(BPOV)

I had arrived in Mazunte 2 hours ago, and I was currently hiding in a tree outside of a cave that was turned into some sort of creepy lair. They had put up metal walls and a door in the front of the cave. I used my vampire abilities to figure out that there were 20 vampires there, including Rosie. I could sense that some of the vampires inside were starting to get thirsty, and they would be going out to hunt soon.

I waited for another 20 minutes before I heard 6 vampires approaching from the inside of the cave. The door opened, one really big male stuck his head out and looked around, and then they all headed straight towards me. There were 4 males, and 2 females. All 4 of the males were huge, at least twice my size. The females were about my size, and they seemed to be about 15.

As they came up on the bottom of the tree I was sitting in, one of the males froze. He craned his head up, and spotted me sitting in the tree. I smiled at him, and waved before jumping down and standing right in front of him.

"Hello, gorgeous", he said in what I'm guessing was supposed to be a flirtatious way. I just smirked at him, and watched as the other vampires flocked to his sides. One of the girls, the blonde one, glared at me.

"Jealous much?" I asked her, and laughed as she growled at me. When she heard me laugh she launched herself at me, and I had her dismembered in less than 5 seconds. Once the other vampires realized what happened, they started to attack me. It took me about a minute to finish all of them, and it only took me that long because the males were so big, and I was determined to not use any of my powers to help me kill them; I wanted to destroy them all with my bare hands.

After I started a fire, and threw all of the pieces in it, I went back to my spot in the tree. I waited for another 30 minutes, and I could feel the others inside starting to get anxious. One vampire, who I'm guessing was the leader, ordered 4 others to come outside and find the 6 I had killed. About a minute later 2 males and 2 females came out the door and approached where I was. One of the females, a small brunette, saw the place where the fire had been and called the others over. They all ran over to her, and started to look around, trying to find me.

The other female, a redhead, was the first to see me. She hissed and jumped onto a branch that was right next to mine, and tried to grab me. When her arms reached out I quickly grabbed both of them, and kicked her chest, removing both of her arms in the process. The force from the kick caused her to fall from the branch as she screamed in pain. I could hear the vampires inside coming out to see what was going on now, so I quickly jumped down and finished her off.

I killed both of the males before the other vampires made it outside, and then started working on the other girl. I quickly counted the vampires that came out; there were 7 of them, which meant there were still 3 inside. The first one to make it to me was a girl, and I could tell she was really young. She looked like she was about 13, and I felt somewhat bad for killing her. I got over fast though. As I was killing the 2nd and 3rd ones who made it to me, two males, I heard Jasper and Emmett show up. They killed the others, and while they were, I ran inside and started to look for Rose. I sniffed the air, and swiftly followed a long hall to a solid steel door. I heard a male one the other side with Rosie and another girl. I immediately knew the girl wasn't a part of his team, they had taken her too.

I busted down the door, and when I did I saw red. Strapped down to two tables, by steel straps, were Rose and Eley. When I saw them laying there I was enraged, and somewhat sad. Both of their clothes were torn, and they both had wounds that were recently made. I could tell neither one have them had hunted in a while. I looked over at the male, and he smiled at me. He was built like Emmett was; he was tall and had wide shoulders. In the back of my mind I registered that Emmett and Jasper were approaching, and I wanted to kill him before they got in the room.

I sent a small smile Rose and Eley's way before kicking the male as hard as I could in his "family jewels". He gasped in pain as he flew across the room, and into the wall. Apparently I had kicked him really hard because he went about 6 feet into the cave wall before stopping. At that moment Jasper and Emmett arrived, and went to release Rose and Eley. The male quickly made his way out of the wall and straight towards me, but I grabbed his arm and spun him around kicking his legs out from under him, and making him fall onto his stomach. I sat, with one leg on each side, on his back and pulled his arms towards me.

"This is for my girls", I whispered in his ear before pulling both of his arms off. I threw them across the room, and I'm pretty sure one hit Emmett because I heard him yell something about paying more attention to where I throw arms in the future. I ignored him, and removed the guys head, and then his legs before throwing them into the fire that Em and Jazz had started.

"Bella!" Eley and Rose shouted as they collided into me. I laughed and hugged both of the tightly, before letting them go and running to Jazz and hugging him.

"Never do that to me again, Bella" Jazz sighed as he kissed my head. I just nodded and kissed his lips before pulling away from him and going over to Eley.

