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I'M BACK! FROM MY DOSOLIT PIT OF NOTHING, I AM BACK!

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EPOV

When we got back to the house Bella led us into the living room where we all sat down. As we sat down, there was an obvious divide between the two families. Aro, Caius and Marcus sat on a couch directly opposite where Esme, Carlisle, Jasper and Alice were all sitting. Felix and Gianna were sitting on the love seat opposite of Emmet and Rosalie while Jane and Heidi were in recliners on the same side of the room as the three brothers while Alec stood behind his sister.

Bella sat down on one of the loveseats in the front of the room and Layla sat in another loveseat next to Bella's. I went to sit down next to Bella and pulled her into my lap carefully; I just couldn't think of my Bella as being as unbreakable as the rest of us and I knew part of me still didn't accept the fact that she might be.

Then I noticed the werewolf was the only one standing up. He was looking at Layla concern obvious on his face. I looked at her as well, she looked perfectly fine to me as she was just staring of into space, and I returned my gaze to him. That's when I noticed I couldn't hear his thoughts or anyone else's in the room for that matter.

What was happening? I looked at Alice and she looked confused and worried and I started to wonder why Jasper didn't send a wave of calm out. The stress in the room must be overwhelming him. I looked at him and noticed he was staring at all of us in shock; complete and total shock.

"I'll be right back." I was pulled out of my thoughts as the wolf- Kyle, I believe- walked out of the room. Where was he going? That one question started so many more. Why didn't he repulse me? Why didn't my powers work? Where had Bella been? What is Layla? Why is Bella part of the Volt……?

"Edward, you're giving me a headache." My angel kissed my nose and gave me a warm smile. He blue eyes looked like the ocean itself and I melted; forgetting all my worries. Is this what I used to do to Bella? What did she say, I "dazzled" her? "All your questions will we answered soon enough and, yes, that is what you used to do to me. Layla?" She turned away leaving me wondering if I had spoken my thoughts. I also turned to Layla and saw her jump a bit and look around. And suddenly her eyes held fear.

"Where did…?" She started but she was cut off by Kyle coming back in with a container of some sort. He sat down beside her and pulled her into his lap before giving her the white plastic thing and a spoon.

"I thought you might need a soda but I found this instead. Something told me you would like it more." He told her in a gentle voice. Who did that remind me of? No. It couldn't be, could it?

Jacob Black. That mutt had told me Bella was probably dead and what happened to her parents the night we returned to Forks. He had told me how she was a lifeless zombie after I left and how her heart had completely shattered. Actually he had shown me. I mentally kicked myself for causing my angel so much pain. I had left her in even more danger than when I was around her; I had left her to befriend a young werewolf! I had caused all of this pain and…

I heard a growl and saw my angel glaring at me. She must have remembered what pain I had caused her and wanted me to leave. I prepared myself for the worst as she opened her mouth to speak "I have forgiven you for all of that but the one thing I will not tolerate is you beating yourself up for it!"

"But..." I started. She shouldn't have forgiven me. I don't deserve it!

"NO!" She interrupted me with another menacing growl. "You promised me, Edward." I saw the look of hurt in her eyes and nodded. I had already broken too many promises to break the one I had just made two days ago.

"You need to listen to her, Edward. I know you don't think much of yourself but try to at least not assume the worst until it's been proven. You're lucky I told you not to kill yourself all those years ago." I looked to see Layla slowly eating what looked like...cookie dough? All the questions came surging back into my mind. Then something clicked. She was the one who told me not to kill myself? More questions and many memories flashed through my mind.

"You're going to give yourself a migraine, Edward." Layla spoke again in a completely serious voice. "Yes, I was the one who made sure you didn't kill yourself forty-five years ago." To my disappointment she didn't continue on the matter and turned to Bella. "I would suggest keeping the force-field up. There is no point in Alice getting a vision right now and Edward needs to concentrate on the matter, not others' thoughts. I don't even want to know what would happen if you let Jasper feel my emotions right now, I know I shouldn't be effected right now but I'm so unstable I don't want to take the risk. Plus, if Jane's provoked she doesn't need to start a fight." Layla told Bella in monotone while shooting Jane a sisterly look which said "You got caught".

