Marked

Disclaimer: I don't own the Twilight Series.

Authors Note:

I got the inspiration for this story from a number of different books I've read. Hope you like it.

Prologue:

It was a normal day, well it was at least until … I was Marked.

Bella POV

My alarm clock sounded at 6am.

"Argh, five more minutes" I said pleaded.

Once I got dressed I want downstairs and got some cornflakes. When I finished that I got my bag and went to my car. As I was driving out of the corner of my eye I saw him. Edward Cullen, he looked like he was in deep concentration which was a big difference from how he was at school. I looked back for a second glance, but he was gone, as though he was never there.

I got to school at the same time as Angela.

"Hey Bells, you ready for the Shakespeare exam today?" she said

"I don't think i'll ever be ready for Shakespeare…" I said

Angela just giggled and we started walking towards my locker.

As we were walking my mind was acutely aware that someone was watching me, and I completely tuned out to what Angela was saying, but nodded once in a while. The good thing about Angela was she could talk forever and she wouldn't even care if you weren't listening. We arrived at my locker and I saw him, he was staring at me like I was a memorizing picture. I looked straight back at him and he went all ridged, and tense.

The Cullen's came up from behind Edward and they all twitched when they gaze came upon me. Edward ushered them away and they looked annoyed.

I remembered Angela was still talking to me.

"-so what do you think" asked Angela

"I got no idea." I thought

"Hmm, that's great" I said

"You weren't listening were you?"

"Of course I was…maybe"

Just then the locker bell rang and Angela decided to go to her locker incase she forgot something, which she probably did. The hallways were practically deserted, but Edward was still there. His face full of an emotion I couldn't understand. He started walking towards me and he stopped about a meter infront of me.

"You are the only one in this school that is so hard to resist." He said

I was totally confused.

"What are you talking about? Hard to resist whats that supposed to mean?" I said sounding anxious and I have to admit…frightened.

"People tend to avoid us, their instincts tell them to run but they can't think of a reason why, so they just stay away. Our appearance it tantalizing to them, they can't help but admire us." He said almost below a whisper.

"Who are us?" I asked. I was extremely scared and even though I could have run away screaming I didn't.

"My family, we're not human." He said, he was staring at me like I was about to faint. No wonder people always thought his family was different. "We are vampires, and we know when someone isn't destined for a human life, it's like a sixth sense I guess. You have a smell that makes vampires stiffen, your voice is like music to our ears and the way you look…I couldn't even begin to describe. "

I was backing away from the moment he said "not human".

With a swift movement Edward jerked my head back and bit down on my neck. I screamed in pain and fell to the floor, agonizing pain filled my body. The pulsing fire running through my veins, I felt like I was on fire.

Edward looked down at me and his eyes were almost pure black.

"I'm sorry, but it was either kill you or make you one of us."

"I would rather die!" I screamed at him.

He darted through the hall ways and disappeared. People came running from nearby classrooms to see what had happened. Teachers joined students and when they found me there were a lot of gasps and "oh my god".

"Somebody calls an ambulance" yelled a teacher. "It's going to be alright" he said to me in a smoothing tone.

"Are you hurt?" he asked. I opened my mouth to speak but I just screamed, so I settled for a what-does –it-look-like look.

Among the crowd I saw the Cullen's; they were all staring at me.

The ambulance arrived 15 minutes later and they put me on a stretcher, when they got me in the ambulance they stuck morphine needles into me, but that didn't help,

Whilst we were in the ambulance I could here people murmuring about my heart beat.

"Whats going … on" I managed to say.

"Try no to talk. It your heart beat…it's very faint and you should have passed out along time ago."

My breathing quickened into short sharp gasps for air, what had Edward Cullen done to me, I barely knew the guy.

We got to the hospital in about ten minutes and the paramedics rushed me into the emergency room, where a doctor was waiting for me.

"Whats her status" he asked the paramedic

"She should have passed out a while ago, none of the medication we give her seems to be working, there is a bite mark on her neck that is fading and she's gone very pale"

"Hmm, put her in a private observation room, nobody goes in or out without my permission" he said "there's not much we can do now but just see what happens"

"Yes Doctor Cullen" said the paramedic

Cullen! Oh my gosh, this is insane, this cant be happening to me!

