Chapter 12: New Beginnings
Author's note: For my own sake, I'm skipping ahead a little. To find out what happens in Aro's trial, read chapters 7 and 8 of my fanfic 'Twilight Saga: Meteor Shower'. It is a little short, but I might modify it later. Enjoy.
Renesmee's point of view:
The trial went off without a hitch. Aro was sentenced to 4000 years as the lowest ranking member of the guard, he could never use his mind reading unless ordered to do so, and he could never drink human blood ever again.
Me and the Esper, Matilda Wormwood, became best girlfriends. She showed me her powers. And then I beat her at chess. Chess wasn't that hard, not a very difficult game at all; there are only a limited number of moves until you're sure that you will checkmate your opponent's king in the next twenty moves or so.
Some people might tell me I'm too smart. But my brain is my best feature.
Marcus allowed us to tell the secret of vampires to trustworthy humans.
We told grandpa Charlie first and then went to Florida to meet grandma Renee for the first time.
We walked up to Phil and Renée's house. It was after nightfall. Mama knocked on the door. The one who was called grandpa Phil answered the door. Mama had showed me his picture.
Phil looked at mama with shock and surprise. "Bella? Bella is that you?"
"Yes Phil, it's me." said mama.
"You look different?"
"Actually that's what I'm here to talk to you and mom about."
We were all invited into the house.
Grandma Renée came into the living room, and was ecstatic at mama's presence though she didn't immediately seem to recognize her. Grandma Renee was pretty, and I could see what Phil saw in her.
"Mom, I don't think you two have ever met." said mama referring to my Jacob. "This is Jacob Black."
They shook hands.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Dwyer." said Jacob. "Bella has told me all about you."
"Me too, for you." said Grandma. "I did meet your father though."
Then grandma looked at me.
"Sweetie what has happened to you, and who is this young lady here?" said Grandma kindly.
I smiled at that she had called me a lady.
"That's what we're here to talk to you about." said mama. "There is no easy way to say this, so we're just going to lay it out. Her name is Renesmee. I named her after you and Esme."
"Named her after both of us, I don't understand?" asked grandma, confused.
"She's our daughter, me and Edward's." said mama.
Renee smile, but also had a look of shock on her face.
"You mean you adopted her?" she asked.
"No," said mama, "I carried her inside my uterus from embryo to full maturity in 29 days and gave birth. She is our biological daughter, and your granddaughter."
Grandma's mouth had fallen open in disbelief. What mama had just said would of course sound impossible to a normal person. Phil was also in shock.
"How is that even possible?" asked Phil. "She looks, maybe, three years old."
"Well mom, I'm going to explain this to you the best I can." said mama formally. "Mom, the DNA in my body has undergone a complete transformation."
Grandma looked at mama with confused suspicion.
"I don't know what you mean dear?" said grandma in confusion.
Mama decided to explain it the way Jacob explained it to Charlie, and the way Carlisle explained it to Philip's parents.
"Mom, you don't live in the world that you think you do." said mama. "You believe that you live in a world of Science, a world of Mathematics, a world where nature is governed by the laws of physics, and yes mother, you do live in that world, make no mistake about that. But intermixed with that world, is a world...of magic...a world of strange and unusual things, a world of mythical creatures living out human lives in small towns. An uninhibited, wondrous, mystical world without rules, or limitations...where anything you can imagine is real and the impossible is quite possible." mama had spoken the whole thing with dramatic monologue.
Grandma looked at mama as though she was crazy.
"You paint quite a picture honey, but what you're talking about is..." grandma broke off and couldn't seem to find the words to use.
"Crazy," interjected Jacob, "wild, outrageous, silly? I agree, because that's what I thought when I heard my tribes legends. Then it happened to me."
"What happened to you?" asked Renee.
Jacob and daddy looked at each other.
"Jacob possesses magic powers to transform himself into a giant wolf." mama said outright.
Mama looked at grandma and let the statement hang.
"I will have to see it to believe it." grandma said in a disbelieving tone.
Daddy smiled.
"Show them Jacob. No one is watching." said daddy, obviously he had scanned around with his mind reading.
Jacob led everyone into the backyard. He striped down to his underwear. And then before the eyes of Renee and Phil, he burst forth as a giant wolf.
Renee and Phil jumped back in surprise.
Jacob transformed back and put his clothes on.
"Okay, I am impressed." said Phil with a shocked face. "How did you do that?"
"It's a carefully guarded secret of my tribe." Jacob said. "And only a few of us possess the gift. I am what you would call by myth and Legend, a werewolf."
"He protects his tribe from vampires." I spoke aloud for the first time. "Real vampires, not imaginary."
"And that is what me and Edward are." said mama.
Renee looked shocked beyond belief. I did not blame her.
"Feel my hands mother." mama said.
Renee felt the cold hard stone of mama's hands.
