A/N: I don't own any of the characters except my OC Darla. And I don't profit from this fic. Every thing else is owned by SMeyer.
Rating: PG for this chapter, but have a feeling it will turn into R for sexual content later.
Enjoy and tell me what you like and don't like. If you don't have anything positive to say, at least say it nicely XD All kind of criticism is welcome. I don't have any beta for any of my work, it's all me, and I barely passed English in high school so bare with me, all mistakes are my fault.
Was it Fate, or Coincidence?
A girl no more than eighteen woke in the a slight clearing in the middle of a forest, it was raining and pitch black. She was lying flat on her back and had no memory of how she got there or even where she was. Her eyes flew open and was assaulted by the strong order of blood, rain, and moss, she could see clearly as if it was daytime.
Her eyebrows lowered as she gazed at the treetops through them she could only see grey clouds and when a single rain drop landed between her eyes she sat straight up in a flash, and looked around. Far, far away she could hear the faint sounds of people talking, all she knew was she had to reach them.
She tried to remember how she had got there but all her memories where either hazy, like looking through water, or was just blank. She made a move to stand up and before she even realized it she was standing. She blinked and started to move forward, she could tell she was different, she moved faster and all her senses were heightened.
She could hear a river close by and made a V-line to the sound when she came to a rather large clearing. And in the clearing stood a three story white house partially hidden behind two huge oak trees and a very large garage to the left of it.
She listened. Hard. She could clearly hear four men and three women, they seemed to be talking all at once and over each other. She shook her head as she darted to the front door but she could tell they already heard her coming and before she could knock the door flew open. And as soon as the door was opened the voices got louder and she looked around at the faces staring at her, their mouths didn't move.
Her hands flew to her ears as she staggered backwards off of the porch, and landing firmly on her ass in the mud. She screwed her eyes shut and tried to will the chattering in her head to stop. When a hand rested lightly on her shoulder she jumped and stared up at a fairly good looking man with bronze hair and golden eyes.
Please, please she thought, make it stop. Her head felt like it was going to explode. His lips moved but she couldn't make out what he said, there was too much talking to make sense of who was saying what.
Her hand flew from her ear to his bare wrist and all the talking stopped and all she heard was one voice, She can hear people's thoughts as well, this is a first I have to tell Carlisle.
He stopped when he realized there was only one voice in her head, his own. Then they both realized at the same time that when she touched his bare skin all the other voices went away and she could focus. They stared at each other bewildered.
She cocked her head to the side and stared into his eyes as he helped her to her feet, his eyes never left her either. The next thing she knew she was being seated on a blanket on the ground in a huge room (guess they didn't want to get their couch bloody, wet, and muddy). Her hand never left his wrist and he didn't seem to mind, but then she realized she wasn't alone, there was a tall blonde man standing not far from them, he was looking at her a bit confused. When the bronze haired one started to walk away and her hand dropped from his wrist, she whimpered as the voices came back tenfold. She whipped her hands to her ears again, closed her eyes shut and curled up into a ball.
Her head felt like it would explode, her eyes started to sting as she realized there wasn't any tears falling, she couldn't cry. She tired to scamper away from the voices on her hands and knees, when she hit a wall (which left a rather large dent), she didn't get very far and assumed the fetal position on the floor, she was panting rather hard. The voices seemed to be coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
Then there was a hand on her shoulder, which she cowered away from and screwed her eyes shut harder. Then the hand slid to the bare skin on her arm, still the voices remained, she opened her eyes to see the blonde haired man crouched beside her. Then the bronze haired one came to his side and said something and the blonde stepped back to let him resume his position by her side. He placed his hand on hers which was still firmly pressed to her ear, and the voices stopped.
She heard one clear word in her head, Carlisle. She looked from him to the man in question and back to the bronze haired one. Yes, that's Carlisle and I'm Edward. What is your name?
She looked like a dear caught in headlights, and the only name that came to her mind was Darla, which caused Edward to smile and help her to her feet again, she obeyed. He went to take his hand away again but she squeezed harder and looked at him with pleading eyes, Please, please don't let go.
"I won't." He spoke which caused her to jump ever so slightly, causing him to smile again. Then he turned towards a door and called, "Alice." ever so quietly and the next thing she knew a short pixie like girl practically came skipping in the room with a huge smile on her face.
