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"My name is Rosalie Lillian Hale and I was born in Rochester, New York in the year 1915. I had two younger brothers, my mother was a housewife and my father was a banker. I was constantly being praised for my beauty and it made me vain. My parents took great pride in my looks which I enjoyed immensely. My father was always buying me pretty dresses; I was the envy of most women. And because of this I became very shallow and self absorbed." She took a deep breath and I sent her an encouraging smile.
"One day my mother made me dress up just to deliver my father's lunch to his work place, I didn't think anything because I loved wearing pretty dresses and being the centre of attention. That was until the bank owners son took notice of me, his name was Royce King II," She spat out his name, I could tell he was the main player in her demise, "Royce started sending me Roses and complimented me saying my eyes were like Violets and he started sending them along with the Roses. Our relationship was solely based on physical attraction because Royce was almost always busy at the bank, I was in love with the idea of love," She sighed and bowed her head.
"We became engaged quickly and one week before our wedding, I visited my good friend Vera, who had just had an adorable baby boy, I was envious because I wanted a baby so badly of my own, someone that I could love unconditionally and get the same in return. When Vera's husband kissed her on the cheek when he got home, I finally noticed the lack of love in Royce's and my relationship that was so obvious in Vera's marriage. While walking home, shaken by her thoughts, I came across Royce and his friends who were all equally drunk." Her voice grew hard and cold. I could tell the bad was about to come by the way her body tensed beside me, her eyes were boring into the wall in front of her, she didn't even blink. I clung on to her hand tightly but she didn't seem to notice, too caught up in the memories.
"They gang raped me and left me in the alley to die after brutally beating me. Carlisle later found me; the scent of my blood attracted him to my dying form. He carried me to his home and then proceeded to bite me, which caused me even more pain than I was in to begin with. At the time all I wanted to do was to die, I was in so much agony, both physically and mentally. When I awoke to my new life I could hear the Cullen's arguing about Carlisle saving me. Edward was unhappy because Carlisle thought I might be a mate for Edward and I was furious at being rejected, it had never happened before even if I didn't have any feelings for him myself, I still didn't like being rejected." I saw a sinister smile cross Rose's face.
"I soon avenged my death by killing those who had participated in the rape and beating; I saved Royce for last so that he knew I was coming for him, I donned a bridal gown and found him cowering in a windowless room with a thick, vault like door with Guards patrolling outside. I soon dealt with them and I entered the room and tortured Royce to death, I did spill a drop of his blood because I knew that if I did then I wouldn't be able to resist draining him and I didn't want his blood inside me, he was a vile man and deserved to die. I may have been a tad dramatic back then. After that I became a member of the Cullen Coven, I got lectured by them for days about the sacred value of human life and that I was a monster for killing my attackers, they made me feel terrible and after that they decided to forgive me. There was nothing to forgive in my opinion." Rosalie said with anger.
"Two years later in 1935, I stumbled across a man being mauled to death by a bear just outside of Gatlinburg Tennessee, his name was Emmett McCarty. He reminded me of Vera's son Henry with his adorable dimples and because of this I chose to take him to Carlisle and beg him to change Emmett. I had to carry him over 100 miles. It took me great self control not to bite him with the amount of blood he'd been loosing. Ever since that we've been together but in the past 50 years or so he's become distanced from me." She frowned then bowed her head.
"Rosalie, I'm so sorry you had to go through something like that, I would never wish it on anyone," I sobbed as I brought her to me, embracing her tightly and comforted her as I knew what it was like to be raped. I saw Jasper take her other hand and squeeze it tightly, whispering words of comfort, she leant into his side and took all the comfort she could from him.
"Wow Rosalie, I had no idea, you're such a strong person and I admire you for that," Elena said from where she was sat in Stefan's lap. I smiled and nodded in agreement.
"Well I guess it's my turn now," Jasper drawled out then took a deep breath.
