My Life, Their Family & Our Destiny

Vampire Boot camp

It appears that Rose, as she likes to be called and Emmett were also meant to be attending Forks high but they went off on an extended holiday instead. I mentioned this was probably best as three-runway models, were as much as the school could handle at one time. But anyway, they looked more college-age, than for high school, Jasper barely looked like a senior as it was. Alice jumped on the runway comment asking what I meant.

"Well dear, you were a smidge overdressed for school today don't you think?" I say to her.

"This is a small community and if you expect to blend in, you really need to tone it down several notches. Humans don't wear that level of designer clothes too small high schools; this isn't Seattle or any other major city. Those kinds of clothes stand out and draw attention not deflect it". She doesn't look happy about this at all. I tell them

"When you leave here, the impression should be that nice doctor and his family, who helped in the community. Not that nice doctor and his stuck up spoiled children who never quite fitted in" I stated to her.

"The more different you are the more someone will look closer, for instance not one of you even pretended to eat today, I noticed and therefore so did everyone else. They all watched you like hawks today" I informed them.

"Edward, you're supposed to be aware of what everyone around you is thinking why didn't you pick up on that? Carlisle asked. Edward hummed and looked away.

"I'll tell you why he was so intent on trying to burn a hole through my shield. Then with all his orders and demands and the physically grabbing me he didn't have time for anything else!" I assured him, everyone else who wasn't there gasped.

"Edward, Alice, I asked you what happened with Iseabail. You said nothing, other than what Jasper said went on at lunch" Carlisle thundered.

They looked away, caught out in their lie.

"You're the one who assaulted me" Edward shouted at me. Oh dear, how immature is this child?

"How old are you Edward?" I queried, he told me in his most pompous voice as if that drop in the ocean of time was important.

"Well, how about you act your age and not your shoe size, hmm," I told him. He stormed off saying he didn't have to sit here and listen to this rubbish.

"No you'll just do it from your room, raking through our thoughts weirdo" yelled Emmett after him, no love lost there then.

Esme apologised on his behalf and said he'd calm down soon enough. I shielded everyone in the room and asked did he always listen to their private thoughts, they nodded, saying he can't turn it off.

"That's not actually true," I told them, "every gift can be muted and some even turned off completely when and if necessary".

I explained that Marcus Volturi and I have been documenting gifts and their strengths, types and application, for nearly six hundred years now.

"In all that time no gift was found to be on at all times, even my shield can be turn off if I want, but as I use it for protection duty it rarely is" I continued, "Could you imagine if Kate Denali couldn't turn hers off? She'd never be able to touch her sisters or friends and lovers without zapping them!" I said.

"Certain gifts have a breakthrough, for instance, Alice's visions, important ones will come through whether it's muted or not. The same with Jasper's empathy, some emotions cannot be ignored, severe pain, profound loss etc," I informed them.

"You two would have gone insane by now if you couldn't control them to a large degree, even if you didn't realise you were doing it. Alice dear, if you got every vision of every decision the family made you would be unable to function properly" I told her.