Ok, so thanks for all of your guesses, they were quite interesting, and some of them are even better ideas than I had :( Anyhoo, I have finished this chapter, but I don't think it is my best. It's three pages long, but I don't think its long enough. But, it's a necessary chapter to get some background story in. So, thanks for reading, and please enjoy!
Johanna's POV
We stopped in Seattle to get a drink. A lovely little couple with fancy clothes that I wanted to wear. So we swapped them, and guess what I found in the pockets!
Tickets to Sweeney Todd!
Oh gosh, I haven't seen this since it first came out on Broadway!
We absolutely had to see it!
We went to the theatre and traded our front row tickets with some secluded people in a side balcony. They were thrilled. Throughout the whole show, Louis would softly sing all of Anthony's lines in my ear beautifully. Johanna actually wasn't that bad. I always thought it was so funny how we look so much alike! We even have the same name, except her last name is Barker while mine is Parker…*
But overall, it was actually a good show, the actors were amazing, and the songs were mesmerizing…
Louis smiled, "So, what did you think about the show, my yellow-haired Johanna?"
"I thought it was good. They all were very talented."
"hmm, I didn't like Anthony as much though, don't you agree Johanna."
I was quiet. Anthony… Why did his name have to be Anthony? Wouldn't the show be just as good with a name like Joe or Carter? Why Anthony? It made me think of him…
"Johanna? What's wrong?"
"Nothing. It's nothing."
He looked at me concerned. "Was it something I said?"
"….It's just that….it was his middle name…" He was still confused. "His… who are you talking about? Anthony…Anthony… who's middle name could be… oh," he turned to me and I could feel myself fading. "Johanna, look at me, I don't want to lose you." I looked up to him. I wish I could cry. "Johanna, don't think about him. He would be dead by now anyway, and at least you have me, forever." He smiled a bit.
"….Yeah, I guess you are right. I love you…" He kissed me, but even after we broke apart and started running out to find more people to hunt, I thought back to Edward. I thought back to the day when I knew I'd never see him again….
Johanna's POV
The day Edward died
He bit into my neck.
Immediately, I felt the pain surge through my body, followed by the fire. I screamed, but it didn't help, so I just whimpered and thrashed about. Louis's cool hands did nothing to stop the fire. He bit me in different places a few more times, but all it did was add to the pain. He leaned his head closer to me and whispered, "Johanna, listen to me, I can make the pain stop. I can make the fire go away," you better believe I was listening now, "All you need to do is calm down and open up your mind to me. That is all you have to do." Open my mind? How do I do that? Well I tried by clearing my mind of all thought and just begging him to come inside my mind.
I heard the voices again, and this time I knew who it was.
Your pain is fading.
It was.
You well fall into a deep sleep now, deeper than you ever have before. You will sleep until your heart stops beating.
I obeyed, and the world spun around me and faded to black.
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I woke up to the sound of, well, everything. I could hear people talking way off in the distance, I could hear all of the birds singing, the beetles moving… I opened my eyes, and was surprised by the clarity of everything. It was as if I was blind until this day… I felt someone… Louis? Yes, who else could it be? Louis was holding my hand. I looked over to him, but he looked scared, looking all around, as if he suddenly couldn't find something.
"Johanna? Johanna! Where did you go?" I tried to say, "I'm right here!" but nothing came out. He looked down at his hands that were holding mine… but there was nothing there. He squeezed my hand tighter, and he looked more confused. "Johanna… can you hear me, come back…come back…" I looked down at myself, but there was absolutely nothing there except the ground and the leaves. It was if I…
Disappeared
Well, my wish came true, but how to go back? I concentrated on being, well, here. I thought about what my hands looked like, my feet, my head…and slowly I saw myself flicker, I was still see-through, but I was definitely there. I concentrated harder, and when I looked at Louis's face, it was much easier.
"Johanna!" I was fully there again, so I tried to speak, "Louis?" My voice sounded…perfect, like a voice you'd expect to hear from an angel. "Louis, what…what was that?" He looked at me for a second, and he said, "I think that is your power."
"Power? What do you mean my power?"
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that didn't I? Well, a vampire normally takes their most prominent human feature with them into this new life as sort of a power. I've always been able to make people do things the way that I've wanted them too, and I have always been studying psychology. So, now I have the power of manipulation. I can place a thought into someone's head, and 9 times out of 10, they'll obey," he frowned, "Except for you, Johanna. You have one of the hardest minds to manipulate. Which is one of the reasons that contribute to your power to, well, disappear. You also do not have a scent and before your transformation, all you could mutter was 'disappear'. It seems logical that that is what you are able to do." He stopped for a moment to look at me and smiled.
"I have to get you to a mirror or something, you look amazing." We stood up. We ran towards the sound of a river hand in hand and he told me to look into the slow moving river. I looked, and what I saw shocked me. I was more beautiful than I ever thought could be possible. I was practically glowing; I looked like a model…only with bright red eyes. It hardly looked like me at all, but I liked it. He taught me how to hunt, and we taught each how to control our powers and we started our new lives as vampires…
Louis's POV
Present times
She still loves him.
I can see it in her eyes; she still loves him after about a century without him. When will this end? She says she loves me, and I know that's true, but when will she be able to forget him? After all he's dead.
Thank God he's dead.
I try to comfort her, try to get her to forget him, but it's all I can do to keep her from fading.
I grab her hand one more time and started to head out toward the rainiest place in America.
Well I hope you enjoyed it. The * is this, if you haven't realized it yet, then there is a very strong relation from Sweeney Todd to this story. Johanna's name is based off of Johanna Barker, and even her looks are somewhat based off of it. I did not mean for it to be based off of it, but subconsciously it was. I had a dream about this, and I wrote it down about a month later, so it's not like I meant for it to be based off of it. Oh, and Louis is definitely not based of of Louis from the Vampire Chronicles in case you were wondering, because that made my friends confused. Which reminds me, read the Vampire Chronicles. Although, sadly, Anne Rice won't allow fanfiction, it is still amazing.
I'll stop ranting now, and I hope you will read and respond.
And disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or Sweeney Todd. I do own Johanna and Louis, even though Johanna seems somewhat like Sweeney Todd's Johanna :P