"Well to begin with my real name is Jasper Whitlock and I was born in 1844 in Houston Texas, I don't remember much from my human life so I'm just going to skip it. All I know is I was the youngest Major in the Confederate Army. One day when I was helping women and children cross Texas safely, I was set upon by Maria and her two sisters who then proceeded to turn me. After my transformation I aided Maria in her creation of a Newborn Army and successfully conquered the feeding grounds in Texas." He said softly, biting his bottom lip.
"However, I became tired on the constant Violent bloodlust life because I felt uncomfortable when I had to feel my victims emotions but I knew of no other way to live. I created Peter here and he was my Captain, my right hand man at the time and one day I had to cull some of the Newborns because they were coming up to their 1 year mark and Charlotte here was one of them, I sensed the feelings they had for one another, so I let them go, suffered for it but it was worth it knowing they would be happy and in love. A few years later Peter and Charlotte came back to me, telling me that up North there were no Newborn armies that covens existed in peace and harmony without all the unnecessary bloodshed so I left with them." He smiled at Peter who nodded and wrapped an arm round his mate.
"After a while I decided to become a nomad and one day I stopped in a diner in Philadelphia and Alice was there, she led me to peaceful existence with the Cullen's but like Emmett she has become distance this past 40 years and is ruled by her visions which the rest of them rely heavily on." He said sadly, I knew Alice was hurting him but hopefully I could cure that soon. I took a deep breath.
After a few moments Elena stood up and cleared her throat to get our attention, she smiled then while clutching her husbands hand she began.
"My name is Elena Gilbert, I was born and bred in Mystic Falls, Virginia, my parents were Isobel Flemming and John Gilbert, I was 18 years old when I was changed. I had been dating Stefan for over a year and I knew his brother Damon too when Katherine came into town and caused havoc as usual. She played mind games, got witches to help her in her plots, basically made our lives hell. She turned my best friend into a vampire and manipulated her into spying on us."
"Then a big bad came into town and scared Katherine off, it was obvious she was scared of this person and she was right to be, he's an evil, sadistic man and he knows nothing of compassion. He compelled Stefan to switch his humanity off and he made him drink human blood as part of his kicks. It turns out he was the reason for his human blood binge and blackouts during the 20's. This sadistic bastard killed me and my Aunt after changing her into a vampire for a certain ritual. My best friend Bonnie who's a witch managed to revive me in time but nothing could be done for my Aunt. I hated with a passion and was glad when he let Stefan go of his compulsion."
"After a few months of trying to keep ahead of the sadistic bastard and his siblings we found out that he had a father that hunted our kind and we set him loose on the sadistic bastard but it didn't work. We had something of his he wanted back and it was obviously important so we kept it hidden. What I didn't know was what that was could be the downfall of all of us. One day I had gotten injured so Stefan had fed me his blood. When I was walking home that night from meeting up with my friends I got attacked from behind, I didn't know who did it but it resulted in me being here today," Elena concluded with a sigh. I gave her a huge hug. I don't know why but her story hit a nerve. I just had a funny feeling about this 'sadistic bastard' as she called him. I don't know what he was called because Elena was obviously not going to tell us yet. Oh well, she'll tell us in time hopefully.
Within the next three hours everyone had told their stories, Damon's emotional turmoil and Stefan being the ripper. Char and Peter told of their life in the Newborn armies and how they helped each other heal with time and now they were practically inseparable. We all cried and laughed, mourned other's losses and generally grew closer as a group, I think we all had became friends, Damon I was still pissed at for hurting me once again but I knew I'd forgive him, because I always did. I'd forgiven him years ago for abandoning me but it doesn't mean I didn't forget it, I'll never forget what he did.
I stood up and cleared my throat loudly, all eyes turned to me.
"Peter, Char would you mind joining High School with us?" I asked nicely.
"Already sorted sweetie, got a feeling a few weeks ago and we start tomorrow morning, I've made sure either myself of Char has a class with you for every period," Peter explained, I breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank God," I grinned and hugged them tightly.
"I shall be contacting Aro again soon and letting him know to dispatch a guard but first of all I want to continue observing the Cullen Coven for any more rule breaking. Speaking of, Rosalie, Jasper, there's something I need to tell you," I took a deep breath, they both looked at me with worry on their faces.
