Victoria turns Bella into a vampire. Bella runs away, and gets captured by the government who want to experiment on these supernatural creatures, and she meets Edward! What happens next? BxE
Hopefully a lot more cool than my summary makes it sound. First fanfic, heck, first fiction, no, first piece of voluntary writing ever!!
Chapter 1. Surprise
It was a Monday morning and my alarm was screeching into my right ear. I groaned and turned over on my side. Another day. A new day. Some celebrate the sunrise, but every new day was a pathetic struggle for me, Bella Swan.
I trudged down the stairs reluctantly. I always had to put up an act of normality around Charlie, so that he wouldn't have to feel the pain I did. It didn't matter anymore WHY I was so sad, it was just a part of me now. Edward. The name sounded foreign on my tongue. My desolation had gotten to the point where I rarely could remember why I was so depressed, but the feeling of emptiness never left. I had become comfortably numb.
And so each day would pass slowly, invariably. Every morning I would get ready to go to Forks High. Putting on clothes indiscriminately. It didn't matter if I was wearing an old t-shirt from my middle school drama club or a Guess top that Alice had left behind, it all looked the same on my cold unfeeling being. And every morning I would chew slowly on the cereal I took from the pantry. It didn't matter if it was Cocoa Puffs or Fruit Loops, it tasted the same in my dry unfeeling mouth.
When I got to school in my red truck, it was pouring rain. I ran into my first period class as fast as I could without tripping. School went as usual. Most of my teachers had become accustomed to my silence and aloofness. I did all my homework and turned in my assignments on time, so I suppose my lack of interest was inconsequential.
Even Mike didn't bother me anymore. When Edward had first left, he had tried to take his place, it seemed. I was too detached to even be frustrated by Mike's gallant attempts to impress me and offer me comfort. Now, nearing the end of the 3rd nine-weeks, I was largely ignored by my previous friends. Sometimes I wished that I would feel something. Joy or hope, or even anger or resentment. But my emotions were gone, whisked away with the Cullens.
So it was very surprising when I found myself feeling something the very next day. I had gotten home from school early and felt a strange sense of recklessness. So I drove up to the edge of the forest where I knew the Cullens once lived. I am not prone to hiking, given my lack of coordination and the fact that I always run into accidents, but again, I didn't care anymore.
So when I found myself in the middle of the forest, slightly lost, sitting on a ferny stump, I least expected to feel apprehension. But I did. There was something not right. First of all, I couldn't remember which way I had come from. There were large green willowy trees all around me. I could vaguely remember having come from the direction where a large branch had broken off one of the trees and was lying across a fallen trunk. But I couldn't be sure. The forest, I knew, was shallow, so I wasn't that afraid of being lost. But there was something else amiss in that forest that day. I felt like some danger was lurking around the corner. I wasn't Alice, but I could feel something ominous.
A branch cracked loudly behind me. I whipped around. There was nothing there. A vampire? No, vampires are stealthy.. I thought. No vampire would accidentally make that much noise.
"Hello, Bella" said a sweet girlish voice behind me. If I hadn't recognized the familiar malice in it, I probably would have welcomed the owner of the kindly voice. I turned back around warily. A beautiful woman sat confidently, looking as comfortable as though she were sitting on an armchair rather than a decaying tree trunk in the middle of a forest. Yes, flaming red hair, red eyes, it was Victoria.
A low gasp escaped my lips. I had not meant to sound so pathetic, but I couldn't help it. I was shocked out of my wits.
She cocked her head at me deliberately. "Don't be scared. You're not going to die," she said mockingly, mistakening my shock for fear.
"Why are you here?" I asked nervously
She examined her nails. "I'm here to take revenge on Edward," she said. I inhaled sharply. Too sharply. She looked up, enjoying my discomfort.
"Edward does not care about me anymore," I said honestly. "It won't hurt him that much, to kill me." It probably sounded like I was pleading my case. The sad thing was, I wasn
She smiled knowingly. "Of course you would say that," she said. "I'm not going to kill you Bella. Edward killed James, the one thing I loved most. So I am here to take the one thing he loves most, in the most painful way he can imagine. There are things worse than death Bella."
I stared at her in awe. After having been emotionally numb for so long, I was feeling all the wrong things. I should be feeling scared, I thought. But all I could feel was dumb curiosity, slight apprehension, and mostly, confusion. What was she going to do to me now? I thought interestedly.
"What are you going to do to me?" I asked with a note of apprehension in my voice.
"I thought you were perceptive Bella. What is, to Edward, worse than death? The absence of a soul perhaps? The accursed half-life that I suffer? Very well, than you shall suffer it too." She informed me with a smile. I was slightly shocked. She was going to turn me into a vampire?! That didn't sound that terrible...
