Author's note: This story is taking place during Bella and Edward's senior year at Forks High School. Pretend New Moon/Jacob never happened. This story happens in February, a few months before their graduation. Honestly, it's 4:23 AM right now, and I just had to get this idea down. I know how the story will go, I know how it will end, and I have some cute ideas for the actual middle part of the story.
Also, I honestly think that this first chapter is absolute rubbish, but I promise IT WILL GET BETTER and it definitely won't be this serious throughout the whole thing! I just had to waste a lot of time setting up the plot to let you guys know what's going on with everything.
I was left alone for a few days. Edward and the rest of his family had gone hunting on Wednesday, and decided to make it an extended trip until Sunday night because there was to be a rare, few-day-long sunny streak in Forks. Charlie took off from work Friday to go fishing for a long weekend with Billy Black and Sue Clearwater, so he left Thursday afternoon with them. I was prepared for an uneventful, slow weekend by myself full of homework, TV, and long naps. Which was why I found it so strange that Alice was calling me at 2:30 AM on Friday morning.
"Hello?" I answered groggily.
"Bella!" Alice screamed into the phone. My eardrums lamented the unwanted loudness in the middle of my slumber.
"What's up, Alice?" I tried to keep my patience.
She sounded extremely distraught and hurried. "Meet us at our house immediately! Something's happened to Edward. We'll explain when you get here. Just come!" And with that, she hung up.
Something happened? To my Edward? I couldn't imagine what… he'd always made it a point to remind me how virtually indestructible he was. He couldn't have gotten hurt by any of the animals he was hunting… right? I started to panic, milling over ridiculous, yet completely horrible scenarios, most of which included Edward dying. I became frustrated at my human slowness and clumsiness. Although I was in a rush, I made sure to brush my teeth quickly before running out the door and into my truck.
As fast as my legs would allow me, I ran inside the Cullen household as soon as I stumbled out of my truck. I burst in through the door, not knowing where to look first.
"Where's Edward? Is he okay? What do you mean, something happened to him?" I rattled off my questions to no one in particular. I just needed answers. Carlisle appeared in front of me first in the kitchen.
"Bella, I'm glad you're here. Something extremely strange happened, and none of us have seen anything like it. Alice is seeing that everything will turn out alright, but it is still worrisome." Carlisle's vague description was driving me crazy. I needed answers, and I needed them now!
"But what do you mean? Tell me what happened!" I shouted frantically. Carlisle put his hands on my shoulders to calm me before speaking.
"While we were hunting, we came across another vampire," he began. Oh no. Another vampire? Did he hurt my Edward? Tears welled up in my eyes and I felt completely helpless. "No, no! Do not cry, my dear! Edward will be okay. Just let me explain." Carlisle said soothingly. I looked up at him, waiting for an explanation.
"This vampire… she told us that she had a very special, powerful ability. Naturally curious, we wanted to see what it was. She was so enthralling! She spoke only Arabic, which we all know due to our extended years of life, and she told us that she was about six thousand years old! It was incredible. After she told us that she would show us her gift, she ran to Edward, bit his neck, and then ran away faster than any of us could catch her. Some of us could have ran after her, I suppose, but Edward was in such pain, and it was such a shocking situation, we only came to his aid," Carlisle explained to me with a wondrous look in his eyes.
So someone bit my Edward? My angel, who didn't do anything wrong… he was just attacked? Before I could control myself, tears were spilling down my face and I sat down on the ground, feeling defeated. There was nothing I could do to protect my love from another vampire. Why wouldn't he just change me, goddammit? He was so cocky and positive that nothing could hurt him. I started to feel angry then. Well, screw you, Edward! You're probably dead now! If you had changed me a year ago, this wouldn't have happened! My mental angry rant towards Edward was interrupted by Carlisle picking me up and taking me upstairs to Edward's room. We stayed outside the door.
"You see," Carlisle spoke through my crying, "Alice's visions have been very helpful to us. I suppose that that vampire's ability was to change vampires back into humans. Edward is going through the change again, only in reverse! How incredible, right? But he will be alright, no need to worry. There, there," he rubbed my head and rocked me back and forth.
"So, he's going to be human again?" I asked, bewildered. Never in a million years did I think that this day would come! Edward and I being humans together? My mind quickly scanned through all of the possibilities; us getting ice cream together, us going to the beach together, us actually making love to each other…
"Breathe, Bella!" Carlisle laughed. I blushed and partially hid my face from him. It was always embarrassing that when I thought about Edward, and it had physical effects on me. But what made it ten times worse was the fact that him and his entire family could tell when my heart accelerated or when my breathing was uneven.
"So, what does this mean, then?" I asked.
"Well, Alice sees that he'll need three days to make the full transformation, just like becoming a vampire from being human. I suppose it will be up to you two to decide what you want to do," his voice got lower then. "Edward now has an opportunity that I never dreamed any of us would ever have. But we won't burden him with that in a few days. I would like for all of us to let him adjust to his new state of being. You'll help him, won't you Bella?" he asked me with wide eyes.
"Of course!" I answered immediately. "I'll love Edward no matter what he is. I'm interested to see, though…" I trailed off. My head swam with overwhelming ideas. His green eyes that I'd always heard about! I couldn't wait to see those. And possibly Edward with some scruff? That would be delicious. I struggled to keep my body steady and looked into Carlisle's eyes again.
"I'm just excited to see him as a human, that's all," I finished. Carlisle chuckled as Alice danced into the hallway where we were standing. She looked extremely excited, and I was sure that my expression matched hers.
"You can stay here for the rest of the night, Bella! I'll drive you to school in the morning and pick you up afterwards, too!" I was fine with this idea, until I remembered that it would probably mean "Bella Barbie: Too-early-in-the-damn-morning-for-this-shit" edition.
Before I could even set my face to a disapproving expression to convey my distaste for Alice's plans, she spoke again. "You'll let me do it after I feed you an amazing egg breakfast sandwich! And then I…" She stared off into the distance then, having a vision I guessed.
"Carlisle," she turned to him, "Edward will wake up in the state that he was in just before you changed him. His Spanish Influenza is still going to be in full force," I gasped, but she continued. "He'll wake up on Monday at around seven in the morning. If you have him in the hospital by the time he wakes up, he'll be fine. Modern medicine is all he needs!"
Carlisle nodded. "Thank you, Alice. I'll be sure to do that. Now please, let Bella rest. It's already five, she'll need to get up for school in about two hours." With that, Alice nodded and led me to the living room.
I crashed on the Cullens' couch immediately. I hadn't realized how tired I was! These pillows were sweet relief. The only thing I remembered before sleep took over me entirely was Alice taking my shoes off for me.
So, what did you think? Please review! And if you like the idea of this story then stick by me! I have no idea how long it'll take me to get the whole thing done, but hopefully not too long. It will have quite a few chapters – not sure how many yet, though. Well, thanks for reading (if you did)!