Well guys, this is last chapter. I am working the sequel as we speak…well read, but you get my point. I'm actually writing this during school so it might not be as good as I want it to be. Plz read and review and I will post the sequel sooner! :)

Chapter 8: Changed

The last thing Rebecca remembered was someone biting into her wrist. She felt the fire spread through her body, so she screamed and arched her back. She could have sworn that she felt someone grab her hand and say something, but she could have just been imagining things.

Edward sat and watched Rebecca after Carlisle bit her. He couldn't stand to see her in pain, but he had to do it because he couldn't bear to lose someone else again; not after what happened to Bella. He looked over when he heard Rebecca scream. She arched her back so he grabbed her hand.

"Rebecca, stop screaming. It will only make the pain worse." He knew that somehow, she heard what he said, but she didn't stop screaming.

The pain didn't go away and she couldn't resist the urge, so she screamed yet again. She wanted to die but then she thought of Edward. Rebecca knew that it would break his heart if she died. Eventually though, she got tired of screaming, so she clamped her mouth shut.

Meanwhile, downstairs the rest of the Cullens were discussing how they were going to tell Rebecca that they were vampires.

"Can't we just let Edward tell her when she wakes up in a few days?" Carlisle looked over at his wife Esme before responding.

"She might not believe him if he's by himself. I'm going to have to go with him so we can both tell her." Everyone else nodded their heads in agreement as they listened to Rebecca scream.


Two days later, Edward was still with Rebecca upstairs. He hadn't moved an inch in three days and his eyes were pitch black. He kept insisting that he was fine, but in reality, he needed to go hunt, but he didn't want to because he wanted to be there when Rebecca woke up.

"Edward, you have to hunt. If you don't soon, you're not going to be able to control yourself. If you try to hunt later, you might smell a human and snap. We can't have that happening with a newborn vampire around. You know that if the Volturi find out, all hell will break loose." Alice said.

"I want to be here when Rebecca wakes up."

"You have to hunt Edward. You might not be able to once she wakes up. If what you say is true, then her parents might try and do something." Carlisle announced as he walked into the room. Edward looked at him for a second before he nodded and ran outside. Alice quickly walked over to Rebecca and grabbed her hand.

Rebecca felt someone let go of her hand and then two seconds later, someone else put their hand into hers. She automatically knew that it was a girl because it was smaller than a guy's hand. She heard people murmuring but she was in so much pain, she couldn't make out the words because the pain kept getting worse.

Edward got back to the house with 10 minutes of hunting. Once he walked to the yard, he just jumped straight into the window so he could go to Rebecca straight away. Alice looked over at the window when she heard him and she had gotten up and walked away as soon as he jumped up into the room.

"She should be waking up soon Edward." Alice announced as she walked out of the room. Edward didn't say anything as he watched her walk out, he just walked over to Rebecca and grabbed her hand again.


Rebecca felt the fire starting to fade slowly from her fingertips and her toes but the fire inside her heart got hotter. Her heart started to beat faster which kinda scared her.

"Carlisle" Edward called out. To her though, it sounded muffled; as if he was talking into a pillow.

The fire left her hands but it retreated to her heart, which blazed hot as the sun and beat even faster than it was before. She started to hear things so much clearer now, that she heard Carlisle walk into the room.

"Listen." There was a silence before anyone spoke.

"Ah, it's almost over."

Rebecca kept listening to them talking but then the fire ripped hotter still through her chest, draining from her elbows and knees.

"I can't wait till she wakes up! I'll finally get to meet my new sister!"

"Alice, is that all you think about?"

"Edward you know it's not. You can hear what I'm thinking."

Rebecca heard Edward scoff before the Alice girl walked out of the room.

It was then that Rebecca's heart took off, beating like the blades on a helicopter. The sound was almost a single sustained note and to her it felt like it would grind through her ribs. The fire flared up in the center of her heart, sucking it away from the rest of her body to fuel the scorching blaze. The pain was enough to stun Rebecca because her back arched, as if the fire was dragging her upward by the heart.

She refused to allow another part of her body to move as her torso slumped back onto the table. It became a battle inside of her- her heart racing against the attacking fire. Both were losing. The fire was doomed, having consumed everything that was combustible; her heart galloping towards its last beat. The fire constricted, concentrating inside that one remaining human organ with one final, unbearable surge. The surge was answered by a deep, hollow-sounding thud. Her heart stuttered twice, and then thudded quietly again just once more.

