Okey I am really sorry for this taking so long, but finally I am done with chapter two. It may not be as good as I had wanted it to be but I have had some really personal problems latley so writing has not been my top 1 priority. Anyway will expalin more of that in the end of this chapter. Now just enojy!! :)
Disclamer: I do not own Twilight. It belongs to Stephenie Meyer
Chapter 2
Bella´s POV
The family in front of me really fascinated me. Never before had I met anyone who didn´t have a heartbeat or needed to breath, because something told me it wasn´t just the two "smaller" men who could cut of their air supply. But what confused me was that they could still be alive, it should be impossible. Even the smallest creatures needed heartbeats, but somehow this family didn´t need them. They are special, just like me. I thoughtand for the first time ever I felt a connection towards any "living" creature, except for some other special creatures.
I could feel that the men had moved in front of the women, except the man with the beautiful voice. He still stood next to the smallest girl. When they had moved I had felt that it was something different about them, something about how they were built, but I couldn´t put it to words.
No one in the family had said anything yet so I decided to try starting some kind of conversation so I could find out their names.
"I´m really sorry for just walking into your property like this Mr..." I trialed off, "looking" at the man I thought was father of the family, giving him the perfect opportunity to introduce himself.
"I am sorry I´m being rude. My name is Carlisle Cullen." He said with a perfect and warm voice, reaching his hand forward for me to shake. Without hesitation I took a few steps forward and shook his outstretched hand. The moment our hands touched I could feel every single part of him. The special sight I already had could now be directly focused into my sensitive hand, giving me full information of what he looked like. Even though I had never really "seen" a human, I could tell that he had to be beautiful for those who could see. But what confused me was that I couldn´t find any scars, wounds or any other defects on this man and all human had that of some sort. Also none of his internal organs, except his brain, seemed to work.
When I let go of his hand I finally could describe this families mass. Somehow they had skin that was harder than any stone, but still somehow reminded of the softness from a human body. Dear God Bella, you sound like a scientist. I told myself.
"I have heard a lot about you Dr. Cullen, apparently you are one of the best doctors in the area, maybe even in the country if my source is right." I said smiling towards him. I felt Dr. Cullen smiling back at me and how the giant bear-man on his right started to shake from suppressed laughter.
"Don´t be so quick laughing you big bear. You can´t even beat a person that is half your size and thinking of how big you are, that is really, really bad." I said my voice a little teasing. I was still looking at Dr. Cullen, but that didn´t stop me from feeling how the bear stopped shaking and how his eyes locked on me, glaring. Suddenly the man who had been fighting the bear started laughing, loudly, and the small girl behind him giggled. I couldn´t help a smile on my own face, I liked his voice as well. It was calming somehow.
"She got you Emmett!" The man said now only chuckling a little. So the bear-man was named Emmett. Hmm… Carlisle and Emmett, both different and old names. The man seemed to think he had done something wrong because, as soon he had said those words he stiffened and I felt how he once again stopped breathing. I had turned so my focus was in the young man but now I turned back to Dr. Cullen, making sure I still had a smile on my face, even though I was in deep thought.
"As I said before, I´m sorry for just walking in on you and your family like this: My name is Isabella Swan, but I prefer Bella. I just moved here to live with my father, Charlie Swan, perhaps you have met?" I said.
"Yes we have met a few times." Dr. Cullen answered. "May I ask if he is your source?" He continued. I couldn´t help but laugh, this man was quick, I liked that. Deep in the forest I could hear some birds responding to my laugh with their own music. My mom always told me I had been blessed in other ways than sight, though she never told me what she meant.
"Yes he is my source; he has been talking very warmly about you Dr. Cullen. He has told me that you have done a lot for Forks, which reminds me. Do you know what time it is?" I asked. I just remembered that I completely had lost track of time and if Charlie got home to an empty house... well I didn´t even want to start thinking about that.
I felt how the woman standing behind Dr. Cullen looked at her wrist to cheek the watch she had there when I felt a familiar motion in the ground. I had memorized the feeling I got from Charlie´s car when he picked me up on the airport yesterday and I was certain it was him who had left the highway and now was driving towards the Cullen´s house. Just a few seconds later I could also hear the small sound of a car driving towards the Cullen´s house. Yep, definitely my dad. I was I so much trouble if not...
"I know we´ve barley met but I need your help." I told Dr. Cullen.
"What do you need our help with?" He asked a little cautious and I understood him, I would have been to if a strange girl suddenly asked for my help.
