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? POV
I have spent the last 72 hours watching the most unusual transformation from human to vampire I have ever seen. She did not move, she did not scream, she laid there looking as if in a peaceful sleep. If it wasn't for her small heartbeat I would have assumed she was dead.

My gift had told me she would awake today, so when we heard her heartbeat pick up we knew her crimson eyes would open soon. Within minutes her heart had stopped and she took her last breath.

"Sweetheart, open your eyes. I know you must be scared, but I promise you are in no danger." my mate said from beside me, and slowly her eyes opened and she let out a gasp.

BPOV
The burning was unbearable, my bones felt dry and the lava in my veins was at their most vicious, but by what felt like the hundredth day it was just a constant burn, and I was fortunate enough to stay conscious. I didn't want to scream, not knowing where I was.

For the time I had been able to listen to what was happening around me. I knew I was with vampires, two of them to be exact. They hadn't told me their names; if they had then I must not have been conscious. The female sat with me most of the time, telling me what was happening to me; obviously she didn't know I was aware of the vampire world. Both she and the male promised me I was in no danger and for some reason I believed them, it was something about their voices that was comforting.

Suddenly I felt my heart start to race, it felt like it was going to explode from my body.

"It's almost over sweetheart." The female said from somewhere near me. As the venom reached my heart I sucked in a breath and I knew that it would be my last. My heart beat one last time then the pain was gone.

"Sweetheart, open your eyes. I know you must be scared, but I promise you are in no danger." The female said.

I opened my eyes and gasped, all around me I could see dirt particles in the air, everything looked more defined and colours were brighter than they use to be. I was finally able to focus on the two vampires standing in front of me, the first was the male he was tall about 6ft with shaggy white blonde hair. He almost reminded me of Jasper and the pain that came with that name was brutal. I realized that nothing good would come from thinking about the Cullen's - the pain wasn't worth it, but I had to admit I missed them. I looked beside the male and saw the female who had been speaking to me through the burning. She was short, no bigger than 5ft, with the same coloured hair as the male but styled in a pixie cut. Both had scars in the shape of bites. The scars screamed 'Danger!' but something told me they wouldn't hurt me. For the first time since I opened my eyes I looked at theirs. They both had bright red eyes.

'Of course they have red eyes! There's not many others who drink from animals.' My mind yelled at me.

"Do you remember your name little one?" the male asked. I nodded my head

"It's Bella." I quickly put my hand over my mouth, was that my voice?

"It's okay Bella, it's normal for your voice to be a little different." The male said.

"Who are you?" I asked, it would take some time to get use to my voice.

"I'm sorry Bella, my mate has obviously forgotten his manners, he's Peter and I'm Charlotte." She said.

"Do you know what's going on Bella?" Peter asked.

"I'm a vampire." I said quietly. Four months ago if I was to wake up as a vampire I would be ecstatic, but now I didn't know what I was going to do.

"You heard me during the change?" Charlotte asked.

"I did, but I knew before you told me."

"How?" Peter asked, I could see the curiosity in his eyes.

"This isn't the first interaction with vampires I've had." My mind filled with images of the Cullens.

No Bella! Don't think about them, they left you. They're not sitting around thinking about you right now. They weren't your family; Charlie and Renee were... Oh god! Charlie!

A sob escaped my lips, I knew I couldn't cry there were no tears left in my body, but I sat there sobbing for the loss of my human life and for the pain my parents must be feeling.

"Sweetheart, what's wrong?" Charlotte said coming closer to me. At first my body tensed and my mind told me to run, I was in danger, but my heart told me to trust Charlotte and let her comfort me.

"I was thinking about my dad, it was just me and him. He's probably freaking out right now, How long have I been here and where am I?" I asked.

"3 days and we're in Texas." Peter said.

"Bella, can you tell us how you know about vampires?" Charlotte asked.

"Can we talk about it later? It hurts too much to think about." I said quietly, I wasn't ready to talk about the Cullens.

"I understand, sweetheart. Whenever you're ready we'll talk about it, even if it takes years." Charlotte said squeezing my shoulder.

