This one is up a bit early! But i've been so excited to get this one out!
Hopefully will have the next one up tomorrow! Enjoy! xoxox
Renesmee POV
"Mom?"
I was outside in the snow, sitting on my blanket. It was dark outside. In front of me I could see her. Her long brown hair was flowing in the wind. It looked as if everything was in slow motion.
"Mom what are you doing?" I asked standing up from my blanket and dropping my book from my hand. Every time I called, she never turned to me. Thats when I noticed that she wasn't the only one here.
The scene changed this time. They had my mother held to the ground, one of the men tried pulling on her head and her arms.
"Oh Renesmee, if you would have just stayed, this wouldn't be happening" The one holding her down spoke to me.
And then my moms head was face down in the snow at the base of my feet.
I screamed.
I woke up screaming, again. As I had every morning since I had been here. Jasper brought me here on Sunday, It was now Friday. Everyday I gradually gained more comfort in the Cullen house. I hadn't met Edward yet, but in the middle of the night I could hear his music from my room. He was still here, but hadn't yet left his room.
Jasper, Emmett and I spent most of the day playing games, the other half after lunch was spent with Rosalie and Alice who i'd grown closer too after the past few days. Rosalie's hate for me disappeared as she spent more time with me, but she apologised for the way she acted when I came home with Jasper, telling me yet again that I reminded her of someone they use to know. I didn't know who this person was but it seemed I reminded the whole house of her.
I laid in my bed trying to calm myself down as my chest heaved and my face was covered in a light sweat. I shot up in my bed when my door creaked open. It opened slowly and I quickly scurried under the sheets and hid. Blankets certainly wouldn't do much to protect me. I felt my bed dip beside me and a voice i'd never heard before spoke, "Renesmee?"
I pulled the covers away from my face and peaked out. This man stared down at me in concern. His dark eyes filled with worry, lilac circles around his eyes displayed his lack of feeding, his skin was so pale, shades lighten then my own, strong jawline and plump lips. But it wasn't his face that shocked me, it was the shade of his mop of hair. A shade that matched mine almost identically.
He spoke again, "You had a nightmare?" His voice was soothing.
I nodded slowly. "You're Edward?"
His worried features smoothed out into a small smile. "I apologise for not introducing myself sooner"
I was surprised at his apology, I hadn't been expecting to meet him so soon let alone meet him in the early hours of the morning in my bed. "Do you want to tell me about it?"
Did I? I wanted these nightmares to go away. I'd tried to maybe manipulate my dreams, watching cartoons and videos on the internet of bunnies and cute dogs. But every night, I was faced with the same nightmare about three faceless men and my mom dying in front of me. "Are they about what happened when you left home?"
I shook my head, "The dreams... there not real" I spoke softly, eyes trained down to the duvet that covered me, "But... I think there what would have been if I stayed"
He nodded slowly, giving me his full attention, "I think my mom was taken, or worse killed"
I leaned my head back against the headboard and stared at the roof as a tear trailed down my cheek, "She's dead because of me"
"You don't know that," He spoke firmly, almost as if he knew that she wasn't. The men that came to my house wouldn't have left her alive, if they were as dangerous as she made them out to be. The tears flowed freely now. It was the first time since I'd been here that I had let it all out.
"My mom told me to leave" He waited for me to continue, knowing I had more to say, "These men came to the house and she told me to run because she knew they were coming for me"
"Where did you run from?"
"Alaska" I spoke so softly I was surprised he even heard me.
"Did you get a bus down here or-"
"I ran" I sunk back down into my bed and let my tears soak my pillow, "I want to go back to sleep now"
He tucked me in and closed the door behind him, I drifted back to sleep and prayed my nightmares wouldn't come back this time.
Edward POV
For days I had been seeing snippets of her mind. It was strange, sometimes I could read her mind like I could read everyone else and then other times she was as blank as my love was.
I could see her in everyones minds since she arrived with Jasper over a week ago. She reminded me so much of her, her bright brown eyes were almost identical to hers and I didn't know if I could look into them for real and not through someones mind without breaking down. So I kept my distance. That was until I witnessed her nightmares.
They were terrifying, even to me. There was something about the three men and the woman in the dream that I recognised, but I couldn't figure it out.
We'd be trying to figure out what she was since she had started living with us. Emmett suggested every supernatural being he could think of but none of them seemed plausible and we had never encountered anything but vampires and the wolves.
I was sitting in my room when I could hear her whimpering from down the hall, then the whimpers turned into screams. Her nightmares changed over the past few days, the woman in her dreams dying in violent ways every time, but her dreams never revealed her face.
