I woke up to an empty bed gasping for breath. I looked over to the other side to see that Sam must have left. The sun shining through the curtains and I squinted.

Just another dream. I groaned.

The nightmare was so real. I swear James came back and hurt the pack. I went to get up out of bed and swore. My body felt as stiff as cardboard. I slowly sat up in bed and looked at my arms and legs. They were covered in cuts and bruises.

I groaned a second time and pushed myself out of bed. Where could Sam be? Panic cursed through my veins as I got up. I thought about the other day.

Is this why James left? To hurt the pack? Was my dream coming true? My breath came out in short gasps as I thought of the possibilities of that happening. I quickly got up, not caring about the way my body was begging me to lay back down, and ran into the living room.

I quickly stopped to a halt when I saw most of the guys.

There were Paul, Embry, Jake, Leah and Seth. Jake and Leah were cuddled on the couch while the Paul and Seth were playing video games. Embry was staring at the ceiling. I was breathing heavily and I hissed as the pain caught up to me from running. I put some of my weight on the back of a chair to my left. All the heads popped up and looked towards me.

"Hey." I gritted through my teeth. I then put my head down and closed my eyes. I felt as if I was about to collapse.

Leah immediately got up off of Jakes lap and put my arm around her shoulder. Jake then got up off the couch and helped Leah with the other side.

"Sam!" Jake called. I groaned. Embry, Paul, and Seth got up. The panic on their face was priceless. I could hear chairs scoff the kitchen floor and feet running. I lifted my head to see Sam coming towards the living room.

"Wha-…Bella!" He quickly ran towards me. He watched helplessly as Leah and Jake set me down on the couch. I groaned.

I knew I shouldn't have pushed myself to get up.

Sam kneeled down and met my face "Bella, honey, are you ok?" he asked.

I lifted my head. "Yea, just… really… weak." I said somewhat coherent.

I felt as if I was starting to loose consciousness. I put my head back down in my hands. I need to stay awake. This isn't going to end up good if I don't stay awake and in control.

"What can we do Bells?" Jake said nervously, just a few feet away from me. Leah put a hand on his shoulder to try and calm down.

"I-…ummm…" I said trying to fight the battle. I kept trying to stay awake and blink. The fight was so hard.

"…food, Jake. I need….to….eat…to…up" I mumbled. I was slowly loosing the battle. I could hear someone run and get some food.

"Bells?" Sam said softly. When I didn't answer he called my name a little louder. "Bella?!" he asked. I lifted my head a little.

"Come on Sweetie, you gotta stay awake." He said gently tapping my cheeks

Someone ran in with food, Jake I think, and gave it to Sam

"Here Bells, come on eat."

Sam started to feed the food into my mouth.

"Swallow Bells, come on sweetie." He kept feeding me food, and I just groaned. I was so weak. A few minutes later and a whole chocolate chip muffin I started to feel better. Sam was sitting with me on the couch trying to keep me awake just like I asked him too. I didn't want to sleep no matter how much someone said it would do me good. I needed to make sure that the pack didn't get hurt I made myself a promise they wouldn't get hurt because of me. No way in hell would that ever happen.

"You ok now?" Sam said looking down towards me.

My head was on his chest and my body curled up in a ball with a blanket beside him. I think he could see I was feeling better because my eyes were fully open, and actually stayed that way.

"Huh? Yea, better" I said.

Jake walked into the room and saw me. "Bella! Thank the heavens! Your ok!"

I smiled a small smile. "Yea, Jake, sorry for the whole ordeal this morning." I said guiltily. Everyone then walked into the living room. Hmm, everyone must have left to give us some peace and quite. I thought.

"Hey guys." I said.

"Hey Bells!" they all said still a little nervous I would collapse or something.

I slowly got up. But Sam pushed me back down.

"You sure that's a good idea?" he asked me.

I bit my lip. " Yea I'm fine. I just…shouldn't have pushed myself like that." I said.

"Yea, about that. What was with the whole panicky look on your face." Leah asked.

"I just…had a bad dream. Sorry." I said while blushing.

Everyone nodded.

"Ok…well I have to go heal myself now, so if you will excuse me." I said while trying to get up but Sam kept his arm around me.

"How do you heal yourself Bella?" Seth asked.

"I- Well….its not really something you can explain." I said.

"Can we see?" Quil asked.

