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Unbreakable Faith
A/N: This is a collaboration with luckystar125 and myself, Xo BellaItalia oX. I will be posting this story with the rest of my collaborations with my other Co Authors on my other FanFiction page under the penname Xo Bella's Collaborations oX. I will be the one writing the story while working with luckystar125 when it comes to the plot, though she has written some the first four chapters, but I reworded them, added things, and changed a few things.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them in the chapter's reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note. Thank you for your interest in the story and we hope you enjoy it and we would love to hear your thoughts on it. Talk to everyone soon! – Bella'Xo
Chapter 1
(Faith's POV)
My name is Faith Didyme Swan and I am seventeen years old.
Some people don't believe in the supernatural, but I do. You see, I have a vampire's spirit stuck in my head. If you are confused, don't worry. I will explain, but let's start at the beginning.
My father named me Faith, because when I was born I looked like every other girl on my mother's side of the family with black hair and green eyes. He had always hoped that I would never turn out like them and to be honest, I would have preferred it if I was the same.
You see, every girl starting with my great aunt Mary-Alice has been driven crazy by visions of the future. When my mom was pregnant with me she started having them as well and they drove her into madness. From what my dad has told me she couldn't tell the difference between her visions and what was really happening. By the time my due date was near she could hardly sleep at night because of them and when she finally went into labor she was too tired to push, so the doctors had to do a C-section to get me out. Once I was removed, she began losing a lot of blood and the doctors couldn't save her resulting in her bleeding to death.
Dad could barely be in the same room as me for the first few years of my life, so I was left to be taken care of by our maid, Anita, until he was able to move on. During that time I became best friends with her daughter Desmaraya, and to this day the two of still tell each other nearly everything.
When I turned 10 I asked my Dad why he never talked about my mom. He told me that it would all be explained when I turned 15 and on the day of my 15th birthday, he sat me down and explained to me how all the women on my mother's side of the family have seen visions of what was to come in their lives and anyone that they meet. Once he was done he handed me three leather bound books and a letter. He told me how mom wanted me to have them and that they will help me with what was to happen to me if I began to get visions.
Later that night, I open the letter and it said how the books were journals written by the women on my mom's side that had gotten visions. One journal was my moms and the other two were my great Aunt Mary's and my Grandma's. They explained how they learned to deal with their visions and even had written some of them down that were of importance.
The last thing the letter said was for me to not read my Grandma's and Aunt Mary's journals until I was positive that I was ready to see what they had to say. I read my Mom's journal first and the other two at a later date. I was shocked at what had happened to my Aunt Mary, and how my Grandma was too afraid to tell anyone about her visions for fear of being locked up as well. I read all of the journals several times over, until I nearly had them memorized word for word.
As time went by I never started to get the visions that the rest of my family had. I started to get nervous thinking that any day it was going to happen, but after lots of thinking and panicking, I eventually relaxed, because I realized that if I was going to get visions than I would have already gotten them. But low and behold, on my 17th birthday I got my first vision and have been getting them ever since.
Unfortunately, that wasn't even the half of it. Not only did I get visions of the future, but I started getting visions of the present and the past. Thankfully, I learned to control all of my visions and when I got them, but the ones that I couldn't control were ones that were of importance that drastically affected the me and the people I cared about. They came anyway if I was looking or not. That was the only positive thing about the whole bit. But sadly, that wasn't all.
At night as I slept, I began to have the oddest dreams. At first they started with me watching a lady from hundreds of years ago that surprisingly looked a lot like me. But as time progressed, so did the dreams. It turns out that the woman was turned into a vampire by her brother that she thought was long since dead.
The next two months, the dreams slowed to the point where I only had one or two of them a month, but in replace of the dreams, I started to hear a voice in my head. I ignored it for the first little while, but as time progressed I came to realize that the voice was the same as the lady's that I had been dreaming about. I thought I was going crazy for the longest time until my cousin Bella on my father's side started to date an amazingly hot guy that she fell in love with at first glance. I received so many visions that came of the two of them together that it felt as if I was right there watching their relationship develop.
One day, i got a vision of them talking about him going hunting. I thought nothing of it at first until the voice I had begun to despise started to scream at me how he was a vampire and I had to watch her closely or he could kill her. She explained how she was his singer and how that meant that her blood was more potent to him than anyone else's.
