Awake

Edward POV

I hadn't really been paying close attention to the time. It had been about 3 days since I had bitten Bella. I got up from where I sat. It was time to return to her side. Once I had returned I hated myself for leaving her. She looked so pained that it hurt me too. Slowly as time progressed she calmed and began to look as if the throbbing was beginning to disappear. I looked out the window deep in thought, completely unaware of how much time was passing by.

"Edward?" Bella whispered weakly. Hearing her beautiful voice I snapped out of my trance and turned quickly to look into her eyes. The moment that I looked at her she practically jumped into my arms.

Bella POV

Slowly the pain ceased, and I began to come back into reality. I opened my eyes and found Edward looking out the window by my side.

"Edward?" I whispered. It came out sounding weak, but the truth was that I was taken aback by the sound of my voice. It was still my voice, but now it sounded more rhythmic. Edward quickly looked at me, and before I realized what I was doing, I had flung myself into his arms. I felt him smile and I instantly felt as if the world really was perfect. He kissed my hair, and then my lips and I sighed in contentment. Three days of pain for a lifetime of this, wasn't a fair trade. I had cheated the pain, because this was worth a thousand times more than three days.

We sat like that for a long time, I was nestled in his arms and his face was buried in my hair. I was happy, and everything was perfect. I looked up at Edward and what I saw surprised me. Edward's eyes were full of worry.

"What is going on?" I asked him carefully. Did he regret changing me? Worry instantly spread through me and he noticed immediately. He took my face in his hands and kissed me for a moment before pulling away to look into my eyes.

"Bella, while you were changing something happened." He whispered studying my reaction carefully. "Emmett's strength, Alice's visions, Jaspers emotions, and my mind readings vanished. Someone took all of our powers, and no one knows who it could possibly be." Now he held me closer as he took in my stunned expression.

"What does this mean?" I squeaked. I knew that we were in danger, but how much?

"We have to leave Forks. I knew that we would have to eventually, but I never guessed that it would be this soon. I don't want to leave, but it's the only way…." He continued unhappily. "Are you Ok with this?"

"Why wouldn't I be? If this is what we have to do than of course, I am fine." I said smiling up at him weakly. He smiled at me and stood up quickly, taking me with him. He took off down the hall, dragging me behind him. I was about to yell at him for dragging me when I remembered, I'm a vampire now! I quickly caught up with him, a huge smile spreading across my face. Edward chuckled quietly and threw open the door to Carlisle's office.

We had barely taken three steps into the room when suddenly Alice jumped up and tackled me onto the ground hugging me greedily. I couldn't help but smile.

"I missed you soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!" Alice cried happily and I burst into laughter.

"I was only gone for three days!!" I exclaimed as she stood and helped me up. She had a huge grin on her face as she pulled me into another, less deadly, hug. That's when I noticed that everyone else in the room was laughing hysterically. I glowered at them playfully and they all laughed even harder, if that was possible.

"Did you tell her?" Carlisle asked between bursts of laughter. Edward laughed as we both nodded simultaneously. Slowly everyone in the room calmed down. "Well then, before we do anything else we should all go hunting." Carlisle decided easily.

Everyone stood up and walked out of the room, still trying to contain their laughter from a few minutes ago. After a quick run through the forest we reached a small clearing. Esme and Carlisle took off to the east, while Rosalie and Emmett headed west. Alice and Jasper stayed with Edward and I. They all looked at me and smiled. If I had still been human I would have flushed red under their gazes.

"Just let your senses take over. When you smell something just give in and do whatever you feel pulled to do." Alice told me, still smiling like a mad woman. I laughed at the thought and then smiled weakly. Hunting still seamed incredibly odd to me, but I knew that eventually it would become easier.

We all stood in the clearing looking out at the bushes. Suddenly a gust of wind rushed our way. Just ahead there was a large heard of deer. Before I made sense of anything, all four of us had taken off towards the deer. It went extremely quick after that. Each of us caught up with a deer, and within a second we were feeding. It was insanely weird, feeding in a large group, but I knew that I was the only one who felt that way.