"What? What is it Isabelle? You're starting to scare me," Rosalie said, panic evident in her voice.
"I'm sorry but they've all been lying to you for decades," I said sadly, taking both of their hands in mine.
"Lying to us about what?" Jasper asked frantically.
"Jasper, Alice isn't your true mate she was just manipulating you to keep you within the coven, think about it, your experience in the Newborn Army plus your reputation would make many covens and nomads think twice about threatening the Cullen's, your gift was just a plus," I whispered, Jasper shook his head back and forth desperately. I turned to Rosalie.
"Rosalie, Emmett isn't your true mate either, I'm sorry, they manipulated you as well, you're fiercely protective and you have great self control plus you're the personification of beauty, who wouldn't want you in their coven," I whispered again, Rosalie had a look of devastation on her face.
"No! You're lying! How could you say this Isabelle? I thought you were my friend?" She yelled while standing up, she stormed to the doorway so I opened my mouth.
"I know who your real true mate is though." I announced, standing up, she spun around to face me.
"Who is it then?" She asked angrily.
"Jasper is your mate Rose, haven't you ever wondered why they kept the people who were pretending to be twins away from one another, don't you feel the need to protect him with everything you have, a strange pull in your chest when he's gone which is almost painful, they probably sent Emmett out with Jasper at times so you'd think it was Emmett you were being pulled too. Do you feel the pull now Rose?" I asked.
"No, why would they do something like this, it makes a lot of sense though, we've been played from the start Rosie." Jasper said softly while striding up to Rose, pulling her chin up so he could look deep into her eyes, I felt a pang of loneliness while watching them, Jasper's lips crashed onto Rosalie's who soon responded in earnest, I quickly realised what was going to happen when I saw Jasper groan in pleasure when Rosalie wrapped her legs round his waist.
"Upstairs, third door on the right," I said and they gave me a thumbs up then disappeared upstairs to their designated rooms. I saw the remaining two couples look at me in question so I quickly told them what room they were staying in.
Soon it was just Damon and I left in the living room with an uncomfortable silence hanging around the room, I decided I needed another drink if I was going to have to talk to Damon again. I stood up and went straight to the liquor cabinet, I could feel Damon's eyes on me as I took each step which made me squirm slightly.
"Would you like a drink?" I asked quietly, without turning around.
"Yes please, Scotch if you have any," He replied, I always kept Scotch.
It was one of the few types of alcohol I liked. I unscrewed the bottle top and poured two glasses and went to my small ice machine which was next to the cabinet and added ice to the drinks, I was about to turn around when I heard his voice behind me.
"Isabelle, I'm so sorry," He whispered, I could hear pain in his voice.
"For what?" I asked, my back still to him.
"Everything, not being there, not marrying you, not being able to see my children grow up," He said while placing a hand on my shoulder which made me freeze.
"Why? Why did you do it Damon?" I asked, my voice cracking near the end.
"She compelled me Isa, I would never have left you otherwise, you were my whole world, still are, those horrible things I said to you the night before our wedding were not true Isa, I could never do that to you. The entire time I was screaming inside at myself to stop all those untrue words spewing out of my mouth, I tried so hard to fight it but Katherine's compulsion was too strong, I miss you Isa, I still love you, I think about all the things we could of done together and I thought you were dead, Katherine told me you were, otherwise I'd have searched the ends of the earth for you my love. There has been no other that I love other than you, you still hold my heart. I know I hurt you and I know I shouldn't even be thinking about asking you this but I will because hey, its me." He chuckled humourlessly which made me smirk. "I need to know if you could forgive me Isa? Could you give us another chance?" He said with agony in his voice, I spun around and searched his eyes, looking for deceit but couldn't see anything. I reached up to cup his cheek in my hand.
"Damon, I've missed you so much, you don't know how much. My heart still belongs to you; no other has even come close to a smidging of what I feel for you. Of course my children aren't included in that. I love you Damon Salvatore," I declared while still looking deep into his eyes, I saw his smile light up his features then I felt his warm, soft lips on mine.
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