Wow. I kind of feel awful that it took so long to update...I kind of lost my notebook that had this story in it and I didn't feel like rewriting it. But I finally found it. And here it is. Chapter two.
RECAP!
"I don't understa..." I trailed off. My attention snapped back to the mirror; my eyes in particular. Golden-brown eyes, pale skin...
"Bella, I'm afraid that the venom may have had time to change you a bit before we got to you..."
"And?" my voice came out as a barely audible whisper.
"Bella," Edward said sadly. "We think you are a vampire."
"A vampire?"
I couldn't believe it. This was what I'd been wanting for months! Even if Edward hadn't been the one to change me, I was changed. I could be one of the Cullens now, if Edward still wanted me to marry him.
But something was wrong. I frowned. The newborns I had seen all had red eyes. Mine were honey colored, same as the Cullens. Weren't new vampires supposed to be wild with thirst? That's what Edward had told me, yet, I felt nothing.
And then something else occurred to me. Alice had said that it took three days to make the transformation between human and vampire.
"How long have I been out?" I asked. Edward fiddled nervously with the bottom hem of his shirt. Carlisle looked away from his son and turned his gaze on me.
"A week," he admitted. My eyes grew wide again. A week? What did my parents think?
"Relax Bella," Carlisle said soothingly. "Jasper took care of your parents."
"Wha-"
Edward interrupted me. "He told your father that you fell down a flight of stairs and through a window." I glared at him indignantly. He shrugged. "It could happen, you must admit." I stuck my tongue out at him playfully then turned back to Carlisle with another question.
"Do they know where I am?"
"No," Carlisle said. "Your parents think that you are in a private hospital – no visitors allowed." I frowned.
"Why aren't I in a hospital?" Edward raised an eyebrow. "Oh. Right," I felt sheepish. "Vampire." I shook my head in an attempt to clear it. "Stupid question." I tried to sit up again and was surprised at how sore I was. I lifted my arm to brush a strand of hair behind my ear and froze. My pale skin was covered in dark, purplish bruises. I blinked quickly. Didn't you have to have blood to have bruises? I looked up in confusion and met Carlisle's gaze. I could see he understood where my train of thought was going.
"We aren't sure of how much of you has been changed," he explained. "Edward seemed to have gotten most of the venom out before it had a chance to change you fully."
"So I'm, like," I tried to wrap my mind around the concept, "half vampire, half human?"
"It appears so," Carlisle agreed.
"Your eyes are brown," Edward pointed out the obvious with a smile. "I don't think that you'll have any problems with human food, Bella."
"You mean...I won't want to...well..." I trailed off, "...you know."
"No Bella," Carlisle smiled at me fondly. "I do not think that you'll be drawn to blood."
That was a relief. It felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. I hadn't imagined that the transition between, or rather merging, species would be so...easy. The worst of it had come and gone. I'd been out during the pain. And, as if that weren't enough. I didn't have the blood-lust complex that vampires are supposed to have. I still had one question though. It was the thing I was most about.
"Do I still age?" I asked curiously.
"I don't believe so. I ran some tests on you while you were unconscious," Carlisle looked sheepish. I almost laughed. I really didn't care that he ran tests on me while I was out. All I cared about now was the fact that I now had eternity to spend with Edward. I made eye contact with him. He was smiling. I guess he came to that conclusion also. Carlisle cleared his throat.
"I have some errands to run. I'll see you both later." He left the room, giving Edward a look that plainly said 'be-careful-with-her' on the way out. There was a long silence as Edward looked like he was thinking over what to say. I broke through the quiet quickly.
"How did you keep me unconscious?"
Edward looked confused. "What?"
I grinned. "Come on. That pain is enough to wake the dead. How did you do it?"
"I, uh...that is to say, Alice and I..." he stumbled over the words. " Carlisle agreed!"
I raised an eyebrow.
"We...we kind of...drugged you," he admitted.
"With what?" I asked, wondering what kind of drug block out the intensity of that pain.
Edward shrugged. "We didn't ask Carlisle. Bit it kept you unconscious and seemed to ease your pain some."
"In that case, thank you," I grinned. Edward walked briskly across the room so he was next to my bed again.
"I love you Bella," he said seriously. I blushed.
"I love you too."
He leaned down and kissed me. I sighed happily, but the sigh quickly turned into a yawn.
"Get some sleep Bella," Edward pushed a strand of hair behind my ear before leaving the room. I settled back in my bed and quickly fell asleep smiling.
That was the first time I had the nightmare.
I stayed at the Cullen's house for another ten days before Carlisle pronounced me well enough to go home to Charlie's. Edward promised me that he would visit that night. I hoped that his presence while I was in my own home would make the nightmares stop.
I was wrong.
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