"Thank you, for the ride." Sam said as he crawled out the back of the goat truck.

"Sunteti binevenit, domnule, noroc." The farmer smiled back as Sam crawled out of the truck. He had hitched hike miles from Sidu, to Hondoras. He was now at the castle where Paul said the girl would be. He took a deep breath, and headed, hoping to locate the coven. He took a smell, and to his pleasure, nothing. There was no sign of the cold one's in sight. He went through and searched every part of the castle. He found nothing but just tourist taking pictures.

Sam picked up the phone and called Paul. He waited for it to ring, with each breath getting heavy. He stood in the dungeon of the castle hiding from the human tours, waiting for it to pick up, when it finally answered.

"Hello," Paul woke up with a yawing voice.

"Hello, Paul, guess where I am?" Sam asked with fake enthusiasm.

"Where?" Paul asked barely awake.

"Corvin Castle." Sam answered. "I hitched hike here, after finding out that I needed to talk the ancients, before I could talk to her."

"Oh, forgot to mention that." Paul rubbed his eyes waking up.

"Yes, you did, do you want to know how I got here?" Sam asked. "I hitched hiked, first I drove my car then it broke down. Sp I had to wait for three hours, in the rain for someone to come and pick it up on rout E68. Then I had to drive all the way to a place called Apoldo De Sus. That was where I got a ride with a trucker, who smelled, very badly and was very territorial over his food. He was a big man. He drove me to Sebes. I got a ride with a couple of musicians, who were very bad. Guess what, it ended with them steeling my clothes, and my money, leaving me in the middle of a field, in the middle of nowhere with just a cell phone out of service range. I would of transformed and ran, but I only had one pair of clothes with me, so I instead I had to walk for five hours strait. Thankfully, I was picked up by some very nice farmers that let my ride in the back with their goats for three hours strait. Guess what? Goats have a very bad odor. They forgot I was back there. But they took me to the castle you said you saw Pricilla. Now I am here, and there are no vampire that will help the pack imprint. Why is that Paul?"

"I swear that is where they were." Paul stuttered surprised.

"Don't swear, it doesn't sound very good." Sam spat in an alpha voice. "Oh, just wait until I get." Sam stopped and felt a hand on his shoulder as two foul scents came into the air. He turned to see Chongde, and Holly standing behind him.

"They moved their location, they are now at a place called Banffy castle," He informed him. "I suggest you go there, she will reward you for your kindness, if you use your extra help to free her." He smiled towards him. "I am telling you this because she is one of my own kind and they pressure her to give into what us animal drinkers have learned not to. As a shape-shifter who protects humans, you are obligated to help her."

~X~

"You're lying!" The words spit out faster than fire.

"I am not," Eleazar continued calmly. "I was there that night; I smelled the blood of your family. I followed you into the woods."

"No,…no, " I shook thinking of the past eight centuries, every moment I had given to Aro and the Volturi was for the simple fact that he created me, so this had to be a pure lie. "That would mean….the last eight hundred years have been a lie, so that can't be."

"I am sorry to, say, I should have told you sooner but…." Eleazar started as I raced out of the car.

"Felix," Eleazar called me. "To the left side of your waist there is a piece is flesh messing, an indent frozen in your skin…..did Aro ever tell you how it came?" I stopped stunned that Eleazar knew about that. I did have an indent in my skin. It was in the lower part of my waist, going to the upper part of my left leg. It was a strange scar that never could be explained, besides the many immortal women I had over the centuries no one knew about it. I don't remember having it as a human, Aro said his venom might of open an old wound and froze it.

"How did you know about that?" I asked approaching him.

"You were stabbed that night; you were dying of blood lost." Eleazar explained. "That was how I found you, you were racing through the woods, one of them shot a cross bow into your thigh, while you were fighting them one of them stabbed you and you were dyeing while walking. You were becoming weaker due to the wound being untreated. I smelled the blood and saw you defending your life, despite your family being slaughtered. I saw it as a sign, you were meant to be saved. You were still running from them, despite the stab wound. You had your sword, still ready to fight them off then tripped. I knew a human couldn't possibly escape this an I saw something about you. The way you fought, despite the reason for your fight being taken from you. You survived from that slaughter for a reason. You deserved to be around to find that reason. So, I killed the solders, by then you were almost gone but you were still putting up a fight. You even tried to fight me as I lifted you up and bit you. I changed you, gave you immortality to live a full life. The wound from that night didn't heal though, my venom couldn't replace the flesh."

