Title: Gifted
Author: Pentagramy
Pairings: None mentioned.
Warnings:
Disclaimer: As much as I would love to lay claim to Bella, I'm kinda scared of Edward. So I don't own anything.
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Summary: Bella thinks about being gifted—and how she really isn't. One-shot.
Gifted
Who ever said everyone was gifted? Most everyone said it only happened a little. Why should I have a gift? I shouldn't. I'm nothing special.
Everyone expects me to have a gift. I don't. Why push me? The Cullens, the Vulturi… They think I'll be great. But I won't. I won't be anything. Really, the only thing special is my klutziness—and even that's not the special.
What's so different about me? My twin has a theory—I was only so dangerous to people because I was alive, when Edward should have killed me. That's what attracted the danger so thoroughly. Edward even told me that.
"Your time wasn't up in Phoenix."
He'd said. That's why. My time wasn't up. I'll go back to normal after death—will people still like me then? I'm not so special. I'm plain. It's really easy to explain, actually. Why do people keep pushing me? I'm not naturally a danger magnet. Edward gifted me so I was one.
My power to stop vampires from using their powers on me? Easy. Natural defense. In exchange for an amazing smell, they stopped vampires from using extras on me. Or, maybe, I'm so normal they just don't work. Eh. That'd be about right.
What's about me that I'm so special? I know I'm not going to have powers. I won't control wind, I won't be an angel, I won't suck up all powers in sight, I won't do anything out of the norm.
So stop pushing your dreams on me.
Maybe, just maybe, I'll have a defense of some sort. That's going to be all, at most. I'm not special. I'm not un-average. I'm not uncommon. I don't look different. I don't seem different. I don't act different. I'm not anything special.
So, I'm not gifted. Stop saying I am.
You'll just make the truth worse.
Pent: Okay, this is complimenting my other Twilight/New Moon fic, Shooting Up. They're here to explain that what most think will happen probably won't, or shouldn't. There's going to be another, soon, probably tonight. Review.