The Hunter's Mark

by twilightfanjm

Kidnapped from her real family as a baby Nessie is forced to grow up at a vampire hunter training academy where emotion is forbidden and any act of betrayal is an automatic death sentence. All vampires were evil and refusing to kill one is considered betrayal, something Nessie understood and always abided until she met the Cullens, who unbeknownst to her, are her real family.

1. Prologue

Chapter 1: Prologue

Nessie's POV

I never doubted my mission in life until this very moment. This very second.

Having been born with the mark of the hunters I had no choice. All babies born with the mark of the hunters were surrendered to the academy for training. As least that's what I had been told all of my life.

For the past 17 years I've been trained to do one and only one thing. Kill vampires. All vampires were evil and hunters were needed to rid the world of them. Our minds were protected from psychological attacks from vampires but our bodies weren't.

The only way to kill a vampire was with a specialized bullet. It looked like any ordinary bullet but it was coated in vampire venom that had been genetically altered to kill the vampire rather then help them.

By the time we turned six we already knew how to use a gun at the academy. Most of our training involved gun use, agility, flexibility, and reflexes.

All of my life had been denied the privilege of feeling emotions. It was against the rules to feel any emotions. Each and every day we were all given pills that would suppress our emotions. In addition, we were denied anything that could stir feeling within us like books, TV, or movies.

Feeling emotion was seen as an act of betrayal. An act of betrayal will get you killed.

All my life I had been one of the best pupils at the academy. I was faster, stronger, and had greater reflexes then everyone else. Most importantly I never broke the rules.

On my 18th birthday I was sent out on my first mission. We had gotten word of a coven of vampires living in Portland, Oregon. My hunting partner, Annie, and I were sent out to investigate. Annie was only 12 years old but she was almost as skilled as I was in catching and killing vampires.

It was going to be a routine mission. At least that's what we thought. What we never expected was the Cullens.

For the first time in the past five months we are showing them who and what we truly are. We didn't have a choice.

The gun shook in my heads as I struggled to hold it upright. Part of me wished that the Cullens would just attack me so I wouldn't hurt them but they didn't do anything.

I didn't even know why I was feeling these emotions. Killing used to be so easy. I always took the medicine that suppressed any emotion. The only day I ever skipped was a few weeks after I got here. They had inexplicably disappeared and then reappeared.

How could I kill them when they're guilty of nothing but loving Annie and I fiercely? When they have loved us in a way no one ever has?

If I killed them when they've done absolutely nothing then who was the real monster here?

If I didn't kill them though Annie and I would be killed by the hunters currently hiding somewhere close by.

Edward suddenly walked forward and said the last thing I ever expected.

"Kill me Nessie. Just do it"

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