One in a Million Chapter 1, a twilight fanfic

One in a Million

By realixweatherfairy

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight

Chapter 1: Hemophages

Bella POV

My name is Isabella Swan, but I prefer Bella. And I was born into a world that most people would not understand. But first let me tell you some things about me. First off, I'm a hemophage; no, nothing like in the movies. Hollywood never does get much right. It's more of a genetic gene that passed on from parent to child; one way that we're different is that we have longer teeth, like fangs. Hemophages are stronger and faster than humans, in fact all of our senses are enhanced to almost inhuman levels, but there's no limit to how long we live, in fact, we're immortal. We heal faster and we have other powers that set us all apart. Most of us can read minds, move things with our minds, and influence an element. I'm, however, a rarity. The hemophagic gene that runs through my blood keeps on mutating, changing me, increasing my powers. It's something that has never been heard of before. I can influence all the elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Wood, and Metal and I can speak to animals with my mind, but I'm more attuned to Earth and Wood than anything else.

Second, I'm moving. To Forks, Washington to live with my dad, who's a hemophage like me, along with my three cousins, Nathaniel, Lucas, and Natalie. I have been there since I was at least thirteen. My parents, Charlie and Renée, married early in life, just out of high school, but divorced just a few years later, then my mom moved to Phoenix, Arizona with me. During the first few years before I turned thirteen, I spent Thanksgiving and Halloween with Charlie, until I demanded that he spend some time with me in California instead. A few years after the divorce, my Aunt Jody Swan, Charlie's sister, moved to Phoenix after a divorce from her husband, and returned to her maiden name, with her three children, but she died not too long ago, leaving her three teenagers in my mother's care.

Nathaniel and Lucas are twins, a year older than me, both are around six feet tall buzzed dark brown hair, and are athletes, football, and Natalie is the only girl, who is a year younger than me, she's a little shorter than me, with long black hair to the middle of her back, and blue eyes, she's also athletic, gymnastics; they get all the luck. I'm about 5'6, curvy, but not athletic with long brown hair to my hips and chocolate brown eyes; needless to say, I look more like my dad than I do my mom. All three are hemophages like me. The only way to tell Nathaniel from Lucas is that Nate has blue eyes while Luke has brown like me.

Not too long ago, my mom married a man named Phil, who was a professional baseball player, not very good, mind you, strictly minor league. So he travels a lot, leaving my mom home with me and my cousins. I could tell that she missed him a lot, so I talked to my cousins, all of whom are like brothers and a sister to me, and we all decided to move in with Charlie, so that Renée could travel with Phil. So here we are on a plane to Seattle, where we're going to meet my dad. Oh, Charlie is the Police Chief to the good people of Forks.

Don't get me wrong; he's very good at his job, I just think he could use his powers on the job a little less. In fact, Charlie is the leader of the hemophages, like a tribal leader. When he was younger, Charlie started a group, like a gang of sorts, called the Defenders. This group would go around, taking patrols, and keep the peace between the vampires and the Quileute werewolves. But he's already passed on the torch to me and my cousins, so I guess that kind of makes me the leader.

Of course, with us being hemophages, we have to keep a low profile. We can't let the normal people know about us. I'm not exactly sure that they'd be very welcoming to the fact that we're different and we may be victimized; that's just something that we cannot allow. We need secrecy almost as much as the vampires and Quileutes do. Oh, yes, we know that they exist, and we try to make sure that they don't get into fights were humans might end up getting involved.

Normal POV

The first thing that Bella noticed when the plane landed and she and her cousins got out of the airport terminal was Charlie standing not too far. When he saw them, he immediately helped them with their bags brought them to his car. They didn't say anything until they were in the car. What was cool about being a hemophage, the Swan family had many stocks and bonds worth over fifty million dollars and could afford to have a huge house, and as many cars as they wanted. Bella owned a sapphire blue with gray leather interior Mercedes Guardian that wasn't even available in much of Europe, let alone the United States. Her cousins had cars too, but they normally just drove to school together.

The next day as they pulled into the parking lot of Forks High School, the first thing they noticed was the silver Volvo that was parked a few spaces down from where Bella parked her Mercedes. As the Swans got out, so did the driver of the Volvo and the passengers. The first thing that Bella noticed was that they were vampires. She could tell a vampire from a human a mile away due to her heightened senses. When Bella slammed her car door shut, the driver, a boy of no more than 17 with gold eyes and bronze colored hair, turned in her direction. She ignored him and followed her cousins into the building that said Main Office.

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Edward heard a car door slam shut and turned to see a girl no more than 17 with long brown hair to her hips wearing a pair of faded blue jeans and a light blue ¾ length t-shirt. She turned to look at him. Her eyes were a deep chocolate brown that he could lose himself in, her lips full and pink. Her skin was a cream color and her cheeks slightly red from the cold. Her figure was feminine and curvy. As she turned and walked away with two other guys and another girl, he noticed that her walk was as graceful as a vampire's. He watched her and her companions until they went into the Main Office building, and he turned to his brothers and sisters and said, "Looks like we have new students."