I closed her door and walked down to my family, who were gathered at the bottom of the stairs, waiting for me to report what had happened when I entered Renesmees room. They knew about the nightmares and knew I had been seeing them as well. They knew they were getting worse.
They discussed what they should do around me, but my mind kept drifting back to Renesmees thoughts. I shouldn't have left it so long to meet her, I could see why everyone was infatuated with her. She was a beautiful young girl. I felt an unnatural and unfamiliar pull to her since she arrived. A need to protect her came over me and that was something I had only experienced with one person in my lifetime.
The family wanted to talk with her, try and get her to divulge what happened to her before she came here. Esme objected, telling everyone that we needed to let her tell us.
Men in black cloaks stalked towards her, stepping over the body of the woman on the ground.
Renesmee had slipped back into the nightmare.
"We're coming for you Renesmee"
My head snapped towards the stairs up to her bedroom door. Her screams came moments after. I didn't waste a second running up to her room and flicking on the light and gathering her into my arms. The need to comfort her came so naturally that it freaked me out for a second.
Her legs were tucked up against her chest and her head was burrowed into mine. Her screams died down as her eyes fluttered open. Tears were streaming down her cheeks and soaking my shirt. I didn't mind in the slightest.
She continued to cry and all I could do was hold her. Even having just met me, she seemed comfortable with me, comfortable with me consoling her.
I hummed a tune to her, trying to calm her down, which she did, her sobbing died down but tears still slipped down her cheeks. "I don't want to go back to sleep" She choked out. I nodded, resting my chin on her forehead and holding her tighter.
"Do you want to talk about it? Would that make you feel better?" She hesitated. "I mean everything Renesmee, I know there are things your not telling us about what and who you are"
She looked up at me, eyes wide. They will kill me, She thought.
I shook my head, "We would never do such a thing, we just want to know whats going on so we can help you" I answered her thoughts, not caring about our own secret anymore.
"I suspected you could read minds, I just never knew for certain" My eyebrows furrowed down at her in confusion, she had only met me tonight, how could she have known, "Alice told me that you had seen me, that you had come downstairs when I was playing with Emmett and Jasper, but you'd hadn't, I would have known if you came downstairs"
She didn't seem scared or concerned with knowing my secret, she didn't even seem surprised, "Your right, I saw you in their minds" I confessed.
"I'm sorry" She murmered. I had expected running, screaming, her freaking out but defiantly not her saying she was sorry. She continued, "I'm sorry for reminding you of someone you use to know"
Alice had told her obviously. I sighed, "I'll tell you what?" She looked up at me and waited for me to continue, "I'll tell you about that, if you explain to me what you are and why you were wandering on your own in the forest"
She mulled in over for a moment before she nodded, "You first" She whispered.
I couldn't help but chuckle. I shifted my position with her in my arms, pulling her further up the bed so I could lean back onto the headboard and pulled the duvet up and around both of us. She shifted her own position so she was laying more comfortably in my lap, her head still resting on my chest.
"Where should I start..." I huffed, "I met someone about 6 years ago, back when we lived in a town called forks. This girl I met infuriated me at first, but I soon fell in love with her"
She looked up at me, enthralled with my story like it was some sort of princess bedtime tale. "She became closer with my family and that made it dangerous for her to be around us"
"Because your all vampires?" I heard the rest of my family gasp downstairs at her question. I wasn't surprised that she knew. She never questioned why we never ate with her or why we never slept or why we were always going out at random times of the afternoon to hunt. I didn't even try to deny it, simply nodding. "Jasper accidentally tried to hurt her one day and I knew it would be best if we left"
She gasped, "I said a lot of things I didn't mean and lied to her. I ran away and about 5 months after I left her I found out she had passed away in an accident"
A tear slipped down her cheek, "Thats so sad" She mumbled into my shoulder. I nodded, feeling a weight somehow lift off my chest. Talking about it to this tiny mysterious creature made me feel better. Not taking away any of the pain I felt away but simply feeling at peace where I was at that moment.
"Ill regret it forever, because its my fault that she passed away" She shook her head erratically.
"Its not, you left so she'd be safe. You weren't the cause of her dying, you were trying to protect her" I smiled down at her. It was strange how this small girl could make me feel the best id felt in over 5 years just by a few words. We sat in silence for a few moments before I nudged her.
"Before we move onto your story missy, you want to tell me how you figured out what we were? Can you read minds too?" She giggled when I tickled her stomach at my last question.
