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ONCE THE VOLTURI RETURNEDto Italy, Leah's life returned to a semi-normal status.
All the "guests" of the Cullens returned to whatever hellhole they had crawled from to be of service to Carlisle, and at the tail-end of it, Alice and Jasper showed back up. With Nahuel, the only other half-vampire in existence.
Nahuel was Mapuche and roughly one hundred and fifty-years-old, having been born to a Mapuche woman who had fallen victim to a vampire, his father, Joham. With his dark-brown skin, black hair, and equally black eyes, he would've fit in with the Pack in looks alone but it was his unnatural stillness, the distinct double beat of his frantic heart, that marked him as not entirely human.
Nahuel could be seen staring at Nessie, not in a lecherous manner or with that bald-faced blood hunger, but with fascination, with wide-eyed awe.
According to Carlisle, this was Nahuel's first interaction with any vampires that he hadn't sired and he was very much overwhelmed much like a starved man at a buffet.
In large, the Cullens ignored Nessie's quiet discomfort, which she displayed by shying away from Nahuel's intense staring and taking every opportunity to hide behind Leah, Rosalie, Emmett, or Jake—never any of the others. The others, no matter how well-intentioned, put the science first and her second, something that broke Leah's heart to see. Her own family life was tumultuous and she no longer spoke with Sue, but she couldn't imagine Seth or Harry allowing their own curiosity to take precedent over her feelings.