"Guys, this is Eley" I introduced, and she shyly smiled at them and waved. Emmett came over and pulled her into a bear hug, and she giggled as he spun her around.

"I'm Emmett!" he shouted as he sat her back down.

"She's a vampire, Emmett, you don't need to shout. I'm Jasper, please to meet you." He kissed her hand, and I could feel her embarrassment. She looked over to me with a question in her eyes, and Jasper answered her, "Bella and I are mates." She smiled widely, and ran to hug me.

"I'm so happy for you, mom! I've missed you so much. I've been trying to find you for a while now, but I haven't had any luck. Then when I met Rosalie and she told me about her sister Bella I knew she was talking about you. I can't believe you're here. I'm so happy now. You're not going to leave me, are you? Please don't. I've been alone all these years, and I don't want to be alone anymore…" I shushed her by putting my hand over her mouth, because I could tell she was nowhere near done with her little rant. I looked down at her, and smiled.

"Of course I'm not goin' to leave you now, Eley. You're like my daughter. I wish I could have run with you all those years ago, but I couldn't. I'm sorry I didn't look for you, but I was just scared that something had happened to you and it would have been my fault for sending you away by yourself. You're just so small. I see that you've been feeding from animals, I'm really proud of you." I did feel really bad about sending her off on her own, but there was no way I could have went with her. If I would have Maria would have just hunted us down, and I couldn't risk Eley getting hurt.

Eley was only 11 when she was changed, but she could pass for about 14 now. She was tiny though. She was about 4'10, and she had very blonde hair. She's really sweet, bubbly, and somewhat shy. I know that her, Char, and Jenni will get along really well.

"It's fine, Bella. Yeah, it was hard being on my own, but I learned how to take care of myself. I also discovered that I have a power, well two actually. I can make it so I can go out in the sun without sparkling, and I can make myself age. That's why I don't exactly look like I'm 11 anymore. I aged myself a few years so I looked a bit older. In a few years I will do it again, but only until I look about 20, or so. I don't know I might change my mind. It's pretty cool" she smiled.

"Wow that really is cool" Emmett agreed with a huge smile.

I laughed and walked over to Jasper, "we should really start heading back; I bet everyone is worried about us. Do you think Carlisle and Esme will mind if we bring Eley?"

"I doubt they will darlin'." I smiled and grabbed his hand and we all ran outside. We decided to have a quick hunt before we headed back, and we all split up. Rose went with Em, of course, and Eley went with them too. Jazz and I just walked hand in hand to an area that had a few deer in it.

"I can't believe Eley is here, I'm so happy that she's okay" I told Jazz. He just smiled at me, kissed my lips, and went to feed. We quickly finished and went to find the others.

When we showed up Emmett was swinging Eley around by her arms, and Rose was yelling at him. Eley was laughing, and I was glad that she seemed to be really happy. Emmett already seemed like her big brother, and Rose was like an overprotective sister. It was kind of funny, because the sun was setting in the background and it was like a movie. I laughed at that thought, and Eley saw me and she ran over to me and hugged me, quite hard, and smiled widely at me.

"I love Rosie and Emmett; they're so nice to me. Jasper is really nice too. Do you think that everyone else will like me?" she asked worriedly.

"Of course everyone else will like you little sis, what is there not to like?" Emmett stated confidently. She looked at me questioningly, and I smiled at her and nodded. She squealed loudly, and ran back to Emmett and hugged him tightly.

"Okay guys, let's get going" Jasper said, and we were immediately on our way back to Forks.

We made it back to Forks at 11 the next morning. Everyone was waiting outside for us, so I'm pretty sure Alice had a vision.

"Mom!" Jenni screamed and she collided with me. I hugged her tightly and she cried in my arms. "I was so scared that you weren't going to come back. Alice told me everything would be fine, but I just couldn't believe her." I hushed her and sent her my love, and a little bit of calm. Jenni looked around, and when she noticed Eley she looked at me. "Who is that mom?"

I walked over to Eley, who was looking really embarrassed, and sent her a little calm. I grabbed her hand and pulled her towards everyone. "Everyone this is Eley. Eley this is Carlisle, Esme, Edward, Alice, Peter, Char, Jenni, and Dani." Eley smiled shyly and waved to everyone.

"Hello sweetheart. Welcome to the family" Esme greeted as she pulled Eley into a very loving hug. When Esme pulled away Eley was smiling so brightly that if I was a human, I probably would have gone blind.