Worried about my cousin, I called her the next day and asked her about her new relationship that had developed since she had moved back to Forks. She wouldn't tell me much about him aside from the fact that he was adopted by Dr. Cullen and his wife and how he had four brothers and sisters.
I would have started to worry about myself if I didn't know that Bella dated a vampire up until her birthday back in September. I saw how at her birthday party she had gotten a paper cut and Edward's amazingly handsome brother went after her, resulting in Edward packing up his family and moving them to Alaska. Once in a while, I would still receive visions of the two of them together, because of I knew that they would be together again in the future and my visions always came true.
When January hit, I saw that Bella was only progressing to get worse in her depression that she was in, so I convinced my Dad to let me move in with Uncle Charlie. He was barely ever home, not to mention that we never really got close, so he was fine with me leaving. Uncle Charlie was only too grateful to have someone to help him with Bella, so he made me a bedroom in their guestroom and I quickly got settled in.
It was not easy to get Bella to open back up and start talking and leaving the house again. I had to jump through several hoops and the first time that I finally got her out of the house with a friend of hers named Jessica, she hops on some stranger's bike and takes off. Jessica was freaking out, but I had already seen that she would be back in just a few minutes. From there, she decided that she wanted to build some motorcycles with a friend of ours that we've known since we were kids named Jacob Black.
Bella and I put some money together and ended up buying three bikes, but they were in despite need of repairs, which was where Jacob came in. He was only too eager to accept and we got along great. But what no one knew was that the second I met Jake, I had a vision of him telling me that a few weeks from then that he was going to change into a shape shifter, or a spirit wolf, as the Quileute's called them. I kept it to myself, knowing that if I spoke up, then I would only be outted about my own ability.
When the time came and he changed, he started avoiding Bella and she began to get really upset. I knew that she was upset, but I also saw that he would come around. It was after a confrontation between the two of them that caused Bella to take off to try to find the meadow that I used to see her and Edward sitting in. Knowing what was about to happen, I insisted that I go with her. I knew that I could always prevent her from going, but I knew that it was important that we go there and that nothing bad would happen and it would also cause Jake to come back around.
At the meadow, a French vampire who Bella called Laurent showed up and spoke of his friend Victoria wanting to get revenge on Edward and the Cullens by killing Bella for her mate's death. He planned on killing the both of us instead, but before he could make his move, the wolves showed up and chased him away and I knew that Laurent wasn't going to make it.
On our way back to the house, Bella tried to explain, but I knew that it was the time that I came clean with her as well. I told her all about the women on my mother's side and my gift of foresight. I told her everything, except about the voice in my head. I figured that that would put her over the edge and have her believe that I was nuts. She surprised me by telling me that Edward's sister, Alice, had a similar gift, but she could only see the future. She also promised that she would keep my gift a secret from everyone, especially Uncle Charlie.
From then on, it was easier to be around Bella when I didn't have to hide how I knew so much from her anymore. We had gotten closer and she told me all about the Cullens and even though I knew a lot already, it was nice to learn the things that my visions never showed me. She always asked if I could see Edward, and I told her about how I saw him traveling around alone a lot. That was the one and only time she asked me to look for him.
A few days later, I saw Jake show up in Bella's room and he apologized, but still couldn't tell her the truth about what happened to him. When he left that night, we spoke about it and I told her that if she couldn't figure it out by morning, that I would help her. Thankfully, she did figure it out, but came to me for confirmation, which I gave to her. We both went down to the reservation after breakfast and confronted the wolves with what we knew. The downside, I had to tell them about my gift as well when they wondered how I knew about everything. Needless to say, they were amazed and excited about the fact that they were close to someone with a gift like I had. I snorted as I thought that they wouldn't be saying that if they were in my shoes.
During this time, I also spoke to the vampire woman in my head a lot. Her name is Didyme and we constantly talked about her past life and what she would do if she was still alive. I recently had a vision about how she died and how her mate is one of the three kings of the vampire world. Marcus and her met five years after her brother Aro and she were turned. The two of them quickly fell in love. She then went to tell me how the last king, Caius, thinks that he had found his mate in a vampire named Athenadora. Didyme told me that one day as she was helping clean-up, she found a letter to Athenadora from the Romanian coven, who was the Volturi's arch enemy. The Volturi didn't like how the Romanians ruled, so they stole the throne from them.
