Sorry this took a while to get up! I've been a bit obsessed with my new Clique fanfiction and have been ignoring my other stories. So here's the next chapter of Silver Moon, I hope you like it!
Oh, and just so you know, this takes place right after Breaking Dawn.
Sorry, one more note. Some stuff in this fanfiction will be made up! Some things that have to do with the vampires and werewolves I will make up or won't follow the books. Just so you know.
So I'm a vampire.
They were kind of vague when they explained it. They said there'd be plenty of time to talk later.
I wouldn't have even believed it if I hadn't accidentally crushed a five pound glass paper weight by just holding it in my hand. That plus the fact that the shattered glass hadn't even broken skin or hurt at all. Oh, and it kind of made sense now why my throat burned horribly whenever Jacob or Renesmee got anywhere near me.
I was pretty calm about the whole thing; not happy, not sad. I was particularly disgusted about the whole blood drinking thing. I was a little less freaked out when they explained their 'vegetarian' way of life. There was no way I wanted to hurt anyone-well, maybe I wanted to hurt some people, but I had no wish to eat them.
Alice was the nicest to me out of the 'teenagers'. She promised to teach me how to hunt and take me out shopping for a whole new wardrobe. Apparently those were her two favorite things, no matter how different they were. Jasper was a whole different story. I didn't even understand how they could be a couple, they were so different. Whereas Alice was always smiling and happy, Jasper always looked pained and angry. I kept looking over at him to make sure he wasn't coming at me or something. He was constantly glaring at me and muttering 'It just isn't right' to himself.
I liked Emmett second best. He was more laid back and humorous than the rest of them. He'd even challenged me to an arm wrestling contest, something that Bella shifted uncomfortably at. He was that lovable bear of a brother type of person. His…girlfriend, I guess, named Rosalie, acted like a bitch. I did, however, take notice to the small, warm smile she gave me, even if it lasted only a fraction of a second.
Edward always looked frustrated around me and talked as if he were in some Shakespearean play or something. Bella, who I found out was his wife, was a bit overly protective and whiny. I cut her a little slack because she had a young daughter who was half human and had blood running through her veins, but still. And on that note, their daughter, who was named Renesmee, was simply amazing. Apparently she was only a few months old, but she looked at least six years old and acted twelve at the least. She was scarily intelligent, always speaking in words I didn't know until middle school. She kept reaching out to me, as if she wanted to touch me, but Bella would continuously snatch her away from me before she could. She also kept looking over at Jacob and reaching out to him, but he refused to get near her, always staring at me or his feet.
Jacob. He was something else, something completely new. They'd told me that Jacob was allowed to know that they were vampires because he was different. However, they refused to explain just how he was different yet. He hadn't spoken a word since we walked inside the house, and was wearing one of those expressions where you couldn't tell whether he was sad or angry. I wanted him to talk so badly, but kept trying to keep it off my mind. I didn't want to unknowingly force him to do something he didn't want to do. My god this was hard.
I turned my head up after staring at the ground for a few minutes. Bella was talking animatedly-and angrily-to Carlisle. Oh, I guess I forgot to mention, Carlisle and Esme were great too. They were extremely kind while they explained everything to me. Esme was probably the whole reason I hadn't went on a crazy rampage.
"I thought I could shield you all from any mental thing. Why couldn't I stop her from doing that stuff to us?" Bella ranted, furiously pointing at me. Jacob looked up for a moment and scowled at her.
Carlisle shifted on his feet. I wondered why he did that, because I knew that I had no need to make any of those normal human movements. "Are you sure you were concentrating?"
Bella rolled her eyes and shifted Renesmee, who was in her arms. "Yes! And even if I wasn't, she shouldn't have been able to move me. I don't have to do anything to shield myself, it just happens." She threw her hands onto her head. "Ugh!"
