."

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