Sam's POV:
I paced back and forth while Bella vented her anger at Edward to Alice over the phone.
Bella, Alice, and I stayed friends, despite Edward's idiotic-ness. They lived only two states away, which is only an hour run. Alice said that Eddie-Boy had run away from the Cullens. Bella and I gave a "good riddance" at that news.
"What an idiot, to let your family worry themselves for running away like that, without telling any of you. He even kept changing his mind to mess up visions! I bet poor Esme is sobbing over him because of this. What a bastard, to make Esme sob," Bella said, trying to make the freaking-out pixie feel better by agreeing with her. I could tell Bella truly cared less.
"I can't even get a vision about where he is right now; everything's blank! Besides, he was a horrible brother. First, all he did was mope around. Then he met you and left you, my best friend. Then he moped again, and he moped even worse than he did when he first became a vampire, according to Carlisle. Then, he comes back to you and leaves you, my best friend, AGAIN! Then he worries the rest of the family to death by disappearing! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HIS MIND?" Alice yelled firmly.
Bella turns her attention to me. I was pacing around the living room, at vampire speed. I could already see the carpet wearing out. "Sam stop pacing, will you?" I shook my head.
"NO!" I whined. "I'll do what I want, dammit. Danny's not here yet. He was supposed to be here three minutes ago!" I let out scream of frustration. Hey, it was better then punching the wall. I am not a very patient person, OK?
"Chill, Sam. He's only three minutes late," Bella reasons, before continuing her conversation with Alice. I tune them out, not in the mood to hear how much they hate Edward. I had always hated him, and they knew that. No need to tell them again. He was stupid and annoying and arrogant at times. He was dramatic and selfish. People usually only saw his good qualities, how little they may be, because he was hot. But Danny was hotter…
Bella's screaming woke me up from my day dreaming of Danny. "Alice? Are you there? HELLO?"
"OH MY GOD!" Alice's voice blasted through the phone so loud, that I fell backward and hit my head on the floor. "Guys, I just had a vision that some vampire was killing Danny!" I didn't take my time to listen to what else she had to say, and ran the route between my house and his house. He had to have taken it and was abducted on the way to my house.
Sure enough, I saw Danny's car on the side of the road not too far from home. It was one of the deserted roads that we always took as a short cut, and was near the woods. The window was broken, not a good sign.
I screamed loudly at the sight of blood by the window. I breathed it in, burning my mouth with venom, and followed the scent of his blood. I ran faster than I have ever before, not happy in the slightest. He couldn't die, not yet. I cleared those thoughts and pushed my legs even faster.
In less then five minutes, I found him. In front of his broken body was an evil, monstrous-looking vampire. "Stop!" I screamed. The man looked at me impatiently.
I ripped the vampire off Danny before he could bite and threw him at a tree. I pushed him against the tree and ripped his arm off. His other arm was about to be torn off of his body when a force field suddenly surrounded him. I turned around to see Bella.
"Sam," Bella whispered grimly. "You looked like a monster for a second, ripping off his arm like that. Please stop trying to kill Conner and help me save Danny. You can always kill him later," she added.
"I froze. Conner. She knew his name. "You know this vile excuse of existence?"
"Sort of, but that's not the point. We have to save Danny before it's too late." She paused and looked over his injures. "His neck's broken, and so is the Carotid artery. There's a good 95% he's going to die. You have to make the choice now. Change him or risk the chance of him dying?" I walked over to my Danny. I glanced back, making sure "Conner" was held tightly in his force field. He was, so I turned my attention fully to Danny. My Danny, the one whom lay unconscious at this very minute.
"You'll have to pull me back if I don't stop," I warn Bella, without looking at her. I can tell she nodded from the corner of my eye.
The choice was obvious. He was going to be changed eventually, so why not now? "I'm sorry," I whispered in his ear. I gently kissed his soft lips before moving to his neck. "This might hurt a little—or a lot actually." I breathed in his scent, letting it devour me.
I sink my teeth into Danny's neck, and for a moment I forget who he is. I feel his blood running through me. I can feel his life pulsing through my veins; I want to eat that life in him.
Too soon, I am pulled away by an unseen force. It's Bella's force field. "Sam, you almost killed him," Bella mutters, mortified.
"Danny," I whisper sadly. Holding my breath, I take Danny and run home.
Bella's POV
I sit down on the ground, still mortified, not making a move to follow Sam. She will need her alone time to think things through and be with Danny, and I don't want to bother her. I heard leaves rustling behind me, and then remember Conner. With a wave of my hand, the invisible shield that surrounded him vanished. I don't turn around and look at him, not wanting to see his face at the moment.
"You can pick up your arm and go," I tell him, staring into the trees in front of me.
"I'm sorry," he says sincerely, taking me by surprise. "I didn't know the human was yours."
"He's more then 'the human.' He was my brother, in a sense; he was my sister's boyfriend. He means a lot to us."
"Well, you were probably going to change him anyway." Conner lazily sits down next to me.
