Disclaimer: "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" and "The Twilight Saga" and all the characters pertaining to it are copyright of Stephanie Meyer and Little, Brown books. I own nothing, but I wouldn't mind having owned Emmett for a few trillion decades.
Okay guys and girlies alike, this one is dedicated to my sister and bestest friend EVER! Miranda Rose. Hope there's enough Jazzy in here for ya!
The fight was over. There, before my newborn eyes was fire. Lots and lots of fire. There were a few giant wolves lurking around in the shadows watching my every move. In front of me stood five other vampires, the ones who defeated our army in a battle I didn't even want to be in to begin with. The man with the tasseled bronze hair, the one with the human girl, had told the guy with the short blonde hair that he had taken care of Victoria once and for all, but it was a shame that he had to sacrifice Riley because of her. Victoria. Riley's girlfriend, the one we all did this for without knowing, was named Victoria! I looked at them. Their eyes were topaz… all of them. Strange compared to my piecing red ones.
"Yes, Edward that is a shame, but we must get ready. The Volturi will be here any second." The man with the short blond hair said to bronze dude. "Sam," he turned to the shadows. "Get your pack out of here. The Volturi won't take it nicely if you are here."
The giant black wolf nodded and ran off in the other direction, the others following.
"What's your name?" the blond girl walked up to me with a big guy with short black hair following behind her, one hand protectively rested on her tiny waist. I looked at her face. It was beautiful. Beautiful and…. Gentle.
"Bree…." I said to her.
"There here!" the short pixey-like girl said. Everyone turned around in front of me to face the East. I could see four people approaching. Three men and one girl. They all had black cloaks on.
"Looks like we missed a good fight." The girl said, her red eyes looked around.
"We did what we had too to protect our family." The blond haired man replied.
"Well, you also did our work for us… but it looks like you missed one." The girl responded.
They all turned to look at me, then turned back to the four other vampires that stood in front of them.
"No, she had no part in the fight." The man with brown hair said to them.
The girl chuckled. "Well, what a shame, but you all know the rules. Felix."
"We are willing to take her in and teach her how to be one of us." The man with blond hair said. Maybe I wouldn't die after all!
"This is not negotiable." The man next to her said.
"We'll take her!" the beautiful girl with blond hair, the one who asked me my name, said. "Me and Emmett."
"Please! Rosalie has always wanted children and this is the perfect thing for her!" the pixey girl said.
The girl pondered for a moment but soon came up with an answer. "We will give you a chance. However, if she slips up one time, you all will perish like the others. As for the human." She turned to where the delicious smell was coming from.
"The date is set for her changing." Bronze hair said to them. He was standing protectively in front of her.
"Make sure it is soon." And with that, they left.
"Congrats, mom." The woman with long brown hair said to the blonde woman.
"Bree." She smiled and walked up to me with the big man again.
"T-thank you." I said. In all my life, no one has ever done that for me. DON'T slip up. They saved you so now you can't let them die because you want some blood without some crack in it. That little annoying voice said in the back of my head.
The bronze man chuckled.
"I'm Rosalie and this is Emmett. I guess… we're your new parents." She smiled.
"I never really had much of a family before." I told them.
"Well, that will never happen again. Let's go meet everyone." She smiled and gently took my hand. "This is your grandfather, I guess, Carlisle, and this is Esme, your grandmother." She led me to the brown haired lady and the blond man. "And this is-"
"I'm your Aunt Alice and this is your Uncle Jasper!" the little pixie interrupted her.
"Hi." I said shyly.
"This is your Uncle Edward." She smiled and led me over to the bronze man standing next to the human. My throat began to burn when I smelled her. Delicious.
Keep control, Bree. That voice said again.
"This is soon to be your Aunt Bella." Edward smiled. "Did you tell her about our powers yet?" he turned to Emmett. "Well, Alice can see the future, that's how she saw you coming. I can read minds," He smiled. "And Jasper can control emotion."
I felt my nervousness disappear and I smiled.
"I bet your thirsty." Emmett smiled. I nodded. "Well, let's go show her how we hunt, shall we baby?" he smiled and Rosalie, who nodded.
We walked off into the woods and I faintly heard Alice say, "I've never seen Rose this happy."
"One very important thing to remember is to NEVER cross this line." She said gently, but very seriously.
"Why?"
"You remember those wolves? Well, we have a treaty that we won't hunt on their land they cannot attack anyone of us Cullen's." Emmett said taking Rosalie's hand.
"And one more thing. We hunt animals, not humans." She said.
"Really? I bet its better then that heroin-filled blood that I was drinking before." I commented.
"Really? How did you hunt?" we sat down on a log a yard away from the treaty line.
"Well, Riley always told us to only feed off of homeless people, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, you know, the kind of people that no one would really see go missing, or even care." I said and Rosalie took my hand gently.
"That must have been terrible." She said, giving me a hug.
I nodded, my throat burning even more when I smelt some sort of blood very close.
"Sam." Emmett stood up and walked over to the invisible line that separated our territories. "She's our daughter."
"Since when?" I heard a deep voice say.
"Since now. We told her about the treaty line already, so don't worry." Rosalie retorted.
