Sorry that it took me so long to update, the only excuse I have is that I had finals, then I had to pack and drive 600 miles home and then unpack and then start working plus writing my other stories, but I will definitely try to update faster and more often.

18 years ago

"Jasper I am sick of this place, these vampires know nothing, let us just leave." Rosalie complained for what seemed like the hundredth time. I hated to admit it but I agreed with her. We had been living with the Roland coven for a little over a year now and they had told us little if nothing about our family.

The Roland coven had come to us asking for Jasper's services as a lawyer. From what I could tell they were using Jasper to take over the wide world of business. Jasper was always traveling with either Michael or Andrew to do something unsavory I was sure. I had no idea what business deals they were making my brother do, but what ever they were he hated it and I could tell that he hated himself for doing them but he would not tell Rosalie or I what was going on.

Jasper once said that the only reason that he took part in these devil deals was for Alice and if he ever did find her there was no way she would take him back if she knew what he had done. Rosalie started screaming at him after he had said that; demanding that he tell us what was going on, but he just clammed up after that and has never commented on his work for the Rolands after that.

"Rosalie, they know something, we just have to be patient." Jasper told her calmly, exuding peace into the room.

"Jasper Hale, don't you dare try to control my emotions about this." She snapped back.

"I am going for a walk" I said suddenly, standing up from the chair in the corner I had been sitting in. Rosalie just gave me her usual glare that had once hurt me but now I hardly noticed. I was sick of their fighting; did they not realize that we are the only family that we have at the moment and we need to stay together, especially in this place?

I exited the castle like mansion that we had been living in this last year. The Rolands lived in Maine and luckily it was finally spring time because I hated the snow with a passion I didn't know could exist for weather. It was daytime and the sun was shining brightly so I decided to go for a walk in the gardens where I could stand in the sun and no one would see me.

"I didn't know you could get more beautiful, but there you are shining like a diamond and you prove me wrong once again" came, Gideon's playful voice, from behind me.

"What do you want Gideon?" I tried to sound disapproving but I could not help smiling. Gideon was Michael and Andrews younger brother. He had only been 18 when he had been turned, and had also been turned only a year before me, so he often teased me that we are twins because we are so close in age. Were Gideon's brothers were reserved and rarely talked to me or Rosalie, Gideon was playful always joking and constantly annoying Rosalie to my secret delight. I could not help liking the guy even if he knew secrets that could help me find Edward and would not tell me.

"Oh I am just wondering if you would like to go to dinner with me, beautiful Bella."

This time my look of disappointment was real. "Gideon why must you always ruin my days by talking like that" I told him in a reproachful voice. He found it hilarious that me and my family refused to feed on humans and was constantly bugging me about it. He was convinced that he would someday get me to kill a human.

"Ah Bella, come on you know I was just teasing." He called to my back as I walked away from him.

"No you were not teasing, and you know it." I growled turning back to face him. "I do not understand you Gideon, you seem like someone that could be my genuine friend and then you go and do things like that."

"Bella I am sorry if I hurt you" he said sounding genuinely apologetic "but I just don't understand you."

"What is there not to understand" I snapped.

"First off you are a vampire that does not drink human blood."

"Gideon I have already explained that to you and I do not think I should have to again." Why did he have to be so stupid and make me so angry sometimes?

"I know that Bella" he said a little annoyed himself "I said first off, as in there are other things that I don't understand."

"What then Gideon, what possibly could there be about me that you have so much trouble understanding."

"Well your family, for one thing."

"What about my family?" I said lowly almost growling. Bothering me was one thing but talking about my family was something completely different.

"Hey don't get mad at me, you asked. What I don't get is that you and your sister are completely different, yet you love her. You are warm where she is cold, you are loving where she is bitter, and you are kind where she is hostile. Then there is your brother, he has, as you would put it, slipped twice already sense he has been here. When he does he hates himself and locks himself in his room for weeks. And you all seem to hate being here, hate seeing what Jasper has to do and yet you stay, why because of some lost loves. I think you would be a lot happier if you would just give up this vendetta for finding them, and let yourselves be what you are, to feed off of humans instead of the stinking animals. I do not understand why you must be such a masochist, why you must hurt yourself each day by missing a lost love, by staying with a monster of a sister, and hating yourself for making your brother do something you know he hates."

