They Could Hardly Believe Their Eyes!

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The Cullens were about to have a meeting of their own and were slightly bemused by Jasper arriving dressed as a cowboy from the old west. Esme smiled and nodded totally understanding, Edward was confused and Alice was too distracted with her own troubles to notice at first.

"What in God's name are you wearing Jasper?" Edward asked with minor distaste in his tone,

"Ah, the black a little much? What about blue or brown?" Jasper said changing the colour of his outfit at will.

"How are you doing that? I didn't see you move, you've never been that fast before!" Edward exclaimed now,

He was unable to understand what he was seeing even though it was right in front of his eyes. Esme was clapping her hands, which got Alice's attention at last, along with Emmett and Rose,

"Dude! Where'd you get the duds? Does this mean what I think it means?" Emmett quizzed slapping Jasper on the back, as he once more rotated through the colours.

"I believe it does Emmett, so in light of almost everyone working out what's going on in Forks, I'm calling a family meeting," Carlisle told them and he was smiling widely at Esme.

"What do you mean Carlisle? What is there to work out about this boring and mediocre town? The only reason I like it here is the silence it affords me. There is nothing to recommend this place; it's just like all the other places we have lived in!" Edward spouted not seeing the incredulous looks on most of his family's faces,

"I agree with Edward, granted there were some amazing shops. This place must be an outlet town though it's a strange place to have one! Still, apart from Hank, there is nothing much of interest to me here" Alice piped up and Jasper snorted,

"Is he the owner of that wet onerous smell that's hanging around here, what did you do, bathe in the depths of the ocean with him?" Jasper snarked and then caught Carlisle's sight nod,

This made him pause for a second before his eyes opened in disbelieve, Alice had gotten herself entangled with what they assumed by the smell, was a merman! Jesus was every supernatural real? Although Rose and Emmett had so far seen nothing they were fully able to comprehend what everyone else was telling them. The town was supernatural and magic was used widely here.

It made sense now why the school was so strange, why the other's gifts had stopped working. But it also helped to explain the missing hours everyone had been suffering lately; someone was freezing them on and off. It explained how the forest seemed to be so badly affected close to the house and less so, further out. How when out running they had gone right out of the blighted area and then back into it like a glitch had occurred.

This town was not used to handling vampires that's for sure, they were too fast and saw more than was intended for them, processed it all quicker than their human or supernatural counterparts and reacted without showing their true intentions. By the end of the meeting Alice was horrified to think they thought her Hank was not human, how stupid, of course, he was human! She needed to convince him to leave this weird place with her as soon as possible.

Edward believed none of it and would have thought them all drugged but for the fact, drugs didn't work on vampires. It had to be something else, another vampire with the gift of illusion maybe, but with no scent either. He was grasping at straws rather than believe the truth, his world was changing radically and he didn't like it at all. Little did he know that very soon he would be so immersed in this world he would never want to leave or doubt his eyes ever again?

TCHBTE

It was a sorry bunch of witches and wizards that stood in front of the council of elders for the whole supernatural enclave that was Forks. They had failed to keep abreast of the vampires, there were too many they complained! They couldn't be everywhere at once the moaned! They couldn't help it that two were so dense the magic didn't work at all on one and too much on the other! It was a comedy of errors all around and the only person amused by it all was Peter Whitlock.