Family Ties: Blood is Thicker Than

by Kitty Wolf

I sat up in my bed..my skin cool, clammy, and damp with sweat. It took me a second to realize that my eyes were as wide as they would go, and I was breathing as if I had just run two miles. This wasn't unusual for me..especially since that night...

Family Ties: Blood is Thicker Than...

CH.1

Written By Kitty Wolf

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters referenced to Twilight, New Moon, or Eclipse. This is merely a fanfiction...blah...blah...blah..you get the rest right? .

I sat up in my bed..my skin cool, clammy, and damp with sweat. It took me a second to realize that my eyes were as wide as they would go, and I was breathing as if I had just run two miles. This wasn't unusual for me..especially since that night..since that one specific moment in time when I realized I had lost everything..everyone that mattered the most to me. I thought I was going to die too...from the painful throbbing in my chest as my heart slammed against it. I wanted to die, I wanted to be rid of the sinking feeling in my gut, rid of my working mind...screaming at me telling me that they were no longer themselves..they were monsters. My family was gone..yet still here. I couldn't decide which was worse...them being monsters or the fact that they weren't dead.

Maybe it would have been better if they were dead...if they had just blown up or something..maybe it would have been more bearable, knowing that they weren't on this earth anymore. It would have been more bearable if I had never seen them. After the "death". Discovering that my family were vampires was the hardest thing I ever had to accept, especially when my foster family lived on a reservation...the heart of werewolf territory, my closest friend being one himself..a werewolf, a vampires arch enemy..perfect.

I closed my eyes against the flashes of the dream that replayed vividly in my mind, and tried to focus on slowing my breathing while my chest cavity concentrated on keeping my heart from breaking free. It was a long three minutes before I was able to close my mouth and breathe normally, allowing my eyes to open again at normal width, and scan the darkness of my bedroom with the steady tick tocking of the clock on my far wall filling the ringing silence, echoing in my head...like it always did..night after night. I began to refer to it as my nightmare's theme song.

I swallowed hard and clutched my bedsheets, eyes squinting as they focused on the clock. Five o' six am...almost the same time every morning. I was amazed that this nightmare lasted over six hours. It only took what seemed like fifteen minutes, maybe less, to cause me to fly out of my slumber in terror and disbelief. The same thing every night..thought I would be used to it by now.I thought I would just close my eyes, expect it, wake up, and get over it. But I couldn't...the effects never changed, and it always left me trembling like a scared child. But truth be told, I was scared...I was petrified of the idea that my family were newborn vampires..and they had been close by...I was terrified that they would find me, regardless of the safety of La Push...and it was a fear that I knew I would never be rid of so long as they existed.

OKAY!! So, that is the first installment. I hope you like it. Please Review! I would love to know what you think so far... Kitty Wolf