Right, this is a new chapter. Sorry it took me a little longer to update, but it took me a while to write this one.
I tried to get appropriate reactions out or Naomi in this chapter, don't know if I did. Let me know what you think.
Anyway, going to let you read this .
As we drove to the store, there were a number of things that were going through my head.
I knew that this day would come eventually. I mean, she was half vampire, of course she was going to need blood some time. But she was so young, she was still a baby. My baby. She would need to go hunting with Edward soon if she reacted to blood as the rest of the family did. I didn't want her to go, she was so little. I knew that Edward and everyone else would protect her, but still, I had to allow my 5 year old child to go hunting.
As we got closer to town, I looked in my mirrors to watch her reaction to the scent of human blood.
When we got into the centre of town, her body did exactly what I expected it to. Her eyes started to turn darker and she was watching the people outside the window as if she was stalking them.
I heard Edward take in a sharp intake of breath. I don't know if he was holding his breath because he hadn't been hunting for a while, or if it was because he had realised that Naomi was thirsty. It could have been a mixture of the two, because Edward picked Naomi up and placed her on his lap and crossed his arms so that he would be able to have a firm grip on Naomi if she decided to suddenly jump at some one.
"Mommy" she cried from the back of the car. I looked in my mirrors to see what she was doing.
"What's the matter honey?" I asked her. I could see tears beginning to form in her eyes.
"My throat is really bad. Can we go home?" she asked, she was crying now.
I had no idea how much it hurt when a vampire was thirsty. The only time Edward had tried to explain he described it as "Someone sticking a white hot poker down your throat". I couldn't believe that my child was suffering that this.
I could feel tears building up as I thought about how much pain my daughter was in.
" Yes, we'll go home now" I said trying to hold back the tears.
I turned the car around and headed back for the house.
On the way back to the house, I started to think about my baby. The child that was growing inside of my. I rested my arm on my very small, but noticeable baby bump. Would I only have 5 years with them before they would have the bloodlust that all vampires have.
I drove up to the house and parked the car. Edward picked Naomi up and carried her out of the car. She was still crying because of the pain that was in.
Edward opened the passenger door and looked at me as if he was apologising for something.
"Edward, I knew that this would happen eventually, I just didn't expect it to be so soon. She needs to go hunting weather I like it or not. Just take her and get Emmett or Jasper to go with you just in case." I said. he didn't argue with me, he just went inside the house to get one of his brothers.
I closed the door to the car and just sat there in silence.
I finally let the tears that I had been holding back all the way from the store out.
I was upset but I didn't know why. I had been waiting for this since she was a baby. I honestly thought that the first thing she was going to when she was born was bite me. But she didn't. she cried, just like a baby should.
I didn't notice that I wasn't alone in the car until I felt someone grab hold of my hand. It was Alice.
"Bella, its going to be ok. I promise. She is going to be fine. Everyone is going to help her through this." Alice said smiling at me.
I smiled back at her through my tears.
"I know Alice, I'm just being all hormonal and protective. I just didn't think this was going to happen until she was a little older. She is only 5 Alice, she is still a baby."
Alice didn't say anything more to me. She leant over to my side of the car and hugged me. No matter what the problems I had, Alice was always able to help me. She was my sister and she knew exactly what to do to make me happy.
Edwards POV.
What was I going to do. I knew that Naomi needed to go hunting, that was obvious because of the colour of her eyes. But how? I had never taught someone to hunt before. It was instinctive for us to do what we do. How was I going to tell a child that she needed to kill something and then drink it's blood. I knew that she knew about us and she knew what we are. It took her a while to accept it, but once she knew that she was safe she went back to normal.
When I got into the house first of all I wanted to get Alice to go see if Bella was alright. Obviously, Alice had seen what had happened and as I walked into the house, Alice was coming down the stairs and heading outside to the car.
" Everything is going to be fine Edward. You're going to be surprised." She thought as she walked past me.
I was still holding Naomi when I went into the living room. Emmett was sitting there watching TV.
I wasn't going to ask him to go hunting. I was going to tell him we were going hunting.
"Emmett we are going hunting." I said.
"What. I went yesterday" he said from the sofa.
"Emmett, Look at Naomi. She needs to go hunting and I haven't got the faintest idea about how I'm going to do this. I need your help Emmett." I asked. I had never asked my brother for help. I never thought I would ever need it, but I really needed Emmett's help with this.
He jumped up off the sofa and came over to me with a huge grin on his face.
" Damn Edward. You must seriously be struggling with this, because you never ask for MY help." He came over to me and took Naomi out of my arms.
"Now lets go show here what we do best" and with that he walked out of the house with Naomi held close to his chest.