There was no sound. No breathing. Not even hers. For a moment, the absence of pain was all Rebecca could think about. Then she opened her eyes and gazed above in wonder. Everything was so clear. The light overhead was still blinding-bright but yet, she could still see the glowing strands inside the bulb. Behind the light, she could distinguish the individual grains in the dark wood ceiling above. In front of it, she could see the little dust bunnies floating around in the air. They spun like little planets, moving around each other in a celestial dance.

The dust was so beautiful that Rebecca inhaled in shock. The air whistled down her throat but this action felt wrong. Her lungs weren't waiting for it. They reacted differently to the influx. It was then that she realized that she didn't need the air. She didn't realize that someone was holding her hand until whoever it was, squeezed it lightly. The skin was perfectly smooth and she wanted to know who it was holding her hand, so she turned her head and looked straight into Edward Cullen's golden eyes.

"Edward…." Rebecca trailed off because she didn't know what to say.

"Rebecca, Carlisle and I have something we have to tell you." Rebecca didn't even get to respond before Dr. Cullen walked into the room. She sat up and then Edward and Carlisle told her that they were vampires and that they had to change her too.


"So, what you're telling me is that I'm a vampire now too?"

By now, Carlisle had left because he had to go work at the hospital. He and Edward had spent all night explaining their history to her, so she was caught up.

"Yes you are. I'm sorry that I turned you into a monster Rebecca, but I couldn't bare to lose anyone else."

"Edward, you're not a monster and neither am I."

"But you're a newborn vampire now. It's going to take a while to get you used to human blood. You might slip and I don't think I could stand that either." Edward said as he shook his head.

Rebecca didn't get what he said about the human blood thing until she remembered that she was a still a newborn vampire after all. Her dry, scorching throat gave proof to that. Just as if Edward was reading her mind, he looked up at her again.

"Since you're a newborn, maybe we should go hunt now. I don't think that there are any hikers out there right now, so we should be fine." Rebecca nodded before Edward grabbed her hand and they both jumped out of the second story window. When they got down to the yard, Rebecca had to ask the question that had been bothering her.

"How come we went through the window? Couldn't we just have walked downstairs and went out the door?"

"If we did, then you would have been ambushed by my sister Alice."

Rebecca didn't know what that meant but she nodded anyway. They got into the woods so they could hunt, but little did she know, Edward was still holding on to her hand.

"What are we hunting?"

"Elk. I thought something easy for your first time…" He trailed off when Rebecca's eyes narrowed at the word easy. She wasn't going to argue though because she was too thirsty. Once she started to think about the burn in her throat, it was all she could think about. To her, her mouth felt like a four o'clock afternoon in Death Valley.

"Where is it?" Rebecca asked impatiently.

"Hold still for a minute," he said, putting his hands on her shoulders. "Now, close your eyes."

"Fine, but this better be good." Rebecca said, reluctantly shutting her eyes.

"Now listen," Edward instructed. "What do you hear?"

She stood there for a minute listening. There was an open space around them (the wind had a different sound exposed to the long grass) and a small creek, with a rocky bed. And there near the noise of the water, Rebecca heard the splash of lapping tongues, the loud thudding of heavy hearts, pumping thick streams of blood…It felt like the sides of Rebecca's throat had been sucked closed.

"By the creek, to the northeast?" Rebecca asked in uncertainty with her eyes still shut.

"Yes. Now…wait for the breeze again…and what do you smell?"

She focused toward where the water was and found the scent that must have gone with the lapping noise and the pounding heart. There was another smell; this one was rich and tangy, stronger than the others. And yet, it was nearly as unappealing as the brook. She wrinkled her nose then she heard Edward chuckle.

"I know, it takes some time to get used to."

"Three?" Rebecca guessed.

"Five. There are two more in the trees behind them."

"What do I do now?"

"What do you feel like doing?" By the way he said it; Rebecca could tell that he was smiling. She thought about that, with her eyes still shut but she listened and breathed in the scent.

Another bout of baking thirst came to her awareness. Suddenly the warm, tangy odor wasn't so objectionable; at least it would be something hot and wet in her desiccated mouth. That was then her eyes snapped open.

"Don't think about it. Just follow your instincts."

