A month had passed and she collected the mail that was delivered to her doorstep.

She couldn't help but like the newborns she kept. Fred was smart, and had an interest in the sciences and teachings that he would have a very long time to learn. Diego was so much like Tydeus but still had his own quirks, the major difference being he was mated to the little brunette female that skipped around her house happily.

Bree had made it her personal mission to make Andy happy and more included in their little family dynamic where Andromeda was the matriarch. She even upgraded the older vampire's phone informing her that no one uses the Nokia bricks anymore.

Andy read over the contents of the letter she'd just received with a small smile.

Flashback about 1020 AD Thebes, Greece:

"I am to marry cousin." The girl she considered a sister said approaching. She had the same blue eyes and features but her hair was a pitch black, a trait from their grandfather.

"To whom have you been betrothed?"

"Regulus." She said dreamily and Andy rolled her eyes an amused smile on her lips.

"It's a fine match Sabina." Andy looped their arms, "I know you have liked him for some time."

"But it means I will be leaving with him. We're going back to Peloponnese."

"It is not far. I will visit." Andromeda informed as they walked out into the courtyard. Andy's eyes narrowed on the large man who was teasing one of the servants. Lord Quintus was residing with them and according to her father was made of money.

She hated how he rubbed his privilege in the faces of those he deemed beneath him and how his leering gaze followed her every movement.

*****

Andy held the invitation in her hand smirking, knowing that Alice had looked into Andy's decisions and probably sent the same invitation to five or six different addresses. She remembered her cousin Sabina and how excited she was about her betrothal. She couldn't picture her cousin clearly, but she knew in her heart she loved her dearly.

ISABELLA MARIE SWAN

And

EDWARD ANTHONY MASON CULLEN

Together with their families

Request the honour of your presence

At the celebration of their marriage

Saturday the thirteenth of August

Two Thousand and Eleven

Five O'clock in the evening

420 Woodcroft Ave

Forks, WA

"Interesting, they would be honoured by my presence." Andy grinned at the card. "Well who am I to refuse."

"What's that?" Bree asked as Andy entered the small secluded cottage they were residing in.

"Invite to a wedding. You three are invited as well."

"Are there going to be humans?" The little brunette inquired.

"I believe so." Andy looked between the three, "do you think you could handle it?"

"I don't think I will be able to go." Bree said sadly, "Her scent is too strong for me."

"Me neither." Fred added from his seat.

"I'm not leaving Bree." Diego pointed out.

"In that case, don't burn down the house while I'm gone, and I'll be a phone call away." She tells them.

"Do you want to call a babysitter while you're at it?" Diego remarks sarcastically.

"Don't tempt me." Andy replied completely serious, "Because that can be arranged."

*****

Bella turned from her dream catcher with a smile sensing Edward's presence. "Just checking for cold feet." He said to his fiancé.

"Mine are toasty warm." She reassured him.

"It's not too late to change your mind."

"What now you're having second thoughts?" She said from her spot on the bed. "You are."

"I've been waiting a century to marry you Miss Swan." He smiled at his bride to be.

"But... but?" She raised a brow terrified of the worst.

"I haven't told you everything about myself."

"What, you're not a virgin." She joked and he chuckled. "Look you can't scare me away now," so tell me, her eyes screamed at him.

"A few years after Carlisle created me, I rebelled against him. I resented him for curbing my appetite, and so for a while I went off on my own. I wanted to know how it felt to hunt... to taste human blood."

Flashback 1929 New York:

Andromeda watched the bronze haired vampire as she sat a few rows behind him.

She'd been tailing him for weeks and watching him make his kills. He was about a decade old by her guess and still a little sloppy around the edges.

She watched a human woman pass her followed by a sadistic male with a leering gaze. The bronze haired vampire also followed and Andy silently traced his steps.

She held her breath as the scent of fresh blood filled her nose and spotted the young man draining the human.

"You should really cover your tracks better." She commented looking at the young man.

"Who are you?" He asked trying and failing to hide the human with his body.

"Call me Andy." She looked him up and down. "Carlisle sent me Mr Mason."

"I'm not going back I'm a monster. I want blood." He snapped his crimson eyes bright.

"You won't last. I can tell how much you hate it already." She commented, "You'll learn... eventually."

"I'm not going back." He repeated.

"Not yet. I'll collect you in a few years." She smirked and turned her back on him. "You missed a spot by the way." She indicated to the side of her lip. "Just there."

Her words left Edward confused as she waltzed away from him back into the theatre.

"All the men I killed were monsters, and so was I" He informed coming out of his memory.

"Edward they were all murders, you probably saved more lives than you took."

"Bella that's what I told myself, but they were all human beings. I looked into their eyes as they died and saw who I was and what I was capable of." He hated what he was, but he was thankful as well.

"And what I will be capable of. Why are you telling me this, did think it would make me change my mind about you?" He couldn't sway her decision.

"I was just wondering if it would change your mind about yourself. What you want to see when you look in the mirror a year from now." She got to her feet as he spoke and stood in front of him.

"I know I can do this, do you want to know why. Because you did. You should give yourself some credit for that. And hopefully a year from now I'm going to look in a mirror and see something like you. Someone capable of courage and sacrifice and love-"

He stopped her from talking by sealing their lips together in a sweet kiss only to be interrupted by a whistle.

"What is that?"

"I'm late for my bachelor party." His lips turned up.

"Send him out Bella, or we're coming in after him." Emmett says appearing at her window.

"So this party, will there be strippers?" She raised a playful brow.

"Couple of mountain lions, maybe a bear." He shrugged in response.