"I can stay here?" I asked shocked, I was actually just trying to figure out what I would do from here.

"Of course Bella, I don't know why but for some reason myself and Char feel very connected to you, but we'll discuss this all later. You must want to feed." Peter said and then suddenly I felt the burn in the back of my throat that he used to tell me about.

"I wasn't until you mentioned it but now the burn is getting bad." I said.

"Fascinating." Peter mumbled, but I ignored it.

"It'll be dark in an hour we can head to town then, but for now we have these for the time being." He handed me packs of what seemed to be donated human blood. The vampire in me wanted it but the small part of humanity I kept was telling me to be like the Cullens.

There's nothing wrong with wanting the blood, Bella. After all you're a vampire now, besides not everyone who drinks from humans is bad. Look at Peter and Charlotte - they saved you. Besides do you really want to be like the Cullens?

With that I opened the bags of blood and drank them down. iIt was the sweetest tasting thing I have ever had, better than any human food I've ever tried.

"Thank you." I said to Peter.
"Anytime little one. And since we have time before we feed, can you tell us what you remember of your human life?"

Luckily I remembered most of my human year although the older ones were quite blurry. I told them of living in Phoenix with my scatter brained mother, I told them of moving to Forks to live with Charlie. When it came time to when I met the Cullens I couldn't bring myself to mention them. So instead I told them that I had met a coven, and because of some circumstances that I wasn't ready to talk about they left and that's when Laurent found me.

"Is Laurent dead?" I asked.

"Yes Bella, we took care of him." Charlotte said. I felt instant relief, but it was short lived when I remembered - "Victoria!" I muttered.

"Who's Victoria?"

"She was a friend of Laurent. He was in Forks to find me for her. The coven I was associated with killed her mate and now she's after me." I felt a shiver go through my spine when I thought of her. How could the Cullens not realize that she would want to avenge her mate and what better way than to kill the human pet? I suddenly realized I shouldn't be here.

"I can't stay here, I can't put you two in danger, and you've been so good to me. I can't allow her to come after you because of me." I said trying to hold back a sob. My emotions changed so much I was getting whiplash. I wouldn't allow anyone to get hurt for me; besides I was a newborn, I wasn't a weak little human anymore.

"Bella, you're not going anywhere. We can handle ourselves, we have lots of experience taking out crazy vampires." Peter said with a smirk. He reminded me of a big brother, he made me feel protected.

"I know it's personal, but will you tell me how you became vampires?" I was curious - the only vampires I knew were all changed by Carlisle,other than Alice and Jasper- but I never asked how they came to be.

"Of course Bella, but I must warn you our stories are not pleasant ones, are you sure you'd like to know?" Charlotte asked. I nodded my head 'yes'. Peter then started their story.

"Since the 16th century there have been vampire wars. They were started by a man named Benito who created what we call a newborn army. He turned humans then made them fight. Unfortunately most newborns have a vile temper and Benito was not controlling them, so the Volturi stepped in and destroyed them fearing exposure. You know who the Volturi are, right?" Peter asked stopping the story. I nodded. I still remembered the picture hanging in Carlisle's office and the story he had told me of them.

"Good, now in the 1800's a woman by the name Maria and her sisters started their own newborn army. Now you must remember the reason these armies were created was to gain territory - basically a whole area that they could feed from without the presence of other vampires. I was turned in 1880 by Maria's second in command, Major. His job was to train the newborns then dispose of them once they lost their strength. Luckily for me the Major decided I was useful, and I had struck up a friendship with him, so I became his right hand man. I'm not proud to admit but between us we killed many innocents. Now the Major is a good man, and was not proud of what he did but he did it to survive like all of us. A few years after my change Charlotte was changed. Maria did not believe she was useful so she ordered the Major to destroy her. I knew she was my mate and so did he and he let us escape. We were lucky and made it out alive," Peter said, smiling at his mate.

I was amazed at what these two vampires had been through, the strength it took to make it through those horrible times, and the courage they had for running from the sick sadistic bitch named Maria.

"What happened to the Major and Maria?" I asked.

