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It took 35 hours, but when i tried this afternoon it finally worked, so here we go! As it is the last Sunday of February, that means a new schedule. I mentioned a that I might be feeling a bit of burnout (Which explains why this chapter is a bit shorter) in the last chapter so in March I believe I'm going by an ever other Sunday schedule as it will give me time to relax a bit more and possible catch up on these chapters as in April I will be participating in Camp Nanowrimo and don't plan on contributing to this story at all and need to stock pile some work so you guys aren't left without any content for a month and also some big revolutions are coming!
Reviews:
QueenSherica14- You are very right my friend, if I could make Mare run before Italy I would, because spolier alert I plan on having Aro give a full display on his creepiness. I love comfort too! Sometimes I think I write too much of it lol, it just comes easy to me, honestly! Plus I just love Carlisle too much and want to display it in ever chapter so if you get tired of it, just please say so! Also your very right on the seafood, shrimp and crab is one of my favorite things to eat and I would be so sad if I couldn't have it anymore! Thank you for your awesome reviews and for always being so interactive, I love having these little convo's lol! Please have a good week and I will see you next month my friend!
Boxessssss-HI BESTIE! The chapters that require a little more research are always my least favorites to write lol, but yes I did still like writing it, if only because it means more exciting stuff is coming. I hope there no errors in this one, I wrote and edited it every night at like 2 AM so it might reflect as so. Also your right! I am my own worst critic and need to learn to reel it back a bit. I had the exact same convo with a coworker where she complimented my hair and I said "Thanks, it's up in a ponytail because it's greasy." I just have a hard time taking compliments are finding worth in a lot of the things I do, but I promise I'm working on it! Thank you for your reviews! I'm sending you all the good vibes for the week and will talk to you next month! P.S thank you for the luck, it worked!
Cullen123- HELLO! I'm so sorry that it's a day late, I had some trouble yesterday and this morning, but it finally worked! THANK YOU for the review, it was so nice and I smiled all day after seeing it, I really do appreciate it and can't thank you enough, I hope this one is just as good as the last one! I'm sending you good thoughts for the week and will see you next month.
Grayson- You just may or may not be right, we'll just have to see;)
Gretchenia- Can't wit to read your next review and send all my love for you remaining week! May it be the best one yet!
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xoxoxo8123- I'm such a sucker for the same thing and am so happy to indulge you! Thank you for the kind reviews I look forward to reading them and replying, it's kinda the highlight for these chapters! mort hurt/comfort is coming along with a little revelation and anger! Sending you my love and will see you next month!
TranquilitySecret210- HELLO FRIEND! Burnout it sooooo real and thank you SO much for validating my feelings! Thank you for calling my work amazing all-though I don't see it that way lol, but it made me really happy! I'm trying to make a schedule for myself as writing is something I would love to pre-sue professionally so I'm going to take a short four day break, but get right back to it! I noticed as I was reading your review, how similar the both of us are, everything you wrote about experiencing, I experience too and I felt like I was almost reading my own words! You my friend are absolutely amazing and just know your own story has to be brilliant and I can't wait to see it, but as I always say, don't let me push you into something you're not ready for! When you are I will be your behind the scenes cheerleader and I can't wait to take on that role with you! Please as you remind me not to be hard on my self, I want to remind you to give yourself the same kindness! I actually have to admit most of what i wrote during the allergist appointment just came straight from my own head, it's not medically accurate and I apologize! I had a friend once tell me about the scratches on her back years ago during an appointment and just kinda ran with it...again I'm so sorry, it honestly doesn't make me a great writer but a liar. Thank you for your amazing and kind words, honestly its way too much and I don't really don't deserve the kindness...here I go again. just please know that I love your reviews, I love our pep talks we give one another and I love this little friendship we're building. I also have to thank you for the encouragement when I was having trouble yesterday! It helped my frustration and gave me the patients to try again today! I'm sending you all the wonderful and amazing things and will see you again next month!
AzureTheVampire- OMG it feels like it's been forever since I've heard from you! How are you my friend? I hop all is well! I don't remember if I saw your review, honestly with how this website is treating me these days I have to say I wouldn't be surprised it I never saw it. I'm so happy to read that you're not tired of hurt/comfort because I don't think I'll ever get tired of writing it, but please let me know when you get sick of it! I'm glad you picked up on the dreams, because everything has a meaning ;) I'm so excited for you to read about Italy and can't wait until we get here! I'm doing okay on my end and send all my love and good vibes your way! Thank you for the amazing and sweet review, it made my night and I can't wait to se you next month!
