Random Dedication- For my mind...it needs all the help it can get...

You're A What?

I braced myself for what Mackenzie was about to say. Maybe I should just say it before he does.

Vampire. Vampire. Vampire.

He sighed and looked out the side window. "Bella, I'm a superhero."

I stared at him, blankly. I blinked. Once. Twice. A third time. "W-what?" I stuttered.

"I'm a superhero. Well, actually, we prefer not to be called that. It sounds pompous, does it not? I am just one of many of my kind who have chosen to be good. I travel around, finding places that are in danger of villains and convert them."
"Wait!" I said holding up my hands. "Superhero? Like Superman?"

"That's right, Lois Lane."

I scrunched up my nose. "Like, using superpowers to save lives while wearing spandex kind of superhero?"

"Basically, minus the spandex. I have to say, you're taking this quite well."

"Uh-huh…" I said drawing it out.

"You don't believe me?" Mackenzie cast me an amused look.

"I think you're something…" I admitted. "Not a superhero…" Maybe a vampire…

"What can I do to prove it to you? Ask me anything."

Do you drink blood? "Fine." I snapped. "What's your name?"

He stared at me, completely taking his eyes off the road. "Mackenzie Johnson…."

"No!" I said laughing despite my frustration. "Your superhero name. You know like Superman, Spiderman, Batman…." I ran out of names. " Hulk…"

"Oh!" Mackenzie laughed. "You only need a name if you're going to be in the news. I am not. Also you need one if you are going to be attacked in you're everyday life. I have nothing left to lose." He suddenly looked at me, as if realizing something. This something scared him.

"Why are you in Forks?"

"I sensed villains here."

The Cullens? "Did you find any here?"

He laughed, blue eyes twinkling. "Well, I've been distracted, haven't I?''

"I suppose with stalking me full time thing, you've given up on defeating your enemies." I said coldly.

He growled a little and I looked at him, a little alarmed. "One task at a time."

We pulled into a parking space outside the theater but neither of us moved to get out. "So….being a superhero…that requires superpowers, right?" Play dumb. I needed to find out what his special powers was, like Edward's mind reading and Alice's visions.

"I have superhuman speed, reflexes, and agility." He said, not helping me much. I pretended to be interested anyway. "And I can influence people's decisions." He said that like it was nothing.

"Like control people's minds?" I asked appalled and frightened but strangely intrigued.

He nodded, watching me out of the corner of his eye. "I can see what people are thinking about doing and then change it."

"Can you control my mind?" I did not realize until the words were already out of me mouth that he obviously could not.

"No, you are the only normal person I could not control, ever. That is one of the reasons I liked you the moment I saw you. You are the only person who still possesses the power of free will in my presence." He smiled admiringly at me but I was thinking.

"Are there any other 'supernatural' reasons you like me?" Like…maybe….you wanted to DRINK MY BLOOD!?

Mackenzie rolled his eyes and laughed. "Besides the fact that you're supernaturally beautiful! No, seriously though love, there was something else. I imprinted."

Huh? "Pardon?"

"Imprinted is falling in love only in the irresistible way that only my kind can fall in love. Even if we do not want to fall in love, the moment we see this person we can not help but to become obsessed with her."

This was new. Edward had never mentioned imprinting. I thought that the Cullens had told me everything. Well I guess this is what I should have expected from them, let downs and disappointment. There was only one reason Edward would not have told me; he had never imprinted on me and he was embarrassed.

"Bella, love, do you feel alright? You look a tad pale." My head was pounding and my stomach was sick with dread.

Mackenzie laid the back of his hand on my forehead. It was like ice. "You feel very warm."

"I don't feel very good." I told him. "Could you just take me home?"

"Aw! No! I totally ruined the date didn't I? I knew I shouldn't have told you anything!" His beautiful face contorted with despair.

"No!" I said quickly. "No, it's not you. I'm glad you told me this. It's my fault. We can go on another date to make up for the movies." I made this promise without thinking. I just wanted to make his miserable expression disappear.

He stared at me with an unrecognizable emotion in his eyes. Then he nodded and pulled smoothly out of the parking lot. "Hey, you aren't going to puke or anything , are you?" he asked casting me a worried look.

"No, I'm fine."

"Good." He sighed. "Puking is one of two things I can't stand. Puking and bleeding."

Normally the small fact that he didn't like blood would have kept me thinking for hours but tonight was completely different. My mind already wanted to sort through the information I had uncovered tonight, but I held it back. I still had more to discover tonight.

"You sister, Genevieve, is a v- superhero, too?" I had to stop myself from saying vampire.

"Yes." He said looking away from me.

"And her powers?"