"I don't want to hear this," I said running away from him at full speed towards the Denali's house.

"Felix," Eleazar called me again coming into the scene.

"You lie worse than Aro," I shouted towards him.

"He wanted to tell you." Carmen informed quickly.

"She knew," I spit back towards him.

"Of course, she's my wife." Eleazar stated as if it was common curtsey.

"Yes, so nice that she got to hear how my human life ended before me." I agreed sarcastically as he put his head down.

"Did you know?" I snapped towards Tanya as she nodded with sympathy.

"Who else did you tell how my immortality started before me? Who else knows I've been living a lie for the past years? Who else knows you're the one who bit me? Who else know what I considered my identity for the past eight hundred years was build falsely?" I asked looking at Eleazar directly in the eye and that was when Esme and Carlisle came out, I ignored their presence.

"I wanted to tell you," Eleazar started with a quick stutter.

"But you didn't," I quickly cut him off. "You lived with me for centuries but you did no once say a word," I slurred in my words.

"Aro," Eleazar explained.

"You knew full well, if you wrote to me I would have gotten the mail." I said straightly as he put his head down. "You know he couldn't have done anything if you would have made a testimony mentioning it when we all came to see Renesmee. There is no excuse to have let me live in this lie."

I felt myself become heated with anger towards him; every duty I preformed for the Volturi was a lie. Every day I spent with them was a lie. Every vampire I killed at their order was based on false reason. The entire existence of my immortality was taken from me; the identity I kept for eight hundred years was gone.

"Felix, let me explain." Eleazar started to approach me as we came to his house.

"Stay the hell away from me," I said quickly. "I want nothing to do with you."

"You don't mean that," He backed away.

"Yes, I do, you f***in, lying, coward," I shouted in Italian with the words sluring out of my mouth. "Why did you lie to me? No, wait, never mine, I don't want to know, I don't even care why the f**** you and Aro did this to me. You may have put your venom in me, but as far as that, you did nothing else for me, so you are nothing for me. So just get the hell out of my sight." I then realized this was his property. "Never mind, I'm leaving." I knew I was a coward but Eleazar was a bigger one. The heat and intensity was building so high, I just had to leave before a fight it became ugly.

~X~

I never thought I would be so comfortable coming into Forks. Yet, after finding out my entire motive for living has been a lie. It was comfortable to be away from that, around those who wouldn't care who has created me, or about my past. I came to the Cullen house and found Jacob's pack out in the yard with a bon fire. I notice Natalie and Kelly was sitting there with Seth between them. Seth had his arm around Natalie as he was trying to comfort him as she cried on his shoulder. Kelly looked ticked at something. Above them were Jacob, Quail and Embry on the porch engage in a discussion which appeared to be about business. Then to the corner near the kitchen were Collin and Emmett at the kitchen table looking at a blueprint for the cabin Emmett and the werewolves planned to build before the next child's arrival.

I first passed Rosalie, who was in her room walking back and forth with Neveah close against her hard concrete chest. I didn't want to make a scene so I decided sneak in gently to my room, where I grabbed my cloak and anything Volturi related. I wanted to burn it, I went through most of it I couldn't get rid of, such as the pictures, and the letters. The only thing I wanted to do away with, was the old gray uniform cloak I still had, I grabbed it quietly as I heard soft humming, from the other side of the wall.

"Don't worry, Mommy has you," Rosalie smiled brightly as Neveah held tight to her feeling absolutely safe in the vampire's arms.