I followed him out of the house and into the forest where I would have to find something that I felt would be good for Naomi to hunt for her first time.
When I caught Emmett up, I asked him to put Naomi on the ground so that I was able to talk to her.
I came down to her level and looked her in the eye. There were still tears there because the pain she was feeling must have been getting worse. I didn't like to see anyone in pain, especially a child. And when it was my daughter, it was simply unbearable.
"Naomi. You know what we are don't you?" I asked her.
She nodded.
"And what do we eat?" well drink would have been a better word for what we do.
"You drink blood." She answered.
I nodded my head to answer her.
I had to find a way to describe the whole thirst thing in a way that a child would understand.
"Well, when we get hungry we all get a really bad throat and that is when we know that we need to go hunting. The only way for your bad throat to go away is if you go hunting with us." I explained.
"But I don't know how to do that." she insisted.
"That is why me and Emmett are here. You will do fine, I promise."
I picked her up and gave her a hug. I knew that she needed to be reassured because this experience was so new to her. it was probably quite scary as well. I kissed the side of her head before looking at her again.
"You ready?" I asked her.
She nodded. I put her on my back and told her to hold on tight and then I started to run.
I caught the scent of a heard of deer in the north. I followed it hoping that I would be able to catch her a deer on her first trip. But then I caught something else in the air that I knew Emmett would be excited about.
Grizzle bears.
Naomi's sense of smell must have been heightened because she turned her head in the exact direction that the scent of the bears was coming from.
"What's that daddy?" she asked.
"Grizzle bear. And don't even think about it, you are not going after a grizzle on your first ever hunt." I said sternly. I was her father and I had to lay some ground rules for when we were hunting. Bella was in change when she was in the house, but when she came out here with me, I was in charge.
"But daddy, the deer smell yucky." She complained
"How did you know it was deer?" I asked. It took me months to distinguish the different scents of animals when I was a newborn.
"Because I can see them" she said. and she pointed to a heard of deer that were grazing in a hear by field. I didn't realise that we had run so far. I stopped and put Naomi down on the floor. I was just about to start explaining how to catch one when Emmett came from behind us.
"Edward, I'm not going after deer when there is a grizzle a few miles away. I'm going after that." he pointed in the direction that the bear was.
"If Uncle Emmett is going after the bear can I go with him. Please Please Please" she Begged.
"No Naomi. I told you." I said trying to sound stern.
"Edward if she wants to go after a bear let her. I mean it isn't as if we get a lot of then around here is it?" he said.
Before I could say another word on the matter, I noticed that Naomi was not at my side.
"Naomi!" I called, but no answer.
"I bet you anything I know where she has gone?" Emmett said smiling.
I groaned and run my hands through my hair before punching a near a by tree.
"You better make sure she is safe other wise you are dead." I threatened.
He grinned at me.
"Im going to get my niece some grizzle!" I said before running off to catch Naomi. It didn't take him long. I knew he had caught her because I heard her scream in surprise when he picked her up.
I ran after them. I was not going to leave my daughter alone with my Brother while he was hunting down a grizzle.
I caught up with them and realised that we were closer to the bear than we thought.
The bear was standing next to one of the trees. It had no idea what was stalking it.
"Naomi, Emmett is going to go first. You have to stay here and watch and you can go over when he says it is safe." I told her.
She nodded. She hadn't taken her eyes off the bear from the moment we got here. This was possibly going to be easier than I first thought.
I looked at Emmett, telling him that he could go but not to play with his food. Emmett didn't need to hunt so he would have just toyed with the bear is we weren't here.
Emmett took off and began stalking the bear. He stayed in a low crouch position before pouncing onto the bears back. The bear noticed and tried to remove Emmett from its back by swiping his paws at its back.
Emmett didn't move, but then decided to take my advise and not to play with it. He moved onto the shoulder of the bear and in one quick movement he snapped the bears neck. The bear fell instantly to the ground. Emmett stayed on its back for a few second just to ensure that it was dead. Then he gestured for me to bring Naomi over.
Naomi needed no more encouragement she jumped out when where were hiding and ran over to the dead bear on the floor.
This is where he instincts took over. She knew exactly where the richest supply of blood was, so she knelt next to the bear and sank her teeth into the bears mangled neck and began to drink.
I watched in amazement as this small child drained this bear that was easily 20 times the size of here.
When she was done, she stood up. She was covered with blood. That was to be expected. No one came back clean after the first hunt. Hell, Emmett didn't come back clean from a hunt now.
"Daddy, why does my throat still hurt?" she asked.