"The transformation will be worse than death. You will wish you had never been born." She assured me. She then walked over to me and seized me by the hair. I squirmed from her grasp, trying desperately to escape. I didn't know what I wanted, but I certainly didn't want to leave my fate up to an insane vengeful vampire. But I struggled in vain. Victoria held my body down with one hand and raised my wrist up to her gloating smile. I waited for some inkling of death. I waited to see my life flash before my eyes. It didn't happen. Either poets have falsely described death, or the fact that I was only becoming a vampire had ruined the concept. Either way, all I felt was a dull sense of disbelief and an odd urge to laugh.
She bared her teeth and bit into my wrist, closing her eyes as she drew blood. I screamed my head off. The last thing I saw was the vivid red streaks of my blood on her evil face. Then I fell into unconsciousness.
Chapter 2. Transformation
The pain was indescribable. I screamed like someone was ripping out my very soul, which I suppose was happening. I screamed until my throat was parched and I lost my voice. I screamed as loudly as I could, thinking, somewhere in the back of my mind, that if someone heard me maybe he would do something about it.
I could not tell how long it had been. The passage of time had been irrelevant to my pain. Years could have passed, but maybe it was only days. After some indefinite amount of time I found myself face down on the ground. I spit out some leaves and twigs and propped myself up on my hands.
The sun was peering down from between the trees surrounding the clearing where I lay. The air was cool and feathery. I smiled up at the sun wondering feeling comfortable in the soft grass, wondering vaguely why I was in a clearing. All of a sudden my memory hit me in the gut, knocking me breathless.
Oh god, I don't have to breathe, I suddenly realized. I hesitantly placed a hand on my chest. No heartbeat, I thought. At this point nothing had really sunk in. I laughed for a second, at the thought of being a vampire. After the living hell I had experienced during my transformation, I was all of a sudden detached. I felt like a stranger walking into my own life, all of a sudden my perspective was scrambled. Were there really such things as vampires? I wondered. Perhaps I have some acute psychological disorder where I make up alternate realities...
I stood up. I had no idea where to go. What was I supposed to do with my life? Everything had changed. I was lost, physically and mentally. I couldn't exactly just walk into my house and say "Hey Charlie great to see you oh by the way my eating habits have changed a bit and ignore the fact that I've been declared missing for many days". Charlie.
The thought of my old life struck me rudely. I don't know how to describe how lost I felt at that moment. Let me try to explain. I basically was dead now. I wasn't human anymore. Every constant in my life: my parents, my friends, my school, my life, had been violently thrown from its place. The pillars I stood on had been whisked from under my unsuspecting feet. I was a monster. What was I supposed to do? I broke out in silent sobs. I covered my face with my hands feeling wet tears smearing all over my mouth. Apparently I could still cry.
I alternated between sobbing miserably and lying morosely in the clearing. I didn't care what happened to me and didn't want to take any action. Soon it was nightfall. I stared at the tree in front of me, and realized how well I could see even in the nighttime.
Was I unnaturally strong too? I wondered. I ran at the tree in front of me and punched it as hard as I could. There was a deafening crack and then roar as the trunk broke in half sending the top half of the tree flying into the forest. I stood still in disbelief. Amazing, I thought.
A few seconds later I heard footsteps coming a few dozen feet away from my right. I darted behind a few bushes and a tree and sat down. I think I fell asleep (apparently I could do that too) in the bushes because when I woke up again, it was daylight. I stood up and stretched. A mouthwatering scent hit my nose. I turned around and saw a bear slowly walking around the forest, unaware of my presence. I couldn't resist the urge any longer. I ran towards the bear, shocked at my own speed and jumped on top of it. What now? I wondered. I inched my mouth towards the skin. The bear struggled. I slammed a fist into its neck and heard a loud snap. The bear still struggled. Great, I couldn't even put the thing out of its misery. I slammed another fist and heard its neck finally snap. I bit into the fur and felt a warm liquid rise up to my mouth.
Five hours later I had eaten an unknown amount of deer and bear. I had been struck with such a hungry frenzy that I couldn't even remember how many innocent animals I had drained of their blood. I suppose I shouldn't have felt so guilty. I had eaten steak and burgers all the time in my human life..
I had nothing left to do. Where should I go next? I supposed that, like the Cullens, I would be a vegetarian vampire. I had to find a new city to live in. Forks had probably decided that I was dead, it wouldn't make sense for me to come back.
I decided to go to Seattle for the time being. I raced off northwards at an incredible speed watching trees and foliage whip past me, waiting until I saw some sign of a town so I could figure out where I was. Soon I arrived at a suburban neighborhood full of houses. I looked around at the two-story houses with their well-manicured lawns. A new smell hit my nose. It smelled... human. Ah crap, I was going to kill someone! I thought frantically.