"You are safe, now, baby girl, you're with me." Rosalie made a sound as if she was laughing and crying while holding the child. "I'm not going to let anyone take you away from me. You know how long I've been waiting for you." She smiled as she made her way to a rocking chair and had the young toddler fall asleep on her lap. "We may not be human but that's what make Daddy and I love you more, you will never have any idea how much you are to me. If only you know what a miracle you are to me, don't ever doubt your place in this world. Mommy spent decades, almost half a century wondering why she had to live frozen never being able to have one on her own. If only she knew it was so I can be here for you. I was waiting for you, to have you, to hold you, to call you mine. I didn't even know it. Now," Rosalie laughed. "I wouldn't trade you to give birth to a thousand babies of my own. You are precious to me beautiful Neveah Cassandra Hale-McCarthy and I promise you will have a blessed life. You already met most of your aunts and uncles. You have four more relatives coming; two of them knew Mommy before she became a vampire. Before I started the journey to meet you, I think you're the reason I became a vampire. Your uncles were talking to Daddy today, and he told them about the cottage we are going to live in. Now, they are looking forward to help build it, they volunteered to help, Daddy didn't even have to ask them. Aunt Beyza seemed to adore listening to you, I think she liked you talking to her on the phone this morning, she gets lonely on full moons. I said she can call us. She told me they framed your picture. I can't wait to see them, they are going to be with Daddy and I when your brother is born along with the rest of your very large family. You are so lucky being blessed with four aunts, five uncles, two grandparents, and even a cousin. You are much cuter than her, but that will be our secret.

The aunt who arranged for you to have me might be there too, she loved you enough to give you a better life. Heather will be your aunt again, thanks to my new brother who introduce me to her and lead me to you. He also helped me fine my brothers, who I couldn't imagine of finding after all this time. They will love you, I am sure of it. I am so glad your Uncle Felix came to live with us. He truly was an unexpected blessing we all needed." Rosalie sung as she put the girl in her bed and just watched the toddler sleep peacefully. I rushed past them, it made me wonder a bit about my immortality, and the reason for having such a long life.

I went down stairs, still going unnoticed; it seemed they were too busy to even take notice of my smell. I went to my room, where I found my old Volturi cloak, I wanted to burn it. I took it with me, and I went out to find Emmett and Collin, sitting at the dining room table going over blueprints for the new house.

"It's going to have a wide living room," Emmett explained. "The upstairs is going to have four bed rooms, Rosalie and mine, Neveah's, the next one, and a gust room. There is going to be a room down stairs too."

"Who's that one for?" Collin asked happily as he cooperated with Emmett. It seems since the adoption, he has been rather grateful to Emmett and Rosalie. He listened to them, similar to the way Jacob was with Edward and Bella.

"You," Emmett answered proudly looking towards him. "We are having a swing set in the backyard, and a tree house I am going to build with them when they get older. Rosalie wants a fence so they don't run off. She wants to be doing the dishes, and watching them play in the back yard. I am going to have a garage to work during the day in case it's sunny, so I can support them. You plan to help with it after school right?"

"Yes, of course," Collin answered as Emmett went back towards the blueprints. I couldn't help but be a little envious of Emmett planning his future, made me wish I could have stayed human and had a family. That just made me more upset with Eleazar, even though I would have died last night, I still could have been free of the Volturi a long time ago. It was then Emmett's cell phone went off.

"Hey, Jasper. How was the wedding?" Emmett stopped. "….good, glad she was included….interesting gift…..I am glad they understood…what?...Really….that's a shock. How did Felix react to this?...I bet…no but we will keep a good eye out for him. We tried calling him, apparently Heather is missing. She can't be found anywhere; the pack even went looking for her. She is nowhere to be found. Charlie thinks the mother has something to do with it."

Heather was missing? The problems with Eleazar came out of my mine instantly, as I peered to Jacob. From my understanding, his pack is designed to protect the humans. So, he would surely be on this, and not let anything happened to her.

"Did any of them say were Sam went?" I heard Jacob ask.

"No, they were all secretive, not even telling the council where he disappeared to , or why." Embry explained. "I did overhear them talking about how they have to see some cold one would benefit them, instead of explaining it to them."

"How?" Jacob asked as his eyes went wondering. "He was on the phone with Paul, yelling at him; apparently he sent Paul to get this cold one earlier and came back without her then gave Sam the wrong location. What kind of gift does this vampire have to make Sam want her for his use. I truly can't think of a gift that would be that powerful to help shape shifters, or a vampire that would use it to aid shape-shifters against their kind. What caused him to defy the council? Did think that the Volturi might come and kill us to have her loyalty if it's that powerful?"

