For anyone who wonders, Pai is pronounced like pie…
Chapter 6
Bella's POV:
The first time I opened my eyes, I immediately realized one very important thing; I was in the worst pain I've ever been in, in my entire life.
"Sleep." A kind voice soothed.
After that I drifted into unconsciousness, the pain clouding my mind...
The second time I woke, the pain was still there, but weaker. I heard the kind voice murmuring to another, I struggled a little to stay awake a little longer. I realized the faintly familiar voice was feminine, while the foreign was male. They both sounded like bells, a sound I'd grown accustomed to since meeting Edward and his family. But they weren't the Cullens, I realized. The same species, maybe. But I didn't know these voices. I drifted back into sleep, no longer able to bear the pain...
The third time I woke, the pain was subsiding considerably. Then I realized what had happened. The woman in the road, the crash, the blinding light, the baby. Oh no, the baby. I cried silently for a few moments. I had to have lost the baby. It wasn't possible for him or her to survive. God, I didn't even know its gender. I cursed the kind voice silently, she must have saved me, and I resented her for it. What was the point in living if I couldn't be with Edward forever, and I couldn't have a baby? I drifted away again, this time relishing in the pain, letting it sweep me away.
Finally, the pain was just a dull throbbing. I opened my eyes. I was in a large white room. Very similar to a hospital. But there was no heart monitor beeping. I had no IV stuck in my arm. Was it really possible that I could be away from the pain without meds? Also where had the pain come from? I should be dead after feeling that kind of pain. It was like when James bit my hand, except for in every part of my body.
I heard the kind voice drawing closer to the room, accompanied by another female voice that I didn't recognize. Then they came into view. It confirmed my thoughts. No one that beautiful could be mortal. They were both vampires. The one I recognized as the kind voice was absolutely perfect. Besides Rosalie, she was the prettiest vampire I had ever seen. She had an angel's face that was almost Asian, with high cheek bones, and slightly tilted eyes. Jet black hair rolling down her back in tumbles of curls, with a white doctor's jacket on. The other was still beautiful, but her beauty was dimmed by the woman she stood next to. This woman was younger, and had caramel hair cut short, and an abnormally-for a vampire- round face. She wore baby blue scrubs, like any normal nurse.
"Oh you're awake!" The first woman- the one with the kind voice-said. She sounded delighted. "I suppose you must be feeling divine!"
"Not really." I said, and my voice sounded hoarse. "Why is my throat so sore?"
"Well you screamed quite a bit." Said the second woman, checking a clipboard at the end of my bed. "I have never, in all of my years in this profession, seen such an abnormal transformation."
"What?" I said, struck. "Transformed. Th- Tha doesn't, how, how could? I don't." I broke off because I realized I wasn't making any sense.
"Caroline, you should go." The first woman said. Authority ringing with every word. "I can handle this. She needs to be informed."
"Of course." Caroline said. She put the clipboard back, and walked out the door.
"Allow me to introduce myself; I'm Pai, Pai Carter. And you must be Bella. Let me explain what has happened. You have been transformed. Now, do not be startled, it was perfectly necessary, if you were to survive. You hit a woman, a vampire named Tess. She brought you to me, and I changed you. You have been transformed into what you would call a vampire. Don't be scared. I-"
"I'm not scared, I'm furious. I had been protecting a baby for less than 6 months, and right when I have a good life going, find a plan, someone goes right ahead and wrenches it out of my hands. I loved it, not even 6 months old, and I loved it." I had started to cry.
"I was wondering about that," Pai said." You're pregnant, right?"
" Well, I was." I cried, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Oh dear," Pai said "You must still be transforming slightly, you still have a few human aspects, most vampires cannot cry." She leaned in and looked very observant. Then she leaned back, startled. "My dear child, why are you crying?"
"I loved my baby, how heartless can you be?" I cried. I felt like slapping her for her ignorance.
"Well I don't see why you can't still love It." she stated simply." As far as I can tell, it's still alive. Quiet and you can hear the heartbeat."
I quieted down, sniffling every few seconds. But when I leaned forward, I could hear it. A faint thump, thump, thump.
"Oh." I said dumbstruck. Then I let out a bark of joyful laughter and smiled, wrapping my arms around my middle.
Pai looked wary, like she expected me to freak out again. "Yes, dear you are a very unusual case, like Caroline said. But you seem completely unfazed by the fact that you have been transformed into a creature of the night, a vampire."
"Well, actually I was planning to be turned, before I got pregnant, so this is all really ironic, and weird." I thought a second. "But actually strangely wonderful." I murmured. I had gotten the transformation, the baby was well. What was missing? Oh, Edward.
"How delightful." Pai exclaimed. "Who? Do they live around here?"
"No. The Cullens. I left shortly after I found out I was pregnant. You see I didn't think that Edward, the father was ready for a baby, but his foster sister, Alice sees the future, so I had to leave before she got a hold of Edward, and told him herself."
"And everyone you just told me about are vampires?" she asked.
"Yes."
"Very interesting, a vampire impregnating a human! Yes Bella, you are a very special vampire indeed!"
Well, I may not have everything that I wanted, but I had my baby, my health, and my transformation. That was more than I had ever dared to hope for. Before it had been Edward and immortality, or a family, life. Now it was Immortality and an incomplete family, or nothing. So really, I guess I got a pretty good deal after all. I was defiantly willing to work with what I had.
"Pai, what about the body?" I asked.
"What did you kill someone before we got you?" She laughed a perfect laugh at her witty remark, but I shivered. I remembered the newborns, and what Jasper had said they were like. Even now, I felt as though I needed something to drink, but not blood. I hated blood, and I realized that, but I still felt like I needed something. Pai seemed to sense that I didn't like the joke, despite my attempt at a smile, and said, "Seriously, though, if you're talking about your "body," we just put the remains of a woman around your age in the truck. It was so badly burned, that no one would be able to tell it wasn't you."
I swallowed, "And where, exactly did you get the other body from?"
"You're awfully moral for a newborn. That must be another of your odd aspects. You can cry, you aren't obsessed with blood, you seem in the right mind, you're undistracted, you can remember your human life perfectly, will you ever cease to surprise me?"
"You're avoiding the question." I pointed out.
"And you're exceedingly observant," she said, "Hmmm," she tapped her pen against her cheek. "Bella, I don't do this very often, bit I'm going to extend an invitation to you. We change people very rarely. And the only people we extend this offer to are people like you. Vampires who have special gifts, or habits. You are a very special case, and we would love to house you and your baby. We would love to study you, but not like a specimen, like a person. It would be very interesting to see how you progress. You may even have powers you will discover."
"Really?"
"The chances that you have some hidden power are unusually high."
"What about my family, my friends, Edw-?" I had about to say Edward, but stopped myself. I didn't need him; I could do this without him. I think.
"Even if you don't stay with us, you probably shouldn't go near them so soon, or you will probably lose control, and kill them."
"I wouldn't do that." I whispered.
"You wouldn't try to, Bella. But it would be almost impossible for you to restrain yourself. Even with your odd circumstances."