Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or it's characters as I'm not the great Stephanie Meyer. I do own my own creations however.
Summary: This is the story of a family of vampires, not quite as good at Carlisle and his family but not evil either. They would have liked to help when Carlisle and Esme asked but they had their own reason for staying under the Volturi's radar, for staying away. This is their story.
Warning: Violence and slash (later on). You no likey, you no ready. Kay?
A/N The first five chapters are completely about the OC's I have created but have no fear, our favourite vampires and werewolves will be in this story!
Where Loyalties Lie.
Chapter One: Cossette.
"Cossette! Where are you, you stupid girl?"
"Girl? I'm 26 mother. I'm hardly a girl any more."
"You may be 26 but your still my daughter and your still un-married and living off your parents so if I want to call you a girl I will call you a girl."
"Oh, your drunk again."
SLAP!
"Don't you speak to me like that you ungrateful child! Now go to the pub and get us some beer."
"What? No! You want to get more drunk go get your own beer!"
SLAP!
"Get us the beer before I take the belt to you and don't think that your too old for the belt you little tart."
"I'm hardly a tart mother, if I was I'd be married. But I'll go, couldn't have you actually doing something yourself could we…"
Before here mother could slap her face again Cossette grabbed her moth-eaten shawl and left their run down house. It would take her approximately ten minutes to get to the pub so that wasn't too bad but it was all little alleys with not much lights and many questionable characters hanging out in them. This was why Cossette hated going out at night.
"Hello dear, fancy a quickie?" a drunk slurred at her, reaching out to grab at her. She jumped out of his reach and rushed on down the alley, turning into the last one that would finally bring her to the pub. Not that the pub brought any relief to her, the pub was filled with even more drunks and violent men. She hurried simply because the quicker she got the beer the quicker she would get home. Then and only then would she feel safe again.
"Hello there," the voice startled her; she'd thought this alley was empty apart from her. Apparently she was wrong. "Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you." Cossette tried to do as she did with the last man, dodge out of his way and keep going. But this man caught her arm in the tightest grip she'd ever felt; so tight she'd definitely have bruises tomorrow if not tonight.
"Let go of me!" she screamed, pulling as hard as she could to get her arm free.
"No," the mans face was painfully beautiful and made her pause in her struggle. Almost. "I just want a bite to eat."
She screamed loudly as he pulled off her shawl roughly and lowered his open mouth to her neck, his sharp teeth biting easily through the thin layer of skin. Then her blood began to flow into his mouth and he drank it like it was the finest wine on the Earth. Her scream by now had faltered into a whimper, the blood loss beginning to make her feel incredibly light headed.
"Mmmm…delicious…" he moaned against her neck.
"No…get…off…me…!" she somehow managed to scream once more, using what felt like the last of her strength to push at his rock hard strength.
"What's going on here?" another mans voice asked, coming from behind her.
"Help…me…"
"Let her go!" the man shouted loudly and mercifully her attacker did let her go, almost dancing back from her as she slumped into a heap on the ground, her legs unable to support her. Her saviour rushed at the man to attack him but her grinned at them both with blood stained teeth and jumped up onto the roof of the building behind her, a roof at least four stories high. "What in all that's holy…"
"Ugh…" Cossette moaned in pain, her hands pressing against her neck wound. It was burning! Her rescuer rushed to her side,
"Miss! Let me get you home!" He helped her up gently, supporting almost all of her weight. Cossette whimpered loudly, the burning was spreading along her shoulder. "It's ok miss, whatever he was he's gone now." Too weak to do anything else she let him pick her up in his strong arms and gave weak direction to him of how to get her home. The burning was spreading down her arm…
Both of them were unaware of the vampire jumping from building to building as he followed them with a wicked smile on his face, he'd lost his meal but it looked like after all these years he'd soon be gaining a companion.
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The pain was worse than anything she could have imagined and the three different doctors her mother had brought to examine her didn't have a clue what was wrong with her, why a bit was causing this much trouble.
She screamed.
Her mother wept.
Her father drank.
And Uther, the vampire, watched.
Soon she would die, the last doctor had said so. The strain of whatever it was causing this was too much on her heart. In a couple of days she would be dead. In a couple of days his venom will have completed it's work. In a couple of days she would be his companion. So with that in mind he decided it was time for her to know…everything. He dropped through her window. Cossette screamed but her scream brought no one to her room, she'd been screaming for days now.
"Oh hush and let my venom do it's work," Uther snapped, covering her mouth with his cold hand. This close he could now hear every pathetic beat of her failing heart and he grinned.
"Your…venom?" she asked when he removed his hand, speaking through teeth gritted against the pain. "What…did…you…do…to…me?"
"Well my plan was merely to drink your blood and kill you but that inconvenient mortal spoiled that. Now instead of a quick death for you and a full stomach for me…you get to turn into something like me and I get a companion for the rest of eternity," he laughed down at her.
"And…what…exactly…are…you?" she asked before screaming in pain.
"I'm a vampire," he whispered, leaning close to her ear.
"They're…not…real!"
"Oh you have so much to learn and I am so looking forward to teaching you. When I'm finished you'll be an even worse monster than me, after all a newborn vampire is the deadliest thing in creation," he laughed once more as another pain filled scream left her lips. "Oh shhhh, die quietly. I'll be here when you wake up."
The last thing she heard before her heart gave out was his evil laughter.
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Cossette always said she couldn't remember her first year as a vampire but in truth she could remember every detail as if it had only happened yesterday. She could remember being so thirsty for blood she didn't care who or where she killed, it was only Uther that kept her from being discovered in her first year.
And then one day, exactly a year after she was bitten the bloodlust just seemed to disappear, she suddenly felt like she could control herself. She didn't know what had happened and she dare not ask Uther so instead she tested herself, she walked through the crowded square one night and didn't rip anyone's throat out. She had control and she didn't need him.
Uther was evil, he enjoyed tormenting his prey, making them suffer. Cossette wanted it over as quickly as possible but he liked to play games with them, to make their death last. He even kept records of his favourite ones in a little journal he carried with him always. Uther also thought that as his creation and companion Cossette should welcome him into her body whenever he wanted. She hated him.
So she left him as soon as she realised she had control, she didn't take anything with her, just walked away one day when they were out hunting. She went to Paris and lived happily of the thousands of no bodies so found there, off the rapists and murders she witness from her place in the shadows, of the adulterous women and the whores. She lived like this for 20 years. But then came the revolution and with it…Daniel.
A/N There we go. Hope you're a little interested at least. Feel free to comment.
