Ok, you guys, sorry for not writing in a while. This fan fiction is strictly done with the knowledge of reading Twilight. Mostly because my grades were bad and my mom said I couldn't read New Moon or Eclipse until I get my grades up. Sorry you guys! Enjoy and tell me what you think!
DISCLAIMER I do not own any of the recognizable characters in the story. They belong to the brilliant mind of Stephenie Meyer. Kata does belong to me though.
She lay in the hospital bed, the heart monitor slowly beeping and getting slower. The girl had been emitted just hours before, after being found on the locker room floor, her arms shredded with a razor. Her blood had become tainted and her sentence was death.
A young doctor came into the room. He picked up the clipboard at the end of her bed and read the file that was held tightly against the board. The paper had stated that the girl's name was Kata and that her condition was grim. The doctor looked up at the girl's face. He knew that face in more ways than one. He knew her mother and her no good father. Kata's mother died three years ago from tuberculosis, and he only knew this because he died in his care. Her immune system had been dangerously low before she contracted the disease, and died a slow and painful death.
Kata had also been a patient of his at one time, as a rape victim. Just before her father left her and her mother, he had raped Kata after beating her severely and leaving her in the back of a liquor store.
Looking at the girl's face more intensely now, the blond was thrown back into a memory of long ago, 1918 to be exact. The day he adopted his first son, Edward.
"Dr. Cullen? Dr. Cullen, is everything alright? This is the third time you've been in here within the past hour," asked a concerned nurse from the doorway, pulling him from his memories. Dr. Cullen closed his eyes and shook away the images that still lingered in his mind.
"Huh? Oh, yes, everything's fine. It's just a shame she has to ho like this," he said smoothly, looking from the sleeping girl to the dark haired nurse, flashing her a smile. The nurse nodded in agreement and then left the room.
Once alone again, the man sighed deeply. "Edward," he whispered as the memory slowly drifted back into his head. Kata's situation was very similar to Edward's; her parents were no longer with her, and they were both destined to die. Dr. Cullen put the clipboard back to its spot on the bed and went over to the girl's side.
She looked pale and dead already, except for the fever induced sweat on her fragile, doll-like face. She had looked exactly like Edward had those many years ago. And that's when he made up his mind. She was going to become the newest member of the family.
Before Dr. Cullen could finish his thought, Alice appeared in the doorway.
"Are you sure about this?" she asked him cooly, gracefully making her way to the side of the bed, next to the doctor. The man wasn't surprised to see the pixie-like girl beside him. He knew she must have seen this before he even thought about telling any of them. He nodded.
"She's just too much like Edward not to," he stated just as coolly. "As soon as I figure out a way to do it, I'll be home with her. So tell the rest of the family, ok?"
Alice nodded smoothly. "But you better figure something out quickly, you've got less than an hour left before it's too late." Dr. Cullen nodded again.
"Thank you Alice."
"No problem." and with that, she was gone. Dr. Cullen sighed.
"It's going to be a little harder to do now than back in 1918," he told himself as he glanced over at the clock on the wall, timing himself.
Dr. Cullen closed the blinds to all the windows and closed the door. He looked at the girl one more time, faintly seeing Edward in her face.
"Better prepare yourself for some pain," h whispered to the unconscious Kata. She didn't reply, but that didn't surprise him. Taking a deep breath and leaned over her bed and opened his mouth slightly, embedding his teeth into her neck. Kata didn't even move to show the pain of his bite. Once finished, Dr. Cullen straightened up and opened the blinds. He opened the dor and went to the nurse's station. He told the nurses not to go into Kata' s room, no matter how loudly she screamed.
The nurses were more than a little confused, but nevertheless, the agreed. One nurse was bold enough to ask why.
"Because," he replied coolly, "I have decided to take her case and I don't want anyone to interfere." The bold nurse grew bolder.
"But she's practically dead already, and she doesn't have a family to want her alive, so why save her?" Dr. Cullen was quiet for a moment.
"Because I want her alive," he lied, but the nurse believed it and became quiet. Dr. Cullen sighed and went to Kata's room to watch her carefully.
As the venom started to makes it's way through her veins, Kata could feel the agonizing pain that seemed to burn. The burning seeming to grow stronger with every heartbeat. She clutched the bed, her face showing the pain surging through her body.
Dr. Cullen was surprised by Kata's reaction. Where was the screaming? The writhing? The pleading to stop the pain?
The silence was unreal, she must be in the sam pain they all had experienced, she was too calm about the whole scenario. Why?
The minutes ticked by and Dr. Cullen could calculate the exact stage at which the venom had reached when silent tears started to stream down her pale face.
Alice appeared at the door again. She knocked quietly. Dr. Cullen looked up and smiled, seeing her in the window and motioning her to enter. The door opened and she slipped in with her usual grace. She stood next to him and stared at Kata's face.
"What did you see?" he asked. Alice didn't answer at first, she just stared at the glistening tears falling down Kata's pain face. She took a deep breath.
"She's not going to fit in. Edward and Rosalie are going to despise her," she paused, never taking her eyes off of Kata, "And you're going to need $6,000 for car repair on the Volvo," Alice finished, a slight smile on her face. Dr. Cullen looked at Alice with some concern. Alice finally moved her gaze to him, her smile widening.
"Don't worry Carlisle, she's going to take well with the rest of us. Well, except Emmet," she giggled lightly, "but she'll come around." Her bright golden eyes shifted back to Kata's face. "She's had it bad, didn't she?" Alice's voice grew softer.
Dr. Cullen looked at Kata also and nodded. "Her life went from bad to worse. When her mother died, she had nothing left," he told Alice.
"What about her father? You said she was a lot like Edward. Did he die too?"
"Kata's father left her and her mother not too long before her mother died. That man was a disgrace to humanity. Kata came in a month after her mother died for an abortion. Her father had raped and beaten her the night he left town. From what I've hear from the nurses, she had com in here a lot for cuts and sometimes fractured and even broken bones. Her father beat her badly."
"I don't understand. How is this girl similar to Edward?" Alice asked, interrupting Dr. Cullen's story.
"I'm getting to that. Right now, Kata has no one to live for. Both of her parents were out of her life, one dead, the other better off that way. Nobody would have noticed if she was gone. From what these, nosey, gossip-loving nurses say, she was all alone at school too. Am I wrong in assuming that was the case?" he asked looking back at Alice. Alice took her gaze away from Kata and looked at Carlisle and shrugged.
"I don't know, I've never noticed her until now," she said, trying to remember if she had seen her in any of her classes.
"My point exactly," he turned to Alice. "I need you to help me get her out of here when the transformation is complete. We've got to watch the heart monitor carefully, we don't want the nurses to know that her heart has stopped and yet she's walking around for obvious reasons." Alice nodded in confirmation. Carlisle smiled. "Thank you, Alice."
"Anytime. Oh, I failed to mention that Esme's coming in a half an hour," Alice replied. "She's the only one that's truely happy to have Kata come." Carlisle nodded and took his gaze back to Kata.