Clouded Moon
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HEY! Eclipse came out! It was good... they followed the story well. But the actors still can't act. And Jacob is still meant to be the angry little dude who is never happy with anything in his life.
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11. Explanations.
Renesmee Cullen.
I stared at Emmett, wide-eyed. "Eh?"
"Blood," he repeated.
I glanced at Jacob, searching for clues that would solve my confusion. But my heart flipped and sunk as I saw him. He looked pained, troubled. His teeth were clenched together, his fists in balls. And he looked stressed out enough to kill someone with one slip of emotion. He was sitting in one of the empty chairs that framed the dining table now.
Bella touched his shoulder. He snatched his shoulder back with a sudden movement.
He was angry. Very angry.
"Which one of you?" he asked them. "Jasper?"
"Jacob," Edward said calmingly. "You can hear yourself. Her heartbeat."
"Just shut up, Edward," Jacob said sharply. "Shut up. For once."
"Jacob-"
"Well, she's definitely not a human anymore, is she? You tell me what she is!"
"Call Carlisle," Alice said to Rosalie. "Now."
Rosalie left in a hurry.
"Jasper, calm Jacob down."
"Don't you dare, leech."
Leech?
Bella was suddenly on her feet. "Jacob Black!" she shouted. "You swore you wouldn't!"
"So what, Bella?" Jacob asked with a mocking tone. "Kill me."
Her face paled more than it already was.
Rosalie entered the dining room again. "He's on his way."
Jacob stood up. "I can't take this anymore," he declared, sounding considerably calmer. "Bye."
"Jake-" Emmett tried, but Jacob was already gone.
I was lost. "Hey!" I yelled, exasperated. "What the hell do you mean by everything? I need to drink blood? Someone did this to me, Jasper's being called a leech, why is Jacob so angry, and who the hell is Carlisle?"
"Renesmee," Edward said. "You're not human."
"What do you meanby that?"
"Rosalie?" a voice I didn't recognize said. I turned around. There stood another beautiful man, a little less than thirty, light blonde hair, golden eyes and pale skin.
"Carlisle!" she exclaimed. So this was Carlisle.
"What happened?" Carlisle asked. His eyes focused on me, and his eyebrows furrowed.
"What-" Emmett started, but Carlisle cut him off.
"Vampire."
I blinked. "Vampire?" I asked. "No way. I'd know."
"But you're still not completely a vampire. She's... half human."
"What?" Bella asked. That's impossible."
"Not entirely. There are more in existence. You remember Nahuel."
"Of course..." Alice said. "But half-vampires need to be created from birth."
"Hold on, hold on," I said. "Vampires don't exist."
Emmett grinned. "So what are we? Elves?"
"You're vampires?"
"Nope, Elves," Emmett replied, still grinning.
"Shut up, Emmett," Rosalie said. "Yes, Nessie, we're all vampires."
"But- but- but- but- but-" I stammered like I was standing naked on the top of Mount Everest.
"It's a little hard to take in," Bella said. "Just believe for now."
"I guess that explains why she doesn't have the eyes," Rosalie commented. "Though her skin is plenty pale."
A cell phone went off. Bella pulled hers out. "It's Embry," she announced. Pressing a button, she greeted 'Embry.'
"Embry," she said. "I'm putting you on speakerphone."
There was a little buzz before Bella pressed another button and placed the phone on the table, facing up.
"Hello?" Embry spoke. "What's this about Jake's girlfriend being a vampire?"
My mouth fell open. They knew.
"That's all he can think about!" Embry said.
"Where is he now?" Bella asked.
"I have no idea, actually. He just keeps running around thinking about his girlfriend. Who, actually, is quite hot. Introduce us sometime, 'kay, Bella?"
"She's listening to you," Bella smirked.
"Oh," Embry said. "Well, Nessie, you should totally ditch Jacob. Most of us are actually much better looking, take me for example. Girls flock around me."
"Yeah, Claire's friends," a familiar voice- Jacob's voice- said. I turned around to see him at the entrance to the dining room. He walked up to the table, close to Bella's phone. "Who, by the way, are five. Bye, Embry!" he said, his voice raising in pitch to mimic a girl's. And then he pressed a button to hang up the call, cutting Embry off from replying.
He handed the phone to Bella. "Don't talk to that idiot."
In just a few seconds, he was standing in front of me. "I'm sorry, Nessie, I overreacted."
"It's alright."
He smiled at me, before looking to Carlisle. "Hey, Dr. Fang."
Carlisle nodded with a smile.
"God, Jake, she's just like you," Alice said. She looked at me. "Your future is cloudy," she added ominously.
Jacob grinned and took my hand. "We're awesome."
I was staring at Alice. "The... future?"
She nodded. "Edward reads minds, Bella's got a protective shield, and I can see the future."
That's amazing, I thought.
"Gah!" Jacob dropped my hand. "Wha..."
Everyone was looking at him strangely. "Jacob...?" Edward asked cautiously.
"She... I... Heard... Thought..."
"What?"
He took a short breath. "Nothing. I just thought I heard her say 'that's amazing,' but it was in my mind."
I stared at him. "I did think that."
Jacob stared back at me, and there was silence for about five seconds, until he said, "Oh, great, she's talented too?"
Carlisle smiled. "Interesting talent. She conveys thoughts by touch?"
"Maybe. Try it out again, Nessie."
I took Jacob's hand. I love you, I thought.
"Gah!" Jacob exclaimed again. "That's freaky." But then he smiled. "I love you too."
I grinned widely. "It worked."
A murmur of positive thoughts towards my 'talent' spread through the room. I felt myself growing prouder by the second, my confidence increasing, feeling like I was special in some way, like I'd found something I was good at, something that would make people like me. But a lingering question distracted my dreaming mind.
