Chapter 127
The pancakes were glistening with what looked like honey as well as a side of blueberries and strawberries.
'That… was fast.' Alan thought to himself.
"Eat before you talk, can't even think with an empty stomach you know?" Esme said helpfully a single second later as she smiled warmly down at Alan.
"Ah, yes, uh thank you." Alan muttered as he started eating and the sound of a fork and knife together with the sound of chewing started being heard in the otherwise completely silent room.
'This is so damn awkward… can they like, put on the television or something… they're just completely silent and Alice, Carlisle and Esme are just straight up looking at me whilst I eat… please kill me, kill me right now.' Alan thought to himself as he almost lost his hunger simply from the complete awkwardness of the moment, that was for merely a moment however as he soon realised he was simply way too hungry to care about the situation around him and the pancakes were simply too perfect to pass up on.
Finally after a few minutes of complete silence besides the sounds of Alan eating, Alan finished and put down the fork and knife before taking a small handkerchief that Esme had given him and wiping at his mouth and hands.
Turning to face Carlisle, Alan's expression changed into one of complete seriousness as he nodded with his head towards the man.
"We could talk now, So… about the meeting, what are we going to do? What do you want me to do and how should I act during it? I assume that I must not be aggressive towards them and try to keep my calm even if they accuse me of things that I haven't done?" Alan asked slowly, thinking about his words as he said them as he thought about what he expected Carlisle to tell him.
Carlisle gave a nod of his head before opening his mouth to speak, his own expression having changed from the light warm one that he had been donning until now and turned into one of matching seriousness to the one that Alan had on his own face.
"Yes, that's the basics of it. The meeting will take place in neutral ground however you need to be on guard at all times. Alice and Emmet will be staying near you whilst I will be talking with them. Jasper over there has a gift that allows him to manipulate emotions to a certain degree, an empath of sorts, he will be using his gift to try and calm everyone as much as possible, you included if you start getting agitated by the accusations. What you need to remember when we head there is that we don't have as much power as the Quileute do in Forks, we have an agreement and we are in a way equally as possible however whilst we do not want a war to occur in any case, the Quileute are young, at least the new generation of them and they're likely to not have as many complaints about a war occurring, some of them may even want to use this situation to incite one and try to heroically start a war to get rid of the Cold Ones as they call us." Carlisle said as he motioned towards Alice and Emmet who was farther away in the room with his head before turning his gaze towards Jasper when he mentioned his gift and finally turning his gaze once more onto Alan by the time that he had finished his speech.
"Want to incite a war… they have that large of a grudge on you? But from what I gathered, you guys helped them in defeating someone that had been causing trouble to them, so I thought that you would at least have a slightly better relationship than this." Alan muttered in slight confusion as he tilted his head.
Carlisle looked at Alan for a moment before shaking his head as he released a long slow sigh and spoke once more.
"That should have been the case, we have never caused any trouble for them and even gotten rid of the occasional rogue vampire that came to Forks however , the younger generation doesn't see it like that. All they see are monsters in human skin who are also staying in what they call their ancestral lands or the lands nearby them. There's also the fact that their species instinctively doesn't like vampires, it's a situation similar to fire and water, we are in a way complete opposites of one another and even though we are coexisting, this situation isn't that safe or stable."
"Right… then I guess all that's left to do is hope for the best." Alan muttered in reply as he shook his head in slight annoyance.
'Younger generation fuckers, I bet it was one of those young gens that also ruined my apartment and did all that shit… if only I was stronger… if only.' Alan thought to himself in annoyance as he looked away from Carlisle and back onto the table in front of him. Esme had already removed his plate and cleaned the table, leaving it looking like it was brand new once more in mere seconds.
Meanwhile… As these talks were happening inside of the Cullen Mansion, on the complete other side of Forks, inside of the Quileute Reservation, a similar discussion was taking place.
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