Originally, this was a cute little one-shot. Now it's gonna be a story. And it's dedicated to renabear.
Summary: Bella and Jasper are left alone...and sparks start to fly, as the saying goes. Edward and the family come back, and things have changed...Bella and Jasper are falling in love...but so are Edward and Alice...what's this about Jake? And the Volturri too? Uh oh.
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Disclaimer I am not Stephanie Meyer, and I have never clamed to be Stephanie Meyer…even though I've wished it many times….so I (sadly) don't own this. sniffle
Chapter Twenty One: Waking Up
I was floating. That was the only thought I was capable of at the moment.
Had I always floated like this, so free? So light? Yes, I decided I had.
I wasn't floating in water…nor was I flying. I was just…floating. Peacefully floating along…but I didn't feel like I was moving…maybe I wasn't…really, it didn't seem to matter…
I felt a small, irritating pain, but I couldn't place where it was coming from…then t went away. And I floated again.
But then I heard voices, intruding on my peace.
"It's been four and a half days! It should not be taking this long." Said a smooth, male voice. It sounded some what fragile…
"No, she's alive, if you're thinking she was dead, Marcus. I can still pick up her thoughts. She can hear us." Said a second voice. This one was almost the same as the first…but happier sounding.
"Isabella dear, I know you can hear me. Wake up, won't you?" The second voice asked.
Isabella…why did that name sound familiar? Why did it make my peaceful floating not feel so good? Isabella…that was me, wasn't it?
"Yes, that's your name. Come on now, wake up." The second voice again…it sounded nice…pleasant even.
Surely the owner was a friend of mine? A good person? Someone who could tell me why I could not recall anything.
"Of course Isabella. I'll help you remember." The voice said, soothing and calm.
I could trust it, couldn't I? I thought so.
But a part of my mind was saying that the owner of the voice was bad, and mean, and evil.
But his voice was so nice…surely he couldn't be evil? I didn't know, but I knew I was upsetting him by staying asleep. So I willed myself to wake up.
I opened my eyes. I saw three faces…very pale, and all identical. They swam in and out of focus.
When my eyes finally focused, I stayed still. My body hurt. I still couldn't pin point the ache…it seemed to be my whole body…
Finally, I tried to sit up, but I fell back, moaning.
"I would advise you not to move for a little while." The smooth voice said again.
I nodded. It was such a nice voice…I opened my eyes again and looked up at the three faces. They looked like angels…ancient, destroying angels…
Then I suddenly remembered who they were.
Aro, Marcus, and Caius. The Volturri. I suddenly remembered everything that had happened to me…
"Bella, stay calm." Aro said softly. I flinched as he went to place his hand on my arm.
And before I knew it, I was across the room.
Aro growled. I wasn't sure what to do…and what was worse, my body was in pain, again. My joints were aching, and my stomach hurt so badly, I was praying for unconsciousness.
Aro and his brothers were in front of me again.
"Hm, curious. I can read your thoughts…and when I do, I seem to get more powerful. Interesting." He said. Then he grabbed my arm, and called in Jane.
"Jane dear…would you please try your powers on Bella?" He said. I was confused. Jane's powers didn't work on me…but that was when I had still been human…
I realized that Jane's powers might just work on me too.
Jane came in, and glared at me.
I felt a pain so intense…I screamed, and screamed, and screamed.
My throat went raw, and my voice died to a harsh croak. It hurt so bad…like I was being ripped apart and burned at the same time…
"Thank you darling, that's enough." Aro said, cheerful.
I could feel my throat healing. Aro's grip on my arm tightened.
"You see Bella, we are powerful. And you are one of us now." Aro said softly, almost sweetly.
I shook my head.
"No." I croaked. Even if I was a vampire now, my voice did not resemble velvet in the least.
"No. I will never be one of you." I said. And then his grip tightened even more, and I was almost certain my arm would come off.
'GET OFF ME.' I cried in my mind. He jumped back with a hiss, as did Marcus and Caius.
"How did you…? You little brat!" Aro snarled. Suddenly, he lunged at me. I just stood there, unable to move. But he seemed to hit a wall…
Suddenly, Jane was there again. She glared at me, but then she just frowned. I felt no pain at all.
"She's blocking your powers." Caius pointed out. Was I? I didn't know. I just knew that I didn't want any of them near me.
"What an interesting talent, indeed." Aro said, sounding happy and not angry at all. "I knew you were a special one, I just knew it!" He exclaimed.
I was about to retort, when Marcus raised his hand to his brother. Aro lightly touched the hand with his own, but then he frowned. And then, after several seconds of frowning, he glared. At me.
"You little bitch. You're blocking me completely!" The last word more a roar. I had never suspected his soft, whispery voice could become so loud.
I was scared then. I felt weak, and I was getting weaker. I needed blood. And soon. And now, the Volturri were angry, at me. I had a feeling I was going to die, and this time for good.
Then I remembered something Jasper had said when we were training to fight the newborns.
Newborn vampires were much stronger than old ones. And I wasn't even a full day old yet.
I knew there was a wall behind me. I backed up against it, and then I tried to figure out how I was blocking their powers.
I felt a kind of wall around me…but not the brick at my back. It was real…and yet it wasn't real…
I figured this must be my shield.
I nodded to myself, and then, with all eyes on me, I turned and smashed through the brick wall behind me. I was in another, larger room. I extended my shield all around me…or I thought I did. I wasn't really sure.
Then I ran across the room, and punched through another wall. And after that, another. Nine more brick walls, and I was feeling even weaker.
Finally, I was met with sunlight. Sunlight and screams. I looked around, and noticed w as in the square with the clock tower. And people. Lots and lots of blood-filled, delectable smelling people. I stopped breathing. I knew it was wrong…but I was thirsty…Jasper's face came to my mind, and I shook my head, and ran like hell.
I wasn't sure how, but I made it out of Volterra, without dying or being injured, and without killing any humans.
I ran and ran until I couldn't smell any humans. Then I just sat, still as stone, in the middle of a forest that was more bushes than trees, and waited.
I waited until the sun fell, and then I started my hunt. My senses sharpened, even more than they already were. I could smell deer, and a bear…I could hear them breathing; I could hear their heart beats.
And then I heard a deep, loud, thud-thud-thud-thud, nice and even. I smelled something so rich it made me drool…even though my drool was venom. I could here it breathing…slow and deep. My prey was asleep. Perfect.
I ran silently was the wind to it. And when I got there, I ignored the fact that it was in a sleeping bag. I ignored the fact that the man—because it was a man—looked at me with terror in his eyes when I pressed my hand to neck, cutting off his air.
I sank in my fangs when he was again unconscious. I drank his sweet blood…I drank to my fill, and then I drank a little more, just because it tasted so good.
When I dropped the body of my prey onto the ground, it was just a lifeless, bloodless shell.
I licked my lips. Then realization of what I had just done dawned on me. I had just killed a human being. I had just taken an innocent life.
I was a monster.
A/N Gosh, you guys that review rock, you know that? 430 reviews!! I never thought I would get that many!!
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-EdgeofDarkness