"I- yea. I guess." I shrugged.

I took the blanket off myself to asses the damage.

Damn how did I even get up this morning?

I took a deep breath. Here goes nothing.

I made a fist and felt a flow around my hand I then wiggled my fingers a little. The green bright light surrounded my whole hand. I could hear gasps and 'ooo's all around. I moved my fingers over the little cuts on my legs. Within seconds they started to close up and heal. I then started to heal the big gash on my upped thigh. I bit my lip hard, and hissed. Sam looked up worried.

"Bella?" he asked a little panicked. After the big gash closed up I closed my eyes and leaned back.

"Bells?" someone asked. I took a deep breath and opened my eyes. "Sorry."

"What happened?" Sam asked.

"Healing." I said simply.

I think Seth was starting to get it.

"So when you heal, it hurts?" he asked more as a question than a statement. Everyone looked from Seth to me. I nodded.

"Yeah, I mean, the little cuts don't hurt, I can barely feel them, but the bigger ones do."

"So when you heal others it hurts too?" Collin asked.

"Yeah, most of the time." I said.

"Maybe that's enough for today." Sam said while rubbing his hands up and down my arms.

"No, I gotta finish. I will be fine in a second. It just takes a lot out of me." I took a deep breath. How could I explain this better? "My power of healing, it comes with pain. It always will. I mean you are practically putting you body back in place." I tried to explain.

Everyone winced.

A little later I finished healing all the cuts. Sam wouldn't leave my side no matter how many times I said he didn't have to be here. After I was done, we went to the kitchen to get some Mac& Cheese Emily was making. I think I ate about 4 bowlfuls. Everyone just looked at me and Sam smiled. "What?" I asked.

"Damn Bells. You eat a lot." Brady said.

Leah went over and smacked him upside the head. Everyone laughed while Brady rubbed his head. Leah shot him a dirty look and Brady just stuck out his tongue. Leah was about to go over there do it again but I stopped her.

"It's ok Leah." I said to her. I then turned to Brady. "Yeah, I usually eat a lot more than a regular human after I exert myself a lot or use my healing powers for big injuries." I said simply. It didn't really bother me. I kept eating and everyone nodded.

After I was done I helped Emily with the dishes. The rest of the pack was in the living room talking and playing video games. While talking to Emily I heard Jakes footprints quietly behind me. I smiled. 3, 2, 1… "Boo!" I yelled turning around to Jake.

Jake screamed like a little girl and I practically fell on the floor laughing. Emily was leaning against the counter crying of laughter.

Everyone then ran into the kitchen to see what all the commotion was.

There was Emily and I laughing our heads off while Jake stood there shocked, blushing like a red tomato. Everyone just looked at us like we were crazy, which made Emily and I laugh even more.

"Someone wanna tell me what's going on here?" Sam asked, trying to take the whole scene in.

"Jake….tried…ahhahahaha." I couldn't stop laughing.

"Emily?" Leah asked.

"Bella…she….and…Jake….hahahaha"

"Jake?" Seth said.

"I…ummm…well…I tried to…." Jake said flabbergasted.

Emily and I finally calmed down and Sam took me into the living room. I sat on his lap with my head on my chest. Everyone else started to gather in.

"So, what the hell happened in the kitchen that made you guys crack up?" Quil asked.

Emily, Jake, and I all looked to each other. Jake started to blush again and Emily and I stated to laugh. "Guysss." Collin whined.

"Ok, ok" I said gaining self control.

"Well Emily and I were washing dishes, and Jake thought it was funny to try and sneak up on me, I guess. Well….I decided to turn the tables and scare him. So when he came close enough I turned around and shouted boo. That's when you guys heard Jake scream like a girl." I smiled.

"That was you?!" Leah said to Jake. She kept laughing. "I thought that was Emily!" she said while trying to breathe from her giggles. We all stared to crack up except Jake.

"Are you guys done yet?" Jake said, the least bit amused.

I let out a breathe."…Yea, we're good" I smiled towards him

Jake shook his head. "How did you hear me Bells?"

They laughter stared to die down.

"What do you mean Jake, you were right by me." I said oblivious.

"Bella, we're wolves. We can be super quite when we want to. There is no way you should have heard me, even as the human you are." He pointed out. I nodded.

"Right. Well that's one of my powers. Super hearing, I guess you could call it."

