When two worlds collide
Chapter One – New Pale Faces
The sun and the beautiful blue sky was hidden behind the tall trees around the cottage, birds sang from somewhere high up, and there was a nice cool breeze flowing through the area. Everything was calm and gentle on this cool summer's day. They had gone through days of blazing sun which was unusual for forks, and the Cullen's had to stay home and out of the sunlight. Today was the coldest so far, but even then the sun was bright and blinding.
Mr and Mrs Cullen sat outside their cottage while Renesmee; their daughter, climbed a tree. Bella got really worried about her daughter climbing the trees at first, but Renesmee proved to be a good little climber, and Edward had said how she wasn't born like Bella, and it was in her nature to act like a vampire would from a young age, basically saying that she was perfectly safe and her reactions were quick enough if she would accidently slip from a branch. Of course it was only natural for a mother to worry for her child.
Edward had a pale arm wrapped around his wife's shoulders, and her head lay softly on his chest as they sat on a white bench. They looked up as their daughter waved at them, and then jumped from one tree to another successfully. Bella gasped, and then Edward stroked her arm to keep her calm.
"Bella, What if I told you we have to move?" Edward broke the silence, but he spoke quietly in her ear. Bella brought up her head and sat straight, she looked at Edward but said nothing. "We've been here far too long, people started to notice long ago that we haven't aged" He was obviously talking about the rest of the Cullen clan, No one would have noticed any difference in Bella's appearance, unless they looked into her eyes. She was a pale girl anyway, she may be a little lighter these days, but it was just enough change for it to fly over people's heads. No one had seen them for a while though; if they did they would wonder why she suddenly has a child that looks around ten. No, they kept to themselves. Bella ran into Jessica two months back, but they only talked for five minutes as Jessica had to leave.
"But, what about Charlie?" She asked.
"He can visit whenever he likes now that he knows everything" It had came quite the shock to Mr Swan to find out everything, but after seeing Jacob turn into a Wolf, nothing seemed impossible. "But it has to happen Bella, we're treading on thin ice" She nodded and held her husband's hands in hers, rubbing the pads of her thumbs against the back of his hand. "It will have to be quite far from here, somewhere where no one could possibly run into us, somewhere that is cold and that doesn't see a lot of sun. Carlisle suggested maybe England?"
Two days later the Cullen's were all packed up and ready to go. They would move back to forks in a few decades when everyone that knows them are dead. Everyone but Bella and Renesmee were used to this and didn't hold much thought on the matter. Bella however needed time to say goodbye to her friends and her dad Charlie. Edward took her to see them all before their departure.
"Dad today's the day I leave" Bella said as she stood in front of him while he watched TV. She had appeared there so suddenly it made Charlie jump.
"Bella you really need to stop doing that" He got up and switched off the football. "What time?" He asked hoping he still had her for a few more hours.
"In a few minutes" She looked to Edward and Renesmee, and he understood right away.
"I'll give you a moment alone" He grabbed his daughters hand and went outside.
Charlie walked into the kitchen to get another beer can, and then sat at the table to clean his gun. "So what part of England will you be moving to?"
"Just outside London, it's not too busy where we're going apparently, Carlisle spent time there once before."
"And I have to visit there? You can't come here, correct?"
"That's correct" Bella stood with her hands in her pockets, just wanting to give her dad a goodbye hug. She already missed him and she hadn't even left yet.
"Right" He stood up and faced her. "This is goodbye for now then" She went in to hug her father tight. "It's like losing you all over again"
"You're not losing me" Bella mumbled into her father's sweater.
"But you seem to be making a habit of leaving forks" He didn't let her go.
"But I always came back"
"You won't this time" There was a slight sadness in his voice and Bella didn't know how to respond. It was true, she wasn't going to be back again in Charlie's life time.
Edward came to the door "It's time to go Bella."
Charlie let go of his daughter and looked her in the eye "Just be careful"
"Always am" She smiled before leaving him standing there alone, and walking out of the door. She didn't want to say Goodbye because she was sure Charlie would visit her, and she didn't want it feeling like that was going to be the last time she saw him.
The Cullen's arrived at their new home for the next few years. It was large and open like the one in Forks, but it had dark wood and looked very wintery and homely. It was a little smaller than their last too, not by much but it was noticeable. Again just like the one in Forks, it was surrounded by tall trees and stood alone, quite far from any of the other houses.
Carlisle was right, England was very cold. It would see the sun at times but it was mostly cloudy and rainy; perfect for a vampire wanting to keep out of the sun. Everyone made their selves at home, and Bella had a lot of fun decorating Renesmee's room for the first couple of days.
After four days stuck in the house, Carlisle had an idea. "We should go out and make ourselves known to everyone in the area"
The nine Cullen's agreed it was a good idea to get known around the small town, they didn't want to stand out more than they already did and have people wonder why they never leave the house. Carlisle had managed to get a job very quickly at a small hospital just outside of town, it helped that on his records he was shown as a very smart Doctor with loads of experience, but a few hundred years gave you all that knowledge. The family all sat in the corner of a café round two tables pushed together, so they could all fit round.
"We need to discuss schools" Esmee said as everyone rolled their eyes at another few years of high school. "The age to leave a high school here is 16, meaning you all look much too old to start a few years down from that."
"So we have to be 16 year olds and go to school for a year?" Emmett quietly asked.
"No you don't"
Edward read his mothers thoughts. "I agree, you're right, with me and Bella having a child that looks 10 it won't be possible" Everyone else looked at him and realised he read Esmee's thoughts.
"Yes, so you will have to be older this time around, get jobs and all" She thought the family would moan, but they all looked rather happy to move on from school for once. "However we need to sort out a school for Renesmee" She said smiling at the little girl sat beside her mother.