I could give a crap about the Volturi right now, considering I just spent the first eight hundred years of my life caring what they think. They lied to me just as much as Eleazar did, I wondered how many of them knew, Aro certainly, what about Marcus and his daughters, they had to have some knowledge of their brother's whereabouts, Marcus maybe, I doubt he would've cared. I hated them all for their lies and wanted nothing more to do with them. I wasn't going to give them a second thought from here on out, this was my coven. If they came after the Cullens again, I would be on their side.

I left Jacob and his pack, to try and peer into Seth and Leah's conversion with Natalie.

"I don't know where she is," Natalie mummer softly as Seth tried to comfort her. "If only I would have been home…"

"The bitch would beat-up you." Kelly pointed out harshly.

"Kelly," Natalie hushed her younger sister in a lectured tone.

"She's right," Seth pointed out. "She would have just beaten you down as well, as a matter of fact, I am glad you weren't there."

It was then Leah drove up in a pickup truck with two large bags in the back. "We were able to get most of your stuff. Charlie is still interrogating her, but she won't reveal anything. You aren't going to live there anymore."

"She could still be out there." Natalie stood up and screeched coming between Seth and Leah.

"Natalie, we'll find her." Leah said sharply. "First let's get you and Kelly to our Mom's house. In the morning, we can make arrangements. "

"But Heather…" Natalie huffed with teary eyes as I flew off in an instant, racing faster than vampire speed to the tiny trailer. That was when I saw a police sence surrounding the area. I notice the humans were running around with dogs and flash lights heading through the forest. Charlie was among them, as well as some humans who came from Port Angles prowling the forest with flashlights in bright orange vest along with yellow straps.

It was then I caught the sense of her sweet pumping blood and took off following it, as I got deep into the woods I began hearing a slight tick, it was her beating heart calling for me. I zoomed deeper into the tall tree forest, until I made it to the outskirts Port Angeles, racing through the trees. I saw her from the tree, she was walking weakly, barely able to stand. Yet, she kept going, inching her way through the forest path, with abrasions going up her ankles. Along with an open wound along the lower part of her left leg, it was bleeding along with fabric wrapped around it holding whatever that was inserted into her. She had a laceration on the upper part of her other leg. She was wearing a bloody spaghetti strap tang top. I could tell she had wounds along with a broken rib. She was holding onto her abdomen with dermis and skin grafting. Her arms had cigarette burns on her shoulders and puerperal on her upper arms. Beside the left eye was a large dry, leather-like white brown spot at her left eye. Then on her other eye was spectacles of broken glass attached, sewed as part of her skin. Along her left cheek was a large bleeding cut that went from the scalp of her hair, along the side of her forehead, slashed across her cheek and ending had her chin. I watched her take a few steps before she fell face down creating a tumble down the hill. I could tell she was crying out in pain, instantly I rushed to her lifted her battered body. I cradled her into my powerfully arms, as I wrapped my old cloak around her for warmth, becoming her shield and her carriage as I ran full speed out of the dark wilderness.

I was going faster than I ever sped in my immortal life; it was at a flying rate even for a vampire. It was the first time I had a true reason to go at such a speed, I even went through the human streets with them not even knowing my existence. No fight or battle could ever compare to this struggle. It was the moment I came to Fork's hospital, I notice Heather's eyes opened a slant before she closed them again. I entered the hospital unnoticed, and placed Heather next to an old man reading a newspaper. I tapped on his shoulder and took my old Volturi cloak from her. By the time the man turned to see Heather, I was gone.

"Oh, my god," I heard the old man shout as I left the hospital. "Sectary, we have an emergency."

"Paging, Dr. Cullen," I heard Cassie's voice went into a frantic at the sight of Heather as five other nurses came by her side. I also notice another nurse, who I recognized as Seth and Leah's mother instantly got a rolled bed for her.

I left the hospital, but I still couldn't get her off my mind. Even when I heard the rolling wheels taking her to be treated. I went were I was alone, and climb the roof until I got to the sun window of the emergency room. It was there, I peered down to Heather as she was surrounded by doctors and nurses putting her back together. The monitor as it ran her heart making a steady beep with each beat going fast and faster, until a long beat came through causing the doctors to rush instantly and force two metal plates to her chest causing her to jump. It then came back, I could hear it without the monitor. It was steady as a drum, as Heather opened her eyes wide causing the doctors to smile with relief, as she gazed up towards me.