"Sweet!" Brady said.

"So how does it work?" Paul asked.

"I don't know. I have gotten so used to it. I just felt like their was someone close by so I listened real close, and felt Jakes presence." I tried to explain.

"What other powers do you have?" Leah asked.

"hmm….I have telekinesis, super hearing, I'm able to conjure up the 4 elements, levitation, teleportation, I can make these electricity ball thingys, I can make a shield, I have a healing power, and probably more, I just cant really think of them."

"Whoa, that's a lot! Cool dude!" Collin and Brady said while giving each other a high five.

I shook my head. It wasn't that cool, I'm some freak of nature. I thought.

"Bella, will you tell us your whole story?" Embry said. I arched an eyebrow towards him and he just shrugged.

"Sure." I said.

"Well, back in Phoenix, Renee sat me down and said she wanted to tell me some stuff."

"Bella, Honey! Can you come here for a second?!" Renee shouted from the bottom of the stairs

"Yea! Coming Mom!" I shouted back. I ran down the stairs. "What's up?" I said

"Come here and sit" She guided me to the kitchen chair across from her.

"I wanted to talk to you about…"

I stopped her. "Is this the sex talk, because I really don't need it. I know about sex and that you should wait, not like what you did because it messed up your life having a kid early and blah blah blah." I said while rolling my eyes.

"No." she said.

"Oh." I said.

She bit her lip and didn't say anything for what felt like a long time.

"You're adopted!" she practically yelled.

"Wh-What?!" I asked astounded.

"You're adopted." She said quieter.

"What do you mean 'I'm adopted'" I said with air quotes.

"Exactly how it sounds." She said

"But…I thought you said you had me when you were really young and…"

"I know what I said!" she said cutting me off

"Ok, then explain it to me!" I said getting mad

She sighed. "Your father and I got married right after high school. And a couple of moths after, our marriage got a little rocky. He started to come home later and later, I felt as if I was getting the cold shoulder." She said hurt

"But then, one day I felt sick when he was at work. One thing lead to another and I took a pregnancy test and it said I was pregnant. When I told your father, he was so happy. He came home early and gave me gifts and it felt like he loved me." She took a deep breath. "But then one day, I got these cramps in my lower stomach, so I went into the doctors. He said that I wasn't really pregnant- that I was having a false pregnancy. I felt torn and decided to tell your father that night, but when he got home he just kissed me like never before and I decided not to tell him."

"Yo-You what?!" I shouted

She didn't stop the story.

" Then one day while he was at work, I calculated on the calendar that I should be having the baby soon. So I decided to go to the hospital…."

I looked at her with confusion, but why would she go to the hospital if…?

"No." I whispered shaking my head.

"I saw this young woman in the ER, they told her to wait a few minutes. I watched her till she made it in the trauma room to have her baby. I put on scrubs and a face mask like a doctor and when she delivered it…I took it."

"It?!" I asked incredulous.

"You, I took you."

"You-you stole me." I stuttered

"I came home that day with a baby in my hands. You father was so happy yet so sad that he missed it, but we can just say I made it up to him." She said with lust in her eyes. I shook my head disgusted.

"Anyways, everything was going well. And then one day, the young woman came to the house and was so mad. She had these powers, and told me she wanted her daughter back but I fought for you, and she gave up. Apparently she was really weak, so I threw her back on the streets where she belonged." My mom said dignitatly. I looked at her like she was a stranger.

"I told you this, because, well I think you might have inherited those powers too." She said looking at me

She then reached over across the table and took my hand. "But its ok, we will get through it together." She said rubbing the back of my hand. I pulled my hand away.

"I hate you." I said and then ran up to my room. She sat there for a few seconds before coming into my room.

"She stole you!?" Everyone shouted. Sam gave them all a look.

"Yea, she did." I said quietly while biting my lip. Sam put a hand on my arm and rubbed circles. I continued my story.

"So I called up Charlie and asked him if I could stay with him for a while."

I was interrupted by Collin.

"But Bella… Why did you move away from your mom?"

"Isn't that obvious?" Leah said with disgust.

I understood and cut them both off. "Because I was so mad at Renee, that I didn't want to loose control and hurt her." I said. I heard Sam growl.

Everyone looked at me shocked.