Bella just nodded and looked around the room. I was more confused than ever. After about ten seconds of an uncomfortable silence Layla spoke up again, this time looking at Carlisle. "Where would you like us to begin? Don't everyone talk at once now! We have many matters to discuss including; mine and Bella's powers, current position in the world and lives, where we stand in the Volturi and our family in general, and the La Push pack and how you would like to proceed with that matter. And anything else we can think of. We have tomorrow as well seeing as the forecast is sunny and pretty much the rest of eternity seeing as we're all immortal. Where would you like to begin? I suggest we don't explain everything now…it's just too much information to get out in one night. "

Carlisle looked shocked; too bad I couldn't see what from. He looked at me and I could tell he was trying to tell me something. I shook my head and he looked back at Layla "Let's start with why Edward can't hear me and Jasper can't feel emotions. Oh…um…and how can you eat that?"

Layla nodded and leaned back into Kyle a bit more taking another bite of cookie dough; apparently Kyle was right and it calmed her. "Get comfortable and relax." She instructed us. I immediately leaned back against the seat and pulled Bella into a more comfortable position. I looked around and saw that everyone else in the room had also taken a similar action to mine and gotten more comfortable and relaxed.

"Thank you, Layla." I heard Marcus say. We all turned our attention back to her.

"I'll start with the reason I can eat, since that will take less time to explain. Bella and I both can eat and be able to keep it down because, unlike most vampires who throw up the food because they can't digest it, the food we consume turns into body energy and nothing more. Like you, our digestive tracts don't work anymore, or at least not like they used to. We absorb it into our bodies but it absorbs all of it instead of just some of it like humans' do. But food really isn't a necessity for us," she told us, matter-of-factly.

Carlisle's eyes widened and he gaped along with the rest of my family. That was…interesting. Not something you saw in normal vampires. But when was Bella ever normal? "Layla, please continue." I heard Caius say and she nodded.

"You cannot use your powers because of Bella. One of her powers in to put up force fields around anything; physically or mentally. She can make these fields invisible or visible and can have numerous shields up at a time. Right now she is shielding all of you from each others powers. The only ones who aren't affected by this are the two of us, because we are both immune to other's powers unless we are unstable, like I am now. Example: it would be dangerous for Jasper to be able to feel the emotions coming from me. I don't know if he could or not at the moment, but I'm not going to take the chance." She paused to let us take in this information.

So that was one of Bella's powers. "Wait…did you say one of her powers?" I asked. My family came to the same conclusion and stared as well. We were doing that a lot tonight

Layla nodded and we all gaped at Bella who, if she was human, would be blushing a deep shade of crimson at being the center of attention. I would miss that. I heard Layla continue "I also have multiple powers. Carlisle have you ever told your family the Prophecy of the Angels? I know you are familiar with it due to the fact that you were with the Volturi for a short while." At that point we all turned to look at Carlisle.

He nodded and looked at all of us taking in our questioning looks "That prophecy foretold of two very powerful vampires that could make peace in the world. It's said that they will be the most powerful vampires ever known."

This time Bella was the one to speak "There are two things wrong with that story." She told Carlisle. We all stared at her waiting for her to continue. She shook her head "Layla is about ten times better at telling the story than I am."

"Thanks a lot for the help sis." We all looked at Layla who told us of the two Angeli de Pace and how they were not like other vampires. We all stared in awe as she told us how they didn't need to drink blood; instead they absorbed energy from the ocean or night sky depending on their powers. She told me about how they could change into an "Angelic Form" and how they were the ultimate reincarnation of good or evil depending on how they chose to use their powers. Also how their mission was to make eternal peace in this world. By the end we were all shocked. Again.

About five minutes after she finished Jasper spoke up "What was the other thing wrong with what Carlisle's story?" He asked.

"He said "will be."" Layla told him. We all gave her a questioning look but it clicked for us just milliseconds before she said it "For it to be accurate he should have said "they are."" We all gaped and looked back and forth between Bella and Layla.

"Peace." Layla said making a peace sign with her hands after we all continued to stare at them. I couldn't believe it, my angel was actually…an angel! Or at least that was how she was described. I started to connect the dots that I could; the reason why their eyes where the colors they were, Layla's hair and the way she could fight, (A/N. He hasn't seen Bella fight yet and he still thinks she's breakable…..haha) the declining war rate over the last half century and the aurora where just a few that stood out.