Rebecca let herself drift with the scent, barely aware of her movement as she ghosted down the incline to the narrow meadow where the stream flowed. Her body shifted forward automatically into a low crouch as she hesitated at the fern-fringed edges of the trees. She could see a big bull, two dozen antler points crowning his head, at the stream's edge. There was the shadow-spotted shapes of four others heading eastward at a slow pace. She centered herself around the sent of a male, the hot spot in his shaggy neck where the warmth pulsed strongest.

She tensed herself for the first leap when the wind shifted blowing stronger now and from the south. She didn't stop to think as she hurtled out of the trees, scaring the elk into the forest, racing after the new fragrance so attractive that there wasn't a choice.

The ground sloped steeply upward almost at once and she ran in a hunting crouch, close to the ground. She was slightly aware that Edward was following her, but she didn't stop or turn around. The vegetation thinned as they climbed higher; the scent grew more powerful. It was a warm scent, sharper than the smell of the elk and more appealing.

A few seconds later and she could hear the muted padding of immense, so much softer than the crunch of hooves. The sound was up in the branches rather than on the ground. Rebecca automatically darted into the trees as well. The soft thud of paws continued stealthily beneath her now, the rich scent was very close.

Her eyes pinpointed the movement linked with the sound and she saw the tawny hid of the great cat slinking along the wide branch of the spruce just down to her left. With a light bound, she sailed through the air and landed on the lion's branch. He felt the shiver of the wood and whirled around, shrieking in surprise and defiance. He clawed the space between them, his eyes bright with fury. Half-crazed with thirst, Rebecca ignored the exposed fangs and the hooked claws and launched herself at the lion, knocking them both down to the forest floor.

Her teeth accurately sought his throat and his instinctive resistance was nothing against her strength. Her jaws locked easily over the exact point where the heat flow was strong. It was effortless as biting into butter. Her teeth were like steel razors; they cut through the fur and fat like they weren't there. The flavor was wrong, but the blood was hot and wet and it soothed the ragged, itching thirst as she drank in an eager rush. The cat's struggles became more and more feeble and his screams choked off with a gurgle.

The lion was finished before she was. The thirst flared again when the lion ran dry so Rebecca shoved his carcass off of her body is disgust. How can I still be thirsty after all that? Rebecca thought as she got up in one quick motion. She looked down and realized that she was a mess. Her jeans were almost ripped to shreds and now along with the gash in her shirt on her stomach the shirt was almost torn in half. She was covered in dirt and her hair was knotted.

"I guess I could have done better."

"You did perfectly fine." Edward assured her. "It's just that…it was much more difficult for me to watch than it should have been."

Rebecca raised her eyebrows, confused.

"It goes against the grain letting you wrestle with lions. I was having an anxiety attack the whole time."

Rebecca was sure that if she was still human that she would have blushed. "So, why am I still thirsty then?"

"Because you're young."

"I don't suppose that there are any more mountains nearby."

"Plenty of deer."

Rebecca made a face when she heard this. "They don't smell as good though."

"That's because the meat-eaters smell more like humans."

"We could always go back to the house. But then you would give Jasper an anxiety attack from how thirsty you are and Alice will try to play dress-up Rebecca."

Rebecca just rolled her eyes. "Let's go hunt some stinking herbivores."

They found a large of mule deer as they headed back towards the house. Edward hunted with her now that she had gotten the hang of it. Rebecca brought down a large buck, making nearly the mess that she had made with the lion. Edward had taken down two of them before she was even done with her first and he hadn't even ruffled a hair on his head.

After about 5 minutes, Edward looked over at Rebecca, who had drained three more deer. She felt eyes on her, so she looked over at him.

"Are you done for today? Or did you want to continue?"

"I'm done, I think." She felt full, sloshy even. Edward laughed before he walked over to her.

"I want to try something." he murmured when he stood in front of her. He laughed at her bewildered expression before he put both of his hands on both sides of her face and bent down slightly to kiss her. Rebecca immediately started kissing back.

After he pulled back, they stood there with their foreheads touching.

"You know, I've never loved anyone as much as Bella, but I think you just beat her."

"I've never loved anyone but you Edward." Rebecca said before they kissed again. Once they pulled away, Rebecca looked Edward in the eyes.

"So, I guess this means that we're going to be together forever." She said smiling.

"Forever and forever and forever." he murmured before he grabbed her hand so they could head back to the house.


Well, that was the last chapter. If it dragged on a little bit, then I'm sorry but I had to make it like that. The sequel should be up soon. The story is going to be called Battlefield. I don't know when I'm going to post it cuz I'm busy with school right now.

Plz read and review peeps!