"Eve. Eve. Evelyn." Ben's concerned voice broke through the haze; I lifted my head and open my eyes. The room was going in and out of focus as I groaned in pain. "It's ok I got you."
Ben had me propped up against the base of the bed his arm around my shoulders. I rested my head against his shoulder and closed my eyes trying to see if the pain subsided. "How long have I been out?" my voice was barley above a whisper.
"All night and it's twelve now."
"Great, does mom know?"
"No I came in here to see how you were feeling at nine this morning. I figured something was wrong since there was no music playing." He explained; I love Ben no matter what I did he was always there looking out for me, and I can't say I don't miss what we used to have.
"As much as I hate to say this I need the damned drink." Using Ben as a support I tried to stand up and walk, but I staggered forward almost falling back to the floor if it wasn't for Ben. He put his arm around my waist leading me down stairs my hand resting on his shoulder for extra balance.
When we got to the bottom of the steps Ben let go of me; I used one hand to guide myself on the wall making it look like I was just gently running my hand across it Ben was only a step behind me incase I fell.
Libby was on her laptop with anyone who was in the room gathered around her and I took this chance to go to the kitchen. On top of the refrigerator there is a smaller one, this one had a lock on it and in it was enough blood to run a blood bank. After five tries when the lock stopped changing colors on me I got the combination.
I got one of the bottles pinched me nose and downed it in one gulp. I shivered in disgust as the tasted settled in. The room was still out of focus; it took ten bottles to get back to normal all of which left a sickening taste in my mouth.
I shook my head trying to rid my self of the taste as I made my way to the living room where Libby was and peaked over Alice's shoulder to look at what Libby was showing them. No she's no doing what I…….
"LIBBY! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SHOWING THEM?" I yelled because she was showing everyone the pictures of a party two months ago. Everyone looked at me, and by everyone I mean Edward, Bella, Alice, Jay, Libby, Flora, and Ben.
"Morning Eve." Edward greeted me.
"Morning Ed…ward" Calling him Edward was going to be hard to remember. "Now Libby why are you showing them those pictures?"
"What's the point of taking them if you don't want people to see them?" She shot back and I have to admit she had a point.
"Well…. I… well….That's not fair I was drunk!" I whined and well I was, and whoever said vampires couldn't get drunk was a lair. With the right amount of blood and alcohol it has the same effect and that is about the only time I drink blood unless there is a case like this where I had to.
"Well if you would drink blood when you're supposed to then you wouldn't go crazy when it's mixed with alcohol." I rolled my eyes she knows why I have a problem with blood, but she loves to annoy me.
"Libby, be careful she may go to set you on fire and end up igniting her self again." Jay mocked and a few people back away from him. Usually I would attack him again, but my arm still aches.
"Hey I may still have to work out some kinks in my powers, but at least I have some." He growled and I growled back.
"Ah it wouldn't be a normal morning with out Jay and Eve trying to kill each other." Flora laughed. "But how about we do something a little different today…. Eve he did save you from frying your self last night so how about you show a little gratitude and not try to kill him today. Ok?"
"Yeah, ok." I mumbled "You know if you're going to throw that in my face for the next few weeks you should have left me there I would have realized eventually."
"Before or after we needed to put your ashes in an urn?"
"Ha Jay your funny and if you keep it up you can tell your jokes to Satan as your burning in hell." I started off sweetly but by the time I reach the word Satan my voice was full of annoyance and anger; enough of which to make Bella take a step behind Edward and Ben step between us. It didn't get that far though because Mom and Esme came in.
"Evelyn! Good morning dear how you feeling?" Mom asked she seemed worried.
"Fine, Mom." I tried to convince her, but it didn't work because she came over and felt my forehead.
"Well you feel fine." I just looked at her I think her mind is going with age.
"Mom if I had a fever that would mean hell froze over."
"I know dear, but hell doesn't have to freeze over for me to know that that burn on your arm hurts." She said knowingly. That sneaky woman! She was distracting me by feeling my forehead to get a better look at my arm because she knew if she came right out and asked me about it I would deny it. God she's good.
"Mom it's fine really." I pulled my arm away, but she snatched it back.
"I can tell by the look on your face it is anything, but fine. I would have never made you practice if I had known you were thirsty." She mused as she pulled me back into the kitchen sitting me in a chair.
"Mom it's…."
"Evelyn Leavitt I have known you for one hundred and six years and if I have learned anything in that time it's that you hate to admit to pain emotional or physical. So there is no sense in arguing; now sit down and shut up while I find a wrap."
Edward, Bella, Ben, and Esme followed us into the kitchen. I looked around and notice something was missing. "Hey mom where is everyone else?"
"Well let's see Tank, Rosalie, and Emmett took the kids to the park since they are off of school today. Carlisle went to do something for work and I don't know where Jasper went."
"Jasper is afraid to be around the kids, he still has a little trouble controlling his self when blood is involved. I mean he is fine unless the blood is in the open like a cut." Esme told us wary of her words.
