Sarah POV

I was on fire. I only remember bits and pieces up to this point. Like being picked up and flying, and hearing Carlisle's voice before I was set on fire.

"Car…lisle…" I manage to whisper, before the fire takes over and I start screaming and thrashing, trying to get the fire off of me.

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Carlisle POV

I am sitting beside Sarah on the chair that I brought into the room. She takes a few shallow breaths as I watch her helplessly.

"Car…lisle…" , she says, and then starts screaming and squirming around. I hear her heart rate pick up. The venom has reached her heart.

"I'm here Sarah. Can you hear me?" I ask, trying to get her to focus on something other than the burn of the venom.

At first she doesn't seem to hear me, but then her horror-stricken eyes focus on me.

"What…happ…ened?" she says in a whisper.

"You were in an accident. Do you remember what happened?" I ask.

"Auto…mo…bile" She says rapidly.

"You were in an automobile accident?" I ask, but then remember that she didn't have a ride home tonight, their automobile had broken down again. Sarah had told me herself. "Or you got hit by a automobile?" I ask. Sarah nods her head in little jerks.

"Sarah, Edward found you and brought you here so that I could help you." I tell her.

Her face looks confused. "Fire…"

This is it. I have to tell her. "Sarah, I'm a vampire." Her wide eyes look up at me. "My whole family is. I bit you. It was the only way I could save you Sarah." She looks down, trying to comprehend what she had heard. She looks up at me and gives a single nod, as if giving me her approval, before she starts screaming and thrashing around again.

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Sarah POV

Carlisle sat with me like that for another day. He told me that it would be over in about a day. About this time though, I felt something rise up in me. It was only a feeling, but it made me feel like I could stop myself from moving, if I wanted to. I let it take over me. I stopped moving completely. I let myself breath and think, but not move. I could still feel the fire, though. Carlisle noticed immediately. He put his head on my chest and listened to my heart, which was beating faster and faster.

"Edward" he said in a regular toned voice. I wondered how Edward could hear him. Edward came into the room and walked over to me.

"What's wrong with her?" Carlisle asked in a worried tone. I wanted to tell him that nothing was wrong with me, but I was afraid that if I let myself speak, I would lose control and start screaming again.

"She says that she's fine, Carlisle. It appears that she's frozen herself" Edward told Carlisle.

How did he know what I was thinking? I wondered to myself.

"I can read minds Sarah." Edward said to me. "Some vampires have special abilities."

Wow, a mind-reading vampire? How much shock can a person go through in two days?

"Do you think that is her power, Edward" Carlisle asked.

"Yes, I do. I wonder if she will be able to freeze other people, too." Edward said. "I guess we'll find out soon enough."

Soon after that conversation, I noticed three things. First, I could see better. The room became clearer, more defined. I could see every piece of wood in the ceiling, every dust mote in the air. It made everything in my memories look dull in comparison. Second, I could hear better. I heard the conversations of the family outside; it was mostly just Edward filling the rest of the family in on what had happened to me. And third, I could think a lot better. It seemed that the space in my head grew enormously.

I kept myself frozen like that, and even though my body was completely still, my thoughts were all over the place. I thought of my parents quite a lot, wondering if they had done anything after I failed to come home. I thought of my brother and sister, hoping that they remember me since I can never see them again. Carlisle explained it to me, that I will be what they call a newborn for about a year, and all that I will want is blood. I will have to stay away from humans, because if I'm not careful, I could easily kill them. He told me not to worry, though, because the entire family will be there to help me. He told me that they aren't like other vampires, that they don't kill humans for blood. I'm grateful for that; I won't have to harm humans.

The fire slowly started to retreat from my fingers and toes, leaving coolness in its wake. But for every body part that the fire left, my heart got hotter. I started to lose control of keeping myself still. I started squirming, trying to hold on to my control. Carlisle was at once at my side.

"It's okay, Sarah, it's almost over." Carlisle told me. I took refuge in his words. The fire would be gone soon.

The fire in my heart got hotter and hotter. I could barely keep control of myself. My heart beat faster, until I couldn't tell one beat from another. I suddenly realized what Carlisle had meant on a deeper level. My heart and the fire were battling. But I knew that neither could win.

The fire surged through my heart, the only place in my body that it had not consumed. It suddenly died, the fire disappeared. My heart gave a final beat, and then stopped.

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