Her eyes opened wide. For a moment I thought she was staring at me, until a doctor came and explained to her what happened. I heard the sound of her heartbeat, and it was going to continue until she was ready for me to stop it.

~X~

When I got back the next morning I was surprised to find the Cullens had returned from Alaska. They didn't stay long after I left. They were silent when the moment I opened the door. Making it obvious the main topic of conversion was Eleazar and I.

"Did you have a good ride back?" I asked as they nodded, all their eyes coming towards me.

"Yes," Carlisle answered. "I see you made it back."

"We were worried about you," Esme spoke in an instant rush. "Felix, if you want to be part of this coven, you don't run off without giving any word on where you are going."

"Sorry, Esme," I nodded towards her. I could tell they all cared for me, their faces expressed concerned for the million things that went through my head. It was Bella who spoke first.

"So is it true?" She asked, as they all turned their heads.

'No, he only told me this because he thought my life seemed to be going a little too well and needed a bit of drama.' "Yes, it's true." I vented thinking about it. "I keep going over it in my head, and now I feel like such an idiot for not realizing it."

"Oh," They all became silent.

"So what exactly happened?" Edward questioned as all of them eyed me.

"I was running through the woods, apparently stabbed and bleeding to death. Eleazar showed up, killed the solders and changed me. Sometime between the three days Horus came and erased the memory of me being bit. Then Eleazar took me to the Volturi, then let Aro say he changed me. So he can live freely. " I answered simply, like I was explaining the directions to the store.

"Horus?" Bella questioned.

"A vampire that could erase memories," Alice explained. "He was killed."

"Yes," I answered, "He used Eleazar to find his first two creations, now I know why." I rolled my eyes, Eleazar was paying him off for taking the burdens away from him.

"There has to be more to it than that," Rosalie pointed out. "I am sure Eleazar had his reasons for changing you."

"I would rather know why he didn't tell me." I explained still feeling disgusted with myself.

I truly didn't deserve their kindness. I had killed so many innocent vampires in the name of the Volturi. Yet, the Cullens, still took me in and cared for me like I was one of their own. It didn't matter how I came into this world, as long as I was here. In a different way, I had all of their respect.

"That's Tanya," Alice informed us. "They want to make sure you made it back here. Eleazar truly does care for you."

"I will talk to her," Esme said as everyone nodded.

"You know Felix you really shouldn't make a big deal of this." Jasper started, he seemed to act like living under a lie for almost a millennium was no big thing.

"Well, what would you do?" I asked as a smiled grinned on Jasper's face.

"Oh, I'd just kill her," Jasper chuckled lightly to himself.

"I don't think he's ready," Esme explained as I tried hard to think of an excuse to leave, I felt this disgusted taste in my mouth when I heard his voice come on begging Esme to talk to me. "I will give it a try…Felix, Eleazar wants to talk to you." I took the phone from her, and without even pressing it to my ear I clicked it, hanging up on him.

~X~

"Hey, your back," She smiled weakly as I came to visit her. She was holding a hand mirror, looking at it, touching the large scar that caused a red streak coming from the top of her eyes, slashing across her left cheek and going down to the bottom of her chin. "It might be permanent, guess it's good I never was that much of a beauty anyway."

"You are," I said coming into the room. She still was, despite the visible signs that were lashed out by the very same woman who brought her into this world.

"Not compared to the one's your use to seeing." She let out a gagging cough, but I still could hear her, despite her attempts to hide her words. I was thinking why I loved her. It must have been for her strength. She had this strength that gave me this strong passion for her; she sat up with her eyes open giving me a smile despite the trauma she had to face throughout her short human years. I couldn't even talk to Eleazar, yet, she still smiled despite facing the harshest of human cruelty. She had the strength I was unable to find.

"You are…someone who is to be admired." I softly responded feeling the tension develop inside me. Every feature about her was the quality of a delicate lady, the kind that would make the bravest of knights shiver in the thoughts of her lost.

