Bella wasn't quite asleep yet, though she was getting there. She sits up, triangulates for the sound, squints out the window at the visitor.

There is a short haired, red headed woman hanging off of her window. It's hard to tell in the dark, but she looks like she's a vampire. What with the casual way she's hanging off the house. The probably-vampire gives a very awkward wave, with an even more apologetic smile. Before anything else, she opens the window a tiny crack, then leans down so her voice can carry through it.

"HisorrycanIcomein, I would like to make you queen of the vampire world!" she says, very quickly, slowing down as she goes when she realizes she's going just a bit too fast for a human. She thinks the first part was still intelligible, but that second part was definitely intelligible.

"...sounds great, what in the world does this have to do with hanging off the side of my house without making yourself known to the local vampires?"

The window gets opened and in slides a... huh, is she a vampire? Her skin doesn't look quite as pale, and her eyes are the wrong color. She still moves like one, though.

"The current mindreading overlords of the vampire world. They aren't immune, you are. It is very important that the Volturi do not know about me or any of my family until it is too late and they are ashes."

Bella has to flick her lamp on to make fine color discriminations but she does this. "And you are avoiding the notice of the locals how?"

"I have foresight, like your - uh, the dark haired pixie girl? We kinda sorta mutually block each other, but mine sooooorta beats hers. I don't know when she's going to notice the dark spot, can I tell you the cover story before they freak out?"

"I guess you can tell me."

"So I am a dhampir - half human, half vampire - and so it really is actually very important for me to tell you in particular that vampires with a penis can get humans with a womb pregnant. The pregnancy is unpleasantly survivable with venom, but it's, quote 'Not Great.' The sneakery is because I wanted to make sure you didn't need someone to rescue you out from the vampire that has mated to you. - To be clear I know you don't, though, you're fine. But, you know, it would be such a legit reason to break into your bedroom in the middle of the night while evading your future in-laws."

"I guess it would, if you had really remarkably specific incomplete information."

"Which I am pretending to have! And so that is our cover story, and yes you can say I said I have foresight, there will be no hiding it from pixie-girl, the thing you should avoid talking about is overthrowing the Volturi and my family's existence. I am to their knowledge a concerned dhampir citizen who doesn't want you to die in half-vampire pregnancy. Which is, to be clear, actually so incredibly deadly. Uh - pretend my mother died and I'm alone, I am not and my mother is vamping it up just fine, but, you know, cover story that doesn't have your in-laws hunting for the other vampires that don't eat people to make friends."

"You're not worried they're going to hunt down your ostensibly single people-eating dad and try to save you?"

"He can be dead too. I have foresight, I bet I can - no, I really can't, but we can pretend I could have. Just a single murderous future seeing concerned citizen, that's me."

"Gotcha. And your name, or you were far too mysterious to give one?"

"That's fine. Aurene. Hi."

"Hi. I assume you already creepily know who I am."

"Ehhhhhh my thing is more, like, large scale? I saw 'by the decree of Empress Isabella Marie Cullen' but I don't, like, know your current last name."

"Oh. I go by Bella, which seems more relevant. What was I decreeing?"

"'Consumption of human blood is now illegal,' with alternatives listed. This will go over better than this implies - Mum cracked synth-blood ages ago, the hard part was making it easily manufacturable, she spent the last thirty years on that, but: we're there too. Synth-blood exists and it is superior to human blood on a thirst-quenching axis and can totally be mass produced. My mum's great."

"- holy shit, that's very important!"

"It is so important! We can't tell anyone about it, because the Volturi are possessive of being in charge and 'I manufacture the better blood alternative' infringes on their turf! It's awful! Please rule the world instead!"

"I would love to but I don't have a plan to perform a coup!"

"Good news! We do! It's the after that's hard, because, well, none of us really want to rule the world?"

"- okay, sure, I approve of the division of labor where someone else does a coup and appoints me empress of the vampire shadow government, sounds neat. Inconveniently I'm not a vampire yet."

"Yeah, it's not going to be literally tomorrow. Please become a vampire first. Just, I had a brief flash of a potential future with you as empress of the vampire world, and I basically have been future sight save scumming to make that happen since. I noticed you like, a week ago, kinda important to tell you sooner rather than later what's up."

"I think I would still have appreciated this on shorter notice. What do I need to do to not get in your way?"