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A/N: Thank you for all of you reviews. I might not be able to update this story again until September as I'm going on holiday and I'm working desperately to get another chapter for Never Too Far Away before I go; here's Chapter Thirteen.
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CHAPTER 13 - Slip Ups
•~Annabelle Cullen~•
- 1 month later (Malheur, Oregon, USA, 1910) –
We arrived in America and we ran to our new home. It was deep in the mountains of Oregon, hundreds of miles away from the big towns.
Arla, I noticed, grew very close with Brendon as time went one and I had my suspicions that the two were both mates. That was soon proven correct as I walked into a room where they had locked lips with each other. They didn't even acknowledge that I was watching them at all. It was cute that they had found there soul mates within each other.
"If you have a death wish I recommend interrupting Arla and Brendon right now," I announced to the house rather loudly. They all laugh at my bluntness.
- 98 years later (Malheur, Oregon, USA, 2008) –
Nearly 100 years had passed since Brendon and Ivor joined our family. Turns out they both had gifts as well – the most likely reason as to why Aro took an interest in them in the first place. We actually discovered them when my Italian family showed up unannounced once again as usual in the 1930's. Brendon and Ivor were not used to other vampires, especially so many at one time.
We found out that Brendon was an air bender – he can manipulate the air and wind. He saw the coven as a threat and all of a sudden he whipped up a tornado, throwing Aro, Felix and Caius across the garden. Luckily Alec was there too and kept both Brendon and Ivor immobile until I returned home from hunting.
It wasn't long into their visit that they witnessed Ivor successfully finding his ability too. He has the gift of electrokinesis – he can manipulate and generate electricity as well as conjure up a storm if he wants too.
I remember that just as Aro and the crew were leaving, Niklas returned home from his honeymoon to a remote island – courtesy of Aro – in the Philippines with Adalynn.
Flashback...
Ivor took a while longer than Brendon to get enough control over his bloodlust to be around humans.
In 1927 he was out hunting when he accidently slipped up with his control and bit a human, though somehow he realised his mistake, stopped feeding and ran away. He ran straight back home and told us what he had done.
"You did WHAT?!" Brendon screamed at his brother, his voice going up two octaves as he glares into his blood-red eyes.
"I'm sorry! I tried everything to fight my instincts to not bite but her scent just overpowered me and it broke my control," Ivor cried back in protest. It was made clear to me immediately that he had unknowingly crossed the path of his singer. That's near impossible to resist.
Everyone began fighting and panicking. Words like murderer, monster, abomination and weak were thrown at him, mainly from his own brother.
"Enough!" I yelled above everyone.
That seemed to do the trick as they all shut up instantly and looked at me.
"This is who we are," I shouted. "All of us – including me surprising – are vampires and tempted by blood all the time. Did any of you even pause to think of how Ivor must be feeling right now? That the human he lost control to just by their scent was in fact his singer?" That made their eyes widen with realisation, "No, you didn't. You've just made him feel a whole lot worse. How would you like it if the tables were turned and it was one of you who slipped up, hmm? I very much doubt you would want to be yelled at like that, making you feel a hundred times more guilty then you were already feeling,"
No one spoke. They all looked ashamed with themselves – good! They bloody well should be.
Turning to Brendon now, "And you..." I jabbed him in the chest and he winched, "...you should be appalled with the way you just treated your brother. It anything Ivor was trusting you the most to be comforting and supportive, no matter what he had done," he needed to hear it how it is – he was completely out of order for what he said to his brother.
"I'm sorry Ivor...I realise now that I shouldn't have yelled at you. I...I was just in shock, that's all..." said Brendon uncomfortably. Ivor nodded and they both shared a brotherly embrace.
"Ivor focus on where the girl was when you left her so I can see where she is from your thoughts," he nodded and thought about where he was earlier on. I pushed my mental shield into his mind and as soon as I had seen it I bolted out the door – but I poked my head back in.
"If I come back to you guys fighting about this again I will not be pleased," I hissed, putting venom into my voice.
They all shivered at the thought. I'm the best fighter in the family due to being trained by the Volturi to better myself. Add my powers to the mix then fighting with me would be like signing your own death warrant – it'd be suicide. But I would never fight my own family at full strength though.
I ran at full speed through the dense forest, arriving in minutes to an unmarked mountain trail where Ivor had – as he believed – killed the human girl. I found her though on the ground withering around silently in pain. It was that it was too late to suck the venom out; she's lost too much blood to Ivor any way. Knowing there was only one thing to do now I took her home and Ivor took over caring for the girl during the rest of her transformation. He said that he felt it was his responsibility to do so – I was proud of him stepping up to the mark like that.
