A/N: Here is chapter 6 of Defrost!
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Just as I started to walk back home, I felt two strong familiar arms grab me. I turned around and saw Edward. My own personal angel looked down at me with a depressing expression. "There is no need to apologize, Bella. You're just a newborn. You aren't supposed to have control of your powers yet. What we all are curious about is how you are so powerful and what your powers are. We can't seem to figure it out."
"I'm not completely sure either."
"Could you try to explain them to us?" Carlisle asked.
"I could, but it is difficult to understand. I only think that I could tell you if I can keep myself calm long enough to tell you." I said and looked pointedly at Rosalie.
"We will all be calm and try to understand what is going on with you quietly. We don't want you to feel uncomfortable Bella. We are just trying to understand you," Jasper stated.
"I know. You all keep saying that, but I can't control all the emotions. It's so hard to keep track of them and to keep them all under control, especially when mixed in with all these thoughts and visions."
"Well, try and explain as much as you understand. We will try to help you figure out the rest," Esme said with a caring and kind voice.
"Thank you. I just don't know where to start," I said frustrated.
"Start from the beginning, well, when you were first changed," Alice said.
"Okay here it goes. It all started in Phoenix, Arizona. I was sixteen years old and was watching the sunset on my back porch. The next day was my birthday and my mom was getting for a party to celebrate. It was about 6:45pm and the party was being held that night at my house. It was going to start at 7:00pm. The guests were starting to arrive and it wasn't long until the party was in full swing. There were so many people there, that you couldn't tell if anyone you didn't know was there. The party ended just before midnight. I was helping my mother clean up the house before I went to bed." I was starting to take in shaky breaths at the memories I tried so hard to forget.
"I was just about to fall asleep, when I heard an ear piercing scream. I ran downstairs and saw two people towering over my mother. They were ripping through her skin trying to get to her blood and the whole time she was screaming. She yelled for me to get out of there, but I couldn't move. All I could do was watch in horror as my own mother was being savagely killed before my eyes. The people that were tearing my mother apart started to suck away her life by drinking her blood. It was then that I realized that they weren't human. They were vampires, evil and vicious vampires. They were so into their feast, that they didn't even see me. Well that is until they had no more of their sweet elixir left. They then turned on me because they weren't completely full. I snapped out of my trance and ran to get the phone. I dialed 911 to come and help me but after I dialed, the phone was ripped from my hands." I started to play the scene over in my head unconsciously. I couldn't control the flashback, it just appeared. I started breathing heavily as I continued.
"The phone crashed against the wall and broke into microscopic pieces. I was grabbed by the throat and they started to play with me. They started talking to each other and then turned the conversation to me. They would keep telling me that there was no hope for my mother. She was already gone and I would be following soon. I was terrified out of my mind. Then the guy was getting impatient and was begging to hurry up so he could drain me and quench his disgusting thirst. The girl was not happy with the idea of my life ended so quickly, so she silenced him. I wasn't screaming anymore which seemed to upset her so she was making me scream. She grabbed my arm and twisted it way farther than it was supposed to go until she heard a sickening crunch. Then she squeezed my other arm until the bone crumbled into dust." I closed my eyes remembering the pain she put me through. I took a moment before I continued.
"I wasn't going to satisfy her with my screams, so I stood there, with tears running down my eyes, completely silent, other than my breathing. She seemed to know I wasn't going to scream for her, so she slammed me up against the wall and she broke my spine. I was just dangling in her arms at that point and I screamed. She smiled sinisterly and whispered in my ear, 'Good girl.' She then nodded to the guy and they began slowly feasting on me. They were about to finish me off when the cops arrived and they scurried off, but not before saying, 'We will come back for you Isabella Swan. Don't forget, because we never will.' The cops started to enter my home and I was laying there in the most pain I had ever been in. I knew I was going to start changing soon so I tried to get up and move. I couldn't move though due to the broken spine. The cops took me to the hospital and I was in placed in the ICU. I knew I had to leave so I faked being fine and used a little pleading to get them to agree to release me. I don't know how they agreed, maybe my eyes were turning red and they were afraid, but it worked and I spent my transformation in an abandoned alley. I was already starting the transformation in the hospital so my spinal injury was just about cleared up, which made the travel easier. It was midnight when I collapsed into the alley and started to feel the full effects of the transformation. It was my seventeenth birthday. Some birthday, huh? I was going through the worst pain in my life on my birthday. What a way to spend it." My breathing started to even out, so it made it easier for me to continue the remainder of the story without being on the verge of a break down.