"Well, remember the rest of the treaty." The voice said.
I looked at them, who looked at each other, then at me.
"Don't worry. It just says that we can't hunt humans." Emmett said.
I nodded and we got up and walked deeper into the forest. I was mindful of the invisible line that separated my new family and me from war and possible death and kept my distance from it.
"Hunting animals isn't really that different from hunting humans." Rosalie said. "The only real difference is that their faster, but won't fight back."
I nodded and we started to hunt.
A few hours later
It was just about dusk when we reached a giant house with three stories on it that rested in the middle of the woods. It didn't look like it had a basement.
"Don't worry, we really don't need one." Edward said as we walked in.
Inside was even better then the outside. It was giant and had many rooms; the foyer itself had to be a couple hundred feet. In what I thought to be the main room, there was a giant piano, leather sofa's, and lots of bookcases packed to its limit with books.
"Bree, why don't you sit down and we'll tell you the history of out family." Esme said.
I nodded and sat down in between Rosalie and Emmett, where I felt most comfortable.
"Well, I created Edward first and then Esme." Carlisle said. "After Esme I found your mom, Rosalie."
"And then I found daddy in the woods dying so I changed him." Rosalie said.
"And then I found Jazzy and we found the Cullen's."
"And then, of course, you arrived." Rosalie smiled. "Why don't I show you your room?"
We both got up and walked up the grand staircase and down the long hallway.
"I think you'll be comfortable in this room." She smiled and opened the door.
Inside I saw a big princess bed, a huge TV sitting on a huge entertainment center with every game system known to man, a walk in closet that had to be as big as the room itself, bookshelves, stuffed animals, and everything else a girl could want inside.
"You have a bathroom, too." She walked across the room and opened another door to reveal a huge bathroom.
"Did Alice see me coming?" she's the one that could see the future, right?
"No. You see, ever since I was your age I couldn't wait to be a mother. Have beautiful little babies and play with them all day and watch over them at night when they slept, but when I was turned into a vampire, Carlisle told me that I couldn't conceive because you're basically the living dead. He didn't say it like that, but you get the picture." She smiled. "So one day Emmett and I decorated this room just so we could have the experience of it, we never actually knew we would have any use for it."
"Really? Wow." I said amazed. All my life I thought people wanted kids so they could beat them up and boss them around but this changed my whole view of things.
"I'll just give you some privacy. Feel free to come downstairs or if you need anything, our room in right across the hall." She got up. "I'll take you shopping in a few days once your thirst calms down a bit, but for now their's some cloths in your closet." She smiled.
I nodded. "Thanks Rosalie."
"You can call me mom and Emmett dad if you want." She gave me one last gentle hug and walked out, shutting the door behind her.
Ever since I started this life it has been complete hell, but maybe it was a good thing that Riley tricked me into fighting. I gained many things already from being with the Cullen's. First: some freedom; I didn't need to take orders or go hunting only when Riley said I could. Second and most importantly: a family; even before I was a blood-sucking demon, I didn't have a family. My mother left when I was little and my father didn't really give a damn about me. The one good thing that was good about living with Riley and the puppets was Diego; my source of love for so long was gone. Forever.
I sunk down on the bed, but got right back up. I'm not one to feel sorry for myself. Diego was in a better place and I was NOT about to sit around and feel bad about it. Of course, I'll miss him but it just seems better this way.
I got up and walked into the bathroom, took a quick shower and put on new jeans, converse, and a pink tank top with black flowers on it from my closet and walked over to my bookshelf to look around. One thing about me was I'm a huge reader. In Riley's house, all we could do was sit around. Some people would just chill, watch TV and play video games, use their laptops, or kill each other. The only way I found to stay alive was to mind my own business and keep my nose in a book.
There was a light knock on the door that pulled me out of my train of thought.
I turned around to see Emmett standing in the doorway. "Hey." He smiled.
"Hi E- dad." I said.
His smiled widened-if that was even possible-and looked around. "You like it? Rose did everything. I just hung up the wallpaper and moved the furniture under her command."
I laughed and nodded.
"Good. I just wanted to make sure everything was okay." He said.
I walked over and hugged him. "Thank you." I muttered against his tee shirt.
"For what?" he asked, hugging me back.
"Everything." I replied and released the hug.
"Ah, it's nothing. We're all going to go out to play some baseball. Do you wanna come?"
I nodded. I loved sports. We jumped out of the window and raced to a meadow right by the house. I felt the rain sprinkling against my marble skin and finally beat Emmett to the meadow.
"You're fast!" he said as we walked a few feet to where everyone else was standing.
"Newborn." I smiled and everyone laughed.
I saw lightning up in the sky. "Let the games begin." Alice smiled and walked up to the pitchers spot.
"You wanna bat, Bree?" Carlisle asked.
I nodded and took the bat. Alice smiled and threw the ball. There was a loud crash when the ball and the bat made contact and I ran around the bases. When I made it to home Edward was just getting back with the ball.
"She's good!" Jasper said.
"Dude, she's my kid. Where do you think she get's it from?" Emmett said.
I laughed along with everyone else.
I think I could get used to this new life with the Cullen's..