Boredom
This story is based on Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Series; she owns all the main characters except for the new one. She owns everything twilight related.
Just a fluff chapter. But the next will have Alice and Renesmees POV.
Ashlyn POVFour days. That's how long Doctor Carlisle and Mrs. Doctor Carlisle have been here. I'm tired of being looked at to make sure I'm okay. I'm tired of going in the monster, and I'm tired of taking that damn medicine that will apparently dialate the veins in my lungs and everywhere else in my body. It decreases the fluid pressure going into my heart and lungs. In two weeks I should be back to normal though. Especially since I'm drinking a lot more blood; more than once a month anyways. I stopped the coughing up blood two days ago; I can breathe a lot better too.
"Hey sweeties" My mom said as she entered my room. Shane was playing the piano on his own now, but still needed help when he learned new songs. I was happy when I didn't have to teach him the keys and notes again and what symbol went with what like I did on the first day. We half vampires have awesome photographic memory.
"Yeah mom" I said as I lay down on my bed reading Maximum Ride: The Final Warning by James Patterson. "Your dad and I are going hunting. Your grandparents will stay here to keep an eye on both of you." My mom said nonchalant.
"Okay" Shane said as he still played the piano. I just said whatever. My mom came in the room kissed my forehead then Shanes and left. I waited five seconds after I heard the backdoor close to say anything.
"I can't believe she's leaving us with and Mrs. Sunshine" I whispered knowing Shane heard me, but Esme and Carlisle couldn't over the noise of the piano and TV.
"Get over it, they're pretty cool. I mean I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to get either of them mad though."
"You wouldn't want to get any vampire mad dummy. Besides you're not the one that has to be eaten by a machine and spit out every day. I hate this. Let's go outside" I said getting up from the bed. I made my way to my door, then turned and looked at Shane who was still playing the piano. "Well are you coming?" I asked. He stopped playing and looked at me.
"Wait you were serious? You can't go out your sick"
"Yes, I know it might sound ludicrous, but I hate being stuck inside its killing me. If mom finds out I'll take the bait okay. Now come on!" I said. He stood up and walked right behind me as we went downstairs. I heard Esme in the kitchen and Carlisle in my parent's office. I quickly made my way to the back door only to be stopped by Dr. Jekyll.
"May I ask where you two think you're going?" Carlisle asked. I looked at Shane who gulped. I promised to take the bait. Why did I say that?
"Outside where the wind flows and makes the trees sway and dance elegantly. Where children like us tend to spend most of their innocence playing hide 'n go seek or tag." I said smilingly. Damn I'm good. Carlisle just looked flabbergasted, while Esme was smiling.
"How old are you?" Carlisle asked.
"Four"
"I think you're ready for high school. Oh and how do you know who doctor Jekyll is?" he asked
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson…I'm sorry I didn't think you could hear me." I said softly. Shane stepped closer to me.
"It's okay, but I am wondering how… how am I anything like him?"
"You're not crazy, mean or psychotic like him. And you don't have double personality. You have two sides of you though. The doctor which is nonchalant and makes people go into the machines, get shots, or have surgery. And then there is Carlisle without the doctor. The one that is normal that tells people to do what feels right to them, and do what makes them happy" I said.
"Wow I never saw it that way. Your smart for your age, you'd give Renesmee a run for her money." He chuckled. It was an elegant chuckle; it could have been one of Mozart's pieces.
"She certainly is. I wonder Ashlyn do you still learn on the tutoring site?" Esme asked. I was surprised my mom and dad didn't tell her about it and neither did me or Shane.
"How do you know about that?" I asked.
"Sweetie, before you and your parents moved to Kalispell, Montana you use to live at our house in Washington. Carlisle and I gave you the computer and registered you as a student on the tutoring site before you left as a going away gift because you really wanted to learn…Hahaha you were quite the adorable child when you tried to persuade your parents to let you go to school. If your mom didn't have a say you would have gone because your father couldn't say no to you." She said smiling. Her light hearted laugh was full of love and danced with the wind.
"God Ash, you overachiever. Even when you were small you wanted to go to school. Ha-ha, Nerd." Shane said laughing. I hit his elbow which made him laugh some more.
"Well any way's back to Esme's question. The answer is yes I still use the tutoring site; I'm at the seventh grade level now."
"Thanks to me" Shane interrupted.
"You helped me with four of the thirty questions, Shane." I stated.
"Whatever. Umm so can we go outside?" Shane asked.
"No" Carlisle stated. Shane just nodded, I whined and stomped my way upstairs to my room.
I opened my door roughly and then slammed it close. I am so bored out of my mind! I am so bored I would pull a prank on my mom if I didn't know she'd kill me for doing so. I threw myself onto the bed and screamed all my bored frustration into the pillow. I formed my hands into a fist and started pounding on the bed and let another frustrated scream be muffled by my pillow. Then it dawn on me. We couldn't play outside, but no one ever said anything about playing inside. I quickly got off my bed and opened my bedroom door. Standing in front of my door was Esme.
"Hi" I said then closed my door and walked into Shane's room right across from mine and closed his door behind me.
"Hey don't you knock" he shouted at me.
"No not when I'm bored out of my mind am ready to have someone put me out of my misery. Now listen." I stated, Shane looked at me curiously, but nodded to let me speak. "Okay so mom, dad, Carlisle, and Esme said that we couldn't play outside. They never said anything about inside." I watched as a smile grew across his face, knowing mine was already plastered on my face. I walked up to Shane and whispered into his ear, "so how about we sword fight with the fake swords since mom already hid the two real ones dad got me after I stabbed Jane." I said softly. He nodded excitedly since I hadn't shown him how yet. We walked out of his room and back into mine where I proceeded to open my closet and grab two fake plastic swords.
