Chapter nine: Whispers

NPOV

March 1, Wednesday

I woke up from this dream, I don't remember what it was about, just that it was a long dream. I was more fading into consciousness than waking up.

I felt strange. Maybe I was sick, but I didn't feel sick.

I heard voices, a lot of them, shouting and whispering. I couldn't understand anything. In a desperate way to keep them out, I placed my hands over my ears and shut my eyes as tight as I could, trying to go back to the dream.

Everything felt strange here. Maybe this was the dream. I needed to get out.

Suddenly a familiar voice told the other voices to shut up. I don't know who it belonged to, but the shouting stopped immediately. The whispering didn't though.

I lowered my hands again, but kept my eyes closed. I tried to understand what they were whispering about. Was it about me? Was I sick?

She looks distressed. There's too much of us. Should I leave?

I wonder if she's thirsty.

She's the most beautiful one I have ever seen.

She's not as pale as us.

The voices weren't talking to each other, they were all just criss crossing. There was more, but I couldn't understand all of it.

Suddenly I heard footsteps and then another familiar voice that said: "It's too much for her. One at the time."

Jasper.

I remembered bits and pieces. He was in my dream.

Somebody else answered "Carlisle, you stay, we go."

Dad.

I smiled and lifted my hand. Someone took it. Dad. He didn't feel like dad, but he was, I knew. It's like… I could smell him. A sweet scent. He kissed me on my forehead, and then the whispering voices left the room.

Only one voice left. That would have to be Carlisle. I slowly opened my eyes, squinting against the light.

He whispered, more to himself: "Blue… Remarkable. Very remarkable."

"What is blue?" I asked.

"Huh?" he looked surprised, and then added "Did I say that out loud?"

"Yes you did."

He looked at me thoughtfully and then said "Can you hear me?"

"Of course I can. What is going on Carlisle? Why do I feel so weird?"

A mind reader. It figures.

"You mean dad?" My confusion only got higher.

Carlisle sat on the edge of my bed and said, out loud this time "You have inherited your father's gift Nessie, you can read minds."

He looked at me intently. As if he expected me to do something.

I knew he was right. The whispers I had been hearing. They were not spoken, they were thought.

"Why now? I never could before." I tried to sit up, but still felt a little drowsy.

He sighed. "Do you remember anything that happened the day you decided to meet Tina?"

The most stupid and irresponsible decision of my life, I remember it, yeah. "You know about that?"

"Yes."

"Are you mad?"

"Not anymore. We understand. What do you remember?"

I thought hard, while he waited. His mind silent, patient.

"I remember seeing her. I was cold. The car… " The crash flashed before me, and the reason why we crashed. "She bit me…" I lifted my left hand to my neck. Sure enough , I could feel the crescent scar and traced it with my fingers. I was sure I would die then.

Carlisle nodded. "You were saved. But we had to change you."

He looked at me as if I would be angry about that.

"Is the change finished or just starting?" I don't remember any pain. For all I know, it had been a pleasant dream.

"I think you are a full vampire. How do you feel?"

"Weird."

"In a good way or in a bad way?"

"Neither. Does Jake know?" I shook my head to clear it from the leftover fog. Slowly I was focusing.

"Yes. But we told him to go home, we didn't know how much bloodlust you would be in. Can you smell him?"

Now that he mentioned, there were all sorts of smells, which I never smelled before but recognized anyway.

"I can smell all of them, is that possible?" I distinguished the specific smells of all my family members, including Jake, who smelled still nice to me. Luckily.

"Yes, it's possible."

"All but Tina. She must be devastated, about the biting. She hates the bloodlust."

"Yes, about Tina... We haven't seen her since Jasper pulled her off of you."

"She's gone?"

"Emmett and Rose reckon she was running before she met you."

"I remember something like that. But she wouldn't stay away, would she?"

"I don't know, Nessie. Right now, let's focus on you."

I tell her she changed into a vampire and she's worried about her friend, at least her good heart hasn't changed.

"Thanks." I smiled at his thought.

"Oh. You're welcome. It will take some getting used to. Another mind reader."

"I can't hear the rest now. Are they still here?"

"Your gift will probably develop throughout the years. What do your other senses tell you?"

I listened carefully, but they were probably all still, listening in on the conversation.

"I don't know."

"You'll get there. Obviously everybody is still here, dying to meet our newest vampire."

"So how's this thing with bloodlust? I don't feel anything. Am I supposed to?"

"It hurts. You'll notice when you get there. No sore throat?"

"No." My eyes were fully adjusted to the light now, and I took a look around the room, taking in all the details that I never noticed before. I looked back at Carlisle too. He was indeed a handsome doctor. My grandfather.

"Did you change me?"

"No. Jasper did."

"Jasper bit me?"

"He had to. You only had seconds left."

"Waw. Must have been hard on him."

"He did brilliantly. Didn't even take a drop from you."

I smiled. I always wanted him to change me, back when I wanted to be a vampire. I guess I got my way again.

"Can I call Jake?"

"Yes, of course. I'll leave you to it. You'll have plenty of time to meet the rest of us, as you won't be sleeping again."

He handed me my cell. I was a little nervous. Jake always told me he would still love me as a vampire, but that was before we were together, before we were married. We chose the human life. Things will be different now.

At the first dial, he picked up.

"Ness, baby, I'm so glad you're okay."

"How do you know I'm okay?"

"I just got off the phone with Edward, he told me you would call me."

"Oh. So you know I'm a mind reader then?"

"Yes. That's um… amazing, right?"

"I'm not as good as Edward. Right now I hear nothing."

"You'll be reading my mind as well."

If that was his biggest concern, we would be fine. "How do you feel about the vampire thing?"

"Well… It's not the life we chose. But I almost lost you, honey… And knowing that…" his voice broke, and I heard him swallow before he continued "…makes me glad that you're immortal now."

"You're not…" I was emotional as well, but there were no tears in my eyes. Never would be again.

"I'll phase again, Nessie. I'll stay young with you."

"You'll smell."

He laughed at that. I was glad to be able to lift the heavy mood.

"You mean I don't stink now?"

"Naah. Not yet. What about me?"

"Naah. And the bloodlust?"

"Fine. Carlisle says I would notice, so, I'm okay, I guess."

"Think you can meet me soon? I miss you already…"

"Me too. I don't think they'll try to keep us apart."

"No. Not after what happened."

"I'm really sorry, Jake. She sounded like she was saying goodbye to me. I thought I would never get to see her again."

"It's okay baby. If you would have gotten yourself killed, then I would have been mad. Now I'm just glad that Alice, and Jasper, and Carlisle were in the right place at the right time."

"Alice and Carlisle saved me too?"

"Yes. Alice had a vision, Jasper stopped Tina and bit you, and Carlisle gave you blood. It was all a matter of seconds."

"Gee. Fate really wants me to be a vampire, right?"

"Yeah. Maybe it does."

"And you'll be Superwolf again?"

"I'm gonna have to. Can't have my wife be faster and stronger than me."

We talked a little more, but I was somewhat uncomfortable, knowing that they all could listen in. It never bothered me much, but I never believed they paid much attention to personal stuff.

Right now, the house was way too silent.

I guess it was time for me to come out, and show my new self.

AN: A mind reader!!! How about that?