"Anyways…" Layla continued snapping us all out of our reverie. "Our powers are as follows: Bella can control the ocean in anyway you could imagine and probably more. She can also read people's minds but it's not like Edward's or Aro's power- it's a combination of the two and you know about her force-field power. She is also a kick ass fighter and can only be beaten by me. I'm not bragging or anything it's just that only being beaten by me is very good. She can probably beat all of you here, though."

We all gaped at Bella but I refused to believe the last part. My angel couldn't be that….invulnerable! She just couldn't! I had spent the last 50 years of my existence in pain to make sure she didn't lead that kind of life. Don't get me wrong I was glad that she was here with me but it hurt me to remember that a small part of me knew that she could never love me as much as I did her. She had told her mom over the phone that all she had was a crush on me and I knew that was all it had ever been; a crush. Even if she had said she loved me, I knew it was just to make sure I was happy. That was what I had to keep telling myself over the last fifty years to keep myself from going insane. Even so I loved her more than anything in the world but I knew she….

I heard a menacing growl and came back to my surroundings: one of the most frightening things I would ever see: a very, VERY mad Layla starting at me like she was about to kill me. He eyes were a horrifying color of piercing gray that looked as if they were staring right through me. It brought a shiver down my spine that I didn't know existed.

I felt my family tense in their seats ready to pounce when Layla pointed in my direction but…she wasn't pointing at me. I looked in the direction of her pale finger and saw the most heart breaking sight I could ever see; Bella, my Bella, looking like someone had just ripped out her heart and stepped on it. She looked like she was about to burst into tears and it broke my heart. What kind of monster had done this to her?!

"You did!" Layla snarled at me, the words coming out like venom. My eyes widened wondering what I had done and Layla looked even angrier. I didn't think it was possible! "YOU FUCKING JERK! (Excuse my language but remember Layla cusses a lot) Did you not JUST hear what her power was? She can read your mind! Every thing you think!" I stared in horror as I realized that she had heard my thoughts about her. But how could she love me that much?

I looked back at my angel and knew she was trying to hold back sobs and she wouldn't meet my gaze. I heard Layla snarl again "I don't care if she never wants to see you hurt again, nobody hurts my sister! Aro, feel free to tell them everything. Although I think I'd like to explain my life and powers. But tell them everything else." Aro nodded then her piercing eyes shot back to me again. "Time to go!"

I looked at Bella with a panicked look asking for help but she still didn't meet my gaze. Instead she got up off my lap and walked like a zombie over to stand next to Aro leaving a very mad Layla in front of me.

Layla stood over me and looked down at me "Are you going to get on my back or am I going to have to drag you there?" I looked with confusion and she glared at me again. I was scared for my life until I heard my angel's voice again "Layla." Was all she said and her voice sounded pleading and sad. I wanted to hear her happy again but I knew I didn't deserve that courtesy. "No you don't! Not at the moment! You're just lucky she does!" Layla snarled at me.

Before I even had time to respond I was being thrown over someone's shoulder and carried at an incredibly fast speed, even for a vampire. I barley had time to register that I was moving before I was dropped on the ground. I looked around and I realized I was in the clump of trees next to our (Bella's and mine) meadow.

Now I was officially confused. It had taken us less than a second to run about ten miles. "It only takes me about ten minuts to run across the entire continent of Europe. Sorry I had to carry you but you are too slow and I wanted to get this over with." I looked up to see Layla starting down at me. Her eye's still showed anger but also…pity? I could tell that she was one of those people who hides their emotions well and is impossible to read. If she was human powers like mine probably wouldn't work on her like they didn't on Bella.

"You do realize she loves you just as much, if not more, than you love her, right? She told me that you usually think you are right about everything. But I'm here to tell you that that is NOT the case. She waited fifty years to see you again and welcomed you back with open arms after you left her in the woods, never to return. And I don't give a damn if you had good reasons you didn't tell her and she still came back for you. How can you not call that love!?" Layla glared at me alone and I looked away.

She was…right. As much as I hated to admit it she was right. Why was it so hard to believe that Bella really loved me?