When she confronted Athenadora about it, she lured her into the woods and killed her. She never got the chance tell anyone about the letter, so the plan that her and the Romanians concocted most likely worked. Didyme was killed by her at the same time that I was born, so we think somehow she got pulled in my body, because I was the youngest descendant from her immediate family on my Mother's side.
Earlier today, I had a vision of Bella's friend, Alice, coming to help Charlie, because she thought that Bella had died when she went cliff diving this morning. Alice should be here any minute, so I am now sitting on the steps inside waiting for her to pull up in what looks like a black Mercedes. Bella still isn't home yet, and Charlie is at Harry's house helping his family, because he had died from a heart attack earlier today.
I was broken out of my flashback when I heard the quite roar of an engine parking across the street.
I got to my feet and brushed off my pants before fixing my shirt and started walking down the remaining stairs. As soon as I reached the front door there is a soft knock, I opened the door and came face to face with one, Alice Cullen.
"Alice Cullen, I thought you would be here sooner." I said with a small grin as I spoke.
"Who are you and how do you know my name?" She asked confused. I could tell that she was expecting me, but hid it so that I wouldn't think anything of it.
"I'm Bella's cousin, Faith Swan. Why don't you come on in, we have a lot to talk about." I tell her opening up the door further so that she can squeeze inside and then slowly lead her in to the living room.
"I was expecting you and I know exactly why you're here. Also, in a few days' time, you will be rushing to Italy with Bella and you need to bring me along with you when you go."
"What are you talking about?" She asked perplexed. "Bella is dead! She jumped off of a cliff."
"You will see in time." I smirked. "For now, just promise me that you will take me with you two when you leave. For the time being, there is a shower calling my name, so I shall see you tomorrow." I winked and quickly made my way up the stairs to get to the shower.
Once I got out, I wrapped myself in a fluffy, white towel and walked out into the hallway. I could faintly hear Bella and Alice talking and I smiled at the happiness I could hear in my cousin's voice. I made it to my room and shut the door behind me before going through my drawers for a pair of sweats. As soon as my PJ's were on, I jumped into my bed and fell asleep.
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I slowly opened my eyes as I began waking up from my dream world. As I get out of bed, I began to think about the dream that I had last night. It was the first night that Marcus and Didyme met.
"That was the best night of my life." Didyme's words made me smile. "The only thing that even closely compared to it was when he asked me to marry him."
"How did he ask you?"
"It was Christmas day and we were sitting in the castle gardens together. Surprisingly, there was snow on the ground making it look like billions and billions of diamonds covering every surface. The sun was starting to come up and I can still remember the way that it shined off the snow and how we were sending small rainbow patterns everywhere. I went to get up to go inside when he stopped me before I could get to the door. He got on his knee and told me that the loved me with all of his heart and if I did not tell him yes, then he didn't know how he would make it until morning. Venom coated my eyes and I was so speechless that I couldn't make myself answer him, so I nodded my head as I smiled at him before he pulled me down for a heart-wrenching kiss."
I couldn't help but to smile as I heard this. I hoped that one day I would have that kind of love with someone.
The first thing I do when I get up from a dream like this is retrieve my journal from my desk drawer. It was a black, leather bound journal with my name on the cover. It was just like the three that my mom left me when she died.
Knowing that I had to get my day started, I began to write.
March 12, 2011
Last night, I had a vision about the night Marcus and Didyme first met. It was so odd. I could even smell and feel everything around me like I was truly there.
She was out hunting when she came upon a drunk man who was stumbling down an old alley way. She quietly followed after him while she waited in the shadows; waiting for the right moment to strike.
Before she could pounce, another vampire jumped from above and pinned him to a nearby wall. The new vampire had his shiny black hair pulled up into a pony tail while he was dressed in all black and he towered over the now shaking drunk.
He was about to bite into the man, but stopped at the last second and peered over at Didyme as she continued to watch, even against her instincts that told her that this was dangerous. From what she has told me in the past, when a vampire is in hunting mode, they become animalistic and feral. They are also very territorial over their kills.
As soon as the vampire's ruby eyes began staring intensely into hers, she knew in her heart that she would never be in danger in regards to him. He was her other half, her true mate.
He seemed to snap out of it as he received a kick from the drunk who was still pinned to the wall. The kick, of course, had no effect of the vampire, but it brought him back to himself.
