The Human Vampire

Chapter 1 – Not Quite Complete Yet

'Cam, Millie, Alex, and Aaiden.' I screamed up the stairs of our mansion to my oldest children. 'Get your sleepy butts down these stairs. NOW!'

I then waited and watched as Cameron appeared in front of me and as Alexandra and Aaiden floated down the flights of stairs. Camille on the other hand was harder to wake up. I ran up the stairs as fast as I could and shook her until my back hurt.

'Camille, sweetie. Don't make me get your uncle down here because you know I will.' I used the same threat every morning and every morning, it worked. It had started when she was 10 and had begun growing very fast, mentally and physically. Her teenage-ness kicked in and she could now stay in bed all day if she could. She reculantly got out of bed and got dressed vampire speed while I watched her stroking my now very pregnant stomach.

We went down the stairs to the kitchen and I found my 6 other children sitting at the table talking. Millie sat down next to Sarah and told her to turn around so that she could do her hair. Brandon, Alex and Aaiden were talking about what video games they would get for Hanukkah while Cameron, the gentle one was holding Gabriel on his lap, teaching him a song. Edward, my husband of 16 years, sat down beside me and kissed me on the cheek then on the right side of my stomach, the left side and the top. We were expecting triplets any time now. We didn't want to know their gender yet because we wanted it to be a surprise.

He then announced that he would be taking Cam, Millie, Alex and Aaiden to school and that I would take Brandon and Sarah. We left the house and we were off. I dropped Brandon off in his third grade class, the Sarah in her first grade class all the while holding Gabe I was then back home feeding my son. He ate all his food and then he told me (with his power of persuasion) to go and get photo albums because he wanted to see his sibling hen they were young. I went and got the 7 'child albums', one for each child.

We started with Camille's. On the front of the pink album in silver lettering, was written 'Camille Daliyah Masen Cullen'. I then let my mind drift to the day I found out I was pregnant…

FLASHBACK

I looked at the stick in front of me sitting innocently on the counter. That little pink plus sign that shocked me and my husband. Vampires didn't get pregnant. I had gotten changed the day after my wedding. I had the strength and the speed and the eyes to prove it. It just wasn't right. But then again, vampires didn't puke or have their period or get hungry or go to the bathroom. But apparently, I did. I was having a child.

I shook Edward out of his trance and told him we had to go and see his father, Carlisle. We knocked on the door and waited. He told us to come in and asked us what he could do for us.

'Is it possible for vampires to have human needs and behaviours?' I asked after a little hesitation.

'Absolutely none.' He answered confidently. 'Why do you ask?'

I just showed him the pregnancy test and waited for his reaction. When he didn't answer, I shook him.

'Well, that's not something I thought I would ever have to deal with.' He stated dumbfounded. 'Wait. How did you even take the test? Don't you have to pee on those things?'

'Yea,' I answered, 'I managed to pee... and puke and have my period and eat without having to choke it back up.'

'I think we have found your power.' Carlisle stated. 'You were so reculant to leave your human life that you brought it with you and are able to do human things. That must be why you had no furious desire to hunt when you were changed. You're a human vampire. Congratulations Bella, you are going to be a mother.'

I opened the first page of the book and saw the picture of Millie when she was born. The picture was taken by Alice on April 15 at 3.30 in the afternoon. She was a beautiful baby girl with bronze hair and green eyes. A spitting image of her father. She soon became a little Barbie to Alice (but unlike me, she didn't mind very much), some one to play dolls with Emmett, a student to Carlisle and a little loved and spoiled kid by the whole family. I turned the page and saw the picture of me and her in the hospital bed just after she had been cleaned. There were then about a dozen pictures of Camille and the family then I turned to the page for her powers. Gabe started laughing his cute little laugh when he saw his Uncle Emmett being hypnotised by a very concentrated Millie. Even though the children got parts of their vampire powers when they were 0, they got their powers when they were born. The rest of the album consisted of pictures of Camille through out the years up to her on her 15th birthday.

When the album ended, I picked up next one. It was blue this time with 'Cameron David Masen Cullen'. It was the same kind of pictures except this time, the baby had gold hair and hazel eyes. When it came to the power page, it was Cameron in one place, then me trying to grab him but there was nothing there and then Cameron at the bottom of the stairs looking up at me innocently. He had gotten the power of teleportation. The pictures went up to him on his 13th birthday.

We went through the next one. This one was green because it was Alexandra and Aaiden and they were twins. On the cover, there was written 'Alexandra Alice Masen Cullen' and 'Aaiden Jacob Masen Cullen'. They both had brown hair and green eyes but they looked like me. Aaiden had his father's crooked smile and I was glad. Their power was flying and making anyone else they wanted fly. There was a picture of them both holding hands 3 feet above the ground and then a picture of Edward and I screaming at our youngest children for them to put us down. They were now 11 and the last picture in the album it the one of them blowing their candles in the air.