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My Name?
"Italy?" I ask my mouth full of carrot,
"Yes." Esme nods carefully,
"Why?" I swallow, reaching for the bottle of water,
"Did anyone explain to you why we went to Italy?" Carlisle asks grabbing the water bottle from my hands when he notices I'm having a hard time opening it,
"Edward said you had to visit people." Carlisle holds out the water bottle, I take it carefully, "Like a vampire government or something?" I take a long cool drink and Carlisle waits will I swallow,
"That's a good analogy," He comments, "Life requires checks and balances. There needs to be rules in order for things to run and run smoothly, vampire kind is no different."
"Are you saying you have a monarchy to answer to?"
"Not exactly," He glances at Esme, who has her eyes on my plate,
"So like...a council or something?"
"Yes, to keep our kind both hidden and secret it's important that not just anyone who doesn't share in our lifestyle-"
"Vampires?" I cut in,
"Yes, it's important no one but vampires knows about it." I reach for a slice of apple,
"I'm not a vampire."
"No." Carlisle answers simply,
"You told this council about me?"
"Yes." I set the apple down and really look up Carlisle. His face is stone, unreadable.
"Are we going to Italy to meet them?" I guess, Carlisle's silent for a second, before nodding,
"Yes, you share in the world of the supernatural, none of it was of your own volition, but nonetheless you're here and you can't be changed or sent back home. In the time that you've been here you've become a member of this family and as part of this family for your safety, your existence needs to be both known and stated to the Volturi." I've heard that name before, maybe Matt said it once or I caught an interview with the actors on ET, still, I raise my brows,
"That's what they're called?"
"Yes, they reside in Volterra, Italy, and they're the coven that enforces the laws." I take a slow calculated breath and push my plate away,
"They're like police?" Carlisle nods, "What would happen if you didn't say anything?" Esme pushes my plate back towards me, obviously not happy with the amount I've left,
"We don't care to know, being honest with them is the best way to keep you safe."
"So what, you need their approval for me to stay here...to stay alive?"
"Yes."
"Carlisle." Esme scolds her husband's bluntness, but I need it and he knows it.
"Honesty," he states simply, "it's what keeps this household running and safe, and Mare, just as we're being honest with you, we expect you to always be honest with us." I shove two baby carrots in my mouth to keep me from speaking. I've been honest with Carlisle and Esme...maybe not when I first got here, but I haven't lied recently...I try to avoid the topics that make me lie.
"I understand." I swallow eating an apple slice next.
"Good girl." Carlisle praises, only when I finished all my apple slices in silence do I find the courage to speak again,
"So, we go to Italy meet these people..vampires, and then come home before Christmas?"
"That's the plan, but theirs also some places we would like to take you, it's as much a vacation as it is business." I take another sip of water and scrunch my brows,
"Wait, I don't have a passport."
"We'll have to expedite it, but we'll be able to get you one in time, Edward said he can take you this weekend to get the process started, I'd take you but I have to work, and Edward volunteered." I roll my eyes,
"Of course he did, is he going to?"
"We'll all go," Esme answers, it's the first time she's talked during this whole conversation.
"Is everyone flying?" Can they even be stuck on a plane for hours with only humans around,
"The plan would be for everyone to fly, however, Jasper, Alice, and Emmett would go on foot." My jaw drops,
"Like...swim to Italy?" Carlisle smirks,
"It wouldn't be the first time." Esme also smiles,
"It's better for Jasper, Alice will stick with him, but Emmett just enjoys hunting along the way." I shrug,
"That sounds like Emmett, Rosalie won't go with him?"
"We're not stuck at the hip Mare," Rose answers walking into the kitchen. I turn to the oven clock, schools out already? 3:50, I guess so. She comes over to stand behind me, her hands resting on my shoulders as she looks at the empty plate, Esme is reaching for,
"I don't know if you know this Mare, but Rose is not an outdoor girl." Emmett enters, slapping a folder down on the table, "Got your homework, beat Eddie to it." He smiles as if beating Edward at something is his only goal in life.