"Because you hate yourself too much for you actually except that she loves you so you convinced yourself that all she had on you was a crush. I know that's what she told her mom but you should know better! You can read people's minds and you know that if Bella had told Renee that she was in love, Renee would have dragged her back to Florida and made sure she never came back. You just used this as another excuse to leave and I need you to forget it and accept two things. One: You deserve Bella. I don't care if you don't think so because I know that you do. You would know by now how I knew this if you had saved your thoughts for later. Anyways…Two: Bella loves you more than you could ever imagine." Layla stared at me with a serious expression and I knew she meant it.

I thought over a couple things she said and I wondered why she hadn't demanded it of me. "Because I want you to make the decision yourself." I looked at her and my eyes widened in surprise.

She just sighed "I didn't come here to lecture you. I came here to show you some memories that will, hopefully, make you come to peace with yourself. Now get up and turn around." I did quickly and she stepped up beside me and we stepped out into the meadow.

(this is where things start to get a little weird)

I gasped at the sight in front of me. It wasn't the meadow it was…..my house! But it wasn't the Cullen house it was my actual house from back when I was human. I looked around some more and found that we were in the parlor. The sun was shining through the windows and I heard a melody coming from somewhere inside the house. I looked to my left and saw Layla staring at me.

"Come on." She said without explanation and we walk forward up down the hall and into the sitting room. We entered and I immediately saw my family portrait over the fire place; my father, Edward Senior, who looked like an older version of me with brown eyes and my mother, Elizabeth, holding the infant me.

I looked around the room and saw my mother playing on our old piano. I had always had a wonderful relationship with my mother. I had inherited my eyes from her. She home schooled me and tutored me in music and taught me how to be a gentleman, at least that was how she put it. I had always loved her and was an excellent mother to me.

"Mother! Mother!" I heard a small voice yell and saw a young boy with bronze curls and bright green eyes who looked no older than three run into the room and over to Elizabeth.

"Now, Edward! Do not scream and run into a room like a madman! It is very impolite and very ungentlemanly." She scolded with a hint of amusement in her eyes at the young boy's antics…my antics.

"I apologize, mother, but I need to ask you a question. It is a very important one." The younger version of me said with a rushed voice. I could see determination and confusion in his green eyes.

"What is it, my dear?" My mother asked taking the other me up in her arms and sitting him on the piano bench next to her.

"Well today I was walking home from Ms. Stewart's house and saw a new married couple come out of the church and everyone yelled congratulations and I heard some one say that they we truly in love. I was wondering…what is true love and how can you tell if it's real?" "I" said in a rush looking at my mother with a perplexed look.

My mother thought for a moment before answering "Everyone has a different way of knowing. I knew because I immediately loved your father the moment I laid eyes on him. I would say that when you love someone, truly and honestly, you would know right away even if that's not what you immediately think. You would never want to be away from that person but wait until the end of time for them if you had to. Most importantly you would know that they loved you back. You two would be there for each other and make each other feel whole. Do you understand what I am saying?"

"I think so." "I" answered and thought over it for a minute while tapping 'my' chin in thought. "That sounds like it would be a very good feeling to have. I want to love someone like that someday! And when I do I will always wait for her just like you said. Thank you mother!" The young boy then ran out of the room and my mother laughed lightly and smiled.

I took another step forward to get a closer look but the scene changed again. This time I was in…Arizona? I turned and looked around. I jumped when I realized that Layla was still there. She laughed and looked back at me "Did you enjoy your memory?" She asked me.

"Yes. That's how I feel about Bella and you know that. I can't survive without her and my existence was meaningless with out her. But why are we here?" I figured it best not to ask how we were here and how were had gone back to my childhood when we were supposed to be in the meadow, so I decided to ask why she picked this particular spot instead. I probably wouldn't get a straight answer now, anyway.

Layla laughed again "You learn fast, I'll give you that. Well we are currently in Phoenix, Arizona, in the year 1991. It is now 3:18 in the afternoon and school had just gotten out for the day. The reason we are here is because I want to show you what Bella was like before she met you. You know how you thought she had a life before you? Well, no offence to her, but she didn't. Those were actually her thoughts on the matter. She had never really fit in anywhere and she knew that. She always looked down on herself; thinking she was plain and strange." I looked at her startled. Bella actually thought that about herself?

I didn't have time to ask before I heard an "Ouch!" from down the street. There walking, more like falling, down the street was a six-year-old Bella. Her chocolate hair was up in pig-tails and she was wearing a purple jumper. She got up and tripped a few more time before a group of other kids her age walked past her.

