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EPOV
The forest was thick and dark. Going straight 300miles was impossible. I could have used my strength to move the brush, but it was easier to just run around it all.
On one of my longer detours, I smelt a small herd of deer not far from where I was standing. The other would be stopping to hunt farther down the path. I was supposed the hunt with them, but since I was no longer traveling with them, I decided I would make Amos wait just a little longer while I got a snack. Than I realized that Carlisle never mentioned Amos's diet. Carlisle insisted that anyone who lived with him follow his rules, no eating humans, only animals. But if Amos fed off humans, I didn't know if I could resist. I would become a monster again.
No you will stick to your own diet. The one Carlisle raised you with. I told myself, but I still wasn't sure I would be able to resist, more the reason to go hunting.
I took the thought out of my head and gave into my hunting instincts, I headed toward the deer. I took out one of the larger ones first and filled up. My second one was more of a struggle. More fun, I thought to myself. I finished off that deer and started chasing the next when an extremely more appetizing smell hit me, mountain lion, my favourite. He obviously smelt the deer too, and was coming down for his meal. Too bad he was about to become the meal.
The lion was much more satisfying than the deer. He filled me up enough to continue to the clearing, and to Amos.
Than suddenly, I stopped and turned around a couple times. I didn't know where I was. I usually had a great sense of direction. But right now, I was lost.
Suddenly, a thought caught my attention because I heard my name used in it. Where is that stupid Edward kid? He should be here by now. I knew Carlisle was being a jerk again. I should never have trusted him. Ass-hole!!! Why the hell did I change myself for HIM? First of all, nobody talks, or thinks, about Carlisle that way. And second, what was up with the 'changed myself for him'? I'd have to ask later.
I followed the thought into a large clearing. Carlisle was right, a small, rotting, broken down gas station was situated right in the middle of the clearing. And it reeked of horrific, old gasoline.
Amos was standing with him back facing me. He hadn't noticed me come into the clearing. I wasn't very happy with what he thought about Carlisle, so I ran up behind him and threw him to the ground. He rolled over and looked up at me. Stupid fucking kid! Just like his 'father'.
Obviously he didn't know about my mind reading ability.
"Nice to see you too Edward, or shall I call you Cedric?" He sounded happy to see me, but I knew better.
I ignored his question; I was still pissed off about how he was treating Carlisle. Carlisle had always been a great man.
"There is nothing wrong with Carlisle!!!!! He's a great man and would never do anything mean to anybody! So keep your thought to yourself!!!!!" I was screaming in his face.
This was not the best first impression I've made, but this man pissed me off.
"I never said Carlisle wasn't a great man." He sounded so innocent.
"Ya, but you thought it!"
"Oh so you're the mind reading one. I thought that was Kasper."
"His name is Jasper with a J. his not a freaking 'friendly ghost'. And he reads emotions not minds!"
"You've got a temper do you?" And you're a freak!
I lunged at him again, but this time he saw it coming and moved out of the way. "I'm. Not. A. Fucking. Freak!"
"Sorry! I'm going to have to work on that whole 'keep you thoughts to yourself' thing. And you're going to work on your temper."
"I'm going to do whatever I want, and right now that happens to be ripping your throat out!"
"Ok! Go ahead." He just stood there. I couldn't believe he was giving me permission to kill him. I was about to jump at him when he spoke again. "But if you do, you'd have nowhere to stay."
"I don't care." I said through gritted teeth.
"What would Carlisle say?"
"He didn't hear what you were thinking about him." I really wanted to kill this man right now.
"Exactly my point! How would he feel if you killed his 'friend'?" I thought about it. I didn't really care, but he did have a point. I'm positive that Carlisle would eventually forgive me, but he wouldn't be very happy about it.
"Fine, show me the way to your house, I mean 'our' house." I was still mad at him, but I decided that my feelings were not going to be the reason I would go back to Forks. I wished Jasper was here, he could help me keep my emotions under control.
Wee were about to head off towards his house, when something he thought earlier popped back into my head. Why the hell did I change myself for him? Right now wasn't the best time to ask, but when would be a good time to ask? Tomorrow? A week from now? After I go to Hogwarts? Should I send a letter so I don't have to do this face to face? No, I was going to ask right now.
"Amos?" I was very hesitant.
"Yes." He seemed very curious.
"Sorry about flipping out on you. I was wondering if I could ask you a something."
"You can ask, but I might not answer."
Ok. Well, when I first walked into the clearing, I read your thought I waited for a reaction, but nothing came. He just kept looking straight ahead. I continued. "Well, you said, in your thoughts, and I quote, 'Why the hell did I change myself for him?' What is that supposed to mean?"
"Well son, can I call you son?"
"Sure since I practically am now, Cedric Diggory, your son. It has to be believable around other people, so we might as well get used to it."
"Anyway, when Carlisle changed, I had no other friends, he was my only friend my entire life." Even though he's a jack-ass! He looked at me wearily to see if I'd heard him. I did.
"He was not!" my rage returned.
"Sorry, but you never met him before he changed. Anyway, when he was changed, I had no other friends. So I dedicated my life to becoming like him, a vampire, so we could be best friends again.
"It took me 7 years, but finally I found someone willing enough to change me. Unfortunately, Carlisle was long gone, and I had no idea where he was. So I made myself a new life's goal, find Carlisle. 3 years after my search for him started, I found him. But he was a changed man, and not just because he wasn't a human anymore. He told me to leave because he needed to be alone. He was ashamed of what he had become. He thought he was a monster, so I left. He contacts me rarely, and now you need me. Just let me tell you, if you throw me away like trash, like your father did, I'll hunt you down and kill you."
…hope…not like…father…such…waste… he was doing better at blocking me out.
"Did you hear that?" He asked me anxiously. I wasn't sure if I should tell him that he was getting better.
I decided that if we were going to live together and be 'family' I was going to be as truthful as I could. "Only bits and pieces," I confessed.
He looked very proud when I said that.
But you do understand that I WILL hunt you down. Is that clear?
"Yes of course. And I really do appreciate you letting me stay with you."
"Oh, you'll be at Hogwarts most of the time anyway. It's like a boarding school. You see me over summer break and Christmas break, which I assume you'll be using to visit your family. Did Carlisle not tell you it was a boarding school?"
"No he didn't. And yes, I probable will visit my family over the break."
"Ready to go now, it's getting light out?"
"One more question?"
"Of course!"
"What do you eat?"
"Blood like all vampires, don't you?
"Oh of course! I just mean human or animal?" I was hoping for him to only eat animals, but it was VERY rare among vampires to be 'vegetarian'.
"Animals." Carlisle told me about his diet years ago and I told him I would follow. And I have. He was quite proud of my, I must say.
"Ok, no more questions, off we go!"
He started running and I fell into pace behind him. I would have led, because of my extraordinary speed, even for a vampire, but I didn't know the way. So he led us through another dense forest. Fortunately, the rising sun shed some light on the depressing, little forest.
