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Chapter 1: Sick

Nessie's POV

All I could do was sit there and cry. This virus had already taken so much away from me. First grandpa Charlie caught the coronavirus and died. Then my dad got sick and died. Now my mom and my younger half sister were in the hospital fighting for their lives.

It wasn't looking good at all. My mom couldn't breathe on her own. The only way she was still alive was because she was on a ventilator. She had to be put on one two days ago when she suddenly stopped breathing.

What hurt the most is that I wasn't even allowed to be at the hospital with her. She was dying and I couldn't even say goodbye to her. I sobbed.

Usually I was more aware of my surroundings but a knock on my door startled me. My brother opened the door before I invited him I'm. He was red eyed from crying also. Neither of us really knew what to say. As much as the adults tried to hide the horrifying facts of my mother's condition to us it was impossible.

With our enhanced hearing it was impossible to keep anything hidden from us. There was a reason EJ and I never got infected with the coronavirus that has already taken so many. It was because he and I were only half human. We were also half vampire. Our vampire side came from our biological father. He never knew of our existence. He and his family had left my mom right after her 18th birthday. He told her that he never loved her. He told her that neither he or his family ever truly loved her.

It was one of the hardest things that my mom had ever lived through and she said that she never really did fully recover from it. But when she found out that she was pregnant with my brother and I that gave her the strength that she needed to move on. She never stopped loving my father. That's why she'd named my brother Edward Junior. EJ as we usually called him.

A few years later though she met the man we considered to be our father. Mom was in college at that time studying English Literature. While mom never really got over our father she was able to find love again in Henry. He didn't mind at all that she had twin three year old kids.

Right after graduation they got married and we were a family. A year later our sister Grace was born. Everything was perfect. Our dad knew what we were. My mom had to tell him after EJ attacked him when he'd accidentally cut his hand while cutting up some vegetables for dinner one evening. We were only five years old at the time. EJ still hadn't perfected his self control and he attacked dad and started drinking his blood. It's a good thing my brother wasn't venomous. My brother's lack of self control was the reason why my mom was so hesitant to send us to school when it was time. What if EJ or I attacked a bleeding human child in the playground? Luckily we never had an incident like that happen.

Human-vampire hybrid children wasn't even enough to scare Henry away. He truly did love my mom and us even if weren't even the same species as him. To him we were his children just as much as Grace was. To us he was our father.

Everything was perfect. We had a great life until the pandemic hit. Mom and dad were English professors at Seattle University. Mine and EJ's middle school had had just shut down and switched to virtual learning as well as well as Grace's elementary school. So mom was glad when the university also closed so us kids wouldn't be home alone.

It seemed like a fun adventure at first. The pandemic seemed so far away from our family and we got to stay home from school. It didn't seem so bad. After awhile we all started to miss our friends and actually going to school. But all in all we were lucky. That was until two months ago. Mom got a call from grandpa Charlie. He told her that he'd gotten sick and had tested positive for COVID-19.

My mom being the caring person that she was went to Forks a few weeks to take care of grandpa. Grandpa just got worse and worse and then he died. I loved my grandfather and losing him was hard.

Losing grandpa to the virus was hard but it soon became clear that the virus wasn't finished with my family just yet. Mom had taken all the right precautions while she was caring for grandpa. But when she first felt her temperature rising two weeks after coming home she knew something wasn't right. She got tested and it came back positive. Soon after my father and sister started showing symptoms. My whole family got infected. Except for EJ and I. We'd been the only two to be spared thanks to our half vampire immune systems.

Even though my father was a healthy man with no other health issues the virus killed him fast. It wasn't looking so good for my mom or my sister either. I looked at EJ. Soon it would just be the two of us. I could feel it deep down in my gut

I was startled once again when I heard a woman talking. It was our social worker. With no one left to take care of us we'd been placed temporarily in foster care.

"I'm sorry did you say Bella?"

My heart skipped a beat. She must have been talking about my mom. Oh God no. I listened in. My mom had been in a medically induced coma since she'd been put on the ventilator.

"Bella is not doing well," I heard the doctor say on the other end of the phone. "If she doesn't improve by Saturday we're going to take her off the ventilator. You might want to start preparing her children for the worse and making the necessary arrangements for them. It's not looking good,"

I started crying harder. I could not lose my mom. I just couldn't. Not my mom.

I felt EJ hug me. "It's okay Renesmee," he said.

"No it's not!" red hot rage filled me now. "How-"

He put his hand over my mouth to quiet me. "I've got a plan to save mom. If I let go of your mouth do you promise to stay quiet?"

I nodded. He let me go. "Why you-"

"You promised to stay quiet. I've got a plan to try to save mom and Grace to,"

"What plan?" I hissed.

"I was doing some research on our family earlier. Remember when mom was telling us about Carlisle Cullen?"

I remembered. He was supposedly our adoptive grandfather who had no idea we existed. Mom said he'd been like a second father to her. So when my dad had told my mom that nobody in the Cullen family ever really loved her it had hurt her so much. She'd thought she gained not only a loving boyfriend but a loving second family. Finding out it was all a lie had devastated her.

"What does this have to do with saving mom?"

"Well Nessie I found out where he worked. He works at a hospital in Rochester, New York right now,"

"So what's your point EJ?"

"Well I was thinking that we could go find him and ask him to save mom and Grace,"

"You know they're beyond saving now. If a doctor in Washington can't what makes you think a doctor in New York can?"

"Because none of the doctors here are vampires,"

That was the moment I finally understood what he was talking about. "You mean have him turn mom and Grace into vampires?" I gasped.

"That's exactly what I mean. We can't lose mom. We can't lose Grace either. She's only 8 years old,"

"And we are only 13 years old. How are we supposed to pull something like this off?"

He smiled deviously. "It just so happens that there is a flight leaving tonight to New York. I used mom's credit card to book us seats. Once we're in New York we'll track down our grandfather, tell him who we are, and ask him if he could help us save mom and Grace,"

I rolled my eyes. "You do realize how insane that plan sounds. Right? What if he refuses to help us?"

"Look if this works then mom and Grace will live. Then we'll never see the Cullens again. If we fail at least we can say we tried. If mom and Grace die we will end up in foster care permanently. If they didn't want anything to do with my mom 14 years ago then they most definitely won't want anything to do with us,"

"I hate how that sounds,"

"You know it's true though," he said. "They aren't going to want to have anything to do with us. They'll just go on pretending we don't exist after we meet. No matter what happens,"

It was true. If they save mom and Grace they'll leave and things will go back to the way they were before. If they choose not to help us mom will die and we'll go into foster care.

What else could happen? Nothing. So I agreed to go along with EJ's plan. We would sneak out and leave that night.

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