Chapter 6 Noticing Things
AN: This will be a two chapter update. Sorry if I made you cry with that last one. I've been so happy to hear from you guys. If there are any scenes from the TV series or the books and videos I'll try to add them into what I have already planned for the storyline.
I own nothing; the characters are under the ownership of Stephanie Meyer, and Kyle XY Creators Eric Bress, and J. Mackye Gruber
Italics are thoughts
Italics and bold are Kyle's thoughts
Its been over a month since Kyle joined the Cullen family. Carlisle and the others had kept their eyes open for any news or gossip about a missing teenager, but no one ever put out notices around town. In a way the Cullens were relived to able to keep Kyle with them, and so far Kyle's absence wasn't causing another family grief. At the same time it was strange for a teenager to go missing and no one is looking for him. It was almost as if Kyle had come out of thin air.
Even stranger than Kyle's parents not looking for him is Kyle's behavior and abilities. When a room was created for him he would at first pretend to go to sleep. Every night he silently refused to sleep in a bed. He would leave his room, when he thought the Cullens were sleeping, and sneak into the bathroom and lay in the bathtub through the night falling directly to sleep. After about two weeks of this the Cullens gave in and replaced the bed in his room with a custom made large old fashioned tub without the pipes. Since then he has slept in his room at night.
Kyle also had the endurance of a physical trainer. One day Emmett asked Kyle to play outside with him in the woods. It was mostly a race because Emmett was curious about the type of sports Kyle would be able to play with him, and to get Kyle out of the house to get him used to the outside world. The Cullens couldn't stay in one place for too long or others would get suspicious of their ability not to age. Soon Kyle would have to meet others. Emmett started them off at an average human pace of a jog. At first Emmett would stay with him and would suddenly speed up. Jumping ahead of Kyle in their race he yelled over his shoulder,
"Bet you can't run faster than me." Kyle would speed up to get leveled with him and pass him easily. "Huh, you're pretty fast little brother." This was true Emmett was speeding up to the point that he was at the speed of Olympic runners, and Kyle wasn't even sweating. Emmett continued on with their little game, switching it up every now and again by climbing a tree, for almost an hour around the woods until he decided it was time to circle back to the house. Kyle never slowed down or showed any hint of exhaustion the entire time like a normal human is supposed to.
Kyle also had the intelligence of a mathematical genius. One afternoon Edward sat down with his school books at the living room table with some worksheets from his advanced placement trigonometry class. Kyle looked over at them and without thinking took one of Edwards's pages and started filling out each of the problems showing each step of solving them. To say that Edward was shocked was an understatement.
"Kyle. How do you know what you're doing?" Edward asked. He still couldn't believe what he was doing.
"I don't know. I just know how to solve for the x." he answered without looking up from his work.
"Carlisle." Edward whispered so Kyle wouldn't hear him," Walk into the living room casually. I want you to see Kyle doing advanced Trig." Carlilse came in and greeting the boys, but Kyle still didn't look up. Carlisle sat and watched as Kyle finished up the first page in less than two minutes and handed him the next one. All of Kyle's answers were correct. Considering that they had to teach Kyle what a robe was only a month ago, it made absolutely no sense for Kyle to be this intelligent.
Kyle wasn't the only one that strange instances surrounded. Kyle noticed a lot of things about the Cullens that were different from him. The first thing he noticed was that he was the only one who went to sleep at night. At first he just assumed that he just went to bed earlier than the others, but he stayed up a few nights to see when they went to sleep. Always he would end up falling into sleep before they did. Also they never ate. Esme would always make food for him every day, but never anyone else even herself. He would offer to Esme,
"Would you like some?" when she sat his plate in front of him.
"Oh, no thank you honey. I'm not hungry." She answered quickly. Kyle also tried offering the others at the table as well, but they did the same as Esme.
"Why do all of you never eat?" he asked everyone. None of them answered him.
"We only eat what we hunt." Alice answered for the table. They all turned to her with a shocked look. She had somewhat revealed a deep secret of theirs.
"Can I go too!" Kyle was always excited to be included in family activities, and this hunting was something that all of them did except him.
"Sure, someday when you're ready we'll all go together." Kyle was happy enough with knowing that in the future that it was intended for him to go with the rest of the family to hunt.
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One night after Kyle; had gone to sleep the Cullens all gathered in the living room again to have another family meeting. With everyone settled in their spots, Carlisle brought up the issue at hand.
"Its been about two months now, and Kyle has gotten a lot better at understanding himself and us. He is starting to notice that he is very different than us and we are starting to get a lot of questions that we can't answer without revealing ourselves too much." Carlisle said. Even though Kyle most likely didn't know what a vampire was, they all have had years of practice of keeping their secret that it was uncomfortable to just let it out. "So I called this meeting to see if we are in agreement that it is time to tell him that we are vampires."
"Yes we should." Emmett spoke up first. "He keeps asking me questions on why he's so different than us." Over time Kyle had become attached with Emmett. He was the first one Kyle would go to if he had a question or needed help. "Just the other day he came to me worried that something is wrong with him. He knows that we are humans like him, but he still knows that he isn't exactly like us." Emmett hated it when Kyle felt bad about himself for no reason. Everyone in the house loved Kyle, but Kyle bonded to Emmett making Emmett love Kyle as if he were his own flesh and blood. Normally humans shied away from Emmett because of his size, but with Kyle usually the opposite happened.