"If you don't mind me asking, why?" I ventured on careful not to appear to nosey.
"Eve, did ever hear of the vampire wars?" Edward asked.
"Yeah I have why?" I answered skeptical of where this was going.
"When he was changed he was apart of that and fed off humans for a while so the blood lust has been hard for him to break."
"I see." My tone upset Esme a bit because she quickly began talking.
"He's not bad or anything it just hard for him. I mean we all have our weak moments and he is really nice once you get to know him."
"Esme I don't hold that against him I understand. It's just I feel bad I invite you guys here and now he is uncomfortable."
"Yeah, Esme it's fine I really don't see why he needs to feel uncomfortable." Ben added his voice sincere trying to ease, what I could only assume Esme was to the group, the mother's worries.
"He's not uncomfortable he's just being cautious is all." Esme was really sweet she didn't want to upset anyone.
"But he really shouldn't worry we have housed newborns in this house with kids and there are so many of us around that if something where to happen someone would always be there." Mom said still searching the cabinets for the ace bandage.
"Yeah, but Maddy I think the only reason none of us attacked the kids that were here when we were newborns is because of Eve. The first day I woke up after the pain was gone Eve was there she explain everything to me, but it was her last sentence I think I remember the best. 'I know your thirst for blood may be strong and hard to resisted, but I swear to you, you go after one of those kids and I will personal kill you. Got that?' Her voice was all sweet and understanding when she was explaining everything, but as soon as she mentioned going after the kids her voice was kind of menacing. "
"Yeah well I figured it would work as long as you didn't realize that as a newborn you could over take me with no problem." There was a ten minute silence and Mom still hadn't found the bandages.
"It's a good thing I'm not bleeding to death." I told her. I really don't know what an ace bandage is going to do, but if it gets her off my back then whatever. "Besides I've already been there and done that."
"Be quiet you…..ha there they are." She pulled down three rolls of them and came over to me and began rapping my arm.
"Ow! Ow! What the hell is on those bandages?" The pain in my arm throbbed almost as if my heart was still beating.
"I was afraid of this. Eve you know fire it the one thing that can kill us right?" Her voice lost its joking tone and she became very serious.
"Yes, yes lessons of life we went over this the first day after the transformation."
"Well your arm is going to have the pain as if you burned your self this bad as a human. Problem is there is nothing I can give you to help it were going to have to let it run its course."
"Nothing? Seriously, but if it feels like it is human then shouldn't human meds works?"
"Eve in order for any medication to work it has to enter your bloodstream which is moved around your body by your heart pumping. Now there are two problems with that, one you have no blood and two your heart isn't beating there for……"
"Yeah I know that I went through moderate day high school I was just hoping I was wrong." I felt like an idiot who's decided to play with a match after dipping her arm in gas. "Hey wait a minute I am stupid!"
"Well I could have told you that." Edward laughed.
"Aw thank you Eddiekins!" That got a chuckle out of Bella. The girl really doesn't say much. "But any way watch."
I went over and got out another bottle of blood then I went to the med cabinet and got some pain kills and stopped. "Umm Bella you may not want to watch." I may not have talked to the girl, but I had a feeling her and blood didn't get along.
Once she looked away I dropped the pain killers in my mouth and I drank until every last drop was gone of the water was gone then I waited a minute before I placed my hand over the burn concentrating on the blood that was now swirling in my stomach.
They watched as my veins turned a faint red through my pale skin the blood slowly making its way to the burn. I felt instant relief as the blood began to fade leaving the pain killers to rest in my veins right inside the burn.
"Even if the burn feels like a human it should still heal like a vampire right?" I asked Mom.
"Yes that's right."
"Well good then because now not only will it be gone tomorrow, but I won't be in that much pain."
"That's good." Mom said as she disposed of the bottle and replaced the pain killers into their proper place. "Now Eve if you would leave the kitchen I have to get lunch ready for the kids they should be home soon."
"Ok. Hey Bella I bet you there is one place Edward didn't show you." I immediately started singing the llama song in my head so not even Edward knows where I was thinking.
"Really? Where?" She seemed fairly interested.
"Well there is this beach hidden by the wharf. Edward, the other guys, and I would hang out there when we where avoiding this we were suppose to be doing."
"Actually Eve you were the only one avoiding anything we just hung out." Edward corrected me.
"Fine, I! Avoided things, like dancing, walking lessons, lectures, well anyway that's not important. So you want to go?" She thought about it for a minute before answering.
"Sure."
"Yay! So Edward your car or mine?"
Bella's POV
It had been two hours since we arrived at the beach and it was beautiful. It has a dark sand with a few trees and the beach itself was only about ten feet long and twenty feet wide.
"They where thinking about using this as the starting point of the Navy Pier, but instead they just took over the wharf. " Eve told us as she skipped rocks across the water. Edward and I where sitting against a tree his arm around my waist and my head on his shoulder.