"Because you are still thirsty. And so am I for that matter. Im going to go after those deer again. Do you want to see if you can catch a few deer before we go back?" I asked her. I held out my hand either for her to follow me or for her to take.
She smiled at me and took my hand. It was amazing the feeling that I got from her holding my hand. Even though I only knew that she existed a few months ago, we had connected and we were like a father and child. And now we had something that we would be able to bond over.
I put her back on my back and started to run again for the heard of deer.
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Bella's POV
It had been a few hours since Edward had taken Naomi out hunting and I wasn't going to lie, I was getting anxious. I didn't know where they were, what they were doing. Nothing.
At this moment in time I was sitting in the living room with Alice and Jasper.
Well, I was lying down on the sofa with my head in Alice's lap while Jasper was sitting in another chair reading a book. Alice was looking through a fashion Magazine while stroking my hair. It was very calming.
Alice suddenly burst out into laughter.
Both me and Jasper looked at her.
"Would you like to share the joke sweetheart?" jasper asked.
"You'll see why I'm laughing in about 3 minutes. Bella, I think it would be a good idea if you went up to Naomi's room and run her a bath." She said smiling widely.
I got up from her lap, looked at her with confusion written all over my face before deciding that Alice was normally right about things like this, so I got up and went up stairs to run a bath.
One I had got the water running at the right temperature, I heard someone coming in through the back door. I walked down stairs and saw why Alice had told me to run a bath for Naomi. She was covered in Blood all her mouth and arms was covered in red.
"And what exactly did you get?" I asked her trying not to laugh.
That reaction surprised me. I expected myself to cry when I saw my child covered in blood, but because I knew it wasn't hers it was all very amusing.
"Mommy, I got a bear and deer's" she answered with a smile on her face. She looked very proud of herself.
I on the other hand was shocked. She got a grizzle bear on her first trip. She better not have caught it otherwise some vampires were going to die tonight.
"You caught a grizzle bear?" I asked her, the shock coming through in my voice.
"No, Uncle Emmett caught me the bear but I caught the deer's." She said just as proudly.
Just then Edward and Emmett came round the corner and looked at me.
"What is this I hear about grizzle bears?" I asked looking at them.
Edward held his arms above his head as if surrendering to something.
"It wasn't me. Blame him. I wanted her to go after some deer" I said pointing at Emmett.
I should have known that Emmett would go after grizzles if given half a chance. But still, he had let a 5 year old go after a bear.
"Emmett, why did you let your 5 year old niece to go after a bear?" I asked. I was getting really annoyed now, they were just being irresponsible for the sake of it.
"Hey I didn't let her go after it. I was going to go by my self, but then she ran off and when we caught her, she was going after the bear." He said.
I was going to ask him to repeat himself. Did he just say "she ran off". I looked at Naomi who was standing next to my feet.
"You ran away from daddy and Emmett?" I asked her. she looked at the ground and nodded her head. She knew she was in trouble.
I took in a deep breath and ran m hands through my hair.
"Go to your room and get in the bath. I will be there in a minute." I told her pointing up the stairs.
She did as se was told and walked up the stairs to her room.
I looked at Emmett now.
"Emmett, please tell me that she didn't actually kill the bear."
"No Bella she didn't! I did. I went after it, killed it and she came over and drank it. Until she learns how to break a neck or get strong enough to over power something, she is going to have to go hunting with one of us just for us to catch things for her. You would be surprised at how much she can put away. She drained a bear all to herself and she got 2 deer's when Edward was hunting." He said. Emmett had a certain essence of pride in his voice when he was talking about Naomi hunting.
I sighed. I had to accept that Naomi was going to be going after things that were a lot bigger then her from now on. It was part of who she was, she needed to do it. But I just couldn't help but be frightened that there was always a risk that she would get hurt. She wasn't a full vampire, she was still half human and she could get hurt. But I knew she was in safe hands if any of the Cullen's went hunting with her.
I waked up the stairs to make sure that Naomi had gotten in the bath. I didn't want blood all over her room.
When I got into her room, all her bloody clothes she had put into a washing basket.
"No, they are going in the bin." I said to myself as I removed them.
I then went into the bathroom to see Naomi sitting in the bathwater, but because of all the blood that was on her skin, the bathwater had turned red. I laughed as I got her out and drained the bath and drew a new one.
I was going to have to get use to this.
So what did you think. This is the 11th chapter, you should know what to do by now. Press that little button and review please. Don't know how long it is going to be until I update again, kinda have writers block on the next chapter, but don't worry, nothing is actually going to happen until chapter 13, so chapter 12 is just going to be a silly chapter.
Right, im off to work now, so I want lots of reviews when I got back.
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