Lucy walks in the woods outside of the Cullen house, the rain is steady and she doesn't mind it this time, it beats the chatter within, covens getting to know one another, asking about the wolves, Raphael is sulking in the attic with Alistair, Michelle is talking with Rosalie and Renesmee animatedly, for a vampire, Gabe is sat reading in the study away from everyone else. Lucy taps her cane against the trees as she strides slowly along a tiny worn path and she knows she is being followed, she chooses to ignore him for now, if he wanted her to know he is there he would have come forward. She pulls off a glove and reaches out, touching a small patch of ivy climbing on the tree trunk at her side, the ivy crinkles and turns black, dead, before it falls from the tree, she sighs and returns her glove to her hand.

"I thought Gabe was exaggerating" He finally talks up behind her, Lucy glances over her shoulder as Emmett makes himself visible behind her, for his size he can't half disappear when he wants to. "Just a touch?"

"Just a touch" she replies and wiggles her fingers at him. "Hence the gloves" she walks on again and he moves to walk at her side this time.

"What about....you know...." he clears his throat. "Being intimate?" she glances to him and raises an eyebrow at him.

"I don't....or well....not any more"

"So you used to...." she shrugs.

"Not many can withstand my.....curse, the other Horseman being the only ones.....it gets to you after a while, not being able to touch people....so you stop trying" she shrugs and clenches her cane as they walk.

"So...how long's it been since someone other than the Horseman touched you or that you've touched?"

"A few thousand years......" Emmett pauses in his stride to watch her walk.

"How old are you?" she laughs and he smiles subconsciously at the sound of her laughter.

"Let's just say...the Volturi....are children to us" she smirks as she disappears back into the house. Emmett scratches the top of his head as he raises an eyebrow.

"Huh...." He follows after her, she smirks back at him.

"Don't try and do the math, you may hurt yourself" he pouts at her and she laughs again.

"Alright....well tell me something"

"What?" she asks heading into the living room, where most of the other vampires are settled, the Irish coven and the Denali coven talking together.

"Anything...."

"Okay" she takes a seat on the couch in front of a huge window, the sun shining behind her, Emmett sits in the arm chair across from her. "So....religious lesson" she teases setting her cane down and crossing one leg over the other. "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ to John of Patmos, at 6:1-8. The chapter tells of a book or a scroll in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The Lamb of God opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale...or sometimes green horses"

"Your bikes" he points out and she smiles.

"Yeah, we kind of ran with the title a bit.....it's actually funny..."

"How so?"

"Our names..." she states. "Michelle, Raphael, Gabriel and Lucy......"

"Archangels" Carlisle tells Emmett with a smirk. "Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Lucifer" Lucy snorts.

"Our names are biblically good....except mine....but our titles are biblically bad.....Famine, War, Pestilence and Death...there is an irony in there somewhere......most vampires will hear one of two sides of us......not many know of both..."

"Both?" Lucy smirks.

"Well.....they don't call us the Horseman for no reason.......we can be biblically bad, when we want to be, Raph is a man fond of battle and war....it's who he is....he cannot just sit and ignore the world....he's been present in every war since he was turned......not always on the right side" Raph snorts as he leans in the door way.

"That's her way of telling you all I was Hitler's right hand vampire during the war......and I may have started the Russian Revolution.....it had been a quiet decade" he shrugs. "And...FYI....who to say we aren't the real Horseman"

"We're not" Lucy states with an eye roll, Emmett smirks watching her. "We are not billions of years old...."

"Well we are older than most...." Gabe mumbles from where he had been hidden in the corner, Rosalie sitting across from him glancing back at the others.

"I never understood why you four didn't take power from the Volturi" Carlisle states. "If anyone had a chance at over throwing them it would be you...."

"There are four of us, Carlisle" Lucy tells him back. "Who knows how many followers Aro has..." she shrugs and looks out the window. "Even with Raph, we might not have won" she smirks. "And I like my undead life" she looks to Raph who smiles warmly at her, Gabe smiling to himself. "And I love my undead family"

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And then another pair of unexpected friends arrived – unexpected, because neither Carlisle nor Rosalie had been able to contact the Amazons.

"Carlisle," The taller of the two very tall feline women greets him when they arrived. Both of them seemed as if they'd been stretched – long arms and legs, long fingers, long black braids, and long faces with long noses. They wore nothing but animal skins – hide vests and tight-fitting pants that laced on the sides with leather ties. It wasn't just their eccentric clothes that made them seem wild but everything about them, from their restless crimson eyes to their sudden, darting movements. Lucy could tell that Bella had never met any vampires less civilized. But Alice had sent them, and that was interesting news, to put it mildly. Why was Alice in South America? Just because she'd seen that no one else would be able to get in touch with the Amazons?

"Zafrina and Senna! But Where's Kachiri?" Carlisle asks. "I've never seen you three apart."

"Alice told us we needed to separate," Zafrina answers in the rough, deep voice that matched her wild appearance. "It's uncomfortable to be away from each other, but Alice assured us that you needed us here, while she very much needed Kachiri somewhere else. That's all she would tell us, except that there was a great hurry... ?" Zafrina's statement trails off into a question, Lucy stands close by, Emmett hovers near her, watching as Bella brings Renesmee out to meet them. Despite their fierce appearance, they listened very calmly to the story, and then allow Renesmee to prove the point. They were every bit as taken with Renesmee as any of the other vampires. The news about Alice is oddly comforting. Clearly, she is on some obscure mission of her own as she avoided whatever Aro had planned for her and Lucy knew Aro had something planned for her, with what Carlisle had told her of Alice's gifts.

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