They Could Hardly Believe Their Eyes!

Well, This Has Been A Strange Day

Not often did awfully much faze Esme Cullen, she looked after five teenage vampires on a day-to-day basis after all. But she just couldn't seem to initially grasp what was right in front of her eyes today, well, at first. The town of Forks was beautiful, strange and idyllic. The first thing she realised was it had no supermarket or small convenience stores of any kind. It had many exotic and unusual one-off shops though.

In fact, the whole place looked like something out of a dream. The kind of dream a young, impressionable Esme Platt might have once had. Little did she know that was her answer, she was seeing exactly what she imagined she should. Each one of the Cullens would see something to their liking and not what each other saw. This illusion was tailored just for her alone. This was a mistake on the magical community's part. They really should have picked one thing and shown it to them all.

There were little shops selling fabric and others selling antiques. She could see all kinds of things she'd need to renovate the Forks house and then some. But what really caught her eye was a display in a window for the sheerest of fabrics, delicate as gossamer wings. It was almost perfect if only it had been in green and then it was. She was stunned for a second and then the extremely pragmatic Esme Cullen, pulled up her big girl pants.

Without so much as a twitch, Esme moved on and then tried that again and again, each time the item changed to be what she wanted it to be. Carlisle had told her often that there were other supernaturals in their world but never having met any she really didn't accept it, not that she disbelieved her mate. But she was nothing but open to it now, sitting on a bench she smiled serenely to anyone who passed by.

So if this is an illusion she thought how do I make it stop? In her mind, Esme whispered "I want to see the truth' and there it was, the best way to break an illusion, is to know it is one. Forks was no less beautiful, just more. Well, more everything, it was magical she thought. The crowning glory was the little pond in the centre of town.

Around the edge sat several beings, some human others clearly not. Whilst in the water children splashed about, children with tails, tails like in the old storybooks she'd seen. They were all real, as real as she was. Right there in the centre of town, Esme decided she was staying, she was never leaving here. A place at last where they could be themselves, no pretence, no hiding.

This was as close to heaven as vampires would ever get, she decided. Not wanting anyone to guess she knew what was happening Esme opened a door of what had been an antique shop and asked for directions to the hospital.

"My husband forgot his lunch, so I thought I'd take it to him," she said and rolled her eyes as if to say, men!

TCHBTE

"This is much harder than I thought. It's so easy to fool the humans; they don't look to close by nature. But vampires see so much more" Tyler said flopping down beside his wife Lauren.

"We're all feeling the strain Ty, Bella says with her shield up she sees some flaws. I'm just going to recheck some of my Trans before we head to the meeting" she replied sounding quite tired,

"Yeah, Eric has snuck off to freeze the Cullens so none of them catches on. I'll come with you and reinforce my illusions too" he said kissing her cheek before getting up and holding out his hand.

The magical community were beginning to see they had grown lax and a little slapdash over the years. Their spells and wards, illusions and transmutations weren't standing up so well against the vampires as they should. Lauren felt it might be good to have everyone do some retraining, she would mention it at the meeting. As Eric arrived by transporting, the meeting of the magical community commenced. Many smaller issues were dealt with first; Lauren added her plea for retraining.