The sunny was shinning brightly and neither Eve nor Edward sparkled. Apparently that had never been a problem for the Leavitt coven because with Ben's ability to change the appearance of things he was able to change the skin slightly so the sun had no effect.
"Hey Edward that tree your leaning against is the same one you ran up when you where afraid of those dogs?" Eve laughed causing Edward to tense slightly. I can't imagine Edward afraid of anything especially dogs.
"I was not afraid I just didn't feel like be mauled to death." Edward was trying to hide the fact that there was once a time in his life where he was afraid.
"Really ok then that explains your fright, but what is your explanation for your clumsiness?" I sat up straighter and look at him.
"YOU were clumsy?" I had to laugh at him this was perfect for all the times the Cullens laughed at me for my 'human moments'.
"Yes, he was when we were about twelve we were walking along the wharf and Edward tripped over his own foot right into the water." I started to giggle when Eve told me and I think if Edward could have blushed he would have. Seeing his discomfort though I tried to change the subject.
"Hey Eve?"
"Yeah."
"What is that necklace you're wearing?" In the sun I caught a glimpse of a chain around the back of Eve's neck. The pendant if there was one was hidden under her shirt.
"O' These?" She said pulling the chain out of her shirt to reveal two rectangle metal slabs each about the size of two quarters. "These are just my dog tags."
"You mean to tell me your still wearing dog tags with the name Even Masen written on them." Edward asked her.
"No stupid after I was found out the guys in my brigade got me new ones. This one says Evelyn Hell's Princess. The other one has contact information; I haven't taken them off since I got them."
The subject dropped and we sat there in silence taking in the scene as the sunset over the water.
Eve's POV
Night had fallen as everyone settled in each couple retreating to their room. I on the other hand did not go to my room I went back in the basement to practice. Water was my strong point I had mastered it in a matter of months, but it was the fire I could not control. Each time I tried to go a step further I got closer and closer to mutilating my self.
With water I could make it rain, snow, sleet, and hail; I could cause flash floods with no effort if I honestly wanted to. I enter the hallway and ventured to the speakers and connected my ipod again before stepping into the room. I turned on the sink as the music start to play.
I walked across the room pulling the water along with me it glittered as it floated. I slowly winded around my feet and up so the whole thing incased me then I stepped out. I was careful to make sure it stayed in the right shape before I touched it. The ice crept slowly up the figure until standing there was an ice replica of me.
"Nice do you do parties?" Edward laughed at me.
"Hey, Ed what's up?"
"Nothing just came down here to make sure you didn't set the place on fire again."
"Ha thanks!" I rolled my eyes at him. "So where's Bella?"
"Asleep." I nodded in response. "Eve I am so sorry." I turned towards him raising my eyebrows.
"For…."
"I promised you that I would make sure you didn't have to marry him." I sighed and looked at him.
"Ed, honestly it's not your fault." I ran his hand through his hair.
"It is I knew it was happening and did nothing and I'm sorry."
"You did say over my dead body so technically you broke no promise considering you are in fact dead." I threw in a laugh to lighten the mood, but it didn't help.
"Eve it was….."
"O' shut up!" I threw a snowball at him he was so distracted by false guilt he didn't realize I had covered the whole place with snow. It hit him square in the face and he growled at me. I had my arm back ready to throw another one, but I stopped think I pissed him off.
"You're going to regret that." He flung one at me so fast I didn't know it hit me until I could see nothing, but ice. He laughed we continued our battle until I tackled him face down into the snow.
He flipped over and pinned me down. "Not so tough now are you." I put my foot into his stomach and kicked him off.
"No, but then again neither are you." We wrestled until our clothes were completely soaked threw with water. Luckily we were both wearing a black shirt and jeans or this would have been slightly awkward.
"Being a vampire has helped you a lot. Now you are actually a little bit of a challenge." I laughed both of us lying in the snow.
"The only reason I couldn't beat you as a kid is because I had morals about beating up a girl." Damn I thought I had him.
"Ok sure whatever helps you live with yourself." I told him getting up making the snow disappear. "I would dry our clothes, but that may mean us drying up with them so come on." We headed up stairs and with each step I felt more like my normal self.
Next Day – Saturday
We all made our way to the park I was driving my car with Charlotte and the twins while everyone else was spread out do to their own preferences. When we arrived I saw the General and Sergeant sitting at a picnic table playing chess.
The rest of their family was running around doing their own thing it seemed. I got out and Jane ran over to the car to greet Charlotte. While the girls talked the rest of my family and the Cullens arrived.
We walked over together and I saluted them. "General, Serge."
"Evelyn for the last time call us by our names. Hey Sam guys get over here." A group of huge dark skinned boys/men came walking over and the instant they did the Cullens and them got into a defensive position.
"Cullen." One of the boys snarled, he had long black hair and dark brown eyes.
"Black." Edward growled back.