"I knew about my powers before my mom told me. I started to experience weird feelings with my body which I knew wasn't puberty. So I started to learn to control my powers without my mom knowing. I learned that if I lost control over my emotions that I could accidentally hurt people." I stated.

"Anyways, I came back here." I ended. "Any questions?" everyone raised their hands.

I picked Leah. "Who's James?" she asked.

"James is Renee's best friends' kid. She did the same thing as Renee, I guess, because she thought it was a good idea. The lady was a wack job." My hands turned into fists as I thought of what Renee said.

"James?" I said.

"J-James….he's your….I really don't know. I remember he got adopted the same time you were. He was my best friend, Cheryl's, adoptive son. She didn't tell him he was adopted either." Renee said.

"Cheryl as in the overly drunk woman who lived a few blocks down!?" I said surprised.

"Ha-ha, oh yes. The poor child would be black and blue by the time she finished with him." She reminisced.

"And why didn't you do anything!? Why didn't you interfere!?" I asked lividly.

"Because it wasn't my place to." She answered simply.

"WHAT?!" I shouted angrily

"I'm not going to tell how a mother, let alone my fiend, how to raise her child!" she said in a raised tone.

"I can't believe you! You let the poor kid get hurt just because you didn't FEEL like telling her not to beat her SON!?!?" I shouted.

"What?" Leah asked me, catching the look on my face.

"Renee told me James used to get beaten as a kid. I was so mad at her, and when I asked why she didn't do anything she said it was because she wasn't going to tell her best friend how to raise her kid." I said gritting my teeth. Everyone then growled.

I looked at everyone's faces. They seemed to be processing this whole thing.

I laughed to myself and everyone looked at me... "I never thought you guys would be so….calm." I said.

Sam shrugged. "I guess it wasn't that hard to guess. When we couldn't hear your conversation from the other room at the last bonfire we knew something was up, we just weren't exactly sure."

"Why didn't you ask me?"

"Because we had the same reason you did- when you were ready to tell us, you would have, and not because you had to but because you wanted to."

I nodded.

"Alright next question."

I picked Seth. "So why weren't you shocked when we told you about us?"

"Well…I knew your secret before you told me" I admitted. Everyone gapped.

"Ok, ok. So, I don't know, somehow I just knew. I had this strange vision thingy the day I was going over the boarder to surprise Jake. I then, all of the sudden knew stuff about werewolves, vampires, the in-betweens, and imprinting. I kind of felt like I was going nuts or something, but when you all verified it by telling me you're secret. I don't know… it was just…weird." I struggled to explain. "Im sorry that I didn't tell you that I knew, but like I said, I didn't want you to feel like you had to. I stick by everything I said before." I shrugged.

"It's ok." Sam said while hugging me.

"Alright, my turn." Jake said.

"Why didn't you tell me about your mom and stuff?" he asked hurt. I bit my lip.

"When I was younger, and Renee made me stop coming here, I always thought one day it would just be you and me Jake, just hanging out everyday. I thought that maybe one day she would suddenly change her mind or you would come and rescue me like in the fairytales. But then as I got older, I stopped hoping. I stopped thinking about the other half of my life all together. I closed off that part of my heart because I hated the feeling of hurt and betrayal I felt towards Renee for not letting me go. Then, my powers happened. I was so scared, and all I wanted was to come back here and forget that it ever happened. And it did. Renee turned out to be the person that I thought I would end up hating for the rest of my life. And when I came to see you, it felt like everything came back to equilibrium. When we just hung out in your room talking, it made me feel like myself again. I was no longer the stranger I felt my self becoming; I was the same old Bella. And when you asked me about my mom, Jake, it hit me like a ton of bricks. A part of me wanted to tell you everything, right then and there, but fear took over. Half of me thought that you would look at me in disgust, thinking I was no longer the Bella you once loved. But the other half knew you would never say that. It was like a never ending battle. And when finally did decide to tell you, the guys showed up, so I felt as if destiny took over and told me it wasn't right to tell you just yet." I sighed.

"I didn't mean to intentionally hurt you, I would never want to do that, I just didn't want to loose you when I just got you back." Tears formed in my eyes. I was so selfish, how could they not see it?

I was suddenly taken out of Sam's arms and twirled in the air.

"Love you Bells." Jake whispered in my ears. I smiled a teary eyed smile.