A little girl walked towards me holding a baseball. She stared at me openly. I looked down at her with widened eyes, waiting until the killer in me broke out. But strangely I didn't feel any hunger. I breathed a loud sigh of relief. She looked at me warily and walked away.
I decided I had to find a place to stay. I only had ten dollars and forty two cents in my pocket. I could hardly rent a hotel room with that much money. I guess technically I didn't need shelter anymore, since I was a vampire. Another wave of depression hit me as I realized that the Cullen's semblance of humanity was just that: a semblance. I looked down and saw my sneakers. I realized with a shock that I was still wearing my bloody clothing. I decided to run to the mall that Alice had taken me in Seattle.
I whipped into the first store I saw- some overpriced boutique targeted at people my age. I ran around the store as fast as I could, grabbing a pair of jeans, a skirt, some shirts and sneakers and ran out of it as fast as I could. I couldn't buy any clothes with ten dollars so I had decided to steal them. I'll pay you back later... I thought guiltily. The salesgirls hair fluttered as I ran past and she looked around confusedly, seeing nothing.
I changed in the bathroom and stuffed my bloody clothes into the trash. Hopefully no one would bother looking inside there. I wore a pair of jeans that ended up being a little bit too tight and a dark blue shirt with a small hood and rolled my eyes at the sneakers, which looked like fashion golf shoes. That's when I looked in the mirror.
My hair was still brown, that much was the same. And my face still looked generally the same, except slightly better. My features were more refined. My curves were fuller and my body was like a swimsuit model's. But I still looked mostly the same. Except for my bright red eyes. I gasped. I would have to get contacts. But why was my face so similar? I would have thought that vampire beauty would require a lot more improvement from my face. I guess I had a low self-esteem, apparently I had been much prettier than I had always thought. I still couldn't see it myself. So, I wondered interestedly, would people stop cold by my vampire good looks like they did for the Cullens? I had yet to find out.
I finally walked out of the bathroom into the food court. I was getting a few stares. Most men who were walking past were staring at me very intently, whereas the women were either looking at me with awe or despise. I wasn't meeting any of their gazes though. I was too preoccupied with what I was supposed to do next. I sat down in a chair and stared at a spot on the ceiling. Two boys of about 19 came and sat down at my table and looked at me. I tore my eyes away from the ceiling and looked at them.
They bantered with each other and stared at me and began asking me how old I was.
"18" I replied without thinking.
"Where do you go to school?" Said the one with straight brown hair.
"Erm I just moved here I don't know yet" I replied frantically, trying to cover my slip up.
"Oh, well my dad's the principal at Lake Mary High, if you live around here, you will probably going there. Have you enrolled yet?" asked the second one. He was slightly thinner than the other one and had dark black hair. I would say he was pretty handsome.
"Oh, no I haven't." I began to think of a plan. I was in Seattle and hadn't finished my high school education. I might as well. "I'm living alone and my parents live in the Philippines." I lied nervously. I hoped I wasn't digging myself into a grave.. "They are trying to get the paperwork to enroll me in high school but it's kind of hard right now"
"Really?" said the brown-haired boy. I think he had said his name was Stephen.
"Maybe my dad could help with that. He's also on the county school board. He could definitely get you enrolled." The black-haired kid (Nick) said helpfully.
I sighed loudly and smiled. "That would be so helpful." I replied.
"No problem. Do you want to meet him? He could probably get it done today." said Nick.
"Sure" I responded smiling. Of course, if I had still been human, it would have been a dumb idea to trust two random boys I had met at the mall. But I wasn't human anymore. No one posed a threat to me but my own kind. Little did I know how wrong that was..
Nicks dad was really nice. It turned out he didn't mind enrolling me without the paperwork. He just had to meet my legal guardian. I groaned internally. How the heck was I supposed to do that? He said I could start school on Monday meanwhile but that I had to get him my birth certificate and meet my legal guardian by next month. I agreed cheerfully, and pretended that I actually HAD a guardian.
I left his house around 7 p.m. and walked around wondering what I was supposed to do. I ended up sleeping in the forest again, carrying my stolen clothes and supplies in a stolen duffel. How funny.
The next day I woke up groggy with dirt and twigs in my hair. I realllly needed a shower. There had been a YMCA next to the mall, I remembered all of a sudden. I decided to shower there. I felt sad, realizing that I was pretty much homeless.
After showering and changing at the Y, I decided to go job hunting. I really needed some cash if I was supposed to get along around here. I walked up to the front desk at the Y.
"Hi" I said shyly, unsure of how to ask for a job application. The young man at the desk looked up and stared at me and said nothing. "I was wondering if you have any job openings..." I continued hesitantly.
