Disclaimer: I do not own the twilight Saga or any of its other royalties. They belong to Stephanie Meyer, that why she's rich and I have too many college loans. ;]
Summary: I know I have been gone a while but I'm back with something new and fresh. Now I have heard many Bella's a vampire stories most of which included her dating one of the other Cullen's either as their mate or their long lost daughter or sister which I thought while an interesting concept they just seemed like they would be really awkward and uncomfortable. Something that just kept nagging at me was the idea that Bella is already a vampire but hasn't met the Cullen's yet. She is however good friends with the Denali family and while the Cullen's are visiting them they all cross paths with each other. And shenanigans ensue with lots of misunderstandings. Switches POV's. Enjoy!
P.S. I know that they're some serious Jacob fans out there, if you are, I am warning you now so you won't be disappointed. I will mention some of the wolf pack, and they may or may not have a run in with them in the story, but there won't be any major Bella/Jacob scenes in here I am sorry. When the story came to me it just didn't include them, I admit I'm biased toward Edward. I haven't decided if I will find a way to include Renesmee, I'll figure that as I go but due to the nature of the story I'm not sure if I will be able to, without it being weird. I might just mention Jacob being the new pack leader with a wolf mate named Renesmee. Don't know yet, we shall see.
Twilight- Lost in translation
Chapter 1: Surprises!
Edwards POV:
We finally decided that we would visit the Denali's for Christmas, our extended vampire family. Yes, vampire, my family and I are vampires. Not in the traditional sense of the word (meaning stakes, sleeping in coffins, and burning in the sunlight). We sparkle in the sunlight (no pun intended, It wasn't our choice), we can't sleep at all, and we don't have fangs (they are ridiculous). We are faster than a speeding car, stronger than a bulldozer, and our eyes change color. If you drink human blood, your eyes are red and when you get hungry they turn black. If you are like our family (there aren't very many) and are vegetarian ( meaning we don't drink from humans) then a year after your change your eyes turn from red to gold; though our eyes still fade to black as we grow more hungry. We can go weeks after hunting without blood. Some members of my family and other vampires as well also have special gifts. My sister Alice can see the future according to your decisions, as you change your mind so do her visions, and my brother Jasper can feel and manipulate moods; he can make you feel angry, happy, sad, mad, you get the point. My "father" for all intents and purposes, Carlisle, believes that we brought these things over from our human lives. I can read minds, he believes I must have been very perceptive to people thoughts when I was human and it was intensified when I changed into a vampire.
Carlisle changed most of us, there are seven in our "family" (we prefer family over coven), he changed his wife Esme, she was dying after she tried to jump off of a cliff, she had just lost a child (all she's ever wanted was children, as a vampire we can't have them we are frozen the way we are, we do our best to be her surrogate children), she went on to become his mate. He saved me first however, I was dying of the Spanish influenza, and my mother, he figured, must have known what he was for she begged him to do all "He" could do to save my life. He changed me in 1901 in Chicago, IL (that might have been when he was born, again, I apologize if I got this detail wrong) when I was only seventeen.
Next was Esme, then Rosalie, Rosalie was raped by her drunk fiancé' and his idiot friends, and left in the street dying, Carlisle changed her to be a mate for me and to save her life (mates, meaning soul mate to a vampire the only one a vampire will love for all of eternity) she never became my mate, we didn't feel that way for each other. In fact at first she resented us highly, she, like Esme, wanted children desperately and if she couldn't have them she didn't want to have been saved at all. That is, until she found Emmett, he had been mauled by a bear in the woods, it took all her will power to drag him back to the house and pleaded for Carlisle to change him (she couldn't do it herself because when you bite someone, it's like being a shark, one taste and it starts a frenzy. You want to keep drinking, in order to change someone you have to stop and since we have venom like snakes you have to let it spread. All the while the victim feels a burning sensation through his body, for three days, until the process is complete and they awaken a vampire. It's very hard to do, and only Carlisle can), he was a bubbly happy carefree personality; we instantly loved him though he drives us all crazy.
Jasper and Alice came to us. Alice is still a mystery, even she doesn't know how she was changed all she knows is that she woke up a vampire and had a vision of meeting Jasper. Jasper was born in the south and became a soldier, during the war he was evacuating people when a woman named Maria found him, as he tried to help her she bit him and made him a vampire she wanted to take over the area so she made an army of vampires to do it. She made Jasper think she was his mate and that they were a team for his gift was of great use to her, she could control the newborns(new vampires not actual newborn babies) better with him. But as time wore on even though they were successful Maria didn't let the newborns live longer than a year (they were stronger in the first year, after that their strength wanes to a normal vampires strength), the emotions of the newborns and the agony and fear they felt when he had to kill them wore on Jaspers heart; he helped one of his friends escape Maria and then left himself. Alice found him in a diner a little while later and they came to find us as she had a vision of us all together. The two of them have been mates ever since.