"My dad is on his way here and he is not going to be happy with me for just leaving the house. And there´s no meaning asking how I know because this isn't the time to tell" I said as I felt how Dr. Cullen opened his mouth. "You see Charlie is very protective of me and I´m not really allowed to leave the house without someone "watching after me", which I obviously did." I said feeling guilty for disturbing this family and for disobeying my dad. "Anyway if it´s not too much to ask, it would really help me a lot if you could pretend that you, kind of invited me over?" I felt a small blush creep over my cheeks as I waited for an answer from Dr. Cullen. But instead of him answering me the small teenage girl spoke. Her voice reminded me of voices I often had heard when I was little, before we left Forks. Her voice almost sounded like a pixies, ALMOST.
"Why would your father not want you to leave the house on our own? You seemed to handle yourself just fine a few moments ago?" Her voice wasn´t accusing, it was just confused and curios.
"Well let´s just say that until around nine years ago I couldn´t take care of myself the way I can now and my dad doesn't know that." I said and I felt how the family waited for a further explanation. When I didn´t say anything the small girl spoke again.
"You want me or my sister to tell your father that we came over and invited you here so you have a good excuse to why you left the house right?" She asked me.
"Yes that would help a lot if it´s not too much trouble." I said feeling hopeful for that this family would help me.
"Why should we help you? We don´t even know you and how can you be so certain your father is coming? To me, you just sound crazy."
It was the first time the third girl/woman opened her mouth. Her voice was just as perfect as the others, but she had a harder and colder tone in it. Not so friendly I thought.
"Because you and your family are special, just like me, but in a different way." I said in a calm tone, the one I always used when I talked to a scared or an angry animal. I felt the girl look at me with wide eyes, but then she spoke her voice was completely calm and hard as ice.
"Special? What do you mean about special? Except for that you obviously is blind like a newborn kitten and you can´t take care of yourself you don´t seem special to me?" My face remained an unmoved mask, but she could never realize how deep those words had hurt me. She was right. I was hopeless and I was blind. I would never see anything than the same darkness I had lived in for the past seventeen years and all my life people would always treat me like a child because of my handicap.
"I might be blind, but in one second I see more than most people do in a life time. I might never really have "seen" the world around me, but I still know that you are seven people in your family, including you, even though three of you never have said a word. I know that none of you have a heartbeat and that two of you isn´t breathing in this very moment. I´m sure the rest of you don't have the need to breathe either, but you do it anyway." Now everyone in the family stared at me with wide eyes, all of them extremely tensed. "Please I need your help! I can´t force you to help me, but please you don´t know how much easier you would make my life if you did help me, and of course I will never tell anyone what I know no matter what you chose." I could hear the desperation in my own voice, but I didn´t care in the moment.
When I ended my "riot" I felt how the "pixie´s" eyes started to stare out in space. They where moving like she saw something the rest of us couldn´t… of course!
"What do you see?" I asked and didn´t care that the "ice queen" nearly threw herself at me before Emmett stopped her and I didn´t care when I felt how the rest of the family stared at me with their mouths open in shock. I was only focused on the pixie.
"I see you, you ´re leaving Forks. It´s in the middle of the summer… you're leaving with your mother… Wait NO!" The pixies sudden outburst caused me to take a step backwards. I had never liked high voices as they always hurt my sensitive hearing. I felt how the pixies´ eyes locked on my face.
"We will help you, I am Alice." I felt how she carefully reached her hand forward and grabbed mine, not caring that her sister was literally fuming next to her. Her skin was just as cold as her fathers and just like her father she was perfect. "It´ll look more real if we´re inside. Come I´ll show you." She said ready to lead me inside but I relished her hand and showed with the one that she had been holding that I didn´t need help and that she could go first. With one last look at me Alice moved inside as I followed.
Edward´s POV
The angel just stood in front of us, not showing any signs of being uneasy standing so close to a family of vampires. It was very uncomfortable not to be breathing, but if that´s what it takes to keep this amazing creature alive, it was a small price to pay. Somehow no matter how much I stared at the young woman in front of me I couldn´t understand how one creature could be so beautiful. To my big surprise even Carlisle, Emmett and Jasper were a little dazed by the angel in front of us, and they already had mates! Rosalie on the other hand was mentally fuming over that she for the first time had met someone that could measure (if not beat her) in beauty. The creature in front of us had her white eyes focused on Carlisle's face and it looked like she was trying to figure something out.