"We can't keep it from him forever." Rosalie agreed. "Alice did say he was going to become one of us anyway." Since Kyle had taken to spending a lot of his time with Emmett, that meant at least half of that time was also spent with her. This didn't help that it still pained her to be around Kyle. She always managed to treat him as her son when he still thought of Esme as the family's mother.
"Kyle doesn't really know about anyone else, so we aren't going to appear strange to him." Edward said, "But other vampires tend to run into us by chance. We should warn him about others who would harm him."
"Yes, Kyle's scent alone is reason enough for other vampires to be curious of him." Jasper added in. Jasper had been doing great with having a human in such close proximity of him every day, and still being able to control his thirst. This was mainly due to Kyle not having much of a scent at all. It is extremely unusual for humans to only have a faint scent at any time. The only way to know if Kyle is around is if there is a slight scent of honey and that's it. As long as his blood stayed inside him. Once when Kyle was helping Esme cut lettuce for his lunch Kyle cut himself. It bothered Esme a little, but she was able to control herself and help him control his bleeding. Jasper was in the next room watching TV during the cut. Jasper stiffened instantly at the smell of Kyle's blood. Thankfully the scent wasn't very strong, but it was still blood. So Jasper was able to control himself and go outside until he was calm. "Also other vampires will be curious as to why we are keeping a live human with no bite marks." Rosalie and Emmett growled a little at the thought of anyone feeding on Kyle.
"So it is agreed we should tell Kyle." Carlisle finalized, "Now when should we tell him?"
"Tomorrow is Saturday, and we'll all be home. We can tell him then." Alice stated. "He's going to be fine with this, really. "It was 11 at night and final. Everyone was anxious of the long wait that they had through the night at telling Kyle the truth of themselves.
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When Kyle woke up the next morning as usual he went to the kitchen table for breakfast. "Morning everyone." Kyle said as he passed Alice, Carlisle, and Jasper in the living room, and kept going to the kitchen. Only Esme was in the Kitchen.
"Morning." He greeted her too.
"Morning honey." Esme answered with his breakfast in her hands.
"Where are Edward, Rosalie and Emmett?"
"They went on a hunt again."
"How come you won't tell me what hunting is?" he wasn't judgmental in his tone, but curious. "You said I would do it someday." When they get back, and you finish your breakfast, we'll explain everything to you then. Okay?" she promised.
"Okay." Kyle answered with a smile and quickly started on his breakfast.
Kyle waited in the living room, after breakfast, to watch TV until Edward and the rest came back. He was eager to find out what he would be doing with the rest of his family soon. The second they stepped through the door he asked the room, "Can you tell me now." His large smile on his face again.
"Yes Kyle." Carlisle said with a smile and turned off the TV. "Now is as good a time as any." Everyone took a seat, and waited as Carlisle began. "Well you know that you are human right Kyle." Kyle nodded," You may have noticed that there are differences between you and the rest of us."
"Yes, is there something wrong with me?" Kyle asked him.
"No you are fine just the way you are. It's just that the reason you are so different from us is because you are human and we are not." Kyle just looked around at them confused, they looked human like him. "We are vampires Kyle." Kyle continued to look confused.
"What's that?"
"Well, we once were human then we were changed." Carlisle was trying to give the simplest explanation possible of what a vampire is. "Since you're human Kyle you will get older, but as vampires we never age. We stay the same forever and never die."
"Okay." Kyle answered simply. He didn't understand what else to say or why this was an issue. "Is that why you don't eat or sleep too."
"Yes, but we do eat. Vampires drink blood." During Carlisle's explanation Kyle looked around at the others who were waiting for his reaction to their great reveal. That's one of the reasons we needed to tell you about us. Vampires tend to drink from humans like you. They are also stronger than a human; which makes taking their blood even easier, and kill them"
"So, you all want my blood?" Kyle asked trying to find out what Carlisle was leading to.
"No!" Everyone answered quickly.
"We promise Kyle we don't want to harm you." Jasper assured him.
"That's right. We just wanted to tell you so there would be no secrets between us." Carlisle continued. "We don't drink human blood, we only drink from animals, but other vampires don't. If you ever meet another vampire, or see one, try to stay away from them and call one of us immediately.
"Okay." Kyle answered sill a little unsure what all of this meant for him. He had never met any others before and didn't know the difference between them and the Cullens. What are vampires like who drink human blood? "So I'm going to be a vampire too? You said I would go hunting with you one day. You hunt animal blood."
"Yes, but not yet. You still no very little about the world around you but you can become a vampire when you're older. But only if you want to." Carlisle answered. This was common in family meetings for Carlisle to be the only one to answer Kyle's questions. Not on purpose, it just happened that way. "Do you have any questions for us?"
"Not really." Kyle didn't really know what to ask. He now knew why he wasn't like everyone in his family, but could become a vampire if he wanted.
"Okay. If you do just ask any of us." Carlisle said and Kyle nodded. With that over with everyone relaxed a bit and moved around the house to unwind and let Kyle digest this new piece of information.
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