Last Author Standing Challenge 1
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Prompt: "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice..."
The irony that is a vampire, would never be lost on me. I'm sure no one thinks that me, Emmett thinks about these things, but when you have an eternity to think, it does cross your mind. My skin is cool, similar to that of marble flooring. But just underneath that, in what used to be veins - where human blood once flowed supplying oxygen, the essential element of life to my former human body - there is now only death running through those hardened hollow veins. Hot, smoldering death, beneath the icy skin.
Normally, I don't think much about my life before I was changed. There's no need to, because everything that I had lived for in my previous life is nothing compared to the wonders I hold in my arms now. But still the moment the venom hits your blood stream, is not a moment you easily forget.
So much pain, that's the only clear memory of my former life, well that and the blonde angel that saved me. Rosalie helped me through the pain with only her beauty.
It feels like fire is consuming your entire body, when the venom begins to take over. After the fire, it's just thirst, throat aching thirst. When I woke up, Carlisle and Rosalie were standing over me, explaining everything. I know Edward struggles even to this day with being a vampire, but it's nothing that bothered me.
I gave up my former name of McCarty and adopted the surname Cullen with ease, even now I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Because those kinds of things never mattered to me. Emmett Cullen, Emmett McCarty, hell I'd change my name to Sue Cullen if I had to, to be with my Rosalie. I'd do it all over, all of it, just to be able to spend the rest of forever with her.