I stood there in the middle of the gardens speechless. I could not believe that he had just said that to me. I wanted to hit him, to tear him to shreds for saying such hateful things, but I knew it would be useless; the few times we had wrestled he had always out powered me. So I used the only weapon I had my voice.

"Gideon Roland you are the worst type of being. You are a two faced snake, one that pretends to be ones friend in purgatory but then turns around and pushes them into hell. You know nothing about Rosalie, so never speak of her like that again. I know she can seem hard and uncaring but she would do anything for her family and the ones she loves. Even if the choices she makes are wrong, they are done out of love, even if they do seem selfish to others. As for Jasper, I do not know what your brothers make him do because he will not speak of it and you know what they make him do and yet you will not tell me so I can help him. It is because of that reason that he has slipped. And I will never give up searching for Edward, even if it takes me the rest of eternity." With that I turned around and ran inside to Rosalie's room.

"Nice entrance" Rosalie commented.

"We have to get Jasper to leave" I told her.

"I didn't know you felt that way Bella. What, with you walking out on that exact conversation earlier."

"Don't be that way Rose, please not right now." I begged. I needed my sister right now, not a bitch.

"All I am saying is that if you wanted to leave you could have backed me up earlier." She continued on in the same condescending tone.

"AHHHHH" I screamed into my hands.

"Isabelle Marie Swan Hale you stop that right now, you are giving me a headache."

"You don't get headaches Rosalie Hale" I snapped back, but I could not help but laugh. "But you are right I should have backed you up earlier, Jasper can't fight both of us."

"Bella can I speak with you for a moment" Gideon said from Rosalie's doorway. "Please" he begged.

"Fine" I sighed. There was no reason to keep fighting, but that did not mean I had to forgive him right away. "What do you want to say to me now" I said as I stepped into the hallway.

"Come for a walk with me." I didn't like being told what to do but he grabbed my arm and pulled me down the hallway and out the back door. "I don't want anyone to hear" he whispered so low in my ear I could hardly hear him. He pulled me far into the forest before stopping and turning to face me.

"Gideon what is going on" I asked him. He was not acting like his usual self, what with his outburst earlier and now this.

"Shh, Bella. No one can hear what I am about to tell you. Do you understand?"

"Yes" I said as quietly as him

"I am sorry for what I said earlier, I really am. You have no idea how sorry I am for a lot of things, but you were right about me being a two faced traitor. This whole time I have been dishonest with you when I really wanted to be your friend."

"Gideon you have been a friend"

"Bella please don't interrupt, I don't have much time. Now listen you have to get you and your brother and sister out of hear. I will not tell you exactly what Jasper has been doing because I feel that is something that if he wants you to know he will tell you himself, but I will tell you that he has been working for the Volturi."

"What" I almost screamed forgetting to be quite.

"Be quite" Gideon hissed, looking around nervously "Jasper does not know he is working for them, so do not be mad at him. Now I know nothing about Edward and the rest of your family and I wish I did, but I don't." He looked down at his hand, and I could tell that he truly wished that he did. After a moment he continued "Michael and Andrew know nothing also, they are just taking orders from the Volturi"

I wanted to cry from what Gideon had just told me. Jasper had unknowingly been working for the same vampires that had ripped our family apart, and everything we had been through this last year had been for nothing.

"Gideon…" I started when four unknown vampires ran out of the trees and grabbed him.

"GIDEON!!!" I screamed, the four vampires where dragging him deep into the forest. I could tell he was trying to fight them but he was outnumbered. I jumped on one of the strange vampire's back but he grabbed my arm and flipped me over his shoulder. I landed hard on the ground but I was up within less then a second. I grabbed a different vampire's arm and twisted him around and punched him hard, I was thankful that Jasper had taught me how to punch a few years ago.

"Get out of here Bella" Gideon yelled at me as he was pulled farther into the forest. "Just Go" I could hardly see him anymore and it was getting harder to fight of the two other vampires.

Finally one grabbed me around the neck and held me up to a tree. I could not breathe and I was thankful I was no longer human. "Don't be a silly little girl; don't try to fight me because I will win." He then let me go, and I dropped to the ground. When I looked up they were all gone and I had know idea where Gideon had gone, but one thing I was sure about was that those vampires had been guards of the Volturi and they had just stopped Gideon from telling me something important, important enough to attack him in the woods and drag him off. I had to get back to my family now, and we had to get out of here.

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