Chapter 9

Burning with Dad

Bella

Aro looked at Bella with delight, "Now my dearest Bella, we have upheld our end of the bargain. Now you will fulfil your promise!" Aro laughed darkly

Carlisle darted in front of his pseudo-daughter "Please Aro, she needs more time?" Carlisle pleaded with his eyes "Three months, just give us three months" Aro had sympathy and understanding, but he was not known for his patience.

Ciaus snapped "Artifice! There will be no more delays Carlisle, she will be turned tonight!"

Alice went stiff and pretended to have a vision. "Gentleman, Aro, Ciaus, surely this can wait until after a quick beautifying? Don't worry, we won't be long?" Aro rolled his eyes.

"You have twenty minutes, Alice Brandon Cullen." Jasper caught Alice's eye as they passed each other. "Com'on Bella, I promise never to treat you like bella barbie again after this"

Alice ran a bath for Bella and put some strawberries and cream bubblebath with some lavender oil into the water. She ordered Bella to soak for 10 minutes and after Bella was scrubbed and exfoliated, Alice cut her toe nails and trimmed her fingernails, she waxed Bella thoroughly, legs, underarms and all her arm hair, in the bikini area, even her backside quoting that Bella would not like eternal ass-hair, Alice tweezered Bella's eyebrows, shaping them nicely and trimmed Bella's split ends, afterwards, Alice moisturised Bella from top to bottom and handed her a pair of red silk boyshorts and a red silk dressing gown.

"How do you feel, still nervous?" Alice asked Bella and Bella nodded "Just take deep breaths and go out there and face your future. Your destiny was always to join this family"

"Carlisle, our newest family member to be is ready!" Alice called out and she ushered a subdued Bella to the lodge's staircase. Carlisle and Jasper followed Bella up the stairs and Jane and Alec, the two most feared Volturi members followed behind Carlisle and Jasper.

"Jasper?" Bella indicated and he flitted to her side "I will try to absorb as much of the pain as I can, Bella, you are in for one hell of an experience when you wake up as a vampire, darlin'"

"He's right" Alice came up the stairs to the landing "You will feel disenoriantated at first but it will soon be as natural as breathing to you soon enough"

"Wait!" Bella heard a familiar voice call out "Dad!"

"I know it all, Bella, I have for sometime now, don't go into this new life of yours without me?" Bella's eyes pricked with her last tears "Daddy, are you sure?" Charlie rubbed his daughter's shoulder.

"I have never been more certain" Charlie turned to the two most feared Volturi members and pleaded with them. "I want this more than anything, and I, especially, don't want to lose my daughter"

Jane sighed as only a vampire could "Master Aro, what do you think?"

Aro grinned at Charlie "I think welcome to the Volturi Charles Swan"

Jane grinned and hooked her arm in Charlie's as he shuddered at the cold. Marcus, the oldest member of the Volturi brotherhood gasped whenhe saw two golden glowing threads surround Jane and Charlie "Oh my, brother, I think

Alec grinned next "C'mon then Charlie, let's get you vamped up" The deadly twins showed Charlie into the far room "Dad, I will see you in the next life" Bella choked out.

Alice ushered Bella into the bedroom and helped her lay on the bed. "Bella just keep remembering why you are doing this, you'll be fine, just fine" Alice shushed Bella and wiped away her tears as Carlisle stood solemnly. "Wait, where should I have the bite scar?" Bella asked in a shaky voice. Then she thought "I know where, actually, the crease of my elbows have major arteries and it's non intimate" Alice smiled "Very appropriate"

Carlisle stroked Bella's wrist as he lifted it. "Welcome to the family Bella" he murmured and bit down into the crease of her elbow. Alice then bit down into the other injecting as much venom as she could to speed it to Bella's heart.

Bella arched off the bed and screamed then bowed back down and fell into a deep sleep. Every now and then, she would only whimper in agony as the firey venom consumed her.

