~8~

The eight of us walk into the restaurant of the hotel that Lily's father owns. Already waiting for us at a long table at the back were the Benedict's. The twelve people sitting began to stand, heading towards Scarlet and Will who lead our family in first. A small, hispanic woman reached Will first, dragging him down to hug him before doing the same to Scarlet, talking so fast I couldn't hear what she was saying. A large authoritive man, who I guess is her husband, pulls her away before she could squeeze Scarlet too tightly.

"Enough Karla." The man laughs at his wife, adoration in his eyes. "You'll frighten her off. I'm glad Will finally found you." He directs the last part to my sister, a happy smile on his face. He pulls her into a hug, the rest of the family coming closer to do the same. My family and I stand silently behind Scarlet as she greets her new side of the family. Once they had finished, Scarlet looks over to the rest of us and begins to introduce us all.

"So, this is my family. Alastair and Sarah-Jane, my parents. My brothers, Jett and Gray. That's Lily, Jetts soulfinder. And this," After pointing to each person in turn, she grabs my arm and pulls me to her side. "Is my dear little sister, Violet. She was with me when I met Will." She smiles at me, happiness in her eyes. I smile awkwardly at the tall bunch of people in front of me, forced into the spotlight of everyone's attention. After an awkawrd hello from everyone, Will begins to do the same with his family.

"Right, there's a lot of us so be prepared. My parents, Saul and Karla. My oldest brother Trace and his wife Diamond. Then there's Uriel and Victor. Then Xavier, but we call him Xav, and his soulfinder Cry-"

"Crystal Brook?" Gray interrupts Will, staring at the girl in question. She stares back at him in surprise. It takes me a moment to realise what they're shocked about before it clicks in my head. Crystal was an old girlfriend of Gray. Oh God. "Whoa. Haven't seen you in a while. You never told me you were a Savant..." He steps foward, her doing the same, and pulls her into a friendly hug, well aware of her glaring soulfinder who had also stepped forwards.

"I didn't know you were one either... Oh my God. I can't believe it's you." She smiles at him, looking over his shoulder and spotting me. "Violet!" She lets go of my brother and pulls me into a hug, which I return. As we let go, a take a second to look at her, seeing how much she had changed. Other than the fact that she had matured physically and had gotten taller then when she was sixteen, she still looked pretty much the same. tall, beautiful and model like. Despite being my brothers girlfriend and a couple years older than me, Crystal and I used to be good friends Every time she came round our house, she would try to spend at least ten minutes with me, asking about school and boys, before going back to Gray. "What a coinicidence. I want to say you've grown but... You're still really small." I laugh with her, telling her I missed her. I feel eyes staring at my from my left. I turn to see Diamond, Crystals older sister looking at me too. I only met her a couple times but wave at her anyway, which she copies, happy to see another familiar face.

"Look dude," We turn to see Gray talking to Xav, Crystal's soulfinder. "I'm just gonna tell you the truth. Crystal and I used to date but it was four years ago and it never worked out. I know how protective you soulfinders are so I just wanted you to know that there aren't any lingering feelings or anything. I just want to be friends." Xav stares him for a couple seconds, before smiling and shaking Gray's hand.

"It's cool man. Thanks for clearing that up. We do get pretty protective." They do the weird bro-hand hug thing and smile at Crystal.

"Anyway," Will continues his introductions. "As I was saying, this is Yves and his soulfinder Pheonix, but you better call her Phee or she'll hit you. And that's Zed and his soulfinder Sky." He points to the remaining people before my Pa announces that we should sit down and eat. We all do as we're told, Crystal sitting inbetween Gray and Xav so the three of them can talk, everyone sitting with someone else, leaving me to try and find a seat somewhere, idealy with my family. But the only seat avaliable is between a curly dark haired boy, who looks around my age, and a guy with golden brown hair. I think they're names were Zed and Uriel. I sit down anyway and glance at the menu on the laminated paper in front of me.