"Would you do me the honor of sharing this meal with me tonight, my lady?" He asked politely as he gestured to the man.
Didyme gave him a shy smile and nodded before she approached the two of them and sunk her teeth in to their prey.
Once the two of them were finished, they started to talk and get to know each other. She found out that he was traveling with his brother in venom, Caius. They spoke all throughout the night and before they knew it, the sun was beginning to rise across the horizon. Knowing that they had to part ways, they made plans to meet the next night in the same ally that they had met in the night before so that they could introduce their brothers to each other and make plans for the future ahead of them.
Once I finished writing, I put my black pen down and closed my journal.
I made my way to my closet and rummaged through it for an outfit to wear for the day and settled with a pair of jeans and a maroon long sleeved V neck shirt with a thick black belt that had a large, round, silver buckle in the center and threw on a pair of black knee-length boots that had a three inch heal. I pulled my hair half up and half down, leaving my curls falling down to ¾ of the way down my back. I never wore much make-up, believing that it took away from one's natural beauty, so I stuck with a small amount of eye-liner and mascara with a little bit of clear lip gloss.
Once I was dressed, I reached for my journal and placed it back in my desk drawer before I made my bed and headed out of my room.
As I walked down the stairs, I began to smell bacon and eggs cooking, causing me to smile. When I reach the kitchen, I was surprised to find Alice standing there with a plate waiting at the table for me. My stomach growled at the sight and smell and I gave her a small, grateful smile.
"You didn't have to; I could have done it myself. I know you don't eat like we do." I told her as I took a seat at the table behind the full plate.
"I know, but I got bored and a girl can only go through Bella's closet so many times before going insane." Alice answered with a shrug and a smile while she poured me a glass of orange juice.
"Well, tonight if you get bored, I give you permission to go through mine." I chuckled and Alice eyes lit up with delight at the idea.
We fell into a silence as I ate my breakfast and once I was done, I got up and washed my dishes in the sink before taking a dish towel and drying them off and putting them on the rack.
"So, Faith, if you don't mind me asking, how do you know what I am?" Alice asked a bit uncomfortable.
"Well, even if I didn't know for sure, I would know you're clearly not 100% normal." I said with a laugh before I elaborated. "I had a vision of Bella finding out about you guys back before her and Edward started dating."
"You have visions?" She asked perking up with a look of excitement on her pretty face.
"Well, they run in my family on my mother's, as far as I know. From what I have read and what my mother told me, it started with my great Aunt Mary. When she told her parents about them, they sent her to an asylum in Mississippi where they lived. She died there a year later. Not long after that my Grandmother, Cynthia, started to get visions as well. She was afraid that if her parents found out that they would do the same thing to her as they did Mary, so she kept it a secret until her daughter, my mom, confessed to her that she could see visions the future as well." I paused at this part of the story.
"My mom went crazy because of the visions. One day after she had a vision, she tried to kill herself. Whatever she saw had to be bad if she couldn't stand to see it happen. She remained hospitalized until I was born, where she died in child birth, so I never got to meet her, but she did leave diaries for me to read through so that I could understand for when I started getting visions. The only difference that I found between me and the other women in my family is that I can see the past and the present as well as the future." I finished in a small voice.
"Your grandmother, was her maiden name Brandon?" Alice asked with a curiosity that was coated with excitement.
"I think so, why?" I asked as a big smile lit up her face.
Alice jumped up and just about squeezed the life out of me in a bear hug. "I can't believe it! I have a great niece, this is so exciting! Emmett is going to flip when he finds out that I am related to you and Bella as well through marriage! I can't wait to tell everyone! I've been looking for you ever since I learned about my human life last spring!"
"Alice, can't breathe." I wheezed out when she quit rambling.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I forgot you were human for minute there." Alice said as she let me go. "Most humans don't have special gifts like us."
"What did you mean when you called me your great niece?" I asked as I straightened out my shirt from the monstrous hug she gave me.
"Well, before I was changed, I learned that my name was Mary Alice Brandon. I'm your great aunt! I was the one who was in the asylum, but I didn't die! The man who changed me staged my death so that he could change me in order to save my life from another vampire. Oh, I can't wait to tell Jasper! I don't know how I didn't see it before; you look so much like my sister, Cynthia." Alice kept rambling for a few more minutes until she heard Charlie getting up.