I taught Shane the basics and then some tricks. After having little fights to show him he started to get the hang of it. Soon we started having the real fights and as we fought Shane learned even more from seeing my movements. After our fifth round which I won again, Shane wanted another go at it. The minute we started I realized two things. One, my parents were home and two, my room was no longer big enough with us sword fighting, but the living room was.
No later than four minutes into the fight did I jump off my bed and walk with my back towards the door. I ended in the hall, I immediately heard movement downstairs. My dad must have been moving the couches. I never kept my eyes off Shane and his movements. I ended up with my back against stairs railing.
"I think this is going to be the first time Ashlyn loses." I heard my dad say.
"No she's not." My mom said. For a minute I agreed with my dad I was going to lose. I saw Shane realize this too, but then I remember what I did the night the volturi was hear. I heard my dad press a button, obviously filming. Shane turned his hand and was going to jab the sword into my chest. Swiftly I jumped onto the top of the rail gaining balance. I heard my mom gasp and Shane swung the sword horizontally at my feet. I jumped up quickly, and then landed back onto the railing catching my balance once again. I quickly looked down behind me and smiled. Then looked back at Shane.
"Take notes bro" I said and did a backwards somersault with a full twist of the rail and landed on my feet in the living room. I heard someone clap, I looked up then noticed Shane was coming down the stairs. I just smiled, but was back in my defense stance. Again we started to fight. We circled each other a couple of times, but in the end just ended banging the swords together.
In a second I knew how I would win. As I blocked and defended myself I circled my sword around Shane's. I thrust my sword up making Shane's fly in the air. I caught Shane's. My sword in my left hand was right under Shane's chin, while the other was pointed at him, but my elbow was back. I heard everyone in the house applaud. I smiled and gave Shane the sword.
"It's not about how much energy you put into the fight Shane. It's about movement, focus, and Strategy." I said as I flipped the sword Shane had used so the handle faced Shane as I gave it to him.
"It's yours" he said not grabbing it.
"It's your now, you earned it young grasshopper." I said as my dad laughed.
"Thanks, but one day I will beat you." He said as I helped my mom move the furniture back to its place.
"Yeah you will" I said. Everyone stopped what they were doing; Shane just looked at me surprise. "What it's the truth; one day you will beat me, but that day isn't going to be anytime soon." I said smiling.
After everything was done and put back in its place I went to the kitchen and drank some blood punch. As I felt it go down my throat I didn't feel so weak anymore. I sat down on the edge of the couch in between the couch arm and my mom. We sat in silence and watched the news before Shane spoke.
"You know, you never actually told me how the sword was able to stab Jane. So how did it actually penetrate her hard skin?" Shane asked. Every head looked at me.
"That is true we never actually got the time to ask you sweetie. So how was the sword able to actually stab Jane?" my mom questioned while looking at me.
"Really, you stabbed Jane. How? Vampire skin can only be penetrated by venom." Carlisle said surprised even though he answered his own question.
"Exactly only venom can hurt a vampire. If the sword was just metal when I threw it at her it would have bended or something, but…"
"It's not just metal, there's vampire venom on it too." Carlisle said interrupting me.
"Yeah, my dad bought the two for me. There's no venom on the handle only on the blade. My dad took me with him to the store when I was two where the person made them. When he told me he was going I quickly took the vials of my dad's venom. I told him that I wanted samples for scientific reasons. In total I only had five vials filled to the top and I left one at home. I took four. The guy at the store was showing us how he makes them in the back. He melted the metal that was going to be turned into my swords. When my dad was talking to him I quickly poured the venom into the melted metal. Then the guy came back and mixed what he thought was just metal with something. He then asked me if I wanted specific hilts or a design on the blade." I said quietly. My dad smiled at me like I was his evil genius sidekick. My dad quickly got up and came back with my two swords and showed them to Carlisle and Esme.
"The sword your holding Esme is a Munich sword and the one you're holding Carlisle is a Pappenheimer Renaissance Style Swept Hilt Rapier." My dad said.
"The Munich sword has the Cullen crest on the hilt and the engraving on the blade is Gaelic writing. Since my dad and mom are both Irish American and the last name Cullen, Hale, and McCarty all are Irish. It says "Neart Gcomhreir Meabhair, Coirp, agus Spiorad" it means Strength of Mind, Body and Spirit." I said. "The Pappenhiemer has an especially made Hale McCarty Crest on the hilt and on the blade in the middle it has the Celtic Zodiac Wolfhound which is for the days of Oct28 through Nov 24. It's my Celtic Zodiac Sign and that line is actually a Love Wave. McCarty means "Loving" and Hale means "Salt water estuary"." I finished. Esme and Carlisle switched Swords and looked at them closely.
I saw Carlisle run his finger on the blade. He quickly put his back and looked at his forefinger. He purposely cut himself. He licked his finger to heal it and then looked at me.
"You're a smart child, but this one isn't waxed, like that one why?" he asked.
"Well I didn't know if the venom actually mixed with the metal. So I made microcrystalline wax with the last vial of my dad's venom. The Pappenhiemer is the sword I threw at Jane. It's the one that stabbed her." I said as I got up and went to my room. I grabbed the soft microcrystalline wax I had made and brought it back downs stairs with me. I handed it to Carlisle who looked at it curiously.
"I lied before you're not smart. You're a Genius." He said. "Can I borrow this for a few days?" I nodded and he just smiled looking beyond excited.
"You can't give me credit for making the venom into wax. The internet gave me the ingredients to make the wax all I did was add the venom." I said.
"Ahh, yes the internet can give ingredients to many things." He said smiling. My mom laughed. My mom took back the swords and went somewhere hiding them in no doubt a new hiding place. By the time she was back Shane and I were getting up to go to bed.