He broke out of his daze. "Um right now we're pretty full..." he began to say, but I realized what I had to do. I looked straight into his eyes and he stopped talking.
"Are you sure you can't hire me?" I said while gazing into his eyes.
"Uhh erm actually yeah we have a position available you can work the desk on weekday nights from 3 to 10 p.m." he replied slowly, "I'll let Jill know you'll be working here. We'll give you a badge tomorrow. You can start working then." I could not believe it. I had a job without an interview or anything.
The next day was a Monday. It had been exactly a week since I had died. R.I.P Bella Swan, it would say, somewhere on a gravestone in Forks. I woke up at 6 a.m. in the forest, and realized I was supposed to show up at Lake Mary High. Nick's dad had explained where it was. I raced off and arrived at school after 20 minutes, slightly windblown. I walked into the front office where the secretary gave me my schedule and a map.
First class was AP U.S. History. I groaned. I hated history, how was I supposed to pay attention to it first thing in the morning. Then I groaned again. Why did I have to be the only vampire that needed to SLEEP. What a pain. I walked into the room only to see that class had already started. I blushed and walked up to the teacher when he beckoned me. I could see people watching me out of the corner of my eye. I pretended not to notice, it was easier that way.
"Hello you must be Ms. Swan" Mr. Sumfield said in a bored voice. "Please sit in row 3 next to Mr. Adams"
I sat down next to "Mr. Adams" and stared at my desk. Even after death, first days at schools were just as awkward. This was just like Forks High. Mr. Adams, whose name turned out to be Derek, kept glancing at me. I began to wonder why people ever eulogized beauty. This unwanted attention had to be one of the most frustrating things I'd experienced.
After History I had calculus and then english. All of the classes were equally boring. People stared and whispered in the same way in each class. When lunch came I was relieved that I wouldn't have to deal with a teacher droning for an hour. I sat down at an empty table and put my head down. Of course, I forgot that I would still have to deal with the boys at this school. Fortunately it was Stephen and I already knew him.
"Hey!" he said looking pleasantly surprised. "It's good to see you here, why don't you come sit with me and Nick?"
I smiled and complied, I didn't want to look weird. So far I was doing pretty good at fitting in. My eyes were golden from all the animals I'd eaten, my clothes looked normal, I pretended to be a normal high school kid pretty well. All this pretending was giving me a headache.
I followed Stephen to his table where Nick was also sitting. The other people sitting at their lunch table wore similar clothes and had similar facial expressions. Surprise, anticipation, excitement, disgust, anger. I grinned at all of them and sat down. They continued their conversations. I stared at the wall and pretended to laugh at the right times.
That afternoon I sat in front of the tree that had now become part of my home in the forest. This was not going to work. How long could I keep sneaking into the Y to take showers and brush my teeth. How long could I wake up with ants in my pants.
Unfortunately, sleeping like Tarzan would soon be the least of my worries..
Chapter 3. Arrival
I woke up to the sun streaming in my face. Crap. I was probably late for school, I realized. I sat up and then realized I was strapped to a board. I frantically tried to turn my head and saw that I was in a small room, trapped.
"AAAAAAAHHHH!! HELP ME!!" I screamed as loudly as I could.
"Shut up, we wouldn't want to inject more sedative into you " said a rough voice to my left. A man in an army uniform sat to my left. A fluorescent light bulb was right above my head, on the ceiling of the small room. Then I, as I felt a low rumbling and jolt, I realized that I was in a truck.
"Where am I" I asked, wondering if he would answer me. And why couldn't I break these restraints with my super strength!
"You're being taken to a testing facility in Texas" he replied succinctly.
"Testing.. for what?" I said looking at him expectantly.
"Special beings such as yourself." he replied and went back to staring at the wall. My eyes widened. They knew! This man apparently worked for the government, and so apparently the government knew about vampires! This was impossible. How did they control us? Why couldn't I move? What did they even want with us? I wasn't even a bad vampire. I was vegetarian!
"They know about vampires?" I exclaimed, unable to repress my questions any longer.
"Yeah, if that's what you call yourself" he shrugged. I lay back down and stared at the light bulb. Soon I fell asleep.
When I woke up again, I was in a small white room with one glass wall. I threw myself towards the wall, trying to break it. It didn't even shake. I realized a second later that there was an identical cell in front of me. I looked as far as I could to the right out the glass window/wall, there were identical cells extending in every direction next to the cell directly across the hallway. I presumed that my cell was probably in a row of cells too. There was a small figure curled up in the corner of the cell in front of me. It was too far away to see it clearly. I wondered if they were all vampires? The cell diagonally to the right held a young man who was staring at me with boredom. Diagonally to the left there was a woman who was lying on the floor and pounding her fists against it. I looked around my cell. It was extremely empty, except for a small slot in the door.