"He had a human life, too, though. Friends. Family. School. He wasn't ready to be changed. He needed more time to live a real life and gain human memories before he would be stuck living a vampire life forever."
"I really am sorry," he repeats. "If there's anything I can do to help…"
"It'd help if you'd leave so I don't have to pull Sam off you when she tries to kill you."
"Aw, you'd save me?"
"Probably not."
"You're so caring."
"You're so annoying."
"Cry me a river."
"Go bug someone else, will ya?"
"You're such a whiner, like most gold-eyes."
"You're such a jerk, like most red-eyes. Do you even care that you kill endless people? They could have families, friends, loved ones. What if someone killed your friend?"
"Good thing I don't have any friends for them to kill, then."
"You could have-," I whisper, and stop myself before I say me, "-a friend."
He thinks I am challenging him, when I really am asking to be his friend. "I could have a friend, I just don't want friends. I'd rather be lonely for eternity then risk friendship." This is interesting to me. I figured Conner to be the risky type. He must have some bad experiences with friendship in the past or something.
"I wouldn't." Loneliness reminds me of Edward. I close my eyes, wishing we could change the subject. "So, why are you nice, or at least semi-civil, to me now? What happened to your rude and gold-eye-hating Conner I met a week ago?"
"I don't know; I grew a conscience?" he suggested.
"I guess so," I said. I was actually starting to like the Conner with a conscience. We fell into awkward silence.
"Do you think Danny's OK?" he asked quietly.
I listen to the sounds. I can hear faint screaming in the distance. That's Danny's screaming from the transformation. "I think he's about to be a vampire, but don't know if that's a good thing or a bad. I think it's more bad than good, though." Conner didn't say anything for a while.
"I am a monster," he whispered at last. I opened my mouth to protest, a natural reflex I got from arguing with Edward, but I said nothing. He was a monster, after all. "See, even you don't disagree. I am a sick monster that shouldn't even be living."
"Shut up," I tell him, feeling ill. This conversation is so much like the ones with Edward that it makes me want to cry. It's not that I miss Edward; it's just that I don't like to think about him, remembering all the times I craved for him. It was sick how pathetic I once was when it came to Edward.
"What?" he asked confused.
"Shut up," I repeat. "I don't want to hear your self-hatred. You're just like Edward," I say in disgust.
"Who the hell is Edward?"
"My ex-boyfriend." It's weird. Normally, it would hurt my chest to think of him as an ex, but I feel no pain. Instead, I just sound angry.
"What happened?" he asked, concerned.
"It's a long story," I tell him, trying to avoid having to tell it to him.
"I have time."
With a sigh, I slowly tell him the story of the lion and the lamb and all the details in between. It takes a couple hours to do so, but he listens to every word the whole time. It feels good to tell someone other than Sam or Alice. He seems to understand me, too. At the end, I wait for him to say something, but he doesn't at first.
"I would say I'm sorry, but I'm not. You could do better than him, I'm sure about that." Then we go back into silence. He opens his mouth to say something, but at that exact time, Alice comes running into the forest area we're in.
"Bella, I need to talk to you about-" she stops and sees Conner. "You're Conner, right? I had many visions about you." She smiles widely and winks suggestively at me. I roll my eyes at her, but if I were human I would be blushing.
"Anyway," exclaims Alice, "I had a vision that Danny's a vampire. Sam bit him, right?" I give her a nod. "Well, since Edward left our family, I had a vision that we all split up. Emmett and Rosalie go back into the honeymoon phase, but we see them every month or so. Carlisle and Esme take the time to live alone for awhile, but come and visit us every week."
I raised an eyebrow. "Us being…?"
"Us being you, Sam, Danny, Conner, Jasper and I."
"What about Conner?" asked Conner.
"You're going to be in the new Swan coven."
"And if I don't want to?"
Alice went in her blank vision state. "You've already decided to join and become a vegetarian," she smirks.
I can see Conner about to punch Alice, so I jump in the middle of them. "Can you join our coven?"
"Sure," he grumbles, and Alice beams.
"You're going to have to go by our diet, though. Would you mind that?"
"Being a gold-eye doesn't sound so bad," he mumbled.
Jasper runs up, and he sends a glance at Conner, whom Alice probably already told him about from what she saw in her visions, and then glances at me. "Odd, I'm getting strange feelings from both of you," he tells us. He turns to Alice. "Has your vision of them kissing already come true?"
"WHAT?" Conner and I scream simultaneously. I don't like Conner like that; that would be very gross. I mean, he was hot, with his tall figure and dirty blonde hair. His eyes are a scary bright red, but still seem to look comforting. He has battle scars on his arms, not as much as Jasper though, but that only makes him sexier… But I definitely do not like him as any more than a friend, if I even like him as a friend at all.
Alice hit Jasper on the back of the head. "Ya'll can just pretend I didn't say a word," he says, giving us an apology smile.
"You know what… I'm going to go check on Sam and Danny… yeah," I said awkwardly and left Conner alone with Jasper and Alice.
Alice and Jasper are back! Woot! More Conner and Bella, Sam and Danny next chapter, hopefully!
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