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Four
I sat down on the couch with a sigh, definitely not counting on my cover being blow so soon. Thomas had to know that Jasper was here, he'd met him before back in 1943 when Thomas and I were having our fun with Nazi spies on American shores. I made a mental note to yell at him later.
"What are you doing here?" Jasper questioned, sitting beside Alice and far away from Bella as he possibly could. I could see his eyes were amber, not red. Jasper was a bunny muncher now. "Last I heard you were in Arizona with Thomas. He was trying to harness that Day Walking thing you do into a potion. Any luck?"
I shook my head. "No luck, seems that my age has something to do with it. And since I haven't met any other vampire like me, I can't tell you what it really is."
Edward stared at me with his arm protectively around Bella. "You can't be a vampire," he stated, somewhat mockingly. "You're human."
"I'm a Void," I told him. I mentally switched my power off and each vampire, except Jasper, almost jumped back. "See, I can make you believe I'm a flower or a cat or make you see nothing at all. I can hide my scent. I can hide my tracks. I can have no scent at all or change it to something pleasant."
Alice grinned. "That would explain why I only get glimpses of you," she told me.
"Alice sees the future," Jasper explained to me. "She can watch a person and when they make a decision she sees the outcome."
"Making what you see manipulative," I mused. "A seer…" I'm surprised Aro hasn't snapped her up yet, Edward as well.
"How is this possible?" Carlisle questioned, his voice full of scholarly yearning. "I've never heard of another type of vampire before. Ever."
"I'm more of a traditional vampire," I explained. "My sire is dead. He wronged the wrong vampire and he ripped him to pieces. As far as I know, there's only one of me and she's sitting here in your lounge room."
Bella cleared her throat. "What about Dracula?"
I laughed. "When word of that story travelled to English soil I was the first to follow the trail of this Bram Stoker. Nothing. It was all a joke. The thought of being into contact with one of my own was a dream come true. If I had a heart, it would have broken."
"Do you drink blood?" Carlisle asked me.
I nodded. "Only way to go. Because I love Thomas, he wanted to see how long I'd last on animal blood. My body weakened on the blood to the point where I snapped and slaughtered a house full of collage students. That was hard to cover up. Fire is fun. Thomas is a turd. But cause he's family I let him have his experimental fun. Like that time he tried to develop a cattle prod for Cold Ones and tested it on Peter."
Jasper sniggered. "Blew him through the wall of the house."
"And Charlotte had to stop Peter from killing Thomas!" I laughed.
The rest of the family were looking at us like we had two heads.
Carlisle cut in. "We have a treaty that was made years ago," he informed me, "we do not drink human blood."
I snorted. "I eat murderers, rapists, drug pushers, wife beaters, child bashers," I answered. "I also drink bagged blood stolen from the hospital-I won't steal from your work," I told him, seeing the doctors face. "I'm a good girl. Small hospitals like yours need the blood. If I want it I'll steal from Seattle."
Carlisle nodded, somewhat satisfied with that answer.
"You won't hurt Bella?" Edward demanded to know.
I shook my head. "If I wanted to hurt Bella, I would have done so already. But I like Bella. I see Bella and myself being friends for a long time if she stays with you."
Bella smiled a little. "That's nice, Nina."
I looked over at Jasper. "You eat bunnies? Yuck! Never thought I'd see the day where the Major, the fabled God of War, Ares himself, eats bunnies."
Jasper laughed and shook his head. "It's not as bad as it sounds, Nina. You should try it, again. You might be surprised with how you fair. And I don't eat bunnies."
Carlisle nodded. "Agreed. I should tell you about the treaty. Edward can take Bella back home. My study is this way."
"We'll talk tomorrow," I smiled.
Bella hugged me. "Text me when you're up-wait-do you sleep?"
"I can if I want to," I replied. "I just don't dream and it doesn't refresh me. I just shut down my brain for a while. When you're as old as me, it certainly helps sort out the clutter."
"How old are you?" she asked.
I shrugged. "Around nine hundred I think. When I was born-we didn't measure birthdays. Night Bella." I waved her off and followed Carlisle into the study. Behind me I could hear the Cullen's bombarding Jasper with all sorts of questions.
It made me laugh.
"Take a seat," Carlisle instructed.
I sat down in front of his desk and the doctor shut the door. "So what's this treaty?" I asked him.
"We made the treaty in 1936," he started to explain, "with the local shifters of the Quileute Tribe. I would appreciate it if your food choice did not ignite a war with the shifters and ruin the peace we have worked for."
I laughed. "Carlisle, you're a doctor, right? A scientist?"
He nodded.
"I am the last of my kind," I told him, "I've searched the globe for others like me but I have had no luck. Animal blood may make you more human but it makes you weaker. I will not be responsible for the extinction of a species. I will stick to bagged blood whilst I'm here but I will not kill Bambi." I stood up and opened the door. "Later, Doctor Cullen. Raise a little hell for me."
I headed outside and waved the rest of them off before heading out to my baby.
Tomorrow was going to be an interesting day.