"Well unfortunately Maria is still out there doing God knows what. Major left Maria a few years after we did. We went back to get him once we knew what it was like for other vampires. He stayed with us for awhile and became like a brother but then went off to live as a nomad and ended up falling in love with a vampire he met in his travels. They live in a bigger coven and are often moving. Last we heard he was in Connecticut. He visits once in awhile but doesn't come too often because of our dislike towards his mate." Charlotte said.

"What's wrong with his mate?" I asked and Peter laughed.

"Let's not get Charlotte started on that, let's just say she's not right for the Major." I nodded, thinking about all the new information I received

"Bella, did we upset you?" Charlotte asked in a small voice.

"No, why would I be? I just can't believe there's someone as sadistic as Maria out there and I can't believe the courage you three had leaving her. I'd be terrified waking up in an environment like that."

"You never say what I expect you to and you definitely don't act like I expect you to, Charlotte said smiling.

"Is that a bad thing?"

"Not at all sweetheart, it's actually the opposite, especially with how you're acting. Most newborns are so blood crazy they wouldn't be able to sit down and have this conversation with us. When you've trained as many newborns as I have, it's refreshing." Peter said.

"Alright, its dark enough now we can head out, your throat must be bothering you." Charlotte said taking my hand.

"Do you want to run or drive into town?" Peter asked. I was suddenly excited at the prospect of using my new vampire speed, I always enjoyed being on his back when he would run and now finally I could experience it for myself.

"Run!" I said excitedly, Peter smirked.

"You're going to fit in just right." He laughed as he took off running out the door. Charlotte took my hand and we started running. I couldn't describe how great running felt. It was a totally different experience than running with him. I felt free and I felt alive - ironic right?

As we ran I couldn't stop the laughter bubbling out of my chest. As we approached the town, Peter came to a stop so I followed.

"Bella, when we get there Charlotte and I are going to hold on to you because most newborns let into a town without help usually massacre the place. I know for some reason you're different so I'm not too worried but it's just a precaution. We're going to hold on to you until we find a suitable candidate."

"Suitable candidate?" I asked, puzzled.

"We should've explained this before we left. Because we were forced to kill so many innocent people in our past, we decided that when we hunt, we only kill the non innocent. We prefer murderers, rapists, and junkies, or sometimes the critically ill." Charlotte said. I thought about it and I couldn't see a problem with their logic. These were bad people who deserved to die, and some would die soon so why not be a meal for a vampire who needs it?"Makes sense, let's do this." I said. We ran a little bit longer before I could start to smell humans, the fire in my throat was raging and as if Peter and Charlotte could tell the both held on to me as we approached the town. It was hard to walk by homes where I could hear multiple heartbeats, which caused the monster in me to want out, but I tried to stay calm.

We walked into an alley behind a bar and found the perfect victim. She was about 26, her clothing suggesting she was a lady of the night. Her arms were covered in needle track marks indicating she had been a long time user; I turned to look at Peter who just nodded his head and released his hold on me.

I went after her - grabbed her from behind and held her by her neck against the wall. She was so strung out she barely realized what was happening. The monster inside me growled and was begging for her blood with every heart beat more venom filled my mouth, but then she became coherent and I saw the fear in her eyes. My vampire instincts were telling me to go for it end the miserable girls life but I couldn't; then the reasonable part of my brain spoke.

Think about it Bella - you know there is another choice. This girl is someone's daughter, maybe even someone's mother. Can you live with yourself knowing that you had another choice but chose to ignore it because you were mad at the Cullens? Don't do this Bella, you don't need to be a killer. Don't make another father feel the loss Charlie is feeling.

But Charlotte and Peter hunt these people; does that make them bad people? The monster inside me asked.

You know they're not bad people Bella, they didn't have a choice. It would be hard to switch, but you have a choice.

The internal battle of good and bad was in full mode inside my head. Could I really kill this human because I didn't want to be like the Cullen's?

A/N So what did you think? Sorry for the cliffhanger but it was necessary, next chapter will be up by Tuesday or Wednesday.

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