"Yes, the Swans," Alice replied, "Bella, Nathaniel, Lucas, and Natalie."

"Which one was which, Alice?" Jasper asked.

"Bella was the brunette, Natalie was the black haired, and I can't tell which one is Lucas or Nathaniel, apparently, they're twins," she told him.

"So, Bella Swan, huh?" Edward thought and looked forward to seeing her again.

After getting her schedule, Bella headed to her English class, which was extremely boring. She'd already read all of the books that the teacher wanted her to read, practically a million times each. Then added to the fact that she already had a bunch of guys hitting on her, it made her a little agitated. It helped a little when she got through her Trigonometry and Spanish classes without incident and it looked like she had gained a follower, a girl who sat next to her in both classes. She couldn't remember her name.

At lunch, her reluctance eased some when she saw that she had lunch with her cousins and they along with Bella's new friend, whose name she remembered to be Jessica, sat with Jessica's other friends, who introduced themselves as Eric, Mike, Angela, Tyler, and Lauren. As she ate her lunch and looked around, Bella noticed the boy from this morning who drove the silver Volvo, sitting at a table by the window with two other boys and two girls. All of whom were vampires. The bronze haired boy looked up when he felt her gaze on him, he held her eyes for a moment before they narrowed and she looked away. Turning to Jessica, she asked, "Who are they?"

Apparently knowing from her tone, Jessica said, "They are Emmett, Edward, and Alice Cullen, and Jasper and Rosalie Hale. They all live together with Dr. Cullen and his wife. I think she's their aunt or something." Bella and her cousins turned their gaze toward Cullens. The bronze haired one was speaking quickly to the others, but it was too loud in the cafeteria to hear what he was saying, even with their enhanced hearing. Without looking at her, Bella asked Jessica, "Which is the bronze haired one?" Almost as if he had heard her, which he probably did, the boy looked up and met her gaze again, this time with a frustrated look on his face.

"That's Edward Cullen, but don't waste your time. He doesn't date; I don't think he finds any of the girls here good enough for him," she answered. Bella smirked and laughed slightly at the thought and it looked like he smiled slightly before she turned away.

Edward was sitting with his brothers and sisters when he felt someone's gaze on him and looked around, only to meet the chocolate brown eyes of Bella Swan. His gaze held hers before she looked away and asked who he and his family were. He tried to hear her thoughts, but for some reason he couldn't, which he thought was strange. He turned and told his siblings, "Guys, I can't hear Bella Swan's thoughts." They all looked at him strangely and they looked at her like she was some science experiment. When he looked back at Bella, he found not only her gaze on him, but the other Swan's gazes were on him and his family as well. They watched them for awhile before he saw Bella smirk and laughed slightly. After hearing what Stanley was thinking, he smiled slightly and watched as Bella turned around and told the other Swans to stop staring.

"That is so strange that I can't hear her," he thought as the bell rang and he quickly went to his Biology class.

Bella walked into her Biology class with Mike who introduced her to Mr. Banner, who signed her sheet, and told her to take her seat, which happened to be right next Edward Cullen, the only open seat. Sighing, she went sat down and completely ignored him. The only thing she noticed was the fact that his eyes had gone from gold to black, and was trying to sit as far away from her as possible, which suited her just fine, as long as he didn't attack her or any of the others in the class. If he did, then she'd be forced to put him out of commission. Permanently.

As he glared at her, Bella bared her teeth at him and let out a soft hiss under her breath when Mr. Banner wasn't looking, which even though he was still glaring at her, made him stiffen. Once the bell rang, with a movement that made a vampire look slow, Bella had grabbed her book bag and was out the door, Edward not too far behind her. After school that day, Bella met her cousins at her car and watched as Edward and his family stood as his car, watching them. She met his gaze for a moment, before she and her cousins got in her car and she drove off, with him watching after her.

"So, Bells, whose turn is it to do patrol tonight?" Lucas asked. Since they had come back to Forks, the three of them had taken up patrols to make sure that all was well. And since Charlie was the leader of the last group of Defenders, the title had been passed down to her.

"Nate's," Bella replied, as she pulled into the driveway of their house, "I'm going to start dinner."

It was a week before Bella saw Edward Cullen again. When Bella saw him at lunch, she decided that he looked better than he had the week before, his face flushed, the shadows under his eyes less noticeable. She saw him look around the cafeteria, and when he looked at Jessica's table, he looked disappointed. On the Swan's third day, they decided to embark on their own and get their own table a little closer to the Cullen's table, but not too close, it helped that Mike was annoying Bella.