"I´m really sorry for just walking into your property like this Mr..." The young woman said before she trailed off. Her voice was completely calm and it sounded like bells. Never before had I heard such a perfect voice coming from a human. It was soft, like silk, and very smooth. Somehow listening to her voice calmed me down and the monster inside of me calmed down a little as well.
"I am sorry I´m being rude. My name is Carlisle Cullen." My father said reaching his hand forward to shake. He was curious how this girl, who clearly was blind, had been able to move so freely, like she knew exactly where we stood. He wanted to see how much she could register from the world around her.
To everyone's surprise the angel just quickly took a few steps forward, took my father's hand in hers and shook it before she let go. There had been no hesitation in this angel and no reaction, expect something that Jasper only could recognize as understanding, had shown in her face.
"How could she know that I had offered her my hand if she can´t see? I should be impossible. And her skin is not like any other humans! It is… softer?" My father thought and everyone else in my family asked themselves the same question. Could she really be blind?
"I have heard a lot about you Dr. Cullen, apparently you are one of the best doctors in the area, maybe even in the country if my source is right." The angel said to my father, smiling. Her smile lit up her whole face and it felt like it was the sun shining at us, not a girl smiling. Carlisle couldn´t help but smile back at the angel, but I saw how Emmett started shaking a little. He thought the girls comment had been very corny and it had been of anyone else had said it, but this girl said it with such sincerity that her comment wasn´t even near corny.
"Don´t be so quick laughing you big bear. You can´t even beat a person that is half your size and thinking of how big you are, that is really, really bad." The angel said to Emmett without even turning her head in his direction. Immediately Emmett stopped laughing and glared at the angel instead. The rest of us on the other hand were all trying very hard not to laugh. She was right. Emmett was huge and that he couldn´t beat Jasper actually was very funny. Well at least for us, it was humiliating for him. In the end though, all the suppressed laughter became too much for Jasper who burst out laughing, causing Alice to giggle a little.
"She got you Emmett!" He said when he had calmed down enough to speak again and without thinking he draw a new breath. This strange girls´ sent hit him full force and all of us saw how Jasper stiffened trying to restrain himself from attacking her. It was first then I realized that the same girl now was looking at Jasper, her eyebrows furrowed as if she was in deep thought. Then she composed her face back into a smile as she once again turned towards Carlisle.
"As I said before, I´m sorry for just walking in on you and your family like this: My name is Isabella Swan, but I prefer Bella. I just moved here to live with my father, Charlie Swan, perhaps you have met?"
THIS was Charlie Swans DAUGHTER?! The long lost Isabella who finally had moved back to Forks? The girl I had seen in countless of thoughts for the past week? It seemed surreal that this girl, this angel, just was an ordinary human. No she is not ordinary, far from it. She is special. No ordinary girl looks like that or acts like she does. I thought to myself. Well one thing was for sure, none of those who had tried to picture her had even been near truth. My father's voice brought me back as he answered her question.
"Yes we have met a few times." Carlisle said. "May I ask if he is your source?" When he asked this question Bella started laughing. Her laugh was even more beautiful than her voice. It was indescribable. Far away some birds answered with their own songs but next to Bella´s laugh they sounded like nails on the black board. I felt how I started to lose focus of the world around me and how all my senses focused on the beautiful sound that now surrounded me. Then the sound stopped and it felt like someone just had told me that my mother had died. The sound had warmed up my whole body and I could tell that my family had experienced something similar.
"Yes he is my source; he has been talking very warmly about you Dr. Cullen. He has told me that you have done a lot for Forks, which reminds me. Do you know what time it is?" For the first time there was warmth in Bella´s voice and it filled the hole her laughter had left behind, but not fully. Esme was just about to look at her watch, why she had one I would never know, when Bella zoned out. She closed her eyes and looked like she was very concentrated on something.
"She is feeling very uneasy and worried, but I don´t know why. It is so hard to read her." I heard Jasper´s thoughts. Then Bella opened her eyes and turned towards Carlisle.
"I know we´ve barley met but I need your help." She told him sounding a little desperate.
"What do you need our help with?" Carlisle asked a little cautious, he was afraid she would ask for something that could reveal our vampire secrete, plus he was a little unsure of what caused Bella to change so quickly and I understood him.