"Hey Bella, we're going to get some ice-cream, wanna come?" one of the asked her. She shook her head "No thanks. I just wanna go home right now. Maybe some other time?" She answered in a shy voice blushing because she was the center of attention. The others shrugged and walked off.

The younger Bella walked slowly down the street again, probably to avoid tripping again, and walked into a small house. She walked into her room again and read until dinner. She ate and talked with Renee, then got ready for bed and read again. All of a sudden it was like a slide show was going fast right in front of my eyes; I saw Bella at seven, eight, nine all the way up to seventeen have about the same pattern every night except for a few exceptions for dance and visiting Forks, although these were rare.

"That's what she did every night until she came to Forks. Her life was boring and predictable and she always was the one who stuck out in the crowd. She never had any true friends until she met you. That's what you did to her. You made her feel like the last piece of that puzzle was finally in place." Layla told me.

I felt a new wave of guilt wash over me. "But...I left. I took that piece of her and left. How could I have done that to her? To my family and to me"

"Because you were stupid. You didn't want her to leave you, so you left first. You thought that she was like all humans and would eventually come to her senses and leave or that she would end up getting killed. Either one of these things would have totally killed you, so you left. Don't worry, we all do stupid things. Besides you're lucky you have Bella. You put her through Hell and she was willing to accept you with open arms again. She realized that if she ever saw you again and ignored you it would just hurt you both more," Layla told me. I took in her words like necessary air.

"Just tell me one thing." She asked, staring down at the younger, human Bella,(A/N they never left the memory) "What would you have done if you hadn't met Bella again? Or ever met her for that matter?"

I froze and thought "I don't know. Probably just continue existing like I was; never really happy or full just…here. My life wouldn't be a life without her. I don't know what I would have done." I answered knowing every word true.

I scene changed again. This time we were sitting on top of a giant clock tower that looked over the city of Volterra. I saw two figures looking over the city in silence until one, visibly taller than the other, spoke. "I'll help you find him, just tell me one thing."

The other nodded and turned toward the first and allowed me to see her face. It was Bella, being asked to same question Layla just asked me. "What would you have done if you had never seen Edward again? Or ever met him for that matter?"

The other paused and sighed. "I don't know. Probably just continue existing like I was; never really happy or full just…here. My life wouldn't be a life without him. I don't know what I would have done."

The scene changed again and in front of my eyes was, what I thought to be, my personal favorite memory; me and Bella lying in the meadow. We weren't talking, just laying there; me, sparkling like a prism, and her lying in my arms looking like the angel she was.

I felt a smile slip onto my face. "You two really need to get things all worked out. I promised Bella that I would help you two get back together again. Well, I've done all I can do." I looked with confusion. "You really expected me to help you more than this? I'm an angelic vampire that can make anything possible, not some miracle worker." My eyes widened, for she said this with a totally straight face.

She laughed a bit then looked at me again. "We have to get back now. We didn't miss anything, just some stuff about the wars we've stopped. I could show you those faster than my fathers could tell you." I nodded but then looked around again and I didn't want to leave. It was just so…beautiful. How it should have been the last fifty years.

"You can either stay here and stare at the past or go back to the real thing." I laughed and nodded. I could tell the two of us were going to be good friends. I could have stayed here forever but she was right; nothing was as good as the real thing.

The scene changed again and it was night time again. We were standing in the middle of the meadow and Layla looked at me with impatience. "You can either get on my back or I can sling you over my shoulder again." She told me. I had no idea what she was talking about and by the time I remembered the way we got here I was being flung over her shoulder again and dropped on something soft.

I looked around the room and saw everyone staring at me with complete and total shock. For the love of god, we were a shocked group tonight. I really hated not knowing what they were thinking. It irked me to no end and I felt like I was about to explode from lack of knowledge.

However, Layla apparently knew what they were thinking because she smirked and went to sit back down with the werewolf. She sat back down and he crushed her into him like she had been gone for ten years instead of…wait how long had we been gone?

"You were only gone for about an hour." I heard my angel's sweet voice enter my head as she walked over to me. My thoughts scrambled as she looked at me and I couldn't think coherent thoughts. The small hour I was away from her took its toll on me and I acted on reflex as I grabbed her waist and pulled her to me and sat her on my lap and locked my arms around her waist.