Even though Jasper is new to this life and still struggling with the diet of animal instead of human, he is working hard and we love both him and Alice. Carlisle is the best of us all he is the oldest of all of us and a preachers son, he was helping his father to hunt vampires when he was captured himself; thankfully, the vampire was interrupted (it's been a while since I read the first book but I believe that's what they said happened. If I've gotten this wrong I don't mind anyone messaging me politely with the correct version), and he was able to hide away he kept himself quiet and hidden knowing that his father would kill him if he found him. He tried to kill himself many times, even tried to starve himself, but nothing would work when he was finally too weak to not feed he found a heard of deer and ate from them when he found his strength returning and his hunger mostly quenched he knew he had found a new way to survive this life. He traveled the world and even met the vampire royalty, the ones who made the only two laws we have to abide by, no killing conspicuously, and no exposing who we are to humans. Though they were too vicious for him stay with, he learned a lot, and kept his aversion to human blood. He even became a doctor and now helps save lives with his elevated senses.
He gave us all a second chance and even though there are parts about this life we all don't enjoy we have made the most of it; accumulating great wealth and education over the many, many years. Now we live in Forks, Washington about four hours north of Seattle, it was the only one of the only states in North America with only 2-3 days of sunlight a year.
We are currently in the car, visiting our friends. We did this mostly on the insistence of Alice. I personally would have preferred to just stay home; I wasn't in a very festive mood anyway. Besides Tanya would be there. Tanya has been like family to us, but I know she's wanted to be more than family with me. Her family and ours met decades ago and they became our surrogate cousins of sorts. Their family is made up of Carmen and Eleazar who are mates and Tanya, Kate, and Irina who are sisters. Kate just recently found her mate in an old friend of the Emmett's named Garrett; he's even taken to vegetarianism with them. Eleazar used to be a part of the vampire royal family, the Volturi, but he, like Carlisle, saw the dark side of the volturi, and also found his mate so he made his exit.
Tanya, Kate, and Irina lost their mother to the volturi over a century ago; their mother committed the crime of making an immortal child or a vampire baby, but as they could never mature or come into their right minds they devastated many villages and risked exposure so the volturi killed the babies and their mother for creating them, it was a terrible heart breaking loss. Carmen is also their sister; she met up with them again after she found Eleazar and their mother died. They have all been together ever since. We all met up many decades age and have remained very close visiting each other whenever we get the chance. Now as we are on our way to see them I can't help thinking of the dreaded encounter I will have to deal with, in terms of Tanya. As lovely and beautiful as she is I've just never felt that kind of connection with her; it's not her fault, I haven't felt that connection with anyone. Esme has always worried that something was missing from my essential make-up; that maybe I was too young when Carlisle changed. I do not know whether that was true or not, but it wasn't like I didn't want one.
I've been in a family full of perfectly matched soul mates for over a hundred years. It begins to wane on you when you're the only one left out alone, but I have learned many things to fill my time. I have learned more languages, a part from Carlisle of course, read the most books, gotten the most degrees. I had to find something to do to drown out the late night "sounds" if you know what I mean. Especially when it comes to Rosalie and Emmett. When mates first meet each other, at first, they are not sure, but there are signs (like enjoying each other's sent, electricity shooting through your body when you touch, and not being able to be apart for long periods of time or long distances apart), and when you finally figure it out new mates are very, physical, for lack of a more appropriate word. It took over a decade for any of us to want to be in the same room as Emmett and Rosalie, and they destroyed plenty of houses.
Needless to say I would love someone of my own, but all signs have been showing that I wouldn't likely find ever find her. Not all vampires have mates many travel as nomads because steady diets of human blood make you more hostile and uncivilized to live together in large groups. Some travel in groups of three to maximize the amount of safety and likelihood of survival. While we can't necessarily be killed by humans; especially seeing as our skin is harder than granite and completely imperishable, nothing is strong enough to break it, except for other vampires. Other vampires can tear us to pieces and burn the remains (it's the only way to kill us), which is why we don't like to travel completely alone, some vampires are territorial and will kill if anyone comes into their territory, and some just like to pick fights for any reason, or to take over control of an area; though the volturi hammered out most of the territory wars as they threatened exposure.
