Twist of Intuition (Twilight: Emmett Cullen/OC)

Chapter 18

1935 Gatlinburg Tennessee

I was on a weekend hunting trip alone, I had done so before many times but I was especially happy for this one. Lukas and Rosalie have grown even closer and I was so used to Esme and Carlisle's more conservative love that I had to get away from the house. I would feel bad for Edward except for the fact that Rosalie and Lukas had gone on their own hunting trip. I really just needed some time for myself.

I would write a letter to Maggie when I got back all about it most likely, she had replied to my first letter about four years after I sent it. Esmé had taken it upon herself to set up our destinations, and new homes so I would ask her where we would be moving next and the date, then I would include that in my letter. I was happy Rosalie had found real love in her life, and she wasn't as depressed anymore. I used my gift on Lukas, and discovered his intentions for Rosalie were completely about love, he basically worshiped the ground she walked on, and she reveled in it. He was dying down with his adoration of her now though; don't get me wrong, he still loved her all the same, perhaps even more so than the previous day. But, it seemed they really did share something real, and it wasn't just about Ro being lonely and seeking attention, or Lukas searching for a beautiful vampire. Which Ro most definitely was. While all vampires possessed an alluring beauty that was supposed to be used to draw in their prey: humans. Rose had to be the most beautiful vampire I had ever seen before, and we all believed it was her gift, similar to that of Heidi from the Volturi, except hers was a psychical attraction that made people want to be around her, trust her. Trust her to lead them to the throne room for a slaughter.

No, Rose's beauty was carried over from her human life. As no one could deny she was a beautiful human, it only made sense for that to be amplified as a vampire. If not beauty then what else could she bring? I quickly pushed that thought away. Rose may seem shallow and rude and a number of other un-favoring traits but she also had many deeper traits that not many saw. I think I only saw through them so fast was because of my gift, her façade of arrogance didn't fool me or my gift at all. I saw what was truly there, not a mask. Though I couldn't see through all people, like William. Bitter memories I preferred to stay away from most of the time, but being out here all alone gave me little distraction to move away from them.

I pushed those thoughts away as well, Rose had become a good friend to me, like a sister, similar to how I felt about Maggie but also completely different. I sometimes hated, well not hated, disliked Rosalie for the things she did and how she acted like she was an all-powerful Goddess. But I also loved her; there was just only so much I could take of her attitude before I got fed up.

How Lukas dealt with it every second of every day was beyond me, but she acted much different around him than everyone else. Almost like he had a gift to calm her down, if he had a gift then yes that would be it. When we told him if our gifts, he had been amazed and surprised. Also wondering if he had to leave... He'd thought we were only a coven of "gifted" people. I suppose I could see how he thought that were so, Edward and I had powerful and strange gifts, as well as Esme, I suspected had the gift of calming people. As every time I was around her, I felt loved. Unconditional love like I had never really felt before, it even over powered the love I had received my father in my human years. I was upset when the realization occurred to me, like Esme was somehow making me forget him. But I could never be upset with her for long and after a hunting trip filled with self-evaluation I decided it was because as vampire, whether we liked it or not had much more powerful emotions than we did as a human. Everything about ourselves was heightened when we changed, our appearance, our personality, our traits. Which meant I would feel Esme's love much stronger then I had felt my fathers.

All in all, we'd thought Lukas was being absurd. We were not like the Volturi, and did not "collect" people with gifts for our coven. It just seemed like it was...fate. If I believed in any of that stuff that we all had an extra talent of a high or low degree. Either way the only thing that mattered about joining the coven was their and our willingness to only feed from animal blood, and be committed to trying it.