Mama then took out a stone the size of a softball. She crashed into powder in her hands, and in less than a second she grabbed a broom and dustpan and swept it off the floor.
"What would you both say if I told you that I could read your mind?" asked daddy.
"At this point I'm not sure?" said grandma, lost for words.
Daddy then answered a few unspoken questions until he must have seen in their minds that they believed.
"And I can transfer my own thoughts and memories into your mind." I told them.
Grandma and Phil looked at me with amazment as I walked up to them and took their hands in mine.
Phil and Renee were in awe as they saw the flood of memories enter their minds until they knew without a doubt that everything I showed them was true.
Mama looked at grandma and her stepfather with patience, and she knew that she had just dumped an awful lot on to them.
"Mom I know that this is a lot to just put on you all of a sudden." said mama apologetically. "But there is really no other way to do it except to just come out with it quickly like ripping off a band-aid. We originally kept this from you because I thought that you were to fragile for my world, and that I had to protect you. But to do that would have required you to never see me again, and the reason that we're telling you this now is because we want you to have your granddaughter be part of your life, and we also want you to know the truth and accept us this way, because nothing has changed, I'm still your daughter and I love you."
Grandma looked at mama with curiosity.
"So, you are vampires?" she asked with curious interest rather than fear.
"Yes." mama answered with curiosity at grandma's response.
"But you don't burn in the Sun?" asked grandma.
I had already told her that telepathically, but I guess that she wanted to confirm anyway.
"No." answered mama.
"And you are transformed by a bite?"
"Yes."
"Poisoned by garlic?"
"No."
"Stake to the heart kills you? And where are your monster like foreheads and elongated canines?"
Mama frowned and looked at grandpa.
"Phil, has my mom been watching far too much, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, recently?" mama asked.
"Ohhhhh, YEAH! She has." said grandpa with an amused smile.
"I saw in Nessie's memories that you only drink animal blood?" said grandma.
"That's right." said mama.
"And you have super strength, and super speed, and skin stronger than steel?"
"That's right."
Both Phil and Renee had horrified looks on their faces. At first Renee was disgusted with her daughter for choosing this life, and for everything that she was. But then Renee's face turned into a wide excited smile.
"This is amazing!" said grandma excitedly. "This is incredible! I mean, I always knew that the supernatural world was real. I never had a doubt in my mind for a second. I mean I never had proof, but now I do, not that I would ever tell anyone. No, no, no, I mean, I know I've got to keep the secret, I mean I've watched enough sci-fi movies, I know what the government does to people like you guys. This is so exciting! Tell me more! I want to know absolutely everything!"
Mama was the one in shock now, and so was I for that matter. Whatever her grandma's response was going to be, we did not ever expected it to be this.
"Wait," mama cut in with a tone of confusion, "you're okay with this?"
"I know what you're thinking honey, and I have to say that I have always believed in the extraordinary." said grandma gently. "In the impossible. And if this is what has happened to my daughter, as long as you don't kill anybody, then I will accept you like this."
Phil was in shock. He had not expected his wife to be like this.
"Phil, how do you feel about this?" asked mama.
"This is a lot to take in for me honey," said Phil calmly, "but if it makes you happy, then I guess that I'm happy!"
"And we have wonderful news." added grandma excitedly. "I'm pregnant. Phil and I are going to have a baby!"
Grandma is going to have a baby? Oh, that will be so wonderful! And I then realized that my nose detected that grandma's body was giving off the chemicals and pheromones at indicated pregnancy. I had read all about it.
"Oh my god!" said mama surprised. "A baby! I thought you smelled funny."
Mama turned her head to the side and closed her eyes.
"Yes, I can't hear it's heart yet. It's not very far along. Two months?"
"Give or take." said grandma.
And that was it. The response and acceptance of this had been far more than our wildest expectations and we all spent the next week talking. Mama, daddy, and Jacob told Renee every minute detail of the past 2 years what had happened. They told them about mama first meeting daddy. Daddy saving mama from getting crushed by a van. Mama finding out that daddy was a vampire. Jacob telling mama about Quileute legend on the beach. Daddy saving mama from a hunting vampire. Uncle Jasper almost killing mama on her birthday. Daddy breaking up with mama. Mama seeing hallucinations of daddy and then riding motorcycles with Jacob. Jacob transforming into a werewolf. Mama going to Italy to save daddy from the Volturi who are the vampire police and enforce the law. Newborn armies in Seattle. The wolves and Cullen's fighting the newborns. Mama getting pregnant on the honeymoon. Me being born. The details of werewolf imprinting. Me growing up for the past 4 months, and then the fierce battle with the Volturi where the king was deposed, Marcus is now our ally, and that we had lost the youngest wolf in the pack.
We enjoyed our time together, and we all had to admit that everything in our lives I was just absolutely perfect. May it never change.
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