"You're Violet right?" The voice comes from my left. I glance up to see Uriel looking at me, awaiting an answer. I nod, smiling politely, frozen in awe at how good-looking the Benedicts were up close. Of course handsome Will wasn't the only one to inherite all the good genes. While each were different in their own way, all the brothers had high cheekbones and tanned skin which only added to thier beauty. "Uriel." He holds his hand out for me to shake, breaking me out of my thoughts. I shake it, the smile still on my face. "So, you were there when Will and Scarlet met?"

"Yeah. Unfortunately." I whisper the last part, but he hears it anyway.

"Unfortunately?" He asks, his dark and perfect eyebrows creased into a frown.

"Well, I went to visit Scarlet to escape soulfinders, my parents and Jett and Lily being them. So you could say that I was a bit upset to witness my sister finding hers." I explain to him, trying not to get into a rant like I always do when talking about our other halves.

"I'm guessing you haven't found yours yet either?" He gives me a knowing smile, obviously feeling the same way as I do in a family full of soulfinders.

"Nope." I say, popping the 'P' as I do.

Poppy, a waitress at the restaurant and one of Lily's sisters, comes over and takes our orders. Considering there was a lot of us, another waitress and sister, Rose, has to come over to help. Once they have left, the conversations start up again. I sit quietly and stare at my lap when I feel a tap on my shoulder, this time from my right side. I turn to see the curly haired boy smiling at me, his bright blonde girlfriend looking at me curiously.

"I'm Zed, this is Sky."

"I'm Violet." I shake Zed's hand, gasping when I feel am electric feeling zap up my palm to my arm. Pulling my hand back, I glare at him in shock. He must've shocked my with some sort of electric hand buzzer. How rude! He just met me. The only person I could think of who would set him up to this was Gray. But he's been with Xav and Crystal the entire time we've been here. I don't understand. Zed comes back into focus as I leave my thoughts. He stares at my in shock also, Sky watching us in confusion. "Did you feel that?"

"Yeah... But that's not possible. I already have Sky." He shakes his head, looking between his girlfriend and I.

"What are you talking about? It was just an electric shock." He shakes his head again.

"No, no it wasn't. It felt like the feeling you get when you first touch your soulfinder." My eyes widen at this news, not believeing it."But it was different. Like it was dulled slightly. It's not the same as when I touch Sky but..." He trails off, still looking between us. Sky thrusts her hand out for my to shake.

"Try with me." I'm suprised to find that the blonde beauty was also English. I had assumed that she would've been American too. I reach out my hand nether-the-less and shake hers, pulling back when I feel the same shock again. "What the hell?"

"You three ok?" We look up to see another brother staring at us in concern. This one had shoulder length hair pulled back into a low ponytail with a leather band. "You look a bit shocked."

"We're fine Victor. Don't worry about us." Zed reassures his brother. He nods and turns back to his conversation with Jett and Lily as Zed turns to Sky. "What did you feel?"

"Same as you said, only dulled." Sky and Zed look at each other for a few moments, probably having a telepatheic conversation. Sky suddenly turns to me, her eyes widening, making her look like a deer caught in headlights. "How old are you? When's your birthday?"

"The 12th of August. I'm seventeen." Zed and Sky huff at my information. "But I was born a week late. I was supposed to be born on the 5th of August." They perk up at this, speaking to each other in their minds again."

"That's Zed's birthday." Sky whispers.

"Isn't it yours too. You are soulfinders after all."

"It's a long story, but technically yes. I was adopted and we used the adoption date as my birthday, March the First."

"What about-" Zed gets cut off by Poppy walking by and giving us our drinks. "What about telepathy?"

"Hmm. Hold on." I close my eyes and concentrate. I use my gift and imagine a bubble growing bigger and expanding around Zed, Sky and I, blocking out everyone else. When I open my eyes again, the couple stare at me strangely. "I just created a shield around us so we can focus more. No one apart from us three can hear what we're saying or thinking."