"Thank you Esme. I have been alone for so long, I'm glad to finally have a family" Eley said. After getting a hug from everyone that she had just met, Esme and Alice took her inside to show her around the house.

I decided to walk around to the other side of the house, and sit on the porch. I sat down and started to think about the fact that there were way too many people at this house now, and maybe I should try to find another house. I am close with Demetri, but I really don't want the Volturi to start to snoop. They will use anything as an excuse to get rid of vampires. I mean, I think it's good that we have them to keep the order and all, but some of them just let the royalty get to their heads.

"What are you thinking about darlin'?" Jasper asked as he sat down next to me.

"Just the fact that there are too many people in this house, and I think I should find another house before the Volturi decide to start snooping" I answered.

"Well, there is a house about 10 miles from here that was abandoned a long time ago. It's not in the best shape right now, but if it was fixed up a little it would be perfect. It has 6 bedrooms, and 5 ½ bathrooms. We could buy it, and then Peter, Emmett, and I could get to work removing all the weeds and restoring it" he said.

"That would be great Jazz!" I smiled. He hugged me and laughed.

"You wouldn't mind if I moved with you, would you?" he asked timidly.

"Of course not, Jazz. I would love for you to live with me." He smiled at me, and grabbed my hand and led me inside. We called everyone to the living room and told them our plan, and why we decided to do that.

Carlisle was deep in thought before he looked up and said, "I never even thought about the Volturi. That probably is a smart idea; we don't want to have them coming here because things could get bad very quickly. Who would be going to live there?"

"Well" I said, "Me, Jasper, Peter, Char, Jenni, Dani, and Eley."

"Do you promise you'll come visit me every chance you get?" Esme asked sadly. I knew she didn't like the fact that we would be splitting up.

"We promise Esmom" Dani said. Esme tried to smile, but it didn't work out very well.

"Esme we will come over every single day if we can. I just don't want to risk losing anyone because there are too many of us. If the Volturi found out how many of us were living together they would be on the next plane here, and lives would be lost. This is the only option right now, if we want to keep everyone alive. Plus, there's not enough room in this house anymore" I assured her.

"Okay honey. I understand" Esme smiled. I was about to go hug her when my phone started to ring, which didn't happen very often. I looked to see who was calling, it was Brady.

"I'll be back" I said as I raced out of the house and into the woods. "Hey Brady" I answered.

"Bella?" he asked.

"Yeah, what do you need honey?"

"Can you meet me at the border, where we met last time?"

"Yeah, give me like 2 minutes and I'll be there."

"Okay, bye."

"Bye." I hung up and quickly ran to the house. I found Jasper and told him what I was going to do.

"Okay, but be careful darlin'. Call me if you need me." I kissed his lips, and ran to meet Brady. I just hope everything is okay.

When I arrived at the border Brady was sitting on a log with his head in his hands. He looked up at me and frowned.

"Come over here" I said. He crossed the border and ran straight into my arms and started crying. "Honey, what's wrong?"

"Remember how I told you about my mom passing away when I was 6?" he asked, and I nodded. "Well, when she passed away my dad started to drink and he blamed me for it. He would come home from work, drink, and if I did something that he didn't like he would hit me. But when I changed into a wolf he could do that anymore, because I was stronger than him, and that made him really mad. He's not allowed to know that I'm a wolf, and no one else, but you, knows what happened. I mean, they know he drinks, they just don't know that he ever hit me."

He paused to take a breath, and then continued, "since I became a wolf I've had to sneak out at night to patrol, and at first he didn't know, but then one night he went in my room and I wasn't there. When I came home he screamed at me for 2 hours, and then he tried to hit me, but he ended up breaking his hand. Then he just screamed at me more. I know you're probably wondering why no one hears him, it's because we live right on the edge of the woods, and there isn't a house right next to us."

I wiped away the tears that were on his cheeks, and he sniffled. "I've gotten better at sneaking out, but last night he caught me. He yelled at me for an hour before I just left because I was late for my patrol shift. I was patrolling with Embry that night, and when I phased he saw everything. He asked me why I didn't tell anyone, and I just told him because it wouldn't help anything. I made him promise to try to keep it from everyone else. When I got home that night all my stuff was on the ground outside my window. There was a note saying that he was tired of dealing with me, and that I was stupid. He told me to never come back, and if I did he would kill me. The pack still doesn't know, but they're going to find out eventually. I just don't know what to do Bella." By the time he finished he was hysterical.

