I only own the character Lucy and the plot. The rest belongs to Stephenie Meyer

Chapter 8 – Fate?

Lucy's POV

I felt Seth turn to stare at me, twisting in his seat to get a proper look and suddenly I noticed everyone's eyes were on mine. I shifted in my seat self-consciously. Everyone spoke at once.

"You were going to come here?"

"Drowned? Was that the explanation for your disappearance?"

"Whoa!" I cried, alarmed, "One at a time!"

"Sorry," Seth said, hanging his head.

"Ookay," I said, slowly, "A little bit of an overreaction there, hmm?"

"He can't help it," put in Jacob, "it's the imprinting."

"Ookay," I repeated, "That's slightly weird but okay."

"Back to the matter in hand," said Jasper pointedly, but smiling slightly.

"Oh, right, well, I 'disappeared' the night I got bitten and my parents, who were kind of overprotective to be honest, called the police straight away and there was a huge manhunt, so the guy, while I was transforming," I shuddered slightly, remembering the pain with clarity, "tore off my clothes and threw them in the river. Living in London we were quite near the Thames and when the police found them they assumed that I had drowned and stopped looking." I stopped there. I didn't want them to know the other details, not even Edward. No one was to know how I'd woken up alone, naked, confused, with a burning thirst that needed to be sated. This was forbidden territory and therefore it stayed out of my conscious thoughts.

"And, yes, I was going to live here, and I would even be the same age as you, Seth." I wasn't sure I trusted him but if he couldn't choose his soul mate then I couldn't help feel a little sorry that he got stuck with me.

"What do you mean? Wouldn't you be about twenty five now?"

"Yes, but surely you are that old, aren't you?"

"No way! I'm only nineteen!"

I stared at him, stymied, "But you look twenty five years old!"

"It's the wolf gene. We don't age unless we can stop phasing – turning into a wolf," he explained, "so we do a bit more aging when the gene shows itself."

"So I'm five years older than you but look ten years younger. That's crap!"

"Not as bad as Jake and Nessie. Jake is sixteen years older than Nessie but only looks ten!"

"What? You're thirty two?"

"Hell no! I'm only twenty one!"

"Huh?" I was completely confused, which didn't happen often now that I was a vampire. As a human I could be confused by the simplest maths equation but as a vampire I could do any maths with ease.

"Nessie's a halfer –"

"My story Seth, I should tell it!"

"Sure," he agreed.

"I was born five years ago after Mom – Bella – and Daddy – Edward – got back from their honeymoon. I'm a really fast grower so it's only taken me five years to become almost fully grown. Daddy says that vampire sperm doesn't change because men are always fertile and don't have cycles like women. I don't want to know though; I mean who wants to know about their parents having sex? But it explains how I'm a 'halfer' as Seth so delicately put it. Mom was changed by Daddy after I was born. I nearly killed her!"

My head was reeling

"Um, ok?" it sounded like a question; everything was very hard to take in.

"I can show you if you like" Renesmee smiled.

"Um, ok?" I wasn't sure what I was getting into but I supposed that I'd seen so much already that I little more wouldn't matter.

She moved towards me and carefully placed a hand on my face.

"Holy sh –" I yelled jerking backwards so violently I knocked the sofa over and sent Seth and Jacob who were still sitting on it tumbling head over heels into a messy tangle by the wall. Muffled curses issued from it as they tried to disentangle themselves. Emmett burst out laughing.

"Sorry. What the hell was that?" I cried. The pictures I'd just seen in my head, the ones that weren't my own, yet were so clear that it was like I had seen it.

"I was just showing you." Nessie said looking scared by my reaction and also slightly hurt.

"With pictures in my mind?" I asked incredulously.

"Well yes, that's what I do, my gift," she explained.

I rolled my eyes, "Just add another freak to this bloody circus!"

I just about had my emotions under control by now, which seemed to please Jasper. I imagined I was a very good person to hang around if you could read peoples emotions.

"Is it ok if I just imagine and you don't show me. That's kind of weird."

"Sure," she grinned, "just as long as you're not mad at me or anything."

"What made you think that?" I asked, tongue in cheek.

She looked at me as though I was stupid

"The yelling, swearing and destruction of furniture."

"I know," I said, grinning, "I was joking. Sorry I overreacted."

They stared at me, nonplussed. I looked back innocently. They still didn't understand. I sighed. I was going to have to teach them about the British sense of humour.

"Well, I suppose we forgive you for breaking the furniture." Bella eventually said.

"Look at the time!" Esme cried, staring outside at the blackening skies. There was no sun to disappear so there was no glorious sunset!

I was suddenly overcome by mental fatigue. It was all I could do disappear to give myself some privacy.

Seth, who had just righted the sofa with one swing of his massive hands leapt about a foot in the air as I vanished.

"What the –? Where's Lucy?"

"Relax," I said next to him, rolling my eyes pointlessly as no one could see them. "I'm still here. But you're not the only, ahem, gifted person here. Now I need time to process everything that I've learned today. I've had to take in a lot of new information in case you hadn't noticed.

"That's quite right," agreed Edward, "We had a lot more time between each piece of information to accept it before the next came along." He turned to Bella "Come, my love, and you too Nessie. Jacob, I believe you have some pack business to sort out." He finished pointedly, glancing at Seth.

Jake glowered at him, then acquiesced reluctantly.

"Well, whatever," I muttered, "I'm off."

"Wait Lucy!" Jake said as I turned to the door.

"What?" I snapped, turning back. I just wanted to leave.

"Golden eyes suit you. Didn't red clash with your hair?" he asked innocently, the hint of a grin on his face.

I reappeared long enough to stick my tongue out at him, then vanished and streaked off into the night.

Seth's POV

I dashed outside quickly. Jacob had a face like thunder and I could hear Renesmee's complaints all the way to the cottage.

I only had a vague idea where Lucy was now but I still felt strangely elated, even though the new centre of my universe wasn't even with me at that precise moment.

I undressed quickly, tying my clothes to my leg, then phased in one leap, which I had been practising since Embry had told me about Jake doing it only a few weeks after he'd first become a wolf. It was so soon after that it was the first time Bella had seen him as a wolf. I had thought it was an incredibly cool move and become determined to master it myself.

Jake joined me shortly after, his mood as dark as mine was light. However he understood my jubilance and even laughed as I pranced about as a puppy.

She was going to come here when she was human!

Yes, it sounds like we're fated to meet our imprints, even if they live in a different country.

This vampire – the one who changed her - got in the way of fate!

He laughed his coughing bark echoing through the forest. You have a weird way of looking at things. Remember she's five years older than you. Girls don't usually go for younger guys and that's quite a large age gap.

Yeah, but I'd be able to seduce her more easily than now that she is my enemy! I'd also have had five more years before now with her!

Jake rolled his eyes Sometimes you're as excitable as a puppy. Come on lets go home before we're missed.

What? They won't miss us; they're used to us being out all night. You just want to go home and cry that you're not with Nessie anyway what's wrong with acting like a puppy?

I don't want to cry! He snapped lunging at me with a growl. I dodged and sped off laughing.

I know that this isn't the most interesting chapter but Lucy needs to know everything as well so I needed to put it in. Trust me the next chapter is better! We find out more about Lucy instead.

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