My reality however is not that dramatic, or filled with that much danger. With a family as gifted, trained, and large as ours, picking fights with us would be a death sentence. Jasper taught us all he knows from the vampire wars, and I can read your mind to see any attacks you would make before you could execute them. Alice would see them coming a mile away, as soon as they decided to get close. Rosalie is lethal even without a gift, though I believe her gift is her self-centered, pigheadedness which she brought over into this life with her astounding beauty. Emmett is a huge bear of a man about 6'7' tall and built to kill with muscles that would make the most trained fighter cower in fear, he brought he strength over into this life. Carlisle is too compassionate, which is what he brought into this life; he hate to kill any living things, which is something I admire most about him. Esme is a motherly loving figure who brought her incredible ability to love any and every one into this life; just thinking of her fighting or someone trying to hurt her makes me flinch and growl in anger.
Esme truly has become our mother. We even fight over who we think she loves the most, and though she says she has no favorite, Emmett always grumbles that I'm her favorite since I was with her the longest, and she's more sensitive to me. I think it's only because I'm alone and she worries I will get too lonely and leave, which I would never do to her again. I left once a very long time ago, when I was first changed. I rejected the non-human blood diet and went out on my own. I justified it by only going after who I deemed monsters in the human world; a.e: rapists, murderers, and sometimes even thieves. It began to wane on me though, I could hear their thoughts and fears, and even their victims that I saved saw me as a monster though they were ultimately thankful in the end when they realized I saved them. Eventually I couldn't take the guilt anymore, and went back to Carlisle and Esme; they welcome me back like the prodigal son which I didn't deserve. I have never left since, but I will admit the thought has crossed my mind before; that they would be better off without the grumpy old man that I have become over all this time. Every time it does Alice sees it, and steals all my credit cards, bags, and some of my clothes for a few days until I change my mind, but ultimately it's Esme that keeps me here. I know it would break her heart if I left and I just can't bring myself to do it.
"Finally we are almost there," Rosalie groaned from the front passenger seat ,"thanks to that fallen tree on the highway, and that ridiculous detour it feels like it took us ages to get here."
We were all crammed in Emmett's Jeep wrangler. The car is actually quite spacious, but after a long flight, an hour wait at the rental company, and an even longer drive to get to the house it felt as if we were all trapped in a tiny box. We were restless to get away from each other, Esme and Carlisle got it easier; they got a separate rental, a Mercedes town car, all to themselves. We weren't very original on the cars, they are the exact same as the ones we have at home.
"Hey Eddie, I think I see the house up a head, I bet Tanya's waiting for you. Possibly naked," Emmett chuckled from the driver's seat.
"Shut-up Emmett, and don't call me Eddie," I rolled my eyes, thankfully Rosalie granted me mercy and hit him upside the head.
"I think Tanya will be the last of Edward's worries during our visit this year," Alice smirked looking out of the window and bouncing in her seat. Jasper took her hand shaking his head in amusement; he was used to her over excited nature after all the dreary and pain filled life he was forced into he cherishes the happiness she brings. Even though, with his gift of feeling and manipulating people's emotions, her constant happiness can be exhausting.
She's been blocking her thoughts all week with fashion ideas and Christmas decorations, and to think she promised Esme she wouldn't go overboard this year. Then again Alice will be Alice, and by Alice I mean a hyperactive perfectionist that looks like a short spikey black-haired pixie.
"Are you going to finally tell me what you're hiding Alice?" I said looking over at her. Everyone in the car looked at us in confusion for a second; then either grunted in annoyance, or rolled their eyes; they were used to our psychic interactions. I can hear her thoughts and she can see what I'll say next so we can talk to each other privately and no one else can disturb us; at first jasper was uncomfortable with it, but I assured him that we didn't talk about much and that I had no inappropriate intentions towards Alice. She was strictly my sister (I always felt like Jasper should have been a little uncomfortable with that connection even though him and Alice are 100% mates that to me just seemed little awkward for him. So I put it in there, I wasn't alluding to anything so no Alice/Jasper fans curse me out please).
"Oh, hush Edward; you don't have to know everything. If you did life would be boring," she said shooting me a look. We finally pulled up to the house and park the car in the drive way. The house was beautiful about as big as our house. It was a large craftsman style tan house with bring accents on the large porch and around the four car garage. The Denali's came outside to greet us at the door.