"That's a really powerful gift you got there."

"Well, I'm technically a seventh child. My mum had three miscarriages between my three older siblings and me. I can also turn invisible too. Are we going to try this or what?" Zed nods, looking at Sky before looking back to me. I feel a gentle nudge in my mind, like a knock on a door. I let my shields down and allow Zed to connect Sky and himself to my mind.

So... What do we say? I ask to them, their eyes widening as soon as I had started speaking.

What the hell? Both say. Small fireworks bust inside my mind. I felt a weird connection to both Zed and Sky, like I was meant to know them. While the feeling was intense, it only felt like a preview to something even bigger that I hadn't found yet.

Oh God... What is going on? I ask them, confused and worried that this was happening to someone who already has a soulfinder. This can't be happening. No offence Zed, but I don't want you to be my soulfinder. Like you said, you already have Sky.

This is crazy! Sky thinks, still staring in disbelief. We need to tell someone. Zed and I nod in agreement.

"Okay, seriously. What is wrong with you three?" Victor speaks up again, causing the rest of the large table to look over as well. "You look like you have've seen a ghost or something." Zed looks to me as I close my eyes. I let the shields down, opening my eyes.

Shields are down. They can hear us again. I think to Sky and Zed.

"Something weird's going on. Sky and I feel this weird connection to Violet. We tried telepathy and it's like... Like a dulled down version of the soulfinder bond." Sky and I nod to confirm this once he has finished speaking. Our two families look at us in astonishment and confusion. Silence follows before questions start flying around the table.

"What? What do you mean 'dulled soulfinder bond'?"

"That's not possible."

"Are you sure?"

"This has go to be a joke. You're kidding right?"

"Impossible. I don't believe you."

"You're lying. There's no such thing."

"Nice joke guys."

"This isn't a joke!" Zed shouts, attracting attention from the other tables around us. Sky rubs his arm, trying to calm him down, his fists clenched on the table. "We don't know what is happening. Crystal, can you see if there is a link between us?" She nods slowly, closing her eyes. I look at her and Zed in confusion. Is that her gift? She can see links between people? Sky sees my confusion and explains for me.

"Crystal's a Soulseeker. She can find your soulfinder or anyone you're related to. It's a long story, but she saved Karla, Diamond, Phee and I last December." Now it was my turn to stare at her in disbelief. Crystal was the Soulseeker everyone was talking about.

"Seriously?" I ask. Sky nods, turning back to Crystal as she gasps, opening her eyes.

"Urm, well... You three are connected. It's weird though. It's like there's a fourth link somewhere far away that links Violet and Zed together." She addresses the whole table, but focuses back to the three of us. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Zed's mum and dad intensely staring at eachother, an obvious sign that they are speaking telepathically.

"Mom? What's wrong?" Yves, I think, notices too and asks his mother. Karla shakes her head, looking down at her lap.

"Dad? Do you two know something?" Trace, the eldest, questions his father.

"It's... Complicated. Something happened a long time ago, somthing that you won't remember." He shakes his head.

"Dad, tell me! What's going on?" Zed demands, standing up from his seat. "Mom!"

"You have another brother!" The small woman bursts out loud, tears starting to form down her face. "A twin brother."

~8~

DUN DUN DUNNNN! Hehehe, sorry, I couldn't help it. I hope you liked the twist I put in there, hope it wasn't too obviious. I added a little Doctor Who reference in there for any Whovians reading this. Also, thank you to Kiauna Gray, Guest and FindingSkyFan3 for the reviews! I really loved them and it made me want to update this sooner. Also, sorry it's quite short, but I really wanted the last part as a cliff-hanger. Anyway, let me know what you guys thought by leaving a review, they really make me want to update an write more. :) xxExx

Edit: I reread Stealing Phoenix and realised I got Zed's birthday wrong. I've changed it now... Sorry xxExx