"It is." Edward enters behind him, pushing him off to the side,
"MARE!" Alice pushes both of them and then hugs me from behind. "Mare, I'm so so so sorry, let me look at you, are you okay, hows your face? Did you-"
"She can't breathe Alice," Rose states, pulling her back a little,
"I'm fine, I promise?"
"That's good to hear soldier." Jasper says stopping at the entryway in the kitchen to lean against the wall with arms cross. I give him a smile,
"Penicillin, I'm not going to lie, I didn't see that one coming, but don't worry, there a lot of substitutes for that, but you won't need it because you're not going to get sick and there's no need to worry about bee's and if you ask me Pineapples aren't even that great, but then I-"
"Alice honey, slow down." Alice blushes,
"Sorry," I finish my bottle of water and give her a smile,
"It's okay, did you have a nice trip?" Alice's smile turns into a frown before she quickly fixes it,
"Nothing I haven't seen before." She covers quickly, "Oh Cody told me to tell you she missed you today."
"Oh, that was nice." I wonder how much Cody knows, it was her mother who took care of me in the hospital,
"Melissa told me you were friends with her daughter," Carlisle tilts his head to the side,
"You have friends!" Esme claps her hands together and I feel the redness creep up my cheeks,
"She does!" Alice exclaims, "She sits with them at lunch, and some of them are boys-"
"Oh my god, can you stop?" I whine leaning over the counter and burying my face in my hands,
"Boys?" Emmett shouts behind me, "No boys, Eddie did you tell Mare she could have friends who were boys?"
"Emmett-"
"Hell no," He cuts Edward off, marching up behind me, "Mare I demand you get rid of these boys."
"Like murder?" I ask lifting my head,
"Yes!"
"No, Emmett stop it."
"Boys ESME! She's talking to Boys I-"
"I'm taking a nap," I shout, getting to my feet and heading towards the stairs.
"I'll wake you in an hour," Carlisle calls back. I take the stairs two at a time trying to drown out Emmett's absent yelling, by the time I've closed the door, Rose is telling Emmett to knock it off. I quickly head over to open the window and jump in bed, snuggling down into the pillows and comforter, sleep comes quickly then again lately it always does.
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There's broken glass all around me, large shards glinting against the street light above me. I shiver at the sight of a cold creeping up my spine despite a warm and sticky feeling on my skin. Theirs a pounding in my head and a ringing in my ears and despite the feeling of loud and chaos around me I can't focus. I feel lost, and confused... what's happening? Something grabs me...or someone, it sounds like someone is crying close to me, but I can't be sure, There's a weird haze...a sort of fuzziness, and it almost...hurts.
The air around me changes it feels kinda stale compared to the off-metallic taste in the air just seconds ago. Theirs a rumpling all around... loud bangs and beeping it could be a robot if I could fully hear, I'm beginning to think theirs cotton in my ears and I reach up to pull it out only I can't move. My arms are frozen in place...almost strapped down, and my legs too, despite this, I still feel calm...I'm beginning to like the haze, it makes me feel safe compared to what could be going on around me.
"Marceline." Someone's calling me, they're loud too, loud enough for me to hear. A spark of pain flares behind my eyes and wraps around my head, a deep ache settling there.
"Marceline C-" They're shouting louder now. I wish they would stop I know my name and my head feels like it's beginning to split. The wet sticky feeling on my skin feels like it's being wiped away, whatever it is, it's cold and I don't like it. I want to rub at my bare skin to bring warmth back, but still, my arms are weighed down and it's beginning to hurt.
"Marceline C-" I know my name, stop shouting it! The pain explodes, if I could open my mouth and scream I would, it's all too much,
"Marceline Callahan!"
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I jump up feeling cold hands grab my arms to steady me, and that's when I feel it, my arms are free. I can move them, my legs too. I take a deep breath,
"Marceline, sweetheart are you okay?" Carlisle's soft voice asks, I open my eyes. He smiles gently,
"Carlisle?"
"I see you've opened you're window, Esme hates when you do that." He laughs only to stop abruptly. He lets go of my arms and reaches forward, his finger brushing up against my cheek, "You're crying in your sleep, honey are you alright?" I reach up and sure enough large cold wet tears fall freely from my eyes, I swallow. My name...I heard someone calling my name...my real name,
"Carlisle?"
"Yes?"
"Somethings wrong."