After Breaking Dawn, the day after. Ok. I know that everyone is wondering what happened with Nahuel and what he talks about with Bella. I'm just indulging myself.In Bella's POV.
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the characters
Renesmee woke up a little bit after dawn.
She dressed and we headed for the house – me carrying Renesmee and Edward close behind. I walked through the door and saw Alice, who was feverishly clutching a red notebook. Uh-oh. I knew what red notebooks signified. She was planning something.
"Good morning, Alice." I said cautiously.
"Morning, Bella!" she chirped back. I narrowed my eyes. She sounded excited. Bad news for me…
"Hello."
I jumped a little at the sound of Nahuel's voice, coming from the chair beside the door where I hadn't seen him.
"Good morning, Nahuel." I said, smiling at him cheerfully. I hadn't expected him to hang around, but I realized with a little embarrassment that it would make sense. He did sleep, after all.
"Want breakfast?" asked Edward, looking at Renesmee and Alice. Nahuel looked confused, and Renesmee perked up immediately, shaking off her drowsiness.
"Are we going hunting?" she asked, grinning at her father and Nahuel – whos expression cleared.
"Yes, if you want to. Do you want to come, Bella?" He gave me a meaningful look and glanced at Nahuel. He wanted me to talk to him. I nodded slight ly.
"No, thank you." Then, without further delay, Edward left with Renesmee, Alice, and Jasper. Carlisle had a morning shift at the hospital and Esmé was talking with Huilen. Rosalie and Emmett were nowhere to be seen.
I pretended to wander off into the backyard, noticing Nahuel get up and follow hesitantly. After we were out of earshot, I turned and smiled at him. He was staring at me, his face unreadable.
"You want to talk to me." It was a statement, not a question.
"Yes…" His brow furrowed in confusion. I laughed at his expression.
"What would you like to know?" I asked, wondering what could possibly interest him about me.
He hesitated, searching for words. "…Why?...How did this happen to you?"
This seemed obvious to me.
After a second, I decided to start at the beginning. "I came to Forks almost three years ago when my mom got re-married. She married a baseball player that travels around a lot, so she had to stay with me and it made her sad. She missed Phil, so I came here to live with my dad so that she could go with him." Nahuel listened intently to what I was saying. I started walking and he came up beside me, still watching my face. I watched the ground thoughtfully, watching the blurry human memories in my mind and rememorizing them.
"Edward and his family were living here and pretending to be in high-school. I liked Edward and I fell even deeper and deeper in love with him with every word he said. Edward felt the same way. I guessed that he was a vampire, but it didn't bother me.
That year some nomad vampires showed up unexpectedly when I was with them while they were playing baseball - " I knew the rest of the story wouldn't really make sense without knowing about James. " - and one ended up trying to hunt me. Edward barely got there in time to save me. A year later - a couple days after my disastrous eighteenth birthday, where I accidentally cut my finger and was attacked by Jasper - Edward decided to leave me so that I wouldn't be in danger anymore." I winced at the memory.
"Let's just say it didn't really work. I ended up becoming best friends with Jacob Black – who became a werewolf that summer – and attacked by Victoria, the mate of the vampire who had tried to hunt me. Alice 'saw' me jump off a cliff – strictly for recreational purposes – and thought I was committing suicide. She rushed back to Forks only to find me alive and we discovered that Jacob and the pack seem to be immune to Alice's special ability, so she hadn't seen Jacob save me.
Edward heard about this from Rosalie and called to see if it was true. Jacob answered the phone and was very vague, accidently making Edward to believe I really was dead. Edward then went to Italy to ask for the Volturi to kill him. Luckily, Aro was too interested in Edward to kill him, buying me and Alice time to get there. I convinced Edward that I was alright and we were captured by the Voluri. They were going to kill me, so Edward promised he would change me.
We came back and we have been together ever since." I decided not to mention Jacob and Edward's fight over me. I glanced at his face. He looked confused. I interrupted my story to ask him what was wrong.
"I don't really understand how you fell in love…I thought humans instinctively shied away from us."
"None of us really understood my reactions, but they were the opposite of most humans'. I wasn't afraid of him at all." I explained. The silence stretched.
"Go on...please."
I nodded and returned to my story. "Victoria came back and tried to kill me, but Edward was there to rescue me. Edward and I got married a few months later." I smiled at the memory of that perfect day, frowning when I got to the next one. "I got pregnant with Renesmee during the honeymoon and Edward rushed me back so that we could kill 'it'." I internally cringed, then continued. "I decided I didn't want them to hurt her – Renesmee, I mean – and I kept her. Even though I didn't know her, I couldn't bear the thought of anyone hurting her."
I paused, realizing that we were several miles away from Forks. We were walking a little faster than I thought. I turned back towards the house.
"Edward saved me by injecting venom into my heart and body as well as cart loads of morphine when Renesmee was born." I watched his face carefully now, gauging every flicker of emotion. There was just sadness and…curiosity. "The rest you know…" I trailed off, looking at the blue sky and examining the clouds. I finally looked at his face again, and was surprised to see the sadness plastered on his face.
"What's wrong?" I asked, alarmed.
"Why?" he asked, looking into my eyes intently and ignoring my question. "Why did you decide to keep her?"
I closed my eyes and turned my face up to the sky, pausing before answering. I decided that I would tell Nahuel what I had not told Edward.
"Before I realized I was pregnant…I had strange dreams. Dreams that didn't make any sense…" I opened my eyes to look at him. "They were the most vivid nightmares."
He kept looking at me, waiting for me to finish.
"In them, the Voluri were attacking, but I wasn't concerned about myself. I was only concerned about the child I was protecting. The angel child…" I forgot about my surroundings, the memory enveloped me like a blanket. "Nothing mattered to me more than defending him…I knew that I would fail, but I could not abandon him…"
I dragged myself out of the memory to see Nahuel looking at me in wonder.
The silence dragged on for many minutes. Nahuel broke it.
"…Thank you." He did look grateful. "You have no idea what that means to me."
I smiled at him. Then reached up and embraced him, he stiffened in surprise. I held the hug for a minute, and then released him, keeping my hands on his shoulders. I caught his eyes and held them. "Nahuel, your mother loved you." I enunciated each word with precision, putting all my feelings into them. "You may not believe it, but it is true. Nothing will change that. I know that for certain."
He stared at me, stunned. I smiled and released his shoulders, skipping into an effortless run back towards the house.
I didn't regret the words. I had meant every one of them. I hoped he would believe that. He joined me after a few seconds. I smiled at him, turning slightly to take him to see me and Edward's cottage. I told him to wait outside for a minute as I slipped inside and grabbed my photo album.
Walking outside, I handed it to him and smiled. "These are from when I was human."
His eyebrows rose in surprise, but opened it. I watched his face as he went through the different pictures, pausing at pictures of me.
"You look different," he said as he scrutinized my face, "but not that different."
I smiled as he handed it back. I ran back inside and put it on the shelf exactly where I found it.
Nahuel looked tense, so I decided to distract him. "Wanna race back?" I asked, grinning at him. He smiled back and we flew through the forest, back towards the Cullens.