Carlisle lowered his voice. "We can already tell that Juliet is different. Who knows what kinds of things she can do, besides what we've seen." He ran his fingers through his hair, thinking. "Look, she's a nice girl. She's only 14, we can't kick her out on her own, no matter how uncomfortable she makes you. I wouldn't want to kick her out anyway. She seems eager enough to follow our way of living, and we can tell she's no risk to Renesmee or Jacob. Can't you just try to be nice to her? It's not like she makes it very hard." He walked away from Bella, smiling at me as he went to Esme.
"Come on Juliet, I'll take you hunting now." I looked over at Alice, who was suddenly in front of me. I made a face and she laughed, sounding like chimes. "Don't worry, it's not so bad. It seems scary at first, but then instinct just takes over and it's like you don't even have to think about anything."
I nodded and let her slide her arm around mine as she led me out of the house. Jacob walked swiftly after us. "Wait, Alice, could I come?"
Alice stared blankly at him, then frowned. "You know what you do to my senses. Plus, I'm sure Juliet's as tired of your stink as I am by now." Jacob growled lowly at her.
I looked over at Alice and furrowed my eyebrows. "What are you talking about?" I asked confusedly. I thought Jacob smelled amazing.
"You're probably just so thirsty he smells like nothing but blood to you. Trust me, once you've drunk your fill you'll be wishing he'd leave us alone." Alice responded. "Once you get past the blood scent, he smells like nothing but wet dog." I took a deep breath. I didn't think he smelled like dog. More like woods. Trees and earth. I shrugged my shoulders. Alice sighed and muttered, "You can come, but I should probably explain about you before we go, if you're planning to change." Jacob nodded bluntly. Alice sighed again, as if she didn't feel like explaining. "You know how we said Jacob is different? Well, he's probably more different than you think. He's sort of a…" I turned my head to one side, urging her to continue. She instantly spoke, "Werewolf." She quickly let go of my arm and stepped back, staring at me.
I looked down to my feet. "Sorry, I didn't mean to do that."
Jacob swallowed hard and Alice took my arm again. "It's okay." she responded. "I know what it's like to not be able to control stuff. I'll explain myself later." She looked over at Jacob. "Jacob lives in La Push, a reservation. There's all this legend crap I could tell you, but I don't really want to, so let me get this over with fast. He's a werewolf, he can shift forms whenever he wants, and sometimes when he doesn't want to. He doesn't age, and won't age unless he stops being a werewolf. We aren't supposed to be on their land. We can't change anyone into vampires, no matter what. Blah blah blah, that's all you really need to know. Now let's go, I'm pretty thirsty myself." She tugged on my arm while I was still trying to understand all that she'd just explained to me.
We ran fast, deep into the forest. I felt like I was flying, I was going to so fast. I looked behind me and suddenly saw…Jacob I guess. He looked like a wolf, just extremely large. He was easily keeping pace with us, though his paws made a lot more noise than we were making.
Alice suddenly stopped. I gracefully stopped with her and looked at her, my head to one side. "What is it?"
She stared incredulously at me. "You mean you don't smell that?" I took a deep breath and uttered an "Oh." Now I smelled it. It smelled sort of like Jacob, but not as good. I was starting to recognize that smell as blood, but it wasn't very strong, though it did make my throat burn. "You should have smelled that quicker than me." Alice murmured, mostly to herself. She shook her head lightly and looked at me again. "Okay, there's a very large buck up ahead a couple dozen yards. I want you to run quickly, but quietly, to it, then catch it and kill it." I stared at her, eyes wide. She looked oddly at me. "Just do what you feel, it'll come naturally."
I nodded slowly and started running forward, following the rusty smell. I was almost instantly there, slightly behind a tree and watching. The buck was silently grazing, eating a few leaves on a green bush. I turned my head slightly and watched him for a few moments, suddenly caught in the beauty of it. I'd always liked animals. I blinked, finally remembering something from when I was a human.