"Brady, honey, I'm sure someone in the pack will let you stay with them. If not, then you can stay with me. You really need to tell them though; if you want I can even go with you. Would you like that?" I explained as I tried to console him. I sent him some waves of calm, and his crying slowed a little.

"Yes" he said quietly. I pulled out my phone and called Jasper.

"Hello? Bella? Are you okay?" he asked in a rush.

"Yes Jasper, I'm fine. I need to go with Brady to talk to the pack about something, but I will be back as soon as possible. I love you."

"I love you too darlin'. Be careful" he said and then hung up. I gave Brady my phone and told him to call Sam and tell him to get everyone at his house, and that he would be bringing me across the border. He did quickly, and we headed towards Sam's house.

It took us about 10 minutes to arrive at a very small, but cute, red house. The entire pack, and all their imprints were waiting outside, and we all walked around to the back of the house.

"Brady what is all of this about?" Sam asked.

"Would you like me to tell them Brady?" he didn't look up from the ground, but I saw him nod. I told them everything Brady had told me, and by the time I was done all the wolves were shaking, and the imprints were crying.

"Embry, why didn't you tell us?" Sam said angrily.

"Sam, Brady asked him not to tell you. He just didn't want you guys to worry about him. Don't be mad at either one of them. But Brady needs somewhere to stay. I would let him stay with me, but there isn't much room. Plus, I don't know if he could handle being around all those vampires all the time" I told Sam.

"Actually, you guys don't smell bad to me" Brady said quietly. Everyone turned to look at him.

"What do you mean they don't smell bad, all vampires do" Paul said while shaking.

"Other vampires smell bad to me, but none of the ones that live with the Cullen's do. I don't know why" Brady explained.

"I wonder why" Sam said. "We'll have to talk to the elders about that tomorrow. But, for now, we need to figure out where Brady can stay. I would let him stay with me, but there is just no room in my house for him."

"I can ask my mom, I'm sure she wouldn't mind" Seth said. Sam nodded, and Seth left to go ask her. We just sat around talking for about 10 minutes, before he got back. "She said she didn't mind if he stayed with us. We have an extra room anyways." I looked at Brady, who was sitting next to me, and he was smiling slightly.

"Well, now that everything is settled, I should get going. Call me if you need me Brady" I said as I hugged him. "Remember, any time." He nodded and let me go.

"Quil, escort Bella to the border" Sam ordered. He got up and we headed to the border. I was somewhat surprised when he stayed human and we both walked towards the border.

"So, Claire is your imprint?" I asked.

"Yeah, but she's just like my little sister right now" he said and I could feel a little bit of shock coming off of him. I guess he wasn't expecting me to say anything.

"She is absolutely adorable. She's going to be really pretty when she's older, and I'm sure she will decide to be with you romantically. I mean, you seem like a pretty good guy, and she adores you" I told him.

He smiled brightly, "I sometimes wish she was older now, but I guess I just have more time to spend with her. So far I'm the only one who has imprinted on a kid, and I get to watch her grow up. I get to see everything that goes on. I wouldn't change it for anything, even if I do get lonely sometimes."

"Well, I'm glad she has you. I'm sure you're a great big brother" I smiled at him, and he smiled back. We didn't say anything else after that, and when we got to the border we waved at each other, and I headed back to the house.

When I arrived at the house Jasper was pacing on the porch, and when he saw me he ran and hugged me. I laughed as he swung me around and kissed all over my face.

"I was worried" he said before kissing my lips passionately. "What did Brady want?"

"I'll tell you later" I said before kissing him again. "I love you."

"I love you too."

"Mom, you're back!" Eley said as she ran to me. "Can I talk to you?"

"Of course you can. Do you want to go somewhere where everyone can't hear?" I asked.

"I want you Jasper, Emmett, and Rosie to come. No one else for now." She said quietly.

"Okay. Emmett, Rosie can you come out here?" I called knowing they would hear me. They were standing with us about 10 seconds later. We headed through the woods, jumped across the river, and stopped once we reached an open field. We all sat down in a circle, and waited for Eley to say something.

"I want to tell you guys my story" she said and took an unnecessary deep breath. "Well, it all started in 1954…"

Well there is another chapter, finally. I know it's been forever and I apologize for that. I've just been so busy, and I'm sure you've heard that a million times before. It is summer now, and all I have is time so I will hopefully be updating again sometime soon. I hope you liked this chapter.

Love, C