A.N: Well, here it is, a new chapter. I know it's late, but these things take time… something that I have been sadly lacking this summer. You will now find out whether or not our beloved Andrew will live or die. Enjoy, and remember, I love feed back and any advice is greatly appreciated.
Twenty. High Voltage
Andy
So… this is what it was like to die.
Now that the pain had gone, it wasn't really all that bad. There was no light at the end of the tunnel, which I hadn't been expecting, but there was also no fire and brimstone, which I had.
Instead, I was just… floating, hanging in nowhere as though I had never existed.
The afterlife was kind of crappy.
"Andy, you can do this, I know you can."
I sighed at Tia's voice- beautiful, fiery, passionate Tia. My friend, my lover, my everything. How could I let her go- especially for an eternity of floating in a painless, empty… nowhere.
I couldn't, which meant there was only one thing I could do. The one thing I was best at.
I had to cheat death.
I had to survive.
With that in mind, I clawed my way back into consciousness.
Bella
I looked helplessly at Edward as we tried to pull Tia away from Andy's body. It had been a week- one long, miserable week- and Andy had just now succumbed to the venom, no longer breathing.
"No," Tia sobbed, fighting against my grip. "No, no- Andy, wake up! You have to, please… Andy…"
She curled into herself, her sudden dead weight nearly sending me to floor, except that Edward was there and caught me. Tia didn't notice- she had wrapped her arms around her legs and was rocking back and forth, Andy's name the only coherent word in her sobs.
"Tia, let's get you downstairs," Edward murmured kindly. "We'll get you cleaned up, and-"
"Stop your sobbing, woman. I'm not dead."
All three of our heads snapped up to look at the bed. Andy lay there, seemingly immobile, but it had been his voice that had spoken the words.
"Andy," Tia scrambled to his side and grasped his hand. "Speak to me again honey."
"Or am I dead," he mused, not really responding to Tia. "What do you call it when all your bodily functions have ceased, but you continue to exist," his eyes slowly opened and he blinked a few times, as if his vision were out of focus.
"We call it a vampire," Edward walked to Andy's other side and slapped his shoulder. "It's good to have you back."
"It's good to be back… I think," Andy's eyes narrowed in concentration and he frowned at the roof, before he turned his head to look at Tia. His gaze immediately softened and he smiled. "Yeah, it definitely good. Help me up."
Edward and Tia manoeuvred Andy into a sitting position, and he moved so that his legs were over the side of the bed. That done, he wasted no time in swinging Tia up into his arms and burying his face in his hair.
"I'm a vampire now," he murmured, his voice muffled by her hair. "You had better make it damn good and worth it."
Tia pushed him back a bit to smile up into his face.
"It's time we left," Edward told me, putting an arm around my shoulder and directing me for the door.
"But I didn't even get to say hello-" I began, but Andy interrupted me.
"Hello Bella, great to see you. How are you? Good? Well, that's great. Oh, me? Never better. Now, please get the hell out of the room while I get hot and heavy with my girl, here."
I laughed.
"It's good to have you back, Andy."
Andy just waved his hand at me, his mouth to busy working on Tia's to give me a reply.
Tia
"You," I paused as Andy pressed a kiss against my lips, "complete," another kiss, "and total jerk!"
Andy pulled back to raise an eyebrow at me.
"Name calling is kind of ruining the mood here, vampire."
"That doesn't work anymore, Lassie," I retorted, grinning as he gave me another kiss. "You're a vampire too."
That made him pause, and caused his eyebrows to furrow in thought.
"What is it, Andy," I asked, looking anxiously into his dark face.
"I don't think Lassie will work anymore, love," his eyes turned sorrowful, and I felt a pang in my own heart at the pain those green eyes held. "I'm not a wolf anymore- I'm a vampire."
"Oh," I laid my head against his chest. "I guess I never thought of that before. Do you think you'll regret it?"
He looked down into my face and his eyes softened, just as they always did when he looked at me- just as they always had, even when I had found him beaten and broken all those years ago.
"Never," he murmured, bending down to graze his lips over mine. "I could never regret staying with you, Tia. Everything I do, I do for you."
His words brought back all the misery and pain of the last week when I thought I would lose him, and I began to sob against his chest. He wrapped his arms tightly around me, embracing me to his chest. His abnormally warm chest.
I pulled back from him immediately and surveyed him closely. He looked the same as he had before the change- exactly the same.
Tanned skin.
Green eyes.
Fevered skin.
The only thing missing was a heart beat.
"Andy," I said slowly.
"What, lass?" he replied frowning down at me.
"I don't think you're a normal vampire."
He raised an eyebrow at me, so I got off his lap and lead him to the mirror in the corner.
"What am I looking at?" he asked me, bemused.
"Your reflection, obviously. Notice anything off?"
I saw the exact moment that his brain registered the lack of change in his appearance. His mouth spoke what his brain was thinking a moment later.
"Bloody hell."
A.N: Well, there you have it, chapter twenty. I know the title didn't have much to do with the chapter content, but I was listening to the song Danger! High Voltage by Electric Six as I wrote it, and no other name seemed to work. I've already started Twenty-one and hope to have it up before I leave for University on Monday. Wish me luck and happy writing!