Layla laughed and I saw her curl up farther in Kyle's lap and looked over at Bella. Bella then relaxed into me and I didn't object. "Layla, I told them about all the war encounters but that's as far as we got. Sorry but without you here, Emmett wouldn't shut up long enough for me to get a word in." My angel shot a fake glare at my older brother.

"Where would you like to start?" Layla asked simply.

Carlisle pondered the question for a moment. "What are our options?" Layla sighed and closed her eyes and started to twirl her strange hair through her fingers. "You've learned about our positions in the world and Bella's powers, so we can either tell you about the La Push pack, the Volturi, how Bella got to the Volturi or...me." She said the last one like she was loathing the very thought. I saw Kyle tighten his grip around her.

I don't think Carlisle could sense her obvious discomfort in the matter. "How about we talk about your past?" Layla simply sighed and looked at the ground. After a minute she looked back at him. "As you wish but I'm warning you, my story makes Rosalie's look like a day at the spa."

Rosalie took great offence to that. We all knew her end came much worse than ours; being raped and tortured by her drunken fiancé and his friends. "Excuse me! Do you know how horrible it is to have that happen to you? How can you even begin to know how that feels? To have everything you ever thought possible in front of you and then have it taken away! I love my new life more than anything but it still hurt at the time. You could never possibly know!" Rosalie screamed her head off at Layla. That was the one thing that could make Rose actually express real anger.

"You're right." The room went quite as I heard Layla's faint response. I had expected…something else. Some response that was loud and full of hurt at Rosalie's insults but she told Rosalie she was right.

Rose was shocked as Layla stared her straight in the face and continued. "You're right. I never once knew any of that. Could you tell me how it felt to have a promising future? To have everything in front of you served on a golden platter? I never knew how it felt and I envy you for it." Rosalie sat down slowly on the couch, taken aback, never breaking eye contact with the girl in front of her.

Rosalie asked the next question, clearly thinking about the words she was about to speak before executing them, "What was your past like?"

Layla stiffened and turned her face away "Not now. I'm to unstable as it is; going over my past isn't a good idea at the moment. I apologize for comparing my past to yours but…it was the only one, at least at the end, that really fit the quota." Rosalie nodded and we sat in an awkward silence for a few minutes.

"Layla, would you please explain to them your powers?" Marcus looked at Layla, breaking the silence, and she nodded.

"I have powers over moon beams and star light similar to the way Bella has power over the ocean. When the moon is between half moons I can make people do basically what ever I say. I can also see all your memories as soon as they are memories and I can see them even if you don't remember them." Everything clicked into place then about all the bizarre things she knew. So that was how. "I can also allow people to use their powers on me but if I'm not paying attention to letting them it then it's doesn't work. Also I can push my soul from my body and "travel" anywhere in the world. Depending on how far I am from the location the more or less I have to concentrate and I see memories form different points of view. I, along with Bella, have even more powers that we don't know about yet."

Hearing this everyone gasped "Layla, what do you mean we have more powers?" Bella asked in obvious disbelief. Layla sighed "Apparently with the darkness comes knowledge, how very cliché but true. The Angel of Destruction told me of some more powers that I have and some more that we posses because she found it impressive that I could resist the darkness for so long. I'm not supposed to tell you, though, just let them happen when they do."

"You two sound…well…indestructible for lack of better words." Jasper commented and Layla let out a dark laugh "Hardly. But that's all."

I heard Aro clear his throat and look accusingly at Layla and she sighed "I also have another power that I haven't used since…much to short a time period ago. I don't like to tell people about it and usually avoid the subject if I can, only because the last time I used it the result was over half the planet in a power black out and over 10,000 people in a war zone dead." She shuddered. "It's the power to poses people like puppets and I use the shadows of the moon as power instead of moonlight. It may sound powerful but using it had consequences; letting the power get out of control would result in what you saw earlier, in the field. However, I'm more vulnerable in that state than when I'm using the moon beams to fight." She buried her face into Kyle's shirt and he kissed the top of her head.

Even though he looked calm, I could tell this information was new to him also. Carlisle looked at Aro with shock. "She's talking about the Southern Black Out, isn't she?" Aro nodded and I knew why Layla didn't want to tell us about it. During the SBO the continents of Australia, Africa and South American, as well as the lower part of Asia, lost power and there was a giant explosion in Brazil, a major war zone at that time.