"Jake," I said.
"Hm?"
"Where did you go?"
"Canada."
I made a choking sound. "You're fast?"
"Very."
"Are all vampires fast?" I imagined the speed of the vampires, speeding all the way to Canada in the matter of minutes, whereas it took days for humans to drive there. Faster than a car. Faster than a plane. Possibly faster than a spaceship. I wouldn't know about that one, I'd never ridden in one.
He laughed. "I'm not a vampire."
I blinked. "So...you're human?" A million thoughts crossed my mind. A human living with vampires. A human with... special abilities, maybe? I'd been reading too many fantasy novels. He couldn't be human. "No... that's impossible. You wouldn't be able to hear my heartbeat or..."
"I'll tell you later. Or I can let myself feel the excitement and amusement of you figuring it out yourself."
"What? No!"
Jacob's smile faded. "I still can't believe you're a vampire."
"I still can't believe I'm a vampire."
"Carlisle," Edward said, snapping Jacob and I back into reality. His face was confused, covered with a shock. "How did she become a half-vampire?"
"I'm not sure," Carlisle told Edward. "She could be one of the sisters Nahuel mentioned he had, or she could be bred of some others."
"That," a voice came. "I can explain."
We turned to the source of the voice in shock, to see a beautiful dark-haired man standing near the door. The first thing I noticed about him were his eyes. Crimson red, like thick liquid. Like... blood. His skin was pale like the majority of people in this room. He wore a black dress shirt, with a light-catching black tie. His pants were also black, as were his shoes. His hair was loose and messy, the colour of Bella's hair, maybe a little darker.
"Excuse my rudeness," he said apologetically. "I didn't mean to barge in."
"Who are you?" Bella asked.
"My name is Aurelio," he said, lips curling into a smile. "I was once a part of the Volturi, like Carlisle himself."
"I've never heard of you," Carlisle said politely.
Aurelio closed his eyes. "I was the Volturi's secret weapon. No one knew about me."
"You're talented," Edward said.
"That's right, mind-reader," Aurelio said. "And you know what my talent is, right?"
Edward nodded. He looked somewhat afraid.
"I'll just say it," Aurelio said proudly. "I have the power to control memories. I can make someone forget something that happened, or make someone remember something that never happened. I can erase a person from existence-" he glanced at me, like his words were directed to me. "-or make an entire life for someone who never lived that life."
I shivered.
"What are you implying?" Jacob asked, getting protective.
"It was just a couple of years ago," Aurelio started. "When that girl-" he pointed at me, "-was born into your family as Edward Anthony Masen and Isabella Marie Swan's daughter." He chuckled. "Or should I say Mr. and Mrs. Cullen?"
Bella and Edward gasped. Scratch that. Everyone gasped. Everyone gaped. In everyone's head were a million questions they wanted answered.
"What... exactly... happened?" Bella asked as if she'd been struck by a bolt of lightning.
"Why, Bella," Aurelio made a mock face of surprise. "You must remember, that fateful day, the most recent time you met with the Volturi, that night that you were so scared, you gathered every vampire in the world to come to your assistance?" (AN: For confused people, this would be the fight at the end of Breaking Dawn)
Bella's eyes widened.
"Do you remember that day you shielded everyone with your might?"
Bella's eyes fell to the ground in defeat.
"Do you remember what you were protecting that day, Bella?"
Bella's gaze was at Aurelio's face again. "Protecting?" she asked. "The Volturi were attacking us because of our delay in... changing me."
"Do you think they would really do that? When you fought with them, you were already a vampire, weren't you? So what reason would they have to disturb your peace?"
I saw Edward's brow furrow in confusion. "They wouldn't have," he said quietly.
"It took you two years to realize that fact." Aurelio sighed. "The real reason, is that you were protecting a half-vampire, half-human child by the name of Renesmee Cullen, who the Volturi considered dangerous."
My mouth fell to the ground. "You... you're all Cullens?" But my last name was Cullen.
"In school, we go by our original last names," Bella explained. "So that there's no confusion. So that we can be regular people dating. But here, we're a coven of vampires, a family, known as the Cullen family."
"And you never noticed my last name was Cullen?"
"We only noticed this morning," Alice spoke. "When Jacob was writing it on the cake."
"Jacob? You never noticed?"
"I thought it was the biggest coincidence known to man."
"As he told us this morning," Rosalie said. "Alice, Bella and I thought it was an uncanny sign that you would one day become part of our family."
"But she's already part of your family," Aurelio said. His eyes were suddenly wide. He snapped his fingers. "I'll just return the memories."
My head started to hurt. The pain turned into sound. Words, people speaking.
"Renesmee!" Bella's voice called.
Images.
Rosalie brushing my hair.
Jacob hugging me, throwing me into the air with a huge grin on his face.
Zafrina. I remembered.
A tense atmosphere. Serious expressions on faces. Vampires. Wolves.
Strange looking men and women, powerful, influential, royal.
Speed. Blood. Death.
"Run, Renesmee!" Bella's voice shouted. "Run!"
Me, scrambling towards a reddish-brown wolf. Giant, huge, familiar.
"Jake!" I called to it. "Run!"
The wolf pausing, looking confused.
I leap onto his back, a backpack strapped to my back.
"Run, Jacob!" Edward's voice.
Speed, blurring trees, a forest.
A strange man.
Fear, pain. A scream, my own scream.
Darkness.
Voices in the darkness. "She's here, we have her."
"From today, she'll be human. Seal away everything, powers, bloodlust, everything."
Silence.
More voices. "Give her a life."
Light.
I opened my eyes back in the house. I looked into the face of Jacob. I felt his warm hands underneath me.
What just happened?
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