Twist of Intuition (Twilight: Emmett Cullen/OC)

Chapter 9

Ireland 1887

We ran for a few hours silent until we arrived at a beautiful home in the middle of nowhere. It faced a dark lake with a dock attached to the house, tall class windows replaced some of the walls, connecting to the grey stoned roof.

"We maintain a permanent residence here," Siobhan said coming over to my side.

"You don't leave?" I asked utterly surprised.

"We like to live a more civilized life than other vampires. Humans rarely come near this place and when they do if they see anything they aren't supposed to then we deal with it." She replied smiling

"I've never met a coven of vampires before." I told her truthfully, I had met the Volturi but I didn't think of them as the same type of coven I was seeing here.

"There are not many of them. Most vampires are nomads. Come I'll show you inside." Siobhan said pulling me over to the doorway and ushering me inside.

Inside the house it was fairly open; one side had the tall windows I had seen outside. In front of them and around the room were chairs to sit down in. Along the walls were tall book shelves of a deep mahogany filled with very old books that looked like if you touched one it just might crumble to dust. "You have a beautiful home." I complemented.

"Thank you. Please sit." Siobhan said gesturing to the couches by the window.

I sat down on a chair across from them, Siobhan and Liam sat together and Maggie opted for a chair on their left. No one said anything for an hour and I wasn't sure what to say, eventually it came to much. "How long have you been vampires for?" I asked to break the ice.

"I was changed in 1510 which makes me 387 years old." Siobhan spoke first.

"246." Liam, Siobhan's mate spoke for the first time.

"50" Maggie spoke, I looked at her closer and realized she couldn't have been any more than fifteen, I felt a deep sadness for her because of this but I wasn't here to judge.

"What about you?" Maggie asked smiling.

"About 7 years ago now." I said answering her.

"Not very long ago, where is your creator?" Siobhan asked bringing up a flash of Aro ripping Williams head from his shoulders.

"Dead." I answered shrugging my shoulders like it was no big deal.

"Oh." Was all she could say.

"It's alright. He wasn't that great anyways. I'll admit being alone... is... lonely but I get through it." I said with a small smile.

"I understand, I was lonely too until I found Liam and later Maggie." Siobhan said smiling.

"How does your gift work?" I asked looking over at Maggie.

"I can tell a lie when I hear one." She replied smiling.

"That's amazing. I wish I could do that." I replied, it would have been more useful if I could have told Williams lies rather than the gift I had now. But I wouldn't trade it for something though. I loved my gift and the way I saw things.

She smiled in return. "What about your gift. What is it?" She asked

"I'm not exactly sure what it is. It's like I'm seeing through two different sets of eyes but it makes sense to me. The first is normal, like how you would see. The second is black and white, but anything living has a color and sort of speaks to me when that something is near. Vampires are blue, forests and animals are green and humans are orange." I explained as best as I could.