He turned back to her, "This is my sister Alice and she is going to help you find clothes and get dressed." He turned back to Alice. "Alice this is Darla."
Alice came prancing towards Darla, "Hello Darla, it's nice to finally meet you." she grinned from ear to ear and put her hands out for Darla to take them, which caused Darla to flinch away and half way hide behind Edward.
Edward stepped to the side and looked at Darla, "I wont be far away but you need to get changed because other uh….. people in the house can't take the smell of human blood." he stated nicely.
Just then she looked down to what was left of her ruined clothes, it was supposed to be jeans and a blue t-shirt, but instead it was mostly tatters, and mostly covered in blood. She had no idea if it was hers or not, for she had no memory of it. Her eyebrows lowered as she looked back up to Alice who still had a smile on her face, and placed a hand in one of hers and looked back to Edward who smiled and just before she let go of his hand she heard the words, Just try and focus on your own thoughts and not the ones you hear.
Then she was assaulted by the voices and squeezed her eyes shut and tried to focus on her own in which she decided to count one, two, three, four, five…… as she was vaguely aware that she was being lead of out the room. Six, seven, eight, nine, ten…… Then they came to a stop and opened her eyes, she was in a large rectangular bathroom, and Alice let go of her hands and went through a door and came back seconds later with a pile of clothes in her hands.
She sat them down in a chair that looked like it came from a beauty parlor, and came back to lead Darla to the shower. Then she stopped and said something to Darla that she couldn't hear with all the voices screaming in her head, Darla looked at her then shook her head no and placed her hands back on her ears.
Alice got the hint and pointed to the shower and left the room, she looked around and stepped to the shower and stripped out of what was left of her clothes and started the shower and stepped in. She thought to rinse her hair so she reached up and found that it was in some kind of very knotted bun, she didn't even know what color it was.
After she worked the knot and rubber band out she was surprised that it fell to just past her belly button. She tilted her head back under the spray of the shower and let the water rinse the blood and mud from it, when she felt like it was clean she grabbed some and brought it to her face, it happened to be dark blonde.
She finished rinsing herself and shut the water off and grabbed a towel, she dried her hair and looked around for a comb. When she found one and combed the tangles out she got dressed in what Alice brought her, which happened to be undergarments, dark jeans, a dark read t-shirt, and high heels.
She snorted as she got dressed and grabbed the shoes and went to leave the bathroom, then a realization hit her, when she was focused on something hard enough the voices became nothing but a buzz in the back of her mind. Then things went to hell when she no longer had something to focus on and the voices came back when she stepped out of the bathroom into a hall.
She was trying to focus more on the sounds people where making instead of the voices, as she stumbled her way towards the stairs and the others. When she head people coming her way she thought, Please let me do it myself, I can do it. Then they obviously stopped and Darla continued on her way to the others, opening her eyes so she didn't fall down the steps.
When she came to the others she was afraid to look up because it might make the voices louder, but she had to, and when she did they voices got loader and she stumbled backwards away from them but some one caught her by the wrists and the voices stopped. She sighed in relief and look up into Edwards eyes as he brought her over to the couch.
She sat down and held onto Edwards had as if her life counted on it, in some small way it kinda did. Then she looked around standing in kind of a semicircle was who she recognized as Carlisle, next to him was a women with caramel colored hair who smiled and she heard Esme. Then her gazed went to Alice, then to a blonde curly haired man standing with his arms around Alice's waist, Jasper, she heard. Then she jerked her eyes up into a tall and very muscular man who looked kind of scary who had his arms on the shoulders of a very beautiful long haired blonde women, Emmett and Rosalie, Edward thought.
Darla repeated the names in her head as her gazed landed on them, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmet, Rosalie. Then she looked back to Edward, Your family, she stated, he nodded.
Alice and Rosalie are my sisters and Esme is my mom, which leaves Carlisle who is my father and Jasper and Emmett are my brothers. Emmett and Rosalie are together, are so are Jasper and Alice. He said with a slight smile on his face.
And who are you with? Darla thought.
Nobody. His smile grew bigger.
Darla felt that her cheeks should be crimson at that but had the odd feeling that she couldn't blush anymore, either.
Just at the same moment she dropped Edwards hand to sweep her hair behind her ear she was hit with sudden pictures behind her eyelids that hit her like a brick wall, her head snapped back with a sudden force and she collapsed to the floor as the rolling picture continued.