After a while we disposed of the poor deer and went back to the house. We all sat in the living room, with the TV on. For the first time ever I noticed that the volume was actually louder than a normal volume. But then I realized that it was at the same volume as always, but my ears were a thousand times more sensitive now, so it actually sounded loud.

I looked over at Emmett and smiled. Instantly he was suspicious, and I grinned evilly. I challenged him to an arm wrestling contest, like I had promised Edward several months ago. The first time I beat him easily, and I knew that if I wanted to truly win, I had to beat him again. Once we heard someone yell go, the match began.

It was pretty much the same as last time. Just as I was about to beat him, something happened. At first I didn't notice because I concentrated on him too hard, but then he suddenly seamed to gain massive amounts of power. He slammed my hand down on the other side, surprising not only me, but him as well. We looked at each other for a moment in wonder.

"Ha!! Just when I need it most it returns!" Emmett said, laughing boisterously. Carlisle was looking at me in wonder, and when he saw my puzzled expression he smiled.

"Well, Bella, I think we finally know what your power is." He said chuckling softly. He shook his head in thought and smiled again. "Apparently the vampire we've been looking for was right under our noses, ironic!! Bella, you're the one who has been taking everyone's powers away, you have control. You can turn other vampire's powers on and off against their will." I had to admit, it made sense. Now Alice and Edward looked at me, suddenly smiling.

"Could we have our powers back, please??" Alice said, her eyes begging, and her lips pouting. She was giving me the perfect interpretation of a sad little puppy.

"Fine," I mumbled, trying to sound as if this was truly the most difficult thing I had ever had to do. To my surprise it was easy, I just thought, return the powers(!!), and they were back. Alice smiled radiantly and ran to my side.

"Thank You!!" She whispered grinning mischievously.

Weeks went by, and I learned more and more about my new vampire characteristics. Edward thought that it was absolutely hilarious how curious I was, but can you blame me? Alice, Edward, Emmett and Jasper had learned not to annoy me, because for one thing, I was ridiculously strong compared to a normal newborn, and two, because if I was really annoyed, I would take their powers away.

"Hey, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, Carlisle, Esme, Edward and I are all going hunting, do you want to come?" Alice practically begged me. I smiled up at her, of course she already knew the answer, but apparently maybe she could change my mind.

"No, I want to stay here, and you already know that!" I accused her playfully. She gave me her sad puppy dog face once more, but now I was fairly used to it.

"Grrrr." She said playfully once she realized that I wasn't going to come. I smiled as I watched them pile into their cars and speed off. I looked at the clock, 12:52. If I was still a human, I would have panicked, but I was a vamp now, so it didn't matter.

I ran up the stairs and into the room I shared with Edward. I found the bottom shelf in the closest and dug into its depths. Finally I pulled out my gear. I dressed at lightning speed and ran back downstairs, noiselessly flopping myself down on the couch.

I flipped on the TV and turned to channel 13, or as you might know it, Fox. I glanced at the clock and it was 12:55. Perfect! I thought cheerfully.

Edward POV

After about two hours we finished hunting. In the short amount of time that I had been away, I had begun to miss Bella like crazy. Why hadn't she come with us, there wasn't anything special going on back at the house. I mean really, what happens on the first Sunday in September? Nothing. Alice and Jasper climbed into the back seat of the Volvo and I took off down the road.

About halfway to the house Alice had a vision. About a second after it ended she burst out in giggles.

"I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas!!" Alice sang in her head. Even in her mind she was totally off key. Why was she blocking me? What had she seen that was so funny?! She laughed at my puzzled expression.

"Don't worry, you'll understand once we walk through the front door." She answered simply. She laughed at some unseen joke.

Once I pulled up to the house, the three of us jumped out of the car. We had beaten everyone home. I quickly walked over to the front door and pulled it open gently, and I immediately understood what Alice had meant.