Chapter six!! Yey!
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And then Louis stiffened for a moment, clenching and unclenching his jaw, but then he lost control and lunged for my neck. Time seemed to stop then. I saw the four vampires that weren't trying to kill me and I watched them, at one point wondering why they all looked so worried, then I remembered and looked to Louis, who had his stone hard grip on my arms at this point, pinning my helpless form to the side of the house, and lowering his mouth to meet my neck, and that was when the shock seemed to set into my system, for I began to writhe and squirm, trying to break his grasp, which was a helpless cause. I could almost see as his teeth sink into my neck in my mind and I could almost see the blood trickle down and stain my shirt. That would be an image that would haunt me for eternity; the blood trickling down and soaking into my white shirt.
And that's when the pain set in.
It was like his teeth were made of fire and his tongue was lava. It seeped through my neck and soon spread to the surrounding area. My veins felt like all the blood had been replaced by fire and lava, and that I would surely burst into flames at any moment. I was starting to feel dizzy, and I realized that he wasn't planning on stopping until I was dead; sucked dry. I felt movement around me, but I didn't know what was happening. All I could think about was the unending pain. I could almost see blurred shapes moving around me accompanied by a scream followed by a yelp of pain. What was going on? I didn't even notice when I blacked out from the pain.
I woke up once in a while, but only for a few minutes at a time. I would wake up to find at least one vampire in the room, mostly Edward or Alice, but sometimes more, and once all of them were in the room having a heated argument, but the rest of the time while I was unconscious, I either dreamt of Louis and I as humans, reliving our memories form the past, but sometimes, I saw images of people and places I had never seen, and sometimes, it was just black, and I was walking towards a door framed in light, but then door always seemed to be getting farther and farther away and I was running to keep up, but in the process of running, I kept tripping over things I couldn't see. By the time I finally got to the door, I reached for the handle but I touched it and I felt the same burning sensation as the bite, except it was all over my body, but the strange thing, -but since I was unconscious, it wasn't really that strange- I didn't actually feel the burning, I just knew that it was there and that I should have done something about it to make it stop. And then the door opened for me, and the light that had framed it was coming from inside and as the door opened wider, the light grew brighter, until I was lost in it.
The next moment I was awake and the first thing I noticed was that the pain, the real pain, not the dream pain, was gone and I wasn't dreaming. Everything was still a bit groggy at first, but then my eyesight cleared and I could hear clearly again, but it was different, I could see everything! The details of everyday objects were astounding, and I wondered why I hadn't noticed them before. Then I noticed that I could hear Emmet and Jasper talking as clear as if they were standing next to me, but then I saw them through a doorway, on the other end of the house. And I could smell...
I figured that I should try walking, or moving at all, so I slowly picked up my head to see Carlisle sitting in a chair across from my bed smiling at me in a questioning way.
"This is very interesting." he muttered very fast, so fast that I wouldn't have heard before...
Before what?
"Carlisle?" my voice sounded like the clinking of two china tea cups filled with tea, beautiful, "What happened to me?"
I had mistakenly interrupted his thoughts, he looked up and smiled again, "Claudia, my dear, you are a vampire." he said quietly.
I just stared at him for a long, long time. I barely noticed after about five minutes that I wasn't breathing, but I also wasn't unconscious. This stirred a faint memory of my not being able to hold my breath without going blue for longer than about thirty seconds. Strange.
"Claudia, do you remember when Louis bit you?"
I nodded.
"Well, Edward, Emmet and I were able to restrain him from killing you, but he bit you and the venom was too far into your system to be retracted by the time we fought him off. But, before Alice was able to get Bella into the house, he ran back and took her and left her in the woods, but he didn't plan on killing her, it seemed it was out of spite, as he didn't drain all her blood, just left her far enough away so that she would in turn, become one of us also." Carlisle sighed, "But luckily Alice, being the last into the house and having a vision, ran to get her, and Edward, reading her thoughts, ran faster and found Bella and sucked the poison out of her wound. And because of all this, we believe that he may come back to exact revenge. I am truly sorry, Claudia."
It all made sense then, the burning, the dreams, the waking and going unconscious, the dizziness when he bit me, everything. I was lost in thought about everything for a moment. So much had happened because of me coming here. The whole reason Louis came here in the first place was because we had a fight and he was so angry he came up here to visit his old home. Then I started thinking about the actuality that I really was a vampire now.
"Then what is so interesting?" I asked, remembering his reaction when I woke up.
"Well, it has only been, " he paused to check his watch, "twenty-one hours since you were bitten, and it should have been at least seventy-two before you woke up, so that means that your transformation took much less time than expected. Oh, and, you have been peacefully unconscious through the entire process, except for a few minutes here and there, and even then, all the while you were awake, you should have been in writhing agony, but it seemed as though you weren't at all." he chuckled, and I frowned.
"Oh." that was all I could say. We sat there in silence for a long time. Each thinking something different.
After the long moment he awoke out of his thoughts and said to me, "Claudia, why don't you look at yourself in the mirror?"
"But don't vampires not show up in mirrors?" I squinted my eyes suspiciously. I was confused, as had been the norm over the past few days.
Carlisle laughed, "A myth. We show up just as any human would."
"Oh." I briefly wondered what else I didn't know, even with the Cullen's overview of the vampiric life I was now to live.
Carlisle gestured to the mirror on the other end of the room, and I walked over to it.
I was astounded by the reflection I saw. My black hair was no longer as frizzy, it was now silky and possibly a few inches longer and very shiny. My topaz eyes were not topaz anymore, they were pitch black. I was longer in all respects and I was a bit taller too. And one thing I noticed that wasn't so visible, as far as I knew or remembered, was a yearning for something. I had the feeling it was hunger, but if it was then hunger had never felt so desperate before. I frowned.
"You like it?" came Alice's voice.
I nodded, still desperately wanting this wanting to go away.
"Well then first things first, we need to get you some food."
Oh, right. That would be it. "What time is it?" I asked, suddenly curious.
"Almost seven AM." said Alice.
"Alice, did you see her transformation happening so... fast?" asked Carlisle.
"No, and it's a bit strange that I didn't, but now Claudia and I have some things to attend to, if you don't mind. She needs to be fed immediately if we expect to go shopping and her not to massacre every human at the mall." said Alice as she led me out of the room.
"Yes, of course. Go ahead." muttered Carlisle as he waved us of with a hand, already deep in thought again.
"Shopping?" I asked.
Chapter six is done, and in chap. 7 Alice and Claudia go SHOPPING!
YEY!
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