We Three Witches (Twilight)

Chapter 2 - They're Back

January 20th, 2003

"What the hell was that?" Emmett growled as the three boys slipped into Edward's car.

Edward slammed his door with more force than necessary, barely refraining from tearing it from it's frame. "I don't know."

He hit the accelerator and roared out of the school parking lot. Car horns blared around them as they cut through traffic and idiotic mortals incapable of driving. They sped home, not even bothering to keep to the speed limit once they were out of the town centre.

"What do you mean you don't know?" Emmett leaned forward, his head jammed between where his adoptive brothers were sitting in the front. "What were they thinking?"

"I don't know!" Edward snapped. "I couldn't get anything from them." His fingers dug into the steering wheel like he was imagining cracking their heads open to read their thoughts.

"What? You couldn't read their minds?" Emmett repeated, incredulous.

"That's what I said, wasn't it?" Edward hissed, swivelling in his seat to glare at Emmett.

He turned to Jasper, ignoring Edward's glare. "Did you get anything from them?"

Jasper was staring out the window, his gaze troubled. "They wanted to inflict pain," he said softly. "They were boiling with it." It was quiet in the car for a moment, before Jasper murmured, in a voice so quiet a mortal would have never heard: "They know."

Emmett swore and the car leaped forward as Edward pressed harder on the gas. They needed to get home. No double sensing the urgency and turbulence swirling through Edward, Jasper pulled out his phone and sent a quick message to Carlisle. They all needed to be together to plan their next move. The girls had made it clear they knew Carlisle's past, and if they knew who they were, knew what they were, they needed to be ready to leave. Or stay and fight.

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"What's going on?" Carlisle asked the moment he stepped out of his car. He had rushed over from the hospital the moment he could after reading Jasper text. Jasper handed him the note as he walked through the door.

"Three girls started school today. The Swan girls," Jasper said, straight to the point, as Carlisle was reading. Carlisle nodded, having already heard the news, but he looked up at the next part. "They know our secret."

"We think they know," Edward put in.

"Think?" Esme asked from where she'd come up beside Carlisle, reading over his shoulder. "Couldn't you read their minds and check?"

Edward shook his head with a frustrated snarl. "No! All their thoughts were blocked!"

"But they said stuff." Emmett crossed his arms over his chest. "They said they knew you when you were a pastor's son."

"Which you were—before you turned." Jasper watched Carlisle with calm eyes that belied his emotional turbulence.

A sense of foreboding had settled on Carlisle's shoulders the moment he'd read the note. "What were their names?"

"Isabella, Alice and Rosalie."

Carlisle relaxed slightly, turning back to the note with a slight frown, until Jasper added, "But they called each other by different names: Esmerelda, Evangeline and Catherine."

Had Carlisle been mortal he would have paled and needed to sit down. He leaned back slightly against his wife who rested her hands on his waist, steadying him. His eyes lost focus, his mind swirling. They're back. They kept their promise.