Chapter 1: Reunions
My breath never sped up even though I was running at a pace far faster than a human ever could. The wind whipped through my long bronze hair sending it curling out behind me and I felt exhiliration flood through me as I ran. In my opinion this was one of the best things about being an immortal vampire, the sure speed at which I was able to run. Suddenly I stopped, the scent of an unknown vampire reaching my nostrils. She was fairly tall but not as tall as me; she was maybe 5'7" while I'm 5'9". Her hair was long, down to her waist, and a bright strawberry blonde. The most noticable thing about her was that her eyes were a sort of butterscotch colour just like mine; this was very unusual for a vampire, most vampires have blood red eyes when their not 'thirsty' but when they're a butterscotch colour it shows that they don't drink human blood. "Hello young one. What's your name?" She asked , while I stood a cautious distance away. "Elizabeth Masen." I replied slowly. "My name is Tanya. I won't hurt you, why don't you come with me to my home Elizabeth? There are more of us there and I'm sure that all of them will be just as interested in your story as I am." Tanya smiled. Her smile and verbal reassurance relaxed me and I nodded before following her back to a log cabin. "Just in here." She smiled kindly. We walked into a large and cheery room with a roaring fire in a fireplace. Sat on a two-seater sofa were two dark-haired vampires, one male and one female, and a tall male vampire with sandy hair was sat in an armchair with a blonde female vampire sat on his lap. "Everyone, this is Ezizabeth." Tanya said softly. "Elizabeth, this is Carmen and Eleazar" she gestured towards the dark-haired vampires, "And Kate and Garrett." She gestured to the other two.
Later on I was sat with them in the same bright room. "Why don't you tell us your story Elizabeth?" Kate asked gently. "Ok. But I prefer being called Lizzie, Elizabeth was my mother." I nodded. "Sorry." She apologised. "Don't worry, you didn't know." I smiled. I was silent for a few moments then and I guessed the others thought that I didn't want to talk about my past, but finally I spoke.
"I was born in Chicago in 1901, the eldest of twins. My name was Elizabeth Marie Masen, I was named after my mother while my twin brother was named after our father. Just weeks before my seventeenth birthday I was abducted. I don't know who by, all I know was that it was a man. For some reason he kept me, until shortly after my eighteenth birthday. It was then that he changed me. The agony was almost unbearable but three days later I opened my eyes and saw that I was a vampire. He then set me free. As soon as I could I went to try and find my family, I wasn't going to talk to them face to face, I just wanted to know where they were so that I could write to them. But they'd caught the Spanish Influenza just months before my birthday. All of them had died; my father, mother and brother. And they died thinking that I was dead. The pain of learning that my twin was dead was far worse than the pain of the venom spreading through my veins. We'd always had a strong bond, he was my best friend." I was silent again for a few seconds. Kate, Carmen and Tanya looked as if they'd be crying if they could. I signed before continuing with my story. "After I'd learned of their deaths I began wandering on my own. It wasn't long before I realised that I didn't want to hurt humans so I began hunting animals instead. Since I lost my entire family I've been alone."
They were silent for a while after I finished, almost mulling over what I'd said. "What was your brother's name?" Tanya asked finally. "Edward. You know, today would have been our birthday." I sighed. I always made me sad to think of him. "I think we should take a trip to see some friends of ours." She said slyly but I paid it no attentin. Even after all this time the pain of losing my brother was still raw.
The trip took around three hours, I was riding with Kate, Garrett and Tanya in Tanya's black jeep while Carmen and Eleazar used Eleazar's Spyder Spyker. We pulled up outside a large white Victorian style house and walked slowly to the door. It opened as we reached it and stood in it was a tall vampire with light blonde hair. "Hello Tanya, Kate, Garrett, Carmen, Eleazar. Who's this?" He smiled. "Hello Carlisle. This is Lizzie." Tanya replied. "Hello Lizzie, I'm Carlisle. Please come in, all of you." He smiled again. I was soon sat on a sofa in a large living area opposite the rest of Carlisle's family. "This is my wife, Esme" He smiled, placing his hand softly on the shoulder of a vampire with caramel coloured shoulder-length hair. "This is Emmet and Rosalie." He gestured towards a huge bear-like vampire and a real beauty of a vampire. "Alice and Jasper." He smiled finally, pointing at a small pixie-like vampire with spikey dark hair and a tall vampire with curly blonde hair. "The rest of the family will be here soon." Carlisle smiled, looking at Alice. "They'll be a few seconds." She smiled. I looked at her curiously. "I can see the future." She explained. "Oh, cool!" I smiled.
The door opened and in walked three more vampires, a werewolf, a human and something else. "The werewolf is Jacob, the little girl is my Renesmee, the vampire with brown hair is the latest addition to our family: Seto Kaiba, the human is his younger brother Mokuba and the tall vampire holding Renesmee's hand is Bella, her mother." Carlisle explained. "Ah, so Renesmee is part vampire. That's why her scent is different." I smiled. They looked surprised that I'd picked it up so quickly. "And finally we have..." Carlisle began but he stopped as both me and the last vampire froze. "Edward?" I gasped. I couldn't believe that my brother wasn't dead. "Lizzie!" He gasped back. In a flash I was hugging him. "What hapened to you?" He asked. "Just before our birthday I was abducted. After I turned eighteen my abducter bit me and changed me. I though you were dead!" I said in tearless sobs. For a moment it was like we were kids again, Edward comforting me when I was upset again. Finally I calmed down enough to notice something that hadn't ocured to me before.
"How come Renesmee is half human but Bella is her mother?" I asked confused, after all, everyone knew that female vampires can't have children. "Renesmee is my daughter, Bella gave birth to her when she was still human." Edward explained. "Awwww! So I'm an Aunt?" I grinned. "Yep." He said, laughing. "To think, my little brother's a daddy!" I giggled. "That's possibly because I'm more mature than you." He teased. "So?" I said, sticking my tongue out at him. "Surely you should be more mature than me, considering the fact that you're older." He grinned. I stuck my tongue out at him again. "Right, Bella, Lizzie, upstairs. We have to sort out your outfits!" Alice said with a shudder at our clothes. "Is there any point arguing?" Bella sighed. "Nope." Alice said firmly. Sighing Bella made her way upstairs while Alice pushed me up. She forced us both into a closet that was bigger than her bedroom. "Right, now Bella why don't you try this." Alice said, handing her a deep blue cocktail dress made out of satin and a pair of silver stilettos. Then she turned to me. "I think red might look nice on you. Try this." She handed me a scarlet silk dress that reached my knees. "Now for shoes..." She murmered wandering over to a rack of shoes that was basically a whole wall. "Don't mind Alice. She's never happy unless she's dressing someone up." Bella smiled. I could see that Alice heard that and looked slightly hurt. "Thanks." I smiled back.
Bella and I got on really well and we found that we had a lot in common, like our love of reading. Esme showed me to an empty room at the top of the house. "You can have this room dear, just tell me what you want it to look like." She smiled. "You don't have to do that for me!" I gasped. "But I want to." She smiled pulling me into a gentle hug. For the first time in as long as I could remember I felt part of a family.