At first I felt nothing as I stared at the blackness around me. I'm dead. It didn't work. I died. I kept repeating those words in my head until I suddenly felt… cold. I felt a cold wind hitting my face. It took me a minute to realize that I was feeling cold. That I could feel it.
"Please Bella, wake up." I could hear Marcus's pleading voice in the darkness. I realized then that I was alive. I could feel cold. I could hear Marcus. I was alive and… And… And what?
"Bella, wake up please." Marcus continued. But I was awake. I just couldn't see. It was so dark. Like when… Like when your eyes are closed, Bella you big dummy! I felt so stupid to have just then figured out that my mind was awake but my eyes weren't open. I tried to open them but they felt so heavy. It took me a minute to finally force them open.
I saw darkness around me again and saw that it was night time. I looked up to see Marcus staring straight ahead his eyes focused.
"Marcus?" I muttered.
Marcus immediately looked down at me and smiled.
"It worked Bella." He said, holding me close. "You're human."
Marcus POV
Human… I thought to myself, as I cradled Bella's small, fragile body in my arms. Human is how she should have stayed from the very beginning. But I was selfish and turned her. I put her at risk. She was nearly killed because of me. I had to save her. And now I was taking her home.
As I was jumping from building to building, heading in the direction of Phoenix, I noticed missing person's posters with Bella's face on them stretching from city to city. You would think after six months of her being missing that Bella's mother would give up on looking for Bella. But she didn't. I could see that. I could hear that, as I drew closer to Bella's home.
I didn't have to look inside the house to know what was happening. Bella's mother, Renee, was sitting by the phone, crying over her lost daughter. A man, that Renee called Phil, was trying to calm her down, trying to reassure her that the police would find Bella soon.
The police wouldn't have been able to help her. They wouldn't have been able to save her. The only person who was capable of getting Bella out of danger was the person who put her there, I thought to myself as I stood outside the door of the house.
"Marcus." Bella said, griping onto my shirt with her now small strength. I could see that she didn't want me to leave her. I didn't want to leave her either, but I had too.
"You'll be okay Bella." I whispered to her. Bella's eyes began to close. She was exhausted.
"Please don't leave." She begged.
"Don't worry. With your luck I'm sure we'll meet again." I said. As much as I would love that, I desperately hoped not.
"Promise?" Bella asked. Her eyes closed, as she slipped into sleep.
I didn't answer her. I was not going to make a promise to her that I couldn't keep.
I carefully placed Bella's sleeping form on the porch, slipping a piece of paper into her pocket. Good luck my child.
I rang the doorbell and jumped into the tree in the yard. Bella's mother opened the door, looking everywhere before looking down. She let out a gasp before dropping to Bella's side, sobbing.
"Renee? What's wrong?" the man name Phil called to her, running to the door.
"She's back! My baby is back!" Renee continued to sob, holding Bella's sleeping body.
Renee picked Bella up and walked into the house.
I sighed. "Good luck my daughter."
Bella POV
Woke up to a bright light shining in my eyes. I sat up and saw it was the sun, shining through the blinds. I closed the blinds and looked around the room. It was my room. My human room. Why was I in my human room?
I suddenly remembered the night before. Marcus had carried me all the way home.
"Marcus?" I called. "Marcus? Marcus?" there was no answer. He was gone.
I looked down at my hands. They weren't pure white anymore. They were human. I was human.
I continued to stare at my hands. When I noticed a small piece of paper sticking out of my pocket. I pulled it out and unfolded.
My Dear Bella,
You have learned much on the ways of vampires. How to spot them. How to identify the powers that some vampires have. Normally we must kill humans who know about us, but I refuse to. I want you to live and I can help with that but I need you to do something for me. With your luck you'll most likely meet other vampires. If you do you must act completely clueless. At like you don't know what they are or what they can do. If you do that then there won't be any reason for them to want to hurt you.
I regret having turned you into an immortal child but I don't regret meeting you or becoming your father for the short period of time that I did.
I love you my daughter. And that love, unfortunately, must stay a secret as well.
I have only one more request. Be happy.
Marcus
I looked over the letter over and over until every ink stroke was burned into my memory. I clutched the necklace that Marcus gave me before he turned me, the thing that marked me as his daughter.
"Our little secret."
-The End-