"She will go to primary school and she starts next week" Carlisle finished. Edward and Bella were happy with the idea and nodded their heads.
Hermione walked into 'Wendy's Little Café' with her fiancé Ron and her best friend Harry. Harry promised to help her and Ron with the wedding plans, and offered to buy them a coffee and a slice of cake while they talked about it.
"I want the colour red to be involved with the theme" Hermione said looking through some wedding books. "It's the Gryffindor house colours and seeing as it was a big part of my life…" She looked at Ron "And it's where this all started, I want to include it"
"Sounds alright to me" Ron smiled at his future wife.
"I still want a white dress though, and I want it in a church" She smiled "And no magic can be used, or any unexplainable things, My muggle family friends will be there and we don't want to scare them away or anything."
"Can I take a look at the flower book?" Ron asked.
"Sure" Hermione passed it to him and took a sip of her drink.
"Ron Weasley wanting to look at flowers, never thought I'd see the day. Nice to know you have a feminine side though" Harry joked. Ron hit him on the arm gently.
"It's my wedding day; I want it to be perfect"
While the boys were discussing flowers and other ideas they had, Hermione scanned the room while drinking her tea. She refused on Harry buying her a slice of cake because she was on a mini diet, so she would look slim and perfect on her big day. She saw a big group of people in the corner that she hadn't seen before; they must be new in town because Ron and herself bought a house here a year ago and have never seen the people's faces before. It was a small town so they caught her eye.
The first thing she noticed was how pale they all were, they must have come from somewhere else that was cold with no sun. Hermione noticed she was staring and quickly went to look away, but she saw a little girl looking at her so she caught eyes with the young pale face and noticed the colour of her eyes. They were orange in colour and looked very different from any others she had ever seen.
She put two and two together. Pale faces, strange bright eyes… "They're Vampires" She whispered more to herself than anyone else. She kept her eyes on the pale faces, but the girl had looked away.
"What?" Ron and Harry said together.
Hermione shook her head and realised she said it out loud and came back down to earth. "Look at their skin, and their eyes" She sighed "They're normally red" She said the last bit to herself, as if trying to work it out.
"Again, what?" Ron asked looking utterly confused.
"Honestly didn't you two ever listen in class?" Hermione said in annoyance.
"Nope, afraid not" Ron answered honestly and casually digging into his slice of chocolate cake.
Harry looked at his friend in thought "I remember some things, but Mione, they're sat in a muggle café and not one of them has lashed out to eat someone. I thought the smell of blood was strong to them? I thought they couldn't control their hunger?"
"They can but it's very hard, and they don't actually eat people, they just bite and suck the blood" She explained. Ron scrunched up his eyes, as if he was picturing it and it bothered him. "But I know, it's strange, we will have to look more into this one"
"Couldn't we have a break just for 5 minutes? Why do we always need to solve things huh? It's what leads us into trouble." Ron said looking almost upset, but another bite of cake soon lifted his mood.
Hermione didn't know Edward was listening to her thoughts. He knew she weren't going to stop till she got some answers.
The Cullen's got up to leave, as the thin brown haired girl got up and held the little girls hand; the trio were left jaw dropped. All three of them quickly noticed the same thing and turned to look at each other in shock. "Is that-?" Harry asked almost speechless.
"It can't be" Hermione replied, taking another glance at the guy that was sitting behind the women.
"It looks like it" Ron added.
"He's dead though" Hermione stated the obvious, and the boys looked at the pale family as they stood by their table talking. "No one can come back to life Harry" She saw the look on her friends face. He missed Cedric Diggory a lot… and that was who they just thought they saw. The pale man looked exactly like the ex-Hogwarts-Tri wizard-Champion, apart from his bright eyes and pale skin.
"They can escape it though" Ron looked to Harry, he was obviously on about how his best friend escaped death twice.
"Yes, but we saw him dead, Harry saw him get killed" Harry looked down at his friends words, remembering that horrid time. "Sorry Harry"
"Have you read anything in any of your books about someone dying and coming back as a vampire?" Ron asked.
"Well there is something" The two boys looked hopeful at Hermione as she whispered so the family couldn't hear.
"Well…"
"Some vampires turn humans just as they are reaching death, you know, so they can live a life still, and a very long one at that" She furrowed her eyebrows. "But the thing is, we saw Cedric was dead, no Vampire could have changed him"
The pale family started to move to the door. Hermione had to think quickly; she didn't want to lose them when there were still things to be answered and solved. If this family were planning to make this little town their meal, Hermione needed to stop them. But she also needed to figure out if this man was the ex Hogwarts student. Hermione pulled out her wand and cast a wordless spell at the Cedric look alike underneath the table before they exited the café and walked down the street.
"What was that?" Harry asked.
Hermione picked out a glass vial from her extendable charmed bag, and puts a white light into it with her wand beside the table so no muggle could see, but the two wizards could. "When the orb turns red it means he's close. If we wish to find him, we just need to place it once more on the tip of the wand and cast it into an open space, then we just follow it"
"Genius" Ron said, and Harry smiled and nodded, indicating he understood and liked the idea.
The whole time the Cullen's were in the café, and the whole time Edward was tuning into the brown haired girls thoughts, he had no idea she was a witch. So he thought as long as they try to stay away from her as much as possible, she wouldn't be silly enough to walk up to them and stick her nose into their business. He did wonder though how she knew they were vampires, or how she even knew vampires existed, but he thought she was certainly a regular human as he heard and smelt her blood pumping through her veins, and her heart beating, she just knew too much. He thought to discuss the matter with Carlisle later.