Chapter 2: What's Happening?
Nevaeh stared blankly as the doctor she ran into in the hallway bit her sister's wrist. Before Nevaeh could let out a scream, her mouth was covered with Carlisle's cold hand. It sent shivers down her spine.
"Don't scream! I can explain!" he whispered urgently. He led her to the chair in the corner of the room and told her to sit down, still keeping his hand in place. Nevaeh tried to get free of his hand, but it was no use. He was a lot stronger than she was.
"Promise not to scream?" he asked her. Nevaeh nodded her head and Carlisle removed his hand. He pulled out a cell phone from his coat pocket and began to dial his son, Emmett's, number. As he did this, Nevaeh looked over at her sister. Mallory began shaking rapidly, as if she were having a seizure. Her skin was turning snow white and she began screaming at the top of her lungs.
"Emmett, I need you to come to the hospital now. The nurses will tell you where I am. I'll explain when you get here." Carlisle hung up just as Mallory began screaming. Carlisle knew from experience that the change from human to vampire wasn't pleasant. The feeling of fire running through your veins was unbearable. He needed something to make her screaming stop, or else someone might decide to come and see what's going on. He decided that morphine would help make the pain go away. Carlisle went over to the medicine cabinet in the room and grabbed a shot of Morphine.
"Hold her arm still." Carlisle told Nevaeh.
"What's happening to her?" Nevaeh shrieked.
"Just hold her arm still!" Carlisle repeated.
Nevaeh jumped up and grabbed a hold of her sister's arm, but her own hand was shaking so it didn't help very much.
"You're going to have to hold still." Carlisle instructed. Nevaeh nodded in understanding and tried to calm down. Eventually, she kept still long enough for Carlisle to give her sister the shot. After he was done, her sister's screams came to a sudden stop.
"What was that?" Nevaeh questioned as silent tears ran down her cheeks.
"Morphine. It decreases the pain." Carlisle explained. He looked up to see Nevaeh's tear stained face and reached out to wipe away the tears.
"Don't worry. Everything will be all right."
Remembering what occurred when she first came into the room, Nevaeh backed away from him and shouted, "Why the hell did you bite her?"
"She was losing too much blood. There was no way she could have made it if I didn't…"
"So you bit her? How the hell is that supposed to help her?" Nevaeh interrupted.
"Listen…"
"No. You listen! If she doesn't make it out of this, I swear to god I will…. "
Before Carlisle could find out what exactly Nevaeh was going to do, Emmett burst into the room.
'Whoa! That was fast…' Nevaeh thought.
"Carlisle, what's the problem?" Carlisle nodded in the direction of the hospital bed where Mallory was.
"Did you bite her?" Emmett asked.
"Is biting people normal for him?" Nevaeh said as she stared at Emmett in shock.
"I had no choice Emmett! She just had a daughter and she was dying. I had to make the decision fast and I couldn't leave the baby without a mother."
"So you decide to leave the baby with a vampire mother?"
"Vampire! Wh-what?" Nevaeh stuttered, now more confused than ever.
"Who is she?" Emmett asked his father, referring to Nevaeh.
"Nevaeh. Her sister." Nevaeh answered for Carlisle. "Now can somebody please tell me what's going on? Is my sister going to be okay?" she said through tears.
"Emmett," Carlisle said, turning towards his son. "Take Mallory back to the house. I'll keep Nevaeh here so I can explain things."
"Carlisle, you know you have to go back to work. They'll get suspicious if you don't. Plus, you have to make an excuse to the nurses for why she's missing."
Carlisle sighed and ran a hand through his blond hair. "Okay, you're right. I'll think of something. Nevaeh go home with Emmett and your sister. Emmett will tell you what's going on and I'll be home later with your niece."
Emmett picked up Mallory and walked over to the window. Carlisle opened the window and said to Emmett, "Be careful with them. I don't want anyone getting hurt."
"We're going out the window?" Nevaeh asked astonished. "There is no way in hell that I am going anywhere near….." Before Nevaeh could finish, Carlisle had lifted her up onto Emmett's back and told her to hold on. Nevaeh barely had time to protest before Emmett jumped out the window.
Lauren was just arriving at the hospital and heading to the front desk to ask for her sister's room number. On her way there, she ran into Carlisle. Carlisle had just got done explaining to the nurses that only he was allowed in Mallory's room. Normally the nurses wouldn't accept this, but he was the head doctor and they had to listen to him.
"Hi, I'm Dr. Cullen. Can I help you?" Carlisle said.
"My sister, Mallory Newton, is having a baby and I would really like to know what room she is in."
Carlisle panicked for a second before saying, "Well, you can't see her right now. She's in critical care…"
"Critical care? Is everything all right?"
"You're sister should be fine. Now if you would just take a seat in the wait…"
"Have you seen my other sister then? Her name is Nevaeh Cruise…"
"No, I haven't seen her." Carlisle lied. "Go ahead and sit down in the waiting room and I'll come and get you when you can see your sister."
Lauren listened to the doctor and grabbed a seat near the front desk. After she sat down, she pulled out her phone and called Nevaeh.
Emmett arrived at the Cullen house with Mallory and Nevaeh after running all the way from the hospital. After Emmet set Mallory down on the couch, he turned around to look at Nevaeh.
"You're okay? Aren't you?" he asked her.
"Depends on what you mean by okay. I mean I'm in a house in the middle of nowhere with a complete stranger, my sister is possibly dying on the couch over there and I can't do anything to help her, and I have no clue what the heck you are because there is no way any human could run from the hospital to here in that amount of time."
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you what I am."
"Trust me, I think I've seen enough tonight to believe anything."
"I'm a vampire."