"Is he looking for me?" she thought. Then she heard his brother, Emmett, tell Edward that she was staring at him and indicated where she was sitting. Looking where Emmett was indicating, Edward met her gaze. She bowed her head, showing that she was acknowledging him and he bowed his head in return, before they looked away from each other.

As Bella sat down at her lab table next to Edward after lunch she had intended to completely ignore Edward until he said, "Hello." She looked towards him, surprised that he was speaking to her as he continued," My name is Edward Cullen. I'm sorry that I didn't get a chance to introduce myself last week. You must be Bella Swan." Bella nodded and said, "Nice to meet you." He smiled in response. As they got started on the lab that Mr. Banner had them work on, Edward asked, "It's too bad about the snow, don't you think?"

"No," she replied. He looked confused until he said, "You don't like the cold, do you?"

"Or the wet, for that matter."

"This must be a very difficult place for you to live, then," he replied. She could tell that he was pressing to make small talk with her as she said in a dead voice, "You have no idea."

"Then may I ask why you came here?"

"Not that it's any of your business, but my mother got remarried to a professional baseball player who travels a lot," she said curtly. He looked even more confused at the tone of her voice, as he replied, "So she sent you here so she could travel with him?"

"No, my cousins and I sent ourselves," Bella said, increasing his confusion, so she continued, "A few years ago, my Aunt died and left her three kids in my mother's custody, the worst decision she could have made if I didn't live with my mother at the time, so Renée stayed with us while my stepfather traveled, but she was unhappy, so we sent ourselves here."

"So now you're unhappy."

"Yeah, so," she said, raising an eyebrow.

"That doesn't sound very fair to me."

"Then I guess you never heard that life isn't fair, now did you," Bella replied, closing her eyes, and leaning back against her chair.

"Actually, yes, I did hear that before," Edward said, also closing his eyes and leaning back against his chair. They didn't say anything else until the bell rang, and when it did, Bella once again with a movement that made a vampire look slow grabbed her book bag and walk towards the door of the classroom with Edward right behind her. When she was at the door, Bella turned around and looked Edward in the eye and said, "It was nice to meet you, Edward Cullen," and turned and walked away, leaving him staring after her.

As Bella and her cousins prepared to get in Bella's car, Bella noticed Edward was leaning against the hood of his Volvo 4 spaces down from them watching her every movement. Without acknowledging him, Bella and her cousins got in the car and drove off. When she looked back in the review mirror, Bella noticed that Edward was following her car's progress with his eyes.

The next few months went by without incident. When Bella woke up one morning, she knew that snow had fallen. She groaned. She hated the snow. Even though she had the feeling that she shouldn't get up, Bella did anyway. If anything, Bella was anything but determined. She never missed any school and was one of the smartest kids in her entire class, with a few exceptions, Edward being one of them. In fact, Bella found herself looking forward seeing him at school everyday. She enjoyed the small talk that he occasionally decided to grace her with.

When she got downstairs, the first thing Bella noticed was that her cousins had already left. She was running a little late, so Bella quickly grabbed a granola bar and left the house. It didn't take long for her to get to school and she had a lot less trouble than she thought she would've. And when she got to the school and parked her car, Bella found out why.

As she got out of her car, and headed towards the trunk of her car, Bella saw something silver on her tires. When she bent to get a better look, she saw that Charlie had gotten up who knows how early and put snow chains on her tires and she knew that he had to have done it not only for her, but for her cousins' cars as well. As she stood up again, Bella had to fight the wave of emotion that flooded through her. She wasn't used to something taking care of her, not even her mother.

What happened next happened so quickly that Bella couldn't wrap her head around it. First, she saw Edward standing by the trunk his Volvo looking at her his eyes wide with horror; second, she heard a loud screech, like brakes being slammed, and third, she saw a big blue van sliding on the ice towards her. She didn't have much time to react but Bella quickly used her powers to slow the van's progress, and it came to a stop a few inches away from her. Before she knew it, Edward was by her side, and she fainted.

When she woke up, Bella was strapped to a gurney, and was being loaded into an ambulance. Edward was sitting in the ambulance next to her and went to the hospital with her. He didn't say anything to her and she didn't say anything to him either; it was as if they were giving each other the silent treatment.

After the doctor had checked her out, and pronounced her in perfect health, Bella walked out the room, only to hear Edward talking to his brothers and sisters.

"Now is the time, Edward," one of them said.

"No," he replied. She didn't know what they were talking about, but then Bella heard someone call her name. She turned and saw Nathaniel coming toward her, his face grave. She groaned and said, "Not now, Nate," and started walking down the hall where the Cullens were standing. Nathaniel hurried to catch up with her as she was just about to pass the Cullens and grabbed her arm and said, "What were you thinking, Bells? You could have blown our cover!" She turned and glared at Nathaniel, her eyes going from brown to black, and growled at him, "Not here, Nate!"