"Don't worry Bella we'll get him back in plenty of time." Jasper added.

"Okay go, before they break my house." She pushed him to the window.

"Before I forget, Andy's going to pick you up in the morning. I'll meet you at the Alter."

"I'll be the one in white."

"That was very convincing." He said jumping down to his brothers.

Flashback 1931 Toronto, Canada:

Andy could feel the self-loathing from a mile away and she wasn't even an Empath. She walked the through the twilight light letting her nose do the work following the rather obvious trail of blood.

"You again." She commented crossing her arms across her chest. "Edward Mason if I remember correctly."

"I killed someone." He hated himself.

"I kill people all the time, you shouldn't be ashamed of your nature."

"I can't do this anymore. I can't kill people."

"That much is obvious kid." She replied, "You don't suit this life, you identify too closely with your prey."

"And you don't."

"I've been around for a very long time, I've killed for food, for revenge, for fun." She explained, "But you don't have it in you to do that, too much compassion. You probably saved more lives than you took given your chosen meal choices."

"I don't want to do it anymore."

"Then go home." She urged, "Stop your self-loathing, go back to Carlisle and let him teach you."

*****

Andy parked Edward's Volvo outside Bella's house and checked her contacts in the rear view mirror. They were brown and thankfully hadn't dissolved yet. She wasn't dressed for the wedding yet, instead she wore her favourite black leather pants and a white shirt, her blonde waves held back from her face by a pair of sunglasses.

She stepped a heeled boot out of the car and approached the door gently knocking.

A middle aged man opened it and she could see the resemblance between father and daughter. "Hi," she smiled up at him.

"Ah, hi." He replied awkwardly. So that's where she gets it from.

"I'm Andy, a friend of the Cullen's, I'm here to pick up Bella."

"Right, Bells," he called and the human came down her stairs.

"You look like crap." Andy commented catching the girl's attention and her face lit up.

"Andy!" Bella gasped and hugged the vampire.

"Yes that would be me." She pulled the human to the car. "Let's go. Nice to meet you Chief Swan."

"What time do you call this?" The pixie vampire demanded standing at the door with her arms crossed.

"Ahm, lunch time, as requested." Andy replied looking at the clock that read one pm.

"I have a schedule, Bella we need to get started we've wasted enough time already." She demanded dragging the human up the stairs.

"Leave the girl alone Ally, it's not her fault." Andy answered, "I'm going to dress and mingle, with the locals."

"Don't eat anyone." Bella teased and Andy just winked in response. "That's not reassuring."

"I'll behave Miss Bella." She replied vanishing to one of the spare rooms of the house.

*****

Andromeda stood next to Esme as she spoke to their 'cousins'. She was wearing a blue Grecian gown with a gold belt the fabric flowing to the floor in gentle waves.

"Who's this?" The shortest blonde -Tanya- asked.

"This is Andy, she's a friend of the family." Esme introduces smiling softly.

"Andy," Tanya repeated shaking her hand. "I'm Tanya, these are my sisters, Kate and Irina."

"Pleasure,"

"You don't share our diet, are you new to it?" Kate asked curiously and Andy smirked.

"I'm not changing my diet darling, no matter how hard they try. I'm not suited to your lifestyle."

"She has a stubborn streak." Carlisle said as he approached with two more vampires, both of them brunettes.

"Excuse him." Andy smiled at them. "I'm Andromeda, you're Carmen and Eleazar."

"You have a very powerful gift." Eleazar's eyes examined her critically.

"Mm, it comes in handy." She said flashing him a grin.

"Where are you from?" The Spaniard's mate asked.

"Byzantine Greece." She answered with a grin.

"I heard stories." He said in slight awe. "The sister coven to the Volturi."

"That was a long time ago." Andy's voice broke a little but she covered it with a smile.

"Your gift, is intriguing."

"Her gift?" One of the blondes enquire.

"She is unnaturally fast for a vampire." He explained to his coven. "And being able to teleport must help."

"What can I say, I've perfected the art of running away."

"How did you come to meet the Cullen's, they don't speak about you?"

"Because I asked them not to." Andy smiled fondly at Carlisle, "I met the good Doctor in France and the soldier not long after during the wars in the south. Edward I had met a few times during his rebellious phase."

She exchanged a few more polite words with the Denali's then turned her attention back to the Cullen family.

The ceremony was short and sweet, and the speeches were quite entertaining. She danced with each of the Cullen's that night the traditions of the present a little different than what she was used to but still make for a beautiful night. Even with the little scuffle with the strays.

She didn't hang around once the bride and groom had left. She still had a lot of work to do in regards to the Cult and didn't want the Cullen's involved in that complication, they were too young in her mind to be faced with something like that.

As she wandered in the direction of her newborns a memory triggered in the back of her mind.

*****

Flashback about 1020 AD Thebes, Greece:

She lay on her bed eyes staring at the ceiling as the female next to her gossiped. She wasn't listening, because she wasn't interested.

"And your father has accepted." She said happily causing Andromeda to suddenly tune in.

"What?" She shot up into a seated position.

"He asked for your hand and your father accepted." Sabina informed her cousin.

"Who?"

"Lord Quintus."

"I'm not going to do it." Andy spoke still glaring.

"You have been of age for many a year now Andromeda. The only reason you have not been married yet is because you had many offers your father needed to negotiate. He is a fine man."

"He is a pig." Andromeda replied rising to search for her cloak.

"You're going out again." Sabina raised a brow, she knew what her cousin was like.

"Yes."

"You have to stop Andromeda, one day you'll get caught."

"I won't get caught unless you tell."

"You're lucky I like you." The raven haired girl smiled softly.