This time it was Marcus who broke the silence "Now we need to get down to discussing our major purpose for being in Forks: the werewolves."

At this Layla sat up straighter and got into a semi-protective position as we all turned to look at Kyle. For some reason, even thought he was our natural enemy, I felt no reason to be uncomfortable or on alarm. He was here and it felt…comfortable?

Kyle, probably seeing Layla's tense state, pulled her down and relaxed her then looked at us "I am Kyle Black, the current alpha of the Quileute pack, nice to meet you. Well, officially meet you. My father had told me of you all but I have found nothing he said to be even remotely true. It is nice to have this opportunity to meet you all in person before we discuss the new treaty, officially." He said as he nodded to all of us.

I saw the surprised look on my family's faces as we learned this new bit of information. We all knew the last pack was alive because we had seen them when we returned to Forks, but we never knew that there was another one. Why was the alpha here and what new treaty?

I pinched the bridge of my nose in frustration. I was on an information overload tonight. So far, we had learned about Bella's and Layla's and powers along with the fact that the Volturi was now a vegetarian coven and now we were leaning that there was a new treaty? If I was human, I would be giving myself a migraine.

I heard Layla chuckle. "Don't worry about this is the last thing for tonight. I know this is a lot of information but the sooner we get this over with the better. After we are done here we have the entire day to do whatever and you guys can get caught up again. Besides, I really want to get to know my sister's family better." We all nodded and Bella smiled at us.

"So what about the werewolves? Is that why I can't see anything?" Alice asked desperately wanting to know the answer. "No, actually you are able to see the werewolves now in your visions. The reasons you aren't seeing anything is because right now we are basically deciding that fate of the world with this treaty. You and the werewolves are no longer natural enemies but if you chose to totally become equals or not depends on what we decide here."

While Alice sat there, looking confused, Layla continued. "I believe you all remember the aurora? In my angelic form I can make anything I say happen but the more people to agree with it the easier it is. What we did then was remove the fact that you are all enemies from existence. This was one of the harder things considering we had to have it affect the entire vampire community so it took a lot of energy. The aurora was the release of that power and it was either that or….basically an atomic blast which is out of the question. Hopefully that'll never happen again." She looked down as if ashamed of something.

Esme's motherly qualities kicked in now. "Layla, dear, it's ok. I'm sure you didn't mean to." Layla gave her a weak smile of thanks before continuing.

"Moving on. What it has to do with the werewolves, I was hoping that we could arrange a meeting with the entire pack. The rest of the peace making is up to you. Bella and I can completely erase the hate if they all agree and sign a Moonstone with a Sandstone." Layla paused at this and looked at Bella who looked utterly confused at this point. Layla sighed again.

"Oops. Well screw it, I'll tell you anyways. It's possible for us to erase the actual feeling of hate if we get them to sign their names on a Moonstone, a stone made from my powers, with a Sandstone, a stone derived from yours. I really have no idea how the heck it works. It's one of those new powers I was telling you about. All I know is that with certain symbols we can allow things to happen with out our Angelic Forms and when you sign one stone with the other it does something and…oh, just screw it. We'll figure it out later. Now moving on, Carlisle, how would you like to proceed?" Layla asked rubbing her temples at this new information only she was receiving.

Carlisle looked around at Aro. "When would it be most convenient for you?"

"We plan to stay around until this is settled, but may I insist soon? Layla how soon can these stones be ready?" Aro looked at Layla who was rubbing her temples and she let out a short growl at being asked a question. Aro immediately looked back at Carlisle "It seems that we'll figure that out later but I still insist as soon as possible." He said this in such a spooked out manner that it was impossible to hold back a laugh.

Soon we were all laughing, even Layla joined in the fun again. "I'll talk to my pack." Kyle managed to gasp out while laughing. We all agreed but still couldn't stifle our laughs.

This was going to turn out ok in the end but we still had a long way to go. And I still had to talk to my angel. Wow this was turning out to be a long night.

OK…so not a lot happens in this chapter but Edward is all nonself loathing now so claps for him! I'll post the next chapter by tomorrow but I really need y'all to review!

M.R.S

p.s. I never again plan to take that long to get out a chapter! So don't kill me!