She swiftly made him some food before he even got down the stairs. "So, Faith, what is your favorite color? Movie? Animal? Book? Pretty much anything else you can think of. I want to learn as much about you as I can!"
"Umm, red or black, Snow White and the Huntsman, dog, anything fiction, going shopping for jewelry, getting a surprise, uhh…I'm not sure what else there is. Now may I ask what is with all these questions?"
"Well, now that I know that you are my niece, I need to find out what you like and dislike so that I can buy you something for all of the holidays and birthdays I have missed. Oh no, I can't believe I didn't ask you when your birthday is!" Alice was like a ball of energy about to explode.
"Calm down. I don't turn 18 for two more months on May 7th." I said with a laugh as Charlie walked down the stairs.
"What are you two doing up so early?" Charlie asked, as Alice set his plate down on the table for him.
"Couldn't sleep any longer." Alice said with a small laugh.
"Come on, Uncle Charlie. You know I'm always up at the crack of dawn." I said with a smile and a shrug.
After talking to Alice and Charlie for a little while longer I went up to my room to finish getting ready for the day. I brushed my teeth and quickly packed a small bag for myself and Bella after she went down for breakfast so that we would have clothes to wear for when we were in Italy. I still wasn't sure what would bring us there or why, but I knew that we would be going, because I saw us there with me walking away with Aro and Marcus to speak to them privately.
Once I was finished, I got my laptop out and start working on my online college class since I graduated high school a year early. I sat there for about three and a half hours doing school work and once I was done, I went downstairs and had a quick lunch and made a list of things we needed to get while Bella was at school. I asked Alice if she wanted to come, but she said that she had some things to get done at their house here in Forks, so I said good-bye and got in my car and went to the store.
I got everything on my list fairly quickly, but as I was paying for my things, the cashier tried hitting on me. I recognized him as one of Bella's friends from school, so I tried to be as polite as I could while I hurried him along as he bagged my things. I handed him the money and didn't even bother grabbing the receipt as I sped-walked to my large, silver Hummer.
I loaded all the bags into the car before hopping in the driver's side and started the ignition before throwing the car in to gear. I put my hand on the passenger seat's head rest as I looked behind me while I carefully backed out of the parking spot. I then threw the car in to drive as I hit the gas and drove out on to the main road that took me back to the house.
Once I pulled up, I saw that Bella's truck was in the driveway, meaning she was home from school. Both her and Alice came out and gave me a hand unloading the bags and taking everything inside. From there, they helped me put everything away, and when I went to go make dinner, Bella stopped me and said that I had done enough and she would do it. I smiled gratefully and took a seat next to Alice at the kitchen table, as Bella made dinner. I let my mind wander to everything I learned about Alice today.
"Alice, I have something I think you would like back." I told her once I had come out of my thoughts.
"What are you talking about?" She asked me with confusion written all over her face.
"Hold on, I'll go get it." I said cryptically getting up from my seat.
I ran up to my room, opening the chest at the foot of my bed and pulled out four leather-bound journals. Taking the two from the bottom of the stack, I put the others back in their proper place and slowly walked back down the stairs.
Alice was still sitting where I left her when I re-entered the kitchen. After I took my seat, I lay the journals flat on the table in front of her.
"These are your sister's and your journals. I hope you don't mind, but my mom left them to me and I read them. They explained a lot to me about my visions and without them I would have gone crazy."
She looked at them with baited breath and ran her hand over the cover of one of the journals before looking up at me with a shaky smile.
"This is the best thing that you could have ever given me." Alice's eyes filled with tears that would never fall while she started tracing the letters of her sister's name with the tip of her finger. "When I was changed, I woke up with no recollection of my human life. All that I had was the clothes on my back and a vision in my head of Jasper calling me Alice."
"These are not gifts; they are yours and always were. I am just returning them to who they belong to." Alice pulled me into the tightest hug that I had ever received. It squeezed the breath out of me, though I knew that this wasn't even her using her full strength.
"I don't know how I will ever thank you." Alice said in barley over a whisper.
"You don't need to." I told her. "It's just nice to have more of my mother's family back."
way back here from her old house and luckily, Charlie didn't suspect a thing. After I finished, I excused myself to my room and wrote in my journal about my day until I fell into a peaceful sleep.
A/N: So, what did everyone think? Luckystar125 wrote the story line and I made it into the chapter that you've just read! Read and Review!
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