PREFACE

I'd given quite a bit of thought to how I'd kill my first vampire – the last few months had given me plenty of reason to – but sometimes, even your wildest imaginings just can't live up to reality.

I stared, barely able to breathe with excitement, across the dark clearing, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked back at me, surprise and excitement evident in his expression.

He probably thought I'd come here to die, to nobly sacrifice myself to protect my boyfriend and older brother. If that was what he was thinking, pretty much every part of it was wrong. The man I'd told everyone was my older brother was really my father, I didn't quite feel ready to start calling that boy my boyfriend yet, and I had no intentions of dying.

I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing a real-life vampire right now. For perhaps the first time since leaving home, there was no part of me that regretted that decision. Life had given me lemons, but it turned out there were really hot people and villains in need of defeating inside those lemons, and that metaphor had gotten away from me, hadn't it.

The hunter and I smiled at each other in a friendly way as we sauntered forward to kill each other.

A/N: Okay, I'll be honest, I don't like Twilight. I detest it, in fact. But I detest it so passionately that I couldn't fight the urge to do my own, hopefully better version. I'm probably going to bash the original quite a bit, so if you actually like it this probably isn't the fic for you. I've been working on this as a side-project for a while now, and thought I might as well post it. My focus is mostly on my Harry Potter stuff, and I'm planning on having each chapter encompass an actual chapter in the book, so updates will likely take a while. This chapter is pretty short, but the next one is already over 5000 words long, so hopefully that will make up for it. Don't know what else to say except I hope you enjoy it!

UPDATE: Re-uploaded because it wasn't showing up properly.