Chapter 2: Not a Dream
Nessie's POV
My heart was beating so hard that it felt like it was slamming against my ribcage. Then I realized something was slamming against my ribcage but it wasn't my heart. It seemed as though my baby was getting anxious as well.
Grandpa Carlisle didn't say anything to me yet. There was still too many human witnesses around. He opened a door to what I could presume was his office.
I wasn't sure what to do so I just sat in a spare chair. I quickly looked around the office and my eyes zeroed in on a calendar. December 2004. I shook my head. I pinched myself. I still wasn't completely convinced that this wasn't a dream.
"Okay kid start talking. Who are you? What are you? More importantly how do you know about my family?" He looked at me with a very serious look on his face which made me slightly nervous. Did he think I was some kind of threat? I was a pregnant half human teenage girl. I was hardly a threat to him or any other vampire. I had to remember though that at this point in time hybrids were an unknown species.
I took a deep breath to calm my growing nerves. "You're not going to believe me,"
"I'm listening," he said ever so patiently.
"I'm your granddaughter from seventeen years in the future. I'm from the year 2021. I was walking when suddenly I was attacked and next thing I know I'm waking up seventeen years in the past,"
He sighed. "Well you were right about one thing,"
I looked at him feeling a sense of hope.
"I don't believe you. I'm many things but stupid isn't one of them. Now I'm going to ask you nicely only one more time. Who are you? What are you? How do you know about my family?"
"I'm telling you the truth gr-Dr. Cullen. I know it sounds crazy. Hell I'm having a hard time believing it myself-"
"Vampires can't have children. Yet here you are telling me that you're my great granddaughter from the future. I've never heard of anything more absurd-"
"If I told you that I could prove that what I was saying was true would you listen?"
He took a deep, unnecessary breath. I could almost see his growing irritation with me. I didn't even wait for him to answer. Before he had a chance to react I grabbed my grandfather's hand and showed him all of my memories. My birth, the Volturi, confrontation, every birthday, holiday celebration, and vacation that we'd took as a family in the intervening years. All of the countless shopping trips that my aunts had dragged me on. My graduation from college. My wedding. Everything right up to waking up here in 2004.
"How did you do that?"
"It's my gift. I can show people what I'm thinking. It's the opposite of what my father can do,"
"This isn't happening," Carlisle shook his head. "There's no such thing as time travel. There is no such thing as vampire-human hybrids,"
"and there's no such thing as vampires either. Yet here you are sit. Vampires can in fact have children but only the men. A male vampire and a female human can have a child. It's extremely rare and very dangerous but it's entirely possible. As for the time travel thing? Well I'm not exactly sure what happened. Like I said I was attacked by something and then-"
Carlisle's phone rang interrupting our conversation. "Hold on Alice slow down. I can't understand what you're saying," whatever my aunt said made my grandfather even more worried. "It just disappeared. But how-nevermind I'm coming home right now. Gather the others,"
"Let me guess," I said quickly as soon as he got off the phone. "Alice can't see the future anymore and she called you because she was panicking about what that might mean?"
Grandpa Carlisle stopped in his tracks. "How did you know that?"
"I'm your granddaughter from the future, remember? I know all about everyone in our family. It's nothing to be overly concerned about. Alice can't see any future that involves me. It used to annoy her but she's gotten used to it,"
"Renesmee I think you need to come with me,"
"Just call me Nessie,"
"Nessie? As in-"
"The Loch Ness monster? Yes. But that's what everyone usually calls me,"
I walked as quickly as I could as I followed him out of the office. He only stopped to inform someone that he was leaving work early because of a family emergency.
I felt very anxious after I got into his car. I watched my grandfather as he slid into the driver's seat. We were both silent the whole way there. But in my head I was really freaking out over the entire situation.
Not even the sight of my former house did anything to comfort me. I stayed behind Carlisle as I followed him up the front steps. I would've been happy to stay hidden behind my grandfather. But alas he opened the front door and stepped aside to allow me to walk in first.
The reaction was almost instaneous. I heard several growls at once. For the first time in my life I was scared my family might attack me. I knew it was my unusual scent that put them all on edge. I was a species that I never encountered before. Neither human or vampire.
"What is that thing?!" aunt Rosalie snarled. She looked like she was mere seconds away from ripping me apart. Uncle Jasper looked at me with cold calculating eyes. Trying to assess how big of a threat I was. I glanced around anxious hoping someone in my family wasn't alarmed by my presence.
Then I noticed Edward, my father, watching my every move. It was weird to see my father looking at me without any kind of love in his eyes. Then it occured to me that he was reading my mind at this exact moment. For the first time in my life I wish I had inherited his ability to read minds. If only to know exactly what my family was thinking of me right now.
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