Curious as to what her behaviour would be like when she woke up I stayed hidden behind the half opened door. Ivor was curled up in a tight ball in the corner of the room, mentally beating himself up for what he had done. He was so caught up in blaming himself that he hadn't noticed the girl wake up and get off the bed to crouch down slowly in front of him, watching him curiously.
"Excuse me?" the girl said with an attempt to get his attention. "Hello..." she tried again, this time waving a hand in from of his face. He must really be out of it to not even notice it yet, being a vampire and all. "Anyone home?" she was about to knock on his head as if it was a door.
"You must hate me," Ivor stated in a muttered voice.
"Why would I hate someone I've only just met?" the girl asked.
"I'm the reason you are like this – no longer human. You can never go back home now," he said guiltily.
"For real? Seriously?" she didn't sound sad about that; "Never?" she almost sounded happy – hopeful even. Now this confused me.
"Yes you can never go home," he stated obviously not hearing the girls tone of voice.
She squealed loudly at that and hugged him, thanking him over and over. It was safe to say that Ivor and I were both as equally shocked at her reaction. At that point I walked into the room and got her gently off him.
"Either you suffer from a mental disorder or you are an abused child," I sighed.
"Option number two," the girl bounced up and down excitedly – Christ she was hyper! "Oh, I'm Adalynn Stywarde by the way, in case you were wondering," she added introducing herself.
"Annabelle Cullen – Annie for short," I introduced myself, "And this is Ivor Quillinane-Cullen. There are four others that you'll meet later." I said. We shook hands to conclude our greetings.
"Welcome to the family, Adalynn..." I added.
"Seriously I can stay?" she squealed, jumping up and down again.
I nodded. "We wouldn't have it any other way." I smiled and Adalynn beamed with happiness. She is now known as Adalynn Stywarde-Cullen, due to her eagerness to join the family quickly.
End of Flashback...
We all found out that Adalynn had a nifty gift of her own too. I remember Niklas just walking in through the front door with her – he had fallen head of heals for her when he first laid eyes on her – and he grinned while he announced, "I married a fire-demon," we all laughed at him for that.
And he meant it too. It turned out that Adalynn has the gift of firebending - she can manipulate and create fire and heat. She was a dangerous girl! No one would want to mess with her now.
When WWII broke out in 1939, we all moved to stay in Volterra as America was getting pretty bad. Aro asked me to come and help aid in the protection of the city with my shields when the bombers flew over us and enemies tried to invade.
That I couldn't refuse to so we went to Italy so I could protect both my families at once. It also gave everyone the opportunity to get to know each other better as well as master their powers.
After the war ended in 1945, we said our goodbyes to everyone and headed back to our home in Oregon, America.
And that is how we got here today. We travel to the towns and cities when we go to work as we prefer our home in the mountains much better than the city life. We all have night-shift jobs except for Adalynn who likes to write novels in the genres of romance, angst and hurt/comfort under the penname Luna Le Rouge. Most of her books turned out to be bestsellers which we are thrilled to hear about.
Anyway, Arla and Niklas both work with me in the Oregon State CIS. Brendon and Ivor both work for the state's leading PD. Yvon works at the hospital with mainly the elderly patients.
Yvon came home on morning and told us how one of her regular patients, Elenor Blacke, broke down crying last night when Yvon had asked about her grandchildren in general conversation. Apparently Elenor has told her that her two youngest grandchildren, Eysha and Javonn, had gone missing last week after college. Yvon is very fond of the woman so she asked us if we could investigate the situation and track them down outside of our legal status at work.
It was by chance, actually, that we found them. A week after Yvon had told us of them the twins and I were taking the subway home after finishing work because this time in the morning it is dead down here so we can move faster. We had all frozen as we sensed a couple of vampires close by in the underground. It was coming down from one of the abandoned tunnels.
We couldn't really go down there because despite it being dead there were still some people down here. So we disappeared into the shadows. Arla teleported us inside the tunnel we needed and kept close to the wall and Niklas quickly led the way through the mini maze of tunnels.
That was when we came across two figures huddled in a corner. As soon as we were in sight, the boy jumped up and took a defensive crouch in front of the girl laying still on the ground, bearing his teeth and his blood-red eyes glaring at all of us.
A/N:
What did you like about this chapter?
What's wrong with the girl?
Poor Ivor slipped up when he found his singer...(sad face).
Do you like Brendon and Ivor's powers? How about Adalynn's?
If you could have a power, what would it be? Let me know.
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