What if when Edward sucked James venom out he left a little bit in Bella's blood. What if the effects of the transformation were only delayed? Story told in Bella's POV. Set post Twilight, pre New Moon. I do NOT own Twilight. Characters may be OOC a bit.
Symptom Ten: Guilty
Returning home was making me nervous. Luckily thanks to my empathic ability and the calmness around me it was helping me calm down. Jasper and Alice met up with us after my first hunt. Jasper kept feeling on guard and it was getting a bit annoying. "Jasper, could you stop that please? I am fine!" I shouted nearly hissing. He stopped in his tracks and gave me an appoligetic glance. His feelings switched to more calming. We made our way back to the house and I grabbed Edward's arm. Alice grabbed my other arm and they both guided me inside.
"Thank god you kids are home. It's six o clock, why are you just getting home now? Oh!" Esme said as she rounded the corner to greet us. "What happened?" she demanded. "Yeah, I would like to know that too, now!" Jasper said with crossed. I drew in a deep breath. "Well I was sitting in Biology when all of a sudden the flames that usually hit me at night hit me. Then...now that I think about it, it's all kind of fuzzy" I explained trying to remember what happened afterwards. Emmett laughed and said, "she tried to kill the teacher. Apparently not only did she become a raging newborn in a class full of students. But she was in the same room as her own personal singer, the Biology teacher". Esme gasped. I knew when she first came to us saying she was becoming a vampire we should have insisted she stay home with me during the school day. She thought to herself franticly. I ran over and hugged her. "I wouldn't have stayed home while I was still capable of going to school. I'm too big headed to stay home over something like that. Besides I figured that the change would happen during the night and I would just wake up one mornig a full vampire. I didn't expect it to happen so suddenly. I should have listened to Jasper when he sugested I went home at lunchtime. Now I've gone and exposed you to the class" I said on the edge of sobbing. Esme rubbed my back and said, "it's not your fault. Jasper could have made you leave. Carlisle and I could have made you stay home. This was no ones fault".
Alice came downstairs grinning and laughing. "Great choice, Esme. I can't believe we are going to live in Alaska again. The Denali clan will be so excited" Alice exclaimed clapping and jumping up and down. Alaska, what about Charlie and Renee. I had to tell them something. But the strange thing was I was still thinking about how wonderful that teachers blood would be. Maybe I could sneak away while everyone was distracted. As I thought about it my throat ruptured into flames. I need that teacher's blood. Alice danced towards me and said "don't even think about it Bella. We will catch you and stop you before you can do anything stupid like that". Jasper walked forward and said, "Thirsty". It wasn't a question as much as it was a statement. I nodded, partly hopping they would take me to Mr. Walker's place. The other part of me was wondering where my sense of right and wrong had gone. Did I honestly want to kill an innocent man for the sake of my own thirst. It wouldn't be right. However the other part of me wanted so badly to just go over and just take that sweet smelling blood. Thought like, I'd be doing him a favour. Someone who smells that good is only a risk to himself. If I don't take his blood, someone else will ran through my mind. When did I become so selfish that I was debating in my head whether or not it was right to end an innocent mans life?
The burn in my throat intensified, making me wish I could just swallow and ice cube to make the flames go away. Jasper came over, "you need to hunt". I looked at the floor not wanting to be a bother. "I just came back from hunting. Eventually you are going to get sick of me. I'll wait" I said walking to sit in the living room. "Isabella Marie Swan, do not think about sitting on that sofa in those bloody clothes!" Esme yelled after me. Jasper and Emmett followed me into the living room. "Bella, you are a newborn," Jasper started. "Newborns' get thirsty alot. We've all been there and we all understand. Even Rosalie. No one is going to get sick of you needing to hunt". Emmett laughed and said, "come on, sis. Let's go hunt some grizzlies".
We returned from hunting around 6 PM. Edward was waiting for me outside. I ran into his arms and just inhailed his scent. He took me in his arms and just heald me. Every once and a while I would hold him too tight, causing hime to grimace. He would gently remind me not to hold him so tight.
Alice danced into Edward's room at around two o clock and anounced we were leaving for Alaska in the morning. However Alice's thoughts were on all of the clothes she planned to buy us in Alaska. Apparently I was running to Alaska with Jasper and Edward. Jasper didn't feel comfortable on an airplane. He felt he still didn't have enough control over his thirst. He was running with me and Edward because he thought if something happened and I went out of control, Edward would be too scared to hurt me to truly try to stop me.
Edward and I packed up his room. Esme had aleady left for Alaska to decorate our new house. I couldn't wait to see the new place. Alice was blocking her mind all morning, singing the most annoying songs in the world in her mind. Rosalie went with Esme to keep her company. Emmett, Jasper and Edward were keeping me company. Or baby-sitting me. Carlisle still hadn't come home from the hospital, so he didn't know I was now a full vampire, or that we were moving. His car pulled into the garage and Edward went down to talk to him. Probably to let him know about recent events. Emmett and Jasper preoccupied until I heard Carlisle say, "Bella, could you please come down here?" I walked downstairs to where a nervous Carlisle was waiting. In his mind he was praying that Edward was joking around with him and that I had not actually turned into a full vampire in a classroom full of humans and then attempt to kill the teacher. He saw me and took in a deep breath. He started blaming himself in his head.
Emmett came downstairs grinning like an idiot. "I'm gonna run to Alaska with you guys. I wanna race my new little sister" he said in a macho 'I'm gonna cream you to a pulp' kind of voice. He grinned at the thought of beatting me in a race without the advantage of me being human. Carlisle sighed and said, "I swear you kids are very competitive. Then again you are all trapped in hormonal teenage bodies". He said as he left to go tell the staff at the hospital that he got tranfered to Alaska. He knew all he had to do is show up and he could start the next day in Alaska. It was offical. We were moving and it was because of me.
We were all packed up and ready to go within two hours. I stood by the door waiting for Edward, Jasper and Emmett to come and start out journey to Alaska. "Bella love" Edward's beautiful voice called out as he came downstairs. I looked up at him and grinned let him know I knew he was there. He kissed me lightly on the lips before saying, "let's hunt. We don't want to stop to hunt on the way to Alaska. We need to pay attention to you while we run to make sure you don't hunt any humans. It's a goog thing the three of us are going with you because we would need my speed to catch you, Jasper's stradegy to stop you and Emmett's strength to restrain you". With that Edward and I ran outside to hunt.