"Cover? What is he talking about?" Edward thought, as he and his siblings watching the confrontation between Bella and her cousin. He was about to step in to help Bella, but she then jerked her arm away from him and stalked off. Without a backwards glance at his family, or Bella's cousin, he followed after her. He found her just as she was about to leave the hospital.

"Bella, what was he talking about?" he asked. She looked at him, and shook her head and left the hospital without answering his question, leaving him as frustrated as ever.

The next few weeks went by and Bella and Edward were no longer speaking, more like Bella was avoiding him whenever possible. Jessica then made her aware of another event when she called one night to ask permission to ask Mike to the spring dance that was girl's choice. Bella told her that it was alright. When she got to school the next day, Jessica wasn't her usually happy, go-lucky self. Bella figured that Mike must have said no. Her worst fears were confirmed when Mike turned to her when they in Biology and said, "Jessica asked me to the dance."

"That's great; you should go," Bella said, totally uncomfortable with this subject, especially since Edward had decided to grace their conversation with his attention.

"Well, I thought that, maybe, you might ask me," he admitted with a blush.

"I think that you should tell her yes, Mike," Bella told him, raising an eyebrow.

"Why? Aren't you going to the dance?"

"No," she replied curtly.

"Why not?"

"I'm going to Seattle that day," she decided quickly. She needed to get out of town anyway, namely from a certain person who was sitting right next to her.

"Can't you go some other time?"

"Nope," she replied and that ended the conversation. When Mr. Banner came and started teaching class, Bella noticed that Edward was staring at her with a frustrated look on his face. She looked at him and raised an eyebrow. Mr. Banner then called on Edward and he looked away from her reluctantly. They didn't say anything to each other and left when the bell rang.

After school was finished that day, and Bella, Nathaniel, Lucas, and Natalie got to Bella's car, Bella saw Eric waiting. He asked her to the dance but she said no. She heard a light chuckle and saw Edward walking by on his way to his car. Then she and her cousins got into the car, but Edward was already in his and when they pulled out he was waiting in the way for his brothers and sisters, blocking them. Bella growled in annoyance. She looked in her rearview mirror and sure enough, a line was forming, with Tyler, the guy who had almost hit her, right behind her, waving frantically to get her attention. She was too annoyed with Edward to acknowledge him and before she knew it, Tyler was at her window. Rolling it down, she said, "Sorry, Tyler, I'm stuck behind Cullen." He grinned and said, "I know, I just wanted to ask you to the dance."

"I'm not going to the dance, Tyler," she told him, annoyed. He nodded and let the subject drop. She then saw Edward looking in his rearview mirror, watching the exchange, she accelerated, since her car was small enough to fit next to his, she pulled up next to him, rolled down the passenger side window and he rolled down his.

"Don't you ever do that again," Bella growled at him through her teeth, her eyes flashing from brown to black in a matter of seconds, and sped off, muttering a steam of curses, leaving him staring after her car, a look of surprise on his face as his brothers and sisters got in the car.

The week after, Jessica asked Bella to go with her and Angela to get their dresses in Port Angeles and she agreed. After school on Tuesday, the three of them rode in Jessica's white Mercury and they quickly got to shopping. When they were done in the department store, Bella left them to look for a book store. They had both been willing to go with her, but they had planned to spend a few hours at the beach, so she went alone. As she walked, she thought about Edward, and how frustrating he was sometimes. She didn't notice when a group of guys started following her until looked back and saw them. Hearing what they were thinking about in their thoughts, Bella was disgusted and increased her pace, but they only started walking faster to catch up with her. She considered using her speed, but Bella knew that these were normal people and she couldn't do that. As she turned a corner, she had to slow down as some of them had crossed her path.

"Ah, there you are," one of them said, while laughing.

"Stay away from me," Bella growled, annoyed that she couldn't do anything to defend herself without revealing what she was.

"Ah, come on, don't be like that, honey," another said and laughter started behind her as headlights flew down the street that they were standing in and the car stopped only a few inches away from her. Relief flooded through her when Edward got out of the car and said, "Get in the car," and stood his ground against the men as she did as she was told. After a moment, Edward got back in the car and sped off, muttering a stream of curses while he was at it.

"I should go back and rip those guys heads off," she heard him mutter at one point, and she said, "No, you shouldn't."

"Bella, you don't know the utterly repulsive things they were thinking," he growled at her, making her raise her eyebrow at him and say, "You'd be surprised." He stopped muttering and gave her a confused look, but she didn't elaborate. He then pulled in front of the restaurant that Bella was supposed to meet up with Jessica and Angela who were pacing in front of the restaurant with worried expressions on their faces. Relief and confusion flooded their faces when they saw her, and who she was with. In the end, Jessica and Angela ended up going home and Edward and Bella went into the restaurant.