"You can have any girl you want, yet you…keep coming to me. I keep picturing you girls billions of times more attractive." She said as tears swelled in her blood shot bruised eyes.

"They can't provide what you can," I answered as I pulled a strand of hair from her face.

"I have nothing," She stared down. "I am nothing." She looked back up towards me then turned away. "You shouldn't want me, you should have saved me. Can't you see I am just trash, I was born it, and I am stuck in it. I am not like you." She cried. "I don't know what you want from me, but I want to know why you came looking for me, and how the hell…" She stopped and touched her scar for a short moment before turning to me. "Where did you learn to run that fast….you were flying…..what happened. The moment I thought it was the end, you appeared out of know where, and lifted me as if I weighted nothing more than a pebble. You are faster then sped, going faster than race cars. I was at the hospital before I could even make sense of what you were doing. I saw your face when I woke up, it was the first thing I saw. I was thinking how it was the most perfect of faces, and how I could wish to touch your soft skin…only it's not soft or warm at all. Your skin is hard, and uncomforting."

"It sounds like you were dreaming," I said quickly.

"It was meant to be the last seconds of my life, I was pretty alert." Heather spoke with a raise in her voice, "You were there, you were real, very real. You put a gray cloak around me, wrapping it up so I was warm. You saw my blood, and held your breath, trying not to breathe it in. You picked me up, like I was a pillow and flew a thousand miles an hour bringing me here. You saved my life, in a very unnatural way that is impossible for any human. That makes me wonder about things, and notice some of your strange behavior, you never eat, I haven't seen you at any football practices on sunny days, and among many others."

"You weren't conscious," I warned quickly as I sat on her bed, hoping that she didn't see a thing, knowing firsthand the terrible danger she would be in if she knew.

"I know what I saw, don't lie me." Heather snapped. "I saw you, you saved me. I just want to know why and how. Why did you go to so much trouble to find me? How were you able to carry me so far, and so fast?"

We were silent, for a still long minute, as we just stared at each other. "Why do you look at me that way?" She asked breaking the silence.

"What?" I asked as our eyes met again.

"Your skin is hard, and cold very cold, you are also pale but handsome, almost too handsome to be…." She cut herself off, thinking for a minute. "You treat me differently, as if I am the most valued of humans. Why is that? You know I'm nothing, look what my own mother did to me, what makes you think I'm worth anything. Why does someone who is strong, and handsome as you want any part of me?"

"Because, you cause me to live to a better standard, to try and be someone who deserves your heart." I answered simply as her eyes went towards mine while we became silent for a short moment as she came up to me, coming to my board body.

Heather then put her lips against mine, and I kissed her back. I tasted the warm smoothness of her minted breath, along with the heat of her moth as my venom mixed with her salvia. It seemed to cause my very inner beings to jump, as a heat whelmed in me that I never felt before. While I felt her genital warm hands stroked my shoulders with her soft chest coming against my body. Even centuries of seducing vampire women, it was this human flesh that kept me in her palms. I thought I never feel so comfortable as her hands sled down my arms and my fingers tangled with hers. Then this strange object came up against the tip of my finger. We stopped when I felt it pierced into me. Heather glance down as I realized she placed a needle in my finger.

"There's no blood," She stopped horrified, with her eyes narrowing struck by the sight of a needle in my finger, with nothing coming out of it. "You don't bleed." She realized taking it out, to find it clean. "What are you?"

"Please, let me explain," I started quickly as she came away from me in less than a second.

"No, get out of here." She shouted instantly as I stood up not leaving. "I don't know what you are, but I don't want any part of it. My life is screwed up as it is, can't you see that!"

"You don't want me to leave," I said instantly. "You know how I feel about you, and you like it."

"Oh," Heather let out a screech. "Don't do this to me, Felix, I know how you feel, and I know in the end we'll both be hurt."

"No, that's not how it goes in my world." I explained to her. "I have something to offer you, and I will give it all up for you."

"Get out! I never want to see you again. " Heather jumped with fear in her eye. "Get out of here, and stay as far away from me as possible. I want nothing more to do with you. If you have an ounce of respect for me. Please leave, or I'll call security."

It was then I left, before she could blink. I left Heather, sitting in the white cotton sheets of her hospital bed alone.