Chapter VIII Immortal Life

After a month of preparations we moved to France and training started. The most grueling training ever. Especially with my clumsiness. But Duncan and Adam helped me. Another odd thing was I still had my period Adam and Duncan were really surprised at this. As usually immortals were sterile. Adam vowed to research.

About a year in, I took them up on their offer to talk about what happened. I told them my whole life story. Including the vampires and werewolves. I even told them about my dreams. When I was finished and calmed down from my tears.

Duncan just looked at me: " There is no such things as vampire or werewolves"

I looked at him with one raised eyebrow. This is where Adam interrupted. "Actually that's not true …"

Apparently a couple thousand years ago he had been friends with Aro and actually stopped by Volterra every 4-5 centuries. Actually he helped Aro develop his system of government.

And he also corrected me in saying the quilleutes were werewolves. They were actually shapeshifters. There were a few immortals that could do it to. Cassandra was one of them.

I explained my dream that I had on the first day we met. Methos and Duncan looked contemplative at this.

"Duncan do you think Cassandra would consent to tutoring her.? She seems very talented. My guess she has a shield against mental manipulations. As well as some psychic ability. Also she is one of the rare immortals borne through genetic manipulation. Not however you or I were brought to this world"

I asked him to explain. Apparently I was pre-immortal because of James. His venom changed my genetic code just enough to give me the latent immortal gene that would be activated by death. This also explained why I was still fertile as ever. He cautioned me. He said my children would be completely mortal. And I would have to watch them, my grandchildren's grandchildren die of old age. He said I should be absolutely certain if I really wanted to be a mother knowing that.

Methos also was quite a good psychologist and helped me work through my emotional turmoil. He also said vampires had perfect memories and were not easily distracted. He also said if I was Edwards true mate he was in agony every day. He made clear to me by explaining what I told him in more depth. He showed me by logic and many examples, that Edward most likely left me what he thought to be "my own good."

Bloody Plonker, I thought. Oh right I picked up some Britishisms from Methos and Duncan.

Anyway so for years upon years I learned fighting, acting (both immortals said it was very important) and a few other things. I also learned about mechanic stuff from Richie. And I learned magic. ( and Cass hated me calling it that ). I had the VOICE. I could shield anyone from anything short of a physical attack. Though I also had the ability to manipulate the molecular structure of things which allowed me to e. g. at least temporarily thicken the molecules in the air.

Cassandra and Methos talked out their differences. It took about a month and several non-permanent deaths on Methos' part but in the end while she would never care for him she agreed not to take his head until the gathering came.

Methos said that even that was more than he deserved. He sometimes told me of his past. The blood, the murder, the gore but also other stuff, funny interesting anecdotes you never knew where true or not.

After I had been with them for 15 years I played matchmaker and finally got Duncan and Methos together. The sexual tention was driving me crazy. And though I benefited from it in the begining (Methos taught me some other *things* too) I could see they both loved the other very much, but both were to blind to see the other felt the same.

After that I moved around a lot. Survived more than one challenge. Sometimes lived with Amanda. Sometimes with her student Christine. Ceirdwyn was very cool, too. Years passed. A bit more than half a century passed I returned to my hometown of Forks.

With my 'Father' Duncan McCleod and his Partner Adam Matthews.

I had lived in almost exclusively sunny places so far ( 3 guesses why! ) but I knew it was time to return. Knew it was time to face my personal demons. I had seen this was the time, time to meet them again and see how they were.

For I knew they would be there.

The Cullens.