Hey guys, this is just a kind of join together chapter, not much action, but I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Make the most of my last week of freedom and write my butt off!

Back at the house, the big one, Carlisle was interrogating Luke. He had Emmett as prison guard, watching Luke's every move, Alice predicting his decisions, Dad watching for lies and extra information, and Jacob, well Jacob was just sulking on the couch.

"So where are you living? I presume you're not a traveller, or you'd be gone by now." Carlisle was being polite, but he needed to know details to help Luke. The rest of the family was just watching.

"No where really." Luke said casually.

"In an abandoned house near the coast. Very remote, but not to far from civilisation." Dad corrected. Luke would never manage around here if he lied all the time.

"Ok, exactly how were you surviving?" Luke gave Carlisle a look that clearly said: 'are you a complete idiot or what?'. "Just checking. How long have you been in the area?"

"About a-"

"Three." Dad corrected again. He was clearly unimpressed by Luke's lying attempt.

"Three months."

"Why did you come to this particular town? Why not a large city, where murder is commonplace?"

"Because there were rumours of a special tribe that lived in the area. Not vampires, although no-one knows what they are."

Dad decided to add "except you, us and the volturi. The wolves aren't exactly very...easily concealed from their natural enemies."

"If they are our enemies, why haven't you just gone and taken then down?" Luke was just winding Jacob up now.

"Because we'd rip them to pieces, butt-head. We would have already, but we have a contract." Jacob was going for 'I'm so much better than you so bog off bloodsucker' which wasn't doing him any good.

"A contract. Really? You signed a bit of paper that says you can't kill them?" Luke was still going for 'wind the doggy up'. Which also wasn't doing HIM any good either.

Carlisle stepped in to keep the vases whole and the mirrors unbroken. "Actually, two long generations back, we came to this area and stayed a while. The wolves were hunting vampires but we showed them we were different. So we made a deal: as long as we never bit a human, the wolves couldn't hunt us. That deal now has many complications, a few of which saved Bella's life, or vampire life anyway."

Mum this time. "We've been keeping them of your back for a while, but now that we've given you a chance at life, you need to live it or way, or die in two possible ways. If the volturi discover you've been draining after you were given a chance, they will set fire to you. The wolves will find out first, and if they do-"

"You're toast, fang boy" Jacob took pleasure in threatening Luke. You couldn't take him anywhere!

"Sure..." Luke was a confident little toddler with fangs sometimes, and come to think of it, 24 year old Jacob really couldn't talk.

"Stop, Jacob if you say that then YOU will end up badly hurt, Nessie heartbroken and Charlie dead. Don't say it." Alice was quick on reactions, but I couldn't really tell if she'd had a vision or not.

"Yeah, not the best of ideas." If dad thought so, just go with it. He didn't ever really get it wrong.

Carlisle continued. "So, are you going to keep living where you are, our would you prefer a room here? It would be a lot easier for us to help you adjust to our lifestyle, and it would be easier for you to get used to us. Your going to be stuck here until you've changed totally."

Luke said then, "that all depends on how much of dog breath I'll be seeing." Jacob snarled. Even as a human, he was vicious.

"If you're here, I won't be." Jacob, don't start.

"Next question, do you have any special abilities?"

He hesitated there. "No."

Carlisle looked towards Edward. "I'm not getting any hints." But me, I could see he was lying. I walked over to him in his chair and quickly slapped my hand hard into his face, but I didn't remove it.

You lie, you die. One of three ways, volturi, Jacob or ME. I told you not to make me regret saving you. Buck up your attitude mister.

"I can control my mind a lot better than other vampires and humans. I can black out all thoughts, fill my head with a certain thought, or I can let anyone into my head. So they can see my thoughts, and show me theirs. I think it's unique, our at least the volturi have never met anyone like me. Aro was talking to me before you came along." He looked at me. "By the way, how on Earth did you know?" Specially to me. Again. Oops. I'd given him a vision. I can do that freely now that I know it's his gift, but I need to do it his way.

"I...was just thinking that. Maybe you let me in?" Stupid Nessie, stupid stupid me!

"Maybe you have a particularly strong barrier breaker." He guessed.

"That's true actually. Being our daughter, she had half of Edwards ability with a part of mine. She can break mind barriers so easily, even though I'm a shield she can..." I was waving and mouthing stop and imitating cutting my neck. Shut up! She finally saw me behind Luke's back and quickly switched what she was going to say. "... break it." Ugh. Really mum?

"Awesome. So now you can tell me you love me without HIM hearing." He sneered. I gently placed my hand on each side of his neck from behind and whispered loudly in his ear, so even Jacob could hear:

"One more comment and I snap your neck." He smiled and flashed so he was behind me, my arms in a lock behind my back, and he whispered to me:

"You think you could do that. Huh?" Stupid boy. Within half a second he was on the floor, arms in MY lock and pulled so hard he was actually in pain.

I sat on his arms and back, knees digging into his shoulders. "Want to say that again to my face? Wait, you can't, do you want to say it to the floor?" I could see Jacob smiling of to my left and I could sense him about to make some snarky comment. "Don't you start." That seemed to work because he put his hands up in surrender.

"Go sis!" Emmett said from across the room.

"Your not her brother your her uncle." Said aunt Rosalie from behind him.

"I'm too young to have a niece." He finalised. Kind of true. They all were frozen around their teens or twenties so, not far off from me. I preferred to think of them as siblings, except mum, dad, Carlisle and Esmee. Carlisle and Esmee were kind of like second parents rather than grandparents, but Charlie was a grandpa to me, he had been since I was only a tiny girl.

"I'm OK down here, just getting to know the floor. He's a great guy you know." Said a surprised voice from under me. Luke was still on the floor, in pain.

"Good, so you won't mind staying there then, will you?" It was a rhetorical question.

"Nessie, sweetie, you should let him up now, I think he's learned his lesson." Said aunt Rosalie. I liked the power of having someone at my mercy, but I was brought up differently.

"Thank you." Luke got up and stretched his arms. I'd broken a bone or two but they healed within seconds. "I'll take a room here thanks, my place is a stinking dump, full of rotting corpses, almost dead..."

"Thank you Luke. You can have Edward's old room. There's still a couch and a desk but you can rummage in the basement for some other stuff you might like. Alice will show you what you can take." Alice took Luke to the stairs. There was a stair cupboard, and when opened, it revealed more stairs. Surprisingly clean stairs for a path to the basement.

"He may think otherwise, but I am not letting you go." Jacob was sometimes way too over protective.

"You may think otherwise, but I am not letting you beat anyone up." He gave me puppy dog eyes. It was so hard to resist puppy dog eyes. "Unless they try to kill you first. Anything less, you restrain them til they calm down, but no pain until attempted murder."

"Of anyone? Including the rest of your vampy friends?" He was just finding excuses now.

"Yes..." I sighed.

"Game on, bloodsucker." He had a confident face on. "May the best MAN win."