"Carlisle, we are so pleased you could come and visit us this year for Christmas," Eleazar boomed from the doorway as we came up the steps. Carlisle smiled and chuckled at him as they shook hands and hugged.
Tanya stepped forward and ushered us all into the house, "you should have seen Irina and Kate; for the past two weeks they have been decorating like matching tornados, I told them not to bother, Alice was on her way."
Everyone chuckled as Alice stuck her tiny tongue out at her teasingly, "I just want to help; I have a good feeling about this year, just you wait."
"Of course you do. You always do, " Emmett said as he flopped down on the couch taking off his jacket.
"Don't be such a cave man Emmett; you would think you were raised by wolves," Esme grumbled at him from the kitchen. I knew immediately what she was going to jump into; ever since Esme learned to cook, she and Kate set up shop in the kitchen making a boatload of food to take down to the shelter for Christmas dinner. Esme has such a big warm heart. It made me smile as I thought of the Christmas present I got for her; that was going to be delivered and installed in the house while we are away. I have cameras set up around the house to make sure they don't try to take anything while we are gone, and also to make sure it gets there on time.
I hung my jacket up in the closet and moved around to the couches, Garrett; Kate's new mate was sitting there next to Emmett.
"Garrett, I heard you had snuck your way up here and charmed the pants off our dear cousin Kate . . . literally," Emmett said howling with laughter.
"Emmett!" Esme snapped from the kitchen; she looked over at Kate, "I'm sorry sweetheart, I don't know what to do with him."
"No it's all right misses C, "Garrett smirked on the couch, "he's been waiting for me to sweep him off his feet for a while now, sorry Em but you're just not my type."
"What! No!" Emmett grumbled glaring at a chuckling Garrett, "You and me, wrestling, outside, now, it's been a while since I've kicked your ass!"
"Correction, you have never kicked my ass, but I will take pleasure in kicking yours now," Garrett smiled and in the blink of an eye they were out slamming each other into the snow.
Kate and Rosalie rolled their eyes, "This is going to be a long Christmas," Kate sighed.
"You're telling me, at least for you it will end when we go home, I'm not so lucky," Rosalie pouted as she plopped down on the couch pulling a magazine into her lap and started flipping through.
Eleazar and Carlisle had already retired into the study to go over their various new theories and interest that they had been looking into recently. Those two were always after something new that they found intriguing or interesting. Alice, Tanya, and Irina were pulling more decorations out of the attic, not that more was needed, and going through the new decorations that Carmen and Tanya had just bought. The tree they had was very nicely dressed, but Alice was already fussing about it making alterations and adding more tensile. I shook my head and went over to the bookcase on the far wall, I was in the middle of picking out a new book when out of the corner of my eyes I saw Garrett and Emmett freeze.
"Edward, I think someone's coming, I can smell it!" Emmett thought at me.
"I don't think it's a human, it smells like vampire," Garrett thought.
I looked over at Alice and finally I understood what she had been hiding she was beaming from ear to ear like if Jasper told her he bought her the entire Dolce & Gabbana winter collection.
"What's going on Alice; who is it?" I demanded.
"Don't get your boxers in a bunch Edward, I believe Kate forgot something," Alice said gesturing to her. Kate stood up from the couch frowning at her.
"I don't know what-oh!" Kate jumped up and flew outside.
"Oh they are going to frighten her, all of them being here at once," Kate worried, as she stood at the edge of the woods surrounding the back of their property. I couldn't get anything more than worried and surprised reactions from the Denali's minds until Eleazar and Carlisle stepped out of the study and came into the room.
"While on their honeymoon in Dubai last spring, Kate and Garrett made a new friend. She came back with them and we got the pleasure of meeting her," Eleazar explained watching Kate outside, "she was quite a lovely girl, we all made very good friends with her, we would have told you about it, but she prefers privacy, I'm sure you understand ."
Carlisle shook his head, "Of course, I know many vampires that wish to stay quietly to themselves."
"She had just got done meeting the Volturi on top of that, and she's always had a problem trusting other vampires," Eleazar continued, " I'll let her explain why. We invited her to spend Christmas with us since she's all by herself. She has a few friends here and there, but no real place to stay. She agreed much to our delight, but that was a month ago, and we forgot to inform her that you were joining us when you called two weeks ago."
"Oh, I hope we don't scare her off," Esme frowned worried.
"Kate will catch her before she gets the wrong impression," Carmen smiled, wrapping her arm around Esme's shoulder.
As I turned back around to the window I saw what could only be described as the most divine and heavenly creature break through the tree line and into the back yard.