He chuckled darkly, "Geni has one of the darkest powers I have ever witnessed. I dare not tell you what it is for fear that you would call her up right now."

"At least give me a clue!" I begged.

He pursed his lips and shook his head robotically.

"About your power…" I began to formulate a new question.

Mackenzie looked relieved at the subject change.

"Do you use your mind control often?"

"Sometimes." He answered vaguely.

"Did you use it in the restaurant?"

He hesitated, looking guilty. "Yes, on the waitress. She wanted to flirt with me but I thought that might upset you. Also, the little boy across the restaurant wanted to throw pasta at his mother. And…a waiter wanted to slip you his phone number."

I stared at his in shock. "What if I had wanted-?" I squealed.

"You did not want his bloody phone number! I know you better than that!" He roared back.

I felt suddenly afraid; if he was a vampire then he could easily kill me out of anger, but s soon as he looked at me I knew everything was okay. His eyes were a clear blue with no black or purple bruising surrounding them.

"Sorry." He muttered, a pained expression twisting his features. "I am excruciatingly sorry to have scared you."
"I wasn't scared!" I said defensively. I ended up saying that a lot, I suddenly realized. If I had a movie or book that would be my catch phrase- 'I wasn't scared'.

"You shouldn't be. Even though I could very easily harm you, I don't think I ever could. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?"

I thought for a moment. "No." I finally said.

He sighed and whispered softly, "I love you, Bella. My heart would never let me hurt you."

My heart ached. Was I leading him on? Had this already gone too far? I did not love him like that!

Yes you do. Said the art of my mind I usually wanted to murder.

Okay, fine, maybe just a crush….but that's all! Nothing to go getting all gushy over. Nothing too serious. Certainly not full out love!

That horrible part of my brain sighed. Now, we've tried to tell ourselves that before, haven't we?

This was getting dangerous. I needed to change the subject before my mind told me something else I didn't want to know.

"Are- are there any bad sides to being a hero….like bad powers?" Like…I don't know…DRINKING BLOOD!

He looked at me curiously. "Wow! You sure know what questions to ask! Yes, there are some bad traits that only the villains possess. That's what separates them from us though. I have gotten rid of the bad traits- that's what makes me what I am."

"If you can just quit then why don't they all?"

"Most don't know how. All I have to do I have to do is take a pill everyday and go into special doctors offices every once in a while for check ups."
Pills….? THAT MAKES NO SENCE!

"But then-." I began but he stopped me.
"Bella! Why don't you save some questions for later!" He laughed. "At this rate we'll have nothing to talk about when I pick you up for school on Monday?" He mad ethe last sentence into a question halfway through.

I looked out the window. We had pulled up outside my house.

I nodded in answer to his question, unsure of whether to get out yet.

He picked my hand off the seat and kissed it gently with cold lips. "Goodnight sweet Bella. I will see you Monday."

I smiled a little as he released my hand. I stepped out of the car shakily and turned to watch as he sped away.

That night I lay in bed gong over the facts in my head.

He was so very much like a vampire. The cold skin, I could still feel it against my hand. He had all the beauty of a vampire. The angular features, long, soft black hair, long dark lashes, straight black eyebrows, a narrow nose, perfectly proportioned smiling lips, wiry muscles six foot height, lean build….I quickly snapped out of it. I was trying to decide something here and I kept getting distracted thinking about his beautiful…GRR I'M DOING IT AGAIN! His white skin was another sign. He had the speed, strength, agility, reflexes, and the freaky other power.

What separated him from other vampires? The eyes! My mind screamed immediately. The gorgeous sky blue eyes that ever grew black and the space around them never too on the bruised appearance. Also the pills…he didn't hunt….he took pills…And imprinting…I had never heard of it.
I battled with myself for half the night and when I finally drifted off to sleep I dreamed of vampires battling superheroes.

Disclaimer- Mackenzie clears his throat and peers down at a small note card. "Syd does not own Twilght." he reads slowly. "Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer..." He stops and looks at me. "What the hell am I doing reading this!?" He yells. "Well..." I start to explain but he interupts. "Who writes my lines!? They are sooooo stupid!"He tosses down the notecards. "I QUIT!" "NO! MACKENZIE!" I sream holding on to his pant leg as he tries to walk away. "I NEED YOU!"

That was random... anyway, I know you're all probably mad at me...SO TELL ME ABOUT IT VIA REVIEWS! :D Theories? Is Mac a vampire? Maybe he's a werewolf? Or a faery (haha)! Or maybe -conspiritorial whisper- a merperson (hahaha -sigh-)!? Okay so I have 180-something reviews right now. Do you think we could get it up to 200? Maybe?

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