"My dad is on his way here and he is not going to be happy with me for just leaving the house. And there´s no meaning asking how I know because this isn't the time to tell" She quickly added when my father opened his mouth to ask how she knew that a car was driving towards our house. We had heard it when it left the highway, but Bella shouldn't have been able to and how had she been able to know that Carlisle was going to say something? This girl just became stranger and stranger.
"You see Charlie is very protective of me and I´m not really allowed to leave the house without someone "watching after me", which I obviously did." Bella continued. "Anyway if it´s not too much to ask, it would really help me a lot if you could pretend that you, kind of, invited me over?" I saw how a small blush crept over her cheeks when she finished and I felt how the monster inside of me screamed stronger than ever for this girl's blood.
"She is feeling guilty for disturbing us and for disobeying her father. How can she feel guilty for disturbing a family of vampires who would gladly kill her? Jasper was confused and I had to admit I was as well.
"Why would your father not want you to leave the house on our own? You seemed to handle yourself just fine a few moments ago?" Alice said curios.
"Well let´s just say that until around nine years ago I couldn´t take care of myself the way I do now and my dad doesn't know that." Bella said and we all waited for her to continue, but she kept quiet leaving us even more confused from her cryptic behavior.
"You want me or my sister to tell your father that we came over and invited you here so you have a good excuse to why you left the house right?" Alice said to Bella seeing if she at least had gotten that part right. This girl seemed to say one thing and mean another.
"Yes that would help a lot if it´s not too much trouble." Bella said and I didn´t need Jasper´s power to hear to that the hope in her voice.
"Why should we help you? We don´t even know you and how can you be so certain your father is coming? To me, you just sound crazy." Rosalie spoke suddenly breaking the small silence. We were all curios and actually a little scared for the girl standing before us, but Rose felt threatened by her beauty and she was very scared because Bella knew things she shouldn´t been able to know.
"Because you and your family are special, just like me, but in a different way." Bella answered my sister in a very calm tone, which reminded me a lot of someone talking to a frightened animal. But Bella´s voice really did have a calming effect. Still Rose´s eyes widened as she was trying to figure out what could have given us away.
"Special? What do you mean about special? Except for that you obviously is blind like a newborn kitten and you can´t take care of yourself you don´t seem special to me?" Rose said in a desperate way to win time and make Bella leave. Bella´s face though remained an unmoved mask, but the feelings inside made Jasper cringe away mentally.
"So much pain and hurt. Hopelessness and a strong feeling of being alone and misunderstood. Damn it! It should be impossible for her to not show any emotion, so how the HELL does she do it?!"
"I might be blind, but in one second I see more than most people do in a life time. I might never really have "seen" the world around me, but I still know that you are seven people in your family, including you, even though three of you never have said a word. I know that none of you have a heartbeat and that two of you isn´t breathing in this very moment. I´m sure the rest of you don't have the need to breathe either, but you do it anyway." Now everyone in the family stared at Bella, we couldn´t help it. In a few minutes she had figured out more about us than any other human had done ever before. How was it possible? Bella continued: "Please I need your help! I can´t force you to help me, but please you don´t know how much easier you would make my life if you did help me, and of course I will never tell anyone what I know no matter what you chose."
The desperation was clear in her voice and just as she ended her "speech" Alice got a vision. Rose had already decided not help this girl and the rest of my family was still uncertain. I saw through Alice´s thoughts what she saw in her vision; it was summer and one of those rare days when the sun was shining. Chief Swan's house was visible in the background, but the focus was on the big truck outside the house. A middle aged woman was standing with her right arm around Bella´s shoulders while she gestured angrily towards a man who had to be Chief Swan. The woman turned around and you could see the similarity between her and Bella. She led Bella to the door of the truck and…
Suddenly Alice's vision changed and became much clearer but the future she saw now was much worse. Bella was standing on a cliff saying something before she took one step out and fell.
"Wait NO!" Alice´s scream brought me out of her vision and I saw how Bella took a step backwards and how my family was staring at her with open mouths. What had happened?
Alice stared at Bella before making a decision.
"We will help you, I am Alice." She said carefully reaching forward and taking Bella´s hand, afraid that she would run away. "It´ll look more real if we´re inside. Come I´ll show you." She continued as she tried to lead Bella inside the house but this strange girl just carefully broke free from my sister's grip, showing her that she would go first. With one look Alice walked inside as the rest of us stayed outside, looking at the disappearing form of Isabella Swan.
So I hope you enjoyed that. Now there might take some time before the next chapter comes up. The reason is that for alittle more than a week ago a close friend yo my family died. I hope you understand.
/Lysistrate