"I woke up a week later and was thirsty. I thought I was thirsty for something to drink, like water, but then, when I tried some it only made the thirst worse. I only started to realize what was happening when I remembered that my attackers were vampires. I needed blood. I was horrified about becoming a monster so I was determined not to kill anyone. Luckily none of the humans seemed appetizing. I went into the woods as fast as I could to escape them just incase I lost control and one attracted me. I was still running when something caught my attention. A smell that was simply mouthwatering entered my senses. I ran towards it and found a large lynx. I attacked it and devoured the sweet and warm liquid. It was unlike anything I had ever tasted in my life. There was no way to describe how good it felt going down my burning throat. All too soon though, it was emptied. I only then questioned what a lynx was doing in Arizona, but I realized I wasn't in Arizona anymore. I was in Southern Canada. I don't know how I got that far, but my thoughts were soon extinguished as I caught another scent, this time it was snow leopard. While hunting, I found out about my first power, telekinesis. It was very strange to me but interesting at the same time." I looked up at all of the Cullens faces and saw mixed emotions and then continued my story.
"I wasn't sure what to do after I hunted so I found a phone at a gas station nearby and called Charlie. I told him about my mom and asked if I could come and stay with him. He said that I was more than welcome and to stay as long as I needed. I told him to pick me up at the airport the next day because I couldn't just show up at his house without any of my bags and with my clothes all bloody and torn. I ran back to Arizona after hunting again just to be safe. I gathered some clothes and other various items and ran back up to get to airport. I didn't to fly since it was faster to run. Charlie was there waiting for me just as he promised. I was never as happy to see someone in my life as I was to see Charlie. He was my life then. He was all I had left of my humanity. I didn't show any emotions around him and he probably was just happy to see me. I couldn't keep the vampires words out of my head though. The whole time I was thinking that they would come for me again. Instead they came for Charlie. I was at school and had a vision about it. That was the second one I ever had. I saw everything. He died very similar to my mother. It was excruciating to see that happen again, first with my mom, and then with my dad. I ran out to my car but the engine was torn out. I was at home before the blink of an eye, but I was too late. I realized then that what I had been seeing was a vision. I could see the future." I saw a look of knowing cross all of their faces.
"I then started to piece together everything else soon after all of you found me. I had multiple powers. I had telekinesis, I could see the future, I could feel and manipulate emotions, which I tried out on you once, sorry, and I could read minds. That one I just barely figured out. I have no idea where they came from though. When I was in the lunch room with you before and I stopped Edward from lunging at Alice, that was because I had a vision. It wasn't going to turn out well if I didn't interfere. I assume that I got these powers after I had that horrible headache awhile ago. That is all I can tell you as of this moment. I'm sure you have questions, but I do too. I'll do my best to answer them if you can promise the same for me," I said as my story can to end.
I looked up and met all of their faces. They were filled with horror, amazement, confusion, and wonder. I laughed and they all seemed to snap out of their frozen positions. They all looked like they wanted to say something, but they didn't seem to know where to begin.
"I am done with my story now! Can you help me understand some things?" I asked. Since they weren't speaking up I took it as an opportunity to ask my questions.
"Sure anything," Carlisle replied.
"Do you know how I got these powers?"
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A/N: I know! I am mean. I left you all at a cliffhanger! If you have any questions just ask me and I will try to answer them in the next chapter! Hope you enjoyed my longest chapter so far! It took me awhile to write but I am pretty satisfied with it. Review please! Au Revoir!