Jasper rushed in and held Bella's hand absorbing her pain.

"Is this normal, she only screamed once and went silent afterwards?"

"Jazzy, when are you gonna learn, our Bella is special and unique, I think she is a physical and mental shield, she is going to be amazing and unlike any newborn, that you ever met"

"I apologise for my discretion ma'm" Jasper smiled as Alice hugged him tightly.

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Emmett and Jacob were mucking around downstairs in the backyard, the neither of them wanted to see Bella in pain. "Wait, Emmett, shut up, I heard Sam and Seth, goddamnit! Leah too, this is all we need!"

"Yeah, three more stinky wolves in toe are going to seriously cramp our style"

"Oh, Shut up!" Seth shouted as he "You leeches might feast on animals but damn, you stink like sweet syrup" Leah gave Seth a high five "Yeah, my lil' bro is learning the art of biting sarcasm finally!"

"Jacob, I thought that you didn't want allow Bella to be turned" Sam muttered in disappointment. "It was her choice, Sam, I told her to go for it if that was what she wanted"

"And the control freak?" Sam replied

"Dead, he's been punished by the Volturi for his crimes, he was executed by fire tonight"

"What did Doucheward do?" Leah asked. Jacob looked at her darkly "He was feeding off of her secretly whilst she slept and he used his vampire allure to control her every move, what she ate, who she saw, who she talked to at college, she wasn't no better than a stepford wife and now she's finally cut her puppet's strings. I will support her in this vampire's life because it was her choice. Blondie soldier boy reckons she will be extremely super self-controlled. She is gifted even as a human, a shield"

Leah put her two penny's worth in then "What's a shield?"

"It's an offensive and a defensive internal weapon built into her psyche, the other cullens have gifts. Jasper is highly empathic, good with emotional states, he can feel and manipulate emotions. Alice, the hyper-active pixie has visions based on people's decisions. If the person's mind changes, her visions of the their future changes. Fuckward could read minds. Emmett" Jacob gestured to the big friendly vampire sitting beside him "is a tech wizard and has a really strong intuitive gift. Carlisle has a gift for compassion and extremely measured supreme control. Rosalie Hale is a super gifted visionary and excellent mechanic with it. Esme has the gift of good planning and making it happen. She builds and designs houses, renovations, that kind of thing"

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Bella

~It was burning hotter and hotter, my heartbeat had sped up to an extremely fast pace. And I wasn't able to shout or scream or writhe on the bed, I was frozen in place by my shield. I could feel Jasper trying to absorb the pain, but he couldn't get through my shield. It just erupted from my body in a glowing blue light. I was protecting them, my family from feeling and seeing my pain. I wondered idly how my dad's change was going?~

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Jasper

Bella was always weird, but at the same time she was and would be magnificent. I couldn't wait to train her to fight. The newborns from Seattle and Victoria would be here soon, I was sure of it, my instincts were never wrong and I could feel a storm brewing in the air.

Emmett and Rosalie stood in the doorway "How's our new baby sister doing, bro?"

"I need to go and absorb some of Charlie's pain, can you sit with Alice, Rose?"

"Sure, no problem, Jasper" Rosalie took the cold icepack and laid some more next to Bella's chest.

"So Bella's gift was with her in her human life?" Emmett asked me

"Yep"

"Do you think Charlie is just as gifted?"

"I think so, he reminds me of my human years in the civil war, Bella's father has real good instincts and he knew of Peter's secret at the age of twelve."

Jane Volturi

I watched as the other half of my soul changed into something beautiful and I couldn't wait for him to open his eyes. The tendrils of light drew us together like a moth to a flame. Marcus gasped at the bottom of the stairs. I guess this was the reason.

"You two, your eyes are black, you are both thirsty, go hunt with Ma Cullen...Esme?"