"Love you too Jake, love you too." I said while burying my head in his neck. I breathed in his scent. I missed him. More than I ever thought I did. After a few seconds of standing there we both heard a throat clear. I looked over to Sam and he just arched his eyebrow. I blushed pink and went back to his lap.

"Who's next?" I asked.

Paul raised his hand. "What are you Bella?" he asked. Jake glared at him and then walked over and slapped him hard over the head.

I looked at my hands. "I-I don't know. I mean, im a human, because I need to eat, sleep, pee, etc. but im not…a wolf or vampire or witch…I don't think."

"Well how don't you know you're not a witch?" he asked while Jake shot him another death glare.

"Because my subconscious would have told me- just like it told me about you guys and the vampires. It kept me out of danger when I met that vampire in the woods, and helped me find tactics to beat her. It's like knowledge I know, I just haven't realized I know it. So I guess you could just say, im a gifted human." I concluded.

"You were attacked by a vampire." Sam growled. I gulped. Oops, my badd.

This time Jake shot me the glare.

"Yea, I fought her, she was pretty skilled, but I used my power to light a fire and burn her to pieces in the meadow."

"That was you!?" Quil said.

I nodded. "Yup, and that's also when I ran for it, and Sam found me by my house." I said blushing.

Sam growled. "You got hurt by her."

"It was fine, just a scratch, nothing I couldn't handle." I tried to wave off.

"It was more than a scratch considering I found you leaning against a tree." He said in a low voice. I gulped again. "But im fine Sam, promise."

"So any other questions?" I asked trying to get off the subject.

Everyone shook their head. "Not any I can think of right now, but I bet we will have some later on." Seth said. I nodded, understanding.

"Can I ask you a question Embry?" I said.

"Uhh, sure?" he said confused.

"How did you know about me?" I asked.

Everyone looked shocked. "Embry knew about you all of this time?!" Jake said in an angry tone.

"Whoa, boy. I don't know exactly. Let him explain." I said trying to settle Jake. Embry turned pink and looked down.

"Well…I…when we were younger. The family decided to take a trip to Arizona. And I knew that's where you lived. So I went to go see you, but your mom said you weren't home. So I was going to sneak up to your room till you got home and I could surprise you. And I waited for you in your room. I saw your pictures on your dresser with Jake, I saw us, I saw Leah, I saw one of you and your dad and I saw you holding up a medal from track." I smiled.

"And all of the sudden I heard your mom talking on the phone. It sounded important but like she knew the person real well. I didn't mean to listen in, it just came naturally. I heard someone talk about and James, and how he was experiencing these weird abilities. And if you were experiencing them too. It sounded amazing and I thought it would be really cool if you were to experience those things, and show them to us when you came back, but then I went to listen in closer and ran into something in your room. So I jumped out the window and then ran away before your mom could run up to your room to see what the noise was. I heard enough to know, and I didn't know if you knew. Then when you cam back here, I was just so mad when you thought everything was your fault, what you went through alone and how your mom treated you. I-Im sorry for the way I acted." He said apologetically.

"It's ok." I said shocked. I quickly regained composer and thought about that day.

"My nightstand. You ran into my nightstand that had the rest of the pictures and things that I had from Forks. My diary must have hit the ground because I remember coming back and finding it was on the ground- when I swore I left it on the table. I panicked thinking that Renee read it because she was acting strange that whole week- but she was just seeing if I developed my powers yet." I said replaying the scene in my head.

Collin laughed. "What did you write in there that was so top secret Bella? Your crushes?"

Sam growled at him.

"No. I wrote about how much I was angry at her for not letting me spend time here and with Charlie. I wrote that I wished Jake and the rest of the gang would be waiting for me at the bottom of my window, ready to make our great escape. I said that I wished I lived in a fairytale and had my prince come and save me from the evil mother and sweep me off my feet."

Collin then bit his lip, regretting what he said. So I decided to lighten up the mood.

"But yea, crushes too. I remember writing about this one guy, Chase, I think his name was. He was really sweet, and a popular guy but not too bright. I remember likening him and being so excited to tutor him, but after like 2 sessions I told him I couldn't tutor him. I had to repeat like the whole PEMDAS about a thousand times." I said rolling my eyes. Everyone laughed, which lightened the air a lot.

I sighed in content and leaned back into Sam's chest. I smiled to myself.

This was home, and there was no place like it.