I'd been struggling all day to figure out details from my life as a human. They were scarily hard to remember. I'd only dug up a few things from the back of my mind. I knew my name and age. I knew my family members and my old friends. That was all, but now I remembered that I had been a vegetarian. I laughed out loud with the irony, sending the buck running. I used to be a vegetarian, not eating any animals, and now I was destined to be a new kind of vegetarian, only eating animals.
It suddenly hit me how little I really wanted to kill the buck in the first place, and how little I really needed it. I mean sure, my throat hurt really bad, but it was bearable. I'd always had an intense love for all living things, and I didn't really want to harm anything now.
I realized that Alice and Jacob were behind me. Alice stared, her palms out in front of her. "Why did you laugh? Why didn't you run after it? Why did you wait so long?" She asked, bombarding me with questions. "How could you not just jump on it and go at it?"
"It was so beautiful, I just couldn't hurt it. I didn't want to hurt it." I looked to my side, finding a bird chirping in a tree.
Alice followed my gaze and wrinkled her nose. "You've got to be so thirsty!" I shook my head absentmindedly. Alice groaned and smacked herself in the head. "God. Jacob, just take her back and explain to Carlisle what just happened. I have to hunt."
Jacob nodded his large, furry head and nudged me to move. I slowly started walking and watched behind me as Alice went running after something, looking extremely scary. I shook my head and looked over at Jacob, who was staring at me with wide, light brown eyes. I stared at him and asked, "Can you shift back?" I asked, wanting to look at him while he was human. He shook his head and let out a low whine. "Hmph." I muttered, looking away.
I gasped as Alice was suddenly by my side again, her teeth slightly red. "When he shifts to wolf form, he loses his clothes. They like, completely rip apart. So when he shifts back, no clothes!" She quickly ran off again, yelling, "Off to find more 'beautiful creatures' to eat."
I scowled after her and looked over at Jacob again. I looked down at my clothes and smiled, realizing that I was wearing a pair of my dad's huge sweatpants over a pair of Soffe shorts. I dropped my smile quickly, suddenly feeling a little self conscious in my baggy pants and worn-out pink tank top. I shook the feeling away and slipped off the sweatpants, holding them out for him. He huffed and took the pants in his jaws, running off with them. A few moments later, he returned, now wearing my sweatpants and no shirt. My god he was ripped. I quickly forced myself to stop staring and looked over to a random tree.
"I got a little worried for a minute there." I raised an eyebrow when Jacob said this. He chuckled deeply. "You kinda just stared taking off your pants. I didn't know you had shorts on underneath."
I looked away again, knowing that if I was still human, I would have been blushing horribly. "Sorry, I'm not a slut."
He smiled at me. "I know." He started walking back in the direction toward the house. "You're handling all this pretty well." I shrugged. "The cullens always tell me how horrible it is when you're a newborn. They said they were so thirsty they thought they would kill themselves from the pain."
"It doesn't hurt so bad." I responded, my voice soft. "Not bad enough for me to want to hurt anything."
He furrowed his eyebrows. "It was just a deer, Juliet."
"So? You're just a person-or a werewolf, whatever. You're just you. Does that mean I should kill you and drink your blood?" I questioned, feeling strangely angry.
He instantly shook his head. "I would hope not." He looked at me. His eyes were a bit darker now. "You're one of those people."
"What do you mean by that?"
He smiled but didn't show his teeth. "You're one of those people who just loves everyone. Or maybe you don't love everyone, but you think everyone deserves a chance."
I nodded. "I guess so."
My head suddenly whipped to the side as I heard a noise. Jacob's eyes widened and he stepped in front of me, suddenly seeming extremely protective. "Don't say anything. Let me talk." He said gruffly, his voice close to cracking. I stared up at him, suddenly nervous. The look on his face let me know that he wasn't faking his fear.
There were wolves. Wolves like Jacob. There were a lot of them, just pouring into the clearing in front of us. Jacob shivered nervously. I had a bad feeling this wouldn't be good.
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Hugs and Kisses!
~Rosie