"I knew as soon as I met Jasper in the forest" She sighed and I took the moment of silence to ask her what she was doing out in the forest.
"I was resting, but before Jasper interrupted I was going to do exactly what he was there for" I froze at her words. My families minds downstairs were going crazy.
"You were hunting?" I asked slowly to which she nodded.
"I'm half human, half vampire" My mind just about exploded at her confession. "Your going to kill me now aren't you?"
I squeezed her in my arms, "No of course not, why do you keep thinking that?"
She looked down, a stray tear dripped onto my shirt, "Because that's why the men came, they came because of what I am, that's why people could never find out about me ... Why I waited so long to tell you guys"
"Your safe here Renesmee"
"I was just with my mom one day when she took me to my room and started packing a bag for me. She looked scared and then these men came to my house and she told me to run and not look back" These men obviously wanted her, maybe thats why her mother was so scared.
"They won't find you here and even if they do, we wouldn't let anything happen to you"
"Mom always said that I wasn't allowed to tell anyone what I was, she said that they'd think I was an 'Immortal Child', but I don't know what that is" It makes sense, her scent and her beauty would defiantly make her look like an immortal child.
"Was your mom human?" I asked, how was this even possible? Female vampires couldn't reproduce. She shook her head.
"Momma is a vampire"
"and your father?" She shrugged, telling me that her mom never discussed her father and she never asked, not wanting to upset her. She was becoming upset again, the tears trailing down her face starting to stream. I decided to leave this conversation for the moment and try to take her mind off it. "Would you like to go downstairs, see the rest of the family? I can hear Esme making some pancakes just for you"
She smiled through the tears and nodded. I shifted off the bed, with her still in my arms and was about to place her feet on the ground when I heard, "Don't let go please"
It wasn't like I was reading her thoughts. It was different, like she sent it to me. She giggled at the startled look on my face, before she raised her hand to my cheek. "You have your mind reading. This is my gift"
"Thats amazing Renesmee" She grinned sheepishly at the compliment as I hoisted her onto my hip, her arms wrapping around my neck.
I walked with her downstairs and into the living room, I couldn't ignore the stares my family gave me. I took her into the kitchen and placed her on the stool just as Esme placed a plate full of pancakes in front of her.
I heard Esme's thoughts moments later, I've never seen you like this Edward. You look happier then I've seen you in a long time.
I smiled at her in return and leaned my elbows on the bench in front of Renesmee, "Maybe when you finish eating we can go for a quick hunt"
She beamed up at me and nodded, "I would love that! I haven't hunted in weeks" The rest of the family joined us in the kitchen, staring at Renesmee while she ate.
Carlisle was the first one to speak up, "How does it work? Can you live off human food and not have to hunt at all?"
Trust Carlisle to turn into doctor mode and start questioning her, I glared at him and shook my head, silently telling him to stop. Renesmee noticed and placed her tiny hand atop of my own.
"Its fine. I can eat human food for a while but without blood my body kind of starts to get weak. But it takes a few months for it to get to that stage" He nodded. Fascinating, I wonder how it is possible, I never thought that a vampire could successfully impregnate-
I tried to ignore his thoughts after that, not wanting to listen to his inner monologue of science and trying to figure out how it was possible. Its obvious her mother carried her successfully to term somehow, maybe her father was a vampire. I was angry at myself. If I had known that having children would have been possible for me, for us, I would have stayed. That being one of the reasons I left. I didn't want her to turn bitter like Rosalie after I changed her, regretting becoming like us when she decided she wanted to become a mother. But now she didn't have to worry about that at all.
Renesmee noticed my mood shift and squeezed my hand, giving me a light smile. I was surprised at how just a simple smile, brought my mood up instantly. This strange girl who I'd only met a few hours ago had already captured my heart.
"I got a new game for us to play Rennie, maybe we can play it when you get back from your hunt?" Emmett spoke up, using the nickname he gave her a few days ago, saying her name was 'to big a mouthful'. I knew she didn't like it, her expression falling for a millisecond before it disappeared and she nodded excitedly at him.
She noticed me looking at her with concern and placed her hand on top of mine, My Auntie Mia use to call me Rennie.
The name obviously made her upset, but she never told Emmett to stop. She finished her pancakes in record time, before grinning up at me.
"Can we go hunting now?"
I held out my hand and she took it eagerly, "I'll race you?"
YAY! Finally they've met! And aren't they just so cute! Tell me what you think guys! Love hearing your feedback! xxx