When he came close to me I tried to move the other way but the restraints on the stretcher stopped me.

He lifted an eyebrow.

"I'm guessing you know my name then?"

I nodded. Another pulse of fire went through me and I screamed in agony, it hurt so much. Dr Cullen looked at me sympathetically.

"Is there anybody you want me to call? Friends? Family?"

"My dad…died when…I was 17" I stuttered

"Ah, friends then?"

I just shook my head. The paramedic arrived just then and gave the doctor charts.

"The rooms ready." Said the paramedic

"Good take her in."

The stretcher was in motion for what seemed like a minute, then came to a halt and the nurses pushed the door open and wheel me close to the bed. Then put me on the bed.

The was air conditioned, no that it was helping, and there was no way anybody could see inside the room, the window blinds were shut.

The fire continued to push through my body and I felt like I was on the brink of death but something was holding onto me and not letting me fall.

Suddenly the heat in my body intensified and I screamed and passed out from the pain.

I could hear voices, I could smell things I couldn't smell before but I couldn't move, and my body felt like stone. Every so often a nurse would come and check up on me.

"This would be so much easier if we knew whether she was alive or not" the nurse murmured. "The girl hasn't moved for a whole day" and her voice travel out of the room.

A while after I heard the door open and someone step inside.

"Well Miss Swan, tomorrow morning you should be fine and ready to go home, but there is a catch. For the next few weeks you will be staying with me and my family."

A deep growl came from my chest. I didn't know what I was doing but I felt right, and I was furious. I wanted to kill Edward for doing this to me, not to live with him.

Dr. Cullen left the room with barely a sound, and I tried to calm myself down.

I had been hit with massive amount of pain, and I felt like I was on fire. I even stopped breathing for a while and I didn't breathe for about 5 minutes but then I needed air. I was starting to scare myself.

Every time somebody came into the room, there was a smell of copper and rust. It made me feel sick.

It must have been hours later, the fire faded into my finger tips. I felt different, weird different. I sat up and all the needles and things in me came off, I was so stiff. I found a mirror and looked at myself. I could barely recognize myself, my hair had a new depth of colour, my face had no imperfections, my body was completely pale and my eyes were crimson.

Dr. Cullen came into the room.

"Ah. I see you've found your feet." He said

"What have you done to me?" I said. My voice was different, it was like velvet, and I surprised me.

"I have done nothing, it is the venom running through your veins that as changed you." He replied.

The rest of the Cullen's were waiting outside, I could see them.

"Here" he said, and put clothes infront of me. "Put these on."

I took them from his hand and stared at him.

"I'm not getting dressed infront of you." I said

"Oh right" he said

He had given me a light blue, no sleeve turtle neck top, a pair of jeans and boots. Once I had gotten dressed. I walked out side my room, and almost all the men in the room were staring at me, including one of the Cullen brothers. But the blonde wacked him over the head and he stopped looking.

"Ready" I said

I had no idea why I was going so quietly, not getting angry. But I knew as soon as I could get my hand on Edward Cullen, the more myself I would become.

"Good, have you met my family?" he asked

"Dr. Cullen I have gone to school with your children for a long time. I know who they are." I said to him.

"Please, call me Carlisle."

"Fine, Carlisle"

Carlisle's family grouped around me and we started to walk towards the exit. The whole hospital had new smells to me, smells I didn't even know existed. When we got out towards the parking lot, I saw him. He was standing next to his silver Volvo, and he saw me at exactly the same time I saw him.

"Grab her!" yelled the little one that looked like a pixie.

They stopped me before I could even take a step. I was about to ask what her name was but…

"The name is Alice" she said before I had a chance to ask the question.

Edward started laughing and I heard him say "she wouldn't dare".

I snarled and broke free of the grip they had on me and I ran straight towards Edward, lucky nobody saw me, because I had a feeling something bad was going to happen.

Authors Note:

Hope you liked it. Please Review because I love to hear what my readers think, and if I get enough reviews ill post up the next chapter quickly.