Then, Edward walked through the door and cane to sit next to me. I saw that he had fallen asleep so I took him up to his room careful not to wake him and then headed back down the stairs and ran into my husband's waiting arms. We then went through the other baby books.

8 year old Brandon Caleb Masen Cullen, the one with the brain. He knew practically everything. He had to fake it for school to not give out our secret.

Then there is 5 year old Sarah Hava Masen Cullen. She was daddy's little girl. She could read minds like him and she could dazzle like him. She looked exactly the same as him and she was musical like him.

The last of our children for the moment was Gabriel Ivan Masen Cullen. He is 2. He is the persuader of the family. He is the one that can make you do anything he wants but we told him that if he ever uses his power to do something big like run out into the sun, he would be grounded for a very long time.

When I looked at the albums that were now back in the shelf, I felt like it wasn't full yet. We were still missing a few children and I knew it. Edward knew it too and he agreed. We would have another 5 or 6 children in the next two centuries and then we would wait a bit.

The great thing about my power is that I could be passed down to my children and they could pass it down to theirs and they could have other powers too. That meant that we could live like humans and have children and grand children and eventually raise a whole town of little Cullens.

'What about these three?' asked Edward, 'What are we going to name them?'

'Well…' I said, 'we need three girls names and three boys names. For girls names, I was thinking Abigael, Delilah, Lila or Eleanor and for boys I like Alon, Israel, Michael or Benjamin. How about you?'

It was like a tradition that I would pick the first name of a girl and the middle name for a boy.

'I was thinking that we could have a Raphael, Julien, Aaron or Eric for boys and for girls I like Ayla, Carmen, Dalia or Arabella. What do you think?'

'Let's see.' I said thinking about combinations. 'For girls, how about Lila Arabella Masen Cullen, Delilah Ayla Masen Cullen and Eleanor Carmen Masen Cullen?'

'I love Lila Arabella. For boys, I think Aaron Israel Masen Cullen, Eric Benjamin Masen Cullen and Raphael Alon Masen Cullen. I like the sound of that.'

And with that, we had our children's names. I then noticed it was nearly 3.30 and we had to go to get the kids from school. We went to get Gabe -who had woken up but was currently playing with his Uncle Emmett's bear- and strapped him into the car. We went to get Brandon and Sarah first because they came out at half past.

Because we then had twenty minutes to spare, we went to get some ice-cream at the nearby park. Randy got chunky-monkey and Sarah got plain vanilla. We went to sit on a bench and I saw a girl I hadn't seen in over 16 years. Angela Webber. She was with Ben and two children who looked like a mix of her and Ben. I walked over to her.

'Angela!' I said, 'Hey, how are you. It's been so long!'

'Hey Bella!' she exclaimed. 'You look great... and very pregnant!'

'Yea… triplets will do that to you.' I said. 'Come and meet my three youngest! They're over by that bench.' I looked over to that half of my family and saw that Randy was running around Sarah with his ice-cream threatening to fall on her hair. Edward was behind them trying to calm down Gabe while getting the two others to stop. 'It looks like I'm needed over there anyway!'

We walked over with Ben and their 2 children trailing behind us. I picked up Gabe and left my vampire husband deal with the rest.

'Gabe, this is Angela and Ben, two of mommy's friends from a very long time ago.' I told him 'Angela, Ben, this is my younger son: Gabriel.' I then raised my voice a bit to get the other two's attention. 'Sarah, Randy, come say hi to mommy's friends. This is Ben and Angela. Guys, this is Sarah, my youngest daughter, and Brandon. I now have to go and get my other 4 from school so I need to go but we should totally meet again. Here's my number' I said giving her my card. 'Call me. Bye, it was nice seeing you again.'

With that, we were off to go and get the rest of the clan. We got in the car, strapped the kids in the back and drove to the middle school. Here, we picked up Cam, Alex and Aaiden.

'How was your day, guys?' I asked them when they were all in the car and we were on our way to the high school around the block.

'Mine was ok.' Replied Cam. 'I had PE which made it crappy because I can never run full speed to protect our secret. Apart from that, I guess it was ok. I was invited to Max's birthday. It's on the 16th.' Maxine was his best friend since before they were even born. She was the daughter of a friend I had back in Phoenix. I also knew that my son had a little crush on her.

'Our day went great' said Alex and Aaiden in perfect synchronization. They had a habit of doing that.

'AAIDEN LOVES FLEUR!!' I heard come out of Alex's mouth followed by a great protestation from her twin. By now, we were in front of the high school and I heard Edward growl next to me. I looked over to see what had made him react that way. I saw Millie, my little angel, her daddy's princess, kissing a boy. But not just any boy. Jacob Black's son, Charlie. They said goodbye and she was next to the car in a flash. She hopped in and Edward drove off so fast they I didn't even have the time to blink.