"No, I will not leave him, I want to be here when he wakes up, he's mine!" I growled

"Jane" Alec spoke gently to me "Perhaps the major has a point, I am thirsty and so are you"

"But Charlie needs me" I whimpered and then I sighed "Look after my mate, please?" I pleaded. Jasper smiled and nodded "Not a problem, ma'm"

Esme

As Jane and Alec hunted, I went with them to make sure no humans were on the trails.

Jane had stopped dead and collapsed with her hand over her chest "It hurts, so much to be away from my Charlie, Mrs Cullen!" she dry-sobbed

Alec came to his sister's aid "My sister, I will make sure you are fed" he went to get some Elk and came back with two baby deer in his arms, he had snapped their necks and had his fill.

Emmett

I am so excited, I flitted from room to room every now and then to see my two new family members in their progress. "Hey Jasper, Charlie told me that he knew Peter and his wife Charlotte were vampires all this time, how come the Volturi haven't figured to turn him before now?"

"Because Charlie is Peter's great grandson, that's why, he was only twelve when Peter came back and checked on his human descendants"

"So they only make certain allowances for only so long?"

"That is the gist of it, Emmett Mc'arty Cullen" Aro swept into the room and glared at Emmett. "Bella's father is extraordinary in himself, we believe he is a police chief in Forks for a reason. He is a shield with extra sensory perception. He witnessed the first phasing of the young pup downstairs and just shrugged his shoulders muttering 'Damn teenagers' I shook his hand before. We only make allowances if the human descendants are too young, that ghastly mess with the immortal children was enough to make us realise that only adults could be turned. Jane herself was eighteen when we found her dying by the wayside on the road to Venice. She had been raped and beaten severely, she was bleeding internally."

"My wife, Rose will understand what Jane went through"

"Emmett, Aro is just messin' with you, he's full of mirth at the moment"

Emmett's eyebrows rose a few inches "Man, Respect to you, you don't give anything away with that serious demeanor"

Aro

I went into Charlie's room where he was going through the change. Jasper was sitting by his bed and trying to absorb his pain. "What a gift, you have, empathy, manipulation of the emotions!" I was truly in awe of the major. "I warn you, Aro, don't try to collect me, I have a family here, Alice too"

"Would you be adverse to a year's work contracted, mind you, with us, if you are open to this, the Volturi have a proposal for you..." Jasper leaned forward interested.

Bella

My eyes opened and I could see -everything- weird? Alice and Rosalie were standing back against the wall and it made me defensive. I growled at them "Woah Bella, calm down!"

My throat burned, I was burning with thirst, I was backed up against the other wall when I spotted the open window. "Oh yeah, you wanna hunt alright!" Rosalie murmured as she took my hand "Come with me Bella, you can trust me" We both leapt from the window into the trees.

Jasper

Charlie was at the end! It had only been twenty-four hours! "Emmett! get in here! help me"

All of a sudden Charlie opened his eyes, they were the normal blood-red of a newborn Vampire and Charlie was pacing back and forth sniffing the air for her scent, for Jane's.

"Where's Jane?" he roared and he leapt through the window shattering it into thin shards.

"Shit, Emmett let's go after him!" I shouted as I heard Charlie yell for his mate.

Aro, being the stupid vampire he was (sometimes) tried to approach Charlie and Jane was suddenly there hissing and spitting at her pseudo-father. Jane stopped and whimpered as she checked Charlie sniffing his neck and taking in his perfect scent. Aro was still being stupid when he tried to approach again. Jane turned her deadly gaze on him and growled out "Pain!" But Jasper took the hit as he went in front of Aro and fell backwards in agony.

"No Jane, my love, Stop" Charlie said gently as he gathered Jane in his arms and tucked her head in in shoulder. Jasper lay there panting then stood up "Damn, Jane is lethal with that nifty little gift of hers"

"Dad, have you found your mate?" Bella came to the backyard and was smiling. She was obviously the consummate huntress as she had not got a drop of blood on her.

"Damn, that was fast work, Charlie" Jacob piped up

Jane beamed up at Charlie as if seeing the sun for the first time.

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